Runway grooving at Kansas City Municipal Airport

Runway grooving at Kansas City Municipal Airpor

Management of reliability and maintainability; a disciplined approach to fleet readiness

Material acquisition fundamentals were reviewed and include: mission profile definition, stress analysis, derating criteria, circuit reliability, failure modes, and worst case analysis. Military system reliability was examined with emphasis on the sparing of equipment. The Navy's organizational strategy for 1980 is presented

SIRTF: Probing the dark corners of the galaxy

The Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) is planned for launch by NASA in the mid-1990's. It will be a cryogenically-cooled observatory for infrared astronomy and will carry several focal plane instruments which will provide a wide range of imaging, photometric, and spectroscopic capabilities. SIRTF will build on the scientific and technical progress of the successful IRAS mission and take the next step in the exploration of the Universe at infrared wavelengths. Most of the observing time during the five-to-ten year SIRTF mission will be available to General Investigators, so there will be ample opportunities for the pursuit of problems originating from within the Space Life Sciences community. Here, a review is given of the capabilities of SIRTF for this style of investigation, using the study of carbon in the Galaxy as a specific example. The very high sensitivity of SIRTF's spectrometers to diffuse emission will allow studies of carbon in both the gaseous and solid phase in the interstellar medium and should be of particular importance for the identification of the carbon-bearing macromolecules believed to be responsible for the emission features identified in the near infrared. SIRTF will also carry out studies of a wide variety of evolved stars which are returning gas and solid phase carbon to the interstellar medium and contribute to our understanding of the carbon budget in the Galaxy. These studies in the area of galactic astronomy will be complemented by detailed investigations of carbon-bearing compounds in solar system objects, including the surfaces of distant asteroids and cometary nuclei which are too faint to be studied in any other way

What can be patented? Technological innovation and the contemporary mess in patent law

The question of what types of inventions may be patented has becom

Return cases of infectious disease

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Reliability by Design

Gentlemen, it is my privilege to spend a few minutes with you tonight. I\u27d like to thank ARPA, the Air Force, and the Rockwell Science Center for the invitation to share a little bit of what I call the new look in the Navy. I\u27m really here tonight on behalf of the Navy, and particularly on behalf of Admiral Michaelis who is the Chief of Naval Material. The story I have to tell you is one that I think you will find somewhat enlightening. I know you\u27ll find some of it amusing, but I hope that the overall message will be that the Navy has undertaken a program to improve its fleet readiness and has undertaken it as a very serious proposition

Endogenous innovation, outward-bound international patenting and national economic development

In this paper we argue that countries whose residents exhibit a relativel

MEASURING & MONITORING Plant Populations

The root of the word monitoring means to warn, and an essential purpose of monitoring is to raise a warning flag that the current course of action is not working. Monitoring is a powerful tool for identifying problems in the early stages, before they become dramatically obvious or crises. If identified early, problems can be addressed while cost-effective solutions are still available. For example, an invasive species that threatens a rare plant population is much easier to control at the initial stages of invasion, compared to eradicating it once it is well established at a site. Monitoring is also critical for measuring management success. Good monitoring can demonstrate that the current management approach is working and provide evidence supporting the continuation of current management