Solar power satellite cost estimate

The solar power configuration costed is the 5 GW silicon solar cell reference system. The subsystems identified by work breakdown structure elements to the lowest level for which cost information was generated. This breakdown divides into five sections: the satellite, construction, transportation, the ground receiving station and maintenance. For each work breakdown structure element, a definition, design description and cost estimate were included. An effort was made to include for each element a reference that more thoroughly describes the element and the method of costing used. All costs are in 1977 dollars

Sensory Modalities and Novel Features of Perceptual Experience

Is the flavor of mint reducible to the minty smell, the taste, and the menthol-like coolness on the roof of one’s mouth, or does it include something over and above these – something not properly associated with any one of the contributing senses? More generally, are there features of perceptual experiences – so-called novel features – that are not associated with any of our senses taken singly? This question has received a lot of attention of late. Yet surprisingly little attention has been paid to the question of what it means to say that a feature is associated with a sensory modality in the first place. Indeed, there is only one fully developed proposal in the literature, due to Casey O’Callaghan. I argue that this proposal is too permissive to inform the debate over novel features. I go on to argue that all attempts to formulate a better proposal along these lines fail. The corollary of my arguments is that the question of the existence of novel features is poorly formed. Furthermore, the problem generalizes, with the result that we should not rely on our pre-theoretical notions of the senses as the basis of theorizing about the features (contents and phenomenal character) of perceptual experiences

General survey of solid-waste management

Potential ways of providing solid-waste management for a building complex serviced by a modular integrated utility system (MIUS) were explored. Literature surveys were conducted to investigate both conventional and unusual systems to serve this purpose. The advantages and disadvantages of the systems most compatible with MIUS are discussed

Inner geometry

The body of my work indirectly offers parallels to the most ancient usage of the word geometry known, that of the earth-measurement practices of the Egyptians and Babylonians. Such practices were in response to the needs of everyday living. Although the later introduction of deductive geometry by the Greeks evolved into more complex and intellectual formulas, I felt a richer vein could be tapped by exploring geometry\u27s earliest province: earth-measurement. The earth has infinitely warmer, more emotional connotations to me than do the colder geometric formulations that rise in the intellectual air above the ground. Consequently, geometry\u27s earliest definition of earth-measurement more clearly aligned with my nature than the more sterile definitions of contemporary geometry. For me, an inner land measurement became not only an artistic direction but evolved into an emotional necessity as well. Realizing that air is as critical a component to existence as the warmth symbolically held within the earth itself, I sought a reconciliation using the following process: Step #1. To accommodate the intellectual level I sketched a series of tight, linear configurations, each one representing a specific time, place, event or sometimes crossing over and invading another. Step #2. To create a bridge meeting the more emotive level, I used a soft graphite pencil to develop a safety net of light and dark contrasts within each of these separate and overlapping configurations. Step #3. A meeting between the emotive and intellectual levels was achieved by the use of a tool that took on a totally unexpected tone. Although it formerly seemed relatively innocuous, it now evolved into an agent of transformation sheltering within it a strong spirituality which powerfully ignited startling, catalytic changes within the work: the simple, commonplace eraser (see Slides #12, #13, and #14). This simple tool not only transformed the strictly intellectual setting into one that was highly emotive (with strong Abstract Expressionistic surface treatment), it also, if one allowed it to do so, offered many unexpected gifts. Relatively uncensored erasings, sometimes with a touch of a linear or painterly quality, lent immediate associative meanings. Those that seemed more reluctant to offer their secrets, given a little time and open-faced honesty, later revealed surprising meanings. It became evident that any measure of censoring was to be avoided as it only served as an obstructive force, placing too much critical distance between me and any revealed symbolic messages the work came to offer. My initial motivation was to traverse the inner landscape of my own inner geometry merely to explore the territory. Before I realized it I had developed more than a nodding acquaintance with the earliest of mathematical texts, Directions for obtaining the knowledge of all dark things.\u27\u27 My work suddenly became a rather dark mystical journey as I found myself carrying on what appeared to be a conversation with my deepest self (see Slide #5). Art is not just picture-making. It has the ability to transform. It is like the freedom of dreams wherein symbols and transformation occur with an intense constancy. Both speak to me in a very compassionate and tender fashion. No arbiter stands to condemn or frighten. Gentle invitations, and yes, sometimes ambiguous ones at that, invite one to embrace all parts of oneself. Fragmentation takes place only when one chooses not to look too closely. Yet if one does examine all aspects of the self the promise of reward is great. Self-acceptance, forgiveness, and the r overall insight that harmony exists reunite chaos. Dreams and art, in these associate or emotive drawings, act masterfully as both parables and kindly benefactors. They invite the exploration of an inner geometry. An exhibition of this studio thesis was held April 28 through May 10, 1986, in the Department of Art Gallery at the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa

Restricted Auditory Aspatialism

Some philosophers have argued that we do not hear sounds as located in the environment. Others have objected that this straightforwardly contradicts the phenomenology of auditory experience. And from this they draw metaphysical conclusions about the nature of sounds—that they are events or properties of vibrating surfaces rather than waves or sensations. I argue that there is a minimal, but recognizable, notion of audition to which this phenomenal objection does not apply. While this notion doesn’t correspond to our ordinary notion of auditory experience, it does—in conjunction with our lack of an uncontroversial individuation of the senses and recent interest in distinctively multisensory features of perceptual experiences—raise the possibility of more expansive notions of audition, including some that do plausibly count as corresponding to our everyday notion of audition, that lack the spatial phenomenology cited in the objection. Until this possibility is ruled out, the phenomenal objection and metaphysical conclusions drawn from it remain inconclusive

An analysis of Marine Corps service assignment at the United States Naval Academy

This study examined individual Midshipman's First Class (Senior Year) leadership positions, academic and military grade point averages, course of study, prior- enlisted Marine status, family affiliation with the Marine Corps, and status as a Varsity Letter recipient as predictors of assignment to the United States Marine Corps upon graduation from the United States Naval Academy. A review of the Service Assignment process and Marine Corps selection criteria is provided as a historical background. Nine cohorts of subjects were studied from the period 1995-2003 to derive the most prevalent characteristics synonymous with Marine Corps selection. Results of a series of binary logistic regressions showed that the variables measuring Marine Corps enculturation (i.e., prior-enlisted Marine status and legacy status) serve as the best predictors of an assignment to the Marine Corps. For the population of Midshipmen that were neither prior-enlisted Marines nor legacies, the variables measuring leadership experience serve as the best predictors. This investigation also includes a synopsis of the Marine selection panel's proceedings to educate Naval Academy faculty, Company Officers, and Midshipmen who aspire to become Marine Corps officers as to the process the selection panel uses in selecting its Midshipmen.http://archive.org/details/annalysisofmarin109451498Major, United States Marine CorpsApproved for public release; distribution is unlimited