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New technique for determination of cross-power spectral density with damped oscillators
New cross-power spectral density computation technique has been developed, as well as a technique for discrimination between periodic and random signals. This development is applicable to analysis of any stationary random process, and can be used in the aerospace and transportation fields
Working Together to Build Beacon Centers in San Francisco: Evaluation Findings from 1998-2000
Since 1996, private and public funders in San Francisco have supported a city-wide Beacons Initiative. Eight Beacon Centers, located in public schools, serve 7500 youth and adults each year, providing a rich array of developmental activities in the non-school hours. This report looks at how the centers were created; it describes the centers' operation; and investigates the role of the initiative's "theory of change" in organizing and guiding the effort
Method of reducing temperature in high-speed photography
A continuing problem in high-speed motion picture photography is adequate lighting and the associated temperature rise. Large temperature rises can damage subject matter and make recording of the desired images impossible. The problem is more severe in macrophotography because of bellows extension and the necessary increase in light. This report covers one approach to reducing the initial temperature rise: the use of filters and heat-absorbing materials. The accompanying figures provide the starting point for selecting distance as a function of light intensity and determining the associated temperature rise. Using these figures will allow the photographer greater freedom in meeting different photographic situations
The velocity field near the orifice of a Helmholtz resonator in grazing flow
Measurement of the time-dependent velocities induced inside and outside the opening of acoustically excited, two-dimensional Helmholtz resonator imbedded in a grazing flow are presented. The remarkably clear structure of the perturbation field which evokes a pulsating source and a coherently pulsating vortex-image pair is described. The simple phenomenological "lid-model" which correlates the variation in the components of the acoustic impedance with the velocity of the grazing flow is discussed and extended
The Electromagnetic Self-Energy Contribution to M_p - M_n and the Isovector Nucleon Magnetic Polarizability
We update the determination of the isovector nucleon electromagnetic
self-energy, valid to leading order in QED. A technical oversight in the
literature concerning the elastic contribution to Cottingham's formula is
corrected and modern knowledge of the structure functions is used to precisely
determine the inelastic contribution. We find \delta M_{p-n}^\gamma =
1.30(03)(47) MeV. The largest uncertainty arises from a subtraction term
required in the dispersive analysis, which can be related to the isovector
magnetic polarizability. With plausible model assumptions, we can combine our
calculation with additional input from lattice QCD to constrain this
polarizability as: \beta_{p-n} = -0.87(85) x 10^{-4} fm^3.Comment: 5 pages, version accepted for publication in PR
Improvising Linguistic Style: Social and Affective Bases for Agent Personality
This paper introduces Linguistic Style Improvisation, a theory and set of
algorithms for improvisation of spoken utterances by artificial agents, with
applications to interactive story and dialogue systems. We argue that
linguistic style is a key aspect of character, and show how speech act
representations common in AI can provide abstract representations from which
computer characters can improvise. We show that the mechanisms proposed
introduce the possibility of socially oriented agents, meet the requirements
that lifelike characters be believable, and satisfy particular criteria for
improvisation proposed by Hayes-Roth.Comment: 10 pages, uses aaai.sty, lingmacros.sty, psfig.st
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