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A Method for Establishing Outdoor Recreation Project Priorities in Alaska
The authors thank Theodore Smith, Edward Kramer and Nat Goodhue
of the Division of Parks for information and comments supplied during this
study, and Frank Orth, Charles Marsh, Ed Kramer, C.E. Logsdon, and Frank
Wooding for reviewing the manuscript.
Thanks is also due the Department of Business Administration,
University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Dale Swanson, Head, for their cooperation
in this research project.The objectives of this study are to define outdoor recreation benefits to
the public and to develop a priority ranking method for proposed outdoor
recreation projects. A careful analysis of the benefits which people derive
from outdoor recreation provides a frame of reference for evaluating a
recreational facility. A project should supply those benefits which are most
highly demanded by the public. Fifteen benefits of recreation are defined
and discussed. They are divided into two major categories; those which
accrue to recreational participants and those which accrue to
non-participants.This research was supported by a grant from the Division of Parks,
State of Alaska
Workshop on web information seeking and interaction
The World Wide Web has provided access to a diverse range of information sources and systems. People engaging with this rich network of information may need to interact with different technologies, interfaces, and information providers in the course of a single search task. These systems may offer different interaction affordances and require users to adapt their informationseeking strategies. Not only is this challenging for users, but it also presents challenges for the designers of interactive systems, who need to make their own system useful and usable to broad user groups. The popularity of Web browsing and Web search engines has given rise to distinct forms of information-seeking behaviour, and new interaction styles, but we do not yet fully understand these or their implications for the development of new systems
The systemic environment: at the interface of aging and adult neurogenesis.
Aging results in impaired neurogenesis in the two neurogenic niches of the adult mammalian brain, the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus and the subventricular zone of the lateral ventricle. While significant work has characterized intrinsic cellular changes that contribute to this decline, it is increasingly apparent that the systemic environment also represents a critical driver of brain aging. Indeed, emerging studies utilizing the model of heterochronic parabiosis have revealed that immune-related molecular and cellular changes in the aging systemic environment negatively regulate adult neurogenesis. Interestingly, these studies have also demonstrated that age-related decline in neurogenesis can be ameliorated by exposure to the young systemic environment. While this burgeoning field of research is increasingly garnering interest, as yet, the precise mechanisms driving either the pro-aging effects of aged blood or the rejuvenating effects of young blood remain to be thoroughly defined. Here, we review how age-related changes in blood, blood-borne factors, and peripheral immune cells contribute to the age-related decline in adult neurogenesis in the mammalian brain, and posit both direct neural stem cell and indirect neurogenic niche-mediated mechanisms
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A high resolution millimetre and submillimetre study of W3
The continuum bolometer receiver on the James Clerk Maxwell telescope has been used to map the dense core of the star formation region W3 with a spatial resolution of 15-20 arcsec. At 350 and 800 μm, the region appears as two principal peaks around the known IR sources IRS4 and IRS5, while at 1100 μm, a further peak is noted which is interpreted as being due to free-free emission around IRS2. Taking into account the free-free contribution to the intensity, the continuum dust emission from the region is found to be consistent with optically thin emission at all of the three wavelengths considered. Values for the dust optical depth, hydrogen column density, mass, and central density have been obtained for each of the main peaks
Application of steady state finite element and transient finite difference theory to sound propagation in a variable area duct: A comparison with experiment
Sound propagation without flow in a rectangular duct with a converging-diverging area variation was studied experimentally and theoretically. The area variation was of sufficient magnitude to produce large reflections and induce modal scattering. The rms (root-mean-squared) pressure and phase angle on both the flat and curved surface were measured and tabulated. The steady state finite element theory and the transient finite difference theory are in good agreement with the data. It is concluded that numerical finite difference and finite element theories appear ideally suited for handling duct propagation problems which encounter large area variations
Preliminary measurements of aircraft airframe noise with the NASA CV-990 aircraft
Flight tests were conducted in a CV-990 jet transport with engines at idle power to investigate aircraft airframe noise. Test results showed that airframe noise was measured for the aircraft in the landing configuration. The results agreed well with the expected variation with the fifth power of velocity. For the aircraft in the clean configuraton, it was concluded that airframe noise was measured only at higher airspeeds with engine idle noise present at lower speeds. The data show that landing gear and flaps make a significant contribution to airframe noise
SkyDOT (Sky Database for Objects in the Time Domain): A Virtual Observatory for Variability Studies at LANL
The mining of Virtual Observatories (VOs) is becoming a powerful new method
for discovery in astronomy. Here we report on the development of SkyDOT (Sky
Database for Objects in the Time domain), a new Virtual Observatory, which is
dedicated to the study of sky variability. The site will confederate a number
of massive variability surveys and enable exploration of the time domain in
astronomy. We discuss the architecture of the database and the functionality of
the user interface. An important aspect of SkyDOT is that it is continuously
updated in near real time so that users can access new observations in a timely
manner. The site will also utilize high level machine learning tools that will
allow sophisticated mining of the archive. Another key feature is the real time
data stream provided by RAPTOR (RAPid Telescopes for Optical Response), a new
sky monitoring experiment under construction at Los Alamos National Laboratory
(LANL).Comment: to appear in SPIE proceedings vol. 4846, 11 pages, 5 figure
Response of finite spin-S Heisenberg chains to local perturbations
We consider the properties of finite isotropic antiferromagnetic Heisenberg
chains with S=1/2, 1, 3/2 spins when a weak magnetic field is applied on a few
sites, using White's density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) method. For
the S=1 chain there exists only one length scale in the system which determines
the behavior of the one- and two-point correlation functions both around the
local perturbation and near the free boundary. For the critical,
half-odd-integer spin cases the exponent of the spin-spin correlation function
was found to be , and the exponent of the decay of the site
magnetization around the perturbed site is . Close to a free
boundary, however, the behavior is completely different for S=1/2 and .Comment: 13 pages, 7 figure
Second year technical report on-board processing for future satellite communications systems
Advanced baseband and microwave switching techniques for large domestic communications satellites operating in the 30/20 GHz frequency bands are discussed. The nominal baseband processor throughput is one million packets per second (1.6 Gb/s) from one thousand T1 carrier rate customer premises terminals. A frequency reuse factor of sixteen is assumed by using 16 spot antenna beams with the same 100 MHz bandwidth per beam and a modulation with a one b/s per Hz bandwidth efficiency. Eight of the beams are fixed on major metropolitan areas and eight are scanning beams which periodically cover the remainder of the U.S. under dynamic control. User signals are regenerated (demodulated/remodulated) and message packages are reformatted on board. Frequency division multiple access and time division multiplex are employed on the uplinks and downlinks, respectively, for terminals within the coverage area and dwell interval of a scanning beam. Link establishment and packet routing protocols are defined. Also described is a detailed design of a separate 100 x 100 microwave switch capable of handling nonregenerated signals occupying the remaining 2.4 GHz bandwidth with 60 dB of isolation, at an estimated weight and power consumption of approximately 400 kg and 100 W, respectively
A New Approach to Large-Scale Nuclear Structure Calculations
A new approach to large-scale nuclear structure calculations, based on the
Density Matrix Renormalization Group (DMRG), is described. The method is tested
in the context of a problem involving many identical nucleons constrained to
move in a single large-j shell and interacting via a pairing plus quadrupole
interaction. In cases in which exact diagonalization of the hamiltonian is
possible, the method is able to reproduce the exact results for the ground
state energy and the energies of low-lying excited states with extreme
precision. Results are also presented for a model problem in which exact
solution is not feasible.Comment: 6 pages + 1 eps figur
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