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Quick-change absorption column
Column has end caps held in place by springs; prefilled packs of absorbent can be exchanged quickly. Both ends of metal or plastic body tube of size which can hold adequate amount of absorbent are machined to provide seat for perforated plate and groove for its spring retainer ring
Conversion of LARSYS III.1 to an IBM 370 computer
A software system for processing multispectral aircraft or satellite data (LARSYS) was designed and written at the Laboratory for Applications of Remote Sensing at Purdue University. This system, being implemented on an IBM 360/67 computer utilizing the Cambridge Monitor System, is of an interactive nature. TAMU LARSYS maintains the essential capabilities of Purdue's LARSYS. The machine configuration for which it has been converted is an IBM-compatible Amdahl 470V/6 computer utilizing the time sharing option of the currently implemented OS/VS2 Operating System. Due to TSO limitations, the NASA-JSC deliverable TAMU LARSYS is comprised of two parts. Part one is a TSO Control Card Checker for LARSYS control cards, and part two is a batch version of LARSYS. Used together, they afford most of the capabilities of the original LARSYS III.1. Additionally, two programs have been written by TAMU to support LARSYS processing. The first is an ERTS-to-MIST conversion program used to convert ERTS data to the LARSYS input form, the MIST tape. The second is a system runtable code which maintains tape/file location information for the MIST data sets
A Bait Attractant Study of the Nitidulidae (Coleoptera) at Shawnee State Forest in Southern Ohio
Four baits were tested for efficacy in attracting sap beetles (Nitidulidae) at two sites in the Shawnee State Forest over two collection periods in 1992. Species taken were categorized into three groups: abundant, moderate, and uncommon. At Site 1, nitidulids displayed a strong preference for whole wheat bread dough, followed by fermenting brown sugar, and fermenting malt/molasses solution, and vinegar, respectively. Site 2 collections showed a similar trend to Site 1, but the order of preference was switched for brown sugar and malt/molasses solution. Of the 20 species collected, six species were abundant, seven species were moderate, and seven species were locally uncommon
Vortex Loop Phase Transitions in Liquid Helium, Cosmic Strings, and High-T_c Superconductors
The distribution of thermally excited vortex loops near a superfluid phase
transition is calculated from a renormalized theory. The number density of
loops with a given perimeter is found to change from exponential decay with
increasing perimeter to algebraic decay as T_c is approached, in agreement with
recent simulations of both cosmic strings and high-T_c superconductors.
Predictions of the value of the exponent of the algebraic decay at T_c and of
critical behavior in the vortex density are confirmed by the simulations,
giving strong support to the vortex-folding model proposed by Shenoy.Comment: Version to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett, with a number of corrections
and addition
Achieving Efficient Strong Scaling with PETSc using Hybrid MPI/OpenMP Optimisation
The increasing number of processing elements and decreas- ing memory to core
ratio in modern high-performance platforms makes efficient strong scaling a key
requirement for numerical algorithms. In order to achieve efficient scalability
on massively parallel systems scientific software must evolve across the entire
stack to exploit the multiple levels of parallelism exposed in modern
architectures. In this paper we demonstrate the use of hybrid MPI/OpenMP
parallelisation to optimise parallel sparse matrix-vector multiplication in
PETSc, a widely used scientific library for the scalable solution of partial
differential equations. Using large matrices generated by Fluidity, an open
source CFD application code which uses PETSc as its linear solver engine, we
evaluate the effect of explicit communication overlap using task-based
parallelism and show how to further improve performance by explicitly load
balancing threads within MPI processes. We demonstrate a significant speedup
over the pure-MPI mode and efficient strong scaling of sparse matrix-vector
multiplication on Fujitsu PRIMEHPC FX10 and Cray XE6 systems
Writing subjectivity without subjecthood: the machinic unconscious of Nathalie Sarraute’s Tropisms
In the context of endeavors within social and cultural geography to conceive new models of subjectivity outside the classical model of the subject, this paper explores the possibility of a writing of subjectivity outside of the anthropocentric grammars that centralize the human subject as the locus of thought and action. To do so, we turn to the literary work Tropisms by French author Nathalie Sarraute for its expression of unconscious and impersonal ‘micromovements’ that evoke a mode of subjectivity that is no longer that of a given human individual. Sarraute’s work, with its attentiveness to and amplification of surreptitious yet forceful events that influence how we think and how we act, its rejection of individualized psychological ideas about human experience and its experimentation with what literature can do, creates singular portraits of socio-spatial life in its unfolding and thus evokes different kinds of subjectivities–what we term a ‘subjectivity without subjecthood’. To extrapolate from Sarraute’s writing, we turn to Félix Guattari’s theorization of subjectivity through a ‘machinic’ unconscious. In doing so, we draw out three dimensions of subjectivity as portrayed in Sarraute’s work: its collective, asignifying and non-linear character
Light-Quark FLIC Fermion Simulations of the Exotic Meson
We investigate the mass of the exotic meson, created with hybrid
interpolating fields. Access to light quark masses approaching 25 MeV is
facilitated by the use of the Fat-Link Irrelevant Clover (FLIC) fermion action,
and large () lattices. Our results indicate that the
exotic exhibits significant curvature close to the chiral limit, and yield a
mass in agreement with the candidate and exclusive of
the .Comment: 6 pages, 1 table, 2 figures, talk given at Lattice '05. Removed
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