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Effects of oral administration of a fuel cell product water to Macaca mulatta Final report, Jan. - Feb. 1965
Fuel cell product water given to monkeys as sole source of fluid intake for 14-day perio
A Study of Sediment Transport in Norwegian Glacial Rivers, 1969
From original report: The Norwegian Water Resources and Electricity Board, Institute of Water Resources, Department of Hydrology, Oslo. September 1970. Report No. 6/70.Permission to translate this Norwegian report was kindly given by G.
Østrem, and the translation by Helga Carstens, while she was in Alaska,
is greatly appreciated. Unfortunately, Mrs. Carstens returned to her
homeland, Norway, before final editing of the manuscript could be completed.
Consequently, any errors in translation are due to the editor,
and for these errors, the editor apologizes to the authors. Not included
in this translation is an English summary contained in the original report.
To keep printing costs down, the original figures and tables,
which fortunately had English titles, are used in this translation.
This report is the first of a series of reports being prepared for
the Norwegian Water Resources and Electricity Board. The second report
for 1970 has been published with an English summary and contains an extension
of the data contained in the 1969 report. Because this work
deals with problems very similar to those in Alaska, it was decided to
translate the first report and circulate a limited number of copies to
workers in the U. S. and Canada. Research very similar to the Norwegian
work was initiated in Alaska under the editor's direction in cooperation
with the U. S. Geological Survey. -- G. L. Guymon.This work and the translation of this
report were supported by funds provided by the United States Department
of the Interior, Office of Water Resources Research (Proj. A-042-ALAS),
as authorized under the amended Water Resources Act of 1964
Effects of somatostatin on calcitonin and ectopic ACTH release in a patient with medullary thyroid carcinoma
Modeling Socially Desirable Responding and Its Effects
The impact of socially desirable responding or faking on noncognitive assessments remains an issue of strong debate. One of the main reasons for the controversy is the lack of a statistical method to model such response sets. This article introduces a new way to model faking based on the assumption that faking occurs due to an interaction between person and situation. The technique combines a control group design with structural equation modeling and allows a separation of trait and faking variance. The model is introduced and tested in an example. The results confirm a causal nfluence of faking on means and covariance structure of a Big 5 questionnaire. Both effects can be reversed by the proposed model. Finally, a real-life criterion was implemented and predicted by both variance sources. In this example, it was the trait but not the faking variance that was predictive. Implications for research and practice are discussed
Differential Impact of Interference on Internally- and Externally-Directed Attention.
Attention can be oriented externally to the environment or internally to the mind, and can be derailed by interference from irrelevant information originating from either external or internal sources. However, few studies have explored the nature and underlying mechanisms of the interaction between different attentional orientations and different sources of interference. We investigated how externally- and internally-directed attention was impacted by external distraction, how this modulated internal distraction, and whether these interactions were affected by healthy aging. Healthy younger and older adults performed both an externally-oriented visual detection task and an internally-oriented mental rotation task, performed with and without auditory sound delivered through headphones. We found that the addition of auditory sound induced a significant decrease in task performance in both younger and older adults on the visual discrimination task, and this was accompanied by a shift in the type of distractions reported (from internal to external). On the internally-oriented task, auditory sound only affected performance in older adults. These results suggest that the impact of external distractions differentially impacts performance on tasks with internal, as opposed to external, attentional orientations. Further, internal distractibility is affected by the presence of external sound and increased suppression of internal distraction
Short note on the excitonic Mott phase
An exciton gas on a lattice is analyzed in terms of a convergent hopping
expansion. For a given chemical potential our calculation provides a sufficient
condition for the hopping rate to obtain an exponential decay of the exciton
correlation function. This result indicates the existence of a Mott phase in
which strong fluctuations destroy the long range correlations in the exciton
gas at any temperature, either by thermal or by quantum fluctuations.Comment: 5 pages, 1 figur
Effect of reduction of strategic Columbium addition in 718 Alloy on the structure and properties
A series of alloys was developed having a base composition similar to Inconel 718, with reduced Cb levels of 3.00 and 1.10 wt% Cb. Substitutions of 3.0% W, 3.0W + 0.9V or Mo increased from 3.0% to 5.8% were made for the Cb in these alloys. Two additional alloys, one containing 3.49% Cb and 1.10% Ti and another containing 3.89% Cb and 1.29% Ti were also studied. Tensile properties at rooom and elevated temperatures, stress-rupture tests, and an analysis of extracted phases were carried out for each of the alloys. Additions of solid solution elements to a reduced Cb alloy had no significant effect on the properties of the alloys under either process condition. The solution and age alloys with substitutions of 1.27% i at 3.89% Cb had tensile properties similar top hose of the original alloy and stress-rupture properties superior to the original alloy. The improved stress-rupture properties were the result of significant precipitation of Ni3Ti-gamma prime in the alloy, which is more stable than gamma' at the elevated temperatures. At lower temperatures, the new alloy benefits from gamma' strengthening. With more precise control and proper processing, the reduced Cb direct-age alloy could substitute for Alloy 718 in high strength applications
The evolution of the color gradients of early-type cluster galaxies
We investigate the origin of color gradients in cluster early-type galaxies
to probe whether pure age or pure metallicity gradients can explain the
observed data in local and distant (z approx 0.4) samples. We measure the
surface brightness profiles of the 20 brightest early-type galaxies of
CL0949+44 (hereafter CL0949) at redshift z=0.35-0.38 from HST WF2 frames taken
in the filters F555W, F675W, F814W. We determine the color profiles (V-R)(r),
(V-I)(r), and (R-I)(r) as a function of the radial distance r in arcsec, and
fit logarithmic gradients in the range -0.2 to 0.1 mag per decade. These values
are similar to what is found locally for the colors (U-B), (U-V), (B-V) which
approximately match the (V-R), (V-I), (R-I) at redshift approx 0.4. We analyse
the results with up to date stellar population models. We find that passive
evolution of metallicity gradients (approx 0.2 dex per radial decade) provides
a consistent explanation of the local and distant galaxies' data. Invoking pure
age gradients (with fixed metallicity) to explain local color gradients
produces too steep gradients at redshifts z approx 0.4. Pure age gradients are
consistent with the data only if large present day ages (>=15 Gyr) are assumed
for the galaxy centers.Comment: 23 pages, 19 figures, Accepted for publication in A&
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