Improving DoD Energy Efficiency: Combining MMOWGLI Social-Media Brainstorming With Lexical Link Analysis (LLA) to Strengthen the Defense Acquisition Process

Disclaimer: The views represented in this report are those of the authors and do not reflect the official policy position of the Navy, the Department of Defense, or the federal government.Excerpt from the Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Acquisition Research Symposium Logistics ManagementThe research presented in this report was supported by the Acquisition Research Program of the Graduate School of Business & Public Policy at the Naval Postgraduate School. To request defense acquisition research, to become a research sponsor, or to print additional copies of reports, please contact any of the staff listed on the Acquisition Research Program website (www.acquisitionresearch.net).Prepared for the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA 93943.Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited

Neutron diffraction studies of magnetostrictive Fe–Ga alloy ribbons

Melt-spun Fe–Ga ribbons were prepared and some ribbons were annealed at 1000 °C for 1 h then slowly cooled to room temperature. X-ray diffraction patterns revealed no evidence of texture and only bcc phase in the as-quenched ribbons. However, high-resolution neutron diffraction patterns gave more information on the structure of these ribbons. Only diffractions from the disordered bcc A2 phase were found in as-quenched ribbons with 15, 17.5, and 19.5 at. % Ga content, without any trace of satellite peaks or splitting peaks from the proposed Ga–Ga pairing superlattice structure. The broadening of the base of the �110� peaks for all samples except the as-quenched 15 at. % Ga ribbon might indicate the existence of some kind of short range ordering. Ribbons developed L12 phase after annealing especially in the Fe 19.5 at. % Ga ribbon where the formation of L12 phase reduced the Ga content in the remaining A2 phase and decreased its lattice parameter dramatically. D03 phase formed in the as-quenched 22.5 at. % Ga ribbon and the following annealing treatment transformed more A2 phase into D03 phase

Poor recovery from a pulmonary exacerbation does not lead to accelerated FEV1 decline

BACKGROUND: Patients with CF treated for pulmonary exacerbations (PEx) may experience faster subsequent declines in FEV1. Additionally, incomplete recovery to baseline FEV1 occurs frequently following PEx treatment. Whether accelerated declines in FEV1 are preceded by poor PEx recovery has not been studied. METHODS: Using 2004 to 2011 CF Foundation Patient Registry data, we randomly selected one PEx among patients ≥6years of age with no organ transplantations, ≥12months of data before and after the PEx, and ≥1 FEV1 recorded within the 6months before and 3months after the PEx. We defined poor PEx recovery as the best FEV1 in the 3months after the PEx 5% predicted/year FEV1 decline and poor PEx recovery using multi-state Markov models. RESULTS: From 13,954 PEx, FEV1 declines of >5% predicted/year were more likely to precede poor spirometric recovery, HR 1.17 (1.08, 1.26), in Markov models adjusted for age and sex. Non-Responders were less likely to have a subsequent fast FEV1 decline, HR 0.41 (0.37, 0.46), than patients who recovered to >90% of baseline FEV1 following PEx treatment. CONCLUSIONS: Accelerated declines in FEV1 are more likely to precede a PEx with poor recovery than to occur in the following year. Preventing or halting declines in FEV1 may also have the benefit of preventing PEx episodes