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Apollo 16 photographic standards documentation
The activities of the Photographic Technology Division, and particularly the Photo Science Office, the Precision Processing Laboratory, and the Motion Picture Laboratory, in connection with the scientific photography of the Apollo 16 manned space mission are documented. Described are the preflight activities involved in establishing a standard process for each of the flight films, the manned in which flight films were handled upon arrival at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas, and how the flight films were processed and duplicated. The tone reproduction method of duplication is described. The specific sensitometric and chemical process controls are not included
The holomorphic couch theorem
We prove that if two conformal embeddings between Riemann surfaces with
finite topology are homotopic, then they are isotopic through conformal
embeddings. Furthermore, we show that the space of all conformal embeddings in
a given homotopy class deformation retracts into a point, a circle, a torus, or
the unit tangent bundle of the codomain, depending on the induced homomorphism
on fundamental groups. Quadratic differentials play a central role in the
proof.Comment: 70 pages, 13 figures. Sections 4 and 8 modified following referee's
repor
Conformal grafting and convergence of Fenchel-Nielsen twist coordinates
We cut a hyperbolic surface of finite area along some analytic simple closed
curves, and glue in cylinders of varying moduli. We prove that as the moduli of
the glued cylinders go to infinity, the Fenchel-Nielsen twist coordinates for
the resulting surface around those cylinders converge.Comment: 18 pages, 4 figure
The Painlev\'e analysis for N=2 super KdV equations
The Painlev\'e analysis of a generic multiparameter N=2 extension of the
Korteweg-de Vries equation is presented. Unusual aspects of the analysis,
pertaining to the presence of two fermionic fields, are emphasized. For the
general class of models considered, we find that the only ones which manifestly
pass the test are precisely the four known integrable supersymmetric KdV
equations, including the SKdV case.Comment: Harvmac (b mode : 29 p); various minor modifications -- to appear in
J. Math Phy
Sustainability in Software Engineering
The intersection between software engineering re- search and the problems related to sustainability and green IT has been the subject of increasing attention. In spite of that, we observe that sustainability is still not clearly defined, or understood, in the field of software engineering. This lack of clarity leads to confusion about e.g. what is relevant to measure or the research implications over time or space.
This paper provides an overview of how the research so far has defined sustainability, and how this definition has been used to guide which research areas. To this end, we carried out a systematic mapping study for selecting, classifying and analyzing relevant publications. In this study, we investigate which knowledge areas and which time scope of sustainability effects are mostly targeted in scientific research. Our analysis shows research trends and discusses gaps to be filled
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