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Budget Period 2 of the East Binger Unit (''EBU'') DOE Project has been. Recent activities included additional data gathering and project monitoring, plus initiation of work on an SPE paper on the modeling efforts of the project. Early production performance suggests horizontal wells do not provide sufficient additional production over vertical wells to justify their incremental cost. It will take more time to evaluate the impact of the horizontal wells on sweep and ultimate recovery, but it is unlikely that an improvement in recovery will be sufficient to make the overall economic value of horizontal wells greater than the economic value of vertical wells. Monitoring of overall performance of the pilot area continues. Overall response to the various projects continues to be very favorable. Injection into the pilot area has nearly doubled, while gas production and nitrogen content of produced gas have both decreased. Nitrogen recycle within the pilot area has dropped from 60% to 20%. Efforts to further disseminate knowledge gained through this project, by means of technical paper presentations to industry groups, are underway. Project monitoring and technology transfer will be focus areas of Budget Period 3
"Marchand" et "non-marchand" dans l'économie des logiciels
Mangolte, Pierre-André
Dans un certain nombre d'activités de production et d'échange de biens (et/ou services) cohabitent deux sphères, une sphère marchande et une sphère non-marchande. C'est actuellement le cas dans l'économie des logiciels. Un grand nombre de programmes (Apache, Linux, Firefox, etc...) sont en effet produits en open source, sans investissement apparent, sans paiement des contributions et sans vente directe des produits. Ces pratiques reposent sur un ensemble de licences (GNU-GPL, licences BSD, MP...
A Modified Marchand Balun Configuration With Tunable Phase Balance
Michaelsen, Rasmus Schandorph; Johansen, Tom Keinicke; Tamborg, Kjeld; 2013-01-01
In this letter, a novel modified Marchand balun configuration with tunable phase balance is analyzed and verified experimentally. It is proposed to add a shunt susceptance in between the two couplers of the Marchand balun. This allows for a change in the phase balance which, to first order, is...... linear with the susceptance, while the magnitude balance is kept constant. To verify the proposed configuration, a lumped elementMarchand balun has been fabricated using a SiGe BiCMOS technology. The balun design is centered around 9.4 GHz, with an insertion loss of 6.0 dB. The phase difference between...
Xu Leijun; Wang Zhigong; Li Qin
A new lumped element model for conventional Marchand baluns is presented.Analyzed by the evenand odd-mode method,the equivalent equations are derived for λ/4 coupled lines.Based on the proposed 5th-order lumped equivalent circuit for λ/4 coupled lines,the self-inductance,mutual inductive coupling and the capacitance can be calculated according to the even- and odd-mode characteristic impedance,therefore,the model parameters of the balun can be easily gained from the derived equations.To verify the model,a GaAs monolithic wideband Marchand balun was implemented and tested.The EM simulation and experimental results show a good agreement with the model simulation.This model is available in a wide frequency range and makes the design procedure of the Marchand balun faster and easier.
Analysis and design of complex impedance transforming marchand baluns
Michaelsen, Rasmus Schandorph; Johansen, Tom Keinicke; Tamborg, Kjeld M.
equations. To verify the theory, a design and electromagnetic simulation of a lumped element Marchand balun is made in a SiGe BiCMOS technology. The lumped element impementation is favorable because capacitors are placed where the additional reactances should be added. Thus it is possible to absorb a...
Alterskorrelierte Normwerte der Lichtunterschiedsempfindlichkeit: Eine Vergleichsstudie am Tübinger Computer Campimeter (TCC) und Humphrey Field Analyzer (HFA 606)
In dieser Studie wurden Normwerte für den Tübinger Computer Campimeter (TCC) erhoben und mit denen für den Humphrey Field Analyzer (HFA) verglichen. 83 ophthalmologisch und internistisch gesunde Probanden im Alter zwischen 10 und 80 Jahren wurden in dieser Studie an zwei Tagen jeweils mittels Kampimetrie am TCC und mittels Perimetrie am HFA in randomisierter Untersuchungsabfolge untersucht. Die LUE wurde für helle Stimuli mit einer Stimulusgröße von 26' und einer Präsentationsdauer von 20...
A 38 to 44GHz sub-harmonic balanced HBT mixer with integrated miniature spiral type marchand balun
Johansen, Tom Keinicke; Krozer, Viktor
This work presents an active balanced sub-harmonic mixer (SHM) using InP double heterojunction bipolar transistor technology (DHBT) for Q-band applications. A miniature spiral type Marchand balun with five added capacitances for improved control of amplitude and phase balance is integrated with the...... the excellent balance of the integrated spiral type Marchand balun. The DC power consumption of the SHM is only 22.5 mW under normal mixer operation....
Pour vous parler de l’entreprise comme « institution fondamentale de l’échange marchand », il me faut, peut-être de façon surprenante, commencer par évoquer brièvement le droit de l’ancienne France, le droit d’avant la Révolution française. Ce point de départ, en plus de surprendre, peut sembler très ethnocentrique. Mais on suivra sur ce point Immanuel Wallerstein (peu soupçonnable d’ethnocentrisme) pour qui « la Révolution française a marqué un tournant dans l’histoire culturelle du système-...
Cassagnou, Bernard
Après avoir été détruite aux deux tiers de son tonnage pendant la seconde guerre mondiale, la Marine marchande française s’est reconstituée en moins de cinq ans. Elle a dû faire face, d’une part à la disparition de ses paquebots de ligne avec l’arrivée sur l’Atlantique nord des premiers avions long-courriers à réaction, d’autre part à la perte de substance du trafic des marchandises sur ses lignes traditionnelles, avec la décolonisation. Précédant en cela les dirigeants des grandes entreprise...
Cassagnou, Bernard; Léonard, Pierre; Plessis, Alain
Joseph-Marie Guérin (1738-1795) est le représentant de la quatrième génération d’une famille de « marchands et maîtres mouliniers de soie » installée à Saint-Chamond depuis 1661 La firme familiale porte, depuis 1716, la raison (pérenne ensuite jusqu’en 1931) Veuve Guérin & fils (VGF) — sa grand-mère paternelle Étiennette Berthollet (originaire de Saint-Julien-en-Jarez, décédée en 1730), puis sa mère Marie Malliquet (1710-1768, fille d’un marchand fileur de soie de Saint-Chamond) ayant été les...
VizieR Online Data Catalog: Molecule and grain abundances (Marchand+, 2016)
Marchand, P.; Masson, J.; Chabrier, G.; Hennebelle, P.; Commercon, B.; Vaytet, N.
chemistry.tar is the fortran code that was used to compute the following table. abundance.txt is a 3D table giving the abundances of several ionised species over a wide range of density, temperature and cosmic rays ionisation rate, useful in prestellar core collapse conditions. The table is organised as follow : density (cm-3), temperature (K), ionisation rate (s-1), abundance of electrons, abundances of ions (metal (Mg etc.), molecular ions (HCO+), H3+, H+, C+, He+, K+, Na+), abundances of grains (grains +, grain -, neutral grains) for bins 1 to 5 (see Sect. 2.4 of the paper), total abundances of grains, integration time. Format : '(31(e24.17,2X))' Reading : ------------------------------------------------------------------------- read(unit,format) nrho, nT, nX, nvar read(unit,format) read(unit,format) read(unit,format) read(unit,format) do i=1,nX do j=1,nT do k=1,nrho read(unit,format) rho(k), T(j), Xi(i), abundance(k,j,i,1:nvar) end do read(unit,format) read(unit,format) end do read(unit,format) read(unit,format) end do ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The description of each column can be found in the header of the file. You can compute the resistivities using read_table.f90, which creates a table of resistivities with the same parameters and adding the magnetic field dependance (see Sect. 2.1 of the paper for the formulae used). You can use it as a subroutine in your code. (4 data files).
Les manuels à l'usage des marchands constituent depuis toujours une source privilégiée pour les historiens économistes. Max Weber, Werner Sombart, et, plus récemment, Fernand Braudel, ont couramment utilisé ce type de texte. Ces manuels contiennent en effet de nombreuses informations sur la pratique journalière du commerce, de ses règles et conditions d'exercice à la fin du Moyen Age et à l'époque moderne. Cependant, malgré cet intérêt soutenu des historiens, il n'existe pas encore actuelleme...
Marine marchande et ports maritimes français. Constats, attentes, propositions
Ces réflexions sont issues des travaux de la Commission d'études N°l "environnement économique" présidée par le professeur BAUCHET, et qui réunit des armateurs, chargeurs, représentants des activités portuaires, de la construction navale, de l'administration et des représentants syndicaux. L'objectif retenu est de sensibiliser aux réalités du transport maritime à la fois le grand public et les décideurs de notre pays. Les faits sont les suivants: sur 100 tonnes de marchandises transportées de...
Egah, Janvier; Baco, Mohamed Nasser; Moumouni, Ismail
Dans cet article, nous avons analysé la dynamique de gestion de la biodiversité de l’igname face au développement du vivrier marchand au Nord-Bénin. Nous avons effectué les investigations dans la commune de Tchaourou, un des principaux greniers d’igname du Nord-Bénin. Trois villages ont été choisis suivant le degré d’enclavement et de développement du marché d’igname. La taille de l’échantillon est de 90 exploitations à raison de 30 par village. La méthodologie adoptée a été une combinaison d...
L’écriture comptable d’un marchand provençal au tournant du xve siècle : les comptabilités de Bertrand Rocafort d’Hyères
Gouffran, Laure-Hélène
L’écriture comptable d’un marchand se trouve-t-elle modifiée lorsque ce dernier occupe une fonction publique ? Le registre des comptabilités municipales tenu par Bertrand Rocafort d’Hyères au cours de l’année 1397-1398 permet de mettre en perspective différents types de comptes : ceux de la communauté d’Hyères et ceux, personnels du rédacteur. L’identité complexe de ce dernier, à la fois marchand, notaire, syndic et trésorier, lui permet de tenir une comptabilité serrée, faite de dépenses exc...
Compte rendu du séminaire du 2 juillet 1992 : organisation sociale et stratégies économiques des agents du commerce transfrontalier : l'économie marchande vue à l'état pratique. Le cas des échanges entre les régions de Korhogo, Sikasso, et Bobo-Dioulasso
Labazée, Pascal
Afin d'illustrer ce qu'une sociologie des pratiques marchandes peut apporter à l'analyse économique et, inversement, ce qu'une économie des usages sociaux peut apporter à la connaissance anthropologique du monde marchand, quatre thèmes sont abordés dans cet exposé : a) l'adaptation des structures commerciales aux mutations du champ économique sous-régional; b) l'organisation des réseaux contemporains; c) les fonctions remplies par l'idéologie religieuse dans les échanges à distance, d) les mé...
Full Text Available Malgré le déni de Max Weber, l’essor actuel de l’économie indienne montre que non seulement l’esprit du capitalisme, mais aussi l’entrepreneuriat, sont bien présents en Inde. Dans cet article, j’analyse les stratégies commerciales des Gauda Saraswat Brahmanes du Sud Kanara (autour de Mangalore, sur la côte Ouest de l’Inde, en utilisant le modèle d’entrepreneuriat proposé par Fredrik Barth (1962, 1967. Fidèle à la tradition du « capitalisme de portefeuille » (Baily 1989, ces marchands distribuent leur capital entre des filières sûres mais modérément rentables, et des projets novateurs et profitables mais risqués. L’entrepreneur, ici, n’est que rarement l’individu, car il s’agit le plus souvent d’une stratégie orchestrée par la famille, qui se confond à son tour avec la firme familiale. Cette orchestration exige des chefs de famille un souci constant de management qui se manifeste en écoutant les idées des cadets et en leur confiant des rôles qui les gratifient au sein de l’entreprise familiale, tout en gardant la main sur la stratégie globale de la firme.In spite of Max Weber’s views, the present growth in the Indian economy shows rather conclusively the presence both of the spirit of capitalism and of entrepreneurship in India. In this article, I analyse the commercial strategies of the Gauda Saraswat Brahmins of South Kanara (around Mangalore, on the West coast of India, using the model of entrepreneurship proposed by Fredrik Barth (1962, 1967. True to the tradition of portefeuille capitalism (Baily 1989, these merchants distribute their capital between safe but moderately remunerative ventures, and projects that are profitable but risky. The entrepreneur, here, is rarely an individual, rather we see a strategy orchestrated by the family, which in its turn corresponds to the family firm. This organisation demands constant attention from the head of the family, who must listen to the ideas of
Abid-Dalençon, Ambre
Cet article propose de réfléchir sous un angle communicationnel aux conditions de circulation et de valorisation de la forme narrative sur la scène médiatique et marchande, à travers l’exemple du storytelling et du contenu de marque. Face à ce qui est présenté par de nombreux auteurs comme une « extension du domaine narratif », on se concentrera sur des mises en récit explicites, qui se revendiquent comme telles. Ces formes « emphatiques » de mises en récit révèlent certains imaginaires autou...
Erma Hermens éd., On the Trail of Bosch and Bruegel: For Paintings United under Cross-Examination, Copenhague, Archetype Publications, 2012
Ce volume réunit plusieurs contributions qui croisent différentes compétences sur le Jésus chassant les marchands du Temple, une composition boschienne connue à travers quatre versions, conservées à Genève (collection privée), Copenhague, Talinn et Glasgow. Publié à l’occasion de la restauration de l’exemplaire de Copenhague, il se fonde sur la comparaison matérielle, iconographique et stylistique des quatre tableaux pour mieux comprendre le processus créateur, selon une démarche exemplaireme...
Aux origines de la préoccupation marchande à la SNCF (1960-2011 Origins of the SNCF French State Railways’ commercial focus (1960-2011 Los orígenes de la preocupación mercantil en la SNCF (1960-2011
Full Text Available Cet article se propose d’étudier la convergence du secteur ferroviaire français, traditionnellement contrôlé par l’État, en direction du modèle de l’entreprise privée. Dans un premier temps, nous interrogeons l’opposition public/privé et soulignons que l’intensification de la régulation marchande dans les chemins de fer est une réalité ancienne, entamée dans les 1960, mais selon des degrés différents en fonction des sous-marchés ferroviaires considérés. Nous décrivons ensuite le cas spécifique d’une branche de la Sncf ayant adoptée de manière précoce une logique marchande. Dans un troisième temps, nous analysons les mutations du secteur en mobilisant le principe d’« isomorphisme institutionnel » : la réorganisation des chemins de fer français est tout à la fois le produit de la contrainte des institutions qui souhaitent intégrer les entreprises publiques dans l’économie de marché, du mimétisme de la Sncf qui reproduit les pratiques d’entreprises privées jugées performantes et d’un rapport de force interne en faveur de « nouveaux dirigeants » favorables à l’orientation marchande de l’entreprise publique.The paper studies the convergence between France’s traditionally State-controlled railway sector and the model of a commercial enterprise. It starts with the distinction between public and private sectors, emphasizing that the intensification of market regulation in the railway sector started as far back as the 1960s, albeit to varying degrees in different market segments. The discussion then covers the specific case of a Sncf branch that adopted a market-oriented approach at an early stage, before analyzing changes in the industry based on the theory of institutional isomorphism. The reorganization of the French railways is as much the product of constraints coming from institutions hoping to join state-owned enterprises in the market economy, as a reflection of the Sncf’s own
Milliners and Marchandes de Modes
Simonton, Deborah Leigh
to foster more openness in trading. Thus, the tension was about territory and ultimately about the status of the work and the worker. But it was integrally shaped by the discourses of luxury, laissez faire and gender. Using exemplars from Colchester, Aberdeen, La Rochelle and Odense, the chapter...
Federal Laboratory Consortium — Facilities at this unit include cattle working pens, hydraulic squeeze chute and electronic scale, a maintenance building, and four hay storage sheds. There is one...
Bellion, Wendy; Berlo, Janet Catherine; Bielstein, Susan; Bussard, Katherine A.; Célius, Carlo A.; Delfiner, Judith; Drucker, Johanna; E. Byrd, Dana; Elkins, James; Fisher, Alison M.; Foster-Rice, Greg; Guilbaut, Serge; Helmreich, Anne; Jones, Amelia; Jones, Caroline A.
This document provides information on the status of institutional and financial arrangements in the United Kingdom for the long term management of HLW and SNF, It includes the following elements: A consistent set of requirements for the technical and legal infrastructure including: funding, liability, institutional control, records management, and research activities; An organizational structure with clearly defined responsibilities; and Provisions for participation by interested parties in decisions and outcomes
Apart from selling hundreds of airplanes to China, Boeing buys locally made aircraft parts and transfers technology, in the true spirit of partnership Whenever Boeing's senior manager hear of a visit by one of China's state leaders, it's no doubt cause for celebration. Since China and the United States established diplomatic ties in 1978, every official trip by China's top statesmen has included a meeting with Boeing that
The United Kingdom currently has ten operational nuclear power plants with another nine undergoing decommissioning. The operation and decommissioning of the Magnox Reactors is the responsibility of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority whilst the day-to-day operation is currently run by the two Parent Body Organizations Magnox North (Oldbury, Yr Wylfa, Hunsterton A, Chapecross and Trawsfynydd) and Magnox South (Bradwell, Berkeley, Dungeness A, Hinkley Point A and Sizewell A). Oldbury was scheduled to cease generation at the end of 2008 and Yr Wylfa by the end of 2010 but Oldbury continues to operate and a lifetime extensions is possible for Yr Wylfa. The AGRs and the PWR at Sizewell B are operated by British Energy. The ten operational reactors generate approximately 11 GW to the UK electricity mix, which is about 15% of the total UK requirement, down from a peak of 26% in 1997. Following an announcement early in 2008 by the government, with support from the main opposition party, it is expected that new nuclear plants will be built in the UK as soon as possible. Two new designs, the Westinghouse AP1000 and the Areva EPR, are currently undergoing a Generic Design Assessment by the UK regulator, the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate. Decommissioning of the Magnox NPPs is the responsibility of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA). They also own the liability of Capenhurst Fuel Enrichment Plant, Springfields Fuel Manufacturing Plant, the research reactor sites at Harwell and Winfrith, the fusion research centre at Culham, the Fast Reactor research centre at Dounreay and Sellafield. Privatization of the Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB) and the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Agency (UKAEA) and the subsequent closure of many national laboratories, together with the transfer of the liability for the decommissioning of the Magnox sites from BNFL to the NDA resulted in the re-organization of BNFL. The BNFL Research and Technology division was rebranded as
Ionizing radiation detecting unit
A design of a unit for ionizing radiation detection under high mechanical loads is described. The unit consists of a detector (scintillation or ionization), switching unit, an electronic unit, a compensation unit and absorption unit, and a jacket. To increase reliability of the unit under operation conditions at any space position in the wide range of mechanical loads and to simplify the construction, the absorption assembly has been made in the form of an elastic reference barrel-shaped element with slots along the element surface and connected to the switching unit and electronic unit by the compensation unit, which ridigity is higher than the element ridigity
Unit shutdown software
The paper Unit Shutdown Software contains a description of software which is to be used by the WWER 440 type NPP unit manager during unit shutdown operations. The software enables to display measured or calculated values on the basis of real-time technological process data acquisition, provides advices during unit shutdown and, in the cases when there is a faulty intervention or inception of dangerous situation during the unit shutdown process, produces warnings. (author). 4 figs
This document deal with design of universal driving unit. For the final solution is required driving unit which will be controled with help of sensory unit placed on the chassis of driving unit. In theoretical part of this labour are examined possibilities of a power, electric motor operation by PWM, kind of chassis and odometry which could be taken into account. From this section is finally chosen concrete configuration which is then described in chapter concerned oneself with driving unit d...
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Unit Cost Compendium Calculations
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency — The Unit Cost Compendium (UCC) Calculations raw data set was designed to provide for greater accuracy and consistency in the use of unit costs across the USEPA...
Freestanding midwifery units versus obstetric units
Overgaard, Charlotte; Fenger-Grøn, Morten; Sandall, Jane
women intending to give birth in two freestanding midwifery units (FMU) versus two obstetric units in Denmark differed by level of social disadvantage Methods The study was designed as a cohort study with a matched control group. It included 839 lowrisk women intending to give birth in an FMU, who were...... prospectively and individually matched on nine selected obstetric/socio-economic factors to 839 low-risk women intending OU birth. Educational level was chosen as a proxy for social position. Analysis was by intention-to-treat. Results Women intending to give birth in an FMU had a significantly higher...
Servodrive Clamping Unit
Štefánek, Tomáš
Design servodrive clamping unit with pneumatic or mechanic multiplier. Unit has be instrumental to strength clamp parts in tension technical machines. Frame unit’s is complicate from massive and movable clamping board and is self-supporting. Unit has be solution like incorporated modulus. Target is proposal main driving period for movable clamping board. Work up proposal constructional solution, drawing listings, production drawing of the three engaged part of, BOM. Computational report must ...
Blokhuis, Aart; Chen, Hao
A set $U$ of unit vectors is selectively balancing if one can find two disjoint subsets $U^+$ and $U^-$, not both empty, such that the Euclidean distance between the sum of $U^+$ and the sum of $U^-$ is smaller than $1$. We prove that, to guarantee a selectively balancing set, $n \\log n$ unit vectors suffice for sufficiently large $n$, but $\\tfrac{1}{23} n \\log n$ unit vectors won't be enough for infinitely many $n$.
ENERGY STAR Unit Reports
Department of Housing and Urban Development — These quarterly Federal Fiscal Year performance reports track the ENERGY STAR qualified HOME units that Participating Jurisdictions record in HUD's Integrated...
Unit 2: Demographic Data
01, CCTP; Matthews, Kevin
This unit is concerned with the task of locating demographic data, including data describing the socioeconomic characteristics of the population. Information about the age, ethnicity, gender, income, housing condition and other socioeconomic variables is considered. The scope of this unit is to provide guidelines and suggestions to identify demographic datasets and evaluate whether the data set can be used within a GIS effectively.
La gestion marchande, arme de destruction massive de l'Université
de se plier aux exigences du marketing et du management. Cependant, c’est la finalité même des universités qui est remise en question par l’introduction de la logique de gestion issue du marché. Comment peut-on espérer que l’Université puisse contribuer à une compréhension de la crise quand tout est...
Evaluation ergonomique de produits et services : le cas du web marchand
Clouet, Ghuilaine
Cette thèse se situe dans le champ de l'évaluation ergonomique de produits et de services. Une bonne évaluation doit répondre à deux types de critères qui ne sont pas nécessairement convergents : d'une part, ceux relatifs à la production de résultats scientifiquement valides et, d'autre part, ceux relatifs à l'utilisation des résultats par les professionnels destinataires. Nous explorons les deux dimensions. Nous produisons des connaissances sur la nature de la production verbale et la produc...
The first ever published translation, in French with an introduction and copious notes, of the first igbo novel, published by Pita Nwana in 1933. This is the rags to riches tale inspired by the life of an Igbo Warrant Chief, Chief Igwegbe Odum (1860?-1940) from Aro Ndizuogu, who works his way out of poverty into immense wealth, but when tested by a mishap in which he loses all his goods, sells his load carriers and apprentices into slavery to buffer himself, only to later regret this, redress...
Initial development of the endocarp in Lithraea brasiliensis Marchand (Anacardiaceae): with taxonomic notes.
De Oliveira, João M S; Mariath, Jorge E A
Investigation into the initial developmental stages of a given structure is fundamental for precise characterization as well as for comparative analysis in relation to other taxa when homologies are established. For the Anacardiaceae family, investigations of the initial development of the pericarp or its basic histological sites, the epicarp, mesocarp and endocarp, are relevant since these regions are of taxonomic and phylogenetic importance. The initial stages of endocarp development in Lithraea brasiliensis were studied using light microscopy. In L. brasiliensis, the fruits are of the drupe type. The endocarp originates exclusively in the epidermis of the locular cavity and is composed of only three strata. The crystalliferous layer, typical in fruits of the Anacardiaceae family, originates in the carpelar mesophyll and runs adjacent to the outermost layer of the endocarp. The endocarp in Lithraea brasiliensis is of the Anacardium type. The results of the present study are important for the identification of the Lithraea species that occur in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. In L. molleoides, the crystalliferous layer was shown to originate from the locular epidermis and this developmental aspect enables it to be differentiated from L. brasiliensis and demonstrates that there is variability of endocarp development in Lithraea. PMID:26221992
Kansas Data Access and Support Center — The Statewide GIS Tax Unit boundary file was created through a collaborative partnership between the State of Kansas Department of Revenue Property Valuation...
Unit 50 - Color
Unit 57, CC in GIS; Kimerling, Jon
This unit presents an overview of topics related to color, including its physical basis, human visual perception, how color is generated by a CRT and created on paper and how color is measured and specified.
Standards and measurement units
Today, the measurement is a permanent component of our environment, of our training and of the life of our companies. However, any decision taken from a measurement requires a proper interpretation of this measurement. In particular, it is necessary to know the reference system used and the uncertainty linked with the measurement. This book, published by the French national office of metrology (BNM), the official organization in charge of the implementation of the national metrology policy, must be considered as the basic document for any people from the industry, the teaching and the research world concerned by measurement problems. This book is devoted to the definition of the basic measurement units, to the units derived from the international unit system, and to the realization of the specific instrumentation necessary for the materialization of these units. This instrumentation of very high technical quality is based on multiple physical principles. It presents also the national reference standards. Beside the basic units of time and frequencies, of mechanics, of electricity and magnetism, of temperature, of radiometry and photometry and of mass quantity, one chapter is devoted to ionizing radiations and to their derived units: the Becquerel (Bq), the Gray (Gy) and the Sievert (Sv). (J.S.)
Mohr, Peter J
The International System of Units (SI) is supposed to be coherent. That is, when a combination of units is replaced by an equivalent unit, there is no additional numerical factor. Here we consider dimensionless units as defined in the SI, {\\it e.g.} angular units like radians or steradians and counting units like radioactive decays or molecules. We show that an incoherence may arise when different units of this type are replaced by a single dimensionless unit, the unit "one", and suggest how to properly include such units into the SI in order to remove the incoherence. In particular, we argue that the radian is the appropriate coherent unit for angles and that hertz is not a coherent unit in the SI. We also discuss how including angular and counting units affects the fundamental constants.
Studie-Units
Koustrup, Pia
Denne artikel sætter fokus på tilrettelæggelse af klinisk undervisning og læring, hvor et nyere begreb - studie-units er opstået inden for de sidste par år. Studie-unit er en organisationsform, som sygeplejen helt sikkert vil se en del mere til de næste par år frem i tiden. Artiklen inddrager den...... tyske didaktiker og filosof Wolfgang Klafki i diskussionen om indføring af studie-units. Klafki er valgt, fordi han indgående forholder sig til social læring, og finder læring i fællesskab med ligestillede nødvendigt for at dannelsen i et fag skal kunne lykkes...
Flexible sucker rod unit
This patent describes a deep well having: a. an education tube with an inside diameter extending from the surface of the earth to far below the surface, b. a reciprocating pump housing attached to the bottom of the education tube, c. pump jack means at the surface for reciprocating the pump, d. a light sucker rod connected to the pump jack means and extending into the education tube, and e. a series of heavy sinker bars having a large cross sectional area in the education tube connecting the light sucker rod to the pump; f. an improved integral metal flexible rod unit interconnecting the sinker bars comprising in combination with the above: g. a coupling on each end of the integral metal flexible rod unit connecting the flexible rod unit to the contiguous sinker bar, h. a segment which is flexible as compared to the sinker bars connecting one of the couplings to i. an integral metal bearing adjacent to the other of the couplings, the bearing having j. a cylindrical surface with k. a diameter i. only slightly smaller than the inside diameter of the education tube thereby forming a sliding fit therewith, and ii. greater than the diameter of any other portion of the flexible rod unit and the sinker bar, and l. grooves in the cylindrical surface for the passage of fluid between in the education tube around the bearing.
Unit 66 - Database Creation
Unit 61, CC in GIS; National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (UC Santa Barbara, SUNY at Buffalo, University of Maine)
This unit examines the planning and management issues involved in the physical creation of the database. It describes some issues in database creation, key hardware parameters of the system, partitioning the database for tiles and layers and converting data for the database. It illustrates these through an example from the Flathead National Forest in northwestern Montana, where a resource management database was required.
Unit 07 - Data Input
Unit 07, CC in GIS; Star, Jeffrey L.
This unit examines the common methods of data input. It describes the hardware and methods used for digitizing and scanning spatial information from maps and photographs, and it discusses conversion of data between digital formats and associated issues of projection, scale and resolution.
The half-open real unit interval (0,1] is closed under the ordinary multiplication and its residuum. The corresponding infinite-valued propositional logic has as its equivalent algebraic semantics the equational class of cancellative hoops. Fixing a strong unit in a cancellative hoop -equivalently, in the enveloping lattice-ordered abelian group- amounts to fixing a gauge scale for falsity. In this paper we show that any strong unit in a finitely presented cancellative hoop H induces naturally (i.e., in a representation-independent way) an automorphism-invariant positive normalized linear functional on H. Since H is representable as a uniformly dense set of continuous functions on its maximal spectrum, such functionals -in this context usually called states- amount to automorphism-invariant finite Borel measures on the spectrum. Different choices for the unit may be algebraically unrelated (e.g., they may lie in different orbits under the automorphism group of H), but our second main result shows that the cor...
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Drilling-worm unit
Levkovich, P.Ye.; Bratishcheva, L.L.; Lozovskiy, I.I.; Savich, N.S.
The purpose of the invention is to improve efficiency of oriented well drilling. This goal is achieved because in the drilling worm unit which includes a worm sectional unit which is joined to the drilling crowns, whose main section is equipped with a bracket with device ahead of the drilling crowns for oriented well drilling, the latter is made in the form of two freely rotating wheels arranged on one side from the unit perpendicularly to its longitudinal axis and lying in one horizontal plane with the rotation axes of the drilling crowns, and the distance between the axis of rotation of the drilling crown and the rotation axis of the wheel adjoining it is less than the sum of their radii by a quantity which can be defined by a formula derived from the radius of the drilling crown and the thickness of the bracket. The design of the device for oriented well drilling in the form of two freely rotating wheels arranged on one side from the unit perpendicularly to its longitudinal axis to the drilling crowns lying in one horizontal plane with the rotation axes with distance between the rotation axis of the drilling crown and the rotation axis of the wheel adjoining it is less than the sum of their radii, by a quantity derived from the same parameters, and guarantees interaction of the device for oriented well drilling with the side walls of the previously drilled well. This makes it insensitive to rock collapses from the well roof and permits the static cutter to be eliminated, and consequently, elimination of the deflecting force and reduction in the feed force. All of this will permit improvement in the efficiency of well drilling.
The role of the Congress is essential to any study of American government and politics. It would be impossible to gain a complete understanding of the American system of government without an appreciation of the nature and workings of this essential body. This is an introductory text aimed at undergraduates studying American politics and American society. It looks at the workings of the United States Congress, and uses the Republican period of ascendancy, which lasted from 1994 until 2000, as...
Unit for air decontamination
To fulfill the applicable requirements of safety to the ventilation systems in nuclear facilities, it is necessary to make a cleaning of the air that hurtles to the atmosphere. For that which was designed and it manufactured an unit for decontamination of the air for the Pilot plant of production of Nuclear Fuel that this built one with national parts, uses Hepa national filters and the design can adapt for different dimensions of filters, also can be added a lodging for a prefilter or to adopt two Hepa filters. (Author)
A wastewater treatment plant to treat both the sanitary and industrial effluent originated from process, utilities and off site units of the refinery is described. The purpose is to obtain at the end of the treatment plant, a water quality that is in compliance with contractual requirements and relevant environmental regulations. first treatment (pretreatment). Primary de-oiling, Equalization, Neutralization, Secondary de-oiling. Second treatment (Biological), The mechanism of BOD removal, Biological flocculation, Nutrient requirements, Nitrification, De-nitrification, Effect of temperature, Effect of ph, Toxicity
An ISOLDE target unit
A good dozen different targets are available for ISOLDE, made of different materials and equipped with different kinds of ion-sources, according to the needs of the experiments. Each separator (GPS: general purpose; HRS: high resolution) has its own target. Because of the high radiation levels, robots effect the target changes, about 80 times per year. In the standard unit shown in picture _01, the target is the cylindrical object in the front. It contains uranium-carbide kept at a temperature of 2200 deg C, necessary for the isotopes to be able to escape. At either end, one sees the heater current leads, carrying 700 A. The Booster beam, some 3E13 protons per pulse, enters the target from left. The evaporated isotope atoms enter a hot-plasma ion source (the black object behind the target). The whole unit sits at 60 kV potential (pulsed in synchronism with the arrival of the Booster beam) which accelerates the ions (away from the viewer) towards one of the 2 separators.
3. Dosimetric quantities and units
The basic quantities and units used in dosimetry according to the SI system and ICRU recommendations are defined and characterized. In Czechoslovakia these quantities and units are enacted in the State Standard CSN 01 1308. (M.D.)
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Modeling Students' Units Coordinating Activity
Boyce, Steven James
Primarily via constructivist teaching experiment methodology, units coordination (Steffe, 1992) has emerged as a useful construct for modeling students' psychological constructions pertaining to several mathematical domains, including counting sequences, whole number multiplicative conceptions, and fractions schemes. I describe how consideration of units coordination as a Piagetian (1970b) structure is useful for modeling units coordination across contexts. In this study, I extend teaching ...
This paper reports that at least in the national security arena, the outcomes of bureaucratic infighting and domestic political struggles are not determined wholly by what goes on with the state. Rather struggles among contending groups are greatly affected by what is perceived to be happening outside the nation. Because external conditions give greater potency to some domestic forces over other, the external environment is never neutral in its domestic impact. The decisions of the period 1950-53 discussed above illustrate the point. But so too do the decisions of 1947, 1960-61 and 1969-72. In the 1947 case, Soviet intransigence provoked US nuclear rearmament. In the 1960-61 case, extended deterrent considerations pushed the United States to preserve its again newly discovered nuclear superiority. In the 1969-72 case, a Soviet determination to remain equal forced US acceptance of nuclear equality. And perhaps the best evidence of all, the perpetuation of parity ended the US inclination to resort to nuclear brinkmanship. In each instance, concerns about relative position heavily affected nuclear choice. Finally, the events of the past three years testify to the effects of international events on domestic choice. Under the terms of the 1987 INF Treaty, the two superpowers decided to dismantle and destroy an entire class of missiles of intermediate range (500-3000 kilometers) that both had deployed in Europe in the 1970s and 1980s, and in their June 1990 joint statement on strategic nuclear weapons, President Gorbachev and Brush agreed to cut the number of Soviet and US long range nuclear forces by 30 per cent. This agreement marks a watershed in US-Soviet strategic arm negotiations because for the first time the United States and the Soviet Union agreed in principals to reduce the number of weapons aimed at one another. Between 1985 and 1990 the cold war was brought to a close
SI units in radiation protection
International System of Units abbreviated as SI units has been adopted by most of the countries of the world. Following this development, the implementation of SI units has become mandatory with a transition period of about ten years. Some of the journals have already adopted the SI units and any material sent for publication to them must use only these. International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurement (ICRU) published letters in several journals including Physics in Medicine and Biology, Health Physics, British Journal of Radiology, etc. outlining the latest recommendations on SI units to elicit the reactions of scientists in the general field of radiological sciences. Reactions to the letters were numerous as can be seen in the correspondence columns of these journals for the last few years and ranged from great misgivings and apprehension to support and appreciation. SI units have also been the subject of editorial comments in several journals. On the basis of a survey of this literature, it may be said that there was general agreement on the long term advantage of SI units inspite of some practical difficulties in their use particularly in the initial stages. This report presents a review of SI units in radiological sciences with a view to familiarize the users with the new units in terms of the old. A time table for the gradual changeover to the SI units is also outlined. (auth.)
Podgornyy, A.N.; Droshenkin, B.A.; Khmelnitskaya, I.A.; Varshavskiy, I.L.
The unit for hydrogen production consists of a reactor, tank for fuel, tank for water, connected to the injector, and motor. It is distinguished by the fact that in order to reduce energy outlays by purifying the hydrogen and separating it from the gas mixture, it is equipped with a hydrogen separator arranged between the reactor and the motor. The separator is made in the form of a cylindrical shell separated by semipermeable partition into a chamber for pure hydrogen connected to the motor, and a chamber of ballast gas whose outlet is connected to the pressure nozzle of the injector. The use of the semipermeable partition for water vapor and permeable for hydrogen in combination with the injector makes it possible to exclude from the equipment a water pump and outlets of electricity associated with it. In addition, it is not necessary to install a current generator to power the electric motor of this pump. The heat exchanger for heating the water is also excluded.
Measures of temperature that center around human experience get lots of use. Of course thermal physics insights of the last century have shown that reciprocal temperature (1/kT) has applications that temperature addresses less well. In addition to taking on negative absolute values under population inversion (e.g. of magnetic spins), bits and bytes turn 1/kT into an informatic measure of the thermal ambient for developing correlations within any complex system. We show here that, in the human-friendly units of bytes and food Calories, water freezes when 1/kT ~200 ZB/Cal or kT ~5 Cal/YB. Casting familiar benchmarks into these terms shows that habitable human space requires coldness values (part of the time, at least) between 0 and 40 ZB/Cal with respect body temperature ~100 degrees F, a range in kT of ~1 Cal/YB. Insight into these physical quantities underlying thermal equilibration may prove useful for budding scientists, as well as the general public, in years ahead.
Mobile contingency unit
Silva, Sergio O. da; Magalhaes, Milton P. de [Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (PETROBRAS), Rio de Janeiro, RJ (Brazil); Junqueira, Rodrigo A.; Torres, Carlos A.R. [PETROBRAS Transporte S/A (TRANSPETRO), Rio de Janeiro, RJ (Brazil)
This paper is aimed at presenting what is already a reality in TRANSPETRO in the area covered by OSBRA, a pipeline that carries by-products to the Mid-West region of Brazil. In order to meet the needs of covering occasional accidents, TRANSPETRO counts on a standardized system of emergency management. It is a great challenge to secure an efficient communication along the 964 km of extension, considering that there are shadow zones where it is not possible to use conventional means of communication such as mobile telephony and internet. It was in this context that the Mobile Contingency Unit Via Satellite - MCU was developed, to extend the communication facilities existing in fixed installations to remote places, mainly the pipeline right of ways. In case of emergency, simulation and work in the pipeline right of way, MCU is fully able to provide the same data, voice, closed-circuit TV and satellite video conference facilities that are available in any internal area of the PETROBRAS system. (author)
The possession of nuclear weapons by the United Kingdom has long been a controversial issue in British politics, and among historians and strategists. Part of the controversy has revolved around questions of motivation. Why did the British Government under Prime Minister Clement Attlee develop nuclear weapons? Why have successive British governments maintained and, in fact, modernized the national nuclear force? This paper reports that a frequent response to these questions is to place the issue of the acquisition of nuclear weapons by the UK into a post-colonial context. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Britain was a great power with global assets and commitments. After the Empire was reduced in size and importance, however, and eventually swept away, Britain could not longer claim to be a superpower in any modern sense. Nevertheless, it is suggested, British policy makers had developed a foreign policy based upon certain assumptions about Britain's position and power and they were reluctant to relinquish these assumptions. Furthermore, it is contended, the decision to develop nuclear weapons was taken to reinforce what were the pretensions of a medium power, and the continued obsession of successive British governments with nuclear weapons provides evidence that Britain has still not come to terms with its reduced role and limited influence. In short, the British infatuation with nuclear weapons over the past 40 years is best explained in terms of concerns about status
From stroke unit care to stroke care unit
De Keyser, J; Sulter, G.
In some stroke units continuous monitoring of blood pressure, electrocardiogram, body temperature, and oxygen saturation has become an integral part of the management of acute stroke. In addition, regular measurements of blood glucose are performed. Stroke units equipped with such monitoring facilit
Unit 41 - Spatial Interpolation II
Unit 07, CC in GIS; Waters, Nigel M
This unit continues the examination of spatial interpolation by looking at areal interpolation techniques and some applications. Non-volume preserving and volume preserving methods are described, and two special cases of interpolation—mapping populated areas and estimating trade areas—are outlined. The unit concludes with notes on the conceptual foundation of interpolation and its appropriate uses in GIS.
The United Kingdom is among the world leaders in recruiting international students.Joanna Burke,Cultural Counselor in the Cultural and Education Section of the British Embassy in China,recently spoke about international students,especially Chinese students in the United Kingdom,with Beijing Review reporter Wang Hairong.
Torsion units in group rings
Edison Home Community Study Unit.
Lee County School District, Ft. Myers, FL. Dept. of Environmental Education and Instructional Development Services.
History is not merely events that occurred in the past. The past has influenced the present, as the present will influence the future. The purpose of this community study unit is to provide fourth grade students with an opportunity to investigate some of the history of Lee County, Florida. The unit's focus is on Thomas Edison, who built a home in…
de Benoist, Anne-Claire; White, Joanne Margaret; Efstratiou, Androulla; Kelly, Carole; Mann, Ginder; Nazareth, Bernadette; Irish, Charles James; Kumar, Deepti; Crowcroft, Natasha Sarah
Fatigue of Concrete Armour Units
Sørensen, N. B.; Burcharth, H. F.; Liu, Z.
In the present article fatigue as a possible reason for failure of Dolosse armour units made of plain concrete is discussed.......In the present article fatigue as a possible reason for failure of Dolosse armour units made of plain concrete is discussed....
Multi-unit operations considerations
Several nuclear weapons programs have or are pursuing the implementation of multi-unit operations for tasks such as disassembly and inspection, and rebuild. A multi-unit operation is interpreted to mean the execution of nuclear explosive operating procedures in a single facility by two separate teams of technicians. The institution of a multi-unit operations program requires careful consideration of the tools, resources, and environment provided to the technicians carrying out the work. Therefore, a systematic approach is necessary to produce safe, secure, and reliable processes. In order to facilitate development of a more comprehensive multi-unit operations program, the current work details categorized issues that should be addressed prior to the implementation of multi-unit operations in a given weapons program. The issues have been organized into the following categories: local organizational conditions, work process flow/material handling/workplace configuration, ambient environmental conditions, documented safety analysis, and training
United States panel presentations
Before I begin I have to make a disclaimer. That is that I am going to be talking about public perception because I think that is very important. But I do not want to give the impression that I think the public is wrong. I happen to agree with the public's perception of nuclear power, and I want to make that clear. I do not like the current generation of nuclear plants as I have made clear in many statements that I have made. On the other hand, in the long term, I feel that we have only two choices on the supply side, and that is nuclear power and solar electricity. And although I think solar electricity has the best chance, I am realistic enough to know that technologies do not always work the way I want. And so I think it is necessary to have at least some kind of nuclear option available. On the other hand, I do not think just any kind of nuclear technology will do. I want to talk to you about the conditions that I think you have to take into account when you try to design reactors that are publicly acceptable. I look at this as an insurance policy. Again, I do not want to be misquoted: I think nuclear power should be considered as an insurance policy, not as our first line of defense. Having made those disclaimers, what we need to do is set out a problem statement. The problem statement I set out is, 'How could one design and demonstrate a nuclear reactor that would regain public confidence in the United States, if one chose to do that?' By regaining confidence, I mean regaining sufficient confidence to site reactors at a number of locations. It is a pretty heavy task because the public cannot judge the technical issues. They have to judge the players by their characters and their histories, just as the way we calibrate anyone that knows things that we do not. I have three theses that I think are crucial. The first is that people do not believe in the claims of advocates, of any point of view, not just nuclear power, once the advocates have been proved wrong on
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Welding unit - Metallurgical Research Department
This report reviews the activities of the Metallurgical Research Department's Welding Unit during 1984. Major research programs during the year included nuclear waste container welding, pulsed-current gas-metal-arc welding procedure development, welding automation and robotics, and repair welding technology, particularly temperbead. Smaller research projects, and the substantial amount of field support and service work performed in 1984, are also summarized. Reports issued by the Welding Unit, as well as externally published papers and presentations are listed. Finally, the proposed activities and objectives for the Unit's 1985 work program are outlined, with particular reference to the major research areas carrying on from 1984
Aman Dua; Kapil Dua
Hair transplantation has come a long way from the days of Punch Hair Transplant by Dr. Orentreich in 1950s to Follicular Unit Hair Transplant (FUT) of 1990s and the very recent Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE) technique. With the advent of FUE, the dream of ′no visible scarring′ in the donor area is now looking like a possibility. In FUE, the grafts are extracted as individual follicular units in a two-step or three-step technique whereas the method of implantation remains the same as in the ...
Jun Lu; Jianbo Wang
An asymmetric Jerusalem unit and the frequency selective surface(FSS)structure composed of such units are designed.The transmittance of the designed FSS structure is calculated by mode-matching method and compared with the test results.The comparison results show that the FSS center frequency of the asymmetric structure unit drifts little with the variation of the incident angles of the electromagnetic waves and keeps relatively stable.The research offers a new choice for the application of FSS under the large scanning angle of electromagnetic waves.
Functional units for natural numbers
Interaction with services provided by an execution environment forms part of the behaviours exhibited by instruction sequences under execution. Mechanisms related to the kind of interaction in question have been proposed in the setting of thread algebra. Like thread, service is an abstract behavioural concept. The concept of a functional unit is similar to the concept of a service, but more concrete. A state space is inherent in the concept of a functional unit, whereas it is not inherent in the concept of a service. In this paper, we establish the existence of a universal computable functional unit for natural numbers and related results.
Preclinical Research Unit at CENTIS
The description of the CENTIS Preclinical Research Unit. It has two purposes: Quality assurance system, and the Accreditation facing current national and international standards according with the competent authority
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Architecture of nuclear power units
Nuclear units with circulation cooling using cooling towers are dominating points of the landscape. The individual cooling towers or pairs of cooling towers should be situated in the axes of double units and should also linearly be arranged, rhythmically in the respective zone. Examples are shown of the architectural designs of several nuclear power plants in the USA, the UK, the USSR, France, the FRG and Italy. (H.S.)
Fundamental units: physics and metrology
The problem of fundamental units is discussed in the context of achievements of both theoretical physics and modern metrology. On one hand, due to fascinating accuracy of atomic clocks, the traditional macroscopic standards of metrology (second, metre, kilogram) are giving way to standards based on fundamental units of nature: velocity of light $c$ and quantum of action $h$. On the other hand, the poor precision of gravitational constant $G$, which is widely believed to define the ``cube of t...
Unit 54, CC in GIS; Cowen, David; Ferguson, Warren
This unit begins a six-part section that reviews the spectrum of different applications of GIS. It characterizes the core groups of GIS activity in terms of three categories: (1) mature technologies that interact with GIS sharing its technology and creating data for it; (2) management and decision-making groups; and (3) science and research activities at universities and government labs. This unit focuses on the first category, exploring GIS applications in cartography, surveying and engineer...
Management of planned unit outages
Management of planned unit outages at the Bruno Leuschner Nuclear Power Plant is based on the experience gained with Soviet PWR units of the WWER type over a period of more than 50 reactor-years. For PWR units, planned outages concentrate almost exclusively on annual refuellings and major maintenance of the power plant facilities involved. Planning of such major maintenance work is based on a standardized basic network plan and a catalogue of standardized maintenance and inspection measures. From these, an overall maintenance schedule of the unit and partial process plans of the individual main components are derived (manually or by computer) and, in the temporal integration of major maintenance at every unit, fixed starting times and durations are determined. More than 75% of the maintenance work at the Bruno Leuschner Nuclear Power Plant is carried out by the plant's own maintenance personnel. Large-scale maintenance of every unit is controlled by a special project head. He is assisted by commissioners, each of whom is responsible for his own respective item. A daily control report is made. The organizational centre is a central office which works in shifts around the clock. All maintenance orders and reports of completion pass through this office; thus, the overall maintenance schedule can be corrected daily. To enforce the proposed operational strategy, suitable accompanying technical measures are required with respect to effective facility monitoring and technical diagnosis, purposeful improvement of particularly sensitive components and an increase in the effectiveness of maintenance work by special technologies and devices. (author)
New nuclear unit in Bulgaria
After the construction of NPP Belene has been stopped in 1990, 4 attempts are made for the development of a new nuclear power unit in Bulgaria. In accordance with the regulations the following principles and criteria are considered - the probabilistic assessment should ensure frequency for the core integrity damage -5 1/reactor years; frequency of the radioactive release in case of beyond design basis accident -6 1/reactor. Comparison of different projects and perspective for NNPs in various countries is made. Analysis of technical solutions for safety and reliability is made, considering the modernization programme for the Kozloduy NPP units 5 and 6 and the experience of other power plants. In connection with the planning of a new nuclear power unit the following items are discussed: characteristics of the Kozloduy site and Belene site (variants of general plans are studied); finance analyses; technical analyses; legislation. The main conclusions about the new power unit construction is that the Belene NPP is the project which would be the most competitive on the energy market and it is expected to bring the most investment returns. It is stated that the completion of the Belene NPP unit 1 using the Improved Project B-320M is technically and financially substantiated, profitable and without alternative
Corrosion in sulfur recovery units
Corrosion in sulfur recovery units may be caused by sulfuric acid formed at cold points in operating units or during the startup, shutdown, or catalyst regeneration periods. Insufficient high-temperature resistance of main boiler materials to sulfuric acid is another common cause of severe corrosion. The specific corrosion problems encountered in hydrotreating units include high- and low-temperature hydrogen embrittlement of steel above 200/sup 0/C and between -50/sup 0/ and +20/sup 0/C, respectively, sometimes accompanied with blistering; carbon steel corrosion by hydrogen sulfide above 280/sup 0/C in desulfurization units; low-temperature stress corrosion or hydrogen blistering by H/sub 2/S in aqueous environments; corrosion by chloride ions coupled with precipitation of ammonium chloride in catalytic reformers during catalyst regeneration; corrosion and fouling by ammonium sulfide in gas oil hydrodesulfurization units and reformers below 90/sup 0/C; and intergranular and stress corrosion of austenitic steels by polythionic acids which may be formed during startup or catalyst regeneration periods. Methods for preventing these types of corrosion are outlined.
Mobile units to hydro geochemistry characterization
This report shows the mobile units for hydro geochemical studies. The authors analyze the work of mobile unit and the cars that conform the unit: Sampling car and analysis car: The sampling and equipment are took into account as well
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Full Text Available Hair transplantation has come a long way from the days of Punch Hair Transplant by Dr. Orentreich in 1950s to Follicular Unit Hair Transplant (FUT of 1990s and the very recent Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE technique. With the advent of FUE, the dream of ′no visible scarring′ in the donor area is now looking like a possibility. In FUE, the grafts are extracted as individual follicular units in a two-step or three-step technique whereas the method of implantation remains the same as in the traditional FUT. The addition of latest automated FUE technique seeks to overcome some of the limitations in this relatively new technique and it is now possible to achieve more than a thousand grafts in one day in trained hands. This article reviews the methodology, limitations and advantages of FUE hair transplant.
Assessment unit meets Trust ambitions.
The quality of the care environment within a new 16-bedded modular-built ward, the Gilwern Assessment Unit, at Hereford County Hopsital, has won widespread praise from the clinicians and nurses staffing it--many of whom were recruited specially to work in it. The impressive new single-storey assessment unit for frail, older patients--which admitted its first patients just before Christmas--is formed from 14 separate modules erected offsite, delivered individually on low-loaders, craned into position, and then finished and fitted out to an extremely high standard, by off-site building specialist, MTX. The new ward was completed on budget to an extremely tight schedule, met--thanks to excellent teamwork--despite the added complication of the unit being built over a former burial ground. PMID:27132303
Sorvillo, Frank J.; DeGiorgio, Christopher; Waterman, Stephen H.
Cysticercosis has emerged as a cause of severe neurologic disease in the United States. We evaluated cysticercosis-related deaths in the United States for 1990–2002 by race, sex, age, state of residence, country of birth, and year of death. A total of 221 cysticercosis deaths were identified. Mortality rates were highest for Latinos (adjusted rate ratio [ARR] 94.5, relative to whites) and men (ARR = 1.8). The mean age at death was 40.5 years (range 2–88). Most patients (187 [84.6%]) were fore...
Smeekes, S.
The role of detrending in bootstrap unit root tests is investigated. When bootstrapping, detrending must not only be done for the construction of the test statistic, but also in the first step of the bootstrap algorithm. It is argued that the two points should be treated separately. Asymptotic validity of sieve bootstrap ADF unit root tests is shown for test statistics based on full sample and recursive OLS and GLS detrending. It is also shown that the detrending method in the first step of t...
The present invention relates to a photovoltaic arrangement comprising a photovoltaic assembly comprising a support structure defining a mounting surface onto which a photovoltaic module is detachably mounted; and a mounting/demounting unit comprising at least one mounting/demounting apparatus...... which when the mounting/demounting unit is moved along the mounting surface, causes the photovoltaic module to be mounted or demounted to the support structure; wherein the photovoltaic module comprises a carrier foil and wherein a total thickness of the photo voltaic module is below 500 muiotaeta. The...
Dosimetric principles, quantities and units
Radiation measurements and investigations of radiation effects require various specifications of the radiation field at the point of interest. Radiation dosimetry deals with methods for a quantitative determination of energy deposited in a given medium by directly or indirectly ionizing radiations. A number of quantities and units have been defined for describing the radiation beam, and the most commonly used dosimetric quantities and their units are defined below. A simplified discussion of cavity theory, the theory that deals with calculating the response of a dosimeter in a medium, is also given
Das Tübinger Patientenkollektiv mit einem Kurzdarmsyndrom benigner Ätiologie - eine Betrachtung über 26.278 Tage unter parenteraler Ernährung -
Roggenbrod, Sebastian
Das Kurzdarmsyndrom ist ein seltenes Krankheitsbild mit einer Prävalenz von etwa 3 pro 1 Million und charakterisiert durch einen Verlust eines großen Teils der enteralen Resorptionsfläche mit oftmals dauerhafter Abhängigkeit von parenteraler Ernährung (parenteral nutrition, PN). Komplikationen der parenteralen Ernährung sind häufig katheterassoziiert: Katheter-Septikämien, Okklusionen, der Verlust zentralvenöser Zugangswege durch Thrombosierung; aber auch die PN-assoziierte Leberschädigung, e...
Die Tübinger Dokumentation der preußischen Landtagswahlen 1867-1918 : Arbeitsbericht über den Einsatz von TUSTEP in der wahlgeschichtlichen Grundlagenforschung
Der vorliegende Beitrag beschreibt ein Forschungsprojekt des historischen Seminars der Universität Tübingen, das die bisher nur unzureichend erforschte Geschichte der preußischen Landtagswahlen im Kaiserreich systematisch aufzuarbeiten sucht. Die nach dem indirekten und öffentlichen Dreiklassenwahlrecht abgehaltenen Wahlen zwischen 1867 und 1918 sind elektronisch erfaßt und um Daten aus dem Handbuch der Mitglieder des preußischen Abgeordnetenhauses ergänzt worden. Zweck der Dokumentation ist ...
United Arab Emirates Student Assessment
The United Arab Emirates has focused on increasing student learning outcomes by improving the quality of education in the country. An effective student assessment system is an important component of efforts to improve education quality and learning outcomes as it provides the necessary information to meet stakeholders’ decision making needs. In order to gain a better understanding of the ...
Genetic maps and physical units
The relationships between physical and genetic units are examined. Genetic mapping involves the detection of linkage of genes and the measurement of recombination frequencies. The genetic distance is measured in map units and is proportional to the recombination frequencies between linked markers. Physical mapping of genophores, particularly the simple genomes of bacteriophages and bacterial plasmids can be achieved through heteroduplex analysis. Genetic distances are dependent on recombination frequencies and, therefore, can only be correlated accurately with physical unit lengths if the recombination frequency is constant throughout the entire genome. Methods are available to calculate the equivalent length of DNA per average map unit in different organisms. Such estimates indicate significant differences from one organism to another. Gene lengths can also be calculated from the number of amino acids in a specified polypeptide and relating this to the number of nucleotides required to code for such a polypeptide. Many attempts have been made to relate microdosimetric measurements to radiobiological data. For irradiation effects involving deletion of genetic material such a detailed correlation may be possible in systems where heteroduplex analysis or amino acid sequencing can be performed. The problems of DNA packaging and other functional associations within the cell in interpreting data is discussed
Unit 43 - Database Concepts I
Unit 61, CC in GIS; White, Gerald (ACER)
This unit outlines fundamental concepts in database systems and their integration with GIS, including advantages of a database approach, views of a database, database management systems (DBMS), and alternative database models. Three models—hierarchical, network and relational—are discussed in greater detail.
Unit cohesion and social structure
MuΣnoz, Jorge Alberto.
Unit cohesion at the primary-group level has been an enduring concern of the Department of Defense since the Viet Nam conflict. This effort studies the antecedent causal factors impinging on the primary-group cohesion within the context of a political mov
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Anna Newton, Surveillance Epidemiologist at CDC, discusses cholera that was brought to the United States during an outbreak in Haiti and the Dominican Republic (Hispaniola). Created: 11/8/2011 by National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID). Date Released: 11/8/2011.
Dr. Aron Hall, a CDC epidemiologist specializing in norovirus, discusses the impact of norovirus in the United States. Created: 9/9/2013 by National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID). Date Released: 9/17/2013.
Unit 01 - What is GIS?
Unit 57, CC in GIS; Cowen, David
This unit attempts to put GIS into context, examining various definitions of GIS and considering the origins of the field. It describes the factors that differentiate GIS from other forms of automatic geographical data handling and gives a brief overview of the relevant application areas.
Leeming, Gail; Smith, Ken C.; Bestbier, Mark E.; Barrelet, Annalisa; Kipar, Anja
Every four years, Americans elect a president. According to the Constitution(宪法) any American citizen over 40 years of age who was born in the UoSo can be president. There are always many candi- dates who hope they will be elected. There are many political parties in the United States,
Pentachlorophenol (PCP) sludge recycling unit
The Guelph Utility Pole Company treats utility poles by immersion in pentachlorophenol (PCP) or by pressure treatment with chromated copper arsenate (CCA). The PCP treatment process involves a number of steps, each producing a certain amount of sludge and other wastes. In a plant upgrading program to improve processing and treatment of poles and to reduce and recycle waste, a PCP recovery unit was developed, first as an experimental pilot-scale unit and then as a full-scale unit. The PCP recovery unit is modular in design and can be modified to suit different requirements. In a recycling operation, the sludge is pumped through a preheat system (preheated by waste heat) and suspended solids are removed by a strainer. The sludge is then heated in a tank and at a predetermined temperature it begins to separate into its component parts: oil, steam, and solids. The steam condenses to water containing low amounts of light oil, and this water is pumped through an oil/water separator. The recovered oil is reused in the wood treatment process and the water is used in the CCA plant. The oil remaining in the tank is reused in PCP treatment and the solid waste, which includes small stones and wood particles, is removed and stored. By the third quarter of operation, the recovery unit was operating as designed, processing ca 10,000 gal of sludge. This sludge yielded 6,500 gal of water, 3,500 gal of oil, and ca 30 gal of solids. Introduction of the PCP sludge recycling system has eliminated long-term storage of PCP sludge and minimized costs of hazardous waste disposal. 4 figs
78 FR 64385 - United Nations Day, 2013
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31 CFR 536.315 - United States.
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Detailed Analysis of Motor Unit Activity
Nikolic, Mile; Sørensen, John Aasted; Dahl, Kristian; Krarup, Christian
System for decomposition of EMG signals intotheir constituent motor unit potentials and their firing patterns.The aim of the system is detailed analysis ofmotor unit variability.......System for decomposition of EMG signals intotheir constituent motor unit potentials and their firing patterns.The aim of the system is detailed analysis ofmotor unit variability....
Knut Lundquist; Jim Parkås
The influence of cross-linking and branching on the number of interconnections between lignin units and the number of end groups (phenolic and non-phenolic) in the lignin molecules is discussed. Branching results in an increased number of end groups. It appears from an evaluation of the literature that p-hydroxyphenylpropane units are phenolic to a larger extent than guaiacylpropane units and that such units in turn are phenolic to a larger extent than syringylpropane units. It is proposed th...
This report is a compilation of worksheets from the waste management units of Savannah River Plant. Information is presented on the following: Solid Waste Management Units having received hazardous waste or hazardous constituents with a known release to the environment; Solid Waste Management Units having received hazardous waste or hazardous constituents with no known release to the environment; Solid Waste Management Units having received no hazardous waste or hazardous constituents; Waste Management Units having received source; and special nuclear, or byproduct material only
Organization of Control Units with Operational Addressing
Alexander A. Barkalov; Roman M. Babakov; Larysa A. Titarenko
The using of operational addressing unit as the block of control unit is proposed. The new structure model of Moore finite-state machine with reduced hardware amount is developed. The generalized structure of operational addressing unit is suggested. An example of synthesis process for Moore finite-state machine with operational addressing unit is given. The analytical researches of proposed structure of control unit are executed.
Overvoew of Loviisa Unit-1
Irradiation embrittlement of the pressure vessel was found to be higher than expected in the Loviisa units after a few years of operation. The adaptive measures taken by the utility and the implemented new research programmes to support the annealing option are described. Practically all measures available to reduce the neutron dose to the pressure vessel and to soften transients in thermal shock have been taken. The amount of surveillance material, especially weld, is limited and techniques to utilize it effectively in annealing and reirradiation studies are described. The utility prepares to anneal Unit-1 in 1996. This is material test laboratory and utility view on the history and present day situation in Loviisa as concerns structural safety assessment of the pressure vessel
Low cost inertial measuring unit
Karnick, Drew A.
A concept being explored is the use of an inexpensive IMU (inertial measuring unit) with the GPS (Global Positioning System). An inexpensive IMU can meet many of the same functional requirements as the high-accuracy system, with the exception of long-term position. For example, some applications for instrumenting a reference frame are antenna stability, satellite acquisition (including GPS), platform stability, flight stabilization, and heading information. The acceleration data could still be integrated to find velocity and position; however, this position information would only be used for a period of minutes. For example, to provide continuous navigation during a GPS blockage due to buildings, wing blockage during a maneuver, etc. The author presents the capabilities of a unit of this type which was developed for the US Army.
Masse, R.P.; Filson, J.R.; Murphy, A.
The USGS National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC) has planned and is developing a broadband digital seismograph network for the United States. The network will consist of approximately 150 seismograph stations distributed across the contiguous 48 states and across Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Data transmission will be via two-way satellite telemetry from the network sites to a central recording facility at the NEIC in Golden, Colorado. The design goal for the network is the on-scale recording by at least five well-distributed stations of any seismic event of magnitude 2.5 or greater in all areas of the United States except possibly part of Alaska. All event data from the network will be distributed to the scientific community on compact disc with read-only memory (CD-ROM). ?? 1989.
Giavina-Bianchi P; Aun MV; Takejima P; Kalil J; Agondi RC
Pedro Giavina-Bianchi,* Marcelo Vivolo Aun,* Priscila Takejima, Jorge Kalil, Rosana Câmara Agondi Clinical Immunology and Allergy Division, Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil*These authors contributed equally to this work. Abstract: Upper and lower airways are considered a unified morphological and functional unit, and the connection existing between them has been observed for many years, both in health and in disease. There is str...
Hormones and the pilosebaceous unit
Chen, Wen-Chieh; Zouboulis, Christos C
Hormones can exert their actions through endocrine, paracrine, juxtacrine, autocrine and intracrine pathways. The skin, especially the pilosebaceous unit, can be regarded as an endocrine organ meanwhile a target of hormones, because it synthesizes miscellaneous hormones and expresses diverse hormone receptors. Over the past decade, steroid hormones, phospholipid hormones, retinoids and nuclear receptor ligands as well as the so-called stress hormones have been demonstrated to play pivotal rol...
Unit 40 - Spatial Interpolation I
This unit is the first of two that focuses on spatial interpolation—the procedure of estimating the value of properties at unsampled sites within the area covered by existing observations. It discusses several different methods for classifying spatial interpolation procedures, such as point vs. areal, global vs. local, and exact vs. approximate. Several point-based methods are described, both exact—proximal, B-splines, Kriging and manual (“eyeballing”)—and approximate—trend surface analysis, ...
The southwestern United States pined for water in late March and early April 2007. This image is based on data collected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite from March 22 through April 6, 2007, and it shows the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, or NDVI, for the period. In this NDVI color scale, green indicates areas of healthier-than-usual vegetation, and only small patches of green appear in this image, near the California-Nevada border and in Utah. Larger areas of below-normal vegetation are more common, especially throughout California. Pale yellow indicates areas with generally average vegetation. Gray areas appear where no data were available, likely due to persistent clouds or snow cover. According to the April 10, 2007, update from the U.S. Drought Monitor, most of the southwestern United Sates, including Utah, Nevada, California, and Arizona, experienced moderate to extreme drought. The hardest hit areas were southeastern California and southwestern Arizona. Writing for the Drought Monitor, David Miskus of the Joint Agricultural Weather Facility reported that March 2007 had been unusually dry for the southwestern United States. While California's and Utah's reservoir storage was only slightly below normal, reservoir storage was well below normal for New Mexico and Arizona. In early April, an international research team published an online paper in Science noting that droughts could become more common for the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, as these areas were already showing signs of drying. Relying on the same computer models used in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released in early 2007, the researchers who published in Science concluded that global warming could make droughts more common, not just in the American Southwest, but also in semiarid regions of southern Europe, Mediterranean northern Africa, and the Middle East.
Eddy current tube testing unit
The unit described can check a wide variety of tubes in quick succession and its modular design gives it a high degree of versability. Suitably defined working conditions and specific fittings enable most of the faults encountered in the manufacture of a tube to be detected. By appropriate means of selection based on signal amplitude, phase and frequency analyses it is possible to adapt selection criteria to the seriousness of the different categories of defect
Unit 20 - GIS as Archives
Unit 03, CC in GIS; National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (UC Santa Barbara, SUNY at Buffalo, University of Maine)
This unit introduces the idea of a GIS database serving as a project or archive database, contrasting it with the traditional geographic archive, the map library. It discusses issues of data currency, justifying the need for digital geographic archives, suitability of data for archiving, platforms, distribution, user interface and costs vs. benefits of digital archives. It illustrates these issues with several examples of spatial data archive systems.
Cypes, Stephen; Uhrich, M; Carlson, Eric; Kolosov, Oleg; Padowitz, David; Bennett, James; Matsiev, L
Fluid sensor methods and systems adapted for monitoring and/or controlling distillation operations in fluidic systems, such as batch distillation operations or continuous distillation operations, are disclosed. Preferred embodiments are directed to process monitoring and/or process control for unit operations involving endpoint detemlination of a distillation, for example, as applied to a liquid-componentswitching operation (e.g., a solvent switching operation), a liquid-liquid separation ope...
Security detention - United Kingdom practice
This article assesses the role of security detention within the context of a number of the United Kingdom’s anti-terrorism policies. It considers the U.K. provisions on indefinite detention and the judicial response to those policies. Close attention is given to the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 (PTA 2005), and in particular the detailed regime of “control orders” it introduced. The different substantive and procedural bases for judicial challenges to control orders are illustrated by refe...
Decommissioning Peach Bottom Unit 1
Decommissioning activities are described for Peach Bottom Unit No. 1, a 40 mw(e) HTGR demonstration plant owned and operated by the Philadelphia Electric Company. Radiological aspects of decommission are discussed. The application of advance planning and effective health physics techniques used during the Peach Bottom decommission program demonstrated the feasibility of decommissioning a nuclear facility economically at low personnel exposure levels and with a negligible environmental impact
Environmental performance reviews: United States
This book presents OECD assessments and recommendations regarding the United States&apos; effort to manage its environment including air, water nature, and biodiversity to do this in a sustainable manner; and to do this in co-operation with its global neighbours. In particular, it assesses progress made since 1996, when OECD&apos;s previous review on the US was done. 40 figs., 21 tabs.
The First Drinking Simulator Unit
Full Text Available Introduction: Current Thermal cycling units fail to simulate the drinking behaviors, and oral balancing temperature. They cannot also simulate other oral conditions such as drink coloring, and chemicals like tea, coffee, carbonated and noncarbonated, citrus juices as well as alcoholic and nonalcoholic drinks and also saliva and milk itself. The main objective of this study is to introduce the designing and manufacturing the first Drinking Simulator Unit (DSU that reproduces the thermal, color and chemicalcycling as well as the drinking behavior and oral temperature in lab conditions uniquely. Methods: The invented system generally has two parts: the hardware and the software parts. The hardware consists of the mechanical and electronic parts. The software part is responsible for controlling the heating and cooling systems, electric valves, the pumps, and automatic filling systems of tanks as well as the sensors of the machine. Results: DSU is the first unit can reproduce the thermal, color and chemical cycling as well as the drinking behavior and oral temperature in lab conditions. Different kinds of colored and acidic drinks and also other chemical materials such as bleaching substances as well as detergents and antiseptics used for dentistry, industrial and medical purposes can be tested by DSU. DSU has also to be considered as an appliance performing in-vitro researches on dental structures. Conclusion: The invented system can greatly improve and validate the results of such researches. Dixie Valley Bottoming Binary Unit
McDonald, Dale [Terra-Gen Sierra Holdings, LLC, Reno, NV (United States)
Pickering Unit 1 chemical cleaning
The secondary sides of all 12 boilers at Pickering Unit 1 were chemically cleaned in 1994 by the team of Ontario Hydro, B and W International (Cambridge, Ontario) and B and W Nuclear Technologies (Lynchburg, Virginia). A multi-step EPRI/SGOG process was employed in a similar manner to previous clearings at Units 5 and 6 in 1992 and 1993, respectively. A major innovation with the Unit 1 cleaning was the incorporation of a crevice cleaning step, the first time this had been done on Ontario Hydro plants. In addition, six boilers were cleaned in parallel compared to three at a time in previous Pickering cleanings. This significantly reduced cleaning time. A total of 6,770 kg of sludge was removed through direct chemical dissolution. It consisted of 66% iron/nickel oxides and 28% copper metal. A total of 1,600,000 L (420,000 US gallons) of liquid waste was produced. It was processed through the spent solvent treatment facility located at the Bruce Nuclear Power Development site. Visual inspection performed after the cleaning indicated that the crevices between the boiler tubes and the tube support structure were completely clear of deposit and the general condition of the tubing and lattice bars appeared to be in 'as new' condition. (author)
The concept of a United States National Seismograph Network (USNSN) dates back nearly 30 years. The idea was revived several times over the decades. but never funded. For, example, a national network was proposed and discussed at great length in the so called Bolt Report (U. S. Earthquake Observatories: Recommendations for a New National Network, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1980, 122 pp). From the beginning, a national network was viewed as augmenting and complementing the relatively dense, predominantly short-period vertical coverage of selected areas provided by the Regional Seismograph Networks (RSN's) with a sparse, well-distributed network of three-component, observatory quality, permanent stations. The opportunity finally to begin developing a national network arose in 1986 with discussions between the US Geological Survey (USGS) and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). Under the agreement signed in 1987, the NRC has provided $5 M in new funding for capital equipment (over the period 1987-1992) and the USGS has provided personnel and facilities to develop. deploy, and operate the network. Because the NRC funding was earmarked for the eastern United States, new USNSN station deployments are mostly east of 105 degree W longitude while the network in the western United States is mostly made up of cooperating stations (stations meeting USNSN design goals, but deployed and operated by other institutions which provide a logical extension to the USNSN)
Buland, R. [Geological Survey, Denver, CO (United States)
Entomology Unit annual report 2003
As described in the 2002 Annual Report an improved medfly genetic sexing strain (GSS) was developed, VIENNA 8. This strain shows improved production characteristics and will have a major impact on the production efficiency in SIT rearing facilities. During 2003 this strain was transferred to four rearing facilities in Guatemala, Peru, South Africa and Tunisia based on acceptable QC data developed for the strain in the Unit. For the first time the strain was transferred to the different facilities under an agreement that prevents further distribution to third parties without consent of the Unit. In the past, strains originating from the Unit have been freely exchanged within the medfly SIT community, sometimes with not always the best results. During 2003 there has been a substantial increase in the resources devoted to activities in fruit flies other than medfly e.g. Bactrocera oleae and Anastrepha fraterculus. Rearing of the olive fly, B. oleae has traditionally not been straightforward due to the very specific, and expensive, larval diet that is required by this monophagous pest. With the disappearance of an essential larval diet component from the commercial market an urgent search is underway for an alternative. In 2004, experiments will be carried out to identify improved larval diets. For A. fraterculus, a large-scale evaluation of mating compatibility between different geographical races has been carried out by a consultant. Progress has been made in the containerised rearing of tsetse fly colonies. The container required considerable work before the temperature and humidity controls were suitable for tsetse rearing and a closed colony of Glossina fuscipes is now being reared. Discussions are now underway to install a version of TPU 3.2 (an automated tsetse feeding and production unit) in the container. A protocol for the handling, irradiation and eventual release of large numbers of sterile male tsetse has been formulated and it will involve at least two
UNIT4 és una multinacional dedicada a la indústria del software per a la gestió empresarial; el departament d'Investigació i Desenvolupament desenvolupa i utilitza la plataforma karat per desplegar els seus productes i serveis. L'objectiu d'aquest Projecte va ser la publicació d'informació administrativa de la plataforma karat per tal de gestionar els servidors karat utilitzant eines de mercat de tercers, que suporten estàndards de gestió de xarxes o d'aplicacions com el Simple Network Manage...
Hovercraft auxiliary power units (APUs)
Russell, B.J.
Auxiliary power units (APU) manufactured by British firms for use in hovercraft are characterized. Both diesel and gas-turbine APUs are found to be well suited to the demands of this application. The design features, dimensions, performance data, and installation requirements are discussed for the SS 90, SS 923, DA-1, BA-1, HM 5, and Gevaudan 9 APUs, as well as the TRS 18 gas-turbine smoke generator. The progress made in improving the fuel efficiency of gas turbines and reducing the weight of diesel engines is considered significant.
Low intensity beam target unit
This is a wheel fitted with many targets around its periphery (each with three longitudinally arranged thin rods) of which one is placed into the beam via a rotation of the wheel. Upstream of each target is placed a luminescent screen, aligbed on each target axis and viewed with a TV camera, to make sure that one is hitting the target. This target unit was probably used to study target's behaviour (like beam heating). Gualtiero Del Torre stands on the left, Pierre Gerdil on the right.
Loviisa Unit One: Annealing - healing
Kohopaeae, J.; Virsu, R. [ed.; Henriksson, A. [ed.
Unit 1 of the Loviisa nuclear powerplant was annealed in connection with the refuelling outage in the summer of 1996. This type of heat treatment restored the toughness properties of the pressure vessel weld, which had been embrittled be neutron radiation, so that it is almost equivalent to a new weld. The treatment itself was an ordinary metallurgical procedure that took only a few days. But the material studies that preceded it began over fifteen years ago and have put IVO at the forefront of world-wide expertise in the area of radiation embrittlement
Kaplan, Haim; Safernova, Zuzana; Sharir, Micha
We show that the number of unit distances determined by n points in R^3 is O(n^{3/2}), slightly improving the bound of Clarkson et al. established in 1990. The new proof uses the recently introduced polynomial partitioning technique of Guth and Katz [arXiv:1011.4105]. While this paper was still in a draft stage, a similar proof of our main result was posted to the arXiv by Joshua Zahl [arXiv:1104.4987].
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Equivalent unit in telecommunications services
Luiza Santangelo Reis
Full Text Available The aim of this study is to analyze the relationship between the “cost” and “production” variables in a telecommunications company, measuring the latter in the unit of measure termed Network Units (NU. The study shows a Pearson correlation coefficient of 0.55 -evaluated as moderate - over the course of a 24-month period and resulting from 177 trials. Subsequently, only the work teams composed of the company´s standard structure were taken into consideration, which yielded 32 observations of interest and a derived correlation coefficient of 0.8. Finally, the data pertaining to each individual work team over a determined length of time was analyzed, showing strong correlation coefficients in seven of the eleven, and in the remainder, a moderate linear relationship between the variables analyzed. These results suggest the viability of applying the NU production measurement model in the telecommunications company in question
Abrasive Blasting Unit (ABU) - 16270
NUKEM Technologies was contracted to supply a dry, automated drum belt (tumbling) Abrasive Blasting Unit (ABU) to the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission in Ispra, Italy. The ABU was installed in the centralised radioactive waste management area of the JRC-Ispra site in Italy. The unit is to be employed for the decontamination to clearance levels of slightly contaminated metal components and, where practical, concrete or heavy concrete (density ∼3200 kg/m3) blocks arising from the dismantling of nuclear facilities. The presentation is based on the successful construction and installation of the ABU at the JRC Ispra site. Among the several possibilities of adapting conventional abrasive units to nuclear applications, an automatic tumbling machine was preferred, due to the larger output and (mainly) for the ease of operation, with minimum direct handling of contaminated material by operators, thus satisfying the ALARA principle. Consideration was also given to Belgoprocess' successful experience with a predecessor, similar unit. After adequate size reduction batches of up to about 800 kg of material to be decontaminated are automatically introduced into the blasting chamber. Pieces between 100 mm and 800 mm long, between 100 mm and 500 mm wide and between 5 mm and 300 mm high can be effectively treated in the unit, the maximum weight of a single piece being limited to 100 kg. Short lengths of pipe may be included; the final dimensions of pipe to be decontaminated will be established during the nuclear commissioning tests. Other components with hard-to-reach surfaces may also be included. The content of the chamber is tumbled by two bladed drums, while sharp steel grit is sprayed onto the contaminated components, thus removing the surface layer including any contamination. From experience, 30 minutes of treatment is sufficient to remove contamination to levels below expected clearance levels for most materials. The decontaminated components are removed
7 CFR 1215.20 - United States.
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Health, United States, 2012: Men's Health
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Natural Units: Are They for Everybody?
Describes the natural system of units as being more convenient, coherent, and conducive to communication between scientist and layman. Suggests a general discussion of whether the coming universal system should be the International System of Units. (CC)
12 CFR 541.10 - Dwelling unit.
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75 FR 65561 - United Nations Day, 2010
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76 FR 66845 - United Nations Day, 2011
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75 FR 17324 - Communication Management Units
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Architectural workshop Temporary, mobile dwelling units
Vasa J. Perović; Anja Vidic
Temporary dwelling units are in use for shorter periods, weekends and holidays. Because of their different types of use, such units should function differently from standard models which attempt to mimic a standard dwelling or house. The students’ task was to develop units that could exploit all the potential of the natural surroundings and support different user scenarios.
7 CFR 1210.315 - United States.
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7 CFR 1280.127 - United States.
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7 CFR 1260.108 - United States.
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7 CFR 1218.22 - United States.
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7 CFR 1216.30 - United States.
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7 CFR 1221.32 - United States.
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The ``new'' International System of Units
The CGPM has decided that, eventually, the ``explicit unit'' basis of the International System of Units (SI) will be replaced by the ``explicit-constant formulation,'' in which fixing certain physical constants will fix the base units exactly. How this is contemplated will be discussed in this talk.

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