Cosmic-ray fast-neutron flux measurements in the atmosphere at various latitudes

1968 ◽  
Vol 46 (10) ◽  
pp. S1023-S1026 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. A. Korff ◽  
R. B. Mendell ◽  
M. Merker ◽  
W. Sandie
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cycle ◽  
Neutron Transport ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Cosmic Ray ◽  
Leakage Flux ◽  
Transport Code ◽  
The World ◽  
Flux Measurements ◽  
High Elevations ◽  
The Relationship

We have extended in time our series of balloon flights, made at several latitudes between Hyderabad, India, and Ft. Churchill, Manitoba, to altitudes close to the top of the atmosphere. In these flights the neutrons generated by the cosmic radiation in the energy interval between 1 and 10 MeV are measured. The first set of measurements was made during the period of the minimum of solar activity, and the more recent flights carry the work into the start of the next solar cycle. A decrease in intensity at high elevations with the onset of the present solar cycle has been noted. Further data were also obtained on an airplane flight around the world over both poles, thus covering the full range of latitudes at two opposite longitudes. The relationship between the observed neutron spectrum and that derived by the use of a neutron transport code will be discussed. We shall also discuss other factors emerging from this analysis, including the numbers for radiocarbon production and the leakage flux.

Stress, Emotion, and Performance in Elite Slalom Canoeists

1996 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan R. Males ◽  
John H. Kerr
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Perceived Stress ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Poor Performance ◽  
Stress And Coping ◽  
Reversal Theory ◽  
The World ◽  
And Performance ◽  
And Coping ◽  
The Relationship

This paper examines the relationship between precompetitive affect and performance, using elements of reversal theory (Apter, 1982): a conceptual framework that incorporates a full range of pleasant and unpleasant moods. Nine elite male slalom canoeists completed questionnaires prior to each event of a season that included the world championships. Results were analyzed using a time-series model to make comparisons of each subject’s best and worst performance of the season. Predicted variations in precompetitive levels of pleasant and unpleasant mood did not occur, despite variations in subsequent performances. As predicted, good performances were preceded by low discrepancies between felt and preferred arousal levels, but there was no support for the hypothesis that a large discrepancy between perceived stress and coping efforts would precede a poor performance.

scholarly journals A universal calibration function for determination of soil moisture with cosmic-ray neutrons

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 10303-10322 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. E. Franz ◽  
M. Zreda ◽  
R. Rosolem ◽  
T. P. A. Ferre
Keyword(s):  
Soil Moisture ◽  
Water Distribution ◽  
Neutron Transport ◽  
Cosmic Ray ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Calibration Function ◽  
Transport Code ◽  
Probe Site ◽  
Universal Calibration

Abstract. A cosmic-ray soil moisture probe is usually calibrated locally using soil samples collected within its support volume. But such calibration may be difficult or impractical, for example when soil contains stones, in presence of bedrock outcrops, in urban environments, or when the probe is used as a rover. Here we use the neutron transport code MCNPx with observed soil chemistries and pore water distribution to derive a universal calibration function to be used in such environments. Comparisons with independent soil moisture measurements at one cosmic-ray probe site and, separately, at thirty-five sites, show that the universal calibration function explains more than 75% of the total variation within each dataset, permitting accurate isolation of the soil moisture signal from the measured neutron signal.

NAVAL SHIP STABILITY GUIDELINES: DEVELOPING A SHARED VISION FOR NAVAL STABILITY ASSESSMENT

2021 ◽  
Vol 152 (A3) ◽  
Author(s):  
D E Perrault ◽  
T Hughes ◽  
S Marshall
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Shared Vision ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Stability Assessment ◽  
World War ◽  
Military Threat ◽  
Intact Stability ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship

Surface combatants are required to operate in conditions of high military threat and be capable of deployment to any area of conflict or crisis at any time. This requirement calls for the vessel and crew to be capable of safely contending with the full range of environmental conditions that may be encountered while pursuing their primary objective. Achieving and maintaining this capability is strongly influenced by the application of naval stability standards, many of which have a common origin, based on experiences from the World War II and before. Although such standards have apparently served the navies admirably over many years, there are many reasons to question their limitations and applicability in the context of modern ship design and procurement. This paper presents the efforts to date of the Naval Stability Standards Working Group to investigate the relationship between existing intact stability standards and capsize risk with respect to frigate forms.

Butor's Use of Literary Texts in Degrés

PMLA ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 88 (2) ◽  
pp. 311-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer R. Walters
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Willingness To Participate ◽  
Relevant Fact ◽  
Sequence Of Events ◽  
The World ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The construction of Degrés is based on a series of texts taken from Western literature and ranging from Homer to Keats. These are grouped in different ways around a brief sequence of events, and it is the responsibility of each reader to elaborate on the scanty story by using the information offered by these texts, to the extent of his knowledge, awareness, and willingness to participate in the creation of the novel. An analysis of the texts extracts the information each contains, then correlates relevant fact and possible interpretation in order to show clearly the two major themes of the novel: the relationship of Vernier to his nephew Eller, and the vast possibilities open to man in the world; and the three styles of presentation: as a structure, a personal experience, and a retrospective fact. Butor teaches his readers to understand his work by attempting to break down mental barriers between different fields of experience and force people to draw on the full range of their knowledge at all times.

scholarly journals IMPLEMENTATION AND COMPARISON OF LATTICE MODULE AND DISCONTINUITY FACTORS MODULE IN PROTEUS TOOLSETS

2021 ◽  
Vol 247 ◽  
pp. 02035
Author(s):  
Kan Ni ◽  
Jason Hou ◽  
Maria Avramova
Keyword(s):  
Cross Sections ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Neutron Transport ◽  
Computational Accuracy ◽  
Transport Code ◽  
Calculation Results ◽  
Code Scale ◽  
Diffusion Calculation ◽  
Nodal Diffusion ◽  
The Relationship

State-of-the-art core nodal diffusion calculation involves the use of assembly discontinuity factor (ADF) to improve computational accuracy by introducing degree of freedom describing the relationship between interfacial discontinuities in nodal calculation [1]. The form of ADF known as the Flux based ADF (FDF) generated from flux information is recommended in the conventional two-level core calculation scheme. The multi-group cross-sections were generated using SCALE 6.2 NEWT and verified with KENO-VI [2]. A lattice module has been created for the high-fidelity neutron transport code MOCEX [3] to generate the group constants and side-independent ADFs. This new capability is verified against the reference code SCALE 6.2 NEWT under both serial and parallel modes. The implementation of ADF is performed in this work and further verified by comparing core keff. The calculation results show that the newly implemented ADF module consistently improved the accuracy of the PROTEUS-NODAL (NODAL) diffusion solver, which will become an affordable candidate for the following research of High-to-Low (Hi2Lo) transport-to-diffusion informing scheme [4].

Kazakhstan’s Economic Growth in the Context of the World Economy

2006 ◽  
pp. 133-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Arystanbekov
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Policy ◽  
World Economy ◽  
World Ocean ◽  
Direct Access ◽  
Crude Petroleum ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship

Kazakhstan’s economic policy results in 1995-2005 are considered in the article. In particular, the analysis of the relationship between economic growth and some indicators of nation states - population, territory, direct access to the World Ocean, and extraction of crude petroleum - is presented. Basic problems in the sphere of economic policy in Kazakhstan are formulated.

Virginia Woolf and Being-in-the-world

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Simone
Keyword(s):  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
Cartesian Dualism ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
The World ◽  
Binary Oppositions ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Existential Perspective

Virginia Woolf and Being-in-the-world: A Heideggerian Study explores Woolf’s treatment of the relationship between self and world from a phenomenological-existential perspective. This study presents a timely and compelling interpretation of Virginia Woolf’s textual treatment of the relationship between self and world from the perspective of the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. Drawing on Woolf’s novels, essays, reviews, letters, diary entries, short stories, and memoirs, the book explores the political and the ontological, as the individual’s connection to the world comes to be defined by an involvement and engagement that is always already situated within a particular physical, societal, and historical context. Emma Simone argues that at the heart of what it means to be an individual making his or her way in the world, the perspectives of Woolf and Heidegger are founded upon certain shared concerns, including the sustained critique of Cartesian dualism, particularly the resultant binary oppositions of subject and object, and self and Other; the understanding that the individual is a temporal being; an emphasis upon intersubjective relations insofar as Being-in-the-world is defined by Being-with-Others; and a consistent emphasis upon average everydayness as both determinative and representative of the individual’s relationship to and with the world.

A Māori Girl Watches, Listens, and Learns – Coming of Age from an Indigenous Viewpoint: Mauri (Merata Mita, 1988)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alistair Fox
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Feature Film ◽  
Indigenous Woman ◽  
Spiritual Dimension ◽  
The World ◽  
Life Force ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter examines Merata Mita’s Mauri, the first fiction feature film in the world to be solely written and directed by an indigenous woman, as an example of “Fourth Cinema” – that is, a form of filmmaking that aims to create, produce, and transmit the stories of indigenous people, and in their own image – showing how Mita presents the coming-of-age story of a Māori girl who grows into an understanding of the spiritual dimension of the relationship of her people to the natural world, and to the ancestors who have preceded them. The discussion demonstrates how the film adopts storytelling procedures that reflect a distinctively Māori view of time and are designed to signify the presence of the mauri (or life force) in the Māori world.

On Metaphysics and the Political: A Polemics of Reading Baudelaire in the 1930s

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-259
Author(s):  
Joseph Acquisto
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
The Political ◽  
Modern Poetry ◽  
Progressive Politics ◽  
The World ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into

This essay examines a polemic between two Baudelaire critics of the 1930s, Jean Cassou and Benjamin Fondane, which centered on the relationship of poetry to progressive politics and metaphysics. I argue that a return to Baudelaire's poetry can yield insight into what seems like an impasse in Cassou and Fondane. Baudelaire provides the possibility of realigning metaphysics and politics so that poetry has the potential to become the space in which we can begin to think the two of them together, as opposed to seeing them in unresolvable tension. Or rather, the tension that Baudelaire animates between the two allows us a new way of thinking about the role of esthetics in moments of political crisis. We can in some ways see Baudelaire as responding, avant la lettre, to two of his early twentieth-century readers who correctly perceived his work as the space that breathes a new urgency into the questions of how modern poetry relates to the world from which it springs and in which it intervenes.

Examining the Kinships System of the Bodo

Think India ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 186-192
Author(s):  
Dr. Oinam Ranjit Singh ◽  
Dr. Nushar Bargayary
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Social Relationship ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Eastern Region ◽  
The North ◽  
Kinship System ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship

The Bodo of the North Eastern region of India have their own kinship system to maintain social relationship since ancient periods. Kinship is the expression of social relationship. Kinship may be defined as connection or relationships between persons based on marriage or blood. In each and every society of the world, social relationship is considered to be the more important than the biological bond. The relationship is not socially recognized, it fall outside the realm of kinship. Since kinship is considered as universal, it plays a vital role in the socialization of individuals and the maintenance of social cohesion of the group. Thus, kinship is considered to be the study of the sum total of these relations. The kinship of the Bodo is bilateral. The kin related through the father is known as Bahagi in Bodo whereas the kin to the mother is called Kurma. The nature of social relationships, the kinship terms, kinship behaviours and prescriptive and proscriptive rules are the important themes of the present study.

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