scholarly journals Snow Stratigraphy and Water Equivalence Measured With an Active Microwave System

1980 ◽  
Vol 26 (94) ◽  
pp. 225-233
Author(s):  
D. A. Ellerbruch ◽  
H. S. Boyne
Keyword(s):  
Electromagnetic Scattering ◽  
Direct Determination ◽  
Snow Pack ◽  
Frequency Range ◽  
Microwave Radar ◽  
Snow Stratigraphy ◽  
Microwave System ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
System Operating

AbstractThis paper reports on research on the relationship between the electromagnetic scattering properties and physical properties of snow-pack. An FM-CW active microwave radar system operating in the frequency range 8-12 GHz is used to scatter electromagnetic radiation from surface and subsurface stratigraphic layers in the snow-pack. The amplitude of the scattered radiation as a function of depth in the snow-pack can be correlated with such physical characteristics as density, hardness, stratigraphy, and moisture content. A direct determination of snow-pack water equivalence can be made from these observations.

Snow Stratigraphy and Water Equivalence Measured With an Active Microwave System

1980 ◽  
Vol 26 (94) ◽  
pp. 225-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. A. Ellerbruch ◽  
H. S. Boyne
Keyword(s):  
Electromagnetic Scattering ◽  
Direct Determination ◽  
Snow Pack ◽  
Frequency Range ◽  
Microwave Radar ◽  
Snow Stratigraphy ◽  
Microwave System ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
System Operating

Abstract This paper reports on research on the relationship between the electromagnetic scattering properties and physical properties of snow-pack. An FM-CW active microwave radar system operating in the frequency range 8-12 GHz is used to scatter electromagnetic radiation from surface and subsurface stratigraphic layers in the snow-pack. The amplitude of the scattered radiation as a function of depth in the snow-pack can be correlated with such physical characteristics as density, hardness, stratigraphy, and moisture content. A direct determination of snow-pack water equivalence can be made from these observations.

scholarly journals The perforation of the frustules of planktonic diatoms Pseudosolenia calcar-avis and Proboscia alata (Bacillariophyceae)

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 19-26
Author(s):  
Lyakh A.M.
Keyword(s):  
Surface Area ◽  
Geometric Modeling ◽  
Direct Determination ◽  
Entire Surface ◽  
Planktonic Diatoms ◽  
Centric Diatoms ◽  
Flow Through ◽  
Material Energy ◽  
The Relationship

Physiological and biophysical characteristics of microalgae should strongly depend on the surface area of the cover of organisms, as all the material-energy streams flow through the surface. However, to determine the relationship between the intensity of the flow of substances with the physiology of unicellular, it is necessary to take into account only the area of perforations, since the rest of the shell is impermeable for substances. The direct determination of the area of perforations on the entire surface of the microalgae is very difficult. Therefore, the indirect method of estimating the perforation area using geometric modeling of the perforation distribution (texture) on the surface was used in this study. The object of the research is two types of marine plankton diatoms with large cylindrical frustules. It was assumed that the frustules are covered with a regular triangular texture of the areola. This texture can be divided into regular hexagons, which allows us to estimate the number of areolas as the ratio of the surface area of the frustules to the area of one hexagon. The model takes into account that each areola is covered with a silicon plate perforated by a smaller pore. The multiplication of the number of areolas on the area of a given pore gives the value of the total area of perforations. Calculations showed that the perforation of the frustules of Proboscia alata was 4%, and Pseudosolenia calcar-avis – 6%. These are the first estimates of the perforation of the entire surface of the diatom frustules. The acquired data confirms the hypothesis that frustules of the most centric diatoms are covered by pores by about 5%, and the other surface is impervious to material flows.

Apparatus for the Direct Determination of the Dynamic Bulk Modulus

1957 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 449-459
Author(s):  
J. E. McKinney ◽  
S. Edelman ◽  
R. S. Marvin
Keyword(s):  
Natural Rubber ◽  
Bulk Modulus ◽  
Direct Measurement ◽  
Static Pressure ◽  
Direct Determination ◽  
Preliminary Evaluation ◽  
Air Bubbles ◽  
Frequency Range ◽  
Piezoelectric Crystals

Abstract An apparatus has been developed for the direct measurement of the real and imaginary parts of the dynamic bulk modulus of solid and liquid materials over the frequency range of 50 to 10,000 cps. Piezoelectric crystals serving as driver and detector, together with the sample and a confining liquid, are contained in a cavity small compared with the wavelength of sound at these frequencies. Static pressure is superposed to eliminate the effect of small air bubbles. The complex compliances of the sample, confining liquid, and the cavity, are additive in this region, where the compliance is pure dilatation. The dynamic compliances of several natural rubber-sulfur mixtures were obtained in a preliminary evaluation of the behavior of the apparatus.

The Direct Determination of Oxygen in Rubber. The Adaptation of the Ter Meulen Method to Rubber and Its Application to the Study of Aging

1939 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. I. Cramer ◽  
I. J. Sjothun ◽  
L. E. Oneacre
Keyword(s):  
Tensile Strength ◽  
Physical Properties ◽  
Direct Determination ◽  
Sulfur Poisoning ◽  
Oxidation Products ◽  
Oxygen Bomb ◽  
Vulcanized Rubber ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract The ter Meulen method for the direct determination of oxygen has been adapted, with modifications, to the analysis of raw and vulcanized rubbers. Raney nickel has been found to be quite effective as the reducing catalyst and to be satisfactorily resistant to sulfur poisoning. The method has been applied to the study of the aging of vulcanized rubber in the Geer oven and oxygen bomb. From this study the following conclusions may be drawn: (1) The increase in combined oxygen is greater in the oxygen bomb than in the Geer oven. (2) Deterioration of rubber in the oxygen bomb involves oxidation primarily, whereas that occurring in the Geer oven involves not only oxidation but also thermal decomposition followed by volatilization of oxidation products. (3) The effectiveness of an antioxidant in retarding the absorption of oxygen in oxygen-bomb aging agrees well with its ability to maintain the physical properties of the stock in which it is present. (4) The deterioration in physical properties of a rubber stock in the oxygen bomb during the early stages of aging is a linear function of the increase in combined oxygen. For stocks containing antioxidants and diphenylguanidine as the accelerator, an increase in combined oxygen of approximately 1.2% corresponds to a decrease in tensile strength of 50%. (5) The relationship of increase in combined oxygen to decrease in tensile strength seems to be affected not only by antioxidants, but also by accelerators of vulcanization.

scholarly journals Determination of Relationship between Dielectric Properties, Compressive Strength, and Age of Concrete with Rice Husk Ash Using Planar Coaxial Probe

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nawarat Piladaeng ◽  
Niwat Angkawisittpan ◽  
Sahalaph Homwuttiwong
Keyword(s):  
Dielectric Constant ◽  
Compressive Strength ◽  
Dielectric Properties ◽  
Rice Husk ◽  
Rice Husk Ash ◽  
Planar Structure ◽  
Frequency Range ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Coaxial Probe

Abstract This paper deals with an investigation of the dielectric properties of concretes that includes rice husk ash using a planar coaxial probe. The planar coaxial probe has a planar structure with a microstrip and coaxial features. The measurement was performed over the frequency range of 0.5-3.5 GHz, and concrete specimens with different percentages of rice husk ash were tested. The results indicated that the dielectric constant of the concretes was inversely proportional to the frequency, while the conductivity was proportional to the frequency. The dielectric constant decreased with the increasing age of the concrete at the frequency of 1 GHz. The conductivity of the concrete decreased with the increasing age of the concrete at the frequency of 3.2 GHz. In addition, the dielectric constant and the conductivity decreased when the compressive strength increased. It was also shown that the obtained dielectric properties of the concrete could be used to investigate the relationship between the compressive strength and age of the concrete. Moreover, there is an opportunity to apply the proposed probe to determine the dielectric properties of other materials.

scholarly journals Determinations of the fundamental standards of length in terms of wave-lengths of light

1934 ◽  
Vol 233 (721-730) ◽  
pp. 143-216 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Wave Length ◽  
Direct Determination ◽  
Dry Air ◽  
Independent Determination ◽  
New Apparatus ◽  
Experimental Errors ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Red Radiation ◽  
Good Agreement

A new apparatus for determining the relationship between wave-lengths of light and the fundamental standards of length has been previously described.* Definitive determinations have now been completed of the lengths of the yard and metre in terms of the wave-length of the cadmium red radiation, both in air and in vacuum, and the present paper gives the results of these determinations. Previous determinations have been made by MICHELSON and BENOÎT, by BENOÎT, FABRY, and PEROT,} and by WATANABE and IMAIZUMI, of the length of the metre in terms of the cadmium red radiation in air, and these results, after adjustment as nearly as possible from the experimental data available to uniform conditions, agree with each other and with that obtained in the present work, within a total range of four parts in ten millions, a range which is not greater than may reasonably be attributed to the experimental errors of determination of the lengths of the different copies of the metre against which the several comparisons have been made. No previous direct measurement has been made of the length of either the yard or the metre in terms of wave-lengths in vacuum. The paper records the first independent determination of these important relationships, and incidentally affords a new direct determination of the refractive index of dry air, free of carbon dioxide, which is in good agreement with that given by PÉRARD, but differs appreciably from that given by MEGGERS and PETERS.

The Direct Determination of I131 in Heterogeneous Fecal Specimens

1961 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 380-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur F. Dratz ◽  
James C. Coberly
Keyword(s):  
Direct Determination

Thromboplastin Related Differences in the Determination of International Normalised Ratio: A Cause for Concern?

1994 ◽  
Vol 72 (03) ◽  
pp. 426-429 ◽  
Author(s):  
S Kitchen ◽  
I D Walker ◽  
T A L Woods ◽  
F E Preston
Keyword(s):  
Patient Management ◽  
External Quality Assessment ◽  
Oral Anticoagulant Therapy ◽  
Warfarin Dosage ◽  
External Quality ◽  
External Quality Assessment Scheme ◽  
International Normalised Ratio ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Relationship

SummaryWhen the International Normalised Ratio (INR) is used for control of oral anticoagulant therapy the same result should be obtained irrespective of the laboratory reagent used. However, in the UK National External Quality Assessment Scheme (NEQAS) for Blood Coagulation INRs determined using different reagents have been significantly different.For 18 NEQAS samples Manchester Reagent (MR) was associated with significantly lower INRs than those obtained using Diagen Activated (DA, p = 0.0004) or Instrumentation Laboratory PT-Fib HS (IL, p = 0.0001). Mean INRs for this group were 3.15, 3.61, and 3.65 for MR, DA, and IL respectively. For 61 fresh samples from warfarin-ised patients with INRs of greater than 3.0 the relationship between thromboplastins in respect of INR was similar to that observed for NEQAS data. Thus INRs obtained with MR were significantly lower than with DA or IL (p <0.0001). Mean INRs for this group were 4.01, 4.40, and 4.59 for MR, DA, and IL respectively.We conclude that the differences between INRs measured with the thromboplastins studied here are sufficiently great to influence patient management through warfarin dosage schedules, particularly in the upper therapeutic range of INR. There is clearly a need to address the issues responsible for the observed discrepancies.

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