North American High Voltage Interlaboratory Comparison

NCSLI Measure ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 34-44
Author(s):  
Jay Klevens
Keyword(s):  
High Voltage ◽  
North American ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Interlaboratory Comparison ◽  
National Research Council ◽  
Energy Sector ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Generous Support ◽  
Calibration Laboratories

This is the report for an interlaboratory comparison (ILC) of high voltage measurements performed by ten laboratories in the USA and Canada from 2018-2019. The measurement ranges were 20 kV to 100 kV DC and 15-70 kV RMS at 60 Hz AC. The ILC was designed to verify strengths and reveal weaknesses in high voltage measurements in commercial, military and energy sector calibration laboratories. The ILC was performed among members of NCSL International, with the generous support of National Research Council Canada (NRC).

scholarly journals American Astronomers in Belgium, 1919: Snapshots from the Founding of the IAU

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (S349) ◽  
pp. 406-418
Author(s):  
James M. Lattis ◽  
Anthony J. Lattis
Keyword(s):  
Executive Committee ◽  
Research Council ◽  
National Research Council ◽  
Council Meeting ◽  
International Astronomical Union ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
International Astronomical ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The University

AbstractThe USA delegation to the July 1919 International Research Council meeting in Brussels included Joel Stebbins, then professor of astronomy and observatory director at the University of Illinois, as secretary of the executive committee appointed by the National Research Council. Stebbins, an avid photographer, documented the travels of their party as the American astronomers attended the meeting and later toured devastated towns, scarred countryside, and battlefields only recently abandoned. Published reports of the meeting afterward attest to the impression left on the American visitors, and the photographs by Stebbins give us a glimpse through their own eyes. Selected photographs, recently discovered in the University of Wisconsin Archives and never before publicly seen, will be presented along with some commentary on their significance for the International Astronomical Union, which took shape at that 1919 meeting.

Monitoring of Coastal Ocean Waters Receiving Wastewaters in the USA: Review of Two 1990 Publications of the USA National Research Council – National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering

1992 ◽  
Vol 25 (9) ◽  
pp. 49-57
Author(s):  
W. F. Garber
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Waters ◽  
Research Council ◽  
National Research Council ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Water Contact ◽  
National Monitoring ◽  
Usable Information ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Monitoring Effort ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

Required monitoring of the physical, biological and chemical condition of the nearshore waters of the ocean receiving treated wastewaters has been underway in the U.S.A. since 1955 or about 35 years. When established the stated intent had been to utilize the information obtained to evaluate the effects of the diffusion of wastewaters upon the beneficial values of these receiving waters. That is upon the food web including game and food fish; upon water contact sports uses; upon aesthetics; and upon the local, regional, and worldwide ecology. To this end original requirements had included a provision that the regulatory agency reduce the data obtained from the monitoring effort to information useful to themselves as well as to facility design and operational authorities. Inasmuch as the monitoring effort in 1989 was using funds in excess of 130 million dollars per year and had a 35 year data base, the Marine Board of the National Research Council - National Academy of Sciences: National Academy of Engineering established committees of scientists to evaluate the progress of the national monitoring effort and of the longest and most complete program of the Southern California Bight. It was found that the essential portion of the program, that of reducing the data obtained to usable information, had not been carried on so that approximately 35 years of data existed with little to zero information. In addition the data existed in pools of intensive samplings around discharge points with very little overall study of the coastal waters. Whether the discharge points were significantly different from the “normal” coastal waters was not really known because “normal” was not known. The Committees recommended procedures to follow to rectify these basic problems including reallocation of current funding to cover the research, control, design and operational needs. Their findings are summarized in the paper.

scholarly journals Trace nutrients.

1979 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 487-493 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josephine A. Spring ◽  
Jean Robertson ◽  
D. H. Buss
Keyword(s):  
Folic Acid ◽  
National Health ◽  
Research Council ◽  
National Research Council ◽  
National Average ◽  
B Vitamins ◽  
Vitamin B ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Copper Zinc ◽  
Alcoholic Drinks

1. Intakes of magnesium, copper, zinc, vitamin B6, vitamin B12 and folic acid in Britain were calculated by applying the values selected for the 4th edition of McCance and Widdowson's The Composition of Foods (Paul & Southgate, 1978) to the amounts of food recorded in the National Food Survey made during 1976 (Ministry of Agiculture, Fisheries and Food, 1977).2. National average intakes were (/person per d): Mg 249 mg, Cu 1.51 mg, Zn 9.1 mg, vitamin B6 1.36 mg, vitamin B12 6.6 μg, free folic acid 105 μg and total folic acid 190 μg. Corresponding intakes (/person) in families with four or more children were 10–20% lower.3. A comparison of intakes with those recommended in Canada (Department of National Health and Welfare, 1976) and the USA (National Research Council, 1974) or by WHO (1973) indicated that for folic acid average values were particulary low, and only for vitamin B12 were the recommendations significantly exceeded.4. Contributions from alcoholic drinks and confectionery were also calculated and found, on average, to be significant for Cu, vitamin B12 and folic acid.5. The losses of B-vitamins which might occur on cooking are discussed.

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