Critical current in multifilamentary Ag-sheath Bi-2223 tape is enhanced to some extent by means of thin and narrow coating of pure nickel. The concept of enhancing critical current is based on the magnetic shielding effect resulting in redirection of self-field flux lines. The Ni coating was introduced at the edge regime of the tape in order to redirect the perpendicular component of self-field...

We have developed a new method to estimate no only stress occurrence, but also various workplace stress types. The method relies on adaptive selection of physiological indices integrated into an intelligent multisteps discrimination process. Preliminary results revealed the method promising to improve estimation accuracy of workplace stress types. The study reported here, has two purposes: inve...

When increasing a current j flowing along the vortex lines, we obtain both a gradual shift of the vortexlattice melting transition ~VLMT! to a lower magnetic field and also a rising reentrant melting line, both separating the vortex solid from the vortex-liquid phase. The upper branch of the VLMT merges with the predicted reentrant lower branch at a certain value jmerge of the force-free curren...

Due to globalization and the growth of international trade, many container terminals are trying to improve performance in order to keep up with demand. One technology that has been proposed is the use of Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) in the handling of containers within terminals. Recently, a new generation of AGVs has been developed which makes use of cassettes that can be detached from the...

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The development of the two-meter streamer chamber at SLAC represents the culmination of more than three years of effort involving a large number of people. We have space to mention only a few. the SLAC physicists who participated in the early phases. The streamer chamber program carried out by Drs. D. Benaksas and R. Morrison at Stanford has provided us with the reassuring info...

This is a draft version of [J. Computer and System Sciences, 29 (1984) 303 311]. A Turing machine with two storage tapes can not simulate a queue in both real-time and with at least one storage tape head always within o (n) squares from the start square. This fact may be useful for showing that a two-head tape unit is more powerful in real-time than two one-head tape units, as is commonly conje...