Aiming at the prevention of global warming, energy conservation and the reduction of power generation cost, demonstration and full-scale production of power generation devices using renewable energy are well underway. In Japan, the feed-in tariff program for renewable energy (photovoltaic, wind, hydro, geothermal and biomass power) started in July 2012 and their deployment is expected to accele...

We report OSSE observations of the bursting X-ray pulsar GRO J1744{28 made in December 1995 and January 1996 at hard X-ray energies > 35 keV. The pulse proole of the persistent (i.e. non-bursting) pulsar emission is t with a sinusoid in the energy range 35{90 keV. Residuals reveal a second harmonic amplitude of 3:0 0:5% of the fundamental. The distribution of time intervals between bursts measu...

We report experimental results of using an f/5 , cascaded-focus optical geometry for a high-dynamic-range optical limiter. The device consists of a 2-cm-thick CS(2) cell at the first focus and a reverse saturable-absorber dye in a thin cell (0.1 mm) at the second focus. The strong self-focusing in the CS(2) that is due to the ac Kerr effect and electrostriction keeps the energy at the second ce...

† Managed by UT-Battelle, LLC, for the U.S. Department of Energy under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725. Abstract Investigations have been conducted to determine the feasibility of using collisional cooling for reducing the energy spreads and, consequently, the emittances of negative-ion beams. We have designed a gas-filled RFquadrupole ion cooler equipped with provisions for retarding energetic nega...

Temperature-dependent Raman and dielectric measurements have been carried out on (C2H5NH3)2CdCl4 single crystals. Raman studies reveal the presence of two structural phase transitions below room temperature at 216 K and 114 K. The phase transitions are marked by anomalies in temperature dependence of wave-number and full width half maximum (FWHM) of several vibrational modes. The transitions ar...

Ghrelin, the first identified endogenous ligand for the growth hormone secretagogue receptor 1A, is a 28 amino acid peptide produced mainly by the stomach. Pharmacological studies indicate a role for ghrelin in the regulation of growth hormone secretion from the pituitary and also in the regulation of body weight, fat accumulation and food intake. Using a classical endocrine deletion/replacemen...

the growth of the electrical energy consumption form one side and the bounded available fossil fuel and other limitations from the other side, makes the thermal power plants upgrading as a main demand in the world. decreasing the internal energy consumption, increasing the performance and the output power with the minimum costs are the important targets of the power plants retrofitting. nowaday...

Most optical flow algorithms provide flow fields as single valued functions of the image sequence domains. Only a very few of them attempt to recover multiple motion vectors at given location, which is necessary when some transparent layers are moving independently. In this report we introduce a novel framework for modeling multivalued motion fields, and propose an energy minimization formulati...

[1] Magnetostatic interactions have been investigated in an intergrown material consisting of 200-nm magnetite blocks separated by 30-nm-wide ulvöspinel lamellae. First-order reversal curve (FORC) measurements provide a direct measure of the interaction fields, giving a value for the full width at half maximum (FWHM) of 30 mT (at Hc = 20 mT). Hysteresis parameters are Mrs/Ms = 0.22, Hcr/Hc = 1....