The PANDA experiment will be carried out at the international FAIR facility in the GSI laboratory (Darmstadt, Germany). According to the Technical Design Report, the Forward Tracker (six stations FT1– FT6) [1] and the Central Straw Tube Tracker (STT) [2] will be composed from thin-wall drift tubes (called straw-tubes below) in large quantities, 13500 and 4600 tubes, respectively. The straw-tube...

Liquid-crystal-displays (LCDs) and cathode-ray-tubes (CRTs) are compared with regard to color-calibration and color gamut. Applicability of common display calibration models to LCDs and CRTs is experimentally tested. Color-calibration accuracy, ease of calibration, and achievable color gamut are evaluated for the displays. An offset, matrix, and tone-response correction model is found to be sui...

High-resolution CKa spectra have been obtained for samples containing carbon cage particles, synthesized using the arc-discharge graphite evaporation technique. The X-ray fluorescence spectrum of particles from the inner part of the cathode deposit was found to differ from that of the soot collected on the chamber walls. The dependence of the spectral profile on the geometry was investigated us...

ly. They are always ways of dealing with the world. The ontological kinds they make manifest are determinable only through our purposive interactions with things of those kinds, and thereby with the other things that surround us. And those other things are as essential to the existence of meaningful ontological possibilities as our practices are . . . [F]or there to be electrons, there must be ...

Electromagnetic eavesdropping of computer displays – first demonstrated to the general public by van Eck in 1985 – is not restricted to cathode-ray tubes. Modern flat-panel displays can be at least as vulnerable. They are equally driven by repetitive video signals in frequency ranges where even shielded cables leak detectable radio waves into the environment. Nearby eavesdroppers can pick up su...

IBM System 34 (central processing unit, 128 kilobytes; fixed disks, 128.4 megabytes) with seven cathode-ray tubes has been used by ott clinical laboratories for the last 30 months. All data-entry programs are in a conversational mode, for on-line corrections of possible errors in patient identification and results. Daily reports are removed from the medical records after temporary and permanent...

We characterize a class of stereoscopic displays, which includes head-mounted displays that incorporate miniature cathode-ray tubes. We present a detailed viewing model that accounts for the placement, size, and orientation of the virtual display images. The model is appropriate for several types of head-mounted display, as well as head-tracked stationary displays. The tracking algorithm accoun...

A critical issue in quantitative neuromorphology is the accuracy and subsequent reliability of the tracing techniques employed to characterize neuronal components. Historically, the camera lucida was the only option for such investigations. In 1987, MBF Bioscience, Inc. (Williston, VT) developed the integrative Neurolucida computer-microscope system, replacing the camera lucida drawing tube wit...