The Northwest Lau Backarc Basin, consisting of the Northwest Lau Spreading Center (NWLSC) and the Rochambeau Rifts (RR), is unique in having elevated ³He/⁴He ratios (up to 28 R[subscript a]) in the erupted lavas, clearly indicating a hot spot or ocean island basalt (OIB)-type signature. This OIB-type helium signature does...
A prototype real-time process monitoring emergency
classification expert system, RT/EM-CLASS, has been developed
for use at the Trojan Nuclear Power Plant. This knowledge-based
system features the integration of electronically sensed plant
data with the menu selection data representation of its
predecessor, EM-CLASS. This prototype demonstrates the
techniques required to acquire...
Radiation damage caused by fission fragments to metal surfaces is an important research topic. Thin titanium foils were irradiated with a continuous wave beam of 132 MeV ¹³²Xe+²⁹ at the current intensity of 2 pnA. Pre- and post-irradiated surface topologies were investigated using atomic force microscopy and the observed defects...
Crack bridging is an important source of crack propagation resistance in many materials and the bridging stress distribution as a function of crack opening displacement is widely believed to represent a true material property uninfluenced by sample geometry, loading conditions, and other extrinsic factors. Accordingly, accurate measurement of the bridging...
Cichelli has presented a simple method for constructing minimal perfect hash tables of identifiers for small static word sets. The hash function value for a word is computed as the sum of the length of the word and the values associated with the first and last letters of the word....
The purpose of the Australian National Fisheries Adjustment Scheme (ANFAS) project is to develop a policy framework under which structural adjustment can occur in a coherent and coordinated manner, and to develop operational guidelines on how to develop structural adjustment schemes. The ANFAS will not establish a mandatory scheme, nor...
Results from approximately 400 fungus-host pure culture
inoculations indicate that specificity of ectomycorrhizal associations
is a complex phenomenon and cannot be based solely on field observations
of sporocarp-host associations. Of the numerous sporocarp-host
specific fungi tested, most formed ectomycorrhizae with one or more
unexpected, non-associated hosts. These results conclusively demonstrate...