In an era of fiscal austerity, downsizing and unforgiving pressure upon human and economic capital, it is an Augean task to identify resources for fresh and creative work. The realities of the day and the practical de...
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In an era of fiscal austerity, downsizing and unforgiving pressure upon human and economic capital, it is an Augean task to identify resources for fresh and creative work. The realities of the day and the practical demands of more immediate fleet needs can often dictate higher priorities. Yet, the Navy must avoid eating its seed corn. Exercising both technical insight and management foresight, the fleet, the R&D community, the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations (OpNav) and the product engineering expertise of the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) are joined and underway with integrated efforts to marry new, fully demonstrated technologies and operational urgencies. Defense funding today cannot sponsor all work that can be mission-justified over the long term because budgets are insufficient to support product maturation within the classical development cycle. However, by rigorous technical filtering and astute engineering of both marketplace capabilities and currently available components, it is possible in a few select cases to compress and, in effect, integrate advanced development (6.3), engineering development (6.4), weapon procurement (WPN), ship construction (SCN), operation and maintenance (O&M,N) budgetary categories when fleet criticalities and technology opportunities can happily meet. In short, 6.3 funds can be applied directly to ''ripe gateways'' so modern technology is inserted into existing troubled or aging systems, sidestepping the lengthy, traditional development cycle and accelerating practical payoffs to recurrent fleet problems. To produce such constructive results has required a remarkable convergence of sponsor prescience and engineering workforce excellence. The paper describes, extensively, the philosophy of approach, transition strategy, polling of fleet needs, technology assessment, and management team requirements. The process for culling and selecting specific candidate tasks for SHARP sponsorship (matching operational need with t
Body surface Laplacian maps were studied from a set of unipolar potential data in healthy human subjects. The present results indicate that body surface Laplacian maps can be obtained with high reproducibility in the ...
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Body surface Laplacian maps were studied from a set of unipolar potential data in healthy human subjects. The present results indicate that body surface Laplacian maps can be obtained with high reproducibility in the human subjects studied, and can reveal detailed information regarding the underlying ventricular conduction process.
The authors have developed a multi-purpose X-window based mapping software system. This software system can be used to analyze and display body surface maps of the Laplacian electrocardiogram, potential electrocardiog...
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The authors have developed a multi-purpose X-window based mapping software system. This software system can be used to analyze and display body surface maps of the Laplacian electrocardiogram, potential electrocardiogram, electroencephalogram, etc.
An analytic model for the performance evaluation of space-division Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) switches is presented. This model assumes that the switch has a fixed capacity of m, where 12 is given. The result sh...
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A theoretical model of microwave absorption in linear dielectric (non-ferroelectric) ionic crystals that takes into account the presence of point defects was synthesized and verified using NaCl single crystals. In the...
A theoretical model of microwave absorption in linear dielectric (non-ferroelectric) ionic crystals that takes into account the presence of point defects was synthesized and verified using NaCl single crystals. In the next stage of this research, we will introduce a controlled density of dislocations into the single crystal NaCl samples and study the effect on the microwave absorption mechanisms (ionic conduction, dielectric relaxation and multi-phonon processes) both theoretically and experimentally. Qualitative outlines of this modified theory are presented. The loss factor ε’ has been measured in the dislocation-free case by a cavity resonator insertion technique and the experimental results are in good agreement with the theoretical model. We describe the sample preparation technique that will be used to produce a controlled dislocation density in single crystal samples that will also be studied in our cavity resonator insertion system.
Processing conditions such as temperature, soak time, and heating rate affect the final density of conventionally-sintered and microwave-sintered ceramics. Of additional importance is the question of whether microwave...
Processing conditions such as temperature, soak time, and heating rate affect the final density of conventionally-sintered and microwave-sintered ceramics. Of additional importance is the question of whether microwave-sintered ceramics display intrinsically superior macroscopic engineering properties compared with conventionally-sintered control specimens. An analysis using the Yates algorithm indicates that the processing condition which has the largest impact on the density of the specimen is the heating method (microwave vs. conventional). The microwave-sintered specimens resulted in higher densities and higher fracture strengths. However, it was determined that the higher fracture strengths were due to the higher sintered densities rather than a significantly different microstructure.
An analytic model for the performance evaluation of space-division asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) switches is presented. This model assumes that the switch has a fixed capacity of m, where 1/spl les/m/spl les/N (N i...
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An analytic model for the performance evaluation of space-division asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) switches is presented. This model assumes that the switch has a fixed capacity of m, where 1/spl les/m/spl les/N (N is the number of trunks). Other important parameters include arrival rate and buffer sizes. Numerical solutions for the maximum throughput, cell delay, and cell loss probability are given with simulation being utilized in order to validate the analytic model. For independent and identical Bernoulli arrivals, the study shows that the contention processes can be modeled as discrete M/D/m (FIFO or Random) queues, while input queues can be modeled by Geom/G/1 queues, and the output queues are G/sup [X]//D/1 queues. A closed-form approximation for cell delay when m>2 is given. The result shows that the performance of switches with a small capacity can approach that of output queueing. The model and result can be used for switch design analysis and higher layer performance models.
Fiber optic oblique incidence reflectometry has been demonstrated to be a simple and accurate method for measuring the optical properties, μa and μs', of turbid media such as biological tissues [1,2]. After samp...
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We present a comparative analysis of bandwidth access control schemes under nonstationary traffic conditions for heterogeneous circuit-mode traffic offered to a B-ISDN network link. A unified model for analysing the b...
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We present a comparative analysis of bandwidth access control schemes under nonstationary traffic conditions for heterogeneous circuit-mode traffic offered to a B-ISDN network link. A unified model for analysing the behavior of several bandwidth access control schemes is developed using a Markov process model with acceptance functions. Numerical techniques are used to solve the associated Chapman-Kolmogorov equations and determine the nonstationary behavior. Performance results are given for several common bandwidth access control schemes, namely: complete sharing, complete partitioning, partial sharing, classical trunk reservation, and the probabilistic reservation policy. It is shown that the use of the average arrival rate to estimate the average connection blocking rate may be an underestimate for a system with a time varying arrival process. Also, it is found that a nonstationarity in one traffic class arrival process can impact other stationary traffic classes and the degree of variability depends on the particular access control scheme.
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