NASA's Artemis Campaign has unified industrial and international partners in laying the foundation for human exploration and industrialization of the solar system. Industry is designing systems and architectures t...
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NASA's Artemis Campaign has unified industrial and international partners in laying the foundation for human exploration and industrialization of the solar system. Industry is designing systems and architectures to achieve the goal of returning humans to the Moon to stay and pushing onwards to Mars. A flexible and extensible solar system architecture enables this vision for both near term and long-term missions. The Commercial Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Destination (CLD), Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) at the Moon and its successor at Mars, Lunar Surface Habitats (LSH), as well as Mars Transfer Habitats (MTH) will utilize an Operations and Service Infrastructure for Space (OASIS). OASIS capitalizes on refueling modules, transfer modules, as well as human and cargo landing systems (HLS) for the Moon and Mars. Additionally, this sustainable architecture concurrently augments US strategic customers by expanding Earth orbiting capabilities. The Cargo/Crew Autonomous Rendezvous and Velocity Adjustment/Navigation (CARAVAN) transfer module not only supports mission evolution from the Moon to Mars but enables increased mass to GEO and legranging destinations as well. A fully fueled CARAVAN leaves the OASIS refueling stations in LEO, NearRectilinear Halo Orbit (NRHO) or Mars high altitude orbit, completes rendezvous and docking maneuvers with the customer Payload and transfers the spacecraft to its operational destination. CARAVAN enables mission designs at least three times more massive while reducing system complexity by eliminating cruise and injection requirements and allowing the customer to focus on mission goals. The OASIS refueling network builds on demonstrated in space servicing capabilities. The refueling capability of OASIS extends to not only CARAVAN but industry orbital assets as well as other customer spacecraft requiring in space delivery. The Lunar HALO and planned Mars successors capitalize on this reusable architecture offering staging platforms for ca
Free water surface constructed wetlands (FWSCWs) for the treatment of various wastewater types have evolved significantly over the last few decades. With an increasing need and interest in FWSCWs applications worldwid...
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Free water surface constructed wetlands (FWSCWs) for the treatment of various wastewater types have evolved significantly over the last few decades. With an increasing need and interest in FWSCWs applications worldwide due to their cost-effectiveness and other benefits, this paper reviews recent literature on FWSCWs' ability to remove different types of pollutants such as nutrients (i.e., TN, TP, NH4-N), heavy metals (i.e., Fe, Zn, and Ni), antibiotics (i.e., oxytetracycline, ciprofloxacin, doxycycline, sulfamethazine, and ofloxacin), and pesticides (i.e., Atrazine, S-Metolachlor, imidacloprid, lambda-cyhalothrin, diuron 3,4-dichloroanilin, Simazine, and Atrazine) that may co-exist in wetland inflow, and discusses approaches for simulating hydraulic and pollutant removal processes. A bibliometric analysis of recent literature reveals that China has the highest number of publications, followed by the USA. The collected data show that FWSCWs can remove an average of 61.6%, 67.8%, 54.7%, and 72.85% of inflowing nutrients, heavy metals, antibiotics, and pesticides, respectively. Optimizing each pollutant removal process requires specific design parameters. Removing heavy metal requires the lowest hydraulic retention time (HRT) (average of 4.78 days), removing pesticides requires the lowest water depth (average of 0.34 m), and nutrient removal requires the largest system size. Vegetation, especially Typha spp. and Phragmites spp., play an important role in FWSCWs' system performance, making significant contributions to the removal process. Various modeling approaches (i.e., black-box and process-based) were comprehensively reviewed, revealing the need for including the internal process mechanisms related to the biological processes along with plants spp., that supported by a further research with field study validations. This work presents a state-of-the-art, systematic, and comparative discussion on the efficiency of FWSCWs in removing different pollutants, main design
Electrochemical affinity biosensors have the potential to facilitate the development of multiplexed point-of-care diagnostics in complex biological fluids. However, their commercial viability has been hindered by chal...
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The paper investigates the correlation between solar irradiance and sunlit hours for the city of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. This correlation is a strong function of the weather conditions, and is vital for the des...
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Abbas S.A. Al-HedadMuhammad N.S. HadiPhD
Lecturer Al-Furat Al-Awast Technical University Al-Najaf Iraq Professor
School of CMEA Engineering University of Wollongong Wollongong NSW 2522 Australia
This paper investigates the influence of geogrid reinforcement on the flexural behavior of concrete pavements after the initiation of cracks up to failure. Two groups of notched concrete beam specimens with the dimens...
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This paper investigates the influence of geogrid reinforcement on the flexural behavior of concrete pavements after the initiation of cracks up to failure. Two groups of notched concrete beam specimens with the dimensions of 150 mm × 150 mm × 550 mm were tested. The concrete specimens of the first group were tested under static loads. The concrete specimens of the second group were tested under cyclic loads. The geogrid was placed at a depth of 55 mm from the bottom of the concrete specimens. Test results illustrate that, when cracks are visible in the concrete specimens, the geogrid could maintain the flexural behavior of the concrete pavements within the acceptable service level. The geogrid significantly prolonged the fatigue life of the cracked concrete pavements reinforced with the geogrid. The geogrid increased the maximum cyclic loads of the concrete specimens reinforced with geogrid before eventually failing. The number of geogrid layers used as a flexural resisting material under cyclic loads acts a significant role in improving the behavior of the concrete pavements compared with the specimens reinforced with one layer of geogrid.
Geodesy provides essential geospatial and positioning data, but the vast amounts of raw data it generates require efficient processing, transformation, and interpretation for practical use. Traditional monolithic soft...
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(数字)9798331517649
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(纸本)9798331517656
Geodesy provides essential geospatial and positioning data, but the vast amounts of raw data it generates require efficient processing, transformation, and interpretation for practical use. Traditional monolithic software architectures often struggle with scalability and adaptability in handling complex geospatial workflows. This research examines the applicability of microservice architecture for data processing in geodetic organizations. By exploring its benefits, this study contributes to the ongoing discourse on modern IT architectures in geodesy, offering insights into how microservices can enhance efficiency, scalability, and adaptability in geospatial data processing.
The Tohoku Earthquake of March 11, 2011, and tsunami triggered by it caused severe damage throughout the northeastern coast of Japan. The transport network in the Tohoku region was severely damaged by this disaster. A...
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In this paper several types of UV-C neon lamps are tested for their germicidal effects, determining actual wavelength for select models, close to 250 nm. These neon lamps feature Mercury insertion in the tubes and no ...
In this paper several types of UV-C neon lamps are tested for their germicidal effects, determining actual wavelength for select models, close to 250 nm. These neon lamps feature Mercury insertion in the tubes and no UV-C protection. To determine wavelengths, several models were purchased from different manufacturers and measured in an experimental setting. These neon lamps have different power ratings, but the wavelength parameters are similar, therefore these parameters were used as criteria for the selection. Applications considered are the germicidal effects on viruses, including SARS-CoV-2.
IoT security is an unresolved issue at this time, which is not easy to achieve due to the multitude of types of sensors used. As almost any security solution involves cryptography elements, which by default requires r...
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