Direct support, and general support maintenance repair parts and special tools list (including depot maintenance repair parts and special tools) for test stand, automotive generator, alternator and starter, floor mounted, 10 to 50-V, 500-amp, DC, (Sun Electric Corporation model AGT-9 and AGT-9A), (4910-767-0218).

Shipping list no.: 89-485-P.

Direct support and general support maintenance repair parts and special tools lists (including depot maintenance repair parts and special tools lists) : truck, fork lift, electric motor driven, solid rubber tired, 6000 lb capacity Army model MHE 214 NSN 3930-00-479-8769, Allis-Chalmers model FE-60-EE.

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Direct and general support maintenance manual : truck, lift, fork, electric, solid rubber tires, Army model MHE-218, 4,000 lbs. capacity, 100 in. lift, Drexel Dynamics model FL-40-EE-6550, FSN 3930-403-5661, 4,000 lbs. capacity, 180 in. lift, Drexel Dynamics model FL-40-EE-6250, FSN 3930-403-5662.

Includes index.

Direct support and general support maintenance manual : antenna and microwave equipment including feed assembly AS-2941 ( )/FSC, (NSN 5895-00-639-4793), dehumidifier, desiccant, electric HD-988/G, (NSN 4440-01-018-0080) for satellite communication terminals AN/FSC-78(V) and AN/FSC-79.

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Scattering polarization in the presence of magnetic and electric fields

The polarization of radiation by scattering on an atom embedded in combined external quadrupole electric and uniform magnetic fields is studied theoretically. Limiting cases of scattering under Zeeman effect, and Hanle effect in weak magnetic fields are discussed. The theory is general enough to handle scattering in intermediate magnetic fields (Hanle-Zeeman effect) and for arbitrary orientation of magnetic field. The quadrupolar electric field produces asymmetric line shifts, and causes interesting level-crossing phenomena either in the absence of an ambient magnetic field, or in its presence. It is shown that the quadrupolar electric field produces an additional depolarization in the Q/I profiles and rotation of the plane of polarization in the U/I profile over and above that arising from magnetic field itself. This characteristic may have a diagnostic potential to detect steady-state and time-varying electric fields that surround radiating atoms in solar atmospheric layers. (c) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

A comparative study of Pt/CeO2 catalysts for catalytic partial oxidation of methane to syngas for application in fuel cell electric vehicles

In the framework of a project aimed at developing a reliable hydrogen generator for mobile polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFCs), particular emphasis has been addressed to the analysis of catalysts able to assure high activity and stability in transient operations (frequent start-up and shut-down cycles). In this paper, the catalytic performance of 1 at.% Pt/ceria samples prepared by coprecipitation, impregnation and combustion, has been evaluated in the partial oxidation of methane. Methane conversion and hydrogen selectivity of 96 and 99%, respectively, associated with high stability during 100h of reaction under operative conditions (start-up and shut-down cycles), have been obtained. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

Fermion Electric Dipole Moments in R-parity violating Supersymmetry

In this talk I discuss some aspects of the study of electric dipole moments (EDMs) of the fermions, in the context of R-parity violating (\rpv) Supersymmetry (SUSY). I will start with a brief general discussion of how dipole moments, in general, serve as a probe of physics beyond the Standard Model (SM) and an even briefer summary of \rpv SUSY. I will follow by discussing a general method of analysis for obtaining the leading fermion mass dependence of the dipole moments and present its application to \rpv SUSY case. Then I will summarise the constraints that the analysis of $e,n$ and $Hg$ EDMs provide for the case of trilinear \rpv SUSY couplings and make a few comments on the case of bilinear \rpv, where the general method of analysis proposed by us does not work.

Low-inductance axial flux BLDC motor drive for more electric aircraft

As aircraft technology is moving towards more electric architecture, use of electric motors in aircraft is increasing. Axial flux BLDC motors (brushless DC motors) are becoming popular in aero application because of their ability to meet the demand of light weight, high power density, high efficiency and high reliability. Axial flux BLDC motors, in general, and ironless axial flux BLDC motors, in particular, come with very low inductance Owing to this, they need special care to limit the magnitude of ripple current in motor winding. In most of the new more electric aircraft applications, BLDC motor needs to be driven from 300 or 600 Vdc bus. In such cases, particularly for operation from 600 Vdc bus, insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT)-based inverters are used for BLDC motor drive. IGBT-based inverters have limitation on increasing the switching frequency, and hence they are not very suitable for driving BLDC motors with low winding inductance. In this study, a three-level neutral point clamped (NPC) inverter is proposed to drive axial flux BLDC motors. Operation of a BLDC motor driven from three-level NPC inverter is explained and experimental results are presented.

Minimization of the effects of harmonics and voltage dip caused by electric arc furnace

This study examines the thermal efficiency of the operation of arc furnace and the effects of harmonics and voltage dips of a factory located near Bangkok. It also attempts to find ways to improve the performance of the arc furnace operation and minimize the effects of both harmonics and voltage dips. A dynamic model of the arc furnace has been developed incorporating both electrical and thermal characteristics. The model can be used to identify potential areas for improvement of the furnace and its operation. Snapshots of waveforms and measurement of RMS values of voltage, current and power at the furnace, at other feeders and at the point of common coupling were recorded. Harmonic simulation program and electromagnetic transient simulation program were used in the study to model the effects of harmonics and voltage dips and to identify appropriate static and dynamic filters to minimize their effects within the factory. The effects of harmonics and voltage dips were identified in records taken at the point of common coupling of another factory supplied by another feeder of the same substation. Simulation studies were made to examine the results on the second feeder when dynamic filters were used in the factory which operated the arc furnace. The methodology used and the mitigation strategy identified in the study are applicable to general situation in a power distribution system where an arc furnace is a part of the load of a customer

Transparência do orçamento público no poder legislativo federal : informações disponíveis à sociedade na internet

Avalia se as informações orçamentárias disponibilizadas à sociedade brasileira na Internet pelo Poder Legislativo Federal atendem à transparência nos processos de discussão e de aprovação do orçamento público. Tal objetivo é alcançado após o cotejamento das informações disponíveis nos endereços eletrônicos da Câmara dos Deputados, do Senado Federal e da Comissão Mista de Planos, Orçamentos Públicos e Fiscalização – CMO com aquelas disponíveis em outros países, previamente selecionados, que disponibilizam informações orçamentárias em sítios da Internet. A partir daí, são identificadas eventuais necessidades e oportunidades de melhoria para o Brasil. Sedimentam as bases do trabalho referências bibliográficas que buscam relacionar transparência fiscal com transparência orçamentária, e sua importância para a cidadania. São estabelecidas variáveis a serem pesquisadas nos diversos países e, mediante análise quali-quantitativa, é possível analisar a situação dos países selecionados e compará-la à situação do Brasil. Os resultados mostram que o Brasil se encontra à frente dos países pesquisados, em termos de divulgação de informações orçamentárias pelo Poder Legislativo. No entanto, são propostas melhorias quanto à qualidade das informações divulgadas, no sentido de disponibilizá-las de maneira mais sucinta e simples, bem como quanto à disponibilização das informações em um portal de orçamento público único do Poder Legislativo. Assim, pretende-se alcançar o cidadão comum, que não possui conhecimento técnico a respeito das questões orçamentárias. Sugere-se, ainda, que estudos futuros examinem a relação entre cidadania e divulgação de informações orçamentárias.

1. Ultrasonic studies of binary liquid structure in the critical region. Theory and experiment for the 2,6-lutidine/water system. 2. Hartree-Fock calculations of electric polarizabilities of some simple atoms and molecules, and their practicality. 3. Calculation of vibrational transition probabilities in collinear atom-diatom and diatom-diatom collisions with Lennard-Jones interaction

Part 1. Many interesting visual and mechanical phenomena occur in the critical region of fluids, both for the gas-liquid and liquid-liquid transitions. The precise thermodynamic and transport behavior here has some broad consequences for the molecular theory of liquids. Previous studies in this laboratory on a liquid-liquid critical mixture via ultrasonics supported a basically classical analysis of fluid behavior by M. Fixman (e. g., the free energy is assumed analytic in intensive variables in the thermodynamics)--at least when the fluid is not too close to critical. A breakdown in classical concepts is evidenced close to critical, in some well-defined ways. We have studied herein a liquid-liquid critical system of complementary nature (possessing a lower critical mixing or consolute temperature) to all previous mixtures, to look for new qualitative critical behavior. We did not find such new behavior in the ultrasonic absorption ascribable to the critical fluctuations, but we did find extra absorption due to chemical processes (yet these are related to the mixing behavior generating the lower consolute point). We rederived, corrected, and extended Fixman's analysis to interpret our experimental results in these more complex circumstances. The entire account of theory and experiment is prefaced by an extensive introduction recounting the general status of liquid state theory. The introduction provides a context for our present work, and also points out problems deserving attention. Interest in these problems was stimulated by this work but also by work in Part 3.

Part 2. Among variational theories of electronic structure, the Hartree-Fock theory has proved particularly valuable for a practical understanding of such properties as chemical binding, electric multipole moments, and X-ray scattering intensity. It also provides the most tractable method of calculating first-order properties under external or internal one-electron perturbations, either developed explicitly in orders of perturbation theory or in the fully self-consistent method. The accuracy and consistency of first-order properties are poorer than those of zero-order properties, but this is most often due to the use of explicit approximations in solving the perturbed equations, or to inadequacy of the variational basis in size or composition. We have calculated the electric polarizabilities of H₂, He, Li, Be, LiH, and N₂ by Hartree-Fock theory, using exact perturbation theory or the fully self-consistent method, as dictated by convenience. By careful studies on total basis set composition, we obtained good approximations to limiting Hartree-Fock values of polarizabilities with bases of reasonable size. The values for all species, and for each direction in the molecular cases, are within 8% of experiment, or of best theoretical values in the absence of the former. Our results support the use of unadorned Hartree-Pock theory for static polarizabilities needed in interpreting electron-molecule scattering data, collision-induced light scattering experiments, and other phenomena involving experimentally inaccessible polarizabilities.

Part 3. Numerical integration of the close-coupled scattering equations has been carried out to obtain vibrational transition probabilities for some models of the electronically adiabatic H₂-H₂ collision. All the models use a Lennard-Jones interaction potential between nearest atoms in the collision partners. We have analyzed the results for some insight into the vibrational excitation process in its dependence on the energy of collision, the nature of the vibrational binding potential, and other factors. We conclude also that replacement of earlier, simpler models of the interaction potential by the Lennard-Jones form adds very little realism for all the complication it introduces. A brief introduction precedes the presentation of our work and places it in the context of attempts to understand the collisional activation process in chemical reactions as well as some other chemical dynamics.

Electric and magnetic losses and gains in determining the sign of refractive index

Within the framework of classic electromagnetic theories, we have studied the sign of refractive index of optical medias with the emphases on the roles of the electric and magnetic losses and gains. Starting from the Maxwell equations for an isotropic and homogeneous media, we have derived the general form of the complex refractive index and its relation with the complex electric permittivity and magnetic permeability, i.e. n = root epsilon mu, in which the intrinsic electric and magnetic losses and gains are included as the imaginary parts of the complex permittivity and permeability, respectively, as epsilon = epsilon(r) + i(epsilon i) and mu = mu(r) + i mu(i). The electric and magnetic losses are present in all passive materials, which correspond, respectively, to the positive imaginary permittivity and permeability epsilon(i) > 0 and mu(i) > 0. The electric and magnetic gains are present in materials where external pumping sources enable the light to be amplified instead of attenuated, which correspond, respectively, to the negative imaginary permittivity and permeability epsilon(i) < 0 and mu(i) < 0. We have analyzed and determined uniquely the sign of the refractive index, for all possible combinations of the four parameters epsilon(r), mu(r), epsilon(i), and mu(i), in light of the relativistic causality. A causal solution requires that the wave impedance be positive Re {Z} > 0. We illustrate the results for all cases in tables of the sign of refractive index. One of the most important messages from the sign tables is that, apart from the well-known case where simultaneously epsilon < 0 and mu < 0, there are other possibilities for the refractive index to be negative n < 0, for example, for epsilon(r) < 0, mu(r) > 0, epsilon(i) > 0, and mu(i) > 0, the refractive index is negative n < 0 provided mu(i)/epsilon(i) > mu(r)/vertical bar epsilon(r)vertical bar. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Formar almas, plasmar corações, dirigir vontades: o projeto educacional das Filhas da Caridade da Sociedade São Vicente de Paulo (1898-1905)

Foi analisado, nesta pesquisa, as condições de possibilidades para criação do Colégio Nossa Senhora das Dores na cidade de São João del-Rei, Minas Gerais. Fundado em1898 pelas Filhas da Caridade, iniciou suas atividades com o ensino voltado para um público exclusivamente feminino. O prédio foi construído para abrigar cem alunas internas e tantas outras externas para a formação primária, "ginasial", secundária e o Curso Normal, tendo funcionado em regime de internato, semi-internato e externato. Ao considerar os diferentes estratos de formação para os quais a escola se voltou, enfatizei o exame no nível da formação docente, buscando compreender as relações entre sociedade e educação escolar religiosa e suas articulações com os modelos educacionais difundidos à época. Para tanto, analisei os dispositivos disciplinares destinados a institucionalizar um programa, tendo como princípio a difusão da doutrina cristã associada à formação docente praticada no Colégio no início do seu funcionamento. No projeto de construção é possível observar a preocupação dos idealizadores em reafirmar um modelo escolar de formação do magistério em meio ao debate da qualificação docente em que diferentes modelos de formação estiveram em pauta. Em função do entrelaçamento dos ambientes urbanos e escolares produzidos no final do século XIX e início do XX, as remodelações de cidade fizeram emergir, em São João del-Rei, um edifício exemplar, representado na configuração do ecletismo mineiro. Nessa investigação, os saberes e tempos escolares se tornaram imprescindíveis para proceder à análise da criação e funcionamento da instituição examinada. Da mesma forma, o exame da instituição foi perseguido à medida que essas preocupações apareceram associadas, visto que os lugares e as práticas que os instituíram não podem ser deslocados do que se conseguiu produzir. O estudo enfocou o período entre a criação da instituição (1898) até 1905, ano em que o Curso Normal do CNSD foi equiparado aos cursos das escolas normais oficiais do Estado. Foi baseado na análise de leis, periódicos, relatórios de presidentes de província/estado, normas e estatutos da congregação e de uma vasta documentação localizada no CNSD. Ao entrecruzar essas fontes, a presente pesquisa buscou problematizar as dimensões de governo contidas nos planos da Igreja Católica, em termos gerais, e da Congregação da Missão de São Vicente de Paulo e das Filhas da Caridade, em específico. Pode-se dizer que o CNSD, por meio das Filhas da Caridade da Sociedade São Vicente de Paulo, deixou marcas em São João del-Rei como uma escola brasileira católica cristã, o que reforça a larga tradição de fazer da escola um instrumento de afirmação da fé. Para tal, muito contribuiu o novo estatuto jurídico adquirido em 1905, ampliando a legitimidade conquistada pelo CNSD, constituindo um sinal de forças das "irmãs" na cidade, assim como na eficiência de estratégias e de efetividade da ação educativa protagonizada pelas vicentinas em São João del-Rei. Nessa perspectiva, é possível afirmar que o projeto expansionista do catolicismo romanizado buscou alargar seu raio de ação em diversos locais, seja no interior de uma cidade mineira, seja no Brasil ou em outros países.

Electric fishing survey of the gravel addition sites on the River Wyre, Grizedale Beck and Joshua's Beck.

Although geographically the River Wyre lies between two rivers containing major migrations of adult salmon and sea trout, its rod & line fisheries have for a number of years produced exceptionally low catches. In order to determine the causes of this the Wyre Salmon and Sea trout Restoration Group (WSSRG) was conceived in 1994 as a partnership between the then National Rivers Authority (now Environment Agency), local landowners, angling clubs and interested parties. Two studies of 1994 and 1995 stated that there is a shortage of useable spawning gravels on the river. This is compounded by Abbeystead Reservoir acting as a gravel trap, the siltation of gravels on several side becks and problems with access to available gravels by returning adults. There was also perceived to be a need for accurate fishery data from the river encompassing redd counts, catch data and surveys of fry populations. The 1995 report suggested a number of management proposals which might be adopted in order to improve and create available spawning habitat for migratory salmonids. Funding was made available to create three spawning gravels on each of two side becks (Grizedale Beck and Joshua's Beck) and the addition of gravels to a site oh the main river below Abbeystead Reservoir. Modifications were also made to the fish pass at Abbeystead to allow easier passage of fish. These improvements were made in the autumn of 1995. Salmonid spawning redd counting was undertaken on the whole Wyre catchment in 1995/1996 and specific surveys by electric fishing on the gravel enhancement sites in the summer of 1996. This report details the current state of the improvement works that were undertaken and presents the results of electric fishing surveys in September 1996. A number of lessons have been learnt which will be of great benefit to the Fisheries Function in other parts of the Wyre catchment and the Central Area in general.