Water wave interactions with arrays of energy converters are numerically investigated based on the interaction theory. The converter is a heaving point absorber that can harness ocean through up-and-down movements. A semi-analytical hybrid method developed combines boundary element and numerical verified against theoretical solutions for truncated vertical circular cylinders. Three different ar...

The three telescopes identify particle energy and type by various techniques. Energy loss and range, which provide the identification of protons (1 to 300 MeV), alpha particles (4 to 1200 MeV) and electrons (1 to 500 MeV), are measured in a stack of silicon solid state detectors and tungsten absorbers in the NE-Range telescope, while the identification of protons (350 to 1000 MeV), alpha partic...

INTRODUCTION Composite materials are often used to reduce the weight of structures. In the automotive industry weight reduction is important because fuel consumption is directly related to vehicular weight. There is an increased concern for occupant safety during roadway accidents. Metals are currently used in car frames and integrated frame-body structures, and these and other metallic compone...

We report the detection, based on HST and Keck data, of two peculiar absorbers in the Lyα forest of the quasar PKS 0454+039. These clouds, at redshifts z = 0.6248 and 0.9315 respectively, display both Mg ii and Fe ii absorption lines in addition to the Lyα line. Based upon photoionization models, these are inferred to be photoionized by the intergalactic UV background, and to have H i column de...

We present results from multi-epoch spectral analysis of XMM-Newton and Chandra observations of the mini broad absorption line (BAL) quasar PG 1115+080. This is one of the few X-ray detected mini-BAL quasars to date that is bright enough in the X-ray band, mostly due to large gravitationallensing magnifications, to allow in-depth spectral analysis. The present XMM-Newton observations of PG 1115...

The effect of commercial oxygen absorbers on sliced ham quality packaged in barrier film (OTR @ 60cc/m/da) under rigorous display conditions was investigated. Atmospheric pressure, vacuum, and CO2 back-flushed packaging methods were used. Color, microbial counts, lipid oxidation, and sensory odor were evaluated weekly over a period of 79 days in 10°C storage under fluorescent light. Ham contain...

We have discovered a correlation between the X-ray absorbing column densities within Seyfert galaxies and the relative alignment between the central engines and their host galactic disks. This correlation carries several implications for Seyfert unification models. (1) In addition to small-scale circumnuclear absorbers, there are absorbing systems associated with the host galactic plane that ar...

Abstract Parametric excitation in the pitch/roll degrees of freedom (DoFs) can induce dynamic instability floating cylinder-type structures such as spar buoys, offshore wind or wave energy converters. At certain frequency and amplitude ranges input waves, parametric coupling between heave DoFs results undesirable large rotational motion. One possible remedy to mitigate existence resonance is us...