The vision of delivering solar power to Earth from platforms in space has been known for decades. However, early architectures to accomplish this vision were technically complex and unlikely to prove economically viable. Some of the issues with these earlier solar power satellite (SPS) concepts – particularly involving technical feasibility – were addressed by NASA’s space solar power (SSP) stu...

BACKGROUND Most medical schools use simulated patients (SPs) for teaching. In this context the authenticity of role play and quality of feedback provided by SPs is of paramount importance. The available literature on SP training mostly addresses instructor led training where the SPs are given direction on their roles. This study focuses on the use of peer and self evaluation as a tool to train ...

The Earth will require sustainable electricity sources equivalent to 3 to 5 times the commercial power presently produced by 2050. Solar Power Satellite (SPS) is one option for meeting the huge future energy demand. SPS can send enormous amounts of power to the Earth as the form of microwave (MW). A highly efficient microwave power transmission (MPT) system is needed for SPS. A critical goal of...

OBJECTIVE This experimental study was designed to investigate the safety and the effectiveness of Samjeong pharmacopuncture solution (SPS) manufactured by using a the lowtemperature extract on process. METHODS To identify the safety and the effectiveness of using SPS as eye drops, we performed applied eye irritation tests on rabbits and antibacterial tests for Staphylococcus aureus, Staphyloc...

With the start of the machine studies to characterize the behaviour of the LHC beam in the SPS in 1999, it became evident that electron multipacting was occurring in the SPS vacuum chambers in the presence of this beam. Multipacting induces dramatic pressure increases preventing stable operation, it limits the performance of beam instrumentation and high voltage electrostatic devices (e.g. elec...

It is shown that pairs of solitary pulses (SPs) in a linearly coupled system with opposite group velocity dispersions form robust breathing bound states. The system can be realized by temporal-modulation coupling of SPs with different carrier frequencies propagating in the same medium, or by coupling of SPs in a dual-core waveguide. Broad SP pairs are produced in a virtually exact form by means...

Measurements of transverse oscillations of single bunches of protons in the SPS at 26 GeV are described. They are used to monitor the transverse impedance of the SPS. There has been a major effort to reduce the SPS impedance in the last winter shutdown, by shielding of most pumping ports and removal of obsolete (lepton) components. In fact, a significant reduction in the coherent tune shift wit...

Synovial plica syndrome (SPS) occurs in the knee, when an otherwise normal structure becomes a source of pain due to injury or overuse. Patients may present to general practitioners, physiotherapists, or surgeons with anterior knee pain with or without mechanical symptoms, and the diagnosis can sometimes be difficult. Several studies have examined the epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of S...

Stiff-person syndrome (SPS) is a rare neurologic disease manifested by persistent muscle contractions causing marked rigidity in the affected individual . There are many case descriptions and clinical reviews in the neurologic literature, outlining a progression of knowledge from the early clinical description of SPS to advanced molecular biologic and immunologic studies implicating the gamma-a...

The session summarised here was devoted to Electron Cloud Effects and Vacuum in the SPS and LHC. Seven talks were presented, covering recent experimental observations of electron cloud effects at the KEK-B Low Energy Ring (LER), measurements of surface properties at EPA, simulations of electron cloud build-up and heat load, vacuum observations and electron scrubbing in the SPS with LHC type bea...