Alan Turnbull March 2009 General Atomics Inc. and The ARIES Group The present White Paper is the second of three concerning the issue of plasma control, which is taken here to include control of the power flow in addition to the main plasma parameters and profiles. The first paper, “Control of the Plasma and the Power Flow in a Reactor”, identifies the individual issues that need to be addresse...

Alan Turnbull March 2009 General Atomics Inc. and The ARIES Group The present White Paper is the first of three concerning the issue of plasma control, which is taken here to include control of the power flow in addition to the main plasma parameters and profiles. This first paper identifies the individual issues that need to be addressed and does so in a systematic and comprehensive way. The s...

The Second Integrated Research on Disaster Risk Conference was held in Beijing, China, on the 7th to 9th of June, 2014. This event gathered a diverse international combination of researchers, policy makers, practitioners, funders and disaster risk reduction agencies, to discuss the applied integration of disaster risk research. The current special issue consists of papers with an explicitly soc...

Recently I completed a review of the empirical research on scientific journals (Armstrong 1982). This review provided evidence for an " author's formula, " a set of rules that authors can use to increase the likelihood and speed of acceptance of their manuscripts. Authors should: (1) not pick an important problem, (2) not challenge existing beliefs, (3) not obtain surprising results, (4) not us...

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Research and Technology Organization (RTO) organized and conducted a workshop on human factors and performance issues related to embedded virtual simulation (EVS). The workshop was held on 20 – 22 October 20, 2009 at the University of Central Florida – Institute for Simulation and Training (UCF – IST) in Orlando, Florida. The purpose was to address ...

The key issues associated with the three maintenance approaches envisaged for the Compact Stellarator (CS) power core have been identified and addressed, and the layout of coil system, coil supporting structure, cryostats, vacuum vessel and maintenance ports have been conceptually defined. These are summarized in this paper. Blanket concepts compatible with the three maintenance approaches have...

A critical component of disaster recovery planning is testing, which involves verification of the effectiveness of the DR solutions. Currently, there are several limitations that plagues disaster testing efforts such as the inability to create realistic disaster scenarios and test them in a production environment. Cyber Range Concept of Operations (CONOPS) presents an opportunity for overcoming...

Alan Turnbull March 2009 General Atomics Inc. and The ARIES Group The present White Paper is the last of three concerning the issue of plasma control, which is taken here to include control of the power flow in addition to the main plasma parameters and profiles. The first paper, “Control of the Plasma and the Power Flow in a Reactor”, identifies the individual issues that need to be addressed....

Much research has been devoted to synchronization and chaos-based communication in the last two decades or so. Since the early 1990s, many papers have addressed the subject, and much progress has been made. Considering that the research has been developed in many different – and, at certain extent, complementary – directions, it would be interesting to outline the advances and establish the bot...