The initial study of calibrating receiving digital beam forming in engineering test satellite-9

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2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorian Soergel ◽  
Helle Pedersen ◽  
Anne Paul ◽  
Laurent Stehly

<p>Imaging azimuthal anisotropy from seismic noise cross-correlations is challenging, especially in very complex tectonic settings such as the Alps. In this region, the focus has been mainly on retrieving anisotropy using SKS-splitting data, but this data does not provide strong depth constraints. In this work, we map the azimuthal anisotropy of Rayleigh-wave velocity in the Alps using seismic noise cross-correlations. This initial study focusses on waves at ~15 s period. The study area is divided into small zones for which all the stations outside are used as virtual sources and all the stations inside are used as receivers. For each virtual source and each zone, we perform time domain beam forming to retrieve the local phase velocity and propagation direction. As the distances between sources and receivers are relatively small, we use an algorithm that takes into account circular wavefronts. The beam forming shows that the waveforms are very coherent for different stations within each small array, and that deviations from great-circle propagation can be significant. The resulting phase velocities in each zone show a variation with azimuth which is in some locations very small (indicating that anisotropy is insignificant) and which in all other locations has a 2<span>θ</span> dependency on azimuth, indicative of well resolved azimuthal anisotropy. Bootstrapping uncertainty estimates show that the results are very stable if a sufficient number of source stations is used. The combination of permanent stations with the temporary AlpArray stations provides us with a very high station density that allows us to carry out this measurement across a large area. The resulting anisotropy maps show a good resolution, with higher uncertainties in the Po plain and the areas of low station density. The clear 2<span>θ</span> azimuth dependency is a sign that our method overcomes both effects related to source directivity (which has an approximate 1<span>θ</span> dependency) and measurement instability which can be significant for Eikonal tomography in the case of irregular networks.</p>


Author(s):  
D.R. Jackson ◽  
J.H. Hoofnagle ◽  
A.N. Schulman ◽  
J.L. Dienstag ◽  
R.H. Purcell ◽  
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Using immune electron microscopy Feinstone et. al. demonstrated the presence of a 27 nm virus-like particle in acute-phase stools of patients with viral hepatitis, type A, These hepatitis A antigen (HA Ag) particles were aggregated by convalescent serum from patients with type A hepatitis but not by pre-infection serum. Subsequently Dienstag et. al. and Maynard et. al. produced acute hepatitis in chimpanzees by inoculation with human stool containing HA Ag. During the early acute disease, virus like particles antigenically, morphologically and biophysically identical to the human HA Ag particle were found in chimpanzee stool. Recently Hilleman et. al. have described similar particles in liver and serum of marmosets infected with hepatitis A virus (HAV). We have investigated liver, bile and stool from chimpanzees and marmosets experimentally infected with HAV. In an initial study, a chimpanzee (no.785) inoculated with HA Ag-containing stool developed elevated liver enzymes 21 days after exposure.


1998 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 226-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jürgen Hoyer ◽  
Mechthild Averbeck ◽  
Thomas Heidenreich ◽  
Ulrich Stangier ◽  
Karin Pöhlmann ◽  
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Epstein's “Constructive Thinking Inventory” (CTI) was developed to measure the construct of experiential intelligence, which is based on his cognitive-experiential self-theory. Inventory items were generated by sampling naturally occurring automatic cognitions. Using principal component analysis, the findings showed a global factor of coping ability as well as six main factors: Emotional Coping, Behavioral Coping, Categorical Thinking, Personal Superstitious Thinking, Esoteric Thinking, and Naive Optimism. We tested the replicability of this factor structure and the amount of statistical independence (nonredundancy) between these factors in an initial study of German students (Study 1, N = 439) and in a second study of patients with chronic skin disorders (Study 2, N = 187). Factor congruence with the original (American) data was determined using a formula proposed by Schneewind and Cattell (1970) . Our findings show satisfactory factor congruence and statistical independence for Emotional Coping and Esoteric Thinking in both studies, while full replicability or independence could not be found in both for the other factors. Implications for the use and further development of the CTI are discussed.


Author(s):  
Nusa FAIN ◽  
Michel ROD ◽  
Erik BOHEMIA

This paper explores the influence of teaching approaches on entrepreneurial mindset of commerce, design and engineering students across 3 universities. The research presented in this paper is an initial study within a larger project looking into building ‘entrepreneurial mindsets’ of students, and how this might be influenced by their disciplinary studies. The longitudinal survey will measure the entrepreneurial mindset of students at the start of a course and at the end. Three different approaches to teaching the courses were employed – lecture and case based, blended online and class based and fully project-based course. The entrepreneurial mindset growth was surprisingly strongest within the engineering cohort, but was closely followed by the commerce students, whereas the design students were slightly more conservative in their assessments. Future study will focus on establishing what other influencing factors beyond the teaching approaches may relate to the observed change.


2020 ◽  
pp. 43-50
Author(s):  
N.V. Didenkul ◽  

According to recent studies, in the vitamin D deficiency state (VDD), pregnancy can be complicated and the optimal level of VD in the blood is one of the conditions for the realization of reproductive potential. The objective: the possibility to preventing calcitriol-associated pregnancy complications by the correcting VD deficiency at the preconception period. Materials and methods. 57 women with VDD were examined. A history of all women had a pregnancy complicated by placental dysfunction (PD); 27 of them were observed from the preconception period (main group – IA) and 30 – from the 1st trimester of pregnancy (comparison group – IB). The VD status by the blood level of the 25-hydroxyvitamin D by ELISA was determined. Women of both groups, in addition to the vitamin-mineral complex (VMC) were prescribed supplementation colecalciferol at a dose of 4.000 IU per day. Pregnant women of both groups received VMCs up to 16 weeks. After optimizing the level (3–4 months), women continued to take VD at a dose of 2.000 IU per day throughout pregnancy. Results. At the initial study, the VD level was 15.72±2.59 ng/ml in ІА and 16.1±1.99 ng/ml in ІВ group (U=883; p>0.05); after treatment increased to 38.31±3.29 ng/ml and 36.13±2.99 ng/ml (U=900; p>0.05). In group IA, the course of pregnancy was characterized by a lower frequency of complications: PD was diagnosed in 22.2% in group IA and 50% in group IB (F=0.0001; p<0.01); fetal distress in 3.7% and 10% (F=0.16; p<0.05): signs of amnionitis – in 18.5% and 33.3% (F=0.035; p<0.05); placental hypertrophy or hypotrophy – in 7.4% and 36.7% (F=0.00001; p<0.01), preeclampsia in 3.7% and 6.7% of women (F=0,54; p<0.05). The frequency of cesarean section in the comparison group was significantly higher (40% VS 25.9%, F=0.034; p<0.05). Conclusions. During pregnancy, which occurred in conditions of VDD, the frequency of some pregnancy complications, including preeclampsia, the threat of miscarriage, placental dysfunction was in 2–4 times higher than in women with optimized VD status. One of the directions of the individual management plan for women with a negative obstetric history can be the determination of the level of VD in the blood and correction of the VDD at the preconception period. This approach is a pathogenetically substantiated and promising direction for the prevention of some pregnancy complications and improvement of perinatal outcomes. Keywords: pregnancy, deficiency vitamin D, placental dysfunction, preconception period.


Author(s):  
Aleksandr Ostankov ◽  
Nikita Shchetinin ◽  
Oleg Vyacheslavovich Chernoyarov ◽  
Serguei Pergamenchtchikov
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2012 ◽  
Vol E95.B (11) ◽  
pp. 3404-3411
Author(s):  
Akira AKAISHI ◽  
Takashi TAKAHASHI ◽  
Yoshiyuki FUJINO ◽  
Mitsugu OHKAWA ◽  
Toshio ASAI ◽  
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