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Phase linear interferometer experiment maintenance and calibration manual [PDF]
This manual describes the necessary procedures for assuring continuous lightning sferics data collection at Marshall Space Flight Center. The phase linear interferometer experiment is under evaluation as a candidate RF sensor to support the space based ...
Goodman, S. J.
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ABSTRACT Quinoa is a grain crop with excellent nutritional properties that has attracted global attention for its potential contribution to future food security in a changing climate. Despite its long history of cultivation, quinoa has been improved little by modern breeding and is a niche crop outside its native cultivation area.
Flavio Lozano‐Isla +3 more
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Certification of lightning protection for a full-authority digital engine control [PDF]
FADEC systems present many challenges to the lightning protection engineer. Verification of the protection-design adequacy for certification purposes presents additional challenges.
Dargi, M., Rupke, E., Wiles, K.
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A New Method for Connecting the Radiation Sources of Lightning Discharge Extension Channels [PDF]
YuRui Li +3 more
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Index to 1984 NASA Tech Briefs, volume 9, numbers 1-4 [PDF]
Short announcements of new technology derived from the R&D activities of NASA are presented. These briefs emphasize information considered likely to be transferrable across industrial, regional, or disciplinary lines and are issued to encourage ...
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ABSTRACT Laws play some role in explanations: at the very least, they somehow connect what is explained, or the explanandum, to what explains, or the explanans. Thus, thermodynamical laws connect the match's being struck and its lightning, so that the former causes the latter; and laws about set formation connect Socrates' existence with {Socrates}'s ...
Julio De Rizzo
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Study of design parameters of explosive initiators with respect to space environments Final report [PDF]
Environmental hazards to explosives and explosive triggering devices encountered on manned space ...
Amicone, R. G., Mohrbach, P. F.
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The Distinctness of Objects Near and Far
ABSTRACT Philosophers working on the metaphysics of persistence typically do not extend their views to the distinctness of objects at a single time. I argue that we can provide criteria to distinguish objects across time if and only if we can provide criteria to distinguish objects at a time. Furthermore, I endorse a stronger claim.
Erica Shumener
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“I had to open my eyes”—A narrative approach to studying the process of adult belief change
Abstract Why do people, socialized and sedimented in their political beliefs, change their convictions in adulthood? Belief change has a long history of research in the social sciences. Yet, in quantitative research, belief change is studied largely through cognitive and behavioral lenses, that, however valuable, struggle to capture how people ...
Marcel van den Haak, Kamile Grusauskaite
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