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Steps Toward Determination Of The Size And Structure Of The Broad-Line Region In Active Galactic Nuclei. Xii. Ground-Based Monitoring Of 3c 390.3, Matthias Dietrich, T. D. Oswalt, Jun Tao

Aerospace, Physics, and Space Science Faculty Publications

Results of a ground-based optical monitoring campaign on 3C 390.3 in 1994-1995 are presented. The broadband fluxes (B, V, R, and I), the spectrophotometric optical continuum flux Fλ(5177 Å), and the integrated emission-line fluxes of Hα, Hβ, Hγ, He II λ15876, and He II A4686 all show a nearly monotonic increase with episodes of milder short-term variations superposed. The amplitude of the continuum variations increases with decreasing wavelength (4400-9000 Å). The optical continuum variations follow the variations in the ultraviolet and X-ray with time delays, measured from the centroids of the cross-correlation functions, typically around 5 days, but with uncertainties …

Northern Australia Quarantine Strategy. Weeds Target List, B. M. Waterhouse, A A. Mitchell

Biosecurity published reports

Second edition.

The Northern Australia Quarantine Strategy (NAQS) was established in 1989 as an outcome of a major evaluation of quarantine in Australia (AGPS 1987, 1988). NAQS activities include surveying for weeds,insect pests and diseases of plants; and pests and diseases of animals in northern Australia, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. The primary goal is to provide early detection and warning of new quarantine threats or incursions.

A targetted approach was adopted for all pests, diseases and weeds. For each category of pest, experts in the discipline compiled lists of organisms not known from Australia but known to occur in …

Passive Margin Sedimentation On Costa Rica's North Caribbean Coastal Plain, Rio Colorado, Randall W. Parkinson, Jorge Cortés, Percy Denyer

Ocean Engineering and Marine Sciences Faculty Publications

Geomorphic, sedimentologic, and stratigraphic data obtained from the north Caribbean region of Costa Rica suggests Rio Colorado is a wave-dominated delta which has formed along a passive continental margin. This coastal setting is significantly different from the south Caribbean and Pacific coastlines, which display geomorphic and lithologic features indicative of seismically active continental margins. The distinct aseismic history and passive margin geomorphology of the north Caribbean coastal plain appears to be controlled by the presence of tectonic features (i.e., East Nicoya Fracture Zone) which decouple the region from adjacent, tectonically active areas. Although the data collected during this pilot study, …

Higher Order Isotropic Velocity Grids In Lattice Methods, Pavol Pavlo, George Vahala, Linda L. Vahala

Electrical & Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

Kinetic lattice methods are a very attractive representation of nonlinear macroscopic systems because of their inherent parallelizability on multiple processors and their avoidance of the nonlinear convective terms. By uncoupling the velocity lattice from the spatial grid, one can employ higher order (non-space-filling) isotropic lattices-lattices which greatly enhance the stable parameter regions, particularly in thermal problems. In particular, the superiority of the octagonal lattice over previous models used in 2D (hexagonal or square) and 3D (projected face-centered hypercube) is shown.

Error-Correcting Codes Associated With Generalized Hadamard Matrices Over Groups, Iem H. Heng

Mathematics & Statistics Theses & Dissertations

Classical Hadamard matrices are orthogonal matrices whose elements are ±1. It is well-known that error correcting codes having large minimum distance between codewords can be associated with these Hadamard matrices. Indeed, the success of early Mars deep-space probes was strongly dependent upon this communication technology.

The concept of Hadamard matrices with elements drawn from an Abelian group is a natural generalization of the concept. For the case in which the dimension of the matrix is q and the group consists of the p-th roots of unity, these generalized Hadamard matrices are called “Butson Hadamard Matrices BH(p, q)”, …

Phytoplankton Composition Within The Tidal Freshwater Region Of The James River, Virginia, Harold G. Marshall, Lubomira Burchardt

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

Based on a 10.5 year data set, 271 taxa were identified at a single tidal freshwater station in the James River. The mean monthly concentrations of major algal categories, total biomass and productivity are given. Diatom maxima were associated with peak periods of river discharge, with chlorophytes, cyanobacteria, and autotrophic picoplankton abundance and productivity greater during reduced river flow and more stable water conditions.

Seasonal Patterns Of Nitrogen Fixation In Termites, A. D. Curtis, D. A. Waller

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

Summary

1. Termite nitrogenase activity was highest in autumn and spring (≈ 3 µg N₂ fixed termite fresh mass (g)^–1 day^–1) and lowest in winter and summer (≈ 0·8 µg N₂ fixed termite fresh mass (g)^–1 day^–1).

2. The nitrogenase activity of worker termites was significantly higher than all other castes (1·58 ± 0·27 µg N₂ fixed termite fresh mass (g)^–1 day^–1).

3. Worker termites constituted the largest proportion of all the castes throughout the study period (≈ 90%).

4. The localized input of fixed nitrogen by termites …

Mesozooplankton Distribution And Abundance In The Pagan River: A Nutrient Enriched Subestuary Of The James River, Virginia, Lillian N. Davis, Harold G. Marshall

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

The mesozooplankton in the Pagan River was dominated by calanoid copepods, with abundance peaks occurring during late winter-early spring and from late summer into early fall. This included spring, summer, and fall abundance maxima. The total mean abundance of the mesozooplankton was 3,008/m³.

Age, Growth, And Mortality Of Black Drum, Pogonias Cromis, In The Chesapeake Bay Region, Cynthia M. Jones, Brian Wells

OES Faculty Publications

We used otolith ageing to describe the population dynamics of black drum, Pogonias cromis, collected over a three-year period from the Chesapeake Bay region's commercial and recreational fisheries. Black drum average age, total length, and weight were 26 years, 109.5 cm, and 22.1 kg respectively. The oldest fish was 59 years and fish older than 50 years were present in the catch from 1990 to 1992. Growth in length slowed by age 20, whereas growth in weight did not slow until age 45. A von Bertalanffy growth function was fitted to our data (L(infinity) = 117.3 cm, …

The Biogeochemical Cycling Of Dissolved Organic Nitrogen In Estuarine Sediments, David J. Burdige, Shilong Zheng

OES Faculty Publications

Benthic fluxes and pore-water profiles of dissolved organic nitrogen and carbon (DON and DOC, respectively) were determined in seasonal studies at contrasting sites in Chesapeake Bay. Pore-water dissolved organic matter (DOM) concentrations were elevated over bottom-water values, generally increased with depth, and ranged from 15 to similar to 160 μM for DON and ~200-2000 μM for DOC. Pore-water DOM concentrations and the C:N ratio of this material showed spatial (depth) and temporal changes that varied among the sites studied. These trends appeared to be related to differences in the types of sediment organic matter (SOM) undergoing remineralization, as well as …

Iron In Ice Cores From Law Dome, East Antarctica: Implications For Past Deposition Of Aerosol Iron, R. Edwards, Peter N. Sedwick, Vin Morgan, C. F. Boutron, S. Hong

OES Faculty Publications

Total-dissolvable iron has been measured in sections of three ice cores from Law Dome, East Antarctica, and the results used to calculate atmospheric iron deposition over this region during the late Holocene and to provide a preliminary est. of aerosol iron deposition during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). Ice-core sections dating from 56-2730 BP (late Holocene) and ∼18 000 BP (LGM) were decontaminated using trace-metal clean techniques, and total-dissolvable iron was determined in the acidified meltwaters by flow-injection analysis. Our results suggest that the atmospheric iron flux onto the Law Dome region has varied significantly over time-scales ranging from seasonal …

Lead Isotopes And Selected Metals In Ice From Law Dome, Antarctica, K. J. R. Rosman, W. Chisholm, C. F. Boutron, S. Hong, R. Edwards, Vin Morgan, Peter N. Sedwick

OES Faculty Publications

The isotopic composition. of Pb and the concentrations of Pb, Ba and Bi were measured in selected ice-core samples from Law Dome, East Antarctica, to a depth of 1196 m. The range of concentrations found in decontaminated ice was 0.03-1.5 pg g^-1 for Pb, 0.9-6.1 pg g^-1 for Ba and 0.4-17 fg g^-1 for Bi, excluding the deepest sample which contained ∼1 ppm of rock dust. The abundances of all four stable lead isotopes were measured and gave ²⁰⁶Pb/²⁰⁷Pb ratios ≤ ∼1.23. A value of ²⁰⁸Pb/²⁰⁷Pb = 2.78 was measured in …

A Geochemical Study Of Marine Sediments From The Mac. Robertson Shelf, East Antarctica: Initial Results And Palaeoenvironmental Implications, Peter N. Sedwick, P. T. Harris, L. G. Robertson, G. M. Mcmurtry, M. D. Cremer, P. Robinson

OES Faculty Publications

Sediments from the Antarctic continental margin may provide detailed palaeoenvironmental records for Antarctic shelf waters during the late Quaternary. Here we present results from a palaeoenvironmental study of two sediment cores recovered from the continental shelf off Mac. Robertson Land, East Antarctica. These gravity cores were collected approximately 90 km apart from locations on the inner and outer shelf. Both cores are apparently undisturbed sequences of diatom ooze mixed with fine, quartz-rich sand. Core stratigraphies have been established from radiocarbon analyses of bulk organic carbon. Down-core geochemical determinations include the lithogenic components Al and Fe, biogenic components opal and organic …

The Effect Of Temperature Dependent Frequency Factor On The Evaluated Trapping Parameters Of Tsl Glow Curves, A. N. Yazici, Z. Öztürk

Turkish Journal of Physics

The effect of temperature dependency on frequency factor and its relationship to trapping parameters is discussed by using the peak shape method. The coefficients appearing in the peak shape formula for the calculation of the activation energy have been determined and tabulated for the symmetry factor $\mu_g(X)$ for $x=0.50$ and 0.75 of the peak intensity. It is found that significant errors occur in the value of the trapping parameters if the temperature dependecy of the frequency factor is not consider.

A Time-Dependent Quantum Study Of Li+Hf(\Nu=1) -> Lif(\Nu')+H, Fahrettin Gögtaş, Gabriel G. Balint-Kurti

Turkish Journal of Physics

Time-dependent quantum wave packet calculations are performed for a model based (two-dimensional) $Li+HF(\nu=1)\ra LiF(\nu^{\prime})+H$ reaction. The reaction probabilities for a broad range of collison energies are calculated by a single solution of the time-dependent Schr\\"{o}dinger equation. The calculated reaction probabilities show many sharp features as a function of energy which are ascribed to scattering resonances.

Fine Structure Analysis Of 4702 ^Oa Band Of The Molecule, M.B. Sureshkumar, S.R. Srikant

Turkish Journal of Physics

The emission spectrum of the cobalt monochloride molecule has been excited in a high frequency discharge tube source and the (0,0) band of H-system at 4702 \AA was photo-graphed at an inverse dispersion of 0.973 \AA/mm in the 5th order of a two meter plane grating spectrograph (Carl-Zeiss). The fine structure analysis of the band has been carried out and the molecular constants are reported for the first time. Rotational isotopic shift due to $^{37}$Cl support the analysis. The electronic transition involved is of the type $0^-$----- $0^-$ of case (c) which is equivalent of $^{3}\sum^{+}$-----$^{3}\sum^+$ or $^5\sum^+$-----$^5\sum^+$.

A Study Of The Linbo_3 And Litao_3 Absorption Edge, S. Çabuk, A. Mamedov

Turkish Journal of Physics

Optical spectroscopy methods are used to study the spectra of some oxygen-octahedral ferroelectrics - $LiNbO_3$ and $LiTaO_3$. Study of the role of $BO_6$ octahedron by using spectroscopic methods can cast light on the many physical phenomena that place in $LiNbO_3$ and $LiTaO_3$. For these crystals, absorption edge, band gap, Urbach constants and phonon energy were found.

A Study On The Effect Of Ni Dopping On Bi-Pb-Sr-Ca-Cu-O System, M. Tepe, D. Abukay

Turkish Journal of Physics

The effect of $Ni$ doping on superconductivity properties of the $Bi_{1.7}Pb_{0.3}Sr_2Ca_2(Cu_{1-x}Ni_x)_3O_y$ system has been investigated by means of $x$-ray diffraction, ac electrical resistance, ac magnetic susceptibility and critical current measurements. The volume fraction of the 2223 phase decreases with increasing $Ni$ concentration. The zero-resistance temperature and the critical current density are suppressed with $Ni$ substitution.

Characterization Of Sb Doped Y Bacuo Superconducting Ceramics, K. Kocabaş, N. Kazanci, M. Tepe

Turkish Journal of Physics

In this study the structural characteristics of $Sb_2O_3$ doped $YBa_2Cu_3O_{7-x}$ superconductive ceramics are investigated by electrical and XRD analyses. It is determined that, while in undoped specimens the value of $T_c$ is equal to 92 K, this value is negatively influenced by the addition of $Sb$. Structural phase results obtained from XRD analysis confirm the result obtained from the electrical measurements.

Microscopic Calculations Of The Nucleus-Nucleus Optical Potential, M. M. Osman

Turkish Journal of Physics

In present work, a density dependent nucleon-nucleon interactions based on the $G$-matrix elements of the Paris nucleon-nucleon potential have been used to calculate the real part of the nucleus-nucleus optical potential. We have compared our results with those deduced from experiment. We found that our results, obtained using a suitable approximation of the kinetic energy density, agree satisfactory with those extracted from experiment at the strong absorption radius. Moreover, the higher values of the compressibility, $K$, agree better with experiment than the lower values.

Remote Sensing And Synchronous Land Surface Measurements Of Soil Moisture And Soil Temperature In The Field, N.V. Kolev, K.P. Penev, Y.M. Kirkova, B.S. Krustanov, T.G. Nazarsky, G.K. Dimitrov, C.P. Levchev, H.I. Prodanov, L.H. Kraleva

Turkish Journal of Physics

The paper presents the results of remote sensing and synchronous land surface measurements for estimation of soil (surface and profile) water content and soil temperature for different soil types in Bulgaria. The relationship between radiometric temperature and soil surface water content is shown. The research is illustrated by some results from aircraft and land surface measurements carried out over three test areas near Pleven, Sofia and Plovdiv, respectively, during the period 1988-1990.

Deformation Methods For Investigation Of The Deep Level Parameters In Semiconductors, S. Z. Zainabidinov, A. Abduraimov, O. O. Mamatkarimov, I.G. Tursunov, R.Kh. Khamidov

Turkish Journal of Physics

In this paper deformation methods are offered to investigate deep level parameters in semiconductors. It is based on strain parameters measurements of compensated and overcompensated semiconductors. The dynamic changes of current flow in compensated and overcompensated samples of $p$-type $Si: Ni$ and $n$-type $Si: Mn$ under uniform pulse hydrostatic compression (UHC) was investigated. It was observed that in $p$-type $Si: Ni$ samples ionization energy levels $Ni$ at UHC increases, on the contrary in samples $n$-type $Si: Mn$ it decreases. The ionization energy and baric coefficient of the shift of $Ni$ and $Mn$ levels were bounded.

Modelling Of Radiation Regime Receiver Cavities Of Solar Power Plants, Eduard Avanesov, Nina Berezhnaya

Turkish Journal of Physics

In this work, we develop a model for radiant heat transfer calculations inside spherical and cylindrical spaces. The analysis of the possibility of mirror cone subreflector applications for uniform flux density attainment is carried out. A procedure optimizing equiilluminate space forming a search for an indicatrix's composition is developed.

Anomalous Electrical Characteristics Of Ion Implanted P^+-N Juntions, N. Siddiqui

Turkish Journal of Physics

Electrical characteristics of three $P^+ - n$ diodes fabricated on high resistivity silicon by ion implantation technique are studied by making capacitance-voltage (C-V), reverse current-voltage (I-V) and dielectric spectroscopy of semiconductor (DSS) measurements. The C-V characteristics show abrupt fall in capacitance, while I-V characteristics show abrupt rise in current at the same voltages as in the C-V characteristics. These abrupt discontinuities are ascribed to the formation of defect clusters in the lightly doped base regions where charge transfer might be taking place by thermally assisted tunneling. Low activation energies obtained in the DSS measurements also point toward the same mechanism.

Electro-Optic Response Of A Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystal Film, Rıdvan Karapinar

Turkish Journal of Physics

Polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) films are potentially useful in electro-optic devices since they can be used for vision products. In this work the PDLC thin films were prepared by a photopolymerization induced phase separation method and electro-optic properties of the films were investigated.

Reorientation Of Magnetization In Thin Films, Bengü Kaplan

Turkish Journal of Physics

The spin wave energy is determined by the competition between uniaxial and cubic anisotropy. We discuss the reorientation temperature $ T_{R} $ of magnetization in two-dimension and calculate its dependence on the exchange, $J$, and the uniaxial anisotropy, $G$, parameters within random phase approximation. We find that $ T_{R} $ varies as $ \sqrt{JG} $ in the planar regime.

Photoconductivity Studies Of Crystalline Si:H P-I-N, Ruhi Kaplan, Bengü Kaplan

Turkish Journal of Physics

Optically modulated photoconductivity (PC) properties of hydrogenated crystalline silicon (c-Si:H) with p-i-n junctions were investigated by frequency-resolved spectroscopy in the temperature range 20-290 K. The PC lifetime measurements of c-Si:H p-i-n show a second lifetime distribution which only dominates at low temperature under low illumination levels of excitation. Unlike the room temperature single lifetime distribution seen in c-Si:H p-i-n, the maximum of this second lifetime distribution shifts to longer times when the excitation intensity decreases, which reconciles with non-geminate pair recombination and thus the distant-pair model. In addition to lifetime measurements, the direct current-voltage (I-V) characteristics, the excitation light intensity- …

The Image Reconstruction By Photocounts Triple Correlations, R. R. Vildanov, M. S. Ismatov, N. Z. Kodirov, A. T. Mirzaev, A. N. Yakubov

Turkish Journal of Physics

An optoelectronic system is constructed for the recording of the triple correlation function for radiation intensity being detected in a photon counting operation. The results of the investigation show the possibility an image reconstruction for faint objects from the derivation of comprehensive information related to the coherence function.

Optical Anisotropy Of Iron Garnets With Growing Anisotropy, Odil Ochilov

Turkish Journal of Physics

The theoretical analysis of the position of principal diachronic directions at magnetization rotation in (100) and (110) planes for the case of growing dichroism axes in random directions was made. The calculations of angular dependencies of dichroic axes (DA) position for different values of the magneto-optical anisotropy parameter, a, have been done. The relations between the growing and magneto-optical dichroism, K/M, and the angle \delta characterizing the direction of principal growing dichroism axes were given. The angular dependences of DA position in epitaxial iron garnet films have been investigated experimentally. The measurements at the different light wavelengths permitted one to …

Analytical Expressions Of Matrix Elements For Saxon-Woods Potential And Pad'{E} Approximations, Valentin L. R. Niculescu, Dumitru Catana

Turkish Journal of Physics

The paper presents the analytical matrix elements of the kinetic hamiltonian in the oscillator base. The Pad'{e} approximations for the potential part (Saxon - Woods and alike) was used. From residue calculus the potential matrix elements are analytical. Many parts of these expressions can be computed once for ever. In this way the evaluation time can be reduced and the relations obtained are well suited for parallel computation.