This report discusses: The Davis Diverted Tokamak; Particle Simulation of Transport in Fusion Devices; Astrophysical Plasmas; Statistical Dynamics of Multi-Field Models for Plasma; Large Scale Density Modifications Induced in the Ionosphere; Studies of the Ion Acoustic Decay Instability; and Computer Simulation of Ionospheric Radio Frequency Heating.

Memorandum presenting an investigation of the effects of compressibility on the forces, pitching moments, and surface pressures on a wing-nacelle combination. The leading edge of the wing was swept back 37.25 degrees and the nacelle was a body of revolution with a fineness ratio of 6.5. The effects of compressibility on the surface pressures and on the drag of a body of revolution similar to the nacelle were also determined.

A high-throughput multiplexed assay was developed for the differential laboratory diagnosis of foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) from viruses which cause clinically similar diseases of livestock. This assay simultaneously screens for five RNA and two DNA viruses using multiplexed reverse transcription PCR (mRT-PCR) amplification coupled with a microsphere hybridization array and flow-cytometric detection. Two of the seventeen primer-probe sets included in this multiplex assay were adopted from previously characterized real-time RT-PCR (rRT-PCR) assays for FMDV. The diagnostic accuracy of the mRT-PCR was evaluated using 287 field samples, including 248 (true positive n= 213, true negative n=34) from suspect cases of foot-and-mouth disease collected from 65 countries between 1965 and 2006 and 39 true negative samples collected from healthy animals. The mRT-PCR assay results were compared with two singleplex rRT-PCR assays, using virus isolation with antigen-ELISA as the reference method. The diagnostic sensitivity of the mRT-PCR assay for FMDV was 93.9% [95% C.I. 89.8-96.4%], compared to 98.1% [95% C.I. 95.3-99.3%] for the two singleplex rRT-PCR assays used in combination. In addition, the assay could reliably differentiate between FMDV and other vesicular viruses such as swine vesicular disease virus and vesicular exanthema of swine virus. Interestingly, the mRT-PCR detected parapoxvirus (n=2) and bovine …

Community Correspondence – Individual letters from concerned citizens regarding the closure of the 130th Airlift Wing, Air National Guard Unit at Yeager Airport in Charleston West Virginia

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Exemption from inheritance tax of devise and bequest to United Texas Drys.

The Navy is proposing to maintain in coming years a Navy with 31 amphibious ships and an additional squadron of 14 Maritime Prepositioning Force (Future), or MPF(F), ships. The squadron is intended to implement a new concept called sea basing, under which forces would be staged at sea and used to conduct expeditionary operations ashore with little or no reliance on nearby land bases. Potential oversight issues for Congress include the amphibious-ship force-level goal, the potential affordability and cost-effectiveness of the sea basing concept, and Navy and Marine Corps coordination with other services in developing the concept.

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Report presenting an investigation of the intensity of root-mean-square pressure pulsations and root-mean-square normal-force-coefficient fluctuations conducted on two high-lift airfoils and two 6-series airfoils. Results regarding the factors affecting comparison of data from various test facilities, root-mean-square pressure pulsations, and root-mean-square force fluctuations are provided.

Memorandum - Report for the Don Analysis Group(DAG). Includes Agenda, minutes, briefings, and any other additional information that needed from the meeting.

Memorandum - Report for the Infrastructure Evaluation Group(IEG). Includes Agenda, minutes, briefings, and any other additional information that needed from the meeting.

Memorandum - Report for the Don Analysis Group(DAG). Includes Agenda, minutes, briefings, and any other additional information that needed from the meeting.

During the past three years, the Brandeis experimental particle physics group was comprised of four faculty (Bensinger, Blocker, Sciolla, and Wellenstein), one research scientist, one post doc, and ten graduate students. The group focused on the ATLAS experiment at LHC. In 2011, the LHC delivered 5/fb of pp colliding beam data at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV. In 2012, the center-of-mass energy was increased to 8 TeV, and 20/fb were delivered. The Brandeis group focused on two aspects of the ATLAS experiment -- the muon detection system and physics analysis. Since data taking began at the LHC in 2009, our group actively worked on ATLAS physics analysis, with an emphasis on exploiting the new energy regime of the LHC to search for indications of physics beyond the Standard Model. The topics investigated were Z' -> ll, Higgs -> ZZ* -. 4l, lepton flavor violation, muon compositeness, left-right symmetric theories, and a search for Higgs -> ee. The Brandeis group has for many years been a leader in the endcap muon system, making important contributions to every aspect of its design and production. During the past three years, the group continued to work on commissioning the muon detector and alignment …

Memorandum - Report for the Don Analysis Group(DAG). Includes Agenda, minutes, briefings, and any other additional information that needed from the meeting.

Memorandum - Report for the Don Analysis Group(DAG). Includes Agenda, minutes, briefings, and any other additional information that needed from the meeting.

Memorandum - Report for the Don Analysis Deliberation Group(DAG). Includes Agenda, minutes, briefings, and any other additional information that needed from the meeting.

Memorandum - Report for the Don Analysis Deliberation Group(DAG). Includes Agenda, minutes, briefings, and any other additional information thats needed from the meeting.

Memorandum - Report for the Don Analysis Group(DAG). Includes Agenda, minutes, briefings, and any other additional information that's needed from the meeting.

Memorandum - Report for the Don Analysis Deliberation Group(DAG). Includes Agenda, minutes, briefings, and any other additional information thats needed from the meeting.

Memorandum - Report for the Don Analysis Group(DAG). Includes Agenda, minutes, briefings, and any other additional information that needed from the meeting.

Memorandum - Report for the Don Analysis Group(DAG). Includes Agenda, minutes, briefings, and any other additional information that needed from the meeting.

Memorandum - Report for the Don Analysis Deliberation Group(DAG). Includes Agenda, minutes, briefings, and any other additional information thats needed from the meeting.

Memorandum - Report for the DAG the Don Analysis Group(DAG). Includes Agenda, minutes, briefings, and any other additional information that needed from the meeting.

Memorandum - Report for the Don Analysis Group(DAG). Includes minutes, assessments, selection criteria, briefings and any other additional information needed from the meeting.