Military channels

The. . . Technical Division was constantly irritated by attempts of NDRC to force adoptions at higher echelons and its too great willingness to forget military channels and military courtesy. [Noyes, page 147]. 

They devised a national organization to do the job. Bush had learned his way around Washington and took the lead. The organization Bush wanted needed independent authority. He thought it should report directly to the President rather than through military channels and should have its own source of funds. He drafted a proposal. Then he arranged an introduction to Harry Hopkins. 

Off-The-Shelf-Iterns. These items required by the military services which are generally used thru-out the civilian economy and which are available thru normal commercial distribution channels Ref OrdTechTerm (1962), 208-R... 

During the history of the human settlement in the Ebro basin, the river channel has played an important role as a frontier line but also as a communication line. The Ebro River basin was a crucial scenario for hard and bloody battles, such as the Ebro battle which occurred at the lower part of the Ebro basin During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Hydrology played a military role during this battle, with sudden openings of upstream dams in order to interrupt the crossing of the infantry. 

Medium-molecular-weight PMTFPS with vinyl or hydroxyl end blocks are used for adhesives and sealants. They are cured either at ambient temperature (RTV-room temperature vulcanization) or at elevated temperature. One-part moisture-activated RTV sealants have been available commercially for many years. Because of then-very high resistance to jet engine fuels, excellent flexibility at very low temperatures, and high thermal stability, they have been used in both military and civilian aerospace applications.78 Two-part, heat-cured fluorosilicone sealants have been used in military aircraft applications and for sealing automotive fuel systems.79 Special class of fluorosilicone sealants are channel sealants or groove injection sealants, sticky, puttylike compounds, which do not cure. They are used to seal fuel tanks of military aircraft and missiles.75... 

There has also been an increased interest in SOI chips,comprising transistors in which a thin insulating layer lies between a thin layer of Si (in the channel region) and the bulk Si substrate (revisit Figure 4.18). This technology is not new in fact, SOI ICs have been used since the 1960s for military and space applications. As the relatively high cost of production continues to decrease, SOI substrates will undoubtedly be important for CMOS ICs within future commercial electronic devices. The insulation... 

MEMs reactor technology is still developing. The most common application for these systems is in portable devices that are suitable for military use. Like micro-channel reactors, the small internal dimensions can create problems with fouling and plugging of the flow paths. 

MCP s can be made in a variety of geometries, although normally they are in the form of rectangular or circular flat wafers whose thickness is 40 to 120 times the diameter of the glass tubes. A number of manufacturers now sell MCP s either mounted or unmounted the most readily available are 1 inch diameter MCP s with 40 1 channel length to diameter (L / d) ratio manufactured for military night vision devices. Some... 

Fifty miles from Baltimore ends right in the middle of the largest dead zone in Chesapeake Bay. Not so strangely, charter boat captains do not take their clientele there to catch rockfish. The 50-mile line also ends at one of the deepest portions of the Bay channel, about 95 feet. That line also coincides with a military warning zone these zones usually indicate ordnance. It is unclear whether this zone was drawn for the Naval Research Laboratory or the Lewisite dump or both. 

In a study of workload and stress among 18 military air traffic controllers (ATCs), Wientjes, ter Maat, and Gaillard (1994) employed a special purpose ambulatory 8-channel digital physiological recorder (see Wientjes, Spiekman, Benschop, Hoogeweg, 1994) in addition to paper-and-pencil questioimaires and observational methods. On the basis of extensive consultation of ATC experts, two workload measures were collected that were hypothesized to reflect two distinct aspects of the demand characteristics of the ATC task (a) the number of aircraft that were simultaneously under control per time unit, and (b) the number of potential conflict situations per time unit (i.e., when, mostly due to miscommunication, an aircraft under control was potentially in conflict with another aircraft and special measures were necessary to prevent accidents). 

The first book that concerned the state of the art of contemporary military pyrotechnics and became known in the United States came out in 1954 in the Russian language. It was preceded by a first.edition (1943) of which only a few copies seem to have reached this country. The 1954 edition of this book by A. A. Shidlovsky, a professor at the University of Moscow, was translated into English in 1964 and this version is available through U. S. Government channels. A third edition, of which I received an autographed copy from the author soon after its publication in 1964, has also been translated into English as a government report. ... 

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