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If it is decided that an operation does require to be manned, then it may need to be manned on a 24-hour basis, or a 12-hour basis, or only for daily inspection. Accommodation may be provided on a separate living quarters platform or as part of an integrated platform, or on a floating hotel. 

For precise 3D-FEM simulations, a huge number of nodes is required (>30,000), which results in calculation times of several hours (sun spare 20) for one model. In order to decrease the number of nodes, we took advantage of the symmetry of the coils and calculated only a quarter or half of the test object. The modelled crack has a lenght of 15 mm, a height of 3 mm and is in a depth of 5 mm. The excitation frequency was 200 Hz. 

The control technique of fuel distribution in uranium - graphite fiael elements seems to be most perform. The technique allows to determine weight of uranium or its connections in a chosen zone of fuel elements. There were used the sources of radiation on a basis radionuclide Am. The weight of uranium in fuel element or its parts is determined by combine processing of a tomograms, set received on several parallel layers of fuel element. The comparative results of tomographic researches and chemical analysis of weight of uranium in quarters of spherical fuel elements are resulted in the table. 

PVDF film is readily commercially available in thicknesses up to 110 pm. If film of this thickness is bonded to a rigid substrate, the peak response is at a frequency of about 3.7 MHz which corresponds to the thickness of the layer being a quarter wavelength. This frequency is rather high for most Lamb wave testing since Fig 1 shows that even on a I mm thick... 

The miderstanding of molecular motions is necessarily based on quaiitum mechanics, the theory of microscopic physical behaviour worked out in the first quarter of the 20th century. This is because molecules are microscopic systems in which it is impossible—or at least very dangerous —to ignore the dual wave-particle nature of matter first recognized in quaiitum theory by Einstein (in the case of classical waves) and de Broglie (in the case of classical particles). 

Crutzen P J 1995 Overview of tropospheric chemistry developments during the past quarter century and a look ahead Faraday Disouss. 100 1-21... 

A RIKES experunent is essentially identical to that of CW CARS, except the probe laser need not be tunable. The probe beam is linearly polarized at 0° (—>), while the polarization of the tunable pump beam is controlled by a linear polarizer and a quarter waveplate. The pump and probe beams, whose frequency difference must match the Raman frequency, are overlapped in the sample (just as in CARS). The strong pump beam propagating tlirough a nonlinear medium induces an anisotropic change in the refractive mdices seen by tlie weaker probe wave, which alters the polarization of a probe beam [96]. The signal field is polarized orthogonally to the probe laser and any altered polarization may be detected as an increase in intensity transmitted tlirough a crossed polarizer. When the pump beam is Imearly polarized at 45° y), contributions... 

Potassium chloride actually has the same stnicture as sodium chloride, but, because the atomic scattering factors of potassium and chlorine are almost equal, the reflections with the indices all odd are extremely weak, and could easily have been missed in the early experiments. The zincblende fonn of zinc sulphide, by contrast, has the same pattern of all odd and all even indices, but the pattern of intensities is different. This pattern is consistent with a model that again has zinc atoms at the comers and tlie face centres, but the sulphur positions are displaced by a quarter of tlie body diagonal from the zinc positions. 

Of the NMR-active nuclei around tluee-quarters have / > 1 so that the quadnipole interaction can affect their spectra. The quadnipole inter action can be significant relative to the Zeeman splitting. The splitting of the energy levels by the quadnipole interaction alone gives rise to pure nuclear quadnipole resonance (NQR) spectroscopy. This chapter will only deal with the case when the quadnipole interaction can be regarded as simply a perturbation of the Zeeman levels. 

Nuclei with spin about tliree-quarters of the periodic table, have a quadnipolar moment and as a... 

The carbon reduces a quarter of the anhydrite to the sulphide CaSO + 2C - CaS + ICOj The sulphide then reacts with the remaining anhydrite ... 

There have been plenty of other examples of similar developments in the area of molecular structure input/output, especially during the third quarter of the 20th... 

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Figure 4.18 from Buckingham A D 1959. Molecular Quadrupole Moments. Quarterly/ Reviews of the Chemical Society 13 183-214. Reproduced by permission of The Royal Society of Chemistry. 

The correct treatment of boundaries and boundary effects is crucial to simulation methods because it enables macroscopic properties to be calculated from simulations using relatively small numbers of particles. The importance of boundary effects can be illustrated by considering the following simple example. Suppose we have a cube of volume 1 litre which is filled with water at room temperature. The cube contains approximately 3.3 X 10 molecules. Interactions with the walls can extend up to 10 molecular diameters into the fluid. The diameter of the water molecule is approximately 2.8 A and so the number of water molecules that are interacting with the boundary is about 2 x 10. So only about one in 1.5 million water molecules is influenced by interactions with the walls of the container. The number of particles in a Monte Carlo or molecular dynamics simulation is far fewer than 10 -10 and is frequently less than 1000. In a system of 1000 water molecules most, if not all of them, would be within the influence of the walls of the boundary. Clecirly, a simulation of 1000 water molecules in a vessel would not be an appropriate way to derive bulk properties. The alternative is to dispense with the container altogether. Now, approximately three-quarters of the molecules would be at the surface of the sample rather than being in the bulk. Such a situation would be relevcUit to studies of liquid drops, but not to studies of bulk phenomena. 

Adams D J1983. Alternatives to the Periodic Cube in Computer Simulation. CCP5 Quarterly 10 30-36. 

Fincham D and Heyes D M 1982. Integration Algorithms in Molecular Dynamics. CCP5 Quarterly 6A 10. 

The filtration of any solution through the ordinary conical funnel may be hastened considerably by the use of a fluted filter-paper, instead of one folded into quarters in the usual way. The folding of a fluted paper may be learnt far more readily by a demonstration in the laboratory than by any written description. 

Now lower the paper-strip, which has become saturated with the solvent vapour molecules, so that it dips about 5 mm. into the solvent. Then close the cylinder, and set it aside as before for 12-18 hours, by which time the solvent will have risen about three-quarters of the height of the strip. 

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