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      <title>PLUS GZ PROTECTION IN THE FUTURE - REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[To reduce the incidence of G-induced loss of consciousness and enable pilots to operate their aircraft at higher levels of performance, anti-G protection must be improved.  A G-suit and the anti-G straining maneuver will likely remain essential components of any anti-G system, but several methods potentially increasing G-tolerance have been investigated that could supplement the protection afforded by these traditional techniques.  Pharmacological agents are of no benefit, while breathing carbon dioxide, shown to improve G tolerance, is impractical.  Positive pressure breathing has so convincingly improved G-protection that it will become an operational procedure in the immediate future.  The benefits of the G-suit have been augmented through greater coverage of the lower body and efforts are also aimed at more responsive G-valves.  Altering body position to shorten the heart to head hydrostatic distance adds directly to the protection offered by the other procedures but can impair vision and must wait until the cockpit is redesigned.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 1990 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>MAINTENANCE OF WATERWAYS</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This paper was presented at Session 6 - Paper 2.  Waterway maintenance has the general objective of eliminating energy losses and maximising discharge capacities without creating backwater.  Minimum energy designs usually eliminate or reduce normal maintenance problems near the main structure, but may need additional attention to rilling from small flows over the inlet lip to any upstream earth transition. They also reduce downstream erosion, upstream heading-up and frequency of denudation of unsealed floodways. (TRRL)]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 1980 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>PROBLEMS IN PASSENGER CAR HEADLAMP AIM</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Maintenance and inspection of correct aim of headlamps has been a perennial problem that involves unstable headlamp mounting, imprecision in inspecting equipment, variations in sealed beam units, and improper initial aim of lamps on new vehicles.  These areas of the headlamp aim problem are discussed and some solutions are suggested.  The need for cooperative Federal state, and industry effort on all facets of headlamp aim is emphasized.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 1975 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>ANALYSIS OF GROUNDWATER FLOW TO DEEP WELLS IN AREAS WITH A NON-LINEAR FUNCTION FOR THE SUBSURFACE DRAINAGE</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[THE QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF GROUNDWATER FLOW TO DEEP WELLS IN AREAS WHERE THE EXCESS PRECIPITATION IS DISCHARGED FOR A MAJOR PART BY SURFACE DRAINS, REQUIRES INFORMATION ABOUT THE SYSTEM OF THIS SURFACE DRAINAGE. THE NON-LINEAR RELATION BETWEEN THE DISCHARGE AND THE PHREATIC LEVEL (AREAL MEAN) CAN BE EXPLAINED MAINLY BY THE FACT THAT THE LENGTH OF THE DRAINS CONTAINING WATER AND GIVING DISCHARGE IS VARYING IN THE SAME SENSE AS THE DISCHARGE AND THE PHREATIC LEVEL. CHANGES IN EVAPORATION BY THE PLANTS ARE OF LESS IMPORTANCE IN THIS CONNECTION. AS THERE IS SOME EVIDENCE THAT THE AMPLITUDE OF THE SEASONAL FLUCTUATIONS OF THE PHREATIC SURFACE WILL NOT BE INFLUNECED VERY MUCH WHEN THERE IS A CONSTANT PUMPING OF WATER FROM DEEP WELLS, THE CHANGE IN THAT SURFACE EFFECTED BY PUMPING CAN BE PUT EQUAL TO THE DRAWDOWN DURING A STEADY STATE FLOW TO THE DEEP WELL. WHEN THE RELATION BETWEEN HYDRAULIC HEAD AND DISCHARGE BY DRAINS IS LINEARIZED, I. E. REPRESENTED IN A GRAPH AS A BROKEN STRAIGHT LINE WITH FOR EACH PART A SPECIFIC VALUE FOR THE EFFECTIVE DRAINAGE RESISTANCE THE BASIC DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION IS REDUCED TO A BESSEL EQUATION OF ZERO ORDER. THE STEADY STATE SOLUTION EITHER CONTAINS A COMBINATION OF MODIFIED BESSEL FUNCTIONS (FOR FINITE VALUES OF THE EFFECTIVE DRAINAGE RESISTANCE) OR A LOGARITHM (WHEN THE EFFECTIVE DRAINAGE RESISTANCE EQUALS INFINITY). THE DETERMINATION OF THE INTEGRATION CONSTANTS FOR SEVERAL ZONES AROUND THE WELL IS IN PRINCIPLE NOT DIFFICULT. IN THE PAPER AN EXPLICIT SOLUTION IS ONLY GIVEN FOR A RATHER SIMPLE CASE. /JH/]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 1972 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>MEASURING SUBSURFACE SPRING FLOW WITH RADIOTRACERS</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[THE PRINCIPAL OF APPLYING A HYDROSTATIC HEAD TO SUPPRESS FLOW WAS TRIED EXPERIMENTALLY AT ESTELLING SPRING IN WESTERN TEXAS. PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SPRING AND PUMPING TESTS PERFORMED BY THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS INDICATED THAT SPRING SURFACE FLOWS COULD BE CONTROLLED BY A LOW IMPOUNDMENT. AN IMPERVIOUS DIKE WAS BUILT AROUND THE SPRING TO EVALUATE THE TECHNIQUE. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS WAS MADE OF THE DOWNSTREAM SALT CONCENTRATION BEFORE AND AFTER PLACING THE DIKE. HOWEVER, IT WAS DECIDED TO USE TRITIATED WATER FOR A TRACER OF THE GROUND-WATER OR OF THE REAL FLOWS. TRITIUM IN THE FORM OF TRITIATED WATER WAS SELECTED AS BEING THE MOST NEARLY IDEAL OF ALL GROUND-WATER TRACERS. FROM THE STANDPOINT OF CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS, TRITIATED WATER BEHAVES ESSENTIALLY THE SAME AS THE WATER BEING STUDIED. SINCE THERE WAS NO DETECTION OF TRITIATED WATER IN ANY OF THE WELL POINTS, CORE HOLES, OR SUMPS SURROUNDING THE SPRING'S CHIMNEY, IT IS CONCLUDED THERE WAS NO DIRECT CONNECTION BETWEEN THE TWO WATERS OR THAT THE WELLS AND CORE HOLES WERE NOT PUMPED FOR A SUFFICIENT PERIOD TO DRAW THE TRITIATED WATER INTO THEM. IT IS CONCLUDED THAT THE SPRING IS LEAKING SUBSURFACELY AT A RATE OF 1.00 CFS. SUBSURFACE LEAKAGE RETURNS TO THE RECEIVING STREAM, AT LEAST IN PART, 4,000 FT DOWNSTREAM FROM THE SPRING AFTER A TRAVEL TIME OF ABOUT 20 DAYS. KNOWING THE VOLUME OF THE SPRING CHIMNEY, THE AMOUNT OF TRACER ADDED AND THE INITIAL CONCENTRATION OF TRACER AFTER MIXING, THE VOLUME WAS DETERMINED. IT IS CONCLUDED THAT A SECOND CHAMBER EXISTS BELOW THAT WHICH WAS PREVIOUSLY KNOWN, AND ITS VOLUME AMOUNTS TO ABOUT 104,000 CU FT.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 1970 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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