International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 28-31, 1996 / Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center, San Diego, California / In response to the need to analyze and report upon Electronic Warfare (EW) test data results in a comprehensive and uniform manner, the Mission Analysis and Reporting System (MARS) has been developed. MARS is a government owned PC based Windows application designed for rapid analysis and reporting upon EW test mission data. MARS currently performs Jammer Effectiveness ( Reduction In Lethality, Increase In Survivability, Reduction In Shot, and Reduction In Hit), Radar Warning Receiver (RWR) System performance (Threat ID, Response Time/Ageout, and Direction Finding (DF) Accuracy), and Tracking Error Statistics. Additionally, MARS produces several graphical outputs including polar plotting, dynamic strip charting, Cumulative Distribution Functions (CDF), and RWR Simulated Scope. Continual development and maintenance of MARS at the Air Force Development Test Center, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, has provided a proven product used by numerous DT&E and OT&E test projects over the last four years.

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Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-12T15:54:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 arquivo4884_1.pdf: 180168 bytes, checksum: a35ccff1db2ba00eb538f27129f7035a (MD5) license.txt: 1748 bytes, checksum: 8a4605be74aa9ea9d79846c1fba20a33 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2002 / Feijão camaratu (Cratylia mollis), planta nativa da Região de Pernambuco, é considerado um excelente recurso forrageiro, e uma alternativa para obtenção de lectinas. Neste trabalho avaliou-se a qualidade protéica e as implicações nutricionais da lectina de sementes de C. mollis visando uma melhor caracterização do feijão camaratu como fonte alimentícia. Dietas contendo Egg- White (EW, controle positivo), farinha crua (RCm) e cozida (CCm) de sementes de C. mollis, ou suplementadas (SRCm e SCCm) com L-metionina e L-triptofano, além de uma dieta contendo lectina de C. molis purificada (Cra) e uma dieta isenta de proteínas (NPC), foram usadas por um período de 10 dias, em ratos machos tipo Wistar, desmamados aos 21 dias. Os órgãos foram retirados, pesados e liofilizados para obtenção do peso seco; as carcaças foram, também, desidratadas. Após a obtenção do peso seco dos órgãos e das carcaças, estes foram triturados de forma conjunta. Os animais que ingeriram as dietas RCm, SRCm e CCm apresentaram diminuição em seu crescimento, similar ao grupo com dieta NPC, o grupo SCCm apresentou uma redução menos significativa do desenvolvimento. Os parâmetros nutricionais de digestibilidade, NPU ( Utilização Protéica Final ), e valor biológico quando comparados com os do grupo EW, foram significativamene baixos para RCm; SRCm e CCm apresentaram valores baixos de NPU e valor biológico, mas boa digestibilidade. O grupo SCCm apresentou ótimos valores para todos os parâmetros. Os animais alimentados com a dieta contendo Cra apresentaram um bom crescimento, excelente aspectos vitais e físicos, com boa digestibilidade e NPU e valor biológico, similares aos grupos da EW. Entretanto uma significativa hipertrofia em alguns órgãos foram observados, quando comparados aos mesmos órgãos dos animais alimentados à dieta EW. Estes resultados sugerem que a semente de C. mollis e Cra induziram a alterações dos órgãos em ratos

An increase in nanotechnology has seen an associated rise in nanoparticles released into the environment. Their potential toxicity and exposure to humans and the environment, the field of nanoecotoxicology, is not yet well understood. The interactions at the nanoparticle surface will play a fundamental role in the nanoparticle behaviour once released into the environment. This study aims to characterise the particle surface interaction, determining key parameters influential in the nanoparticle fate. Evanescent Wave Cavity Ring Down Spectroscopy techniques have been applied to study molecular interactions at the silica-water charged interface. The adsorption of the electronic spectrum of Crystal Violet has demonstrated the formation of a monolayer with different binding site orientation at the interface. The binding affinity for the chromophore was calculated as 29.15 ± 0.02 kJmol-1 at pH 9 and this was compared with other interface structures involving both inorganic and organic components. The study of the model interface was extended to the properties of CeO2 nanoparticles, where the surface charge density was determined to be 1.6 ± 0.3 e- nm-2.The nanoparticle surface charge controls the suspension stability which was measured for CeO2 nanoparticles giving a stability half-life of 330 ± 60 hours in pure water, and 3.6 ± 0.6 hours in ISOFish water. Studies were extended to the toxicity of ZnO nanoparticles. An assay was developed to quantify the photo-electron production for nanoparticles exposed to UV light both in deionised water and soil suspensions with a photo-radical production yield of 19 ± 2 % and an electron production of 709 e-s-1np-1 for a 100 mgL-1 suspension. The species-specific photo-radical assay was subsequently used to determine the rate of ZnO nanoparticle dissolution in water and soil suspensions. Comparable dissolution rates in complex cell growth media were also measured, detecting total zinc by Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectroscopy, with comparable dissolution rates derived.

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O CRF é um regulador do eixo HPA, gerando respostas neuroendócrinas, autônomicas, comportamentais ao estresse, assim como a Ucn-I. Os benzodiazepínicos agem por um efeito inibitório sobre o CRF e um efeito ainda discutido sobre a Ucn-I.Para análise das áreas relacionadas à resposta ao estresse pela imunorreatividade da proteína Fos, da expressão do mRNA do CRF e da Ucn-I, e dos efeitos do alprazolam, ratos foram submetidos aos estresses de restrição e eletrochoque, e ao alprazolam. No estresse de restrição as áreas com maior imunorreatividade da proteína Fos foram PVH e AMIme, e no estresse de eletrochoque foram AMIme e PAGdl. Com o alprazolam houve uma baixa imunorreatividade nas áreas PVH, PAGlat e CC no grupo restrição e, PVH, LSV e PAGlat no grupo choque, com alta imunorreatividade nas áreas EW e LSV no grupo restrição e PAGdl no grupo choque. O fármaco gerou uma diminuição da expressão do mRNA do CRF no PVH no grupo restrição e um aumento no grupo choque, e um aumento da expressão do mRNA da Ucn-I no EW no grupo restrição e uma diminuição no grupo choque. / The CRF is a regulator of the HPA axis, with neuroendocrine, autonomic and behavioral responses to the stress, such as the Ucn-I. The benzodiazepines performing an inhibitory effect on the CRF and a possibly effect on the Ucn-I. It was analyzed the stress related areas by Fos protein and the expression of the CRF and Ucn- I mRNA. Rats were submitted to the restraint and electroshock stress, and to the alprazolan. The restraint stress showed greater Fos-ir in the following areas PVH and AMIme and AMIme and PAGdl in the the electroshock stress. The alprazolam had an inhibition effect in the following areas PVH, PAGlat and CC in the restraint group, and PVH, LSV and PAGlat in the electroshock group. The alprazolan had an excitatory effect in the following areas EW and LSV in the restraint group, and PAGdl in the electroshock group. The alprazolan caused reduction of CRF mRNA in the PVH in the restraint group and increase in the electroshock group, and increase of Ucn-I mRNA in the EW in the restraint group, with reduction in the electroshock group.

O CRF é um regulador do eixo HPA, gerando respostas neuroendócrinas, autônomicas, comportamentais ao estresse, assim como a Ucn-I. Os benzodiazepínicos agem por um efeito inibitório sobre o CRF e um efeito ainda discutido sobre a Ucn-I.Para análise das áreas relacionadas à resposta ao estresse pela imunorreatividade da proteína Fos, da expressão do mRNA do CRF e da Ucn-I, e dos efeitos do alprazolam, ratos foram submetidos aos estresses de restrição e eletrochoque, e ao alprazolam. No estresse de restrição as áreas com maior imunorreatividade da proteína Fos foram PVH e AMIme, e no estresse de eletrochoque foram AMIme e PAGdl. Com o alprazolam houve uma baixa imunorreatividade nas áreas PVH, PAGlat e CC no grupo restrição e, PVH, LSV e PAGlat no grupo choque, com alta imunorreatividade nas áreas EW e LSV no grupo restrição e PAGdl no grupo choque. O fármaco gerou uma diminuição da expressão do mRNA do CRF no PVH no grupo restrição e um aumento no grupo choque, e um aumento da expressão do mRNA da Ucn-I no EW no grupo restrição e uma diminuição no grupo choque. / The CRF is a regulator of the HPA axis, with neuroendocrine, autonomic and behavioral responses to the stress, such as the Ucn-I. The benzodiazepines performing an inhibitory effect on the CRF and a possibly effect on the Ucn-I. It was analyzed the stress related areas by Fos protein and the expression of the CRF and Ucn- I mRNA. Rats were submitted to the restraint and electroshock stress, and to the alprazolan. The restraint stress showed greater Fos-ir in the following areas PVH and AMIme and AMIme and PAGdl in the the electroshock stress. The alprazolam had an inhibition effect in the following areas PVH, PAGlat and CC in the restraint group, and PVH, LSV and PAGlat in the electroshock group. The alprazolan had an excitatory effect in the following areas EW and LSV in the restraint group, and PAGdl in the electroshock group. The alprazolan caused reduction of CRF mRNA in the PVH in the restraint group and increase in the electroshock group, and increase of Ucn-I mRNA in the EW in the restraint group, with reduction in the electroshock group.

This paper assesses world-wide patterns of material extraction, trade, consumption and productivity based on a new data set for economy-wide material flows, covering used materials for all countries world-wide between 1980 and 2009. We show that global material extraction has grown by more than 90% over the past 30 years and is reaching almost 70 billion tonnes today. Also, trade volumes in physical terms have increased by a factor of 2.5 over the past 30 years, and in 2009, 9.3 billion tonnes of raw materials and products were traded around the globe. China has turned into the biggest consumer of materials world-wide and together with the US, India, Brazil and Russia, consumes more than 50% of all globally extracted materials. We also show that the per-capita consumption levels are very uneven, with a factor of more than 60 between the country with the lowest and highest consumption in 2009. On average, each human being consumed 10 tonnes of materials in 2009, 2 tonnes more than in 1980. We discuss whether decoupling of economies' growth from resource use has occurred and analyse interrelations of material use with human development. Finally, we elaborate on key environmental problems related to various material groups.

<p>Uppsatsen är skriven med utgångspunkt i att understödjande förbands bidrag i operationer i stadsmiljö sällan nämns i reglementen, samt att förståelse för hur telekrigsförband uppträder och deras unika förmågor är generellt sätt låg inom försvarsmakten. Mitt syfte är att tydligöra hur en telekrigsenhet med dess unika förmåga kan bidra till lösande av uppgifter i en MOUT-operation. I min uppsats försöker jag med hjälp av ett teoretiskt synsätt svara på vad en telekrigsenhet kan bidraga med i en operation av ett MOUT-koncept. För att besvara denna fråga använder jag mig av en kvalitativ textanalys och intervjuer. Resultatet som framkommer är att en telekrigsenhet är en unik resurs som kan bidra med unika underrättelser och verkan, främst kopplat till stegen förstå, få bättre lägesuppfattning samt att kunna engagera motståndaren i en MOUT-operation.</p> / <p>With a theoretical approach this essay aims to answer the question; What can an electronic warfare unit can contribute with to an operation in a MOUT concept? To answer this question I use a qualitative text analysis and interviews. The result obtained is that an electronic warfare unit is a unique resource which contributes with unique intelligence and effects. This is mainly linked to the steps to understand, gaining a better situational awareness and to be able to engage the opponent in a MOUT operation.</p>