Damages for a Decedent’s Pre-Impact Fear: An Element of Damages under Alaska’s Survivorship Statute

  This study is formed with respect to finding a suitable optimization method of the total costs for the number of jobs that are executed in a FEM solver at Scania. FEM (Finite Element Method) is a solution method for solid mechanic problems. It is good to withhold the calculation speed with GPU, CPU and licenses taken into consideration. Computer clusters are usable for the purpose of optimizing the solving speed. Several factors are involved and it is appropriate to consider many parameters to finally end up in a consequent method. The total cost ΣiNi . ( licence cost + hardware cost) was minimized and simulated with respect to the parameters: core number and number of GPU. N is the number of jobs executed. Linear constraints were added to further precise the model though the primary task was to formulate the optimization problem.Denna studie är utformad med avseende på att en lämplig optimeringsmetod för optimering av total kostnad hos ett antal jobb som körs i en FEM lösare på Scania. FEM (Finita elementmetoden) är en lösningsbaserad metod för hållfasthetsberäkningar. Det är bra att upprätthålla en hög beräkningshastighet med avseende på GPU, CPU och antal licenser. Beräkningskluster är användbart för att i syfte att minimera beräkningstiden. Många faktorer är involverade och man bör titta på flera parametrar för att slutligen hitta en konsekvent metod. Man sökte minimera totala kostnaden ΣiNi .  (licens kostnad + hårdvaru kostnad ) och simuleringar utfördes med avseende på parametrarna antal kärnor och antal GPU. N är antalet jobb som kördes. Vidare tillsattes linjära bivillkor för att ytterligare förbättra noggrannheten i modellen, dock var huvudsyftet att konstruera ett optimeringsproblem

Further New Records of Coleoptera and Other Insects from Wisconsin

Specimens of eleven different species of insects, representing seven separate families of Coleoptera, and one family each of Hemiptera, Lepidoptera, Diptera, and Hymenoptera, are herein reported as new to Wisconsin. These genera or species occur respectively within the following families: Leiodidae, Monotomidae, Cucujidae, Cryptophagidae, Ciidae, Tetratomidae, Curculionidae, Pentatomidae, Glyphipterigidae, Phoridae, and Pteromalidae. All but one of these insects were collected at or near the author’s residence (Dane County); the pentatomid was taken in northern Wisconsin (Oconto County). Three of the four non-coleopteran fauna are introduced species

Radionuclide Concentrations in the Arkansas River Upstream and Downstream from the Nuclear I Power Generating Facility

This report summarizes results obtained from a program designed to measure very low levels of some commonly produced radionuc1ides in the Dardenelle Lake area of the Arkansas River near the Arkansas Nuclear I Power Station operated by Arkansas Power and Light Company. The main thrust of this program was to determine the increase in the concentration of the radionuclides as a result of reactor operation as a function of their distance from the source. It was hoped to extend this study to include the effects of these emissions on the uptake of radionuclides into biological systems and their deposition in sediments

New Records of Coleoptera from Wisconsin

Specimens of eleven different species of beetles (one of which is identified only to genus) have been collected from and are herein reported as new to Wisconsin. These species collectively occur within seven different families: Leiodidae, Latridiidae, Scirtidae, Throscidae, Corylophidae, Staphylinidae, and Dermestidae. A majority of the specimens were collected at the author’s residence, either in pan traps or at UV lights; the others were taken at two nearby (township) parks

An optimal controller based on linear approximation of an acoustical test facility, part B Final report

Optimal digital controller based on linear approximation of acoustical test facility, for determining effects of supersonic rocket engine noise on vehicle surfac

Static internal performance of a single-engine onaxisymmetric-nozzle vaned-thrust-reverser design with thrust modulation capabilities

An investigation has been conducted at wind-off conditions in the stati-test facility of the Langley 16-Foot Transonic Tunnel. The tests were conducted on a single-engine reverser configuration with partial and full reverse-thrust modulation capabilities. The reverser design had four ports with equal areas. These ports were angled outboard 30 deg from the vertical impart of a splay angle to the reverse exhaust flow. This splaying of reverser flow was intended to prevent impingement of exhaust flow on empennage surfaces and to help avoid inlet reingestion of exhaust gas when the reverser is integrated into an actual airplane configuration. External vane boxes were located directly over each of the four ports to provide variation of reverser efflux angle from 140 deg to 26 deg (measured forward from the horizontal reference axis). The reverser model was tested with both a butterfly-type inner door and an internal slider door to provide area control for each individual port. In addition, main nozzle throat area and vector angle were varied to examine various methods of modulating thrust levels. Other model variables included vane box configuration (four or six vanes per box), orientation of external vane boxes with respect to internal port walls (splay angle shims), and vane box sideplates. Nozzle pressure ratio was varied from 2.0 approximately 7.0