292 research outputs found
South African responses to Open Access publishing: a survey of the research community
No full textOpen access publishing offers wide benefits to the scholarly community and may also afford relief to financially embattled academic libraries. The progress of the open access model rests upon the acceptance and validation of open access journals and open archives or institutional repositories by the academic mainstream, particularly by publishing researchers. To what extent are the key actors in the South African research system aware of the advantages of open access? This article reports on the findings of a recent survey undertaken to assess the current awareness, concerns and depth of support for open access amongst local researchers, research managers and policy makers in South Africa. The study focuses on issues of quality, article or author charges and the established academic reward system. It concludes that within the prevailing framework, there is little prospect that academics would choose to publish within open access
journals. Recommendations for advocacy by the library community are proposed
Assembly, installation and commissioning of the new halo current sensors system for JET
No full textThis paper presents the status of the halo current sensors (HCS) diagnostic enhancement project for JET. The HCS system includes four sets of probes located in four octants equally spaced along the toroidal coordinate, with a total of 24 Rogowski coils and 5 toroidal field pick-up coils. These sensors are meant to provide a measurement of the current flowing through each single tile of the upper dump plate and an estimate of the total poloidal halo current flowing through the first wall structures.
The HCS system was installed in the JET vacuum vessel in March 2005 during the 2004/2005 shutdown and the acquisition of signals started during the restart phase of the machine in autumn 2005.
This paper firstly summarises the critical aspects encountered during the final phase of the procurement of the system and the in-vessel installation, which was accomplished using the remote handling system. The paper then focuses on the analysis and interpretation of the data collected during the functional commissioning of the new system, carried out during the restart phase of the machine preceding the experimental campaigns
Design of ex-vessel magnetic probes for JET-EP
No full textA new magnetic diagnostics system has been designed for the 2005 JET experimental campaigns onward. The system, which
is integrated into the existing magnetic diagnostics, consists of in-vessel and ex-vessel sensors, and is intended to provide
an improvement in the accuracy and reliability of the present equilibrium reconstruction and iron modelling capabilities
. In this paper, the ex-vessel system is described, which
consists of an array of pick-up coils, Hall probes and flux loops probes to be installed in the proximity of the upper horizontal
iron limbs and inside the iron collar. The sensors are designed to produce an absolute measurement of the magnetic field
configuration in the vicinity of the magnetic structure of the machine, which is considered valuable information for the tuning
of the axisymmetric models used for plasma equilibrium reconstruction. On the basis of recent results obtained with Hall probe
prototypes on JET, the choice of type and location of probes, together with other design and manufacturing issues of the ex-vessel
magnetic diagnostics are presented and discussed
The Computation of Temperature Distributions and Thermal Stresses Using Finite Element Techniques
No full textSounds Local, 1994 June 03
No full textRe-airing of a segment from September 24, 1993: Overview of the history, development, and restoration of North Fourth Street (Brooklyn neighborhood) including with interviews with historian Bill Reaves, business owner Carrie Fullard, and Fourth Street Merchants president Harry L. Forden; Interview with the actresses of the play, Steel Magnolias, produced by Opera House Theatre Company and on stage at Thalian Hall, directed by Lou Criscuolo; Interview with local author Doris Betts about her new book, Souls Raised from the Dead; Music from jazz duo, Milt Hinton, bassist, and Jane Jarvis, pianist, with biographical information provided by Jim Trimble; Overview of upcoming events on the cultural calendar
South African responses to Open Access publishing: A survey of the research community
No full textOpen access publishing offers wide benefits to the scholarly community and may also afford relief to financially embattled academic libraries. The progress of the open access model rests upon the acceptance and validation of open access journals and open archives or institutional repositories by the academic mainstream, particularly by publishing researchers. To what extent are the key actors in the South African research system aware of the advantages of open access? This article reports on the findings of a recent survey undertaken to assess the current awareness, concerns and depth of support for open access amongst local researchers, research managers and policy makers in South Africa. The study focuses on issues of quality, article or author charges and the established academic reward system. It concludes that within the prevailing framework, there is little prospect that academics would choose to publish within open access journals. Recommendations for advocacy by the library community are proposed
Author response: Utilization of rehabilitation therapy services in Parkinson disease in the United States
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