Electromagnetic ion cyclotron (EMIC) waves have been shown to be able to drive strong electron precipitation, particularly at MeV energies. However, the spatio-temporal evolution of both the waves ...and the resulting precipitation is still not well understood. Here we investigate the evolution of relativistic electron precipitation driven by EMIC waves through combined observations from the Van Allen Probes and the CALorimetric Electron Telescope experiment onboard the International Space Station. Two case studies are examined where EMIC waves near the magnetic equator and precipitation at low altitude were detected in close magnetic conjunction, both of which were confined to narrow radial regions but persisted multiple hours. These observations, combined with quasilinear calculations, confirm that long-lived EMIC waves can drive hours-long MeV electron precipitation loss. However, the magnitude of the precipitation varied significantly during one of the events, as resonance conditions, particularly plasma density, evolved.
Many attempts were made in recent years to create effective heat exchange devices in an effort to save energy and raw resources while also taking economic and environmental concerns into account. A ...compacted cooling component called a liquid-cooled microchannel heat sink was utilized to provide electronic components higher heat dissipation rates and low temperatures. In this study, the finite volume method in three dimensions was used to simulate laminar flow of water/Al
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doubled the HT rate in the bare MC. Ansys Fluent simulation software was utilized to consider the laminar, steady state, and incompressible flow of NF with constant thermophysical characteristics. The findings indicated that Fins create the HT 3.9 times greater than the smooth MC in pure water flow. When 4% of nanoparticles were added to the base fluid in a smooth wall MC, the pressure drop (∆
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Z‐Rietveld is a program suite for Rietveld analysis and the Pawley method; it was developed for analyses of powder diffraction data in the Materials and Life Science Facility of the Japan Proton ...Accelerator Research Complex. Improvements have been made to the nonlinear least‐squares algorithms of Z‐Rietveld so that it can deal with singular matrices and intensity non‐negativity constraints. Owing to these improvements, Z‐Rietveld successfully executes the Pawley method without requiring any constraints on the integrated intensities, even in the case of severely or exactly overlapping peaks. In this paper, details of these improvements are presented and their advantages discussed. A new approach to estimate the number of independent reflections contained in a powder pattern is introduced, and the concept of good reflections proposed by Sivia J. Appl. Cryst. (2000), 33, 1295–1301 is shown to be explained by the presence of intensity non‐negativity constraints, not the intensity linear constraints.
We present an analysis of the relativistic electron precipitation (REP) event measured by the CALorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET) experiment on board the International Space Station during a ...relatively weak geomagnetic storm on 31 December 2016. CALET observations were compared with the measurements of the Van Allen Probes in the near-equatorial plane to investigate the global radiation belt dynamics and the REP drivers. The magnetically conjugate observations from these two missions demonstrate that the significant MeV precipitation directly detected by CALET in low-Earth orbit during a period of radiation belt depletion following the passage of a high-speed stream, was associated with dusk-side electromagnetic ion cyclotron (EMIC) waves. In addition, the combined wave, REP and trapped electron data suggest that the reported radiation belt depletion can be likely ascribed to the concomitant loss effects of EMIC wave scattering driving the atmospheric precipitation, as well as outward radial diffusion associated with magnetopause shadowing.
The purpose of this study was to identify risk factors for throwing shoulder injury. 50 junior high school baseball players were included in the study. Data were collected on baseline information, ...limb mobility,muscle tightness, and the development of throwing shoulder injury. 1 year after the baseline measurements, the same measurements were taken again, and the subjects were divided into 2 groups according to whether or not they had developed throwing shoulder injury. All data were compared between groups by t-test or Mann Whitneyʼs U test. The variables with p＜0.25 for between-group comparison were used as explanatory variables,and risk factors for throwing shoulder injury were analyzed by logistic regression analysis. 47 patients were in cluded in the analysis, 14 of whom were in the throwing shoulder injury development group. The group with im paired shoulder had significantly restricted non-throwing side HBD (p=0.007), which was a risk factor for impaired shoulder (Odds ratio: 1.201, 95% CI: 1.058-1.374). Tightness of the rectus femoris muscle of the non-throwing lower extremity was found to be a risk factor for the development of throwing shoulder injury.
The Large Hadron Collider forward (LHCf) experiment is designed to use the LHC to verify the hadronic-interaction models used in cosmic-ray physics. Forward baryon production is one of the crucial ...points to understand the development of cosmic-ray showers. We report the neutron-energy spectra for LHC s=7 TeV proton–proton collisions with the pseudo-rapidity η ranging from 8.81 to 8.99, from 8.99 to 9.22, and from 10.76 to infinity. The measured energy spectra obtained from the two independent calorimeters of Arm1 and Arm2 show the same characteristic feature before unfolding the detector responses. We unfolded the measured spectra by using the multidimensional unfolding method based on Bayesian theory, and the unfolded spectra were compared with current hadronic-interaction models. The QGSJET II-03 model predicts a high neutron production rate at the highest pseudo-rapidity range similar to our results, and the DPMJET 3.04 model describes our results well at the lower pseudo-rapidity ranges. However, no model perfectly explains the experimental results over the entire pseudo-rapidity range. The experimental data indicate a more abundant neutron production rate relative to the photon production than any model predictions studied here.
In this paper, we present the measurement of the energy spectra of carbon and oxygen in cosmic rays based on observations with the Calorimetric Electron Telescope on the International Space Station ...from October 2015 to October 2019. Analysis, including the detailed assessment of systematic uncertainties, and results are reported. The energy spectra are measured in kinetic energy per nucleon from 10 GeV/n to 2.2 TeV/n with an all-calorimetric instrument with a total thickness corresponding to 1.3 nuclear interaction length. The observed carbon and oxygen fluxes show a spectral index change of ∼0.15 around 200 GeV/n established with a significance > 3σ. They have the same energy dependence with a constant C/O flux ratio 0.911 ± 0.006 above 25 GeV/n. The spectral hardening is consistent with that measured by AMS-02, but the absolute normalization of the flux is about 27% lower, though in agreement with observations from previous experiments including the PAMELA spectrometer and the calorimetric balloon-borne experiment CREAM.
The purpose of this study to investigate the incidence and the location of injuries in throwing ath letes. Collegiate and professional throwing athletes were given a questionnaire pertaining to their ...injury histories. In throwing athletes, the most common injury location was the lower back, with the exception of javelin throwers,who had the most injuries to the elbow joint. Low back injuries were the most common in throwing athletes, and elbow joint injuries were significantly more common in javelin throwers than in other throwers.
The purpose of this study was to examine the relative growth of muscle thickness in the lateral ab dominal muscle groups of junior high school students as well as the differences in growth patterns ...between the three individual muscles. The subjects were 191 junior high school students from a local club team and the right external oblique; EO, internal oblique; IO and transversus abdominis; TrA muscle thicknesses were measured us ing an ultrasound imaging device. The height and these parameters were plotted on a logarithmic graph to obtain the allometric equation y = bx a . EO and IO were represented by three-phase straight lines with two inflection points, EOʼs allometry coefficients being 2.58, 1.56, and 2.76, and the inflection points being 142.0 cm and 171.3 cm. IOʼs allometry coefficients were 0.82, 2.05, and 4.55, and its inflection points were 157.4 cm and 170.4 cm. TrA was depicted as two-phase straight lines with allometry coefficients of 1.53 and 1.56, with the inflection point of 145.3 cm. This suggests that TrA which has a stabilizing effect on the trunk, grows early.
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