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Languages : en
Pages : 5
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Experimental Studies of Plasma Fluctuations Using Electron Cyclotron Fluctuations on the Texas Experimental Tokamak. Final Technical Report
Author: Experimental Studies of Plasma Fluctuations Using Electron Cyclotron Emission on ATF (Advanced Toroidal Facility) and TEXT (Texas Experimental Tokamak).
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Languages : en
Pages : 6
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The great stumbling block in the quest for fusion power using magnetic confinement devices is anomalous transport. It is conjectured that turbulent plasma fluctuations may be responsible for the degraded energy confinement observed in experiments. There exists a clear need for more detailed experimental studies of plasma microturbulence. We have started a set of experiments to measure electron temperature and density fluctuations using electron cyclotron emission (ECE). The ECE systems will employ auto-correlation and cross-correlation techniques to measure radiation from the Advanced Toroidal Facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and also from the Texas Experimental Tokamak (TEXT) at the University of Texas. This set of experiments on a stellerator and a tokamak will allow a unique comparative study of the fluctuation physics in the two different magnetic configurations. This work is in support of the United States Department of Energy Tokamak Transport Initiative and involves a collaborative effort between Auburn University, Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of Texas at Austin and ORNL. 3 refs.
Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports
Author: Energy Research Abstracts
Author: Government Reports Annual Index
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Category : Government reports announcements & index
Languages : en
Pages : 1088
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Fusion Energy Update
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Author: Nuclear Science Abstracts
Author: Use of Services for Family Planning and Infertility, United States, 1982
Author: Gerry E. HendershotPublisher:
ISBN: 9780840602220
Category : Birth control
Languages : en
Pages : 982
Book Description
The 1982 statistics on the use of family planning and infertility services presented in this report are preliminary results from Cycle III of the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics. Data were collected through personal interviews with a multistage area probability sample of 7969 women aged 15-44. A detailed series of questions was asked to obtain relatively complete estimates of the extent and type of family planning services received. Statistics on family planning services are limited to women who were able to conceive 3 years before the interview date. Overall, 79% of currently mrried nonsterile women reported using some type of family planning service during the previous 3 years. There were no statistically significant differences between white (79%), black (75%) or Hispanic (77%) wives, or between the 2 income groups. The 1982 survey questions were more comprehensive than those of earlier cycles of the survey. The annual rate of visits for family planning services in 1982 was 1077 visits /1000 women. Teenagers had the highest annual visit rate (1581/1000) of any age group for all sources of family planning services combined. Visit rates declined sharply with age from 1447 at ages 15-24 to 479 at ages 35-44. Similar declines with age also were found in the visit rates for white and black women separately. Nevertheless, the annual visit rate for black women (1334/1000) was significantly higher than that for white women (1033). The highest overall visit rate was for black women 15-19 years of age (1867/1000). Nearly 2/3 of all family planning visits were to private medical sources. Teenagers of all races had higher family planning service visit rates to clinics than to private medical sources, as did black women age 15-24. White women age 20 and older had higher visit rates to private medical services than to clinics. Never married women had higher visit rates to clinics than currently or formerly married women. Data were also collected in 1982 on use of medical services for infertility by women who had difficulty in conceiving or carrying a pregnancy to term. About 1 million ever married women had 1 or more infertility visits in the 12 months before the interview. During the 3 years before interview, about 1.9 million women had infertility visits. For all ever married women, as well as for white and black women separately, infertility services were more likely to be secured from private medical sources than from clinics. The survey design, reliability of the estimates and the terms used are explained in the technical notes.
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