Inventor(s): Arthur M. Kelly, III (Fort Worth, TX), Ronald M. Crawford (Granbury, TX) Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED Law Firm: The Iwashko Law Firm, PLLC (no location found) Application No., Date, Speed: 15094898 on 04/08/2016 (977 days app to issue)

Abstract: A thermal detection system for detecting a thermal profile of an optical window may be used in an airborne body that contains a sensor system. The system may include a thermal imager arranged within the airborne body for imaging a portion of the optical window and the portion may coincide with an optical path of the sensor system. The system may further include a processor in communication with the thermal imager for receiving images of the portion and determining a thermal gradient of the portion. The processor may be configured to apply corrections to active optical elements of the sensor system to accommodate for adverse thermal effects on the optical sensor that interferes with the sensor system performance.

Customer satisfaction levels had been ”relatively stable", however, forecourt and transport access was the major aggravation. Work would be done to expand the Jetstar processing space, security processing, VIP lounges would be expanded and the congested food court would be remodelled.

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Introduced social wasps in beech forests present a case with extreme consequences for native insect and bird diversity and ecosystem services, as well as impacts on tourism and recreation.

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Rhode Island, in and around a bay and in part an archipelago, is known for its bridges, with spectacular views. The state should market them more, for the pleasure of locals and out-of-state visitors alike. Buddy Croft, executive director of the Rhode Island Turnpike and Bridge Authority, has discussed ways to do just that. As he told the Newport Daily News, the improvements might include paths for pedestrians and bicyclists on the Pell, Jamestown-Verrazzano and Mount Hope bridges. And he forwards the exciting idea of building an enclosed observation deck, accessible by elevator, on top of one of the Pell Bridge’s towers.

The present results provide a comprehensive description of the dipolar water orientation under confined conditions in artificial solid-state I-quartet water channels that is maintained when the channels are embedded in the bilayer membranes. More specifically, x-ray single-crystal structures show the formation of self-assembled I-quartets confining dipolar water wires; quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation (QCM-D) experiments confirm the SLB formation and allow estimation of the amount of water present in the channels; and achiral and chiral sum-frequency generation (SFG) spectroscopy and complimenting molecular dynamics (MD) simulations provide quantitative measures of the hydrogen bond strength and interaction patterns, dipolar water orientation, and ordering, as well as on the electrostatic polarization imprinted on the dipolar water by their surroundings.

There are widespread patterns that remain unexplained by the coastal hypothesis: Numerous data indicate that the only early populations known in Siberia, Russian Far East, and Beringia had terrestrially oriented economies and technologies (74, 75), including Ushki Lake, cited by (1) as part of a coastal migration of stemmed point using populations. Ubiquitous Paleoindian industries are also generally terrestrial (76), with relatively limited evidence of coastal exploitation in lower-latitude areas (2). East Beringian obsidian distributional analyses show an early reliance on interior sources, with exploitation of coastal sources thousands of years later (12). The empirical patterning points toward successful terrestrial adaptations and movement in Siberia, Beringia, and the Americas south of the ice sheets.

In her next set of experiments, Dharmarwardana glued tiny stainless steel balls to the anchored crystals to see how much weight the crystal cantilevers could lift as they were heated. Because the crystals are brittle, she expected them to break under the load.

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The presence of secret prisons in several European countries as well as other nations across the world has been deeply controversial as well as long shrouded in secrecy. The judgment comes only days after Gina Haspel was confirmed as the new director of the CIA despite controversy over her own role in the detention and interrogation programme under which she oversaw a black site in Thailand where detainees were waterboarded.