Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports Volume 38 July 28, 2000

20000062724 International Atomic Energy Agency, International Nuclear Data Committee, Vienna, Austria
Nuclear data libraries and online services. An introduction to the data types and services available from the IAEA Nuclear
Data Section
Oblozinsky, P.; Schwerer, O.; Sep. 30, 1998; 15p; In English; Nuclear Reaction Data and Nuclear Reactors: Physics, Design and
Safety, 23 Feb. - 17 Mar. 1998, Trieste, Italy
Report No.(s): DE99-607945; INDC(NDS)-387; No Copyright; Avail: Department of Energy Information Bridge
The IAEA Nuclear Data Section provides convenient, cost-free access to the world’s most comprehensive collection of
numerical nuclear physics data. These nuclear data libraries result from a worldwide cooperation of nuclear data centres coordinated
by the IAEA. An introduction is given to the various nuclear data types and libraries with particular emphasis to online services
via the Internet. This paper summarizes a presentation for the IAEA Workshop on ’’Nuclear Reaction Data and Nuclear
Reactors: Physics, Design and Safety’’ held at ICTP Trieste, Italy, 23 February - 17 March 1998.
NTIS
On-Line Systems; Information Systems; Subroutine Libraries (Computers)
20000062887 College of William and Mary, Dept. of Computer Science, Williamsburg, VA USA
Robust Adaptive Data Encoding and Restoration
Park, Stephen K., College of William and Mary, USA; Rahman, Zia-ur, College of William and Mary, USA; Halyo, Nesim, College
of William and Mary, USA; Jun. 09, 2000; 9p; In English
Contract(s)/Grant(s): NCC1-258; No Copyright; Avail: CASI; A02, Hardcopy; A01, Microfiche
This is the final report for NASA cooperative agreement and covers the period from 01 October, 1997 to 11 April, 2000. The
research during this period was performed in three primary, but related, areas. 1. Evaluation of integrated information adaptive
imaging. 2. Improvements in memory utilization and performance of the multiscale retinex with color restoration (MSRCR). 3.
Commencement of a theoretical study to evaluate the non-linear retinex image enhancement technique. The research resulted in
several publications, and an intellectual property disclosure to the NASA patent council in May, 1999.
Author
Imaging Techniques; Proving; Evaluation; Information Adaptive System; Memory (Computers); Numerical Analysis; Nonlinearity
20000063372 Los Alamos National Lab., NM USA
Human events reference for ATHEANA (HERA) database description and preliminary user’s manual
Auflick, J. L.; Hahn, H. A.; Pond, D. J.; May 27, 1998; 103p; In English
Report No.(s): DE99-001170; LA-UR-98-2400; No Copyright; Avail: Department of Energy Information Bridge
The Technique for Human Error Analysis (ATHEANA) is a newly developed human reliability analysis (HRA) methodology
that aims to facilitate better representation and integration of human performance into probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) modeling
and quantification by analyzing risk-significant operating experience in the context of existing behavioral science models.
The fundamental premise of ATHEANA is that error-forcing contexts (EFCs), which refer to combinations of equipment/material
conditions and performance shaping factors (PSFs), set up or create the conditions under which unsafe actions (UAs) can occur.
Because ATHEANA relies heavily on the analysis of operational events that have already occurred as a mechanism for generating
creative thinking about possible EFCs, a database, called the Human Events Reference for ATHEANA (HERA), has been developed
to support the methodology. This report documents the initial development efforts for HERA.
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User Manuals (Computer Programs); Data Bases; Human Performance; Error Analysis
20000063495 Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech., Pasadena, CA USA
Evaluation of DVD-R for Archival Applications
Martin, Michael D., Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech., USA; Hyon, Jason J., Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of
Tech., USA; [2000]; 3p; In English; No Copyright; Avail: CASI; A01, Hardcopy; A01, Microfiche
For more than a decade, CD-ROM and CD-R have provided an unprecedented level of reliability, low cost and cross-platform
compatibility to support federal data archiving and distribution efforts. However, it should be remembered that years of effort were
required to achieve the standardization that has supported the growth of the CD industry. Incompatibilities in the interpretation
of the ISO-9660 standard on different operating systems had to be dealt with, and the imprecise specifications in the Orange Book
Part n and Part Hi led to incompatibilities between CD-R media and CD-R recorders. Some of these issues were presented by the
authors at Optical Data Storage ’95. The major current problem with the use of CD technology is the growing volume of digital
data that needs to be stored. CD-ROM collections of hundreds of volumes and CD-R collections of several thousand volumes are
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