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A superconducting persistent-current-switch was investigated in a transformer, and the connecting tests of the PCS to a superconducting magnetic energy storage are described.

An argument is presented that the two cognate modifiers respective and respectively have different roles and different domains for their notational functions. The difference in syntactic category regarding semantic function and syntactic distribution is emphasized.

In English there are a variety of causal adjunct phrases such as because of, as a result of, on account of and in spite of. It was reported recently that a new structure because X is thriving in colloquial registers including conversations and blogs. The complement X is not only restricted to nominals but also includes other lexical categories such as adjectives, adverbs and even verbs. This article delves into the history of this usage and its reasoning, and conducts a survey on other causal adjuncts to determine whether the same kind of innovation is observed with other adjunct phrases. The survey shows that the new usage started from NP complements and has been extended to include complements of other lexical categories, and that the new usage attested in because X is also observed with in case X. The truncation of the final preposition is verified with all the adjunct phrases in the survey, but the category of the complement is basically restricted to nominals in the case of other phrases. We will look into the factors segregating the two groups of adjuncts, namely because/in case X, and other causal adjuncts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The interference-type fiber-optic gyroscope detects rotating angular velocity by means of interference between two optical signals traversing a fiber-optic loop in opposite directions. In one method, the optical paths of two signals are completely equalized. In another method, the interference fringes obtained by adjustment of the lens location are used. This paper describes the second method. By means of a microoptic system using a bifocal lens, linear interference fringes are formed. After these fringes are read by a line scanner, the waveform is Fourier transformed so that the rotating angular velocity is derived from the obtained phase-shift quantity, The results of the experiment indicate that the relationship between the input angular velocity and the output is linear over a broad range. A rotation of 0.02 to 182 deg/s was detected and the minimum Output ripple at the time of detection was ±0.015 deg/s. The drift of temperature change was 0.03 deg/s per 0.01°C, and hence this method is sensitive to temperature variation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]