TABLE OF CONTENTS
Personnel
Publications and Reports
xiv
Introduction
xxi
RADIO PHYSICS
I.
Physical Electronics
Temperature Dependence of Electrical Leakage Caused
by Cesium on Glass
II.
Soft X-Ray Spectroscopy
III.
X-Ray Diffraction Studies
IV.
Physical Chemistry
V.
Biophysical Chemistry
VI.
Microwave Spectroscopy
VIA.
Optical and Infrared Masers
VII.
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Hyperfine Structure
Hyperfine Structure and Isotope Shifts in Neutron-Deficient
Mercury Isotopes
VIII.
Microwave Electronics
IX.
Molecular Beams
Stark Effect and Hyperfine Structure of Hydrogen Fluoride
CS Maser
Ammonia Deceleration Experiment
He
3
and He 4 Beams
Measurement of the Velocity of Light
X.
Radio Astronomy
K-band Radiometry
Solid-State Local Oscillators
A Relationship between Current Density J and Far-Zone
Radiation Fields
XI.
Physical Acoustics
Instability of Liquid Conductors in a Magnetic Field
Sound Propagation over a Plane Boundary
Stability of Parallel Flows
CONTENTS
XII.
Noise in Electron Devices
Solutions to the Problem of the Optimum Noise Performance
of Multiterminal Amplifers
53
53
PLASMA DYNAMICS
XIII.
XIV.
XV.
Plasma Physics
61
Low-Frequency Plasma Waves
61
Decameter Radiation from Jupiter
66
Plasma Electronics
67
Nonlinear One-Dimensional Magnetohydrodynamic Monotron
69
An Alternative Proof of Stability for the Magnetohydrodynamic Waveguide
73
Scattering of Light from Electrons II
74
Use of Fissile Nuclides in Fusion Reactor Blankets
77
Design and Construction of a Large Plasma Facility
83
Energy Extraction Blanket for a Fusion Reactor
85
Superconducting Solenoid
86
Plasma Magnetohydrodynamics and Energy Conversion
Work Completed
101
106
The Effect of Swirl on the Electromagnetic Flowmeter
106
Experimental Characteristics of a Plasma Jet
106
Blood-Flow Studies
106
Experimental Measurement of the Thermal Conductivity
of Cesium Vapor
107
Work Function of a Conductor
108
Power Flow in the Magnetohydrodynamic Induction Machine
113
COMMUNICATION SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING
XVI.
Statistical Communication Theory
121
The Synthesis of a Class of Nonlinear Systems
122
Maxima of the Mean-Square Error in Optimum Nonlinear
No-Memory Filters
130
XVII.
Process Analysis and Synthesis
137
XVIII.
Processing and Transmission of Information
139
Picture Processing
140
A Study of the Picture-Sampling Process
140
The Mathematical Foundation of the Synthetic Highs System
140
Frequency-Compressive Feedback Systems
147
CONTENTS
XIX.
Artificial Intelligence
159
XX.
Speech Communication
163
XXI.
XXII.
XXIII.
A Computer Program for Controlling the Dynamic VocalTract Analog (DAVO)
163
A Transistorized Articulatory Speech Synthesizer
164
Computer Control of a Terminal Analog Speech Synthesizer
167
Mechanical Translation
171
Generative Grammar without Transformation Rules
171
An Ordinary Language Input for a COMIT Proof-Procedure
Program
174
Sentence-Meaning and Word-Meaning
176
Finnish Noun Morphology
180
Linguistics
187
A Note on the Formulation of Phonological Rules
187
Vowel Harmony in Classical (Literary) Mongolian
189
On the Present Tense Theme o/e in Russian
190
Discontinuous One-Way Grammars
193
Children's Grammar
195
Theoretical Implications of Bloomfield's "Menomini
Morphophonemics"
197
Communications Biophysics
205
Binaural Interaction in Single Units of the Accessory Superior
Olivary Nucleus in Cat
207
Postauricular Electric Response to Acoustic Stimuli in Humans
218
Responses of a Neuronlike Net to Paired Stimuli
225
XXIV.
Neurophysiology
227
XXV.
Neurology
229
Work Completed
229
Eye Convergnece
232
Pupillary Noise
234
Eye-Movement Experimentation
236
Model of the Pupil Reflex to Light
237
Human Prediction of Filtered Random Sequences
240
XXVI.
Cutaneous Sensory Mechanisms
243
XXVII.
Sensory Aids Research
245
CONTENTS
XXVIII.
Circuit Theory and Design
247
XXIX.
Network Synthesis
249
XXX.
Computer Research
251
XXXI.
Advanced Computation Research
253
XXXII.
Stroboscopic Research
255
Author Index
257