TABLE OF CONTENTS
Personnel
xiv
Publications and Reports
xviii
Introduction
GENERAL PHYSICS
I.
Molecular Beams
Calculation of the Cross Section for He3-Roton Scattering
in Superfluid Helium
II.
Microwave Spectroscopy
Work Completed
Electrical Noise in Superconducting Films
III.
Radio Astronomy
Studies of Water-Vapor Microwave Emission from Infrared
Stars
IV.
Solid-State Microwave Electronics
Low-Noise Intermediate -Frequency Amplifiers for
55-GHz Radiometers
V,
Gravitation Research
Balloon Measurements of Far Infrared Background Radiation
Electromagnetically Coupled Broadband Gravitational Antenna
VI.
Electrodynamics of Media
Short Pulses Produced by Cavity Dumping of a CO
Excited Atmospheric (TEA) Laser
Prediction of Gain in CO
2
2
Transversely
TEA Lasers
PLASMA DYNAMICS
VII.
Plasmas and Controlled Nuclear Fusion
Feedback Stabilization
Investigation of a Plasma Gun
High-Temperature Plasma Physics
Plasma Instabilities Driven by a DC Electric Field
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CONTENTS
VIII.
Applied Plasma Research
105
Active Plasma Systems
105
Effect of Obliqueness between Density Gradient and
Magnetic Field on Resonance Cones near the
Lower Hybrid Resonance
105
Impedance of Electrostatic
Plasma
109
Couplers in an Inhomogeneous
Plasma Effects in Solids
112
Nonlinear Plasma Effects in Interactions with Acoustic
Waves
COMMUNICATION
IX.
X.
SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING
Speech Communication
119
MITSYN: A Graphical Notation and System for the Interactive
Computer-Aided Specification and Realization of Music and
Speech Synthesis and Other (Digital) Signal Processing
123
Speech Analysis by Linear Prediction
133
Linguistics
Cognitive Information Processing
New High- Speed Multiplier Design
XII.
XIII.
119
Speech Sound Categorization within Sets by Children
How to Apply Phonological Rules
XI.
112
Communications Biophysics
143
143
147
147
153
Contourographic Display in Incorporating Hidden Lines
153
Digital Matched Filter for Electrocardiograms
155
Vectorcardiographic Display and Measurement System
159
Cryoprotective Action of Dimethyl Sulphoxide (DMSO) on
Homarus Axons
162
Signal Processing
169
Recent Advances in the Theory of Reconstructing
Multidimensional Signals from Projections
169
Transient Response of a Varactor-Controlled Oscillator
183
Model for Low-Frequency Atmospheric Noise
186
Author Index
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