Science & Technology Review May 2006

Aufderheide III, M B

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

关键词: Eyes;    Diseases;    Spectra;    59 Basic Biological Sciences;    Domestic Animals;   

DOI  :  10.2172/885121
RP-ID  :  UCRL-TR-52000-06-5
RP-ID  :  W-7405-ENG-48
RP-ID  :  885121

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

This month's issue has the following articles: (1) Science and Technology Help the Nation Counter Terrorism--Commentary by Raymond J. Juzaitis; (2) Imagers Provide Eyes to See Gamma Rays--Gamma-ray imagers provide increased radiation detection capabilities and enhance the nation's arsenal for homeland security; (3) Protecting the Nation's Livestock--Foot-and-mouth disease could devastate America's livestock; a new assay provides a rapid means to detect it; (4) Measures for Measures--Laboratory physicists combine emissivity and reflectivity to achieve highly accurate temperature measurements of metal foils; and (5) Looping through the Lamb Shift--Livermore scientists measured a small perturbation in the spectra of highly ionized uranium--the first measurement of the two-loop Lamb shift in a bound state.