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|Sep 7, 1976
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|Feb 25, 1974
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|Feb 25, 1974
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|Thomas M. Reeder, Anthony J. DeMaria
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|United Technologies Corporation
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This invention relates to a transducer which uses surface acoustic waves as a means of detecting pressure, acceleration, temperature, stress or strain in a digital manner, and particularly to a transducer which utilizes surface acoustic waves to detect the surface path deformation of a flexible diaphragm which is subjected to an external load or force.
Pressure transducers for converting pressure into electronic signals compatible with testing, indicating and control systems are well known in the art. Many such pressure transducers contain elements such as magnets, coils, switching circuits, mechanical vibratory elements and resonant crystals. to produce digital outputs from the prior art pressure transducers, techniques such as pulse torquing and analog-to-digital conversion are also well known.
As technologies such as turbine engines and their controls are increasing in complexity and are being exposed to increasingly severe environments, it is desirable to have available a simple, inexpensive and rugged pressure transducer compatible with state-of-the-art advances in the technology. The availability fo small, rugged, reliable and relatively inexpensive digital computers has firmly established the use of such computers in advanced turbine engine controls. Prior art pressure transducers have not kept step with the turbine engine and control technology, and suffer from disadvantages such as cost, size, power consumption, reliability and sensitivity to shock, vibration, electromechanical interference and temperature variations. Many prior art transducers have analog outputs which are not directly compatible with advanced digital systems, and require additional electronic conversion devices.
The present invention incorporates recent advances in microelectronic technology and utilizes surface acoustic waves as a means of detecting gas or liquid pressure in a manner compatible with digital systems. The use of surface acoustic waves results in a pressure transducer which is small, rugged, inexpensive to fabricate, sensitive, reliable as a result of its integrated electronics fabrication techniques and having a low power consumption. The transducer may also be used to sense acceleration, temperature, stress or strain.
The present invention utilizes surface acoustic wave phenomena to generate a frequency which is a function of applied external pressure or force. Since a frequency output is easily converted to various digital codes by use of standard frequency counting circuits, the present invention is compatible with digital systems. The invention makes use of a simple configuration which includes a thin, flexible diaphragm and microelectronic, electroacoustic transducers which are fabricated on opposite edges of the diaphragm. As a result of the applied external pressure or force, the diaphragm is deformed, a condition which causes the diaphragm stress and path length to be changed and, in turn, causes the acoustic wave propagation time between the transducers to be changed. If the transducers and diaphragm surface wave path are connected in a feedback circuit including an amplifier, the circuit can oscillate with a frequency which varies in proportion to diaphragm deformation and hence to the external applied pressure or force. Although in general the circuit could oscillate in a number of modes which are multiples of the fundamental frequency defined by acoustic transit time across the diaphragm, the microelectronic transducers are easily designed to act as filters that permit only one oscillation mode. In typical operation, the changes in oscillation frequency due to pressure or force changes are small compared to the mode frequency.
the invention may also include a second acoustic path, called the reference path, which either does not contain a diaphragm or contains a diaphragm which is subject to a different applied pressure or force. The first and second paths are fabricated to be physically equal in length and located close together so that they are maintained at the same temperature, although their common temperature may vary. A second feedback circuit composed of two transducers, the reference path, and a second amplifier oscillates at a second frequency called the reference frequency. By applying a sample of the first and second oscillator voltages to a semiconductor mixer, a difference frequency output is obtained which is proportional to the differential pressure or force applied to the first and second diaphragms. However, the variations in oscillator frequency caused by temperature will tend to cause equal changes of the same sign in both feedback circuits. As a result, the difference frequency output will tend to be independent of temperature.
The present invention can also perform as a digital output accelerometer with only a small change in the diaphragm configuration. A small lump of material with mass M1 is attached to the bottom diaphragm surface where the acoustic waves do not propagate. If the diaphragm is sealed in an enclosure which eliminates pressure variations, a deformation of the diaphragm will be produced by accelerations of the mass M1 and the external acceleration. If the diaphragm acoustic path and associated transducers are connected in a feedback circuit with an amplifier, the circuit can oscillate with a frequency which varies in proportion to the applied acceleration. As before, a reference diaphragm with different mass M2 may be provided along with an associated second feedback circuit to give a reference oscillation frequency. If the two diaphragms are constructed to attain the same temperature, the difference frequency obtained by applying samples of both feedback circuits to a semiconductor mixer will tend to be independent of temperature.
The transducer may also be used to measure stress or strain by bonding the diaphragm or only the transducers directly to the physical surface to be measured.
FIG. 1 is a side elevation in schematic form of the pressure transducer in a bonded configuration.
FIG. 2 is a side elevation in schematic form of the pressure transducer in a monolithic configuration.
FIG. 3 is a plan view schematic representation of the pressure transducer and associated feedback circuitry.
FIG. 4 is a side elevation schematic representation of the pressure transducer and associated feedback circuitry.
FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of the pressure transducer showing an improved electrode pattern to suppress selected frequency modes.
FIG. 6A is a plan view of a dual channel pressure transducer configuration.
FIG. 6B is a schematic representation of the transducer of FIG. 6A.
FIG. 7A is a plan view of an encapsulated pressure transducer.
FIG. 7B is a side elevation of the encapsulated pressure transducer of FIG. 7A.
FIG. 8 is a side elevation of a high temperature pressure transducer configuration.
FIG. 9 is a side elevation of a transducer modified for acceleration measurement.
FIG. 10 is a schematic view of a transducer used for stress-strain measurement.
the basic pressure transducer configuration is illustrated in FIGS. 1 to 4. The transducer consists of a pressure dependent surface acoustic wave delay line and an electronic feedback circuit which provides a circuit oscillation frequency that is determined by the applied pressure.
The pressure dependent surface acoustic wave delay line is composed of a sturdy substrate 10, a thin, flexible diaphragm 12 which may be exposed to a gas pressure, P, and two electroacoustic transducers 14 and 16 which are fabricated on opposite edges of the diaphragm surface. Depending on the desired fabrication and operating environment, the delay line may be constructed in either of the two configurations shown specifically in FIGS. 1 and 2. In FIG. 1, the diaphragm 12, which may be metal, dielectric, semiconductor or a composite of these materials, is either bonded to the substrate 10 surface by the use of glue, solder, weld, thermo-compression, or other joining techniques, or the diaphragm may be grown or deposited on the substrate surface by vacuum evaporation, rf sputtering or chemical vapor deposition. The substrate 10 material, which may also be metal, dielectric, or semiconductor, is chosen to favor the desired fabrication approach. In the case of bonded fabrication, where the diaphragm 12 and substrate 10 may be handled as two separate components, the hole or opening in the substrate 10 that defines the diaphragm lateral dimensions will usually be milled or cut through the substrate 10 before the two components are bonded. If the diaphragm 12 is grown or deposited on the substrate 10 surface, the hole in the substrate is defined by milling, spark erosion, or chemical etch techniques as are frequently utilized in microelectronic circuit fabrication.
the monolithic delay line configuration, which is illustrated in FIG. 2, utilizes a diaphragm 12 which is fabricated in a monolithic substrate 10. The hole or opening which defines the diaphragm lateral dimensions is constructed by milling, spark erosion, or chemical etch techniques as noted above. However, here the diaphragm thickness may be controlled by milling the opening only part way through the substrate 10 and then grinding or polishing the top surface until the desired diaphragm thickness is reached.
the electroacoustic transducers show generally at 14 and 16 are fabricated on the diaphragm-substrate surface by use of standard microelectronic techniques. If the diaphragm 12 is a metal, semiconductor, or nonpiezoelectric dielectric, a thin-film strip of piezoelectric material 18 such as ZnO will be fabricated at the desired transducer sites, preferably by rf sputtering. A thin-film of Cr/Au or other metal is often deposited before the ZnO to improve the transducer piezoelectric properties. The key component in these electroacoustic transducers is a pattern of thin film electrodes 20 which is fabricated by vacuum deposition and microelectronic pattern generation on top of the piezoelectric thin film 18. This metal pattern, which will usually be Al, has electrodes 20 arranged in either an interdigital or a grating pattern. In the interdigital case shown in detail in FIG. 3, the width d and spacing of the electrodes 20 is designed to be one quarter of the desired acoustic wavelength Λo (i.e., d = Λo /4). Alternate electrodes are connected together in the interdigital case as seen best in FIG. 3. On the other hand, the grating pattern (not shown) is designed so that the electrode width and spacing is one half of the desired acoustic wavelength (d = Λo /2). With the grating pattern all the electrodes are connected in parallel and it is important to have a metal conducting film, diaphragm or substrate under the piezoelectric film. the transducer is finished by using microelectronic bonding wires to join the transducer pattern to the rest of the pressure transducer circuit.
An alternative electroacoustic transducer configuration may be employed if the diaphragm material is usefully piezoelectric. The transducer electrode pattern (interdigital or grating type) may then be fabricated directly on the diaphragm surface, without the need for an intervening piezoelectric thin film. The efficient design of all surface acoustic wave transducers considered above is described in the review article by R. M. White, "Surface Elastic Waves", Proc. IEEE, 58, 1238-1276 (August 1970).
In general, the use of the thin-film piezoelectric strip 18 of FIG. 1 is to be preferred because the diaphragm 12 can then be chosen to optimize its mechanical properties without the heavy restraint of also possessing useful piezoelectric coupling. Rf sputtered ZnO is an attractive piezoelectric thin-film material for many pressure transducer applications because it adheres well to a variety of diaphragm surfaces and because it has relatively high piezoelectric coupling. For example, high efficiency ZnO electroacoustic transducers can be fabricated on silicon diaphragms, even if the silicon is highly conducting, if a thin-film of Cr/Au is first applied to the silicon surface. The silicon can be previously thinned by standard microcircuit techniques to thicknesses on the order of 0.002 inch. After transducer fabrication, the silicon can be bonded to a sturdy metal substrate as discussed earlier.
High efficiency ZnO transducers 14 and 16 can also be fabricated for the monolithic delay line configuration of FIG. 2 where the diaphragm 12 is first etched or milled out of a monolithic silicon, metal, or dielectric substrate 10. Again, a layer of Cr/Au would normally be applied to the substrate surface to enhance the ZnO fabrication and efficiency.
For the high temperature applications in the range above 500�C, te use of rf sputtered thin-films of ALN deposited on sapphire diaphragms can be expected to be important. The ALN/sapphire configuration has relatively strong piezoelectric coupling and does not decompose at temperatures at least up to 1000�C.
FIG.3 and 4 show the schematic circuit diagram used in the present invention to provide a circuit oscillation frequency that is determined by the applied external pressure, P. If an alternating voltage from a source (not shown) is applied to terminal pair A, a spatially varying electric field will be generated in the left-hand electroacoustic transducer 14 and surface acoustic waves will be emitted by piezoelectric interaction in the two directions normal to the transducer electrodes 20. Usually it is desired to only use the waves that propagate to the right toward the flexible diaphragm 12; the waves emitted in the opposite direction may be absorbed by roughening the surface in that direction. Transducers with interdigital or grating electrode patterns are most efficient at frequencies near the synchronism frequency fo which is defined by
fo = va /Λo
where va is the surface acoustic wave velocity of the transducer-diaphragm configuration and Λo is the periodic electrode dimension. In general, these transducers act like filters with preferred passbands near the frequency fo. It will be described subsequently how the transducer passbands can be designed to optimize the operation of the pressure transducer. The acoustic wavelength corresponding to fo is Λo = va /fo. Since acoustic wave velocities are relatively small, approximately 3000 m/sec, surface acoustic wavelengths are very short, approximately 30 micrometers for 100 MHz operation. As the penetration depth of a surface wave is limited to approximately one wavelength, the diaphragm thickness can be very thin and yet support a surface wave without mode conversion and its attendant distortion. Consequently, diaphragms for the surface wave pressure transducer can be made very thin to extend the sensitivity of the device to small pressure ranges.
Surface waves emitted by the left-hand electroacoustic transducer 14 in FIGS. 3 and 4 will travel across the diaphragm 12 in a beam or channel to reach the right-hand transducer 16 where piezoelectric interaction will yield an alternating voltage across terminal pair B. If no gas pressure or other stresses are exerted on the diaphragms 12, a short pulse of rf energy with frequency near fo applied to terminal pair A will reach terminal pair B with a delay time of
τpo = lpo /vao
where lpo and vao are respectively the center-to-center path length between electroacoustic transducers 14 and 16, and the mean surface acoustic wave velocity at zero diaphragm stress. It will be convenient to divide the delay time τpo into two components
τpo = τeo + τdo
where τeo and τdo are respectively the delay time for waves passing over the rigid substrate and flexible diaphragm portions of the delay path. If the diaphragm is flexed due to external applied pressure P, the delay time τeo will remain constant, but the diaphragm delay will be approximately given by ##EQU1## where the coefficients α1 and β1 are obtained by expressing the delay path and velocity variations in power series expansions with variable P. For small diaphragm flexures, the coefficients may be calculated for a given diaphragm material and configuration using the well-known bending plate theory. A good reference is the book by Timoshenko and Woinowsky - Krieger, Theory of Plates and Shells, 2nd Edition, McGraw Hill, 1959. In general, the terms α2 P2 and β1 P will be the largest while being themselves much smaller than 1 for small P. With a careful choice of diaphragm parameters and configuration, it is possible to achieve the condition where the term β1 P is much larger than α2 P2, thus giving an almost linear variation of delay time with pressure.
With reference to FIGS. 3 and 4, if delay line terminal pairs A and B are connected in a feedback arrangement with an amplifier 26 and the amplifier gain is increased to the point where the feedback loop gain exceeds unity, the circuit will oscillate in one or more frequency modes defined by fn,
Fn τpo + φE /2π= n
where φE is the phase delay of the amplifier and n is an integer. Since fn τpo is usually much greater than φE /2 π for a delay line feedback circuit, the frequency of the nmode will vary as τn /τpo. If the term β1 P dominates as described above, the frequency of the nth mode will vary approximately as
fn = (n/τpo ) (1 + 1 P).
this equation states that the frequency of the nth mode will vary linearly with applied external pressure. In experiments with a silicon diaphragm pressure transducer with 6.5 mm. diameter and 0.05 mm. thick diaphragm dimensions, n = 332, fo = 166 MHz and τpo = 2.0 μs. The coefficient β1 was found experimentally to be approximately -10 - 4 / atmosphere over the zero to one atmosphere pressure range. The frequency output of the pressure transducer, therefore, decreased by approximately 16.6 KHz over a one atmosphere pressure change. Since frequency can be counted to 1 Hz at center frequencies up to 500 MHz by standard electronic units such as the Hewlett-Packard Model 5327C, the present invention has the potential for measurement accuracies on the order of 0.01 percent.
The fact that many frequency modes may be allowed in the circuit of FIGS. 3 and 4 could be a serious problem because instabilities could cause the circuit to jump from mode to mode, thus giving a false indication of pressure change. A straight forward technique that avoids mode instabilities makes use of a special many electrode transducer design and is shown in FIG. 5. The two transducers 14 and 16 are designed with the same number of electrodes but are spatially distributed quite differently. The lefthand transducer 14 has r pairs of electrodes and, therefore, has a total length in th acoustic propagation direction of rΛo. The right-hand transducer has p/r groups of electrodes where all groups are in parallel, each group has s pairs of electrodes and the center-to-center spacing of these groups is rΛo. Finally, the center-to-center spacing of the two electroacoustic transducers 14 and 16 is designed to be (p + r)Λo. the overall frequency response obtained when passing through the two transducers 14 and 16 is found to vary approximately as (sin X/X)2 where X = 2 πq (f-fo)/fo and q = p + r. This transducer arrangement provides nulls in the feedback loop response at the frequencies fm,
fm = fo [ 1 + m/q]
where m is any integer different from zero. If the transducer center-to-center spacing is made exactly qΛo = q (va /fo), then fo /q = 1/τpo and the transducer response strongly attenuates all frequency modes fn described earlier except for the center mode fo = va /Λo. The above transducer design was first used in England to stabilize nonpressure dependent surface acoustic wave feedback oscillators (Ref: Crabb, Lewis, and Maines, "Surface Acoustic Wave Oscillators: Mode Selection and Frequency Modulation", Elctronics Lett., 9, 195-197, 17 May 1973). Transducers with a many electrode, narrow-band characteristic were used in the silicon diaphragm pressure transducer described earlier. No mode instabilities were observed in that device.
An important problem in many devices that utilize acoustic wave phenomena is the change in acoustic parameters and the change in acoustic delay experienced versus temperature. A linear temperature coefficient on the order of 30 ppm/�C is observed for most delay line and diaphragm materials. Since the observed sensitivities for the present invention are on the order of 100 ppm/atm, a severe problem with temperature drift could be expected. FIGS. 6A and 6B illustrate a unique dual acoustic channel configuration which can significantly cancel temperature effects and gives a pressure dependent frequency output which is low enough to be counted with inexpensive counters like the Fluke Model 1941A. The two acoustic channels are fabricated close together on the same substrate 10 so that their temperature difference will be very small. The primary channel consists of transducer assemblies 14 and 16 fabricated on a piezoelectric thin film 18 and separated by a primary diaphragm 12 as previously described. The reference channel consists of transducer assemblies 14' and 16' fabricated on the same piezoelectric thin film 18 and separated by a reference diaphragm 12'. Ideally the diaphragms 12 and 12' will be identical to insure equivalent thermal radiation characteristics. However, provision is made to apply different external pressures to the two channels. With zero applied pressure at both channels, the surface wave delay will be the same for both channels, and if identical amplifiers and feedback connections are used, the zero pressure oscillation frequencies f p and fR for the primary and reference channels respectively would be identical. In practice, a small but constant difference frequency will be observed due to circuit variances. This difference will be neglected here. Assuming that the feedback circuits for the primary and reference channels including amplifiers 26 and 26' are connected to a mixer 30 as shown in FIG. 6B, and that the difference frequency output fD = FP - fR is selected, since the two channels are nearly identical it may be assumed that their zero pressure frequencies are nearly identical (fPo ≃ fRo ) and their linear pressure sensitivities are nearly the same (β1 P ≃ β1 R). The difference frequency output is then
FD ≃ fRo β1 R (P.sub. P - PR)
which illustrates that the large temperature dependent acoustic variation can be cancelled out by use of the dual channel configuration and difference frequency output. The dual channel device works as a differential pressure transducer; the output is proportional to (PP - PR). If the reference channel pressure is held constant, the output then becomes a gauge of the absolute pressure PP. The difference frequency output from mixer 30 is then coverted to a digital output by a frequency counter 32 (FIG. 6B).
In the foregoing it has been tacitly assumed that the acoustic propagation surface of the transducer was held in a vacuum environment so that all diaphragm pressure could be exerted on the bottom side of the diaphragm. This assumption is important because the surface wave can be perturbed and attenuated if the propagation environment is changing or is viscous due to moisture or other liquid effects. Because of these environmental effects, care must be utilized in packaging the present invention if reliable operation is to be achieved. FIGS. 7A and 7B show one way in which the device can be conveniently mounted so as to discourage environmental effects. The dual channel substrate 10 on which is mounted the transducer 14, 14', 16 and 16' is affixed to the bottom of a microelectronic flatpak package 34 so that the surface wave propagation surface is facing up and the pressure dependent diaphragms 12 and 12' are facing into separate gas presure ports 36 and 38. The flat-pak package 34 may be conveniently large enough to accommodate the feedback loop amplifiers 40 and the output circuit mixer 42 appropriately connected to the transducers. After mounting these components and making microelectronic terminal connections 44, the flat-pak top cover can be welded on in either a vacuum or in a light inert gas environment. The flat-pak cover can have a mounting stud 46 for convenient mounting of the transducer in a variety of applications.
Since the pressure transducer delay line configuration uses only stable, passive materials, it has the potential for operation at very high temperatures, perhaps as high as 1000�C. Such temperatures would be too high to allow reliable operation of the electronic feedback amplifiers which are usually limited to 100�C or lower. FIG. 8 illustrates a feedthrough configuration which would allow the dual channel pressure transducer to operate in a high temperature environment while the feedback circuit could be operated some distance away under relative low temperature conditions. Referring to the FIGURE, the substrate 10 on which the appropriate delay line including the acoustic transducers is fabricated and which contains a diaphragm 12 is mounted within a plug assembly 50, the plug being threaded on its outside surface so that it may be mounted in a bounding wall 52 and secured by a locking nut 54. A passageway 56 connects the diaphragm 12 with the pressure P to be measured. The electrical connections to the transducers are passed through channels 58 to the opposite side of wall 52 where connections with amplifier 60 and the other electronics are made. Seals may be provided for the electrical connections where necessary. A cover plate 62 secured to plug 50 protects the delay line for the environment, the space adjacent the substrate being evacuated or filled with inert gas. In this manner the diaphragm may be opened through port 56 to a high temperature environment such as a turbine engine where it is desired to measure a pressure, while the amplifier 60 and other heat sensitive electronics may be at a much lower temperature. High temperature coax cable could be used to connect the delay line and feedback amplifiers; even several feet of cable could be used as the delay time for the cable is only nanoseconds per foot while the delay line delay will be one microsecond or more.
The basic configuration for the surface acoustic wave pressure transducer can be utilized for measuring other quantities in addition to pressure. Acoustic propagation is usually very sensitive to temperature variations. In the dual channel configuration, the feedback circuit frequency in either channel will be approximately linearly varying in frequency if the pressure is held constant. In a quite different application, the slightly modified configuration shown in FIG. 9 could be used to measure acceleration. The diaphragm configuration of FIGS. 1 and 2 now has a mass load M attached to the center of the diaphragm 12 so that a force F = Ma, where a is the acceleration, will be exerted on the diaphragm. Although the entire diaphragm-substrate would now be sealed in a vacuum or light inert gas environment to eliminate diaphragm pressure due to external gas loading, the basic delay line and feedback oscillator circuit are not changed. Since the oscillator frequency is approximately linearly related to the net force on the diaphragm, the frequency output of the device will now vary in proportion to the applied acceleration A dual channel configuration with different mass loads M1 and M2 in the two channels could be used to cancel out temperature variations.
The basic configuration can also be utilized for in situ mechanical stress-strain measurements. In this case, the transducer configuration of FIGS. 1 and 2 is either fabricated directly on the physical surface to be measured, as is illustrated in FIG. 10, or the thin diaphragm with associated transducers is uniformly bonded to the measurement surface. In FIG. 10 transducers 14 and 16 are fabricated directly on the surface of plate 50 which is under stress due to bending moment MB.
The phase delay between transducers will be a function of surface stress, as was observed earlier in the description of pressure transducer operation. As before, the transducer configuration is connected to a feedback amplifier circuit to provide a stress dependent frequency readout. Moreover, for applications on most engineering material surfaces, the relationship between stress and strain is well known. Thus, the basic configuration can provide an accurate measure of surface strain. The principle advantages of the stress-strain sensor illustrated in FIG. 10 over other approaches are: (1) direct fabrication or bonding to the measurement surface to provide a stable measurement configuration; (2) potential for very high temperature operation as, for example, in the critical afterburner region of a jet engine; and (3) compatibility with digital systems.
By keeping the diaphragm or wave propagation surface isolated from changes in applied pressure and strain, the device of this invention can be used to sense temperature. The feedback circuit frequency in this arrangement will then vary approximately linearly as a function of temperature due to the expansion in the diaphragm or wave propagation surface with temperature changes.
The device can also be used as a mass flow meter for measuring the flow of either gases or liquids. This result is accomplished by directing the flow toward the diaphragm in such a way that the flow is reversed after passing over the diaphragm or at the point of contact with the diaphragm. The change in momentum results in a force on the diaphragm that is proportional to the momentum which is in turn equal to the mass per unit length of the flow multiplied by the velocity of the flow. Thus the velocity is measured if the mass density of the flow is known.
While the preferred modes of the invention has been illustrated and described, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that changes may be made in the form of the apparatus disclosed without departing from the scope of the invention as set forth in the appended claims.
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"I told them we are not interested and that I am going on a different path," he said after helping the Thunder to the Ahwatukee Cup title last week. "There are some schools that are still in contact by email, but it has quieted down.
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Chappell, Timothy A. (2015) Scalable document hashing and retrieval. PhD thesis, Queensland University of Technology.
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Jeff Trawick wrote: > On 5/1/06, Greg Ames <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: > >> after more thought, there is a simpler patch that should do the job. the key to both of >> these is how threads in SERVER_DEAD state with a pid in the scoreboard are treated. this >> means that p_i_s_m forked on a previous timer pop but some thread never made it into >> SERVER_STARTING state. >> >> the difference: this patch just counts those potential threads as idle, and allows >> MinSpareThreads worth of processes to be forked before putting on the brakes. the >> previous patch pauses the forking immediately when the strange situation is detected but >> requires more code and a new variable. > > new patch is fine with me; I think we've lost our other interested > parties on this thread anyway ;) I'm still here! I had to be away from the keyboard most of last week, so have only returned to this thread (pun intended, alas) recently. I also found myself fixing a variety of other things that turned up in the vicinity of this issue; patches forthcoming on those subjects. This is indeed a very straightforward fix; I've been trying to ponder its consequences overnight. The questions I've got (no answers yet, just thought I'd ping so you know I'm here) would be (a) whether you want to allow for SERVER_GRACEFUL as well to be counted as idle, and (b) whether there's any reason to want to not proceed through the if (any_dead_threads && ...) logic that follows in p_i_s_m(). If you can bear with me for a day or two more, I should have a collection of patches ready. These tackle the issue by tracking the start and listener threads in a nice new spot in the scoreboard, and also clean up various issues and bugs relating to fork(), ThreadLimit, ServerLimit, MaxClients, etc. They also tackle some issues raised in various XXX comments and clean up some stale cruft in scoreboard.h. Chris. -- GPG Key ID: 366A375B GPG Key Fingerprint: 485E 5041 17E1 E2BB C263 E4DE C8E3 FA36 366A 375B
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LOS ANGELES -- A pitchers' duel is a lot like a chess match, and the canon law of chess is that victory goes to the player who makes the second to last mistake.
On Friday night in the Los Angles Regional, Long Beach State made an error in the bottom of the fourth -- the last misstep of the game before San Diego State committed the dagger in the sixth. Long Beach State finished with the win, 1-0.
"We knew that it would come down to probably a mistake," said Long Beach State coach Pete Manarino of the standoff, in which both teams went hitless through five innings. "We just did a great job of manufacturing a run."
Manufacture they did -- moving systematically, 60 feet at a time, ultimately plating the winning run in the sixth. It was junior Kourtnee Gervasi who got things going with a one-out fly ball to shallow left. A diving Tamani Wells almost kept the no-hitter alive by brilliantly laying out and catching the floater, but lost hold of it when her diving body hit the outfield grass.
Center fielder Breezy Goad laid down a perfect sacrifice, moving Gervasi over to second and bringing up Tiffanie Wedell. The second baseman slapped a chopper to short, where Chrissie Markham rushed her throw in an effort to get the speedster. Wedell would have had the bag by a step even if Markham's throw was on point earning her the infield single, but Markham skipped it away into foul territory which brought Gervasi around to score. That run proved all the 49ers would need to make it out of Game 1 unscathed, as their hurler Michelle Turner (26-9) struck out four and gave up just two hits over seven innings.
One interesting, if not offbeat occurrence in this game took place during Turner's third at bat. Turner, the hurler who boasts the fourth highest batting average on team, took a hack and connected on a pitch from Christina Ross and actually broke her bat in half. It's the first time I had ever seen it -- not an MLB, every-other-game slab of lumber splintering -- this was a Louisville Slugger TPS Catalyst composite that snapped in half on contact!
Maybe it was the muscle the pitch had behind it; after all, Christina Ross is the 2006 Mountain West Conference Pitcher of the Year. The sophomore struck out nine batters, allowed only three hits and walked none, but fell to 16-9 in the loss on an unearned run.
I'm not sure which was the tougher break for Ross.
Ross and the Aztecs must win two on Saturday to stay alive. Long Beach State takes the high road, facing Friday's other winner in Los Angeles -- the hometown UCLA Bruins.
UCLA 11, Missouri State 2
The nation's No. 1 ranked Bruins leapt out to victory in the nightcap of the Los Angeles Regional, scoring seven runs before Missouri State had the chance to bat through their lineup.
"UCLA certainly showed why they are the No. 1 team in the country," said Missouri State coach Holly Hesse, who has led the Bears to five trips to the NCAA Tournament.
The Bruins started off their World Series pursuit with a slugfest, belting four home runs in the 11-2 victory over the Missouri Valley Conference champions.
UCLA struck early and often with a lead-off two-strike single in the first from Pac-10 Player of the Year Andrea Duran, followed by a hard hit single up the middle from Krista Colburn. With two outs, junior short stop Jodie Legaspi took a big swing just missing the first delivery from MSU's senior hurler Shannon Buslepp, but Legaspi turned on the very next pitch driving a three-run homer over the left-field scoreboard, punctuating the three-run first inning.
In the second inning, UCLA tallied four more hits off Buslepp, including singles from Whitney Holum and Tara Henry, and an RBI single from Duran. Colburn added a sac fly to make it 5-0 and bring up senior second baseman Caitlin Benyi. In her first at bat, Benyi laid down a sac bunt to move two runners into scoring position, but in her second at-bat, she belted her ninth home run of the season well over the left-field wall, giving UCLA a seven-run lead after only two innings of play.
Missouri State called sophomore Melissa Porche into the circle after Benyi's bash. Porche, who hails from Buena Park, Calif. (about 35 miles from Easton Stadium) leads the nation with seven saves on the year. Porche settled in and allowed no hits or runs in the third and fourth inning. In the fifth, Legaspi continued her assault, hitting her second homer of the game -- this time to the opposite field.
In the sixth and final inning of play, it was back-to-back doubles from Henry and Duran, followed by a two-run blast from Colburn that triggered the mercy rule and 11-2 victory for UCLA.
While the Bruins put on a clinic in the batter's box, it should not go without saying that Missouri State got their hacks in off ace Anjelica Selden.
UCLA coach Sue Enquist noted, "We jumped on them early, and a lot of teams usually break at that point, but they didn't at all. ... They weren't going to just roll over, and I compliment them for that. ... When Jelly slipped up a couple times, they capitalized, and that's the sign of a good team."
Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year senior Samantha Fleeman went 2-for-3 against Selden. Jelly fanned her in their first meeting, but Fleeman came through in her second at-bat with a hard hit single up the middle past Selden and Benyi to score the Bears' first run of the game. Fleeman led off the sixth inning in her third plate appearance, where she took Selden's first pitch over the right-field wall for her 10th dinger of the season.
Said Fleeman of drawing No. 1 UCLA, "We were excited. At first, it was a little bit intimidating but who else better to play, especially your senior year, than UCLA?"
Junior left fielder Katie Martin went 2-for-2 with a double and a run scored off of Selden.
Selden struck out 11 and walked one in her six innings of work, improving to 29-5. She and UCLA face Long Beach State in the first game on Saturday at Easton Stadium.
All games from the Los Angeles Regional will be televised live by ESPNU. The Bruins and 49ers kick off the afternoon at 5:30 p.m. ET. The Bears and Aztecs face off at 8 p.m. ET.
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In a recent story confirming Lauren Graham's possible participation in Scream 4, we also learned the names of two more new cast members for Wes Craven's upcoming film: Anthony Anderson and Marielle Jaffe.
First things first, though. Graham appeared on "The Tonight Show" this week and told Jay she WILL be in the film playing Emma Roberts' mom. Roberts, you may recall, is portraying Jill Kessler, "one of the primary heroines," a cousin to Neve Campbell's character in the series. You can watch the video below the info on Anderson and Jaffe, whose casting was revealed via a quick mention on EW.com.
Anderson previously appeared in Scary Movie 3 and 4 but is probably best known as Detective Kevin Bernard on "Law & Order" and Antwon Mitchell on "The Shield". Jaffee (pictured) only has two credits on IMDB: Locked Away (currently in post-production) and Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief. No word yet on what characters either will be playing in Scream 4.
The horror series that reignited the genre and grossed more than $500 million worldwide is back! From Kevin Williamson, creator of the original Scream trilogy, the new film sees the return of cast members Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, and David Arquette along with a group of new stars, who can all hopefully stay alive long enough to figure out the new rules to this one-of-a-kind horror franchise!
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GE went from being an "Evil" company to a leader in innovation
1. They have content that is focused
2. They give this content to the leadership team and they bring it to the public
3. They focus on the future - Innovation
4. They found their purpose and capitalized on it - They turned their purpose into value
5. They successfully demonstrate company impact on consumers
Lets look at examples
"What my mom does at GE"
"GE Stories: Healthcare"
So what did GE do right?
In order to be a lead innovator, we need to lead by example. What are we doing to innovate? What CAN we do to innovate?
The only way for a company to survive and thrive today is if it has the ability to reinvent itself.
Investing in Education is a key way to impact reputation. The narrative?
"As a leader in Innovation, Pfizer strives to not only innovate new medicines, but also make societal innovation a priority. We are investing in the children of today, because they are the leaders of tomorrow. Our children are our future, so why wouldn't we advance their education?
Why is this so powerful?
If Pfizer wants to say they are a lead innovator, they have to show that they are. By investing in education, it shows the public that not only are we interested in right now, but that we are also focusing on the future.
Its a key Idea because it reaches two huge target markets.
- Parents
- Kids
Parents can appreciate a company that is helping to educate their children
It also shows that Pfizer is planning for the future of our kids.
Need more convincing?
Education isn't only for children. It also includes the young adults (much like myself) in the millennial generation who are about to break into the world.
Why should we care?
There is an opportunity to be bold and lead.
Pfizer, a leading Biopharmaceutical company, can create programs in higher education that cultivates and enriches students through STEM education.
Let's stop taking about opportunity, and instead,
create it!
What are other companies doing in Education?
"Innovation" has become a huge buzz word and it has lost its meaning. Pfizer needs to take innovation and OWN IT. How can Pfizer make innovation stand out?
Lets own sustainable innovation and bring it to life
So what does "Sustainable Innovation" even mean?
Sustainable means to maintain or to uphold something.
Thus, Sustainable Innovation is the act of upholding a culture of innovative thinking, and innovative results. Not only in the short term, but also the long term.
Its a great concept because it is an emergent property. The Idea of sustainable Innovation not only can be used in regards to Pharmaceuticals, but also to education (more on this later), and society as a whole.
How can we build stronger connections with the people who come in contact with Pfizer?
Pfizer's focus is not just the medicines it creates, its about the people who use them"
The consumer has the power to determine whether a company is good or bad. With the rise of social media, the consumer now determines a companies reputation.
The people have a say.
How can we use the peoples voice to our advantage?
"Pfizer is not only passionate about creating a sustainable and innovative culture within the company, but also in society."
But also...
A company that cares about the people. From the employees to the patients it helps.
J&J has continued to change their associations. Previously known as the "soft & Fuzzy" company, they are now establishing themselves and a company who cares. A company who is there for its consumers.
In addition to that, they have started their initiative to bring awareness to nurses.
Brand Identity
"Campaign for Nursing's Future - Pediatric Nurses"
"Campaign For Nursing' Future - Emergency Room Nurses"
Pfizer has already done something like this...
Starbucks College Achievement Plan
More Than Medication
"You are who you associate with"
Pfizer needs to evaluate it current partnerships and determine how we can work together to a common goal
"We have a workforce of over 100,000 young people in America. 70% of the employees don't have a college degree. We have paired with an innovative public school. Starbucks is an innovative company. We said, let's do something disruptive, let's do something historic. Lets break the rules"
Service Value - User Experience
In order to humanize, Pfizer needs to take interest in the people who use the products. Highlight the pipeline by showing how these medicines impact the people who use them.
Millenials & Generation Z
As we have seen, Starbucks has already discovered the value of investing in the children and young adults of today.
Pfizer NEEDS to do this. It is imperative that we realize that the young adults and the children of today are our future. If we really want to impact our reputation, we should create initiatives that will give these young kids opportunities.
"To Err is Human"
Instead of hiding our failures, we should capitalize on them. We learn the most from our mistakes, and the same goes for companies.
We make mistakes, we learn to innovate better. This allows us to make better medicines and help more people.
Domino's is a great example!
Domino's turned their failure into a good thing. They publicized it in order to show the public what they are doing to fix it.
This demonstrates accountability and responsibility for their actions. They admitted they were wrong; and now they are doing everything they can to fix it. This earns respect from society and builds trust.
Who are we as a company, and what do we want to stand for?
If we can answer this question, we can build the brand and the reputation around that. But first, we need the big idea. The one liner.
What can we learn from Domino's?
OWNing our failures
Using our failures to motivate Pfizer to do better
Leverage the "More than Medication" campaign
How can we bring OWN IT culture externally?
How can we Live Boldly?
So who is a lead innovator?
At Pfizer Canada, we want to help Canadians live healthier, more balanced lives - because we believe that to be truly healthy, it takes More Than Medication®. We collaborate with health care professionals and patient organizations, with a view to providing you credible information to inspire and motivate you to make healthier choices.
Its a fantastic campaign because it is above the brand. It goes beyond what we do as a company, and recognizes that hope and social support are extremely powerful things when it comes to illness.
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They say the animals are agitated because one of their herd disappeared.
Officials say the missing animal became disorientated, and fell into a ditch and drowned over the weekend.
Residents of the village of Banta gave the 17-year-old female a quiet burial three days ago, but marauding elephants have raided the village ever since.
"We have not slept for three days and the few of us left are lighting huge bonfires to keep the elephants at bay without success," villager Sambhu Mahato told the Reuters news agency in Banta, 78 km (49 miles) west of the state capital, Ranchi.
The dead elephant is believed to have had strayed out of nearby forests on Saturday. It became disorientated, fell into an irrigation ditch and drowned.
Officials say crops and homes have been destroyed by the animals and that "thousands of farmers and their families" have been forced to leave the area.
They are now being provided with accommodation by friends and relatives or are being looked after by local officials.
"We have now formed a team of 30 people armed with crackers to try and chase away the elephants as they are out to avenge the death of their mate," UR Biswas, Jharkhand's leading forests official, told Reuters in Ranchi.
Experts say that human encroachment has led to a lack of forest cover in eastern India, forcing elephants and other animals regularly to leave their homes in search of food, which in turn triggers conflict with locals.
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Where do I find hi-ratio shortening? I live in northern new jersey....anywhere around here. My daughter's birthday is on Saturday and I would love to use this shortening for the cake. Help please!
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Some say that your local cake bakery will have it.
I live up in Canada, but I just bought it at the local bulk store. Or sometimes I use the shortening from Walmart (their brand not crisco cause crisco removed the trans fats and it does not work the same anymore)
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Nielsens: America gets 'Talent' in a big way
•Talented. The season opener of NBC's America's Got Talent drew a robust 15.3 million viewers Tuesday, its third-biggest installment yet and 3 million ahead of last summer's opener. AGT also boosted The Voice, which followed, to a series-high 14.4 million.
•Not so much. The premiere of ABC's Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition was OK with 7.1 million viewers Monday. But NBC's summer burnoff Love Bites claimed a low 2.6 million Thursday.
•AgingMen. TNT's Men of a Certain Age returned with a below-average 1.8 million viewers on Wednesday, following the OK start of legal dramedy Franklin & Bash (2.7 million).
•More cable openers. History's Gettysburg (3.8 million Monday) and A&E's The Glades (3 million Sunday). Losers: Oxygen's World According to Paris (Hilton), with 409,000 Wednesday; Bravo's Million Dollar Decorators (781,000) and Lifetime's Love Handles (482,000, both Tuesday).
•Cable finales. E!'s Khloe & Lamar (2.5 million); A&E's Breakout Kings (2 million); ABC Family's Secret Life of the American Teenager (2.1 million); and Animal Planet's River Monsters (1.5 million, all Monday); Bravo's Real Housewives of OC (a series-high 2.9 million Sunday); TLC's Sister Wives (2.8 million Sunday).
•Sports beat. ABC's NBA Finals coverage is pacing well ahead of last year, averaging 15.3 million over three games; NBC's NHL Stanley Cup finals drew 4.1 million for its first two.
•No music here. The MTV Movie Awards Sunday claimed 4.5 million viewers, down a tick, surrounded by the finale of America's Best Dance Crew (2.6 million) and the opener of its latest scripted drama, Teen Wolf (a modest 2.2 million). Wednesday's sendoff of The Real World also drew 2.2 million.
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- Survey of Boston Neighborhoods Reveals Life Before and After Marathon Bombing
A new study that sheds light on how residents felt about their neighborhoods before and after the attack.
- U54 Research Methods Seminar Series: March 2014
Join us for our upcoming seminar, "Non-verbal response card for asking sensitive questions" by our guest speaker, Megan Klein Hattori, PhD, Asst. Professor of Sociology, UMass Boston
- Jack Fowler Receives Highest Award for Survey Research
American Association for Public Opinion Research calls him "one of the original and most productive survey methodologists."
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Nicotine replacement therapies (NRTs) designed to help people stop smoking, specifically nicotine patches and nicotine gum, do not appear to be effective in helping smokers quit long-term, even when combined with smoking cessation counseling.


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Kakita Totani was the commander of the Third Imperial Legion.
Blood Hunt Edit
In 1166 Totani went to Scorpion lands to hunt the bloodspeakers that had been revealed when Iuchiban ordered then to make self-destructive acts of chaos. Bayushi Paneki had assigned Shosuro Aroru under her command while the Legions were in the Scorpion lands. She knew the Scorpion would inform Paneki about her movements, decision, and mannerism. Totani led a dangerous mission, with Aroru and only ten more men, sneaking into the Beiden Pass to reach a cultist camp. Aroru was surprised the Crane exposed her to such risks. [1]
Destroyer War Edit
In 1173 during the Destroyer War Totani and her legion fought in the Battle of Kyuden Ashinagabachi. [2]
External Links Edit
- Kakita Totani (Wrath of the Emperor)
- ↑ Blood Hunt (Region 36alt - Konopiska, Poland)
- ↑ Goddesses, Part 3, by Shawn Carman
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Andrew Wilson is a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations.
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I am simulating a 2 phase cavitating flow problem and would like to check the yplus value of my grid. But, when i execute the standard yPlusRAS option available in OpenFAOM v1.5 i receive an error message:
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Reading/calculating face flux field phi
keyword transportModel is undefined in dictionary "/usr2/daten/enallap/ansa/ventil.simple.dlay/constant/transportProperties"
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i am attaching my transportPropertiesdict file for reference.
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i think yPlusRAS is only valid for singlephase flow. this means that your transportProperties-dict is not appropriate for this app.
maybe you could try to define another dict.
Hello together,
I'm not sure if you are still interested but when I had the same problem with 2-phase-flow I modified the yPlusRas tool for OF-1.5. Now it only checks the liquid phase but normally that's the interesting one in your cavitation case.
If you want I can upload it here. But it's no big thing, it just reads the values from another sub-dictionary....
Regards, Julius
Hi Julius,
Can you please upload your modified yPlusRAS tool that you created?
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Hello Mai-Chi,
here is the little tool. But please take care since it only uses the first phase mentioned in the transportProperties file.
Hope the tool helps you a bit,
Regards, Julius
thanks for the post julius, it was really helpful. do you by any chance know how to compute forces in two phase flow?
Hi Mai-Chi,
just look into Mark Couwenbergs solver "shipFoam" he presented in the forum some time ago.
there you find the necessary files with the integrations over the surfaces and everything. For example in the first revision of "shipFoam" there is the "hullforces.H" which calculates the forces.
For 2-phase flow no explicit gamma (alpha1) term is necessary because the density is already implemented in the pressure term.
Regards, Julius
Good day to everyone,
Could anyone please take a look how to modify the tool for use with OpenFOAM 1.7? I tried to tackle it on my own, but no success. I'm not sure where to go from there.
Any help is highly appreciated.
Have a great day everyone!
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