Measurements of the cosmic-ray hydrogen and helium spectra at energies from 20 to 800 TeV are presented. The experiments were performed on a series of twelve balloon Ñights, including several long duration Australia to South America and Antarctic circumpolar Ñights. No clear evidence is seen for a spectral break. Both the hydrogen and the helium spectra are consistent with power laws over the entire energy range, with integral spectral indices 1.80^0.04 and for the protons and helium, respec-1.68~0 .06 0.04 tively. The results are fully consistent with expectations based on supernova shock acceleration coupled with a "" leaky box ÏÏ model of propagation through the Galaxy.

A new regime of laser-matter interactions in which the quiver motion of plasma electrons is fully relativistic, with energies extending well above the threshold for nuclear processes, is studied using a petawatt laser system. In solid target experiments with focused intensities exceeding 10(20) W/cm(2), high energy electron generation, hard bremsstrahlung, and nuclear phenomena have been observed. We report here a quantitative comparison of the high energy electrons and the bremsstrahlung spectrum, as measured by photonuclear reaction yields, including the photoinduced fission of 238U.

This paper presents an active microvibration isolation system using voice-coil linear motors, and pneumatic and piezoelectric actuators. This system is designed to reduce microvibration of the six degrees-of-freedom associated with the rigid body modes of the vibration isolation table by feeding back the pseudo absolute displacement and velocity of the table. To improve vibration isolation performance, a feed-forward control link is added to the sway components in each dimension. This system can also control bending modes of the table in the frequency range up to 200 Hz by employing a proposed Virtual Tuned-Mass Damper control strategy, which is a type of the pole assignment method. In this approach, the pole locations are chosen by a genetic algorithm. For ambient microvibration of the floor around 0.5 cm/s2 and for small earthquakes of around 8 cm/s2 a reduction by a factor of 100 was achieved in the acceleration of the vibration isolation table. Moreover, the vibration of the isolation table was decreased over the entire frequency range. This system also showed good vibration control performance when an impact excitation was applied directly to the table; vibration was damped out within about 0.1 sec. Additionally, the resonance amplitudes around the bending modes of the table were reduced from 1/5 to 1/15 by the Virtual Tuned-Mass Damper method.

AVSTRACTThe purpose of this study was to refine the items on a scale measuring interprofessional collaborative competency that was developed by the authors in an earlier pilot study. A questionnaire-based study was conducted with a sample of 2133 health professionals using the reformulated questionnaire. Construct validity was tested by comparing the survey results with a covariance structure analysis and the domains of interprofessional collaboration competencies presented in previous studies. A second survey was conducted 2 weeks later with a sample of 571 nursing professionals, using the same survey form to test its reliability. We constructed a model comprising 29 observed variables and six latent variables (the Chiba Interprofessional Competency Scale: CICS29), and obtained the following values for the model's goodness of fit: GFI = 0.925, AGFI = 0.908, CFI = 0.950, RMSEA = 0.049. With regard to reliability, we obtained scores ranging from 0.65 to 0.77 for the intraclass correlation coefficients of the six domains. Compared with the interprofessional collaboration scales indicated in previous studies, the CICS29 was found to have subsumed the key concepts that should be configured as interprofessional collaboration competencies. The CICS29 appeared to have satisfactory levels of reliability and validity and is recommended as a scale for measuring competencies of interprofessional practice. ARTICLE HISTORY

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