Mechanisms of Active Fuzzy Expertise

Consideration was given to the decision making procedures based on the fuzzy messages of experts whose preferences on the set of collective decisions can also be fuzzy.     

High-voltage bridge for measuring spontaneous polarization,dielectric constants,and conductivity of ferroelectric crystals

Translated from Izmeritel'naya Tekhnika, No. 9, pp. 34–35, September, 1989.     

Insiders, outsiders, and efficiency in a National Science Foundation panel.

Assessed the efficiency of the peer review system during 3 National Science Foundation panel meetings held in 1982 and 1983. During these meetings, nearly 200 proposals received almost 1,400 reviews from "insiders" (panel members) and "outsiders" (ad hoc reviewers). Although the ratio of ad hoc time to panelist time was about 2:1, ad hoc reviewers' quantitative ratings had scant independent influence on final proposal ratings. Nevertheless, it may be that ad hoc reviewers provided crucial qualitative information, acting more as expert witnesses than as judges. The outcome of about a third of the proposals (the very good and the very poor) could be reliably predicted by independent panelist assessments that occurred before the panel meetings. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Tube-shaping unit — A way of improving the quality of shaped tubes

Lenin Dnepropetrovsk Pipe Plant. Translated from Metallurg, No. 8, p. 39, August, 1989.     

Analytic approach to the computation of the temperature distribution in multilayer structures under heating by cw scanning laser radiation

By using integral transform methods, an approach is developed to the solution of a problem on the temprature distribution in multilayer structures heated by cw scanning laser radiation, with phase transitions in the layers taken into account.Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 53, No. 6, pp. 1000–1010, December, 1987.     

On the role of vacancies in the process of self-diffusion at low temperatures

Expressions for the calculation of the parameters of self-diffusion in a crystal of simple substance at temperatures close to absolute zero are derived. It is established that, in “loose” crystal structures (with the first coordination number below 12), the amount of atoms involved in diffusion motion exceeds the number of vacant sites in the crystal lattice at T=0 K. The results of calculations of the vacancy and diffusion parameters at T=0 K for ten cryocrystals show that the phenomenon of “nonvacancy self-diffusion at T=0 K” can take place only in bcc helium.