H. J. Eysenck This book is not an introduction to personality research, it is not a textbook, and above all it is not a model of personality. The title, A Modelfor Personality, was chosen on purpose to indicate that we are here concerned with a discussion of how models in this field ought to be constructed, what their functions were, and whether such models or paradigms could with advantage be produced at this stage of development. One particular aspect of personality, extraversion introversion (E), has been chosen to exemplify the desiderata which emerge from such a discussion. It is not suggested that personality and E are synonymous - merely that this particular dimension is perhaps better known than any other, has had more experimental work done on it than any other and has acquired a better theoretical substructure, and more links with genetics and physiology, than any other. Hence it seems most likely to serve as an example of how a satisfactory model of personality might ultimately be constructed, i. e. by analogy with E. Other dimensions of personality, such as neuroticism-stability or psycho tic ism-superego functioning, are mentioned in the discussion, but only when they overlap or interrelate with E. The book uses E as an example to illustrate the way in which a model of personality can be constructed, but it is in no way a summary of all that is known about E.

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Models of the electrical current collected by a planar aperture ion sensor generally assume that the 2 pi steradian field of view is unobstructed. This is not always achieved. This report shows the development of a model for the measured current based on a simple approximation for the obstructions that are placed in the field of view of any planar aperture ion sensor. The details of the model given herein are related to the ion sensors onboard two Air Force satellites, where the sensors have been recessed below the level of the spacecraft skin. However, the model can easily be adapted to many other cases of obstructions in the field of view. For collection of data when the ambient ion thermal speed is negligible compared to the relative bulk flow (ram) speed, the obstructions are only important when the flow vector from the ambient plasma to the plasma sensor intersects the obstructions. For the collection of data when the ion thermal speed is comparable to the relative bulk flow speed, the obstructions affect the amount of current collected by the sensors at all orientations of the spacecraft to the bulk flow direction. (Author).

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