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Ultra-compact and light weight intelligent power semiconductor module for hybrid system

Recently, hybrid electric vehicles are required high power with high fuel efficiency and comfortable large cabin space. An ultra compact intelligent power module for two-motor hybrid electric vehicles which integrates one back-boost chopper and an inverter for a traction motor, an inverter for a power generator has been developed. The module is the world's first released module which has a direct liquid cooling structure with a solder-joined aluminium heat sink. The module achieves a 30-% reduction of volume and a 60-% reduction of weight compared to our conventional models. A heat sink with high cooling capacity and a high-strength solder were newly developed to establish the structure. The module is designed for 700 V/ 400 kVA system and it has an on-chip self protection functions and serial communication interface with a master control unit.
An empirical investigation of switching intention to private cloud computing in large enterprises

Cloud computing has recently become popular information technologies in enterprises. More and more enterprises tend to move from traditional enterprise information systems (EIS) to private EIS. However, few studies have addressed the switching issues, especially in large enterprises. The purpose of this study is to investigate switching intentions from traditional EIS to private cloud EIS for large enterprises. A research model draws from Technology-Organization-Environment framework. Data were collected from 251 top managers and owners of the enterprises in China and used to analyze six hypotheses. The results show that perceived benefits and data security of technological context, perceived costs of organizational context, vendor support and consultant support of environmental context significantly influence switching intentions; technological competence does not significantly influence switching intentions. The findings are useful to understand switching issues from traditional EIS to private cloud EIS for both researchers and practitioners.
Radiometric Measurement of Time-Varying Temperature Profiles

Due to interest in non-invasive monitoring of subcutaneous temperature in hyperthermia treatments, a thermometer based on a multi-frequency microwave radiometer is compared to a standard invasive thermocouple system. The exprments have been made inside a phantom structure consisting of a three-layer box construction, a polyacrylamide-gel slab being sandwiched between two water layers. The uniformn temperatures of the external layers are separately controlled in time by thermostats in order to create a one-dimensional transient hyperthermia-like temperature profile inside the gel. A comparison among the data obtained by thermocouples and by a 4 channel radiometer, and the results from a theoretical model has shown good agreement. The transient temperature profile has been retrieved by means of a Kalman filtering of data. The agreement between the retrievals from radiometric and thermocouple data is satisfactory, the difference being about 1°C during the whole duration of treatment.
The Position-Orientation Masking Approach to Parametric Search for Template Matching

A new search method over (x,y,/spl theta/), called position-orientation masking is introduced. It is applied to vertices that are allowed to be separated into different bands of acuteness. Position-orientation masking yields exactly one /spl theta/ value for each (x,y) that it considers to be the location of a possible occurrence of an object. Detailed matching of edge segments is performed at only these candidate (x,y,/spl theta/) to determine if objects actually do occur there. Template matching is accelerated dramatically since the candidates comprise only a small fraction of all (x,y,/spl theta/). Position-orientation masking eliminates the need for exhaustive search when deriving the candidate (x,y,/spl theta/). Search is guided by correlations between template vertices and distance transforms of image vertices. When a poor correlation is encountered at a particular position and orientation, nearby positions at that orientation and nearby orientations at that position are masked out. Position and orientation traversal are by quadrant and binary decomposition. >
Öğrtmenlerin Etik Davranışları

Bu arastirma, ogretmenlerin etik davranislari uzerine odaklanmaktadir. Calismada kullanilan etik davranis listesi; "Orta Tennessee'deki Devlet Okulu ve Yoneticilerinin Etik Davranislara Iliskin Tutumlari Uzerine Bir Arastirma”(1986), "Ogretimdeki Etik Calismalar”(1997) ve "Surekli Degisim Gosteren Amerikan Sosyal Sistemindeki Ogretmenleiin Etik davranislari konulu arastirmalar uzerine temellendirilmistir. Arastirmanin amaclari; Ogretmenlerin etik davranislarini saptamak ve Turk ogretmenler arasinda bu davranislari gosterme oranini belirlemektir.
Neighboring-based Linear System for Dynamic Meshes

www.eg. org diglib.eg. org Abstract A linear system is a fundamental building block for several mesh-based computer graphics applications such as simulation, shape deformation, virtual surgery, and fluid/smoke animation, among others. Nevertheless, such a system is most of the times seen as a black box and algorithms do not deal with its optimization. Depending on the number of unknowns, the linear system is often considered as an obstacle for real time application and as a building block for offline computations. We present in this paper, a neighboring-based methodology for representing a linear system. This new representation enables a compact storage of the set of equation, flexibility for ordering the unknowns and a rapid iterative solution, by means of an optimized matrix-vector multiplication. In addition, this representation facilitates the modification of part of the linear system without affecting its unchanged part and avoiding the complete rebuild of the system. This specially benefits applications dealing with dynamic meshes, where the geometry, the topology or both are constantly changed. We present the capabilities of our methodology in models with different sizes and for different operations, highlighting the dynamic characteristic of the mesh. We believe that several applications in computer graphics could benefit from our methodology, in order to improve their convergence and their performance, reducing the number of iterations and the computation time.
What Is Fibromyalgia, How Is It Diagnosed, and What Does It Really Mean?

Frederick Wolfe MD, National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases and University of Kansas School of Medicine, Wichita, Kansas Brian T. Walitt MD MPH, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC Winfried Hauser MD, Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy Technische Universitat Munchen, Munich, Germany and Department Internal Medicine I, Klinikum Saarbrucken, Saarbrucken, Germany Key Indexing Words: Fibromyalgia, criteria, meaning Financial support: None Conflict of interest: Winfried Hauser has received one consulting honorarium by Daiichi-Sankyo and honoraria for educational lectures by Abbott Germany, Eli-Lilly, Janssen-Cilag and Pfizer in the last 5 years. He is the head of the steering committee of the German guideline on FMS. Corresponding author: Frederick Wolfe MD, fwolfe@arthritis-research.org, (316) 686-9195 Editorial Arthritis Care & ResearchDOI 10.1002/acr.22207This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not beenthrough the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process which may lead todifferences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as anAccepted Article, doi: 10.1002/acr.22207© 2013 American College of RheumatologyReceived: Sep 29, 2013; Accepted: Oct 08, 2013
The microcirculation and fluid transport in digestive organs.

The microcirculation of digestive organs is responsible for providing the fluid required for salivary, gastric, pancreatic, and biliary secretions and plays a major role in removing fluid from the interstitium of the intestines during absorption. Data from the literature suggest that hydrostatic and oncotic pressures within the interstitium are important in modulating fluid movement between the microcirculation and transporting epithelia in most digestive organs. Changes in capillary hydrostatic pressure appear to play a more important role in some organs, i.e., salivary glands. Alterations in the density of perfused capillaries and capillary permeability also enhance capillary fluid exchange during transport. These factors, coupled to the high capillary hydraulic conductivity, allow the digestive organs to move large amounts of fluid between the blood and transporting epithelia.
Combined measurement of PEDF, haptoglobin and tau in cerebrospinal fluid improves the diagnostic discrimination between alzheimer’s disease and other dementias

Using proteomic approach in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) we identified pigment epithelium-derived factor (PEDF) and Haptoglobin (Hp) as putative markers that could discriminate between AD and other dementias. ELISA assays were developed to measure the levels of PEDF and Hp in CSF from patients with AD (AD, n = 27), non-AD (NAD, n = 30) and in non-demented patients (ND, n = 27). The combined assessment of PEDF, Hp and Tau levels, using Iterative Marginal Optimization, improved the differential diagnosis of AD, especially in patients with moderate to severe dementia (p<0.002). This pilot study highlights the probable different contribution of oxidative mechanisms in dementia.
Population Genetic Structure of California Hazelnut, An Important Food Source for People in Quiroste Valley in the Late Holocene

Abstract California hazelnuts (Corylus cornuta var. californica) are abundant in the archaeological record of site CA-SMA-113 in Quiroste Valley Cultural Preserve, and hazel management on the Central Coast was recorded in late 18th century Spanish accounts. However, this species is currently absent from Quiroste Valley proper and rare in the watershed, though it is locally common elsewhere in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Because high California hazelnut abundance is associated with frequent fire regimes, we believe that its current low abundance could be due to fire suppression enforced in the region for the past two hundred years. We sequenced nuclear microsatellites from ten populations of California hazelnuts to test the hypothesis that this species has experienced demographic changes in response to changing climate and land management practices. We found that all populations exhibited high levels of genetic variation and negative population growth consistent with large population sizes in the past with some decline over time. We also found subtle patterns of geographic structure suggesting that Quiroste Valley and neighboring Butano may have been important refugia habitats during past climate warming events. These results provide an important foundation demonstrating that population genetic approaches can be applied to eco-archaeological research on indigenous landscape management and set the stage for future work using genetics to reveal further details of the demographic history of Quiroste Valley hazelnut populations.
A new vector system with inducible E2a cell line for production of higher titer and safer adenoviral vectors.

Adenoviral vectors have been used in gene therapy and for vaccination. The major concerns with using adenoviral vectors are the pathogenic potential of the virus backbone and the generation of replication-competent adenovirus that may replicate in an uncontrolled manner, especially in immunocompromised patients. It is important to develop new vectors that are safer for clinical trials while maintaining high titer and efficient transduction. A new adenovirus vector production system was developed, which includes several vector backbone plasmids deleted for E2a and a new cell line expressing both E1 and E2a. The new cell line with the tTA-inducible E2a expression cassette can significantly increase the titer of E1/E2a-deleted vectors by four to five orders of magnitude upon withdrawal of tetracycline. Furthermore, there is no sequence overlap between the vector and the cellular DNA within the E2a open reading frame and downstream, making the generation of virus with wild-type E2a through homologous recombination substantially less likely. The new vector system may improve the safety of vectors for vaccination and cancer therapy and may also provide safer backbones for further vector development, such as helper-dependent and hybrid vectors.
Identification of a novel amplicon at distal 17q containing the BIRC5/SURVIVIN gene in malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumours

Previous studies have suggested that amplification of genes, notably the TOP2A gene, on chromosome arm 17q may be important for the development of malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumour (MPNST). In order to study the frequency, distribution, and chromosomal organization of rearrangements at 17q, interphase and metaphase fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) were used to evaluate copy number changes at 17q in 28 MPNSTs. Increased copy numbers were seen for the ERBB2 and TOP2A genes in eight and nine cases, respectively, supporting a potential role for these two genes in MPNST tumourigenesis. Net gain of distal 17q material was observed in 16 of the 28 MPNSTs, with high‐level gain in three cases, and was associated with poor outcome. Among the 26 patients for whom follow‐up data were available, gain of distal 17q was present in 11 of 12 tumours that had metastasized, compared with 4 of 14 of those that had not metastasized. Detailed FISH mapping analysis of metaphase spreads identified a 2 Mb commonly gained/amplified region at 17q25. Among the genes mapping to this region, BIRC5, which encodes the baculoviral IAP repeat‐containing protein 5/survivin protein, is a strong candidate target gene for amplification, as it has been previously shown to be overexpressed in neurofibromatosis type 1‐associated MPNST. Three other genes that co‐amplified with BIRC5 represent other potential candidate genes: PTDSR involved in apoptosis; SEPT9 overexpressed in human malignant brain tumours; and SOCS3 involved in cell survival and differentiation of neurons. Copyright © 2006 Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Carbohydrate Intake and Multiple Sprint Sports: With Special Reference to Football (Soccer)

Six male football players competed in a 90 min game (4-a-side) on two occasions following an exercise and diet (either high- approximately 65% or low- approximately 30% carbohydrate intake) regimen designed to manipulate muscle glycogen concentrations. Movement and technical parameters of performance and selected physiological responses were measured. Pre-game muscle glycogen concentrations following the high carbohydrate diet (mean +/- SD) (395.6 +/- 78.3 mmol x kg(-1) dw) were significantly higher than following the low carbohydrate diet (287.1 +/- 85.4 mmol x kg(-1) dw). The results of the movement analysis showed that the players performed significantly more (approximately 33%) high intensity exercise in the game played following the high carbohydrate diet. No significant differences were found, between the two dietary conditions, in any of the measured technical variables. Plasma FFA and glycerol concentrations in the game played following the low carbohydrate diet were significantly higher after 45 min (905 +/- 103 and 293 +/- 23 micromol x l(-1)) and post exercise (1388 +/- 122 and 366 +/- 36 micromol x l(-1)) compared to the game played following the high carbohydrate diet (532 +/- 137 and 202 +/- 55 micromol x l(-1) and 888 +/- 192 and 266 +/- 27 micromol x l(-1), respectively). Post-exercise blood glucose levels were significantly lower in the game played following the low carbohydrate diet (5.8 +/- 0.3 vs 7.2 +/- 0.3 mmol x l(-1)). No significant differences were found in the mean blood lactate values (3.5 +/- 0.6 and 3.9 +/- 0.5 mmol x l(-1)) or mean heart rates (162 vs. 163.5 beats x min(-1)) between the high and low carbohydrate conditions, respectively. The main finding from this study was that the carbohydrate content of the diet influenced the amount of high intensity exercise performed during a small-sided football game. This suggests that to optimise performances, in not only football but possibly also other multiple sprint sports of similar duration, a high carbohydrate diet should be administered in preparation for intense training and competition.
Anisotropic loop quantum cosmology with self-dual variables

A loop quantization of the diagonal class A Bianchi models starting from the complex-valued self-dual connection variables is presented in this paper. The basic operators in the quantum theory correspond to areas and generalized holonomies of the Ashtekar connection and the reality conditions are implemented via the choice of the inner product on the kinematical Hilbert space. The action of the Hamiltonian constraint operator is given explicitly for the case when the matter content is a massless scalar field (in which case the scalar field can be used as a relational clock), and it is shown that the big-bang and big-crunch singularities are resolved in the sense that singular and non-singular states decouple under the action of the Hamiltonian constraint operator.
Design of RC-LDPC codes and its application in codes SC-FDE systems

This paper proposes a new scheme of the rate compatible low-density parity-check (RC-LDPC) coded single carrier-frequency domain equalization (SC-FDE) system where RC-LDPC codes are combined with SC-FDE modulations. To construct a class of different RC-LDPC codes, we take advantage of a base matrix constructed by the progressive edge growth (PEG) algorithm. A special code matrix structure is used and modified to meet requirements of the different code rate. In addition, a pseudorandom sequence instead of traditional cyclic prefix (CP) is proposed to estimate the channel noise variance for LDPC decoding. The simulation results show that the modified RC-LDPC codes have better performance than that of current method and the RC-LDPC coded SC-FDE system obtains better performance compared with uncoded SC-FDE system.
Isolation of Mouse Neutrophils

Neutrophils are widely used in research to elucidate the mechanisms of inflammation, including such processes as cell adhesion, chemotaxis, superoxide release, production of reactive nitrogen intermediates, and granule exocytosis. This unit presents a protocol for the induction of an enriched exudate of polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN) in the peritoneal cavity of mice. Neutrophils are then isolated using continuous gradient centrifugation. This is followed by a protocol for isolating neutrophils from peripheral blood. An alternate method for the purification of PMN from peritoneal exudate cells or peripheral blood by Histopaque density gradient centrifugation is also provided. The cell purification protocol can be modified to obtain nonelicited neutrophils from peritoneal fluid.
Family‐Based Association Tests for Different Family Structures Using Pooled DNA

DNA pooling is a cost‐effective strategy for genomewise association studies to identify disease genes. In the context of family‐based association studies, Risch & Teng (1998) mainly considered families of identical structures to detect associations between genetic markers and disease, and suggested possible approaches to incorporating different family types without a thorough study of their properties. However, families collected in real genetic studies often have different structures and, more importantly, the informativeness of each family structure depends on the disease model which is generally unknown. So there is a need to develop and investigate statistical methods to combine information from diverse family types. In this article, we propose a general strategy to incorporate different family types by assigning each family an “optimal” weight in association tests. In addition, we consider measurement errors in our analysis. When we evaluate our approach under different disease models and measurement errors, we find that our weighting scheme may lead to a substantial reduction in sample size required over the approach suggested by Risch & Teng (1998) , and measurement errors may have significant impact on the required sample size when the error rates are not negligible.
Self-organizing semantic maps of Japanese nouns in terms of adnominal constituents

As a beginning study on self-organizing a general Japanese semantic map, which will be very useful in natural language processing, particularly in document organization and information retrieval, this paper describes the construction of a semantic map of Japanese nouns mapped according to their adnominal constituents. These maps are not only an important part of a general Japanese semantic map that we aim to construct, but can also be a powerful tool for supporting the analysis of the relation between head nouns and their adnominal constituents, an important issue in studies of Japanese pragmatics.
Germ cell‐less expression in medaka (Oryzias latipes)

The gene germ cell‐less (gcl) plays an important role in the early differentiation of germ cells in Drosophila. We isolated the gcl homolog of the model teleost medaka (Oryzias latipes) using degenerated primers and an ovary cDNA bank. The predicted amino acid sequence of medaka gcl showed 92, 68 and 31% overall identity to mouse, human and Drosophila gcl respectively. RT‐PCR revealed stronger expression in the ovary and weaker expression in testis, brain, heart, liver and muscle tissue. Expression in early embryos indicates the presence of maternal mRNA. By in situ hybridisation (ISH), gcl could not be detected in embryos. In contrast to vasa, ISH revealed expression of gcl in the ovary but not in the testis. Mol. Reprod. Dev. 67: 15–18, 2004. © 2004 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.