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CO-SOLVENT ASSISTED SPRAY PYROLYSIS FOR THE PREPARATION OF METAL MICROPARTILCE

Title of Document: CO-SOLVENT ASSISTED SPRAY PYROLYSIS FOR THE PREPARATION OF METAL MICROPARTILCE. Kai Zhong, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012 Directed By: Professor Sheryl H. Ehrman, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Metal and bimetallic particles play an important role in catalytic, medical and electronic applications. Various techniques have been developed for the preparation of metal particles, including vaporization techniques, sonochemical, polyol method, mechanical alloying and spray pyrolysis. Compared with the other preparation techniques, the spray pyrolysis process has the advantages of easy scale up in industry, tunable particle size and controllable particle composition. Sometimes hydrogen was used in the process to promote the formation of metallic phase in a lower temperature, but it also created a potential safety problem. In order to eliminate the use of hydrogen, a cosolvent assisted ultrasonic spray pyrolysis process was developed, and ethanol (ET) and ethylene glycol (EG) are used as the cosolvent. In this study, the cosolvent assisted ultrasonic spray pyrolysis process was used for the generation of various oxide free oxide particles, and the reaction mechanism was shown. In the first part of this study, properties of ultrasonic droplet generator were investigated. Precursor solutions were atomized by a 1.7 MHz ultrasonic nebulizer. The droplet size distribution and atomization rate were measured. Relationship between droplet diameters and the physical properties were revealed by statistic tools. Bimodal droplets distribution was observed during the experiment. Then copper particles were generated by the spray pyrolysis process. Copper nitrate aqueous solution was used as the precursor and either ET or EG was used as cosolvent. Oxide free particles were generated at temperature from 400 o C to 1000 o C. It was noticed that particles morphology and formation process was strong affected by the properties of the cosolvents. In the following study, the spray pyrolysis process was successfully used for the generation of AgNi, CuNi and AgCu bi-components particles. Various particle structures were observed, and the structures were mainly determined by the thermodynamic properties of the particles components. In the last part of this dissertation, efforts mainly focused on the mechanism of AgCu particle generation. Reaction intermediates were collected. Reaction process from nitrates to pure metal and the phase separation behavior between Cu and Ag was demonstrated. CO-SOLVENT ASSISTED SPRAY PYROLYSIS FOR THE PREPARATION OF METAL MICROPARTILCE
Antioxidant Activity of Polyphenols Extracted from Dog Rose (Rosa canina) Fruits on Myoglobin and Lipids in Refrigerated Minced Beef

Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 During the refrigeration of minced meat , there are two major oxidative processes responsible for changing the colour and smell of meat: myoglobin oxidation and the oxidation of unsaturated fatty acids. Researches have shown that polyphenols extracted from plants have the capacity to reduce lipids and proteins oxidation processes in meat . In this study we aimed to determine the antioxidant effect of polyphenols extracted from dog rose ( Rosa canina ) fruits on myoglobin and lipids in refrigerated minced beef . O xidative process es of myoglobin and lipids have been evaluated by assessing myoglobin ( Mb) and metmyoglobin ( MMb) concentration , conjugated dienes (CD ), conjugated trienes (CT ) and compounds that react with thiobarbituric acid ( TBARS). The results showed that the antioxidant activity of polyphenols extracted from dog rose fruits is dependent on their concentration . In concentrations of 50, 100 and 150 I¼g gallic acid equivalent/g minced meat, polyphenols had a gradual antioxidant effect, while the concentration of 200 I¼g gallic acid equivalent/g minced meat showed a slight prooxidant effect compared to 150 I¼g GAE /g minced meat concentration . Due to the antioxidant activity exerted on myoglobin and lipids , polyphenols extracted from dog rose fruits can be used to maintain colour and flavour of minced beef subject to refrigeration .
ARTMO’S GLOBAL SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS (GSA) TOOLBOX TO QUANTIFY DRIVING VARIABLES OF LEAF AND CANOPY RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODELS

This contribution introduces ARTMO’s new global sensitivity analysis (GSA) toolbox. With the GSA toolbox the majority of ARTMO’s available radiative transfer models (RTMs) can be used for global sensitivity analysis with little user interaction. For a selected RTM output, the global sensitivity analysis identifies most influential and non-influential input variables according to Sobol’ first-order and total-order indices. The toolbox can process RTM spectral outputs for any kind of optical sensor setting within the spectral range of 400-2400 nm. Multiple model outputs can be automatically analysed within the same execution, which is of interest for more advanced, multi-output RTMs such as SCOPE. To illustrate its functioning, total-order sensitivity indices results for spectral outputs of PROSPECT-4/5 (leaf) and PROSPECT+SAIL (canopy) RTMs were calculated. Wavelength-dependent key driving and non-influential input variables were identified. The toolbox can be beneficial to the broader remote sensing community to gain insight into vegetation-light interactions and RTM input-output functioning.
ADP heptose, a novel pathogen-associated molecular pattern associated with Helicobacter pylori type 4 secretion

The gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori activates the NF-κB pathway in human epithelial cells via the α-kinase 1 (Alpk1)–TIFA axis. We and others have previously shown that heptose 1,7-bisphosphate (HBP) acts as a pathogen-associated molecular pattern (PAMP). HBP is an intermediate of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) synthesis in H. pylori and other gram-negative bacteria. Deletion of the hldE (rfaE) gene encoding the enzyme responsible for HBP synthesis, as well as deletion of further upstream genes, causes loss of NF-κB stimulation by H. pylori, while deletion of the downstream phosphatase encoding gene gmhB does not. This has led to the conclusion that HBP is the PAMP responsible for NF-κB induction. Here, our attempts to identify HBP in lysates of H. pylori revealed surprisingly low amounts that fail to explain NF-κB activation. Instead, we identified ADP heptose, a major downstream metabolite of HdlE, as the predominant PAMP in H. pylori lysates, exhibiting ∼100-fold stronger activity compared to HBP. It therefore appears that synthesis of ADP heptose from HBP in H. pylori occurs independently of GmhB. The data lead us to conclude that ADP heptose constitutes the key PAMP, secreted via the pathogen’s cagPAI encoded type 4 secretion (T4SS).
Endogenous Dynamics of Firms and Labor with Large Numbers of Simple Agents

A model is described in which simple autonomous agents organize into teams that empirically resemble U.S. firms. The agents work in team production environments, regularly adjust their work effort, and periodically seek better jobs or start new teams when it is in their self-interest. Nash equilibria of the team formation game exist but are unstable. Dynamics are studied using agent computing at full-scale with the U.S. private sector (120 million agents). Stationary distributions arise at the aggregate level despite perpetual adaptation by individuals at the micro level. Such agent adjustments occur for microeconomic reasons without resort to external shocks.
Explore the ncRNA and TF-based target data and underlying molecular mechanisms of pancreatic cancer development and progression

Pancreatic cancer, likes a digestive tract malignancy, has sharply raised morbidity and mortality in current years. The early diagnosis rate of pancreatic cancer is low, and the postoperative mortality is higher. Therefore, based on pancreatic cancer-related gene expression profile data, the purpose of this study was to explore the underlying molecular mechanisms of pancreatic cancer development and progression. Combining differential expression analysis, co-expression analysis, and enrichment analysis, we obtained modules related to pancreatic cancer cells. Subsequently, based on the hypergeometric test, we calculated the significance of the multi-regulatory regulation of potential modules and identified the regulatory mechanisms of crucial factors. We obtained a total of 11 modules of pancreatic cancer cell-associated genes, which involved module clustering of 4482 genes. In addition, pancreatic cancer-related module genes can participate in the regulation of pancreatic cancer progression via multiple biological processes and signal transduction pathways. Based on these modular genes, we predicted whether miR-16-5p and miR-195-5p have significant regulatory effects on pancreatic cancer development. At the same time, we know that transcription factors related to pancreatic cancer-related module genes have regulatory effects. This study will be conducive to deeply understand the potential etiopathogenesis of pancreatic cancer and also provide a new therapy direction of pancreatic cancer.
Morphological Networks for Persian and Turkish: What Can Be Induced from Morpheme Segmentation?

In this work, we propose an algorithm that induces morphological networks for Persian and Turkish. The algorithm uses morpheme-segmented lexicons for the two languages. The resulting networks capture both derivational and inflectional relations. The network induction algorithm can use either manually annotated lists of roots and aﬀixes, or simple heuristics to distinguish roots from aﬀixes. We evaluate both variants empirically. We use our large hand-segmented set of word forms in the experiments with Persian, which is contrasted with employing only a very limited manually segmented lexicon for Turkish that existed previously. The network-induction algorithm uses gold segmentation data for initializing the networks, which are subsequently extended with additional corpus-attested word forms that were un-seen in the segmented data. For this purpose, we use existing morpheme-segmentation tools, namely supervised and unsupervised version of Morfessor, and (unsupervised) MorphSyn. The experimental results show that the accuracy of segmented initial data influences derivational network quality.
A sleeping volcano waiting to erupt ?

What do populists think about democracy? Do they oppose it? Are they simply dissatisfied? Or do they want alternative forms of representation such as referenda and more deliberation? In this paper we examine what populists (individuals) think about democracy. The paper uses the newly developed measure of populism (Hawkins et al 2012; Akkerman et al 2014) to examine what individuals who score high on the populism scale think about various forms of political participation, ranging from voting, collective action, to referenda and deliberative forms of participation. In addition, we examine whether those who are more populist oppose democracy and/ or whether they are dissatisfied with the current state of democracy. Our results demonstrate support for the idea that populist are not anti-democratic, even though they are dissatisfied. We also find support for our hypothesis that populists are less likely to vote and to participate in collective action. However, in line with our expectation we also find that they are supportive of referenda. Counter to our expectations, we find that those who score higher on the populism scale are also more likely to favour deliberative forms of political representation. Although beyond the scope of this paper, we claim that these findings have important implications for the future of democracy and how we think about democratic reforms. 1 The first author took the lead, thereafter the order is alphabetical. Both of these authors contributed equally.
Research on the Algorithm of Building Object Boundary Extraction Based on Oblique Photographic Model

Conventional manual or semi-automatic oblique photographic monomerization methods are currently the mainstream methods for solving the monomerization task of oblique photography, which have high accuracy and flexibility but low efficiency, so they cannot be applied on a large scale. The precise and efficient monomerization of oblique photography is a key part of the further application of oblique photography models. This paper proposes an oblique photography object model boundary extraction algorithm based on geometric statistics information, and combines with the characteristics of the model data, analyzes the geometric information of the model, removes noise by the point cloud filtering algorithm, finally, finds the scene objects by multi-scale clustering algorithm. Experiments show that compared with manual or semi-automatic methods, this algorithm can obtain a complete object model, which can greatly improve the efficiency of oblique photographic monomerization.
Soil-to-Rice Seeds Transfer Factors of Radioiodine and Technetium for Paddy Fields around the Radioactive-Waste Disposal Site in Gyeongju

Radiotracer experiments were performed over two years using pot cultures in a greenhouse to investigate soil-torice seeds transfer factors of radioiodine and technetium for paddy fields around the radioactive-waste disposal site in Gyeongju. Before transplanting rice seedlings, the top about 20 cm soils were thoroughly mixed with (2007) and (2008), and the pots were irrigated to simulate flooded rice fields. Transfer factors were determined as the ratios of the radionuclide concentrations in dry rice seeds (brown rice) to those in dry soils. Transfer factors of radioiodine and technetium were in the ranges of (three soils) and (four soils), respectively, for different soils. It seems that the differences in the clay content among soils played a more important role for such variations than those in the organic matter content and pH. As the representative values of radioiodine and technetium transfer factors for rice seeds, and , respectively, were proposed. In order to obtain more highly representative values in the future, investigations for the sites of interest need to be carried out continuously.
Parámetros y tendencias genéticas de variables de crecimiento para bovinos Romosinuano en México

Introduccion : Los bovinos Romosinuano son originarios de Colombia, pero en Mexico hay ganaderos dedicados a su cria desde hace dos decadas. Su poblacion en Mexico es pequena y no se encontraron estudios que documenten aspectos elementales para establecer un programa de mejoramiento genetico en esta poblacion. El objetivo de este estudio fue estimar los parametros geneticos de pesos al nacimiento (PN) y al destete ajustado a 240 d (PD), asi como documentar las tendencias geneticas para estas dos caracteristicas en la poblacion Romosinuano de Mexico. Metodo : La base de datos provino de la “Asociacion Mexicana de Criadores de Ganado Romosinuano y Criollo Lechero Tropical, A. C. ”. La informacion utilizada incluyo 895 registros de PN y 517 de PD. El pedigri incluyo 4,537 animales nacidos entre 1950 y 2016. Los analisis fueron realizados mediante el programa ASReml, preliminarmente usando modelos univariados para identificar los mejores, mediante la prueba de razon de verosimilitudes. El modelo animal bivariado para ambas caracteristicas incluyo los efectos fijos de grupo contemporaneo (ano-hato-epoca-sexo), la covariable edad de la madre al parto, lineal y cuadratica, y la covariable lineal de la proporcion de genes Romosinuano. Los efectos aleatorios fueron los geneticos aditivos directos y la interaccion semental por grupo contemporaneo para ambas caracteristicas, mas los geneticos aditivos maternos para PD. Las tendencias geneticas fueron estimadas mediante regresion lineal simple del promedio de los valores geneticos sobre el ano de nacimiento de los animales. Resultados : Las estimaciones de heredabilidad para efectos directos fueron 0.19 ± 0.09 y 0.21 ± 0.12, para PN y PD. La heredabilidad materna para PD fue 0.04 ± 0.05. La proporcion de la varianza fenotipica explicada por la interaccion semental por grupo contemporaneo fueron 0.21 ± 0.05 y 0.11 ± 0.08 para PN y PD. La correlacion genetica entre PN y PD fue alta y positiva (0.69 ± 0.28). Las tendencias geneticas para PN y PD no fueron diferentes de cero (P > 0.05). Conclusion : Las estimaciones de heredabilidad para PN y PD reflejan variabilidad genetica suficiente para implementar un programa de seleccion en estas caracteristicas.
Social Robo to control symptoms in elderly institutional patients with dementia

The world's population is bursting rapidly and the need for long-term care is increasing, especially in circumstances such as dementia. Complementary therapies have been shown to be helpful in managing the symptoms of dementia, especially animal therapy (AAT). Due to the limitations of the use of animals in institutes, social robots with summer morph properties have been developed as an alternative, and some models have already been shown to have AAT-like effects.
Background Subtraction and Foreground Detection based on Codebook Model with Kalman Filter

Foreground object extraction is an important subject for computer vision applications. The separation of foreground objects form the background is the crucial step in application such as video surveillance. In order to extract foreground object from a video scene, a background model which can represent dynamic changes in the scene is required. A robust, accurate and high performance approach is still a great challenge today. In this paper, the background modeling approach based on Codebook model with Kalman Filter is presented. This approach can be used to extract foreground objects from the video stream. The Lab color space is used in this approach to calculate color difference between two pixels using CIEDE2000 color difference formula. Extracted foreground object from video sequence using this approach is useful for object detection in video surveillance applications.
X*: Anytime Multiagent Path Planning With Bounded Search

Multi-agent planning in dynamic domains is a challenging problem: the size of the conﬁguration space increases exponentially in the number of agents, and plans need to be re-evaluated periodically to account for moving obstacles. However, we have two key insights that hold in several domains: 1) conﬂicts between multi-agent plans often have geometrically local resolutions within a small repair window, even if such local resolutions are not globally optimal; and 2) the partial search tree for such local resolutions can then be iteratively improved over successively larger windows to eventually compute a globally optimal plan. Building upon these two insights, we introduce 1) a high level overview of an anytime multiagent planning framework called WAMPF, 2) a na¨ıve implementation of WAMPF called NWA*, 3) an eﬃcient implementation of WAMPF called X* which saves computation by reusing prior search information when improving a solution, and 4) Lazy Neighbor Evaluation, a novel approach to managing high cardinality neighbors.
Lexical Access in Comprehension vs. Production: Spatiotemporal Localization of Semantic Facilitation and Interference

Humans understand words faster when they are preceded by semantically related words. This facilitation is thought to result from spreading activation between words with similar meanings. Interestingly, in language production, semantic relatedness often has the opposite effect: in object naming for example, a related prior word delays the naming time of the current object. This could be due to competition during conceptual search or later interference at the motor preparation stage. However, no study has systematically compared the facilitory and inhibitory effects and thus their neurobiological relationship is unknown. We contrasted maximally parallel production and comprehension tasks during magnetoencephalography and found that in comprehension (specifically word reading), semantic relatedness modulated activity in the left middle STG at 180-335ms, consistent with prior findings on the spatiotemporal localization of lexical access. In contrast, a semantic interference pattern for the production task (object naming) occurred in a post-lexical time-window at 395-485ms in left posterior insular cortex, consistent with post-lexical motor preparation. Thus, our data show that semantic priming during comprehension and interference during production are not two sides of the same coin but rather they clearly dissociate in space and time, consistent with a lexical account for comprehension and a post-lexical one for production. Significance statement The processing of semantically related words has been a central tool for understanding the organization of the mental lexicon. One striking observation is that semantic relatedness tends to be facilitory in comprehension but inhibitory in language production, perhaps because only production involves a conceptual search through semantically related candidates. The neurobiology of this contrast is not understood. Our magnetoencephalography results demonstrate that the facilitory pattern is first observed in classic left temporal lexical access regions at ∼200ms, whereas the inhibitory pattern occurs later and in the insular cortex. These findings show that the two effects do not co-localize in space or time and suggest that the inhibitory effects in production stem from a late motor preparation stage.
Soil Physical Attributes Under Eucalyptus stands With Non-living and Living Plants

The conservation of ecosystems has benefited from planted forests which provide reforested wood reducing the pressure on deforestation of natural forests. Soil physical attributes determine soil water storage capacity; therefore, they play an important role on plant roots’ development which may compromise plant’s survival. The study tested the influence of soil physical and water attributes on the survival of Eucalyptus spp. clones under dry tropical climate. Two areas were selected, including one with living plants and a second with non-living plants of Eucalyptus spp. clones. Moreover, five soil profiles were studied in each area and the parameters estimated were soil bulk density, total porosity, saturated hydraulic conductivity, soil water retention curve, pores size distribution, available water capacity, and S index. Soil physical and hydric attributes did not differ between the area with living plants and the one with non-living plants. The saturated hydraulic conductivity in the area surface layer was high for both the living plants and non-living palnts; 331 mm h-1 and 294 mm h-1, respectively. The S index (to give the value) indicated that the structure was suitable for the development of Eucalyptus trees. Furthermore, it was possible to affirm that soil physical and water attributes of the studied areas were promising for the cultivation of Eucalyptus spp. in the dry tropical climate.
Pattern Mining Patterns A Search for the Seeds of Patterns

This paper presents the Pattern Mining Patterns . “Mining” is a phase in the process of Pattern Languages for identifying overlapping meanings or relationships among ideas. We wrote 121 patterns based on Iba Laboratory’s empirical knowledge on mining, through ten years of creating various pattern languages. In this paper, we describe its objective and the creation process, along with six patterns in full text: Starting from Chaos , One to One Comparison , Talking while Moving , Hidden Meanings, Doubting Clusters, and Discovering the Islands . All the patterns are presented in the appendix as a list of pattern names.