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The Importance of Water Transport in High Conductivity and High-Power Alkaline Fuel Cells

High ionic conductivity membranes can be used to minimize ohmic losses in electrochemical devices such as fuel cells, flow batteries, and electrolyzers. Very high hydroxide conductivity was achieved through the synthesis of a norbornene-based tetrablock copolymer with an ion-exchange capacity of 3.88 meq/g. The membranes were cast with a thin polymer reinforcement layer and lightly cross-linked with N,N,N',N'-tetramethyl-1,6-hexanediamine. The norbornene polymer had a hydroxide conductivity of 212 mS/cm at 80°C. Light cross-linking helped to control the water uptake and provide mechanical stability while balancing the bound (i.e. waters of hydration) vs. free water in the films. The films showed excellent chemical stability with <1.5% conductivity loss after soaking in 1 M NaOH for 1000 h at 80°C. The aged films were analyzed by FT-IR before and after aging to confirm their chemical stability. A H2/O2 alkaline polymer electrolyte fuel cell was fabricated and was able to achieve a peak power density of 3.5 W/cm2 with a maximum current density of 9.7 A/cm2 at 0.15 V at 80°C. The exceptionally high current and power densities were achieved by balancing and optimizing water removal and transport from the hydrogen negative electrode to the oxygen positive electrode. High water transport and thinness are critical aspects of the membrane in extending the power and current density of the cells to new record values.
Best Management Practices and Nutrient Reduction: An Integrated Economic-Hydrologic Model of the Western Lake Erie Basin

ABSTRACT:We develop the first spatially integrated economic-hydrologic model of the westernLake Erie basin explicitly linking economic models of farmers' field-level best management practice (BMP) adoption choices with the Soil and Water AssessmentTool to evaluate nutrient management policy cost-effectiveness. We quantify trade-offs among phosphorus reduction policies and find that a hybrid policy coupling a fertilizer tax with cost-share payments for subsurface placement is the most cost-effective and can achieve the policy goal of 40% reduction in nutrient loadings. We also find economic adoption models alone can overstate the potential for BMPs toreduce nutrient loadings by ignoring biophysical complexities. (JEL Q18, Q53)
Niereninsuffizienz und Medikation bei Pflegeheimbewohnern

Hintergrund: Pflegeheimbewohner sind oft von Multimorbidität und Polypharmazie betroffen. Viele Medikamente werden renal eliminiert und erfordern eine entsprechende Dosisanpassung bei Niereninsuffizienz. Diese Studie untersucht erstmalig für Deutschland, wie oft Pflegeheimbewohner eine Niereninsuffizienz aufweisen und wie häufig Medikamente in Bezug auf die Nierenfunktion nicht adäquat dosiert oder kontraindiziert sind.
Spin-orbit Splitting and Lifetime Broadening in the A 2 ∆ Electronic State of lC 5 H

Optical absorption bands at ∼18772 and ∼18807 cm−1, previously assigned to A∆-XΠ electronic origin band transitions of the linear carbon-chain radicals C5H and C5D, respectively, have been reinvestigated. The spectra have been recorded in direct absorption applying cavity ring-down spectroscopy to a supersonically expanding acetylene/helium plasma. The improved spectra allow deducing a l-C5H upper state spin-orbit coupling constant A′=−0.7(3) cm−1 and a A∆ lifetime of 1.6±0.3 ps.
Effect of dietary probiotics on the growth performance, meat quality improvement of broiler chicken for safe meat production

A feeding trial was conducted to investigate the effect of Probiotic (Biofast) on the growth performance and meat quality of broiler chicken. Ninety six 1-d-old mix sexed Cobb 500 broiler chicks were obtained from a local commercial hatchery. Chicks were randomly allocated in 2 experimental treatments for 5 wk. The experimental treatments received a 1) control, 2) control with probiotic Biofast 0.055% (bacillus subtilis-100%) in the diet. Both treatments had 48 broilers arranged in 4 replicates of 12 broilers each. Eight birds from 2 different groups (one/replication) were sacrificed on termination of the feeding trial of breast, thigh to investigate the meat quality. Feed intake in treatment T1 was significantly (P > 0.05) greater than control in 0 to 3 weeks of age. Though in starter phase treatments failed to induce any marked effects on body weight, weight gain and FCR but numerically increased in T1 than control. In finisher period (4-5 wks), there were no significant differences on body weight, weight gain, feed intake and FCR between the treatments. The organ weight like liver, heart, kidney, spleen, gizzard, abdominal fat and intestine weight also did not show any significant differences between the dietary treatments of control and Biofast. In addition, though the dressing % was not significantly different but numerically higher percentage was found by using Biofast. Similarly, no significant differences (p>0.05) were found in pH, cooking loss, meat color and TBA values between the treatments. In conclusion, supplementation of Biofast in diet has no significant effect on the growth performance of broiler chicks though it has got some positive effects on other parameters that indirectly revealed to enhance meat quality of broiler chicken as well as food safety issues. Asian Australas. J. Food Saf. Secur. 2017, 1 (1), 51-57
AN EXPLORATION OF DIETARY MANAGEMENT PRACTICES OF DIABETES MELLITUS PATIENTS

Today, major threat to health is non communicable diseases. Diabetes Mellitus has become one of the most common non communicable diseases. It is a group of metabolic diseases with multiple etiologies, characterized by hyperglycemia together with disturbances of carbohydrates, fat, and protein metabolism resulting from defects in insulin secretion, insulin action or both (Frank 2003). Despite the age, people all over the world are suffering from the Diabetes Mellitus. Individuals are expected to incorporate major changes in diet which is the cornerstone of treatment. However, this is the most difficult component of self management. Out of the self management activities of diet and exercises, the priority should be given to dietary management. Diabetes Mellitus has potential for serious complications and often results in significant financial burden, decreased quality of life and major lifestyle changes for patients and their families (Coffey et al. 2002). Most individual are likely to come across barriers to care which create major challenges in adhering to self managementprogrammes (Aljasem et al. 2001, Clark &Hampson 2001, Schoenberg &Drungle 2001). In addition, research shows that those with multiple barriers are less attached to their plans of care (Glasgow 1994). The most frequently reported barriers are time constraints, knowledge deficit, limited social support, inadequate resources, limited coping skills, poor patient – provider relationship and low self efficacy (Tu& Morrison 1996, Whitmore et al. 2002). Thus, extent of dietary management of these diabetic patients should be thoroughly examined and encouraged. Diabetes Mellitus is a real burden to the patient and the family. Further, there is an increasing trend of recurrent hospital admissions of diabetic patients due to uncontrolled blood glucose level and associated complications. This is a large cost for the government. At the same time, it decreases the number of healthy population and affects on the development of the country. So, prevention and control of the disease is essential. Even though, diet control is more effective in controlling the blood sugar level, most of these patients are less prone to use this practice. Therefore, this study explores the extent of dietary management used by the type two diabetic patients in urban and sub urban settings.
Heat Transfer Analysis of the Boundary Layer Flow over a Vertical Exponentially Stretching Cylinder

AbstractIn this article an analysis is presented to obtain the similarity solution of the steady boundary layer flow and heat transfer of a viscous fluid flowing through a vertical cylinder that is stretching exponentially along its surface. The governing partial differential equations along with the boundary conditions are reduced to into system of nonlinear ordinary differential equations by using the boundary layer approach and a suitable similarity transformation. The resulting coupled system of equations subject to the appropriate boundary conditions is solved with the help of powerful numerical technique, the Kellerbox method. The effects of the involved parameters such as Reynolds numbers, Prandtl numbers and the natural convection parameter are presented through sketches. The associated physical properties on the flow and heat transfer characteristics that is the skinfriction coefficient and Nusselt numbers are presented for different parameters.
The Stability of Conditional Cooperation: Egoism Trumps Reciprocity in Social Dilemmas

An often-replicated result in the experimental literature on social dilemmas is that a large share of subjects reveal conditionally cooperative preferences. Cooperation generated by this type of preferences is notoriously unstable, as individuals reduce their contributions to the public good in reaction to other subjects free-riding. This has led to the widely-shared conclusion that cooperation observed in experiments (and its collapse) is mostly driven by imperfect reciprocity. In this study, we explore the possibility that reciprocally cooperative preferences may themselves be unstable. We do so by observing the evolution of subjects’ preferences in an anonymously repeated social dilemma. Our results show that a significant fraction of reciprocally cooperative subjects become selfish in the course of the experiment, while the reverse is rarely observed. We are thus driven to the conclusion that egoism is more resistant to exposure to social dilemmas than reciprocity.
A unique case of transitional cell carcinoma of renal pelvis in a patient with Lynch syndrome

Lynch syndrome-associated transitional cell carcinoma of the upper urinary tract is uncommon. Lynch syndrome is a well-known inherited condition with particularly increased risk of colorectal cancers and a lesser extent other types of cancers. We present a rare case of urothelial cancer associated with Lynch syndrome from the time of its diagnosis to its multidisciplinary management to date. This case report outlines the unique characteristics of the case. The patient was positive for a mutation in the MLH1 gene, a known mutation of Lynch syndrome, which has a sparse association to Lynch syndrome-related urothelial carcinoma compared to other genes, e.g., MSH2. The patient's second-degree relative had confirmed Lynch syndrome with the same MLH1 genetic mutation and had colorectal cancer. The first-degree female relative of the patient with urothelial cancer had breast cancer, also not commonly associated with Lynch syndrome. The patient's age at the time of diagnosis of urothelial cancer was 46 years, which is at the lower end of the spectrum of the average age of Lynch syndrome associated with urothelial cancers. This paper also presents a review of the literature regarding upper urinary tract transitional cell carcinoma, its association with Lynch syndrome and various opinions on screening guidelines for urothelial cancer in relatives of a patient diagnosed with Lynch syndrome.
STATE-OFTHE-ART FRAMEWORKS AND PLATFORMS FOR PROCESSING AND MANAGING BIG DATA AS WELL AS THE EFFORTS EXPECTED ON BIG DATA MINING

While “big data” has become a highlighted buzzword since last year, “big data mining”, i.e., mining from big data, has almost immediately followed up as an emerging, interrelated research area. This paper provides and discussed an overview of big data mining and the related challenges and the new opportunities. The paper includes an analysis of state-of-the-art platforms and frameworks for processing and managing the big data with the efforts anticipated on big data mining. We address major issues associated with the big data and/or big data mining, and identify the opportunities and research topics as they shall duly flesh out. We hope our effort will help to remodel the subject area of today’s data mining technology toward solving tomorrow’s bigger challenges emerging in accordance with big data.
The Chlorine Dioxide People ” Application Note # 9 Beta Lactam

Chlorine dioxide gas is proven effective against Beta-Lactams, and can inactive them on equipment or in rooms so that there is no risk of allergic exposure. Chlorine dioxide, as a true gas, will reach all areas of your room and equipment surfaces. After inactivation, equipment can be used for non-Beta-Lactam pharmaceutical products with no risk of contamination. BACKGROUND: The decontamination process that ClorDiSys utilizes was originally validated as described in the attached ABSA article. This was performed with a pharmaceutical customer, a consultant (Dr. Voyksner 1 ) that specializes in Beta Lactam’s, and an outside laboratory. The validation consisted of a series of cycles with varying chlorine dioxide dosages that were tested to achieve a 3-log inactivation of 8 different Beta Lactams. The 8 Beta Lactams were mixed together and inoculated into grooves on coupons made of stainless steel, Lexan, and aluminum. These materials were considered to be commonplace and cover the range of materials in most pharmaceutical facilities. The grooves were machined in and were considered to represent hard-to-reach crevices. PROCESS: The on-site decontamination process consists of setting up the generation and humidification equipment and sealing the area with tape and plastic. This preparation typically takes from a few hours to two days dependent on the facility volume and the degree of sealing required. The actual decontamination event will take approximately 12 hours. A report is issued upon completion documenting the event including all process parameters. RESULTS: ClorDiSys does not perform post exposure testing nor do we guarantee inactivation since we are not knowledgeable of the actual make-up of a customer’s proprietary Beta Lactam. In-house or outside testing labs should be utilized to verify the post exposure inactivation. Because of the proprietary nature of Beta Lactams, ClorDiSys’s guarantee is that the process parameters used for the validated cycle will be achieved. Numerous Beta Lactam Decontamination projects have been performed and all customer post-treatment analysis have been satisfactory. All of the decontaminations performed were with large pharmaceutical companies with confidentiality agreements in place so individual results cannot be shared. ClorDiSys does guarantee that the ppm-hour dosage that customers have verified to be effective will be achieved. ClorDiSys can work with your consulting and lab team or the designer of the original validation studies to perform both pre-exposure and post-exposure testing if requested. Reference: Robert D. Voyksner Ph.D., LCMS Limited, PO Box 27228, Raleigh, NC 27611-7228, 919-403-7711 Office, 919-201-0047 Cell, robert.voyksner@reliont.com, www.lcmslimited. com
Quantum critical optical conductivity in a high-Tc superconductor

D. van der Marel, H. J. A. Molegraaf, J. Zaanen, Z. Nussinov, F. Carbone, A. Damascelli, H. Eisaki, M. Greven, P. H. Kes, & M. Li Materials Science Centre, University of Groningen, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands Leiden Institute of Physics, Leiden University, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands Department of Applied Physics and Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, Stanford University, California 94305, USA
p53 Activates Either Survival or Apoptotic Signaling in Lupulone-Treated Colon Adenocarcinoma Cells and Derived Metastatic C

The SW480 cell line is derived from a human colon adenocarcinoma, and SW620 cells are derived from a lymph node metastasis of the same patient. We have previously shown that lupulone induces apoptosis in SW480 cells, through a cross talk between the TRAIL-death receptor pathway and the mitochondrial apoptotic pathway. In SW620 cells, lupulone induced apoptosis only through TRAIL-death receptor activation. Both cell lines exhibit the same p53 mutations. Because p53 plays a central role in the response to cellular stresses by upregulating the transcription of several genes controlling apoptosis, we aimed to study the involvement of p53 on lupulone-triggered apoptosis. Our data show that in SW620 cells, lupulone upregulated p53 gene expression and caused a cloistering of p53 in the nucleus, allowing p53 to play a proapoptotic role by activating the TRAIL-death receptor pathway. In contrast, in lupulone-treated SW480 cells, p53 was translocated to the cytoplasm where it initiated a survival response associated with the up-regulation of antiapoptotic Bcl-2 and Mcl-1 proteins in an attempt to preserve mitochondrial integrity. These prosurvival effects of p53 in lupulone-treated SW480 cells were reversed by pifithrin-α, an inhibitor of p53 function, which caused a blocking of p53 in the nucleus leading to the down-regulation of Bcl-2 and Mcl-1, the up-regulation of proapoptotic Bax protein and TRAIL-death receptors leading to enhanced cell death. Our data support different functions of the same mutated p53 in colon adenocarcinoma and derived metastatic cells in response to the chemopreventive agent lupulone.
SkyCastle: A Resource-Aware Multi-Loop Scheduler for High-Level Synthesis

A common optimisation problem in the high-level synthesis (HLS) of FPGA-based accelerators is to find a microarchitecture that maximises the performance while keeping the utilisation of the device's low-level resources below certain limits. We propose to tackle it directly as part of the HLS scheduler. To that end, we formalise a general, integrated scheduling and allocation problem for HLS kernels, and present SkyCastle, a novel resource-aware multi-loop scheduler using integer linear programming to solve it for a subclass of kernels composed of multiple, nested loops. In order to demonstrate the practical applicability of the approach, we model the scheduler in such a way as to be plug-in compatible with the Xilinx Vivado HLS engine, allowing the computed solutions to be fed back into its synthesis flow. We evaluate SkyCastle for three non-trivial kernels from the machine learning, signal processing, and physical simulation domains, on two FPGA devices. Additionally, we investigate the replication of slightly slower, but smaller accelerators as a means to further boost the overall performance. In contrast to Vivado HLS' default settings, which aim at maximum performance but may fail in later synthesis steps, the solutions computed by our scheduler always result in synthesisable designs.
Assessment of Stress and Coping among the Parents of Children with Epilepsy at Selected Hospital, Tirupati, AP

ABSTRACT: Coping process usually invoked to reduce stress levels. Levels of social support available and positive coping methods such as problem focused coping, assertiveness training, exercise and time management may reduce the experience of stress. Coping process usually invoked to reduce stress levels. Levels of social support available and positive coping methods such as problem focused coping, assertiveness training, exercise and time management may reduce the experience of stress.
Understanding & Analyzing the Garbage-first Family of Garbage Collectors

Region-based garbage collectors, including Garbage-first GC, Shenandoah GC, C4 GC, and ZGC, share a lot of similar designs and algorithms, such as the similar marking algorithm, memory structure, and allocation algorithm. However, the existence of such underlying relationship among these collectors has not been well identified and explored. Instead, the designers of these region-based collectors tend to treat these as stand-alone collectors instead of an improvement over existing collectors. Such ignorance of the underlying relationships among the region-based collectors can mislead the future design of related garbage collectors. Hence, analysis, measurements, and comparisons among these collectors can also be hard. Although the design and algorithms of these collectors are similar, their structural relationships are not reflected in the original design and implementations of these collectors. For this reason, no one has measured GC performance contribution of specific parts of the GC algorithm or the extension component involved in these collectors. Which means no one can properly understand the pros and cons of the design of these collectors, and may further lead to some potential performance issues due to the inappropriate GC design. The key contribution of this thesis is the identification of the existence of a structural relationship among the region-based collectors and an in-depth exploration of the structural relationships among a set of region-based collectors which have a similar design to the Garbage-first GC. In this thesis, I use the term "The Garbage-first Family of Garbage Collectors" to describe such category of collectors. This thesis produces the first implementation to reflect these structural relationships. Specifically, in this thesis, I built a total of six members of the G1 family of collectors, starting from a simple region-based collector to the Garbage-first GC and Shenandoah GC. Each collector is implemented as an improved versions of the previous collector to reflect the corresponding algorithmic relationship. Based on such implementation, this thesis performs a detailed analysis of GC performance contribution of each component of the algorithms. These analyses include the measurement of the GC pause time, concurrency overheads of several algorithms and the space overhead of remembered-sets. The exploration of the Garbage-first family of garbage collectors leads to the conclusion that there exists a structural relationship among these G1 family of collectors. Instead of being stand-alone collectors, they tend to be collectors with algorithmic improvements over existing collectors. As the result of GC performance evaluation, structural components including concurrent-marking, remembered-sets, and concurrent evacuation contributes to a reduction of 58.2%, 41.9%, and 84.1% respectively to the 95 percentile GC pause time on the DaCapo benchmark suite. By using remembered-sets, G1 has 9.6% average