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Synthesis of Porous Silica Particles Using Sodium Silicate Precursor for Water-Repellent Surfaces (2019)

In this study, macroporous ceramic particles were synthesized by emulsion-assisted self-assembly with or without the use of sacrificial templates. Sodium silicate was employed as an economical precursor for the synthesis, and hence industry-scale application of the particles can be expected with control over particle size distribution. After the removal of sodium from sodium silicate using an ion-exchange resin, the resultant aqueous silicic acid solution was emulsified in a continuous oil phase to form tiny droplets that act as micro-reactors for template-free synthesis of porous silica particles. The crumpling and folding of the thin silica shell inside the emulsion during heating resulted in the formation of porous particles without the use of templates. The particles were spherical with a number of irregular macropores. Macroporous silica particles with spherical cavities were also synthesized using polystyrene nanospheres as sacrificial templates and silicic acid as a precursor of silica. In a demonstrative application, the porous particles were used as coating materials in the fabrication of water-repellent surfaces by lotus effect, indicating that the particles can be potentially applied to self-cleaning surfaces.
eDental: Managing Your Dental Care in Diet Diaries (2022)

The demand for satisfactory dental care management has attracted a great deal of attention from both dentists and patients. Reviews of existing systems and approaches reveal that they either fail to take into account patients' daily diets that are a significant risk factor for dental decay, or are too complicated for patients. To facilitate patients' tracking and management of their dietary risk factors for dental decay, and improve dentists' identification of decay-related dietary patterns, we develop a system called eDental, in collaboration with dentists and oral surgeons, as a mechanism to record users' detailed daily diet diaries by snapping food photos. The system identifies the food using a state-of-the-art deep learning model and analyzes patients' dental care conditions and potential dental risks. eDental is a full-fledged oral care system with easy-to-use user interfaces. In this demonstration, we showcase eDental's key functionalities for managing patients' dental care via diet diaries.
35 Years of EDS Software (2009)

The computerized multichannel analyzer running software specifically designed for X-ray analysis appeared very early in the commercialization of the energy dispersive X-ray spectrometer (EDS) and, like the solid-state X-ray detector itself, was built on a technology foundation originally developed for nuclear spectroscopy. However, software techniques employed for gamma-ray spectra could not accommodate the continuum component of EDS spectra, and a new approach was required. Least-squares fitting with "top-hat" filtered spectra proved to be an effective solution that is still widely used today. Though modern computer technology has subsequently contributed greatly to the speed and convenience of present-day EDS software, it seems that the achievable accuracy and precision of spectrum analysis has not fundamentally improved, and most of the early challenges are still quite relevant, although they may appear in new guises. The availability of the high speed silicon drift detector, however, may provide both the incentive and the data precision to drive future advances. This article traces the formative years of EDS software from the personalized perspective of a participant. Factors that shaped the development of the industry are identified, and future directions are speculated.
Reduced subpicosecond electron relaxation in GaNxAs1−x (2005)

We report on time resolved femtosecond carrier dynamics in molecular beam epitaxy grown GaNxAs1−x with a nitrogen fraction of 1.3%. The intraband carrier relaxation time in GaNxAs1−x is found to be significantly larger than in GaAs. We compare the experimental results with carrier-polar optical phonon scattering rates calculated within the band anticrossing model. From the results we conclude that the slowing down of the carrier relaxation is a result of the strongly modified band structure in GaNxAs1−x.
Brubaker Lens (2016)

This document contains recommendations for terminology in mass spectrometry. Development of standard terms dates back to 1974 when the IUPAC Commission on Analytical Nomenclature issued recommendations on mass spectrometry terms and definitions. In 1978, the IUPAC Commission on Molecular Structure and Spectroscopy updated and extended the recommendations and made further recommendations regarding symbols, acronyms, and abbreviations. The IUPAC Physical Chemistry Division Commission on Molecular Structure and Spectroscopy’s Subcommittee on Mass Spectroscopy revised the recommended terms in 1991 and appended terms relating to vacuum technology. Some additional terms related to tandem mass spectrometry were added in 1993 and accelerator mass spectrometry in 1994. Owing to the rapid expansion of the field in the intervening years, particularly in mass spectrometry of biomolecules, a further revision of the recommendations has become necessary. This document contains a comprehensive revision of mass spectrometry terminology that represents the current consensus of the mass spectrometry community.
Analyse des relations entre la consommation de produits laitiers et le syndrome métabolique chez l'homme par métabolomique (2018)

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Price-based distributed algorithms for rate-reliability tradeoff in network utility maximization (2006)

The current framework of network utility maximization for rate allocation and its price-based algorithms assumes that each link provides a fixed-size transmission "pipe" and each user's utility is a function of transmission rate only. These assumptions break down in many practical systems, where, by adapting the physical layer channel coding or transmission diversity, different tradeoffs between rate and reliability can be achieved. In network utility maximization problems formulated in this paper, the utility for each user depends on both transmission rate and signal quality, with an intrinsic tradeoff between the two. Each link may also provide a higher (or lower) rate on the transmission "pipes" by allowing a higher (or lower) decoding error probability. Despite nonseparability and nonconvexity of these optimization problems, we propose new price-based distributed algorithms and prove their convergence to the globally optimal rate-reliability tradeoff under readily-verifiable sufficient conditions. We first consider networks in which the rate-reliability tradeoff is controlled by adapting channel code rates in each link's physical-layer error correction codes, and propose two distributed algorithms based on pricing, which respectively implement the "integrated" and "differentiated" policies of dynamic rate-reliability adjustment. In contrast to the classical price-based rate control algorithms, in our algorithms, each user provides an offered price for its own reliability to the network, while the network provides congestion prices to users. The proposed algorithms converge to a tradeoff point between rate and reliability, which we prove to be a globally optimal one for channel codes with sufficiently large coding length and utilities whose curvatures are sufficiently negative. Under these conditions, the proposed algorithms can thus generate the Pareto optimal tradeoff curves between rate and reliability for all the users. In addition, the distributed algorithms and convergence proofs are extended for wireless multiple-inpit-multiple-output multihop networks, in which diversity and multiplexing gains of each link are controlled to achieve the optimal rate-reliability tradeoff. Numerical examples confirm that there can be significant enhancement of the network utility by distributively trading-off rate and reliability, even when only some of the links can implement dynamic reliability.
Parallelization of IBM mambo system simulator in functional modes (2008)

Mambo [4] is IBM's full-system simulator which models PowerPC systems, and provides a complete set of simulation tools to help IBM and its partners in pre-hardware development and performance evaluation for future systems. Currently Mambo simulates target systems on a single host thread. When the number of cores increases in a target system, Mambo's simulation performance for each core goes down. As the so-called "multi-core era" approaches, both target and host systems will have more and more cores. It is very important for Mambo to efficiently simulate a multi-core target system on a multi-core host system. Parallelization is a natural method to speed up Mambo under this situation. Parallel Mambo (P-Mambo) is a multi-threaded implementation of Mambo. Mambo's simulation engine is implemented as a user-level thread-scheduler. We propose a multi-scheduler method to adapt Mambo's simulation engine to multi-threaded execution. Based on this method a core-based module partition is proposed to achieve both high inter-scheduler parallelism and low inter-scheduler dependency. Protection of shared resources is crucial to both correctness and performance of P-Mambo. Since there are two tiers of threads in P-Mambo, protecting shared resources by only OS-level locks possibly introduces deadlocks due to user-level context switch. We propose a new lock mechanism to handle this problem. Since Mambo is an on-going project with many modules currently under development, co-existence with new modules is also important to P-Mambo. We propose a global-lock-based method to guarantee compatibility of P-Mambo with future Mambo modules. We have implemented the first version of P-Mambo in functional modes. The performance of P-Mambo has been evaluated on the OpenMP implementation of NAS Parallel Benchmark (NPB) 3.2 [12]. Preliminary experimental results show that P-Mambo achieves an average speedup of 3.4 on a 4-core host machine.
Influence of Peptide Composition, Gas-Phase Basicity, and Chemical Modification on Fragmentation Efficiency:  Evidence for the Mobile Proton Model (1996)

Relative energetics of fragmentation of protonated peptides are investigated by using electrospray ionization/surface-induced dissociation (ESI/SID) tandem mass spectrometry. ESI/SID fragmentation efficiency curves (percent fragmentation versus laboratory collision energy) are presented for 20 oligopeptides and are a measure of how easily a peptide fragments. The relative positions of the ESI/SID fragmentation efficiency curves depend on several parameters which include peptide composition (e.g., presence/absence of a basic amino acid residue) and peptide size. The ESI/SID fragmentation efficiency curves, in combination with quantum chemical calculations, provide a unique approach to substantiate and refine the mobile proton model for peptide fragmentation. Selected peptides are also investigated to further test and confirm the mobile proton model; these include doubly-protonated peptides and chemically-modified peptides (i.e., acetylated and fixed-charge derivatized peptides). Doubly-protonated peptides fragment more easily than the singly-protonated forms of the same peptides, with a sequence dependence for the difference in energy required for the fragmentation of singly- vs doubly-protonated peptides. Acetylation at the amino terminus and arginine side chain leads to a decrease in basicity and a corresponding lower energy onset for fragmentation than for the unmodified form of the peptide. Fixing the site of charge by addition of trimethylammonium acetyl to the amino terminus, i.e., eliminating the mobile proton, results in a higher energy onset than that for the protonated form of the same peptide. Curves for doubly protonated peptides with two adjacent basic residues (Arg, Arg) suggest the localization of the two protons at the two basic side chains rather than at opposite termini of the peptide.
Viertler, Renate Brigitte: Os fundamentos da teoria antropológica alemã. Etnologia e antropologia em países de língua alemã: 1700–1950. São Paulo: Annablume, 2018. 316 pp. ISBN 978-85-391-0897-8. Preço: R$ 70,00 (2021)

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TCP fairness in 802.11e WLANs (2005)

We investigate the use of the 8.02.11e MAC EDCF to address transport layer unfairness in WLANs. A simple solution is developed that uses the 802.11e AIFS, TXOP and CW/sub min/ parameters to ensure fairness between competing TCP uploads and downloads.
Diagnostics as the Key to Advances in Global Health: Proposed Methods for Making Reliable Diagnostics Widely Available (2020)

This paper proposes a structure and method for the development of an AI diagnostic system as a highly leveraged step toward improvements in delivery of healthcare in underserved regions. First, the paper provides a high-level, general review of the current efforts to provide healthcare services in underserved areas and the many efforts being made to impact health outcomes by various international, governmental, and NGO entities. We also very briefly review university programs and research institutions that have specific technical and institutional assets with significant potential to carry out research or to partially implement such a plan. Our review uses weighted values in a decision-system that takes in a variety of assets we consider fundamental to successful engagement in delivery of new, innovative, technology-enabled healthcare systems for under-resourced settings. We then review nine factors that hinder the advancement in healthcare in under-resourced settings, some of which are well described in current literature and some that may bring new perspectives. The paper then attempts to review how a proposed system can manage to operate successfully within the context of the nine named hindrance factors. The primary focus of the paper is in the description of a system which can increase the availability of diagnostics through technology-enabled systems. Such a system would impact the outcomes of persons in underserved regions. The paper then describes why making diagnostics available is a critical priority among efforts for improvements in global health.
Surface Transitions During InGaN Growth on GaN(0001) in Metal–Organic Vapor Phase Epitaxy (2013)

Using in-situ ellipsometry measurements we observed three different surfaces during growth of InGaN(0001) in metal–organic vapor phase epitaxy, which is similar to reports for GaN(0001) or In on GaN in molecular beam epitaxy. Among these surfaces one is identical to the pre-growth GaN surface (for less than 10% In), the second contains about 1 monolayer (ML) of metal (for In between 10 and 35%), and finally a surface with ≤2 ML of metal (for 45% In). Exceeding an In/(Ga+In) input ratio of 80% in the gas phase leads to the formation of In droplets.
Synthesis of a polythieno[3,4-b]thiophene derivative with a low-lying HOMO level and its application in polymer solar cells (2011)

A planar benzodithiophene with lower HOMO was copolymerized with the thieno[3,4-b]thiophene unit to obtain a new low band gap polymer of PBDPTT-C, which exhibited a higher open-circuit voltage (V(oc)) of 0.8 V and a promising efficiency of 5.2%.
A multichip superconducting microcomputer ETL-JC1 (1991)

A multichip 4-b superconducting microcomputer named ETL-JC1 has been designed based on Josephson LSI technology in order to demonstrate the feasibility of a Josephson computer system. The ETL-JC1 is the first Josephson computer than can execute a computer program stored in the ROM chip. In order to make the ETL-JC1, the following key technologies were developed: an Nb tunnel junction integration process, an LSI logic circuit, memory chips of 1-kb ROM and 1-kb RAM a CAD (computer-aided design) system to develop Josephson LSIs, and a multiphase power supply system. The computer consists of four Josephson LSI chips essential to execute the computer functions of arithmetic-logic, sequence control, program memory, and data memory. The whole computer system was based on a RISC (reduced-instruction-set computer) architecture. The four chips were fabricated using a 3- mu m Nb/Al-oxide/Nb junction integration process. Photomasks for the logic circuits were made by using the CAD system, in which the layout of logic gates on the chip and wiring among them were carried out using a standard-cell method. The 128-step program was executed fully in the ETL-JC1 to test a full set of 27 kinds of basic RISC instructions, memory access, subroutine call/return, and so forth, which are sufficient to make any computer program. The total power dissipation was 6.2 mW in all circuits of the ETL-JC1 consisting of more than 22000 junctions. An operation speed of 1 GIPS (giga-instruction per second) can be expected with single CPU in this system by computer logic simulation.
MIME: Mutual Information Minimization and Entropy Maximization for Bayesian Belief Propagation (2001)

Bayesian belief propagation in graphical models has been recently shown to have very close ties to inference methods based in statistical physics. After Yedidia et al. demonstrated that belief propagation fixed points correspond to extrema of the so-called Bethe free energy, Yuille derived a double loop algorithm that is guaranteed to converge to a local minimum of the Bethe free energy. Yuille’s algorithm is based on a certain decomposition of the Bethe free energy and he mentions that other decompositions are possible and may even be fruitful. In the present work, we begin with the Bethe free energy and show that it has a principled interpretation as pairwise mutual information minimization and marginal entropy maximization (MIME). Next, we construct a family of free energy functions from a spectrum of decompositions of the original Bethe free energy. For each free energy in this family, we develop a new algorithm that is guaranteed to converge to a local minimum. Preliminary computer simulations are in agreement with this theoretical development. 1
Soft Bipolar Spectrum and Staging in Bipolar Disorder (2013)

At present, the classification of mental disorders is tightly rooted in categories despite the fact that a dimensional approach may present some clear advantages. In this review, we compare two dimensional approaches that have been put forward in bipolar disorder. On one hand, the “soft” bipolar spectrum focused on the presentation of affective symptomatology and on the other, the staging model based on the progression of the disorders and impairment in functioning in more severe cases. At a first glance, these concepts may sound as difficult to integrate. However, we hypothesize that a common underlying foundation based on the concept of allostatic load may help to integrate the crossectional phenomenology of the soft spectrum and the progressive neuropsychological and functioning impairment which is experienced by many bipolar patients. Keywords: Bipolar disorder, Temperament, Neurocognition, Functioning, Allostatic load
A novel trans-platinum coordination complex possessing in vitro and in vivo antitumor activity. (1994)

As part of a drug discovery program to discover more effective platinum-based anticancer drugs, a series of platinum complexes of trans coordination geometry centered on trans-ammine(cyclohexylaminedichlorodihydroxo)platinum(IV) (JM335) has been evaluated in vitro against a panel of cisplatin-sensitive and cisplatin-resistant human tumor cell lines (predominantly ovarian). In vitro, against 5 human ovarian carcinoma cell lines, JM335 was comparably cytotoxic to cisplatin itself and over 50-fold more potent than transplatin (mean 50% inhibitory concentrations: JM335, 3.1 microM; cisplatin, 4.1 microM; transplatin, 162 microM). With the use of seven pairs of human tumor cell lines (parent and subline with acquired resistance to cisplatin and encompassing all of the known major mechanisms of resistance to cisplatin) JM335 exhibited a different cross-resistance pattern to that of its cis isomer (JM149). JM335 showed non-cross-resistance in six of the seven resistant lines, cross-resistance in the A2780cisR line possibly being associated with high levels of glutathione. Preliminary intracellular DNA binding studies showed that in contrast to transplatin, JM335 was efficient at forming DNA-DNA interstrand cross-links. In vivo, JM335 produced growth delays in excess of 15 days against 4 of 6 human ovarian carcinoma xenografts and was unique among the complexes studied in retaining some efficacy against a cisplatin-resistant subline of the murine ADJ/PC6 plasmacytoma. JM335 is the first trans-platinum complex to demonstrate marked antitumor efficacy against both murine and human s.c. tumor models and represents a significant structural lead to complexes capable of circumventing cross-resistance to cisplatin.
Chemopreventive Activity of MGN-3/Biobran Against Chemical Induction of Glandular Stomach Carcinogenesis in Rats and Its Apoptotic Effect in Gastric Cancer Cells (2016)

In the current study, we investigated the chemopreventive activity of arabinoxylan rice bran, MGN-3/Biobran, against chemical induction of glandular stomach carcinogenesis in rats. Gastric cancer was induced by carcinogen methylnitronitrosoguanidine (MNNG), and rats received MNNG alone or MNNG plus Biobran (40 mg/kg body weight) for a total of 8 months. Averaged results from 2 separate readings showed that exposure to MNNG plus Biobran caused gastric dysplasia and cancer (adenocarcinoma) in 4.5/12 rats (9/24 readings, 37.5%), with 3.5/12 rats (7/24 readings, 29.2%) showing dysplasia and 1/12 rats (8.3%) developing adenocarcinoma. In contrast, in rats treated with MNNG alone, 8/10 (80%) developed dysplasia and adenocarcinoma, with 6/10 rats (60%) showing dysplasia and 2/10 rats (20%) developing adenocarcinoma. The effect of combining both agents was also associated with significant suppression of the expression of the tumor marker Ki-67 and remarkable induction in the apoptotic gastric cancer cells via mitochondrial-dependent pathway as indicated by the upregulation in p53 expression, Bax expression, downregulation in Bcl-2 expression, an increase in Bax/Bcl-2 ratio, and an activation of caspase-3. In addition, Biobran treatment induced cell-cycle arrest in the subG1 phase, where the hypodiploid cell population was markedly increased. Moreover, Biobran treatment protected rats against MNNG-induced significant decrease in lymphocyte levels. We conclude that Biobran provides protection against chemical induction of glandular stomach carcinogenesis in rats and may be useful for the treatment of human patients with gastric cancer.
Synthesis of 5-Substituted Pyrrolo[1,2-b]pyridazines with Antioxidant Properties (2001)

5-Substituted pyrrolo[1,2-b]pyridazines have been prepared by cyclisation of pyridazine with diphenylcyclopropenone followed by further functionalisations in the pyrrolo[1,2-b]pyridazine 5-position. Several compound exhibit profound inhibition of lipid peroxidation in vitro. Lipid peroxidation of boiled rat liver microsomes was induced by ascorbic acid/FeSO4 and the peroxidation was determined by measuring the thiobarbituric acid reactive material.