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Optical properties of the plasma hydrogenated ZnO thin films (2017)

Abstract We have optimized the deposition of the highly electrically resistive undoped (intrinsic) polycrystalline ZnO thin layers on fused silica substrates by the DC reactive magnetron sputtering of metallic zinc target in argonne/oxide atmosphere and we introduced the post-deposition hydrogen plasma doping. The thickness of thin film was evaluated by reflectance interferometry using the metallographic optical microscope fiber coupled to the CCD spectrometer operating in 400-1000 nm spectral range. The optical absorption was measured by photothermal deflection spectroscopy operating in 300-1600 nm spectral range. The change of the optical absorption edge and the increase of the infrared optical absorption was detected in hydrogenated ZnO. The increase of the infrared optical absorption goes with the increase of the electrical conductivity. We conclude that the plasma hydrogenation of the intrinsic ZnO thin films is related to increase of the free carrier concentration.
Large Qxf product for HBAR using Smart Cut &#x2122; transfer of LiNbO<inf>3</inf> thin layers onto LiNbO<inf>3</inf> substrate (2008)

In this paper, we propose a novel approach for HBAR devices using the Smart Cut ™ technology to obtain thin homogeneous X-cut single crystal films of LiNbO <inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">3</inf> . Sub-micron layers were successfully transferred onto LiNbO <inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">3</inf> handle wafers. RF characterizations were performed around 1.95 GHz and quality factors in excess of 40 000 are extracted, proving the applicability of layer transfer by Smart Cut ™ to acoustic devices. An excellent matching between simulations and experimental data as well as TCF measurements are presented in this paper.
Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis Reactivity in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Health Under Psychological, Physiological, and Pharmacological Stimulation (2002)

Objectives Subtle alterations of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis in chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) have been proposed as a shared pathway linking numerous etiological and perpetuating processes with symptoms and observed physiological abnormalities. Because the HPA axis is involved in the adaptive responses to stress and CFS patients experience a worsening of symptoms after physical and psychological stress, we tested HPA axis functioning with three centrally acting stress tests. Methods We used two procedures mimicking real-life stressors and compared them with a standardized pharmacological neuroendocrine challenge test. CFS patients were compared with healthy control subjects regarding their cardiovascular and endocrine reactivity in a psychosocial stress test and a standardized exercise test, and their endocrine response in the insulin tolerance test (ITT). Results Controlling for possible confounding variables, we found significantly lower ACTH response levels in the psychosocial stress test and the exercise test, and significantly lower ACTH responses in the ITT, with no differences in plasma total cortisol responses. Also, salivary-free cortisol responses did not differ between the groups in the psychosocial stress test and the exercise test but were significantly higher for the CFS patients in the ITT. In all tests CFS patients had significantly reduced baseline ACTH levels. Conclusions These results suggest that CFS patients are capable of mounting a sufficient cortisol response under different types of stress but that on a central level subtle dysregulations of the HPA axis exist.
PolyPOM Hybrid Membranes from Practical Chemistries with very High Proton Conductivities (2011)

The heteropoly acids (HPA) are a protogenic moiety that could potentially enable proton exchange membranes that operate in fuel cells under hotter and drier conditions. We now report the incorporation of HPAs into polymers based on either trifluorovinyl ether (TFVE) monomers or functionalized Dyneon{trade mark, serif} materials. The proton conductivity of the TFVE polymers depends strongly on co-monomer chemistry, where long methylene chains appear to be better but does not increase linearly with respect to HPA loading. Some of these polymers show phase changes between crystalline states under drier conditions and an amorphous state when the polymer is wetter. All of the polymers have very low swelling at high RHs. The Dyneon{trade mark, serif} materials have very high proton conductivties for relatively low loadings of HPA, but their cnductivity is strongly dependent on film processing. The strength of these films mimics their parent polymer. All of these materials are amenable to mass manufacture.
Technical standards of traditional Chinese medicine Industry (2010)

Basing on the basic theory of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), the technical standards of TCM industry is such a Link that it is to clarify the internal relations between the basic theory of TCM and developing of TCM industry. This article analyzed several problems of technical standards of TCM industry, such as basic theory of TCM and standardization problem of TCM industry. Technical standards of TCM industry must receive the guidance of basic theory of TCM, so that it will promote the process of modernization and internationalization of TCM industry.
When is ‘Enough’ data really too much? Data capture in the CIC cancer project (2018)

Aims: The aim of the Continuous Improvement in Care (CIC) Cancer research program is to explain variations in health outcomes, which at present cannot be understood with conventional health outcome measures. To achieve this, the project is collecting data reflecting not just the disease process but results of procedures, processes, structures, and systems in the continuum from prevention, diagnosis, treatment, survivorship to end of life care. &#13;\n&#13;\nMethod: Data from both the clinical and patient perspective will be measured. The project will utilise an extensive platform of data and evaluate how best to implement the system within both the public and private sector for a range of cancer types including colorectal. The International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM) standard sets of outcomes measures will be used with the addition of data and outcomes relevant to WA patients. &#13;\n&#13;\nOngoing clinical data will be collected by clinicians. Wherever possible data will be extracted electronically from other data systems, securely transferred and then data items mapped to automatically populate the relevant dataset field within the ‘Site System’. Patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) will be collected at designated time points by either the clinician in consultation with the participant or the participant will complete these via a web‐based ‘PROMS Platform’ using a computer, tablet, or mobile telephone. The PROMs dataset will be transferred to the ‘Site System’. De‐identified data will be regularly transferred to the ‘CIC Cancer Research Database’ for evaluation and feedback to the hospital sites as part of a quality improvement cycle.&#13;\n&#13;\nResults: Mapping is underway for colorectal cancer services at SJoG Midland and RPH. Process enablers and barriers will be discussed. &#13;\n&#13;\nConclusion: This pilot will inform the model for data capture in four other cancers – lung, breast, prostate and ovarian.
ChemInform Abstract: S‐((Phenylsulfonyl)difluoromethyl)thiophenium Salts: Carbon‐Selective Electrophilic Difluoromethylation of β‐Ketoesters, β‐Diketones, and Dicyanoalkylidenes. (2014)

Abstract The synthesis of the difluoromethylating agent (II) is described.
Nepetalactones from essential oil of Nepeta cataria represent a stable fly feeding and oviposition repellent (2011)

The stable fly, Stomoxys calcitrans (L.) (Diptera: Muscidae), is one of the most serious pests to livestock. It feeds mainly on cattle and causes significant economic losses in the cattle industry. Standard stable fly control involving insecticides and sanitation is usually costly and often has limited effectiveness. As we continue to evaluate and develop safer fly control strategies, the present study reports on the effectiveness of catnip (Nepeta cataria L.) oil and its constituent compounds, nepetalactones, as stable fly repellents. The essential oil of catnip reduced the feeding of stable flies by >96% in an in vitro bioassay system, compared with other sesquiterpene-rich plant oils (e.g. amyris and sandalwood). Catnip oil demonstrated strong repellency against stable flies relative to other chemicals for repelling biting insects, including isolongifolenone, 2-methylpiperidinyl-3-cyclohexen-1-carboxamide and (1S,2'S)-2-methylpiperidinyl-3-cyclohexen-1-carboxamide. The repellency against stable flies of the most commonly used mosquito repellent, DEET, was relatively low. In field trials, two formulations of catnip oil provided >95% protection and were effective for up to 6 h when tested on cattle. Catnip oil also acted as a strong oviposition repellent and reduced gravid stable fly oviposition by 98%.
Interactive 3D fault prediction using a weighted 2D-CNN and multidirectional 3D-CNN (2022)

We present an interactive 2D Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) with a weighted loss function. The interpreter is required to pick a minimal number of “fault” and “no fault” picks. These picks are used to weight the loss function of a 2D-CNN. The 2D-CNN is updated, and quickly predicted to maintain tight interactive feedback with the interpreter. Once the result is deemed sufficiently accurate, predictions of the 2D-CNN are fed into a pretrained 3D-CNN to create a novel solution for 3D fault prediction. This new method allows the interpreter to influence the prediction of the CNN by integrating any number of manually drawn picks. This method provides a 3D fault interpretation solution with the crispness and quality of a synthetically pretrained 3D-CNN solution, combined with the added value of interactivity, flexibility, and continual training and updating of a 2D-CNN solution.
Clinical and Research Readiness for Spinal Muscular Atrophy: The Time Is Now for Knowledge Translation (2022)

Partnership among patient advocacy groups, industry collaborators, and key opinion leaders/experts can optimize essential resource development to address the knowledge gap for best practices in physical therapy. This partnership model can be replicated for other diseases, providing an efficient way to support clinical trial readiness and target early development of evidence-based content and resources related to both research and best practice clinical evaluation for physical therapist researchers, clinicians, and patients. While identifying knowledge gaps and resource development are initial steps toward change in SMA practice, a rapidly changing rehabilitation outlook warrants a call to action for enhanced efforts aimed at improving rehabilitation evaluation, assessment, and care for this population. It is critical to forge a timely path forward for development, implementation, and sustainability of effective knowledge translation to practice for SMA.
Solar-hybrid Thermochemical Gasification of Wood Particles and Solid Recovered Fuel in a Continuously-Fed Prototype Reactor (2020)

Solar thermochemical gasification is a promising solution for the clean production of low-emission synthetic fuels. It offers the possibility to upgrade various biomasses and waste feedstocks and further provides an efficient way to sustainably store solar energy into high-value and energy-intensive chemical fuels. In this work, a novel continuously-fed solar steam gasifier was studied using beechwood and solid recovered fuels (SRF) particles. Solar-only and hybrid solar/autothermal gasification experiments were performed at high temperatures to assess the performance of the reactor and its flexibility in converting various types of feedstocks. The hybrid operation was considered to increase the solar reactor temperature when the solar power input is not sufficient thanks to partial feedstock oxy-combustion. The hybrid solar process is thus a sustainable alternative option outperforming the conventional gasification processes for syngas production. Wood and waste particles solar conversion was successfully achieved, yielding high-quality syngas and suitable reactor performance, with Cold Gas Efficiencies (CGE) up to 1.04 and 1.13 respectively during the allothermal operation. The hybrid process allowed operating with a lower solar power input, but the H2 and CO yields noticeably declined. SRF gasification experiments suffered furthermore from ash melting/agglomeration issues and injection instabilities that undermined the continuity of the process. This study demonstrated the solar reactor flexibility in converting both biomass and waste feedstocks into syngas performed in continuous feeding operation. The experimental outcomes showed the feasibility of operating the reactor in both allothermal (solar-only) and hybrid allothermal/autothermal (combined solar and oxy-combustion heating) for continuous syngas production with high yields and energy conversion efficiencies.
Acrylic Coatings (2015)

Abstract Acrylic coatings are one of the major generic classes of organic coatings and are prevalent in both architectural and industrial applications. This article provides information on the chemistry of acrylic polymers, the methods used in their manufacture, the relationship between structure and properties when they are formulated into coatings, and how they are being used in coatings. The main discussion points are the differences between solventborne and waterborne technologies and some of the challenges in formulating and applying waterborne acrylic coatings. The article describes the mechanism of film formation of acrylic latex polymers and its effect on final coating properties. It discusses the types of waterborne acrylic latex coatings based on chemical properties and based on applications such as primers, intermediate coats, topcoats, stains, and direct-to-substrate finishes. The article concludes with a description of the advances in the development of waterborne acrylic coatings for maintenance and protective applications.
Pressure-tolerant fiber-optic feedthrough (1983)

A number of fiber-optic communication and sensor systems are planned for use in underwater environments.1 The successful implementation of these systems will require suitably designed pressure-tolerant fiber-optic componentry. To date, only cable designs for underwater applications have been reported.2 Here we report on the design, implementation, and testing of a demountable multichannel low-loss multimode fiber pressure-tolerant feedthrough.
High-Performance Twin Silicon Nanowire MOSFET (TSNWFET) on Bulk Si Wafer (2008)

A gate-all-around (GAA) twin silicon nanowire MOSFET (TSNWFET) with 5-nm-radius channels on a bulk Si wafer is successfully fabricated to achieve extremely high-drive currents of 2.37 mA/ mum for n-channel and 1.30 mA/ mum for p-channel TSNWFETs with mid-gap TiN metal gate that are normalized by a nanowire diameter. It also shows good short-channel effects immunity down to 30-nm gate length due to the GAA structure and the nanowire channel. The effect of bottom parasitic transistor in TSNWFET is also investigated.
Perception and Production of Approximant Consonants by Normal and Articulation-Delayed Preschool Children (1983)

Disagreement exists concerning the relationship between the perception of phonetic contrasts and their production by both normal and articulation-delayed children. The perception of three approximant consonant contrasts (/w/-/r/, /w/-/l/, /r/-/l/) was examined in two groups of 3-year-old children: normal children who did and did not articulate /r/ and /l/ correctly and articulation-delayed children who misarticulated /r/ and /l/. Perception was assessed in a two-choice forced-choice identification task in which the subjects heard a word and pushed a button lighting a picture corresponding to the word. In general, normally developing children were highly accurate in their perception of all three contrasts, but there was more variability in /w/-/l/ perceptual performance among the children who neutralized the /w/-/l/ contrast. Articulation-delayed children displayed a wider range of production patterns and were more variable in their perceptual performance than normally developing children. Results suggest than normally developing children learn to perceive approximant contrasts prior to 3 years of age. However, some but not all articulation-delayed 3-year-old children may still make errors in the perception of approximants.
Preparation and Properties of Highly Electron-accepting Poly(pyrimidine-2,5-diyl) (1992)

Abstract Reaction of 2,5-dibromopyrimidine with a zero-valent nickel complex affords poly(pyrimidine-2,5-diyl). This new polymer is easily converted into electrical conducting materials by chemical and electrochemical reductions, the latter reduction occurring at the highest potential (−1.75 V vs. Ag/Ag+) among reported π-conjugated polymers.
Loving care for the aged: A probe on specialized practical work of caring the aged (2009)

Objective: To probe a new pattern of caring for the that can not only meet the normal needs of daily life, but also provide aids and care at any time. Methods: Under the guidance of whole care theory, old inpatients were provided care and living care. Results: The new pattern of medical care for the aged assured the old people to receive care while receiving support. Conclusion: The establishment of the new pattern of the medical care for the aged fully embodied the humanity-oriented care, filled in a gap in services for old patients between hospitals and rest homes, and was the result of the coming aging society.
Grease Performance in Ball and Roller Bearings for All-Steel and Hybrid Bearings (2021)

Grease life in hybrid bearings is longer than that in all-steel bearings. This will be shown in this article by means of grease life tests with a large number of greases for both deep groove ball bearings (DGBBs) and cylindrical roller bearings (CRBs). The results show that grease life for hybrid bearings is always larger than that for equivalent all-steel bearings and that this varies between a factor of 2 and 9 depending on the grease type used. For cylindrical roller bearings, grease life does not increase with decreasing speed below a minimum value. However, at these relatively low speeds, hybrid bearings give a longer grease life than all-steel bearings.
Centrifugal blower optimization using gradient-free approaches and RANS simulation (2023)

View Video Presentation: https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2023-3313.vid In this study, an optimization approach based solely on open-source libraries is employed to optimize a centrifugal blower (both impeller and housing). Salome, OpenFoam, and Dakota are used for geometry and mesh generation, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation, and optimization, respectively. For the numerical analysis, Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations with the k-�� SST turbulence model are used. The Latin Hypercube Sampling (LHS) method is used to determine the design points while eleven design variables related to both the impeller and housing are chosen. Then different metamodels, including Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), Efficient Global Optimization (EGO), Gaussian Process (GP), and Multivariate Adaptive Regression Spline (MARS) are built to obtain optimal design. The findings show that GP proposes the best design among metamodels, with maximum efficiency (57.62%) and negligible error (0.12%) when compared to CFD calculation. In order to validate the optimal design from GP, a centrifugal blower is finally fabricated, demonstrating an acceptable agreement between experimental and numerical results
Small‐Molecule‐Induced Soluble Oligomers of α‐Synuclein with Helical Structure (2017)

Accumulation of α-synuclein (αSyn) aggregates constitutes the hallmark of synucleinopathies including Parkinson's disease. However, many steps from the innocuous, monomeric αSyn toward misfolded oligomers and fibrillar species remain unclear. Here, we show that αSyn can form in solution α-helical oligomers, which are off-pathway to fibrillization, through interaction with the tetrapyrrole phthalocyanine tetrasulfonate. Chemical cross-linking combined with mass spectrometry reveals a large number of intermolecular cross-links along the entire αSyn sequence in the phthalocyanine tetrasulfonate-stabilized αSyn oligomers. Our study suggests that stabilization of structured oligomers by small molecules provides a viable strategy to interfere with αSyn fibrillization.
Keynote speakers (2010)

Summary form only given. Provides an abstract for each of the six plenary presentations and a brief professional biography of each presenter.
Dielectrophoretic Whole Blood Separation Device Integrating a Spiral Pump and Cytometry (2007)

We propose a MEMS device which integrates a dielectrophoretic blood separation technique with a cytometer and pump for use in low cost blood analysis. Our technical analysis focuses on fluid flow, blood modeling for electrical systems and the dielectrophoresis and cytometry methods. Simulation results of the flow, separation and cytometry are presented.
Response of Mouse Splenic Lymphocytes to Timothy Pollen Antigens in a Microculture System (1975)

Spleen cells from LAF1 mice were stimulated in a microculture system with T and B cell mitogens or antigens of timothy pollen. Only cells from mice immunized with crude timothy pollen extract (WST) or a major antigen of timothy pollen conjugated to Ascaris (antigen B-Ascaris) responded to timothy antigens in vitro. Optimum responses were obtained at 120 to 144 hr of culture with 5 to 10 mug WST per culture and ranged from three to 10 times greater than cell background. No correlations could be found between the optimum antigen concentration or the maximum response and the immune status of the spleen cell donor. Response could be inhibited by a dialyzable fraction of timothy pollen, antigen D, which is a monovalent form of a major antigen of timothy pollen.
Supplementary Table from A New Class of Selective ATM Inhibitors as Combination Partners of DNA Double-Strand Break Inducing Cancer Therapies (2023)

Supplementary Table from A New Class of Selective ATM Inhibitors as Combination Partners of DNA Double-Strand Break Inducing Cancer Therapies
A simple stereo algorithm to recover precise object boundaries and smooth surfaces (2005)

In area-based stereo matching, there is a problem called "boundary overreach", i.e. the recovered object boundary turns out to be wrongly located away from the real one. This is especially harmful to segmenting objects using depth information. A few approaches have been proposed to solve this problem. However, these techniques tend to degrade on smooth surfaces. That is, there seems to be a trade-off problem between recovering precise object edges and obtaining smooth surfaces. In this paper, we propose a new simple method to solve this problem. Using multiple stereo pairs and multiple windowing, our method detects the region where the boundary overreach is likely to occur (let us call it "BO region") and adopts appropriate methods for the BO and non-BO regions. Although the proposed method is quite simple, the experimental results have shown that it is very effective at recovering both sharp object edges at their correct locations and smooth object surfaces.