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(Invited) Plasma Deposition of Functional Nanocomposites (2016)

Nanocomposite films consisting of metal nanoparticles in a dielectric organic or ceramic matrix have unique functional properties with hosts of applications [1]. The present talk demonstrates how plasma and other vapor phase deposition techniques can be employed for tailoring the nanostructure and the resulting properties. Vapor phase deposition, inter alia, allows excellent control of the metallic filling factor and its depth profile as well as the incorporation of alloy nanoparticles with well-defined composition. The metallic nanoparticles typically form via self-organization during co-deposition of the metallic and matrix components due to the high cohesive energy of the metals and the low metal-matrix interaction energy. Various methods such as sputtering, plasma polymerization, and evaporation have been applied for the deposition of the matrix component, while the metallic component has mostly been sputter-deposited or evaporated. Moreover, gas aggregation cluster sources were utilized to obtain independent control of filling factor and size of the embedded nanoparticles [2,3]. Nanostructure formation was also studied by computer simulations [4]. In most applications, a high filling factor close to the percolation threshold is essential because the functional properties often require short range interaction between nanoparticles. Examples range from plasmonic composites [5,6] through high frequency magnetic cores [7] and sensors 8] to biocompatible antibacterial coatings with tailored release rate [9]. [1] F. Faupel, V. Zaporojtchenko, T. Strunskus, M. Elbahri, Adv. Eng. Mater. 12 , 1177 (2010). [2] O. Polonsky, T. Peter, V. Zaporojtchenko, H. Biedermann, F, Faupel, Appl. Phys. Lett. 103 (2013) 033118. [3] T. Peter, M. Wegner, V. Zaporojtchenko, T. Strunskus, S. Bornholdt, H. Kersten, F. Faupel, Surface &amp; Coatings Technology 205, 38 (2011). [4] J. W. Abraham, N. Kongsuwan, T. Strunskus, F. Faupel, and M. Bonitz, J. Appl. Phys. 117 , 014305 (2015). [5] M. Elbahri, M. K. Hedayati, V. S. K. Chakravadhanula, M. Jamali, T. Strunkus, V. Zaporochentko, F. Faupel, Adv. Mater. 23 , 1993 (2011). [6] M. K. Hedayati, M. Javaherirahim, B. Mozooni, R. Abdelaziz, A. Tavassolizadeh, V. S. K. Chakravadhanula, V. Zaporojtchenko, T. Strunkus, F. Faupel and M. Elbahri, Adv. Mater. 23 , 5410 (2011) [7] H. Greve, C. Pochstein, H. Takele, V. Zaporojtchenko, F. Faupel, A. Gerber, M. Frommberger, E. Quandt, Appl. Phys. Lett. 89 , 242501 (2006). [8] C. Hanisch, N. Ni, A. Kulkarni, V. Zaporojtchenko, T. Strunskus, F. Faupel, J. Mater. Sci. 46 , 438 (2010). [9] T. Hrkac, C. Röhl, R. Podschun, V. Zaporojtchenko, T. Strunskus, H. Papavlassopoulos, D. Garbe-Schönberg, F. Faupel, Mater. Sci. Eng. C 33 , 2367 (2013).
Corona discharge and ageing process of an insulation (1977)

Corona discharge study has been made considering the discharge as a streamer-like process. Having previously compared the effect of uv radiations and low energy particles such as electrons and positive ions by means of an infrared analysis, experiments have now been carried out with ions lower than 30 eV. Though the ions seem to be more effective particles, their impact did not give as much degradation as that due to disarges. An ultraviolet spectroscopy analysis is used to show the presumed increase in conductivity. In conclusion, future work on the subject is proposed in order to elucidate the surface transformations and the breakdown of insulating materials. Indeed few results are known of the effect of neutral and negative particles on the simultaneous ageing of the discharge constituents.
On‐line adaptive trend extraction of multiple physiological signals for alarm filtering in intensive care units (2009)

Abstract This paper presents an alarm validation system dedicated to patient monitoring in intensive care units (ICU). Several physiological signals are continuously acquired and an on‐line trend extraction method is implemented for each one. A trend is a succession of contiguous semi‐quantitative episodes, expressing the time evolution of a signal with several symbols. The difference between the trend and the signal is considered as a residual. In this paper, trend extraction is based on several thresholds that are adapted on‐line, following the signal variations. Multivariate change indices are further deduced from the trends and the residuals. They provide an indication of changes to patient hemodynamic and respiratory state. An alarm validation system based on these indices is then proposed, which uses fuzzy decision making. Whenever a monitoring system sets off an alarm, the system proposed carries out a backward analysis of the physiological variables monitored. The system enables various policies to be implemented: filtering of false alarms due to artifacts, confirmation of true alarms due to a patient state change. The system was tested on more than 50 h of data recorded on adult patients in an ICU unit, when 105SpO 2 alarms were set off by a fixed threshold alarm system. The comparison between the decision made on‐line by the validation system and the decision made by a medical expert for each of these alarms showed that the system is able to recognize 100% of true alarms and filter 50–80% of false alarms. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley &amp; Sons, Ltd.
Semi-supervised and Population Based Training for Voice Commands\n Recognition (2019)

We present a rapid design methodology that combines automated hyper-parameter\ntuning with semi-supervised training to build highly accurate and robust models\nfor voice commands classification. Proposed approach allows quick evaluation of\nnetwork architectures to fit performance and power constraints of available\nhardware, while ensuring good hyper-parameter choices for each network in\nreal-world scenarios. Leveraging the vast amount of unlabeled data with a\nstudent/teacher based semi-supervised method, classification accuracy is\nimproved from 84% to 94% in the validation set. For model optimization, we\nexplore the hyper-parameter space through population based training and obtain\nan optimized model in the same time frame as it takes to train a single model.\n
Effect of rootstock and nitrogen fertilizer on growth and yield in watermelon (2019)

Herbaceous grafting can be used to manage numerous soilborne pathogens in cucurbits. Rootstocks have been reported to increase the growth of the scion possibly due to more efficient use of nitrogen compared with non-grafted plants. The first objective of this study was to determine if the commercial rootstocks ‘Strongtosa’, ‘Carnivor’, or ‘Macis’ improve growth and production of the watermelon ‘Melody’ scion. The second objective was to determine whether these rootstocks have different nitrogen requirements in open-field production compared with non-grafted ‘Melody’. Field studies were conducted in 2013 and 2014 on the Sandhills Research Station in Jackson Springs, North Carolina. Nitrogen fertiliser was applied via drip irrigation at 0, 84, 126, 168, and 252 kg⋅ha−1. A linear relationship between nitrogen rate and rootstock cultivar existed; however, in all cases the non-grafted plants produced more than all grafted plants. Average fruit weight from the non-grafted plants was also higher than the grafted plants. Fruit from ‘Carnivor’- and ‘Strongtosa’-grafted plants had higher flesh firmness compared with non-grafted ‘Melody’. Our findings suggest that rootstocks do not increase yield or growth in the scion nor do they require different nitrogen application rates. However, some rootstocks do improve overall fruit quality.
FADE (2021)

Lately, more and more applications are deployed on heterogeneous, power-constrained edge-computing devices. Bringing computation closer to the data, contributes both to latency and energy consumption reduction due to the elimination of excessive data transfers. However, while the main concern in such environments is the minimization of energy consumption, the heterogeneity in compute resources found at the edge may lead to Quality of Service (QoS) violations. At the same time, Serverless computing, the next frontier of Cloud computing has emerged to offer unprecedented elasticity by utilizing fine-grained, stateless functions. The reduction in the execution time and the modest memory footprint of such decomposed applications, allow for fine-grained resource multiplexing. In this work, we propose a methodology for application decomposition into fine-grained functions and energy-aware function placement on a cluster of edge devices subject to user-specified QoS guarantees.
Tumor inhibitors. XXXV. Myrsine saponin, the active principle of Myrsine africana (1969)

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTTumor inhibitors. XXXV. Myrsine saponin, the active principle of Myrsine africanaS. Morris Kupchan, Pieter S. Steyn, Michael D. Grove, Stella M. Horsfield, and Sean W. MeitnerCite this: J. Med. Chem. 1969, 12, 1, 167–169Publication Date (Print):January 1, 1969Publication History Published online1 May 2002Published inissue 1 January 1969https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jm00301a045https://doi.org/10.1021/jm00301a045research-articleACS PublicationsRequest reuse permissionsArticle Views88Altmetric-Citations14LEARN ABOUT THESE METRICSArticle Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to reflect usage leading up to the last few days.Citations are the number of other articles citing this article, calculated by Crossref and updated daily. Find more information about Crossref citation counts.The Altmetric Attention Score is a quantitative measure of the attention that a research article has received online. Clicking on the donut icon will load a page at altmetric.com with additional details about the score and the social media presence for the given article. Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Share Add toView InAdd Full Text with ReferenceAdd Description ExportRISCitationCitation and abstractCitation and referencesMore Options Share onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InRedditEmail Other access optionsGet e-Alertsclose Get e-Alerts
Impairment of Spatially Directed Attention in Patients With Probable Alzheimer's Disease as Measured by Eye Movements (1994)

Impairment of attention may be an early feature of AD and a prominent clinical characteristic of some patients. The differences observed in error types made by patients may reflect the varied distribution of neuropathologic changes affecting structures that mediate aspects of attention. The architecture of eye movements can be used as a physiologic measure that should provide useful information for the diagnosis and clinicopathologic subtyping of patients with AD.
DNA rearrangement can account for in vitro switching to IgG1. (1993)

During immune responses, B lymphocytes may switch from the expression of immunoglobulin M (IgM) to the expression of another isotype (e.g., IgG, IgE, IgA). In stable hybridomas and myelomas expressing a "switched" (S) isotype, DNA deletions between S mu and a "downstream" S region (S region recombination) have been found. In primary B cells, studies of the molecular basis of switching have been limited by the ability to sensitively quantitate the amount of DNA deletion; such studies would be of interest because other nondeletional mechanisms (trans-splicing, alternative processing of a long transcript) have been proposed to account for isotype switching in certain circumstances. We have applied the digestion-circularization polymerase chain reaction (DC-PCR) technique to measure the amount of S region recombination that occurs in the course of class switching in primary B lymphocytes. Resting B cells were cultured in lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and interleukin 4 (IL-4) to stimulate switching to IgG1. These cells begin to express membrane IgG1 at day 2.5 of culture and reach maximum expression by day 4.5. DNA was prepared from cultured cells and analyzed for S mu-S gamma 1 rearrangement by DC-PCR. Chimeric switch regions, indicating S mu-S gamma 1 recombination, were detected in amounts that, in most cases, correlated with surface expression. Furthermore, when cells were sorted on the basis of surface IgG1 expression, a mean of at least one S mu-S gamma 1 rearrangement per cell was seen in five out of seven experiments. In general, the IgG1+ cells obtained at 4.5 and 5.5 d of culture had close to 2 S mu-S gamma 1 rearrangements per cell. In IgG1- cells, S mu-S gamma 1 rearrangements were detectable, but at frequencies substantially lower that in IgG1+ cells. Thus, these results indicate that DNA deletion accompanies class switching in normal B cells stimulated with LPS and IL-4.
Adult Antarctic krill proves resilient in a simulated high CO2 ocean (2018)

Antarctic krill (<i>Euphausia superba</i>) have a keystone role in the Southern Ocean, as the primary prey of Antarctic predators. Decreases in krill abundance could result in a major ecological regime shift, but there is limited information on how climate change may affect krill. Increasing anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>) emissions are causing ocean acidification, as absorption of atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> in seawater alters ocean chemistry. Ocean acidification increases mortality and negatively affects physiological functioning in some marine invertebrates, and is predicted to occur most rapidly at high latitudes. Here we show that, in the laboratory, adult krill are able to survive, grow, store fat, mature, and maintain respiration rates when exposed to near-future ocean acidification (1000-2000 μatm <i>p</i>CO<sub>2</sub>) for one year. Despite differences in seawater <i>p</i>CO<sub>2</sub> incubation conditions, adult krill are able to actively maintain the acid-base balance of their body fluids in near-future <i>p</i>CO<sub>2</sub>, which enhances their resilience to ocean acidification.
ChemInform Abstract: STUDIES ON THE SYNTHESES OF HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS PART 568, CATALYTIC HYDROGENATION OF (+‐)‐KREYSIGINONE (1974)

Abstract Durch Reduktion des Isochinoliniummethojodjds (I) mit NaBD 4 wird das 7‐Benzyloxy‐( l ‐D)‐tetrahydroisochinolin (II) erhalten, das sich durch Erhitzen in äthanolischer Salzsäure zum Isochinolin (IIIa) debenzylieren läßt. Analog wird auch das Isochinolin (IIIb) synthetisiert.
Separation behavior of short single‐ and double‐stranded DNA in 1 micron and 100 nm glass channels (2013)

Micro- and nanofluidic lab-on-chip technology offers the unique capability of high-resolution separation, identification, and manipulation of biomolecules with broad applications in chemistry, biology, and medicine. In this work, we probe the effects of ionic strength on separation of ss- and dsDNA within 1 micron and 100 nm-deep glass channels. Separation behavior of DNA is influenced by a number of parameters, including ionic strength, melting temperature, strand length, strand conformation, and channel size. Specifically, we find a shift in the observed mobility of 10-bp (base pair) dsDNA for different ionic strengths due to changes in kinetic parameters, underlying the importance of these considerations when working with short DNA. For 50-base DNA, the electrophoretic mobility difference between ss- and dsDNA increases as the ionic strength increases due to changes in conformation of the ssDNA. Finally, we find that decreasing channel size decreases the absolute electrophoretic mobility of 10- and 20-bp ss- and dsDNA, due to both hydrodyamic confinement and electric double layer (EDL) interactions. We hypothesize that about 4% mobility reduction is due to hydrodynamic confinement, which is observed at all ionic strengths, and further reduction is due to EDL interactions between the DNA and the channel walls, only observed at low ionic strengths.
Advanced generator purging technologies for cleaner and safer energy production (2011)

To remove thermal losses from medium-sized and large electrical turbo generators most power generation equipment manufacturer use hydrogen as a cooling gas. The gas purging process plays an important role in preventing explosive atmospheres during the commissioning and decommissioning of this type of generators. Until now, it has been common practice to use carbon dioxide (CO <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sub> ) as an inert gas in industrial applications. CO <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sub> is mostly supplied in liquid form and must then be converted to the gaseous state in a complex process, e.g. CO <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sub> flash evaporation process. As an innovative new solution, the use of argon has been researched as an alternative to the common practice of using CO <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sub> . Argon is a noble gas with a very low critical temperature, meaning that it is also gaseous at very low ambient temperatures and can be applied at high pressure. A comparison with the relevant physical properties of other gases used in turbo generators showed that this gas can be used as an adequate alternative gas for generator purging. There are many advantages, such as reduced outage time, system simplification and safety improvements. After tests in the generator test field and practical tests in power plants, the patented purging process with argon is now used as a standard procedure for all new Siemens generators and is available as an upgrade for existing power plants.
DEC-205-mediated antigen targeting to steady-state dendritic cells induces deletion of diabetogenic CD8+ T cells independently of PD-1 and PD-L1 (2013)

CD8⁺ T cells specific for islet-specific glucose-6-phosphatase catalytic subunit-related protein (IGRP) have been implicated in type 1 diabetes in both humans and non-obese diabetic (NOD) mice, in which T cells specific for IGRP₂₀₆₋₂₁₄ are highly prevalent. We sought to manipulate these pathogenic T cells by exploiting the ability of steady-state dendritic cells (DCs) to present antigens in a tolerogenic manner. The endocytic receptor DEC-205 was utilized to deliver an IGRP₂₀₆₋₂₁₄ mimotope to DCs in NOD mice, and the impact of this delivery on a polyclonal population of endogenous islet-reactive cognate T cells was determined. Assessment of islet-infiltrating CD8⁺ T cells showed a decrease in the percentage, and the absolute number, of endogenous IGRP₂₀₆₋₂₁₄-specific T cells when the mimotope was delivered to DCs, compared with delivery of a specificity control. Employing an adoptive transfer system, deletion of CD8⁺ T cells as a result of DEC-205-mediated antigen targeting was found to occur independently of programmed death-1 (PD-1) and its ligand (PD-L1), both often implicated in the regulation of peripheral T-cell tolerance. Given its promise for the manipulation of self-reactive polyclonal T cells demonstrated here, the distinctive characteristics of this antigen delivery system will be important to appreciate as its potential as an intervention for autoimmune diseases continues to be investigated.
Laporan kklp Reski (2020)

Kuliah kerja lapng plus ( KKLP ) merupakan suatu kegiatan perkuliahan yang bersifat intrakurikuler dalam bentuk pengabdian pada masyarakat yang dilakukan oleh mahasiswa dalam jangka waktu tertentu.oleh karna sifatnya intrakurikuler sehingga setiap mahasiswa yang akan menyelesaikan studi diperguruan tinggi pada suatu program strata satu ( S1 ) harus mengikuti KKLP.
Distributed learning via the World Wide Web through interactive modules (2002)

This year, new distributed learning tools were developed and integrated into an electrical and computer engineering course at the University of Illinois. This paper discusses the use of the World Wide Web (WWW) for the teaching of ECE291 and describes the development and implementation of new interactive software modules that automatically grade on-line homeworks, record student scores, graphically display point distributions, and manage group projects.
Timing-Driven Physical Design for VLSI Circuits Using Resonant Rotary Clocking (2006)

Resonant clocking technologies are next-generation clocking technologies that provide low or controllable-skew, low-jitter and multi-gigahertz frequency clock signals with low power consumption. This paper describes a collection of circuit partitioning, placement and synchronization methodologies that enables the implementation of high speed, low power circuits synchronized with the resonant rotary clocking technology. Resonant rotary clocking technology inherently supports (and requires) non-zero clock skew operation, which permits further improved circuit performances. The proposed physical design flow entails integrated circuit partitioning and placement methodologies that permit the hierarchical application of non-zero clock skew system timing. This design flow is shown to be a computationally efficient implementation method.
Pareto Optimality Explanation of the Glycolytic Alternatives in Nature (2019)

The Entner-Doudoroff (ED) and Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas (EMP) glycolytic pathways are largely conserved across glycolytic species in nature. Is this a coincidence, convergent evolution or there exists a driving force towards either of the two pathway designs? We addressed this question by first employing a variant of the optStoic algorithm to exhaustively identify over 11,916 possible routes between glucose and pyruvate at different pre-determined stoichiometric yields of ATP. Subsequently, we analyzed the thermodynamic feasibility of all the pathways at physiological metabolite concentrations and quantified the protein cost of the feasible solutions. Pareto optimality analysis between energy efficiency and protein cost reveals that the naturally evolved ED and EMP pathways are indeed among the most protein cost-efficient pathways in their respective ATP yield categories and remain thermodynamically feasible across a wide range of ATP/ADP ratios and pathway intermediate metabolite concentration ranges. In contrast, pathways with higher ATP yield (>2) while feasible, are bound within stringent and often extreme operability ranges of cofactor and intermediate metabolite concentrations. The preponderance of EMP and ED is thus consistent with not only optimally balancing energy yield vs. enzyme cost but also with ensuring operability for wide metabolite concentration ranges and ATP/ADP ratios.
Local and systemic antibody responses accompany spontaneous resolution of experimental cystitis in cynomolgus monkeys (1987)

Cynomolgus monkeys were infected intravesically with two different strains of uropathogenic Escherichia coli. A quantitative enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay method was used to monitor secretory and serum immune responses to the induced cystitis. Anti-E. coli secretory immunoglobulin A (sIgA) and IgG urinary antibodies were generated as a result of the cystitis. Urinary sIgA levels against the E. coli strains tested were highest at 25 to 31 days after cystitis induction, and urinary IgG levels were highest at 31 to 45 days after induction. Anti-E. coli IgM was not detected in the urine. The antibody response in serum was characterized by IgM, IgG, and IgA immunoglobulin production. IgM levels in serum rose at 14 days after cystitis induction and were sustained for another 1 to 2 weeks. Increases in serum IgG levels began at 7 to 21 days of infection and persisted in some cases for up to 70 days. Serum IgA to the infecting E. coli was produced within 1 week after cystitis induction and remained at elevated levels throughout the course of the cystitis. These results demonstrate the capacity of primates to spontaneously resolve a cystitis and to mount both local and systemic immune responses against the infecting bacteria.
Letter from the Guest Editor (2020)

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