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The effects of stimulus modality and task integrality: Predicting dual-task performance and workload from single-task levels (1986)

The influence of stimulus modality and task difficulty on workload and performance was investigated. The goal was to quantify the cost (in terms of response time and experienced workload) incurred when essentially serial task components shared common elements (e.g., the response to one initiated the other) which could be accomplished in parallel. The experimental tasks were based on the Fittsberg paradigm; the solution to a SternBERG-type memory task determines which of two identical FITTS targets are acquired. Previous research suggested that such functionally integrated dual tasks are performed with substantially less workload and faster response times than would be predicted by suming single-task components when both are presented in the same stimulus modality (visual). The physical integration of task elements was varied (although their functional relationship remained the same) to determine whether dual-task facilitation would persist if task components were presented in different sensory modalities. Again, it was found that the cost of performing the two-stage task was considerably less than the sum of component single-task levels when both were presented visually. Less facilitation was found when task elements were presented in different sensory modalities. These results suggest the importance of distinguishing between concurrent tasks that complete for limited resources from those that beneficially share common resources when selecting the stimulus modalities for information displays.
Physical layer performance analysis of a wireless data transmission approach for automotive lithium-ion batteries (2015)

State-of-the-art management systems of automotive batteries employ wired and standard bus system, e.g. CAN bus, for the in-battery communication. This leads to the installation of a very large wiring harness, which increases the costs and manufacturing complexity. In previous work, we have already introduced a wireless approach, presenting some results of the wireless communications channel inside a battery emulator. This paper continues our investigation, offering several new contributions. First, we study the channel variation with the system architecture, i.e. the distribution and amount of antennas. Then, we characterize these channels and propose a simple communication system according to the requirements of our project and the communication channels. Finally, we analyse the performance of this system in terms of bit error rate and necessary transmission power. The results prove the feasibility of this wireless approach and point out the characteristics and advantages of the different antenna types and frequency ranges under investigation.
CORDGRASS RESTORATION FOLLOWING A GASOLINE RELEASE IN SAN FRANCISCO BAY (1997)

ABSTRACT A 2-year study evaluating natural versus assisted restoration of Pacific cordgrass injured from exposure to unleaded gasoline revealed the following:Survival and growth of transplanted plugs were unaffected by unleaded gasoline at concentrations in sediments ≤ 100 mg/kg TPH-gasoline and ≤10 mg/kg BTEX.Compared to unaffected reference sites, transplanted plugs showed equal heights after 2 years and a comparable number of shoots and flowering stems after 1 year.Additional treatments such as plug cutting or planting into a sand/peat mix resulted in no further success.Natural restoration showed some effectiveness by the end of three growing seasons.
The impact upon extra‐pyramidal side effects, clinical symptoms and quality of life of a switch from conventional to atypical antipsychotics (risperidone or olanzapine) in elderly patients with schizophrenia (2003)

After switching from a conventional antipsychotic, olanzapine and risperidone were associated with improvement in core symptoms of schizophrenia and motor side effects. Subjects switched to olanzapine were more likely to complete the switching process and show an improvement in psychological QOL.
Analysis of proteins expressed at the time of murine organogenesis (1991)

Two-dimensional electrophoretograms were prepared from wild-type C57BL/6J embryos from day 7.5 through day 9.0 of development. This time period encompasses a critical window of development as the embryo traverses from an egg cylinder through major organogenesis. Consequently, we term this resource MOPED (for mouse organogenesis protein electrophoresis database). By resolving and analyzing the behavior of approximately 1,000 polypeptides per time point, we were able to track many of these polypeptides through this time period in development. Of special note was a burst of induced protein synthesis that was observed in mouse embryos development. Polypeptides observed in mouse embryos that match those identified previously in mouse fibroblasts were noted. Two of them (the intermediate filament-associated protein and tropomyosin-4) were significantly altered in 8.5 day embryos. As more polypeptides are designated, it will be possible to expand the known proteins in the database. MOPED establishes the patterns of synthesis of a large number of polypeptides during a crucial period of development. Thus MOPED is designed to analyze proteins relevant to mouse embryogenesis in the future.
A Review of Protocols for Energy-Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks (2022)

- Wireless sensor networks are made up of a group of nodes that are spread out in an environment. Nodes in these networks have very limited energy sources, so they need to collect and send data efficiently. To send data in this way, energy-efficient routing protocols have to be used. The main purpose of these protocols is to save energy and make the network last longer while in routing. In this paper, we are reviewing some routing protocols that can be used to make wireless sensor networks energy-efficient. (Abstract)
A statistical toolbox for metagenomics: assessing functional diversity in microbial communities (2008)

The results of comparisons between the three habitats were surprising considering the relatively low overlap of membership and the distinctively different characteristics of the three habitats. These tools will facilitate the use of metagenomics to pursue statistically sound genome-based ecological analyses.
Overexpression of a human potassium channel suppresses cardiac hyperexcitability in rabbit ventricular myocytes (1999)

The high incidence of sudden death in heart failure may reflect abnormalities of repolarization and heightened susceptibility to arrhythmogenic early afterdepolarizations (EADs). We hypothesized that overexpression of the human K+ channel HERG (human ether-a-go-go-related gene) could enhance repolarization and suppress EADs. Adult rabbit ventricular myocytes were maintained in primary culture, which suffices to prolong action potentials and predisposes to EADs. To achieve efficient gene transfer, we created AdHERG, a recombinant adenovirus containing the HERG gene driven by a Rous sarcoma virus (RSV) promoter. The virally expressed HERG current exhibited pharmacologic and kinetic properties like those of native IKr. Transient outward currents in AdHERG-infected myocytes were similar in magnitude to those in control cells, while stimulated action potentials (0.2 Hz, 37 degrees C) were abbreviated compared with controls. The occurrence of EADs during a train of action potentials was reduced by more than fourfold, and the relative refractory period was increased in AdHERG-infected myocytes compared with control cells. Gene transfer of delayed rectifier potassium channels represents a novel and effective strategy to suppress arrhythmias caused by unstable repolarization.
Computing return loss for arbitrary scan directions using limited scan codes for infinite phased arrays (2009)

Analysing infinite phased array antennas using time domain codes is favourable when looking into wideband solutions. Unfortunately, unit cell-based time domain codes using time shifts between cell boundaries have a disadvantage of only being able to analyse phase shifts corresponding to a beam scanned in the visible space. However, to fully characterise the infinite array antenna it is sometimes necessary to compute the active reflection coefficient for scan directions corresponding to invisible space. Presented is a simple new approach on how to do this. By extending the size of the computational domain, and including more than one element, phase shifts corresponding to invisible space are included.
Seamless integration of heterogeneous UI components (2010)

Component-based software engineering is a paradigm aiming at better ways to reuse existing code and to distribute work across teams. Integrating UI components developed with different technologies can be a difficult task which can quickly can lead to code-tangling and loss of modularity. In this demo, we present a prototype framework for integrating heterogeneous UI components, using RDF and formal ontologies for unambiguous event and data exchange and minimizing dependencies between integrated components. We will show an example from the emergency management domain using components written in Java and Flex and demonstrate tight, seamless integration, including dragging and dropping objects from Java to Flex and vice versa.
Control of the point defects in oxide materials to enhance functionalities in imaging (2013)

Last generation medical imaging equipments require materials which possess outstanding performances. For scintillators in the high energy imaging field (PET), crystals with high light yields allow a decrease of the irradiation dose received by the patients during medical application and a more accurate diagnostic. Thermally stimulated luminescence (TSL) data provides the depth of hole or electron traps which can limit the efficiency and increase the kinetic. If these traps are due to lanthanide ions, the level schemes can predict the depth values. Thanks to comparison between TSL glow curves and energy diagrams, the traps inside oxide-based-hosts can be identified. Two examples are proposed here, first, the scintillation in the Ce:LYSO crystals which can be improved by thermal annealing and where divalent cations are used for charge compensation and traps removal and second, optical imaging using a new approach where persistent luminescent nanoparticles are used for <i>in-vivo</i> imaging. In both cases, traps depth should be carefully controlled.
A Testbed to Evaluate the FIWARE-Based IoT Platform in the Domain of Precision Agriculture (2016)

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) represent one of the most promising technologies for precision farming. Over the next few years, a significant increase in the use of such systems on commercial farms is expected. WSNs present a number of problems, regarding scalability, interoperability, communications, connectivity with databases and data processing. Different Internet of Things middleware is appearing to overcome these challenges. This paper checks whether one of these middleware, FIWARE, is suitable for the development of agricultural applications. To the authors' knowledge, there are no works that show how to use FIWARE in precision agriculture and study its appropriateness, its scalability and its efficiency for this kind of applications. To do this, a testbed has been designed and implemented to simulate different deployments and load conditions. The testbed is a typical FIWARE application, complete, yet simple and comprehensible enough to show the main features and components of FIWARE, as well as the complexity of using this technology. Although the testbed has been deployed in a laboratory environment, its design is based on the analysis of an Internet of Things use case scenario in the domain of precision agriculture.
A Study on Improving Riding Comfort of a Roller Coaster. (1999)

Riding comfort of a roller coaster was analyzed by means of questionnaire and acceleration measurements. The analysis showed that the lateral acceleration of the coaster classified into the "bad riding comfort" group on the questionnaire had a peak at a frequency between 3.5 and 5 Hz, a frequency almost the same as the natural frequency of the human head. The effect of the secondary suspension inserted between a car body and a truck to reduce the lateral acceleration and to change the frequency of the acceleration vibration from the natural frequency of the human head, was then investigated by the dynamic simulation. The results showed that the secondary suspension reduced the lateral acceleration by half, thereby reducing the frequency of the lateral acceleration to 2 Hz.
UTILISATION OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY IN OBTAINING HULL OFFSETS FOR INTACT STABILITY CALCULATIONS (1986)

The development of computer programs such as the Ship Hull Characteristics Program (SHCP) has automated the calculation of ship stability. Now the most time-consuming task is the development of a suitable table of hull offsets. This paper outlines the application of a photogrammetric method to obtain the hull offsets of a large shrimp trawler.
An Improved Hierarchical Approach For Music-To-Symbolic Score Alignment. (2010)

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Integrated Catalytic Conversion of γ-Valerolactone to Liquid Alkenes for Transportation Fuels (2010)

Efficient synthesis of renewable fuels remains a challenging and important line of research. We report a strategy by which aqueous solutions of gamma-valerolactone (GVL), produced from biomass-derived carbohydrates, can be converted to liquid alkenes in the molecular weight range appropriate for transportation fuels by an integrated catalytic system that does not require an external source of hydrogen. The GVL feed undergoes decarboxylation at elevated pressures (e.g., 36 bar) over a silica/alumina catalyst to produce a gas stream composed of equimolar amounts of butene and carbon dioxide. This stream is fed directly to an oligomerization reactor containing an acid catalyst (e.g., H ZSM-5, Amberlyst-70), which couples butene monomers to form condensable alkenes with molecular weights that can be targeted for gasoline and/or jet fuel applications. The effluent gaseous stream of CO2 at elevated pressure can potentially be captured and then treated or sequestered to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions from the process.
Molecular and Electronic Structures of (TiXH6)0/-, X = B, Al, Ga, Compounds (1998)

The molecular and electronic structures of the isomers of both neutral and negative (TiXH6)0/-, X = B, Al, Ga, systems have been studied. For each of the neutral systems, a Cs isomer of signature (2, 3, 1) (where (a, b, c) signifies a is the number of terminal Ti−H bonds, b is the number of hydrogen bridging bonds, and c is the number of terminal X−H bonds) was characterized as a stable minimum. The X = Al, Ga neutral systems also had two additional minima of signature (2, 2, 2) (C2v) and (3, 3, 0) (C3v). In the anionic cases, each system has a stable Cs structure of signature (3, 2, 1). The X = Al, Ga systems, again showing more complexity, have minima on their anionic singlet potential energy surfaces of signatures (2, 2, 2), (3, 3, 0), and (3, 0, 3). The bonding characteristics of these various minima have been analyzed in detail through examination of molecular orbitals, natural bond orbitals, and Bader topological analysis. One important structural feature of the stable isomers is that strong hydrogen bridging electron-deficient bonds are responsible for holding the molecular structure together. For the neutrals, the (2, 3, 1) and (2, 2, 2) isomers have almost the same energy and the (3, 3, 0) isomer lies more than 30 kcal/mol higher. However, for the anions, the three structures with hydrogen bridging bonds are the most stable and lie very close in energy, within 0.31 kcal/mol for X = Al and within 5.96 kcal/mol for X = Ga. Ionization energies and electron affinities have also been calculated and discussed.
Analysis of host preference and geographical distribution of Anastrepha suspensa (Diptera: Tephritidae) using phylogenetic analyses of mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I DNA sequence data (2006)

Anastrepha suspensa (Loew) is an economically important pest, restricted to the Greater Antilles and southern Florida. It infests a wide variety of hosts and is of quarantine importance in citrus, a multi-million dollar industry in Florida. The observed recent increase in citrus infested with A. suspensa in Florida has raised questions regarding host-specificity of certain populations and genetic diversity of the pest throughout its geographical distribution. Cytochrome oxidase I (COI) DNA sequence data was used to characterize the genetic diversity of A. suspensa from Florida and Caribbean populations reared from different host plants. Maximum likelihood and Bayesian phylogenetic methods were used to analyse COI data. Sequence variation among mitochondrial COI genes from 107 A. suspensa samples collected throughout Florida and the Caribbean ranged between 0 and 10% and placed all A. suspensa as a monophyletic group that united all A. suspensa in a clade sister to a Central American group of the A. fraterculus paraphyletic species complex. The most likely tree of the COI locus indicated that COI sequence variation was too low to provide resolution at the subspecies level, therefore monophyletic groups based on host-plant use, geography (Florida, Jamaica, Cayman Islands, Puerto Rico or Dominican Republic) or population sampled are not supported. This result indicates that either no population segregation has occurred based on these biological or geographical distinctions and that this is a generalist, polyphagous invasive genotype. Alternatively, if populations are distinct, the segregation event was more recent than can be distinguished based on COI sequence variation.
Dynamics of Spontaneous Emulsification for Fabrication of Oil in Water Emulsions (2000)

We present an experimental study of the dynamics of spontaneous emulsification when a surfactant solution in oil is brought into contact with pure water. Direct visualization using phase contrast microscopy shows that vesicles (closed bilayer structures) form in the oil phase near the interface with the water and explode, thereby pulverizing oil droplets into the aqueous phase. The results thus show the importance of the presence of bilayer structures in the spontaneous emulsification process for the formation of oil-in-water emulsions. Measurement of the droplet size distribution shows that an optimal ratio of surfactant to cosurfactant exist. It is shown that both the microscopy observations and the size of the droplets can be related to the nonequilibrium water/oil interfacial tension just after the two phases have been brought into contact.
Lipid domains control myelin basic protein adsorption and membrane interactions between model myelin lipid bilayers (2014)

The surface forces apparatus and atomic force microscope were used to study the effects of lipid composition and concentrations of myelin basic protein (MBP) on the structure of model lipid bilayers, as well as the interaction forces and adhesion between them. The lipid bilayers had a lipid composition characteristic of the cytoplasmic leaflets of myelin from "normal" (healthy) and "disease-like" [experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE)] animals. They showed significant differences in the adsorption mechanism of MBP. MBP adsorbs on normal bilayers to form a compact film (3-4 nm) with strong intermembrane adhesion (∼0.36 mJ/m(2)), in contrast to its formation of thicker (7-8 nm) swelled films with weaker intermembrane adhesion (∼0.13 mJ/m(2)) on EAE bilayers. MBP preferentially adsorbs to liquid-disordered submicron domains within the lipid membranes, attributed to hydrophobic attractions. These results show a direct connection between the lipid composition of membranes and membrane-protein adsorption mechanisms that affects intermembrane spacing and adhesion and has direct implications for demyelinating diseases.
Human lymphocyte and monocyte lysis of tumor cells mediated by a mouse/human IgG1 chimeric monoclonal antibody. (1988)

The mouse monoclonal antibody 17-1A (gamma 2a, kappa) recognizes a tumor-associated antigen expressed on human gastrointestinal malignancies and has been used in Phase I and II clinical trials. Chimeric genetic constructs have been produced using 17-1A variable region genes (VL and VH) and the constant region genes for human kappa light chains and gamma 1 heavy chains (C kappa and gamma 1). The chimeric gene constructs were transfected into mouse myeloma cells for antibody production. The secreted mouse/human chimeric antibody contains the antigen-binding domain of 17-1A and the human (gamma 1, kappa) constant regions. Native mouse 17-1A and the chimeric antibody (chIgG1) were analyzed for binding to two human colon cancer cell lines and for the mediation of cancer cell line antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity by normal human peripheral blood lymphocytes and monocytes in 4 h 51Cr-release assays. The 17-1A and chIgG1 gave similar results in these in vitro biologic assays. This study demonstrates the feasibility of using mouse/human chimeric antibodies in human therapeutic applications.
Photoelectrochemical Diffusion Length Measurements on p‐Type Multicrystalline Silicon for Photovoltaic Applications (1995)

We report photoelectrochemical measurements of diffusion lengths in p‐type multicrystalline silicon used for photovoltaic solar cells. We show that, under some conditions, this method provides a very practical means for rendering an account of the quality nature of this material through diffusion length variations. The results obtained during two years of use of this method in the industrial processing of photovoltaic cells are presented and discussed.
DeepBrain: Towards Personalized EEG Interaction through Attentional and Embedded LSTM Learning (2020)

The "mind-controlling" capability has always been in mankind's fantasy. With the recent advancements of electroencephalograph (EEG) techniques, brain-computer interface (BCI) researchers have explored various solutions to allow individuals to perform various tasks using their minds. However, the commercial off-the-shelf devices to run accurate EGG signal collection are usually expensive and the comparably cheaper devices can only present coarse results, which prevents the practical application of these devices in domestic services. To tackle this challenge, we propose and develop an end-to-end solution that enables fine brain-robot interaction (BRI) through embedded learning of coarse EEG signals from the low-cost devices, namely DeepBrain, so that people having difficulty to move, such as the elderly, can mildly command and control a robot to perform some basic household tasks. Our contributions are two folds: 1) We present a stacked long short term memory (Stacked LSTM) structure with specific pre-processing techniques to handle the time-dependency of EEG signals and their classification. 2) We propose personalized design to capture multiple features and achieve accurate recognition of individual EEG signals by enhancing the signal interpretation of Stacked LSTM with attention mechanism. Our real-world experiments demonstrate that the proposed end-to-end solution with low cost can achieve satisfactory run-time speed, accuracy and energy-efficiency.
Recovery of Energy from Wastewater Treatment Plant Effluent Discharge to Seawater (2019)

A presentation on the recovery of energy from wastewater treatment plant effluent discharge to seawater using pressure retarded osmosis.