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Reconstruction of the Entire Ossicular Conduction Mechanism (2003)

Reconstruction of the entire ossicular conduction mechanism including removal of the stapes footplate can be successfully achieved with improvement of the air-bone gap of less than 20 dB. Hearing results and extrusion rates are comparable to reported results of TORP placement on a mobile footplate. Successful stapedectomy and simultaneous ossicular chain reconstruction can be performed as a single or staged procedure. Special attention is paid to avoid intrusion of the prosthesis into the vestibule.
Selective Recovery of Platinum Group Metals and Rare Earth Metals from Complex Matrices Using a Green Chemistry/Molecular Recognition Technology Approach (2016)

Molecular Recognition Technology (MRT) is a green chemistry process for the separation and recovery of a variety of metals from complex matrices with minimal generation of waste. MRT significantly improves metal separations, metal recoveries and process economics, substantially reduces worker exposure to the toxic effects of traditional metal refining, and greatly reduces the undesirable loss of toxic and valuable metals to the commons. In this chapter, applications of MRT to separations involving the platinum group metals (PGM, singular or plural) and the rare earth elements (REE, singular or plural) are discussed. These metals are essential components of many of our high-technology products. Improved green chemistry methods for their individual separations are needed to conserve a valuable resource that is presently being lost to the commons in sizeable amounts. Flow sheets containing commercially proven, highly selective separations of interest to the PGM industry are presented. These flow sheets include separation of Ir from Rh and base metals; separation of Rh from other PGM, Au, Ag and base metals; individual, sequential, selective separations of Pd, Pt, and Rh from each other in a base metal matrix, and individual, sequential, selective separations of Pd, Pt, Ir, and Rh from each other in a base metal matrix. The suite of sixteen rare earth elements (REE), excluding Pm, have been separated by an MRT process on the laboratory scale at the >99% level from a pregnant leach solution (PLS) derived from an REE ore body. Subsequent separation of this set of separated REE into its individual components has also been demonstrated at the >99% level. Green chemistry principles involved in the PGM and REE separations include no solvents used in the processes, minimal generation of waste, use of relatively harmless chemicals for wash and elution steps that are compatible with plant operations, minimal energy and water use, and metal recovery for reuse or safe disposal rather than metal dispersion to the environment. In both sets of metals, future supply risks exist. These risks can be lowered by application of green chemistry principles to the improvement of separation and recovery of the metals during processing and recycling. An analysis of the capex and opex costs associated with use of MRT and SX in separation and recovery of REE is presented to emphasize the benefits to be derived from use of green chemistry processes.
Identification of an epidermal basement membrane defect in recessive forms of dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa by LH 7:2 monoclonal antibody: use in diagnosis (1986)

LH 7:2 is a monoclonal antibody that was raised against an extract of human epidermal cells and identifies an epitope within the lamina densa of the basement membrane of stratified squamous epithelia. Using indirect immunofluorescence we found intense labelling with LH 7:2 at the epidermal basement membrane (EBM) of normal skin, and in skin samples from patients with simplex, junctional, dominantly inherited dystrophic and acquired forms of epidermolysis bullosa (EB), as well as bullous pemphigoid. Staining was absent or only very faint in generalized recessive dystrophic EB (RDEB), and patchily reduced in the localized form of RDEB. We conclude that LH 7:2 recognizes an EBM antigen which may be important in the pathogenesis of RDEB. Moreover, the antibody provides a useful probe for the rapid diagnosis of RDEB and is of special value in helping to discriminate between localized RDEB and typical dominant dystrophic EB--conditions which closely resemble each other clinically and which cannot be distinguished by means of transmission electron microscopy.
Twitter Translation using Translation-Based Cross-Lingual Retrieval (2012)

Microblogging services such as Twitter have become popular media for real-time usercreated news reporting. Such communication often happens in parallel in different languages, e.g., microblog posts related to the same events of the Arab spring were written in Arabic and in English. The goal of this paper is to exploit this parallelism in order to eliminate the main bottleneck in automatic Twitter translation, namely the lack of bilingual sentence pairs for training SMT systems. We show that translation-based cross-lingual information retrieval can retrieve microblog messages across languages that are similar enough to be used to train a standard phrasebased SMT pipeline. Our method outperforms other approaches to domain adaptation for SMT such as language model adaptation, meta-parameter tuning, or self-translation. 1
Breeding Season of the Cottontail in Central Missouri (1942)

Journal Article Breeding Season of the Cottontail in Central Missouri Get access Charles W. Schwartz Charles W. Schwartz Missouri Conservation Commission, Jefferson City, Missouri Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Mammalogy, Volume 23, Issue 1, 14 February 1942, Pages 1–16, https://doi.org/10.2307/1374850 Published: 14 February 1942
PET Imaging of Oncolytic VSV Expressing the Mutant HSV-1 Thymidine Kinase Transgene in a Preclinical HCC Rat Model (2015)

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most predominant form of liver cancer and the third leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide. Due to the relative ineffectiveness of conventional HCC therapies, oncolytic viruses have emerged as novel alternative treatment agents. Our previous studies have demonstrated significant prolongation of survival in advanced HCC in rats after oncolytic vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) treatment. In this study, we aimed to establish a reporter system to reliably and sensitively image VSV in a clinically relevant model of HCC for clinical translation. To this end, an orthotopic, unifocal HCC model in immune-competent Buffalo rats was employed to test a recombinant VSV vector encoding for an enhanced version of the herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) thymidine kinase (sr39tk) reporter, which would allow the indirect detection of VSV via positron emission tomography (PET). The resulting data revealed specific tracer uptake in VSV-HSV1-sr39tk–treated tumors. Further characterization of the VSV-HSV1-sr39tk vector demonstrated its optimal detection time-point after application and its detection limit via PET. In conclusion, oncolytic VSV expressing the HSV1-sr39tk reporter gene allows for highly sensitive in vivo imaging via PET. Therefore, this imaging system may be directly translatable and beneficial in further clinical applications. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most predominant form of liver cancer and the third leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide. Due to the relative ineffectiveness of conventional HCC therapies, oncolytic viruses have emerged as novel alternative treatment agents. Our previous studies have demonstrated significant prolongation of survival in advanced HCC in rats after oncolytic vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) treatment. In this study, we aimed to establish a reporter system to reliably and sensitively image VSV in a clinically relevant model of HCC for clinical translation. To this end, an orthotopic, unifocal HCC model in immune-competent Buffalo rats was employed to test a recombinant VSV vector encoding for an enhanced version of the herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) thymidine kinase (sr39tk) reporter, which would allow the indirect detection of VSV via positron emission tomography (PET). The resulting data revealed specific tracer uptake in VSV-HSV1-sr39tk–treated tumors. Further characterization of the VSV-HSV1-sr39tk vector demonstrated its optimal detection time-point after application and its detection limit via PET. In conclusion, oncolytic VSV expressing the HSV1-sr39tk reporter gene allows for highly sensitive in vivo imaging via PET. Therefore, this imaging system may be directly translatable and beneficial in further clinical applications.
Lamellar bodies as delivery systems of hydrolytic enzymes: Implications for normal and abnormal desquamation (1992)

Lamellar body secretion results in the delivery of a selected array of hydrolytic enzymes to the extracellular domains of stratum corneum (SC). Deposition and activation of these enzymes in the interstices presumably is associated with the transformation of lamellar body-derived lipids from a relatively polar to a non-polar mixture, as well as the degradation of other non-lipid intercellular substrates. To determine whether abnormal desquamation might result from failure of hydrolytic enzyme delivery to the SC interstices, we localized one catabolic enzyme, acid lipase, previously shown to be a reproducible marker for the lamellar body secretory system, by cytochemical methods within the epidermis of selected human (congenital ichthyosiform erythroderma, CIE) and animal (essential fatty-acid deficient (EFAD) mouse epidermis and mouse tail epidermis) models associated with abnormal scaling or unusual SC retention. In addition, we compared the persistence of desmosomes within normal SC vs. the various models. Normal human and murine epidermis displayed abundant lipase activity both in lamellar bodies (LB) and in association with secreted lamellar body contents in the SC interstices. Despite normal quantities of LB in CIE, EFAD, and mouse tail epidermis, lipase activity was markedly deficient both in LB and in the SC intercellular domains. These studies support the hypothesis that normal desquamation is mediated by enzymatic modulations in lipid and/or protein content of the SC interstices, and that some forms of pathological or excessive scaling may be due to desmosomal persistence that results from defective or limited delivery of lamellar body-derived, hydrolytic enzymes to the SC intercellular domains.
Cyanide Determination Using an Amperometric Biosensor Based on Cytochrome Oxidase Inhibition (1995)

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Cardiac troponin T in patients with end-stage renal disease: absence of expression in truncal skeletal muscle (1998)

In patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD), the serum concentration of cardiac troponin T (cTnT) may be increased without cardiac ischemia. One reason for this unexplained increase could be the extracardiac expression of cTnT. However, truncal skeletal muscle biopsies of five patients with ESRD showed no evidence of the expression of either cTnT mRNA (reverse transcription-PCR) or protein (immunoblot, immunofluorescence). We also measured the serum concentration of cTnT in 97 patients with ESRD. The serum cTnT concentration determined in both first and second generation cTnT assays was significantly lower P <0.01 in patients with a low cardiac risk than in patients with positive indicators of coronary artery disease. The correlation between cTnT and indicators of coronary artery disease is consistent with the hypothesis that cTnT in the serum of patients with ESRD originates from the heart.
Development of the Next Generation Thermoplastic Hose Umbilical (2017)

Thermoplastic Control Umbilicals, as shown in Figure 1, have been deployed subsea for decades globally. Typically, these have been installed in harsh dynamic environments such as the North Sea, very cold environments such as the North Atlantic and very warm environments such as the coastal waters of Middle East and Asia Pacific. The inherent fatigue and corrosion resistance of the functional components can offer significant operational advantages while umbilical make-up and manufacturing process can offer significant cost and schedule advantages. As the industry has moved into deeper warmer water regions since the late 1990’s, such as the Gulf of Mexico and West Africa, some of the limitations of conventional thermoplastic umbilicals, such as inherent collapse resistance or design working pressures became barriers for the adoption of the technology. In recent years there have been many new polymer materials developed that provide increased tenacity and temperature stability which subsequently have enabled an evolution in thermoplastic hose technology. This has facilitated the development of the next generation of high temperature, high pressure, collapse resistant hoses that can be deployed in deep water. This paper defines the testing carried out on the constituent parts of the composite hose primarily focusing on the liner and details typical modes of degradation associated with high temperature, pressure or tension. The new material technologies will be benchmarked against conventional materials traditionally used in less aggressive environments. This paper will detail the results of the development program aimed at optimising the hose design process and implementing the cutting edge materials in order to qualify a robust series of hose designs qualified to the stringent requirements of ISO 13628-5 [1]. The paper will also detail the development of the new termination coupling which has been developed in parallel with the next generation hose and which provides a reliable and robust method of coupling the hose to the subsea control system or joining two lengths of hose together. The paper will conclude with a case study comparing a typical deep water installation of a steel tube umbilical with an equivalent thermoplastic umbilical, highlighting the benefits of the new thermoplastic umbilical designs.
Assessment of the plume theory predictions of crown scorch using\n transport models (2011)

The aim of our work is to study numerically\n crown scorch as the effectsof a fire line spreading through surface fuel under a\n tree canopy. Theobjective was to assess the usual assumptions made when one uses\n the Van Wagner criteria, which are indeed simple predictive models for crown scorch\n height, to estimate crown scorch. For this purpose the FIRESTAR 2D and FIRETEC wildfire\n simulators are used. We simulated the fire line by a heat source at ground level and\n mainly investigated the temperature field. As a first step, we ran computations of\n thermal plumes with no-wind and with no canopy, for first comparison to plume theory.\n The influence of crown existence on the temperature field above the heat source, as well\n as on crown scorch, was then investigated. As a second step, the effect of a wind to the\n plume, as well as to crown scorch, was shown for the no-canopy and canopy cases.
Obituaries (1935)

and where he had spent the greater part of his life.I-Iis parents were Samuel and Deborah Permock, the former an inventor and manufacturer of agricultural machinery and president of the American Road Machine Co. of I(ermett Square.For a few years the family lived at Ithaca, N.Y., to enable the three sons to attend Cornell University but later returned to I(ennett where Charles entered his father's business.I-Ie later engaged in various other enterprises, the growing of carnations, the conduct of a lumber and coal business, and of a fiber manufacturing company, and finally established a real estate investment and insurance office.With it all he became active in local politics and served the borough as Chief Burgess and as Justice of the Peace.I-Ie was a member of the Society of Friends.Through all his busy life his chief interest was ornithology.From boyhood he had collected eggs and birds and conducted a wide correspondence with kindred spirits in all parts of the country.Immediately after leaving Ithaca he occupied for a short time a position in the museum at Princeton where he made the acquaintance of W. E. D. Scott and soon after he became acquainted with B. Harry Warren of West Chester, Pa., then active in preparing his work on the 'Birds of Pennsylvania.'These were the first real ornithologists that he knew.In 1895
ChemInform Abstract: Peptide Nucleic Acids: Potential as Antisense and Antigene Drugs (2000)

Abstract ChemInform is a weekly Abstracting Service, delivering concise information at a glance that was extracted from about 100 leading journals. To access a ChemInform Abstract of an article which was published elsewhere, please select a “Full Text” option. The original article is trackable via the “References” option.
Synthesis and use of polyfunctional catalyst nanoparticles for hydroconversion of natural bitumen (2013)

The results of the hydroconversion of high-molecular-mass bitumen components in a mixture with light gasoil after catalytic cracking in the presence of in situ synthesized novel polyfunctional nanocatalysts are presented. The influence of the composition and different modes of introduction of catalyst precursors on the conversion of the high-molecular-mass components and the yield of polycondensation products has been studied. The size, structure, and morphology of in situ forming nanoheterogeneous catalyst particles have been investigated. It has been found that binary nanocatalysts based on Fe1 − x S and MoS2 are the most active in the conversion of asphaltenes and the highest degree of desulfurization is achieved with the use of (Ni3S2 + MoS2)/Al2O3 and (Co9S8 + MoS2)/Al2O3 nanocatalysts.
Hot topics in engineering acoustics (2000)

Underwater acoustic transduction has been undergoing great changes in modern device designs. After several decades of advancements in acoustic sensing technologies, current interests have included novel and application-specific designs in underwater acoustic projection. These changes are an outgrowth of advances in materials processing and manufacturing. The incorporation of newer materials is resulting in devices that are specifically tailored for individual applications as opposed to general designs that in the past have been used to cover a variety of applications. This presentation will introduce the concepts of the new materials advances, including piezocomposites, piezopolymers, electrostrictive ceramics, single crystals, hybrid piezoelectric ceramic/magnetostriction devices, and microflextensional drivers called cymbals. The state of development of these technologies will be introduced as they are being incorporated into new devices. The talk will show prototype designs and discuss future directions. [The continuing support of ONR 321 is gratefully acknowledged.]
An assessment of methacrifos as a grain protectant and its efficacy against <i>oryzaephilus surinamensis</i> L., <i>Tribolium castaneum</i> herbst, <i>Sitophilus granarius</i> L., <i>Sitophilus oryzae</i> L., <i>Acarus siro</i> L., <i>Glycyphagus destructor</i> schrank and <i>Tyrophagus longior</i> gervais (1989)

Abstract A trial was carried out to investigate the efficacy of methacrifos against susceptible and multi‐resistant strains of four species of insect and three species of mite. Methacrifos was applied to two separate 20‐tonne loads of English wheat which were then stored under ambient conditions for 24 weeks. The efficacy of methacrifos was assessed using established bioassay techniques which showed complete control for 24 weeks of all susceptible insects except S. oryzae, where there were survivors at week 24. Methacrifos also gave 100% mortality of resistant O. surinamensis for 24 weeks. There was >95% mortality for 16 weeks of resistant strains of T. castaneum and of resistant S. granarius and S. oryzae for 20 weeks. After S. granarius and S. oryzae were removed, the grain was incubated for 10 weeks. Subsequent F 1 emergence was considerably less from the treatments than from the controls. Methacrifos produced 100% mortality for T. longior for 24 weeks, but control of G. destructor fluctuated and was <100% at week 24. There were survivors of A. siro from week 4.
Expansive Motions for d-Dimensional Open Chains (2011)

We consider the problem of straightening chains ind 3 dimensions, possibly embedded into higher dimensions, using expansive motions. For any d 3, we show that there is an open chain in d dimensions that is not straight and not self-touching yet has no expansive motion. Furthermore, for any > 0 and d 3, we show that there is an open chain in d dimensions that cannot be straightened using expansive motions when embedded into R d [ ; ] (a bounded extra dimension). On the positive side, we prove that any open chain in d 2 dimensions can be straightened using an expansive motion when embedded into R d+1 (a full extra dimension).
Robust nonlinear adaptive image restoration in land mine detection problem (1998)

To enhance image quality, deconvolution is often used as an alternative to additional measurements. This relates to solution of an inverse ill-posed problem, and consists in mathematical compensation for the degradation using image restoration and noise suppression methods. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the advantages of the proposed robust estimation strategy in the restoration of low-contrast radiometry images, and its possibilities regarding mine detection in an environment of objects with similar form and dimensions. The paper presents a robust approach to image restoration that combines the properties of classical regularized iterative algorithms and robust features based on the concept of M-estimators. The proposed technique could be efficiently used for the solution of the depth resolution enhancement problem in radar applications.
Solar Water Heating Systems Applied to High-Rise Buildings—Lessons from Experiences in China (2019)

High-rise buildings have a significant impact on the surrounding environment. Building-integrated solar water heating (SWH) systems are effective ways to use renewable energy in buildings. Impediments, such as security concerns, aesthetics and functionality, make it difficult to apply SWH systems in high-rise buildings. At present, only China uses SWH systems on a large scale in such buildings. What are China’s experiences and lessons learned in applying SWH systems in high-rises? Are these experiences scalable to other countries? This study used a combination of field investigation, literature review and case study to summarize 36 systems that had been in operation for 1–14 years. System types, collector types, installation methods, types of auxiliary heat sources, economic performance and various basic principles were summarized. The economic performance of SWH systems in high-rise buildings was analyzed and verified by a case study in Shanghai. The results show that the installation of SWH systems in high-rise buildings is feasible and reliable. Individual household systems (61%) were more popular than centralized systems (25%) and hybrid systems account (14%). The average area of solar collectors per household was 2.17 m2/household, the average design solar fraction was 52%. Flat plate solar collectors (53%) was the most commonly used collector, while electric heating elements (89%) were the most common auxiliary heat sources for SWH systems, followed by gas water heaters and air source heat pumps. The cost of SWH systems per m2 of a building area was between 22 CNY/m2 to 75 CNY/m2. China’s unique practical experience gives a reference for other countries in their efforts to make high-rise buildings more sustainable.
64‐3: <i>Distinguished Student Paper</i> : Bulk Accumulation Oxide TFTs for Flexible AMOLED Display with High Yield Integrated Gate Driver (2016)

A 4‐inch flexible active‐matrix organic light‐emitting diode (AMOLED) display with a Bulk‐Accumulation (BA) oxide thin‐film transistors (TFT)‐backplane and BA oxide TFT‐based high yield integrated gate‐driver is demonstrated. The gate‐driver with 320 stages exhibit excellent driving ability with rising and falling times less than 1 µs — even under tensile strain induced by bending to a radius of 3 mm— which makes it suitable for flexible mobile AMOLED display applications.