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Hydraulically fractured hard rock aquifer for seasonal storage of solar thermal energy (2018)

The intermittent nature of solar thermal energy derives from its oversupply during the low season and undersupply during the peak season. The solution is to accumulate and store the surplus energy that can be used in times of high demand and low supply. The HYDROCK concept is a method developed for seasonal heat storage in artificially fractured bedrock. This study aims to investigate the rock fracturing process in the construction of hydraulically fractured hard rock aquifer for seasonal storage of thermal energy. The primary objective of this study is to perform a sensitivity analysis of numerical simulations of rock fracturing processes that are taking place during the development of artificially fractured heat storage in hard rocks. Coupled hydro-mechanical numerical models are generated using rock fracture mechanics code FRACOD2D. The sensitivity of critical parameters is presented, and all relevant influencing factors are investigated. Suggestions for practical applications of HYDROCK are given.
Looking for Leadership: The Search for a New Dean Continues (2001)

On July 1, 2000, Dr. Richard Ross stepped down from his duties as dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine to fill his new role as dean of the College of Agriculture here at Iowa State University. Since October 1, Dr. Norman Cheville, formerly head of the Department of Veterinary Pathology, has been serving as interim dean of the college. Meanwhile, the university began its search for the right person to lead the College of Veterinary Medicine into the 21st century.
SOCIAL NETWORKS AND STATUS ATTAINMENT (1999)

▪ Abstract This essay traces the development of the research enterprise, known as the social resources theory, which formulated and tested a number of propositions concerning the relationships between embedded resources in social networks and socioeconomic attainment. This enterprise, seen in the light of social capital, has accumulated a substantial body of research literature and supported the proposition that social capital, in terms of both access and mobilization of embedded resources, enhances the chances of attaining better statuses. Further, social capital is contingent on initial positions in the social hierarchies as well as on extensity of social ties. The essay concludes with a discussion of remaining critical issues and future research directions for this research enterprise.
The digital signage exchange (2003)

Since the late 1990's significant work has been performed towards developing advertising and marketing technologies based on the Internet. Many of these techniques promise to allow organizations to market to customer segments with a size of one, i.e., provide tailored advertising and customer service to each individual customer. Both the Internet, and also the customer's workstation or PDA, are utilized for banner advertisements, email marketing, pop-up browser windows and mechanisms for state retention to simplify the user's buying experience (cookies).
Equilateral hyperbolic moir� zone plates with variable focus obtained by rotations (2005)

We present equilateral hyperbolic zone plates with variable focal length, which are formed as moiré patterns by a mutual rotation of two identical basic grids. Among others, all principal zone plates, except of the spherical one, can be used as these basic transmittances. Three most important advantages of the proposed moiré zone plates are: a constant aperture of the created element during the mutual movement of basic grids, lack of aberrations due to their undesired mutual lateral displacements and high diffraction efficiency of the binary phase version. To obtain clearer moiré fringe pattern, a radial carrier frequency can be added additionally to the transmittances of basic grids. The destructive interference between both arms of the focal cross of the equilateral hyperbolic moiré zone plate can be obtained by a constant phase shift introduced in the transmittances of the basic grids. Potential applications of discussed elements are indicated, including the most promising one in the three-point alignment technique.
The human complement regulatory protein CD59 binds to the alpha-chain of C8 and to the “b”domain of C9. (1992)

The erythrocyte membrane inhibitor of the human terminal complement proteins, surface antigen CD59, has previously been shown to enter into a detergent-resistant complex with either the membrane-bound complex of C5b-8 or C5b-9 (Meri, S., Morgan, B. P., Davies, A., Daniels, R. H., Olavesen, M. G., Waldmann, H. and Lachmann, P. J. (1990) Immunology 71, 1-9; Rollins, S. A., Zhao, J., Ninomiya, H., and Sims, P. J. (1991) J. Immunol, 146, 2345-2351). In order to further define the interactions that underlie the complement-inhibitory function of CD59, we have examined the binding interactions between 125I-CD59 and the isolated components of human complement membrane attack complex, C5b6, C7, C8, and C9. By density gradient analysis, we were unable to detect interaction of 125I-CD59 with any of these isolated complement components in solution. Specific binding of 125I-CD59 to C8 and C9 was detected when these human complement proteins were adsorbed to either plastic or to nitrocellulose, suggesting that a conformational change that accompanies surface adsorption exposes a CD59-binding site that is normally buried in these serum proteins. The binding of 125I-CD59 to plastic-adsorbed C8 and C9 was saturable and competed by excess unlabeled CD59, with half-maximal binding observed at 125I-CD59 concentrations of 80 and 36 nM, respectively. No specific binding of 125I-CD59 was detected for surface-adsorbed human C5b6 or C7 nor was such binding observed for C8 or C9 isolated from rabbit serum. Binding of CD59 to human C8 and C9 was not mediated by the phospholipid moiety of CD59, implying association by protein-protein interaction. In order to further define the binding sites for CD59, ligand blotting with 125I-CD59 was performed after separation of C8 into its noncovalently associated subunits (C8 alpha-gamma and C8 beta) and after alpha-thrombin digestion of C9. These experiments revealed specific and saturable binding of 125I-CD59 to C8 alpha-gamma subunit (half-maximal binding at 75 nM), but not to C8 beta, and specific and saturable binding to the 37-kDa fragment (C9b) of thrombin-cleaved C9 (half-maximal binding at 35 nM), but not to the 25-kDa C9a fragment. Partial reduction of C8 alpha-gamma revealed that only C8 alpha polypeptide exhibited affinity for CD59, and no specific binding to the C8 gamma chain was detected.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
Sexuality and Related Issues in the Preadolescent and Adolescent Female with Epilepsy (1996)

Multiple resources for the adult female with epilepsy are noted in the literature. Topics covered include pregnancy, epilepsy, contraception, anticonvulsant medications and issues of sexuality. Adolescence is a time of physiological and psychosocial change. The adolescent faces the usual challenges of this life stage along with the added stress of issues surrounding epilepsy. There is minimal information available for and about adolescents with epilepsy.
Ligand intercellular adhesion molecule 1 has a necessary role in activation of integrin lymphocyte function-associated molecule 1. (1993)

The signaling that causes the leukocyte integrin lymphocyte function-associated molecule (LFA-1) to bind firmly to its ligand intercellular adhesion molecule 1 (ICAM-1) is transduced indirectly through other T-cell receptors and is termed inside-out signaling. We show here that the high-affinity state of LFA-1 is characterized by expression of the LFA-1 epitope detected by monoclonal antibody 24. This epitope is expressed not in response to the initial agonist-mediated signal but when LFA-1 binds to ICAM-1, indicating that ligand binding induces an alteration in LFA-1. As would be predicted, the monoclonal antibody 24 epitope is confined to the LFA-1, which is located at the site of contact between T cells and ICAM-1-expressing transfectants. When a fixation protocol for "freezing" receptors is used, only T cells that are fixed after prior exposure to ICAM-1 bind firmly to ICAM-1 a second time. This suggests that, in addition to the inside-out signaling, a previously unrecognized requirement for full activation of the leukocyte integrin LFA-1 is the initial interaction with its ligand ICAM-1. Thus, activation of LFA-1 is in part achieved by an induced fit imposed from without by interaction with ligand.
The Twentieth Century (1967)

Journal Article The Twentieth Century Get access MARGARET WILLY, MARGARET WILLY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar J. M. REDMOND J. M. REDMOND Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Year's Work in English Studies, Volume XLVI, Issue 1, 1967, Pages 294–335, https://doi.org/10.1093/ywes/XLVI.1.294 Published: 01 September 1967
[Additional diagnostic methods for recording of adenoid hypertrophy in children with allergic rhinitis]. (2004)

The role of enlarged adenoids and tonsils in upper airway obstruction has become well-established earlier, thus, adenoidectomy with or without tonsillectomy is one of the most commonly performed surgical procedures in the paediatric population. Direct assessment of adenoidal size is difficult and no definitive method is so far available to complement clinical assessment. The most important diagnostic techniques are recording of obstructive symptoms, transoral posterior rhinoscopic examination, radiological evaluation, such as lateral radiography of the adenoid and nasopharyngeal magnetic resonance imaging, transnasal fiberoscopic examination, acoustic rhinometry and others. In this study we compare acoustic rhinometry, fiberoscopy and Cohen and Konac radiological method. Spearman's correlation test was used to evaluate the degree of correlation between these three methods. We concluded that acoustic rhinometry and radiology are good and objective methods for measuring adenoid sizes in allergic children.
Insights into migraine mechanisms and Ca<sub>V</sub>2.1 calcium channel function from mouse models of familial hemiplegic migraine (2010)

Migraine is a very common disabling brain disorder with unclear pathogenesis. A subtype of migraine with aura (familial hemiplegic migraine type 1: FHM1) is caused by mutations in CaV2.1 (P/Q-type) Ca2+ channels. This review describes the functional consequences of FHM1 mutations in knockin mouse models carrying the mild R192Q or severe S218L mutations in the orthologous gene. The FHM1 knockin mice show allele dosage-dependent gain-of-function of neuronal P/Q-type Ca2+ current, reflecting activation of mutant channels at lower voltages, and allele dosage- and sex-dependent facilitation of induction and propagation of cortical spreading depression (CSD), the phenomenon that underlies migraine aura. Gain-of-function of neuronal Ca2+ current, facilitation of CSD and post-CSD motor deficits were larger in S218L than R192Q knockin mice, in correlation with the more severe human S218L phenotype. Enhanced cortical excitatory neurotransmission, due to increased action potential-evoked Ca2+ influx and increased probability of glutamate release at pyramidal cell synapses, but unaltered inhibitory neurotransmission at fast-spiking interneuron synapses, were demonstrated in R192Q knockin mice. Evidence for a causative link between enhanced glutamate release and CSD facilitation was obtained. The data from FHM1 mice strengthen the view of CSD as a key player in the pathogenesis of migraine, give insight into CSD mechanisms and point to episodic disruption of excitation-inhibition balance and neuronal hyperactivity as the basis for vulnerability to CSD ignition in migraine.
Feature review (1997)

Economics and Reality Tony Lawson (Routledge, 1997)
The parallelization of convolution on a CNN using a SIMT based GPGPU (2016)

This paper proposes a method to accelerate convolutional neural network(CNN) by utilizing GPGPU. The convolutional layer of the conventional CNN required a large number of multiplication operations. This paper seeks to reduce the number of multiplication operations through Winograd convolution operation and perform parallel processing of the convolution operation by utilizing SIMT structure of GPGPU. The experiment was conducted using ModelSim and TestDrive, and the experimental results showed that the processing time was improved by about 7%, compared to the conventional convolution operation.
Design of testing method based on parameters of EIS model (2010)

Lithium-ion battery impedance measurement using high-precision measuring instruments we have done, which spend much time on testing and cost high on equipments. In this paper, the studying on the lithium-ion battery, we analysis that the parameters of battery impedance model has a relation with the performance and state of battery, propose a simple detection method of internal resistance and ohm internal resistance. Using equivalent circuit method and through the constant phase angle element Q to simplify, we achieve the detection of DC excitation, Experimental results show the feasibility of the method.
Impaired medullary circulation in postischemic acute renal failure (1983)

Acute renal failure was induced in heparinized rats by clamping the renal artery for 45 min. Ten minutes after recirculation the intrarenal blood flow distribution was measured. For this purpose labelled microspheres were injected together with 86-Rb chloride. The microspheres were used for determination of cardiac output, total renal and cortical blood flow, and 86-Rb for calculations of medullary blood flow. Total renal blood flow was reduced from 7.6 to 3.8 ml . min-1 . g-1 and cortical blood flow was reduced from 11.7 to 7.0 ml . min-1 . g-1. In the outer stripe of the medulla there was a reduction from 2.5 to 1.4 ml . min-1 . g-1. In the inner stripe there was a more pronounced reduction from 1.8 to 0.2 ml . min-1 . g-1 and in the inner zone from 0.8 to 0.1 ml . min-1 . g-1. The marked reduction in the blood flow to the renal medulla after recirculation is suggestive for a medullary ischemia, which might be responsible for the characteristic dysfunctions in acute renal failure.
Sub-Nyquist-Encoded PCM NTSC Color Television (1976)

Where a channel has a limited data rate or a digital store has a limited capacity, it is sometimes essential to reduce the data rate of pulse-code-modulated color television signals. One direct way of doing this is to lower the encoding frequencyf <inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">s</inf> , but the Nyquist sampling limit is soon reached and further reduction results in beat distortions due to “alias components” when the lower sidebands of f <inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">s</inf> overlap the baseband video frequencies. NTSC television signals can be digitally encoded at sub-Nyquist rates by placing the alias components into those parts of the spectrum not normally occupied by the luminance or chrominance components of the video signal. By the proper choice of comb filters (two types are specified), most of the alias signals can be removed from the baseband video. In the system examined, f <inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">s</inf> is exactly 2f <inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">sc</inf> + 1/4 f <inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">h</inf> or 2f <inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">sc</inf> — 1/4f <inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">h</inf> , where f <inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">sc</inf> is the NTSC color subcarrier frequency and f <inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">h</inf> is the line-scan frequency. Comb filtering is done between f <inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">s</inf> — f, <inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">v</inf> and f <inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">v</inf> where f <inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">v</inf> , is the baseband video bandwidth. Frequency response equalization is performed within the comb-filtered frequency band. Two modifications to the basic system were studied: using constant vertical quadrature phase sampling and performing comb filtering prior to digital encoding. Color slides and test waveforms encoded by this technique were viewed and found to be subjectively acceptable.
Understanding Blooming Human Groups in Social Networks (2015)

Human group, which indicates the people who share similar characteristics, is used to categorize humans into distinct populations or groups. In recent years, with the explosive growth of image, new concepts of human group are blooming in social networks . People in the same human group can be categorized by their facial and clothes appearance characteristics. In this work, we propose an approach to understanding the new concepts of human group with few positive samples. To this end, we construct visual models crossing two modalities related to human images and surrounding texts. Two convolutional neural networks based on face and upper body are constructed separately. Two different convolutional neural networks (CNNs) architectures are explored for visual pre-traing. To assist the human group recognition, we also merge global convolutional feature of the image. The surrounding texts are represented by semantical vectors and utilized as image labels. We transform words in the text into fixed length vectors by the skip-gram model. Then the texts corresponding to each image are converted into one feature vector by sparse coding and max pooling. Given a few positive samples of new concepts of human group, the visual model can be improved to understand the semantical meaning of the new label. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed visual model and show the excellent learning capacity with few samples.
Detection Time of Drugs of Abuse in Urine (2000)

Estimating the detection time of a drug in urine is complex because of many different influencing factors and the lack of experimental data. Detection times vary depending on dose and route of administration, metabolism and characteristics of the screening and confirmation assays. Using a cut-off value of 1000 ng/mL, urinary samples can be positive for amphetamine for up to 5 days after intake of the drug. At the lower 300 ng/mL cut-off, amphetamine will be detectable one day longer. Very few data are available for designer amphetamines. After smoking one marijuana cigarette, THCCOOH (9-carboxy-delta 9 tetrahydrocannabinol) is detectable (using a screening cut-off of 50 ng/mL) for 2-4 days. More frequent use will be detectable for almost 1 month, exceptionally 3 months. Immunoassays to detect cocaine are targeted against the metabolite benzoylecgonine and use a cut-off of 300 ng/mL. An intravenous dose of 20 mg cocaine can be detected for 1.5 days. Street doses (administered via different routes) are detectable up to 1 week, and extremely high doses up to 3 weeks. Heroin rapidly metabolizes to 6-acetylmorphine and morphine. Immunoassays for heroin are calibrated with morphine but important cross-reactivity occurs and positive results must be confirmed by GC-MS. Experimental data for total morphine using a cut-off of 300 ng/mL suggest a detection time of 1 to 1.5 days for relatively low doses of heroin (3-12 mg) administered via i.v., IN or i.m. route.
Noncoding RNA gene silencing through genomic integration of RNA destabilizing elements using zinc finger nucleases (2011)

Zinc finger nucleases (ZFNs) allow site-specific manipulation of the genome. So far, the use of ZFNs to create gene knockouts has been restricted to protein-coding genes. However, non-protein-encoding RNAs (ncRNA) play important roles in the cell, although the functions of most ncRNAs are unknown. Here, we describe a ZFN-based method suited for the silencing of protein-coding and noncoding genes. This method relies on the ZFN-mediated integration of RNA destabilizing elements into the human genome, e.g., poly(A) signals functioning as termination elements and destabilizing downstream sequences. The biallelic integration of poly(A) signals into the gene locus of the long ncRNA MALAT1 resulted in a 1000-fold decrease of RNA expression. Thus, this approach is more specific and 300 times more efficient than RNA interference techniques. The opportunity to create a variety of loss-of-function tumor model cell lines in different cancer backgrounds will promote future functional analyses of important long noncoding RNA transcripts.
Air conditioning and refrigeration for the professional (1988)

Refrigeration: definitions the refrigeration cycle compressors compressor capacity capacity control condensers and receivers evaporators metering devices accessories refrigerants, oils and refrigerant piping thermodynamics of the refrigeration systems refrigeration applications refrigeration tools soldering, brazing and tube working service procedures mechanical troubleshooting special systems heating: residential and commercial gas-fired furnaces residential and commercial oil-fired furnaces boilers water, steam and gas piping venting electric heat solar heating airside systems: psychrometrics measuring airflow and air pressure air distribution load calculations building systems pneumatic controls electricity: electrical concepts electrical devices power wiring and electric motors electrical troubleshooting.
Ética originaria: Heidegger y la psiquiatría (2006)

Filosofos de este siglo han radicalizado ?sin dejarlos de lado, por cierto?, los planteamientos mas aceptados respecto de los conceptos fundamentales de la historia de Occidente: ser, hombre, verdad, ente, naturaleza, pensar, lenguaje, esencia, cosa, etc. En consonancia con ello, se procura esbozar la idea originaria de etica tal como la entiende Heidegger, al recurrir, entre otras fuentes, al pensamiento griego inicial. De esta manera, apareceria bosquejada la etica del habitar, inherente al hombre (Dasein ) como estar-en-el-mundo: el ser humano estaria llamado a modular autentica o genuinamente el habitar que le es propio al estar en medio de las cosas tratando con el mundo. A partir de esa base, se postula una hipotesis acerca de la mision ultima de la psiquiatria en cuanto esta tendria,en principio, que considerar tal nocion de etica en la epoca actual, la era de la tecnica moderna.Queda abierto el problema de si, y hasta que punto, las ideas derivadas de esa etica originaria podrian ser asumidas en este momento historico como conceptos operacionales que aumentaran la eficacia de la praxis psiquiatrica en el plano terapeutico inmediato.
Effect of bit pattern misalignment on coherent crosstalk in optical add/drop multiplexers (2000)

We studied the impact of coherent crosstalk on system performance in optical add-drop multiplexers (OADM's) in both aligned and misaligned bit pattern cases. The concept of fading penalty is introduced to evaluate the impact. The results indicate that bit pattern misalignment will reduce the impact of coherent crosstalk when the crosstalk level is low and the number of crosstalk paths is large, but will increase it when these conditions are not satisfied.
Nation, State, and Cross-Strait Relations: Perspectives from Taiwan (2007)

The problems surrounding the theoretical understanding of “nation ” and “state ” in Taiwan are among the most intriguing and most confusing in the contemporary world. Some might know that