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Nanolithography and direct exposure of SiO2 layers (1992)

Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter Facebook Reddit LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Reprints and Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation A. N. Broers, X. Pan, D. R. Allee, C. P. Umbach; Nanolithography and direct exposure of SiO2 layers. AIP Conf. Proc. 20 July 1992; 262 (1): 151–162. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.42673 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAIP Publishing PortfolioAIP Conference Proceedings Search Advanced Search |Citation Search
The effect of breakwater length on berthed LNG carrier motions and mooring loads (2013)

An investigation has been conducted to quantify the influence of breakwater length on the wave induced motions and associated mooring line and fender loads of a ship at an offshore LNG carrier berth. The motions and mooring loads were assessed against standard limiting criteria to establish the breakwater length that provides safe operational conditions. The study was conducted in two phases. The first phase involved conducting physical model scale experiments in the Australian Maritime College's Model Test Basin to measure wave forces and moments on the constrained ship for an irregular wave environment with breakwaters of 0, 1.4, 1.9, 2.3 and 2.5 times the ship length. In the second phase the wave forces and moments, berthed ship particulars and mooring arrangement particulars were used as input to numerical simulations to predict the motions of the berthed ship and associated mooring line loads and fender loads. Results are presented for a selected mooring arrangement and an irregular wave environment that represent design conditions at the site. With the exception of sway motion, for intermediate breakwater lengths the berthed ship motions were greater than without a breakwater. However, when the breakwater was extended to 2.5 ship lengths all ship motions were less than those experienced without a breakwater. The fender loads exhibited a similar trend to the berthed ship motions; however a breakwater length of 1.9 ship lengths was sufficient to produce maximum fender loads less than those experienced without a breakwater. With the exception of the spring mooring lines, when the breakwater was extended to 1.9 ship lengths and beyond all maximum mooring line loads were less than those experienced without a breakwater. The study provided important information that can be used to design a breakwater of sufficient length to reduce the likelihood of damage to equipment and/or disruptions to loading operations.
Introduction to the Special Section on SOSP 2021 (2022)

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Comparison of Midregional Pro–A-Type Natriuretic Peptide and the N-Terminal Pro–B-Type Natriuretic Peptide for Predicting Mortality and Cardiovascular Events (2011)

MR-proANP was as efficient as NT-proBNP in predicting all-cause mortality, cardiovascular mortality, and cardiovascular events; however, its association with cardiovascular mortality was not independent from other confounders.
A performance analysis of a parallel communications scheme for ATM networks (2002)

A parallel communications scheme for broadband networks was proposed previously. In this scheme, the traffic of a connection is split into m substreams, which are then coded into k/spl ges/m streams for delivery over k separate subchannels. This paper is an attempt toward a more careful study of the scheme. In particular, the average queueing length and mean delay time at a switch are derived analytically using a general bulk arrival source model taking into account the reduction of traffic burstiness (due to traffic splitting) and increase of traffic load (due to coding). The cell-loss probability with finite buffer are investigated by means of simulation. The relative performance of the scheme with no splitting, splitting without coding, splitting with coding at the switch are described in detail.
ICT Based HIL Validation of Voltage Control Coordination in Smart Grids Scenarios (2018)

This paper aims to validate the capability of renewable generation (ReGen) plants to provide online voltage control coordination ancillary service to the system operators in smart grids. Simulation studies about online coordination concepts from ReGen plants have already been identified in previous publications. However, here, the results are validated through a real-time Hardware-In-the-Loop framework using an exemplary benchmark grid area in Denmark as a base case that includes flexible renewable power plants providing voltage control functionality. The provision of voltage control support from ReGen plants is verified on a large-scale power system against the baseline scenario, considering the hierarchical industrial controller platforms used nowadays in power plants. Moreover, the verification of online voltage control support is carried out by taking into account a communication network as well as the associated data traffic patterns obtained from a real network. Based on the sets of recordings, guidelines and recommendations for practical implementation of the developed control algorithms for targeted ancillary service are made. This provides a deep insight for stakeholders, i.e., wind turbine and photo-voltaic system manufacturers and system operators, regarding the existing boundaries for current technologies and requirements for accommodating the new ancillary services in industrial application.
Analysis of the β‐Tubulin Genes from Enterocytozoon bieneusi Isolates from a Human and Rhesus Macaque (2006)

Enterocytozoon bieneusi is the most common and clinically significant microsporidium associated with chronic diarrhea and wasting in immunocompromised humans. Albendazole, which is effective against several helminths, protozoa, and microsporidia, is relatively ineffective against infections due to E. bieneusi. A likely explanation for the observed clinical resistance to albendazole was discovered from sequence analysis of the E. bieneusibeta-tubulin from isolates from an infected human and a naturally infected rhesus macaque. The beta-tubulin of E. bieneusi has a substitution at Glu(198), which is one of six amino acids reported to be associated with benzimidazole sensitivity.
Identification of lipid A deacylase as a novel, highly conserved and protective antigen against enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (2019)

Enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) is a major cause of large outbreaks worldwide associated with hemorrhagic colitis and hemolytic uremic syndrome. While vaccine development is warranted, a licensed vaccine, specific for human use, against EHEC is not yet available. In this study, the reverse vaccinology approach combined with genomic, transcriptional and molecular epidemiology data was applied on the EHEC O157:H7 genome to select new potential vaccine candidates. Twenty-four potential protein antigens were identified and one of them (MC001) was successfully expressed onto Generalized Modules for Membrane Antigens (GMMA) delivery system. GMMA expressing this vaccine candidate was immunogenic, raising a specific antibody response. Immunization with the MC001 candidate was able to reduce the bacterial load of EHEC O157:H7 strain in feces, colon and caecum tissues after murine infection. MC001 is homologue to lipid A deacylase enzyme (LpxR), and to our knowledge, this is the first study describing it as a potential vaccine candidate. Gene distribution and sequence variability analysis showed that MC001 is present and conserved in EHEC and in enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC) strains. Given the high genetic variability among and within E. coli pathotypes, the identification of such conserved antigen suggests that its inclusion in a vaccine might represent a solution against major intestinal pathogenic strains.
Protecting against Pneumococcal Disease: Critical Interactions between Probiotics and the Airway Microbiome (2012)

Streptococcus pneumoniae (the pneumococcus) is a predominant cause of pneumonia, meningitis, and bacteremia. It is a leading killer of children under 5 years of age, responsible for the deaths of up to 2 million children annually [1]. Most deaths occur in African and Asian developing countries; however, pneumococcal disease is also a significant problem in particular populations of developed countries, such as the North American Indians, and indigenous Alaskans and Australians [1]–[3]. Although vaccination is the most cost-effective method of protection against pneumococcal disease, cost remains a barrier, as does vaccine delivery and efficacy. In this opinion piece, we discuss the potential complementary role of probiotics to vaccines in preventing pneumococcal disease through targeting the microbiome of the upper respiratory tract.
A microprocessor card software server to support the Quebec health microprocessor card project. (1995)

The Quebec Health Smart Card Project is advocating the use of a memory card software server[1] (SCAM) to implement a portable medical record (PMR) on a smart card. The PMR is viewed as an object that can be manipulated by SCAM's services. In fact, we can talk about a pseudo-object-oriented approach. This software architecture provides a flexible and evolutive way to manage and optimize the PMR. SCAM is a generic software server; it can manage smart cards as well as optical (laser) cards or other types of memory cards. But, in the specific case of the Quebec Health Card Project, SCAM is used to provide services between physicians' or pharmacists' software and IBM smart card technology. We propose to expose the concepts and techniques used to provide a generic environment to deal with smart cards (and more generally with memory cards), to obtain a dynamic an evolutive PMR, to raise the system global security level and the data integrity, to optimize significantly the management of the PMR, and to provide statistic information about the use of the PMR.
Inherited hyperactivation of L-arginine synthesis in γ+B lymphocytes of systemic autoimmune MRL mice (1990)

The hyperactivation of B lymphocytes of MRL mice, which are an animal model for human systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), is characterized as the preferential propagation of gamma + B lymphocytes and IgG overproduction followed by aging. Little is known about the molecular mechanisms, although the involvement of cytokines has been extensively investigated. Here we now show that gamma-committed B lymphocytes selectively exhibit a highly elevated L-citrulline metabolism while mu or alpha-committed B lymphocytes show a normal level in autoimmune MRL mice. L-Arginine proportionally supports the lymphocyte proliferation and antibody production in a concentration-dependent fashion (approximately 100 microM). However, normal murine lymphocytes show an extremely low activity of citrulline metabolism, which converts L-citrulline to L-arginine. Thus, these results suggest that the overexpression of elevated citrulline metabolism is associated with gamma chain expression, and this elevation may enable gamma-committed B lymphocytes to preferentially propagate and overproduce IgG compared with mu or alpha-committed B lymphocytes.
Application of the Level-$2$ Quantum Lasserre Hierarchy in Quantum Approximation Algorithms (2021)

The Lasserre Hierarchy is a set of semidefinite programs which yield increasingly tight bounds on optimal solutions to many NP-hard optimization problems. The hierarchy is parameterized by levels, with a higher level corresponding to a more accurate relaxation. High level programs have proven to be invaluable components of approximation algorithms for many NP-hard optimization problems. There is a natural analogous quantum hierarchy, which is also parameterized by level and provides a relaxation of many (QMA-hard) quantum problems of interest. In contrast to the classical case, however, there is only one approximation algorithm which makes use of higher levels of the hierarchy. Here we provide the first ever use of the level-$2$ hierarchy in an approximation algorithm for a particular QMA-complete problem, so-called Quantum Max Cut. We obtain modest improvements on state-of-the-art approximation factors for this problem, as well as demonstrate that the level-$2$ hierarchy satisfies many physically-motivated constraints that the level-$1$ does not satisfy. Indeed, this observation is at the heart of our analysis and indicates that higher levels of the quantum Lasserre Hierarchy may be very useful tools in the design of approximation algorithms for QMA-complete problems.
Aromatic residues in the C-terminal domain 2 are required for Nanog to mediate LIF-independent self-renewal of mouse embryonic stem cells. VOLUME 283 (2008) PAGES 4480-4489 (2009)

The affiliation for the first author was listed incorrectly. The correct author affiliations are as follows.Zhe Wang‡§, Tianhua Ma‡, Xiaoke Chi‡, and Duanqing Pei§From the ‡Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology, Department of Biological Sciences & Biotechnology, State Key Laboratory of Biomembrane and Membrane Biotechnology, Institutes of Biomedicine, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China and the §Center for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510663, China The affiliation for the first author was listed incorrectly. The correct author affiliations are as follows. Zhe Wang‡§, Tianhua Ma‡, Xiaoke Chi‡, and Duanqing Pei§ From the ‡Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology, Department of Biological Sciences & Biotechnology, State Key Laboratory of Biomembrane and Membrane Biotechnology, Institutes of Biomedicine, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China and the §Center for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510663, China
Document Image Classification on the Basis of Layout Information (2017)

In this paper, we propose a document image classification framework based on layout information. Our method does not use OCR; hence, it is completely language independent. Still we are able to exploit text data by extracting text regions with a novel MSER-based approach. Our MSER formulation provides great robustness against text distortions in comparison to the existing one. We introduce two types of novel image descriptors supplemented with Fisher vectors, based on Bernoulli mixture model. Classifiers, based on aforementioned descriptors, are assembled into meta-classification system that is able to classify document in complex cases when individual classifier accuracy is poor. Our meta-classification system demonstrates low processing time comparable to a single classifier. We show that our method outperforms the existing ones by the means of classification accuracy for a wide range of documents of both well-known and machine-generated document datasets.
Automatic Diagnosis of Pathological Myopia from Heterogeneous Biomedical Data (2013)

Pathological myopia is one of the leading causes of blindness worldwide. The condition is particularly prevalent in Asia. Unlike myopia, pathological myopia is accompanied by degenerative changes in the retina, which if left untreated can lead to irrecoverable vision loss. The accurate diagnosis of pathological myopia will enable timely intervention and facilitate better disease management to slow down the progression of the disease. Current methods of assessment typically consider only one type of data, such as that from retinal imaging. However, different kinds of data, including that of genetic, demographic and clinical information, may contain different and independent information, which can provide different perspectives on the visually observable, genetic or environmental mechanisms for the disease. The combination of these potentially complementary pieces of information can enhance the understanding of the disease, providing a holistic appreciation of the multiple risks factors as well as improving the detection outcomes. In this study, we propose a computer-aided diagnosis framework for Pathological Myopia diagnosis through Biomedical and Image Informatics(PM-BMII). Through the use of multiple kernel learning (MKL) methods, PM-BMII intelligently fuses heterogeneous biomedical information to improve the accuracy of disease diagnosis. Data from 2,258 subjects of a population-based study, in which demographic and clinical information, retinal fundus imaging data and genotyping data were collected, are used to evaluate the proposed framework. The experimental results show that PM-BMII achieves an AUC of 0.888, outperforming the detection results from the use of demographic and clinical information 0.607 (increase 46.3%, p<0.005), genotyping data 0.774 (increase 14.7%, P<0.005) or imaging data 0.852 (increase 4.2%, p=0.19) alone. The accuracy of the results obtained demonstrates the feasibility of using heterogeneous data for improved disease diagnosis through our proposed PM-BMII framework.
C-Reactive Protein Relaxes Human Vessels In Vitro (2002)

Human internal mammary artery rings were obtained during cardiovascular bypass surgery and suspended in an organ bath chamber. The rings were precontracted with endothelin-1, and response to cumulative concentrations of CRP was obtained. Experiments were repeated after initial incubation with 20, 40, and 60 mmol/L KCl, the potassium channel blockers BaCl, tetraethylammonium chloride, and glibenclamide, and the NO synthase inhibitor N-monomethyl-L-arginine and also after removal of the endothelium. CRP caused dose-dependent relaxation of human internal mammary artery rings, which was not affected by preincubation with N-monomethyl-L-arginine or removal of the endothelium. Maximum relaxation response to CRP (79.5+/-10%) was attenuated by KCl (2.5+/-11.5%, P<0.001), BaCl (24.5+/-7.5%, P<0.001), and tetraethylammonium chloride (34.9+/-8.25%, P<0.01) but not by glibenclamide. Conclusions- The present study demonstrates that CRP exerts an endothelium-independent vasorelaxing effect via potassium channels. Thus, the study suggests a role of CRP in the regulation of vascular tone.
Integration of hydraulically induced microseismic event locations with active seismic attributes: A North Texas Barnett Shale case study (2012)

ABSTRACT Hydraulic fractures are delineated by induced microseismic event distributions and typically propagate perpendicular to the regional minimum stress direction. However, at a smaller scale, varying mineralogical composition and existing fault and fracture networks can influence developing fracture networks. We integrated microseismic event locations with seismic attributes from multichannel seismic reflection data, including inversion results for impedance and Lamé parameters, and seismic curvature attributes. We found that microseismic event locations consistently correlate to zones of low seismic impedance and low λρ and μρ values, describing characteristic material properties of fracture-prone zones within the North Texas Lower and Upper Barnett Shale. Additionally, event locations showed a weak correlation with anticlinal structures as defined by volumetric curvature attributes. We suggest that the low impedance, low λρ and μρ zones were related to the boundary between calcite-filled fractures and the host rock.
Anycast CDNS revisited (2008)

Because it is an integral part of the Internet routing apparatus, and because it allows multiple instances of the same service to be "naturally" discovered, IP Anycast has many attractive features for any service that involve the replication of multiple instances across the Internet. While briefly considered as an enabler when content distribution networks (CDNs) first emerged, the use of IP Anycast was deemed infeasible in that environment. The main reasons for this decision were the lack of load awareness of IP Anycast and unwanted side effects of Internet routing changes on the IP Anycast mechanism. Prompted by recent developments in route control technology, as well as a better understanding of the behavior of IP Anycast in operational settings, we revisit this decision and propose a load-aware IP Anycast CDN architecture that addresses these concerns while benefiting from inherent IP Anycast features. Our architecture makes use of route control mechanisms to take server and network load into account to realize load-aware Anycast. We show that the resulting redirection requirements can be formulated as a Generalized Assignment Problem and present practical algorithms that address these requirements while at the same time limiting session disruptions that plague regular IP Anycast. We evaluate our algorithms through trace based simulation using traces obtained from an operation CDN network.
High-Frequency Integrated Circuits for Communication Systems. (1997)

Abstract : This research was directed towards realization of Si monolithic microwave communication transceivers. New theoretical methods were developed for the analysis of noise and distortion phenomena in nonlinear communication circuits such as low-noise amplifiers (LNAs) in the over-driven condition, mixers, oscillators and detectors. Using these techniques new circuit topologies were synthesized for the realization of various essential transceiver functions, and prototype circuits were built in state-of-the-art Si monolithic processes and experimentally evaluated. New CAD approaches to the problem of mixer noise analysis were created which allow combination of large-signal time-varying circuit elements plus time-varying noise sources to be analyzed. Using this tool a new mixer topology in Si BiCMOS technology was synthesized with extremely wide dynamic range. The use of on-chip monolithic inductors allowed incorporation of a new tuned local-oscillator (LO) buffer circuit which added important degrees of freedom to the mixer realization.
P‐88: Viewing Angle Enhancement of TN LCD Using E‐type Polarizers (2001)

Abstract The results of the modeling and optimization of a 90° TN LCD using Optiva V017 thin‐film E‐polarizer material reveal remarkable viewing angle and chromaticity characteristics. The on‐state photopic transmission using the V017 material approaches the level achieved with high‐efficiency sheet polarizers.
Vinyl Aryl Ethers from Copper‐Catalyzed Coupling of Vinyl Halides and Phenols. (2004)

Abstract For Abstract see ChemInform Abstract in Full Text.
A general construction for expressing repetition (1979)

article Free Access Share on A general construction for expressing repetition Author: L. Lamport SRI International, Menlo Park, CA SRI International, Menlo Park, CAView Profile Authors Info & Claims ACM SIGPLAN NoticesVolume 14Issue 3March 1979 pp 38–42https://doi.org/10.1145/988071.988076Online:01 March 1979Publication History 2citation141DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations2Total Downloads141Last 12 Months10Last 6 weeks4 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteeReaderPDF