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Study on Construction of Industrial Large-Scale Battery System (2015)

This paper proposes a construction method for battery systems that are widely used in industries. The battery system uses a building block structure combined with a battery module, whose capacity is less than 1kWh. To manage the building block structured system, we propose a hierarchical structured management method. In each hierarchy, the voltage and temperature of the battery are monitored, and the information necessary for calculating charge states and detecting faults are sent to the upper hierarchy for the state management of the lower hierarchy. Furthermore, to ensure the safety during maintenance activities, we provide a guidance for understanding the insulation structure for the battery module, and develop a ground fault detection method that detects a decline in the insulation performance by using a rising method. For the experiment we use a 30kWh trial manufacture battery system combined with the hierarchical management method. We verify that charge states and faults are detected in the battery of the system, and confirm that the system can be charged and discharged safely.
The role of feedback in rewritable storage channels [Lecture Notes] (2009)

A storage medium is called nonvolatile if it retains its information content even when it is not powered on. The widespread applicability of devices with good data retention properties have made nonvolatile memory an area of active academic and industry research. A significant problem encountered in this field is that for many nonvolatile memories the process of writing to the medium is inherently uncertain. This phenomenon fundamentally limits the amount of information that can be stored on the medium thus reducing its storage capacity. But often, such storage media are rewritable, that is, previously written content can be read and rewritten if necessary. This creates a powerful feedback path which allows for an improvement in its storage capacity. In this lecture we describe a novel information theoretic model for rewritable media that has been recently proposed by the authors [6]. For a simple yet important special case we show that rewriting can increase the capacity logarithmically in the average number of rewrites. We emphasize the role that feedback can play in increasing storage capacity, and briefly indicate how methods from estimation theory and dynamic programming could be used to design feedback strategies that can approach this improved storage capacity.
Water-soluble polycarbodiimides and their cytotoxic and antifungal properties (2021)

We have successfully synthesized water-soluble neutral and polyelectrolyte helical polycarbodiimides and studied their biological properties. These polymers were prepared by decorating carbodiimide backbones with nonionic, hydrophilic functional groups such as dimethylamine, piperazine, and morpholine. Additionally, the 3° amines present in these functional groups were quaternized using methyl iodide as the alkylating agent to produce their ionic analogs. Polycarbodiimides were chosen as the base polymer used because of their facile chemical modification, pH tolerance in terms of both their helical conformations and degradation behaviors, and tunable helical inversion barriers. Hydrophilic side groups, such as morpholine, dimethylamine, and piperazine, can be used to balance the amphiphilic architecture of the polycarbodiimides along with lipophilic groups, such as alkyl side chains. A chiral <i>R</i> or <i>S</i> BINOL Ti(IV) isopropoxide catalyst was used to control the handedness of the polycarbodiimide helices in these studies. These ionic and neutral polycarbodiimides were subsequently studied for potential antimicrobial and cytotoxic properties. Poly[<i>N</i>-methyl-<i>N'</i>-2-morpholinoethylcarbodiimide], as an example, exhibited significant antifungal properties against <i>Candida albicans</i>. Also, Poly[<i>N</i>-methyl-<i>N'</i>-2-morpholinoethylcarbodiimide] showed significant inhibition of biofilm formation. This suggests that the polymer is a promising candidate for antifungal biomedical applications. Measuring cytotoxicity against urinary bladder cancer cells, poly[<i>N</i>-[3-(dimethylamino)propyl)]-<i>N'</i>-[3-(morpholino)propyl]carbodiimide] (<i>S</i>-cat) and poly[<i>N</i>-[3-(dimethylamino)propyl)]-<i>N'</i>-[3-(morpholino)propyl]carbodiimide]-MeI (<i>S</i>-cat) showed significantly low IC<sub>50</sub> values. The IC<sub>50</sub> values of poly[<i>N</i>-[3-(dimethylamino)propyl)]-<i>N'</i>-[3-(morpholino)propyl]carbodiimide] (<i>S</i>-cat) and Poly[<i>N</i>-[3-(dimethylamino)propyl)]-<i>N'</i>-[3-(morpholino)propyl]carbodiimide]-MeI (<i>S</i>-cat) are 3.50 μM and 1.27 μM, respectively. The significantly low cancer cell growth inhibition concentration implies the highest cytotoxicity of the polymers, suggesting potential applications as cancer therapeutics. These results also showed that the functionalization and chirality of polycarbodiimides modulate their anticancer and antifungal activity.
Geometric discretization through primal-dual meshes (2014)

This thesis introduces new tools for geometric discretization in computer graphics and computational physics. Our work builds upon the duality between weighted triangulations and power diagrams to provide concise, yet expressive discretization of manifolds and differential operators. Our exposition begins with a review of the construction of power diagrams, followed by novel optimization procedures to fully control the local volume and spatial distribution of power cells. Based on this power diagram framework, we develop a new family of discrete differential operators, an effective stippling algorithm, as well as a new fluid solver for Lagrangian particles. We then turn our attention to applications in geometry processing. We show that orthogonal primal-dual meshes augment the notion of local metric in non-flat discrete surfaces. In particular, we introduce a reduced set of coordinates for the construction of orthogonal primal-dual structures of arbitrary topology, and provide alternative metric characterizations through convex optimizations. We finally leverage these novel theoretical contributions to generate well-centered primal-dual meshes, sphere packing on surfaces, and self-supporting triangulations.
Evaluation and alleviation of SOI impacts on SRAM functionality and yield (2008)

Super fast Monte-Carlo techniques are applied to allow deeper insight to the yield of SOI domino circuit design techniques for SRAMs. For the first time, Read-before-Write in dual supply domino bit-select design is analyzed in the presence of floating body effects, hysteretic and process variations. The methodology provides greater ability to alleviate non-functionality by identifying yield-optimized operating ranges.
A three-dimensional field solution for radially polarized cylinders (1995)

A three-dimensional field solution is presented for radially polarized permanent-magnet cylinders. The derived field formulae are evaluated in terms of finite sums of elementary functions. They are readily programmed and ideal for performing rapid parametric studies of the field distribution outside of cylinders made from rare earth materials such as NdFeB. The theory is demonstrated with some sample calculations that are verified by use of three-dimensional finite element analysis.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>
Clinical Characteristics and Multimodal Imaging Findings of Central Serous Chorioretinopathy in Women versus Men (2022)

(1) The aim of this study was to compare the clinical characteristics and multimodal imaging findings of central serous chorioretinopathy (CSCR) between women and men. (2) Women and men with CSCR were compared in terms of their age and risk factors, the clinical form of their disease, multimodal imaging findings and the presence of macular neovascularization (MNV) on optical coherence tomography (OCT)-angiography. (3) Results: The data of 75 women and 75 men were compared. The women were significantly older than the men (52.2 years versus 45.7 years; p < 0.001). Corticosteroid intake was more frequent in the women (56% versus 40%; p = 0.05). The women had a single foveal subretinal detachment more often than the men (73.3% versus 46.9%; p < 0.001) and they often had fewer gravitational tracks (16.3% versus 29.6%; p = 0.03). On mid-phase indocyanine green angiography, hyperfluorescent plaques were detected less often in the women than in the men (48% versus 72.2%, p = 0.001). MNV was detected on OCT-angiography in 35.9% of the women and in 13.3% of the men (p = 0.004). (4) In the women, CSCR occurs at an older age, is more often unifocal foveolar, and is associated with a higher rate of MNV. The reasons for these gender-related differences remain to be determined.
Low-Reynolds-number swimming at pycnoclines (2012)

Microorganisms play pivotal functions in the trophic dynamics and biogeochemistry of aquatic ecosystems. Their concentrations and activities often peak at localized hotspots, an important example of which are pycnoclines, where water density increases sharply with depth due to gradients in temperature or salinity. At pycnoclines organisms are exposed to different environmental conditions compared to the bulk water column, including reduced turbulence, slow mass transfer, and high particle and predator concentrations. Here we show that, at an even more fundamental level, the density stratification itself can affect microbial ecology at pycnoclines, by quenching the flow signature, increasing the energetic expenditure, and stifling the nutrient uptake of motile organisms. We demonstrate this through numerical simulations of an archetypal low-Reynolds-number swimmer, the "squirmer." We identify the Richardson number--the ratio of buoyancy forces to viscous forces--as the fundamental parameter that quantifies the effects of stratification. These results demonstrate an unexpected effect of buoyancy on low-Reynolds-number swimming, potentially affecting a broad range of abundant organisms living at pycnoclines in oceans and lakes.
ChemInform Abstract: STEREOSPECIFIC TOTAL SYNTHESES OF THE NATURAL ANTITUMOR AGENT, (αS, 5S)‐α‐AMINO‐3‐CHLORO‐4,5‐DIHYDRO‐5‐ISOXAZOLEACETIC ACID, AND ITS UNNATURAL C‐5 EPIMER (1982)

Abstract Bei der Photochlorierung von L‐Glutaminsäure entsteht in 33proz. Ausb. ein chromatographisch auftrennbares 1:1‐Gemisch von L‐threo‐ (I) und L‐erythro‐β‐Chlor‐g1utaminsäure.
Frontal and Temporal Cortical Myelination Associations with Cognition Revealed by a Novel T1w/T2w-based Marker in Subjective Cognitive Decline (2023)

Identifying early changes associated with Alzheimer&amp;rsquo;s Disease (AD) and separating pathological from normal brain aging is a key step in AD treatment development. It has been proposed that a neuropathological retrogenesis heralded by cortical demyelination underlies the behavioral retrogenesis characterizing AD. As one of the earliest behavioral manifestations of AD, subjective cognitive decline (SCD) is a major research target, however, few studies have discovered reliable neural correlates at this stage. Here, using a novel cortical profile approach, we examined the cortical gradient of T1w/T2w, a putative myelin marker, in SCD and healthy control participants and its association with cognition.
Gene Regulation During Cold Stress Acclimation in Plants (2010)

Cold stress adversely affects plant growth and development and thus limits crop productivity. Diverse plant species tolerate cold stress to a varying degree, which depends on reprogramming gene expression to modify their physiology, metabolism, and growth. Cold signal in plants is transmitted to activate CBF-dependent (C-repeat/drought-responsive element binding factor-dependent) and CBF-independent transcriptional pathway, of which CBF-dependent pathway activates CBF regulon. CBF transcription factor genes are induced by the constitutively expressed ICE1 (inducer of CBF expression 1) by binding to the CBF promoter. ICE1-CBF cold response pathway is conserved in diverse plant species. Transgenic analysis in different plant species revealed that cold tolerance can be significantly enhanced by genetic engineering CBF pathway. Posttranscriptional regulation at pre-mRNA processing and export from nucleus plays a role in cold acclimation. Small noncoding RNAs, namely micro-RNAs (miRNAs) and small interfering RNAs (siRNAs), are emerging as key players of posttranscriptional gene silencing. Cold stress-regulated miRNAs have been identified in Arabidopsis and rice. In this chapter, recent advances on cold stress signaling and tolerance are highlighted.
Multi-Template Shift-Variant Non-Negative Matrix Deconvolution For Semi-Automatic Music Transcription. (2012)

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Radiofrequency Ablation of Rabbit Kidney Using Liquid Electrode: Acute and Chronic Observations (2000)

Wet radiofrequency ablation with a liquid electrode can reproducibly create large lesions safely and quickly. The technique may soon become an alternative, minimally invasive therapy for small renal tumors.
An active data-aware cache consistency protocol for highly-scalable data-shipping DBMS architectures (2004)

In a data-shipping database system, data items are retrieved from the server machines, cached and processed at the client machines, and then shipped back to the server. Current cache consistency approaches typically rely on a centralized server or servers to enforce the necessary concurrency control actions. This centralized server imposes a limitation on the scalability and performance of these systems. This paper presents a new consistency protocol, Active Data-aware Cache Consistency (ADCC), that allows clients to be aware of the global state of their cached data via a two-tier directory. Using parallel communication with simultaneous client-server and client-client messages, ADCC reduces the network latency for detecting data conflicts by 50%, while increasing message overhead by about 8% only. In addition, ADCC improves scalability by partially offloading the concurrency control function from the server to the clients. An optimization, Lazy Update, is introduced to reduce the message overhead for maintaining client directory consistency. We implement ADCC in a page server DBMS architecture and compare it with the leading cache consistency algorithm, Callback Locking (CBL), which is the most widely implemented algorithm in commercial DBMSs. Our performance study shows that ADCC has a similar or lower abort rate, higher throughput, and better scalability for important workloads and system configurations. Both the simulation results and the analytic study indicate that the message overhead is low and that ADCC produces better behavior compared to the traditional server-based communication under high contention workloads.
Magnetic Flux Leakage Testing for Back-side Defects Using a Tunnel Magnetoresistive Device (2014)

Abstract — Magnetic non-destructive testing is limited to surface inspection, however demand for the detection of deep defects is increasing. Therefore, we developed a magnetic flux leakage (MFL) system using a tunnel magnetoresistive (TMR) device that has high sensitivity and wide frequency range in order to detect deep defects. Using the developed system, back-side pits of steel plates having different depth and diameter were measured and 2D images were created. Moreover, we analyzed the detected vector signal with optimized phase data. As a result, the developed MFL system can detect a defect that has a wall thinning rate of more than 56 % of 8.6 mm thick steel plates. Furthermore, the defect’s diameter size was estimated by spatial signal change. Keywords-MFL; magnetic imaging; TMR device; Low-Freaquency field; back-side pit. I.
COMMUNICATION TO THE EDITOR Assembly of Multimeric Phage Nanostructures Through Leucine Zipper Interactions (2006)

One barrier to the construction of nanoscale devices is the ability to place materials into 2D- and 3D- ordered arrays by controlling the assembly and ordering of connections between nanomaterials. Ordered assem- bly of nanoscale materials may potentially be achieved using biological tools that direct specific connections between individual components. Recently, viruses were successfully employed as scaffolds for the nucleation of nanoparticles and nanowires (Mao et al., 2004); however, there is a paucity of methods for the higher order assem- bly of phage-templated materials. Here we describe a general strategy for the assembly of filamentous bacter- iophages into long, wire-like or into tripod-like structures. To prepare the linear phage assemblies, dimeric leucine zipper protein domains, fused to the p3 and p9 proteins of M13 bacteriophage, were employed to direct the specific end-to-end self-association of the bacteriophage parti- cles. Electron microscopy revealed that up to 90% of the phage displaying complementary leucine zipper domains formedlinearmulti-phageassemblies,composedofupto 30 phage in length. To prepare tripod-like assemblies, phage were engineered to express trimeric leucine zippersasp3fusionproteins.Thisresultedin3Dassembly with three individual phages attached at a single point. These ordered phage structures should provide a founda- tion for self-assembly of virally templated nanomaterials
Effect of Electrical Conductivity of Substrate on RF-Sputter-Deposition of µc-Si:H at -180°C (1983)

The µc-Si:H was fabricated by the reactive RF-sputtering technique onto low temperature substrate (-180°C). It has been found that the electrical conductivity of the substrate plays a significant role in the fabrication of µc-Si:H, i.e., the –SiH 3 rich µc-Si:H is produced on the insulating substrate but the –SiH 2 – rich one on the conductive substrate. The substantial effect of the electrical conductivity of the substrate is assumed to be that the screening potential by the accumulated electric charge on the insulating substrate reduced the kinetic energy of ions which impinge onto the substrate.
Aqueous extracts of walnut (Juglans regia L.) leaves: quantitative analyses of hydroxycinnamic and chlorogenic acids (2018)

Identification of both hydroxycinnamic and chlorogenic acids present in aqueous extracts of walnut leaves (Juglans regia L.) were carried out by using, for the first time, standard compounds not commercially available for qualitative identification. In particular, in addition to caffeic, ferulic, p-coumaric and sinapic acids, cis and trans mono-caffeoylquinic, dicaffeoylquinic, mono-feruloylquinic and cis and trans mono-p-coumaroylquinic acid isomers were detected and quantified by Ultra High Pressure Liquid Chromatography and the seasonal variations of these secondary metabolites were investigated.
Efficient risk/return frontiers for credit risk (2002)

We construct efficient credit risk frontiers for a portfolio of bonds issued in emerging markets, using not only the variance but also quantile-based risk measures such as expected shortfall, maximum (percentile) losses and unexpected (percentile) losses. Our results demonstrate that minimizing variance yields portfolios that are far from efficient with respect to the standard quantile-based measures of credit risk.
Data from An Antagonist of Dishevelled Protein-Protein Interaction Suppresses β-Catenin–Dependent Tumor Cell Growth (2023)

&lt;div&gt;Abstract&lt;p&gt;Recent progress in the development of inhibitors of protein-protein interactions has opened the door for developing drugs that act by novel and selective mechanisms. Building on that work, we designed a small-molecule inhibitor of the Wnt signaling pathway, which is aberrantly activated across a wide range of human tumors. The compound, named FJ9, disrupts the interaction between the Frizzed-7 Wnt receptor and the PDZ domain of Dishevelled, down-regulating canonical Wnt signaling and suppressing tumor cell growth. The antitumorigenic effects of FJ9 were pronounced, including induction of apoptosis in human cancer cell lines and tumor growth inhibition in a mouse xenograft model. FJ9 is thus among the first non-peptide inhibitors to show therapeutic efficacy through disruption of PDZ protein-protein interactions. [Cancer Res 2007;67(2):573–9]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
Manual for Assessing Safety Hardware Crash Testing and Evaluation of Multiple Mailbox Supports for Use with Locking Architectural Mailboxes (2019)

With increasing concern about mail-identity theft, there is a growing demand among homeowners and businesses for the use of locking mailboxes for theft deterrence and resistance to vandalism. Lockable mailbox products can be significantly larger and heavier than standard lightweight mailboxes. Therefore, the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) requested evaluation of their crashworthiness before permitting their use on the state highway system. Under TxDOT Project 9-1002-12, crash tests were performed following the Manual for Assessing Safety Hardware (MASH) guidelines and procedures to assess the impact performance of lockable, secure mailboxes in both single and multiple mount configurations. Testing of the larger and heavier locking mailboxes on multiple-mount support posts was unsuccessful owing to vehicle windshield deformation and intrusion. This paper describes the efforts to develop and evaluate the crashworthiness of new proposed designs for multiple mailbox supports used with a combination of lockable and standard mailboxes. The crash tests were performed following MASH guidelines and the evaluation criteria. Two proposed designs were evaluated through full-scale crash testing. Both systems satisfied all required MASH evaluation criteria at low and high impact speeds using a passenger car, which was considered to be the critical design vehicle based on the mailbox mounting height.
Isolated intraocular relapses of primary cerebral lymphomas: An LOC network study (2022)

Most relapses of primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL) occur in the brain and are associated with a poor prognosis. Isolated intraocular relapses (IIORs) are rare and poorly described. We retrospectively selected from the French Lymphome Oculo-Cérébral database PCNSL patients who initially presented with cerebral localization and who experienced IIOR during the course of the disease. Of the 1472 patients included in the database, 55 patients presented an IIOR. Their median age was 68 years, and median Karnofsky Performance Status 80. IL-10 levels in the aqueous humor and/or in the vitreous were increased in 42/46 patients. 45/55 patients received systemic chemotherapy, and 11/55 received high-dose chemotherapy with autologous stem cell transplantation (HCT-ASCT) as consolidation treatment. After a median follow-up of 69 months, 42/55 patients had relapsed, including 90% of the patients who did not receive HCT-ASCT at IIOR and 40% of the patients who received HCT-ASCT at IIOR (p < 0.001). The first relapse after the initial IIOR was exclusively in the eye in 23/42 patients, and 29/42 patients had a subsequent brain relapse during the course of the disease. The median progression-free survival, brain-free survival and overall survival from IIOR were 12.2, 48.6 and 57.1 months, respectively. Isolated intraocular relapse is not exceptional in the course of PCNSL and deserves systematic ophthalmological follow-up. Its prognosis is much better than the prognosis of brain relapse, with an evolution close to that of primary vitreoretinal lymphoma. With the exception of patients who received HCT-ASCT at IIOR, almost all patients subsequently relapsed, often with other IIORs.
MadLINQ (2012)

The computation core of many data-intensive applications can be best expressed as matrix computations. The MadLINQ project addresses the following two important research problems: the need for a highly scalable, efficient and fault-tolerant matrix computation system that is also easy to program, and the seamless integration of such specialized execution engines in a general purpose data-parallel computing system.