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Tracking the structural changes in pure and heteroatom substituted aluminophosphate, AIPO-18, using synchrotron based X-ray diffraction techniques (2013)

We report the structural changes that occur during the thermal removal of organic template molecules that occlude the pores of small pore nanoporous zeolitic solids, AlPO-18, SAPO-18, CoAlPO-18, ZnAlPO-18 and CoSAPO-18. The calcination process is a necessary step in the formation of active catalysts. The studies performed using time-resolved High Resolution Powder Diffraction (HRPD) and High Energy X-ray Diffraction (HEXRD) techniques at various temperatures reveal that changes that take place are dependent on the type of heteroatom present in the nanoporous solids. While time-resolved HRPD shows clear changes in lattice parameters during the removal of physisorbed water molecules and subsequent removal of the organic template, HEXRD data show changes in various near neighbour distances in AlPO-18, SAPO-18, CoAlPO-18, CoSAPO-18 and ZnAlPO-18 during the calcination process. In particular HEXRD reveals the presence of water molecules coordinated to Al(III) ions in the as-synthesised materials. Upon removal of the template and water, these solids show contraction in the cell volume at elevated temperatures while first and second neighbour distances remained almost unchanged.
High speed marine craft motion mitigation using flexible hull design (2012)

High speed marine craft motions can be severe and concerns regarding human performance and safety are widespread. The motions can reduce crew abilities to perform tasks and can result in injury. This is especially of concern for military and/or rescue operations and means to reduce or mitigate against motion exposures are required to protect the occupants. In this paper the motion mitigation provided by various ‘flexible’ hull systems during a slam event is examined numerically, following an extended introduction describing high speed marine craft motion effects and whole body vibration and repeated shock. Introducing hull flexibility to isolate the occupants from the externally induced disturbances can either exacerbate or alleviate the problem depending on the design.
Diltiazem dose responses in sustained therapy for stable angina pectoris. (1987)

Fifteen patients with stable effort angina were treated for 2 weeks with each of diltiazem 120 mg, 240 mg, 360 mg or placebo in a double-blind crossover protocol. The frequency of angina was decreased from 7.2 +/- 1.1 (mean +/- S.D.) episodes per 2 weeks with placebo to 5.9 +/- 5.2 (N.S.), 4.1 +/- 1.1 (p less than 0.01) and 1.5 +/- 0.8 (p less than 0.005) with 120 mg, 240 mg and 360 mg diltiazem respectively. Similar decreases occurred in nitroglycerin consumption. Ten hours after the last dose of each treatment period, each patient was challenged with 120 mg diltiazem. Treadmill exercise testing was carried out at 0, 1, 2, 4 and 8 hours. Time to onset of angina and 0.1m V ST depression increased at 1 hour, was maximal at 2 and 4 hours, and remained elevated at 8 hours. Two weeks of sustained treatment with diltiazem did not alter the responses in treadmill performance to 120 mg diltiazem. Hemodynamic changes were consistent with decreased myocardial oxygen demand and increased myocardial oxygen supply by diltiazem. There was no significant attenuation of hemodynamic response with sustained therapy. Trough plasma levels of diltiazem at 10 hours following the last dose of sustained therapy varied in a dose-dependent manner. However, corresponding exercise tolerances were identical regardless of the plasma level. Peak drug levels at 4 hours following 120 mg aldo did not correlate with exercise performance.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
Effects of monomer structure on the morphology of polymer network and the electro‐optical property of reverse‐mode polymer‐stabilized cholesteric texture (2008)

Abstract The morphologies of the polymer networks in the polymer network/LC composite of reverse‐mode polymer‐stabilized cholesteric texture (PSCT) films was observed. The polymer network/LC composite was prepared from photopolymerization of the acrylate monomers, which had rod‐like rigid cores in monomer/LC mixture. The effects of the structure of the acrylate monomers on the morphology of polymer network were studied. The acrylate monomer without flexible pacers between the acrylate functional groups and the rigid core formed rice‐grain‐like polymer network with poor orientation. The acrylate monomer with flexible pacers formed fiber‐like polymer network with better orientation. Meanwhile, the effects of morphology of polymer network on the electro‐optical property of reverse‐mode PSCT films were also investigated. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci, 2009
Robust error concealment for visual communications in burst-packet-loss networks (2003)

Compressed video sequences are very vulnerable to channel disturbances when they are transmitted through the burst-packet-loss networks such as a wireless channel. An effective solution for packet loss is to perform concealment at the receiver. Most of the spatial and/or temporal concealment methods estimate the true motion vector (MV) associated with a missing block by using the MV's of the adjacent blocks. However, these methods cannot conceal effectively the missing blocks, since the neighboring blocks can be easily lost by the burst packet losses destroying a large area of coded video. In this paper, we present a robust error concealment method of estimating the true MV of the missing block by using the bidirectional motion tracking technique within neighboring frames of a damaged frame. This motion tracking technique uses the linear trajectory feature of the image block in the forward and backward prediction directions. Experimental results sow that the proposed algorithm has superior subjective and objective video quality than conventional error concealment methods in the burst-packet-loss environments.
Improving the cyclability performance of lithium-ion batteries by introducing lithium difluorophosphate (LiPO<sub>2</sub>F<sub>2</sub>) additive (2017)

The cyclability of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) is often affected by the components of the solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) layer which is generated from electrochemical decomposition of electrolyte.
Catching metaphors (2006)

Metaphors are ubiquitous in language and developing methods to identify and deal with metaphors is an open problem in Natural Language Processing (NLP). In this paper we describe results from using a maximum entropy (ME) classifier to identify metaphors. Using the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) corpus, we annotated all the verbal targets associated with a set of frames which includes frames of spatial motion, manipulation, and health. One surprising finding was that over 90% of annotated targets from these frames are used metaphorically, underscoring the importance of processing figurative language. We then used this labeled data and each verbal target's PropBank annotation to train a maximum entropy classifier to make this literal vs. metaphoric distinction. Using the classifier, we reduce the final error in the test set by 5% over the verb-specific majority class baseline and 31% over the corpus-wide majority class baseline.
A Novel Frequency Estimator for Sampled Doppler Signals (1984)

In multigate pulsed Doppler systems with serial processing the Doppler signals are retained in their sampled form. The time-discrete nature of the Doppler signals affects the procedure to estimate the average frequency of the Doppler signal. Based on computer simulation studies it is demonstrated that a time-discrete frequency estimator based on either the density of zero-crossings or the time average of the instantaneous frequency exhibit a large relative error under poor signal-to-noise conditions or in the case of relatively wide band signals. Especially, the frequency estimator based on the instantaneous frequency functions poorly for average Doppler frequencies close to the Nyquist frequency. However, restricting the detected instantaneous frequency to a specific interval around its average improves the estimator performance considerably, while it allows tracking of center frequencies beyond the Nyquist frequency. A hardware realization of this modified estimator as incorporated in a high-resolution multigate pulsed Doppler system is described. In vitro and in vivo registrations as assessed with this system demonstrate the ability of the system to track frequencies close to and beyond the Nyquist frequency.
Load balancing with minimal flow remapping for network processors (2012)

Maintaining high performance in parallel processing routers while preserving packet ordering within the flows is a difficult problem. To preserve packet ordering, hashing at the flow level has been used to distributed packet processing workload among the router processing units. Even though it preserves ordering, hashing alone may cause significant workload imbalance and thus adaptive methods are usually needed. In this paper, we present an input port selection scheme that can be augmented with the adaptive Highest Random Weight (adaptive HRW) method. The adaptive HRW is a hash-based method that works at the flow level and is used to balance packet processing workload among the router processing units. When imbalance occurs, the adaptive HRW method triggers all input ports to re-balance their workload among the processing units. When augmented the selection scheme, the adaptive HRW method should be able to identify the subset of input ports responsible for the imbalance. The simulation results show that deploying the selection scheme with the adaptive HRW significantly reduces the number of flows remapped while balancing the packet processing workload among the router processing units.
Lipopolysaccharide-inducible and salicylate-sensitive nuclear factor(s) on human tumor necrosis factor alpha promoter (1995)

Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is one of the most potent trigger substances for monocytes and macrophages causing secretion of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) and other inflammatory mediators. The nature of the nuclear factors involved in human TNF-alpha gene regulation is still unknown. Nuclear factor kappa B (NF-kappa B) proteins have been suggested to play an important role in gene transcription of inflammatory mediators when monocytes are stimulated with LPS. However, it remains unclear whether these nuclear factors are the only ones involved in human TNF-alpha gene regulation. In this report, to further the identification of nuclear factor(s) involved in TNF-alpha gene regulation, human monocytic THP-1 cells were transfected with a series of truncated versions of human TNF-alpha promoter. A 98-bp region located from nucleotides -584 to -487 demonstrated strong promoter activity. Electrophoretic mobility shift assays demonstrated that a 64-bp fragment located within the 98-bp region and lacking any potential NF-kappa B-binding sites avidly bound LPS-challenged THP-1 nuclear protein. Although this binding was inhibited in salicylate-treated cells, as was binding of NF-kappa B, the pattern of binding was found to differ from that noted for NF-kappa B. Analysis of this 64-bp fragment disclosed the absence of an NF-kappa B consensus sequence, suggesting a novel nuclear DNA-binding protein necessary for the initiation of human TNF-alpha transcription other than, or in addition to, NF-kappa B.
Manetho: transparent roll back-recovery with low overhead, limited rollback, and fast output commit (1992)

Manetho is a new transparent rollback-recovery protocol for long-running distributed computations. It uses a novel combination of antecedence graph maintenance, uncoordinated checkpointing, and sender-based message logging. Manetho simultaneously achieves the advantages of pessimistic message logging, namely limited rollback and, fast output commit, and the advantage of optimistic message logging, namely low failure-free overhead. These advantages come at the expense of a complex recovery scheme.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>
Drugs that target pathogen public goods are robust against evolved drug resistance (2012)

Pathogen drug resistance is a central problem in medicine and public health. It arises through somatic evolution, by mutation and selection among pathogen cells within a host. Here, we examine the hypothesis that evolution of drug resistance could be reduced by developing drugs that target the secreted metabolites produced by pathogen cells instead of directly targeting the cells themselves. Using an agent-based computational model of an evolving population of pathogen cells, we test this hypothesis and find support for it. We also use our model to explain this effect within the framework of standard evolutionary theory. We find that in our model, the drugs most robust against evolved drug resistance are those that target the most widely shared external products, or 'public goods', of pathogen cells. We also show that these drugs exert a weak selective pressure for resistance because they create only a weak correlation between drug resistance and cell fitness. The same principles apply to design of vaccines that are robust against vaccine escape. Because our theoretical results have crucial practical implications, they should be tested by empirical experiments.
Single-color multiplexing by the integration of high-resolution melting pattern recognition with loop-mediated isothermal amplification (2019)

We develop a single-color multiplexing strategy by the integration of high-resolution melting pattern recognition with loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP). This strategy can identify multiple amplicons with a small DNA melting temperature (Tm) difference (∼0.2 °C) without the involvement of either multicolor labels or parallelized multiplexing, and it can sensitively detect LAMP amplicons with the initial DNA concentrations ranging from 10 to 108 copies.
Interleukin-6, Age, and Corpus Callosum Integrity (2014)

The contribution of inflammation to deleterious aging outcomes is increasingly recognized; however, little is known about the complex relationship between interleukin-6 (IL-6) and brain structure, or how this association might change with increasing age. We examined the association between IL-6, white matter integrity, and cognition in 151 community dwelling older adults, and tested whether age moderated these associations. Blood levels of IL-6 and vascular risk (e.g., homocysteine), as well as health history information, were collected. Processing speed assessments were administered to assess cognitive functioning, and we employed tract-based spatial statistics to examine whole brain white matter and regions of interest. Given the association between inflammation, vascular risk, and corpus callosum (CC) integrity, fractional anisotropy (FA) of the genu, body, and splenium represented our primary dependent variables. Whole brain analysis revealed an inverse association between IL-6 and CC fractional anisotropy. Subsequent ROI linear regression and ridge regression analyses indicated that the magnitude of this effect increased with age; thus, older individuals with higher IL-6 levels displayed lower white matter integrity. Finally, higher IL-6 levels were related to worse processing speed; this association was moderated by age, and was not fully accounted for by CC volume. This study highlights that at older ages, the association between higher IL-6 levels and lower white matter integrity is more pronounced; furthermore, it underscores the important, albeit burgeoning role of inflammatory processes in cognitive aging trajectories.
Fecal Microbiota Transplant for Clostridium difficile Colitis–Induced Toxic Megacolon (2015)

Costello, S P MD, FRACP1; Chung, A MD, BMedSci, FRACP2; Andrews, J M MD, FRACP, PhD, AGAF3,4; Fraser, R J MD, FRACP, PhD2,5 Author Information
End-to-end routing behavior in the Internet (1997)

The large-scale behavior of routing In the Internet has gone virtually without any formal study, the exceptions being Chinoy's (1993) analysis of the dynamics of Internet routing information, and work, similar in spirit, by Labovitz, Malan, and Jahanian (see Proc. SIGCOMM'97, 1997). We report on an analysis of 40000 end-to-end route measurements conducted using repeated "traceroutes" between 37 Internet sites. We analyze the routing behavior for pathological conditions, routing stability, and routing symmetry. For pathologies, we characterize the prevalence of routing loops, erroneous routing, infrastructure failures, and temporary outages. We find that the likelihood of encountering a major routing pathology more than doubled between the end of 1994 and the end of 1995, rising from 1.5% to 3.3%. For routing stability, we define two separate types of stability, "prevalence", meaning the overall likelihood that a particular route is encountered, and "persistence", the likelihood that a route remains unchanged over a long period of time. We find that Internet paths are heavily dominated by a single prevalent route, but that the time periods over which routes persist show wide variation, ranging from seconds up to days. About two-thirds of the Internet paths had routes persisting for either days or weeks. For routing symmetry, we look at the likelihood that a path through the Internet visits at least one different city in the two directions. At the end of 1995, this was the case half the time, and at least one different autonomous system was visited 30% of the time.
Demosaicking by Alternating Projections: Theory and Fast One-Step Implementation (2010)

Color image demosaicking is a key process in the digital imaging pipeline. In this paper, we study a well-known and influential demosaicking algorithm based upon alternating projections (AP), proposed by Gunturk, Altunbasak and Mersereau in 2002. Since its publication, the AP algorithm has been widely cited and compared against in a series of more recent papers in the demosaicking literature. Despite good performances, a limitation of the AP algorithm is its high computational complexity. We provide three main contributions in this paper. First, we present a rigorous analysis of the convergence property of the AP demosaicking algorithm, showing that it is a contraction mapping, with a unique fixed point. Second, we show that this fixed point is in fact the solution to a constrained quadratic minimization problem, thus, establishing the optimality of the AP algorithm. Finally, using the tool of polyphase representation, we show how to obtain the results of the AP algorithm in a single step, implemented as linear filtering in the polyphase domain. Replacing the original iterative procedure by the proposed one-step solution leads to substantial computational savings, by about an order of magnitude in our experiments.
Expression of aquaporin-1 in human trabecular meshwork cells: role in resting cell volume. (2001)

In addition to influencing the osmotic permeability of TM plasma membranes, the level of AQP1 protein expression influences resting intracellular volume and thus paracellular permeability of TM cell monolayers in vitro. These data suggest that AQP1 expression may affect outflow facility in vivo.
A Procedure for Measuring the Length of the Catheter in the Epidural Space (1982)

Clinical Assistant Professor Department of Anesthesiology West Virginia University, Charleston Division Charleston, West Virginia 25304Instructor in Anesthesiology Department of Anesthesiology Albert Einstein College of Medicine Bronx, New York 10461
Studies on explosion limits of butadiene-air mixture (1965)

The explosion limits of butadiene-air mixtures were determined by means of the admission method and the reaction products, analyzed by gas-chromatography, were CO, CO_2, H_2O, C_2H_4, HCHO etc. The isochor curves show that the lowest butadiene composition of explosion is 20vol % and the explosion peninsula are found at 2～3 vol % of butadiene, under at 25 cmHg of pressure. The isobar and isotherm curves show U type. The reaction can be explained on the thermal explosion theory and the apparent activation energy is estimated to be about 32～34 kcal/mol at 2～30vol % of butadiene. The reaction consists of oxidation, and polymerization.
Phylogenetic relationships and pathogenicity of <i>Colletotrichum acutatum</i> isolates from grape in subtropical Australia (2007)

The identity of Colletotrichum acutatum as the causal pathogen of grape ripe‐rot, which causes yield loss and a bitter taint that lowers wine quality in Australian subtropical wine‐grape regions, was confirmed using species‐specific primers. Cultural, morphological and molecular methods (RAPD‐PCR and sequencing of parts of the 5·8S‐ITS regions and the β‐tubulin‐2 gene) were used to determine the phylogenetic relationships of Australian C. acutatum isolates from wine grapes and other horticultural crops. A combination of RAPD‐PCR and β‐tubulin‐2 gene data showed that all wine‐grape ripe‐rot isolates from northern regions of New South Wales (NSW) and Queensland belong to a proposed new C. acutatum group (A9), together with isolates from Australian strawberry, mango, blueberry and olive. The 5·8S‐ITS sequences for these grape pathogens were identical to published sequences for an isolate from Cyclamen (the Netherlands) and differed by 1 bp from isolates from Capsicum (Taiwan) and orange (Costa Rica). The grape ripe‐rot isolates from the Shoalhaven Valley (southern NSW) were clustered within two other C. acutatum groups: A2 and A5. In vitro infection studies showed that Australian C. acutatum isolates from almond, blueberry, chilli, grape, mango, olive, strawberry and tomato were able to infect grape and could also infect blueberry and strawberry, indicating a lack of host specificity. This lack of host specificity, the genetic similarity with non‐grape isolates, and the fact that many of the non‐grape hosts were isolated from wine‐growing regions, suggest the potential for cross‐infection between grape and other horticultural crops.
Near Real-Time Mass Concentration Measurement of Medium and Heavy Elements in Aerosols Using X-Ray Fluorescence (1997)

A new aerosol monitor rapidly measures the mass concentration of individual elements with atomic number Z>20 in dust- or smoke-laden air. The device separates the aerosol's nongaseous components by pumping the air through a section of a filter paper tape. After gathering particles for a fixed period of time, pumping stops and the tape advances, forcing a new section to intercept the airstream and bringing the exposed section in front of a 25 mCi (milli Curies) Cd109 radioactive source. The source bombards the tape's contents with 22 keV (kilo-electron-Volts) X- rays. These, in turn, induce fluorescence in the trapped atoms; that is, they cause the atoms to emit X-rays of their own at lower but still easily measurable (if Z>20), characteristic energies. An analysis of the latter's X-ray energy spectrum provides raw data revealing the identity and abundance of each corresponding element in the aerosol simultaneously. Note that the X-ray fluorescence method is independent of the state of chemical combination of the species in question. A prototype device has been tested using deployed uranium and iron aerosols and prepared calibration deposits containing the elements U, Cr, Pb, Hg, W, Br, I, Mo, Cu, Zn, Fe, and As.With the exception of iodine, it readily measured levels corresponding to mass concentrations of a few tens of μg/m3 or less in 10 minutes. At mass concentrations in the few mg/m3 range, measurement times of a minute or less were easily achieved. This sensitivity, coupled with its ease of calibration, straightforward data analysis, and basic simplicity make the instrument suitable for many applications, especially those involving field work.