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Written first in August 2012 and heavily revised in March 2014, but intended for a proposed volume arising out of a conference in Lexington, Kentucky (USA) in May 2012 on Defaults in Morphological Theory: Andrew Hippisley and Nik Gisborne (editors) Defaults in Morphological Theory (Oxford University Press). My slideshow for the conference can be found here, but is very different from this paper. ‘sensibleness’ (how to avoid silly classifications). WG avoids or solves these problems by assuming a network structure rather than attribute-value matrices, and by restricting DI to tokens. For French clitics, the analysis takes clitics as words realized by affixes which each have a ‘hostform’, a schematic morphological structure containing ordered position slots. Each clitic has an abstract syntactically-oriented relation to its hostform (such as ‘subject’ or ‘3rd-person direct object’) which is mapped onto one of the position slots by general rules, but these general mappings vary between the default hostform, found (surprisingly) with affirmative imperatives, and the exception, found with all other verbs. According to this analysis, clitics show the same default orders as their non-clitic equivalents: subject before the verb, and direct object followed by indirect after the verb.

Silicon Nitride exhibits excellent thermal shock resistance associated with very high mechanical strength and fracture toughness. Silicon nitride parts can be used in welding technique and metal industry. Due to very good tribological properties the ball bearings are made from this material.

The root system of a plant is responsible for supplying it with essential nutrients. The plant’s ability to explore the surrounding soil is largely determined by its root system architecture (RSA), which varies with both genetic and environmental conditions. X-ray micro computed tomography (µCT) is a powerful tool allowing the non-invasive study of the root system architecture of plants grown in natural soil environments, providing both 3D descriptions of root architecture and the ability to make multiple measurements over a period of time. Once volumetric µCT data is acquired, the root system must first be segmented from the surrounding soil environment and then described. Automated and semi-automated software tools can be used to extract roots from µCT images, but current methods for the recovery of RSA traits from the resulting volumetric descriptions are somewhat limited. This thesis presents a novel tool (RooTh) which, given a segmented µCT image, skeletonises the root system and quantifies global and local root traits with minimal user interaction. The computationally inexpensive method used takes advantage of curve-fitting and active contours to find the optimal skeleton and thus evaluate root traits objectively. A small-scale experiment was conducted to validate and compare root traits extracted using the method presented here alongside other 2D imaging tools. The results show a good degree of correlation between the two methods.

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Jan. 26, 2019 7:55 a.m. Expect mild temperatures this weekend in the Central Okanagan. In Kelowna, Saturday will see a mix of sun and cloud with a high of 4 C, followed by sun and cloud on Sunday with a high of 5 C. Monday will cool off a bit with a high of 0 C, but the day is expected to be sunny. Temperatures will cool off for the remainder of the week, with temperatures dropping to -2 C on Tuesday, with a 30 per cent chance of snow for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, according to Environment Canada’s forecast.

Samo provides an After Sales Service throught all Italy. Assistance will be charged at standard service rate. All personnel is qualified for installation, service and repair of all Samo products. within a radius of 80 km from the location of the Assistance Centre selected. Prices are intended for a single shower stall installation and expressed in €.

A limited edition print, mounted and framed in a glazed pale oak coloured frame ready for hanging. Prints are individually hand-signed by the artist and strictly limited to 100. The print / aperture is A4 sized (19.5cm x 28.5cm approx), finished with an ice white mount and presented in a pale oak coloured frame, with the overall size being 35.5cm x 45.5cm x 2cm approx. All images are the Copyright of Sarah Burt and are not to be copied, reproduced or circulated, in part or in full, in any format without the artist's full written permission.

In this study the effect of liquisolid technique on the dissolution profile of spironolactone was evaluated. Different formulations of spironolactone liquisolid compacts were prepared using various amounts of non-volatile vehicles (Poly ethylene glycol 400 and glycerin). The ratio of microcrystalline cellulose (as carrier) to silica (as coating powder material) was 20 for all formulations. After preparing tablets by direct compression with constant compression load, the release profiles were evaluated by USP paddle method. Differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) and FTIR were used to evaluate any interaction between spironolactone and other ingredients. The liquisolid tablets exhibited significantly higher dissolution rates in comparison with conventionally direct compressed tablets. Furthermore results showed dissolution rate enhancement of liquisolid tablets by increase in the amounts of non-volatile vehicles. Differential scanning calorimetry showed that, the drug has got solubilized in the liquid vehicle. FT-IR spectroscopy studies of pure spironolactone, liquisolid compacts, glycerin and PEG400 supported solubilization of the drug in the liquid vehicle too. The FT-IR spectra also showed that no interactions have been occurred between spironolactone and other ingredients. In conclusion the liquisolid technique can be a suitable method in order to prepare rapid release tablets of poorly water-soluble drugs such as spironolactone.

Common waveguide issues and how to mitigate them. Figure 2. A directional coupler with line edge roughness. Waveguide edge roughness (Figure 2) causes additional backscattering and increases propagation loss in waveguides. Edge roughness can originate from lithographic effects, etching, or other processing non-uniformities. Processing solutions such as photoresist cure, sidewall oxidation, or thermal treatment can be applied to reduce waveguide edge roughness. For 300mm processing, line edge roughness can also be reduced by using 193nm immersion lithography, instead of dry 193nm or DUV lithography . Figure 3. Racetrack resonator exhibits differences in waveguide sidewall angles due to etch loading effects, at (a) far edge and (b) coupled gap. The final waveguide shape is also affected by etch loading effects (Figure 3), in which etch rates vary based upon the amount of open area. For example, the etching of closely spaced silicon features can result in different sidewall profiles and trench depths when compared to the etching of isolated features. Etch loading effects are especially problematic for coupled waveguides, since process variations can alter the coupler gap, waveguide width and sidewall profile . Besides process tuning, loading effects can be mitigated with assist features such as fill patterns or dummy lines, which maintain a consistent open area percentage throughout the substrate. Figure 4. Waveguide processing (a) without dummy fill — dishing in the front-end causes downstream metallization issues; (b) with dummy fill — impact of dishing is reduced, resulting in good metallization. Dummy fill insertion can also reduce the impact of pattern density effects (Figure 4) due to chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) . When CMP is applied during silicon waveguide processing, it results in material dishing and other surface non-uniformities. This surface variability can cause unexpected issues in downstream processing, such as interconnect shorting, particularly if additional CMP steps are applied. By adjusting the pattern density of the silicon layer with dummy filling, CMP dishing can be reduced, minimizing surface non-uniformities and resulting in good backend metallization. Process control improvement is an obvious solution to reducing variation in silicon photonics manufacturing. Process variability can also be reduced through photonics-specific design for manufacturing, such as through layout optimization and the use of fill patterns to maintain a target pattern density. Evaluating new process flows prior to wafer fabrication can help minimize undesired results like waveguide erosion or edge roughness. Thus, successful silicon photonics PDK development requires both design and fabrication planning to reduce and mitigate process variation effects. N. B. Feilchenfeld et al, “Silicon photonics and challenges for fabrication”. Proc. SPIE 10149, Advanced Etch Technology for Nanopatterning VI, 101490D (March 21, 2017); doi:10.1117/12.2263472. L. Chrostowski and M. Hochberg, “Fundamental Building Blocks,” in Silicon Photonics Design: From Devices to Systems, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015, pp. 103. D. O. Ouma et al., “Characterization and modeling of oxide chemical-mechanical polishing using planarization length and pattern density concepts,” in IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 232-244, May 2002. Sandy Wen is a semiconductor and process integration engineer at Coventor. Previously, she worked at Applied Materials in the etch business group in various engineering functions, including chamber engineering and yield enhancement solutions. Sandy received her MS in EE from UCLA, and BS in EECS from UC Berkeley.

Cute! Is that the "sparrow" fabric I love so much? Love all the fabrics from that line! I have a set of soft blocks in the works from that fabric now.

Our Deputy Chief Executive Phil Marshall will be among the guest speakers when the WWT Wastewater Conference 2019 arrives in Birmingham. The seventh annual WWT Wastewater Conference & Exhibition will take place at the National Conference Centre on 29 January. Phil will join a debate about the future of investment and innovation in the wastewater sector during the ‘networks agenda’ – one of four separate conference streams delegates can dip into during the day. Phil and other speakers will examine how sewerage companies’ business plans for 2020-2025 are shaping up and discuss the challenge of balancing affordable bills, customer service and protecting the environment.

Uncontrolled waste marble powder contributes negatively to the environment. This paper reports a cheap and facile method to prepare a super-hydrophobic self-cleaning coating with high-robustness by using waste marble powder as the basic components. The PFOTES (1H,1H,2H,2H-Perfluorooctyltriethoxysilane) was selected as the modification agents which is self-assembled on the marble powder surface. A very low mass concentration of PFOTES (0.1208% wt.) increases the water contact angle of a coated sample from 11.3° to 138°. With the gradual increase of PFOTES, the water contact angle increases from 138° to 153°. The sliding angle value, however, varies from over 180° (the water droplet will not fall even it is turned upside down) to 6.8°, which represented the wetting model changing from Wenzel model to the Cassie-Baxter model. Thus, the super-hydrophobic self-cleaning coating is obtained. Besides, the coating showed an excellent robustness, no obvious contact angle and sliding angle differences were detected after 10 times' robustness test (the contact angle and sliding angle ranged from 147° to 155° and 6.8° to 8.5° respectively).

1.A Review on Recent Innovations in Desalination Systems. 2.Effect of grooves on adhesively bonded joints. 3.Drag Reduction of Hypersonic Vehicles using Aerospike.

Combining traits of different animals can result in new breeds. This set of slides supports you as you teach selective breeding as part or a genetics or evolution unit. Chickens are the highlighted example. Traits to consider are the number, color, and size of eggs and yolk, as well as disease resistance and interactions. Artificial and natural selection are compared as well. High schoolers examine how cattle have evolved through natural selection and selective breeding. For this natural selection lesson students compare and contrast natural and artificial selection.

With growing implementation of low k1 lithography on DUV scanners for wafer production, detecting and analyzing photomask critical dimension (CD) errors and semitransparent defects is vital for qualifying photomasks to enable high IC wafer yields for 130nm and 100nm nodes. Using the TeraStarTM pattern inspection system's image computer platform, a new algorithm, TeraFluxTM, has been implemented and tested for the inspection of small 'closed' features. The current algorithm is run in die-to-die mode and compares the energy flux differences on features between die for small closed features, such as, contacts, trenches, and cells on chrome and half-tone reticles. Tests show the new algorithm provides CD error detection to 5 percent energy flux variation with low false defect counts. The dispositioning of very small CD errors typically requires the precision and resolution of a CD-SEM. A new capability has been developed for review of very small CD errors for this application, which displays the energy flux difference between any corresponding closed features on different die. We have characterized the sensitivity and false defect performance of the new energy flux algorithm with production masks and programmed defect test masks. The program defect test mask contains two sets of contacts at 600nm and 800nm design sizes. At each design size there are six defect types in both dense and sparse geometry. The programmed defects are designed to have 1 percent energy increments for defect sizes from 1 percent to 10 percent, and 2 percent energy increments from 10 percent to 30 percent. A sampling of inspection results will be presented. SEM measurements were taken at programmed defect locations to develop a correlation between the energy flux difference and the measured CD.

Still, the implementation of such a controversial policy has enraged human rights activists and technology companies. Members of both communities expressed concern when the policy was first proposed this past summer. At the time, industry lobbying group the Internet Association, which represents companies like Facebook and Google, joined with the ACLU to condemn the proposal for its potential free speech and privacy violations. These groups fear that the request for social media info, although voluntary, will urge members of marginalized groups from the Middle East and elsewhere to fill out the information for fear of being denied entry. It could then be highly scrutinized, activists say, without clear and transparent guidelines. The policy could also lead to potential abuses and even security risks as the information is collected and stored by the government. This new form of data collection happens to arrive just one month before the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, who on Wednesday seemingly renewed his call for a ban on Muslims entering the US following the bus attack in Berlin. Just yesterday, it was also revealed that data-mining firm Palantir, which was co-founded by Trump advisor Peter Thiel, has worked with the US Customs and Border Protection to track immigrants and foreign travelers using a wide variety of data gleaned from law enforcement databases. Social media account information could aid in this process.

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Silicon immersion gratings make near-IR spectrographs compact and allow them to have continuous wavelength coverage over a large bandwidth. We have produced an exceptional silicon immersion grating that approaches optical perfection in terms of surface error. This grating has a peak-to-valley error of 79 nm over a 25 mm beam, which exceeds the 85 nm requirement to have λ/4 peak-to-valley error at the shortest wavelength where silicon immersion gratings can be used. In order to reduce the level of large-scale errors we have honed our contact printing method by optimizing our UV exposure system, introducing additional process checks and inspections and carefully evaluating large-scale errors in the gratings produced.

In this paper, experimental tests are realized in order to probe the feasibility of the epoxy resin use as patch antenna radome. The interest in this material is due to its low cost and availability, two desirable characteristics for the prototypes fabrication. At first, the effect of three pieces of epoxy resin of different colors as interference objects between a receiver and a transmitter antenna is analyzed, that means, their effect on the electromagnetic wave propagation. After, a manufacturing repeatability test was performed, in order to obtain the standard deviation and variance of the measurements with different antennas. Finally, the measurements of S21 parameter were realized considering patch antennas with and without radome made of epoxy resin, in order to analyze its effect on the antenna performance. Radomes were manufactured with two different depths to observe the corresponding changes. The obtained results allow us to confirm the feasibility of this material to cover the patch antenna, in order to protect them especially from the oxidation produced by the environment. Additionally, the use of colorant hides the antenna geometry to the user, which is recommendable for commercial purposes. In conclusions, the radome influence is identified mainly in three characteristics of the antenna performance.

Alex SALVINI (I – Beta), Mathias BELLINO (F – Husqvarna), Christophe NAMBOTIN (F – KTM) and Matthew PHILLIPS (AUS – Sherco) seems to be the big four of this category and their fights all along the eight Grand Prix of the season should be awesome. But we can’t also forget the two riders of the brand new team manager Marc BOURGEOIS in the Outsider Yamaha Factory team. Helped by Yamaha Europe, the very fast Loïc LARRIEU (F) and the experiencedCristobal GUERRERO (E), in the handlebar of their brand new Yamaha 450 WR-F, can well play the spoilsport. We will also see in action the fast US rider Taylor ROBERT (KTM). Born in Scottsdale (Arizona), he has the potential to shine in Europe even if he will have to adapt to GP’s specificities. Honda Red Moto aligns also a good and solid team with Oriol MENA (E) and the boiling Italian and former MXGP rider Davide GUARNERI.

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is treatable. If you have been diagnosed with BPD there is reason to hope. It is not in the comfort zone of many with BPD to trust feeling hope. Hope is not a part of polarized negative thinking. This is what makes hope something so challenging to those with BPD. The absence of hope only further fuels the hallmark of BPD - polarized all-or-nothing black-and-white negative thinking. Why do so many with BPD tend to believe that BPD is untreatable? There can be many reasons for this. Some are told by professionals that they will never get well. Others are told that they will not even ever get any better. Still others with BPD are told that the only way to achieve some relief or wellness is through some magical pill that professionals have yet to invent. The absence of hope keeps many stuck in the active throes of BPD believing that they are too broken and too unworthy - too unlovable to be reached, let alone supported through the process of getting well. Those diagnosed with BPD - borderlines - are caught up in polarized negative thinking that has been adhered to since they were very young - since they experienced their original core wound of abandonment. The experience, pain, and terror of abandonment separates the borderline, literally, psychologically, from his or her "self". In the absence of a known self - in the absence of any palpable or evident and consistent identity (especially emotionally) borderlines cling to the very pain that they suffer from and so desire rescue from. Borderlines are so busy defending against their unresolved abandonment trauma that in all else that feels negative so too does the reality of getting better seem unrealistic and untrustworthy. It is the way that borderlines feel and then think about what they experience that often keeps them tied to a set of negative core beliefs that include believing that they cannot get better. There is also so much stigma surrounding BPD and the treatment of it. This stigma when experienced by those with BPD can and does arouse even more hopelessness and helplessness and contributes greatly to many with BPD feeling far too lost and broken to ever believe there is actual hope for change. Is Borderline Personality Disorder Really Treatable? In a word, yes. From my own personal experience - yes! I recovered from BPD before Dialectical Behavioral Training (DBT) (Linehan) and Schema Therapy (Young) were as available as they are now. These are just two types of therapy that are really making a positive impact on the recovery of many with BPD. Both stem from the roots of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). It was largely CBT in group therapy that was where I found the most successful of all the treatment I had for BPD. However, having said that, I was prepared for that group therapy by some years of traditional psychotherapy first. Today, if I were setting out to be treated for BPD I would seek out DBT for sure. The journey of recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder is the journey From False Self To Authentic Self. It is a journey that those with BPD can Prepare for and decide to take. The first step in making a choice to pursue treatment and recovery if you have BPD is Find Hope From the Polarized Negativity of BPD. What matters most today for you, if you have BPD, is not all that you read or all that others or even professionals tell you. What matters most is that you find a reason to find and hold onto some hope. Hope that what you feel right now won't always be what you feel. Hope that they way you are suffering right now won't always be the case. Hope that everything you fear or may feel you always "screw up" won't always be as it may be right now in your life. Many with BPD are finding that along with therapy working with a Life Coach can be a very significant part of discovering choices and learning to avail oneself of new and different choices. Why Does BPD Often Seem So Intractable? While I think there may well be as many answers to this question as there are people diagnosed with BPD, Borderline Personality Disorder can seem to be quite intractable largely because of the way that those diagnosed with it actually think. Borderlines develop highly negative all-or-nothing ways of thinking and feeling in response to dysregulated emotional experience - emotional experience - feelings - that they do not know how to manage. Borderline Personality Disorder is not really such a mystery, at least not to me, having been through it and come out on the other side. It becomes, over one's formative years, a polarized and patterned way of experiencing life in the absence of effective coping skills, in the absence of inter-personal skills, and in the absence of the ability to perceive or hold the "big picture" the paradox, the reality that many things in life are both good and bad and that much of what we experience emotionally in life does not have to be so intensely (and often negatively and defensively) engaged. But to the borderline everything, almost everything or anything feels so threatening because there are triggers to past unresolved abandonment trauma in all attempts to relate to a "self" lost and/or to others. This combined with the many pitfalls that exist in the delivery of mental health and the stigma attached to BPD can leave the borderline with the distorted belief that nothing will ever change. Borderlines also come to this intractable negative core belief when they experience obstacles or blocks in therapy, let downs, therapy relationships that rupture, and so on. Why Do Those With BPD Invest So Much In What Hurts? Because borderlines have been experientially trained by the negative and overwhelming experience of core wound of abandonment and the Shame of Abandonment for which there often wasn't any opposing experience. Borderlines have their very needs shamed to the core in a way that binds shame to need and often results in rage addiction that leaves one believing and feeling that when needs are thwarted one must mount a primitive and primal scream that will make what is most needed/wanted happen because for the borderline his or her very existence seems to hinge upon what he/she needs and what often stays just out of reach. When I had BPD and things hurt, all they did was hurt. When I felt anything I would instantly just feel invalidated or when I was vulnerable I would immediately feel that I was being emotionally punished. Borderlines not only experience this core wound of abandonment that is shaming but they get bound to that shame of abandonment in ways that distort their emotional and psychological experience. Borderline Personality Disorder, as I look back on it now in my own life, was really more about a patterned, negative, and protective way of experiencing the world and a punishing, angry, response to what was felt because what I used to feel when I was borderline felt so unfair, so unjust, so annihilating. Everything I felt when I had BPD was black and white. It was either all-good or all-bad, and frankly it was almost always all-bad back then. After all, when I was borderline, I did not have a "self" or an identity. So I would (without consciously realizing it) ally my "self" - my "identity" with what others thought, with how I was treated, with what I needed and didn't know how to get, with my own inability to soothe a "self" I didn't even know and through an inability to tolerate being alone because I could only exist through others. When I had BPD, and when I was in recovery, I had to learn to change the way that I reacted to anything and everything that happened or that I thought had happened or that I perceived or felt. Each and every person with BPD really and truly does have this power inside. Therapy can help you to empower yourself to learn how to make new choices. Choices that will provide you with a reason to have and hold on to hope - the very hope that can will carry you through the really difficult times. You can learn that pain is actually a friend, a guide, and a teacher. It was through facing my pain that I found and won my freedom from Borderline Personality Disorder. Pain is the purveyor of hope - hope for change. Pain is an ever-present growth opportunity for those with BPD. Those diagnosed with BPD face the considerable challenge of coming to truly realize, know, experience and appreciate that pain is not all-bad or all-negative or to be avoided at all costs. The way to begin to address what seems so untreatable about BPD in your life, if you have BPD, is to really take a good hard long look at the patterns in your life. The reality of therapy is that for it to be successful for someone with BPD wanting to get well, it must first re-play out all of the abandonment trauma that caused the borderline to lose him or her "self" in the first place. Those with BPD must both make a strong commitment to stick with the process of therapy even when, in fact especially when it hurts the most, and must find a skilled professional who believes that you can be treated and that you can get well. Not all professionals, just because they are therapists, are competent and skilled professionals. In my journey of recovery from BPD I had a few very unskilled therapists who told me I would "not ever get better" or that I wouldn't get better, "until we find a better pill" (even though I wasn't on any pills at the time - go figure) What I think was central to my recovery was the fact that I didn't stay with these therapists. I didn't believe them. Somewhere in the absence of my "self" and in all of my borderline lostness back then I knew something different deep inside of myself. I had hope. Not only did I find and have hope but I found skilled competent professionals who hoped with and for me and who supported and mirrored my (then) new-found hope to me. These therapists hoped for me when my hope would falter through the inconsistency and incongruence of growing and healing. Hope and commitment to the process of therapy, of recovery, with a skilled professional, being willing to lay down your borderline defenses and learn new ways of coping emotionally - of regulating dysregulated emotions as Linehan's DBT teaches - and making the choice to actively feel and engage what has been the Abandoned Pain of your core wound of abandonment and its legacy is the way to get on the road to recovery. It is the way that one with BPD can make the choice to actively engage the process of treatment that can and will make all the difference in the world in your life. If you have BPD, you need to know something, you are not unworthy. You are not too broken to be invested in and to be supported. Earning the trust of others, however, in this process of being supported and helped means that you have to get and stay honest with yourself and with others. It also means that you need to be willing to learn what it means to accept personal responsibility for yourself and for your life and for your healing. Borderline Personality Disorder is treatable when the individual borderline decides that the benefits of wading through his or her pain far outweigh - despite all fear and terror of that pain - the suffering that one lives in a life void of self in the active throes of Borderline Personality Disorder. © A.J. Mahari July 1, 2008 - All rights reserved.

The cold chamber die casting process is used with higher-melting-point alloys such as aluminum and magnesium. This article discusses the components design of the cold chamber high-pressure die casting machine. It reviews the process parameters of the cold chamber die casting. The parameters include shot profile, intensification phase, and component size.

It may be hard to imagine in the US, but I grew up without pumpkin. I don’t think it existed in the Netherlands when I grew up in the 1970s / 1980s. Or, if it did, it was minimal and recipes weren’t common. Pumpkin pie for sure was (and still is) not a common sweet treat and I can’t remember ever having eaten pumpkin soup in the Netherlands. But I ‘discovered’ pumpkin in South America, in Peru, and came to love it quickly. Making pumpkin soup is one of our favorite pressure cooker soups. Here is one that was particularly tasty, so let me hare it with you. As happens often, I enthusiastically start to take pictures of ingredients but forget to take them of the final product. Just imagine a super creamy, hearty, orange-colored soup. Pumpkin: as much as fit in the pressure cooker (see picture for how much I cut). Spices: cumin, curry, coriander and a dash of (very spicy) red pepper. Cut everything quite small for the simple reason that more will fit in the pressure cooker. Oil in the pressure cooker with the spices, garlic, and onion and let them simmer for a minute. Add potatoes and simmer another minute. Fill up with water so all ingredients are (almost) under water. Turn off the heat, but leave the lid closed and set the pan aside for some 20 minutes or so, or until you can take off the lid without having to depressurize. Blend it into a smooth pumpkin soup with a hand blender (this is the one we have). For an extra bite, I boiled lentils – without any spices – and added a couple of spoons to the soup just before serving. Heat a teaspoon of oil in the pressure cooker. Add two espresso cups of lentils, rinsed. Close the lit, bring it to a boil, let it cook for 5 minutes, and turn off the heat, leaving the pressure cooker closed for about 10 minutes. Add the lentils to your soup and you have a perfect meal. Do you have a favorite soup you’d like to share? Feel free to do so in the comment section below! We have a recipe similar to that which uses squash and crunchy peanut butter in a soup. Can’t remember where it is from, but tastes great and I remember that you make your own peanut butter, so should be extra lovely!

We report the polarization-dependent electromagnetic response from a series of novel terahertz (THz) metasurfaces where asymmetry is introduced through the displacement of two adjacent metallic arms separated by a distance δ. For all polarization states, the symmetric metasurface exhibits a low quality (Q) factor fundamental dipole mode. By breaking the symmetry, we experimentally observe a secondary dipole-like mode with a Q factor nearly 9× higher than the fundamental resonance. As δ increases, the fundamental dipole mode f1 redshifts and the secondary mode f2 blueshifts creating a highly transmissive spectral window. Polarization-dependent measurements reveal a full suppression of f2 for all asymmetries at θ ≥ 60°. Furthermore, at δ ≥ 60 μm, we observe a polarization selective electromagnetic induced transparency (EIT) for the fundamental mode. 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By Authorizing Air Strikes, Did Obama Open the Door for the Iraq Hawks? The president continues a two-decade legacy of wrapping the military option in Iraq in humanitarian packaging. Shortly before seven on Friday morning, US aircraft dropped two 500-pound bombs on artillery controlled by Islamic militants in northern Iraq. Barack Obama, as The New York Times noted, is now the fourth US president in a row to launch military action in that country. Like his predecessors, Obama wrapped the military option in humanitarian packaging. He said on Thursday that the “limited” action he authorized was intended to protect American facilities and personnel in the city of Erbil, the capital of the Kurdish semi-autonomous region, and to prevent “a potential act of genocide.” Kurdish forces retreated suddenly on Thursday from advances by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, and thousands of civilians belonging to minority ethnic groups are besieged on a barren mountaintop. Militants have also taken control of Iraq’s largest dam, a rickety structure on the Tigris River that could send catastrophic floodwaters through the city of Mosul and surrounding areas if it is breached. Hawks are already angling to do exactly that. “These actions are far from sufficient to meet the growing threat that ISIS poses,” Republican Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham said in a joint statement following the president’s announcement that he’d authorized the strikes, along with airdrops of food and water to the civilians trapped on Mount Sinjar. As they have previously, McCain and Graham called for wider strikes against ISIS not only in Iraq but also in Syria. At this point it would be surprising if McCain et al. did not call for escalating a conflict in the Middle East. Still, the quick opportunism of the hawks illustrates the danger of assuming that military action will serve humanitarian ends or that the word “limited” really means anything. By declaring that “we have a mandate to help” in Iraq as well as “the unique capabilities to help avert a massacre,” the president opened a door for the armchair warriors, while putting only vague boundaries around the mission. That the administration is using the word “genocide” is particularly significant, as it carries implications under international law. As John Cassidy points out, defending the civilians on Mount Sinjar and the city of Erbil means that the United States will be fighting ISIS in two areas. Clearly there’s a humanitarian crisis on Mount Sinjar, and the presence of US personnel and a consulate in Erbil gives the administration a defensive rationale for the strikes. But ISIS has been terrorizing northern Iraq for months; the fact that the United States is stepping in only now that the Kurds—”a loyal and reliable American ally,” noted the Times—are threatened by ISIS suggests that the objectives are more complicated. Representative Adam Smith of Washington State, the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, indicated as much. In contrast to the Iraqi government, “the Kurds are worth helping and defending,” he told the Times. If strikes against ISIS are being made on a humanitarian basis, it’s hard to see why they would be limited to the protection of Kurdistan. If—more plausibly—they’re based on other calculations, then the talk of humanitarianism is in keeping with the long tradition of applying a moral gloss to military action. A recent cautionary tale is provided by the campaign in Libya, sold as a last resort to prevent mass violence but which has ended up in chaos. Though the strikes are being described as a sudden and confined response to a dramatic shift in the conflict, the drums for re-engagement in Iraq have been beating for months; the administration may not be stepping in time yet, but it’s been steadily picking up the pace. In June, even as Obama warned of “mission creep,” he nevertheless sent a few hundred troops and military advisers back into the country. It’s clear that the administration—and the American public—doesn’t want to get more deeply involved in the Iraqi crisis, but that’s cold comfort in the face of overwhelming historical evidence that even “limited” military action has undesirable, cascading consequences. Meanwhile, little has been done to heal the political fractures fueling ISIS. “America has been striking Iraq from the air for more than two decades,” The Economist noted. Yes, and for what? Update: California Representative Barbara Lee, one of the House's most outspoken critics of the Iraq war, issued a statement on Friday afternoon saying that while she supports "strictly humanitarian efforts to prevent genocide in Iraq," she "remain[s] concerned about U.S. mission creep in Iraq and escalation into a larger conflict, which I oppose. There is no military solution in Iraq. Any lasting solution must be political and respect the rights of all Iraqis." Lee said that the president should request approval from Congress for any further military action. Representative Jim McGovern, one of the authors of a resolution that passed the House in July banning military involvement in Iraq without legislative approval, echoed Lee's call for congressional authorization. “These strikes do involve the United States directly in hostilities, regardless of how limited they are and regardless of whether there’s a humanitarian purpose involved," he sad in a statement. "If these operations are continuing when Congress returns in September, then Congress needs to take action to authorize them." Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy warned that "the president needs to better explain how this intervention is strictly time and scope limited. The risk is that this intervention draws us into the broader fight between Sunni and Shia forces in Iraq."

The performance of plasmonic titanium nitride (TiN) nanoantennas for the manipulation of fluidic flow and suspended particles in an optofluidic chip is studied. A unified theoretical framework is utilized to model the multidisciplinary problem that comprises optics, thermodynamics, and hydrodynamics. Using multiphysics finite element analysis, we simulate the temperature rise resulting from the photothermal heating of a plasmonic TiN bowtie nanoantenna (BNA) and the accompanying hydrodynamic flow generated in a microfluidic channel. We show that the TiN BNA enables over three times higher electrothermoplasmonic flow velocity in comparison to a gold BNA under similar signal conditions. Our analysis shows that TiN BNAs at near-IR biological transparency wavelengths can be utilized to initiate strong microfluidic flow for directed transport and trapping of target nanoscale objects. 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The tip-to-tip spacing between the dimer is 10.7 nm, and the thickness is 120 nm. (a) Distribution of the plasmonic hotspot around the TiN BNA on 120 nm thick TiN film on glass substrate with longitudinal polarization. (b) Distribution of the plasmonic hotspot around the TiN BNA with transverse polarization. (c) Local electric field intensity enhancement as a function of wavelength for TiN BNA and Au BNA. (d) Absorption cross section as a function of wavelength for TiN BNA and Au BNA. BNA is bowtie-nanoantenna. Fig. 3 (a) Axial temperature field for TiN BNA on TiN film on a sapphire substrate. (b) Axial temperature field for TiN BNA on TiN film on a glass substrate. The glass substrate enables a better temperature field confinement and a higher temperature rise. The irradiation spot diameter is 1.12 μm. (c) Axial distribution of the temperature rises from the substrate, through the BNA, and into the fluid for TiN BNA on TiN film, and Au BNA on Au film on glass and sapphire substrates. The inset shows the geometry of the system relative to the temperature field. Scale bar is 1000 nm. Fig. 4 (a) 2D velocity vector of the induced electrothermoplasmonic (ETP) flow in x-y plane for TiN BNA on TiN film on a glass substrate. (b) 2D velocity vector of the induced electrothermoplasmonic (ETP) flow in x-z plane for TiN BNA on TiN film on a glass substrate. (c) Comparison of the magnitude of the radial velocity of the ETP flow for TiN BNA and Au BNA on a glass substrate. (d) Radial velocity distribution for TiN BNA with transverse and longitudinal polarizations with an applied voltage of 2 V. Fig. 5 (a) Temperature rise in the water medium along the x-direction at a distance of 10 μm from the surface of the TiN BNA. (b) Temperature gradient along the x-direction at a distance of 10 μm from the surface of the TiN BNA. The inset shows the x-direction along which the temperature was obtained relative to the BNA for Figs. 5(a) and 5(b). (c) Maximum radial velocity of the ETP flow under laser illumination and an AC voltage of 2 V and 6 V for TiN BNA on glass and sapphire substrates. (d) Variation of the product of maximum temperature gradient and voltage square with the maximum radial velocity of the ETP flow. A linear variation is obtained both for when the TiN BNA (on TiN film) is on a glass or sapphire substrate.

pl is a program that produces plots and charts from data, and produces results that can be viewed on web pages, paper, slides,or interactively on the screen. Standard types of plots may bedone using prefab plot templates, or a user-developed script filemay be supplied for greater flexibility and customization.pl may be executed from the command line or as a CGI program. See the various prefab examples .A large number of script examplesare also available.Some usage examplesare also shown below. Command line arguments may generally be given in any order.If there are arguments that you want to always have in effect, you can invoke them from a config file.Many settings can also be made dynamically from scripts via proc settingsor proc page.Processing occurs in this order: first the config file is read; then command line args are processed (left to right); then proc pageand/or proc settings.Later settings override earlier ones. Produce a plot using a prefabplot template.prefabname identifies the template, eg.cron or vbars.Necessary parameters are supplied on the command line using the form parm=value. names a script filethat will be interpreted to produce results.Alternatively, -stdin may be used to indicatethat script will be available on standard input. Declares the namedvariable and sets it to the given value. This is a convenient way to pass informationto prefabs and scripts. Variable names are case-sensitive. sets the variable CUTDATE to 10-31-98. Specify a filename where the result will be written.No processing is applied to this name.. so the ending should be appropriate forthe selected output format, eg. use .png for PNG files.If -o stdout is used,result will be sent to standard output. If -o is not specified, a default output filenamewill be used. Set ploticus' working directory to dirname.If used, this argument should be specified leftmost on the command line, since it affects evaluation of other args. -svg or -svgz SVGgraphic. See also SVG / XML options below. -drawdumpafilenamesame as -drawdump but result is appended to file. produce a client-side clickable imagemapto accompany a png, gif, or jpeg.These can be used for hyperlinks, and also for providingpop-up text labels that appear when the mouse passes over a region.By default, client-side map content is written to stdout. produce a server-side clickable imagemap fileto accompany a png, gif, jpeg, or SVG. Same as -csmap but all mapped regions are shown outlined in green,and a complete HTML chunk is produced which involves the output image name. Same as -map but all mapped regions are shown outlined in green. explicitly name the output file containing the map info. The name may also be set in proc page.If a name is not specified, client-side image map info will be written to stdout;server-side image map info will be written to a file having the same name as the output result fileexcept with a .map suffix(stdout may be useful in dynamic content HTML situations).For SVG this parameter is not needed, since image map info is embedded in the SVG file. Scale the final result.If one value is given, the result is scaled by this amount in both x and y.If two values are given, scaling in x and scaling in y may be done independently.A scale value of less than 1.0 reduces thesize; an scale value of greater than 1.0 enlarges. Scaling is done relative to the origin (0,0) which is at the lower left. Sets the pre-crop size of the result image for GIF/PNG/JPEG, or sets the display window size when drawing to X11. On other output devices this option does nothing.width and height are in absolute units.0,0 is the lower left corner.If -pagesize is not specified, the default size will be 8" x 8".Size is set before any drawing takes place and is unaffected by the -scale option. When rendering PNG/GIF/JPEG images, this option determines amount of internal memory allocation for accommodating the image.The result can never be bigger than this size, and any drawing outsize the bounds will not be visible.To create PNG/GIF/JPEG images larger than 8" x 8", this option MUST be specified to set a bigger size.Cropping options (below) can be used along with -pagesize as long as they result in a smaller rectanglethan the pagesize; they take effect after all drawing has been completed. -pagesize has no effect with EPS or paginated PostScript results (the PostScriptBoundingBox will be determined by the extent of the graphic). For image or EPS output, crop the result tightly to the extent ofthe design. Normally a small margin is allowed on all four sides.This option sometimes crops a bit too tight; if so try -croprel. Crop image or EPS result to the box specified byx1,y1 and x2,y2, in absolute units. Note that there may be no spaces in the coordinates specification.Cropping takes place after design is rendered and does notaffect coordinate locations. Crop image or EPS result tightly to the extent of the design (like -tightcrop),but then adjust the cropping outward or inward on one or more sides.left is the amount to adjust the left side, in absolute units.Similarly for bottom, right, and top.Positive values always adjust outward from center; negative values adjust inward (tighter).There may be no spaces in the left,bottom,right,top specification.Cropping takes place after design is rendered and does notaffect coordinate locations. sets the overall font to font. See fontsfor more info. sets the overall default textsize to pointsize.All embedded size specifications will be rendered relative to this. sets the overall default linewidth to w.All embedded line width specifications will be rendered relative to this.See linedetails(pli) for more on line width. sets the overall default text and line drawing color to color. sets the background color to color. Use centimeters as your absolute units, instead of inches.On the command line this must appear to the left of any arguments dealing withabsolute unit values, such as -pagesize.Centimeter absolute units can also be set via proc settings.If cm will always be the desiredabsolute units, the preferred way to achieve this is by using units: cm in a ploticus config file. Use inches as your absolute units. This is the default. Set the label or title for the output. For X11 this sets the window title;for PostScript and SVG it sets the %%Title attribute. These options (new with version 2.10) allow capacities to be raised for accomodation of very large data sets, or lowered to minimize memory usage.The defaults in this section are defined in pl.h. Set the capacity for data rows to nrows. Default nrows is 10,000.Ploticus will allocate one pointer for each row. Set the capacity for data fields to nfields. Default nfields is 200,000.Ploticus will allocate one pointer for each field. Set the capacity for script lines for active procs to nlines.Default nlines is 5000.Active procs are the current proc, all #saved procs, andall proc getdata procs that contain embedded data.Ploticus will allocate one pointer for each line in each active proc. Set the capacity for the data plotting vector to ncells.Default ncells is 100,000.The data plotting vector is an array which holds plottablevalues for situations where the values must be sorted or pre-screened forbad values. Ploticus will allocate one double value for each cell. Use this if you need to render a polygon having more than 500 points in PNG/GIF/JPEG, X11, or SWF, orany continuous line having more than 500 points in SWF. Note: raising the maximum number of categories may be done using proc categoriesfrom within the script. This allows arbitrary text to be inserted into the opening <svg> tag. By default the first line of the SVG result will be the XML declaration <?xml .. > .Use this option to suppress the XML declaration line ifthe SVG result is to be embedded into a larger XML document. Set the XML character encoding method. This encoding will be indicated in the XML declaration line.The default is iso-8859-1 which provides Latin and Western European character sets.For Unicode fonts this should be set to utf-8 (for more discussion see the Unicode section in fonts). Causes a suitableHTML <EMBED> tag to be written to standard output. This may be used to set the compression level to n for SVGZ output(0 - 9 where 9 is highest level of compression and the default). After generating results in the specified format, execute commandin order to view the results on your screen. The output file will automatically beincluded in the command. For example, if a GIF file is beinggenerated you might use this to invoke the xv utility: -viewer xv. If PostScript is being generated you could use something like this toinvoke the ghostview utility: -viewer "gv -magstep -1".The given command must be available on your system and locatable inyour command search path.This option may not be used with -o stdout. For paginated postscript, set paper orientation to landscape (oblong). For paginated postscript, set paper orientation to portrait. Allows production of large-size posters made up of multiple standardsheets of paper butted together. May be used only with paginated PostScript,and should be used in combination with the -scale and -textsizeoptions. x,y is the point within your result (in absolute units) that is to be placed at the lower left corner of the page.For further discussion of this, see posters . Debug mode. Causes dianostic information to be written to the diagnostic stream (stderr by default, see -diagfile below).Highly recommended if you are experiencing difficulty.Best to use -debug as the first (leftmost) argument so that it can reporton all arguments gotten.Another effect of debug mode is that any temporary files are not removed upon termination. Write ploticus script lines as they are executed. Lines are written to the diagnostic stream (standard error by default) or standard output.Lines are written after variablesand most script directives, including flow-of-control directives, are evaluated. Identify unplottable data, showing the value, and its row and field. All non-error messages and output will be written to this file (default is stderr). Allows developer to set the first portion of all ploticus error messages to tagfor purposes of presentation or identification. All error messages will be written to this file (default is stderr). Print version number, copyright info, web site address, etc. The output file may be specified on the command line using the -o option,or via Proc Page's outfilename attribute.If so, the result is written to a file of that name.-o stdout may also be used to send result to standard output. Otherwise, if your script filename has a "recognized extension"( .p, .pl, .plo, .pls, .htm or .html ),the base part of the script file name is used and .png, .gif, etc.is appended. If your script filename doesn't have a recognized extension, the generic name out.* will be used. X11 output is always displayed on the screen, andpaginated PostScript is written to standard output unless -o is used. If page breaks (Proc Page) are encountered when rendering in any format otherthan paginated PostScript,special action is necessary since each page must go into a separate file. A Proc Page outfilename may be specified for each page;otherwise a pn prefix will be attached to the beginning ofeach page's output file name to indicate page n. If a clickmapis being generated, the result file is named similarly to the above. The following examples assumethat you have a script file called lineplot1.p. pl -gif lineplot1.p -viewer xv = produce GIF and view using xv (assuming xv image viewer is available on your system). pl -eps lineplot1.p -viewer gv = produce EPS and view using gv (that's ghostview, assuming it is available on your system). pl -ps lineplot1.p | lp = produce paginated postscript and send tounix lp print spooler. pl -ps lineplot1.p -veiwer gv = produce paginated postscriptand view using ghostview. The name of a ploticus configuation file, for setting default date notations, numbernotations, measurement units, etc. The path name of a directory where ploticus will look for prefabscripts. The "factory" prefabs are located in the ploticus ./prefabs subdirectory. Locale support. Thanks to Oleg Bartunov olegAATTsai.msu.sufor contributing this. pl must be built with -DLOCALE for this to work. Control the disposition of error messages. Allowable values: stderrwhich is the default, and cgi which causes error messages to be written to stdout with html formatting. Ploticus has some stated limitations(mostly related to capacities that you may run into if you're dealing with large data sets). To report problems or get help see the ploticus support page. The primary author is Stephen C. Grubb.Ploticus covered by the General Public License (GPL)... please see the ploticus copyright pagefor more info.

In order to study hot corrosion behaviors of the high temperature protective coatings on the superalloy, four modified aluminide coatings (NiCr-CrAl coating, Co-Al coating, Al-Si coating and Al-Ti coating) were prepared on the surface of a Ni-based superalloy. The microstructures and the hot corrosion behaviors in the salt of 25 wt. % NaCl + 75 wt. % Na2SO4 at 900 ℃ were investigated. The results show that a large amount of mixed oxides include Cr2O3, α-Al2O3 and NiCr2O4 spinel have been formed on the surface of four coatings except for the NiCr-CrAl coating. The oxides can enhance the hot corrosion resistance of the coatings. Different morphologies appeared on the surface of the four coatings after corrosion for 100 h at 900 ℃. Obviously, discontinuous corrosion products and localized scaling zones occurred on the surface of the NiCr-CrAl coating. The Co-Al coatings were continuous and dense relatively after hot corrosion. However, obvious crack appeared on the surface, which can lead to great degradation and even failure of the coating. As for the Al-Si coating, not only the cracks and spalling arose on the surface, but also the internal oxidation were found in the substrate. The Ti - Al coating were continuously compact and adhered tightly to the substrate after corrosion. Obviously, the Ti-Al coating provided much better protection to the alloy than the other three coatings in this kind of mixed salt. three coatings in this kind of mixed salt.

The HP Designjet 3D printing solution uses recyclable ABS plastic. Models are ready-to-handle directly from the printer without gloves. The HP Designjet 3D printer is a desktop FDM machine that prints with recyclable ABS. NOTE - Stratasys - the manufacturer of this material have ceased production, and any HP Designjet 3D ABS will only be available while stocks last. With a build volume of 203 x 152 x 152mm, it features a Removal System that eliminates the need for manual post-processing.

As many as six people including Karnataka Congress MLA Venkatesh Naik were killed and eight others were injured when a lorry carrying granite stones rammed into Bengaluru-Nanded Express train at Madakasira railway-level crossing in Penukonda mandal, Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh on Monday. Three of those killed were passengers in the train, while the other two were the driver and the cleaner of the lorry. Three bogies of the train were derailed due to the impact of the collision. Train route between Bengaluru-Guntakal has been disrupted. Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu has asked for a preliminary enquiry into the mishap. Naidu spoke to civil supplies minister P Sunitha and IT minister Palle Raghunatha Reddy, who hail from Anantpur district, and directed the ministers to arrange RTC buses from Puttaparthi and Penukonda to rescue the stranded passengers. According to the police, the incident occurred at around 2:20 am on Monday when the brakes of a granite carrying-lorry reportedly failed and it hit the railway gate and then a bogie of the Bangalore-Nanded Express which was passing at same time.

Herbaceous borders take a huge amount of work to keep them looking good, and because the East Front border is the longest in the United Kingdom, it is particularly time-consuming. I have worked on the section known as the Middle Border, which runs past the Real Tennis Courts, for the last 10 years, and it is certainly the part of my job which I enjoy the most. The lilac Penstemon ‘Alice Hindley’ is in flower and will remain so for the whole summer and right through October. The Gladiolus are yet to open, and the Sedum is still green, but there is plenty of colour and the promise of more to come. The Northern end of the border which runs from the Palace to the river has to be planted ‘in the spirit’ of Ernest Law, a historian who lived at Hampton Court and in the 1920’s designed a plan for this section. I am fortunate that, within reason, I can plant what I like with little intervention from anyone. Although visitors do let me know when they like the planting, and equally when there are plants or combinations that they do not like. This photo was taken in mid-summer when most of the flowers are in their prime. The elegant swan flower heads of Lysimachia clethoides can be seen next to the rather bright jarring flowers of the Gladiolus. In a large border, the bright colour can be absorbed whereas in a small garden I think it would possibly be overpowering. At this time of the year, I review the pictures I have taken throughout the summer and decide upon the changes that I will make over the winter and in the new year. This will involve ordering new bulbs, changing some plant combinations and ordering some fresh bedding just to add a few easy reliable chunks of colour. However, the main task will be the rather unglamorous one of pinpointing the worst areas of perennial weed and doing our best over the winter to eradicate them. An impossible task, as it’s a rare year that I do not see the white trumpets of bindweed waving at me from the back of the border but each year we give it our best shot! Later in the summer, the beautiful bright flowers of Dahlia ‘Moonshine’ and Helenium ‘Waltraut are a nice contrast against the spires of Veronicastrum virginicum ‘Lavendelturn’. Be sure you come and visit Hampton Court Palace to see our gardens.

Beach, Brews and BBQ, an event benefiting the Orange County chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, will be held from 2 to 6 p.m. Saturday at the Newport Dunes Waterfront Resort, 1131 Back Bay Drive, Newport Beach. There will be samples of beer and barbecue, plus live entertainment and auctions. Tickets are $25 to $65. For more information, visit bit.ly/2R31mJt. Sherman Library & Gardens in Corona del Mar will host a free event Thursday night with author Jeffrey Copeland. Copeland wrote “Plague in Paradise,” about a plague that swept through a community in Los Angeles in 1924. The event will start at 7 p.m. Sherman Library is at 2647 E. Coast Hwy. For more information, visit slgardens.org. People can meet and greet Orange County’s top pilots during the inaugural OC Aviation Mixer on Friday in Costa Mesa. The free event will run from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Manclark Airway Heliport, 3132 Airway Ave. There also will be raffles, food, drinks and music. For more information, visit ocaviationmixer.eventbrite.com. The Founders Village Senior and Community Center in Fountain Valley will host a fall dance for people 55 and older on Friday. The event will run from 7 to 9:30 p.m. at 17967 Bushard St. Costa Mesa’s Scarecrow Festival returns this weekend to the city’s Fairview Park. The event — originally held from 1938 to 1941 and revived in 2013 in honor of the city’s 60th anniversary — will run from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the Goat Hill Junction railroad in the park, 2480 Placentia Ave. For more information, visit bit.ly/scarecrow2018. “Fall in Love with the Westside,” an artisans market and community event, will be held in Costa Mesa on Saturday. Festivities will feature music, crafts, entertainment, shopping and food from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Estancia High School, 2323 Placentia Ave. The Huntington Beach Academy for the Performing Arts will hold its annual open house from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at Huntington Beach High School, 1905 Main St. The free event will include master classes, campus tours and previews of performances, including the academy’s production of “Mary Poppins,” which runs for six performances starting Saturday. For more information, visit bit.ly/2QVmCQW. A health and resources fair will be held from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Oasis Senior Center, 801 Narcissus Ave., Corona del Mar. The event will include a free breakfast, plus vendors and a lecture on nutrition. For more information, visit bit.ly/2pY5v5T. Children can learn how to make sugar skulls on Saturday at a Day of the Dead event in Corona del Mar. Horticulturists Suzanne Hetrick and Sarah Smith will show how to craft the holiday ornaments from 10 to 11 a.m. at Roger’s Gardens, 2301 San Joaquin Hills Road. The fee is $50 per child, which includes one pre-made sugar skull, colorful icing and items for decoration. Electronics recycling and document shredding set in F.V. A free electronics recycling and document shredding event will be held Saturday at the Fountain Valley Sports Park, 16400 Brookhurst St.. Electronics will be accepted for recycling from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Documents will be collected for shredding from 9 a.m. to noon. The Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk to benefit the American Cancer Society will be held Sunday at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa. Check-in will begin at 7 a.m., with a ceremony at 8 and the 3- to 5-mile walk at 8:30. For more information, email OrangeCountyCAStrides@cancer.org. A Corona del Mar neighborhood meet-and-greet will be held from 3 to 6 p.m. Sunday at Sherman Library & Gardens, 2647 E. Coast Hwy. The festivities will include live music, a wine bar, a taco vendor, lawn games and shirt sales. Tickets are $15. For more information, visit bit.ly/2PMsdsE. The State of Huntington Beach event will be held at 8 a.m. Monday at Golden West College, 15744 Goldenwest St., Huntington Beach. The keynote speaker will be Mayor Mike Posey. Others include Kelly Miller, president and chief executive of Visit Huntington Beach, and Tim McGrath, president of Golden West College. The event costs $40 per person and includes breakfast. For more information, visit bit.ly/2ONRAKt. The 45th annual Corona del Mar home tour is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday. Eight homes will be featured on the tour. A reception will be held from 8 to 10 a.m. at Le Pain Quotidien at Fashion Island, 401 Newport Center Drive. A luncheon will run from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Sherman Library & Gardens, 2647 E. Coast Hwy., and an afternoon reception is set for 4 to 6 p.m. at Bliss Home & Design, 3321 E. Coast Hwy. Tickets are $80. For more information, visit cdmhometour.com/details. The Incredible Women of Song, a tribute to famed female musicians, will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Montage resort, 30801 S. Coast Hwy., Laguna Beach. The concert will feature vocalists Jane Monheit, Maiya Sykes and Olivia Kuper Harris honoring artists such as Natalie Cole, Peggy Lee and Aretha Franklin, backed by the seven-piece Laguna Beach Live All-Stars. Tickets are $30 to $100. For more information, visit lagunabeachlive.org. The Laguna Art Museum raised more than $923,000 at its recent Centennial Ball at the Festival of Arts grounds. Proceeds from the event will go toward the museum’s exhibitions, art education and other programming. The annual Halloween Walk in Laguna Beach will be held at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday at Main Beach, presented by the Laguna Beach Parents Club. Children can wear their costumes and collect candy during the walk. For more information, visit isitlagunabeach.com/events/annual-halloween-walk. Environmentalists will headline a “Night Under the Moon” event Oct. 24 in Laguna Beach. The program will run from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Ranch, 31106 S. Coast Hwy. The evening will feature an environmental panel including Angela Sun, Dan Pingaro and Kurt Bjorkman. There also will be drinks, live music and dinner. Tickets cost $250. For more information, visit visitlagunabeach.com/events/a-night-under-the-moon1. Save Our Youth will hold a 25th-anniversary celebration from 6 to 9 p.m. Oct. 25 at the Met, 535 Anton Blvd., Costa Mesa. The party will include live music, food trucks, tequila tasting, beer, wine and dancing. Tickets are $75. For more information, visit bit.ly/2yqrgj8. The Huntington Beach Central Library & Cultural Center will present an evening of ghost stories on Oct. 25. The program will run from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at 7111 Talbert Ave. Craig Owens, a Los Angeles-based fine-arts photographer, historical researcher and blogger, will discuss the legends surrounding eight “haunted” Southern California hotels. For more information, visit surfcityusa.com/event/haunted-by-history/18200. 2 p.m. Oct. 19: This article was updated with the item about the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk.

This work introduces a novel, uniplanar, electromagnetic bandgap structure. Using transmission-line metamaterial techniques, a shielded, conductor-backed coplanar waveguide is periodically loaded with series capacitors and shunt inductors to support a backwards-propagating (left-handed) mode. Using multiconductor transmission-line analysis, it is shown that contra-directional coupling creates one or more bandgaps, which can be modelled very accurately with a proposed equivalent circuit. Fully-printable structures are designed and fabricated, and are shown to effect suppression of parallel-plate modes in one and two dimensions over electrically short distances. Stuart Barth received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering in 2012 and 2015, respectively, from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, where he is currently working towards the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering. His current research interests include the study of multiconductor transmission-line RF/microwave circuits, dispersion engineering of periodic structures, fundamental electromagnetic theory, antenna radiation-pattern shaping, and the design of artificial materials for use in communications networks. Mr. Barth was awarded the IEEE AP-S Pre-Doctoral Research Award in 2014 for his ongoing research into electromagnetic bandgap structures for GPS antenna applications. He currently serves as the communications officer of the IEEE Northern Canada Section MTT-S/AP-S joint chapter. Free pizza and refreshments will be served. This entry was posted on Sunday, March 6th, 2016 at 3:37 pm and is filed under . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

The shear strength of continuous lightly reinforced concrete T -beams is studied. Six twospan T -beams with and without web reinforcement are tested. The primary variables are longitudinal reinforcement ratio (0.75% and 1.0%) and nominal stirrup strength (0 to 82 psi). The test results are analyzed and compared with the shear design provisions of "Building Code Requirements for Reinforced Concrete (ACI 318-89)" and predictions of other investigators, including predictions obtained using the modified compression field theory. The tests indicate that ACI 318-89 overpredicts the concrete shear capacity of lightly reinforced beams without shear reinforcement. Little difference exists between shear cracking stresses in the negative and positive moment regions for beams in the current study. For both the negative and positive moment regions, the stirrup contribution to shear strength exceeds the value predicted by ACI 318-89. Stirrup contribution to shear strength increases with increasing flexural reinforcement ratio. Overall, the ACI 318-89 shear provisions are conservative for the beams tested in the current study. Two procedures based on the modified compression field theory are also conservative. ACI 318-89 better predicts the nominal shear strength of the beams in the current study than either of the modified compression field theory procedures. Pasley, G.P., Gogoi, S., Darwin, D., and McCabe, S.L., "Shear Strength of Continuous Lightly Reinforced T-Beams," SM Report No. 26, Research Grant MSM-8816158, The National Science Foundation, December 1990, 162 pp.

From Kennebunkport to Kauai, from the Rio Grande to the Northern Rockies, ours is a vast republic. While we may be united under one Constitution, separate and distinct states remain, each with its own constitution and culture. Geographic idiosyncrasies add more than just local character. Regional understandings of law and justice have shaped and reshaped our nation throughout history. America’s Constitution, our founding and unifying document, looks slightly different in California than it does in Kansas. In The Law of the Land, renowned legal scholar Akhil Reed Amar illustrates how geography, federalism, and regionalism have influenced some of the biggest questions in American constitutional law. Writing about Illinois, “the land of Lincoln,” Amar shows how our sixteenth president’s ideas about secession were influenced by his Midwestern upbringing and outlook. All of today’s Supreme Court justices, Amar notes, learned their law in the Northeast, and New Yorkers of various sorts dominate the judiciary as never before. The curious Bush v. Gore decision, Amar insists, must be assessed with careful attention to Florida law and the Florida Constitution. The second amendment appears in a particularly interesting light, he argues, when viewed from the perspective of Rocky Mountain cowboys and cowgirls. Propelled by Amar’s distinctively smart, lucid, and engaging prose, these essays allow general readers to see the historical roots of, and contemporary solutions to, many important constitutional questions. The Law of the Land illuminates our nation’s history and politics, and shows how America’s various local parts fit together to form a grand federal framework. "Akhil Reed Amar writes in clear and entertaining English, with a journalist's eye for drama and detail and a patriot's eye for the sweep of the American experience. Smart general readers interested in constitutional law will be pleased and instructed."

An antireflective two-dimensional subwavelength structure and a one-dimensional periodic structure with large phase retardation were fabricated on the glass surfaces by glass-imprint process. Novel low-Tg optical glasses based on bismuth phosphate and bismuth borate systems have been developed for the fabrication of these structures. These glasses had refractive indexes higher than 1.8 and deformation temperatures lower than 500 °C. Antireflective structure optimized by rigorous coupled-wave analysis was fabricated on an SiC mold having a curved surface for lens formation by using electron-beam lithography and dry etching techniques. Reflectivity at the imprinted surface relief decreased to about one-tens as compared with that at the polished surface in the visible region, and had less dependence on incident angle and wavelength. Mold shape has been optimized to fabricate one-dimensional structure with a high aspect ratio. A phase retardation of 0.23λ was observed between TE- and TM-polarized beams at 400 nm in the glass plate on both the surfaces of which one-dimensional structures were fabricated.

The development of detailed physiological models of the heart, the availability of large quantities of high-quality structural and functional experimental data, and ever-increasing computational power have significantly enhanced the understanding of cardiac dynamics and hold the promise of new clinical applications for diagnosis and treatment of heart disease. However, the systematic integration of experimental data into high-dimensional, multi-scale models and their subsequent evaluation, validation and analysis remains a major challenge. Therefore, we are developing a data driven, integrative strategy that combines high-resolution imaging techniques with state of the art numerical modeling through innovative state estimation methods. Within this approach, model evaluation plays an important role for the validation and the selection of model complexity on all relevant scales from subcellular, cell, tissue to organ and organism level. The models will be used to study genetic and environmental factors contributing to initiation, perpetuation and termination of cardiac arrhythmias. In the following, we will briefly describe the experimental techniques used to characterize detailed anatomical structure and high-resolution spatial-temporal dynamics of the heart, the available mathematical models, and provide examples of state and parameter estimation.

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Welcome to this new edition of the SolidWorks Support Monthly FAQ. An announcement was made on May 7th, about the acquisition of Simpoe by Dassault systèmes. Simpoe already develops SolidWorks Plastics, our injection molding simulation product. It simulates how melted plastic flows during the injection molding process to predict manufacturing-related defects on parts and molds. This acquisition doesn't have any immediate impact on customer regarding how SolidWorks Plastics and SimpoeWorks are supported. The Early Visibility (EV) version of 2013 SP4.0 will be released during the first week of June. The Early Visibility (EV) program provides you with an opportunity to review and test a Service Pack before general release. To take part, visit the Get Involved page and click Early Visibility Program. The beta phase of SolidWorks 2014 will begin during the second half of June. SolidWorks 2014 includes many new user-driven enhancements – along with some entirely new areas of functionality. Be part of the SolidWorks 2014 Beta program to test and explore all the new and exciting features for SolidWorks Design, SolidWorks Simulation, and SolidWorks Enterprise PDM! We are still getting the sites ready. When they are, visit the 2014 Beta site and click "Join Now" to be part of the program. You can also keep updated on the latest Beta News and be part of the beta community on the SolidWorks 2014 Beta Forum. Participating in the 2014 Beta Program is an excellent opportunity to learn about the new functionality and how it can help your design process before SolidWorks 2014 is released. You can also check that new features correspond exactly to you needs and if not help us fine tune them thanks to your feedback. Together we can make the 2014 Beta Program the most successful ever! A little known fact among SolidWorks Simulation users, you can easily access the three different PropertyManagers that control result plots (called Edit Definition, Settings and Chart Options) without having to go through the usual right-click menu. To do so, once the plot is displayed, you can simply double click the color bar to open the Chart Options PropertyManager, and the plot name or description to open the plot's definition PropertyManager. What about the Settings? They allow to display or hide the mesh boundaries and to superimpose the model on the deformed shape. There is no direct access unless you customize the CommandManager to add the Plot Settings button. To add the button, right click the CommandManager and select Customize. Go to the Commands tab, select the Simulation category and drag this button to the Simulation command bar. You can add other buttons. I personally like to add other buttons and in particular Animate. You can find this information as a pdf attachment to Solution ID: S-063050. What changes have been implemented in sheet metal for SolidWorks 2013? What are the differences between SolidWorks 2012 and 2013? In 2013 SolidWorks redesigned the entire multi body sheet metal functionality. Working with bodies within a sheet metal part is now more distinct and visible. When dealing with sheet metal in SolidWorks 2013 every single sheet metal part is a "potential multi-body" part, even if the part contains only one body. Also in In SolidWorks 2013, when creating the first base flange (i.e. first sheet metal body) the default is to automatically break the link between the part and the body. This is done by having the "Override default parameter" option automatically checked. Therefore, in this version when changing a sheet metal parameter, the sheet metal subfolder corresponding to the specific body must be edited and changed. For more details, see Solution ID: S-062979. What could cause part, assembly or drawing files to open in separate SLDWORKS.EXE sessions (instance) when using double-click or right-click open from Windows Explorer on a system running SolidWorks 2013? SolidWorks 2013 introduces a new application called the SolidWorks Launcher that helps opening files from different SolidWorks versions in appropriate SolidWorks version (when multiple SolidWorks versions are installed). By default on a system with SolidWorks 2013 installed, SolidWorks file types should be associated to the Launcher (swshellfilelauncher.exe) and when opening files using double-click or right-click Open they should open in same SolidWorks session (SLDWORKS.EXE). However if the file types are associated directly to the SolidWorks 2013 (sldworks.exe) application instead, the files may open in separate background SolidWorks sessions instead of the existing open session when you double-click the files. See how to fix this in details in Solution ID: S-062896. What can cause column headers to be empty when viewing Named (saved) BOM's, CAD BOM's or exported BOM's (via XML export rule, export to .csv or API) when using Enterprise PDM 2013 SP3? If you are using Enterprise PDM 2013 SP3 (version 13.3.815) it is possible that when a named (saved) BOM or CAD BOM is created and checked in to the file vault that the column headers show up with empty text. Once this has happened, exports of the BOM via API or XML export rules will also show the empty column headers. For Enterprise PDM 2013 SP3 there is a hot fix available which is recommended to apply if you rely on named BOM's or CAD BOM's. Is there a way to find if a particular component is impacting graphics performance of a top level assembly? Yes. Here’s a tip on using the Assembly Visualization tool to improve assembly performance by finding components which have an excessive contribution to the overall graphics performance – e.g. models with an unnecessary level of detail. Please see the document attached to Solution ID: S-062937 for details.

Zoning is a device of land-use planning. It is the practice of designating permitted uses of land based on mapped zones which separate one set of land uses from another. Zoning may be use-based (regulating the uses to which land may be put, also called functional zoning), or it may regulate building height, lot coverage (density), and similar characteristics, or some combination of these. Zoning is used to prevent new development from interfering with existing residents or businesses and to preserve the “character” of a community. An interactive zoning map is available as part of the City’s Property Information page. (Click the Choose Map icon and select the Zoning Districts layer). For an in-depth look at zoning in Rochester, check out Matthew Denker’s series of articles on RochesterSubway.com.

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Nanomaterials constituent components that are smaller than 100nm in at least one dimension. The study of controlling matter on an atomic and molecular scale, nanotechnology, has the potential to create new materials and devices with a vast range of applications in medicine, electronics and energy production. Nanotechnology has stirred up a great amount of attention for improving disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment . Ordered or random nanotopographies can be synthesized by a number of fabrication techniques such as electrospinning, phase separation, self-assembly processes, thin film deposition, chemical vapor deposition, chemical etching, nano-imprinting, photolithography, and electron beam or nanosphere lithographies. Nano materials can be composed of metals, ceramics, polymers, organic materials and composites. They include nanoparticles, nanoclusters, nanocrystals, nanotubes, nanofibers, nanowires, nanorods, nanofilms, etc . Nanomaterials hold a promise for bone, cartilage, vascular, neural and bladder tissue engineering applications. Nanofibers can accurately simulate the dimensions of natural entities, such as bone and collagen. Superior physiochemical properties such as mechanical, electrical, optical, catalytic and magnetic properties can be generated by decreasing material size into the nanoscale. As a result, nanomaterials have been extensively investigated in a wide range of biomedical applications, particularly regenerative medicine. Since natural tissues are nanometer in dimension and cells directly interact with and create nanostructured extra-cellular matrices (ECM), the biomimetic features and physiochemical properties of nanomaterials play a critical role in stimulating cell growth and guiding tissue regeneration . The ability to precisely control and integrate inorganic and organic nanostructures holds the promise of a completely new generation of advanced composites and applications in the medical field.

Adamastor, gigantomachies, and the literature of exile in Camões' Lusíads. Scopic orgiasts and catoptric visualities. Varieties of narrative in antiquity. War and peace in the ancient Greek novel. Apuleius, Florida 23 and popular moral philosophy. Veiled or unveiled? (Plut. Quaest. Rom. 267B–C). The Roman-Dutch law of evidence at the Cape. Furor, dementia, rabies: social displacement, madness and religion in the Metamorphoses of Apuleius.

Up & above: Seems to be both a bar and restaurant and it is located at hotel Okura near Ploen Chit skytrain station. Located on the 24th floor. L’Appart: French restaurant located in Sofitel hotel near Nana. The restaurant is located on 32nd floor and according to the article it is decorated as a French apartment and there is also a balcony where you can enjoy food and drinks. Park Society & Hi So: another new place located at a Sofitel hotel. This time it is the hotel located near the Lumpini stop on the subway. Park Society is the restaurant part of this concept and it is located on 29th floor. Hi So is the bar and it is located on the roof. Zense: this place is located on top of the CentralWorld chopping complex in the middle of Bangkok. It is “only” on the 17th floor but it can offer restaurants, bars, indoor and outdoor seat etc. Speakeasy: this bar is located on top of the trendy hotel Muse. It seems to be located on level 24 and 25 and the hotel is on Langsuan Road. The bar also seems to have a cigar lounge called Blind pig. Red Sky and Fifty five: Red sky is the bar part and Fifty five is the restaurant. It is located on top of Centara hotel at the Central World complex and the view is of course great from 55th floor. Vertigo and Moon bar: I guess the original roof top bar in Bangkok. From 61st floor you get an amazing view of Bangkok. Located on the Banyan tree building on Sathorn Road. Sirocco, Distil and Breeze: Sirocco sky bar is located on the top of Lebua hotel on Silom road. You get a very nice view of Bangkok from the bar on 63rd floor. Breeze is a restaurant on 52nd floor that offers great view of the river. My wife Nikki and I spent a long weekend in London in January 2013 and we decided to splurge on a dining experience. After seeing many TV shows with Heston Blumenthal we decided on lunch at “Dinner by Heston Blumental”. I made the reservation online and I also got a call from the restaurant a few days before to reconfirm. We took the tube to Knightsbridge station and about 5 min later we arrived at the Mandarin Hotel at noon. After a short wait at the bar, we were assigned a table close to the window, with an idyllic view of a snow covered Hyde Park. We can’t quite recall if our waiter introduced himself but we did get a menu at once and were offered an aperitif. The menu was quite extensive and we decided to throw caution to the wind and ordered “a la carte” and not the set lunch menu that seemed to be a bit on the boring side. There was lots of good stuff to choose from on the menu but I ended up ordering one of the signature dishes “Meat fruit” as a starter and my wife, Nikki, decided to have Salamugundy. For the main dish I decided to have Battalia Pye and Nikki went for Roast Black Foot Collar of Pork. Although we hadn’t thought about dessert yet, we were informed that the signature dessert “tipsy cake” took a while to prepare so best to order in advance. Which we did. While we were waiting for the starter to arrive we got some fresh bread and butter which hit the mark as we were getting hungry. It didn’t take that long before the starter was served and the meat fruit was a little piece of food art. I have to admit that I knew what was coming – when I did a search online (and on Instagram) there were lots of photos out there. It was served on a wooden platter and it looked like a small tangerine with a slice of toast on the side. The tangerine was just an “illusion” – once I cut into it the core was revealed and I could go ahead and taste the chicken liver and foie gras parfait. I like my foie gras and chicken liver so I enjoyed the taste of this smooth paste combined with the large rustic piece of bread. The bread seemed to have been fried just on the pan and it was just right as it shouldn’t be too crispy. Nikki’s Salamugundy looked like a bit of a mess on the plate but was prepared using chicken oysters, marrow bone and horseradish cream. I have to admit that I was not aware that chicken oysters could be the most tender part on the bird but apparently this is the case. Nikki especially enjoyed the horseradish cream vinaigrette. She commented that although first look may give the impression of a run of the mill green salad, the contents and combination stood out with every mouthful. Crunchy fresh leaves and marrow that made you wish you were in the comfort of your own home to properly tackle it. Before the main dish we got the wine that we had ordered by the glass so it seemed like the waiters had full control even if there were several people involved. The wine was a Chianti Classico if I’m not mistaken and was well paired with both our meals – rounded and fullbodied but not too heavy. My Battalia pye was served as a sort of pie and it contained pigeon, devilled kidneys and lamb tongue. Once it was served the waiter poured a lovely rich lamb sauce on top of it and left the rest on the table. Once I tasted it I poured the rest over the pie as it tasted amazing! It must have been boiled for hours with a good stock. The pie was delicious and again it was a beautiful looking dish with the pie dough being wrapped around the contents in a perfect circle. The tiny bones of the pigeon were sticking up from the dish and were juicy and the other pieces of meat were also tasty. It might sound a bit weird but one of the best tastes was from the small caramelized onions. Nikki had the Roast Black Foot Collar of Pork and she also found the portion to be a bit large. But she also enjoyed the layers of pork meat – which made it easy to differentiate and was almost like slicing through a layered cake. She also got the best ever caramelized onions and turnip. The portions of main dish were a bit on the large side but even if we were full, there was still room for dessert. To round off the meal, we waited in anticipation for our tipsy cake – one of the signature desserts. We had to order it when we ordered the rest of the meal as it is made fresh and takes a while to prepare. The cake was served in a small pot with a slice of fried pineapple on the side. The tipsy cake was a pudding (a British staple) and served warm, sweet and oozing of a sort of custard. It almost resembled buns but once we sank our spoons into it, the texture and taste said otherwise. I was not crazy about the pineapple but the pudding was great. The tipsy cake is sharing size but I do believe Nikki would have gladly devoured the lot on her own if I had taken my eyes off it for too long. Although we were both stuffed already we managed to leave little trace of anything ever having occupied the desert pot. With our bellies near bursting and matching grins, we also got some sort of tea infused chocolate mousse and it was weird to taste the combination of dark chocolate with the hints of tea. And together with some strong espresso it was the perfect end to the meal. On the way out we got to look into the open kitchen were the large staff of chefs were preparing all sorts of delicious dishes. We stumbled out of the Mandarin hotel full, slightly tipsy (only from the the cake of course) and very content. This was a lovely dining experience and I hope to return one day to taste more of the great dishes that Heston has on the menu. Check out the restaurant homepage on http://www.dinnerbyheston.com/ and remember to book in advance if you want to check it out.

The interrelationships between microstructural characteristics and anisotropic elastic properties of strand-based engineered wood products are highly relevant in order to produce custom-designed strand products with tailored properties. A model providing a link between these characteristics and the resulting elastic behavior of the strand products is a very valuable tool to study these relationships. Here, the development, the experimental validation, and several applications of a multiscale model for strand products are presented. In a first homogenization step, the elastic properties of homogeneous strand boards are estimated by means of continuum micromechanics from strand shape, strand orientation, elastic properties of the used raw material, and mean board density. In a second homogenization step, the effective stiffness of multi-layer strand boards is determined by means of lamination theory, where the vertical density profile and different layer assemblies are taken into account. On the whole, this model enables to predict the macroscopic mechanical performance of strand-based panels from microscopic mechanical and morphological characteristics and, thus, constitutes a valuable tool for product development and optimization. Funding by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Labor of the Republic of Austria (BMWA), by the Styrian Business Promotion Agency (SFG), by the federal State of Styria and by the municipality of Graz is gratefully acknowledged.

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For Immediate Release: March 13, 2013; Melbourne, Australia’s Blackchords have received widespread critical acclaim since their 2009 self titled debut. After extensive touring throughout Australia and the UK which included The Great Escape and Liverpool Sound City festivals, the Blackchords have made their way to North America to showcase in L.A., Austin, Toronto and New York. South By South West, Canadian Music Week and Aussie BBQs will be how the guys spend the next few weeks. [Australia’s equivalent to Canada’s CBC and Britain’s BBC], who will release the Blackchords second studio album A Thin Line. The band spent most of 2012 working on the album with Grammy Award winning producer David Odlum (The Frames, Gemma Hayes, Josh Ritter) and released the first single ‘Dance, Dance, Dance’. In Jan 2013, Blackchords released the second single “Oh No” and anticipation is sky high for the album’s release in April 2013. The bands hard work has generated such respect from audiences everywhere that they were able to fund their second album through a fan-funded internet campaign. The result is an album that retains the dark and introspective soul of Blackchords, while also painting a broader and sometimes chemical landscape, drawing on keyboards, vintage guitars, DX and electronic programming previously unused by the band. Blackchords songs have been featured in the US television shows Shameless (Showtime), Cougar Town (TBS), Teen Mom (MTV) and Being Human (NBC). They have also featured on Australian television shows Underbelly: Razor, Offspring, Rescue Special Ops, and Cops L.A.C. With an ambitious, diverse and energetic approach, the Blackchords’ sound has evolved far beyond the their expectations.

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Owners of Kansas City homes have a lot to rejoice for, as it looks like the 2019 Kansas City housing market continues to be on the rise. The 2019 Kansas Housing Forecast states that home prices in the state would increase by 6.3% this year. The forecast was published by the Wichita State University Center for Real Estate. For Kansas City, competition is expected to be more cutthroat for the listed homes, and home price appreciation should also increase. Home prices are expected to rise by 8% this year. Meanwhile, home sales are expected to fall by 0.4%, while new home construction rate is expected to fall by 4%. This means that Kansas City homes are still very attractive. There has been a 1.37% population growth in Missouri last year, and with this increase comes the higher demand for quality homes. This fosters a positive projection for home sellers, as prices of homes are expected to increase by $10,000 before the year ends. This raises pertinent questions. Do you buy a house now before the price rise, or do you wait it out? If you are selling your home, do you list your house now, or do you wait for the latter part of the year where it is expected to be more profitable? If you need expert advice on both topics, look no further than Team Real Estate. Our team can help you make the decision that would give you the most value for your money. We have prime listings for Kansas City homes if you are looking to buy. Likewise, our highly experienced staff can help you sell your home for higher than your projected value. This is truly the year to be wise about your home. With the new year comes the opportunity to make significant changes to your life. Call us today at 913-451-5711 to know more.

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Solar energy has emerged as one of the alternate to conventional sources of energy. Solar air heaters are one of the important devices to utilize solar energy. But, poor heat transfer coefficient is one of the major problem in solar air heater. In this research article, an attempt is made to increase heat transfer coefficient of solar air heater by putting Hollow bodies over the absorber plate. These resulted in increase in heat transfer coefficient, efficiency and increase in outlet temperature of air simultaneously. Keywords: Solar Air Heater, Heat Transfer Coefficient, Efficiency, CFD Simulation.

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This recipe will show how to create a subtype and classify someone. You must have farm-level administrative permissions to the Central Administration site. The User Profile Service should be running with users from Active Directory. The third section is Service Applications. Under this section, click Manage service applications.

Banff National Park boat tours run on Lake Minnewanks throughout the summer season. A short drive from the town of Banff, Lake Minnewanka (Lake of the Water Spirit) is the largest body of water in Banff National Park. Mount Inglismaldie (2,964 meters/9,720 feet) and the Fairholme Range form an imposing backdrop. The reservoir was first constructed in 1912, and additional dams were built in 1922 and 1941 to supply hydroelectric power to Banff. Banff Lake Cruise is a 90-minute cruise to the far reaches of the lake, passing the Devil’s Gap formation. Even if you don’t take to the water, it’s worth parking at the facility area and going for a short walk along the lakeshore. You’ll pass a concession selling snacks and drinks, then the tour boat dock, before entering an area of picnic tables and covered cooking shelters – the perfect place for a picnic. Children will love exploring the rocky shoreline and stony beaches in this area, but you should continue farther around the lake, if only to escape the crowds.

How do you keep thousands of millipedes out? Build a wall. A German village is building a foot-high wall around its boundary – to keep out millipedes. Obereichstaett in Bavaria has been plagued by thousands of millipedes every autumn for centuries, reports the Daily Telegraph. Now they just mill around the outside of the wall. By the thousands, covering the ground. There were so many in 1900 that they stopped train traffic. Trains couldn’t get a grip on the tracks. November 12, 2007 Posted by oldstersview | animals | Comments Off on How do you keep thousands of millipedes out? Build a wall. Police in New Jersey say a black bear is suspected of stealing a people carrier and taking it for a spin. Officer Dave Dehard found the vehicle by the side of the road near Vernon Township, reports Court TV. The passenger window had been broken and the door panels were damaged. Found only on the islands of Oahu, Molokai, Maui, and Hawaii, the happy face spider, such as this one guarding its eggs on a leaf in Maui, is known for the unique patterns that decorate its pale abdomen.

As a teenager, Mary Sanford Williams yearned to become a lawyer. But at the time, there was no money for college. Finally, now that she has graduated from Baltimore City Community College - at age 80 - the West Baltimore resident is closer to her goal. BCCC's oldest graduate this year plans to become a legal assistant. According to The Sun's Sumathi Reddy, Ms. Williams, who had a 3.5 grade-point average, did not attend the graduation ceremony last week because she is in summer school and has started course work at the University of Baltimore on the way to getting her bachelor's degree. By the time she finishes law school, the mother of four and grandmother of seven figures she'll be 85, but that hasn't dampened her enthusiasm for learning, and for realizing her dream. While students as old as Ms. Williams are rare - constituting well under 1 percent of community college and college graduates - older students in general are increasingly common, posing opportunities and challenges for higher-education institutions. Recent studies from the American Council on Education, a coordinating body for higher education, show that only one in six undergraduates is a "typical" 18-year-old who lives on campus and receives a bachelor's degree in four years. Students age25 and older account for 39 percent of undergraduates. Like Ms. Williams, 51 percent of older undergraduates attend community colleges, while 29 percent are enrolled in public and private four-year schools, 12 percent are in private for-profit schools and the rest are in other types of higher-ed institutions. Most attend part time. The vast majority of the estimated 90 million post-high school adults who are in various classes are taking adult basic education, English as a second language, work-related training and personal development courses. Only about 6.5 million are taking courses for credit at colleges, universities and trade schools. Most of these older students - and particularly those who are considered low-income - need more help balancing work, family, studies and personal needs. While higher-education institutions have accommodated older students through special and accelerated academic programs, by establishing satellite campuses and by being accessible to public transportation, they need to train more specialized faculty members and offer more financial aid and child care. The benefits of a college education, including increased earning potential, upward mobility and greater knowledge, don't fade with age. And Mary Williams is living proof that it's never too late.

heating plate – so-called hot knives, which are mainly used in die cutting of plastics. Hot knives allow for a smooth edge. Hot knives can also be used for welding thin cellular plates.

Accurate detection and quantification of individual molecules is important for the development of improved diagnostic methods as well as biochemical characterization of disease progression and treatments. Time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF-SIMS) is a surface analysis technique capable of imaging the distribution of specific molecules on surfaces with a high spatial resolution (<1 mu m) and high sensitivity. ToF-SIMS is particularly suitable for detection of molecules up to similar to 2 kDa, including lipids, whereas larger molecules, such as peptides and proteins, are fragmented during analysis, which makes them difficult to identify. In this study, an approach for extending the molecular detection capability of ToF-SIMS is presented, based on the specific binding of functionalized liposomes to molecular targets on the sample surface and subsequent detection of the liposomes by ToF-SIMS. Furthermore, by using different recognition elements conjugated to liposomes with different lipid compositions, simultaneous detection of different targets was accomplished. This multiplexing capability was investigated for two types of recognition elements (antibodies and cholera toxin) and for target molecules immobilized on surfaces using two frequently applied surface functionalization strategies: a supported lipid bilayer aimed to mimic a cell membrane and a polyethylene glycol modified surface, commonly employed in bioanalytical sensor applications. The efficacy of the conjugation protocols and the specificity of the recognition mechanism were confirmed using quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation monitoring, while fluorescence microscopy was used to validate the ToF-SIMS data and the reliability of the freeze-drying step required for ToF-SIMS analysis. The results demonstrated specific binding of the two types of liposomes to each target and showed a concentration-dependent binding to the targets on the different model surfaces. In particular, the possibility to use the contrasts in the mass spectra of SIMS to identify the concentration dependent coverage of different liposomes opens up new opportunities for multiplexed detection and quantification of molecules at biotechnology relevant interfaces.

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Membrane distillation (MD) is a hybrid thermal/membrane desalination process in which pure water vapour from a salt solution passes through a hydrophobic membrane, driven by a difference in temperature, and condenses on the opposite side. This chapter starts with a detailed explanation of the principles behind membrane distillation. The four main types of MD technology are then discussed and the technical advantages and disadvantages of each technology are outlined, focusing on the crucial features for coupling MD with solar thermal energy. Heat and mass transfer phenomena are examined with regard to the influences of temperature polarisation and salt concentration on process performance. Finally, available semi-commercial MD systems are briefly presented with details on solar thermally driven MD systems for the autonomous desalination of brackish and sea water.

In this paper, we describe the preparation and dual-use of carbon nanofibers/Si (CNFs/Si) composites as the source/drain contacts for copper phthalocyanine (CuPc) based thin film transistors (TFTs) and as anode materials for high performance lithium-ion batteries. The CNFs/Si composites are prepared by a facile chemical vapor deposition (CVD) technique with iron nitrate as the catalyst source and acetylene as the carbon source. In the CNFs/Si structure, Si particles are tightly wrapped by CNFs with an average diameter of 15–30 nm and length of 1–2 μm. It can be seen that the catalysts are grown on the top tip of the CNFs. Based on the superior properties of the CNFs coating, the CNFs/Si composites are applied in different fields. Compared with CuPc based OTFTs with Au contacts, the performances of organic thin film transistors (OTFTs) with CNFs/Si contacts are significantly improved. For OTFTs with CNFs/Si contacts, they show the on-state current increasing from 9 × 10−9 to 3 × 10−7 A at the gate voltage of −40 V, field effect mobility increasing from 1.9 × 10−4 to 4.2 × 10−3 cm2 V−1 s−1, and threshold voltage shifting from 15 to 30 V for the saturation regime. These are attributed to the more effective charge-carrier injection of CNFs/Si contacts than of Au contacts. Besides, the CNFs/Si composites are also promising lithium storage host materials. They show excellent rate capability as anode materials for lithium batteries. The initial discharge and charge capacities of CNFs/Si composites at 0.05 C are 1491.6 and 1168.7 mAh g−1, respectively. For comparison, the initial discharge and charge capacities of the CNFs/Si composites at 0.60 C are 1197.8 and 941.4 mAh g−1, respectively. After twenty cycles, the discharge and charge capacities at 0.60 C are 834.4 and 733.9 mAh g−1, respectively.

A fully integrated model of a photoelectrochemical cell for water electrolysis is applied to the case of light-absorbing particles embedded in a membrane separator. Composition of the product gases is shown to be one critical measure of device performance. Not only must the composition be kept outside the explosive window for mixtures of H2 and O2, but also product purity is a concern. For the absorber-in-membrane geometry and the model assumptions used here, results show purely water-saturated H2 on the cathode side and water-saturated O2 on the anode side. Since it is possible to design devices that violate these assumptions, it should not be assumed that a polymer separator or an absorber-in-membrane geometry will be effective in preventing explosive mixtures in all cases. Net H2 collected, iH2,net, is the second essential performance metric, and it is shown to differ significantly from the more commonly reported total H2 produced and operating current density. Schemes which co-evolve H2 and O2 violate the first metric and do not provide the second. A composite of triple-junction silicon absorbers in a Nafion membrane is shown to have an optimum thickness of 30 ?m, dependent on the properties of the light absorber. Varying membrane properties reveals a tradeoff between conductivity, ?m, and gas permeabilities, ?H2 and ?O2, that can potentially be exploited differently than in a fuel cell. Modulating the relative humidity (RH) is insufficient. The maximum iH2,net is calculated to be 6.97 mA cm?2 at RH = 30% relative to a value of 6.92 mA cm?2 at RH = 100%. The model identifies target material properties for new polymers. If ? is dropped one order of magnitude below that of Nafion (?/?Nafion = 0.1), the optimum value for iH2,net increases by 63.5%. For ?/?Nafion = 0.01, the optimum iH2,net increases by 73.5%, which compares favorably to the 74.5% improvement that would result if Nafion were made impermeable (?/?Nafion = 0). Meanwhile, ?m can drop to a value of 1.2 × 10?3 S cm?1 (two orders of magnitude below liquid-equilibrated Nafion) with less than a 5% decline in iH2,net.

We have fabricated a silicon-glass two-phase droplet microfluidic system capable of generating sub 100 μm-sized, ø = (74 ± 2) μm, spherical droplets at rates of up to hundreds of hertz. By implementing a two-dimensional (2D) acoustophoresis particle-positioning method, we show a fourfold improvement in both vertical and lateral particle positioning inside the droplets compared to unactuated operation. The efficiency of the system has been optimized by incorporating aluminum matching layers in the transducer design permitting biocompatible operational temperatures (<37 °C). Furthermore, by using acoustic actuation, (99.8 ± 0.4)% of all encapsulated microparticles can be detected compared to only (79.0 ± 5.1)% for unactuated operation. In our experiments we observed a strong ordering of the microparticles in distinct patterns within the droplet when using 2D acoustophoresis; to explain the origin of these patterns we simulated numerically the fluid flow inside the droplets and compared with the experimental findings. Anna Fornell, 2018 Jun 5, Lund: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Lund university. 134 p.

Ultrasonic testing and imaging applications often resort to signal modelling, parameter estimation and data analysis for aberration detection, pattern recognition, and classification. In this study we present a unified time-frequency analysis and echo parameter estimation to characterise ultrasonic non-stationary signals for imaging and diagnosis. In particular, highly complex and interfering patterns of scattered signals are decomposed into elementary chirp echoes (i.e. chirplets) for analysis. The decomposition of complex signals facilitates a systematic, tractable and quantitative approach to correlate the estimated chirplets to the actual physical characteristics of the objects and their embedded environment that generates the reflected and scattered ultrasonic echoes. Identifying the source of ultrasonic signals has a broad range of medical and industrial ultrasonic testing applications including tissue characterisation for medical diagnosis, flow measurements, nondestructive testing, quality control in multi-component/composite materials, and real-time structural health monitoring for integrity assessment and safe use. Ultrasonic signal decomposition is a challenging task and requires determining critical components including: i) the design and suitability of the signal model; ii) the complexity of the model in terms of the number of parameters; iii) the development of efficient parameter estimation algorithms; and iv) above all, a clear understanding of how the source of the signal contributes to the complexity of the signal which can be deciphered into sensible constraints for accurate parameter estimation with diagnostic values. To pursue these objectives, this speaker will be presenting several analytical tools stemming from the generalised time-frequency (GTF) distributions. GTF distributions not only represent powerful tools for signal analysis but also reveal efficient methods for noise reduction and data compression. This study highlights the link between several time-frequency distributions including Chirplet Transform, Wigner-Ville Distribution, Short-time Fourier Transform, Split-Spectrum Processing, Choi-Williams Distribution, and Generalized Ambiguity Function. These transformation methods are potentially viable for unraveling ultrasonic signals consisting of many interfering echoes into a structure that leads to the mathematical steps needed for coherent algorithms to estimate echo parameters. In this research a family of GTF distributions has been explored. Analytical equations have been derived not only to improve the signal-to-noise ratio of ultrasonic signals but also to provide stable and efficient computational algorithms for echo parameter estimation. Numerous experimental and simulated ultrasonic scattering signals and signals consisting of multiple interfering echoes are studied to evaluate the accuracy and practicality of the developed echo parameter estimation algorithms. Results will be presented to address and compare the parameter estimation accuracy and the computational efficiency of various time-frequency distributions. Dr. Jafar Saniie (IEEE Life Fellow for contributions to ultrasonic signal processing for detection, estimation and imaging) received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland in 1974. Following that, he was conferred his M.S. degree in Biomedical Engineering in 1977 from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1981 from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. In 1981, Dr. Saniie joined the Department of Applied Physics, University of Helsinki, Finland, to conduct research in photothermal and photoacoustic imaging. Since 1983, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology where he is the Department Chair, the Filmer Endowed Chair Professor, and Director of the Embedded Computing and Signal Processing (ECASP) Research Laboratory. Dr. Saniie's research interests and activities are in ultrasonic signal and image processing, software defined ultrasonic communications, statistical pattern recognition, estimation and detection, data compression, time-frequency analysis, embedded digital systems, digital signal processing with field programmable gate arrays, and ultrasonic nondestructive testing and imaging. He has over 330 publications and has supervised 35 Ph.D. dissertations to completion. Dr. Saniie was a Technical Program Committee member of the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium since 1987 (The Chair of Sensors, NDE and Industrial Applications Group, 2004-2013), the Lead Guest Editor for the IEEE UFFC Special Issue on Ultrasonics and Ferroelectrics (August 2014) and the IEEE UFFC Special Issue on Novel Embedded Systems for Ultrasonic Imaging and Signal Processing (July 2012) and the Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control since 1994. He was also the General Chair for the 2014 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium in Chicago, and served as the Ultrasonics Vice President of the IEEE UFFC Society (2014-2017). For further enquiries, please contact Dr. Yao Kui (k-yao@imre.a-star.edu.sg).

Semi-crystalline polypyrrole (PPy) nanotubes were synthesized through a chemical polymerization route using methyl orange-ferric chloride (MO-FeCl3) as a template for growth. The thermoelectric properties of these PPy nanotubes have been studied in the temperature range 300-380 K after treatment with various dopants such as hydrochloric acid (HCl), p-toluene-sulphonic acid monohydrate (ToS), and tetrabutyl ammonium hexaflurophosphate (PF6). It has been observed that these dopants affect the electrical and thermal transport properties of PPy nanotubes in different ways. The temperature dependence of electrical resistivity suggests that pure PPy and ToS-doped PPy nanotubes exhibit a critical regime of metal-to-insulator transition, and doping with HCl drives them into the metallic regime. In contrast, PF6 doping of PPy nanotubes carries them into the insulating regime and these samples exhibited the highest figure of merit of similar to 3.4 x 10(-3) at 380 K, which was 240% higher than the value obtained in the case of pristine PPy nanotubes. Strongly repressed thermal conductivity along with moderately high Seebeck coefficient and electrical conductivity have been found to be responsible for the high figure of merit observed in PF6-doped PPy nanotubes. The suppression of thermal conductivity in PF6-doped PPy nanotubes is attributed to the scattering of the spectrum of phonons via hierarchical length-scale defect structures present in the sample. Copyright for this article belongs to M/s IOP Publishing.

While for some of us school has already started, others are still on their well-deserved summer holiday breaks and hopefully enjoying time away from laptops, blackberrys (yes, they still do exist) and conference calls. But rest assured, the busy office days are just around the corner. And as in past years, recruitment processes will pick up full speed again by mid-September. Job descriptions are being drafted and posted. Candidates will browse job descriptions and submit their resumes. HR and hiring managers will review the resumes and compare as to whether that candidate could be the “perfect” match. Regardless of the perspective, what exactly is that “perfect” match? Cultural fit and personality aside, when looking at the hard skills and the desired experience for a specific job, do you as a hiring manager want the candidate to bring along each and every skill you listed? Do you as a candidate really want to “check all boxes”? The obvious answer seems Yes! – on both sides. The candidate that has drafted, reviewed and negotiated all contracts and agreements listed in the job description, has worked closely with the business, has advised senior management on strategic and corporate matters, has the relevant industry experience, speaks all languages fluently and has managed a team of 5 in his previous career, etc.? Jackpot, if that is what you had as a wish list on your job description. And please do think of your job spec as a wish list. However, I am always suspicious when a candidate tells me that he fulfils all requirements, has the experience and the skill-set listed on that wish list. Why then are you looking to move? – is the question I immediately ask. Why would you want to change jobs if you will basically be doing the same in the new environment? From the hiring perspective: Great, you have someone who hits the ground running from Day 1. He will still need to adjust to your company’s policies and procedures but 6 months in you’ll think he’s been there for a decade at least. But is that truly a good thing? Candidates, at least looking at the ones I typically work with, usually look for a “more” of some sort. A new challenge, more responsibility. These candidates are motivated and eager to progress, both personally and in terms of their careers, and are missing a perspective or challenge in their current settings. These candidates are the ones a hiring manager should look out for. Someone who brings along a certain set of skills and experience, and is yet keen and eager to learn and grow further. I am an advocate for 80-20 in recruitment! I am interested in candidates who will bring 80% of what is required today. And I look to see if the candidate has the potential and skill set, the motivation and passion to learn the other 20% in a short space of time. That’s a win-win for both sides: the candidate will feel that he can truly progress, and the employer will know that his new employee won’t be bored 6 months after joining. It goes without saying, a hiring manager must be aware of his ‘must-have’ criteria: there’s no point in considering a candidate for a position if that person cannot hit the ground running on one of the truly crucial skills needed. Vice versa, if compliance has not been part of your responsibility so far, please don’t apply to the Head of Compliance EMEA (m/f) role but rather look for a position which will allow you to gain the required skills instead of requiring you to have them already gained.

Chen, MY, Vahera, T, Hsi, CS, et al. Tape casting system for ULTCCs to fabricate multilayer and multimaterial 3D electronic packages with embedded electrodes. J Am Ceram Soc. 2017; 100: 1257– 1260. doi:10.1111/jace.14639. A 3D multilayer structure built by two ultra‐low temperature co‐fired ceramic (ULTCC) compositions with silver embedded electrodes are co‐fired at a temperature of 450°C. The 3D multilayer module is prepared by laminating the ULTCC green tapes with a new binder system, which organics can be completely burned out at temperature of 250°C before the sintering of the ULTCC 3D modulus. High‐density microstructures are achieved for the sintered module. In this study, the ULTCC feasible binder system is introduced. Also, ULTCC multilayers and multimaterial structures with surface and embedded silver electrodes are fabricated. This research opens up a new horizon for fabrication of electroceramic devices with embedded electrodes in multimaterial devices. The work leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007‐2013)/ ERC Grant agreement (No. 291132) and ERC‐2014‐PoC (No. 640887). This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Chen, MY, Vahera, T, Hsi, CS, et al. Tape casting system for ULTCCs to fabricate multilayer and multimaterial 3D electronic packages with embedded electrodes. J Am Ceram Soc. 2017; 100: 1257– 1260. doi:10.1111/jace.14639, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/jace.14639. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.

The microstructure and fat globule distribution of reduced and low fat Turkish white cheese were evaluated. Reduced and low fat cheeses were manufactured from 1.5% and 0.75% fat milk respectively which were standardized unhomogenized and homogenized cream in a dairy plant. Homogenized and non-homogenized creams and cheese whey were analyzed for fat globule distribution and cheese samples were also analyzed for microstructure characteristics. According to the results, the homogenization of cream decreased the size of fat globules; and showed that a large number of fat particles were dispersed in the in matrix and improved the lubrication of cheese microstructure. According to the micrographs for the fat, which was not removed, they exhibited a more extended matrix with a few small fat globules compared to the defatted micrographs. Homogenization of cream produces small fat globules and unclustured fat globules were found in the resulting whey. These results are important for dairy processors for using cream homogenization as a processing tool at the industrial level. Anonymous, 1994. TS 1018. Çi. Süt Standardı. Türk Standartları Enstitu.su. Ankara, Turkey. Hayat MA. 1981. Principles and techniques of electron microscopy. Vol. 1. Edward Arlond Lt., London, 522P. Karaman DA. 2007. Effect of cream homogenization on the manufacture and characteristics of the reduced fat white cheese. PhD Thesis in Dairy Technology, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey, 222 pages. Kocabas, Z, Odabası, S, Atamer, M. 1998. Mikrobiyolojik verilerin istatistiksel analizinde uygun transformasyon yönteminin seçimi. Gıda. 23, 1, 11-17. Ong L, Dagastine RR, Kentish SE, Gras, SL. 2011. Microstructure of milk gel and cheese curd observed using cryo scanning electron microscopy and confocal microscopy. LWT - Food Sci. Technol. 44, 1291-1302.

Numerical optimization of photonic crystal fiber (PCF) structures for refractive index sensors based on long period gratings inscribed in PCFs has been performed. The optimization procedure employs the Nelder-Mead downhill simplex algorithm. For the modal analysis of the PCF structure a fully-vectorial solver based on the finite element method is used. The dispersion optimization of PCFs is aimed at achieving a high sensitivity of measurement of refractive index of analytes infiltrated into the air holes.

Design, construction and characterisation of chemical microsystems, especially arrays of gas sensors, microconcentrators and microreactors based on nanomaterials. Development of processing algorithms and expert system techniques for the treatment of proteomic and metabolomic bio-signals obtained from mass spectrometry systems or nuclear magnetic resonance. Development of technologies for the manufacture of silicon- and aluminium oxide-based nanoporous materials obtained by electrochemical etching. Application of porous materials in organic nanostructured solar cells. Applications of materials to biotechnology for cell growth, drug administration and biochemical sensing. Development of compact physical models of electronic devices at the nanoscale. Modelling of light-matter interaction in nanostructured materials.

Researchers have developed a smart ink that turns 3D-printed structures into objects that can change shape and colour. The innovation from Dartmouth College, New Hampshire promises to add more functionality to 3D printing and could pave the way to a new generation of printed material. The advance in form-changing intelligent printing – or 4D printing – is claimed to provide a low-cost alternative to printing precision parts. Many 3D printing protocols rely on photo-curing resins and result in hard plastic objects with rigid, but random molecular architectures. According to Dartmouth, the new process allows designers to retain specific molecular alignments and functions in a material and converts those structures for use in 3D printing. By using a combination of new techniques in the pre-printing and post-printing processes, researchers were able to reduce printed objects to one per cent of their original sizes and with 10-times the resolution. It is further claimed that the 3D printed objects can be animated to repeatedly expand and contract in size through the use of supramolecular pillars. With fluorescent trackers, the objects can be made to change colour in response to an external stimulus such as light. The ability to reduce the size of an object after printing while preserving functional features and increasing resolution allows inexpensive printers to print high-resolution objects that were once only possible with much more sophisticated printers. According to the study, which was selected as a VIP paper by Angewandte Chemie, the smart ink can print at a rough, 300-micron resolution, but the end product would feature a much finer line width of 30 microns. To create the smart ink, researchers used a polymer-based vehicle that integrates intelligent molecular systems into printing gel and allows for the transformation of their functions from the nanoscale to the macroscale. While most materials are readily hardened during the 3D printing process, the new process introduces a series of post-printing reactions which lock the active ingredients together and retain the form of the molecular structure throughout the printing process. The result is a printed object with a molecular design that can transform itself depending on the stimuli applied to it. Whilst still some distance from intelligent 3D systems that can dynamically change their configuration, the technology could be used to print precision filters and storage devices. Over time, researchers expect that the process could result in a new class of macroscale 3D printed objects that can be used to deliver medicine or produce high resolution bone replacements.

During the last years, inkjet printing of textiles has been attracting increasing interest. At present, screen printing is still the major technology for the textile printing industry. However, the digital textile printing market is growing rapidly due to the rising trend in customisation, smaller production batch sizes, requests for faster product availability and higher ecological requirements. Two of the fastest growing applications in digital textile printing are dye sublimation printing and pigment printing. Recently, the pigment ink market for textile inkjet printing is emerging rapidly. Pigment inks have a lot of benefits such as a high colour strength and high light resistance. They are considered as “universal inks” because they can be applied directly on a large range of textile substrates without sophisticated or environmentally unfriendly pre- or post-treatments. Water-based pigment inks usually require only simple dry heat for a few minutes as a post-treatment process and no special pre-treatment. However, the development of water-based pigment inks is highly challenging in terms of colloidal dispersion stability, jetting reliability and polymer binder chemistry. We introduce DIAMONTEX P as a new water-based pigment ink for inkjet printing of textiles and evaluate the ink in terms of physical ink parameters (such as viscosity, surface tension and particle size), jetting performance and fastness characteristics (rub and wash fastness). For most digital textile inkjet inks (besides pigment inks), a proper pre-treatment of the substrate is a necessity, e.g. in order to minimize lateral ink bleeding and to maximize colour definition and colour intensity. Fig. 1A shows printing results of our DIAMONTEX S dye sublimation ink printed directly on polyester textile without and with pre-treatment (DIAMONTEX AF-U) while Fig. 1B shows printing results of the reactive inkjet ink DIAMONTEX R printed on differently pre-treated cotton substrates. Fig. 1A highlights the importance of the pre-treatment in terms of contour sharpness (ink wetting and spreading) while Fig. 1B highlights the discrepancy in colour intensity as a function of the pre-treatment. Therefore, the proper pre-treatment of the textile is a key for successful textile inkjet printing. Dr Enrico Sowade of Zschimmer and Schwarz will present an invited talk - "The digital revolution in textile printing – requirements and trends for inkjet inks and textile chemistry" - at the IMI Europe Inkjet Development Conference, 17-18 April 2018 in Frankfurt, Germany.

11 Jun An Adventurous Slingshot Ride Turns Into An Orgasmic Ride For This Mother. WoW ًTapes. Loading Unsubscribe from WoW ًTapes? Cancel. 20 Nov Have you ever been on a slingshot ride? I've always been way too terrified of trying one of those deadly-looking reverse-bungee. 28 Feb Drunk in Ayia Napa & airborne on the Sling Shot ride is a mix for a cheap thrill. Description:Both possibilities make me uncomfortable! Except the dudes who just pass out on the Slingshot: Like I said, humanity is wretched to the core, and we can never hope to truly relate to anyone. As the name implies, you sit in the crook of a massive vertical slingshot that harnesses the power of elasticity to shoot you high into the air. The concept of it nurturing female pleasure is not an advertised perk. People have competent taste, relatable perspectives, and comprehensive aspirations. Standing proud with 1.

My daughter is getting married soon. We don’t have a date just yet. She is almost done with graduate school and then I’m fairly certain that we will be planning a wedding together. We have spoken about it often and I think it is going to be one of the most wonderful things we’ve ever done together. It will be so much fun to pick out flowers and place settings and all of the other pretty things that will add to her special day. What isn’t fun is the price tag! That’s why I came up with 10 ways to save money while we plan her wedding. Weddings are great, but they shouldn’t put you in the poor house! Saving money doesn’t have to mean sacrificing the overall beauty of the big day. When you think about it, there are many little extras that you don’t really need to make a wedding beautiful and memorable. My 10 ways to save money focus on reduction or elimination of wedding extras that might be cute but aren’t necessarily required. I spoke with my friend Raquel, a savvy blogger who publishes Organized Island. Her daughter is getting married very soon as she gave me her advice for the first 3 ways to save money on a wedding. Check out items at your local dollar store.They have a wedding section with lots of great packaged decor items for just a dollar each. Establish a budget and make a pact to stick to it. Rank you priorities and talk about what can be compromised, down-sized or skipped. Book your venue first, before you send out your “save the date” announcements. Popular wedding venues can book up a year in advance. You don’t want to “save the date” and then pay top dollar to secure a venue out of desperation. Whittle down that attendance list. The less people you have, the less you have to pay per person at the reception. Decide if you are going to allow children and guests for single attenders. Also keep the head count down for the number of attendants in your bridal party. As you can see, it’s all about paring down without sacrificing the overall feel. Do you really need the extra super fancy table setting or the gilt-encrusted whatever? Probably not. If you follow these 10 ways to save money, you’ll have a wedding that is both beautiful and affordable. Guest blogger Lori Felix is a Savings.com DealPro and founder of MoreWithLessToday.com. She helps others find more ways to save money on everyday expenses and have some fun along the way. Her motto is LESS is the new MORE!

Mr. Browning is an attorney with Browning|Hocker, representing small and large business as well as individuals in employment, insurance and business matters. He has served as a Research Attorney with the San Diego Superior Court, an associate with the law firms McInnis Fitzgerald Rees & Sharkey and Seltzer, Caplan, Wilkins & McMahon, and a partner and co-chair of the Employment Practice Group at Klinedinst PC, prior to forming Browning|Hocker. Mr. Browning earned an MBA from San Diego State University, and worked in finance, management and manufacturing prior to his legal career. He has served on the Board since 2012. Ms. Braun has a Bachelor’s of Arts Degree majoring in English from the University of Maryland and a Master’s in Business Administration from San Diego State University with a specialization in Taxation and Financial Planning. She has served on the Board since 2010. Lifesharing Executive Advisory Board. He is a former California Hospital Association Board member, former Chairman of the Board for the Hospital Association of Southern California, and past corporate cabinet Chair of the American Heart Association Orange County Chapter. Mr. Smith earned a Bachelor of Arts in Business Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a Master of Public Health in Health Services Management from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has served on the Board since 2009. Ms. Roemer recently retired as Chief Operating Officer of Verenium, an industrial biotechnology company. Prior to that, she was a senior executive in the chemical industry and has extensive experience in the operational management of large scale, global businesses. Ms. Roemer holds a B.S. in chemistry from Miami University and an MBA from the University of Chicago. She has three grown children and enjoys travel, golf, and hiking with her dog. She joined the Board in 2015. Ms. Shepard recently retired as the President & CEO of California Coast Credit Union. She has board experience with Jack Henry & Associates (publicly traded for-profit financial technology company) Compensation committee and Governance Chair, CA Credit Union League, Children's Miracle Network, SD Credit Unions PAC, Richard Myles Johnson Foundation. She has a business degree from Mesa College in Colorado. Ms. Shepard enjoys spending off-time in Alaska where she and her husband have owned a series of second homes hosting friends and family. Ms. Shepard has served on the Board since 2015. Dr. Browning is MD who specializes in Orthopedic Surgery. He graduated from Dartmouth College with a BA in Chemistry; he attended Stanford University Medical School and completed his residency at the US Naval Hospital in Boston and Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, with a fellowship at the Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Boston. He has been an Orthopedist for the Kaiser Foundation Hospital for over 30 years and is a former Naval Aviator. He is married, with three grown children. He enjoys traveling and is a private pilot. He joined the Board in 2015. Dr. Clapper is the Regional Vice President at Anthem Blue Cross in Client Clinical Strategy. Dr. Clapper’s passion is for improving healthcare, both the patient experience and the quality and cost effectiveness through data. Dr. Clapper received an undergraduate degree from Stanford University, her medical degree from the Uniformed Services University and her Master’s in Public Policy Analysis from Claremont Graduate University where she focused on using LEAN on improving healthcare delivery. She has four sons and has lived in Coronado since 1983. Her husband is an orthopedic surgeon at Kaiser Hospital. Dr. Clapper has served on the Board since 2016. Mr. Finzi is a Senior Advisor to Credit Suisse, serving on the Investment Committees of Credit Suisse Direct Equity Partners and Hudson Clean Energy. Previously he served as Managing Partner of the Sprout Group, Credit Suisse’s venture capital affiliate and a General Partner of Merrill Lynch Venture Capital, which was merged into Sprout in 1991. Mr. Finzi is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation Fighting Blindness. Mr. Finzi has a BS & MS in Industrial Engineering from Lehigh University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He has twin daughters, both college graduates, is fluent in Italian and his hobbies include fishing and cooking. Mr. Finizi has served on the Board since 2015. Jean-Claude "JC" Kyrillos is the Senior Vice President and General Manager for Qualcomm Life. In this role, he has responsibility for the company's worldwide operating units and driving operational excellence across the company. JC has 30 years of diversified business experience, including 15 years of executive leadership in the medical device industry in acute care, homecare, and diagnostics. Prior to joining Qualcomm Life, JC was the worldwide vice president and general manager of BD’s (Becton, Dickinson and Company) global Infusion Solutions business (previously SVP CareFusion). In this role, he led BD’s Alaris® infusion pump systems, including embedded and enterprise software with over $1 billion in annual revenues and ~5,000 global employees. Infusion pump systems are medical devices used to infuse drugs, fluids, and nutrition – predominantly for intravenous (IV) indications. Before BD/CareFusion, JC was president, ResMed Ventures and Initiatives and previously Co-Leader for ResMed, Americas. ResMed is a medical device company focused on sleep-disordered breathing, including obstructive sleep apnea. JC was the 16th employee and later Chief Operating Officer of GeneOhm Sciences a venture capital backed molecular diagnostics company focusing on rapid response diagnostic tests for infectious disease. GeneOhm was purchased by BD in 2006. Earlier in his career JC held several positions at Honeywell International, including finance leader for a ~$500 mil in annual revenues electronic materials business where he was based for three years in Hong Kong. JC serves on the Board of Directors for the San Diego Blood Bank and the Sharp Healthcare Foundation. He earned a MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA with Honors in History from Colgate University. Ms. Benton is an entrepreneur and has experience managing both for-profit and non-profit organizations. She is the founder and board member for Vehicles for Change, Inc. a non-profit that awards automobiles to individuals who have secured employment, but cannot afford to purchase a vehicle. Ms. Benton is graduate of the Harvard Business School and serves on the board for the Moores Cancer Center at UCSD, the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute and the Humane Society. Ms. Benton has lived in San Diego for five years. She and her husband are very involved in serving the community. Dr. Schwendemann is an MD who specializes in Maternal-Fetal Medicine. He graduated from Albion College in Albion, MI with a BA in Biology and Chemistry. He attended medical school in Toledo, OH and completed a residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY before his fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. Since completion in 2009, he has practiced with the San Diego Perinatal Center. In his spare time, he and his wife enjoy traveling and martial arts. Dr. Schwendemann has served on the Board since 2011. Mr. Vongsawad, with over 25 years of experience in the financial services industry, is Chief Operating Officer of San Diego County Credit Union (SDCCU) – the largest locally-owned financial institution in San Diego, California. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of California, Irvine and is a graduate of Pacific Coast Executive Banking School. Mr. Vongsawad is involved in community and church organizations as well as serving on national and local committees in the credit union industry. He enjoys spending time with his wife and three sons in the mountains snow skiing and on the lakes water skiing. Mr. Vongsawad has served on the Board since 2011. Mr. Lowenberg is currently serving as an Executive Partner a Chicago-based private equity firm, Waud Capital Partners. He is the former Chief Operating Officer of Express Scripts and Chief Executive Officer of its Curascript subsidiary, the specialty pharmacy business. Express Scripts is one of the largest and most successful pharmacy benefit managers in the United States, a Fortune 100 company. During Mr. Lowenberg’s tenure at Express Scripts, the company’s revenues grew from approximately $150 million to nearly $20 billion. Earlier in his career, Mr. Lowenberg worked as an executive with both local and state governments in Arizona, including serving as the Executive Director of the Arizona Welfare Department. He moved from St. Louis to Coronado with his family in 2010. Mr. Lowenberg holds an MS in Public Management from Harvard, and a BS in Public Administration from University of Arizona. Marge Lorang is a native San Diegan and longtime blood donor. She served on the Board from 2010-2015 and returned in 2018. Ms. Lorang has served as the Vice President of EdUCate!, The University City Foundation for Public Schools. After receiving her B.A. in Biology from UCSD, she worked for many years as a bench scientist, mainly in neuroendocrinology and neuroscience, then briefly in academic publishing. Ms. Lorang is married to John Spinosa. M.D., Ph.D. and has two adult sons. Ram Yalamanchili is the co-founder at Lexent Bio, which is building novel liquid biopsy technologies to help change the way we manage cancer. In his previous experiences as an entrepreneur, Mr. Yalamanchili helped build a leading supply-chain finance bank with over 250 employees and 20 branches in India. He was the CEO/Founder of Push Computing, which pioneered predictive security and container technologies for mobile (acquired / IPO under MobileIron). Prior to that, he was an early engineer at VMware (top technology IPO - 2008) and architect for the ESXi product. ESXi hypervisor powers a majority of the cloud infrastructure today. He is currently an active investor and board member at several startups. Mr. Yalamanchili holds a B.S in Electrical Engineering (Hons) from Carnegie Mellon University, and a GCE Management Science from Stanford University. He joined the Board in 2018. Tim Scott is co-founder and CEO of TEGA Therapeutics, Inc. He previously was founder and President of Pharmatek Laboratories, a contract development and manufacturing company which he sold to Catalent Pharma Solutions in 2016. Mr. Scott serves on the Board of Avelas, a bioscience company working to create better outcomes for cancer patients with its activatable cell-penetrating peptide technology. Mr. Scott was a member of the Board of Zacharon Pharmaceuticals, a glycobiology company (sold to BioMarin). He is a member of the boards of BIOCOM, a non-profit organization supporting the needs of bio/pharma companies California and CONNECT, a non-profit helping to create and scale innovation companies in San Diego. In the community, he serves as a trustee for the La Jolla Playhouse, a Tony-award winning regional theatre in La Jolla, California. Mr. Scott earned his B.A. in Biochemistry from the University of California, San Diego. He earned his J.D. from the University of San Diego and is a member of the California Bar. He joined the Board in 2018.

Fort Dearborn Company has introduced white shrink sleeve film as the company’s latest product innovation. The white PETG shrink sleeve film material provides product coverage and light blocking capabilities. Optional backside printing is available to provide added light barrier protection for increased product shelf life.

Welcome to the Soldupe Sync Quick Start Guide! It will help you getting Soldupe Sync up&running in no time! You can download the full Soldupe Sync for Android Configuration Guide (PDF) here. At the Login Page you can either use your username and password to login (Sorry, it’s not possible to use your email address here!), but we would recommend you to generate a dedicated app password for Soldupe Sync. 3. You can now use that Username / Password combination with your Soldupe Sync app. Please be aware, that this password is only shown once! We recommend to untick the “Allow filesystem access” box! Once you’ve entered your credential and pressed the Login button in the lower right corner, Soldupe Sync will detect the existing calendars and address books. This may take a few seconds. You will be then asked to create an account – this account will be used for synchronizing your data with the Soldupe backend. Please use an email address for the account name, as Android uses the account name as Organizer for the events you create! After installing Soldupe Sync, at the first start of the app your system will ask you, if it’s OK for you to turn off the power saving for Soldupe Sync. Please answer “YES” otherwise Soldupe Sync will not be able to sync your data, while your phone is on standby! Per default your email address you registered with at Soldupe will be used. Soldupe Sync will ask you for some additional permissions it needs to synchronize your calendar entries, contacts and tasks. Please grant Soldupe Sync these permissions, otherwise we can’t guarantee you that it will work properly!

The Technobell’s tank production equipment is designed to produce Glass Reinforced Polyester (GRP) tanks, both horizontal and vertical, for below- and above- ground applications, from GRP pipes produced on the Continuous Filament Winding (CFW) production line. The equipment enables the production of GRP tank diameters from 1000 mm to 3000 mm with the capacity from 1 m3 to 81 m3 depending on cylinder/pipe length. Tanks are made from GRP pipes produced on a continuous filament winding (CFW) production line and reinforced with parallel and/or cross-filament winding of roving impregnated with resin. The tank cylinder (GRP pipe) is transferred to the motorised support and it is assembled with end caps using internal joining rings. End-caps are then fixed to the cylinder by applying roving impregnated with resin. The cylinder reinforcement process is then carried out on a dedicated winding machine and performed with synchronisation of tank rotation speed and a horizontally moving carriage delivering raw materials. At the end of the self-curing process, the tank is ready for installation of any required connectors and/or fittings. The manufacturing of tanks is done with synchronizing relative speeds of tank rotation and horizontally moving carriage equipped with raw materials. The laminate building–up can be easily made in compliance with the appropriate design. The TFW Machine is digitally controlled. All machine operations and the dosing system are controlled by computer. Production data are stored and available on the machine. The CRO simplifies the placing of the ring inside the base of the shell, because the base is not circular. The CRO is composed of four telescopic arms with pins, for different diameters of tanks. Two sections are equipped with push spanners and two with adjustable legs. The FLM equipment is designed for the production of GRP tank flat end caps. The flat end cap is constructed by hand lay-up and spray-up on the FLM and is extracted with compressed air. The SEM part is designed for production of GRP tank semi-ellipsoidal end caps. The semi-ellipsoidal GRP end cap constructed by hand lay-up and spray-up on the SEM and is extracted with compressed air. The JRI set is designed for joining tank end caps with the shell of tank, before filament winding is undertaken on the TFW machine. The JRI is equipped with two tensioners for adjusting circularity and diameter. The same ring is used for joining flat or semi-ellipsoidal end caps. The SPI is installed and laminated on the flat or semi-ellipsoidal cap end with polyester resin and glass fibre. The tank with SPI on both sides is positioned on MSU machine where the joints lamination between the cylinder and cap ends is carried out. After that the TFW machine is used to reinforce the tank structure in accordance with project design specifications. The MSU machine rotates the tank during the laminating of the joint between the cylinder and the end caps, using a spray-up machine for applying cut-glass fibres and polyester resin. The CRS is used to support or transport tanks during the various phases of production and for various diameters, utilising appropriately sized metal inserts.

Methodology for processing GPS measurements. Automatic identification Algorithms of topographical landmark on the map. Establish synergistic effects in multilayer polymer structures. Studies and research for the development of algorithms for automatic and semiautomatic collection of geographic data and determination of resulting databases accuracy (ALGIS).

Ocean Optics offers both modular and fully integrated systems for determining optical and non-optical thin film thickness characteristics for applications in semiconductor, industrial, medical and consumer markets. Our customers have successfully configured systems for measuring the thickness of silicon wafers, determining photoresist layers for masks and testing the hardness and wear of coatings. Components for high-volume OEM applications are also available. Thin film measurement instrumentation has evolved from complex, difficult to use systems to today’s compact, practical tools that provide a simple but powerful and flexible interface. With coverage ranging from the vacuum ultraviolet to the infrared, these devices offer a level of accuracy and repeatability that makes spectroscopic techniques useful for a broad range of applications. A thin film on a substrate can act as an etalon, creating an interference pattern superimposed on the surface reflectivity when viewed in reflection. The spacing of the pattern’s sinusoidal peaks, when combined with the refractive index of the material, can be used to calculate the thickness of the material. Spectra observed in our operating software reveal oscillations caused by optical interference within the layers of the thin film substrate. Analysis of the wavelength position of the minima or maxima can determine either the thin film’s thickness (with the known refractive index of the film) or its refractive index (with the known film thickness). Keep in mind that the thickness of samples may not be uniform; we recommend measuring several locations on the film. The HR2000+ES enhanced-sensitivity spectrometer is one of many good options for reflectrometry of thin films. The spectrometer is preconfigured with a wide-range grating set for ~200-1050 nm, a 10 µm slit and a detector collection lens for enhanced sensitivity. Also, the optical bench has a quartz window for UV transmission and the OFLV-200-1100 variable longpass order-sorting filter to eliminate second- and third-order effects. A QR400-7-VIS-NIR reflection probe positioned at 90° to the sample measures specular reflectance from surfaces such as thin films. We couple our HL-2000 tungsten halogen light source to the probe for illumination and add a reflection probe holder and specular reflectance standard (not shown) to complete the sampling setup. Alternatively, we replace the probe holder and reflectance standard with a Single-point Reflection Stage and Si-SiO2 reference wafer (see illustration). STEP-WAFER reference standards are available in UV-VIS and VIS-NIR wavelengths, are 100 mm in diameter and are 5-step wafers with calibrated thickness ranges of 0-500 nm and 600-1100 nm. OceanView spectroscopy software completes the system. Metrology systems can generate 3D plots of thin film thickness, as with this silicon sample. Thin film thickness can be determined for multilayer samples such as an anti-reflective coating on silicon. Transmission measurements of polymer thin film samples show differences in interference patterns.

Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan(PMGDISHA): Is the world's biggest program which has been launched in India to make the Indian rural household digitally literate by teaching them to operate the digital devices and make them able to use smart phones and digital devisees like tablets and other and make them digitally literate, make them computer litrate. If any person or franchisee is interested to open the PMGDISHA(Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan)center what he need to do is first of all he need to check whether he has enough land or not.. For PMGDISHA project franchisee requires at least 300 sq feet land with at least 3 computers in it. Once you had done with space the next thing is affiliation. For the affiliation first of all franchisee need some documents which include: space proof, center details with photograph of front, banner and infrastructure, Memorandum of Understanding, Directors name with photograph, address, email id, cell number, previous work details with the website address if there is any. Once the franchisee has all the documents then he need to fill a form of affiliation. Once the form is submitted then the franchisee need to wait for the inspection. Since a small inspection is going to be done after the form submission to check the authenticity of the form and the center. And the report submitted by the inspection agency will be the final and the judgmental one. Target: to make 6crore Indian backward houses digitally literate. To make a person capable of using digital devices (smart phones, laptops, internet, tablets etc ). Age criteria for the students: anyone who is between 14-60 years of age. Franchisee: if any franchisee is interested to open Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan(PMGDISHA) he need to associate with Muskan. Muskan: is an NGO and the number one training partner of Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan(PMGDISHA). Our work is to help franchisee to associate with the government for the PMGDISHA scheme. We work as an helping hand for the government and help the franchisee by providing him special counseling regarding to the project, by helping him to go through all the legal aspect. Director's name with photographs, email id, cell number, address. Scan copy of Adar card. Scan copy of voter I card. If there is any website then website details also.

Development of large key accounts in retail departmental store groups, chain bookstores and stationery outlets. Responsibilities for developing and maintaining top direct customer relationship. Coordinating sales and marketing materials and new products / customization launches at trade shows.

MII designs, develops, fabricates, and tests advanced composite heat exchangers for demanding aerospace environments. Heat exchanger products are designed and built for air-to-air, air-to-fluid, and for fluid-to-fluid requirements. Thermally conductive composites and carbons up to 800 W/mK are used in critical heat exchange areas with low cost composites and metallics used elsewhere. Modular construction is exclusively employed on all designs. Hermeticity with assurance for leak free performance is paramount which predicates the design envelop for all composite heat exchangers. Advance composites with the correct design allows these heat exchangers to greatly exceed current thermal performance levels relative to metallic heat exchangers, while offering 20% to 40% weight savings.

AVX’s CCR Molded Axial is an Established Reliability product manufactured in accordance with MIL-PRF-20. Periodic maintenance testing is performed at regular intervals to ensure each failure rate designation. Each lot is subjected to 100% performance testing that ensures compliance to the designated Failure Rate.

Advances in optoelectronics technologies is causing a revolution in consumer electronic goods, solar energy, communications, LED, industrial laser, and other fields. At present, the optoelectrical manufacturing is facing significant challenges in dealing with the evolution of the equipment, instrumentation and manufacturing processes they support. The industry is striving for higher customisation and individualisation, implying that systems configurations need to change more frequently and dynamically. IQONIC will offer a scalable zero defect manufacturing platform covering the overall process chain of optoelectrical parts. IQONIC covers the design of new optoelectrical components and their optimised process chain, their assembly process, as well as their disassembly and reintroduction into the value chain. IQONIC will therefore comprise new hardware and software components interfaced with the current facilities through internet of things and data-management platforms, while being orchestrated through eight (8) scalable strategies at component, work-station and shopfloor level. The IQONIC technologies will be demonstrated in 4 demo sites covering a wide range of products and processes. The impact of IQONIC to the European optoelectronics manufacturing industry, but also the society itself, can be summarised in the following (with a horizon of 4 years after project ends): (i) increase of the in-service efficiency by 22%, (ii) increased flexibility with 16% faster reconfiguration times, (iii) 10% reduction in production costs through recycled components and materials, (iv) improved designs for assembly and disassembly and, (v) about 400 new jobs created and (vi) over 39 MEUR ROI for the consortium. To do that we have brought together a total of seventeen (17) EU-based partners, representing both industry and academia, having ample experience in cutting-edge technologies and active presence in the EU photonics and manufacturing.

Learn More ➡We personally design security systems for every agricultural size and need. We can keep your investments secure by offering remote control of your property, 24/7 monitoring, video surveillance and more. You’ll receive a test, inspection, repair and a maintenance contract to make sure your property and your assets are safe. From design to installation, our team will design your property with a custom system to suit your needs. You can’t afford to not secure your livelihood, and our security systems will ensure your assets are protected. Red Wave designs and installs affordable systems that send cellular alerts when a crime is occurring. A thief won’t have the chance to strip copper from your pump, siphon fuel from a tank or take tools from your ranch. These systems are custom designed to fit your application and requirements, and eliminate time and cost of fixing or replacing your property. Our newest wireless video security systems are specifically designed to secure your outdoor assets and remote facilities. We can install a completely wireless motion-based capture system without any type of geographical limit. This allows the flexibility to protect many diverse applications from onsite fuel storage to offsite irrigation pumps. With live video verification the customer gets a priority response from the authorities. The MotionViewer is equipped with an infrared motion sensor, digital video camera and infrared illuminators to easily capture any criminal activity. Motion activates the camera and sends a 10-second video to the 24/7 monitoring station and site manager. Based on this Instant Witness video, operators may dispatch police to a “crime in progress,” instead of a standard alarm, yielding faster police response times to catch intruders. The MotionViewer has a completely wireless operation with battery life up to two years ensuring that loss of electricity will not affect the cameras. The alarm signal is sent over cell or LAN networks to the 24/7 Monitoring Station so the signal will go through even if the phone lines are clipped. The camera is built to withstand harsh climates. It can function between -20°F and 140°F, to make sure that crimes are recorded without any geographical limitations. The camera’s motion-sensing capabilities and night illumination range up to 30 feet. The wireless range between the cameras and main panel ranges up to 1000 feet. Red Wave can design and install a system for any rancher, from small to complex facilities. The system will allow you to be able to remotely control just about any type of system. From lighting to cameras to the temperature in your office, we can build it. Our fire alarm systems quickly detect smoke and changes in the environment so you can safely evacuate your staff from the property in the event of an emergency. We offer tests, inspections, repairs and a maintenance contract to make sure you are safe.

The OS-214TT is an outstanding thermal transfer and direct thermal printer. With advanced standard features and flexible options, the OS-214TT is engineered to meet moderate volume printing applications. With innovative TrueSpeed technology, the OS-214TT has rapid first-label printout and achieves a constant print speed of up to 3 inches per second. The small footprint requires minimum counter space, and its light weight allows the printer to be easily moved to any convenient location.

During the coming holidays there will be adjusted opening hours for our head office and limited delivery possibilities from our warehouse. Orders (online) placed on 21 until 27 December before 12.00 will be delivered on 29 December. Orders (online) placed on 28 December until 1 January before 12.00 will be delivered on 3 January 2019. The Wecovi team wishes you happy holidays and a successful 2019. Sign up for our newsletter and receive regular updates here.