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Measurement of atmospheric deposition of polychlorinated dibenzo-p- dioxin and dibenzofurans in the Lagoon of Venice, Italy.

Data on atmospheric fall-out of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs) and dibenzofurans (PCDFs) were\ud
provided by collecting bulk deposition in four stations inside the Lagoon of Venice. A total of 44 monthly samples was\ud
collected during the period July 1998–July 1999 in one site near an industrial area (Porto Marghera), one site in the city\ud
of Venice, and two sites in the southern- and northernmost ends of the Lagoon. Fluxes of PCDD/Fs were between 0.1\ud
and 470 pg m-2 d-1 , corresponding to 0–9.2 pg of 2,3,7,8-TCDD equivalents (TEQ) m-2 d-1 , with a gradient increasing\ud
from remote to urban/industrial stations. Thus, annual deposition of PCDD/Fs to the Lagoon (total area ¼ 550 km 2 ),\ud
calculated with various methods, turned out to be ~12 g, corresponding to ~400 mg TEQ. Significant differences were\ud
found among the stations, with a clear fingerprinting signature (PCDF/PCDD > 1) of the deposition collected near\ud
Porto Marghera, and a reversed pattern (PCDF/PCDD < 1) in the rest of the Lagoon, which pattern was similar to the\ud
sediments collected in the same locations. Lastly, the amount of bulk PTEQ of all stations was compared with the\ud
guide values for dioxins in depositions proposed by De Fré et al. [Organohalogen Compounds 45 (2000) 324]
Frovatriptan versus almotriptan for acute treatment of menstrual migraine: analysis of a double-blind, randomized, cross-over, multicenter, Italian, comparative study

The objective of the study was to compare the efficacy and safety of frovatriptan and almotriptan in women with menstrually related migraine (IHS Classification of Headache disorders) enrolled in a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, cross-over study. Patients received frovatriptan 2.5 mg or almotriptan 12.5 mg in a randomized sequence: after treating 3 episodes of migraine in no more than 3 months with the first treatment, the patient was switched to the other treatment. 67 of the 96 female patients of the intention-to-treat population of the main study had regular menstrual cycles and were thus included in this subgroup analysis. 77 migraine attacks classified as related to menses were treated with frovatriptan and 78 with almotriptan. Rate of pain relief at 2 and 4 h was 36 and 53 % for frovatriptan and 41 and 50 % for almotriptan (p = NS between treatments). Rate of pain free at 2 and 4 h was 19 and 47 % with frovatriptan and 29 and 54 % for almotriptan (p = NS). At 24 h, 62 % of frovatriptan-treated and 67 % of almotriptan-treated patients had pain relief, while 60 versus 67 % were pain free (p = NS). Recurrence at 24 h was significantly (p < 0.05) lower with frovatriptan (8 vs. 21 % almotriptan). This was the case also at 48 h (9 vs. 24 %, p < 0.05). Frovatriptan was as effective as almotriptan in the immediate treatment of menstrually related migraine attacks. However, it showed a more favorable sustained effect, as shown by a lower rate of migraine recurrence
On convergence of the penalty method for unilateral contact problems

International audienceWe present a convergence analysis of the penalty method applied to unilateral contact problems in two and three space dimensions. We first consider, under various regularity assumptions on the exact solution to the unilateral contact problem, the convergence of the continuous penalty solution as the penalty parameter $\varepsilon$ vanishes. Then, the analysis of the finite element discretized penalty method is carried out. Denoting by $h$ the discretization parameter, we show that the error terms we consider give the same estimates as in the case of the constrained problem when the penalty parameter is such that $\varepsilon = h$
The first experiment of a THz gyrotron with a pulse magnet

A THz gyrotron with a pulse magnet has been designed, constructed and operated in FIR FU. It is developed as one of high frequency gyrotrons included in Gyrotron FU Series. The gyrotron has already achieved the first experimental result for high frequency operations whose radiation frequency exceeds 1 THz. In this paper, the design detail and the operation test results for sub-terahertz to terahertz range are described. The second harmonic operation is confirmed experimentally at the expected frequency of 1.005 THz due to TE_6,_11 cavity mode at the magnetic field intensity of 19.0 T
Multiscale modeling of a rectifying bipolar nanopore: Comparing
  Poisson-Nernst-Planck to Monte Carlo

In the framework of a multiscale modeling approach, we present a systematic
study of a bipolar rectifying nanopore using a continuum and a particle
simulation method. The common ground in the two methods is the application of
the Nernst-Planck (NP) equation to compute ion transport in the framework of
the implicit-water electrolyte model. The difference is that the
Poisson-Boltzmann theory is used in the Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) approach,
while the Local Equilibrium Monte Carlo (LEMC) method is used in the particle
simulation approach (NP+LEMC) to relate the concentration profile to the
electrochemical potential profile. Since we consider a bipolar pore which is
short and narrow, we perform simulations using two-dimensional PNP. In
addition, results of a non-linear version of PNP that takes crowding of ions
into account are shown. We observe that the mean field approximation applied in
PNP is appropriate to reproduce the basic behavior of the bipolar nanopore
(e.g., rectification) for varying parameters of the system (voltage, surface
charge, electrolyte concentration, and pore radius). We present current data
that characterize the nanopore's behavior as a device, as well as
concentration, electrical potential, and electrochemical potential profiles
Performance measures for dynamic multi-objective optimisation algorithms

When algorithms solve dynamic multi-objective optimisation problems (DMOOPs), performance
measures are required to quantify the performance of the algorithm and to compare
one algorithm’s performance against that of other algorithms. However, for dynamic multiobjective
optimisation (DMOO) there are no standard performance measures. This article
provides an overview of the performance measures that have been used so far. In addition,
issues with performance measures that are currently being used in the DMOO literature are
highlighted.http://www.elsevier.com/locate/insmv201
Parallel-in-Space-and-Time Simulation of the Three-Dimensional, Unsteady
  Navier-Stokes Equations for Incompressible Flow

In this paper we combine the Parareal parallel-in-time method together with
spatial parallelization and investigate this space-time parallel scheme by
means of solving the three-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations.
Parallelization of time stepping provides a new direction of parallelization
and allows to employ additional cores to further speed up simulations after
spatial parallelization has saturated. We report on numerical experiments
performed on a Cray XE6, simulating a driven cavity flow with and without
obstacles. Distributed memory parallelization is used in both space and time,
featuring up to 2,048 cores in total. It is confirmed that the
space-time-parallel method can provide speedup beyond the saturation of the
spatial parallelization
An algorithm of the wildfire classification by its acoustic emission spectrum using Wireless Sensor Networks

Crown fires are extremely dangerous as the speed of their distribution is dozen times higher compared to surface fires. Therefore, it is important to classify the fire type as early as possible. A method for forest fires classification exploits their computed acoustic emission spectrum compared with a set of samples of the typical fire acoustic emission spectrum stored in the database. This method implies acquisition acoustic data using Wireless Sensors Networks (WSNs) and their analysis in a central processing and a control center. The paper deals with an algorithm which can be directly implemented on a sensor network node that will allow reducing considerably the network traffic and increasing its efficiency. It is hereby suggested to use the sum of the squares ratio, with regard to amplitudes of low and high frequencies of the wildfire acoustic emission spectrum, as the indicator of a forest fire type. It is shown that the value of the crown fires indicator is several times higher than that of the surface ones. This allows classifying the fire types (crown, surface) in a short time interval and transmitting a fire type indicator code alongside with an alarm signal through the network
Resonance in a model for Cooker's sloshing experiment

Cooker's sloshing experiment is a prototype for studying the dynamic coupling between fluid sloshing and vessel motion. It involves a container, partially filled with fluid, suspended by two cables and constrained to remain horizontal while undergoing a pendulum-like motion. In this paper the fully-nonlinear equations are taken as a starting point, including a new derivation of the coupled equation for vessel motion, which is a forced nonlinear pendulum equation. The equations are then linearized and the natural frequencies studied. The coupling leads to a highly nonlinear transcendental characteristic equation for the frequencies. Two derivations of the characteristic equation are given, one based on a cosine expansion and the other based on a class of vertical eigenfunctions. These two characteristic equations are compared with previous results in the literature. Although the two derivations lead to dramatically different forms for the characteristic equation, we prove that they are equivalent. The most important observation is the discovery of an internal $1:1$ resonance in the fully two-dimensional finite depth model, where symmetric fluid modes are coupled to the vessel motion. Numerical evaluation of the resonant and nonresonant modes are presented. The implications of the resonance for the fluid dynamics, and for the nonlinear coupled dynamics near the resonance are also briefly discussed
The role of spatial and temporal radiation deposition in inertial fusion chambers: the case of HiPER¿

The ﬁrst wall armour for the reactor chamber of HiPER will have to face short energy pulses of 5 to 20 MJ mostly in the form of x-rays and charged particles at a repetition rate of 5–10 Hz. Armour material and chamber dimensions have to be chosen to avoid/minimize damage to the chamber, ensuring the proper functioning of the facility during its planned lifetime. The maximum energy ﬂuence that the armour can withstand without risk of failure, is determined by temporal and spatial deposition of the radiation energy inside the material. In this paper, simulations on the thermal effect of the radiation–armour interaction are carried out with an increasing deﬁnition of the temporal and spatial deposition of energy to prove their inﬂuence on the ﬁnal results. These calculations will lead us to present the ﬁrst values of the thermo-mechanical behaviour of the tungsten armour designed for the HiPER project under a shock ignition target of 48 MJ. The results will show that only the crossing of the plasticity limit in the ﬁrst few micrometres might be a threat after thousands of shots for the survivability of the armour
Low-resource synchronous coincidence processor for positron emission tomography

We developed a new FPGA-based method for coincidence detection in positronemissiontomography. The method requires low device resources and no specific peripherals in order to resolve coincident digital pulses within a time window of a few nanoseconds. This method has been validated with a low-end Xilinx Spartan-3E and provided coincidence resolutions lower than 6 ns. This resolution depends directly on the signal propagation properties of the target device and the maximum available clock frequency, therefore it is expected to improve considerably on higher-end FPGAs
Observation of a bacteriochlorophyll anion radical during the primary charge separation in a reaction center

The primary light-induced charge separation in reaction centers of Rhodobacter sphaeroides was investigated with femtosecond time resolution. The absorption changes in the time range 100 fs to 1 ns observed after direct excitation of the primary donor P at 860 nm could only be explained by a kinetic model which uses three time constants. This finding supports the following reaction scheme: (i) the electronically excited primary donor P* decays with a time constant of 3.5 ps and populates a very short-lived intermediate involving a reduced accessory bacteriochlorophyll molecule; (ii) with a time constant of 0.9 ps the electron is transferred to the neighboring bacteriopheophytin molecule; and (iii) from there within 200 ps to the quinone.
Multi-Size-Mesh, Multi-Time-Step Algorithm for Noise Computation on Curvilinear Meshes

Aeroacoustic problems are often multi-scale and a zonal refinement technique is thus desirable to reduce computational effort while preserving low dissipation and low dispersion errors from the numerical scheme. For that purpose, the multi-size-mesh multi-time-step algorithm of Tam and Kurbatskii [AIAA Journal, 2000, 38(8), p. 1331–1339] allows changes by a factor of two between adjacent blocks, accompanied by a doubling in the time step. This local time stepping avoids wasting calculation time, which would result from imposing a unique time step dictated by the smallest grid size for explicit time marching. In the present study, the multi-size-mesh multi-time-step method is extended to general curvilinear grids by using a suitable coordinate transformation and by performing the necessary interpolations directly in the physical space due to multidimensional interpolations combining order constraints and optimization in the wave number space. A particular attention is paid to the properties of the Adams–Bashforth schemes used for time marching. The optimization of the coefficients by minimizing an error in the wave number space rather than satisfying a formal order is shown to be inefficient for Adams–Bashforth schemes. The accuracy of the extended multi-size-mesh multi-time-step algorithm is first demonstrated for acoustic propagation on a sinusoidal grid and for a computation of laminar trailing edge noise. In the latter test-case, the mesh doubling is close to the airfoil and the vortical structures are crossing the doubling interface without affecting the quality of the radiated field. The applicability of the algorithm in three dimensions is eventually demonstrated by computing tonal noise from a moderate Reynolds number flow over an airfoil
Feasibility study of hybrid retrofits to an isolated off-grid diesel power plant

Abstract The green sources of energy are being encouraged to reduce the environmental pollution and combat the global warming of the planet. A target of 12% usage of wind energy only has been agreed by the UNO country members to achieve by 2020. So, the power of the wind is being used to generate electricity both as grid connected and isolated wind-diesel hybrid power plants. This paper performed a pre-feasibility of wind penetration into an existing diesel plant of a village in north eastern part of Saudi Arabia. For simulation purpose, wind speed data from a near by airport and the load data from the village have been used. The hybrid system design tool HOMER has been used to perform the feasibility study. In the present scenario, for wind speed less than 6.0 m/s the, the existing diesel power plant is the only feasible solution over the range of fuel prices used in the simulation. The wind diesel hybrid system becomes feasible at a wind speed of 6.0 m/s or more and a fuel price of 0.1 $/L or more. If the carbon tax is taken into consideration and subsidy is abolished then it is expected that the hybrid system become feasible. The maximum annual capacity shortage did not have any effect on the cost of energy which may be accounted for larger sizes of wind machines and diesel generators. It is recommended that the wind data must be collected at the village at three different heights using a wind mast of 40m for a minimum of one complete year and then the hybrid system must be re-designed. r 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. ARTICLE IN PRESS www.elsevier.com/locate/rser 1364-0321/$ - see front matter r 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.rser.2005.05.003 Corresponding author. Tel.: +9663 860 3802; fax: +966 3 860 3996. E-mail address: srehman@kfupm.edu.sa (S. Rehman). 1Home page: http://staff.kfupm.edu.sa/ri/srehman
Challenges for content-based navigation of digital video in the Físchlár digital library

Now that the engineering problems associated with creating, manipulating, storing, transmitting and playback of large volumes of digital video information are well on their way to being solved, attention is turning to content-based and other means to access video from large collections. In this paper we present an overview of the different ways in which video content can be used, directly, to support various ways of navigating within large video libraries. Some of these content-based mechanisms have been developed and implemented on video already and we use our own Físchlár system to illustrate many of these. Others remain beyond our current technological capabilities but by sketching out the possibilities and illustrating with examples where possible, as we do in this paper, we help to define what challenges still remain to be addressed in the area of content-based video navigation
Activity recognition of local muscular endurance (LME) exercises using an inertial sensor

In this paper, we propose an algorithmic approach for a motion analysis framework to automatically recognize local muscular endurance (LME) exercises and to count their repetitions using a wrist-worn inertial sensor. LME exercises are prescribed for cardiovascular disease rehabilitation. As a technical solution, we propose activity recognition based on machine learning. We developed an algorithm to automatically segment the captured data from all participants. Relevant time and frequency domain features were extracted using a sliding window technique. Principal component analysis (PCA) was applied for dimensionality reduction of the extracted features. We trained 15 binary classifiers using support vector machine (SVM) to recognize individual LME exercises, achieving overall accuracy of more than 98%. We applied grid search technique to obtain the optimal SVM hyperplane parameters. The learning curves (mean ± stdev) for each model is investigated to verify that the models were not over-tted and performed well on any new test data. Also, we devised a method to count the repetitions of the upper body exercises
Decellularization of pericardial tissue and its impact on tensile viscoelasticity and glycosaminoglycan content

Bovine pericardium is a collagenous tissue commonly used as a natural biomaterial in the fabrication of cardiovascular devices. For tissue engineering purposes, this xenogeneic biomaterial must be decellularized to remove cellular antigens. With this in mind, three decellularization protocols were compared in terms of their effectiveness to extract cellular materials, their effect on glycosaminoglycan (GAG) content and, finally, their effect on tensile biomechanical behavior. The tissue decellularization was achieved by treatment with t-octyl phenoxy polyethoxy ethanol (Triton X-100), tridecyl polyethoxy ethanol (ATE) and alkaline treatment and subsequent treatment with nucleases (DNase/RNase). The quantified residual DNA content (3.0 ± 0.4%, 4.4 ± 0.6% and 5.6 ± 0.7% for Triton X-100, ATE and alkaline treatment, respectively) and the absence of nuclear structures (hematoxylin and eosin staining) were indicators of effective cell removal. In the same way, it was found that the native tissue GAG content decreased to 61.6 ± 0.6%, 62.7 ± 1.1% and 88.6 ± 0.2% for Triton X-100, ATE and alkaline treatment, respectively. In addition, an alteration in the tissue stress relaxation characteristics was observed after alkaline treatment. We can conclude that the three decellularization agents preserved the collagen structural network, anisotropy and the tensile modulus, tensile strength and maximum strain at failure of native tissue
Thermodynamics of zinc insertion in CuGaS2:Ti, used as a modulator agent in an intermediate-band photovoltaic material

An intermediate-bandphotovoltaicmaterial, which has an isolated metallic band located between the top of the valence band and bottom of the conduction band of some semiconductors, has been proposed as third generation solar cell to be used in photovoltaic applications. Density functional theory calculations of Zn in CuGaS2:Ti have previously shown that, the intermediate-band position can be modulated in proportion of Zn insertion in such a way that increasing Zn concentration can lead to aband-gap reduction, and an adjustment of the intermediate-band position. This could be interesting in the formation of an intermediate-bandmaterial, that has the maximum efficiency theoretically predicted for the intermediate-band solar cell. In this work, the energetics of several reaction schemes that could lead to the decomposition of the modulated intermediate-bandphotovoltaicmaterial, CuGaS2:Ti:Zn, is studied in order to assess the thermodynamic stability of this material. Calculations of the total free energy and disorder entropy have been taken into account, to get the reaction energy and free energy of the compound decomposition, which is found to be thermodynamically favorabl
Review of the Performance of Residential PV systems in France

The main objective of this paper is to review the state of the art of residential PV systems in France. This is done analyzing the operational data of 6868 installations. Three main questions are posed. How much energy do they produce? What level of performance is associated to their production? Which are the key parameters that most influence their quality? During the year 2010, the PV systems in France have produced a mean annual energy of 1163 kWh/kWp. As a whole, the orientation of PV generators causes energy productions to be some 7% inferior to optimally oriented PV systems. The mean Performance Ratio is 76% and the mean Performance Index is 85%. That is to say, the energy produced by a typical PV system in France is 15% inferior to the energy produced by a very high quality PV system. On average, the real power of the PV modules falls 4.9% below its corresponding nominal power announced on the manufacturer's datasheet. A brief analysis by PV modules technology has led to relevant observations about two technologies in particular. On the one hand, the PV systems equipped with heterojunction with intrinsic thin layer (HIT) modules show performances higher than average. On the other hand, the systems equipped with the copper indium (di)selenide (CIS) modules show a real power that is 16% lower than their nominal value