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Fast And Accurate Evaluation Of Lifepo4 Cathode Materials By Single Particle Microelectrode, Fu-Qing Wang, Yi-Min Wei, Yu-Zhuan Su, Bing-Wei Mao, Kai Wu, Feng-Gang Zhao, Chun-Lei Chen, Xing-Lu Li, Jin Chong

Journal of Electrochemistry

Single particle microelectrode enables to evaluate the electrochemical responses for single particle of active material without binder and conductive agent. Thus, the influences of additive and electrode structure on the electrochemical performance of active materials can be ignored. Furthermore, this technology can be used to evaluate active materials fast. Therefore, single particle microelectrode allows fast and accurate determination of the intrinsic performance of active material. Cyclic voltammogram (CV), cycle performance, and kinetic behavior of LiFePO₄ cathode materials were evaluated by the single particle microelectrode. CV curve of LiFePO₄ particle with a pair of oxidation and reduction peaks was …

The Value Of Focused Assessment Sonography For Trauma (Fast) In The Management Of Patients With Blunt Trauma To The Abdomen, Nabeel Isam Naiem, Mohammed Mahmood, Tharwat Idrees Sulaiman, Yahya Kareem Hammoodi

Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: During the last decade focused assessment with sonography for trauma increasingly has become the initial diagnostic modality of choice in trauma patients. OBJECTIVE: This study was carried to evaluate the sensitivity, specificity and accuracy of FAST when done by residents in the emergency surgical department, & its effect in determining the type of management. PATIENTS AND METHOD: 210 patients with blunt abdominal trauma were assessed with FAST within 30 minutes from admission to the emergency room. FAST results were considered positive if it detected intra peritoneal fluid , negative if it did not detect intra peritoneal fluid , …

Relationship Of Specialty Diets To The Severity Of Symptoms Associated With Autism, Rachele Lee

Nursing Capstones

No abstract provided.

Energy-Efficient Selective Activation In Femtocell Networks, Michael Lin, Simone Silvestri, Novella Bartolini, Thomas La Porta

Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

Provisioning the capacity of wireless networks is difficult when peak load is significantly higher than average load, for example, in public spaces like airports or train stations. Service providers can use femtocells and small cells to increase local capacity, but deploying enough femtocells to serve peak loads requires a large number of femtocells that will remain idle most of the time, which wastes a significant amount of power. To reduce the energy consumption of over-provisioned femtocell networks, we formulate a femtocell selective activation problem, which we formalize as an integer nonlinear optimization problem. Then we introduce Green Femto, a distributed …

Long Term Effect Of Permenant Right Ventricular Pacing On Left Ventricular Systolic Function, Mahmood Riyadh Haleem, Ali Abdul-Amir Mohammad Al-Mousawi, Sabah Hadi, Kasim Abbas Ismail Al-Saedi

Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Right ventricular apical pacing is associated with alterations of left ventricular contraction sequence and dilatation and may have a deleterious effect on left ventricular function. OBJECTIVE: The study investigates the correlation between left ventricular function and long term right ventricular pacing. METHODS: In this study, 80 patients with permanent right ventricular apical pacing (VDD and DDD) randomized to assess left ventricular systolic function particularly LVEF% .primary end point was LVEF% after 1 year of pacing. RESULTS: In this study, the mean LVEF% was reduced after 1year of right ventricular pacing from (67.47±2.94 to 55.89±8.41, p value 0.0001), with …

2nd Annual Sustainability Report, Saint Mary's College Of California

Sustainability Report

No abstract provided.

Outcome Of The First Trimester Threatened Miscarriage: Study Of The Predicting Factors, Abdulrazak H. Alnakash, Nibras A Omar, Faris Anwer Rasheed

Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Threatened miscarriage is a distressing condition to both pregnant woman and gynecologist. It is important to predict the outcome of threatened miscarriage through maternal history, biochemical tests, and fetal ultrasound for patient counseling and to avoid delay in management. Study design A prospective multiple logistic regression analysis study. OBJECTIVE: To assess the power of factors which are maternal history (age, vaginal bleeding, parity and hypertension), biochemical tests (β-hCG & serum progesterone level) and fetal ultrasound (crown rump length& fetal heart rate) for predicting the outcome of pregnancy (fetal demise & ongoing pregnancy) complicated by threatened miscarriage between 7-11 …

Left Complete Second Branchial Arch Fistula In A 9 Years Old Boy, Raid M. Al-Ani, Saad M. Al-Fehadawi

Muthanna Medical Journal

Anomaly of 2nd arch is the commonest among branchial arches anomalies and manifests as branchial sinus in majority of cases while branchial fistula is seldom to occur. We present a case of left branchial fistula in a 9 years old boy, which was confirmed by a fistulogram. The tract was completely excised by combined surgical approach with excellent outcome.

Physical Properties Of Edible Composite Films Based On Chitosan And Whey Protein Isolate, Wang Yaosong, Zhao Liming, Wu Yanqing

Food and Machinery

The chitosan with different molecular weights (MW: 50 kDa, 250 kDa, 500 kDa and 1 000 kDa) were used to respectively combine whey proteins to form their composite films. It was expected that chitosan/whey proteins films endowed with versatile functionalities to meet practical requirement of food packaging applications. The equal volume of 3% (m/V) chitosan dissolved in 2% (m/V) acetic acid solutions and 12% (m/V) preheated (80 ℃ for 30 min) whey protein solutions was used to prepare resulting film-forming solutions after 2.4% (based on whey protein content, m/m) glycerol to make cast composite films. The functional propertied of the …

Acetaldehyde Analysis Of Beverage Plastic Bottle And Control Measures, Ai Li, Chen Changsong

Food and Machinery

The method of gas chromatography was used on acetaldehyde detection, and the data was analyzed, from the PET raw material to plastic bottles. According to the practical control measures, it was proved that the impact of plastic bottle on human body is in a controllable state.

Application Of Extrusion Technology For Preparing Defatted Black Soybean Meal Reconstituted Powder, Zhang Lin, Li Jianke, Ren Caixia, Sun Xuesi, Qin Lingxiang

Food and Machinery

The extruding and expanding experiment was studied with the black soybean meal as material, mixing corn starch by twin-screw extruder to make reconstituted powder, The best expanded technical parameters were determined, and studied the formula, the extrusion ratio, the reconstituability, the viscosity, the color of this powder flour. The optimal formula of the powder was as follows: black soybean meal 30%, corn starch 45%, sugar 15%, maltodextrin 10%, creamer 6%.

Post-Operative Adhesive Intestinal Obstruction, Risk Factors And Complications., Majeed H.H. Al, Mustafa Raed Muhi, Amiri

Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal

ABSTRACT : BACKGROUND : Post-operative adhesions form a main lifelong surgical issue, Adhesive intestinal obstruction remains the main complications of adhesions.multiple Risk factors play an important role in the initiation of the disease and its Management. OBJECTIVE: To identify the risk factors that increases the incidence of Adhesive intestinal obstruction and the complication of surgical intervention. PATIENTS AND METHODS : One hundred and eight patients with adhesive Intestinal obstruction (out of two hundreds and ten patients with acute intestinal Obstruction) were admitted to the surgical wards of Al-Yarmouk Teaching Hospital, studied prospectively for the period between the 1st of January …

The Value Of Focused Assessment Sonography For Trauma The Management Of Patients With Blunt Trauma To The Abdomen, Nabil Isam Naiem, Yahya Kareem Hammodi, Tharwat Idrees Sulaiman, Mohammed M.Habash

Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: During the last decade focused assessment with sonography for trauma increasingly has become the initial diagnostic modality of choice in trauma patients. OBJECTIVE: This study was carried to evaluate the sensitivity, specificity and accuracy of FAST when done by residents in the emergency surgical department, & its effect in determining the type of management. PATIENTS AND METHOD: 210 patients with blunt abdominal trauma were assessed with FAST within 30 minutes from admission to the emergency room. FAST results were considered positive if it detected intra peritoneal fluid , negative if it did not detect intra peritoneal fluid , …

Lobar Pneumonia In Hospitalized Children And Response To Empirical Antibiotic Treatment, Raghad Dawood Najem, Ahlam Mohamad Abdulabbas, Esraa Abd-Alhameed Abd-Al-Azeez, Ali K. Mohammed

Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: It is an inflammatory disease of lungs with consolidation of one or more lobes caused mostly by Streptocccus pneumoniae bacteria. It is a worldwide disease with high mortality among children less than 5 years old. OBJECTIVE: To determine the proper empirical antibiotic treatment for lobar pneumonia in hospitalized children and the correlation between the blood culture result and response to treatment. METHODS: A Cross sectional study was performed between January 2013 through December 2013 to 69 patient admitted to Central Teaching Hospital Of Pediatrics in Baghdad, aged more than two months to ten years, all of them met …

Neuroblastoma: A Clinico-Epidemiological Study In Al-Khadhimyia Teaching Hospital, Mais Ryiad, Sawsan Sati, Abass

Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Neuroblastoma is the third most common childhood cancer, after leukemia and brain tumors, and is the most common solid extra cranial tumor in children. The term neuroblastoma is commonly used to refer to a spectrum of neuroblastic tumors (including neuroblastomas, ganglioneuroblastomas, and ganglioneuromas) that arise from primitive sympathetic ganglion cells. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this research is to study the epidemiological and clinical feature of neuroblastoma in a group of Iraqi infants and children who were admitted to the pediatric ward of Al-Khadhimyia Teaching Hospital . PATIENTS AND METHOD: The study was done over a period of three …

Colloidal Ionic Supercapacitors, Kun-Feng Chen, Dong-Feng Xue

Journal of Electrochemistry

Supercapacitors have high power density and long cycle life compared with battery systems, but they still suffer from low energy density at the same time. In order to increase the energy density of supercapacitors, we have developed a new type of pseudocapacitor, called colloidal ion supercapacitor, which can directly use commercial metal salts as electrode materials and form electroactive matter by in-situ electrochemical reactions without the need of additional materials synthesis processes. Colloidal ion supercapacitor can fully utilize the redox reaction of metal cations with multiple oxidation states, which can completely release the stored electrical energy of multiple-valence cations, leading …

Electrodeposition Of Lanthanum In Deep Eutectic Solvents, Li Wang, You-Jun Fan, Lu Wei, Hai-Xia Liu, Shi-Gang Sun

Journal of Electrochemistry

With the choline chloride/urea deep eutectic solvents (DESs) as the medium, the olive-like lanthanum particles with uniform shape and size were successfully prepared through a potentiostatic deposition method. The prepared samples were characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), energy dispersive X-ray (EDX) spectroscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). At the same time, the effect of deposition potential, temperature and time on the size and morphology of samples was investigated. The results demonstrated that the optimum conditions for the preparation of olive-like lanthanum particles were as follows: deposition potential of -1.7 V, temperature of 80 °C and …

Electrochemical Properties Of Graphene/Porous Nano-Silicon Anode, Chun-Li Li, Guang Yang, Ping Zhang, Zhi-Yu Jiang

Journal of Electrochemistry

Porous nano-silicon (Si) was prepared by acid etching Al-Si alloy powder method, and used as an active material for fabricating a grapene/porous nano-Si electrode. The results of SEM and TEM measurements indicated that porous nano-Si powder was uniformly mixed with graphene by emulsification dispersion-ultrasonication method. As an anode for lithium ion battery, the graphene/porous nano-Si electrode presented relatively high performance in 1 mol•L^-1LiPF6/EC:DMC = 1:1(by volume) + 1.5% (by mass) VC solution. At the charge and discharge current densities of 0.5A•g^-1, the first discharge capacity was 1768.6mAh•g^-1with coulombic efficiency of 68.3%. The discharge capacity …

System-Wide Prediction Of General, All-Cause, Preventable Hospital Readmissions, Ken Musselman, Brandon Pope, Steve Witz, Zhiyi Tian, Lingsong Zhang, Linda Leon, Ann Davis

RCHE Publications

Existing studies of hospital readmissions typically focus on specific diagnoses, age groups, discharge dispositions, payer classes, or hospitals, and often use small samples. It is not clear how predictive models generated from such studies generalize across diseases, hospitals, or time periods. In this study, a logistic regression model of readmission risk within 30 days based on hospital administrative data was constructed and validated across hospitals and time periods. The hospitals included both general and specialty hospitals such as long-term care, women’s, and children’s hospitals. The administrative data included information on patient’s demographics, diagnoses, procedures, and discharge disposition. Derivation and validation …

Contribution And Impact Of Iisers : A Scientrometric Assessment Of Publications During 2010-14, Visakhi P Dr, Ritu Gupta Miss, B. M. Gupta Dr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This paper analyzes 2542 research publications of the five Indian Institute of Science Education & Research (IISER) published during the last Five years (2010-14), as covered in SCOPUS International database. The study analyses characteristics of these publications such as the publication growth, research impact, national and international collaboration share, contribution and impact of authors and organizations, major areas of research, and preferred channels of research communications and characteristics of higher cited papers. The findings reveal that IISERs publications have witnessed an annual average growth rate of 34.92% and registered an average citation impact per paper of 9.90. About 33.39% and …

December 26, 2015 (Pages 7275-7364), Pennsylvania Legislative Reference Bureau

Volume 45 (2015)

No abstract provided.

Statistical Handling Of Medical Data - An Ethical Perspective, Ajay Kumar Bansal Dr

COBRA Preprint Series

Medical Science is a delicate subject and the clinical data generated from the medical trials must be reliable and of good quality. Not only the quality of generated data is important, but the management is also crucial and is to be handled very carefully. In this paper, the ethical aspect of statistical handling of such data is discussed.

Every profession has some set of norms to follow to achieve its objectives. These norms are called professional ethics which shows the essence of human behaviour. Same way, the field of medical research is expected to follow ethical norms, to obtain reliable …

Justice In America: Diverting The Mentally Ill, Matthew J. D'Emic

City University of New York Law Review

No abstract provided.

Bioavailability Of Cerium Oxide Nanoparticles To Raphanus Sativus L. In Two Soils., Weilan Zhang, Craig Musante, Jason C. White, Paul Schwab, Qiang Wang, Stephen D. Ebbs, Xingmao Ma

Publications

Cerium oxide nanoparticles (CeO2 NP) are a common component of many commercial products. Due to the general concerns over the potential toxicity of engineered nanoparticles (ENPs), the phytotoxicity and in planta accumulation of CeO2 NPs have been broadly investigated. However, most previous studies were conducted in hydroponic systems and with grain crops. For a few studies performed with soil grown plants, the impact of soil properties on the fate and transport of CeO2 NPs was generally ignored even though numerous previous studies indicate that soil properties play a critical role in the fate and transport of environmental pollutants. The objectives …

The Effect Of Using The Strategies (K.W..L.H) And (Guided Imagination) On The Thinking Skills Of Sixth-Grade Science Students In Physics, Jalal Shanta Jabr Al Batti, Saad Qadouri Al-Khafaji

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The aim of the research is to know the effect of the (K.W.L.H) and (guided imagination) strategies on the pivotal thinking skills of sixth-grade science students in physics by testing the following null hypothesis: There is no statistically significant difference at the level (0.05) between the average scores of the students of the first experimental group who studied with the ((...) strategy and the average scores of the students of the second experimental group who studied with the (guided imagination) strategy in the pivotal thinking skills test.

Mapping Gravitational-Wave Backgrounds Of Arbitrary Polarisation Using Pulsar Timing Arrays, Jonathan Gair, Joseph D. Romano, Stephen R. Taylor

Physics & Astronomy Faculty Publications

We extend our previous work on mapping gravitational-wave backgrounds using techniques borrowed from the analysis of cosmic microwave background data to backgrounds which have non-general-relativity (non-GR) polarisations. Our analysis and results are presented in the context of pulsar timing array observations, but the overarching methods are general, and can be easily applied to LIGO or eLISA observations using appropriately modified response functions. Analytic expressions for the pulsar timing response to gravitational waves with non-GR polarisation are given for each mode of a spin-weighted spherical-harmonic decomposition of the background, which permit the signal to be mapped across the sky to any …

Convertability And Oil Resistance Of Paperboard With Hydroxypropyl-Cellulose-Based Dispersion Barrier Coatings, Ville Leminen, Sami-Seppo C. Ovaska, Panu Tanninen, Juha Varis

Journal of Applied Packaging Research

The convertability and barrier properties of paperboard coated with hydroxypropyl-cellulose (HPC) based dispersions were studied via tray pressing trials, oil resistance measurements and microscopic analyses. To improve the oil resistance of the HPC-based coatings and to maximize their convertability, talc, gelatin and latex were used as additives in coating formulations. The oil resistance of the coatings improved to some extent with these additives, but scanning electron micrographs revealed the existence of pinholes particularly in coatings with a high HPC content. The coated paperboard samples were pressed into rectangular trays and the convertability of the paperboards was evaluated with a microscope. …

Semi-Parametric Estimation And Inference For The Mean Outcome Of The Single Time-Point Intervention In A Causally Connected Population, Oleg Sofrygin, Mark J. Van Der Laan

U.C. Berkeley Division of Biostatistics Working Paper Series

We study the framework for semi-parametric estimation and statistical inference for the sample average treatment-specific mean effects in observational settings where data are collected on a single network of connected units (e.g., in the presence of interference or spillover). Despite recent advances, many of the current statistical methods rely on estimation techniques that assume a particular parametric model for the outcome, even though some of the most important statistical assumptions required by these models are most likely violated in the observational network settings, often resulting in invalid and anti-conservative statistical inference. In this manuscript, we rely on the recent methodological …

Long-Term Landscape Changes In A Subalpine Spruce-Fir Forest In Central Utah, Usa, Jesse L. Morris, R. Justin Derose, Andrea R. Brunelle

Wildland Resources Faculty Publications

Background: In Western North America, increasing wildfire and outbreaks of native bark beetles have been mediated by warming climate conditions. Bioclimatic models forecast the loss of key high elevation species throughout the region. This study uses retrospective vegetation and fire history data to reconstruct the drivers of past disturbance and environmental change. Understanding the relationship among climate, antecedent disturbances, and the legacy effects of settlement-era logging can help identify the patterns and processes that create landscapes susceptible to bark beetle epidemics. Methods: Our analysis uses data from lake sediment cores, stand inventories, and historical records. Sediment cores were dated with …

Bryan Trucking, Inc. V. Gier Respondent's Brief 2 Dckt. 43461

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.