Uncooled DWDM transmission system using tunable laser sources with anti-mode-hop control protocol

We propose an uncooled DWDM system where errors from uncontrolled laser mode-hopping are avoided by using a control protocol based on monitoring SMSR. We describe a proof-of-principle demonstration of a novel uncooled 50GHz DWDM system. © 2011 IEEE.

Cortical thickness mapping to identify focal osteoporosis in patients with hip fracture.

BACKGROUND: Individuals with osteoporosis are predisposed to hip fracture during trips, stumbles or falls, but half of all hip fractures occur in those without generalised osteoporosis. By analysing ordinary clinical CT scans using a novel cortical thickness mapping technique, we discovered patches of markedly thinner bone at fracture-prone regions in the femurs of women with acute hip fracture compared with controls. METHODS: We analysed CT scans from 75 female volunteers with acute fracture and 75 age- and sex-matched controls. We classified the fracture location as femoral neck or trochanteric before creating bone thickness maps of the outer 'cortical' shell of the intact contra-lateral hip. After registration of each bone to an average femur shape and statistical parametric mapping, we were able to visualise and quantify statistically significant foci of thinner cortical bone associated with each fracture type, assuming good symmetry of bone structure between the intact and fractured hip. The technique allowed us to pinpoint systematic differences and display the results on a 3D average femur shape model. FINDINGS: The cortex was generally thinner in femoral neck fracture cases than controls. More striking were several discrete patches of statistically significant thinner bone of up to 30%, which coincided with common sites of fracture initiation (femoral neck or trochanteric). INTERPRETATION: Femoral neck fracture patients had a thumbnail-sized patch of focal osteoporosis at the upper head-neck junction. This region coincided with a weak part of the femur, prone to both spontaneous 'tensile' fractures of the femoral neck, and as a site of crack initiation when falling sideways. Current hip fracture prevention strategies are based on case finding: they involve clinical risk factor estimation to determine the need for single-plane bone density measurement within a standard region of interest (ROI) of the femoral neck. The precise sites of focal osteoporosis that we have identified are overlooked by current 2D bone densitometry methods.

Direct characterization of bitter acids in a crude hop extract by liquid chromatography-atmospheric pressure chemical ionization mass spectrometry

The applicability of on-line coupling of reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography to atmospheric pressure ionization tandem mass spectrometry for the separation and characterization of hop acids mixture from the crude extract of Humulus lupulus was investigated. The solvent system consisting of acetonitrile-aqueous formic acid was used to give proper separation of the six main hop bitter acids within 30 min. Further structural information about the components was acquired by collision-induced dissociation (CID). On the basis of analyses of the fragmentation patterns of the major alpha- and beta-bitter acids respectively, identification of the minor ones was performed using selected reaction monitoring (SRM) with a group of qualitatively relevant selected precursor-product ion transitions for each bitter acid in a single high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) run. Using this technique, six minor hop acids, including "adprelupulone" observed for the first time in natural resources, were detected along with the six major acids. This hyphenated techniques provides potency for rapid qualitative determination of analogs and homologs in mixtures. (C) 2004 American Society for Mass Spectrometry.

Movimento do herbicida tebutiurom no perfil de três tipos de solo através de colunas de lixiviação.

2005

Movimento vertical do herbicida hexazinone em latossolo vermelho distrófico do córrego Espraiado, Ribeirão Preto, SP, cultivado com cana-de-açúcar - simulações considerando dados local e default.

Este trabalho utilizou técnica de simulação computacional para analisar a movimentação vertical do herbicida hexazinone, considerando dados médios default de literatura e dados calculados para suas meia-vida no solo (t½) e coeficiente de adsorção ao carbono orgânico do solo (Koc) em Latossolo Vermelho Distrófico (LVd) do Córrego do Espraiado, Ribeirão Preto-SP. Informações sobre o solo avaliado, climáticas e os dados da cultura de cana-deaçúcar foram utilizadas no simulador CMLS-94. O cenário base de simulação considerou um período de um ano e quatro meses, apresentando data de corte da cultura no mês de agosto e a aplicação de hexazinone, um mês após o corte, na dose de 0,40 kg ha-1, a qual é encontrada em produto comercial utilizado no local. As seguintes profundidades e quantidades finais foram obtidas ao final do período simulado: a) cenário com dado ?default?: 1,89 m e 0,12 kg ha-1; b) cenário com dado local calculado: 2,78 m e 0,18 kg ha-1. Observou-se uma maior movimentação do produto para o cenário simulado com dados locais, principalmente a partir do 63o dia após a aplicação do produto, embora as concentrações tenham se mantido próximas, em ambos cenários. As profundidades alcançadas não comprometem o lençol em sua zona saturada (40m).

O movimento da discórdia

De forma breve, o autor analisa a abrangência do conceito de mobilidade social, à luz de um corpo teórico multivariado e, igualmente, com base na percepção empírica decorrente das suas próprias investigações sobre a "avaliação" que os naturais fazem aos emigrantes na terra de origem. Briefly, the author analises the social mobility concept´s broadness, using as suport several theoretical approaches and his own work on the local inhabitants´"evaluation" of the emigrants.

An Energy-conscious Transport Protocol for Multi-hop Wireless Networks

We present a transport protocol whose goal is to reduce power consumption without compromising delivery requirements of applications. To meet its goal of energy efficiency, our transport protocol (1) contains mechanisms to balance end-to-end vs. local retransmissions; (2) minimizes acknowledgment traffic using receiver regulated rate-based flow control combined with selected acknowledgements and in-network caching of packets; and (3) aggressively seeks to avoid any congestion-based packet loss. Within a recently developed ultra low-power multi-hop wireless network system, extensive simulations and experimental results demonstrate that our transport protocol meets its goal of preserving the energy efficiency of the underlying network.