Instrumentation and control of a two-stage 4-bed silica gel plus water adsorption cooling cum desalination system

This paper presents the instrumentation and control architecture for a laboratory based two-stage 4-bed silica gel + water adsorption system. The system consists of primarily two fluids: refrigerant (water vapour) and heat transfer fluid (water) flowing through various components. Heat input to the system is simulated using multiple heaters and ambient air is used as the heat sink. The laboratory setup incorporates a real time National Instruments (NI) controller to control several digital and analog valves, heaters, pumps and fans along with simultaneous data acquisition from various flow, pressure and temperature sensors. The paper also presents in detail the various automated and manual tasks required for successful operation of the system. Finally the system pressure and temperature dynamics are reported and its performance evaluated for various cycle times. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

A fast and accurate performance analysis of beaconless IEEE 802.15.4 multi-hop networks

We develop an approximate analytical technique for evaluating the performance of multi-hop networks based on beaconless IEEE 802.15.4 ( the ``ZigBee'' PHY and MAC), a popular standard for wireless sensor networks. The network comprises sensor nodes, which generate measurement packets, relay nodes which only forward packets, and a data sink (base station). We consider a detailed stochastic process at each node, and analyse this process taking into account the interaction with neighbouring nodes via certain time averaged unknown variables (e.g., channel sensing rates, collision probabilities, etc.). By coupling the analyses at various nodes, we obtain fixed point equations that can be solved numerically to obtain the unknown variables, thereby yielding approximations of time average performance measures, such as packet discard probabilities and average queueing delays. The model incorporates packet generation at the sensor nodes and queues at the sensor nodes and relay nodes. We demonstrate the accuracy of our model by an extensive comparison with simulations. As an additional assessment of the accuracy of the model, we utilize it in an algorithm for sensor network design with quality-of-service (QoS) objectives, and show that designs obtained using our model actually satisfy the QoS constraints (as validated by simulating the networks), and the predictions are accurate to well within 10% as compared to the simulation results in a regime where the packet discard probability is low. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Simple crystallizations of 4-manifolds

Minimal crystallizations of simply connected PL 4-manifolds are very natural objects. Many of their topological features are reflected in their combinatorial structure which, in addition, is preserved under the connected sum operation. We present a minimal crystallization of the standard PL K3 surface. In combination with known results this yields minimal crystallizations of all simply connected PL 4-manifolds of ``standard'' type, that is, all connected sums of CP2, S-2 x S-2, and the K3 surface. In particular, we obtain minimal crystallizations of a pair of homeomorphic but non-PL-homeomorphic 4-manifolds. In addition, we give an elementary proof that the minimal 8-vertex crystallization of CP2 is unique and its associated pseudotriangulation is related to the 9-vertex combinatorial triangulation of CP2 by the minimum of four edge contractions.

Positive isotropic curvature and self-duality in dimension 4

We study a positivity condition for the curvature of oriented Riemannian 4-manifolds: the half-PIC condition. It is a slight weakening of the positive isotropic curvature (PIC) condition introduced by M. Micallef and J. Moore. We observe that the half-PIC condition is preserved by the Ricci flow and satisfies a maximality property among all Ricci flow invariant positivity conditions on the curvature of oriented 4-manifolds. We also study some geometric and topological aspects of half-PIC manifolds.

Virulent Salmonella enterica infections can be exacerbated by concomitant infection of the host with a live attenuated S. enterica vaccine via Toll-like receptor 4-dependent interleukin-10 production with the involvement of both TRIF and MyD88.

During systemic disease in mice, Salmonella enterica grows intracellularly within discrete foci of infection in the spleen and liver. In concomitant infections, foci containing different S. enterica strains are spatially separated. We have investigated whether functional interactions between bacterial populations within the same host can occur despite the known spatial separation of the foci and independence of growth of salmonellae residing in different foci. In this study we have demonstrated that bacterial numbers of virulent S. enterica serovar Typhimurium C5 strain in mouse tissues can be increased by the presence of the attenuated aroA S. Typhimurium SL3261 vaccine strain in the same tissue. Disease exacerbation does not require simultaneous coinjection of the attenuated bacteria. SL3261 can be administered up to 48 hr after or 24 hr before the administration of C5 and still determine higher tissue numbers of the virulent bacteria. This indicates that intravenous administration of a S. enterica vaccine strain could potentially exacerbate an established infection with wild-type bacteria. These data also suggest that the severity of an infection with a virulent S. enterica strain can be increased by the prior administration of a live attenuated vaccine strain if infection occurs within 48 hr of vaccination. Exacerbation of the growth of C5 requires Toll-like receptor 4-dependent interleukin-10 production with the involvement of both Toll/interleukin-1 receptor-domain-containing adaptor inducing interferon-beta and myeloid differentiation factor 88.

Transferencia de liquido ruminal o transfaunacion en terneros de 2 a 4 meses con trastornos de poco desarrollo corporal en la Finca Las Mercedes de la UNA

El presente estudio se realizó con el objetivo de Evaluar la transferencia de líquido ruminal o transfaunación en terneros de 2 a 4 meses con trastornos de poco desarrollo corporal como alternativa terapéutica para mejorar el estado físico y reducir problemas de salud en la Finca las Mercedes de la UNA. Se seleccionaron 20 terneros al azar con edades de 2 a 4 meses y se dividieron en dos grupos 10 terneros por grupo, homogéneos en edades y condición corporal, donde el tratamiento I aplicación del liquido ruminal en dosis de 1 litro por animal y el tratamiento II control sin tratamiento. El estudio se realizó en seis meses iniciando el 20 de Diciembre del 2006 hasta el 20 de Junio del 2007. Obteniéndose los siguientes resultados, los animales que se les aplicó líquido ruminal tuvieron una ganancia de peso de 80 Kg y una ganancia media diaria de 444g, mientras que los no tratados tuvieron una ganancia de peso de 58Kg y una ganancia media diaria de 322g. Al realizar el análisis estadístico se encontró diferencia significativa para p<0.05 entre tratamiento ganancia de peso y ganancia media diaria siendo el mejor el tratamiento I. Los animales que se les aplicó la transfaunación alcanzaron mejor condición corporal que los no tratados. Los animales que se les suministraron líquido ruminal se enfermaron 3 animales representando el 30%, mientras que los que no se trataron enfermaron 9 animales representando el 90%.

Transferencia de liquido ruminal o transfaunacion en ovino de 2 a 4 meses con trastornos de poco desarrollo corporal en la Finca Santa Rosa de la UNA

El presente estudio se realizó con el objetivo de evaluar la transferencia de líquido ruminal o transfaunación en ovino de 2 a 4 meses con trastornos de poco desarrollo corporal como alternativa terapéutica para mejorar el estado físico y reducir problemas de salud en la Finca Santa Rosa de la UNA. Se tomaron 10 ovinos con edades de 2 a 4 meses y se dividieron en dos grupos 5 ovinos, homogéneos en edades y condición corporal, seleccionados al azar donde el tratamiento 1 aplicación del líquido ruminal en dosis de 50ml por animal y el tratamiento 11 control sin tratamiento. Los animales que se trataron con líquido ruminal tuvieron una ganancia de peso de 7Kg y una ganancia media diaria de 47.2g, mientras que los no tratado tuvieron una ganancia de peso de 4.9 Kg y una ganancia media diaria de 32.6g. Al realizar el análisis estadístico se encontró diferencia significativa para p<0.05 entre tratamiento ganancia de peso y ganancia media diaria siendo el mejor el tratamiento l. Los animales tratados con la transfaunación alcanzaron mejor condición corporal que los que no tratados y se enfermó 1 animal, representando el 20%, mientras que los que no tratados se enfermaron 5 animales con diferentes trastornos representando el 100%.

Frequency diversity measurements at 2.4 GHz for wireless sensor networks deployed in tunnels

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) which utilise IEEE 802.15.4 technology operate primarily in the 2.4 GHz globally compatible ISM band. However, the wireless propagation channel in this crowded band is notoriously variable and unpredictable, and it has a significant impact on the coverage range and quality of the radio links between the wireless nodes. Therefore, the use of Frequency Diversity (FD) has potential to ameliorate this situation. In this paper, the possible benefits of using FD in a tunnel environment have been quantified by performing accurate propagation measurements using modified and calibrated off-the-shelf 802.15.4 based sensor motes in the disused Aldwych underground railway tunnel. The objective of this investigation is to characterise the performance of FD in this confined environment. Cross correlation coefficients are calculated from samples of the received power on a number of frequency channels gathered during the field measurements. The low measured values of the cross correlation coefficients indicate that applying FD at 2.4 GHz will improve link performance in a WSN deployed in a tunnel. This finding closely matches results obtained by running a computational simulation of the tunnel radio propagation using a 2D Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method. ©2009 IEEE.

Evaluación preliminar de rendimiento de siete lineas de arroz (Oryza sativa L.) en comparación con la variedad Oryzica llanos 4

En el período comprendido del23 de Septiembre de 1996 al 8 de enero de 1997, en los terrenos de la Empresa Agropecuaria Guadalupe, ubicada en el municipio de Malacatoya, Departamento de Granada, se realizó el presente ensayo con el propósito de evaluar los componentes de crecimiento, rendimiento (kg/ha) y calidad industrial de 7 líneas promisorias de arroz (Oryza sativa L) en el sistema de inundación. Los tratamientos en estudios se establecieron en un diseño Unifactorial de Bloques Completo al azar (B.C.A), con cuatro repeticiones. La evaluación de los datos obtenidos de las variables en estudios se efectúo mediante el sistema de evaluación estándar para arroz, Análisis de Varianza (ANDEVA) y separación de medios rangos múltiples de Duncan al 95 % de confiabilidad. Los resultados obtenidos muestran que la línea CT 9841-5-2-1p-21-21-M presentó la floración más temprana; en la aplicación de la escala de evaluación de exerción de la panícula los tratamientos que presentaron buena excersion fueron las Líneas CT 9882-2-M-14-1-M-1-3p-M-1, CT 10166-16-1-2p-1-3 y la línea CT 10175-4-6- 2p-2-2; la mayor resistencia al desgrane la obtuvieron las Líneas CT 10308-27-3-3p-3-3 CT 9682-2-M-14-1-M-1-3p-M-1 y variedad testigo; las líneas que presentaron tallos fuertes y sin volcamiento fueron: CT 10175-4-6-2p-2-2 y CT 9841-5-2-1p-21-21-M y la variedad testigo Oryzica llanos 4; los tratamientos CT 9682-2-M-14-1-M-1-3p-M-1, CT 10175-4-6-2p-2-2 y CT 9841-5-2-1p-21-21-M, la línea CT 10184-2-1-M-1-MI y la variedad Oryzica Llanos 4 presentaron buena aceptabilidad fenotípica. El mayor rendimiento de grano se obtuvo con la línea CT 10184-2-1-M-1-MI, con 4,034.14 kglha, y la menor producción se alcanzó con el tratamiento CT 9841-5-2-1p-21-21-M y sin diferencias significativas con la variedad testigo Oryzica llanos 4 (2,393.76 y 2,444.66 kglha respectivamente). En cuanto a rendimiento y calidad industrial todas las líneas se comportaron de manera similar destacándose la línea (IR-44624-127-1-2-2-3) y la variedad testigo Oryzica Llanos-4

Informe Macroeconómico y de Crecimiento Económico (IMC), Nº 4, 2013

Contenido: Reforma y contra reforma comercial en América Latina: Perú y Argentina / Julio J. Nogués y Elías Baracat -- Reservas internacionales: a contramano de la región / Nicolás Bridger -- Innovación en Argentina: TICS, agro y nano / Ernesto A. O’Connor

Revista de Psicología, 2008, Vol. 4 N°8 (número completo)

Problemas Teórico-Científicos y Metodológicos de la Investigación Clínico-Psicoanalítica. Segunda Parte / Helmut Thomä ; Horst Kächele -- Los aportes de Lev S. Vygotsky a la investigación educativa / Wanda Rodríguez Arocho -- La noción de cambio en la ZDP / Ricardo Esteban Maquieira -- Bienestar, orientación temporal y estrategias de control en personas mayores: un estudio exploratorio / Juan Francisco Díaz Morales ; Mario Toboso Martín ; Celeste Dávila León ; Cristina Escribano Barreno ; Pedro Delgado Prieto -- Inserción laboral y condiciones psicológicas: un estudio en sectores urbanos de la Argentina / María Elena Brenlla ; Agustín Salvia ; María Belén Despierre -- El Child Behaviour Checklist: su estandarización en población urbana argentina / Virginia Corina Samaniego -- Resenciones bibliográficas

Letras, 1982, nº 4 (número completo)

Contenido: Apuntes sobre crítica semiológica y significados en el Poema del Cid / Carrizo Rueda, Sofía – Naturaleza y paisaje en la Soledad I de Góngora / Elsa L. Di Santo – Experimentación y vanguardia en el teatro argentino de las últimas décadas / Perla Zayas de Lima – El reflejo del mundo en la obra de Luis Cernuda / Luis Martínez Cuitiño – Aproximaciones a Benito Lynch y su obra / María Luisa Montero – Tres maestros de la narrativa española contemporánea / Boris Osés – Indianismo e indigenismo en la poesía de la Revolución / Fernando Rosemberg – Sobre algunos aspectos lingüísticos y simbólicos del puente del Romance Viejo de la Doncella Guerrera / Aquilino Suárez Pallasá – Experiencia y sabiduría al margen de la novela picaresca / Teresa Herraiz de Tresca – Los estudios de Menéndez y Pelayo y María Rosa Lida sobre “La Celestina” / Lía Noemí Uriarte Rebaudi – Reseñas bibliográficas

5.4-MHz single-crystal silicon wine glass mode disk resonator with quality factor of 2 million

This paper reports the design and electrical characterization of a micromechanical disk resonator fabricated in single crystal silicon using a foundry SOI micromachining process. The microresonator has been selectively excited in the radial extensional and the wine glass modes by reversing the polarity of the DC bias voltage applied on selected drive electrodes around the resonant structure. The quality factor of the resonator vibrating in the radial contour mode was 8000 at a resonant frequency of 6.34 MHz at pressure below 10 mTorr vacuum. The highest measured quality factor of the resonator in the wine glass resonant mode was 1.9 × 106 using a DC bias voltage of 20 V at about the same pressure in vacuum; the resonant frequency was 5.43 MHz and the lowest motional resistance measured was approximately 17 kΩ using a DC bias voltage of 60 V applied across 2.7 μm actuation gaps. This corresponds to a resonant frequency-quality factor (f-Q) product of 1.02 × 1013, among the highest reported for single crystal silicon microresonators, and on par with the best quartz crystal resonators. The quality factor for the wine glass mode in air was approximately 10,000. © 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Square wine glass mode resonator with quality factor of 4 million

We report on the experimental characterization of a single crystal silicon square-plate microresonator. The resonator is excited in the square wine glass (SWG) mode at a mechanical resonance frequency of 2.065 MHz. The resonator displays quality factor of 9660 in air and an ultra-high quality factor of Q = 4.05 × 106 in 12 mtorr vacuum. The SWG mode may be described as a square plate that contracts along one axis in the fabrication plane, while simultaneously extending along an orthogonal axis in the same plane. The resonant structure is addressed in a 2-terminal configuration by utilizing equal and opposite drive polarities on surrounding capacitor electrodes, thereby decreasing the motional resistance of the resonator. The resonant micromechanical device has been fabricated in a commercial silicon-on-insulator process through the MEMSCAP foundry utilising a minimum electrostatic gap of 2 μm. © 2008 IEEE.