Lin KERNS, The secret of secrets (Secreta secretorum). A modern translation, with introduction, of “The governance of princes", with a foreword by Elizabeth Matthew, Lewiston (New York), The Edwin Mellen Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-7734-5118-6, 168 pp.

Fil: Cuccia, Emiliano Javier.

Intervención fonoaudiológica basada en estrategias musicoterapéuticas para fortalecer habilidades pragmáticas en niños con características de déficit de atención e hiperactividad

Se ha visto la necesidad de elaborar un proyecto de investigación que se convierta en un aporte significativo para la fonoaudiología, al servir como una herramienta para la intervención terapéutica de las dificultades comunicativas pragmáticas, evidenciadas en niños con características de déficit de atención e hiperactividad. Así como el lenguaje se manifiesta de forma natural en algunos individuos, en otros se ve alterado en uno o varios de sus componentes, disminuyendo de ésta manera su competencia comunicativa. Generalmente dichas alteraciones están asociadas a trastornos físicos, sociales o neurológicos que involucran procesos cognitivos y psicológicos afectando la calidad de vida del sujeto.

Troubling dissemination : experimentations with the salon as conference event

Salons became popular in Europe in 17th Century as sites of philosophic and literary conversation. A group of female academics interested in Deleuzian theories experimented with the salon to challenge presentation and dissemination norms that hierarchize and centralize the human. For Deleuze and Guattari (1987), assemblages are shifting and decentering, so how might assemblages of chairs, tables, bodies, lights, space, help to trouble thinking about the methodological conventions around academic disseminations? The authors discuss the salon as a critical-cultural site: Cumming presents Deleuze and play-dough, an exploration of how the playful dissemination format of the salon prompted a re-reading of a methodological vignette from earlier research. Knight, an arts-based researcher, uses video art as a creative methodology to examine conceptualizations of rhizomes and assemblages at the salon as a dissemination site. The authors conclude that the salon, as a critical, cultural site disrupts hierarchized ways of approaching and presenting research.

Cholesteric liquid crystals as solvents in NMR

It is shown that cholesteric liquid crystal mixtures can be used as convenient solvents in NMR experiments for the determination of molecular structure. The advantages of such solvents are pointed out. The application is demonstrated for acetonitrile; the value for the HCH bond angle thus determined is 108.8°.

Separate and interacting effects within the catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) are associated with schizophrenia

Several lines of evidence have implicated the catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) gene as a candidate for schizophrenia (SZ) susceptibility, not only because it encodes a key dopamine catabolic enzyme but also because it maps to the velocardiofacial syndrome region of chromosome 22q11 which has long been associated with SZ predisposition. The interest in COMT as a candidate SZ risk factor has led to numerous case-control and family-based studies, with the majority placing emphasis on examining a functional Val/Met polymorphism within this enzyme. Unfortunately, these studies have continually produced conflicting results. To assess the genetic contribution of other COMT variants to SZ susceptibility, we investigated three single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) (rs737865, rs4633, rs165599) in addition to the Val/Met variant (rs4680) in a highly selected sample of Australian Caucasian families containing 107 patients with SZ. The Val/Met and rs4633 variants showed nominally significant associations with SZ (P<0.05), although neither of the individual SNPs remained significant after adjusting for multiple testing (most significant P=0.1174). However, haplotype analyses showed strong evidence of an association; the most significant being the three-marker haplotype rs737865-rs4680-rs165599 (global P=0.0022), which spans more than 26 kb. Importantly, conditional analyses indicated the presence of two separate and interacting effects within this haplotype, irrespective of gender. In addition, our results indicate the Val/Met polymorphism is not disease-causing and is simply in strong linkage disequilibrium with a causative effect, which interacts with another as yet unidentified variant approximately 20 kb away. These results may help explain the inconsistent results reported on the Val/Met polymorphism and have important implications for future investigations into the role of COMT in SZ susceptibility.

Geothermal reservoirs - A brief review

A brief discussion and review of the geothermal reservoir systems, geothermal energy and modeling and simulation of the geothermal reservoirs has been presented here. Different types of geothermal reservoirs and their governing equations have been discussed first. The conceptual and numerical modeling along with the representation of flow though fractured media, some issues related to non isothermal flow through fractured media, the efficiency of the geothermal reservoir, structure of the numerical models, boundary conditions and calibration procedures have been illustrated. A brief picture of the Indian scenario and some barriers related with geothermal power are discussed and presented thereafter. Finally some gaps of the existing knowledge and recent focuses of research are discussed.

超音速、高超音速有攻角的三维薄翼非定常二次理论及其应用

<正> 一、引言 动导数对于飞行器的动态品质分析和控制系统的设计是必不可少的参数,它直接影响飞行器的动态特性。因此,国外自七十年代以来,无论在风洞实验、飞行试验,还是分析、计算等方面都作了很多工作,取得了较大的进展。 动导数计算说到底主要是非定常气动力计算问题,已有的线化理论不能满足需要,对考虑非线性效应的动导数计算方法的需求则日显迫切。二次理论是计算非线性效应的一种方法,它是由第二次叠代或物面偏角参数的二次展开法构成,主要非线性效应由二

一个推广Virial定理的数学方法和应用

本文在提出广义Gauss定理的思路下,提出了广义Stokes定理和一个推广Virial定理的新方法,后者应用于天体磁流体力学和引力平衡问题时得到的结果有:(1)气体具有运动时的平衡系统的判据,(2)磁场对气团形态的影响。应用于实验室等离子体平衡问题时,其结果有:(1)包围在气体中孤立磁场的特性,(2)发现内包无力场必须外包一有力场,(3)无力场的形态,应用于Tokmak等离子体环时的结果有:(1)环的胖瘦对环表面磁压的影响,(2)两个外加磁场分量分别和气压、环的胖瘦,截面形态、环电流分布和逆磁或顺磁的平衡关系,搞清楚了外加磁场约束等离子体总体平衡的物理机制。

石灰岩中应力波衰减机制的试验研究

本文提出了分析研究岩石杆中应力波衰减机制(初始微裂纹、节理、剪胀等因素的影响)的一种方法,并相应提出了减少波形振荡,提高试验精度的措施。利用这种方法,对这些因素引起应力波衰减的特点进行了初步探讨。此外还提出了在波传播时幅值无衰减的情况下,从一根杆试验中测得的应变波形,求得包括卸载在内的完整的动态滞迴应力应变关系的方法,这个方法比SHPB法更方便。实验结果说明,完整致密的石灰岩只有在剪张点以下方可当作弹性材料处理。

冲压模具激光表面强化的搭接工艺研究

针对激光相变强化搭接带存在的回火软化等问题,对激光强化的球墨铸铁材料QT700-2搭接区的显微硬度、表面粗糙度、物相变化等进行了测试,并分析了强化机理。结果表明:选用合理的搭接率等工艺参数,球墨铸铁激光搭接强化后的硬度可达到50HRC以上,调节搭接宽度可以避免搭接区的回火软化问题。多道搭接强化后表层的马氏体组织呈区域性交错分布,材料表面形成非均匀、多尺度强化结构,强化后的表面具有良好的耐磨性和耐疲劳性。通过上述结果,对材料激光搭接强化的工艺参数进行了合理的优化。

Experimental Characterization Of Electrical Current Leakage In Poly(Dimethylsiloxane) Microfluidic Devices

Poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) is usually considered as a dielectric material and the PDMS microchannel wall can be treated as an electrically insulated boundary in an applied electric field. However, in certain layouts of microfluidic networks, electrical leakage through the PDMS microfluidic channel walls may not be negligible, which must be carefully considered in the microfluidic circuit design. In this paper, we report on the experimental characterization of the electrical leakage current through PDMS microfluidic channel walls of different configurations. Our numerical and experimental studies indicate that for tens of microns thick PDMS channel walls, electrical leakage through the PDMS wall could significantly alter the electrical field in the main channel. We further show that we can use the electrical leakage through the PDMS microfluidic channel wall to control the electrolyte flow inside the microfluidic channel and manipulate the particle motion inside the microfluidic channel. More specifically, we can trap individual particles at different locations inside the microfluidic channel by balancing the electroosmotic flow and the electrophoretic migration of the particle.

Growth and spectral properties of Er:Gd2SiO5 crystal

Er3+ -doped Gd2SiO5 (Er:GSO) single crystal with dimensions of circle divide 35 x 40 mm(3) has been grown by the Czochralski method. The absorption and fluorescence spectra of the Er:GSO crystal were measured at room temperature. The spectral parameters were calculated based on Judd-Ofelt theory, and the intensity parameters Omega(2), Omega(4) and Omega 6 are obtained to be 6.168 x 10(-20), 1.878 x 10(-20), and 1.255 x 10(-20) cm(2), respectively. The emission cross-section has been calculated by Fuechtbauer-Ladenbury formula. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

低温漂高电源抑制的CMOS片上电流源

设计了一种用于驱动电路和模数转换器的片上电流源,该结构利用带隙基准的方法产生了一个与温度无关的参考电平,同时为了满足高电源抑制的要求,电流源中采用了运算放大器的负反馈环路来抑制电源到输出的增益,从而使输出电平与电源电压无关,然后通过电阻把电压转化为电流.该电路在0.35,μm、3.3 V的工艺下实现,芯片面积为0.03 mm~2.仿真和测试结果表明,该电流源的温度系数为8.7×10~(-6)/℃,在2.6～4 V的电源电压下均能正常工作,达到了系统要求.