Volume 1 – Symposium

We are pleased to present the conference proceedings for the 12th edition of the International Fluid Power Conference (IFK). The IFK is one of the world’s most significant scientific conferences on fluid power control technology and systems. It offers a common platform for the presentation and discussion of trends and innovations to manufacturers, users and scientists. The Chair of Fluid-Mechatronic Systems at the TU Dresden is organizing and hosting the IFK for the sixth time. Supporting hosts are the Fluid Power Association of the German Engineering Federation (VDMA), Dresdner Verein zur Förderung der Fluidtechnik e. V. (DVF) and GWT-TUD GmbH. The organization and the conference location alternates every two years between the Chair of Fluid-Mechatronic Systems in Dresden and the Institute for Fluid Power Drives and Systems in Aachen. The symposium on the first day is dedicated to presentations focused on methodology and fundamental research. The two following conference days offer a wide variety of application and technology orientated papers about the latest state of the art in fluid power. It is this combination that makes the IFK a unique and excellent forum for the exchange of academic research and industrial application experience. A simultaneously ongoing exhibition offers the possibility to get product information and to have individual talks with manufacturers. The theme of the 12th IFK is “Fluid Power – Future Technology”, covering topics that enable the development of 5G-ready, cost-efficient and demand-driven structures, as well as individual decentralized drives. Another topic is the real-time data exchange that allows the application of numerous predictive maintenance strategies, which will significantly increase the availability of fluid power systems and their elements and ensure their improved lifetime performance. We create an atmosphere for casual exchange by offering a vast frame and cultural program. This includes a get-together, a conference banquet, laboratory festivities and some physical activities such as jogging in Dresden’s old town.:Group A: Materials Group B: System design & integration Group C: Novel system solutions Group D: Additive manufacturing Group E: Components Group F: Intelligent control Group G: Fluids Group H | K: Pumps Group I | L: Mobile applications Group J: Fundamental

Aerospace Medicine and Biology: A Cumulative Index to the 1985 Issues

This publication is a cumulative index to the abstracts contained in the Supplements 268 through 279 of Aerospace Medicine and Biology: A Continuing Bibliography. It includes seven indexes - subject, personal author, corporate source, foreign technology, contract number, report number, and accession number

Cell migration and capillary plexus formation in wounds and retinae

Cell migration is a fundamental biological phenomenon that is critical to the development and maintenance of tissues in multi-cellular organisms. This thesis presents a series of discrete mathematical models designed to study the migratory response of such cells when exposed to a variety of environmental stimuli. By applying these models to pertinent biological scenarios and benchmarking results against experimental data, novel insights are gained into the underlying cell behaviour. The process of angiogenesis is investigated first and models are developed for simulating capillary plexus expansion during both wound healing and retinal vascular development. The simulated cell migration is coupled to a detailed model of blood perfusion that allows prediction of dynamic flow-induced evolution of the nascent vascular architectures – the network topologies generated in each case are found to successfully reproduce a number of longitudinal experimental metrics. Moreover, in the case of retinal development, the resultant distributions of haematocrit and oxygen are found to be essential in generating vasculatures that resemble those observed in vivo. An alternative cell migration model is then derived that is capable of more accurately describing both individual and collective cell movement. The general model framework, which allows for biophysical cell-cell interactions and adaptive cell morphologies, is seen to have the potential for a range of applications. The value of the modelling approach is well demonstrated by benchmarking in silico cell movement against experimental data from an in vitro fibroblast scrape wound assay. The results subsequently reveal an unexplained discrepancy that provides an intriguing challenge for future studies

Aerospace Medicine and Biology: A continuing bibliography with indexes (supplement 272)

This bibliography lists 360 reports, articles, and other documents introduced into the NASA scientific and technical information system in May 1985

Hypothermic machine perfusion of cadaveric kidneys: clinical utility, metabolic mechanisms and methods of optimisation

Hypothermic machine perfusion (HMP) is a dynamic method of preserving kidneys ex vivo with established clinical benefits over static cold storage (SCS). The aim of the first part of this thesis was to determine whether HMP influences clinical outcomes in the United Kingdom via registry analysis of a national dataset. In the second part of this thesis, metabolic changes during HMP are explored using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. Chapter 5 describes differences between HMP and SCS conditions using 1D 1H NMR in a porcine donation after circulatory death (DCD) model. Further experimental chapters use perfusion fluid supplemented with the metabolic tracer universally labelled [U13-C] glucose to describe de novo aerobic and anaerobic metabolism in ex vivo kidneys during HMP. Novel developments in tracer-based NMR methodology are discussed early in the thesis. In Chapter 6, perfusion fluid supplemented with [U13-C] glucose was used to demonstrate several benefits of supplementing perfusion fluid with oxygen during HMP in a porcine DCD model. In the final section, modified [U13-C] glucose perfusion fluid demonstrated differences in de novo metabolism in sub-types of cadaveric kidneys prior to transplantation in a clinical study which also aimed to correlate metabolism with clinical outcome

Aerospace medicine and biology: A continuing bibliography with indexes (supplement 365)

This bibliography lists 211 reports, articles and other documents introduced into the NASA Scientific and Technical Information System during July 1992. Subject coverage includes: aerospace medicine and physiology, life support systems and man/system technology, protective clothing, exobiology and extraterrestrial life, planetary biology, and flight crew behavior and performance

Aerospace medicine and biology: A cumulative index to a continuing bibliography (supplement 371)

This publication is a cumulative index to the abstracts contained in Supplements 359 through 370 of Aerospace Medicine and Biology: A Continuing Bibliography. It includes seven indexes: subject, personal author, corporate source, foreign technology, contract number, report number, and accession number

Aerospace medicine and biology: A continuing bibliography with indexes (supplement 406)

This bibliography lists 346 reports, articles and other documents introduced into the NASA Scientific and Technical Information System during Oct. 1995. Subject coverage includes: aerospace medicine and physiology, life support systems and man/system technology, protective clothing, exobiology and extraterrestrial life, planetary biology, and flight crew behavior and performance

Defense Technical Information Center thesaurus

This DTIC Thesaurus provides a basic multidisciplinary subject term vocabulary used by DTIC to index and retrieve scientific and technical information from its various data bases and to aid DTIC`s users in their information storage and retrieval operations. It includes an alphabetical posting term display, a hierarchy display, and a Keywork Out of Context (KWOC) display

NASA thesaurus. Volume 1: Hierarchical Listing

There are over 17,000 postable terms and nearly 4,000 nonpostable terms approved for use in the NASA scientific and technical information system in the Hierarchical Listing of the NASA Thesaurus. The generic structure is presented for many terms. The broader term and narrower term relationships are shown in an indented fashion that illustrates the generic structure better than the more widely used BT and NT listings. Related terms are generously applied, thus enhancing the usefulness of the Hierarchical Listing. Greater access to the Hierarchical Listing may be achieved with the collateral use of Volume 2 - Access Vocabulary and Volume 3 - Definitions