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National Knowledge Resource Consortium – a National Gateway of S&T on-line resources for CSIR and DST laboratories
NKRC [National Knowledge Resource Consortium] established during 2009, is a National Academic Resource Consortium of 24 DST & 39 CSIR Laboratories. Today nearly all major online resources of ACS, RSC, APS, AIP, Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, CAS, & Thomson are accessible from NKRC Platform to all DST & CSIR Labs
Engineering the magnetic properties of the Mn cluster by doping
With a goal to produce giant magnetic moment in Mn cluster which will
be useful for practical applications, we have considered the structure and
magnetic properties of pure Mn cluster and substitutionally doped it
with X = Ti, V, Cr, Fe, Co, Ni atom to produce MnX clusters. We find
that Ti and V substitutions in Mn cluster are the most promising in
terms of gaining substantial binding energy as well as achieving higher
magnetic moment through ferromagnetic alignment of atom-centered magnetic
moments. This has been demonstrated in terms of energetics and electronic
properties of the clusters. For comparison, we have also studied the effect of
N-capping of Mn cluster, predicted in the earlier work [Phys. Rev. Lett.
{\bf 89}, 185504 (2002)] as a means to produce stable giant magnetic moment in
Mn clusters upto cluster size of 5 Mn atoms.Comment: 8 pages, 9 figures, 2 table
Structure, reactivity and electronic properties of V-doped Co clusters
Structures, physical and chemical properties of V doped Co clusters
have been studied in detail using density functional theory based
first-principles method. We have found anomalous variation in stability of the
doped clusters with increasing V concentration, which has been nicely
demonstrated in terms of energetics and electronic properties of the clusters.
Our study explains the nonmonotonic variation in reactivity of CoV
clusters towards H molecules as reported experimentally [J. Phys. Chem.
{\bf 94}, 2744 (1990)]. Moreover, it provides useful insight into the cluster
geometry and chemically active sites on the cluster surface, which can help to
design better catalytic processes.Comment: 10 pages, 9 figures, 4 table
Organizing Knowledge for Web Retrieval using SKOS: A Case Study in Human Protein Chain
Effective knowledge management is the most
challenging task today to organize and control the millions of web resources in any scholarly publications. An effort is made to map human protein chain against different neurological disorders. After analyzing the
facets in this domain, a thesaurus is constructed, relational structure of SKOS is made and finally converted into XML:RDF compliant format for knowledge representation, manipulation, interoperability and
effective retrieval
Inelastic Strain Analysis of Solder Joint in NASA Fatigue Specimen
The solder fatigue specimen designed by NASA-GSFC/UNISYS is analyzed in order to obtain the inelastic strain history during two different representative temperature cycles specified by UNISYS. In previous reports (dated July 25, 1990, and November 15, 1990), results were presented of the elastic-plastic and creep analysis for delta T = 31 C cycle, respectively. Subsequent results obtained during the current phase, from viscoplastic finite element analysis of the solder fatigue specimen for delta T = 113 C cycle are summarized. Some common information is repeated for self-completeness. Large-deformation continuum formulations in conjunction with a standard linear solid model is utilized for modeling the solder constitutive creep-plasticity behavior. Relevant material properties are obtained from the literature. Strain amplitudes, mean strains, and residual strains (as well as stresses) accumulated due to a representative complete temperature cycle are obtained as a result of this analysis. The partitioning between elastic strains, time-independent inelastic (plastic) strains, and time-dependent inelastic (creep) strains is also explicitly obtained for two representative cycles. Detailed plots are presented for two representative temperature cycles. This information forms an important input for fatigue damage models, when predicting the fatigue life of solder joints under thermal cyclin
Recursive approach to study transport properties of atomic wire
In this study, we propose a recursive approach to study the transport
properties of atomic wires.
It is based upon a real-space block-recursion technique with Landauer's
formula being used to express the conductance as a scattering problem. To
illustrate the method, we have applied it on a model system described by a
single band tight-binding Hamiltonian. Results of our calculation therefore may
be compared with the reported results on Na-atom wire. Upon tuning the
tight-binding parameters, we can distinctly identify the controlling parameters
responsible to decide the width as well as the phase of odd-even oscillations
in the conductance.Comment: 9 pages, 8 figures, table
Two Surgeon General's reports on smoking and cancer: a historical investigation of the practice of causal inference
BACKGROUND: The epidemiologic literature is replete with conceptual discussions about causal inference, but little is known about how the causal criteria are applied in public health practice. The criteria for causal inference in use today by epidemiologists have been shaped substantially by their use over time in reports of the U.S. Surgeon General on Smoking and Health. METHODS: We reviewed two classic reports on smoking and health from expert committees convened by the US Surgeon General, in 1964 and 1982, in order to evaluate and contrast how the committees applied causal criteria to the available evidence for the different cancer sites at different time periods. We focus on the evidence for four cancer sites in particular that received detailed reviews in the reports: lung, larynx, esophagus and bladder. RESULTS: We found that strength of association and coherence (especially dose-response, biological plausibility and epidemiologic sense) appeared to carry the most weight; consistency carried less weight, and temporality and specificity were apparently not applied at all in some cases. No causal claim was made for associations with a summary odds ratio of less than 3.0. CONCLUSION: Our findings suggest that the causal criteria as described in textbooks and the Surgeon General reports can have variable interpretations and applications in practice. While the authors of these reports may have considered evidential factors that they did not explicitly cite, such lack of transparency of methods undermines the purpose of the causal criteria to promote objective, evidence-based decision making. Further empirical study and critical examination of the process by which causal conclusions are reached can play an important role in advancing the practice of epidemiology by helping public health scientists to better understand the practice of causal inference
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