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Solar thermoelectric generator design and panel development program
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Baylisascaris procyonis: an emerging helminthic zoonosis.
Get PDFBaylisascaris procyonis, a roundworm infection of raccoons, is emerging as an important helminthic zoonosis, principally affecting young children. Raccoons have increasingly become peridomestic animals living in close proximity to human residences. When B. procyonis eggs are ingested by a host other than a raccoon, migration of larvae through tissue, termed larval migrans, ensues. This larval infection can invade the brain and eye, causing severe disease and death. The prevalence of B. procyonis infection in raccoons is often high, and infected animals can shed enormous numbers of eggs in their feces. These eggs can survive in the environment for extended periods of time, and the infectious dose of B. procyonis is relatively low. Therefore, the risk for human exposure and infection may be greater than is currently recognized
Charge migration in organic materials: Can propagating charges affect the key physical quantities controlling their motion?
Full text linkCharge migration is a ubiquitous phenomenon with profound implications
throughout many areas of chemistry, physics, biology and materials science. The
long-term vision of designing functional materials with tailored molecular
scale properties has triggered an increasing quest to identify prototypical
systems where truly molecular conduction pathways play a fundamental role. Such
pathways can be formed due to the molecular organization of various organic
materials and are widely used to discuss electronic properties at the nanometer
scale. Here, we present a computational methodology to study charge propagation
in organic molecular stacks at nano and sub-nanoscales and exploit this
methodology to demonstrate that moving charge carriers strongly affect the
values of the physical quantities controlling their motion. The approach is
also expected to find broad application in the field of charge migration in
soft matter systems.Comment: 18 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in the Israel Journal
of Chemistr
A Mobile Geo-Communication Dataset for Physiology-Aware DASH in Rural Ambulance Transport
Full text linkUse of telecommunication technologies for remote, continuous monitoring of
patients can enhance effectiveness of emergency ambulance care during transport
from rural areas to a regional center hospital. However, the communication
along the various routes in rural areas may have wide bandwidth ranges from 2G
to 4G; some regions may have only lower satellite bandwidth available.
Bandwidth fluctuation together with real-time communication of various clinical
multimedia pose a major challenge during rural patient ambulance transport.;
AB@The availability of a pre-transport route-dependent communication bandwidth
database is an important resource in remote monitoring and clinical multimedia
transmission in rural ambulance transport. Here, we present a geo-communication
dataset from extensive profiling of 4 major US mobile carriers in Illinois,
from the rural location of Hoopeston to the central referral hospital center at
Urbana. In collaboration with Carle Foundation Hospital, we developed a
profiler, and collected various geographical and communication traces for
realistic emergency rural ambulance transport scenarios. Our dataset is to
support our ongoing work of proposing "physiology-aware DASH", which is
particularly useful for adaptive remote monitoring of critically ill patients
in emergency rural ambulance transport. It provides insights on ensuring higher
Quality of Service (QoS) for most critical clinical multimedia in response to
changes in patients' physiological states and bandwidth conditions. Our dataset
is available online for research community.Comment: Proceedings of the 8th ACM on Multimedia Systems Conference
(MMSys'17), Pages 158-163, Taipei, Taiwan, June 20 - 23, 201
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