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Direct Laser Fabrication of a Gas Turbine Engine Component - Microstructure and Properties - Part I
This paper presents the development of a new technique for the production of abrasive
turbine blade tips by direct laser processing. This superalloy cermet component is an integral part
of the low pressure turbine sealing system in a demonstrator engine. Direct laser fabrication of
this component fiom a bed a loose powder results in significant cost savings and improved
performance over the currently employed production technique. The technology has been
demonstrated by fabricating a prototype lot of 100 blade tips, which will be subjected to an engine
test. This is the first instance of a direct fabrication method applied to the production of functional
engine hardware. This research was funded by the United States Air Force contract F33615-94-
C-2424 titled "Affordable Turbine Blade Tips".Mechanical Engineerin
Compressed-VFL: Communication-Efficient Learning with Vertically Partitioned Data
We propose Compressed Vertical Federated Learning (C-VFL) for
communication-efficient training on vertically partitioned data. In C-VFL, a
server and multiple parties collaboratively train a model on their respective
features utilizing several local iterations and sharing compressed intermediate
results periodically. Our work provides the first theoretical analysis of the
effect message compression has on distributed training over vertically
partitioned data. We prove convergence of non-convex objectives at a rate of
when the compression error is bounded over the course
of training. We provide specific requirements for convergence with common
compression techniques, such as quantization and top- sparsification.
Finally, we experimentally show compression can reduce communication by over
without a significant decrease in accuracy over VFL without compression
Transcriptional profiling of root-knot nematode induced feeding sites in cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L. Walp.) using a soybean genome array
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The locus <it>Rk </it>confers resistance against several species of root-knot nematodes (<it>Meloidogyne spp</it>., RKN) in cowpea (<it>Vigna unguiculata</it>). Based on histological and reactive oxygen species (ROS) profiles, <it>Rk </it>confers a delayed but strong resistance mechanism without a hypersensitive reaction-mediated cell death process, which allows nematode development but blocks reproduction.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Responses to <it>M. incognita </it>infection in roots of resistant genotype CB46 and a susceptible near-isogenic line (null-<it>Rk</it>) were investigated using a soybean Affymetrix GeneChip expression array at 3 and 9 days post-inoculation (dpi). At 9 dpi 552 genes were differentially expressed in incompatible interactions (infected resistant tissue compared with non-infected resistant tissue) and 1,060 genes were differentially expressed in compatible interactions (infected susceptible tissue compared with non-infected susceptible tissue). At 3 dpi the differentially expressed genes were 746 for the incompatible and 623 for the compatible interactions. When expression between infected resistant and susceptible genotypes was compared, 638 and 197 genes were differentially expressed at 9 and 3 dpi, respectively.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>In comparing the differentially expressed genes in response to nematode infection, a greater number and proportion of genes were down-regulated in the resistant than in the susceptible genotype, whereas more genes were up-regulated in the susceptible than in the resistant genotype. Gene ontology based functional categorization revealed that the typical defense response was partially suppressed in resistant roots, even at 9 dpi, allowing nematode juvenile development. Differences in ROS concentrations, induction of toxins and other defense related genes seem to play a role in this unique resistance mechanism.</p
ChiroDiff: Modelling chirographic data with Diffusion Models
Generative modelling over continuous-time geometric constructs, a.k.a such as
handwriting, sketches, drawings etc., have been accomplished through
autoregressive distributions. Such strictly-ordered discrete factorization
however falls short of capturing key properties of chirographic data -- it
fails to build holistic understanding of the temporal concept due to one-way
visibility (causality). Consequently, temporal data has been modelled as
discrete token sequences of fixed sampling rate instead of capturing the true
underlying concept. In this paper, we introduce a powerful model-class namely
"Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models" or DDPMs for chirographic data that
specifically addresses these flaws. Our model named "ChiroDiff", being
non-autoregressive, learns to capture holistic concepts and therefore remains
resilient to higher temporal sampling rate up to a good extent. Moreover, we
show that many important downstream utilities (e.g. conditional sampling,
creative mixing) can be flexibly implemented using ChiroDiff. We further show
some unique use-cases like stochastic vectorization, de-noising/healing,
abstraction are also possible with this model-class. We perform quantitative
and qualitative evaluation of our framework on relevant datasets and found it
to be better or on par with competing approaches.Comment: Accepted at ICLR '2
Management of primary blast lung injury: a comparison of airway pressure release versus low tidal volume ventilation
BackgroundPrimary blast lung injury (PBLI) presents as a syndrome of respiratory distress and haemoptysis resulting from explosive shock wave exposure and is a frequent cause of mortality and morbidity in both military conflicts and terrorist attacks. The optimal mode of mechanical ventilation for managing PBLI is not currently known, and clinical trials in humans are impossible due to the sporadic and violent nature of the disease.MethodsA high-fidelity multi-organ computational simulator of PBLI pathophysiology was configured to replicate data from 14 PBLI casualties from the conflict in Afghanistan. Adaptive and responsive ventilatory protocols implementing low tidal volume (LTV) ventilation and airway pressure release ventilation (APRV) were applied to each simulated patient for 24 h, allowing direct quantitative comparison of their effects on gas exchange, ventilatory parameters, haemodynamics, extravascular lung water and indices of ventilator-induced lung injury.ResultsThe simulated patients responded well to both ventilation strategies. Post 24-h investigation period, the APRV arm had similar PF ratios (137 mmHg vs 157 mmHg), lower sub-injury threshold levels of mechanical power (11.9 J/min vs 20.7 J/min) and lower levels of extravascular lung water (501 ml vs 600 ml) compared to conventional LTV. Driving pressure was higher in the APRV group (11.9 cmH2O vs 8.6 cmH2O), but still significantly less than levels associated with increased mortality.ConclusionsAppropriate use of APRV may offer casualties with PBLI important mortality-related benefits and should be considered for management of this challenging patient group
Thermally responsive capillary suspensions
© 2017 American Chemical Society. We demonstrate that stimulus-responsive capillary-structured materials can be formed from hydrophobized calcium carbonate particles suspended in a non-polar phase (silicone oil) and bridged by very small amounts of a hydrogel as the secondary aqueous phase. Inclusion of thermally responsive polymers into the aqueous phase yielded a capillary-structured suspension whose rheology is controlled by a change in temperature and can increase its complex modulus by several orders of magnitude because of the gelation of the capillary bridges between the solid particles. We demonstrate that the rheology of the capillary suspension and its response upon temperature changes can be controlled by the gelling properties as little as 0.1 w/w % of the secondary aqueous phase containing 2 wt % of the gelling carbohydrate. Doping the secondary (aqueous) phase with methyl cellulose, which gels at elevated temperatures, gave capillary-structured materials whose viscosity and structural strength can increase by several orders of magnitude as the temperature is increased past the gelling temperature of the methyl cellulose solution. Increasing the methyl cellulose concentration from 0 to 2 w/w % in the secondary (aqueous) phase increases the complex modulus and the yield stress of the capillary suspension of 10 w/w % hydrophobized calcium carbonate in silicone oil by 2 orders of magnitude at a fixed temperature. By using an aqueous solution of a low melting point agarose as a secondary liquid phase, which melts as the temperature is raised, we produced capillary-structured materials whose viscosity and structural strength can decrease by several orders of magnitude as the temperature is increased past the melting temperature of the agarose solution. The development of thermally responsive capillary suspensions can find potential applications in structuring of smart home and personal care products as well as in temperature-triggered change in rheology and release of flavors in foods and actives in pharmaceutical formulations
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