The sound insulation of autoclaved aerated concrete panels lined with gypsum plasterboard

This paper gives the results of 27 laboratory measurements of the sound insulation of 75mm thick tongue and groove autoclaved aerated concrete (AAC) panels with stated nominal dry density of 510kg/m3 (a surface density of 38.2kg/m2).which are lined with 13mm thick gypsum plasterboard. Two configurations that are presently common forms of construction in a region of Australia were tested; 1. Furring channel one side and stud wall the other that maintained an overall wall width of 243mm, and 2. Direct fix one side and stud wall the other. In both cases the gypsum plasterboard is mounted on 64mm steel studs. The gap between the panels and the steel studs is 20, 35 or 48mm. With the exception of one empty cavity, the cavity on this side contains 11kg/m3 glass fibre batts with thickness of 50, 75, 90 or 110mm. On the other side of the panels, the gypsum plasterboard is mounted on furring channels and adjustable clips which are screwed to the panels or in 6 cases directly screwed to the panels. Except for the directly screwed cases, the gap between the panels and the gypsum plasterboard is 30, 43 or 58mm. The cavity is empty or contains 50 or 70mm thick 11kg/m3 glass fibre batts or 25mm thick 24kg/m3 glass fibre batts. The 13mm gypsum plasterboard has nominal surface densities of 7.2, 8.5 or 10.5kg/m2. The aim was to develop a system which has a laboratory measured Rw+Ctr equal to or greater than 50dB which is required by the National Construction Code (NCC) of Australia for walls between separate dwellings. A system with cavities on both sides of the wall is desirable because it allows services to be accommodated without the need for chasing which is not permitted. The undesirable effect is a resultant large Ctr making it difficult to achieve an Rw +Ctr equal to or greater than 50dB

Study of neutron irradiation effects in Depleted CMOS detector structures

In this paper results of Edge-TCT and I-V measurements with passive test structures made in LFoundry 150 nm HV-CMOS process on p-type substrates with different initial resistivities ranging from 0.5 to 3 k$\Omega$cm are presented. Samples were irradiated with reactor neutrons up to a fluence of 2$\cdot$10$^{15}$ n$_{\mathrm{eq}}$/cm$^2$. Depletion depth was measured with Edge-TCT. Effective space charge concentration $N_{\mathrm{eff}}$ was estimated from the dependence of depletion depth on bias voltage and studied as a function of neutron fluence. Dependence of $N_{\mathrm{eff}}$ on fluence changes with initial acceptor concentration in agreement with other measurements with p-type silicon. Long term accelerated annealing study of $N_{\mathrm{eff}}$ and detector current up to 1280 minutes at 60$^\circ$C was made. It was found that $N_{\mathrm{eff}}$ and current in reverse biased detector behaves as expected for irradiated silicon

2000 Ohio-Grape Wine Short Course

Air, water, sun, and fire--the cooper's footprint on the barrel / Henry Work -- Keeping the bugs unhappy; successful barrel sanitation and maintenance / Henry Work -- Recommended methods for cleaning and maintaining oak cooperage / Phil Burton and Henry Work, with Jim Yerkes -- Chip me, stave me, oak me! The romance, dollars and sense of barrel alternatives / Tim DiPlacido -- Oak experiments / Roland Riesen -- Barrel experiment / Nick Ferrante -- Exploring the versatility and potential of vidal / Roland Riesen -- Ferrante: 1999 vineyard planting / Nick Ferrante -- Breeding rootstocks for current and impending viticultural problems / Andrew Walker -- Grape expectations looking toward traditional and non-traditional sponsors to enhance your event / Doniella Winchell -- Assessing grape maturity by taste and by numbers / Thomas Henick-Kling -- Influence of fruit condition on wine quality / James F. Gallander -- Influence of post bottling storage temperature and SO2 on wine quality / T. E. Steiner -- What we do at harvest to help wine quality / Tony Debevc -- Delivering wine quality / Nick Ferrante -- Criteria for selecting rootstocks / Andrew Walker -- A comparison of Pinot noir production in New York and Burgundy / Pascal Durand and Leslie Weston -- A unique approach to harvest labor / Fran Massaro -- New fungicide registrations for grapes in the year 2000 / Michael Ellis -- Studies to determine time of susceptibility of grape berry and rachis tissues to infection by Phomopsis viticola / O. Erincik, L. V. Madden, D. C. Ferree and M. A. Ellis -- Rootstock performance in Ohio / Arnie Esterer -- Growing your own: vinifera grafting experiments (1999) / Ron Barrett -- Developing an effective fungicide spray program for wine grapes in Ohio / Michael Ellis -- Light and fruit set / David C. Ferree, David M. Scurlock and John C. Schmid -- Soil amendments and mulches in tree health management / Harry Hoitink, Matthew Krause and Randy Zondag -- Report of 5th International Symposium on Cool Climate Viticulture and Enology / Roland Riesen -- Control strategies for soil insects in the vineyard / Roger Williams and Dan Fickl

A Comparison of comprehension processes in sign language interpreter videos with or without captions

©2015 Debevc et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. One important theme in captioning is whether the implementation of captions in individual sign language interpreter videos can positively affect viewers' comprehension when compared with sign language interpreter videos without captions. In our study, an experiment was conducted using four video clips with information about everyday events. Fifty-one deaf and hard of hearing sign language users alternately watched the sign language interpreter videos with, and without, captions. Afterwards, they answered ten questions. The results showed that the presence of captions positively affected their rates of comprehension, which increased by 24% among deaf viewers and 42% among hard of hearing viewers. The most obvious differences in comprehension between watching sign language interpreter videos with and without captions were found for the subjects of hiking and culture, where comprehension was higher when captions were used. The results led to suggestions for the consistent use of captions in sign language interpreter videos in various media

An operation reduction using fast computation of an iteration-based simulation method with microsimulation-semi-symbolic analysis

© 2018 by the authors. This paper presents a method for shortening the computation time and reducing the number of math operations required in complex calculations for the analysis, simulation, and design of processes and systems. The method is suitable for education and engineering applications. The efficacy of the method is illustrated with a case study of a complex wireless communication system. The computer algebra system (CAS) was applied to formulate hypotheses and define the joint probability density function of a certain modulation technique. This innovative method was used to prepare microsimulation-semi-symbolic analyses to fully specify the wireless system. The development of an iteration-based simulation method that provides closed form solutions is presented. Previously, expressions were solved using time-consuming numerical methods. Students can apply this method for performance analysis and to understand data transfer processes. Engineers and researchers may use the method to gain insight into the impact of the parameters necessary to properly transmit and detect information, unlike traditional numerical methods. This research contributes to this field by improving the ability to obtain closed form solutions of the probability density function, outage probability, and considerably improves time efficiency with shortened computation time and reducing the number of calculation operations

Automatic recognition of the unconscious reactions from physiological signals

While the research in affective computing has been exclusively dealing with the recognition of explicit affective and cognitive states, carefully designed psychological and neuroimaging studies indicated that a considerable part of human experiences is tied to a deeper level of a psyche and not available for conscious awareness. Nevertheless, the unconscious processes of the mind greatly influence individuals’ feelings and shape their behaviors. This paper presents an approach for automatic recognition of the unconscious experiences from physiological data. In our study we focused on primary or archetypal unconscious experiences. The subjects were stimulated with the film clips corresponding to 8 archetypal experiences. Their physiological signals including cardiovascular, electrodermal, respiratory activities, and skin temperature were monitored. The statistical analysis indicated that the induced experiences could be differentiated based on the physiological activations. Finally, a prediction model, which recognized the induced states with an accuracy of 79.5%, was constructed

Análisis del comportamiento de la mortalidad materna y los factores relacionados en el departamento del Atlántico en el año 2017

La mortalidad materna generalmente evitable, se ha considerado la máxima expresión de desigualdad en salud en la que primordialmente son afectadas las mujeres con mayores dificultades socio-económicas, y en la que existe una gran diferencia entre las tasas de mortalidad de los datos suministrados por la Secretaría de Salud Departamental, con el fin de ofrecer un insumo que permita plantear acciones que contribuyan a disminuir dichos desenlaces fatales en el territorio que presentan los países desarrollados comparados con los países en vías de desarrollo. Así bien, la motivación de esta investigación fue analizar los casos presentados de las muertes maternas en el departamento del Atlántico en el año 2017, el comportamiento del evento y las demoras asociadas a la determinación de la clasificación de dichas muertes a través de la revisión sistemática. La presente investigación se realizó a través de un estudio descriptivo transversal, en el cual se determina las características de la mortalidad materna de 22 casos de mujeres que fallecieron durante la gestación o en puerperio en el año 2017 y a quienes se les realizaron unidades de análisis a partir de los datos sociodemográficos ofrecidos por la Secretaria de Salud Departamental del Atlántico, las cuales no fueron por causas externas o violentas. Se identificó que la demora más frecuente en los 22 casos de muertes maternas fue de tipo I, que se refiere a la demora en la identificación del riesgo y los deberes y derechos en salud sexual y reproductiva representando el (95.45%), la mayoría de las muertes fueron evitables con un (64%) y en el puerperio (50%) se presentó el evento.Generally avoidable maternal mortality has been considered the highest expression of inequality in health, in which primarily women with greater socioeconomic difficulties are affected, and in which there is a great difference in the mortality rates presented by developed countries compared to developing countries. Thus, the motivation of this research is to present the deaths of pregnant women in the department of Atlántico during the year 2017, through a systematic review of the units of analysis provided by the Departmental Health Secretary carried out in Atlántico, in order to offer input that allows the proposal of actions that would contribute to diminish these fatal outcomes in the territory. The present investigation was carried out through a cross-sectional descriptive study, in which the characteristics of the maternal mortality of 22 cases of women who died during the pregnancy or in the puerperium in the year 2017 and to whom units of analysis were performed were determined. Based on the sociodemographic data provided by the Department of Departmental Health of the Atlantic, which were not due to external or violent causes. It was identified that the most frequent delay in the 22 cases of maternal deaths was type I, which refers to the delay in the identification of the risk and the duties and rights in sexual and reproductive health representing the (95. 45%), the majority of the deaths were avoidable with one (64%) and in the puerperium (50%) the event was presented