Experimental study of heat transfer and pressure drop in micro-channel based heat sinks with tip clearance

This article presents an experimental study on the optimisation of micro-heat sink configurations when both thermal effects and pressure drop are accounted for. The interest of the latter is that the practical engineering viability of some of these systems also depends on the required pumping power. The working fluid was water and, according to typical power dissipation and system size requirements, the considered fluid regime was either laminar or transitional, and not fully developed from the hydrodynamics point of view. Five configurations were considered: a reference geometry (selected for comparison purposes) made up of square section micro-channels, and four alternative configurations that involved the presence of a variable tip clearance in the design. The performance of the different configurations was compared with regard to both cooling efficiency and pressure drop. Finally, we also provide some practical guidelines for the engineering design of these types of systems

Effects of hospital facilities on patient outcomes after cancer surgery: an international, prospective, observational study

Background Early death after cancer surgery is higher in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) compared with in high-income countries, yet the impact of facility characteristics on early postoperative outcomes is unknown. The aim of this study was to examine the association between hospital infrastructure, resource availability, and processes on early outcomes after cancer surgery worldwide.Methods A multimethods analysis was performed as part of the GlobalSurg 3 study-a multicentre, international, prospective cohort study of patients who had surgery for breast, colorectal, or gastric cancer. The primary outcomes were 30-day mortality and 30-day major complication rates. Potentially beneficial hospital facilities were identified by variable selection to select those associated with 30-day mortality. Adjusted outcomes were determined using generalised estimating equations to account for patient characteristics and country-income group, with population stratification by hospital.Findings Between April 1, 2018, and April 23, 2019, facility-level data were collected for 9685 patients across 238 hospitals in 66 countries (91 hospitals in 20 high-income countries; 57 hospitals in 19 upper-middle-income countries; and 90 hospitals in 27 low-income to lower-middle-income countries). The availability of five hospital facilities was inversely associated with mortality: ultrasound, CT scanner, critical care unit, opioid analgesia, and oncologist. After adjustment for case-mix and country income group, hospitals with three or fewer of these facilities (62 hospitals, 1294 patients) had higher mortality compared with those with four or five (adjusted odds ratio [OR] 3.85 [95% CI 2.58-5.75]; p<0.0001), with excess mortality predominantly explained by a limited capacity to rescue following the development of major complications (63.0% vs 82.7%; OR 0.35 [0.23-0.53]; p<0.0001). Across LMICs, improvements in hospital facilities would prevent one to three deaths for every 100 patients undergoing surgery for cancer.Interpretation Hospitals with higher levels of infrastructure and resources have better outcomes after cancer surgery, independent of country income. Without urgent strengthening of hospital infrastructure and resources, the reductions in cancer-associated mortality associated with improved access will not be realised

Word level language identification in online multilingual communication

Multilingual speakers switch between languages in online and spoken communication. Analyses of large scale multilingual data require automatic language identification at the word level. For our experiments with multilingual online discussions, we first tag the language of individual words using language models and dictionaries. Secondly, we incorporate context to improve the performance. We achieve an accuracy of 98%. Besides word level accuracy, we use two new metrics to evaluate this task

Модулі з єдиним замиканням відносно теорії скруту. III

We continue the study of modules over a general ring R whose submodules have a unique closure relative to a hereditary torsion theory on Mod-R. It is proved that, for a given ring R and a hereditary torsion theory τ on Mod-R, every submodule of every right R-module has a unique closure with respect to τ if and only if τ is generated by projective simple right R-modules. In particular, a ring R is a right Kasch ring if and only if every submodule of every right R-module has a unique closure with respect to the Lambek torsion theory.Продовжено вивчення модулів над загальним кільцем R, субмодулі якого мають єдине замикання відносно спадкової теорії скруту на Mod-R. Доведено, що для заданих кільця R та спадкової теорії скруту τ на Mod-R кожний субмодуль кожного правого R-модуля має єдине замикання відносно τ тоді i тільки тоді, коли τ породжується проективними простими правими R-модулями. Зокрема, кільце R є правим кільцем Каша тоді i тільки тоді, коли кожний субмодуль кожного правого R-модуля має єдине замикання відносно теорії скруту за Ламбеком