Active control of blankholder in sheet metal stamping

Abstract The continuous demand of shape complexity, product accuracy and extended tools life has led to a widespread use of auxiliary systems in sheet metal stamping. Nevertheless, their performances are often inadequate, making their use a compromise between process efficiency and stability. The paper focuses on a new magneto-rheological actuator design. Both analytical and numerical approaches are developed to evaluate load response and to optimize the magnetic field interaction. A physical prototype according to the design outputs is manufactured and tested at different dynamic conditions. Finally, magnetic force values obtained from FE model and experimental tests are compared

SRC-dependent signalling regulates actin ruffle formation induced by glycerophosphoinositol 4-phosphate

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THE GIFT THAT DOESN’T STOP GIVING: GCE AS AN ASPIRTIONAL AND CONTESTED CONCEPT. Dialogues on Global Citizenship Education: Interview with Karen Pashby

Karen Pashby, Professor of Global Citizenship Education at Manchester Metropolitan University, docent at University of Helsinki, and Adjunct Professor at University of Alberta, is a renowned researcher and educator in the field of Global Citizenship Education (GCE). Her work draws on de/post/anti-colonial theoretical resources to support critically reflexive practices in GCE in ‘Global North’ contexts. In this interview, Pashby emphasizes the aspirational and contested paradox of GCE, aiming to engage learners in thinking about ethical relations of rights and responsibilities. She highlights the need for multiple transformations in the structures that frame our relations as cohabitants of the planet, while at the same time warning about the risk of the tendency towards solutionism. As a critical GCE scholar, Pashby highlights that learners and educators must acknowledge they are both part of the problem and the solution, and therefore, build on critical reflexivity and deep thinking to understand their ethical relations

Synthesis of GAP and PAMMO Homopolymers from Mesylate Polymeric Precursors

In azidic binders for solid propellants, the N3 functionality is introduced by substitution of a halogen or tosyl group, but recently the mesyl group has been suggested as an alternative. The mesylate group has two advantages, mainly related to its small dimensions and low cost. Poly(glycidyl azide) and poly 3-azidomethyl-3-methyl oxetane were prepared by using both tosylate and mesylate precursors. The azidation kinetics were studied at three different temperatures while keeping all other operating parameters the same. The results confirmed the good potential of the mesylate precursors for the production of azidic binders

Part One: Extracellular Vesicles as Valuable Players in Diabetic Cardiovascular Diseases

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are particles released in the extracellular space from all cell types in physiological and pathological conditions and emerge as a new way of cell-cell communication by transferring their biological contents into target cells. The levels and composition of circulating EVs differ from a normal condition to a pathological one, making them real circulating biomarkers. EVs have a very complex contribution in both health and disease, most likely in relationship between diabetes and cardiovascular disease. The involvement of EVs to the development of cardiovascular complications in diabetes remains an open discussion for therapists. Circulating EVs may offer a continuous access path to circulating information on the disease state and a new perspective in finding a correct diagnosis, in estimating a prognosis and also in applying an effective therapy. Besides their role as biomarkers and targets for therapy, EVs can be exploited as biological tools in influencing the different processes affected in diabetic cardiovascular diseases. This chapter will summarize the current knowledge about EVs as biological vectors modulating diabetic cardiovascular diseases, including atherosclerosis, coronary artery disease, and peripheral arterial disease. Finally, we will point out EVs’ considerable value as clinical biomarkers, therapeutic targets, and potential biomedical tools for the discovery of effective therapy in diabetic cardiovascular diseases

Part Two: Extracellular Vesicles as a Risk Factor in Neurodegenerative Diseases

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) involved in the intercellular communication hold cell-specific cargos that contain proteins, various species of RNA and lipids. EVs are emerging as powerful tools for diagnosis and therapy in most diseases but little is known about their role in central nervous system (CNS) physiology or disease. Considering the extraordinary intricated cytoarchitecture of the brain, the implication of EVs in its pathophysiology is difficult to establish. Blood circulating EVs derived from local or distant vascular cells or EVs released from brain into the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) may influence the brain activity. EVs released in the blood stream from various tissues may influence the brain by passing through the blood-brain barrier (BBB) or through choroid plexus. Since the choroid plexus has also a clearance role, it might be possible that EVs carrying brain abnormal proteins to pass into the blood can be detected. Thus, considering that EVs are specialized cargos bearing combined signals between cells, they might be an interesting therapy target in the future for both regulating neurogenesis and abnormal protein clearance. We present here data gathered about EVs that may influence the CNS functionality and be involved in most common neurodegenerative diseases

Anti-PD1 Consolidation in Patients with Hodgkin Lymphoma at High Risk of Relapse after Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation: A Multicenter Real-Life Study

(1) Background: Consolidation therapy is an emerging strategy for patients with relapsed/refractory (RR) Hodgkin Lymphoma (HL) at high risk of failing salvage autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT). (2) Objectives: To assess the safety and effectiveness of PD1-blockade consolidation for these high-risk patients. (3) Design: Multi-center retrospective analysis. (4) Methods: We identified 26 patients given anti-PD1 consolidation, from June 2016 to May 2020. (5) Results: Patients displayed the following risk factors: refractory disease (69%), relapse 3, occurred in 12 patients (46.15%) and mainly included skin rashes (41.7%), transaminitis (33.3%), and thyroid hypofunction (25%). Patients completed a median of 13 courses (range 6–30). At a median follow-up of 25.8 months post-ASCT, the median progression-free (PFS) was 42.6 months, with a 2-year PFS and overall survival rates of 79% and 87%, respectively. (6) Conclusions: Post-ASCT consolidation with anti-PD1 is feasible and effective. Further studies are warranted to define the optimal treatment length and patients’ subsets more likely to benefit from this approach

First Use of Model Predictive Control in Outpatient Wearable Artificial Pancreas

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Halide Perovskite Artificial Solids as a New Platform to Simulate Collective Phenomena in Doped Mott Insulators

The development of quantum simulators, artificial platforms where the predictions of many-body theories of correlated quantum materials can be tested in a controllable and tunable way, is one of the main challenges of condensed matter physics. Here we introduce artificial lattices made of lead halide perovskite nanocubes as a new platform to simulate and investigate the physics of correlated quantum materials. We demonstrate that optical injection of quantum confined excitons in this system realizes the two main features that ubiquitously pervade the phase diagram of many quantum materials: collective phenomena, in which long-range orders emerge from incoherent fluctuations, and the excitonic Mott transition, which has one-to-one correspondence with the insulator-to-metal transition described by the repulsive Hubbard model in a magnetic field. Our results demonstrate that time-resolved experiments provide a quantum simulator that is able to span a parameter range relevant for a broad class of phenomena, such as superconductivity and charge-density waves

Dark sectors 2016 Workshop: community report

This report, based on the Dark Sectors workshop at SLAC in April 2016, summarizes the scientific importance of searches for dark sector dark matter and forces at masses beneath the weak-scale, the status of this broad international field, the important milestones motivating future exploration, and promising experimental opportunities to reach these milestones over the next 5-10 years