London Creative and Digital Fusion

date-added: 2015-03-24 04:16:59 +0000 date-modified: 2015-03-24 04:16:59 +0000date-added: 2015-03-24 04:16:59 +0000 date-modified: 2015-03-24 04:16:59 +0000The London Creative and Digital Fusion programme of interactive, tailored and in-depth support was designed to support the UK capital’s creative and digital companies to collaborate, innovate and grow. London is a globally recognised hub for technology, design and creative genius. While many cities around the world can claim to be hubs for technology entrepreneurship, London’s distinctive potential lies in the successful fusion of world-leading technology with world-leading design and creativity. As innovation thrives at the edge, where better to innovate than across the boundaries of these two clusters and cultures? This booklet tells the story of Fusion’s innovation journey, its partners and its unique business support. Most importantly of all it tells stories of companies that, having worked with London Fusion, have innovated and grown. We hope that it will inspire others to follow and build on our beginnings.European Regional Development Fund 2007-13

On defining the Hamiltonian beyond quantum theory

Energy is a crucial concept within classical and quantum physics. An essential tool to quantify energy is the Hamiltonian. Here, we consider how to define a Hamiltonian in general probabilistic theories, a framework in which quantum theory is a special case. We list desiderata which the definition should meet. For 3-dimensional systems, we provide a fully-defined recipe which satisfies these desiderata. We discuss the higher dimensional case where some freedom of choice is left remaining. We apply the definition to example toy theories, and discuss how the quantum notion of time evolution as a phase between energy eigenstates generalises to other theories.Comment: Authors' accepted manuscript for inclusion in the Foundations of Physics topical collection on Foundational Aspects of Quantum Informatio

Reaction kinetics of muonium with the halogen gases (F2, Cl2, and Br2)

Copyright @ 1989 American Institute of PhysicsBimolecular rate constants for the thermal chemical reactions of muonium (Mu) with the halogen gases—Mu+X2→MuX+X—are reported over the temperature ranges from 500 down to 100, 160, and 200 K for X2=F2,Cl2, and Br2, respectively. The Arrhenius plots for both the chlorine and fluorine reactions show positive activation energies Ea over the whole temperature ranges studied, but which decrease to near zero at low temperature, indicative of the dominant role played by quantum tunneling of the ultralight muonium atom. In the case of Mu+F2, the bimolecular rate constant k(T) is essentially independent of temperature below 150 K, likely the first observation of Wigner threshold tunneling in gas phase (H atom) kinetics. A similar trend is seen in the Mu+Cl2 reaction. The Br2 data exhibit an apparent negative activation energy [Ea=(−0.095±0.020) kcal mol−1], constant over the temperature range of ∼200–400 K, but which decreases at higher temperatures, indicative of a highly attractive potential energy surface. This result is consistent with the energy dependence in the reactive cross section found some years ago in the atomic beam data of Hepburn et al. [J. Chem. Phys. 69, 4311 (1978)]. In comparing the present Mu data with the corresponding H atom kinetic data, it is found that Mu invariably reacts considerably faster than H at all temperatures, but particularly so at low temperatures in the cases of F2 and Cl2. The current transition state calculations of Steckler, Garrett, and Truhlar [Hyperfine Interact. 32, 779 (986)] for Mu+X2 account reasonably well for the rate constants for F2 and Cl2 near room temperature, but their calculated value for Mu+Br2 is much too high. Moreover, these calculations seemingly fail to account for the trend in the Mu+F2 and Mu+Cl2 data toward pronounced quantum tunneling at low temperatures. It is noted that the Mu kinetics provide a crucial test of the accuracy of transition state treatments of tunneling on these early barrier HX2 potential energy surfaces.NSERC (Canada), Donors of the Petroleum Research Fund, administered by the American Chemical Society, for their partial support of this research and the Canada Council

An Auto-Offset-Removal circuit for chemical sensing based on the PG-ISFET

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Prospects and Constraints for a Recreational Fishery on East Canyon Creek at the 910 Ranch

Summit County Lands and Natural Resources has retained students from Utah State University’s Management and Restoration of Aquatic Ecosystems program to evaluate current conditions of East Canyon Creek (ECC) in the 910 Ranch and propose prospects, constraints, and potential actions to establish a recreational trout fishery

The Effects of Quorum Sensing Inhibitors on Multispecies Biofilms of the Oral Cavity

Biofilms are defined as assemblages of one or more species of surface-associated bacterial cells and other microorganisms encapsulated by a self-produced extracellular matrix consisting primarily of polysaccharides, extracellular DNA, and proteins that adhere to firm surfaces. Biofilm formation is important in the microbial world and is considered an advantage over independent, planktonic counterparts due to its ability to resist antibiotics and evade the host’s immune responses. Biofilms can form on a variety of environmental surfaces and can be considered both helpful and problematic depending upon the context of the biofilm. Pathogenetic biofilms within the oral cavity are particularly harmful because they provide little to no health benefits, but rather more commonly cause problems and disease such as dental caries, periodontal diseases, and persistent intra-radicular infections within treated root canals. Many of the damaging and disease-causing biofilms of the oral cavity often cause pain due to dental decay leading to dental caries and periodontal diseases. The WHO calls dental caries the most common and wide spread non-communicable disease in the world. Dental caries and other oral biofilm-related diseases can colonize any person with teeth across the entire world regardless of race, gender, age or socioeconomic status. In addition to causing oral diseases, if left untreated, studies suggests that oral biofilms can lead to more serious systemic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, bacterial pneumonia, diabetes mellitus, rheumatoid arthritis, and low birth weight. Quorum sensing (QS) is a communication system in biofilms that regulates gene expression in accordance to cell population density. QS in bacteria requires a minimum, critical concentration of bacterial cells in close proximity to one another in order to induce common, coordinated gene expression and coordinated responses to changes in their environment. QS gives bacteria the protection from antibiotics and immune responses that a biofilm provides. Quorum sensing inhibitory molecules, often referred to as quorum quenchers (QQ), have been studied due to their ability to disrupt the QS system in biofilms which potentially provides an alternative method of treatment for biofilm related diseases. With the era of antibiotic resistance at an all-time high, the need for alternative methods of treatment are crucial for researchers to investigate. The aim of this project is to investigate how multi-species oral biofilms respond to known QQ

Using NDF and ADF to balance diets (1990)

In University of Missouri Agricultural guides G3150 and G3160 we explained how detergent solutions are used to measure forage fiber. The guides show how neutral detergent solution can be used to measure neutral detergent fiber (NDF). NDF represents the total plant fiber or cell wall including hemicellulose, cellulose and lignin. These guides also show how acid detergent solution can be used to measure acid detergent fiber (ADF), which contains cellulose and lignin. Both ADF and NDF data help to more accurately estimate feed intake, energy values and animal performanceNew7/90f7M