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Effect of Polymer Coatings as Intermediate Binders on Sintering of Ceramic Parts
It has been proposed that a thin polymer layer applied to the
surfaces of finely divided ceramic powders would serve as a suitable
intermediate binder for Selective Layer Sintering of ceramic pans. In this
study, the effects of completeness and fraction of coa nd particle size
distribution on sintering rates and strengths of coated ridized glass are
examined. The effect of the coating as a binder during Selective Layer
Sintering as well as the binder's burnout capability during post processing
steps are also investigated.Mechanical Engineerin
Overweight, Obesity and Socio-economic Change among Tangkhul Naga Tribal Women of Manipur, North East India
Background: The prevalence of overweight and obesity is increasing worldwide at an alarming rate. Although in countries like India, which is multi-ethnic having multi socio-economic levels, is typically known for high prevalence of under nutrition, significant proportions of overweight and obese now coexist with the undernourished. 

Objectives: The study aims to find the prevalence of overweight and obesity, and its association with socio-economic change among Tangkhul Naga women of Manipur, North East India and also to compare with other female populations of India.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out among 346 Tangkhul Naga tribal women of Manipur, age ranging from 20 to 70 years, divided into five different age groups with ten years interval each. 

Results and conclusions: Mean BMI was found to be lowest among the youngest age group and it increased with age till fifty nine years and then declined. BMI was assessed using recommended cut-off points for Asians and the prevalence of overweight and obesity among the Tangkhul Naga women was found to be 27.1%. When BMI was assessed using the WHO International Classification of adult overweight and obesity, the prevalence percentage was 9.8. Though the prevalence of obesity among Tangkhul females (2.0%) was low when compared to Indian non-tribal female populations the prevalence of overweight (25.1%) was not far behind. Tangkhul Naga is a population where majority of them were believed to be thin traditionally owing to difficult hilly terrain habitation and physically active lifestyle. With urbanization and economic development, a nutritional transition characterized by improved dietary habits, improvement in socio-economic status and increasingly sedentary lifestyle has been observed which has contributed to the increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity among the Tangkhul Naga tribal women
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Post-Processing of Selective Laser Sintered Polycarbonate Parts
St\ldies were conducted·to det~rmine the effect of
press\lre onpost-prpeessingofpolycarbonate coupons. No
significant differences betweencou.pons processed at
atmospheric âącQndidons.. andcouponsprpeessedin.vacuum
were âąobserved. However, anisotropic shrinkage .was
observedin.thez-directionnormal to thesintering plane.
Thisphenomenawasfurtl1erinvestigated usingsYIllmetrical
polycarbonatecubespr9(iuced by Selective LaserSintering
using yariedlas~rpoweryariedpowderlayer thickness, and
varied powder bed temperaturesMechanical Engineerin
From corpus-based collocation frequencies to readability measure
This paper provides a broad overview of three separate but related areas of research. Firstly, corpus linguistics is a growing discipline that applies analytical results from large language corpora to a wide variety of problems in linguistics and related disciplines. Secondly, readability research, as the name suggests, seeks to understand what makes texts more or less comprehensible to readers, and aims to apply this understanding to issues such as text rating and matching of texts to readers. Thirdly, collocation is a language feature that occurs when particular words are used frequently together for other than purely grammatical reasons. The intersection of these three aspects provides the basis for on-going research within the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Strathclyde and is the motivation for this overview. Specifically, we aim through analysis of collocation frequencies in major corpora, to afford valuable insight on the content of texts, which we believe will, in turn, provide a novel basis for estimating text readability
Optimising content clarity for human-machine systems
This paper details issues associated with the production of clearly expressed and comprehensible technical documentation for domestic appliances and human-machine systems, and describes an approach to optimising the clarity of such content. The aim is to develop support for authors in checking the likely comprehensibility of chosen forms of expression by reference to an external measure of 'likely familiarity'. Our DOcumentation Support Tool (DoST) will assist in identifying words and expression forms that are likely to be unfamiliar to end users
Surface Tension between Kaon Condensate and Normal Nuclear Matter Phase
We calculate for the first time the surface tension and curvature coefficient
of a first order phase transition between two possible phases of cold nuclear
matter, a normal nuclear matter phase in equilibrium with a kaon condensed
phase, at densities a few times the saturation density. We find the surface
tension is proportional to the difference in energy density between the two
phases squared. Furthermore, we show the consequences for the geometrical
structures of the mixed phase region in a neutron star.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures (Latex
Review of software applications for deriving collocations
The field of collocation extraction has enjoyed considerable growth and vitality from the 1990s onwards. Our research uncovered a multitude of software programs that can derive collocations from textual data, but also introduced the following question: Which one is the most fitting for the task of extracting collocations from a corpus? This paper attempts to answer the previous question. We start by stating the criteria on which we based our judgement of the software applications included in our review. We then move on to give a brief description of each package, in terms of its functions, merits and demerits. We conclude by stating which of the packages was deemed, according to our opinion, the most appropriate for our purposes and provide a summary table of the results of the software review
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Microencapsulation of Finely Divided Ceramic Powders
Polymer coated alumina particles have been prepared by spray
drying alumina powder with a polymer emulsion. Powders containing a
maximum of 50% wt. were obtained. The coated particles were compared
to mixtures of alumina and polymer. Oven sintering tests show the coated
material to compact more than the mixed and pure polymer materials.
Strong, well defined parts with layer thicknesses of 0.002" were produced
from both coated and mixed materials by the Selective Layer Sintering
process.Mechanical Engineerin
Human antibody responses to the plamodium vivax duffy binding protein in Sri Lanka
Recombinant protein DBP, expressed in a bacculoviral vector, representing the native Plasmodium vivax Duffy Binding Protein (DBP) was used in an indirect ELISA to assay the total anti-DBP antibody (IgM + IgG) responses in Sri Lankan patients with acute vivax malaria.The test populations were selected from two malaria endemic areas, Anuradhapura (n=64) and Kataragama (n=93), and from an area non-endemic for malaria, Colombo (n=91). The prevalences of anti-DBP antibodies were 53%, 38% and 44% from Anuradhapura, Kataragama and Colombo, respectively. A significant difference (Chi-square test, p<0.05) was found between the proportions of responders and non-responders to DBP in Kataragama. Responding proportions of individuals previously exposed (PE) and previously not exposed (PNE) differed significantly only in Colombo (Chi-square test, p<0.05). Significant differences (Mann-Whitney U test, p<0.05) were evident between anti-DBP antibody magnitudes; (i) in Anuradhapura and Kataragama and (ii) of PNE individuals from Colombo and the total responders (both PNE + PE) from Anuradhapura.A significant difference (Mann-Whitney U test, p<0.01) in the end point titers (EPT) between PNE and PE individuals was limited to Colombo. Associations between host factors (age, parasitaemia, number of past infections, the duration between present and penultimate infections and the days of symptoms) and total antibody responses (antibody magnitudes and EPT) were examined (Spearman Correlation coefficient, p<0.05). The significant associations found were between (i) parasitaemia and then total antibody responses of residents in Anuradhapura, (ii) between the parasitaemia group <0.01% and the total antibody response of residents in Kataragama (a negative correlation), (iii) number of past infections in Colombo and (iv) the duration between the present and penultimate infections in Colombo and in Anuradhapura with EPT and the antibody magnitudes, respectively. In conclusion, results of the present study imply that naturally acquired anti-DBP antibodies may play a functional role in the immunity to vivax malaria in Sri Lank
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Drying of Colloidal Binder Infiltrated Ceramic Green Parts Produced by Selective Laser Sinteringâą
Colloidal ceramic binders have been used to strengthen ceramic
green shapes produced by Selective Laser Sintering. This paper
focuses on the effectiveness of the colloid infiltration with
respect to the physical properties of the colloidal binder. Mass
gains, strength gains, and dimensional changes resulting from
infiltration were monitored. Controlled drying experiments were
conducted to predict the factors influencing drying times for
complex shapes.Mechanical Engineerin
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