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Impact of e-commerce in B2B physical distribution: diffusion of innovations perspective
Thermal energy storage systems using fluidized bed heat exchangers
The viability of using fluidized bed heat exchangers (FBHX) for thermal energy storage (TES) in applications with potential for waste heat recovery was investigated. Of the candidate applications screened, cement plant rotary kilns and steel plant electric arc furnaces were identified, via the chosen selection criteria, as having the best potential for successful use of FBHX/TES system. A computer model of the FBHX/TES systems was developed and the technical feasibility of the two selected applications was verified. Economic and tradeoff evaluations in progress for final optimization of the systems and selection of the most promising system for further concept validation are described
Chain motion and viscoelasticity in highly entangled solutions of semiflexible rods
Brownian dynamics simulations are used to study highly entangled solutions of
semiflexible polymers. Bending fluctuations of semiflexible rods are
signficantly affected by entanglement only above a concentration ,
where for chains of similar length and
persistence length. For , the tube radius approaches a
dependence , and the linear viscoelastic response
develops an elastic contribution that is absent for . Experiments
on isotropic solutions of -actin span concentrations near for which
the predicted asymptotic scaling of the plateau modulus is
not yet valid.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures, submitted to PR
Decay of nuclear hyperpolarization in silicon microparticles
We investigate the low-field relaxation of nuclear hyperpolarization in
undoped and highly doped silicon microparticles at room temperature following
removal from high field. For nominally undoped particles, two relaxation time
scales are identified for ambient fields above 0.2 mT. The slower, T_1s, is
roughly independent of ambient field; the faster, T_1f, decreases with
increasing ambient field. A model in which nuclear spin relaxation occurs at
the particle surface via a two-electron mechanism is shown to be in good
agreement with the experimental data, particularly the field-independence of
T_1s. For boron-doped particles, a single relaxation time scale is observed.
This suggests that for doped particles, mobile carriers and bulk ionized
acceptor sites, rather than paramagnetic surface states, are the dominant
relaxation mechanisms. Relaxation times for the undoped particles are not
affected by tumbling in a liquid solution.Comment: related papers at http://marcuslab.harvard.ed
Dynamic Nuclear Polarization in Silicon Microparticles
We report record high Si-29 spin polarization obtained using dynamic nuclear
polarization in microcrystalline silicon powder. Unpaired electrons in this
silicon powder are due to dangling bonds in the amorphous region of this
intrinsically heterogeneous sample. Si-29 nuclei in the amorphous region become
polarized by forced electron-nuclear spin flips driven by off-resonant
microwave radiation while nuclei in the crystalline region are polarized by
spin diffusion across crystalline boundaries. Hyperpolarized silicon
microparticles have long T1 relaxation times and could be used as tracers for
magnetic resonance imaging.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures, published versio
Clinicopathological determinants of an elevated systemic inflammatory response following elective potentially curative resection for colorectal cancer
Introduction:
The postoperative systemic inflammatory response (SIR) is related to both long- and short-term outcomes following surgery for colorectal cancer. However, it is not clear which clinicopathological factors are associated with the magnitude of the postoperative SIR. The present study was designed to determine the clinicopathological determinants of the postoperative systemic inflammatory response following colorectal cancer resection.
Methods:
Patients with a histologically proven diagnosis of colorectal cancer who underwent elective, potentially curative resection during a period from 1999 to 2013 were included in the study (n = 752). Clinicopathological data and the postoperative SIR, as evidenced by postoperative Glasgow Prognostic Score (poGPS), were recorded in a prospectively maintained database.
Results:
The majority of patients were aged 65 years or older, male, were overweight or obese, and had an open resection. After adjustment for year of operation, a high day 3 poGPS was independently associated with American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) grade (hazard ratio [HR] 1.96; confidence interval [CI] 1.25–3.09; p = 0.003), body mass index (BMI) (HR 1.60; CI 1.07–2.38; p = 0.001), mGPS (HR 2.03; CI 1.35–3.03; p = 0.001), and tumour site (HR 2.99; CI 1.56–5.71; p < 0.001). After adjustment for year of operation, a high day 4 poGPS was independently associated with ASA grade (HR 1.65; CI 1.06–2.57; p = 0.028), mGPS (HR 1.81; CI 1.22–2.68; p = 0.003), NLR (HR 0.50; CI 0.26–0.95; p = 0.034), and tumour site (HR 2.90; CI 1.49–5.65; p = 0.002).
Conclusions:
ASA grade, BMI, mGPS, and tumour site were consistently associated with the magnitude of the postoperative systemic inflammatory response, evidenced by a high poGPS on days 3 and 4, in patients undergoing elective potentially curative resection for colorectal cancer
Local Realism of Macroscopic Correlations
We show that for macroscopic measurements which cannot reveal full
information about microscopic states of the system, the monogamy of Bell
inequality violations present in quantum mechanics implies that practically all
correlations between macroscopic measurements can be described by local
realistic models. Our results hold for sharp measurement and arbitrary closed
quantum systems.Comment: 9 pages incl. one Appendix, 2 figure
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