Design of an axially controlled spindle unit for high precision diamond turning

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An accurate interference refractometer based on a permanent vacuum chamber : development and results

A new accurate interference refractometer, without pumping device, has been developed. The refractometer is based on a commercially available laser measurement system and uses a prismatic measuring cell, containing a permanent vacuum chamber. Measurements of the refractive index of air can be carried out accurately, easily and quickly with this instrument. For this instrument also a new arrangement of a double pass, plane mirror interferometer with high stability was developed. The accuracy of the interference refractometer is analytically and experimentally determined and appeared to be better as 1 part in 107

Changes in the structure of SW30HR RO membrane exposed to chloraminated seawater and synthetic solutions

Changes in the structure of the SW30HR RO membrane exposed to seawater, phosphate buffer, and standard seawater disinfected with monochloramine (NH2Cl) are investigated. Three types of experiments were performed: (1) exposure of RO membrane (active and support layers) to monochloramine (2, 20 and 200 mg/L as Cl2) and target proportional levels of iodide (0.06, 0.6 and 6 mg/L) or bromide (60, 600 and 6,000 mg/L) at constant exposure CT=384 mg×h/L; (2) exposure of support layer only to monochloramine at CT values of 1,000 and 30,000 mg×h/L at a monochloramine concentration of 200 mg/L as Cl2; (3) exposure of RO membrane (active and support layers) to monochloramine at CT values of 1,000, 5,000 and 30,000 mg×h/L at a monochloramine concentration of 200 mg/L as Cl2 in the presence of only 6 mg/L of iodide, only 6,000 mg/L of bromide, and both 6 mg/L of iodide and 6,000 mg/L of bromide. Results revealed that monochloramine may be reacting with the polysulfone support of RO membranes. RBS analyses have revealed that the RO membrane support might undergo damage. Recent work involves determining the effect of active layer-bound halogens on carboxylic group accessibility. Cesium (Cs+), silver (Ag+), and barium (Ba2+) were used as ion probes to quantify the changes associated with membranes exposed to three different batch reactor conditions (1) seawater with 2 ppm NH2Cl; (2) phosphate buffer with 2 ppm NH2Cl and 65 mg/L KBr as Br-; (3) standard seawater with 2 ppm NH2Cl and 65 mg/L KBr as Br-. Preliminary results indicate a shift in the pKa values of active layer carboxylic groups in batch reactors containing NH2Cl in comparison to control reactors

Referring to Screen Texts with Voice Assistants

Voice assistants help users make phone calls, send messages, create events, navigate, and do a lot more. However, assistants have limited capacity to understand their users' context. In this work, we aim to take a step in this direction. Our work dives into a new experience for users to refer to phone numbers, addresses, email addresses, URLs, and dates on their phone screens. Our focus lies in reference understanding, which becomes particularly interesting when multiple similar texts are present on screen, similar to visual grounding. We collect a dataset and propose a lightweight general-purpose model for this novel experience. Due to the high cost of consuming pixels directly, our system is designed to rely on the extracted text from the UI. Our model is modular, thus offering flexibility, improved interpretability, and efficient runtime memory utilization.Comment: 7 pages, Accepted to ACL Industry Track 202