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Prospect of Making Ceramic Shell Mold by Ceramic Laser Fusion
Manufacturing prototypical castings by conventional investment casting not only takes
several weeks, but also is prohibitively expensive. Z Corporation in USA, EOS GmbH and
IPT in Germany employ the techniques of 3DP and SLS respectively to make directly ceramic
shell molds for metal castings. Although those techniques dramatically reduce time
expenditure and production cost, each layer cannot be thinner than 50 Āµm because of using
powder to pave layers. The dimensional accuracy and roughness of the castings still cannot
meet the specification of precision casting. Therefore, in this paper the ceramic laser fusion
(CLF) was used to pave layers. Each layer can be thinner than 25 Āµm, so that the step effect
can be diminished and the workpiece surface can be smoother; drying time will be shortened
dramatically. Moreover, the inherent solid-state support formed by green portion has the
capability of preventing upward and downward deformation of the scanned cross sections. In
order to make shell mold which meets the roughness requirement (Rq=3.048Āµm) of the
precision casting, following issues have to be further studied: (1) design a proper ceramic
shell mold structure, (2) design a paving chamber for paving a complete green layer which
can be easily collapsed, (3) cut down drying time, (4) optimize laser scanning process
parameters with the smallest distortion, (5) eliminate sunken area, (6) reduce layer thickness
to less than13Āµm, (7) control power to guarantee the energy uniformly absorbed by workpiece,
and (8) develop a method which can directly clean green portion in cavity from gate.Mechanical Engineerin
The inferior caval vein draining into the left atrial cavity : a rare case
The inferior vena cava (IVC) draining into the left atrium (LA) is exceedingly rare in the setting of the usual atrial arrangement (situs solitus). This article describes a patient with this unique anomaly, and its repair.peer-reviewe
Decay Process for Three - Species Reaction - Diffusion System
We propose the deterministic rate equation of three-species in the reaction -
diffusion system. For this case, our purpose is to carry out the decay process
in our three-species reaction-diffusion model of the form . The
particle density and the global reaction rate are also shown analytically and
numerically on a two-dimensional square lattice with the periodic boundary
conditions. Especially, the crossover of the global reaction rate is discussed
in both early-time and long-time regimes.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures, Late
Optically pumped GaAs surface laser with corrugation feedback
A GaAs distributed-feedback laser was fabricated and pumped optically. A narrow stimulated spectrum was obtained around 0.83 Āµ with threshold pumping power of ~2 Ć 10^5 W/cm^2
High-temperature emissivities of copper, aluminum, and silver
[[abstract]]Using a transient calorimetric technique, the total hemispherical emissivities Eh of very pure copper, aluminum, and silver have been measured at various temperatures in the range 335-1100'K. By carrying out measurements on a sphere, a thin circular disk, and a thin square plate all made of the same copper sample, it is shown that the measured (, is practically independent of the shape of the specimen. Measured E,, values of Cu, Al, and Ag show considerable departure from the theoretical predictions of Davisson and Weeks and the data of previous investigators. Eh data are presented in tabular form at 20'K intervals for all three materials in the range 400-1000'K.[[notice]]č£ę£å®ē¢[[booktype]]ē“
In vitro and in vivo studies of the trypanocidal properties of WRR-483 against Trypanosoma cruzi.
BackgroundCruzain, the major cysteine protease of Trypanosoma cruzi, is an essential enzyme for the parasite life cycle and has been validated as a viable target to treat Chagas' disease. As a proof-of-concept, K11777, a potent inhibitor of cruzain, was found to effectively eliminate T. cruzi infection and is currently a clinical candidate for treatment of Chagas' disease.Methodology/principal findingsWRR-483, an analog of K11777, was synthesized and evaluated as an inhibitor of cruzain and against T. cruzi proliferation in cell culture. This compound demonstrates good potency against cruzain with sensitivity to pH conditions and high efficacy in the cell culture assay. Furthermore, WRR-483 also eradicates parasite infection in a mouse model of acute Chagas' disease. To determine the atomic-level details of the inhibitor interacting with cruzain, a 1.5 A crystal structure of the protease in complex with WRR-483 was solved. The structure illustrates that WRR-483 binds covalently to the active site cysteine of the protease in a similar manner as other vinyl sulfone-based inhibitors. Details of the critical interactions within the specificity binding pocket are also reported.ConclusionsWe demonstrate that WRR-483 is an effective cysteine protease inhibitor with trypanocidal activity in cell culture and animal model with comparable efficacy to K11777. Crystallographic evidence confirms that the mode of action is by targeting the active site of cruzain. Taken together, these results suggest that WRR-483 has potential to be developed as a treatment for Chagas' disease
Multi-spin dynamics of the solid-state NMR Free Induction Decay
We present a new experimental investigation of the NMR free induction decay
(FID) in a lattice of spin-1/2 nuclei in a strong Zeeman field. Following a
pi/2 pulse, evolution under the secular dipolar Hamiltonian preserves coherence
number in the Zeeman eigenbasis, but changes the number of correlated spins in
the state. The observed signal is seen to decay as single-spin, single-quantum
coherences evolve into multiple-spin coherences under the action of the dipolar
Hamiltonian. In order to probe the multiple-spin dynamics during the FID, we
measured the growth of coherence orders in a basis other than the usual Zeeman
eigenbasis. This measurement provides the first direct experimental observation
of the growth of coherent multiple-spin correlations during the FID.
Experiments were performed with a cubic lattice of spins (19F in calcium
fluoride) and a linear spin chain (19F in fluorapatite). It is seen that the
geometrical arrangement of the spins plays a significant role in the
development of higher order correlations. The results are discussed in light of
existing theoretical models.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figure
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Gentrification and Displacement in the San Francisco Bay Area: A Comparison of Measurement Approaches.
Gentrification may play an important role in influencing health outcomes, but few studies have examined these associations. One major barrier to producing empirical evidence to establish this link is that there is little consensus on how to measure gentrification. To address this barrier, we compared three gentrification classification methodologies in relation to their ability to identify neighborhood gentrification in nine San Francisco Bay Area counties: the Freeman method, the Landis method, and the Urban Displacement Project (UDP) Regional Early Warning System. In the 1580 census tracts, 43% of the population had a bachelor's degree or higher. The average median household income was $79,671 in 2013. A comparison of gentrification methodologies revealed that the Landis and Freeman methodologies characterized the vast majority of census tracts as stable, and only 5.2% and 6.1% of tracts as gentrifying. UDP characterized 46.7% of tracts at risk, undergoing, or experiencing advanced stages of gentrification and displacement. There was substantial variation in the geographic location of tracts identified as gentrifying across methods. Given the variation in characterizations of gentrification across measures, studies evaluating associations between gentrification and health should consider using multiple measures of gentrification to examine the robustness of the study findings across measures
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