Research and Development of a Smart Module Integrated Converter for the Future of Renewable Energy

This research focused on developing of a Smart Module Integrated Converter for grid-connected solar photovoltaic (PV) system. This technology enhances the commercial micro-inverters with novel network-supported, grid-adapted functionalities. The micro-inverter utilizes open source and reference design from Microchip to keep design and production at low cost

Revisiting Unsupervised Relation Extraction

Unsupervised relation extraction (URE) extracts relations between named entities from raw text without manually-labelled data and existing knowledge bases (KBs). URE methods can be categorised into generative and discriminative approaches, which rely either on hand-crafted features or surface form. However, we demonstrate that by using only named entities to induce relation types, we can outperform existing methods on two popular datasets. We conduct a comparison and evaluation of our findings with other URE techniques, to ascertain the important features in URE. We conclude that entity types provide a strong inductive bias for URE.Comment: 8 pages, 1 figure, 2 tables. Accepted in ACL 202

Confucian Self-Cultivation and Cultural Dialogue

This paper deals with the concept of self-cultivation within the Confucian tradition. This idea provides a foundation for the understanding of what human nature holds in common. Though cultural traditions are different but they are equal because they all share the common root of human nature as the original source for their specific interpretations of human development. It concludes that this commonality of human nature which lies beneath cultural difference can be the foundation for intercultural dialogue

Enhanced osteoblast adhesion on nanostructured selenium compacts for anti-cancer orthopedic applications

Metallic bone implants possess numerous problems limiting their long-term efficacy, such as poor prolonged osseointegration, stress shielding, and corrosion under in vivo environments. Such problems are compounded for bone cancer patients since numerous patients receive orthopedic implants after cancerous bone resection. Unfortunately, current orthopedic materials were not originally developed to simultaneously increase healthy bone growth (as in traditional orthopedic implant applications) while inhibiting cancerous bone growth. The long-term objective of the present research is to investigate the use of nano-rough selenium to prevent bone cancer from re-occurring while promoting healthy bone growth for this select group of cancer patients. Selenium is a well known anti-cancer chemical. However, what is not known is how healthy bone cells interact with selenium. To determine this, selenium, spherical or semispherical shots, were pressed into cylindrical compacts and these compacts were then etched using 1N NaOH to obtain various surface structures ranging from the micron, submicron to nano scales. Changes in surface chemistry were also analyzed. Through these etching techniques, results of this study showed that biologically inspired surface roughness values were created on selenium compacts to match that of natural bone roughness. Moreover, results showed that healthy bone cell adhesion increased with greater nanometer selenium roughness (more closely matching that of titanium). In this manner, this study suggests that nano-rough selenium should be further tested for orthopedic applications involving bone cancer treatment

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Selenium nanoparticles inhibit Staphylococcus aureus growth

Staphylococcus aureus is a key bacterium commonly found in numerous infections. S. aureus infections are difficult to treat due to their biofilm formation and documented antibiotic resistance. While selenium has been used for a wide range of applications including anticancer applications, the effects of selenium nanoparticles on microorganisms remain largely unknown to date. The objective of this in vitro study was thus to examine the growth of S. aureus in the presence of selenium nanoparticles. Results of this study provided the first evidence of strongly inhibited growth of S. aureus in the presence of selenium nanoparticles after 3, 4, and 5 hours at 7.8, 15.5, and 31 μg/mL. The percentage of live bacteria also decreased in the presence of selenium nanoparticles. Therefore, this study suggests that selenium nanoparticles may be used to effectively prevent and treat S. aureus infections and thus should be further studied for such applications

Chromosome Segregation: Organizing Overlap at the Midzone

SummarySets of overlapping microtubules support the segregation of chromosomes by linking the poles of mitotic spindles. Recent work examines the effect of putting these linkages under pressure by the activation of dicentric chromosomes and sheds new light on the structural role of several well-known spindle midzone proteins

2D-model of contaminant water transmission processes and numerical simulation on a natural lake

Nowadays, the water pollution problems in the lakes are urgent matters. The simulation of contaminant water transmission process plays important role in reality to improve people's life qualities. In this paper the 2D-mathematical model simulating transmission processes of some contaminant substances in one lake of Hanoi is studied. The finite volume method is used in model. The actions between substances are considered and the simulation results are compared with the measurements