Systems and methods for monitoring solids using mechanical resonator

Multi-phase system monitoringmethods, systems and apparatus aredisclosed. Preferred embodiments comprise one or more mechanical resonator sensing elements. In preferred embodiments a sensor or a sensor subassembly is ported to a fluidized bed vessel such as a fluidized bed polymerization reactor

Bench-to-bedside review: Mechanisms and management of hyperthermia due to toxicity

Body temperature can be severely disturbed by drugs capable of altering the balance between heat production and dissipation. If not treated aggressively, these events may become rapidly fatal. Several toxins can induce such non-infection-based temperature disturbances through different underlying mechanisms. The drugs involved in the eruption of these syndromes include sympathomimetics and monoamine oxidase inhibitors, antidopaminergic agents, anticholinergic compounds, serotonergic agents, medicaments with the capability of uncoupling oxidative phosphorylation, inhalation anesthetics, and unspecific agents causing drug fever. Besides centrally disturbed regulation disorders, hyperthermia often results as a consequence of intense skeletal muscle hypermetabolic reaction. This leads mostly to rapidly evolving muscle rigidity, extensive rhabdomyolysis, electrolyte disorders, and renal failure and may be fatal. The goal of treatment is to reduce body core temperature with both symptomatic supportive care, including active cooling, and specific treatment options

Non-monotonic fluctuation spectra of membranes pinned or tethered discretely to a substrate

The thermal fluctuation spectrum of a fluid membrane coupled harmonically to a solid support by an array of tethers is calculated. For strong tethers, this spectrum exhibits non-monotonic, anisotropic behavior with a relative maximum at a wavelength about twice the tether distance. The root mean square displacement is evaluated to estimate typical membrane displacements. Possible applications cover pillar-supported or polymer-tethered membranes.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure

Process Mining for Advanced Service Analytics – From Process Efficiency to Customer Encounter and Experience

With the ongoing trend of servitization nurtured through digital technologies, the analysis of services as a starting point for improvement is gaining more and more importance. Service analytics has been defined as a concept to analyze the data generated during service execution to create value for providers and customers. To create more useful insights from the data, there is a continuous need for more advanced solutions for service analytics. One promising technology is process mining which has its origins in business process management. Our work provides insights into how process mining is currently used to analyze service processes and how it could be used along the service process. We find that process mining is increasingly applied for the analysis of the providers' internal operations, but more emphasis should be put on analyzing the customer interaction and experience