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Macromolecular organic acids in the Murchison meteorite
This study has detected bound organic acids within the Murchison meteorite organic macromolecule. Benzoic acid was the most abundant compound; other abundant compounds include C1 and C2 benzoic acids. Their origin and significance will be discussed
A radial mode ultrasonic horn for the inactivation of <i>Escherichia coli</i> K12
Tuned cylindrical radial mode ultrasonic horns offer advantages over ultrasonic probes in the design of flow-through devices for bacterial inactivation. This study presents a comparison of the effectiveness of a radial horn and probe in the inactivation of Escherichia coli K12. The radial horn is designed using finite element analysis and the predicted modal parameters are validated using experimental modal analysis. A validated finite element model of the probe is also presented. Visual studies of the cavitation fields produced by the radial horn and probe are carried out using luminol and also backlighting to demonstrate the advantages of radial horns in producing a more focused cavitation field with widely dispersed streamers. Microbiological studies show that, for the same power density, better inactivation of E. coli K12 is achieved using the radial horn and, also, the radial horn offers greater achievable power density resulting in further improvements in bacterial inactivation. The radial horn is shown to be more effective than the probe device and offers opportunities to design in-line flow-through devices for processing applications
Blade Sharpness and its Effect on the Testing of Body Armours
Factors such as edge sharpness and tip sharpness have been identified by Horsfall,1 as keyvariables in the testing of stab and slash resistant armours. This paper evaluates the influenceof blade sharpness on the mechanics of penetration and its relationship with a variety ofmaterials used for body armour systems. The differences in performance between blunt andsharp blades are compared by dynamic tests using an instrumented drop tower, measuringpeak loads and energy to penetration. Variance in the initial impact forces required topenetrate body armour between blunt and sharp blades is shown. However, the total energyto penetration for both sharp and blunt knives was found to be similar for a specific bodyarmour system. Dynamic tests were also used to evaluate the effect of wear on bladeperformance by the comparison of the initial loads for puncture and depth of penetration onaramid and metallic armour systems. The effect of sharpness on the reproducibility of testresults is also investigated and discussed. Various test methods are described for themeasurement of sharpness for both stab and slash and compared. The recent development ofa new non-destructive proof test method to measure tip and edge sharpness is also described
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Alteration of the Nakhlite Lava Pile: was water on the surface, seeping down, or at depth, percolating up? Evidence (such as it is) from carbonates
We present carbon and oxygen isotope data on carbonates in five nakhlites and use the results to interpret the martian weathering processes
Generalized Affine Coherent States: A Natural Framework for Quantization of Metric-like Variables
Affine variables, which have the virtue of preserving the positive-definite
character of matrix-like objects, have been suggested as replacements for the
canonical variables of standard quantization schemes, especially in the context
of quantum gravity. We develop the kinematics of such variables, discussing
suitable coherent states, their associated resolution of unity, polarizations,
and finally the realization of the coherent-state overlap function in terms of
suitable path-integral formulations.Comment: 17 pages, LaTeX, no figure
Germanium:gallium photoconductors for far infrared heterodyne detection
Highly compensated Ge:Ga photoconductors have been fabricated and evaluated for high bandwidth heterodyne detection. Bandwidths up to 60 MHz have been obtained with corresponding current responsivity of 0.01 A/W
The XMM-Newton spectral-fit database
The XMM-Newton spectral-fit database is an ongoing ESA funded project aimed
to construct a catalogue of spectral-fitting results for all the sources within
the XMM-Newton serendipitous source catalogue for which spectral data products
have been pipeline-extracted (~ 120,000 X-ray source detections). The
fundamental goal of this project is to provide the astronomical community with
a tool to construct large and representative samples of X-ray sources by
allowing source selection according to spectral properties.Comment: Conference proceedings of IAU Symposium 304: Multiwavelength AGN
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Network stack specialization for performance
Contemporary network stacks are masterpieces of generality, supporting a range of edge-node and middle-node functions. This generality comes at significant performance cost: current APIs, memory models, and implementations drastically limit the effectiveness of increasingly powerful hardware. Generality has historically been required to allow individual systems to perform many functions. However, as providers have scaled up services to support hundreds of millions of users, they have transitioned toward many thousands (or even millions) of dedicated servers performing narrow ranges of functions. We argue that the overhead of generality is now a key obstacle to effective scaling, making specialization not only viable, but necessary. This paper presents Sandstorm, a clean-slate userspace network stack that exploits knowledge of web server semantics, improving throughput over current off-the-shelf designs while retaining use of conventional operating-system and programming frameworks. Based on Netmap, our novel approach merges application and network-stack memory models, aggressively amortizes stack-internal TCP costs based on application-layer knowledge, tightly couples with the NIC event model, and exploits low-latency hardware access. We compare our approach to the FreeBSD and Linux network stacks with nginx as the web server, demonstrating âŒ3.5x throughput improvement, while experiencing low CPU utilization, linear scaling on multicore systems, and saturating current NIC hardware
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Hydropyrolysis of high molecular weight organic matter in Murchison
Hydropyrolysis of the Murchison macromolecular material releases polyaromatic compounds including phenanthrene, carbazole, fluoranthene, pyrene, chrysene, perylene, benzoperylene and coronene units with varying degrees of alklyation
Hadronic unquenching effects in the quark propagator
We investigate hadronic unquenching effects in light quarks and mesons.
Within the non-perturbative continuum framework of Schwinger-Dyson and
Bethe-Salpeter equations we quantify the strength of the back reaction of the
pion onto the quark-gluon interaction. To this end we add a Yang-Mills part of
the interaction such that unquenched lattice results for various current quark
masses are reproduced. We find considerable effects in the quark mass function
at low momenta as well as for the chiral condensate. The quark wave function is
less affected. The Gell--Mann-Oakes-Renner relation is valid to good accuracy
up to pion masses of 400-500 MeV. As a byproduct of our investigation we verify
the Coleman theorem, that chiral symmetry cannot be broken spontaneously when
QCD is reduced to 1+1 dimensions.Comment: 27 pages, 15 figures, minor corrections and clarifications; version
to appear in PR
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