Journal articles: 'Recovery orders'

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Monti, G. "Recovery Orders in State Aid Proceedings: Lessons from Antitrust?" European State Aid Law Quarterly 10, no. 3 (2011): 415–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.21552/estal/2011/3/242.

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Dawson, Suzanne, Eimear Muir‐Cochrane, Alan Simpson, and Sharon Lawn. "Risk versus recovery: Care planning with individuals on community treatment orders." International Journal of Mental Health Nursing 30, no. 5 (May 7, 2021): 1248–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/inm.12877.

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Barnes, B. Davis, Judith A. Sclafani, and Andrew Zaffos. "Dead clades walking are a pervasive macroevolutionary pattern." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118, no. 15 (April 7, 2021): e2019208118. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2019208118.

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D. Jablonski [Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99, 8139–8144 (2002)] coined the term “dead clades walking” (DCWs) to describe marine fossil orders that experience significant drops in genus richness during mass extinction events and never rediversify to previous levels. This phenomenon is generally interpreted as further evidence that the macroevolutionary consequences of mass extinctions can continue well past the formal boundary. It is unclear, however, exactly how long DCWs are expected to persist after extinction events and to what degree they impact broader trends in Phanerozoic biodiversity. Here we analyze the fossil occurrences of 134 skeletonized marine invertebrate orders in the Paleobiology Database (paleobiodb.org) using a Bayesian method to identify significant change points in genus richness. Our analysis identifies 70 orders that experience major diversity losses without recovery. Most of these taxa, however, do not fit the popular conception of DCWs as clades that narrowly survive a mass extinction event and linger for only a few stages before succumbing to extinction. The median postdrop duration of these DCW orders is long (>30 Myr), suggesting that previous studies may have underestimated the long-term taxonomic impact of mass extinction events. More importantly, many drops in diversity without recovery are not associated with mass extinction events and occur during background extinction stages. The prevalence of DCW orders throughout both mass and background extinction intervals and across phyla (>50% of all marine invertebrate orders) suggests that the DCW pattern is a major component of macroevolutionary turnover.

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Freiberg, Arie. "Social Security Prosecutions and Overpayment Recovery." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 22, no. 4 (December 1989): 213–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000486588902200403.

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This Article examines some of the problems arising from the interaction between the criminal, civil and administrative responses to non-compliance with social security legislation, in particular, cases of overpayments of pensions and benefits obtained by fraud. It focuses on the relationship between criminal sancations or orders imposed by the courts and the administrative process of recovering overpayments. It discusses the problem of identifying the appropriate forum and mechanism for the resolution of disputes over the quantum of disputed overpayments. Finally, it suggests some procedural reforms to ensure that persons who are the subject of parallel proceedings have their disputes dealt with in the most expeditious and least prejudicial manner possible.

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Golik, Vladimir, Vladimir Morkun, Natalia Morkun, and Vitaliy Tron. "Investigation of Mechanochemical Leaching of Non-Ferrous Metals." Acta Mechanica et Automatica 13, no. 2 (June 1, 2019): 113–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ama-2019-0016.

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Abstract The research deals with metal extraction from off-grade ores and concentration tailings. There are provided results of simulating parameters of reagent leaching of metals in the disintegrator according to the metal recovery ratio. The research substantiates the method of waste-free processing of chemically recovered ores. Recovery of metals into solution is the same both under multiple leaching of tailings or ore in the disintegrator and agitation leaching of tailings or ore previously activated in the disintegrator with leaching solutions. The time of agitation leaching is more by two orders of magnitude than that of the disintegrator processing. Recovery of metals into solution is most affected by the content of sodium chloride in the solution. Then, in decreasing order, go the content of sulfuric acid in the solution, the disintegrator rotor rpm and L:S ratio.

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Novotny, V. J., T. E. Karis, and N. W. Johnson. "Lubricant Removal, Degradation, and Recovery on Particulate Magnetic Recording Media." Journal of Tribology 114, no. 1 (January 1, 1992): 61–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.2920869.

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Lubrication of particulate magnetic recording media improves their mechanical durability in sliding and flying by several orders of magnitude compared with unlubricated media. Lubricant removal, degradation, and recovery were studied using microslit scanning Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and microspot scanning X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. These techniques measure the total and surface lubricant amounts in the porous film, respectively. Lubricant dynamics were compared for two physisorbed polyperfluoroalkylether lubricants of similar molecular weight but different molecular structure—Y with a CF3 side group and Z with linear chains. The bulk viscosity of Y was about ten times higher than the viscosity of Z. In sliding, the lubricant removal rate of Y was significantly higher than that of Z while in flying the removal rates were reversed. Removal rates in sliding were orders of magnitude higher than those in flying. Effective lateral diffusion coefficients estimated from the rate of lubricant reflow back to the depleted tracks were close to inversely proportional to the bulk viscosity. During sliding and flying both lubricants degraded as evidenced by chemically altered lubricant detected on the surfaces after dissolution of undegraded lubricant.

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Gu, Jiatao, Qi Liu, and Kyunghyun Cho. "Insertion-based Decoding with Automatically Inferred Generation Order." Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics 7 (November 2019): 661–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/tacl_a_00292.

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Conventional neural autoregressive decoding commonly assumes a fixed left-to-right generation order, which may be sub-optimal. In this work, we propose a novel decoding algorithm— InDIGO—which supports flexible sequence generation in arbitrary orders through insertion operations. We extend Transformer, a state-of-the-art sequence generation model, to efficiently implement the proposed approach, enabling it to be trained with either a pre-defined generation order or adaptive orders obtained from beam-search. Experiments on four real-world tasks, including word order recovery, machine translation, image caption, and code generation, demonstrate that our algorithm can generate sequences following arbitrary orders, while achieving competitive or even better performance compared with the conventional left-to-right generation. The generated sequences show that InDIGO adopts adaptive generation orders based on input information.

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Edan, Vrinda, Lisa Brophy, Penelope June Weller, Ellie Fossey, and Graham Meadows. "The experience of the use of Community Treatment Orders following recovery-oriented practice training." International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 64 (May 2019): 178–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlp.2019.04.001.

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Roland, C. M., and C. G. Robertson. "Recovery of Shear-Modified Polybutadiene Solutions." Rubber Chemistry and Technology 79, no. 2 (May 1, 2006): 267–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.5254/1.3547937.

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Abstract We have investigated the recovery of the overshoot in the transient viscosity, the first normal stress coefficient, and the dynamic modulus for entangled polybutadiene solutions subjected to nonlinear shear flow. The molecular-weight dependences of the various time scales (linear viscoelastic relaxation time, entanglement recovery time, and timescale for decay of stress following cessation of shearing) are all consistent with the usual 3.4 power law. Nevertheless, the time for recovery of the stress overshoot and plateau value of the dynamic modulus were substantially longer (by as much as two orders of magnitude) than the linear viscoelastic relaxation time calculated from the Newtonian viscosity and the equilibrium recoverable compliance. These results indicate that complete entanglement recovery requires cooperative chain motions over a length scale exceeding that associated with linear relaxation. This persistence of a disentangled state means that a state of low viscosity and reduced elasticity is retained for an extended time, suggesting that shear modification can be used to facilitate the processing of polymers.

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Farahani, Hamid, Rahman Wagiran, Olena Yurchenko, and Gerald A. Urban. "Barium Strontium Titanate Humidity Sensor: Impact of Doping on the Structural and Electrical Properties." Proceedings 2, no. 13 (December 13, 2018): 1007. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2131007.

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The influence of Mg2+ doping (3 mol %) on structural and humidity sensing properties of (Ba0.5,Sr0.5)TiO3 (BST) perovskite nanocomposite were studied in details. Microstructural properties revealed the particle size, surface area, and average pore volume diminished for doped sample. For the MgO doped BST sensor, the film resistance and total impedance are changed more than four orders of magnitude in the 20–95% RH range, while BST sensor shows three orders change. The 3 mol % MgO doped sample with maximum hysteresis of 6.1 RH% and response/recovery time of about 30/80 s exhibits faster characteristics compare to pure BST sample with 6.8 RH% hysteresis and response/recovery of 41 s and 98 s, respectively. Transduction mechanism was found based on the proton transfer and further confirmed by a Bode plot and Nyquist complex impedance plane plot.

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Unc, Adrian, Julie Gardner, and Susan Springthorpe. "Recovery of Escherichia coli from Soil after Addition of Sterile Organic Wastes." Applied and Environmental Microbiology 72, no. 3 (March 2006): 2287–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/aem.72.3.2287-2289.2006.

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ABSTRACT Laboratory batch tests indicate that addition of sterile municipal sewage biosolids to clay soil from four depths increases the numbers of Escherichia coli isolates recoverable in EC-MUG broth (EC broth with 4-methylumbelliferyl-β-glucuronide). This effect was most marked for the deeper soil layers, with increases of about 2.6 orders of magnitude in E. coli most probable number.

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STORR, VIRGIL HENRY, LAURA E. GRUBE, and STEFANIE HAEFFELE-BALCH. "Polycentric orders and post-disaster recovery: a case study of one Orthodox Jewish community following Hurricane Sandy." Journal of Institutional Economics 13, no. 4 (February 28, 2017): 875–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1744137417000054.

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AbstractHurricane Sandy hit the East Coast of the United States on 29 October 2012, flooding hundreds of thousands of homes and costing over $50 billion in property damage. After Hurricane Sandy residents and communities required food, water and clothing, and in the weeks and months following, there was demand for cleaning supplies, building materials and contracting services. Polycentric orders, because of their flexibility and access to local knowledge, are well suited to respond to the challenges of disaster. We highlight the importance of privately provided social services within polycentric orders and illustrate that the private provision of these services was important to post-disaster recovery in the Orthodox Jewish community in the Rockaway Peninsula in New York.

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Liu, Shan, Jian Li, and Wei Pan. "Effects of the Top-Electrode Annealing on the Ferroelectric Properties of BiFeO₃ Thin Films." Key Engineering Materials 368-372 (February 2008): 230–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/kem.368-372.230.

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BiFeO3 films were prepared by chemical solution method on Pt/Ti/SiO2/Si substrates. The ferroelectric properties of Pt/BiFeO3/Pt capacitors were investigated, and the effect of recovery annealing applied after Pt top electrode deposition was discussed. The pure phase film with recovery annealing exhibits lower leakage current and higher remanent polarization than those without post-annealing. The leakage current is reduced by three orders of magnitude, the remanent polarization increases from 2.59μC/cm2 to 3.44μC/cm2. The recovery anneals applied after top electrode deposition may optimize the ferroelectric performance by removing the effect of structural defects formed by sputtering.

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Sun, Pengzhan, Kunlin Wang, Jinquan Wei, Minlin Zhong, Dehai Wu, and Hongwei Zhu. "Effective recovery of acids from iron-based electrolytes using graphene oxide membrane filters." J. Mater. Chem. A 2, no. 21 (2014): 7734–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c4ta00668b.

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Efficient recovery of acids from iron-based electrolytes using GO membranes was demonstrated. The trans-membrane transport of H⁺ was two orders of magnitude greater than that of Fe³⁺. The circular penetration of iron-based electrolytes could produce acids with high purity, which was superior to other traditional diffusion dialysis processes conducted by polymer-based anion-exchange membranes.

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Vine, Ruth, and Angela Komiti. "Carer experience of Community Treatment Orders: implications for rights based/recovery-oriented mental health legislation." Australasian Psychiatry 23, no. 2 (February 4, 2015): 154–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1039856214568216.

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Guo, Hua, Pacelli L. J. Zitha, Rien Faber, and Marten Buijse. "A Novel Alkaline/Surfactant/Foam Enhanced Oil Recovery Process." SPE Journal 17, no. 04 (November 27, 2012): 1186–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/145043-pa.

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Summary This article reports a laboratory study of a novel alkaline/surfactant/foam (ASF) process. The goal of the study was to investigate whether foaming a specially designed alkaline/surfactant (AS) formulation could meet the two key requirements for a good enhanced oil recovery (EOR) [i.e., lowering the interfacial tension (IFT) considerably and ensuring a good mobility control]. The study included phase-behavior tests, foam-column tests, and computed-tomography (CT)-scan-aided corefloods. It was found that the IFT of the designed AS and a selected crude oil drops by four orders of magnitude at the optimum salinity. The AS proved to be a good foaming agent in the column tests and corefloods in the absence of oil. The mobility reduction caused by the AS foam was hardly sensitive to salinity and increased with decreasing foam quality. CT-scanned corefloods demonstrated that AS foam, after a small AS preflush, recovered almost all the oil left after waterflooding. The oil-recovery mechanism by ASF combines the formation of an oil bank and the transport of emulsified oil by flowing lamellae. Further optimization of the ASF is needed to ensure that the oil is produced exclusively by the oil bank.

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Da Silva Junior, Osvaldo Tadeu, Gustavo Marinho do Nascimento, Giovane Henrique da Silva Nishioka, Anderson Polesel Batista, Jose Alexandre Curiacos, and Julio Wilson dos Santos. "Acute effect of different orders of concurrent training on glycemia." Bioscience Journal 37 (February 25, 2021): e37015. http://dx.doi.org/10.14393/bj-v37n0a2021-49851.

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The present study verified the effect of a concurrent training (CT) session in different orders, Strength + Endurance (SE) and Endurance + Strength (ES), on the glycemic control. The crossover study included 20 young men, 21.80 ± 2.90 years, IMC ≥ 23 kg/m2, 24.83 ± 3.68% of fat, who performed both CT sessions separated by 72 h. Capillary glycemia was measured at pre, immediately post the end of each exercise session, and during the recovery period at 30, 60, and 90 minutes. The comparisons were performed using Two-way ANOVA (order and time), paired test-t for the area under the curve, as well as Cohen’s d effect size. There was effect of exercise order (F = 5.973; p = 0.03), effect of time (F = 18.345; p = 0.001) and interaction between order and time (F = 2.835; p = 0.03). The area under the curve presented a significant reduction (p = 0.03, effect size = 0.51, moderate). The area under the curve was smaller in SE, as well as glucose concentrations at end and post 30 min of exercise, suggesting better efficiency in glycemic control compared to ES.

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Mulla, Yuval, Harmen Wierenga, Celine Alkemade, Pieter Rein ten Wolde, and Gijsje H. Koenderink. "Frustrated binding of biopolymer crosslinkers." Soft Matter 15, no. 14 (2019): 3036–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c8sm02429d.

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By combining rheology and fluorescence recovery after photobleaching with theoretical modeling, we find that the unbinding rate of crosslinkers from only one filament is nearly two orders of magnitude slower than for doubly bound ones. We attribute the increased unbinding rate of doubly bound crosslinkers to the high stiffness of biopolymers, which frustrates crosslinker binding.

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Jin, Bangti, and Yavar Kian. "Recovering multiple fractional orders in time-fractional diffusion in an unknown medium." Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 477, no. 2253 (September 2021): 20210468. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2021.0468.

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In this work, we investigate an inverse problem of recovering multiple orders in a time-fractional diffusion model from the data observed at one single point on the boundary. We prove the unique recovery of the orders together with their weights, which does not require a full knowledge of the domain or medium properties, e.g. diffusion and potential coefficients, initial condition and source in the model. The proof is based on Laplace transform and asymptotic expansion. Furthermore, inspired by the analysis, we propose a numerical procedure for recovering these parameters based on a nonlinear least-squares fitting with either fractional polynomials or rational approximations as the model function, and provide numerical experiments to illustrate the approach for small time t .

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Bradshaw, Elizabeth A. "Book Reviews: Negotiated justice and corporate crime: The legitimacy of recovery orders and deferred prosecution agreements." Journal of White Collar and Corporate Crime 1, no. 1 (November 7, 2019): 77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2631309x19876932.

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Ayoush verma. "Recovery from corona virus 19." International Journal of Research in Pharmaceutical Sciences 11, SPL1 (December 21, 2020): 1798–803. http://dx.doi.org/10.26452/ijrps.v11ispl1.4207.

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The extreme intense breathing disorder coronavirus 2 pandemic features phenomenal emergency care utilities. The gigantic number of coronavirus sickness (coronavirus) case in the US had brought about a huge populace of survivor with delayed after septic indications. The making of integrative present coronavirus facilities on location both diligent manifestations and potential long hau care requirement needed comprehension of the intense sickness and the awakening information with respect to coronavirus results. Involvement in serious, intense breathing disorder and mid breathing state, after-intense breathing trouble disorder intricacies, and after-escalated care state additionally adverses foreseen sequelae and clinical orientation plan. After-corona virus clinical projects should be set up to think about people recently hospital with coronavirus (counting the individuals who needed basic consideration to uphold), nonhospital people with determined breathing side effects following coronavirus, and people with previous lung infection confounded by a coronavirus. Viable integrative joint effort models influence caretaking picked up at the time of the beginning stages of the pandemic to beat the exceptional strategic emergency care requirement presented by pandemic states. A coordinated effort among doctors and analysts across orders will give understanding into outlastership that may shape the therapy of both intense sickness and ongoing emergency care requirement. In a survey, we examine the points, general standards, components of a plan, and emergency care requirement of a fruitful integrative model to address the needed menus of coronavirus outlasts. Coordinated efforts required by doctors and survivors to overcome the extreme intense situation. Recovery of outlasters depends upon coordinated efforts of doctors and survivors. Recovery from the coronavirus is a delayed course of action. Risk factors and comorbidities are equally prime.

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Wang, Chunjie, Aihua Zhang, and Hamid Reza Karimi. "Development of La3+Doped CeO2Thick Film Humidity Sensors." Abstract and Applied Analysis 2014 (2014): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/297632.

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The humidity sensitive characteristics of the sensor fabricated from 10 mol% La2O3doped CeO2nanopowders with particle size 17.26 nm synthesized via hydrothermal method were investigated at different frequencies. It was found that the sensor shows high humidity sensitivity, rapid response-recovery characteristics, and narrow hysteresis loop at 100 Hz in the relative humidity range from 11% to 95%. The impedance of the sensor decreases by about five orders of magnitude as relative humidity increases. The maximum humidity hysteresis is about 6% RH, and the response and recovery time is 12 and 13 s, respectively. These results indicate that the nanosized La2O3doped CeO2powder has potential application as high-performance humidity sensor.

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Inoue, Hiroshi. "A Note on Guaranteed Stable Recovery of Sparse Signal in Compressed Sensing via the RIP of Orders." British Journal of Mathematics & Computer Science 10, no. 3 (January 10, 2015): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.9734/bjmcs/2015/18237.

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Thandu, Merlyn M., Silvia Cavalli, Giada Rossi, Claudia B. Rizzardini, Daniele Goi, and Clara Comuzzi. "Biological evaluation of a Porphyrin-SPION nanoconjugate as an antimicrobial magnetic photosensitizer." Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines 21, no. 09 (September 2017): 581–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s1088424617500560.

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The present work describes the use of a magnetic porphyin (5-(4-carboxy-phenyl)-10,15,20-triphenyl-21H, 23H-porphyrin TPP) nanoconjugate (SPION-TPP) for destroying pathogenic bacteria followed by the recovery of the magnetic photosensitizer. SPION-TPP was tested for its activity against two different gram-positive bacterial strains (Staphylococcus aureus and Steptoccoccus mutans). It is observed that SPION-TPP at a very low concentration of 0.5 [Formula: see text]M is effective in destroying gram-positive bacteria (10[Formula: see text]–10[Formula: see text] CFU ml[Formula: see text] S. aureus with several orders reduction and few orders in S. mutans. The aim of this work is to combine photoactivity against microorganisms imparted by the photosensitizer with the possibility of recovering the nanoconstruct with magnets for disposal/reuse.

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Morrill, P. K., and B. R. Neal. "Impact of deltamethrin insecticide on Chironomidae (Diptera) of prairie ponds." Canadian Journal of Zoology 68, no. 2 (February 1, 1990): 289–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/z90-043.

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Deltamethrin insecticide was applied by air, at recommended field application rates (7.5 g/ha), to two prairie ponds in June, 1986. Larval and emerging Chironomidae densities were monitored in the treated ponds and in two untreated ponds for 1 month prior to spraying, the remainder of the summer after spraying, and in the late part of the following spring. Following deltamethrin application, the density of chironomid larvae declined by two orders of magnitude in the treated ponds relative to the untreated ponds, with all genera being affected. Chironomid emergence declined in both the treated and untreated ponds. The pattern of recovery of the chironomid community was followed by multivariate analysis of larval genera abundances and qualitative comparisons of emerging species. The two treated ponds recovered at different rates: the community in one pond appeared to have recovered by 2 months after treatment, whereas that of the other treated pond showed little recovery until 1 year following treatment. In view of the high natural variation of chironomid communities and their habitats on the prairies, basic knowledge about these temporary pond ecosystems must be gathered in order to understand the long-term impact on such habitats of using deltamethrin and other insecticides.

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Janssen, Martijn T., Pacelli L. Zitha, and Rashidah M. Pilus. "Oil Recovery by Alkaline/Surfactant/Foam Flooding: Effect of Drive-Foam Quality on Oil-Bank Propagation." SPE Journal 24, no. 06 (July 12, 2019): 2758–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/190235-pa.

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Summary Alkaline/surfactant/foam (ASF) flooding is a novel enhanced–oil–recovery (EOR) process that increases oil recovery over waterflooding by combining foaming with a decrease in the oil/water interfacial tension (IFT) by two to three orders of magnitude. We conducted an experimental study regarding the formation of an oil bank and its displacement by foam drives with foam qualities within the range of 57 to 97%. The experiments included bulk phase behavior tests using n–hexadecane and a single internal olefin sulfonate surfactant, and a series of computed–tomography (CT) –scanned coreflood experiments using Bentheimer Sandstone cores. The main goal of this study was to investigate the effect of drive–foam quality on oil–bank displacement. The surfactant formulation was found to lower the oil/water IFT by at least two orders of magnitude. Coreflood results, at under-optimum salinity conditions yielding an oil/water IFT on the order of 10–1 mN/m, showed similar ultimate–oil–recovery factors for the range of drive–foam qualities studied. A more distinct frontal oil–bank displacement was observed at lower drive–foam qualities investigated, yielding an increased oil–production rate. The findings in this study suggested that dispersive characteristics at the leading edge of the generated oil bank in this work were strongly related to the surfactant slug size used, the lowest drive–foam quality assessed yielded the highest apparent foam viscosity (and, thus, the most stable oil–bank displacement), and drive–foam strength increased upon touching the oil bank when using drive–foam qualities of 57 and 77%.

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Brandtner, Christof, Luís M. A. Bettencourt, Marc G. Berman, and Andrew J. Stier. "Creatures of the state? Metropolitan counties compensated for state inaction in initial U.S. response to COVID-19 pandemic." PLOS ONE 16, no. 2 (February 19, 2021): e0246249. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0246249.

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Societal responses to crises require coordination at multiple levels of organization. Exploring early efforts to contain COVID-19 in the U.S., we argue that local governments can act to ensure systemic resilience and recovery when higher-level governments fail to do so. Event history analyses show that large, more urban areas experience COVID-19 more intensely due to high population density and denser socioeconomic networks. But metropolitan counties were also among the first to adopt shelter-in-place orders. Analyzing the statistical predictors of when counties moved before their states, we find that the hierarchy of counties by size and economic integration matters for the timing of orders, where both factors predict earlier shelter-in-place orders. In line with sociological theories of urban governance, we also find evidence of an important governance dimension to the timing of orders. Liberal counties in conservative states were more than twice as likely to adopt a policy and implement one earlier in the pandemic, suggesting that tensions about how to resolve collective governance problems are important in the socio-temporal dynamic of responses to COVID-19. We explain this behavior as a substitution effect in which more urban local governments, driven by risk and necessity, step up into the action vacuum left by higher levels of government and become national policy leaders and innovators.

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Xu, Qiaoji, Lingling Jin, James H. Leebens-Mack, and David Sankoff. "Validation of Automated Chromosome Recovery in the Reconstruction of Ancestral Gene Order." Algorithms 14, no. 6 (May 21, 2021): 160. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/a14060160.

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The RACCROCHE pipeline reconstructs ancestral gene orders and chromosomal contents of the ancestral genomes at all internal vertices of a phylogenetic tree. The strategy is to accumulate a very large number of generalized adjacencies, phylogenetically justified for each ancestor, to produce long ancestral contigs through maximum weight matching. It constructs chromosomes by counting the frequencies of ancestral contig co-occurrences on the extant genomes, clustering these for each ancestor and ordering them. The main objective of this paper is to closely simulate the evolutionary process giving rise to the gene content and order of a set of extant genomes (six distantly related monocots), and to assess to what extent an updated version of RACCROCHE can recover the artificial ancestral genome at the root of the phylogenetic tree relating to the simulated genomes.

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Perić, Dragana, and Miroslav Perić. "Low Power Consumption Digital Clock Recovery Circuit Based on Threshold Crossing." Journal of Electrical Engineering 67, no. 6 (December 1, 2016): 433–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jee-2016-0063.

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Abstract In this paper a new structure of digital clock recovery — DCR circuit is presented. The main features of this DCR are: low complexity design, low power consumption and a single system clock operation. Thus, multiple instantiation of this type of DCR on a single chip is not complex. Due to this, such DCR can target application in energy-efficient cognitive radio systems with carrier aggregation. For performance evaluation, we have derived Markov chain based mathematical model for peak-to-peak and root mean square jitter performance analysis. The stability problem of this model, rising from the fact that some phase error states have several orders of magnitude lower probabilities than the others, is solved using mathematical apparatus for symbolic analysis. The mathematical model validity is examined by laboratorial measurements of proposed DCR for 4-PAM signal. The measurement methodology and results are described in details.

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Vine, Ruth, Holly Tibble, Jane Pirkis, Fiona Judd, and Matthew J. Spittal. "Does legislative change affect the use and duration of compulsory treatment orders?" Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 53, no. 5 (November 18, 2018): 433–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0004867418812683.

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Objective: Victoria, Australia, introduced reformed mental health legislation in 2014. The Act was based on a policy platform of recovery-oriented services, supported decision-making and minimisation of the use and duration of compulsory orders. This paper compares service utilisation and legal status after being on a community treatment order under the Mental Health Act 1986 (Vic) with that under the Mental Health Act 2014 (Vic). Methods: We obtained two distinct data sets of persons who had been on a community treatment order for at least 3 months and their subsequent treatment episodes over 2 years under the Mental Health Act and/or as an inpatient for the periods 2008–2010 (Mental Health Act 1986) and 2014–2016 (Mental Health Act 2014). The two sets were compared to assess the difference in use, duration and odds of having a further admission over 2 years. We also considered the mode of discharge – whether by the treating psychiatrist, external body or through expiry. Results: Compared with the Mental Health Act 1986, under the Mental Health Act 2014, index community treatment orders were shorter (mean 227 days compared with 335 days); there was a reduction in the mean number of community treatment orders in the 2 years following the index discharge − 1.1 compared with 1.5 (incidence rate ratio (IRR) = 0.71, 95% confidence interval = [0.63, 0.80]) – and a 51% reduction in days on an order over 2 years. There was a reduction in the number of subsequent orders for those whose order expired or was revoked by the psychiatrist under the Mental Health Act 2014 compared to those under the Mental Health Act 1986. The number of orders which were varied to an inpatient order by the authorised psychiatrist was notably greater under the Mental Health Act 2014. Conclusion: The reformed Mental Health Act has been successful in its intent to reduce the use and duration of compulsory orders in the community. The apparent increase in return to inpatient orders raises questions regarding the intensity and effectiveness of community treatment and context of service delivery.

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Vinnett, Luis, and Kristian E. Waters. "Representation of Kinetics Models in Batch Flotation as Distributed First-Order Reactions." Minerals 10, no. 10 (October 15, 2020): 913. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/min10100913.

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Four kinetic models are studied as first-order reactions with flotation rate distribution f(k): (i) deterministic nth-order reaction, (ii) second-order with Rectangular f(k), (iii) Rosin–Rammler, and (iv) Fractional kinetics. These models are studied because they are considered as alternatives to the first-order reactions. The first-order representation leads to the same recovery R(t) as in the original domain. The first-order R∞-f(k) are obtained by inspection of the R(t) formulae or by inverse Laplace Transforms. The reaction orders of model (i) are related to the shape parameters of first-order Gamma f(k)s. Higher reaction orders imply rate concentrations at k ≈ 0 in the first-order domain. Model (ii) shows reverse J-shaped first-order f(k)s. Model (iii) under stretched exponentials presents mounded first-order f(k)s, whereas model (iv) with derivative orders lower than 1 shows from reverse J-shaped to mounded first-order f(k)s. Kinetic descriptions that lead to the same R(t) cannot be differentiated between each other. However, the first-order f(k)s can be studied in a comparable domain.

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Gotoh, Tamihiro. "Effect of heat treatments on the electronic properties of indium sulfide films." European Physical Journal Applied Physics 89, no. 2 (February 2020): 20301. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjap/2020190240.

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The optical and electrical properties of indium sulfide films with different heat treatments are investigated. Indium sulfide films are heat treated in Ar gas in a temperature range of 100–400 °C. Some annealed samples are heat treated at 300 °C with sulfur powder. The indium sulfide films show a band gap of 1.9–2.3 eV, an electrical resistivity in the range of 5.5 × 100–6.0 × 103 Ωm, and n-type electrical conduction. The resistivity decreases by three orders of magnitude by heat treatment at 300 °C in Ar gas and recovers almost to the initial state by heat treatment at 300 °C with sulfur powder. The Seebeck coefficient and subgap absorption at 1 eV show similar changes and recovery. The experimental results reveal the possible control of the density of states and of the Fermi level position by heat treatment and, hence, the feasibility of carrier control.

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Ochnio, Ariadna H. "Between the medium and the minimum options to regulate mutual recognition of confiscation orders." New Journal of European Criminal Law 9, no. 4 (October 16, 2018): 432–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2032284418806667.

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The proposal for a regulation on the mutual recognition of freezing and confiscation orders is aimed at solving the problems of criminal asset recovery in cross-border cases. The policy option adopted is in fact an alternative to a deeper harmonization of national confiscation systems, accordingly the Member States may view it as an attempt to impact their internal legal systems by the so-called side door, with the mutual recognition principle and the idea of combatting terrorism being, respectively, the key and password to unlock It. If this strategy is successful, it can be anticipated that it will become in the future a model for regulation of non-confiscation issues at the European Union level for which deeper harmonization has proved too difficult. Among the four regulatory options discussed in the legislative process, there are good reasons in support of an evolutionary approach, which is reflected in the option referred to as the ‘minimum’, based on the use of the legal form of a directive.

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Molloy, Seán. "Theorizing Liberal Orders in Crisis Then and Now: Returning to Carr and Horkheimer." International Studies Quarterly 65, no. 2 (February 13, 2021): 320–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqab006.

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Abstract This article pursues an original line of inquiry by placing E.H. Carr in direct relation with his contemporary, Max Horkheimer. Although Carr is often cited as a progenitor by realists and critical theorists, these invocations of ancestry rarely go beyond passing references to Carr in presentist terms—i.e., how he relates to their present-day projects. By means of an extensive engagement with Horkheimer and Carr, the article reveals a shared commitment to ideology critique directed at bourgeois civilization. The article demonstrates that Carr's epistemology, critique of the harmony of interests, complex treatment of utopianism, and theorization of social transformation all have their counterparts in Horkheimer. The recovery of Carr's depth and sophistication as a theorist by means of a comparison of his positions with those of Horkheimer shows that at the time of its composition The Twenty Years’ Crisis was a cutting-edge exercise in critique by a theorist working on an ambitious canvas of civilizational scale. The article concludes with a section that demonstrates the continued relevance of Carr and Horkheimer by reference to contemporary debates about the crises currently affecting the liberal international order.

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Cahn, R. W., M. Takeyama, J. A. Horton, and C. T. Liu. "Recovery and recrystallization of the deformed, orderable alloy (Co78Fe22)3V." Journal of Materials Research 6, no. 1 (January 1991): 57–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1557/jmr.1991.0057.

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An alloy of composition (Co78Fe22)3V, which orders to an L12 superlattice below a critical temperature (Tc) of 910 °C, was rolled to 25–50% reduction in the initially ordered condition and annealed at various temperatures above and below Tc and examined by hardness, tensile testing, optical and electron microscopy and dilatometry, in order to study the progress of recovery and recrystallization. Recrystallization was severely retarded on annealing below Tc; close to Tc, recrystallization was ≈ 300 × slower in the ordered than the disordered range. Although recrystallization started promptly, predominantly at grain boundaries, very rapid recovery-softening of the unrecrystallized regions progressively reduced the driving force for recrystallization and slowed it down drastically. However, at 770°and 500 °C, recovery-softening was replaced by some recovery-hardening (i.e., strain-age hardening). Above Tc, recrystallization was complete in a few seconds and a special annealing method was needed to measure such times accurately. Dilatometric measurements showed that most of the order destroyed by rolling was restored long before recrystallization began, but the restoration was never complete unless the alloy was heated up through Tc and then slow cooled. Electron microscopy showed no sign of any antiphase domains in recrystallized grains except for a few isolated domain boundaries on annealing at 770 °C. A model is proposed to rationalize the incidence of recovery-softening or strain-age hardening at different annealing temperatures.

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Tang, Bei Bei, Yun Zhang, Zhi Jing Xu, and Jun Li. "Research on Performance of Analog to Information Converter." Applied Mechanics and Materials 333-335 (July 2013): 601–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.333-335.601.

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Compressive Sensing (CS) Theory enables sampling discrete signals with quite lower sampling rate compared with traditional Nyquist sampling rate and guaranteeing faithful reconstruction. Based on CS theory, Analog-to-Information Conversion (AIC) was proposed to process continuous-time signal. In this paper, the framework of Analog-to-Information Converter is composed by a pseudo-random demodulator, a low pass analog filter and a low speed sampler. And we mainly discuss the damage on the signal recovery produced by lower and higher orders of filter impulse response.

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Park, D. S., S. J. Suh, P. D. N. Hebert, H. W. Oh, and K. J. Hong. "DNA barcodes for two scale insect families, mealybugs (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) and armored scales (Hemiptera: Diaspididae)." Bulletin of Entomological Research 101, no. 4 (January 28, 2011): 429–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007485310000714.

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AbstractAlthough DNA barcode coverage has grown rapidly for many insect orders, there are some groups, such as scale insects, where sequence recovery has been difficult. However, using a recently developed primer set, we recovered barcode records from 373 specimens, providing coverage for 75 species from 31 genera in two families. Overall success was >90% for mealybugs and >80% for armored scale species. The G·C content was very low in most species, averaging just 16.3%. Sequence divergences (K2P) between congeneric species averaged 10.7%, while intra-specific divergences averaged 0.97%. However, the latter value was inflated by high intra-specific divergence in nine taxa, cases that may indicate species overlooked by current taxonomic treatments. Our study establishes the feasibility of developing a comprehensive barcode library for scale insects and indicates that its construction will both create an effective system for identifying scale insects and reveal taxonomic situations worthy of deeper analysis.

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Schneiderman, Martin A., Avadhesh K. Sharma, Kariyawasam R. R. Mahanama, and David C. Locke. "Determination of Vitamin K1 in Powdered Infant Formulas, Using Supercritical Fluid Extraction and Liquid Chromatography with Electrochemical Detection." Journal of AOAC INTERNATIONAL 71, no. 4 (July 1, 1988): 815–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jaoac/71.4.815.

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Abstract Vitamin K, (phylloquinone) is extracted from commercial soy proteinbased and milk-based powdered infant formulas by using supercritical fluid extraction with C02 at 8000 psi and 60°C. Quantitative extraction requires only 15 min, and does not suffer from the problems associated with conventional solvent extraction of lipophilic materials from media such as formulas. Vitamin K, is determined in the extracts by using reverse-phase liquid chromatography (LC) with reductive mode electrochemical detection at a silver electrode polarized at —1.1 V vs SCE. LC run time is 9 min. The minimum detectable quantity is 80 pg, and response is linear over at least 5 orders of magnitude. Recovery of vitamin K, from a milk-based powdered formula was 95.6% with RSD of 7.4%, and from a soy protein-based product, 94.4% recovery with RSD of 6.5%.

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Forsythe, Perry John. "Drivers of Housing Demolition Decision Making and the Impact on Timber Waste Management." Construction Economics and Building 11, no. 1 (March 31, 2011): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/ajceb.v11i1.1660.

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The study investigates housing demolition and timber waste recovery – with the aim to identify ways of improving recovery. Using case studies the research focused on demolisher decision making, their onsite processes and the associated network of participants that influence timber recovery. From the data, a process model was developed that identifies and orders the drivers of demolition decision making. One aspect of the model identified the initiators of demolition and the waste created, including issues revolving around the demolition feedstock. Another aspect covers organisational business drivers and includes site safety, productivity, economies of scale, market value of waste and supply chain entrepreneurship. A third component deals with project specific drivers including the recurring cost versus income equation that impacts on the viability of project level decisions. The model includes a typology of the operational onsite response to the above drivers. Here, the deconstruction approach was found to provide high timber recovery mainly used where high-value timber waste was involved; the miscellaneous salvage approach provided some recovery of high and low-value timber; the crunch and dump approach provided low recovery or dumping at landfill and was used where low and no-value timber was involved. An expected increase in supply of these latter timber categories creates a significant need to increase the market value of currently low value timber groups. Designing for deconstruction is also posed as a long term strategy for this.

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Sadovnichii, Victor, Yaudat Talgatovich Sultanaev, and Azamat Akhtyamov. "The inverse problem of recovering the coefficients of a differential equations on a graph." Journal of Inverse and Ill-posed Problems 28, no. 5 (November 1, 2020): 727–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jiip-2020-0070.

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AbstractWe consider a new class of inverse problems on the recovery of the coefficients of differential equations from a finite set of eigenvalues of a boundary value problem with unseparated boundary conditions. A finite number of eigenvalues is possible only for problems in which the roots of the characteristic equation are multiple. The article describes solutions to such a problem for equations of the second, third, and fourth orders on a graph with three, four, and five edges. The inverse problem with an arbitrary number of edges is solved similarly.

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Lazra, Yulia, Irina Dubrovin, Victor Multanen, Edward Bormashenko, Yelena Bormashenko, and Rivka Cahan. "Effects of Atmospheric Plasma Corona Discharges on Soil Bacteria Viability." Microorganisms 8, no. 5 (May 11, 2020): 704. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms8050704.

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Crop contamination by soil-borne pathogenic microorganisms often leads to serious infection outbreaks. Plant protection requires disinfection of agricultural lands. The chemical and the physical disinfection procedures have several disadvantages, including an irreversible change in the soil ecosystem. Plasma, the “fourth state of matter” is defined as an ionized gas containing an equal number of negatively and positively charged particles. Cold-plasma technology with air or oxygen as the working gas generates reactive oxygen species, which are found to efficiently eradicate bacteria. In this study, we examined the effect of atmospheric plasma corona discharges on soil bacteria viability. Soil that was exposed to plasma for 60 s resulted in bacterial reduction by two orders of magnitude, from 1.1 × 105 to 2.3 × 103 cells g−1 soil. Exposure for a longer period of 5 min did not lead to further significant reduction in bacterial concentration (a final reduction of only 2.5 orders of magnitude). The bacterial viability was evaluated using a colorimetric assay based on the bacterial hydrogenases immediately after exposure and at selected times during 24 h. The result showed no recovery in the bacterial viability. Plasma discharged directly on bacteria that were isolated from the soil resulted in a reduction by four orders of magnitude in the bacterial concentration compared to untreated isolated bacteria: 2.6 × 10−3 and 1.7 × 10−7, respectively. The plasma-resistant bacteria were found to be related to the taxonomic phylum Firmicutes (98.5%) and comprised the taxonomic orders Bacillales (95%) and Clostridiales (2%). To our knowledge, this is the first study of soil bacteria eradication using plasma corona discharges.

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Faraghat, Shabnam A., Kai F. Hoettges, Max K. Steinbach, Daan R. van der Veen, William J. Brackenbury, Erin A. Henslee, Fatima H. Labeed, and Michael P. Hughes. "High-throughput, low-loss, low-cost, and label-free cell separation using electrophysiology-activated cell enrichment." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114, no. 18 (April 13, 2017): 4591–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1700773114.

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Currently, cell separation occurs almost exclusively by density gradient methods and by fluorescence- and magnetic-activated cell sorting (FACS/MACS). These variously suffer from lack of specificity, high cell loss, use of labels, and high capital/operating cost. We present a dielectrophoresis (DEP)-based cell-separation method, using 3D electrodes on a low-cost disposable chip; one cell type is allowed to pass through the chip whereas the other is retained and subsequently recovered. The method advances usability and throughput of DEP separation by orders of magnitude in throughput, efficiency, purity, recovery (cells arriving in the correct output fraction), cell losses (those which are unaccounted for at the end of the separation), and cost. The system was evaluated using three example separations: live and dead yeast; human cancer cells/red blood cells; and rodent fibroblasts/red blood cells. A single-pass protocol can enrich cells with cell recovery of up to 91.3% at over 300,000 cells per second with >3% cell loss. A two-pass protocol can process 300,000,000 cells in under 30 min, with cell recovery of up to 96.4% and cell losses below 5%, an effective processing rate >160,000 cells per second. A three-step protocol is shown to be effective for removal of 99.1% of RBCs spiked with 1% cancer cells while maintaining a processing rate of ∼170,000 cells per second. Furthermore, the self-contained and low-cost nature of the separator device means that it has potential application in low-contamination applications such as cell therapies, where good manufacturing practice compatibility is of paramount importance.

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Quang, Nguyen Duc. "PRELIMINARY STUDY ON SEPARATION OF RARE EARTH METALS FROM LEACH SOLUTION OF DISCARDED FLUORESCENT POWDER BY SOLVENT EXTRACTION." Vietnam Journal of Science and Technology 56, no. 2C (August 29, 2018): 133–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.15625/2525-2518/56/2c/13040.

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Discarded fluorescent lamps were considered as hazardous waste in Vietnam (code is 160106). However, its composition contained valuable rare earth metals, which can be recycled and recovered by leaching and solvent extraction processes. The present study sought to define the conditions of separation for rare earth elementals (REEs) from acid leach solution by solvent extraction using PC88A. The acid leach solution was obtained from leaching of fluorescent powder. Efficiencies on REEs extractions as functions of pH levels, extractant concentration, O/A ratio, metal concentration were investigated. For pH values greater than 0.0 and less than 1.0, the orders of the yields extraction were determined: yttrium > terbium > europium > aluminum and calcium. The best separation circuit included four-stage counter current extraction for yttrium separation with 20 %v/v PC88A in kerosene (O/A = 1/1, room temperature, 20 min of contact, pH of 0.38) and stripping step with 3 M HCl acid (O/A = 1/1, room temperature, 30 min of contact). After yttrium separation, the leach solution was extracted at pH of 0.98 in the same other conditions with two-stage counter current extraction to recover terbium and europium group. The final recovery from leach liquor was higher than 98 % and the grade of the final product was 94.2 % (for yttrium) and 93.8 % (for terbium and europium group).

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Sheng, Yan, Chao Wang, Ying Pan, and Xinhua Zhang. "Modified LQG/LTR Control Methodology in Active Structural Control." Journal of Low Frequency Noise, Vibration and Active Control 22, no. 2 (June 2003): 97–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1260/026309203322770347.

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This paper presents a new active structural control design methodology comparing the conventional linear-quadratic-Gaussian synthesis with a loop-transfer-recovery (LQG/LTR) control approach for structures subjected to ground excitations. It results in an open-loop stable controller. Also the closed-loop stability can be guaranteed. More importantly, the value of the controller's gain required for a given degree of LTR is orders of magnitude less than what is required in the conventional LQG/LTR approach. Additionally, for the same value of gain, the proposed controller achieves a much better degree of recovery than the LQG/LTR-based controller. Once this controller is obtained, the problems of control force saturation are either eliminated or at least dampened, and the controller band-width is reduced and consequently the control signal to noise ratio at the input point of the dynamic system is increased. Finally, numerical examples illustrate the above advantages.

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Zhu, Zhen, Wang-De Lin, Zhi-Yi Lin, Ming-Hong Chuang, Ren-Jang Wu, and Murthy Chavali. "Conductive Polymer (Graphene/PPy)–BiPO4 Composite Applications in Humidity Sensors." Polymers 13, no. 12 (June 20, 2021): 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym13122013.

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In this particular experiment, a chain of conductive polymer graphene/polypyrrole (Gr/PPy) and BiPO4—or (Gr/PPy)–BiPO4—materials were prepared and used as moisture-sensitive materials. The structure and morphology of the conductive polymer (Gr/PPy)–BiPO4 materials were analyzed using an X-ray diffractometer, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy. Moreover, properties such as hysteresis loop, impedance, sensing response, and response and recovery time were calculated and evaluated using an inductance–capacitance–resistance analyzer. The data expressed that PPy/BiPO4, as prepared in this study, exhibited excellent sensing properties, with impedance changing by only a few orders of range. Furthermore, the response time and time of recovery were 340 s and 60 s, respectively, and negligible humidity hysteresis occurred at different relative humidities. Therefore, conductive PPy/BiPO4, as prepared in the present study, is an excellent candidate for application in humidity sensors.

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Honjo, Mie N., Toshifumi Minamoto, Kazuaki Matsui, Kimiko Uchii, Hiroki Yamanaka, Alata A. Suzuki, Yukihiro Kohmatsu, Takaji Iida, and Zen'ichiro Kawabata. "Quantification of Cyprinid Herpesvirus 3 in Environmental Water by Using an External Standard Virus." Applied and Environmental Microbiology 76, no. 1 (November 13, 2009): 161–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/aem.02011-09.

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ABSTRACT Cyprinid herpesvirus 3 (CyHV-3), a lethal DNA virus that spreads in natural lakes and rivers, infects common carp and koi. We established a quantification method for CyHV-3 that includes a viral concentration method and quantitative PCR combined with an external standard virus. Viral concentration methods were compared using the cation-coated filter and ultrafiltration methods. The recovery of virus-like particles was similar for the two methods (cation-coated filter method, 44% ± 19%, n = 3; ultrafiltration method, 50% ± 3%, n = 3); however, the former method was faster and more suitable for routine determinations. The recovery of seeded CyHV-3 based on the cation-coated filter method varied by more than 3 orders of magnitude among the water samples. The recovery yield of CyHV-3 was significantly correlated with that of the seeded λ phage, and the average ratio of λ to the CyHV-3 recovery yield was 1.4, indicating that λ is useful as an external standard virus for determining the recovery yield of CyHV-3. Therefore, to quantify CyHV-3 in environmental water, a known amount of λ was added as an external standard virus to each water sample. Using this method, CyHV-3 DNA was detected in 6 of the 10 (60%) types of environmental water tested; the highest concentration of CyHV-3 DNA was 2 × 105 copies liter−1. The lowest recovery limit of CyHV-3 DNA was 60 copies liter−1. This method is practical for monitoring CyHV-3 abundance in environmental water.

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Palizdan, Sepideh, Jassem Abbasi, Masoud Riazi, and Mohammad Reza Malayeri. "Impact of solutal Marangoni convection on oil recovery during chemical flooding." Petroleum Science 17, no. 5 (April 24, 2020): 1298–317. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12182-020-00451-z.

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Abstract In this study, the impacts of solutal Marangoni phenomenon on multiphase flow in static and micromodel geometries have experimentally been studied and the interactions between oil droplet and two different alkaline solutions (i.e. MgSO4 and Na2CO3) were investigated. The static tests revealed that the Marangoni convection exists in the presence of the alkaline and oil which should carefully be considered in porous media. In the micromodel experiments, observations showed that in the MgSO4 flooding, the fluids stayed almost stationary, while in the Na2CO3 flooding, a spontaneous movement was detected. The changes in the distribution of fluids showed that the circular movement of fluids due to the Marangoni effects can be effective in draining of the unswept regions. The dimensional analysis for possible mechanisms showed that the viscous, gravity and diffusion forces were negligible and the other mechanisms such as capillary and Marangoni effects should be considered in the investigated experiments. The value of the new defined Marangoni/capillary dimensionless number for the Na2CO3 solution was orders of magnitude larger than the MgSO4 flooding scenario which explains the differences between the two cases and also between different micromodel regions. In conclusion, the Marangoni convection is activated by creating an ultra-low IFT condition in multiphase flow problems that can be profoundly effective in increasing the phase mixing and microscopic efficiency.

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SANADA, Yukihisa, Hiroshi KURIKAMI, Hironori FUNAKI, Kazuya YOSHIMURA, Tomohisa ABE, Mutsushi ISHIDA, Soichiro TANIMORI, and Rina SATO. "Radiation monitoring and evaluation of exposure doses to lift the evacuation orders for the zones designated for reconstruction and recovery." Transactions of the Atomic Energy Society of Japan 20, no. 2 (2021): 62–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.3327/taesj.j20.021.

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Lim, Dong-Hee, Jai-Young Lee, and Christian M. Lastoskie. "Ability of Beijerinckia indica to degrade phenanthrene and reduce hydraulic conductivity." Water Science and Technology 62, no. 12 (December 1, 2010): 2953–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wst.2010.345.

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This study evaluates the ability of Beijerinckia indica (B. indica) as a biomaterial for aerobic biofilm barriers. B. indica's ability to remove phenanthrene was measured using a two-phase partitioning bioreactor. Approximately 500 mg/L of phenanthrene was gradually removed over a two week period under aerobic conditions of the bioreactor. B. indica's ability to reduce hydraulic conductivity was evaluated using rigid wall soil columns inoculated with the bacteria. B. indica formed a large quantity of strongly adhesive biofilm among soil particles, reducing the hydraulic conductivity in the soil columns by 2 or 3 orders of magnitude. To assess recovery of the biofilm, the formed biofilm was purposely destroyed by introducing landfill leachate into the soil columns. The biofilm recovery test showed that the hydraulic conductivity increased after leachate introduction. However, re-permeation of nutrient solution restored the permeability to its original lower value, which suggests a full recovery of the damaged biofilm. This study suggests that B. indica may be used as a possible biomaterial for aerobic biofilm barriers for the removal of phenanthrene from groundwater, provided that sufficient substrate and electron acceptor are provided to the treatment system.

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Zhu, Linlin, Yuchu Dong, Zexiao Li, and Xiaodong Zhang. "A Novel Surface Recovery Algorithm for Dual Wavelength White LED in Vertical Scanning Interferometry (VSI)." Sensors 20, no. 18 (September 13, 2020): 5225. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20185225.

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The two peaks characteristic of yellow and blue light in the spectrum of dual-wavelength white light emitting diodes (LEDs) introduce distinctive features to the interference signal of white light scanning interferometry (WLSI). The distinctive features are defined as discontinuities, so that the fringe contrast function cannot be modeled as a single Gaussian function, and causes the interferogram to have uneven distribution of fringes of different orders in the scanning interferometer. This phenomenon leads to the low accuracy of the zero-order fringe position in the envelope calculation, which affects the repeatability and accuracy of the interferometry. This paper proposes a new surface recovery algorithm based on the Hilbert phase envelope and adjacent reference points calculation, which can effectively overcome the influence of the discontinuous signal of dual-wavelength LED white light interference on the three-dimensional reconstruction of WLSI measurements. The reliability of the algorithm is verified by experiments, and the measurement accuracy of LED WLSI system is evaluated.

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