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A narrative-based collaborative writing tool for coherent technical documents
No full textOne important feature of an effective document that makes it easy to read and understand is known as coherence. Technical documents produced collaboratively are often incoherent due to a lack of group consensus and misaligned contributions by the individual authors. However, current document planning techniques and writing tools do not provide explicit support for improving coherence. The goal of this research, therefore, is to develop and evaluate a new technique and tool that helps teams of authors to structure coherent technical documents. The coherence of a document can be attributed to the story (or narrative) it conveys to the reader. If this story is consistent and coherent, the same can be said about the document. A discourse theory such as Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) that has been developed by linguists helps further to analyse and improve a narrative. RST explains the coherence of a text by virtue of relationships (such as “paragraph A justifies paragraph B”) between parts of the text. This research has combined the ideas from these parallel strands of research to develop a new document planning technique called narrative-based writing. The method involves writing down an explicit précis of the story (called a document narrative or DN) and then analysing it using RST. The DN and RST analysis are then used to structure the eventual document. To extend the usability of narrative-based writing to geographically-dispersed authors, I have designed and implemented a collaborative tool that allows co-authors to edit, analyse and review DNs. The thorough design for the tool uses a combination of three models (conceptual, business process and functional) culminating in a set of functions that enable collaborative narrative-based writing. This dissertation discusses how, in the future, these functions could be incorporated in existing collaborative writing tools. Implementing this tool, albeit in its current prototypic state, has been invaluable in understanding the complexities of modelling and manipulating DNs and RST structures. Initial investigations using the new technique and tool have been positive, encouraging me to continue the research and evaluation in this field
Evaluatie suppleties Noord-Holland en Texel
No full textNote: NH-93.ANV002a.pdf bevat het hoofdrapport en NH-93.ANV002b.pdf bevat alle bijlagen. ----- De minister van Verkeer en Waterstaat heeft de kamer een interim-nota kustverdediging in 1993 toegezegd, waarin het kustverdedigingsbeleid wordt geëvalueerd. Een onderdeel van deze evaluatie is de evaluatie van de zandsuppleties. Om deze evaluatie uit te voeren is de werkgroep EVAZAND, onder leiding van de Dienst Getijdewateren, ingesteld. De evaluatie beperkt zich in principe tot de morfologische aspecten en is hoofdzakelijk gericht op het bepalen van de doelmatigheid of de effectiviteit van zandsuppleties. Omdat suppleties van 1990 of later zich vanwege de korte levensduur nauwelijks lenen voor evaluatie is een selectie gemaakt uit de suppleties van vóór 1990. Deze nota dient als de bijdrage van de Directie Noord-Holland aan het project EVAZAND en bevat de evaluatie van alle grote zandsuppleties van Noord-Holland en Texel van vóór 1990.EVAZAN
Dehydrogenation of the NH−NH Bond Triggered by Potassium tert-Butoxide in Liquid Ammonia
No full textA novel strategy for the dehydrogenation of NH-NH bond is disclosed using potassium t-butoxide (tBuOK) in liquid NH3 under air (O2) at room temperature. Its synthetic values are well demonstrated via highly efficient synthesis of aromatic azo compounds (up to 100% yield, 3 min), heterocyclic azo compounds, and dehydrazination of phenylhydrazine. The broad application of this strategy and its benefit to chemical biology is proved by a novel, convenient, one-pot and efficient synthesis of aliphatic diazirines, which are important photoreactive agents for photoaffinity labeling
Molecular tagging velocimetry of NH fluorescence in a high-enthalpy rarefied gas flow
No full textIn this paper a new type of molecular tagging velocimetry based on NH fluorescence was developed and validated for the velocity measurements of a high-enthalpy rarefied gas wind tunnel where the maximum flow velocity exceeds 6 km/ s near the nozzle exit at 0.2 Pa. The feasibility of this technique using the short-lived NH fluorescence was demonstrated in the hypersonic rarefied gas flow with yielding velocity profiles at multiple downstream locations from the nozzle exit. The total uncertainty of the measured flow velocities was estimated to be less than 6% when the flow velocity is above 2000 m/ s. For the new tagging technique only a single laser and a single time-gated camera are required for velocity measurement due to the existence of NH radicals in the arc-discharged-N2 mixed with a small amount of H-2. Therefore the NH-MTV not only shows great promise for tagging in high-enthalpy rarefied gas of nitrogen or air flows without seeding but also possesses high practicability and facility for velocity measurement
Un lema a revisar en Plinio, NH XXXII 149
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INTRAMOLECULAR NH \ldots N HYDROGEN BONDS
No full textAuthor Institution: Department of Chemistry, University of CalgarySpectroscopic evidence for intramolecular NH \ldots N hydrogen bonds in o-phenylenediamines, ethylenediamine, and the monocations of sparteine-and -isosparteine- N-oxides will be presented. Integrated intensity measurements, frequency measurements, and deuteration studies in the fundamental NH stretching region in dilute solution show evidence for intramolecular NH . . . N hydrogen bonds in o-phenylenediamines. Partial deuteration shows that the two NH bonds of a given amino group are nonequivalent, but that the two -NHD groups are identical, suggesting a conformation in which each amino group acts as both a proton donor and a proton acceptor. Similar studies on compounds where , etc., will be discussed with special reference to the conformation of ethylenediamine. In the monocations of sparteine- and -isosparteine-N-oxide the geometry of the system leads to very strong intramolecular hydrogen bonds, which remain unbroken even in dimethylsulphoxide solution
THE VALENCE STATES OF NH
No full textAuthor Institution: LOS Alamos Scientific Laboratory, University of CaliforniaTheoretical results from various levels of configuration interaction calculations are presented for the and states of the NH radical. In addition to spectroscopic constants for each state, dipole moments and transition moments between electronic states are reported
The database of the Danish Renal Cancer Group
No full textAstrid Christine Petersen,1 Mette Søgaard,2 Frank Mehnert,2 Erik Højkjær Larsen,3 Frede Donskov,4 Nessn H Azawi,5 Bjarne Kromann-Andersen6 1Department of Pathology, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, 2Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, 3Department of Urology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, 4Department of Oncology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, 5Department of Urology, Zealand University Hospital, Roskilde, 6Department of Urology, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark Aim of the database: The main purpose of the database of the Danish Renal Cancer Group (DaRenCaData) is to improve the quality of renal cancer treatment in Denmark and secondarily to conduct observational research. Study population: DaRenCaData includes all Danish patients with a first-time diagnosis of renal cancer in the Danish National Pathology Registry since August 1, 2010. Main variables: DaRenCaData holds data on demographic characteristics, treatments, and pathology collected through linkage to central registries and online registration of a few clinical key variables. Eight quality indicators have been selected for monitoring treatment quality and outcome after renal cancer. Descriptive data: The incidence of renal cancer in Denmark has increased from 12.7 per 100,000 population-years in 2010–2011 to 15.9 per 100,000 population-years in 2014–2015. A total of 3,977 Danish patients with renal cancer have been enrolled in the database in the period August 1, 2010–July 31, 2015. The completeness of data registration has increased substantially since the first years of the database. A tendency toward smaller and less advanced tumors, less invasive surgery, and a shorter hospital stay was observed, while the postoperative morbidity and mortality remained stable. Concurrently, the 1-year survival has improved and was 84.1% in 2014–2015. Conclusion: DaRenCaData provides valuable information on quality of and outcome after renal cancer treatment. Efforts to improve collection and registration of data are ongoing. Keywords: kidney cancer, database, clinical quality, indicators, incidence, survival, observational researc
FOURIER-TRANSFORM SPECTROSCOPY OF NH AND NH IN THE NEAR-INFRARED
No full textAuthor Institution: Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systemes Atmospheriques (LISA), CNRS and Universites Paris-7 et -12, Creteil, France; Laboratorio de Espectroscopia e Laser, Instituto de Fisica, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro, BrazilThe near-infrared absorption spectrum of NH is an interesting opportunity for atmospheric {\it in-situ} measurements of this species using tuneable diode-lasers. For this purpose, accurate line positions and intensities are indispensable. In the past, several studies of the absorption spectrum of NH in the near-infrared were carried out, using Fourier-transform and tuneable diode-laser spectroscopy. More recently, high-resolution diode-laser spectra of NH were analyzed for the first time. The lines of NH in this region are also useful for wavenumber calibration of absorption spectra obtained with tuneable lasers. In our group, we have recently investigated the possibility to detect atmospheric NH using photoacoustic laser spectroscopy in the 1.5 m region, and observed several discrepancies between individual line positions and intensities observed in our and previous studies, as already noticed by other groups. In order to solve this problem we have measured new absorption spectra of NH (and also of NH) in the 6300-7500 cm region using a Bruker IFS 120-HR Fourier-transform spectrometer. The length of the absorption cell was 30 cm. The NH pressures employed were around 30 mbar, and the spectral resolution used was 0.02 cm, leading to linewidths (Full-Width at Half-Maximum) of about 0.03 cm. Based on these spectra, we have produced a list of individual line positions and line intensities at 296 K. Comparisons with the previous studies will be presented. }, {\bf 162}, 230-245 (1993).} }, {\bf 40}, 2031-2042 (2004).} }, {\bf 45}, 31-45 (2004).} }, {\bf 28}, 59-66 (2004).} }, in press (2006).
DECELERATION, TRAPPING AND ACCUMULATION OF NH MOLECULES
No full textAuthor Institution: Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, GermanyWe report on the Stark-deceleration and electrostatic trapping of metastable NH molecules. Furthermore the progress towards higher densities of cold neutral molecules by accumulation of multiple Stark-decelerated packets of NH molecules in a magnetic trap will be presented. NH molecules in the long-lived metastable state are ideally suited for Stark deceleration experiments because of their relatively large Stark shift and low mass. The metastable molecules are produced in a supersonic expansion with a velocity of m/s, and are decelerated to a standstill by a 108-stage decelerator. Subsequently the metastable molecules are trapped electrostatically, with a temperature of about mK, a density of cm and a trapping lifetime of s. Following the deceleration and trapping, the metastable NH molecules are detected by the excitation of a spin-forbidden transition, resulting in spontaneous decay to the electronic ground state (). The electronic ground state has a negligible Stark shift, but can be trapped magnetically. The first experiments on the accumulation of ground state NH molecules in a magnetic trap will be presented.\\ [1] S.~Hoekstra \emph{et al.}, Electrostatic trapping of metastable NH molecules, Phys.~Rev.~A. \textbf{76} 063408 (2007
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