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sj-docx-1-hss-10.1177_15563316231200862 – Supplemental material for Osteolytic Schwannoma in an Older Patient With Lumbar Degenerative Disk Disease: A Case Report
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-hss-10.1177_15563316231200862 for Osteolytic Schwannoma in an Older Patient With Lumbar Degenerative Disk Disease: A Case Report by Changjun Chen, Qingwei Ma, Yubin Qi, Yingguang Wu, Jingkun Li, Yanjun Ren and Yun Yang in HSS Journal®</p
Control and Filtering for Discrete Linear Repetitive Processes with H infty and ell 2--ell infty Performance
No full textRepetitive processes are characterized by a series of sweeps, termed passes, through a set of dynamics defined over a finite duration known as the pass length. On each pass an output, termed the pass profile, is produced which acts as a forcing function on, and hence contributes to, the dynamics of the next pass profile. This can lead to oscillations which increase in amplitude in the pass to pass direction and cannot be controlled by standard control laws. Here we give new results on the design of physically based control laws for the sub-class of so-called discrete linear repetitive processes which arise in applications areas such as iterative learning control. The main contribution is to show how control law design can be undertaken within the framework of a general robust filtering problem with guaranteed levels of performance. In particular, we develop algorithms for the design of an H? and dynamic output feedback controller and filter which guarantees that the resulting controlled (filtering error) process, respectively, is stable along the pass and has prescribed disturbance attenuation performance as measured by and – norms
Figure 1 in Large-scale snake genome analyses provide insights into vertebrate development
No full textFigure 1. Phylogeny of snakes Maximum-likelihood phylogenetic tree inferred from whole-genome sequences of 31 species. Divergence times of all nodes were estimated by r8s with whole-genome sequences using six calibration points (Figures S1I and S1J). All genomes generated in this study are in red. Maps were taken from those in a previous study.24Published as part of Peng, Changjun, Wu, Dong-Dong, Ren, Jin-Long, Peng, Zhong-Liang, Ma, Zhifei, Wu, Wei, Lv, Yunyun, Wang, Zeng, Deng, Cao, Jiang, Ke, Parkinson, Christopher L., Qi, Yin, Zhang, Zhi-Yi & Li, Jia-Tang, 2023, Large-scale snake genome analyses provide insights into vertebrate development, pp. 1-18 in Cell 186 on page 3, DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2023.05.030, http://zenodo.org/record/807067
Acoustic radiation due to scattering of T-S wave by the mean-flow distortion induced by steady local suction
No full textSubstantial sound waves can be generated by boundary-layer instability modes when the latter are scattered by a rapid mean-flow distortion. This is a rather generic mechanism and operates when an oncoming T-S wave is scattered by a steady local suction slot. This paper focuses on this problem by extending a recently developed Local Scattering Theory (Wu & Dong, J. Fluid Mech. submitted), where a so-called transmission coefficient, defined as the ratio of the T-S wave amplitude downstream of the scatter to that upstream, is introduced to characterize the effect of a local scatter on boundary-layer instability and transition. As in the earlier work, the mathematical formulation is based on triple-deck formulism, but in order to accommodate the acoustic far field, which was not considered in the paper mentioned, the unsteady terms in the upper deck, which play a leading-order role in radiation, are retained, and the influence of the radiated sound on the near-wall perturbation is included. The upper deck equation for the pressure is the Helmholtz equation rather than the Laplace equation. This leads to a modified pressure-displacement relation, which is coupled with the linearized boundary-layer equations in the lower deck. Discretization of the whole system formulates a generalized eigenvalue problem, which is solved numerically. It is found that suction suppresses oncoming T-S waves, and this effect increases with the suction velocity and the slot width. The directivity is ndependent of the flow parameters only when the Mach number is low. The intensity of the radiated sound in general increases with the frequency, the suction velocity and the width of the suction slot. Interestingly, for O(1) suction velocities, the radiated sound is very weak, indicating that the gain of stabilizing effect does not cause aeroacoustic penalty
Figure 2 in Large-scale snake genome analyses provide insights into vertebrate development
No full textFigure 2. Evolutionary features of snake genomes (A) Chromosome evolution in snakes. A total of 23 proto-chromosomes of Serpentes were reconstructed using four lizards as outgroups (only eight species are shown here for clarity, with more species listed in Figure S2A). (B) Genome size, TE size, and TE type content in chicken, non-snake reptiles (four lizards, one turtle, and one crocodile), and snakes. (C) GC content and CpG island density of snake genomes.Published as part of Peng, Changjun, Wu, Dong-Dong, Ren, Jin-Long, Peng, Zhong-Liang, Ma, Zhifei, Wu, Wei, Lv, Yunyun, Wang, Zeng, Deng, Cao, Jiang, Ke, Parkinson, Christopher L., Qi, Yin, Zhang, Zhi-Yi & Li, Jia-Tang, 2023, Large-scale snake genome analyses provide insights into vertebrate development, pp. 1-18 in Cell 186 on page 4, DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2023.05.030, http://zenodo.org/record/807067
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Tim Wu & “The Curse of Bigness”
No full textHost Nicholas Lemann sits down with Tim Wu, author of The Curse of Bigness, to discuss the politics of Louis Brandeis and Theodore Roosevelt as antitrust has reemerged this year as a major issue in the run-up to the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election.
Measurement of dwell times of spin polarized rubidium atoms on octadecyltrichlorosilane- and paraffin-coated surfaces
No full textWe report the measurement of dwell times of spin polarized Rb atoms on octadecyltrichlorosilane OTS- and paraffin-coated surfaces. We find that at a cell temperature of 72 °C the dwell times for OTS- and paraffin-coated surfaces are 0.9+-0.1 microsecond and 1.8 +-0.2 microsecond , respectively. Since the relaxation probability on paraffin is almost one order of magnitude smaller than that on OTS, the longer dwell time for paraffin indicates that the average strength of the interactions experienced by Rb atoms while they are inside paraffin is much weaker than while they are inside OTS.Peer reviewe
Figure 4 in Large-scale snake genome analyses provide insights into vertebrate development
No full textFigure 4. Genome features associated with snake-specific sense organ evolution, highlighting PSGs, REGs, newly evolved genes, SD-CNEassociated genes, lost genes, and SSSV-associated genes (A) Lost and highly expressed genes in snake eyes. Diagram of the snake eye showing lost genes in blue. Heatmap of highly expressed genes (QN, quantile normalized). (B) Diagram of the snake inner ear. Twelve SD-CNE-associated genes and four SSSV-associated genes are involved in ear development. Expression levels (scaled fragments per kilobase per million mapped reads [FPKM]) of sound perception-related PSGs and REGs in 10 keeled slug snake (Pber) tissues are shown in circles. Circle size is positively correlated to the expression level. (C) Diagram of the taste transduction process. Solid lines indicate direct interactions, and dotted lines indicate indirect interactions. See also Table S3.Published as part of Peng, Changjun, Wu, Dong-Dong, Ren, Jin-Long, Peng, Zhong-Liang, Ma, Zhifei, Wu, Wei, Lv, Yunyun, Wang, Zeng, Deng, Cao, Jiang, Ke, Parkinson, Christopher L., Qi, Yin, Zhang, Zhi-Yi & Li, Jia-Tang, 2023, Large-scale snake genome analyses provide insights into vertebrate development, pp. 1-18 in Cell 186 on page 9, DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2023.05.030, http://zenodo.org/record/807067
[[alternative]]A Study on History of Shin-Wu Elementary School at Tao-Yuan（1905-2003）
No full text[[abstract]]To explore the school cultural development in Shin-Wu Elementary school in the last hundred years and the significance of school history research in educational history, this study examines documents and files in the school history room of Shin-Wu Elementary school and has oral history interviews as well. The main findings of this study are as follows.
1. In late Meiji, most of the teachers were Japanese or Taiwanese from the nearby common schools, however, the turnover was high. At that time, only affluent students attended schools while later, more students were from poor families. Yet, the drop-out rate was relatively high.
2. As for the age, most students went to school in their teens, for they had to share responsibilities in home chores.
3. In Taisyo period, there were more and more teachers who had been Shin-Wu graduates and students were from different sources.
4. Owing to the air raid during the war, schools got closed very often and the content of education was mainly about laboring.
5. Post-war education, compared with that before, varied little in educational contents and forms because of the position-retaining teachers and staff.
6. For the last hundred years, nearly one-third of Shin-Wu teachers were their graduates and principals and teachers of branch schools came form Shin-Wu Elementary School, too. Therefore, Shin-Wu Elementary School had played an influential role in the elementary education and the local people cultivation in Shin-Wu area.
7. Shin-Wu Elementary School had always followed the national educational policy, seldom did they have local standpoints, which meant, they had to strengthen their autonomy and capacity when faced with new challenges especially after the lifting of Martial Law.
8. Through elaborative school cultural analysis, relationship among education, politics, economy and society, in particular, individual area development will be more carefully investigated.
Fighting Inequalities: Impact of Urban-Rural Health Insurance Integration in Rural China
No full textIntegrating social health insurance, which helps unify the administration, policies, and funds of various health insurance programs, is expected to combat health inequalities. This paper provides the first micro-level evidence from China on the impact of health insurance integration on health care. We exploit the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) dataset and combine it with original city-level data on social health insurance policy. We employ difference-in-difference models with matching to estimate the effects of integrating the Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance (URBMI) and the New Rural Cooperative Medical Insurance (NRCMI) on individuals’ health care utilization (including inpatient and outpatient care) and health outcomes. We find that the health insurance integration has significantly increased inpatient and outpatient care utilization. Moreover, we provide evidence of a possible mechanism that drives this relationship: the inpatient reimbursement rate significantly increased after the integration. We further find that after the integration, people traveled longer distances to seek inpatient and outpatient care, and their health, as measured by self-assessed health status, has improved. Nonetheless, these results are found in the rural sample only, and we observe no significant impact of the health insurance integration on total hospital charges or patients’ out-of-pocket payments.Peer reviewe
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