36,434 research outputs found
Suspension stability and fractal patterns: A comparison using hydroxyapatite
No full textHydroxyapatite suspensions were prepared in water, isopropyl alcohol, and hexadecane representing polar, semipolar, and nonpolar media, respectively. A range of dispersants were added and pH was adjusted where appropriate in an attempt to modify stability against sedimentation and hence provide suspensions suitable for ink-jet printing and other colloidal processing methods. Stability was assessed by sedimentation tests and by optical microscopy of the fractal patterns that form in drainage films on glassware surfaces. This novel method was made quantitative by simple but effective image processing methods and the two approaches correlated well. The interpretation of drainage films needs to be tested for generality on other powders but could provide a rapid method (within seconds) of screening flocculation behavior which, when assisted by elementary image processing methods of the type described here, could be used for high-throughput screening. It allows a nanoscopic process to be viewed by eye. This is possible because the fractal hierarchy of agglomeration allows the results of processes occurring at the ultimate particle scale to be observed at the millimeter scale.<br/
Special issue: Process safety in times of a pandemic
No full textGreen Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Safety and Security Scienc
Distributed human computation framework for linked data co-reference resolution
No full textDistributed Human Computation (DHC) is a technique used to solve computational problems by incorporating the collaborative effort of a large number of humans. It is also a solution to AI-complete problems such as natural language processing. The Semantic Web with its root in AI is envisioned to be a decentralised world-wide information space for sharing machine-readable data with minimal integration costs. There are many research problems in the Semantic Web that are considered as AI-complete problems. An example is co-reference resolution, which involves determining whether different URIs refer to the same entity. This is considered to be a significant hurdle to overcome in the realisation of large-scale Semantic Web applications. In this paper, we propose a framework for building a DHC system on top of the Linked Data Cloud to solve various computational problems. To demonstrate the concept, we are focusing on handling the co-reference resolution in the Semantic Web when integrating distributed datasets. The traditional way to solve this problem is to design machine-learning algorithms. However, they are often computationally expensive, error-prone and do not scale. We designed a DHC system named iamResearcher, which solves the scientific publication author identity co-reference problem when integrating distributed bibliographic datasets. In our system, we aggregated 6 million bibliographic data from various publication repositories. Users can sign up to the system to audit and align their own publications, thus solving the co-reference problem in a distributed manner. The aggregated results are published to the Linked Data Cloud
Intersystem soft handover for converged DVB-H and UMTS networks
No full textDigital video broadcasting for handhelds (DVB-H) is the standard for broadcasting Internet Protocol (IP) data services to mobile portable devices. To provide interactive services for DVB-H, the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) can be used as a terrestrial interaction channel for the unidirectional DVB-H network. The converged DVB-H and UMTS network can be used to address the congestion problems due to the limited multimedia channel accesses of the UMTS network. In the converged network, intersystem soft handover between DVB-H and UMTS is needed for an optimum radio resource allocation, which reduces network operation cost while providing the required quality of service. This paper deals with the intersystem soft handover between DVB-H and UMTS in such a converged network. The converged network structure is presented. A novel soft handover scheme is proposed and evaluated. After considering the network operation cost, the performance tradeoff between the network quality of service and the network operation cost for the intersystem soft handover in the converged network is modeled using a stochastic tree and analyzed using a numerical simulation. The results show that the proposed algorithm is feasible and has the potential to be used for implementation in the real environment
Beyond interfaces: A usability study of Chinese journal databases
No full textA presentation at the Council on East Asian Libraries (CEAL) annual meeting in Boston, MA on March 21, 2007
Rose Galaida and the Central China Relief Records, 1946: Discovery, Investigation, and Implications
No full textThe materials in the Central China Relief Records (CCRR) collection provide a window to the experiences of Rose Galaida in Hubei. The collection consists of about 100 documents totaling over 300 pages (excluding duplicate copies) and 5 photographs.Peer reviewedPublished in the Journal of East Asian Libraries and available from the journal at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jeal/vol2011/iss153/
Breaking New Ground in East Asia Library History
No full textReview of Peter X. Zhou. Collecting Asia: East Asian Libraries in North America (2010).Published in H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences and available at: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=32231March 201
INFINITY-NORM ROTATION FOR REVERSIBLE DATA HIDING
No full textIn this paper, we propose a novel transform that preserves the dynamic range—infinity-norm rotation. This transform is perfectly reversible and piecewise linear, and keeps the maximum value unchanged. We apply the transform to reversible data hiding, which can be utilized for fragile data hiding and covert communication. After the inverse transform applied to the image with hidden data, no overflow or underflow occurs to the pixel values, and small changes of the coefficients in the transform domain result in small changes of the corresponding pixel values after reconstruction. With progressive symmetrical histogram expansion, we obtain very high embedding capacity for data hiding in the transform domain of infinity-norm rotation. Furthermore, the embedding capacity can be further expanded with blocked coefficients and low-frequency coefficients, which is demonstrated by our experiments. Index Terms—Dynamic range preservation, histogram expansion, infinity-norm rotation, pyramidal hierarchy, reversible data hiding. 1
One step preparation of pure tau-MnAl phase with high magnetization using strip casting method
No full textFerromagnetic phase of Mn-Al exhibits great potential in the rare-earth free permanent magnetic materials due to its high magnetocrystalline anisotropy, high magnetization, high Curie temperature and low cost. In this work, the strip casting technique was applied to prepare MnAl magnetic phase. X-ray diffraction and energy dispersive X-ray analyses indicate that the as-prepared Mn54Al46 strip sample consists of pure tau-MnAl magnetic phase. It is found that the composition of Mn54Al46 is suitable to prepare tau-MnAl phase during the strip casting process. The Mn54Al46 strip sample synthesized through the strip casting exhibits a fairly high magnetization of 114 emu/g under a field of 5 T, while the coercivity of iHc = 2.8 kOe, magnetization of M-5T = 63.9 emu/g at room temperature can be obtained for Mn54Al46 powder sample. This preparation method can produce a large amount of tau-phase MnAl alloy and promote mass industrialized production. (C) 2017 Author(s)
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