A numerical model was developed to study the time dynamics of photo luminescence emitted by Tb^3+doped multimode chalcogenide-selenide glass fibers pumped by laser light at approximately 2μm.The model consists of a s...A numerical model was developed to study the time dynamics of photo luminescence emitted by Tb^3+doped multimode chalcogenide-selenide glass fibers pumped by laser light at approximately 2μm.The model consists of a set of partial differential equations(PDEs),which describe the temporal and spatial evolution of the photon density and level populations within the fiber.In order to solve numerically the PDEs a method of lines was applied.The modeling parameters were extracted from measurements and from data available in the literature.The numerical results obtained support experimental observations.In particular,the developed model reproduces the discrepancies that are observed between the photoluminescence decay curves obtained from different points along the fiber.The numerical analysis was also used to explain the source of these discrepancies.展开更多
The usability assessment of a pacemaker is a complex task where the dedicated programmer for testing programmed algorithms is necessary.This paper provides the outcomes of development and complex testing of the artifi...The usability assessment of a pacemaker is a complex task where the dedicated programmer for testing programmed algorithms is necessary.This paper provides the outcomes of development and complex testing of the artificial cardiac system to evaluate the pacemaker’s functionality.In this work,we used the modular laboratory platform ELVIS II and created graphical user interface in LabVIEW programming environment.The electrical model of the heart allows signals generation(right atrium,right ventricle)and the monitoring of the stimulation pulses.The LabVIEW user interface allows to set the parameters of the generated signals and the simulation of the cardiac rhythm disorders as well as the monitoring and visualization of the pacemaker behavior in real-time.The results demonstrate the capability of proposed system to evaluate the paced and sensed pulses.The proposed solution allows the scientists to test the behavior of any cardiac pacemaker for its pre-programmed settings and pacing mode.In addition,the proposed system can simulate various disorders and test cardiac pacemakers in different working modes.展开更多
A series of energy storage phosphors,Lu2O3:Tb,M(M=Hf,Zr,Ti),were investigated by means of photoand thermoluminescence techniques to compare the effect of the co-dopant from the same group of periodic table of elements...A series of energy storage phosphors,Lu2O3:Tb,M(M=Hf,Zr,Ti),were investigated by means of photoand thermoluminescence techniques to compare the effect of the co-dopant from the same group of periodic table of elements on charge carriers trapping capability and trap parameters.Most of the investigated processes were tracked individually for the Tb3+in the two different metal sites offered by the Lu2O3 host-noncentrosymmetric C2 and centrosymmetric C3i.It is proved that both Tb3+ions participate in hole trapping and electrons are immobilized in traps whose depths are defined by the codopant.Deepest traps,~1.79 eV,appear upon Ti addition,while Zr and Hf generate traps of very similar,~1.40-1.44 eV,depths.The stored energy may be released not only by means of thermal stimulation but also upon the impact of optical photons.Light from the 390-430 nm range of wavelengths was found the most efficient in the latter process.Also deep red radiation of 780 nm releases most of the trapped electrons in Zr/Hf co-doped ceramics but is much less effective in the case of Tb,Ti material.Consistent scheme of electronic levels engaged in charge carriers trapping and subsequent generation of thermoand optically stimulated luminescence was constructed.展开更多
The Customized Online Aggregation & Summarization Tool for Environmental Rasters (COASTER) system (www.COASTERdata.net) was developed by Yellowstone Ecological Research Center (YERC) (www.yellowstoneresearch.org) ...The Customized Online Aggregation & Summarization Tool for Environmental Rasters (COASTER) system (www.COASTERdata.net) was developed by Yellowstone Ecological Research Center (YERC) (www.yellowstoneresearch.org) in response to the information needs of end-user communities interested in decision-support for natural resource management. The purpose of COASTER is to greatly simplify the process of creating predictor datasets for research exploring environmental impacts driven by climate change, land-use activities, disturbance, and invasive spread. COASTER achieves this goal by providing users with a web-based system for processing environmental (gridded, raster) datasets, using a set of standardized functions, to create output customized to meet their analytical needs. In doing so, COASTER effectively translates large and cumbersome datasets into user-specified information useful for parameterizing statistical models and for visualizing spatial and temporal patterns within environmental datasets. The COASTER system currently contains over 10 terabytes of climate data from several sources. These datasets have daily temporal resolutions, spatial resolutions ranging from 1km to 330km, and temporal extents ranging from 30 to 64 years (1948-2011). COASTER datasets are primarily limited to North America, but gridded datasets from other regions can easily be added to the system. Variables within the climatic datasets available on COASTER include metrics quantifying temperature, precipitation, shortwave radiation, vapor pressure deficit, humidity, and wind conditions. Notable features of COASTER include a conceptually simple yet flexible set of functions capable of producing a wide range of outputs, a design applicable to many types of raster datasets, and results formatted for seamless integration within most GIS and remote sensing software packages.展开更多
Introduction:Interrelated social and ecological challenges demand an understanding of how environmental change and management decisions affect human well-being.This paper out-lines a framework for measuring human well...Introduction:Interrelated social and ecological challenges demand an understanding of how environmental change and management decisions affect human well-being.This paper out-lines a framework for measuring human well-being for ecosystem-based management(EBM).We present a prototype that can be adapted and developed for various scales and contexts.Scientists and managers use indicators to assess status and trends in integrated ecosystem assessments(IEAs).To improve the social science rigor and success of EBM,we developed a systematic and transparent approach for evaluating indicators of human well-being for an IEA.Methods:Our process is based on a comprehensive conceptualization of human well-being,a scalable analysis of management priorities,and a set of indicator screening criteria tailored to the needs of EBM.We tested our approach by evaluating more than 2000 existing social indicators related to ocean and coastal management of the US West Coast.We focused on two foundational attributes of human well-being:resource access and self-determination.Outcomes and Discussion:Our results suggest that existing indicators and data are limited in their ability to reflect linkages between environmental change and human well-being,and extremely limited in their ability to assess social equity and justice.We reveal a critical need for new social indicators tailored to answer environmental questions and new data that are disaggregated by social variables to measure equity.In both,we stress the importance of collaborating with the people whose well-being is to be assessed.Conclusion:Our framework is designed to encourage governments and communities to carefully assess the complex tradeoffs inherent in environmental decision-making.展开更多
Phospholipids (PLs) in the form of nanostructures are widely employed as a lubricant and antimicrobial agent. The cartilage (AC) surface was characterized using wettability test fresh and depleted AC samples. Cartilag...Phospholipids (PLs) in the form of nanostructures are widely employed as a lubricant and antimicrobial agent. The cartilage (AC) surface was characterized using wettability test fresh and depleted AC samples. Cartilage wet surface exposure to air causes increase </span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">in </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">surface wettability from 0 to 104 degrees. Effect is explained by flip-flop of the PLs molecules in membrane. The hydrophilic and hydrophobic character of cartilage was determined. Microscopic image of PLs bilayers adsorbed on the surface of pleural tissues and human stomach will be compared with cartilage tissue.展开更多
基金Project supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No.665778(National Science Centre,Poland,Polonez Fellowship 2016/21/P/ST7/03666)
文摘A numerical model was developed to study the time dynamics of photo luminescence emitted by Tb^3+doped multimode chalcogenide-selenide glass fibers pumped by laser light at approximately 2μm.The model consists of a set of partial differential equations(PDEs),which describe the temporal and spatial evolution of the photon density and level populations within the fiber.In order to solve numerically the PDEs a method of lines was applied.The modeling parameters were extracted from measurements and from data available in the literature.The numerical results obtained support experimental observations.In particular,the developed model reproduces the discrepancies that are observed between the photoluminescence decay curves obtained from different points along the fiber.The numerical analysis was also used to explain the source of these discrepancies.
基金Thework and the contributions were supported by the project SV4502261/SP2022/98‘Biomedical Engineering systems XVIII’.
文摘The usability assessment of a pacemaker is a complex task where the dedicated programmer for testing programmed algorithms is necessary.This paper provides the outcomes of development and complex testing of the artificial cardiac system to evaluate the pacemaker’s functionality.In this work,we used the modular laboratory platform ELVIS II and created graphical user interface in LabVIEW programming environment.The electrical model of the heart allows signals generation(right atrium,right ventricle)and the monitoring of the stimulation pulses.The LabVIEW user interface allows to set the parameters of the generated signals and the simulation of the cardiac rhythm disorders as well as the monitoring and visualization of the pacemaker behavior in real-time.The results demonstrate the capability of proposed system to evaluate the paced and sensed pulses.The proposed solution allows the scientists to test the behavior of any cardiac pacemaker for its pre-programmed settings and pacing mode.In addition,the proposed system can simulate various disorders and test cardiac pacemakers in different working modes.
基金Project supported by the Polish National Science Centre(NCN)(#UMO-2014/13/B/ST5/01535)preliminary studies supported by Wroclaw Research Centre EIT+within the project The Application of Nanotechnology in Advanced Materials-NanoMat(POIG.01.01.02-02-002/08)co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund(Innovative Economy Operational Program1.1.2)Experiments with synchrotron radiation were performed at DESY-Hasylab Station in Hamburg and were supported by grant #11-20090289 EC
文摘A series of energy storage phosphors,Lu2O3:Tb,M(M=Hf,Zr,Ti),were investigated by means of photoand thermoluminescence techniques to compare the effect of the co-dopant from the same group of periodic table of elements on charge carriers trapping capability and trap parameters.Most of the investigated processes were tracked individually for the Tb3+in the two different metal sites offered by the Lu2O3 host-noncentrosymmetric C2 and centrosymmetric C3i.It is proved that both Tb3+ions participate in hole trapping and electrons are immobilized in traps whose depths are defined by the codopant.Deepest traps,~1.79 eV,appear upon Ti addition,while Zr and Hf generate traps of very similar,~1.40-1.44 eV,depths.The stored energy may be released not only by means of thermal stimulation but also upon the impact of optical photons.Light from the 390-430 nm range of wavelengths was found the most efficient in the latter process.Also deep red radiation of 780 nm releases most of the trapped electrons in Zr/Hf co-doped ceramics but is much less effective in the case of Tb,Ti material.Consistent scheme of electronic levels engaged in charge carriers trapping and subsequent generation of thermoand optically stimulated luminescence was constructed.
文摘The Customized Online Aggregation & Summarization Tool for Environmental Rasters (COASTER) system (www.COASTERdata.net) was developed by Yellowstone Ecological Research Center (YERC) (www.yellowstoneresearch.org) in response to the information needs of end-user communities interested in decision-support for natural resource management. The purpose of COASTER is to greatly simplify the process of creating predictor datasets for research exploring environmental impacts driven by climate change, land-use activities, disturbance, and invasive spread. COASTER achieves this goal by providing users with a web-based system for processing environmental (gridded, raster) datasets, using a set of standardized functions, to create output customized to meet their analytical needs. In doing so, COASTER effectively translates large and cumbersome datasets into user-specified information useful for parameterizing statistical models and for visualizing spatial and temporal patterns within environmental datasets. The COASTER system currently contains over 10 terabytes of climate data from several sources. These datasets have daily temporal resolutions, spatial resolutions ranging from 1km to 330km, and temporal extents ranging from 30 to 64 years (1948-2011). COASTER datasets are primarily limited to North America, but gridded datasets from other regions can easily be added to the system. Variables within the climatic datasets available on COASTER include metrics quantifying temperature, precipitation, shortwave radiation, vapor pressure deficit, humidity, and wind conditions. Notable features of COASTER include a conceptually simple yet flexible set of functions capable of producing a wide range of outputs, a design applicable to many types of raster datasets, and results formatted for seamless integration within most GIS and remote sensing software packages.
基金This work was supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration(NOAA),and Washington Sea Grant.NOAA initiated the work described in this paper to identify indicators of human well-being for the IEA of the California Current large marine ecosystem.
文摘Introduction:Interrelated social and ecological challenges demand an understanding of how environmental change and management decisions affect human well-being.This paper out-lines a framework for measuring human well-being for ecosystem-based management(EBM).We present a prototype that can be adapted and developed for various scales and contexts.Scientists and managers use indicators to assess status and trends in integrated ecosystem assessments(IEAs).To improve the social science rigor and success of EBM,we developed a systematic and transparent approach for evaluating indicators of human well-being for an IEA.Methods:Our process is based on a comprehensive conceptualization of human well-being,a scalable analysis of management priorities,and a set of indicator screening criteria tailored to the needs of EBM.We tested our approach by evaluating more than 2000 existing social indicators related to ocean and coastal management of the US West Coast.We focused on two foundational attributes of human well-being:resource access and self-determination.Outcomes and Discussion:Our results suggest that existing indicators and data are limited in their ability to reflect linkages between environmental change and human well-being,and extremely limited in their ability to assess social equity and justice.We reveal a critical need for new social indicators tailored to answer environmental questions and new data that are disaggregated by social variables to measure equity.In both,we stress the importance of collaborating with the people whose well-being is to be assessed.Conclusion:Our framework is designed to encourage governments and communities to carefully assess the complex tradeoffs inherent in environmental decision-making.
文摘Phospholipids (PLs) in the form of nanostructures are widely employed as a lubricant and antimicrobial agent. The cartilage (AC) surface was characterized using wettability test fresh and depleted AC samples. Cartilage wet surface exposure to air causes increase </span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">in </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">surface wettability from 0 to 104 degrees. Effect is explained by flip-flop of the PLs molecules in membrane. The hydrophilic and hydrophobic character of cartilage was determined. Microscopic image of PLs bilayers adsorbed on the surface of pleural tissues and human stomach will be compared with cartilage tissue.
