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By John Koten |
The future of manufacturing can be described in a short story: We have an engineer at home, who suddenly started getting texts pushed to his phone. There were problems in the factory where he works, but humans were not the ones sharing this information. It was instead machines taking care of other machines, and the dec... |
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There are three houses named the Harrison Gray Otis House in Boston, Massachusetts. All were built by noted American architect Charles Bulfinch for the same man, Federalist lawyer and politician Harrison Gray Otis. |
The first Otis house, built in 1796, is located at 141 Cambridge Street, next to the Old West Church in Boston's West End. It is now a National Historic Landmark, and a historic house museum owned and operated by Historic New England. |
Harrison Gray Otis House (Second) |
2nd Harrison Gray Otis House, 85 Mount Vernon Street |
|Part of||Beacon Hill Historic District (#66000130)| |
|NRHP Reference #||73001955| |
|Added to NRHP||July 27, 1973| |
|Designated NHLDCP||October 15, 1966| |
The 2nd Harrison Gray Otis House is located at 85 Mount Vernon Street. It is a large, square, Federal-style mansion in densely developed Beacon Hill, built in 1800-1802. It is three stories in height, with brick walls laid in Flemish bond, and is set on a parcel with a relatively ample lawn, and a semicircular cobblest... |
In this house Bulfinch has made the first floor with his characteristic recessed brick arches, here ornamented with Chinese fretwork balconies in iron. The facade has four bays, with somewhat odd use of Corinthian pilasters on the 2nd and 3rd floors. There is a roof balustrade and a largish, octagonal cupola. Otis live... |
The 3rd Harrison Gray Otis House is located at 45 Beacon Street. Completed in 1806, it is now the home of the American Meteorological Society. This is the last and largest of the houses, also built in the Federal style, and the residence of Otis until his death in 1848. Its four stories are organized into five bays. Th... |
The lithium ion battery market has been growing steadily and has been seeking an approach to increase battery capacity while retaining its capacity for long recharging process. |
Structuring materials for electrode at the nanometre-length scale has been known to be an effective way to meet this demand; however, such nanomaterials would essentially need to be produced by high throughput processing in order to transfer these technologies to industry. |
This article published in the Science and Technology of Advanced Materials ("High throughput production of nanocomposite SiO x powders by plasma spray physical vapor deposition for negative electrode of lithium ion batteries") reports an approach which potentially has an industrially compatible high throughputs to prod... |
The authors have successfully produced nanocomposite SiO powders by plasma spray physical vapor deposition using low cost metallurgical grade powders at high throughputs. Using this method, they demonstrated an explicit improvement in the battery capacity cycle performance with these powders as electrode. |
The uniqueness of this processing method is that nanosized SiO composites are produced instantaneously through the evaporation and subsequent co-condensation of the powder feedstock. The approach is called plasma spray physical vapor deposition (PS-PVD). In Fig. 1, raw SiO and PS-PVD SiO composites are shown. |
The composites are 20 nm particles, which are composed of a crystalline Si core and SiOx shell. Furthermore, the addition of methane (CH4) promotes the reduction of SiO and results in the decreased SiO-shell thickness as shown in Fig. 2. The core-shell structure is formed in a single-step continuous processing. |
As a result, the irreversible capacity was effectively decreased, and half-cell batteries made of PS-PVD powders have exhibited improved initial efficiency and maintenance of capacity as high as 1000 mAhg-1 after 100 cycles at the same time. |
Source: National Institute for Materials Science |
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A quantity of gas in a piston cylinder has a volume of 0.544 m3 and a pressure of 200 Pa. The piston compresses the gas to 0.126 m3 in an isothermal (constant-temperature) process. What is the final pressure of the gas? |
CD8 T-Cell Immune Competence Panel, Global |
Clinical Information Discusses physiology, pathophysiology, and general clinical aspects, as they relate to a laboratory test |
CD8 T cells play an important role in the immune response to viral or intracellular infectious agents, as well as antitumor immunity and immune surveillance. |
Upon activation, CD8 T cells mediate a variety of effector functions, including cytokine secretion and cytotoxicity. Interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) is one of the early cytokines produced by CD8 T cells; it is released within a few hours of activation.(1) The cytotoxic function is mediated by the contents of the cytolytic... |
CD8 T-cell activation occurs either through the T cell receptor peptide major histocompatibility complex (MHC) or by use of a mitogen (eg, phorbol myristate acetate and the calcium ionophore ionomycin). Mitogen-mediated activation is antigen nonspecific. |
Impairment of global CD8 T-cell activation (due to inherent cellular immunodeficiency or as a consequence of over-immunosuppression by therapeutic agents) results in reduced production of IFN-gamma and other cytokines, reduced cytotoxic function, and increased risk for developing infectious complications. Agents associ... |
Immunosuppression is most commonly used for allograft maintenance in solid-organ transplant recipients, to prevent graft-versus-host disease in allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant patients and, to treat patients with autoimmune diseases. In these settings, reducing the risk for developing infectious complicat... |
Therapeutic drug monitoring is routinely used in the transplant practice to avoid overtreatment and to determine patient compliance. But, the levels of drugs measured in blood do not directly correlate with the administered dose due to individual pharmacokinetic differences.(3) Furthermore, drug levels may not necessar... |
This assay provides a means to evaluate over-immunosuppression within the CD8 T-cell compartment (global CD8 T-cell function). Intracellular IFN-gamma expression is a marker for CD8 T-cell activation. Surface CD107a and CD107b are markers for cytotoxic function. This test may be most useful when ordered at the end of i... |
The absolute counts of lymphocyte subsets are known to be influenced by a variety of biological factors, including hormones, the environment and temperature. The studies on diurnal (circadian) variation in lymphocyte counts have demonstrated progressive increase in CD4 T-cell count throughout the day, while CD8 T cells... |
Determining over immunosuppression within the CD8 T-cell compartment, when used on transplant recipients and patients with autoimmune disorders receiving therapy with immunosuppressant agents |
Interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) and CD107a and CD107b expression below the defined reference range are consistent with a global impairment in CD8 T-cell function, most likely due to over immunosuppression. |
IFN-gamma and CD107a and CD107b levels greater than the defined reference range are unlikely to have any clinical significance. |
Cautions Discusses conditions that may cause diagnostic confusion, including improper specimen collection and handling, inappropriate test selection, and interfering substances |
This assay is specific only for CD8 T cells; it does not provide information for overall T-cell competence. |
Further studies are needed to determine if, within the reference range, certain levels of interferon-gamma and CD107a and CD107b expression confer greater or lesser degrees of risk for infectious disease. |
Timing and consistency in timing of blood collection is critical when serially monitoring patients for lymphocyte subsets. See Clinical Information. |
Reference Values Describes reference intervals and additional information for interpretation of test results. May include intervals based on age and sex when appropriate. Intervals are Mayo-derived, unless otherwise designated. If an interpretive report is provided, the reference value field will state this. |
The appropriate age-related reference values will be provided on the report. |
Clinical References Provides recommendations for further in-depth reading of a clinical nature |
1. Betts MR, Casaza JP, Patterson BA, et al: Putative immunodominant human immunodeficiency virus-specific CD8 T-cell responses cannot be predicted by MHC class I haplotype. J Virol 2000;74:9144-9151 |
2. Peters PJ, Borst J, Oorschot V, et al: Cytotoxic T-lymphocyte granules are secretory lysosomes, containing both perforin and granzymes. J Exp Med 1991;173:1099-1109 |
3. Venkataramanan R, Shaw LM, Sarkozi L, et al: Clinical utility of monitoring tacrolimus blood concentrations in liver transplant patients. J Clin Pharmacol 2001;41:542-551 |
4. Carmichael KF, Abayomi A: Analysis of diurnal variation of lymphocyte subsets in healthy subjects and its implication in HIV monitoring and treatment. 15th Intl Conference on AIDS, Bangkok, Thailand, 2004, Abstract # B11052 |
5. Dimitrov S, Benedict C, Heutling D, et al: Cortisol and epinephrine control opposing circadian rhythms in T-cell subsets. Blood 2009;113:5134-5143 |
6. Dimitrov S, Lange T, Nohroudi K, Born J: Number and function of circulating antigen presenting cells regulated by sleep. Sleep 2007;30:401-411 |
7. Kronfol Z, Nair M, Zhang Q, et al: Circadian immune measures in healthy volunteers: relationship to hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis hormones and sympathetic neurotransmitters. Pyschosom Med 1997;59:42-50 |
8. Malone JL, Simms TE, Gray GC, et al: Sources of variability in repeated T-helper lymphocyte counts from HIV 1-infected patients: total lymphocyte count fluctuations and diurnal cycle are important. J AIDS 1990;3:144-151 |
9. Paglieroni TG, Holland PV: Circannual variation in lymphocyte subsets, revisited. Transfusion 1994;34:512-516 |
To a certain extent, it is hard to know precisely what Viking women wore and how they wore their hair. The are no portraits of Viking women and very few representations of them in statues or on coins (the usual sources for such things). |
We know that women wore two broaches which fastened their apron dress to a long under-gown. The apron dress might or might not be pleated. Sometimes the long under gown had a train. The under gowns always seem to have gone to the floor. Given the types of cloth found, plus the fragments of looms, we know the gowns were... |
|Reproduction of a Viking woolen apron dress| |
We know from an Arab account about a visit to Hedeby, Viking woman wore eye make up to increase their beauty. There is some evidence that men wore eye makeup as well! |
As necklaces of beads are often found in graves, we can assume that women wore beads. The beads are often imported, showing that they did help give the woman status. |
On her head, she most likely wore a line head dress which tied under the chin. |
In cold weather, she might a cloak with fasten on one shoulder. Depending on her status, it might be made of fur. |
Various items would hang from the belt as they did not have pockets. |
For men, everyday clothing consisted of a long tunic, belted over trousers. They wore leather shoes laced up around the ankle. Any cloak would be fastened with a single broach. |
I am writing this letter to show my strong support for building a new dam in Mullaperiyar . Controversies over this issue has been on for more than 40 years and nothing has been done to solve this issue. |
Mullaperiyar Dam stands over the headwaters of the Periyar River in 1895 Kerala, India. It is operated by the Government of Tamil Nadu according to a 999-year lease agreement made during the British colonial rule. The dam was build with using stone and Surki (A mixture of sugar and calcium oxide) and the estimated life... |
Though this dam has outlived its estimated life span, it has started to show damages that are of great concern. If the dam fails, it will wipe off five heavily populated districts situated at the downstream : Idukki, Kottayam, Ernakulam, Alappuzha and Patthanamthitta (aproximately 40 lakh people). |
As a citizen of India, I ask of you to find a solution this problem. If the dam fails 40 lakh lives will be lost and this will go down in the pages of history as a catastrophe that has never happened before and as one that will never happen ever again. This is not a political issue of two states. This issue is about th... |
We ask of you to put an end to our sleepless nights over the constant fear of a devastating calamity. |
Sandra Eliswa Naduvilaparambil. |
There is no evidence that Mary Stevenson’s poem “Footprints in the Sand” is based on a real event. Most scholarship holds that it’s based on a religious dream, perhaps the poet’s, or a report of such a dream.Continue Reading |
The trope of the ecstatic dream is a common literary device to explain human contact with the divine. In this version, Jesus and the true believer share space and time, explaining why after the dream is over the dreamer sees only one set of footprints. Perhaps seers experience these visions as real events in waking lif... |
Two religious texts from the late 19th century – "Footsteps of Jesus" by Mary B. C. Slade (1871 hymn) and Charles Haddon Spurgeon's 1880 sermon "The Education of the Sons of God" – may have inspired poet Mary Stevenson. |
Written in 1939 and granted copyright in 1984, the “Footprints in the Sand” may also be the basis for many contemporary Christian hymns, such as “One Set of Footprints,” recorded by Cristy Lane and others, as well as a staple in the greeting card industry.Learn more about Poetry |
What is a backdoor? |
A backdoor opens a “backdoor” to your computer or mobile device through which hackers and other malicious individuals can connect to your machine and infect it with malware and spam. |
How does a backdoor work? |
Backdoors are used by hackers to gain access to a device by circumventing security mechanisms. Often times developers install backdoors as a means of troubleshooting their program, but this also leaves a gap for hackers to exploit. The term is often used to describe vulnerabilities put in place on purpose, for example,... |
Perhaps the most common backdoor is the use of default passwords. If you’ve ever accessed a Wi-Fi router’s admin console by typing something like “admin” into the username and password fields, you’ve exploited a backdoor. |
FARCE V COMEDY |
The difference between farce and comedy is generally accepted to be that farce achieves its effects through actions (called 'business' in the theatre) and comedy achieves its effects through language. That is only as true as any generalisation can be – farces have many very funny lines and in The School for Scandal, fo... |
THE HISTORY OF FARCE |
Farce has been around for quite a while. It's first heard of in the fourth century BC, coming from the city of Atella in Sicily, whence it had arrived from Greece. These early farces had stock characters (The Old Fool, The Glutton, Fat Cheeks) like, some two thousand years later, the commedia dell'arte (The Braggart, T... |
Molière was one of the few writers (along with Shakespeare) who could write scenes which were farce, high comedy, drama and revelation of character simultaneously, like the scene in Tartuffe in which Orgon, the husband, agrees to hide beneath a table to hear the holy man, Tartuffe, attempting to seduce his wife and the... |
WHAT MAKES US LAUGH? |
Thomas Hobbes, the seventeenth-century philosopher, wrote in his seminal work, The Leviathan, "Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those Grimaces called Laughter; and is caused either by some sudden act of their own that pleaseth them; or by the apprehension of some deformed thing in another, by comparison whereof... |
So for a farce to work, it's necessary for the audience to relate to the characters' predicaments. With Feydeau, Ben Travers, right through to Michael Frayn and Noises Off this relates to middle-class morality. Which is not a criticism, just a statement of fact. All Feydeau's major plays hinge on marital infidelity. Th... |
Feydeau, whose plays are put together like an intricate piece of clockwork, was a great user of these modern devices – the electric chair which produces instant anaesthesia, the electric bells which are placed under the mattress to trap the guilty pair and catch them 'in flagrante delicto'. This occurs in Le Dindon, wh... |
This is a short extract from a longer essay that will be published in the program for A Flea in Her Ear, which will be available at Box Office and The Bar for $10. |
A Flea in Her Ear, 31 Oct – 17 Dec 2016, Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House |
Seeing the show? Let us know your thoughts. Tag @sydneytheatreco and #STCFlea |
Matthew Henson – Black History Month |
Discovered The Top Of The World, The North Pole. |
A black man named Matthew Henson, along with his fellow explorer, Robert Perry were the first to reach and discover the top of the world, the North Pole in 1909. Explorers had been trying and dying for centuries to accomplish this task. While most of Hensen and Perry’s party had to turn back because of the harsh Acrtic... |
Note (The two explorers; Henson and Perry are buried side by side in Arlington National Cemetery.) |
1. – Forgotten NewsMakers, Matthew Hesson (1866-1955) First Person To Reach The North Pole. |
2. Matthew Henson By MaryAnn N. Weidt |
Pancreatic cancer is a malignant neoplasm originating from transformed cells arising in tissues forming the pancreas. Pancreatic cancer (cancer of the pancreas) mainly occurs in people aged over 60. If it is diagnosed at an early stage, then an operation to remove the cancer gives some chance of a cure. In general, the... |
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