Colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals have attracted continuous worldwide interest over the last three decades owing to their remarkable and unique size- and shape-, dependent properties. The colloidal nature of these nanomaterials allows one to take full advantage of nanoscale effects to tailor their optoelectronic and physical-chemical properties, yielding materials that combine size-, shape-,...

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OBJECTIVES To evaluate the prevalence of perception and annoyance due to wind turbine noise among people living near the turbines, and to study relations between noise and perception/annoyance, with focus on differences between living environments. METHODS A cross-sectional study was carried out in seven areas in Sweden across dissimilar terrain and different degrees of urbanisation. A postal...

This paper presents an approach to analyze events leading to pluggage of a boiler. The proposed approach involves statistics, data partitioning, parameter reduction, and data mining. Two independent data mining algorithms have been applied to detect both static and dynamic relationships among the process parameters. The multi-angle data mining approach increases the ability to locate rare event...

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Nasoalveolar molding (NAM) device is an effective treatment for protruding maxilla in infants with cleft palate. However, only a few studies have investigated the effect of NAM devices on the treatment of protruding maxilla in infants with cleft lip only. We have designed a combination treatment using NAM devices prior to cheiloplasy for cleft lip-only patients with severe anterior protrusion o...

In the past decade, the definition of authorship has been the topic of many articles and letters to the editor in scientific and especially biomedical journals. The official position of the ICMJE (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors) has been, and continues to be, that authorship must be strictly individual and coupled with full responsibility for the claims published. But the ap...

Natural disasters, such as floods, provide teachable moments for students to learn about crisis management. The authors argue that evidence-based management offers a pedagogical tool for leveraging these teachable moments to deepen student learning about the management challenges of crisis situations. An emerging area in management education, evidence-based management involves using best availa...

Power spectrum analyses of temperature series at New York City (1822-1956), the Netherlands (1735-1944), and central England (1698-1955) show that the only significant energy in these spectrums appears at the annual period of 12 months. No significant energy was found corresponding to any known sunspot periodicity. Correlation coefficients between January and July temperatures for the years of ...

The control and stability derivatives of Yardstik to be used for simulation are generated using the Tornado software. Tornado is a 3-D vortex lattice program written in Matlab environment which makes use of the vortex lattice method for obtaining the forces and moment acting on the aerodynamic surfaces [2]. From these forces and moment generated, we are able to obtain the stability and control ...