With the continuing improvement of properties of High Tc Superconductors (HTS), their application to accelerator technology is becoming increasingly attractive. While the medium to long-term goal for their use in this field will be for high field magnets, the materials now available enable a number of specific applications which benefit from their characteristics and make them a valid alternati...

We read with great interest the study by Chen and colleagues highlighting interest in hydroxyethyl starch (HES) 130/0.4 in treatment after hemorrhagic shock to ameliorate oxidative stress and the inflammatory response in a rat model. Compared with HES 200/0.5 and succinylated gelatin, the authors showed that infusions of HES 130/0.4 significantly reduced malondialdehyde levels and myeloperoxida...

A method of moment with an enhanced model to design high-temperature superconductor (HTS) RF surface coils for magnetic resonant image (MRI) is presented. The resonant frequency and quality factor ( ) of HTS RF spiral coils are simulated using this method. The agreements of resonant frequencies and s between the simulation and measurement are excellent with differences less than 1% and 3%, resp...

BACKGROUND L-Threonine is an important amino acid for animal feed. Though the industrial fermentation technology of threonine achieved a very high level, there is still significant room to further improve the industrial strains. The biosensor-based high-throughput screening (HTS) technology has demonstrated its powerful applications. Unfortunately, for most of valuable fine chemicals such as th...

The present paper describes an HMM-based speech synthesis system developed by the Nitech-NAIST group for the Blizzard Challenge 2006 (Nitech-NAIST-HTS 2006). To achieve improvements over the 2005 system (Nitech-HTS 2005), new features such as MGC-LSP, MLLT, and full covariance GV pdf are investigated. Subjective listening test results show that combining mel-cepstral coefficients, MLLT and full...

210 J Neurosurg / Volume 116 / January 2012 INTRACRANIAL hypertension following neurological injury is often associated with poor outcomes.13 Increased ICP reduces CBF and can lead to brain herniation and death. The Brain Trauma Foundation has recommended that therapy to reduce ICP should begin at pressures > 20 mm Hg. Hyperosmolar therapy is a commonly used treatment for intracranial hypertens...

A typical modern high-throughput screening (HTS) operation consists of testing thousands of chemical compounds to select active ones for future detailed examination. The authors describe 3 clustering techniques that can be used to improve the selection of active compounds (i.e., hits). They are designed to identify quality hits in the observed HTS measurements. The considered clustering techniq...

Previous studies on HTS coils can be put into two categories: tape surface coils and thin-film surface coils[1-4]. In this study, we build a whole new Bi2Sr2Ca2Cu2O3 (Bi-2223) superconducting volume coil (length of 8 cm) designed for the mice whole body imaging at Bruker 3T MRI system. The HTS volume coil has 2.3 folds higher S/N than that of the HTS volume coil at 300K for the mice body screen...

A statistical parametric speech synthesis system based on hidden Markov models (HMMs) has grown in popularity over the last few years. This system simultaneouslymodels spectrum, excitation, and duration of speech using context-dependent HMMs and generatesspeechwaveforms from the HMMs themselves. Since December 2002, we have publicly released an open-source software toolkit named HMM-based speec...