A series of tetranuclear grid-type complexes were prepared by the reaction of the asymmetric multidentate ligand HL (HL = 2-[3-(2-hydroxyphenyl)-1H-pyrazol-5-yl]-6-pyridine carboxylic acid ethylester) with different metal sources. The tetranuclear copper complex, [Cu4(L1)4(NO3)4(H2O)4] Et2O 2MeOH (1, HL1 = 2-[3-(2-hydroxyphenyl)-1H-pyrazol-5-yl]-6-pyridine carboxylic acid methyl ester) consists...

Quantifying the 3D deformation of the heart is a necessity for accurate diagnosis of certain heart diseases. For example, the non-uniform contraction of different portions of the heart wall could be a sign of an unhealthy heart. A popular noninvasive method for monitoring the deformation of the heart wall is by tagged Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). In a tagged MR image sequence, dark curves,...

A new numerical code, called SFUMATO, for solving self-gravitational magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) problems using adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) is presented. A block-structured grid is adopted as the grid of the AMR hierarchy. The total variation diminishing (TVD) cell-centered scheme is adopted as the MHD solver, with hyperbolic cleaning of divergence error of the magnetic field also implemented...

Gaussian process regression (GPR) is a powerful non-linear technique for Bayesian inference and prediction. One drawback is its O(N) computational complexity for both prediction and hyperparameter estimation for N input points which has led to much work in sparse GPR methods. In case that the covariance function is expressible as a tensor product kernel (TPK) and the inputs form a multidimensio...

Introduction: The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of grid and non-grid techniques in the lateral cervical spine radiography on image quality and entrance surface dose (ESD). Although image quality and radiation doses have been studied by researchers, there is still a dearth of information on image quality and patient dose with different techniques. Material and Methods: The...

In off-grid wind energy systems batteries often undergo frequent charge discharge cycles, which reduce battery service life. In addition, due to motor start and other high ‘inrush current’ loads batteries can also undergo high rates of discharge which also degrade battery life. In this paper, a superconducting magnetic energy storage and battery hybrid energy storage system is proposed which is...

in this paper, photovoltaic (pv) grid-connected inverter which is the core device in pv grid-connected system has been in depth research.an improved predictive current controller has been developed by the authors for single-phase grid-connected voltage source inverters (vsi).based on dsp tms320lf2407a, a 10 kw single-phase grid-connected inverter has been built in this paper.thus is aimed at us...

A dicompartmental Schiff base ligand was synthesized and used for the assembly of a lanthanide grid-like complex. Dinuclear Dy2 tetranuclear Dy4 complexes were isolated from reaction with different dysprosium salt. Single crystal X-ray diffractions show that two DyIII ions in are adopted N3O coordination pockets further coordinated by water molecules, whereas, Dy4, four clamped ligands through ...

We illustrate how Fortran 90 supports object-oriented concepts by example of plasma particle computations on the IBM SP. Our experience shows that Fortran 90 and object-oriented methodology give high performance while providing a bridge from Fortran 77 legacy codes to modern programming principles. All of our objectoriented Fortran 90 codes execute more quickly than the equivalent C++ versions,...

We formulate the problem of the late accretion phase of the evolution of an isothermal magnetic disk surrounding a forming star. The evolution is described by the six-fluid MHD equations, accounting for the presence of neutrals, atomic & molecular ions, electrons, and neutral, positively and negatively charged grains. Only the electron fluid is assumed to be attached to the magnetic field, in o...