This study investigated the effect of lipid extraction microalgae feedstocks subjected to hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) with regard degree, chemical composition and phytotoxicity hydrochars produced under different reaction temperatures residence times. Special attention was given formation secondary char, as this part hydrochar may be particular importance for environmental technical applic...

In this paper, we design a robust lead compensator for a real Electromechanical Actuator (EMA) harmonic drive by introducing an approach based on H∞ control theory. Here, we address three main topics; experimental identification, uncertainty modelling, and robust control design for a real EMA harmonic drive system. This method verifies good tradeoff between the powerful H∞ controller and the un...

BACKGROUND The study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of early medical abortion (EMA) in women with early pregnancy and no defined intrauterine gestational sac (IUGS) on ultrasound. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective, multicenter, observational study of oral mifepristone 200 mg and buccal misoprostol 800 mcg administered 24-48 h later for EMA (gestations ≤ 63 days). Odds ratios (ORs) [95% co...

Real-time assessment, known as ecological momentary assessment (EMA), and real-time intervention (ecological momentary intervention [EMI]) can significantly extend the reach and impact of interventions to help individuals reduce their drinking behavior. For EMA, the user provides information on the variable of interest (e.g., drinking or craving) via a mobile device.This data reporting can occu...

Legionella organisms are prevalent in manmade water systems and cause legionellosis in humans. A rapid detection method for viable Legionella cells combining ethidium monoazide (EMA) and PCR/real-time PCR was assessed. EMA could specifically intercalate and cleave the genomic DNA of heat- and chlorine-treated dead Legionella cells. The EMA-PCR assay clearly showed an amplified fragment specific...

Articulatory data such as that collected via electromagnetic articulography (EMA) are valuable for many speech applications, including speech modeling, recognition, and synthesis. Nearly all current EMA applications and methods focus on the use of positional sensor data, even though modern 3D-EMA systems also capture sensor orientation, which provides significant additional information about ar...

We present a pilot study which integrates articulatory information into the Context Sequence Model (CSM) of speech production [1]. The CSM is an exemplar-theoretic model which builds on the concept of the speech perception—production loop and incorporates a rich acoustic memory of past speech items which are stored sequentially in their original context. In the present study, we enrich the orig...

Autophagy is a self-degradative process in which cellular material is enclosed within autophagosomes and trafficked to lysosomes for degradation. Autophagosomal biogenesis is well described; however mechanisms controlling the growth and ultimate size of autophagosomes are unclear. Here we demonstrate that the Drosophila membrane protein Ema is required for the growth of autophagosomes. In an em...

Various types of actuation methods for intravascular locomotive microrobot have been proposed and demonstrated. Among the actuation methods, electromagnetic based actuation (EMA) was considered as a promising mechanism. In generally, planar EMA systems for 2 dimensional movement of the microrobot were proposed and demonstrated. In this paper, we present 3 dimensional (D) EMA systems for the 3D ...