Radio interference is one of the major concerns in using the global positioning system (GPS) for civilian and military applications. Interference signals are produced not only through all electronic systems but also illegal jammers. Among different types of interferences, continuous wave (CW) interference has strong adverse impacts on the quality of the received signal. In this paper, we make m...

The use of electrospray ionization ambient pressure ion mobility spectrometry with an orthogonal reflector time-of-flight mass spectrometer to analyze chemical warfare (CW) degradation products from aqueous environmental samples has been demonstrated. Certified reference materials of analytical standards for the detection of Schedule 1, 2, or 3 toxic chemicals or their precursors as defined by ...

Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) were embedded into constructed wetlands to form microbial fuel cell coupled constructed wetlands (CW-MFCs) and were used for simultaneous azo dye wastewater treatment and bioelectricity generation. For the first time, the effects of different substrate biomass on the performance of CW-MFCs were studied. Group A had the highest substrate biomass of 0.453 g VSS per L, ...

In this paper we investigate the dissipativity property of a certain class of Duhem hysteresis operator, which has clockwise (CW) input-output (I/O) behavior. In particular, we provide sufficient conditions on the Duhem operator such that it is CW and propose an explicit construction of the corresponding function satisfying dissipation inequality of CW systems. The result is used to analyze the...

In recent years, the demand for the continuous wave (CW) fiber lasers of several kilowatts output power is increasing in use for metal materials processing. Fujikura group have all principal technologies required for constituting fiber lasers. We succeeded in commercializing the CW fiber laser of 4 kW output power by using those technologies. Our 4 kW CW fiber laser product has a high tolerance...

LetG be a locally compact topological group and EG its universal space for the family of compact subgroups. We give criteria for this space to be G-homotopy equivalent to a d-dimensional G-CW -complex, a finite G-CW -complex or a G-CW -complex of finite type. Essentially we reduce these questions to discrete groups, and to the homological algebra of the orbit category of discrete groups with re...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the power output two dental devices. examined semiconductor lasers, namely, SIROLaser Blue (445 nm, 970 nm) and Picasso (810 nm). performance studied at maximum compared preset measured by a meter in continuous-wave mode pulsed 50% duty cycles. Ten 60 s measurements were performed for each setting. largest difference between stipulated actual (D-cw) (...

AIM To analyze the clinical impact of preformed antiHLA-Cw vs antiHLA-A and/or -B donor-specific antibodies (DSA) in kidney transplantation. METHODS Retrospective study, comparing 12 patients transplanted with DSA exclusively antiHLA-Cw with 23 patients with preformed DSA antiHLA-A and/or B. RESULTS One year after transplantation there were no differences in terms of acute rejection between...

HLA-Cw6 is strongly associated with psoriasis and has been suggested to be the PSORS1 gene that confers susceptibility to early-onset psoriasis. In this study of the clinical features of HLA-Cw*0602-positive and -negative psoriasis patients in a Han Chinese population, we typed HLA-C in a cohort of 679 patients and compared the two groups. Cw*0602-positive patients (n=345) had an earlier diseas...

Suspended particles in rivers can act as carriers of potentially bioavailable metal species and are thus an emerging area of interest in river system monitoring. The delineation of bulk metals concentrations in river water into dissolved and particulate components is also important for risk assessment. Linear relationships between bulk metal concentrations in water (CW,tot) and total suspended ...