Male and female Sprague-Dawley rats were fed purified diets in which the carbohydrate component was either starch or refined sugar (sucrose). The addition to these diets of the ash prepared by the incineration of unrefined muscovado sugar prevented the deficiencies of Factor R seen in the offspring when the diets were not supplemented with ash. Analysis by neutron activation showed that the ash...

In this study, beryllium-copper alloy was subjected to around -150° F for cold treatment and to around -300° F for cryogenic treatment and the effects of these cold and cryogenic treatments on the machinability of beryllium-copper workpieces in electro discharge machining have been investigated. Experimental results showed about 20-30 % increase in material removal rate of cold and cryogenic tr...

Exiguobacterium sp. strain JLM-2 is a thermophilic bacterium isolated from deep-sea ferromanganese (FeMn) nodules. The estimated genome of this strain is 2.9 Mb, with a G+C content of 48.32%. It has a novel circular 15,570-bp plasmid. The draft genome sequence may provide useful information about Mn-microbe interactions and the genetic basis for tolerance to environment stresses.

Information systems security defines three properties of information: confidentiality, integrity, and availability. These characteristics remain major concerns throughout the commercial and military industry. In this work, we focus on the integrity aspect of commercial security applications by exploring the nature and scope of the famous integrity policy the Clinical Information Systems Policy....

PURPOSE The porcelain fused to gold has been widely used as a restoration both with the natural esthetics of the porcelain and durability and marginal fit of metal casting. However, recently, due to the continuous rise in the price of gold, an interest towards materials to replace gold alloy is getting higher. This study compared the bond strength of porcelain to millingable palladium-silver (P...

We present a compact frequency-stabilized laser system locked to the Rubidium absorption line of a micro-fabricated reference cell. A Printed Circuit Board (PCB) is used to carry all the components and part of the electronics, and Low-Temperature Co-fired Ceramic (LTCC) modules are used to temperaturestabilize the laser diode and the miniature Rubidium cell (cell inner dimensions: 5 mm diameter...

In this mid-term we will study the dynamics of an atomic clock, mF which is one of the applications of David Wineland’s research (No­ bel prize in physics 2012). We consider a simplified (and sometime inaccurate) model of a vapor-cell atomic clock . Light from a lamp passes through a vapor of rubidium atoms housed in a glass cell and is detected by a photodiode. The light intensity transmitted ...

Optical frequency combs serve as the clockwork of optical clocks, which are now the best time-keeping systems in existence. The use of precise optical time and frequency technology in various applications beyond the research lab remains a significant challenge, but one that integrated microresonator technology is poised to address. Here, we report a silicon-chip-based microresonator comb optica...