In traditional lucky imaging (TLI), many consecutive images of the same scene are taken with a high frame-rate camera, and all but sharpest discarded before constructing final shift-and-add image. Here we present an alternative image analysis pipeline -- The Thresher for these kinds data, based on online multi-frame blind deconvolution. It makes use available data to obtain best estimate astron...

For the rapid charge-discharge performance of Li-ion batteries (LIBs), ionic conductivity (?) and Li ion transference number (t+) are important parameters electrolytes. Electrolytes with high t+ alleviate concentration polarization upon fast charge-discharge, prevent diffusion-limited mass transfer Li+ ions. Recent studies have suggested that certain highly concentrated electrolytes exhibit bet...

X-ray grating interferometer can simultaneously retrieve attenuation, refraction, and scattering signals of the imaged sample, which shows its great potential in biomedical imaging. However, fast scan gratings high centrifugal forces during rotating grating-based cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) system may lead to phase-stepping (PS) errors position fluctuations, cause reconstruction failur...

Sachs. In Press. Xenotransplantation from pig to cynomolgus monkey: The potential for overcoming xenograft rejection through induction of chimerism. Transplant. Proc. Thomas, J. M., M. Alqaisi. P. Cunningham. M. Carver, L. Rebellato, U. Gross, T. Patselas, D. Araneda, and F. Thomas. 1992. The development of a post-transplant TLI treatment strategy that promotes organ allograft acceptance withou...

The crystal structure of the thermoelectric material tin selenide has been investigated with angle-dispersive synchrotron x-ray powder diffraction under hydrostatic pressure up to 27 GPa. With increasing pressure, a continuous evolution of the crystal structure from the GeS type to the higher-symmetry TlI type was observed, with a critical pressure of 10.5(3) GPa. The orthorhombic high-pressure...

Drawing from self-determination theory (SDT; Deci & Ryan, 1985; Ryan & Deci, 2002), the aim of the study was to adapt and validate a Spanish version of the Psychological Need Thwarting Scale (PNTS; Bartholomew, Ntoumanis, Ryan, & Thørgersen-Ntoumani, 2011) in the educational domain. Psychological need thwarting and burnout were assessed in 619 physical education teachers from several high schoo...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the Sport Imagery Questionnaire (SIQ), which assesses cognitive and motivational functions of imagery use. METHOD Participants were 361 athletes (234 male and 127 female) with a mean of age of 24.29 ± 7.76 yrs. Athletes were recruited from 31 sports across three competitive levels (i.e., regi...

This study develops and tests a structural equation model of social stress factors in the construction industry. Leadership behaviours, role conflict and mobbing behaviours are considered exogenous sources of stress; the experience of tension and burnout are considered mediator variables; and psychological well-being, propensity to quit and perceived quality are the final dependent variables. A...

A mechanism to generate fermion-mass hierarchy in SO(10) Grand Unified Theories is considered. We find that the lopsided family structure, which is suitable to the Large angle MSW solution to the solar neutrino oscillation, is realized without introducing extra matter fields if the hierarchy originates from the wave-function profile in an extra dimension. Unlike the Froggatt-Nielsen mechanism, ...