Application ofHFC refrigerants for air conditioners and refrigerators has been studied. Development of a common oil, based on a combination ofpolyolester and additive packages, is aimed for R-22 and HFCs refrigerants, and the evaluation tests of reliability in compressor and refrigeration system brought about good results. This refrigeration lubricant is already partly commercialized in HFC ref...

PURPOSE Cortico-amygdalohippocampectomy (CAH) has become an important treatment option for patients with refractory temporal lobe epilepsy and mesial temporal sclerosis (TLE-MTS); it has resulted in a 60-70% seizure remission rate and significant quality of life (QOL) improvements. Video-electroencephalography (VEEG) monitoring has been widely used in epilepsy centers for pre-surgical evaluatio...

PURPOSE Oral leukoplakia is a well-recognized precancerous lesion of squamous cell carcinoma. When accompanied with abnormal p53 expression, it suffered a higher risk of canceration. The present study was carried out to test whether the recombinant human adenovirus-p53 could introduce wild-type p53 gene to oral leukoplakia cells and induce cell cycle arrest and apoptosis. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN ...

Undergraduate students used a simulation to learn about electromagnetic flux. They were provided with three simulated cases that illustrate how changes in flux induce current in a coil. In the POE condition, students predicted, observed, and explained the outcome of each case, treating each case separately. In the GE condition, students were asked to produce a general explanation that would wor...

This article empirically investigates the role of organizational structure in the transformational leadership (TFL) process. We examine organizational centralization, formalization, and size as antecedents of an organization's TFL climate, and as moderators of the relationship between TFL climate and productive organizational energy (POE). Hypotheses are tested using a sample of 125 organizatio...

Control of surface properties in microfluidic systems is an indispensable prerequisite for successful bioanalytical applications. Poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) microfluidic devices are hampered from unwanted adsorption of biomolecules and lack of methods to control electroosmotic flow (EOF). In this paper, we propose different strategies to coat PDMS surfaces with poly(oxyethylene) (POE) molecu...

Hinton (in press) recently proposed a learning algorithm called contrastive divergence learning for a class of probabilistic models called product of experts (PoE). Whereas in standard mixture models the “beliefs” of individual experts are averaged, in PoEs the “beliefs” are multiplied together and then renormalized. One advantage of this approach is that the combined beliefs can be much sharpe...

Hinton (in press) recently proposed a learning algorithm called contrastive divergence learning for a class of probabilistic models called product of experts (PoE). Whereas in standard mixture models the “beliefs” of individual experts are averaged, in PoEs the “beliefs” are multiplied together and then renormalized. One advantage of this approach is that the combined beliefs can be much sharpe...

Part two of this essay looks more closely at the fictionality of Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, “The Purloined Letter,” and argues for the importance of the possession of the letter in the story. This importance is delineated by examining the context in which “The Purloined Letter” was composed; in particular, and taking its cues from Kevin J. Hayes’ remarkable Poe and the printed word (2000), ...