2014 An inelastic neutron scattering study of the ferroelastic phase transition in lead phosphate has revealed in the high temperature phase the existence of a zone boundary soft mode whose character is compatible with the structure change at the transition. The analysis of the observed spectral line shape shows that this soft mode is overdamped between Tc and Tc + 100 K. The quasiharmonic freq...

A noncoherent Gaussian minimum phase-shift keying (GMSK) detector using differential phase detection combined with the soft-output Viterbi algorithm (SOVA) is presented. This approach overcomes the severe intersymbol interference (ISI) of GMSK signals with low BtT . Unlike conventional detectors the SOVA produces soft-decision bits resulting in larger coding gains in subsequent convolutional de...

We study the quark number susceptibility, an indicator of QCD phase transition, in the hard wall and soft wall models of hQCD. We find that the susceptibilities in both models are the same, jumping up at the deconfinement phase transition temperature. We also find that the diffusion constant in the soft wall model is enhanced compared to the one in the hard wall model.

background: potassium citrate (k‑cit) is one of the medications widely used in patients with urolithiasis. however, in some cases with calcium oxalate (caox) urolithiasis, the significant response to alkaline therapy with k‑cit alone does not occur. there is scarce published data on the effect of magnesium chloride (mg‑cl2) on urolithiasis in pediatric patients. this study aimed to evaluate the...

This clinical report describes the enhancement characteristics of hypersecreting parathyroid lesions on dual-phase neck CT. We retrospectively analyzed the enhancement characteristics of 5 pathologically confirmed PTH-secreting lesions on dual-phase CT examinations. Attenuation values were measured for PTH-secreting lesions, vascular structures (CCA and IJV), and soft tissue structures (thyroid...

This paper summarizes recently developed soft-switching inverters and proposes two alternative options for electric propulsion drives. The newly developed soft-switching inverter employs an auxiliary switch and a resonant inductor per phase to produce a zero voltage across the main switch so that the main switch can turn on at the zero-voltage condition. Both the auxiliary switch and the resona...