To shorten the time required to find effective new drugs, like antivirals, a key parameter to consider is membrane permeability, as a compound intended for an intracellular target with poor permeability will have low ...
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Lattices and their underlying symmetries play a central role in determining the physical properties and applications of many natural and engineered materials. This research offers a comprehensive solution to a long-st...
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Lattices and their underlying symmetries play a central role in determining the physical properties and applications of many natural and engineered materials. This research offers a comprehensive solution to a long-standing challenge regarding the lattice-based materials: how to systematically construct a lattice and transform it among different symmetric configurations in a predictable, scalable, and reversible way. By bridging the lattice geometry and rigid-folding kinematics of a group of origamis consisting of generic degree-4 vertices, we successfully construct all types of two- and three-dimensional Bravais lattices, and demonstrate that they can undergo all diffusionless phase transformations via rigid folding (i.e., dilation, extension, contraction, shear, and shuffle). Such folding-induced lattice transformations can trigger fundamental lattice-symmetry switches, which can either maintain or reconstruct the nearest-neighbor relationships according to a continuous symmetry measure. This study can foster the next generation of transformable lattice structures and materials with on-demand property tuning capabilities.
This paper was aimed to know the effects of rain intensity and water elevation with energy productivity of Kracak Hydro Power Plant, Bogor Regency – West Java. The method used multiple regression analysis with a quan...
This paper was aimed to know the effects of rain intensity and water elevation with energy productivity of Kracak Hydro Power Plant, Bogor Regency – West Java. The method used multiple regression analysis with a quantitative approach to describe the effects of rain intensity and water elevation with energy productivity of Kracak Hydro Power Plant. Based on the data, the highest rain intensity was in February of 13,35 mm with water elevation of 346,09 cm and produced electrical energy of 198.296 kWh. The lowest rain intensity was in July of 0,86 mm with water elevation of 194,02 cm and produced electrical energy of 49.772 kWh. The average rain intensity was 8,9 mm with water elevation of 324,12 cm and produced electrical energy of 156.010 kWh. The results of testing the effect of rain intensity with energy productivity at the Kracak hydropower plant resulted in a significance value of 0.002 (p <0.05) and a t value of 4.306. This value indicates that the significance value is below 0.05 and has a positive coefficient direction. It means that rain intensity has a significant positive effect with energy productivity at the Kracak hydropower plant. And the results of testing the effect of water elevation with energy productivity at the Kracak hydropower plant resulted in a significance value of 0.003 (p <0.05) and a t value of 3.864. This value indicates that the significance value is below 0.05 and has a positive coefficient direction. It means that water elevation has a significant positive effect with energy productivity at the Kracak hydropower plant. The conclusion on this research is the rain intensity and water elevation have effects with energy productivity of Kracak Hydro Power Plant.
Activated carbon is a versatile porous material that widely applied to purify, deodorize, decolorize, remove or reduce some gases harmful constituents and storage of gas. For different application different characteri...
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Within the framework of Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT), the ability to provide good predictions of water properties by employing a strongly constrained and appropriately normed (SCAN) functional has been ex...
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The tribological behavior of Ti49.4Ni50.6, Ti49Ni46Cu5 and Ti50Ni47Co3 (at%) alloy in dry and wet conditions was studied. The alloy was prepared in a Vacuum Arc Re-melting (VAR), homogenized at 800oC for 3600 s and qu...
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Availability, accessibility, affordability, and appropriateness are among several factors that significantly affect the adoption and diffusion of medical devices in low- and middle-income countries. Design processes t...
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Availability, accessibility, affordability, and appropriateness are among several factors that significantly affect the adoption and diffusion of medical devices in low- and middle-income countries. Design processes that promote early and frequent engagement with stakeholders may increase the impact of medical devices aimed at addressing global health challenges by improving the uptake and sustained use of such devices. Prototypes are tools that can be leveraged to engage stakeholders during front-end design to define the problem, elicit requirements, and obtain feedback on early design concepts. Given the lack of literature that examines the practices for stakeholder engagement with prototypes during front-end design, this study was guided by the following research question: How do global health design practitioners approach stakeholder engagement with prototypes during front-end medical device design? Eleven design practitioners from industry were interviewed;transcripts were analyzed using thematic analysis to uncover prototyping behaviors. Transcript level counts of stakeholder groups, prototype forms, and strategies leveraged during stakeholder engagement with prototypes are reported. Based on the analysis of stakeholders, prototypes, and strategies, engagement events that reflect how the global health setting influenced decisions of stakeholder, prototype, and strategy are presented. Participants described challenges associated with: cross-cultural and remote design;the elicitation of contextual requirements;and limited access to resources. Participants devised approaches to overcome these challenges such as: engaging a wide range of stakeholders including proxy users and government stakeholders;developing long-term relationships with community partners;leveraging communication technologies;engaging stakeholders in the real use environment with physical prototypes;using prototypes to bridge the language barrier;‘polishing’ prototypes;and inviting stakeholders
Retinal surgery is a complex activity that can be challenging for a surgeon to perform effectively and safely. Image guided robot-assisted surgery is one of the promising solutions that bring significant surgical enha...
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