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This paper describes the application of data assimilation methods to CASMO-5 simulations of a Proteus research reactor experiment. Its focus is a comparison and evaluation of three prominent data assimilation methods: generalized linear least squares, MOCA ...

2017

Durability and fatigue performance of a typical cold-curing structural adhesive in bridge construction

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The science of adhesives and adhesion for structural connections has undergone significant development during the last few decades - and successfully so in a wide variety of industries. Recent applications of structural bonding are being adopted in the con ...

EPFL2017

The CMS trigger system

Jian Wang, Matthias Finger, Lesya Shchutska, Qian Wang, Matthias Wolf, Varun Sharma, Konstantin Androsov, Jan Steggemann, Leonardo Cristella, Roberto Castello, Alessandro Degano, Zhirui Xu, Chao Wang, João Miguel das Neves Duarte, Tian Cheng, Yixing Chen, Werner Lustermann, Andromachi Tsirou, Alexis Kalogeropoulos, Andrea Rizzi, Ioannis Papadopoulos, Thomas Muller, Ho Ling Li, Giuseppe Codispoti, Hua Zhang, Siyuan Wang, Peter Hansen, Daniel Gonzalez, Paul Turner, Wei Sun, Raffaele Tito D'Agnolo, Ji Hyun Kim, Donghyun Kim, Dipanwita Dutta, Zheng Wang, Sanjeev Kumar, Wei Li, Yong Yang, Yi Wang, Ajay Kumar, Ashish Sharma, Georgios Anagnostou, Joao Varela, Csaba Hajdu, Muhammad Ahmad, Ekaterina Kuznetsova, Ioannis Evangelou, Matthias Weber, Muhammad Shoaib, Milos Dordevic, Vineet Kumar, Vladimir Petrov, Francesco Fiori, Quentin Python, Meng Xiao, Hao Liu, Sourav Sen, Viktor Khristenko, Marco Trovato, Gurpreet Singh, Fan Xia, Kai Yi, Bibhuprasad Mahakud, Rajat Gupta, Lei Feng, Shuai Liu, Davide Cieri, Aram Avetisyan, Charles Dietz, Alexandre Aubin, Michal Simon, Xin Sun, Matteo Marone, Juan Ramon Castiñeiras De Saa

This paper describes the CMS trigger system and its performance during Run 1 of the LHC. The trigger system consists of two levels designed to select events of potential physics interest from a GHz (MHz) interaction rate of proton-proton (heavy ion) collis ...

2017

Alternating Delays Achieve Polarization Transfer (ADAPT) to heteronuclei in PHIP experiments

Gabriele Stevanato

A new methodology for producing hyperpolarized C-13 nuclei in small organic systems via parahydrogen induced polarization (PHIP) is proposed: ADAPT (Alternating Delays Achieve Polarization Transfer). The theoretical foundation of the process is investigate ...

Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science2017

Influence of Piezoelectric Actuator Geometry on Resonant Vibrating Amplitude

Yves Perriard, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Dan Shi

Piezoelectric actuator has been used in different applications because of its compact structure compared to magnetic actuators. This paper reports the influence of piezoelectric actuators geometry on the plate vibrating amplitude. Through a Finite Element ...

IEEE2016

Alcohol consumption, alcohol dependence, and related mortality in Italy in 2004: effects of treatment-based interventions on alcohol dependence

Gerrit Gmel

Background: The tradition of consuming alcohol has long been a part of Italian culture and is responsible for a large health burden. This burden may be reduced with effective interventions, one of the more important of which is treatment for Alcohol Depend ...

Biomed Central Ltd2013

Global burden of injuries attributable to alcohol consumption in 2004: a novel way of calculating the burden of injuries attributable to alcohol consumption

Gerrit Gmel

Background: Alcohol consumption is a major risk factor for injuries; however, international data on this burden are limited. This article presents new methods to quantify the burden of injuries attributable to alcohol consumption and quantifies the number ...

Biomed Central Ltd2012

A first-principles description of proton-driven spin diffusion

David Lyndon Emsley

Herein we design a reduced Liouville space for the simulation of proton-driven spin diffusion. Using this approach, the experimentally observed carbon-13 polarisation transfer in a powder sample undergoing magic-angle spinning is quantitatively described, ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2012

Assessment of Body Motion and Muscle Weakness

Raluca Lidia Ganea

Muscle weakness is a common symptom in elderly population and in children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), causing impaired mobility. DMD is a devastating degenerative disease caused by a mutation in the dystrophin gene, leading to the absence of th ...

EPFL2011

Single photon source

Benoît Marie Joseph Deveaud, François Morier-Genoud, Cristiano Ciuti

Microcavity comprising two reflectors, at least one semiconductor layer separating said reflectors and a semiconductor quantum well wherein at least one of said reflectors and of said at least one semiconductor layer comprises a structure which is adjusted ...

2011

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