Search results for "FUSION"

Extension of Deflection Coefficient for Linear Fusion of Quantized Reports in Cooperative Sensing

2014

Maximizing the so-called deflection coefficient is commonly used as an effective approach to design cooperative sensing schemes with low computational complexity. In this paper, an extension to the deflection coefficient is proposed which captures the effects of the quantization processes at the sensing nodes, jointly with the impact of linear combining at the fusion center. The proposed parameter is then used to formulate a new mixed-integer nonlinear programming problem as a fast suboptimal method to design a distributed detection scenario where the nodes report their sensing outcomes to a fusion center through nonideal digital links. Numerical evaluations show that the performance of the…

Postoperative Sagittal Balance Has Only a Limited Role in the Development of Adjacent Segment Disease After Lumbar Spine Fusion for Degenerative Lumb…

2022

Study Design. Retrospective additional analysis of a prospective follow-up study. Objectives. We aimed to find out whether poor postoperative sagittal alignment increases revisions for adjacent segment disease (ASD) after lumbar spine fusion (LSF) performed for degenerative lumbar spine disease. Summary of Background Data. Revisions for ASD accumulate over time after LSF for degenerative lumbar spine disease. The etiology of ASD is considered multifactorial. Yet, the role of postoperative sagittal balance in this process remains controversial. Materials and Methods. A total of 215 consecutive patients who had undergone an elective LSF surgery for spinal stenosis with (80%) or without (20%) …

First real–time detection of solar pp neutrinos by Borexino

2014

International audience; Solar neutrinos have been pivotal to the discovery of neutrino flavour oscillations and are a unique tool to probe the reactions that keep the Sun shine. Although most of solar neutrino components have been directly measured, the neutrinos emitted by the keystone pp reaction, in which two protons fuse to make a deuteron, have so far eluded direct detection. The Borexino experiment, an ultra-pure liquid scintillator detector running at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy, has now filled the gap, providing the first direct real time measurement of pp neutrinos and of the solar neutrino luminosity.

Le rôle des périodiques dans la diffusion du savoir médical en France et en Grande-Bretagne (fin XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles)

2010

Garnet as a monitor for melt–rock interaction: Textural, mineralogical, and compositional evidence of partial melting and melt‐driven metasomatism

2021

International audience; In this study, we focus on a partially melted garnet-bearing granulite from the Salvador–Esplanade Belt (Salvador da Bahia, Brazil), and examine the behaviour of major and trace elements during partial melting and melt-driven metasomatism. Phase equilibria modelling and U–Th– Pb geochronology show that the sample underwent partial melting during the heating segment of the decompression path from ~1.2 GPa and 675–700° C to ~0.8 GPa and 790°C at c. 2.06 Ga. During the final stage of decompression, from 0.8 to ~0.5 GPa, physical segregation of melt resulted in the establishment of chemical potential gradients and mass transfer between the host granulite and the leucosom…

A study of VUV emission and the extracted electron-ion ratio in hydrogen and deuterium plasmas of a filament-driven H−/D− ion source

2019

Vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) emission diagnostics for studying differences of electron impact processes in hydrogen and deuterium plasmas are presented. The method is applied to study a filament driven multicusp arc discharge negative ion source by comparing the VUV-emission intensities of different emission bands and extracted currents of H−/D− ions and electrons. It was found that the ratio of coextracted electrons to extracted ions is four times higher for deuterium than for hydrogen. No significant differences of the VUV-spectra or volumetric rates of ionization, excitation, production of high vibrational states, and dissociation were found between the plasmas of the two isotopes. The volum…

La diffusion des sites internet en .fr dans l'espace périurbain et rural français

2000

ACL; International audience; II existe à l'heure actuelle très peu d'études sur la localisation et la diffusion des sites Internet compte tenu de la rareté des sources qui n'intègrent pas pour la plupart la dimension géographique (échelle nationale). A partir des fichiers de l'AFNIC, il est possible de spatialiser l'implantation des sites Internet uniquement à l'échelle des codes postaux. Pour évaluer la situation de la diffusion des sites Internet en milieu rural, le zonage en aire urbaine (ZAU) fournit une grille spatiale d'analyse pertinente.En août 1999, seulement 10 % des 40 000 sites recensés sont localisés en zone rurale et autant en milieu périurbain. Le réseau des petites villes (d…

Sviluppo di un software per l’analisi di immagini di Diffusion Kurtosis Imaging

2013

L’analisi mediante RM del tensore di diffusione (Diffusion Tensor Imaging, DTI) consente di valutare anche in vivo e con modalità non invasive il processo di diffusione delle molecole d’acqua nei tessuti biologici. La peculiare organizzazione di alcuni tessuti biologici (es: muscoli, sostanza bianca del sistema nervoso centrale e tessuti ad alta cellularità) influenza tale fenomeno rendendolo anisotropo e quindi ben valutabile con tali tecniche di studio. Nonostante i grandi vantaggi di tale tecnica, il DTI è basato su un modello molto semplificato che assume che lo spostamento per diffusione segua un profilo gaussiano il che è molto raro in un ambiente variegato come i tessuti biologic…

Protein diffusion in ovo

2014

Autocatalytic reaction-diffusion processes in restricted geometries

2008

We study the dynamics of a system made up of particles of two different species undergoing irreversible quadratic autocatalytic reactions: $A + B \to 2A$. We especially focus on the reaction velocity and on the average time at which the system achieves its inert state. By means of both analytical and numerical methods, we are also able to highlight the role of topology in the temporal evolution of the system.