Magnetron sputtered Dy_2O_3 with chromium and copper contents for antireflective thin films with enhanced absorption

Dy_2O_3 is a rare earth oxide having a number of advanced applications in various fields including protective or antireflective coatings, Main objective of this novel research work is to check the effect of Cr and Cu addition on different properties of Dy_2O_3 and achievement of antireflective thin films with enhanced abso rption. Thin films of these materials we re deposited using DC magnetron with reactive cosputtering. XRD studies reveals the crystalline nature of thin films having Dy_2O_3(222) reflection in all samples with Cr_2O_3(116) and CuO(111) reflections in Cr and Cu containing compositions. Field emission scanning electron microscopy demonstrates the homogeneous deposition of thin films with uniform shape, size and distribution of grains. Refractive index, extinction coefficient and absorption coefficient significantly increase while optical reflectance decreases with Cr and Cu mediation corroborating an improved antireflective mechanism. The imaginary part of dielectric constant is found to increase slightly with low tangent loss for Cr containing composition co nsidered favorable for energy storage applications.     

Double Layer Coatings: A New Technique for Maintaining Physico-Chemical Characteristics and Antioxidant Properties of Dragon Fruit During Storage

A double layer coating was evaluated for maintenance of quality of dragon fruit during storage at 10?±?2 °C and 80?±?5 % RH for 28 days. Significant differences (p?<?0.05) were observed between control and the treated fruit. However, a double layer coating with 600 nm droplet size?+?1.0 % conventional chitosan showed promising results in all the tested parameters, while the fruit treated with 1,000 nm droplet size?+?1.0 % conventional chitosan showed some negative effects on fruit surface. Increase in weight loss was 12.0 % in fruit treated with 600 nm droplet size and 1.0 % conventional chitosan as compared to the control. Antioxidants and gaseous analysis also proved the efficacy of double layer coatings with 600 nm droplet size?+?1.0 % conventional chitosan. Thus it can be concluded from the present investigation that double layer coating could be used for maintaining quality in dragon fruit for up to 28 days without any off-flavours.     

Use of gas-diffusion electrodes for high-rate electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide. II. Reduction at metal phthalocyanine-impregnated electrodes

The use of polytetrafluoroethylene-bonded, carbon gas-diffusion electrodes, prepared with carbon impregnated with metal phthalocyanines, for the electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide in aqueous, acidic solution has been investigated. High rates of reduction of carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide were demonstrated at electrodes impregnated with cobalt (II) phthalocyanine. In contrast, formic acid, and not carbon monoxide, was produced at low rates at electrodes impregnated with either manganese, copper or zinc phthalocyanine. This marked variation in reaction product on changing the central metal ion of the organometallic complex is rationalized in terms of a reaction mechanism involving, as the first step, the electrochemical reduction of cobalt (II) to cobalt (I).     

Heterocyclic syntheses with malonyl chloride. 15. 7-Chloro-3,4-dihydro-4,5-dioxo-3-aryl(or-alkyl)-2-thio-2H,5H-pyrano[3,4-2-e]-1,3-oxazine from aryl or alkyl isothio-cyanates and their degradation with morpholine and ethanol

Substituted aromatic isothiocyanates with malonyl chloride yield 7-chloro-3-substituted-3,4-dihydro-4,5-dioxo-2-thio-2H,5H-pyrano [3,4-e]-1,3-oxazine ( 1 ). Alkyl isothiocyanates with malonyl chloride yield a mixture of 7-chloro-3-alkyl-2-thio pyranooxazine ( 2 ) and the 2-oxo-analogue ( 3 ). The pyrano oxazine 1 react stepwise with morpholine undergoing replacement of the 7-chloro substituent yielding the 7-morpholino analogue ( 4 ), then the pyrone ring was opened producing 5-morpholino carbonyl-4-oxo-3-substituted phenyl-2-thio-1,3-oxazine-6-ylacetomorpholid ( 5 ). Finally the oxazine ring was opened yielding 2-substituted phenyl carbomyl-3-morpholino-N,N-glutaconoyldimorpholine ( 6 ). Ethanol react with compound 1 at any molar ration causing the opening of the pyrone ring and retain the oxazine ring. Mass spectra. ¹H-n.m.r., u.v. and i.r. spectroscopic data provided information about the fine structures of the products.     

Transport of pollutant in shallow flows: A space–time CE/SE scheme

This paper focuses on implementation of space–time CE/SE scheme for computing the transport of a passive pollutant by a flow. The flow model comprises of the Saint-Venant system of shallow water equations and the pollutant propagation is described by a transport equation. The one-dimensional and two-dimensional flow equations are numerically investigated using the CE/SE scheme. A number of test problems are presented to check the accuracy and efficiency of the proposed scheme. The results of CE/SE scheme are compared with the central scheme. Both the schemes are found to be in close agreement. However, our proposed CE/SE scheme accurately captures shocks and discontinuous profiles.     

High-speed GPU implementation of a secret sharing scheme based on cellular automata

The Journal of Supercomputing - Parallel implementation provides a solution for the problem of accelerating cellular automata (CA)-based secret sharing schemes and make them appropriate for bulk...     

Ontology based E-learning framework: A personalized,adaptive and context aware model

Multimedia Tools and Applications - Enhancing the degree of learner productivity, one of the major challenges in E-Learning systems, may be catered through effective personalization, adaptivity and...     

A novel method based on convolutional neural networks for deriving standard 12-lead ECG from serial 3-lead ECG

Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering - Reconstruction of a 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) from a serial 3-lead ECG has been researched in the past to satisfy the need...     

Selection of optimal denoising-based regularization hyper-parameters for performance improvement in a sensor validation model

Multilayered auto-associative neural architectures have widely been used in empirical sensor modeling. Typically, such empirical sensor models are used in sensor calibration and fault monitoring systems. However, simultaneous optimization of related performance metrics, i.e., auto-sensitivity, cross-sensitivity, and fault-detectability, is not a trivial task. Learning procedures for parametric and other relevant non-parametric empirical models are sensitive to optimization and regularization methods. Therefore, there is a need for active learning strategies that can better exploit the underlying statistical structure among input sensors and are simple to regularize and fine-tune. To this end, we investigated the greedy layer-wise learning strategy and denoising-based regularization procedure for sensor model optimization. We further explored the effects of denoising-based regularization hyper-parameters such as noise-type and noise-level on sensor model performance and suggested optimal settings through rigorous experimentation. A visualization procedure was introduced to obtain insight into the internal semantics of the learned model. These visualizations allowed us to suggest an implicit noise-generating process for efficient regularization in higher-order layers. We found that the greedy-learning procedure improved the overall robustness of the sensor model. To keep experimentation unbiased and immune to noise-related artifacts in real sensors, the sensor data were sampled from simulators of a nuclear steam supply system of a pressurized water reactor and a Tennessee Eastman chemical process. Finally, we compared the performance of an optimally regularized sensor model with auto-associative neural network, auto-associative kernel regression, and fuzzy similarity-based sensor models.     

A music symbols recognition method using pattern matching along with integrated projection and morphological operation techniques

Multimedia Tools and Applications - Optical Music Recognition (OMR) can be divided into three main phases: (i) staff line detection and removal. The goal of this phase is to detect and to remove...