Digitizing a Dictionary of Medieval Irish: the eDIL Project

The Centre for Irish and Celtic Studies at the University ofUlster is currently producing a digital dictionary of medievalIrish (eDIL) based on the standard Dictionary of the Irish Languagepublished by the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin. This paper addressessome of the problems encountered in the digitization process,including data capture, processing non-standard characters,modifications to the TEI guidelines, automatic generation oftags, and the establishment of a lexical view while preservingthe original format of the paper dictionary.     

开关电源动态负载的探讨

前言 同步降压型开关电源具有输出电流大、效率高等优点,适合电池供电、注重效率的笔记本电脑等产品。一般笔记本电脑各部分组件,如CPU、芯片组、绘图芯片、内存、硬盘、光驱等,对电源电压/电流的要求不同。因此笔记本电脑内需要多路降压型DC/DC转换器产生不同的输出电压/电流,这些DC/DC转换器大多采用脉冲宽度调制(PWM)。     

继电器触点回跳消除电路

半导体技术的进展已使集成电路(IC)能够取代很多机械式继电器,但在任意极性的高电压大电流电路中,继电器仍然占据主导地位.然而,这类继电器的触点回跳会给下游电路带来麻烦.解决触点回跳的一种办法是把继电器与一个热插拔控制器结合起来.     

Calculations of turbulent jets with finely dispersed solid admixtures

We suggest a computational-experimental method for determining the hydrodynamic characteristics of a dust-laden gas jet. The method is based on Prandtl-Mieses generalized variables. For this case we obtain an algebraic model of turbulence which allows us to take into account the mutual effect of phases and the initial conditions at the nozzle outlet. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 70, No. 6, pp. 919–923, November–December, 1997. Original article submitted     

Measuring dc amplifier for high-precision potentiometric analyzers

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Experimental and theoretical study of light scattering by individual mature red blood cells by use of scanning flow cytometry and a discrete dipole approximation

Elastic light scattering by mature red blood cells (RBCs) was theoretically and experimentally analyzed by use of the discrete dipole approximation (DDA) and scanning flow cytometry (SFC), respectively. SFC permits measurement of the angular dependence of the light-scattering intensity (indicatrix) of single particles. A mature RBC is modeled as a biconcave disk in DDA simulations of light scattering. We have studied the effect of RBC orientation related to the direction of the light incident upon the indicatrix. Numerical calculations of indicatrices for several axis ratios and volumes of RBC have been carried out. Comparison of the simulated indicatrices and indicatrices measured by SFC showed good agreement, validating the biconcave disk model for a mature RBC. We simulated the light-scattering output signals from the SFC with the DDA for RBCs modeled as a disk-sphere and as an oblate spheroid. The biconcave disk, the disk-sphere, and the oblate spheroid models have been compared for two orientations, i.e., face-on and rim-on incidence, relative to the direction of the incident beam. Only the oblate spheroid model for rim-on incidence gives results similar to those of the rigorous biconcave disk model.     

Dynamics of field-driven domain-wall propagation in ferromagnetic nanowires

Ferromagnetic nanowires are likely to play an important role in future spintronic devices. Magnetic domain walls, which separate regions of opposing magnetization in a nanowire, can be manipulated and used to encode information for storage or to perform logic operations. Owing to their reduced size and dimensionality, the characterization of domain-wall motion is an important problem. To compete with other technologies, high-speed operation, and hence fast wall propagation, is essential. However, the domain-wall dynamics in nanowires has only been investigated in the last five years and some results indicate a drastic slowing down of wall motion in higher magnetic fields. Here we show that the velocity-field characteristic of a domain wall in a nanowire shows two linear regimes, with the wall mobility at high fields reduced tenfold from that at low fields. The transition is marked by a region of negative differential mobility and highly irregular wall motion. These results are in accord with theoretical predictions that, above a threshold field, uniform wall movement gives way to turbulent wall motion, leading to a substantial drop in wall mobility. Our results help resolve contradictory reports of wall propagation velocities in laterally confined geometries, and underscore the importance of understanding and enhancing the breakdown field for practical applications.