Treatment of depressive symptoms during short-term rehabilitation: An attempted replication of the DOUR project.

Objective: To replicate and extend P. A. Lichtenberg and colleagues' (1996) cross-disciplinary intervention to improve physical and mental health among older adults. Participants: 14 depressed older adults (6 treatment, 8 control). Setting: The short-term rehabilitation unit of an urban nursing home. Intervention: Occupational therapists were trained to treat depression using pleasant events and cognitive-behavioral therapies. Outcome Measures: Geriatric Depression Scale, the Short Form-12, and the Multi-Level Assessment Instrument: Activities of Daily Living. Results: No significant group differences were found in physical or mental health. However, more control group members (75%) than treatment group members (33%) were depressed at study completion. Conclusions: The treatment of depressive symptoms can be integrated with a nonmental health treatment modality. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved)     

Opposite-channel-based charge injection in SOI MOSFET's under hotcarrier stress

By operating one channel of a typical SOI MOSFET in avalanche while keeping the opposite channel accumulated, charge injection into the opposite gate takes place. Three independent experiments are described that demonstrate the occurrence of this opposite-channel based charge injection. The experimental results are in agreement with PISCES numerical simulations     

Magnetic Properties of Nanosized Ba2Mg2Fe12O22 Powders Obtained by Auto-combustion

We studied the magnetic properties of nanosized Ba₂Mg₂Fe₁₂O₂₂ powder obtained by citrate auto-combustion synthesis. The powder consists of agglomerates with mean crystallite size of 100?nm. The magnetic properties of the powder were investigated at 4.2?K and at room temperature. The values measured of the magnetization M at a magnetic field of 60?kOe are 22.78?emu/g and 30.47?emu/g at room temperature and 4.2?K, respectively. The magnetic phase transition at 183 K is related to the ferromagnetic-to-spiral spin order and is a precondition for this material??s exhibiting multiferroic properties.     

Modeling spontaneous minute volume in coronary artery bypass graftpatients

This article presents a mathematical method by which the future trajectory of patient spontaneous minute volume (SMV) may be predicted in the postoperative weaning period. The method outlined enables critical-care staff to predict the SMV trajectory up to 30 minutes into the future. Having this capability enables physicians, respiratory therapists, and nurses to more efficiently guide patient treatment and schedule rounds within the ICU     

Opposite-channel-based injection of hot-carriers in SOI MOSFET's:physics and applications

An extensive study of the recently observed opposite-channel-based injection (OCBI) of hot-carriers in SOI MOSFET's is carried out by PISCES numerical calculations. The study reveals similar patterns of injection for partially-depleted (PD) and fully-depleted (FD) devices, although there are significant quantitative differences. Important differences also exist when stressing the device with the body floating versus body grounded. The results demonstrate that when stressing one channel, carriers can and are injected into the opposite gate. The results also demonstrate that under appropriate bias conditions pure electron/hole injection takes place, and establish these conditions. The practical significance of this ability to inject only electrons or only holes in any desired sequence is illustrated by exploiting it to investigate the time-power law of interface state generation and to design a SOI EEPROM cell with a back channel based erasing scheme     

Investigation of the collapse of bubbles after the impact of a piston on a liquid free surface

A novel technique based on the impact of a piston on a liquid confined in a vessel is described. Pressure measurements reveal that strong pressure variations (up to 100 atmospheres) with a rich content of frequencies are efficiently transmitted to the liquid. High‐speed camera visualizations show that pre‐existing millimetric bubbles always collapse during the first instants of the impact whereas the behavior of submillimetric bubbles depends on the features of the pressure evolution in the system. In addition to the impact velocity, the amount of gas/vapor trapped between the piston and the liquid's surface plays an important role on how pressure evolves. Only when negative pressure occurs tiny bubbles grow significantly and collapse. The violent collapse of bubbles promote turbulence and mixing at very small length‐scales which renders this technique interesting to intensify processes limited by heat and mass diffusion. © 2017 American Institute of Chemical Engineers AIChE J, 63: 2483–2495, 2017     

Equal-Channel Multi-Angle Pressing Effect on the Properties of NbTi Alloy

An improvement of NbTi alloy functional properties by equal-channel multi-angle pressing (ECMAP) combined with hydrostatic extrusion, drawing and thermal treatment is revealed. The ECMAP method allows to increase the billet accumulated deformation with preserving its initial dimensions. The formed highly dispersed and homogeneous nanocrystalline structure with a more uniform distribution of α-phase precipitations as a result of ECMAP treatment improves the functional properties of the alloy. In the field of 5 T, the critical current density in wire samples produced with application of the ECMAP method is enhanced approximately by a factor of 2 in comparison with the values obtained for the samples produced without the ECMAP treatment.