Leben, Arbeit, Kommunikation — Harmonie im Dreiklang

An enterprise is not just a tall shiny building or a collection of facilities. Rather, it is the sum of individuals collectively engaged in a common pursuit. From an information and communications perspective, this realization changes everything. By looking at the enterprise as a boundary-less collection of individuals who sometimes work in an office, sometimes at home, and sometimes on the road, we need new communications concepts designed to work with and enhance our complex home and work lives.     

Determination of precompression and compression force levels to minimize tablet friability using simplex

Pilot simplex experiments for improving the tablet strength of three aspirin tablet formulations based on precompression and compression forces were presented. As each simplex moved towards the direction of the optimum, the friability was being minimized and the crushing strength was concomittantly being maximized. Because it followed a systematic direction, simplex process would locate a local optimum rapidly. The appropriate levels of precompression and compression forces that produced tablets with the desired strength were attained in five trials. By contrast, random search for this force combination required at least ten trials. Simplex technique is a cost and time effective means for determining the precompression and compression forces that will reduce the friability or increase the hardness of a tablet formulation. Results appeared to also indicate that crushing strength might be a more reliable measure of tablet strength than friability.     

Prediction and effective yield of a 100 kW grid-connected pv-installation

Following two years operation of the 100 kW grid-connected installation N13 near Domat/Ems, Switzerland, considerable data are available. The yield of the installation was calculated on the basis of long-term meteorological data and of the Meteonorm model. The findings show a close correlation between the forecast and the measured yields. With 100% availability of the inverter in 1991, the performance of the installation rose from 59% in 1990 to 79% in 1991. With standardized analysis of the data, the performance of the grid-connected installation N13 can be compared with other grid-connected installations irrespective of size and location.     

Verf?rbung grau und wei? pigmentierter Beschichtungen auf Acrylharzbasis auf Tropenh?lzern

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Measurement of the tunnel rate in SIS' tunnel junctions as function of bias voltage

Cryogenic detectors with superconducting tunnel junctions can provide an energy resolution improved by at least one order of magnitude compared with standard semiconductor detectors. While the detection principle was already demonstrated many years ago, the past years were dedicated to the transition from the laboratory sample to practical detectors. Our most favored detector design gives rise to tunnel junctions with electrodes of unequal energy gaps. In such hetero tunnel junctions bias conditions can be established which cause a negative signal current. We report the experimental verification of this effect, and we discuss the yield of charge signal of cryogenic detectors based upon superconducting tunnel junctions.     

Catching the wave [gravity wave communication]

In 1873, when James Clerk Maxwell published his treatise unifying electromagnetic theory, he stated that light was electromagnetic in nature and he predicted that electromagnetic waves of greater length might exist. A dozen years later, Heinrich Hertz constructed apparatus with which he generated and received these longer waves, and he demonstrated that their behavior was identical to that of light. In the century following Hertz, these longer waves, which we now call radio waves, have been utilized to provide a vast worldwide communication system. In his theory of general relativity, published in 1915, Albert Einstein postulated the existence of gravity waves that propagate at the speed of light. If these waves could be used for communication purposes, they would open a whole new spectrum for exploitation, independent of the electromagnetic spectrum. Why is it that today, three quarters of a century later, we don't have gravity-wave transmitting and receiving stations? The article examines the reasons for this and then determines quantitatively how far we are from adding gravity waves to our communications repertoire     

Hereditary macular dystrophies

BACKGROUND: Orthostatic hypotension is a common phenomenon in the elderly. Hormonal changes during orthostatic stress have been described in elderly normotensive people and in those with essential hypertension. However, the hormonal response in elderly people who have systolic hypertension during orthostasis has not yet been quantified. METHODS: In this study we investigated 14 non-diabetic men, aged 60 to 75 years, with untreated systolic hypertension who were subjected to 45 degrees passive head-up incline on a tilt table for 15 min. Their hormonal profile and hemodynamic changes were analyzed before and after the stress. RESULTS: In the supine position, plasma levels of norepinephrine, atrial natriuretic peptide and aldosterone were in the normal range, while the plasma renin activity was low. Immediately upon tilt the systolic blood pressure fell but it reverted to baseline values after 15 min of orthostasis. At that time the cardiac output decreased while the systemic vascular resistance and the plasma norepinephrine concentration rose. The atrial natriuretic peptide appeared to fall, and the renin-aldosterone level did not change. CONCLUSION: The physiologic response to orthostatic stress in elderly people with systolic hypertension is comparable to that of elderly normotensive people and those with essential hypertension, i.e. a decrease in cardiac output and an increase in plasma norepinephrine levels. The atrial natriuretic peptide appeared to fall appropriately. The response of the renin-aldosterone system mimicked that in elderly patients with low renin essential isolated hypertension. These observations may have a bearing on the management of elderly people with systolic hypertension who also have orthostatic symptoms; they may not require a different approach from that needed for others of the same age group.     

Lagegeregelte servoantriebe ohne mechanische sensoren

Mechanische Sensoren zur Drehzahl- und Lageerfassung bei elektrischen Antrieben verursachen Kosten, vergrößern das Bauvolumen des Antriebs, bedingen die Datenübertragung zwischen Regler und Sensor und schränken das Einsatzgebiet des Antriebs ein. Daher wurden verschiedene Konzepte zum Ersatz dieser mechanischen Sensoren entwickelt. Sie unterscheiden sich durch den Aufwand, die benötigte Genauigkeit (Pumpenantrieb Servoantrieb) und dem gewünschten Betriebsbereich.In diesem Beitrag wird die Realisierung des sensorlosen Betriebs einer permanenterregten Synchronmaschine durch ein Kalman-Filter beschrieben. Durch Simulation und durch praktische Untersuchungen konnte gezeigt werden, daß die Schätzung von Lage und Drehzahl die Genauigkeitsanforderungen für eine indirekte Lageregelung erfüllt. Eine solche Lageregelung besitzt keinen mechanischen Sensor mehr.     

Microanalytical investigation of sintered SiC

UHV-fracture surfaces of different (B, C)- and (Al, C)-doped pressureless sintered SiC materials are investigated by using high resolution Auger electron spectroscopy (HRAES). The grain boundaries at intergranular fractured regions of (B, C)-doped materials are evidently free of any enrichment of impurity elements or sintering additives. In contrast, the (Al, C)-doped materials reveal the existence of thin Al-containing grain boundary films. Sputtering indicates their thickness to be less than 1 nm. The concentrations of the elements segregated in the grain boundary films are determined.