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K-pop to A-pop -- aboriginal singers could learn from Psy
You can't go anywhere lately without hearing the Korean pop star Psy's big hit Gangnam Style. Not that I'm complaining... at least not yet.
Like the rest of the world, I really like the satirical singer's catchy song. It makes me smile every time I hear it or see the video. And what's not to love about those dance moves? Even my toddler gets in on the action and dances around when she hears Gangnam Style.
Psy may be a big star now, but he's only one of many Korean singers who fall into the genre of Korean pop, which is called K-pop for short. It's pretty great to see modern music in an ethnic language getting such huge attention.
We aboriginal people need to find our own Psy to sing some aboriginal Gangnam Style songs. I'm sure there are lots of aboriginal pop singers out there already.
We also have many singers who sing in their language, but none that I know of sing pop music.
Cree singer Carl Quinn had a hit a few years back with his country song, Nipin, which means summer. If you haven't heard him perform, you're missing out. With his synthesized voice and guitar, Quinn is like a cross between a Cree elder, Cher and Billy Rae Cyrus.
Maybe if I find this new talent, I could write the song for him.
I could call it Foxwoods Style, after the First Nation in Connecticut that's struck resort/casino gold. Or closer to home, I could write a song called Osoyoos Style, after the wealthy First Nation community in B.C. that's a winery and resort destination.
Wup, wup, wup, wup, wuppa... Osoyoos style.
That works.
Like the posh neighbourhood of Gangnam, I'm sure Osoyoos has its fair share of sexy ladies to sing about.
Like Psy, I would write the lyrics in Ojibwa, since it only makes sense to sing in your own language, with maybe a sprinkle of English in the chorus.
When Psy was an unknown singer studying music, I'm sure a few people told him that he'd never make it big singing in his native tongue. But he didn't seem to listen, and it paid off.
Making albums in a language other than English takes guts, especially if you want to get rich and famous. Maybe Psy just had a carefree "I don't care, I'm just going to make music I like" attitude. You have to admire that.
If we could find a suitable aboriginal candidate, it could happen. It could even spark an aboriginal revolution.
We could develop our own version of K-pop and call it A-pop or aboriginal pop. All we need is one A-pop hit from an aboriginal singer to pave the way and we'd be golden. We'd have talent scouts going to every rez in Canada.
Maybe even Simon Cowell would show up one day.
We could invent a few new dance moves too, although I don't think a cliché tomahawk chop or war whoop is going to work. But who knows? I always thought some powwow steps like the grass dance could really catch on if we show other people how it's done.
Best of all, our kids could learn to speak their language while getting their grooves on. Is your language at risk of dying? Then write some pop songs and throw in a good beat.
Songs are easy to learn from. It's how I learned my alphabet and my provinces. Now I've learned a few Korean words, thanks to Gangnam Style.
At the very least, pop songs in our languages could make our kids and ourselves proud. It would be a good morale boost. Sometimes I think people think we're just all about the serious stuff and we don't have fun like everyone else.
Who knows what an aboriginal pop star could achieve. Just like Psy, he could probably make other people smile.
Colleen Simard is a Winnipeg writer.
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition October 27, 2012 A17
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Next generation treatments in ophthalmology: Can gene and cell-based therapies meet growing expectations for early clinical success? Monday, 17:15–18:15 Many experts predict that some of the early clinical successes in cell and gene therapy will be for ophthalmological indications such as retinitis pigmentosa, AMD, glaucoma, or some of the large number of orphan diseases of the eye where delivery and well-defined clinical outcomes are less of an issue. This panel will examine some of the latest developments related to the commercialization of new treatments for the eye and how these treatments are being positioned for clinical and commercial success. BIO-Europe Spring® 2015Therapeutic Insight by Defined Health Beyond HbA1c: Reducing cardiovascular complications in diabetes patients Monday, 13:30–14:30 The diabetes segment of the pharmaceutical market is continuing strong growth, fueled by demographics and innovation. However, higher regulatory hurdles, the need for CV outcomes studies, and threats from genericization and biosimilars place doubt on how long this trajectory can continue. There is no argument that the magnitude of morbidity, mortality and healthcare costs associated with Type 2 diabetes (T2DM) is one of the largest burdens on healthcare systems. Glycemic control remains an important objective, with metformin as a foundational therapy upon which novel drug classes (DPP-IV inhibitors, long-acting GLP-1s, insulin analogues, SGLT-2 inhibitors) are added. These new therapies have been approved in recent years based on reductions in HbA1c (regulatory surrogate marker) and non-inferior cardiovascular toxicity demonstrated in the shortest possible time. Although the availability of these new therapies allows better glucose-lowering strategies, few trials have yet to show unequivocal cardiovascular risk reduction with glucose lowering, even though most diabetic patients eventually die from cardiovascular causes, and cardiovascular events prompt the largest healthcare expenses. Accordingly, recent updates to guidelines for the management of T2DM include optimized glucose lowering to reduce the risk of microvascular disease, but further cardiovascular event reduction is recommended by vigilant blood pressure control via antihypertensives, and lipid reduction with potent statins for all diabetics above the age of 40 regardless of LDLc level. However, it is unclear how antidiabetic drug classes will prove additional cardiovascular event reduction on top of optimal cardioprevention, and there is concern that the diabetes pipeline is lacking sufficient investment to provide adequate innovative mechanisms to adequately feed pharma diabetes franchises in the future. This panel will discuss the opportunities and challenges in reducing cardiovascular complications in diabetes patients and the development and commercialization of novel cardioprevention therapies. Moderator:
Neuroregenerative approaches for neurodegenerative diseases Monday, 14:45–15:45 Currently available therapies for neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis range from moderately disease modifying to mildly symptomatic to nonexistent—all leaving significant unmet need. Neuroregenerative medicine, which aims to regenerate and restore a damaged nervous system, has to date been considered a potentially disruptive technology, but not yet sufficiently developed. Of late, however, important advances are being made, with several programs in clinical development. Paradigms being explored take several forms, including re-engineering a patient's stem cells to promote neural growth and methods aimed at counteracting inhibition of neural factors. Neuroregenerative methods are also being used to create disease models for these still largely ill-understood diseases by reprogramming adult stem cells from patients into pluripotent stem cells that can be differentiated into specific nerve cells affected by the disease. Key questions/issues to be addressed on this panel discussion include:
Moderator: Revisiting underserved chronic conditions Monday, 16:00–17:00 2014 marked the second highest year on record for the approval of new chemical entities; the 41 new drugs approved were topped only by the 53 recorded in 1996. Importantly for patients, a sizable majority of these new drugs such as Merck's Keytruda represent genuine breakthroughs. Others, such as Vimizim from BioMarin (for the ultra rare enzyme deficiency, Morquio A), represent hope for patients with previously neglected diseases. But of the new drugs approved last year, only slightly above one-third are for chronic diseases afflicting large populations (and most of these are "me-too" offerings for Type 2 diabetes). Conspicuous by their absence are any novel approaches to treat osteoarthritis, depression, urinary incontinence, osteoporosis and other widespread chronic conditions. Moreover, a dramatic misalignment exists within the industry's development pipeline between the number of candidates for comparatively small population diseases and those for more common and costly conditions. Striking example: Depression afflicts nearly as many people in the US as does cancer (and its economic costs are greater) but the pipeline shows <50 programs in the clinic in the US vs. nearly 1,500 in cancer (and a similar pipeline disconnect exists between cancer and arthritis, heart disease and stroke). Ironically, today's "neglected diseases" are precisely the ones that drove pharma's great success in the past. Moderator: 17:15–18:15 Undermining metastases and preventing recurrence: Therapeutics targeting cancer stem cells Monday, 17:15–18:15 The inability to treat metastasis, the major source of mortality with most cancers continuing to be diagnosed late, is a key challenge in oncology. Various cells types have been proposed to account for the resilience that stymies therapy—both innate and acquired resistance, as well as genetic and epigenetic plasticity and hence heterogeneity. The idea common to most perspectives on metastases is that a hardy and stealthy subpopulation of cells exist—whether termed cancer stem cells (CSCs), dormant disseminated tumor cells (DTCs), or circulating tumor cells (CTCs), that may overlap completely or in part—that provide for the metastases. Numerous efforts have been underway to identify and define these cell types, and to develop specific therapeutics against them. For many in oncology, targeting such cells represents one of the Holy Grails of cancer, even in this age of immuno-oncology. This panel will discuss the ideas underlying these unique cell populations, the various strategies being pursued to develop therapies against them, and the clinical development paths that may be different for these types of targets. Moderator: Pharma Presentations |
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Record: 26 – 17 – 8
Dallas 5
Winnipeg 2
Washington 0
Montreal 1
FINAL (OT)Boxscore
NY Islanders 1
Detroit 4
Arizona 2
Ottawa 7
Los Angeles 1
Boston 3
Florida 1
New Jersey 3
Carolina 1
NY Rangers 4
Toronto 0
Philadelphia 1
Columbus 1
Tampa Bay 3
Edmonton 2
Calgary 4
Chicago 0
San Jose 2
Arizona -
Montreal -
Feb. 1 at 12 p.m.
St. Louis -
Washington -
Feb. 1 at 12 p.m.
Nashville -
Pittsburgh -
Feb. 1 at 1 p.m.
Minnesota -
Vancouver -
Feb. 1 at 2:30 p.m.
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Even Noel visibly pumped as Jets keep the magic rolling
Claude NOEL, so often impassive on the bench and hiding the emotions that bubble beneath the surface, walked down the tunnel pumping his fist in the immediate afterglow of victory.
Randy Jones stood on the ice slapping the gloves of his teammates as they stepped off the ice.
Dustin Byfuglien, named first star for his winning goal and swallow-his-pain performance, took his curtain call with the panache we've come to expect from him taking one bow and then another with the playoff smirk he so often wears.
Jets fans finally gave one more push of noise in a decibel-defying punch at the roof of the MTS Centre.
And hope lives a little longer in Winnipeg.
The odds remain against them but a magical season that saw the Jets reborn just refuses to die.
With Friday night's spill your drink, jump for joy 3-2 win over the Washington Capitals, the Jets pulled to within two points of the eighth and final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference.
With 11 games to go the Jets are in striking distance and while there remains a strong case for why they're not quite a playoff team, there is also a rope to cling and squeeze for a few more days.
The Jets are attempting to pull themselves along that rope that leads to the post-season and there are many obstacles to bypass this win on Friday was a major one.
Trailing the eighth-place Caps by four points heading into the action, the Jets faced near certain playoff death with a loss and a resulting six-point deficit.
But a win and the Jets would still have reason to hope and fight as the lights begin to dim on this magical season that saw Winnipeg's NHL hockey club once again skate before its people.
With so much to play for, many of the Jets were overcome by the moment and found the stage a little daunting. But three veterans, Byfuglien, captain Andrew Ladd and the oft-beseiged Nik Antropov reveled in the moment and played panic-free hockey when bullets were flying in a patternless mish-mash.
Ladd scored first to pull the crowd into the game. Antropov later when the Jets seemed about to lose the plot. Finally, Byfuglien after the Caps had twice fought back, took his stick and buried the Caps and their will once and for all on this night.
Noel has described his team's push for more hockey as a playoff series against the entire league. Each night it's a new opponent as the Jets fight both time and their own inexperience in this pressurized environment. Momentum is back with Winnipeg, however, after two home wins. Sunday, they'll face a staggering Carolina Hurricanes club.
The win gives the Jets more hope but doesn't relieve them of the weight that grows with each day. There is so little room for error and, like we said, the situation has become improbable.
But folks around here have heard that before. They heard it for 15 years while they waited for their team to come back despite voice after voice saying it couldn't be.
Can't happen. Won't happen. Never happen.
Tell it to someone who will listen. Right now Winnipeg can't hear you.
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ABSTRACT: A systematic study has been performed on the spectral characteristics of the full spectrum of He emission lines and their time dependent behaviors measured from the He gas plasmas generated by a nanosecond neodymium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet laser. It is shown that among the major emission lines observed, the triplet He(I) 587.6 nm emission line stands out as the most prominent and long-lasting line, associated with de-excitation of the metastable triplet (S = 1) excited state (1s(1) 3d(1)). The role of this metastable excited state is manifested in the intensity enhancement and prolonged life time of the Cu emission with narrow full width half-maximum, as demonstrated in an orthogonal double-pulse experiment using a picosecond laser for the target ablation and a nanosecond laser for the prior generation of the ambient He gas plasma. These desirable emission features are in dire contrast to the characteristics of emission spectra observed with N2 ambient gas having no metastable excited state, which exhibit initial Stark broadening effect and rapid intensity diminution typical to thermal shock wave-induced emission. The aforementioned He metastable excited state is therefore responsible for the demonstrated favorable features. The advantage of using He ambient gas in the double-pulse setup is further confirmed by the emission spectra measured from a variety of samples. The results of this study have thus shown the potential of extending the existing laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy application to high-sensitivity and high resolution spectrochemical analysis of wide-ranging samples with minimal destructive effect on the sample surface.Applied spectroscopy. 12/2014; - [Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: An experimental study has been performed on the pressure-dependent plasma emission intensities in Ar, He, and N2 surrounding gases with the plasma induced by either nanosecond (ns) or picosecond (ps) yttrium aluminum garnet laser. The study focused on emission lines of light elements such as H, C, O, and a moderately heavy element of Ca from an agate target. The result shows widely different pressure effects among the different emission lines, which further vary with the surrounding gases used and also with the different ablation laser employed. It was found that most of the maximum emission intensities can be achieved in Ar gas plasma generated by ps laser at low gas pressure of around 5 Torr. This experimental condition is particularly useful for spectrochemical analysis of light elements such as H, C, and O, which are known to suffer from intensity diminution at higher gas pressures. Further measurements of the spatial distribution and time profiles of the emission intensities of H I 656.2 nm and Ca II 396.8 nm reveal the similar role of shock wave excitation for the emission in both ns and ps laser-induced plasmas, while an additional early spike is observed in the plasma generated by the ps laser. The suggested preference of Ar surrounding gas and ps laser was further demonstrated by outperforming the ns laser in their applications to depth profiling of the H emission intensity and offering the prospect for the development of three-dimensional analysis of a light element such as H and C.Applied Spectroscopy 11/2013; 67(11):1285-95. · 2.01 Impact Factor -
Article: Direct evidence of mismatching effect on H emission in laser-induced atmospheric helium gas plasma
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ABSTRACT: A time-resolved orthogonal double pulse laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) with helium surrounding gas is developed for the explicit demonstration of time mismatch between the passage of fast moving impurity hydrogen atoms and the formation of thermal shock wave plasma generated by the relatively slow moving major host atoms of much greater masses ablated from the same sample. Although this so-called 'mismatching effect' has been consistently shown to be responsible for the gas pressure induced intensity diminution of hydrogen emission in a number of LIBS measurements using different ambient gases, its explicit demonstration has yet to be reported. The previously reported helium assisted excitation process has made possible the use of surrounding helium gas in our experimental set-up for showing that the ablated hydrogen atoms indeed move faster than the simultaneously ablated much heavier major host atoms as signaled by the earlier H emission in the helium plasma generated by a separate laser prior to the laser ablation. This conclusion is further substantiated by the observed dominant distribution of H atoms in the forward cone-shaped target plasma.Journal of Applied Physics 02/2013; 113(5). · 2.19 Impact Factor - [Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: A crucial safety measure to be strictly observed in the operation of heavy-water nuclear power plants is the mandatory regular inspection of the concentration of deuterium penetrated into the zircaloy fuel vessels. The existing standard method requires a tedious, destructive, and costly sample preparation process involving the removal of the remaining fuel in the vessel and melting away part of the zircaloy pipe. An alternative method of orthogonal dual-pulse laser-induced breakdown spectrometry (LIBS) is proposed by employing flowing atmospheric helium gas without the use of a sample chamber. The special setup of ps and ns laser systems, operated for the separate ablation of the sample target and the generation of helium gas plasma, respectively, with properly controlled relative timing, has succeeded in producing the desired sharp D I 656.10 nm emission line with effective suppression of the interfering H I 656.28 nm emission by operating the ps ablation laser at very low output energy of 26 mJ and 1 μs ahead of the helium plasma generation. Under this optimal experimental condition, a linear calibration line is attained with practically zero intercept and a 20 μg/g detection limit for D analysis of zircaloy sample while creating a crater only 10 μm in diameter. Therefore, this method promises its potential application for the practical, in situ, and virtually nondestructive quantitative microarea analysis of D, thereby supporting the more-efficient operation and maintenance of heavy-water nuclear power plants. Furthermore, it will also meet the anticipated needs of future nuclear fusion power plants, as well as other important fields of application in the foreseeable future.Analytical Chemistry 03/2012; 84(5):2224-31. · 5.83 Impact Factor - [Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: An experimental study of double pulse LIBS is performed for the development of highly sensitive and quantitative analysis of Cl and Ca for the strength evaluation of concrete. The two lasers employed are arranged in orthogonal geometry and operated for delayed ablation with delay time of 10 μs, using He ambient gas at atmospheric pressure. The very large intensity enhancement is obtained over those detected with single pulse operation without generating the He plasma. It is most remarkable that the same sharpness and intensity enhancement observed in the previous double pulse experiment with 37 mJ laser ablation energy is achieved in the present experiment with much lower ablation energy of merely 2.5 mJ, resulting in average crater size of about 10 μm in diameter. Further, a linear relation is obtained between the Cl concentration and its emission intensity in alumina samples, while an estimated limit of detection of 80 ppm is obtained by using concrete sample, which is adequate for highly sensitive quantitative Cl analysis in concrete.Spectrochimica Acta Part B Atomic Spectroscopy 03/2012; 69:56–60. · 3.15 Impact Factor - [Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: An experimental study on picosecond laser induced plasma spectroscopy of a zircaloy sample with low-pressure surrounding helium gas has been carried out to demonstrate its potential applicability to three-dimensional quantitative micro-analysis of deuterium impurities in zircaloy. This was achieved by adopting the optimal experimental condition ascertained in this study, which is specified as 7 mJ laser energy, 1.3 kPa helium pressure, and 50 μs measurement window, and which was found to result in consistent D emission enhancement. Employing these operational parameters, a linear calibration line exhibiting a zero intercept was obtained from zircaloy-4 samples doped with various concentrations of D impurity, regarded as surrogates for H impurity. An additional measurement also yielded a detection limit of about 10 μg/g for D impurity, well below the acceptable threshold of damaging H concentration in zircaloy. Each of these measurements was found to produce a crater size of only 25 μm in diameter, promising its application for performing less-destructive measurements. The result of this study has thus paved the way for conducting a further experiment with hydrogen-doped zircaloy samples and the further technical development of a three-dimensional quantitative micro-analysis of detrimental hydrogen impurity in zircaloy vessels used in nuclear power plants.Journal of Applied Physics 09/2011; 110(6):063301-063301-6. · 2.19 Impact Factor - [Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: An experiment was performed for the observation of H emission induced in a cooled laser-induced atmospheric pressure gas plasma of He atoms in their metastable excited state. The strong H emission detected clearly established, to the exclusion of other well known major excitation processes, the exclusive contribution of the He-induced excitation (HIE) mechanism. The process is suggested to take place by means of energy transfer from the excited He atoms to the H atoms via Penning collision induced ionization involving electron exchange. The result further shows that this mechanism may also work for elements other than H and thereby strongly suggests the use of ambient He gas to broaden and complement the applications of standard laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy.Journal of Applied Physics 01/2011; 109(10):3305-103305. · 2.19 Impact Factor - [Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: An experimental study of ultraviolet (UV) laser-induced plasma spectroscopy (LIPS) on Ti samples with low-pressure surrounding He gas has been carried out to demonstrate its applicability to quantitative micro-analysis of deuterium impurities in titanium without the spectral interference from the ubiquitous surface water. This was achieved by adopting the optimal experimental condition ascertained in this study, which is specified by 5 mJ laser energy, 10 Torr helium pressure, and 1-50 mus measurement window, which resulted in consistent D emission enhancement and effective elimination of spectral interference from surface water. As a result, a linear calibration line exhibiting a zero intercept was obtained from Ti samples doped with various D impurity concentrations. An additional measurement also yielded a detection limit of about 40 ppm for D impurity, well below the acceptable threshold of damaging H concentration in Ti and its alloys. Each of these measurements was found to produce a crater size of only 25 mum in diameter, and they may therefore qualify as nondestructive measurements. The result of this study has therefore paved the way for conducting further experiments with hydrogen-doped Ti samples and the technical implementation of quantitative micro-analysis of detrimental hydrogen impurity in Ti metal and its alloys, which is the ultimate goal of this study.Applied Spectroscopy 04/2010; 64(4):365-9. · 2.01 Impact Factor - [Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: An experimental study has been performed on the effects of crater depth on the hydrogen and deuterium emission intensities measured from laser plasmas generated in low-pressure helium ambient gas from zircaloy-4 samples doped with different H and D impurity concentrations as well as a standard brass sample for comparison. The results show that aside from emission of the host atom, the emission intensities of other ablated atoms of significantly smaller masses as well as that of the He atom generally exhibit relatively rapid initial decline with increasing crater depth. This trend was found to have its origin in the decreasing laser power density arriving at the crater bottom and thereby weakened the shock wave generated in the crater. As the crater deepened, the declining trend of the intensity appeared to level off as a result of compensation of the decreasing laser power density by the enhanced plasma confinement at increasing crater depth. Meanwhile, the result also reveals the significant contribution of the He-assisted excitation process to the doped hydrogen and deuterium emission intensities, leading to similar crater-depth dependent variation patterns in contrast to that associated with the surface water, with growing dominance of this common feature at the later stage of the plasma expansion. Therefore, a carefully chosen set of gate delay and gate width which are properly adapted to the crater-depth dependent behavior of the emission intensity may produce the desired intrinsic emission data for quantitative depth profiling of H impurity trapped inside the zircaloy wall.Journal of Applied Physics 10/2009; · 2.19 Impact Factor - [Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: An experimental study was conducted on the spatial distributions of hydrogen emission intensities from low-pressure plasmas generated by laser ablation of zircaloy-4 and black stone targets in nitrogen and helium ambient gases. In addition to confirming the previously observed intensity enhancement effect in ambient helium gas, the hydrogen and helium emission intensities measured along the plasma expansion direction revealed remarkable extended spatial distributions featuring unexpected maxima near the far end of the plasma where the available shock-wave generated thermal excitation energy should have been significantly reduced. This "anomalous" feature necessarily implied the presence of an additional excitation process beside the well known shock-wave excitation process which is responsible for the plasma emission of heavy atoms in low-pressure ambient gas. Further analysis of the data led to a suggested physical mechanism explaining the possible contribution of a helium metastable excited state to the unusual phenomenon observed in this experiment.Journal of Applied Physics 09/2009; · 2.19 Impact Factor - [Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: A series of measurements have been performed on the time dependences of the intensities of helium, hydrogen, and deuterium emission lines from the corresponding laser-induced helium plasma at atmospheric pressure for two different He flow rates. The prolonged H α and H β emissions along with their constant intensity ratio over a relatively extended period indicate the need to provide an alternative excitation mechanism other than the well-known thermal excitation process in a hot plasma. This additional excitation mechanism is also related to the metastable excited state of a He atom as indicated by the similar characteristics of the observed time dependence of the emission intensities. The enhanced intensity and lifetime of He emission at a high He flow rate was explained in terms of the collision-induced increase in the number of He atoms excited to above the 2 1S0 metastable state, which was also responsible for the delayed excitation of H and D atoms via an energy transfer mechanism involving a Penning-like chemi-ionization process. Finally, the benefits of He-assisted delayed excitation of H and D atoms and the aforementioned enhanced intensity and lifetime at a high He flow rate were demonstrated by the achievement of clearly resolved H α and D α emission lines.Journal of Applied Physics 06/2009; · 2.19 Impact Factor - [Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: An experimental study was performed on the N 2 -induced quenching of He-induced intensity enhancement effect in reduced-pressure plasma emission produced by Nd-YAG irradiation on solid zircaloy and porous fossil samples. The spatial distributions and temporal variations in the emission intensities show pronounced intensity quenching effects on the He I 667.9 nm, H I 656.2 nm, and D I 656.1 nm emission lines in both samples when a tiny amount (5% by volume) of nitrogen was added to helium gas, while leaving the spatial and temporal intensity profiles of the heavier Zr and Ca atoms virtually unaffected. In both cases of different ambient gases, the spatial and temporal variations in the He, H, and D emission intensities exhibit distinct features and changes, which are clearly distinguishable from those observed on the Zr and Ca emission lines, which were mainly produced by the shock-wave induced thermal excitation process. The analysis of these data unambiguously revealed the presence of an additional and distinct "He-assisted" excitation mechanism in the He plasma, which was further suggested to be related to the He metastable excited state. The quenching effect was therefore explained as a consequence of energy depletion of the He metastable excited state triggered by the Penning ionization process induced by the presence of nitrogen. This also explains the relatively insensitive response of the Zr and Ca emission intensity profiles to nitrogen addition despite the increased plasma electron density resulting from the ionization process.Journal of Applied Physics 02/2009; · 2.19 Impact Factor - [Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: The applicability of spectrochemical analysis of minute amounts of powder samples was investigated using an ultraviolet Nd-YAG laser (355 nm) and low-pressure ambient air. A large variety of chemical powder samples of different composition were employed in the experiment. These included a mixture of copper(II) sulfate pentahydrate, zinc sulfide, and chromium(III) sulfate n-hydrate powders, baby powder, cosmetic powders, gold films, zinc supplement tablet, and muds and soils from different areas. The powder samples were prepared by pulverizing the original samples to an average size of around 30 microm in order to trap them in the tiny micro holes created on the surface of the quartz subtarget. It was demonstrated that in all cases studied, good quality spectra were obtained with low background, free from undesirable contamination by the subtarget elements and featuring ppm sensitivity. A further measurement revealed a linear calibration curve with zero intercept. These results clearly show the potential application of this technique for practical qualitative and quantitative spectrochemical analysis of powder samples in various fields of study and investigation.Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry 05/2008; 390(7):1781-7. · 3.66 Impact Factor - [Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: An experimental study was conducted in search of the experimental condition required for the much needed suppression of spectral interference caused by surface water in hydrogen analysis using laser-induced low-pressure helium plasma spectroscopy. The problem arising from the difficulty in distinguishing hydrogen emission from hydrogen impurity inside the sample and that coming from the water molecules was overcome by taking advantage of similar emission characteristics shared by hydrogen and deuterium demonstrated in this experiment by the distinct time-dependent and pressure-dependent variations of the D and H emission intensities from the D-doped zircaloy-4 samples. This similarity allows the study of H impurity emission in terms of D emission from the D-doped samples and thereby separating it from the H emission originating from the water molecules. Employing this strategy has allowed us to achieve the large suppression of water induced spectral interference from the previous minimum of 400 microg/g to the current value of 30 microg/g when a laser beam of 34 mJ under tight focusing condition was employed. Along with this favorable result, this experimental condition has also provided a much better (about 6-fold higher) spatial resolution, although these results were achieved at the expense of reducing the linear calibration range from the previous 4 300 microg/g to the present 200 microg/g.Analytical Chemistry 03/2008; 80(4):1240-6. · 5.83 Impact Factor - [Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: This experiment was carried out to address the need for overcoming the difficulties encountered in hydrogen analysis by means of plasma emission spectroscopy in atmospheric ambient gas. The result of this study on zircaloy-4 samples from a nuclear power plant demonstrates the possibility of attaining a very sharp emission line from impure hydrogen with a very low background and practical elimination of spectral contamination of hydrogen emission arising from surface water and water vapor in atmospheric ambient gas. This was achieved by employing ultrapure ambient helium gas as well as the proper defocusing of the laser irradiation and a large number of repeated precleaning laser shots at the same spot of the sample surface. Further adjustment of the gating time has led to significant reduction of spectral width and improvement of detection sensitivity to ~50 ppm. Finally, a linear calibration curve was also obtained for the zircaloy-4 samples with zero intercept. These results demonstrate the feasibility of this technique for practical in situ and quantitative analysis of hydrogen impurity in zircaloy-4 tubes used in a light water nuclear power plant.Applied Optics 01/2008; 46(34):8298-304. · 1.69 Impact Factor - [Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: An experimental study has been performed to demonstrate the advantage of employing ambient helium gas in the spectral quality improvement of hydrogen emission in laser-induced plasma from zircaloy-2 samples at both atmospheric and low gas pressure. It was further shown that the optimal results achieved in the two pressure regimes require the adoption of different sets of experimental parameters consisting of the laser energy, the focusing lens position and the detection gate delay. A strictly linear calibration line with extrapolated zero intercept was nevertheless exhibited in the case of atmospheric gas pressure only. Additional time-evolution measurement of the emission intensities of hydrogen, helium and zirconium clearly suggests a distinctly different excitation mechanism for hydrogen atoms associated with the presence of ambient helium atoms and their meta-stable excited state.Applied Physics B 10/2007; 89(2):291-298. · 1.63 Impact Factor - [Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: It is found in this work that variation of laser power density in low-pressure plasma spectrochemical analysis of hydrogen affects sensitively the hydrogen emission intensity from the unwanted and yet ubiquitous presence of ambient water. A special experimental setup has been devised to allow the simple condition of focusing/defocusing the laser beam on the sample surface. When applied to zircaloy-4 samples prepared with various hydrogen impurity concentrations using low-pressure helium surrounding gas, good-quality hydrogen emission lines of very high signal to background ratios were obtained with high reproducibility under weakly focused or largely defocused laser irradiation. These measurements resulted in a linear calibration line with nonzero intercept representing the residual contribution from the recalcitrant water molecules. It was further shown that this can be evaluated and taken into account by means of the measured intensity ratio between the oxygen and zirconium emission lines. We have demonstrated the applicability of this experimental approach for quantitative determination of hydrogen impurity concentrations in the samples considered.Analytical Chemistry 05/2007; 79(7):2703-7. · 5.83 Impact Factor - [Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: A study of the experimental results on the plasma emissions of water and ethanol vapor samples, induced by Nd:YAG laser in ambient helium and nitrogen gases at atmospheric pressure, is presented here. The result reveals distinct geometrical and spectral characteristics of the plasma emissions generated in the helium gas when compared to those observed from nitrogen gas plasma. Most remarkable is the narrow line width and low continuum background exhibited by emission lines of the analyte atoms from helium plasma, including the hydrogen emission line which is known to suffer from notorious broadening effects in conventional laser induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS). It is further shown on the basis of the measured spatial distributions and time profiles of the emission intensities, that the excellent spectral quality is attained by taking advantage of the meta-stable excited state of helium atoms for the delayed excitation of the hydrogen and other analyte atoms, this allows the detection of those atomic emissions to be performed under more favorable conditions. The result of this study has thus demonstrated the feasibility of achieving high-quality spectrochemical analysis, including hydrogen analysis with laser-induced helium gas breakdown spectroscopy.Applied Physics B 01/2007; 86(4):729-734. · 1.63 Impact Factor -
Article: Film analysis employing subtarget effect using 355 nm Nd-YAG laser-induced plasma at low pressure
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ABSTRACT: The applicability of spectrochemical analysis for liquid and powder samples of minute amount in the form of thin film was investigated using ultraviolet Nd-YAG laser (355 nm) and low-pressure ambient air. A variety of organic samples such as commercial black ink usually used for stamp pad, ginseng extract, human blood, liquid milk and ginseng powder was prepared as film deposited on the surface of an appropriate hard substrate such as copper plate or glass slide. It was demonstrated that in all cases studied, good quality spectra were obtained with very low background and free from undesirable contamination by the substrate elements, featuring ppm or even sub-ppm sensitivity and worthy of application for quantitative analysis of organic samples. The proper preparation of the films was found to be crucial in achieving the high quality spectra. It was further shown that much inferior results were obtained when the atmospheric-pressure (101 kPa) operating condition of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy or the fundamental wavelength of the Nd-YAG laser was employed due to the excessive or improper laser ablation process.Spectrochimica Acta Part B Atomic Spectroscopy 12/2006; 61(12):1285-1293. · 3.15 Impact Factor - [Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: A comprehensive experimental study was performed to demonstrate the effects of ambient air pressure on the emission characteristics of analyte elements in a variety of host materials in laser-induced plasma spectroscopy in low ambient air pressures. It was shown that the pressure-dependent characteristics of the emission lines are generally influenced by host elements when significant mass difference exists between the analyte and the host elements. Further investigation on the time profiles of the spatially integrated emission intensities reveal the important interplay among the dynamical factors associated with the mass-difference effect, which effectively influence the shock wave excitation process and hence the related emission intensities. The result of this study also indicates the need of proper control of time delay for the detection of maximum emission intensity in the cases considered.Applied Physics B 11/2006; 85(4):631-636. · 1.63 Impact Factor
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Luxury at 30,000 Feet: Inside the Ultimate VIP Flying Experience
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safety concerns," said Rick Seaney, CEO of FareCompare , calling to mind other non-U.S. based carriers like Singapore Airlines and Emirates Airline. Asiana Airlines offers amenities like in-flight Korean cuisine and on-board souvenirs
Air Turbulence Creates Chaotic Mealtime Mess
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Sandy Expected to Boost Nov. Auto Sales
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Do Older Flight Attendants Get a Bad Rap?
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Will the A380 fly for U.S. airlines?
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Airbus A380 superjumbo jet is coming to the skies near you
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Southwest Best Airline For Frequent Fliers
top 5 included Air Berlin, Virgin Australia and Singapore Airlines . There was some good news for U.S. travelers ..... Australia Velocity Rewards 91.4% +1.4 pts 5 Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer 90.7% +13.6 pts 6 Lufthansa/SWISS
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Qantas A380 Sustained Worse Damage than First Thought
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The Best and Worst Airline Food
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Assigning monotonically increasing IDs in a distributed system can be tricky. Here's a way to do it in MapReduce.
Follow up on the previous post. This time we're going to do partitioning on fully connected graphs, using some criterion to split it into parts.
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The YMCA keeps residents healthy and engaged in more than 10,000 neighborhoods across the country, but it traces its American origins to the streets of 19th-century Boston. Here, Thomas Valentine Sullivan carried on the mission started in London by George Williams: providing affordable recreation and residence to young men from cities and country towns alike. Over the last century and change, the organization's mission changed to keep pace with the evolving times; today, the YMCA of Greater Boston welcomes anyone interested in furthering the causes of "youth development, healthy living, and social responsibility."
This modern mission combines the Y's signature programming with new initiatives designed to keep citizens one step ahead of an ever-changing world. Members stay fit and active with everything from organized sports and fitness classes to lifeguard, CPR, and first aid lessons. But the Y's developmental programs go far beyond bodily strength; their enrichment and leadership courses equip youths with the confidence needed to take charge in their everyday lives, and ESL classes help newcomers to English embark on the next step of their linguistic lives.
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20120079197 | CARD-READING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR USING THE CARD-READING DEVICE TO ACCESS MEMORY CARD - The present invention relates to a card-reading device and a method for using the card-reading device to access a memory card, the card-reading device comprises: a central processing unit; at least one connecting unit; at least two interface unit, comprising a first interface unit connecting to the central unit and the connecting unit, and a second interface unit connecting to the central processing unit; and at least one accommodating unit, adapted for accommodating an external memory card. Moreover, through the method, a first electronic device or a second electronic device is able to access the memory card accommodated by the card-reading device. | 03-29-2012 |