Nature of the Dirac gap modulation and surface magnetic interaction in axion antiferromagnetic topological insulator MnBiTe

Shikin, A. M.*; Estyunin, D. A.*; Klimovskikh, I. I.*; Filnov, S. O.*; Kumar, S.*; Schwier, E. F.*; Miyamoto, Koji*; Okuda, Taichi*; Kimura, Akio*; Kuroda, Kenta*; et al.

Scientific Reports (Internet), 10, p.13226_1 - 13226_13, 2020/08

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-70089-9

Soft, skin-interfaced microfluidic systems with wireless, battery-free electronics for digital, real-time tracking of sweat loss and electrolyte composition

Kim, S. B.*; Lee, K.-H.*; Raj, M. S.*; Reeder, J. T.*; Koo, J.*; Hourlier-Fargette, A.*; Bandodkar, A. J.*; Won, S. M.*; Sekine, Yurina; Choi, J.*; et al.

Small, 14(45), p.1802876_1 - 1802876_9, 2018/11

https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.201802876

Excretion of sweat from eccrine glands is a dynamic physiological process that varies with body position, activity level, and health status. Information content embodied in sweat rate and chemistry can be used to assess health status and athletic performance. This paper presents a thin, miniaturized, skin-interfaced microfluidic technology that includes a reusable, battery-free electronics module for measuring sweat conductivity and rate in real-time using wireless power from and data communication with capabilities in near field communications (NFC). Systematic studies of these combined microfluidic/electronic systems, accurate correlations of measurements performed with them to those of laboratory standard instrumentation, and field tests on human subjects establish the key operational features and their utility in sweat analytics.

EBR-II passive safety demonstration tests benchmark analyses; Phase 2

Briggs, L.*; Monti, S.*; Hu, W.*; Sui, D.*; Su, G. H.*; Maas, L.*; Vezzoni, B.*; Partha Sarathy, U.*; Del Nevo, A.*; Petruzzi, A.*; et al.

Proceedings of 16th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics (NURETH-16) (USB Flash Drive), p.3030 - 3043, 2015/08

The International Atomic Energy Agency Coordinated Research Project, "Benchmark Analyses of an EBR-II Shutdown Heat Removal Test" is in the third year of its four-year term. Nineteen participants representing eleven countries have simulated two of the most severe transients performed during the Shutdown Heat Removal Tests program conducted at Argonne's Experimental Breeder Reactor II. Benchmark specifications were created for these two transients, enabling project participants to develop computer models of the core and primary heat transport system, and simulate both transients. In phase 1 of the project, blind simulations were performed and then evaluated against recorded data. During phase 2, participants have refined their models to address areas where the phase 1 simulations did not predict as well as desired the experimental data. This paper describes the progress that has been made to date in phase 2 in improving on the earlier simulations and presents the direction of planned work for the remainder of the project.

Energies of the single-particle proton 1 and 2 states in the Ni isotopes

Bespalova, O. V.*; Boboshin, I. N.*; Varlamov, V. V.*; Ermakova, T. A.*; Ishkhanov, B. S.*; Komarov, S. Yu.*; Koura, Hiroyuki; Romanovskii, E. A.*; Spasskaya, T. I.*

Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Physics, 73(6), p.820 - 823, 2009/06

https://doi.org/10.3103/S1062873809060264

Single-particle energies corresponding to the maximum value of the spectroscopic factor were obtained for the proton states near the Fermi energy in the Ni nuclei by the joint evaluation of the data on the stripping and pickup reactions on the same nucleus. These results are compared with the center-of-mass energies of the single-particle state fragment distributions obtained by the same method and with the single-particle energies calculated with the Woods-Saxon-like potential and with the dispersive optical model potential. For 2 states (the first unoccupied states), Results of the Woods-Saxon-like potential are in excellent agreement with the energies of maximum (practically the same), for 1, 1 and for 2 states the agreement within 1 - 1.5 MeV was achieved. Sufficient difference between centers of mass and maximums was obtained for 1 and 2 states, which may be connected with the fragmentation effect.