Dependence of track etching kinetics on chemical reactivity around the ion path

Etching kinetics of swift heavy ions (SHI) tracks in olivine is investigated in frame of experimentally verified numerical approach. The model takes into account variation of induced chemical reactivity of the material around the whole ion trajectory with the nanometric accuracy. This enables a quantitative description of wet chemical etching of SHI tracks of different lengths and orientations towards to the sample surface. It is demonstrated that two different modes of etching, governed by diffusion of etchant molecules and by their reaction with the material must be observed in experiments using techniques with different resolution thresholds. Applicability limits of the optical microscopy for detection of heavy ion parameters by measuring of the lengthwise etching rates of the ion track are discussed.

Bearing capacity of thick-walled pipeline shells under external hydrostatic pressure

This paper gives analytical and numerical simulation results for pipeline system under external hydrostatic pressure takin into account variation of bending moments and longitudinal forces along the pipeline. The most loaded areas were studied numerically, in shell and solid formulation. More accurate bearing capacity calculations were performed taking into account maximum acceptable geometric and physical deviations of pipeline elements from regular shape. This study made it possible to develop an approach to taking into account joint effect of multiple loads upon bearing capacity of thick-walled shells in pipeline systems, as well as to give practical recommendations (based on current regulatory documents) on how to ensure reliability of overboard pipelines for deepwater submersibles.

Maps, meanings and loanwords: The interaction of geography and semantics in lexical borrowing

The use of loanwords is generally attributed to a social feature, like social prestige, and to semantic features, like the need to fill a lexical gap. However, few studies take into account variation in the use of loanwords within a speech community, and directly compare the frequency of loanwords from more than one source language. This paper contributes to research on lexical borrowing by comparing the distribution of loanwords from three different source languages in two large databases of dialect data. We take an onomasiological perspective, which allows us to gauge the frequency of borrowed lexical items vis-à-vis alternative expressions. Using Generalized Additive Mixed Modeling, we show that the usage of loanwords can only be explained by taking into account the interaction between semantics and geographical diffusion. Our analysis confirms that the patterns that occur almost exclusively reflect changes in socio-cultural history.

On Approach to Increase Integration Rate of Double-Gate Heterotransistors

In this paper, we introduce an approach to manufacture a field-effect heterotransistor with two gates. In the framework approach, we consider a heterostructure with required configuration, doping of required parts of the heterostructure by diffusion and/or ion implantation and optimization of annealing of dopant or radiation defects. The introduced approach of manufacturing a transistor gives us the possibility to decrease area of surface and thickness of the transistor. In this paper, we also introduce an approach to make prognosis of mass and heat transport with account variation of parameters of these processes in space in time and nonlinearity of these processes.

On optimization of growth from gas phase in a vertical reactor with account native convection to improve properties of films

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to: analyze the changing properties of epitaxial layers, manufactured in the considered reactor, with the changing parameters of the growth taking into account native convection; and development of the most common analytical approach to describe the technological process. Design/methodology/approach In this paper a vertical reactor for gas phase epitaxy is considered that consists of an external casing, a keeper of substrate with a substrate and a spiral around the casing in area of the growth zone to generate induction heating in order to activate the chemical reactions in the decay of reagents and the growth of the epitaxial layer by using the reagents. The authors introduce an analytical approach to analyze nonlinear mass and heat transport with account variation in space and time parameters. Findings The authors find conditions to improve properties of epitaxial layers. Originality/value Growth regimes at atmospheric and low pressure have been compared and analyzed for their influence of the native convection on the growth of the epitaxial layers. Accounting for the calculated results, recommendations have been formulated to improve the properties of the epitaxial layers.

A generalized dose-response relationship for adenovirus infection and illness by exposure pathway

SUMMARYAdenoviruses are found everywhere in the environment, and cause various health problems including symptoms of enteric illness, and respiratory illness. Despite their significance to public health, few studies have addressed the health risks associated with exposure to adenovirus. Human challenge studies have been published for a few adenoviruses, which involved exposure through oral ingestion, inhalation, intranasal and intraocular droplet inoculation. Nothwithstanding the different symptoms resulting from such exposures, infection can be defined as colonization of a corresponding mucosa. A two-level dose-response model was developed to describe the distributions of infectivity and pathogenicity in various challenge studies of adenovirus, incorporating differences in inoculation route as shift in average infectivity and pathogenicity. This dose-response model can be used to make predictions for the infectivity of adenovirus, specific to any of the four studied inoculation methods. The generalized adenovirus dose-response relationship for infection and acute illness takes into account variation in infectivity and/or pathogenicity across adenovirus types, as well as uncertainty due to limited data.

Ad hoc properties and locations in Maltese

This paper aims to show that the four-way BE-system of Maltese can best be accommodated in a theory of non-verbal predication that builds on alternative states, without making any reference to the Davidsonian spatio-temporal event variable. The existing theories of non-verbal predicates put the burden of explaining the difference between the ad hoc vs. habitual interpretations either solely on the non-verbal predicate, by postulating an event variable in their lexical layer (see Kratzer 1995; Adger and Ramchand 2003; Magri 2009; Roy 2013), or solely on the copular or non-copular primary predicate, which contains an aspectual operator or an incorporated abstract preposition, responsible for such interpretive differences (Schmitt 2005, Schmitt and Miller 2007, Gallego and Uriagereka 2009, 2011, Marín 2010, Camacho 2012). The present proposal combines Maienborn’s (2003, 2005a,b, 2011) discourse-semantic theory of copular sentences with Richardson’s (2001, 2007) analysis of non-verbal adjunct predicates in Russian, based on alternative states. Under this combined account, variation between the ad hoc vs. habitual interpretations of non-verbal predicates is derived from the presence or absence of a modal OPalt operator that can bind the temporal variable of non-verbal predicates in accessible worlds, in the sense of Kratzer (1991). In the absence of this operator, the temporal variable is bound by the T0 head in the standard way. The proposal extends to non-verbal predicates in copular sentences as well as to argument and adjunct non-verbal predicates in non-copular sentences.

Conical Tip Wear in Transition Deformation – Wear Map Construction under Cyclic Impact of Hardness Ceramic Materials

Penetrator tip wear was investigated on an apparatus testing the impact on hard ceramic materials. The experimental tests were done on a vertical impact computerized test bench of original conception. Tapered diamond and carbide-metal pins were used as penetrators. It was noticed that in some situations the tip of the penetrator remained stuck in its target, acting as a Morse cone, due to the friction force between the penetrator and its target being higher than the reaction force of the collision between the two objects. This has led us to choose an angle of 1060 at the tip of the penetrator cone. For most tests we used a maximum strength of 40 N and a sintered carbide impact pin with a 1150 HV 30/15 hardness. For the study of the penetrator tip wear we have used a granite tile that owing to its high hardnes has enabled a noticeable wear of the tip. We have established a method and an algorithm for calculating the tip wear, based on images captured under a microscope after testing. A general finding is that in all tests, besides the cyclical impact deformation and the wear of coating that were tested, the wear of the tip of the pin which applies the impacts is also noticeable regardless of its shape (spherical, conical, etc), so much so that for a large number of cyclical impacts the pin tip wear must be taken into account. Variation curves are presented in the volume of wear material and of the maximum pressure p0 at the tip of the impactor, depending on the number of impacts. From the variation curve of the wear volume of material according to the number of impacts we’ve established an analytical relationship for the wear of the tip. A logarithmic formula allows for a relative assessment of the extent to which the tip is worn, as a function of the total number of incurred impacts.