Abstract:
Methods, compositions and uses of combination treatments for cancers are disclosed including administering to the patient a therapeutically effective amount of CAPE or CAPE analog(s), and CAPE or CAPE analog(s) in combination with a histone deacetylase inhibitor or an Immunomodulatory class of compounds or Sp1 or a MYC regulating agent, wherein administration of such combinations reduces the number or growth of cancer cells or the tumor burden or tumour growth in the patient, thereby treating the patient.
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System and method for monitoring hydrogen flux across the wall of a vessel or pipe, the system including a monitored volume for sealing an attachment to an outside surface of the wall of the vessel or pipe for collecting hydrogen escaping across the wall surface; a membrane selectively permeable to hydrogen in fluid communication with the monitored volume for permitting hydrogen to escape from the monitored volume in between the two at a defined rate such that hydrogen pressure equilibrium may be reached in the monitored volume for a given hydrogen flux across the wall surface of the vessel or pipe; a pressure measuring device in fluid communication with the monitored volume for measuring hydrogen pressure in the monitored volume; and a temperature measuring device in fluid communication with the monitored volume for measuring temperature in the monitored volume.
Abstract:
A self-assembling polymer (SAP) composition useful in subterranean formations such as oil wells is described. The composition includes a polymer, and linking molecules that result in association of polymer molecules in aqueous solution e.g., brines. An exemplary composition includes cyclodextrin, sodium dodecyl sulfate and partially hydrolyzed polyacrylamide.
Abstract:
A composite comprising a pliable base material and nanoscale anisotropic conductive particles; whereby deformation of the composite causes a change in the electrical conductivity of the composite.
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A computer implemented method of conducting closed-loop control of a physical system comprising the steps of carrying out an initialization of the physical system to commencing closed-loop control, evaluating the optimal constrained control move using the system error and the initial normalized matrix using a control move solver; calculating a first control action by the sum of delta u(0) and the initial control action; and implementing the result to the physical system by converting the control action to an output control signal to effect a change in at least one operating variable.
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A bleached pulp having a high viscosity for a given permanganate number is formed by pretreating never dried pulp with an organic solvent medium to produce a treated pulp composed of said never dried pulp in the medium and then bleaching that treated pulp using ozone at a pH of 1.5-5 to provide a bleached pulp while reducing the viscosity loss during the ozone bleaching step significantly compared to that what would occur if the medium used in the ozone bleaching were water.
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A model predictive controller for a performing stateless prediction. Using dosed form algebraic expressions for the step test in a dynamic matrix eliminates the requirement for individual calculation on each element. With both the dynamic matrix and the vector of predicted errors written in terms of discrete algebraic equations, the control law is written as a function of the current state of the system. The control law is then be reduced to its minimal form, which leaves the next control action to be a function of the system parameters, the past errors, and the past control actions. Since the system parameters are constant, this controller is then be reduced into a single discrete equation. This greatly reduces the computations required in each control loop iteration.
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A computer implemented method for assigning executable functions to available processors in a Multiprocessor environment comprising (as an example of a collection of different processing architectures) one or more CPUs and one or more GPUs, the method comprising: providing an input source comprising instructions and data; breaking the input source into data oriented cell and interface objects with processing attributes; assigning the cell and interface objects to one or more of the GPUs and CPUs based on processing attributes and the multiprocessor environment; and producing output data.
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A method based on pure phase encode FIDs that permits high strength gradient measurement is disclosed. A small doped water phantom (1 ~ 3 mm droplet, T 1 , T 2 , T 2 *