Technology Division Research Articles

NexusLIMS: A Laboratory Information Management System for Shared-Use Electron Microscopy Facilities.

This work introduces NexusLIMS, an electron microscopy laboratory information management system designed and implemented by the Office of Data and Informatics and the Materials Science and Engineering Division at NIST for a multi-user electron microscopy co-op facility. NexusLIMS comprises network infrastructure, shared information technology resources, a custom software package to harvest and extract experimental information and construct experimental metadata records, and an intuitive web-based user-facing interface for searching, browsing, and examining research data. These metadata records conform to the Nexus Experiment schema, which is introduced in this work. The NexusLIMS suite of tools requires minimal input and adjustments to user behavior, instead relying on existing organizational procedures and the collection of information from a multitude of sources to construct a complete picture and record of a research experiment. The underlying infrastructure and design considerations for a multi-user data management system are discussed. The core codebase for NexusLIMS is made publicly available alongside this work, and its modular design encourages the adaptation of the presented methods at other research organizations.

Call for Papers for the Special Issue: Selected Papers From IDETC-CIE 2021

Abstract The ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics invites papers for a special issue drawing on papers from the 45th Mechanisms and Robotics Conference (MR), held as part of the 2021 International Design and Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE 2021). Sponsored by the Mechanisms and Robotics Technical Committee of the ASME Design Engineering Division, this annual gathering will take place virtually August 17-20, 2021.

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY USING SECI AND WIL TO IMPROVE PERFORMANCE OF IN-FORMATION TECHNOLOGY DIVISION IN PANGESTU JAYA LTD.

Information Technology Division is one of the divisions in Pangestu Jaya Ltd. which engaged in IT Department, where in this division there are several sub-divisions that are interrelated and have the duty and responsibility of each individual to improve services in The company. Turnover is one of the major obstacles in order to still be able to keep the knowledge technology in the company, because there are still many employees with outsourced status who often do turnover in IT division, so difficult to keep the knowledge. therefor need a knowledge management technology which is capable of storing, distributing knowledge in order to renew even while maintaining corporate knowledge. The system design of this research used SECI and WIL (Work Integrated Learning).

Rekomendasi Tatakelola IT dengan Acuan Cobit 5 pada Struktur Organisasi Sekolah Vokasi

Vocational education institutions will be able to carry out their functions and objectives if they have supporting elements that contribute to the goals of the institution. One of the supporting elements is resources. Various resources in vocational institutions have a role to accelerate the realization of institutional goals. Information technology resources play a role in facilitating the activities of institutions in the IT field. The purpose of this study is to know whether the organizational structure that handles IT in schools SMK Jenangan is an appropriate IT governance COBIT. The methodology used by the descriptive. survey research data. Based on the findings obtained, this institution is still lacking staff in different positions. After conducting research obtained There are 5 primary IT-related goals of 20 processes COBIT5. The result is an adjustment in the form of recommendation IT governance resources requirements along with the tasks and responsibilities which refers COBIT5 domain. The hope of research is the impact to changes in the organizational structure typewriter appropriate recommendations so software engineering division can optimal tasks.

The International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories Presents Abstracts from Its 2021 Annual Meeting Connect and Collaborate through Biobanking: Powering Innovation and Discovery May 10–14, 2021

The International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories Presents Abstracts from Its 2021 Annual Meeting Connect and Collaborate through Biobanking: Powering Innovation and Discovery May 10–14, 2021

Innovative Application of Computer Technology in Engineering Management

With the rapid development of China’s economy, computers have been well developed at a certain level. In most of our project management process, if we can effectively use computer technology, to a certain extent, we can improve the quality and efficiency of the project. Based on this, this paper studies the innovative application of computer technology in engineering management. In this paper, an engineering team is selected as the research object. Based on the theory of computer technology and RDF graph data flow division algorithm, the engineering resource utilization rate, project management efficiency and engineering difficulty of the engineering team before and after the application of computer technology for project management are compared. The research results show that before the application of computer technology for project management, the resource utilization rate of engineering team is 72.5%, the project management efficiency is 61.6%, and the engineering construction difficulty is 76.3%. After the application of computer technology to project management, the data have changed, the resource utilization rate has increased to 88.3%, the pipeline efficiency has increased to 79.3%, and the engineering difficulty has been reduced to It can be seen from the data changes that the same engineering team has changed significantly before and after the application of computer technology in project management, which not only saves engineering resources, but also effectively improves the engineering efficiency.

Multi-media animation technology for cyber-production design

The cyber-production animation design multi-media paradigm is to construct together the technological division architecture and industrial object control laws. In architecture solutions the designers pay attention to space plant and technological aggregates models (geometrical). The object control laws design is based on regulation models in time area. To reach the target cyber-production characteristics they apply automatizing tools where the primary optimal criterion is the technological processes parameters indirect measurement minimal inaccuracy. There is a scheme how the cyber-production project quality criterion is formed. The cyber-production components control methods and approaches identical state can be seen through a separate workshop cyber-segments level and also in the general industrial object level. There are algorithms how to project a cyber-production with a given criterion. The cyber-production project virtual tests and production and time models validation are based on unique experiments made by a designer in the multi-media environment.

Theoretical matters of self-organization and their practical implementation in jet-emulsion process. Part 2. Possible variants of industrial implementation of jet-emulsion metallurgical process and new technological schemes on its base

At the large-scale test facility, manufactured at West-Siberian iron and steel plant from 1992 till 2001 40 series of experiments were accomplished, which enabled to confirm trueness of theoretical and designing solutions of jet-emulsion metallurgical process (JER) and to perfect the design of the facility. Several new low-energy intensive technologies were tested experimentally, including a technology of direct reducing of powdered ores and wastes (sludges, oiled scale) without agglomeration, a technology of obtaining manganese alloys from poor powdered ores, a technology division of titanium-magnetite concentrates into iron and conditional titaniferous slag, and a technology of metal direct reduction with simultaneous production of synthesis-gas. It was shown, that application of JER process is particularly effective for processing of poor powdered ores, as well as powdered iron-containing and coal wastes, by direct reduction in one stage without agglomeration. Possible variants of diversification of technological schemes of production considered for integrated steel plants and machine-building plants, creation of mini-mills of complete cycle (ore‒steel). An example of a layout solution for a technology based on JER process in existing building presented. The level of the development enables to design and together with a machine-building plant to construct on “turn-key” base a pilot facility of industrial scale. The advantages of the process mentioned above enable to get a quick pay-back, particularly for situation of processing of powdered wastes and ores.

Cyber Place Management and Crime Prevention: The Effectiveness of Cybersecurity Awareness Training Against Phishing Attacks

Criminologists and crime prevention practitioners recognize the importance of geographical places to crime activities and the role that place managers might play in effectively preventing crime. Indeed, over the past several decades, a large body of work has highlighted the tendency for crime to concentrate across an assortment of geographic areas, where place management tends to be absent or weak. Nevertheless, there has been a paucity of research evaluating place management strategies and cybercrime within the virtual domain. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of place management techniques on reducing cybercrime incidents in an online setting. Using data derived from the information technology division of a large urban research university in the United States, this study evaluated the impact of an anti-phishing training program delivered to employees that sought to increase awareness and understanding of methods to better protect their “virtual places” from cybercrimes. Findings are discussed within the context of the broader crime and place literature.

A Resident-Led Virtual Journal Club to Educate Pediatric Residents About Coronavirus Disease 2019.

A Resident-Led Virtual Journal Club to Educate Pediatric Residents About Coronavirus Disease 2019.

Committee of the 2nd ICSARD 2020

List of titles Steering Committee, Organizing Committee, International Scientific Committee and Advisory Board, National Scientific Committee, Program Committee, Website and Registration Division, Logistics and Information Technology Division, Secretariat and this titles are available in this pdf.

The Effect of Work Environment, OHS, and Job Satisfaction on Employee Performance

Intense competition in Indonesia forces private companies in the defense industry to be more competitive. PT. Z is one of the largest private defense products and equipment manufacturer in Indonesia. To retain competitiveness, PT. Z must provide defense products and equipment with the best quality and deliver it on-time. The quality and on-time delivery of products and equipment fulfillment rely on the performance of employee at PT. Z. Over the last few years, employee performance at PT. Z constantly decreased. The decrease of employee performance can be caused by several factors including work environment, occupational health and safety, and job satisfaction. This research will examine the effect of work environment (WE), occupational health and safety (OHS) and job satisfaction (JS) on employee performance (EP). The analysis was carried out using the PLS-SEM with 120 samples taken from production and engineering division at PT. Z. The result shows that there are positive and significant effect of WE on EP, WE on JS, OHS on JS, and JS on EP. JS also mediates the effect of OHS on EP. On the other hand, OHS does not have a direct effect on EP and JS cannot mediate the effect of WE on EP.

Research and Application of Information Management of Quality Inspection Data in Bridge Construction

Highway engineering quality inspection and evaluation is a key link in highway engineering construction project quality control, and efficient and effective is essential to quality inspection and evaluation. Combined with the quality inspection and assessment standards, a standardized standard library was formed, and the engineering division was improved to achieve refined engineering division and rationalized engineering division. Through the quality assessment and quality rectification, the whole process of assessment is completed, and the QR code visualization technology is used to match the quality inspection table to realize the information management of the quality inspection data and complete the system research and development. Finally, according to the specific engineering application, the efficiency of bridge engineering quality inspection and evaluation is improved, the evaluation data is effectively managed, and the system functions are fully verified.

Preliminary calciner

In the former years, the total amount of heat indispensable for clinker formation was obtained in the kiln burner, which determined the maximum of this heat, thus the kiln efficiency was simultaneously determined. The kiln has the double role: the hearth and the chemical reactor. The diminishing of the heat loading of the kiln can be obtained only by emitting the calcination heat of raw materials from the kiln. At the same time, it gives the possibility of significant increase of the kiln productivity, which was already no longer limited by the heat quantity, linked to the kiln burner. In this technology, the kiln burner was only applied to heat the material in the kiln from the temperature of 1100°C to 1450°C, which was fulfil about 15% of the heat, from the entire heat demand of clinker burning. It will be 3050 x 0.15 equal to about 480 kJ/kg of clinker. As is known in the clinker formation process, radical changes of the properties of the roasting material occur, which are started at the temperature of 1260°C and are linked with the liquid phase appearing. After the liquid phase appears, the process cannot be conducted in the fluid reactor, because the material can form the roasting formation on the reactor walls, which can cause its plugging. From these reasons, the best technological solution was the division of the process into two operations, applied in two different equipments: (a) heating and calcining conducting in the fluid heater, which was the preliminary calciner, and (b) sintering and clinker formation in the rotary kiln. This technological division caused the high kiln capacity, because the quantity of heat needed in the kiln was low and the heat charge of the zone of fuel burning in the kiln burner was also low

Imaging cholesterol depletion at the plasma membrane by methyl-β-cyclodextrin

The most common method to modify cellular cholesterol (Chol) content in vitro is to incubate cells with cyclodextrin (CD). However, it is not well understood how Chol is removed by CD. Recent development of protein probes that bind Chol allowed to visualize and to follow cellular Chol semi-quantitatively. In this image, non-toxic Chol-binding D4 fragment of bacterial toxin, perfringolysin O was conjugated with mCherry (mCherry-D4) (1Abe M. Makino A. Hullin-Matsuda F. Kamijo K. Ohno-Iwashita Y. Hanada K. Mizuno H. Miyawaki A. Kobayashi T. A role for sphingomyelin-rich lipid domains in the accumulation of phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate to the cleavage furrow during cytokinesis.Mol. Cell Biol. 2012; 32: 1396-1407Crossref PubMed Scopus (98) Google Scholar) and the protein was transiently expressed in HeLa cells for 48 h. Cells were synchronized to mitosis and incubated with and without 1 mM methyl-b-CD (MbCD) in the presence of EGFP-D4 in the medium. Selected images are shown. Accumulated images are shown in Supplemental videos 1 and 2. Average fluorescence intensities of EGFP-D4 (green) and mCherry-D4 (magenta) were quantified in the area surrounded by the white rectangle and schematically shown in the kymographs. The quantitated data are shown as graphs in Supplemental Fig. 1. Supplemental Fig. 2 shows that equivalent amount of EGFP-D4 and mCherry-D4 displayed similar Chol concentration dependent binding to phosphatidylcholine/Chol membranes. Under this condition, mCherry-D4 and EGFP-D4 bind accessible Chol (2Das A. Brown M.S. Anderson D.D. Goldstein J.L. Radhakrishnan A. Three pools of plasma membrane cholesterol and their relation to cholesterol homeostasis.Elife. 2014; 3e02882Crossref Scopus (171) Google Scholar) in the inner and outer leaflet of the plasma membrane, respectively (1Abe M. Makino A. Hullin-Matsuda F. Kamijo K. Ohno-Iwashita Y. Hanada K. Mizuno H. Miyawaki A. Kobayashi T. A role for sphingomyelin-rich lipid domains in the accumulation of phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate to the cleavage furrow during cytokinesis.Mol. Cell Biol. 2012; 32: 1396-1407Crossref PubMed Scopus (98) Google Scholar). Due to high threshold of Chol-detection by D4, intracellular organelles were not labeled with mCherry-D4 and depletion of Chol was accompanied by the intracellular accumulation of the protein. MbCD induced the rapid decrease (5-15 min) of inner leaflet Chol below the D4-binding threshold followed by the slow depletion phase in both outer and inner leaflets. The interaction between D4 or MbCD and cultured cells is not fully elucidated. Although MbCD is endocytosed, endocytosis is inhibited in mitotic cells (3Kobayashi T. Pagano R.E. Lipid transport during mitosis. Alternative pathways for delivery of newly synthesized lipids to the cell surface.J. Biol. Chem. 1989; 264: 5966-5973Abstract Full Text PDF PubMed Google Scholar). Binding of acrylodan-labeled D4 to PC/Chol membrane is inhibited by cytosol (4Courtney K.C. Fung K.Y. Maxfield F.R. Fairn G.D. Zha X. Comment on 'Orthogonal lipid sensors identify transbilayer asymmetry of plasma membrane cholesterol'.Elife. 2018; 7e38493Crossref PubMed Scopus (16) Google Scholar). In addition to Chol, MbCD is reported to interact with other lipids and protein components of the membrane. However, extraction of cytosolic protein by MbCD has not been reported. Our result suggests that the removal of outer leaflet Chol by MbCD is accompanied by the rapid flip of Chol from the inner leaflet to the outer leaflet. However, we cannot exclude the possibility that MbCD preferentially removed Chol from the inner leaflet. EQUIPMENT: FV 1000 confocal microscope with a 60x 1.1 NA Plan Apo objective lens (Olympus) equipped with an environmental chamber maintained with humidity, 37°C, and 5% CO2. ImageQuant LAS 500 (Cytiva). REAGENTS: DMEM supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum, Lipofectamine 3000 (Thermo Fisher Scientific), pET28/His6-EGFP-D4 (RIKEN BRC, Gene Engineering Division, Catalog # RDB13961), pET28/His6-mCherry-D4 (RIKEN BRC, Catalog # RDB14300), pDEST/mCherry-D4 (1), nocodazole (Sigma-Aldrich), MβCD (Cyclolab), SYPRO Ruby (Thermo Fisher Scientific). This article contains supplemental data. The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest with the contents of this article. We are grateful to Dr. Françoise Hullin-Matsuda from INSA Lyon for critically reading the manuscript. M. A. conceptualization, methodology, investigation, data curation, writing-original draft preparation, reviewing, and editing. T. K. conceptualization, writing-original draft preparation, reviewing, and editing.

BHS-Sonthofen establishes new Process Technology division

Germany's BHS-Sonthofen is bringing together its process expertise in filtration, mixing, drying, granulation, sterilization and reaction in a newly created Process Technology division.

International relations through the prism of the new technological division of power

The aim of this paper is to determine which country has technological superiority in the field of industry by analysing the strategic approaches to the industrial development of three leading industrial countries (Germany, China, and the US), as well as selected indicators of industrial development. The results of the research show that China has the most ambitious approach and pretension to take a leading position in a large number of high-tech industries. Since 2014, China has become the second-largest industrial power, right after Germany, while the US has been in fourth place since 2017. China leads in terms of the share of industrial products in global trade and the share of manufacturing value added in the total world gross domestic product. Since 2015, China and Germany have developed intensive cooperation in the area of hi-tech industrial production, while bilateral relations between China and the US are tight due to the trade war. While the US, as the third-largest bilateral trading partner of Germany (after China and the Netherlands), is generating a trade deficit, China is making a breakthrough towards the European market, which is in line with the strategy of taking the position of a global leader in high technology.

Learning the parabola through semiotic records in university students

Learning achieved by students in their first course of mathematics at the university reflects a low achievement, which is especially observed in the topic of the parabola. Due to this problem, the objective of improving the academic achievement of students in that topic, through a didactic strategy based on semiotic representations, was proposed. To this end, a quantitative inquiry was carried out, with a pre-test post-test design, on both a control group and an experimental group. There, a total of 44 students, of an average age of 19 years who were taking the subject of Mathematics Foundations, participated. It was found that the gain between the post-test and pre-test measurement was significantly higher (p<0.01) in the experimental group with respect to the control group, where the conventional strategy for the course was being used. It is concluded that it is possible to improve the learning of the parabola in students through the strategy based on semiotic representations, and that it is highly recommended to apply it for the learning of other mathematical objects in the basic sciences courses of the engineering division.

Light Propagation and Radiative Exciton Transport in Two-Dimensional Layered Perovskite Microwires

The work at UT Dallas was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering under Award No. DESC0010697.

The International Academy of Cytology Yokohama System for Reporting Breast Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy Cytopathology: Analysis and discussion of the response to a web-based survey.

A group of international experts in breast fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) cytopathology, supported by the International Academy of Cytology (IAC), drafted a comprehensive system for reporting breast FNAB cytopathology in 2017-2018. The editorial team produced a survey to assess the international response to the proposed category structure, definitions, and management recommendations in this draft. A web-based survey of 186 questions was generated using the Qualtrics software package (Provo, Utah) supported by the Division of Information Technology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The survey was advertised widely-including through the IAC, American Society of Cytopathology, Japanese Society of Clinical Cytology, Papanicolaou Society of Cytopathology, and Australian Society of Cytology and to audiences at national and international meetings-and was available from April to June 2018. The data obtained from the 265 respondents was assessed by the editorial team. The survey provided a snapshot of the current role and use of breast FNAB and the international variations. Demographic questions were followed by specific questions based on the draft category definitions and statements and focused on issues that had generated discussion among the authors, including the FNAB diagnosis of ductal carcinoma in situ. The survey results strongly supported the development of the IAC Yokohama System and informed subsequent discussions among the authors regarding the final text.