Multiple Phenomena Research Articles

Clinical and neurophysiological aspects of peripheral neuropathy in patients with myelodysplastic syndromes.

Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are a heterogeneous group of clonal disorders, manifesting multiple clinical autoimmune inflammatory phenomena, including rarely peripheral neuropathy. Twenty-four patients diagnosed with MDS and 29 healthy subjects were enrolled in this prospective study in a 5-year period. Every subject was assessed by symptoms questionnaire and clinical neurological examination followed by nerve conduction studies, quantitative sensory testing and skin biopsy. Peripheral neuropathy was diagnosed in 12 subjects (50%). Our study indicated that peripheral neuropathy involving large and small nerve fibres, with a symmetrical length-dependent pattern, is not uncommon between patients with MDS.

Mental health pluralism.

In addressing the question of what mental health is we might proceed as if there is a single phenomenon-mental health-denoted by a single overarching concept. The task, then, is to provide an informative analysis of this concept which applies to all and only instances of mental health, and which illuminates what it is to be mentally healthy. In contrast, mental health pluralism is the idea that there are multiple mental health phenomena denoted by multiple concepts of mental health. Analysis and illumination of mental health may still be possible, but there isn't a single phenomenon or concept to be analysed in addressing the question of what mental health is. The question of pluralism has been overlooked in the philosophy of mental health. The discussion to follow is an attempt to get us to take mental health pluralism seriously. To that end, in this essay I have three primary goals: (1) to give a precise account of what mental health pluralism is, (2) to show that the question of pluralism should not be neglected in debate about what mental health is, and (3) to argue for mental health pluralism. I also draw out some implications of this discussion for philosophy, science, and psychotherapy.

ANCIENT GREEK EXPERIENCE OF POLITICAL AND LEGAL REGULATION OF OIKONOMIA AS A BALANCE OF INDIVIDUAL AND GENERAL

The paper examines the political and legal means and ethical principles of harmonizing the interests of the individual and the general in the economic activity of ancient Greek society in the 8th–4th centuries BC. Explore the reform of the economic sphere, reveal the meaning of oikonomia, its structural components in the imagination and state legal practice of the ancient Greeks, highlight the shortcomings of legal regulation in matters of capital accumulation to level out the contradictions of the individual and the general. The ancient Greeks were aware of the antagonism between the individual and the general, understood the dynamic essence of their relationship and formed ethical and legal means of harmonizing the manifested contradiction. As a result of the pan-Athenian agreement, polic was determined as the dominant sphere, where oikonomia acted as a separate subject of citizen activity and consisted of three meanings: a) archaic form of blood-family economic activity, closed in itself, despotic in its essence and therefore destructive for the general; b) a household that naturally provides everything necessary for a patriarchal family and provides the opportunity for its owner to become a “master of industrial relations management.” Individual management experience ensures freedom for each citizen and can promote the interests of the general; c) chremastics is an element of оікіа. This type of activity, under the influence of egocentrism and an anti-human position, naturally threatens the common because it destroys the solidarity and democratic foundations of the policy. Therefore, certain types of chremastics (usury) were prohibited, and the type of activity itself was placed under ethical and legal control – in the form of voluntary charity. This policy was not effective and the way of managing authority was replaced by the state-legal way of managing domestic policy. Since the formation of the professional state apparatus and the formation of the Athenian Empire, oikonomia and chremastics have been transformed from a multiple phenomenon of the internal life of policy into a political lever of the external activities of the state. Athens was transformed into a large archaic оікіа – the majority of citizens and the state itself were enriched unlimitedly. Chremastics have become the dominant activity and value of the public sphere in Athens. This became one of the levers of a new imbalance of individual and general interests, the decline of ancient Greek civilization.

Ultra-Low Threshold Resonance Switching by Terahertz Field Enhancement-Induced Nanobridge.

Ongoing efforts spanning decades aim to enhance the efficiency of optical devices, highlighting the need for a pioneering approach in the development of next-generation components over a broad range of electromagnetic wave spectra. The nonlinear transport of photoexcited carriers in semiconductors at low photon energies is crucial to advancements in semiconductor technology, communication, sensing, and various other fields. In this study, ultra-low threshold resonance mode switching by strong nonlinear carrier transport beyond the semi-classical Boltzmann transport regime using terahertz (THz) electromagnetic waves are demonstrated, whose energy is thousands of times smaller than the bandgap. This is achieved by employing elaborately fabricated 3D tip structures at the nanoscale, and nonlinear effects are directly observed with the THz resonance mode switching. The nanotip structure intensively localizes the THz field and amplifies it by more than ten thousand times, leading to the first observation of carrier multiplication phenomena in these low-intensity THz fields. This experimental findings, confirmed by concrete calculations, shed light on the newly discovered nonlinear behavior of THz fields and their strong interactions with nanoscale structures, with potential implications and insights for advanced THz technologies beyond the quantum regime.

Beyond samplism: Rethinking the field in exposure science.

Given the many forms of environmental pollution that have accompanied the global spread of industrial capitalism, there is an urgent need to carry out extensive assessments of the potential toxicity of many compounds on human and nonhuman populations. However, the scientific procedures developed to carry out such assessments present several critical shortcomings that greatly diminish their capacity to protect populations at risk. Through an ethnographic analysis of two field campaigns centered on the assessment of polluted sites in northern Chile, this article will reveal that these campaigns are embedded in what we can call samplism. Contrary to approaches that see fieldwork as generative spaces for knowledge creation, samplism radically simplifies the field into a neutral space for the collection of singular and well-defined lab-bound samples. However, samplism entails that multiple field phenomena relevant for assessing pollution levels are left completely unaccounted for, which greatly diminishes exposure science's overall capacity to help improve the lives of those in need. Thus, exposure science urgently needs todevelop more capacious forms of engagement with the field, an ecological fieldwork that truly represents the complexity of forces and processes behind contemporary processes of pollution and damage.

Effect of Process Parameters on Yttria‐Stabilized Zirconia Particles In‐Flight Behavior and Melting State in Atmospheric Plasma Spraying

The preparation of coatings by atmospheric plasma spraying gives rise to complex physical processes, which present challenges to the study of plasma jet characteristics and particle in‐flight behavior. Herein, a 3D numerical model that integrates multiple physical phenomena, including electromagnetism and thermal and gas dynamics, to simulate the heating, acceleration, and melting of particles under the thermal–mechanical effect, is developed. Meanwhile, yttria‐stabilized zirconia (YSZ) coatings are prepared under varying process parameters. The DPV‐2000 system is employed for the diagnosis of particle velocity, surface temperature, and diameter. Following comparison, the simulation exhibits errors of 4.5% and 14.8% for the maximum temperature and velocity, respectively. An increase in current intensity from 500 to 600 A results in a rise in the proportion of particles exhibiting temperatures above the melting point (2963 K), from 75.1 to 93.4%, accompanied by an increase in average velocity of ≈16.6%. As the spraying distance increases from 60 to 100 mm, the proportion of particles melting decreases from 93.5 to 66.3%, and the average velocity decreases by ≈9.2%. This work will provide a theoretical foundation for the optimization of process parameters to adjust particle behavior and melting state, thus achieving an optimal spraying effect.

State Estimation for Measurement-Saturated Memristive Neural Networks with Missing Measurements and Mixed Time Delays Subject to Cyber-Attacks: A Non-Fragile Set-Membership Filtering Framework

This paper is concerned with the state estimation problem based on non-fragile set-membership filtering for a class of measurement-saturated memristive neural networks (MNNs) with unknown but bounded (UBB) noises, mixed time delays and missing measurements (MMs), subject to cyber-attacks under the framework of weighted try-once-discard protocol (WTOD protocol). Considering bandwidth-limited open networks, this paper proposes an improved set-membership filtering based on WTOD protocol to partially solve the problem that multiple sensor-related problems and multiple network-induced phenomena influence the state estimation performance of MNNs. Moreover, this paper also discusses the gain perturbations of the estimator and proposes an improved non-fragile estimation framework based on set-membership filtering, which enhances the robustness of the estimation approach. The proposed estimation framework can effectively estimate the state of MNNs with UBB noises, estimator gain perturbations, mixed time-delays, cyber-attacks, measurement saturations and MMs. This paper first utilizes mathematical induction to provide the sufficient conditions for the existence of the desired estimator, and obtains the estimator gain by solving a set of linear matrix inequalities. Then, a recursive optimization algorithm is utilized to achieve optimal estimation performance. The effectiveness of the theoretical results is verified by comparative numerical simulation examples.

Investigation on supersonic jet noise reduction by water injection: Effects of water injection parameters

In order to protect the payload and the rocket structure from severe vibrations, water injection is commonly used on launch pads to reduce the high noise level radiated by supersonic plumes at lift-off. Even if this technique is widely used, the mechanisms behind sound reduction remain unclear. Sound reduction occurs due to multiple phenomena, each of them having different effects on the jet noise. Experiments based on acoustic measurements have been carried out on a hot supersonic jet on MARTEL facility (Mach number of 3 and a total temperature of 1700 K) to deeper identify the effect of evaporation and water injection parameters. Water flow rate, water injection speed and injection distance to the nozzle have been tested independently to identify the most important water injection parameters. It appears that water flow rate is the most important parameter to decrease noise level and that injecting water at high speed results in noise increase in the downstream direction. Results also highlight the importance of having liquid droplets at the end of the potential core to reduce noise.

Magnesium-Induced Rapid Nucleation of Tetrahydrofuran Hydrates.

Hydrates are ice-like crystalline structures of hydrogen-bonded water molecules that trap a guest molecule. Hydrates have several applications, including carbon sequestration, gas separation, desalination, etc. A classical major challenge associated with artificial hydrate formation is the very long induction time to nucleate hydrates. This has spurred the development of multiple chemical, mechanical, and electrical strategies to promote nucleation. Presently, we discover that magnesium can significantly promote the nucleation of tetrahydrofuran (THF) hydrates. While magnesium has been recently shown (by our group) to promote the formation of carbon dioxide hydrates (gas-liquid system), this study discovers that the benefits of magnesium extend to liquid-liquid hydrate systems as well. Experiments show that magnesium reduces the induction time for THF hydrate nucleation with deionized (DI) water and saltwater by six and eight times, respectively. Magnesium-induced nucleation rate enhancements for hydrate formation with DI water and saltwater were 12 and 99 times, respectively. Importantly, we demonstrate near-instantaneous nucleation when magnesium is introduced after the hydrate-forming system reaches suitable thermodynamic conditions. We conduct statistically significant measurements of nucleation and XPS analysis to identify the underlying mechanisms responsible for nucleation. We discuss multiple phenomena at play, including chemical and mechanistic promotion pathways. The formation of hydrogen bubbles and the presence of magnesium ions in solution are seen as important to magnesium-based nucleation promotion. Importantly, very low amounts of Mg are consumed in this process unlike in traditional chemical promotion techniques. Overall, our discovery can enable on-demand nucleation of liquid-liquid hydrate systems, which is critical to the development of several applications.

Comprehensive Theory: MEQ Quantum Foam Stabilization Framework

The Quantum Foam Stabilization Framework (QFSF) posits that higher-dimensional quantum dynamics, informed by insights from Particle 11 and the McGinty Equation (MEQ), can stabilize wormholes through the creation of stable, coherent, and low-entropy energy states. This theory integrates multiple quantum phenomena, including coherence, entanglement, nonlocality, resonance, topological effects, and thermodynamics, to provide a unified approach to maintaining wormhole stability.

COMSOL-Based Simulation of Microwave Heating of Al2O3/SiC Composites with Parameter Variations

The process of microwave heating involves the coupling of multiple physical phenomena, specifically including the distribution of the electromagnetic field in the resonant cavity. The electromagnetic effect generates heat and encourages the transfer of heat inside the material. In this numerical study, a 3D computer model of microwave heating of Al2O3/SiC composites using a multimode microwave heating chamber was established based on the simulation software COMSOL Multiphysics 5.6, and the symmetry treatment of the model was carried out, which effectively reduced the amount of model calculations and accurately analyzed the microwave heating characteristics of the samples. The analysis of the microwave heating characteristics of the sample was mainly preformed from the perspective of the electric field distribution in the resonant cavity, the sample heating rate and the sample heating uniformity, and then it was determined how the microwave source power and sample mold selection affect the temperature and electric field parameters of the sample. After experimental verification, the error between the simulation results and the temperature parameters obtained from the actual experiments is less than 2%. This study contributes to further understanding the heating behavior of Al2O3/SiC composites in complex multimode microwave heating environments and can be used to control the dynamic parameters during microwave heating in order to improve the heating rate and heating uniformity of samples.

A coherent microscopic picture for the exotic structure of 11Be

The neutron-rich nucleus 11Be is one of the most enigmatic exotic nuclei in the periodic table. It exhibits a multitude of unique and intriguing phenomena within a single nucleus, including the halo phenomenon, clustering structure, and parity inversion. A unified description of these exotic properties represents a significant challenge for the nuclear physics field. By employing the axially deformed relativistic Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (D-RHFB) model, we have successfully reproduced the parity inversion and the one-neutron halo in 11Be, and revealed the underlying cluster structure. It is found that the intrusion of the sd-shell, which results in the parity inversion, is coherently connected with the halo and cluster structures. In particular, the s-wave is responsible for the halo formation, and the mixing of 2s1/2- and 1d5/2-waves enhances the cluster structure. This work elucidates the coherence between the parity inversion and the halo/cluster structures of 11Be, and addresses the long-standing challenge of providing a unified explanation for the multiple exotic phenomena observed in 11Be.

Multiple spreading phenomena for a multistable reaction-diffusion equation with a free boundary

This paper deals with a nonlinear reaction-diffusion equation with a free boundary, where the nonlinearity has m+1 (m≥2) stable steady states and can be degenerate. Such problems may be used to model invasion phenomena with an expanding front. We focus on the long time dynamical behaviors of the solution, which can be classified into 2m+1 scenarios: vanishing, ith-spreading, and ith-transition for i=1,2,⋯,m. In particular, we observe m distinct types of spreading phenomena that correspond to m stable steady states. Additionally, we observe m different types of transition phenomena that correspond to m varieties of standing waves. Furthermore, by introducing a parameter to describe the initial function's amplitude, we demonstrate that there are m threshold values that guarantee the occurrence of each scenario.

Multiple sub-impacts phenomenon and influences on responses of elastic-plastic beam

The multiple sub-impact phenomenon, consisting of more than one short contact event, has frequently been observed in experiments and simulations. The multiple sub-impact phenomenon and its influences on impact responses lack systematic study. Hence, this paper presents a parametric analysis method, an extended hybrid, numerical-analytical model (EHNA model). The nature of multiple sub-impact responses of elastic-plastic beams struck by elastic-plastic spherical impactors is investigated parametrically. The occurrence and disappearance of multiple sub-impacts are observed. Their threshold curves are obtained and expressed analytically for low-velocity impacts. A characterization diagram is proposed to characterize the region of multiple sub-impacts in the relative stiffness ratio-effective mass ratio plane. The characterization diagram can be used to quickly predict the state of multiple sub-impacts or the state of a single impact without solving the impact responses in detail. It is validated experimentally and numerically for impacts with wide ranges of initial velocity, beam size, constraint, material property and contact type. The influences of multiple sub-impacts on impact force response, impact impulse, and energy loss are parametrically investigated. The high influence zones and several influence features are observed. The wide multiple sub-impact region proves that the multiple sub-impact phenomenon is ubiquitous. The strong influences on flexible beam impacts indicate that multiple sub-impacts cannot be neglected for structural damage and structural dynamics.

Phenomenological constitutive laws for the dissipative behaviour of highly compressible elastomers and their finite element implementation

This paper deals with the development of constitutive equations to model the mechanical behaviour of compressible elastomers. These materials are naturally incompressible but can be made compressible by the addition of hollow microspheres, for example. Such a material is referred to as syntactic foam. The CEA (French Commission for Atomic and Alternative Energies) employs such compressible materials as seals in complex structures to reduce the internal stresses in vulnerable components and prevent their failure. The behaviour of these structures is predicted by finite element simulations. It is important to know and model the mechanical behaviour of the seals. Like elastomers, they can undergo large deformations. The microspheres enable the material to undergo large volume change unlike pure elastomer that is nearly incompressible. This compressibility also intensifies dissipative phenomena encountered in elastomers such as viscosity or plasticity. Furthermore, the Mullins stress softening effect is also intensified even for loadings that only bring about volumetric changes. To model these behaviours, a phenomenological approach was developed based on the isochoric/volumetric decomposition of the deformation gradient. The method of intermediate dissipative configurations was employed to introduce multiple phenomena, including viscosity (with several characteristic times) and viscoplasticity, for these two parts of the deformation. The constitutive equations and their flow rules were implemented in Abaqus through a UMAT subroutine and using a numerical approach to define the tangent operator. The parameters of the behaviour law were identified using a model reduction technique known as shape manifold approach. The resulting model can be compared with experimental data.

Mechanism Analysis and Elimination of Multiple Pulse Phenomenon of Active Rectifier in Wireless Power Transfer Systems

Mechanism Analysis and Elimination of Multiple Pulse Phenomenon of Active Rectifier in Wireless Power Transfer Systems

Two-Coordinate Dinuclear Donor-Gold(I)-Acceptor Complexes Exhibiting Multiple Excitation Wavelength Dependent Phosphorescence.

Two-coordinate Au(I) complexes with a donor-metal-acceptor (D-M-A) structure have shown rich luminescent properties. However, charge-neutral dinuclear donor-metal-acceptor type Au(I) complexes featuring aurophilic interactions have been seldom explored. Herein, we describe the structures and photoluminescence properties of two dinuclear Au(I) complexes, namely DiAu-Ph and DiAu-Me. Single crystal X-ray structural analysis of DiAu-Ph reveals a short intramolecular Au-Au distance of 3.224 Å. In dilute solution and doped films, excitation wavelength dependent multiple phosphorescence phenomena were observed for these dinuclear complexes. Theoretical calculations reveal that the aurophilic interaction causes increased contribution of the Au d orbital to the highest occupied molecular orbitals. Thus, the gap between singlet and triplet excited states (ΔEST) is enlarged, which disables the thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF). Moreover, the large energy separation (0.45-0.52 eV) and the different orbital configurations between the various excited states result in an inefficient internal conversion, accounting for their multiple phosphorescence properties.

Integrated experimental and computational study on the effect of hydrogen in mechanical responses of pure tungsten

Hydrogen irradiation profoundly changes the microstructure and morphological characteristics of tungsten, ultimately resulting in the modifications to its mechanical properties. Unfortunately, the specific mechanisms through which hydrogen irradiation influences the mechanical behavior of tungsten have not been clearly elucidated. Therefore, this study aims to further improve the understanding of the impact of hydrogen irradiation on the mechanical responses and its microstructure dependence in tungsten by employing two advanced techniques: nano-indentation experiments and Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. The experimental findings revealed that deuterium (D) exposure decreased the maximum shear stress required for the incipient plasticity and led to the occurrence of multiple pop-ins. Particularly noteworthy was the most remarkable change in mechanical behaviors observed prominently in the recrystallized tungsten after D exposure. The microstructure dependence of irradiation-induced change in mechanical responses was investigated by two series of MD simulation, indentation and dislocation glide simulation, focusing on the independent effects of each irradiation-induced defect type (interstitial, substitutional, vacancy, vacancy-hydrogen (Vac-H) cluster, void-hydrogen (Vo-H) cluster) on dislocation activities. Based on the MD simulations, it was eventually revealed that Vo-H clusters were the most influential agent affecting dislocation activities. They not only lowered the pop-in stress by heterogeneous dislocation nucleation but also caused strain serration by a continuous pinning/unpinning process during dislocation glide. Consequently, we concluded that the dominant presence of d-induced Vo-H clusters facilitated the onset of plastic yielding and led to multiple pop-in phenomena in recrystallized tungsten, whereas inserted hydrogen caused minimal change in mechanical responses by interacting with pre-existing dislocation in cold-rolled tungsten.

Effect of Fatigue and Precorrosion Fatigue on Fatigue Crack Propagation and Fracture Failure Behavior of 5B70 Aluminum Alloy

Aluminum alloys are ideal lightweight structural materials for spacecraft, but they are susceptible to local corrosion during service. Herein, a systematic investigation is carried out to determine the fatigue behavior of 5B70 aluminum alloy under salt spray precorrosion. The mechanism of salt spray corrosion, fatigue life, crack propagation, and failure fracture mechanism of 5B70 aluminum alloy are studied. Under the salt spray corrosion, 5B70 aluminum alloy mainly undergoes pitting corrosion via a galvanic corrosion mechanism. After precorrosion, the formation of macroscopic fatigue cracks is accelerated, which significantly reduces its fatigue life. Fracture occurs due to single crack initiation and propagation under fatigue conditions. The fatigue crack tip undergoes a mixture of intergranular and transgranular modes, but mainly transgranular mode. Multiple strain localization phenomena occur during precorrosion fatigue, and corrosion pits on the surface provide a tortuous crack propagation path; the fatigue crack tip is mainly transgranular mode.

Thermodynamic topology of D = 4,5 Horava Lifshitz black hole in two ensembles

In this paper, we investigate the thermodynamic topology of four and five-dimensional Hořava-Lifshitz (HL) black holes within Hořava gravity. To analyze their thermodynamic topology, we treat these HL black holes as topological defects in their thermodynamic spaces and compute the winding numbers at these defects. Our study is conducted in two different ensembles: the fixed ϵ ensemble and the fixed ζ ensemble, where ϵ is a parameter of the HL black holes, and ζ is its conjugate parameter. In the fixed ϵ ensemble, we consider three different horizon types: spherical (k=+1), flat (k=0), and hyperbolic (k=−1), while in the fixed ζ ensemble, we examine two horizon types: spherical (k=+1) and hyperbolic (k=−1). For all the aforementioned cases, we study the local and global topology of these black holes and classify them into topological classes based on their topological charges. We calculate the topological number for each case. This process uncovers some novel phase diagrams that reveal a number of multiple defect curve phenomenon. Additionally, we explore how the topological charge of these black holes depends on the values of the thermodynamic parameters. Our findings indicate that the thermodynamic topology of Hořava-Lifshitz black holes in D=4,5 is significantly influenced by the type of horizon, the choice of ensemble, the values of pressure, and the parameters ϵ or ζ.