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Marine Bioinspired Underwater Contact Adhesion
Clancy, Sean K.,Sodano, Antonio,Cunningham, Dylan J.,Huang, Sharon S.,Zalicki, Piotr J.,Shin, Seunghan,Ahn, B. Kollbe American Chemical Society 2016 Biomacromolecules Vol.17 No.5
<P>Marine mussels and barnacles are sessile biofouling organisms that adhere to a number of surfaces in wet environments and maintain remarkably strong bonds. Previous synthetic approaches to mimic biological wet adhesive properties have focused mainly on the catechol moiety, present in mussel foot proteins (mfps), and especially rich in the interfacial mfps, for example, mfp-3 and -5, found at the interface between the mussel plaque and substrate. Barnacles, however, do not use Dopa for their wet adhesion, but are instead rich in noncatecholic aromatic residues. Due to this anomaly, we were intrigued to study the initial contact adhesion properties of copolymerized acrylate films containing the key functionalities of barnacle cement proteins and interfacial mfps, for example, aromatic (catecholic or noncatecholic), cationic, anionic, and nonpolar residues. The initial wet contact adhesion of the copolymers was measured using a probe tack testing apparatus with a flat-punch contact geometry. The wet contact adhesion of an optimized, bioinspired copolymer film was similar to 15.0 N/cm(2) in deionized water and similar to 9.0 N/cm(2) in artificial seawater, up to 150 times greater than commercial pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) tapes (similar to 0.1 N/cm(2)). Furthermore, maximum wet contact adhesion was obtained at similar to pH 7, suggesting viability for biomedical applications.</P>
The Merits of Social Credit Rating in China? An Exercise in Interpretive Pros Hen Ethical Pluralism
Clancy, Rockwell F. World Association for Triple Helix and Future Stra 2021 Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia Vol.20 No.1
Social credit rating in China (SCRC) has been criticized as "dystopian" and "Orwellian," an attempt by the Communist Party to hold onto power by exerting ever greater control over its citizens. To explain such measures, value differences are often invoked, that Chinese value stability and cooperation over privacy and freedom. However, these explanations are oversimplifications that result in ethical impasses. This article argues social credit rating should be understood in terms of the commonly human problem of large-scale cooperation. To do so, this paper relies on a cultural evolutionary framework and is an exercise in interpretive pros hen ethical pluralism, attempting to understand how apparently irresolvable cultural differences stem from common human concerns. Wholesale condemnation of SCRC fails to acknowledge the serious, intractable nature of problems resulting from a lack of trust in China. They take for granted the existence of institutions ensuring largescale, anonymous cooperation characteristic of - but somewhat unique to - Western Educated Industrialized Rich and Democratic (WEIRD) cultures. Because of its history and rapid development, China lacks the institutions necessary to ensure such cooperation, and because of anti-social punishment, social credit rating might be one of the few ways to ensure cooperation at this scale. The point is not to defend social credit rating in general, but to raise the possibility of its defense in China and show one way this would be done.
Determination of Hund's coupling in 5d oxides using resonant inelastic x-ray scattering
Yuan, Bo,Clancy, J. P.,Cook, A. M.,Thompson, C. M.,Greedan, J.,Cao, G.,Jeon, B. C.,Noh, T. W.,Upton, M. H.,Casa, D.,Gog, T.,Paramekanti, A.,Kim, Young-June American Physical Society 2017 Physical Review B Vol.95 No.23
<P>We report resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) measurements on ordered double-perovskite samples containing Re5+ and Ir5+ with 5d(2) and 5d(4) electronic configurations, respectively. In particular, the observedRIXS spectra of Ba2YReO6 and Sr2MIrO6 (M = Y, Gd) show sharp intra-t(2g) transitions, which can be quantitatively understood using a minimal 'atomic' Hamiltonian incorporating spin-orbit coupling. and Hund's coupling J(H). Our analysis yields lambda = 0.38(2) eV with J(H) = 0.26(2) eV for Re5+ and lambda = 0.42(2) eV with J(H) = 0.25(4) eV for Ir5+. Our results provide sharp estimates for Hund's coupling in 5d oxides and suggest that it should be treated on equal footing with spin-orbit interaction in multiorbital 5d transition-metal compounds.</P>
Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Fine Needle Aspiration in Cystic Pancreatic Lesions
Robert H. Hawes,James Clancy,Muhammad K. Hasan 대한소화기내시경학회 2012 Clinical Endoscopy Vol.45 No.2
Incidental pancreatic cysts are being increasingly recognized recently with incremented concern about health and frequent health checkup. Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) has emerged as the principal modality for imaging pancreas for various pancreatic diseases including pancreatic cyst. But imaging alone cannot accurately identify the exact nature of the pancreatic cyst. EUS-guided fine needle aspiration is a useful adjunctive procedure to differentiate pancreatic cystic lesions. Cystic fluid analysis with cytologic evaluation is important to diagnose etiology of pancreatic cystic lesions, helping the clinician to more accurately assess the presence or potential for malignancy.
Hozoi, L.,Gretarsson, H.,Clancy, J. P.,Jeon, B.-G.,Lee, B.,Kim, K. H.,Yushankhai, V.,Fulde, Peter,Casa, D.,Gog, T.,Kim, Jungho,Said, A. H.,Upton, M. H.,Kim, Young-June,van den Brink, Jeroen American Physical Society 2014 Physical review. B, Condensed matter and materials Vol.89 No.11
In the search for topological phases in correlated electron systems, materials with 5d transition-metal ions, in particular the iridium-based pyrochlores A2Ir2O7, provide fertile grounds. Several topological states have been predicted but the actual realization of such states is believed to critically depend on the strength of local potentials arising from distortions of the IrO6 cages. We test this hypothesis by measuring with resonant inelastic x-ray scattering the electronic level splittings in the A = Y, Eu systems, which we show to agree very well with ab initio quantum chemistry electronic-structure calculations for the series of materials with A = Sm, Eu, Lu, and Y. We find, however, that the primary source for quenching the spin-orbit interaction is not a distortion of the IrO6 octahedra but longer-range lattice anisotropies which inevitably break the local cubic symmetry.
Park, Heui Dong,Beeser, Alexander E .,Clancy, Mary J .,Cooper, Terrance G . 경북대학교 유전공학연구소 1997 遺傳工學硏究所報 Vol.12 No.1
Starvation for nitrogen in the absence of a fermentable carbon source causes diploid Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells to leave vegetative growth, enter meiosis, and sporulate; the former nutritional condition also induces expression of the YVH1 gene that encodes a protein phosphatase. This correlation prompted us to determine whether the Yvh1p phosphatase was a participant in the network that controls the onset of meiosis and sporulation. We found that expression of the IME2 gene, encoding a protein kinase homologue required for meiosis- and sporulation-specific gene expression, is decreased in a yvh1 disrupted strain. We also observed a decrease, albeit a smaller one, in the expression of IME1 which encodes an activator protein required for IME2 expression. Under identical experimental conditions, expression of the MCK1 and IME4 genes (which promote sporulation but do not require Ime1p for expression) was not affected. These results demonstrate the specificity of the yvh1 disruption phenotype. They suggest that decreased steady-state levels of IMEI and IME2 mRNA were not merely the result of non-specific adverse affects on nucleic acid metabolism caused by the yvh1 disruption. Sporulation of a homozygous yvh1 disruption mutant was delayed and less efficient overall compared to an isogenic wild-type strain, a result which correlates with decreased IME1 and IME2 gene expression. We also observed that expression of the PTP2 tyrosine phosphatase gene (a negative regulator of the osmosensing MAP kinase cascade), but not the PTP1 gene (also encoding a tyrosine phosphatase) was induced by nitrogen-starvation. Although disruption of PTP2 alone did not demonstrably affect sporulation or IME2 gene expression, sporulation was decreased more in a yvh1, ptp2 double mutant than in a yvh1 single mutant; it was nearly abolished in the double mutant. These data suggest that the YVH1 and PTP2 encoded phosphatases likely participate in the control network regulating meiosis and sporulation. Expression of YVH1 and PTP2 was not affected by nitrogen source quality (asparagine compared to proline) suggesting that nitrogen starvation-induced YYH1 and PTP2 expression and sensitivity to nitrogen catabolite repression are on two different branches of the nitrogen regulatory network.
Fayez H. Alruwaili,Michael P. Clancy,Jacob A. Logar,Mohammad H. Abedin-Nasab,Marzieh S. Saeedi-Hosseiny,Charalampos Papachristou,Christopher Haydel,Javad Parvizi,Iulian I. Iordachita 제어·로봇·시스템학회 2024 International Journal of Control, Automation, and Vol.22 No.9
In the face of challenges encountered during femur fracture surgery, such as the high rates of malalignment and X-ray exposure to operating personnel, robot-assisted surgery has emerged as an alternative to conventional state-of-the-art surgical methods. This paper introduces the development of a leader-follower robot-assisted system for femur fracture surgery, called Robossis. Robossis comprises a 7-DOF haptic controller and a 6-DOF surgical robot. A control architecture is developed to address the kinematic mismatch and the motion transfer between the haptic controller and the Robossis surgical robot. A motion control pipeline is designed to address the motion transfer and evaluated through experimental testing. The analysis illustrates that the Robossis surgical robot can adhere to the desired trajectory from the haptic controller with an average translational error of 0.32 mm and a rotational error of 0.07°. Additionally, a haptic rendering pipeline is developed to resolve the kinematic mismatch by constraining the haptic controller’s (user’s hand) movement within the permissible joint limits of the Robossis surgical robot. Lastly, in a cadaveric lab test, the Robossis system was tested during a mock femur fracture surgery. The result shows that the Robossis system can provide an intuitive solution for surgeons to perform femur fracture surgery.