... Gowtham M, Chander MS, Mallikarujanan KVS, and Karthikeyan N Concentrated Parabolic Solar Distiller with latent heat storage capacity International Journal of Chemical Engineering and Applications ... replacing the power input from solar radiation by suitable variable heating system The indoor tests allow a greater control onthe input power and eliminate many factors that may affect the accuracy of ... supply a total current of 4.5 A, a voltage of 220 V and a total power flux of approximately 1000 W/m² to simulate the solar radiation intensity A variac was used to regulate the input voltage to the...
... company The question is to play a close look at the financial situation ofthe company and the impact of CSR activities to the financial operations ofthe company Besides, I have provided the ... work of state management on construction materials, water charges industrial waste, mining, solid waste management In the state of environmental protection, we have the Department and the environmental ... market such as Japan, America and Europe, companies need to strengthen research capacity to apply international standards such as ISO 14000 environmental and standards about environment of the...
... and direction ofthe linear relationship between two variables (Bryman and Bell, 2007, p.362) Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was conducted to ascertain whether the variance ofperformance variables ... portfolio TNA was also used 3-2- ANALYSIS OF MUTUAL FUND PERFORMANCEThe main idea behind many oftheperformance evaluation ratios is very simple These ratios generally compare the return ofa managed ... end ofthe month as a fraction of total wealth of all active funds of that period (total capitalization ofthe Iranian mutual funds segment) In practice, this meant measuring fund market share...
... not by a reallocation of attention but by mechanical destabilization, albeit along a temporal rather than a spatial dimension, brought about by articulation and respiratory patterns during the spoken ... development ofthe study concept and design, data interpretation, and manuscript preparation All authors read and approved the final manuscript Acknowledgements Data collection for this research was conducted ... are calculated as the angular difference, expressed as a percentage, between the amount of estimated AP postural sway and the theoretical limit of stability, approximately 12.5° in the AP plane...
... lithium quinolate [Liq] Finally, the aluminum cathode was deposited at a rate of 10 Å/s The deposition rates were controlled with a quartz crystal monitor, and the doping concentrations ofthe emitters ... optimized After the organic and metal depositions, the devices were encapsulated in a glove box with O2 and H2O at concentrations below ppm A desiccant material consisting of barium oxide powder was ... controlling the optimization of various EML thicknesses In addition, the CCLs (mCP/TPBi) partially confine holes and electrons at the first EML, and some ofthe holes and electrons arrive at the...
... with attack and release time constants τraise and τdecay The differences between the maxima and minima are calculated to obtain the current dynamic range ofthe signal (4) The decision for a speech ... attenuates the signal in the effort to reduce the considerable amount of residual noise at the output ofthe spatial filter The additional target cancelation due to VAD errors is around dB at most and ... directional noise and nonstationary diffuse noise The nonstationary noise is derived from recordings in a restaurant to approach a real world situation Section provides a discussion ofthe potential...
... that packet transmissions in the network include thetransmissionof AODV messages as well as data packet transmissions and retransmissions We also test a Best-Effort (BE) approach for NST-AODV, ... Standard deviation ofthe LQI against the average LQI values the LQI measured in each link The LQI is almost constant for high average LQI values For instance, the standard deviation is below ... Experimental Characterization In this section we present an experimental study ofthe use ofthe LQI as an estimator ofthe LDR, to identify the potential advantageous and adverse characteristics of the...
... groups The cell capacity data shown in Table are based on initial cell capacity The table includes the values ofthe capacity loss rate and the average delivered capacity per cycle, both based onthe ... 3–5 days until the moisture in the paste was - wt.% The current density was controlled at mA cmy2 and the formation capacity had a theoretical capacity of about 200% under the formation After ... denotes the total cycle number, Cq represents the terminal fractional capacity Žbased onthe initial cell capacity., and Y is the average fractional capacity loss for each cycle According to Table...
... ovarian dynamics, hormonal concentrations and fertility following application of ovulatory synchronization methods In a study that evaluated ovulatory synchronization methods that did not use an ... increased the total area of luteal tissue that was generated as a result ofthe formation of an accessory CL However, these changes did not improve the pregnancy rate in Japanese black cows 278 Abdurraouf ... diameters ofthe dominant follicles among groups on day and one day before the next spontaneous ovulation, and the pregnancy rate among different groups on day 45 was compared using the χ square test...
... initial advance and cannot growing faster than shoot case is far from amplify it by The latter uncommon: amount to 40% ofthe total it may population, upon cultural conditions and treatments ... competitor sion cannot be discarded as part ofthe explanation However, cambial activity also interferes by long-term effects through variation in the conducting capacity ofthe main stem References ... is favored by the presence of bud (left) or bud by that of bud (right) Anatomical investigation gives a pos- interpretation of these rather surprising results In a large population of plants...
... constitutes the major part ofthe production costs of pork [3] The combination of acids and tannin decreases the amount of added acids in basal feed and thus lowers the cost of feed Tannin is cheaper and ... SOD activity was determined by the grade of inhibition ofthe described reaction The standard calibration curve of percentage of inhibition by standard solutions and log concentrations (U/ml) was ... biochemical parameters (Table 3), the level of protein, an indicator of adequacy of protein in terms of quality and quantity in the diet [42], at the beginning ofthe trial was below the lower value of...
... time variation of solar radiation and average temperature ofthe present experimental study in August and the theoretical results of [1] in June Figure 10 The time variation of solar radiation and ... time variation ofthe parameter “average temperature/solar radiation” for August from the present study and the published data [1] for June Figure 14 The time variation ofthe parameter “average ... vertical layer of water along the tank wall Part of this heat is then transferred by diffusion towards the core ofthe tank The water ofthe vertical layer becomes lighter than its surrounding and then...
... examined the potential impacts of organic systems onthe Canadian prairies Modeling ofa hypothetical transition to organic production in Canada suggested that a total transition of Canadian canola, ... the longterm sustainability of organic grain production onthe Canadian Prairies [73] Environmental Aspects of Organic Grain Production onthe Canadian Prairies The influences of organic management ... research on organic grain production and evaluate the sustainability of organic grain production onthe Canadian Prairies in relation to its agronomic, environmental, and socio-economic aspects Agronomic...
... See Gale et al (to appear) for further details The Literature on Evaluation Although there has been a fair amount of literature on sense-disambiguation, the literature does not offer much guidance ... evaluation measures A survey ofthe literature on evaluation failed to identify an attractive role model In addition, we found it particularly difficult to obtain a clear estimate ofthe state -of- the- art ... state -of- the- art below in Table With the exception of judge 2, all ofthe judges agreed with the majority opinion in all but one or two ofthe 82 cases The agreement rate was 96.8%, averaged over all...
... International Journal of Mobile Communications, International Journal of Electronic Healthcare and International Journal of Human Resources Management R Anthony Inman is Ruston Building and Loan Professor ... extent ofthe potential bias Substantial common method variance is signalled by the emergence of either a single factor or one ‘general’ factor that explains a majority ofthe total variance (Podsakoff ... some assurance to manufacturing managers that the adoption ofa JIT-information strategy leads to improvements in organisational performance References Ahire, S.L., Golhar, D.Y and Waller, M .A. ,...
... Milan, Italy Authors’ contributions LV designed the study, participated in data collection and analysis, and manuscript writing; FM participated in data analysis, statistical analysis and manuscript ... Lumbar spine range of motion as a measure of physical and functional impairment: an investigation of validity Clin Rehabil 1999, 13:211-218 Nourbakhsh MR, Arab AM: Ralation between mechanical factors ... the normal data distribution, and then parametric (one-way ANOVA followed by post-hoc analysis LSD test) or non-parametric (Kruskall-Wallis ANOVA followed by Mann-Whitney U-test with Bonferroni...
... environment A substantial measurement campaign has shown that the contribution ofthe environment can be considered, on average, as an additive, constant power when thetransmission distance ... 32 J ichi Takada, T Aoyagi, K Takizawa, N Katayama, H Sawada, T Kobayashi, KY Yazdandoost, H bang Li, R Kohno, Static propagation and channel models in body area, in COST 2100 6th Management Committee ... r; and (ii) has the shape ofa decreasing exponential function of z (for a given value of s) The ζ function can be approximated with a linear combination of negative exponential functions, as...
... NE, USA) PCBM as an electron acceptor was purchased from Nano-C (Westwood, MA, USA) Aluminum as a cathode was purchased from CERAC™, Inc (Milwaukee, WI, USA) Device fabrication The pre-patterned ... was thermally annealed As the annealing temperature was increased, the polymer aggregate or grain size also increased, and eventually, the continuous interfaces are formed, which improve conductivity ... temperature, thus leading to more grain boundaries [18] As the annealing temperature increases, the grain surface also increases, leading to enhanced interfacial adhesion between buffer layer and active...
... repair the link break, the node broadcasts an RREQ for that destination Otherwise, the node makes a list of unreachable destinations consisting ofthe unreachable neighbor and any additional ... distribution as the simulation time elapses and finally it reaches a steady state In steady state, the mobile nodes are concentrated at the central region and are almost zero around the boundaries ... the impact of each mobility model ontheperformanceofthe Bypass-AODV as well as the original AODV (1) The routing overhead ratio is the ratio ofthe amount in bytes of control packets transmitted...
... high-dimensional space, known as feature space, and second, the linear equations ofthe data model are stated in that feature space, rather than in the input space This methodology yields compact algorithm ... F Bimbot, et al., The BANCA e database and evaluation protocol,” in Proceedings ofthe 4th International Conference on Audioand Video-Based Biometric Person Authentication (AVBPA ’03), pp 625–638, ... segmentation According to our application constraints, the experimental setting considered two main characteristics ofthe data, namely, the importance of controlled lighting and acquisition conditions,...