analysis of droplet characteristics using low intensity ultrasound

... point of view, and the others often encounter convergence problems Moreover, only the mean value and the moments (often the variance only) are known, and since the density of probability of the ... convergence of the iterative scheme The smaller the spectral radius of |[G]|, the faster the convergence of the algorithm and the smaller the overestimation of the solution 4.2 TEST OF THE NEW ... Checking properties of interval matrices Technical Report 686, Institute of Computer Science, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic 17 S P Shary, apr 1995 SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, 32(2),...

Ngày tải lên: 12/01/2014, 21:45

... inflow of cash from operations Usually firms have expenses on inputs (cash outflow) before the period of revenue from the sale of the associated outputs (cash inflow) These mismatched flows of ... the cash flow s ­ ensitivity is low 1.4. Plan of the Monograph The monograph proceeds as follows The remainder of part I consists of chapter 2, which provides a conceptual framework of this monograph ... is necessary for the analysis of liquidity, the short-term smoothing of consumption, the protection of investment from cash flow fluctuations, and the financing of cash flow budget deficits In...

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... translation of ‘physiology’ because Analysis of signaling networks using protein arrays they allow a sufficient level of granularity while integrating the basic organizing principles of the cellular ... modulation of regulatory networks [5,6] A direct benefit of such an approach would be the early recognition of ‘off target’ and side effects of drug candidates [7], as well as the identification of putative ... Analysis of signaling networks using protein arrays H Voshol et al a contextual understanding of the molecular mechanisms of disease, but also has the potential to facilitate the validation of...

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... II-3 Characteristics of agricultural biomass as alternative fuel………………….10 Table II-4 Characteristics of non-agricultural biomass as alternative fuel…………… 16 Table II-5 Characteristics of chemical ... preliminary feasibility assessment of using alternative fuels in China This report provides an overview of the technical and qualitative characteristics of a wide range of alternative fuels including ... latent heat of vaporization of water in the material is not recovered, whereas the HHV includes the heat of condensation of water This report provides the energy content of fuels in terms of LHV When...

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... soil characteristics can be derived from soil samples analysis and the results of field surveys (focusing on three important parameters as physical, chemical characteristics and residual of pesticide) ... the interaction of sea, river, field current flow and wind This kind of soil is distributed along the coast bank and sand dunes with an area of about 726.63 (2.6% of the total area of the district), ... capability of this kind of soil is low (from 9.3 to 10.5ldl / 100g soil), total and digestible K content is high, nitrogenous content, phosphate content in total and digestible are of medium degree...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 15:20

... permit the use of genetic analysis to identify the complement of genes contributing to the generation of cell shape RNA interference (RNAi) has revolutionized the functional analysis of genes identified ... cytokinesis [21] RNAi targeting of members of a different group of genes resulted in a profound loss of actin filaments in both cell types, identifying known regulators of F-actin formation In Kc167 ... optional induction of a cell behavior, followed by detection of luminescent or fluorescent signals using a plate reader or an automated microscope Here, we describe the establishment of an RNAi functional...

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 18:20

... determination of Cl– by chitosan–Fe3+ membrane gave higher response than the chitosan–Cl– in the analysis of Cl– in terms of stability during measurements, near Nernstian slope and degree of correlation ... solubility at lower pH Several potentiometric studies using chitosan as membrane for ion-selective electrodes were reported.3,6 The previous study9 on the determination of Fe3+ ions using a heterogeneous ... < 50 μm size using sieve Serial No 488677 (Retsch, Germany) A 60:40 chitosan:PVC membrane was made by first dissolving 0.06 g PVC powder in ml of THF and was followed by 0.09 g of chitosan powder...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 14:20

... reflectance in the NIR and SWIR regions of the spectrum Analysis of vegetation spectra 519 Figure Summary of F-ratio tests of significance of the variance of the reflectance associated with a specific ... variance of a spectra The choice of r – degrees of freedom in the numerator of the F-ratio test instead of was adopted to keep the experiment-wide error rate at 0.05 or better [38] The number of retained ... one of the three species [ ] ,1,1 RESULTS The reflectance spectra of individual foliage samples are shown in Figure and all exhibit the standard characteristics of vegetation reflectance with low...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 01:22

... estimation of a low limit for the value of the gap fraction: in the case of completely black sectors (with zero white pixel), the logarithm of the gap fraction is undefined Considering the size of these ... function for low &thetas; values The use of Lang’s method when observations are restricted to low values of &thetas; causes a non-negligible error on the estimation of the slope of the K(&thetas;) ... determination of the structural parameters of the canopy, requiring a single transect performed in overcast conditions [9] [9] observed an underestimation of about 30 % when using all rings and11% when using...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:21

... the square root of the sum of squares of the displacements seen in the directions was calculated The amount of isocenter shift of serial CT scans was assessed using analysis of variance (ANOVA) ... square root of the sum of squares of the SD of systematic and random error Quality control procedures at the CT scanner, simulation room and linear accelerator were performed The accuracy of coincidence ... box consisted of a skeletal aluminium box attached onto the mask system The position of the treatment isocenter and the shapes of the beam projections were generated on four pieces of transparency...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:20

... JM, Paunovic M, et al.: Analysis of one million base pairs of Neanderthal DNA Nature 2006, 444:330-336 51 Kellis M, Birren BW, Lander ES: Proof and evolutionary analysis of ancient genome duplication ... roughly half of the total increase in growth rate) in any of the five populations resulted from mutations in genes encoding the two major subunits of RNA polymerase (rpoB and rpoC) In three of the ... variant of rpoB or rpoC within 25 days from the start of the experiment The reason that these changes were beneficial is unknown Two of these populations subsequently experienced a sweep of secondary...

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Ngày tải lên: 29/11/2014, 06:59

... subjects, instruments of data collection and methods of data analysis Chapter 3: Presentation and analysis of data Chapter four presents the statistical results and the analysis of the collected data ... of overview of the study, the participants, instrument of data collection and methods of data analysis of the study in detail 2.1 Overview This paper is devoted to investigating the misuses of ... errors of following types: i) The omission of grammatical morphemes ii) The double marking of a given semantic feature iii) The over generalized application of irregular rules iv) The use of one...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2015, 09:22

... schematic diagram of the manifold used for the presented work Flow injection analysis of some oxidants using spectrophotometric detection Figure 601 Calibration measurements of 2–10 · 10À5 M ... presence of 10 · 10À4 M IOÀ at pH 3.5, and some authentic samples Figure Calibration graph for the determination of 2–10 · 10À4 M IOÀ at pH 3.5 Flow injection analysis of some oxidants using spectrophotometric ... evaluation gave a best straight line with a slope of 1.91, an intercept of 0.128 and a correlation coefficient of 0.998 The results of the analysis of some authentic samples (Table and Fig 6) show...

Ngày tải lên: 02/09/2015, 13:46

... be under the supervision of Prof Tay Tong Earn throughout the course of my research While knowledge is the prerequisite to being a professor, Prof Tay has been one professor who is not only knowledgeable ... the purpose of CAI strength prediction vii Overview of Research Figure Overview of research viii LIST OF FIGURES Figure Overview of research viii Figure Impact energy of dropped tools ... the out -of- plane tensile strength obtained from unidirectional tensile tests in the out -of- plane direction of CFRP laminates is drastically lower than that of aluminum alloy, rendering low- velocity...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:04

... Table of contents TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENT i TABLE OF CONTENTS ii SUMMARY iv LIST OF FIGURES v LIST OF TABLES vi LIST OF ... , the probabilities of observing a value of y given x i can be computed The final formulation of the probabilities of observing value of y=m given x i is described as follows Pr( y i  m x i ... 52 National University of Singapore iii List Of Figures LIST OF FIGURES Figure 2.1: Mapping of latent variable to observed variable 13 Figure 2.2: A hierarchy of severity at level 1, within...

Ngày tải lên: 29/09/2015, 13:01

... Anastassiades, CVUA Stuttgart QuEChERS - Mini-Multiresidue Method for the Analysis of Pesticides Page of 12 Losses of certain compounds (of low polarity and planar structure) may also occur during „Dispersive ... of calibration solutions is described below Michelangelo Anastassiades, CVUA Stuttgart QuEChERS - Mini-Multiresidue Method for the Analysis of Pesticides Page of 12 After that add a mixture of: ... almost dryness at 40 °C using a slight nitrogen flow (some droplets of a keeper e.g dodecane can help to reduce losses of the most volatile compounds) and resolved in mL of an appropriate solvent...

Ngày tải lên: 06/10/2016, 09:38

... Efficacy of low- intensity pulsed ultrasound in the prevention of osteoporosis following spinal cord injury Bone 2001, 29(5):431-436 Leung KS, Lee WS, Cheung WH, Qin L: Lack of efficacy of lowintensity ... following treatment with low- intensity pulsed ultrasound Ultrasound Med Biol 2004, 30(3):389-395 Friedenberg ZB, Harlow MC, Brighton CT: Healing of nonunion of the medial malleolus by means of ... of funding, acquisition of data, analysis and interpretation of data, drafting of manuscript, statistical analysis; NE study conception and design, procurement of funding, critical revision of...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 01:20

... proliferation of chondrocytes [14] A number of studies have reported a slight increase in the number of chondrocytes following the use of the same therapeutic low- intensity pulsed ultrasound, which ... number of chondrocytes was assessed using repeated-measures analysis of variance intensities of this staining between these two groups (Figure 3a to 3d) Type-IX collagen antibody staining of the ... Figure Signal transduction pathways activated low- intensity pulsed ultrasound Signal transduction pathways activated by by low- intensity pulsed ultrasound Area enclosed with a black broken line...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:23

... focal region” of high -intensity focused ultrasound Ultrasound Med Biol 2003;29:749-754 ter Haar GR, Kennedy JE, Wu F Physical characterization of extracorporeal high intensity focused ultrasound ... the ultrasound beam directed upward The ultrasound beam of the therapeutic transducer and the imaging probe overlapped completely, so that the longitudinal axis of the high -intensity focused ultrasound ... high -intensity focused ultrasound Ultrasound Med Biol 2001 Aug;27(8):1099-106 Ministry of Health of the P.R.C Guideline for the clinical application of high intensity focused ultrasound in malignancies...

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