cellulosic wastes as an alternative source of feedstock

... [7] As the main resistance to heat-transfer can be found in the air on the dry face of the system, the advantage of the higher thermal conductance of metals than that of plastics is negligible ... which are made of ceramic material, another device mainly made of wet textile band has been designed, manufactured and characterised It is basically a cotton band of 25 cm width and 1600 cm length, ... large devices, and heat-exchange between gas mediums require great areas of transference, so they are not used Another system, more cheap and compact, was designed by Dr Pernot and later by Dr...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:10

... precanceller) can be viewed as an additional layer working on top of all these operations way of handling this initialization First, the DMT initialization is performed Then transmission can start ... for reasons explained later, it might not be as efficient in the initialization phase The precoder can then be computed and transmission can start at the highest rate Then, the channel is changing ... decreasing noise variance) It can also be seen that the gain is indeed higher than for reasonable cases: it does not seem reasonable to allow the interference, which is due to changes in the channel,...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 23:20

... intuitive and handy cut-off value of ISIR = 0.5, the two ISIR classes were defined as “good” if ISIR≤0.5, and as “bad” if ISIR>0.5; 31 of 38 (19 of 21 and 12 of 17) cross validated patients were classified ... Score for an Individual Risk (ISIR) Assessing risk as a balance of collaborating aggressive and protective variables, the ISIR was calculated as a ratio of weighted sums of significant aggressive ... secondary antibody we used biotinylated goat anti-rabbit for Cox2 and MMP2, goat anti-mouse for CD68, and rabbit anti-goat for Notch3 and GAS (all obtained from Dako) For semi-quantitative analysis,...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:20

... a grant from Astellas Pharma US Inc, the manufacturer of micafungin MDZ and AFS are consultants to and SK is an employee of Astellas SK is a stock holder in Astellas Pharma US, Inc, the manufacturer ... death was extracted from a study of septic patients by Quartin and colleagues [25], and the product of this value and the life tables life expectancy served as the estimate of life expectancy of ... between the onset of ICUAC and the availability of C&S results was assumed, and this was varied between two and four days Patients treated with MIC who tested positive for Candida albicans (CA) were...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:21

... Żukowski W.: Waste Plastics as an Alternative Energy Source Waste Incineration Waste incineration is commonly used to reduce the volume and the toxicity of municipal solid waste And as in other ... principal gaseous products of waste incineration are carbon dioxide and water vapour But waste incineration also produces by-products such as ash and some amounts of organic and inorganic compounds ... industry and from some of this amount of petroleum plastics are produced Petrochemical plants produce the basics of plastics and these basics are then processed to final products [3] The quantity of...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2016, 21:19

... class should yield, on demand, an instance of an HTTPSession class by means of an accessor method—which I’ve called getSession() There’s yet another trap waiting for us, however We don’t want ... nested as many times as necessary Pull parsers offer big ease -of- use advantages compared to SAX, but you may be left wondering if they can measure up SAX’s industrial-strength performance They can! ... Understanding the significance of Unicode requires first understanding some basics of character sets, and their history The first thing you need to know was said best by Joel Spolsky of Joel On Software:...

Ngày tải lên: 24/01/2014, 14:20

... constraints (Vijay-Shanker and Joshi, 1985) As an application of this capability, we consider the remark by Quirk et al (1985, page 517) that "direction adjuncts of both goal and source can normally be ... Journal of Computer and System Sciences, 10(1) K Vijay-Shanker 1987 A Study of Tree Adjoining Grammars Ph.D thesis, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania Anthony ... standard and extended derivations, we exhibit the TAG of Figure This grammar derives some simple noun phrases such as "roasted red pepper" and "baked red potato" The former, for instance, is associated...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 21:20

... class 8000 software was used for system control and data acquisition (Shimadzu) Elution was carried out at a flow rate of 0.75 mLÆmin)1 at 40 °C The mobile phases consisted of 85% methanol and ... combined and dried The residues were dissolved in methanol and subjected to LC ⁄ MS analysis as detailed below NMR Samples of the purified hydroxy metabolites of vitamin D2 (the masses of the compounds ... Wiseman H (1993) Vitamin D is a membrane antioxidant Ability to inhibit iron-dependent lipid peroxidation in liposomes compared to cholesterol, ergosterol and tamoxifen and relevance to anticancer...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 10:21

... products of the enzymes were analyzed as described in Materials and methods using 0.5 nmol (B) and 25 nmol (C) of GPP as the allylic substrate Lane 1, mutant S140H; lane 2, mutant S140V; lane 3, mutant ... concentrations of IPP and GPP were used in the assays, the enzyme activity of the S140H and S140Y mutants was decreased to 54 and 37% of that of the wild-type HPS, respectively, while the other mutants ... of each autoradiochromatogram Lane 1, mutant H139A; lane 2, mutant H139G; lane 3, mutant H139S; lane 4, wild type GGPS Under all assay conditions, less than 30% of each substrate reacted Ori.,...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 17:21

... alternative transcriptional initiation of ENO1 and is transcribed from the intron III of the gene The transcript can be exported to the cytoplasm, and can be translated in vitro Susceptibility of the ... available cDNAs of a variety of normal tissues, and the cDNAs generated from normal lung primary cells as well as lung cancer and breast cancer cells, were analyzed by semiquantitative RT-PCR using ... no significant differences between normal and lung cancer cells, between poorly and highly invasive cells, such as CL1-0 and CL1-5, respectively, or between benign and malignant breast cancer cells,...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 21:20

... three types a,b of transitions, of the form P → P Q (a push trana,b sition), of the form P → Q (a swap transition), and a,b of the form P Q → R (a pop transition) Here P , Q and R are stack symbols, ... symbols of the form [p; X], where p is an LR state and X is a grammar symbol, and symbols of the form (p, A, m), where p is an LR state, A is the left-hand side of some rule, and m is the length of ... more transitions of the form Q P → R, but no combination thereof In the first case, properness demands that the sum of probabilities of all transia,b a,b tions P → P Q and P → Q is 1, and in the...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 03:20

... were anesthetized with isoflurane Left ventricular function was studied just before transplantation and followed-up and weeks later, by echocardiography with an ultrasound machine (HDI 5000 ultrasound ... CD3, CD8 and CD 20 The mean number of cells positive for CD3 was decreased significantly in SVF transplanted rats compared to controls (p < 0.05; Figure 5) The mean Premaratne et al Journal of Cardiothoracic ... infarct was decreased significantly in SVF and BM transplanted rats compared to controls (p < 0.001, p < 0.01 respectively; Figure 6) In the cell transplanted groups, the number of CD8+ cells was not...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:21

... patient was commenced on warfarin, in view of the history of TIAs Cardiac angiography revealed normal coronary arteries and confirmed the presence of a large ASD with left to right shunt and was referred ... patient to heparin or to use an alternative anticoagulant Following discussions with haematologists and immunologist, it was decided to utilize an alternative anticoagulant during the repair procedure ... before cannulation and initiation of CPB Repeat testing of both APTT and ACT was performed at 15 minute intervals until CPB was complete A maintenance infusion dose of 0.15 mg/kg/hour was running...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:21

... no overlying skin changes Laboratory tests revealed a WBC count of 16.8 × 109/L and an ESR of 13 mm/h An ultrasound of his left thigh indicated an abscess Needle aspiration of the abscess revealed ... 109/L and an erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) of 20 mm/h MRI of his left thigh revealed an abscess Needle aspiration of the lesion revealed purulent fluids Incision and drainage (I&D) of the ... administration and technique, the age and immune status of the vaccinees and the quality, strain and dose of the BCG vaccine delivered [1-5] Many reports have stressed the importance of technical...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 23:20

... adenocarcinoma of unknown origin), two cases were the consequence of direct invasion by carcinoma of the head and neck, and one case was caused by leptomeningeal carcinomatosis (carcinoma of transitional ... other case has been reported where metastasis to the temporal bone was the first recognized symptom of the disease [12] It is important to consider the possibility of the existence of prostate cancer ... foramen syndrome as a complication of metastatic cancer of the prostate South Med J 1984, 77:92-93 12 Onishi A, Shida K: Case of Collet-Sicard syndrome due to metastasis of prostatic cancer Naika...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 23:22

... of any other medical condition He was right-hand-dominant and was unemployed at the time of presentation His physical examination revealed that he was unable to extend the metacarpal and phalangeal ... treated with regular hand therapy and ultimately regained full functionality of his hand and wrist Conclusions Kienböck’s disease, though rare, is an important cause of spontaneous extensor tendon ... use of long-term steroids and spontaneous rupture of the extensor tendons of the hand 10 11 12 13 14 Niwa T, Uchiyama S, Yamazaki H, Kasashima T, Tsuchikane A, Kato H: Closed tendon rupture as...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 23:22

... radiograph were normal, and an MRI scan of the brain showed left greater than right ventriculitis, basal meningitis, and encephalitis of the peri-ventricular and right basal ganglia white matter ... illness However, the expansion of previous areas of Singhal and Corman Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011, 5:59 http://www.jmedicalcasereports.com/content/5/1/59 Page of Figure Left occipital ... of HSV-1 infection in a patient with undiagnosed CLL emphasizes the importance of T cell function in diseases of immune dysregulation and autoimmunity such as CLL and MS It raises the issue of...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 00:22

... determined For instance, an increase or decrease in ph of acidic organelles and the changes in lysosome numbers by compound toxicity results in a decrease or an increased of fluorescence intensity, ... lysosomal mass/pH in response to a range of SiO2NP with different sizes (20, 30, 40, 80, 400 nm) was performed by HCS tool A decrease or an increase of lysosomal mass/pH can designate an increased ... is a platinum-based chemotherapy drug used to treat various types of cancers, including sarcomas, some carcinomas (e.g small cell lung cancer, and ovarian cancer), lymphomas, and germ cell tumours...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 00:23

... dose of praziquantel Lancet 1993, 342(8873):748 doi:10.1186/1752-1947-5-206 Cite this article as: Singhal et al.: Neurocysticercosis as an important differential of seizures in pregnancy: two case ... the pregnancy The remainder of her antenatal period was uneventful but, at term, she had an emergency Cesarean section due to fetal distress Her postnatal period was uneventful and she was discharged ... usually misdiagnosed as eclampsia and can be differentiated by imaging studies as in these two cases MRI is superior to a CT scan in such Figure MRI of the brain of the patient in case showing a single...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 00:23

... mg/dL, alkaline phosphatase (ALP) of 143 U/L, aspartate aminotransferase (AST) of 201 U/L, alanine aminotransferase (ALT) of 246 U/L, and creatine kinase of 1219 U/L The urine analysis showed moderate ... antibodies, anti-dsDNA, antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies, and anti-glomerular basement membrane antibodies were within normal limits Renal ultrasonography results were normal Computed tomography of ... immunoglobulin M antibodies and can last longer than one month During this stage, specific organ damage can be observed Aseptic meningitis is one of the most important clinical syndromes that can occur...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 02:22