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TECHNOLOGIES AND APPROACHES TO REDUCING THE FUEL CONSUMPTION OF MEDIUM- AND HEAVY-DUTY VEHICLES docx

TECHNOLOGIES AND APPROACHES TO REDUCING THE FUEL CONSUMPTION OF MEDIUM- AND HEAVY-DUTY VEHICLES docx

Ngày tải lên : 22/03/2014, 10:20
... of commercial medium- and heavy- duty highway vehicles and work trucks and then to establish a rulemaking to implement a commercial medium- and heavy- duty on-highway and work-truck fuel efficiency ... European, and Asian approaches to fuel economy and regulations; Chapters 4 and 5 review and assess technologies to reduce fuel consumption; Chapter 6 assesses direct and indirect costs and benefits ... loading 3 If FE f = (FE 2 − FE 1 )/FE 1 and FC f = (FC 1 − FC 2 )/FC 2 where FE 1 and FC 1 = FE and FC for vehicle baseline and FE 2 and FC 2 = FE and FC for vehicles with advanced technology,...
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Báo cáo y học: "Trace Elements, Heavy Metals and Vitamin Levels in Patients with Coronary Artery Diseas"

Báo cáo y học: "Trace Elements, Heavy Metals and Vitamin Levels in Patients with Coronary Artery Diseas"

Ngày tải lên : 25/10/2012, 10:51
... levels of the vitamins (retinol, tocopherol and cholecalcifer- ol), and trace elements and heavy metals (Zn, Cu, Fe, Cd, Pb and Mn) in patients with CAD and the control group are shown in Table ... (cholecalcif- erol) and E (α-tocopherol) in patients with CAD. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study population included 30 patients hav- ing angiographically demonstrated CAD and 20 pa- tients having ... was considered significant. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Clinical characteristics and serum cholesterol levels were not significantly different in patients with and without CAD (Table 1). Comparisons...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo " Study on reuse of heavy metal rich sludge in ceramic pigment and construction material production " docx

Tài liệu Báo cáo " Study on reuse of heavy metal rich sludge in ceramic pigment and construction material production " docx

Ngày tải lên : 12/02/2014, 17:20
... ~1.7- 2.0kg). The ratio of treated sludge and raw material varied as 1:1; 1:3; 1:5; and 1:10. In the latest, treated sludge was mixed with red pigment and cement (white and black cement) a the ratio ... industrialization and modernization processes, industrial waste has dramatically increased both in amount and composition. Therefore adequate behavior and proper investment for waste treatment and utilization ... sufficiently high concentration of heavy metal [1-3]. Currently, heavy metal rich sludge is mainly treated by solidification then disposed/land filled and incineration. In addition, some...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Looking for the ancestry of the heavy-chain subunits of heteromeric amino acid transporters rBAT and 4F2hc within the GH13 a-amylase family ppt

Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Looking for the ancestry of the heavy-chain subunits of heteromeric amino acid transporters rBAT and 4F2hc within the GH13 a-amylase family ppt

Ngày tải lên : 18/02/2014, 13:20
... barrel between the b3-strand and the a3-helix; (b) the catalytic machinery consists of the b4-strand aspartate (nucleophile), b5-strand glutamate (proton donor) and b7-strand aspartate (transition-state ... between rBATs and GH13 enzymes; (b) the higher similarity between 4F2hc and hcHAT-like proteins than between 4F2hc and rBATs; and (c) the seeming absence of rBAT ancestors in nematodes and arthropods ... of proteins and enzymes can be found in Fig. 1. The segments covering the strands b2, b3, loop 3 (near the C-terminus of domain B connecting the b3-strand and helix 3), b4, b5, b7 and b8 represent...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: The resident endoplasmic reticulum protein, BAP31, associates with c-actin and myosin B heavy chain Analysis by capillary liquid chromatography microelectrospray tandem MS ppt

Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: The resident endoplasmic reticulum protein, BAP31, associates with c-actin and myosin B heavy chain Analysis by capillary liquid chromatography microelectrospray tandem MS ppt

Ngày tải lên : 20/02/2014, 23:20
... contain both the BAP31–Flag and the endogenous BAP31 proteins, migrating at apparent masses of 33 kDa and 28 kDa, respectively, and two additional protein bands at apparent masses of 42 and 190 kDa [9]. ... confirmed its identity as the endogenous BAP31 protein while the 42 and the 190 kDa bands were identified as nonmuscle c-actin and myosin heavy chain nonmuscle type B, respectively. Unambiguous identification ... associates with c-actin and myosin B heavy chain Analysis by capillary liquid chromatography microelectrospray tandem MS Axel Ducret 1 , Mai Nguyen 2 , David G. Breckenridge 2 and Gordon C. Shore 2 1 Merck...
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Tài liệu Heavy-Duty Gas Turbine Operating and Maintenance Considerations docx

Tài liệu Heavy-Duty Gas Turbine Operating and Maintenance Considerations docx

Ngày tải lên : 22/02/2014, 09:20
... against their original values (opening and closing). ■ Casings, shells and frames/ diffusers are inspected for cracks and erosion. Heavy- Duty Gas Turbine Operating and Maintenance Considerations GE ... standby, running and disassembly inspections. The standby inspection is performed during off-peak periods when the unit is not operating and includes routine servicing of acces- sory systems and ... recommended inspection and Heavy- Duty Gas Turbine Operating and Maintenance Considerations GE Power Systems ■ GER-3620J ■ (01/03) 30 Heavy- Duty Gas Turbine Operating and Maintenance Considerations GE...
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Adsorption of heavy metal inons on soils and soil constituents

Adsorption of heavy metal inons on soils and soil constituents

Ngày tải lên : 15/03/2014, 23:09
... of heavy metal ions on soils and soils constituents such as clay minerals, metal (hydr)oxides, and soil or- ganic matter. Empirical and mechanistic model approaches for heavy metal adsorption and ... influenced by inorganic and or- ganic ligands. Those ligands can be of biological origin such as humic and fulvic acids [9–11]andof anthropogenicorigin such as NTA, EDTA, polyphosphates, and others [12–15], which ... the solid and the aque- ous media in soils. The most important among these are the hydrolysis of Cr(III) and Cr(VI), redox reactions of Cr(III) and Cr(VI), and adsorption/desorption and precipitation...
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A meta analysis and risk assessment of heavy metal uptake in common garden vegestable

A meta analysis and risk assessment of heavy metal uptake in common garden vegestable

Ngày tải lên : 15/03/2014, 23:10
... increases in heavy metal uptake (Khan and Frankland 1983). Soil pH significantly influences heavy metal concentrations in both soil and plant tissues. The effect of soil pH on mobility of heavy metals ... immobilization of heavy metals, and there is very little leaching through the soil profile (Khan and Frankland 1983). Immobilization can increase the Cd concentration of the soil and ultimately ... fact, more Pb and Cd were removed from the soil by plants than was leached through the profile (Khan and Frankland 1983). Several factors may influence the content and distribution of heavy metals...
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Distribution and mobility of heavy metals

Distribution and mobility of heavy metals

Ngày tải lên : 15/03/2014, 23:56
... contaminated sites and with Dutch intervention values (Ministry of Housing, 1994), formerly known as C values (Table 5). Italian limits depend on land use, and are lower for public and private green areas and ... chromium and nickel contents at site B are above both limits in many samples, whereas lead and zinc, and in some cases cadmium, are between ‘‘A’’ and ‘‘B’’ values. All samples exceeding ‘‘A’’ and ... Planning and the Environment. Intervention and Target Values—Soil Quality Standards. The Netherlands. Nowak, B., 1995. Sequential extraction of metal forms in the soil near a roadway in southern Poland....
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EDTA enhanced heavy metal phytoextraction metal accumulation leaching and toxicity

EDTA enhanced heavy metal phytoextraction metal accumulation leaching and toxicity

Ngày tải lên : 16/03/2014, 00:07
... in soil solution and bioavail- ability due to complexation with organic and inorganic soil colloides, sorption on oxides and clays and pre- cipitation as carbonates, hydroxides and phosphates (Ruby ... 800–805. Huang J W and Cunningham S D 1996 Lead phytoextraction: spe- cies variation in lead uptake and translocation. New Phytol. 134, 75–84. Leyval C, Turnau K and Haselwandter K 1997 Effects of heavy metal ... presumption and to evaluate the influence of EDTA treatment on mycorrhizal development. The toxicity of EDTA on soil bacteria, actinomy- cetes and fungi was studied with PLFA and DGFA methods. PLFA and...
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Effect of metal spiking on different chemical pools and chemically extractable fractions of heavy metals

Effect of metal spiking on different chemical pools and chemically extractable fractions of heavy metals

Ngày tải lên : 16/03/2014, 00:07
... Cu, and Cd, F 4 or reducible fraction of Ni, Cu, and Cd and residual fraction of Zn and Pb, but decreased F 2 fraction of Zn, F 3 of Zn and Ni, F 4 fraction of Zn and F 5 fraction of Ni, Cu, and ... Kandpal et al./ Journal of Hazardous Materials 106B (2004) 133–137 135 Table 2 The contents of heavy metals in different chemical pools, DTPA And 1M CaCl 2 extracts in sewage sludge (SS) and heavy ... * and NS indicate significance at P = 0.01, 0.05 and non-significant difference between pairs, respectively. 3.3. Effect of metal spiking and incubation on chemical pools Heavy metal spiking and...
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Heavy metal contamination in soils of urban highways (comparision between runoff and soil concentration

Heavy metal contamination in soils of urban highways (comparision between runoff and soil concentration

Ngày tải lên : 16/03/2014, 00:25
... mainly in the strongly bound organic and residual phases. Hewitt and Candy (1990), examined levels of Pb, Cd and Zn in soil and dust samples collected in and around the city of Cuenca, Ecuador. ... dried, a duplicate HEAVY METAL CONTAMINATION IN SOILS OF URBAN HIGHWAYS 297 of Zn and Cu exceeded surface quality discharge standards for all rainfall events and that Pb had two and Cd had three ... that included other heavy metals like zinc, cad- mium and copper with measurements of lead. Gibson and Farmer (1984) applied a six-step sequential leaching procedure to soil and street dirt in...
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