... self-humidifying effects of passive fuel cells are balanced by the transfer of heat and water to the ambient Optimal performance of air-breathing cells is therefore a complex function of ambient and load conditions ... local conditionsof temperature and humidity As a result of in the changes in temperature and moisture, the membrane, GDL and bipolar plates will all experience expansion and contraction Because of ... The development of physically representative models that allow reliable simulation of the processes under realistic conditions is essential to the development and optimization of fuel cells, improve...
... Therefore, the main role of hydrogen here is the effective passivation of nonradiative recombination centers 3.4 The effectof annealing times upon 400 8C annealing Fig The dependence of the peak energy ... of hydrogen that have been suggested are: (1) the passivation of dangling bonds w25–27x; (2) as one of the components of the luminescence centers w11,29x; and (3) responsible for the change of ... report here the effects of annealing conditions on the PL approximately 1.75 eV (in the third stage) 177 Fig The peak energy as a function of FG annealing times at annealing temperatures of (a) 200,...
... Act ion of cellulas e fr om fungus of marine ori gin in rice straw In dian Journal of Mic robiology 17, 194- 197· D 'S OUZA, J & VOLFOVA, O (1982) The effectof pH on the production of cellu ... lase product ivity of Eupenicillium jauanicum J ourna l of Fermentat ion T echnology 58, 149-154 T ANIGUCHI, M , TANAKA, M , MATSUNO, R & KAMIKUBO, T (1980) Effectof cu lture conditions on cellulase ... concentrations This may be due to release of high levels of glucose in the culture broth which is a known repressor of cellulase Increasing the concentration of lactose above % did not bring about...
... Fig.1 Effects of time after harvesting on germination percentage in Touki seeds (Angelica acutiloba Kitagawa) SE = error bar P: Primary; S: Secondary; T: Tertiary 84 Effectof storage conditions ... days) starting from day ( the day of sowing); ni is the number of seeds that completed germination on day t; and nj is the number of seeds with complete emergence of the seedlings on day t The Tukey ... (P
... rings provides a long term record of the effectof environmental conditions Needle analyses might provide information only about the effectof environmental conditions in the current year (Solberg, ... saturation of soils, have remained exposed to the effectof soil acidification after the decline of atmospheric deposition, which can result in the growth depression of trees Growth depression of Norway ... end of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century might be a reaction to the closure of pasturing and timber harvesting (Veselý 1994) in conjunction with the long-term effect of...
... death of 40% of plants planted in wet soils (Fig 6C) and after 15 days at ºC or after days at 10 ºC only 20% of BR seedlings survived The percentage of BR plants that survived in drought conditions ... lowering of internal water status can cause severe injury to roots (Fig 4) The reduction of root water content as a consequence of desiccation of the root system [9] is accompanied by a decrease of ... rate of physiological recovery is dependent on the severity of drought [14] but also on the conditions and duration of preplanting storage; as the storage period is lengthened the rate of water...
... terms of species molar fractions Table e Comparison of the 0-D SOFC model (current work) with a literature available [21] 1-D SOFC model in terms of power density [W/m2] as a function of temperature ... reported in Fig 5, where the effectof the variation of SOFC H2 utilization has been added It may be observed that, as a general trend, the lower SOFC H2 utilization operating conditions have to be ... exploitation of the SOFC off-gas that is evident by the analysis of Fig 6, where dHint is reported as a function of SOFC H2 utilization and MC dHint represents the amount of the offgases enthalpy that...
... rate of 20 Æ 0.45 Nm3/h and an AR of 80% a fuel gas with a CO content of 19.2 Æ 0.36% v, CO2 of 14.22 Æ 0.19%v H2 of 17, 14 Æ 0.13%v, CH4 of 1.3 Æ 0.07% v, tar of 54.25 Æ 0.66 mg/Nm3, particles of ... on time of the temperature profile of the gasifier for AR of 0% and total airflow of 20 Nm3/h 240 b i o m a s s a n d b i o e n e r g y ( ) e2 4 easy to understand the difficulties of data replication ... different values of AR, (0%, 40% and 80%) Table shows the average concentrations of CO, CH4 and H2 as well as the LHV of the gas Figs and show the effects of the total flow of air and AR on the...
... Steam Gasification of Biomass Surrogates: Thermodynamics and Effectof Operating Conditions Jahirul Mazumder and Hugo I de Lasa* Chemical Reactor Engineering Centre, Department of Chemical and Biochemical ... Figure 9: Profiles of (a) dry gas yield, (b) carbon conversion, (c) tar yield (wt% of biomass) and (d) coke yield (% of carbon injected); with the temperature from steam gasification of 2-methoxy-4-methylphenol ... C + H ←→ CH -74.52 (8) Steam Reforming of Methane standard heat of reaction at 298K were calculated from the standard heat of formation The development of an efficient steam gasification process...
... has the potential benefit of combining sonochemistry with electrochemistry Some of these beneficial effects include acceleration of mass transport, cleaning and degassing of the electrode surface, ... the current was turned off for a fixed duration toff of 0.5 s During ton, FePt nanoparticles were deposited on the surface of the electrode When the current was switched off, an ultrasound was ... magnetization of the unannealed particles was about few emu/g and the coercivity was 20 – 80 Oe The low value of Ms of the as-prepared nanoparticles may be explained by the oxidation or hydroxidation of...
... Echinomycin concentration (nM) Absorbance A Dual effectof echinomycin on HIF-1 activity *** N Conditions N + E 5nM H H + E 5nM Conditions H+ EA320nM Fig Effectof echinomycin on HIF-1 activity HepG2 and ... hypoxic conditions in HepG2 cells, its effects are not specific to this transcription factor, as activator protein-1 (AP-1) and c-myc activities are also affected Moreover, a dual effectof this ... at nm under normoxic conditions Similar results were obtained in HeLa cells (Fig 1B) To investigate the effects of echinomycin on endogenous gene expression, mRNA expression of two HIF-1 target...
... nurseries may pose a risk of impoverishment of the natural spectrum of individuals well adapted to extreme conditionsof mountain localities When growing the planting material of spruce from the mountain ... characteristics of four-year plants In 1994 the above-described planting material was set out in a model mountain area of the Krkonoše Mts on the slope of Stoh Mt at a height of 1,000 to 1,100 ... growth of the sorted planting material of Norway spruce (Picea abies [L.] Karst.) in the course of 11 years after planting to a mountain locality large 2002 2004 2006 Fig Diameter growth of the...
... competing vegetation effects by means of competition – free seedlings, instead of release treatments The objectives of this study were first, to quantify the net effectof non-crop vegetation ... a half of each plot; within each of these subplots, four rows were laid out and assigned at random to one of the four sizes of seedlings Within each row or sub-subplot, seven seedlings of a given ... quantity of light (% PAR) reaching the mid-upper crown of seedlings with competition at site was analyzed using an ANOVA after angular transformation of the data To evaluate the effectof the release...
... possible synergetic effectof GA and cold in the case of argan seed germination From the results of this study, dormancy can be broken using GA or cold storage, but the presence of GA appears to ... explore treatments effects in a three way analysis of variance where cold storage, GA treatment and replication are crossed factors [17] The LSD test (α = 5%) of equality of means was used to ... storage of the seeds for long periods decreased losses to seed fungi-contamination or to pre-emergence seedling dumping-off 3.2 Mother-tree genotype effect Mother-tree genotype main effect was...
... protective effectof birth order is already present at the time of birth of the child, then the effectof hygiene later in childhood may not be as relevant as is currently thought In support of this ... that the combined effect is more than the sum of the single effects, whereas multiplicative interaction implies that the combined effect is more than the product of the individual effects Following ... a lower risk of developing atopy to children of a higher birth order Our a priori hypothesis was that the birth order effect may interact with the genetic predisposition of the offspring in influencing...
... the anti-oxidative effectof traditional gold in treatment of diseases, have affirmed the urge for the need of study over restorative effectof gold nanoparticles at conditions of, hyperglycemia ... hyperglycemic conditions may lead to excessive leakage of these enzymes in the blood stream Thus the effectof gold nanoparticles over the level of different metabolic enzymes shaping the effective ... disruptions Figure Protective effectof gold nanoparticles over hyperglycemia induced damage in pancreas of diabetic mice Histological sections of pancreas of experimental group of mice after treatment...
... role of endothelin in vascular complications of diabetes and support continued investigation of endothelin in the pathophysiology of untreatable skin ulcers as well as other manifestations of diabetic ... this case, especially given the timing of improvement in relation to bosentan administration, could be explained by the effectof bosentan on the diabetic skin microangiopathy, hence supporting ... pathogenesis [4-6] The efficacy of dual endothelin receptor antagonism has already been shown in other manifestations of diabetic microangiopathy [4,5] Although unlikely, the effects of bosentan on glycemic...
... suggesting a beneficial effect on reproduction whereas no effectof this polymorphism was found on number and diameter of oocytes collected [26] Balogh et al [27] did not find an effectof this polymorphism ... pasture and received 11 kg DM/cow/day of a diet composed of kg DM of sorghum silage, kg DM of sorghum grain, kg DM of sunflower meal (36% crude protein) and 100 g of urea After calving, cows received ... systems In our study there was no effectof GH genotype on reproductive parameters in none of the farms Balogh et al [27] found no effectof the GH genotype on the time of the first pospartum ovulation...
... Critical Care Vol 13 No Bikker et al Figure Pao2/Fio2 ratio in different types of lung conditions at three PEEP levels Patients in group N had normal lungs, those in group P had a ... secondary lung disorder EELV, end-expiratory lung volume; PEEP, positive end-expiratory pressure Page of (page number not for citation purposes) ...