... SVI gradually decreased due to aerobic granulation, as shown in Figs and As sludge settling ability increased, surface loading and aeration rates were gradually increased, and finally set at 1.8 ... factors influencing aerobic granulation inacontinuous -flow reactor, and therefore, it takes a long time to start-up aerobic granular sludge processes using acontinuous -flow reactor at present Actually, ... known as an important factor influencing the sludge selection in an SBR (McSwain et al., 200 4a) Generally, surface loading rate (equal to liquid linear velocity at a sludge settling zone) and aeration...
... With increasing leaf area index, drainage decreases while transpiration and interception increases The same changes in the partitioning of the water balance with LAI have also been obtained for ... Gruissan GRU, Puéchabon PUEC and Saint-Martin-deLondres SML Tn and Tx are mean annual minimum temperature and mean annual maximum temperature The ratio between annual precipitation P and annual ... of water availability Our study has shown a non-linear relationship with an increase of transpiration with LAI until a maximum value at full water availability (climate and soil) (2) According...
... total bacterial count in the untreated water dropped rapidly at first stage and slowly at second stage in the SC-CO2 treatment and the inactivation rate increased as the temperature increased ... determined the total bacterial count using the standard plate counting method One ml of appropriate dilutions of samples was inoculated in standard plate count agar (Nihon Pharmaceutical Co., ... embedded in 1% agar, dehydrated using an ethanol series and embedded in Epon 812 Ultra-thin sections were doubly stained with uranyl acetate and lead nitrate and then examined with a JEM-1200 EX transmission...
... letter writing In business communication, letters play a very important role in establishing and maintaining business relationships, both within a company and with external contacts To accomplish ... it may be not appropriate for business letters As far as the paper layout is concerned, several errors were made in letter spacing, margins, indentation, etc No paragraph spacing was made in more ... There are many modern communication methods available today, but the traditional business letter remains an important means of sending printed messages The business letter acts as an 18 ambassador...
... profile of TAD supernatant and NaAc addition Observed CO2 evolution rates were similar in both cases, and the TAD supernatant VFA estimations are shown in Table Estimations showed a substantial overestimation, ... resulted in comparable BNR enhancement, as the sodium acetate addition cases A higher P/VFAs molar ratio, observed in TAD addition case, suggested there were other potential carbon substrate available ... was transferred to the experimental reactor (3.6 L in total with 1.6 L headspace volume) The nitrogen flow rate was maintained at 1,200 mL/min in the experiment reactor In each batch test, a...
... the leaf area Roughly, the plant height increased until 120 days after transplantation, and thereafter a constant height was maintained in every case The leaf area index (LAI), however, increased ... N., Sato, H., Hirasawa, H., Takadate, M., Tamura, K., Ando, I., Ishii, T., Iida, S., Maeda, H., Aoki, N., Ideta, O., Hirabayashi, H., and Ohta, H (2003) A new rice variety for whole-crop silage ... experimental and model analysis approaches MATERIALS AND METHODS Pot Experiment A series of experiments was performed at an open-air experimental station located in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan Figure...
... field near the plate upto a certain distance and thereafter the flow behaviour reverses An increase in suction parameter/Reynolds number increases the temperature of the flow field at all points ... MHD flow, Heat and Mass Transfer Flow through Porous Media, Polar fluid, Stratified flow etc He has 48 papers in the related area, 34 of which are published in Journals of International repute Also ... Orissa (India) from 1982-2004 and presently working as the Head of the faculty of Physics in KBDAV College, Nirakarpur, Orissa (India) since 2004 He has 27 years of teaching experience and 10 years...
... possible explanation for increase in the heat transfer due to a gap is that the gap in the inclined rib releases the air partly belonging to the secondary flow and partly belonging to the main flow through ... Enhancing Performance of Solar air heater Proceedings of XVII National and VI ISHME/ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, IGCAR, Kalpakkam India 2004; Jan 05-07 [2] Han J C “Heat transfer and ... rib on heat transfer ina square duct and reported that a gap in the inclined rib accelerates the flow and enhances the local turbulence which will result in an increase in the heat transfer They...
... steam and process hot water demands are also equality constraints [19] The inequality constraints are represented by the allowable ranges of variation of the decision variables, presented in Table ... the beginning of each iteration is performed The analysis provides information to hierarchically classify the components as main, secondary, and remainder, and to define main decision variables ... 1972 Holland J.H Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems The University of Michigan Press: Ann Arbor, 1975 Okamoto M., Nonaka T., Ochiai S., Tominaga D Nonlinear numerical optimization with...
... Tolerance limits for industrial effluents discharged into inland surface water, Indian Standards on Water Pollution, BIS, New Delhi, India Debabrata Mazumder was graduated in the year 1993 with Bachelor ... Bengal, India Both the continuous and batch dyeing processes are practiced in this unit Eight basic sub-processes namely Desizing, Scouring, Neutralization, Dyeing, Soaping, Dye fixing, Hardening/Softening ... Scouring Hot Wash Neutralisation Hot Wash Dyeing Hot Wash Soaping Hot Wash Dye Fixing Hot Wash Finishing Hot Wash Drying Total Wastewater Discharge (Litres/day) Jute Fabric dyeing Cotton Fabric...
... than one bit per baud Baseband and broadband The principle characteristics of base-band and broadband systems are listed in Table BASEBAND Digital signalling Entire bandwidth consumed By signal ... 56 interfaces A ninth user is an additional lines and 16 interfaces This is clearly very expensive in hardware and installation 1 (a) Point-to-point topology 1(b) mesh topology Figure 1 (a) Point-to-point ... non-standard interface cards using the transmission protocols of other PLC manufacturers COMMUNICATION Interface standards Over the course of time certain interfacing standards have been generated...
... organic matter (OM) is the organic fraction of soil, including wastewater pollutants, plant roots, animal and plant residues, and microbial biomass OM influences the chemical and physical properties ... Materials and methods Sand sampling was done during January 2007 in the experimental constructed subsurface flow wetland (CSFW) located at Campus I of Can Tho University (Figure 1) The main part of ... 2007 Chiang Mai, Thailand ================================================================================ In analysis, data were compared graphically and by an ANOVA analysis at the significant...
... than one bit per baud Baseband and broadband The principle characteristics of base-band and broadband systems are listed in Table BASEBAND Digital signalling Entire bandwidth consumed By signal ... non-standard interface cards using the transmission protocols of other PLC manufacturers COMMUNICATION Interface standards Over the course of time certain interfacing standards have been generated ... the fact that most PCs, which are used more and more in automation systems today, have at least one PS232 (serial) interface as a standard RS232, however, has some limitations Distance, a maximum...
... publishing involves a collaborative effort between Publishing Editor and Author, with authors typically invited to write on a certain subject As with journals, a peer review process is also associated ... The aggregation of important book content in the Book Citation Index within Web of Science will enable researchers publishing in books to reach a far wider audience and to measure citation impact ... identify those books and series that have a relatively greater impact on the scholarly literature and to include these publications in Book Citation Index As book citation data grows Thomson Reuters...
... resulting in an averaged spatially resolved concentration pattern for each wind class Various input data was taken into account in the calculations as described earlier [18,19], including annual data ... averages In addition, we examined mean maternal PM10 and NO2 exposure levels during total pregnancy according to maternal characteristics and infant characteristics Information on these characteristics ... home address, using a combination of continuous monitoring data and GIS based dispersion modelling techniques, taking into account both the spatial and temporal variation in air pollution In addition,...
... seen after 26 days of culture mMCP-6 storage showed similar kinetics as for mMCP-5 In contrast, CPA protein was detected as early as after days of culture, and a maximal plateau of storage was already ... Although b-hexosaminidase activity was already detected at day 0, the intracellular content of this enzyme increased markedly after days of culture, and reached a plateau from about day 12 (Fig 2B) ... metachromatically staining granules seen in mature MCs have been poorly investigated Ina recent study, we generated a mouse strain in which the SG gene was targeted [10] We found that, in the absence...
... expansion Applications to transliteration and llh~ar~ processing Wlth newer capabilities of printers and screens, a speaker of any language can soon r e q u e s t a data b a s e i n its m~iginsl ... identically with transliteration-equivalence for each of the alphabets of India A printer with only Tamil letters can simply ~ i n t a Tamil transliteration of an incoming Hindl message AEKNONLE~TS ... allow Processing directly in the alds~ standards (solution I above I m c ~ c r a t e d as an alternate) Since mAthematical and scientific symbol~ are international, they would :equire only single...
... Developing a natural language interface to complex data ACM Tr(uts on D=t~bsse ~l/stsrrts, (1978), 2, pp 105-147 I BaUard, B A "Domain Class" approach to transportable natural language processing ... phrase-structured grammatical formalism for transportable natural language processing, llm~r J Cow~p~t~zt~na~ L~n~ist~cs, to appear 24 Ginsparg, J A robust portable natural language data b a s ... language question answering system for a large relational database Cowzm A C M 21 (1978), 7, pp 526-539 22 Woods, W Semantics and quantification in natural language question answering In Advances...
... Timo Baumann and Michaela Atterer for their contributions to the project, as well as Anna Iwanow and Angelika Adam for collecting and transcribing the data used in this paper 752 References Aist, ... Analysis Doctoral dissertation, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden Witten, I H., & Frank, E (2005) Data Mining: Practical machine learning tools and techniques San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann ... Error Handling in Spoken Dialogue Systems - Managing Uncertainty, Grounding and Miscommunication Doctoral dissertation, KTH, Department of Speech, Music and Hearing Skantze, G (2008) Galatea: A discourse...
... discourse grammar of an 'information-gathering' dialogue can be used while reporting an accident as well as while ordering a pizza In the first case the police officer wants to know all about the accident ... Lessons Learned from the Athena Language Learning Project In Holland et al (Holland et al., 1995) Kemal Oflazer 1996 Error-tolerant finite-state recognition with applications to morphological analysis ... is also used in the analysis of dialogues, e.g (Carletta et al., 1997) Here dialogues are analysed with the help of a 'Dialogue Structure Coding Scheme', which in particular contains only a limited...