... facts before the public as he has gleaned them from the official records of the States and the newspapers of the time He feels tempted to discuss the pros and cons of the system adopted by the States ... days The Channel Isles are the last remnant of our French possessions Or rather, as the Islanders might claim—and as it is reported some do—England belongs by right of conquest to the Channel Isles ... Record Office CHAPTER I CONSTITUTION OF GUERNSEY Guernsey is the second in size of the four Channel Isles, Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney and Sark, which one used to repeat with such gusto in one 's schoolboy...
Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 19:20
... compression process in the low- and high-pressure compressors, while the process 5-6 is isentropic adiabatic expansion process in the turbine Process 2-3 is an isobaric intercooling process in ... intercooler Process 4-7 is an isobaric absorbed heat process and process 6-8 is an isobaric evolved heat process in the regenerator Process 7-5 is an isobaric absorbed heat process in the hot-side heat ... ratio and pressure losses on the performance of the cogeneration plant Vieira et al [6] maximized the profit of a complex combined-cycle cogeneration plant using a professional process simulator...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 14:58
Exergoeconomic performance optimization of an endoreversible intercooled regenerated Brayton cogeneration plant Part 2: Heat conductance allocation and pressure ratio optimization
... )Π opt versus π (eout )opt versus π 2.2 Maximum dimensionless profit rate and corresponding exergetic efficiency Figures and show the characteristics of the maximum dimensionless profit rate ... maximum dimensionless profit rate When the total pressure ratio is variable, there exists an optimal total pressure ratio which leads to a double-maximum dimensionless profit rate Also the exergetic ... ratios, the better the exergoeconomic performance There exists an optimal consumer-side temperature which leads to a thrice-maximum dimensionless profit rate Acknowledgements This paper is supported...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 14:58
Exergoeconomic performance optimization of an endoreversible intercooled regenerative Brayton combined heat and power plant coupled to variable-temperature heat reservoirs
... process 5-6 is isentropic adiabatic expansion process in the turbine Process 2-3 is an isobaric intercooling process in the intercooler Process 4-7 is an isobaric absorbed heat process and process ... characteristic of Π opt versus π Figure The characteristic of Π opt versus (ηex )Π opt 4.2 The maximum dimensionless profit rate Figure shows the characteristic of the maximum dimensionless profit ... 6-8 is an isobaric evolved heat process in the regenerator Process 7-5 is an isobaric absorbed heat process in the hot-side heat exchanger and process 9-1 is an isobaric evolved heat process in...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 14:59
Memory performance in healthy elderly without Alzheimer’s disease: effects of time and apolipoprotein-E pptx
... neurological, psychiatric and neuropsychological assessments were reviewed in a consensus conference comprised of neurologists, psychiatrists, and neuropsychologists Based on this review all participants ... It has been previously established that APOE variability is not associated with the rate of progression of Alzheimer s disease [51,59,67] The study was designed to address a specific question ... Please note The intervals on the X axis represent the average time of follow-up assessments after baseline These are smoothed regression lines that depict the differences in the slope of performance...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20
Báo cáo khoa học: S-nitrosylated proteins of a medicinal CAM plant Kalanchoe pinnata – ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase⁄oxygenase activity targeted for inhibition pot
... responses, the cytoskeleton, and a few unknowns As both subunits of Rubisco appeared to be targets of S- nitrosylation in this study as well as in previous studies on Arabidopsis [9], and Rubisco is ... plant disease resistance [48] Our data suggests that NO signaling in plant disease resistance may involve nitrosylation of disease resistance proteins In conclusion, given that S- nitrosylation ... weight search score (Mowse score) b Polypeptides identified using LC-MS ⁄ MS c The precursor of the Rubisco small subunit has a molecular mass of 20 kDa but migrates as a 16 kDa protein in SDS–PAGE...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 06:20
Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: "Effects of watering after lifting and exposure before planting on plant quality and performance in Oriental spruce " pptx
... transplants air drying before planting for 60 stimulate root growth When considering the results of some similar studies, this is not a surprising result Thus, Cleary and Zaerr (1980) suggest that ... At the end of the first growing season after planting, the rates of survival and terminal shoots were first defined, and major parameters of plant performance were measured on 90 plants from each ... been established for radiata pine stocks (Rook and Menzies, 1981).Likewise, for the Sitka spruce transplants, Coutts (1981) emphasizes that "Exposure of the root caused a faster decrease in fine...
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 18:21
Báo cáo y học: "Can the collective intentions of individual professionals within healthcare teams predict the team''''s performance: developing methods and theory" docx
... plausible In studies aiming to understand the behaviours of teams of healthcare professionals in managing chronic diseases, some sort of aggregation of measures from individuals is necessary This ... to be necessary Given that so much of healthcare involves teams of healthcare professionals, the issues addressed in this study, however imperfectly, need to be addressed This is not simply a ... studies wishing to understand the behaviours of healthcare professionals in relation to the management of many chronic diseases then some sort of aggregation of measures from individuals is inevitably...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21
báo cáo khoa học: " Can the collective intentions of individual professionals within healthcare teams predict the team''''s performance: developing methods and theory" ppsx
... plausible In studies aiming to understand the behaviours of teams of healthcare professionals in managing chronic diseases, some sort of aggregation of measures from individuals is necessary This ... to be necessary Given that so much of healthcare involves teams of healthcare professionals, the issues addressed in this study, however imperfectly, need to be addressed This is not simply a ... studies wishing to understand the behaviours of healthcare professionals in relation to the management of many chronic diseases then some sort of aggregation of measures from individuals is inevitably...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:20
Báo cáo y học: " Introducing the Critical Care Forum’s ongoing review of medical statistics"
... limitations and seek professional advice whenever it is needed, if only for reassurance Medical statistics is a scientific discipline in its own right and a medical statistician fully achieves that ... Medical Statistics, edn Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2001 Campbell MJ, Machin D: Medical Statistics: A Commonsense Approach, edn London: John Wiley & Sons Ltd; 1993 Kirkwood BR Essentials of Medical ... years of training and practical experience Most academic departments, and also many clinical departments, include properly qualified medical statisticians and they should be consulted as early as...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:45
NTC's pocket dictionary of words and phrases part 75
... the skin of an old person iv to become creased; to get small lines in one s skin or on the surface of something tv to cause someone s skin or the surface of something to have Q; to cause creases, ... process used to make copies of documents.) X-ray ["Eks re] n a ray of energy that can pass through solid or nearly solid matter, such as the body (Used especially to take pictures of the insides of ... something ) to give up on turning someone or something into something to give up on someone or something as a dead loss, waste of time, hopeless case, etc to take a charge against one s taxes...
Ngày tải lên: 19/08/2013, 09:17
Performance optimization of a PEM hydrogen-oxygen fuel cell
... polarization curves shift positively as the pressure increases Another reason for the improved performances is the partial pressure increase of the reactant gases with increasing operating pressure (cf ... (IJEE), Volume 4, Issue 2, 2013, pp.175-184 is much stronger than at elevated pressures At 80 oC for atm pressure, almost 46% (molar) of the incoming cathode side gas stream consists of water vapor ... predictions for designs that already exists They cannot be used to predict the performance of innovative designs, or the response of the fuel cell to parameter changes outside of the conditions under...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 14:58
Numerical simulation and performance test of metal hydride hydrogen storage system
... reactor also is discussed from the simulation results Numerical model and analysis The hydride reaction beds are considered as coupled cylindrical tube modules in the simulation and is shown in ... reactor and scroll design reactor, and the computation models are shown as Figures and The material chosen in outer shell of reactor is stainless and the heat transfer enhancement mechanism of scroll ... M mass of hydrogen absorption rate & m Pressure P % R Universal gas constant Greek symbols ε porosity ρg density of gas r T t ur uz s µg radial direction Temperature time radial component of...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 14:58
Performance characteristic of energy selective electron (ESE) heat engine with filter heat conduction
... electrons in these nanostructures devices share the same way as the ESE engine system discussed in this paper The results obtained in Refs [39, 40] have already been applied to study the performance ... of conventional macroscopic energy conversion systems by scientists and engineers using finite time thermodynamics [50-59] Performance optimization and the transmission losses between the reservoirs ... operation and reversible operation), respectively Similar to the conventional energy conversion systems, there also exist the transmission losses in the electron engine systems In fact, the filter...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 15:28
Performance analysis of wind turbine systems under different parameters effect
... is focused on partial power handling WECS using DFIG A dynamic steady state simulation of WECS is essential to understand the behavior of WECS This paper explores steady-state characteristics ... generating systems based on renewable energies [3], however, the modeling, simulation and analysis of a large variety of systems based on renewable energy and to manage these systems, the software ... His research interests include renewable energy resources (wind turbines and photovoltaic solar modules), electrical power system, laser systems, laser communications, and digital signal processing...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:10
Finite time exergoeconomic performance optimization of a thermoacoustic heat engine
... engineering He is a Professor in the School of Science, Wuhan Institute of Technology, PR China Now, he is the Assistant Principal of Wuhan Institute of Technology, PR China Professor Wu is the author ... thermodynamics and thermoeconomics Progress Energy & Combustion Science, 2004, 30(2): 175-217 Chen L Finite-Time Thermodynamic Analysis of Irreversible Processes and Cycles Higher Education Press, Beijing, ... 969-986 Tsatsaronts G Thermoeconomic analysis and optimization of energy systems Prog in Energy Combus Sci., 1993, 19(3): 227-257 El-Sayed M The Thermoeconomics of Energy Conversion London: Elsevier,...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:10
Potential biogas production from sewage sludge: A case study of the sewage treatment plant at Kwame Nkrumah university of science and technology, Ghana
... Volatile Solids (TVS) present as shown in Table Table Gas yields and methane content for some kinds of substrates [4] Substrate Pig manure Vegetable residue Sewage sludge Cow Gas yield (litres/kg TVS) ... increase in digester size The high cost of implementing such plants is compensated for by the reduction in the pathogen levels as the sludge stays in the digester longer The business-as-usual scenario ... sewage enters the treatment plant, it goes through various treatment processes discussed in subsection The flow of sewage to the treatment plant and the layout of the various treatment processes...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:11
Performance enhancement of solar module by cooling: An experimental investigation
... experiments were conducted in the outdoor conditions Materials and methods 2.1 System description The system consists of a solar module of 7Wp power capacity which is surrounded by glass sheets on ... numerical results and comparison Most of the study discusses on the performance of the module while cooling, but there is less concern to the cooling parameters involved The study here focuses on the ... thickness of silicone oil at 3mm, 4mm and 6mm and the measurement parameters were observed When no medium is used it is assumed to be at 0mm cooling The evaporation loss for each thickness was measured,...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:11
Theoretical modeling of combustion characteristics and performance parameters of biodiesel in DI diesel engine with variable compression ratio
... phase and also probably the lower volatility of biodiesel In the diffusion combustion phases, the SME biodiesel fuels had rapid combustion as at this point most of fuels get vaporized Both fuels ... the results of Diesel-rk 120 Diesel, Present Simulation Diesel ,Diesel-rk simulation Maximum Pressure, bar Biodiesel (B20%SME) Present Simulation 100 Biodiesel (B20%SME) Diesel-rk Simulation 80 ... 18% is detected in the results of Diesel-rk [7] 18 Diesel, Present Simulation Diesel, Diesel-rk Simulation Biodiesel (B20%SME) Present Simulation 16 Ignition Delay, deg BioDiesel (B20%SME),Diesel-rk...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:11