... preferred the natural ventilated office Those, who voted for the air- conditioning, gave the following reasons: • They breath better when the air- conditioner is running • They sweat when the air- conditioner ... in the world Hong Kong people call the airconditioner as 'cold air machine' and expect cold air to come out from it The naming has resulted the overcooling of the indoor environment since the ... odours inside the office and would make it easier for the office workers to turn up the air- conditioners Figure Air- conditioner unit in the meeting room Conclusion The findings from the performed...
... received by the CEO of publicly traded airlines in the United States History of the U.S Airline Industry The aviation industry began in 1903 with the first successful flight by the Wright brothers ... the boards of director’s work as effective independent checks They are not the fox guarding the hen house They are the hens guarding the rooster And I think the time has come to say we need the ... in the history of the airline industry because for the first time the industry was allowed to “operate as a true business” (p 6) and air traffic grew by a factor of three as the price to the...
... 190,000 aircraft, 5,000 airports open to the public, and 600,000 pilots In this chapter, an overview of the basic types of aircraft in the fleet, their uses in transportation, the system of airports ... small airports in the United States, and the factors that influence their use; and • How small aircraft operate in the national airspace system, the wide-ranging skills and qualifications of the ... from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine The members of the committee responsible for the report were chosen for their...
... other toxic air pollutants, which attach themselves to airborne particles These toxics are then delivered into the lungs, where they can be absorbed into blood and tissue To the extent that the ... boilers), such as the Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR)-Plus initiative of the Ozone Transport Commission (OTC) and the regional air quality initiative of the Lake Michigan Air Directors Consortium ... regulators must then ascertain their authority to so The Clean Air Act divides responsibility for various types of air pollution sources and air pollutants between the states and localities on the one...
... Atherosclerosis (MESA)— the NHLBI epidemiological study—is the foundation of the MESA Air Pollution Study The collaborating institutions in the NHLBI-MESA also are participating in the MESA Air ... the MESA Air Pollution Study in partnership with the NHLBI-MESA researchers The investigation of the role of PM in cardiovascular health relies on and adds to the NHLBI-MESA effort The MESA Air ... to the MESA Air Pollution Study STAR support of the study will substantially add to this body of research Improving our Knowledge Base The MESA Air Pollution Study investigates the impact of air...
... further in the following section The primary emission ratios calculated in this section are averages over the sources impacting theair masses that were sampled during the course of the study They ... For the summer data, the location of this minimum coincides with the maximum r2 value for the photochemically produced tracer species We interpret the location of the critical value of r2 as the ... (maximum air temperature ! 29°C) and cool (maximum air temperature < 29°C) days in the summer These compounds were not present above detection limit in the winter Note the different scales for the...
... Mechanics, Reality, and Theory WAPS is the system that theAir Force uses to promote airmen to the top five grades within each AFSC, and it is the instrument through which theAir Force strives to ... rates in other AFSCs In March 2003, theAir Force enhanced the CCS program for E8 and E9 cycles by promoting some AFSCs below the AF average to free up selections for the CCS skills TheAir Force ... inventory in the top three grades is only about 50 percent 12 U.S Air Force, 2005a, p 268 13 In theAir Force, E1 = airman basic, E2 = airman, E3 = airman first class, E4 = senior airman, E5 =...
... requirements of the 1970 Clean Air Act and the 1977 Amendments, up to the passage of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 The results of the Retrospective analysis showed that the nation's investment ... well as the impact of the Act’s provisions on the US economy This report is the third in the Section 812 series, and is the result of EPA’s Second Prospective analysis of the 1990 Amendments The ... analysis c The low benefit/cost ratio reflects the ratio of the low benefits estimate to the central cost estimate, while the high ratio reflects the ratio of the high benefits estimate to the central...
... quantify only the large natural flows into the atmosphere, failing to mention the almost exactly equal flows out of the atmosphere back into the biosphere and the oceans The point is that these natural ... is on the same scale as the previous one, divides the world into eight regions Each rectangle’s area represents the greenhouse gas emissions of one region The width of the rectangle is the population ... Yes, the area of China’s rectangle is about the same as the USA’s, but the fact is that their per-capita emissions are below the world average India’s per-capita emissions are less than half the...
... because the officers were the only ones authorized to clear aircraft “Hot” and the Army wanted Air Force fighter pilots on the ground controlling the fighter aircraft that were providing them CAS ... Through both the Korean and the Vietnam War, it was the FAC qualified fighter-pilot-ALOs that provided terminal air control for CAS air strikes The enlisted airman, or ROMAD, was limited in their role ... from the ANG, three from theAir Staff, one from the Joint Staff, three from ACC, and two other field personnel Three of the interviewees had served as or were Army battalion commanders From the...
... Preface Air Mobility Command (AMC) operates many of the largest aircraft in the U.S Air Force and is the biggest fuel consumer in the U.S Department of Defense Without avionics modernization, the ... congested airspace, but these future benefits require an upfront investment in avionics upgrade programs TheAir Force plans to operate legacy aircraft well into the future As they age, these fleets ... affect this mission There is little or no civil air traffic in theater during major combat operations The military would control the airspace before employing intratheater airlifters, which would...
... in vitro The preference for the bacteria to adhere to the secretion rather than the epithelial line seen in the present study could then be explained by defense mechanisms of the epithelial cells ... present in the secretion [9,10], which is the location where we observed the bacteria We therefore assume that the bacteria have the ability to adhere to the secretion as well as to the epithelial ... away from the epithelial cells If the fixation technique is the reason that bacteria are not present on the surfaces of intact epithelium, the fixation procedure should also have drawn the bacteria...
... expressed in the large airway epithelium of healthy nonsmokers and 11 in the large airway epithelium of healthy smokers (Figure 2A, B) The 13 GABAergic genes expressed in the large airway epithelium ... system exists in the human large and small airway epithelium, although there are differences compared to the central nervous system Interestingly, in the human airway epithelium there is no VGAT ... Independent of smoking status, the only GABA synthesis enzymes expressed in the large airway epithelium and small airway epithelium was GAD67 In regard to transporters, there was no GAT-3 and VGAT...
... remodeling in the large airways in COPD compared to smokers and nonsmokers We therefore hypothesized Page of 11 that the expression of Tn-C is increased in COPD similarly to many other ECM proteins ... basal epithelial cells and along the basement membrane (BM) of bronchial epithelium (arrows); scale bar = 0.05 mm B: Tn-C positivity in basal epithelial cells and in the stroma underneath the BM ... Tn-C in the present study was not similar to the study of Laitinen et.al Since we analyzed the immunohistochemical expression of Tn-C in the specific histological localizations of the airway mucosa...
... this is the consensus statement from the American Society of Anesthesiologists presenting the evidence (or lack thereof) and recommendations for different airway management options Sponsors The GASNet ... a difficult airway kit for their intensive care unit ASA Practice Guidelines for the Management of the Difficult Airway – http://www.asahq.org/publicationsAndServices/ Difficult%20Airway.pdf Updated ... Baldry Other links UCSD Virtual Difficult Airway Cart – http://anes-som.ucsd.edu/Airway/index.html This site allows visitors to explore a difficult airway cart as they are prepared at the University...
... between beraprost and placebo treatments These findings suggest that PGI2 enhances the cough reflex sensitivity in the asthmatic airway Cough is one of the main symptoms of bronchial asthma which ... demonstrating the role of PGI2 in cough reflex sensitivity in the asthmatic airway Further studies may be required to elucidate the role of PGI2 in other eosinophilic bronchial disorders presenting with ... http://www.coughjournal.com/content/3/1/2 The cough threshold after the beraprost treatment was significantly (p < 0.05) lower than the value after the placebo treatment FVC, FEV1 or MMF value...
... attempts at securing the airway with extraglottic device or ETI Earlier attempts describe the situation where another EMS personnel has attempted to secure the airway before the current Complications ... all the core variables from the template Nonetheless, understanding the correlations between the intervention and its outcomes presupposes that all the interacting factors are accounted for The ... variables None of the included studies presented the complete set of 28 variables recommended in the template [19] The maximum number of core variables reported in a single study was 21 The minimum...
... compared to vector alone The thickness of small airway walls and the number of infiltrated eosinophils around the airway increased, eosinophils appeared within the lumen of the airway, and goblet cell ... onto the Ficoll Paque so that they form two separate layers After the centrifugation at 1800 rpm for 20 min, the leukocytes can now be collected at the interphase between the Ficoll Paque and the ... allergic airway inflammation (C) Wang et al Genetic Vaccines and Therapy 2010, 8:2 http://www.gvt-journal.com/content/8/1/2 intramuscularly with the same amount of plasmid DNA The mice were then...
... remorse As the implications of the deal sunk in, they began to realize that even though their company was the acquirer, they had pretty much given away the store to the Texans Why, they now wondered, ... Beard at the time There was no doubt by then what the auditors thought of the Enron Oil operation “They were a bunch of scam artists,” one of them said years later For the next few months, the Arthur ... virtually all the gas they could provide at the very moment when demand was dropping The contracts they’d signed were called “take or pay,” meaning they were obliged to pay for the gas at the new higher...