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... transmission fluid (ATF), from a Superfund oil site (Roy, Kommalapati, Valsaraj, and Constant, 1995) Less pressure was required to pump the CGA suspension than surfactant solutions CGA suspensions ... fine-grained lens, as a result of capillary forces This would reduce the effectiveness of any in situ extraction methods, such as SVE, for removal of the NAPL Mass transfer resistances in the existing ... cubensis, Psilicybe strictipes, P stuntzii, P subaeruginascens, Rhizophlyctis harderi, R rosea, Rhizopus oryzae, R stolonifer, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Saprolegnia parasitica, Smittium culicis, S...

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... extracted from natural gas, that meets vapor pressure, end-point, and other specifications for natural gasoline set by the Gas Processors Association Includes isopentane which is a saturated branch-chain ... nonhydrocarbons produced from oil, such as sulfur and various metals; Drip gases, and liquid hydrocarbons produced from tar sands, oil sands, gilsonite, and oil shale Liquids produced at natural gas processing ... fuel oils Products known as No 1, No 2, and No diesel fuel are used in on-highway diesel engines, such as those in trucks and automobiles, as well as off-highway engines, such as those in railroad...

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... also served in the Editorial Board of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine and as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Transactions on Image Processing, ... animated head Situations with defective scanned data are also discussed in this paper This special issue has only covered a small portion of the various research directions in the arena of Search and ... to Board of Governors, IEEE Signal Processing Society He is a Member of Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society, Fellow of IEEE, and Distinguished Lecturer of Signal Processing Society ...

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... be taken for characterizing the dimensional ageing MATERIALS AND METHODS 2.1 Materials The species used were: gymnosperms, Pinus sylvestris L (Ps), Pinus pinaster Ait (Pp), Pinus insignis Dougl ... internal surface area it possesses This surface area has the form of an intricate submicroscopic system which gives rise to a capillary system capable of retaining the water molecules sorbed in ... dimensional ageing, as in both phases the water fixing mechanism occurs because of the presence of OH groups Molecular sorption occurs only for reasons of superficial polarity This sorption is more accentuated...

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... Table Adjusted monthly post-index costs for patients with positive costs, US dollars

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... severe sepsis, which should increase the ability to accurately identify these patients for future studies of severe sepsis Future studies could also include data from severe sepsis registries ... as ($27,400 versus $8700, P < 0.0001) nonsevere sepsis cancer hospitalizations (Table 3) Medical cancer severe sepsis hospitalizations stayed almost twice as long as (12.5 days versus 6.5 days, ... Hospital resource use and costs The severe sepsis cancer length of stay was almost three times as long as (17.1 days versus 6.7 days, P < 0.0001) and the costs were more than three times as much...

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... the resultant systemic inflammatory response Although SIRS is principally considered as the normal host response to the insults, sustained or exaggerated SIRS leads to the development of distant ... expressed as means + standard error (SE) Statistical analyses were performed with the SPSS program, version 13.0 (IL, USA) A one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) with post hoc Tukey s test was used ... to 95°C for 30 Immunohistochemical staining was subsequently performed on tissue sections using mouse HRP-DAB Cell and Tissue Staining Kit following the manufacturer s instructions with some modifications...

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... uimsbf 15 15 bslbf bslbf bslbf bslbf bslbf bslbf bslbf 15 15 15 15 bslbf bslbf bslbf bslbf bslbf bslbf bslbf bslbf bslbf bslbf bslbf bslbf bslbf bslbf 15 15 bslbf bslbf bslbf bslbf bslbf bslbf ... bits Mnemonic 22 bslbf uimsbf bslbf uimsbf 2 bslbf bslbf bslbf uimsbf uimsbf bslbf 2 bslbf bslbf bslbf uimsbf bslbf bslbf bslbf 16 bslbf 1 1 bslbf bslbf bslbf bslbf bslbf bslbf 128 bslbf uimsbf ... decoded TBSsys is the size of TBsys, measured in bytes TBn is the transport buffer for elementary stream n TBSn is the size of TBn, measured in bytes Dsys is the decoder for system information...

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... In some countries such as US, Sweden and Australia, food wastes are treated by disposers or grinders in the site where food wastes are produced before discharge to wastewater treatment plants ... use of disposers entails additional loading to sewerage systems (Sankai et al., 1997; Gallil and Yaacov, 2001) Biological solubilization and mineralization process was proposed for food wastes ... (Run and Run 2, respectively) To trap suspended solids (SS) and degrade dissolved and suspended organic substances, coiled filters (polyvinylidene chloride) were installed inside the circulation...

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... improper disposal of produced water are national issues that concern managers of Federal, and State lands, as well as oil and gas producers and lessees, mineral rights and lease owners, State and ... and short-term effects of produced water and hydrocarbon releases from these sites Results are expected to guide estimates of human and ecosystem risk at such sites and the development of risk-based ... (13) show the area to be underlain by interbedded shale, siltstone, and sandstone Thicker resistant sandstone units typically form the hill crests Hill slopes are underlain by shale, siltstone,...

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... analysis Although sensitivity analysis is very popular, it contains many limits as presented above Thus, scenario analysis is also used in project risk appraisal This method combines the possibility ... This leads to the incorrect assessment of projects Besides, formal appraisal process is not available at the system level This absence also negatively affects the branch s appraisal process Up to ... The assessment of risk is also very important information for making investment decision To assess the risk of a project, commercial banks often use these methods:  Sensitivity analysis: The...

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... underlies these d results: see for example, Krautkraemer (1999), where possible reasons for this (such as the importance of new discoveries) are also discussed Nevertheless, these relations capture ... this is simply accounts receivable Costs are more difficult For current costs (materials, rents, labor, . . .), accounts payable are used For costs associated with assets, the imputed costs are ... goods-­ roducing p firms, consists of all real (as opposed to financial) transactions on a cash basis The base is thus all revenue from the sale of output less all cash outlays for purchases of...

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... of distinct types of mineral formation such as brushite, OCP and other phosphate species Indeed, its IR spectrum is different from the IR spectrum of a single chemical species such as brushite, ... necessary to obtain a Ca/Pi characteristic of HA was 24 h Its Ca/Pi ratio was the highest (Fig 2A) of those obtained with different phosphate substrates When glucose 1-phosphate was used as a substrate, ... hydrolysis of substrates, such as AMP, b-GP, phosphocreatine, glucose 1-phosphate, glucose 6-phosphate and glucose 1,6-bisphosphate, by GPI-bALP, produced inorganic phosphate and initiated the formation...

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... segments (especially in clusters involving nasals and plosives)to share one or more resonance elements, thus resolving possible access problems arising from words such as input /'InpUt/being realised ... has been inserted between the two onset (O) positions occupied by the plosives Constituent structure is less specific than manner classes (in certain cases, different manner-class sequences are ... process moves Figure Lexical search screen for a common manner class sequence (Stage 1) Figure Representation of potential after Stage As soon as such a sequence of manner classes becomes available,...

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... Chapter is an analysis of crude oil and petroleum products This will help scientists entering the profession as chemists in a refinery The processing of petroleum in refineries is discussed in ... magnetometric surveys, a seismic survey is carried out for a clear image of the sub-surface structure 1.4.3 SEISMIC SURVEY This technique uses a sonic instrument over a desired site to correctly ... materials for soap and detergents, alcohols, paints, pharmaceuticals, etc Since petroleum is the mixture of hundreds of thousands of hydrocarbon compounds, there is a possibility of synthesising many...

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... carbons such as C6 's, C7 's, C8 's All the compounds forming each single carbon number group not necessarily possess the same number of carbons as will be discussed in Section 6.1 The most common ... Figure 1.10 Pressure-volume diagram of binary mixtures 1.2 Phase Behaviour 17 The corresponding states principle, described for pure substances, is also used for multicomponent systems Pseudo critical ... values as high as MPa [12,13] High supersaturation has been observed in tests where the pressure has been lowered rapidly In a reservoir where the pressure decline is slow, significant supersaturation...

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... Simultaneous Equations A set of simultaneous equations is a system of n equations in n unknowns The solutions (if any) are the sets of values for the unknowns that satisfy all the equations in the system ... cos(−x) = cos x, tan(−x) = − tan x Two Angles sin(x + y) = sin x cos y + cos x sin y sin(x − y) = sin x cos y − cos x sin y cos(x + y) = cos x cos y − sin x sin y cos(x − y) = cos x cos y + sin ... Whose Sum = 180◦ sin A + sin B + sin C = cos(A/2) cos(B/2) cos(C/2) cos A + cos B + cos C = sin(A/2) sin(B/2) sin(C/2) + sin A + sin B − sin C = sin(A/2) sin(B/2) cos(C/2) cos A + cos B − cos C...

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... organic substances as coal (Speight, 1980, 1983) In the simplest sense, pitch is the distillation residue of the various types of tar Thus, alternative names, such as bituminous sand or oil sand, ... Serious attempts are also underway to produce liquid fuels from unconventional sources, such as coal, oil shale, and oil sands (also variously referred to as tar sands or bituminous sands) Oil sands, ... the basic materials used for the manufacture of synthetic fibers for clothing and in plastics, paints, fertilizers, insecticides, soaps, and synthetic rubber The uses of petroleum as a source...

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... Processes 19.1 Introduction 19.2 Commercial Processes 19.2.1 Deasphalting Process 19.2.2 Process Options for Heavy Feedstocks 19.2.2.1 Deep Solvent Deasphalting Process 19.2.2.2 Demex Process 19.2.2.3 ... Processes 23.2.2.2 Moving-Bed Processes 23.2.2.3 Fluid-Bed Processes 23.3 Isomerization 23.3.1 Butamer Process 23.3.2 Butomerate Process 23.3.3 Hysomer Process 23.3.4 Iso-Kel Process 23.3.5 Isomate ... Materials Saturates Aromatics Resins Asphaltenes Carbenesb Carboidsb Synthetic crude oil Distillates Lubricating oils Wax Residuum Asphalt Coke Tar Pitch Bitumen from tar sand deposits Usually...

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