... reprinted, reproduced, transmitted, or utilized in any form by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying, microfilming, and recording, or ... agents that induce any one or more of the four classes of developmental toxicity, as defined in those documents The term has since been used in regulatory documents and by investigators in other publications ... great interest to teratologists and clinicians, for they represent one of the very few teratologic experiments performed inthe human (Warkany, 1978) These cases are tabulated inTableThe malformations...
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... 2010) Inthe case involved Henry and Ivan, they received the receipt with the notice after purchasing for the foods which they was ordered It means that the acceptance had done For this reason, the ... Balfour, 1919) On the other hand, the commercial agreements will be presumed that there is powerfully intention for the court to involve in order to solve business problems of the parties For example, ... value things such as money, the rights to something or time between all parties involved into the contract “A valuable consideration inthe sense of the law may consist either in some right, interest,...
... REPRODUCED OR TRANSMITTED IN ANY FORM OR BY ANY MEANS, ELECTRONIC OR MECHANICAL (INCLUDING PHOTOCOPY, RECORDING, OR ANY INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEM), WITHOUT PERMISSION IN WRITING FROM THE ... duplicating their work 35 At least one organic detector was also studied One of the more interesting investigations was that of using snails as detectors U.S Army scientists reported that inthe ... 38(p22) The most significant addition was information on mustard agent, which included sections for the treatment for the various organs exposed to the agent For the skin, after cleaning the mustard...
... compared total scores, weighted scores for each domain, and the proportion of patients with any complaint on each domain For statistical analysis we used the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences ... and work status The mBI is a 50-point scale that was applied to quantify impairment in activities of daily living such as grooming, walking, transferring, hygiene and voiding (50 points meaning ... that their disease made their recreational pastimes, sports or hobbies difficult, but fewer patients (24%) reported problems washing or dressing themselves [16] This finding indicates that CHF patients...
... sector, incorporating the concept of the whole-of-mine-life thinking and planning Chapter gives an overview of the processes involved in extracting these minerals and preparing them for fertilizer ... regulatory requirements on the mining industry in order to protect the ecosystem, to maintain a safe and secure environment and to protect people living inthe vicinity of the mine-site Leading mining ... (2) Table 1.1 indicates the scale of the mineral fertilizer raw material mining industry in comparison to the mining of other bulk mineral and energy commodities Table 1.1 Comparison of the World...
... sector, incorporating the concept of the whole-of-mine-life thinking and planning Chapter gives an overview of the processes involved in extracting these minerals and preparing them for fertilizer ... regulatory requirements on the mining industry in order to protect the ecosystem, to maintain a safe and secure environment and to protect people living inthe vicinity of the mine-site Leading mining ... (2) Table 1.1 indicates the scale of the mineral fertilizer raw material mining industry in comparison to the mining of other bulk mineral and energy commodities Table 1.1 Comparison of the World...
... and monitoring of the irregularity 13.6.3 Surveillance of the DC Voltage Waviness A fault inthe converter or a failure of the smoothing filters may increase the AC voltage share at the DC side ... superposed on the mains fundamental oscillation and therefore distort the mains voltage Whenever the harmonic currents exceed a certain value, generally resonances and therefore disturbances inthe power ... of the charging device and monitoring of the irregularity, and DC undervoltage is followed by (in the case of low DC voltage) monitoring of the irregularity When for redundancy purposes two or...
... use Neither this book nor any part may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, microfilming, and recording, or by any information ... inthe U.S Chloramination is one method of avoiding the problem of chlorination byproducts In water hypochlorous acid reacts with ammonia to form chloramines The exact proportion of each chloramine ... Chlorine dioxide is a rapid and effective disinfectant Chlorine may be added after the chlorine dioxide treatment to provide residual disinfectant in distribution The other main disinfectant in...
... of being involved in a waterborne outbreak is probably much higher in people drinking private water The U.S data are shown inTable 3.5 In many ways, the U.S data show the same trend over the ... Drinking Water In a subsequent study, the group looked at the effect on health of chlorination of substandard water.6 In much the same way as they had done in their previous study, they recorded ... whether they were drinking filtered or unfiltered water These studies should be reported during the year 2000 or 2001 All the epidemiological studies reported previously have reported evidence for...
... fluid for 15 min.21,22 with the thickness of these initial films being calculated at between 30 and 80 nm.23 The conditioning film in nature seems, therefore, to play a major role in modifying the ... regimes, the fluid next to the surface of the pipe wall begins to form a boundary layer in which the viscous forces are more important than the acceleration or inertia forces.39 As a result of these ... viscous forces, the fluid inthe boundary layer is separated from the fluid outside the boundary layer In laminar flow, the fluid in contact with the pipe has zero velocity resulting inthe development...
... exist in biofilms 7.7 COLIFORM REGROWTH IN POTABLE WATER Coliforms are used as indicator organisms in potable water to confirm the presence of faecal contamination If they are present in potable ... defined area, where either the nature of the injury orthe degree of dormancy are unknown The only certain fact is that these injured or dormant bacteria are metabolically active but incapable of replication ... water have been shown to be a major determinant in protecting microorganisms from chlorine Therefore, sloughing of the biofilm may well serve as a system for the dissemination of potentially problematic...
... put in place parallel to the original pipework The increased number of sampling points allow for long term monitoring of biofouling of materials to determine suitability in such systems and for ... mirror plates inthe mercury lamp housing to increase the light intensity 9.5.5 FLUORESENCE Many fluorescent stains have been adapted to visualise biofilms on surfaces including INT,25 acridine orange31 ... content—cells in either of these states fluoresce inthe yellow/orange part of the spectrum The use of AO for viability assays is immensely difficult to interpret when working with environmental samples owing...
... concentration at the water biofilm interface The transport of chlorine within the biofilm or deposit is a direct function of the chlorine concentration at the interface Diffusion into the biofilm can be increased ... Disinfection and Control of Biofilms in Potable Water 205 turbulence The chlorine concentration inthe bulk water is the net result of the chlorine addition minus the chlorine demand rate of the ... water The chlorine concentration at the biofilm–water interface drives the reactions of chlorine within the biofilm If the chlorine reacts rapidly with the biofilm, the concentration at the interface...
... inflammatory stage 3, which was observed in 19 kidneys from 12 finishing pigs and in 30 kidneys from 21 sows Page of 10 (table 2) Inflammatory stage or was observed in 12 kidneys from eight finishing ... acute porcine pyelonephritis Kidneys from a slaughtered finishing pig with bilateral acute pyelonephritis Most of the inflammatory foci are found inthe caudal poles (arrowheads) The inflammatory ... were important inthe first line of defence and CD3ε + T-lymphocytes were suggested to be involved in both the acute and chronic inflammatory response The importance of T-lymphocytes in Gram-negative...
... sulfoconjugation inthe testis orinthe liver [14, 38, 39] Therefore, in theory, high levels of androstenone in fat can be ascribed to a high intensity of testicular synthesis or/ and a low intensity ... However, the corresponding porcine protein shares more similarities with the human protein encoded by CYP2A13 gene than with CYP2A6 To date, the number of genes coding for CYP2A porcine enzymes ... coding for SULT2A porcine enzyme is currently unknown GENES INVOLVED INTHE METABOLISM OF SKATOLE Skatole or 3-methyl indole is a derivative of tryptophan produced inthe hindgut of pigs by intestinal...
... members are always the source of inspiration They continue to motivate me to better in whatever I am doing Their blessings and faith in me were the main driving force during the course of my PhD ... survey Table 9.3 STTs as per different phases of DMAIC: Summarized from two surveys Table 9.4 Indicators and their score for determining level of success Table 9.5 Indicators and their score for ... supporting preparedness for Six Sigma project Table 7.3 CTQs inthe projects Table 7.4 Tools and techniques used inthe projects Table 7.5 Summary of findings: Public service organizations Table...
... the author gave new proofs for the following theorems: Theorem 2.3.2; Theorem 3.3.2; and Theorem 3.4.2 As some of the proofs given inthe sources are either not complete or unclear, the author ... homomorphism with the corresponding homomorphism f : G → G such that the induced mapping f : M → M is a diffeomorphism Let Γ be a connection in P , ω its connection form and Ω its curvature form Then ... understanding, I would not be able to come this far Author’s contribution While the contents are not new, the author has tried to bring the two themes of the thesis together from various sources Moreover,...