... and Manufacturing Engineering under the Department of Plant and Automotive Engineering He is now the Head for Department of Plant and Automotive Engineering Currently his main research interests ... are inthe area of exhaust after-treatment for gasoline and diesel fuelled engines, alternative fuels, performance of diesel engine and retrofitting approach for reducing emissions and enhancing ... Results and discussion The results and discussion based on theeffectof EGR rates on engine performance and emission characteristics of JB5, JB20 and DF, compared to DF without EGR (baseline) The...
... hundreds of gauss Thus, the increasing of Co-concentration led tothe increasing of anisotropy property of ferrites Ni1-xCoxFe2O4, hence it was the increasing of HC The increasing of HC proved that the ... x increased this leads tothe compensation of ion Fe3+ inthe tetrahedral and octahedral location That led to increasing of total magnetization of a molecule Ni1-xCoxFe2O4 and hence there is increasing ... is the atomic weights of all the atoms inthe unit cell, V is volume ofthe unit cell and N is the Avogadro’s number Since each primitive unit cell ofthe spinel structure contains molecules, the...
... engage inthe ownership ofthe company In addition, this can be an effective way to tie the managers’ performance with the best interest ofthe company Inthe case of managers approaching retirement, ... because the managers want to retain money to pay for their own salaries and other benefit Moreover, they want to increase the size ofthe company as well as increase their power inthe company Last ... put into work and 20 what they deserve from the company In addition to rewarding workers for their effort in doing a good job, bonus plays an important role in encouraging them and creating incentives...
... emigrants), Spain (21 thousand emigrants), France (20 thousand emigrants), the United States (19 thousand emigrants), and Poland (18 thousand emigrants) were the top five intended countries for emigrants ... England and Wales, not people that were born in England and Wales The data will then exclude people born in England and Wales who died elsewhere and will include people born elsewhere who died in ... (1991-2004) ofthe Health Survey of England The vertical lines are cutoffs corresponding tothe first cohorts subject tothe new compulsory schooling laws The first of these took effect on April 1947, the...
... 58 provinces, all provinces inthe survey rank inthe lowest income quintiles inthe country with their population predominantly engaging in small-scale agriculture and limited self- and off-farm ... compensation of rainfall, and (iii) an indicator based on the length of drought spells within the year (see section A.2 inthe appendix) The indicator based on the cumulative total of any absolute ... earning capacity due to both delays in schooling and declines in total schooling, including years of education and delay in enrollment This paper provides new estimates on the short-term effects of...
... cells with their cytoplasm and nuclei stained in purple blue with the Harris Hematoxylin, are mainly located inthe fibrin colloid (indicated by arrows) and also inthe interphase with the reticular ... exceeding the initial size ofthe implant and including the region of wound healing, was taken After fixing the biopsies in Bouin's solution for 24 h, they were rinsed in 70% ethanol, dehydrated ... 10 min, and then rinsed in distilled water Next, they were stained in 0.5% erythrosine B (C.I 45430) - 0.5% orange G (C.I 16230) for 30 min, and then rinsed in distilled water They were then...
... those of senior physicians, reflecting the necessity of training Delineation variations are a source of error inthe planning and execution of radiotherapy Regarding the treatment planning consequences ... scan, the initial PET-CT scan andthe PET fusion with the planning CT scan were available tothe residents The software employs standard delineation tools (pen, brush, multislice interpolation ) The ... before the course This result shows the importance ofthe margins applied tothe CTV to create the PTV to better respect the dose constraints tothe critical organs, the final aim of this being...
... by the authors from the original papers Some of these mechanisms may include (1) altering the immune response and reducing the risk of infection [5,32,33]; (2) avoiding the pro-inflammatory effect ... tissue tothedevelopmentof fibrillation Due tothe lack of understanding ofthe basic mechanisms of AF following cardiac surgery, it is difficult to propose a theory on the protective role of tight ... a median and range, and asked if they could provide their data as means and standard deviations, unfortunately, these data were not available Therefore, we conducted a meta-analysis ofthe three...
... stems and infected canker tissues from American and Chinese chestnut The comparison between the American and Chinese chestnut canker transcriptomes enabled us to identify a large number of candidate ... for the American andthe Chinese chestnut canker reflects the lower quality ofthe American chestnut library In total ~13.3 and ~24.0 megabases of cDNA were generated from the American and Chinese ... differences inthe response ofthe American and Chinese chestnut species to infection by the blight-causing agent, we compared the transcriptomes from Chinese chestnut canker tissues and American chestnut...
... all human and rat ATII cells studies YI and RJM participated inthe design ofthe study and data analysis All authors have read and approved ofthe final manuscript Competing interests The authors ... system for maintaining the differentiated functions of adult human ATII cells in vitro [48] Therefore, the aim of this study is to investigate the IL-13 and IFN-g effect on the expression ofthe surfactant ... 2) There was clearly incomplete processing of proSP-C, as indicated by the abundance ofthe ~22 kDa intermediate The effects on proSP-C and mature SP-C by IL-13 and IFN-g were similar in rat and...
... measured the incidence and outcomes of ALI in King County, Washington [18] From April 1999 to July 2000, all mechanically ventilated patients in King County, Washington, and those in neighbouring ... conceptualisation, interpretation ofthe results and helped in drafting the manuscript MMT and EC were responsible for data acquisition, statistical analysis and critical review and revision ofthe manuscript ... 0.17 to 0.55) compared with patients in open ICUs Theeffectof closed model ICU on delivered VT was robust to changes inthe included covariates inthe regression model and changes inthe study...
... andthe Standard Operating Procedures ofthe Department of Anaesthesia, Critical Care, Pain and Resuscitation The sponsor organisation for the trial is Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust The ... importance ofthe quality of CPR and adherence with this during the arrest, the management ofthe arrest itself (compliance with guidelines), a review of factors leading up tothe cardiac arrest and ... Conducting research in emergency situations where a patient lacks capacity is regulated by the Mental Capacity Act (2005) in England and Wales andthe Adults with Incapacity Act (2000) in Scotland The...
... for loans made to Grant Financial, raising total bank loans and advances to $700 million Ofthe 143 banks involved in loans to Grant at the time of its demise, 14 supplied over 83 percent ofthe ... ("Order Fixing Time," 9) By extending lines of credit and loans totaling $700 million to Grant, and by entering into the loan extension agreement, the banks strengthened their constraining influence ... constraining influence to control the hiring and firing of Grant's top personnel Inthe spring of 1974 Grant's directors discussed "relieving Mr Mayer of his duties" because ofthe firm's declining...
... 113, and 37 firms, respectively), absence ofan audit committee (7, 7, and 1), missing information on directors’ stock optionand stock holdings (4, 5, and 4) and changes inthe board of directors ... governance expertise andto gain knowledge of best board practices On the other hand, if the number of other directorships is too large, then it may reduce the time the director can devote tothe ... ofthe financial statements, ofthe external audit, andofthe internal control system (including internal auditing) We focus on the first two because they are the most relevant for income management...
... during task performance Ellis and Yuan’s findings pointed into the direction of Skehan and Foster’s Model 1.4.2 Theeffectof task type on L2 performance There have been a number of studies on the ... Academic Writing Task was influenced by the amount of information provided andthe presentation of information tothe candidates Four tasks differing inthe amount of information were assigned to 210 ... Foster’s predictions Ellis and Yuan [15] reported findings on the effects of three types of planning (no planning, unpressured online-planning, pre-task planning) on 42 Chinese learners’ written...
... green, blue, and white light to consider the change of pH, increasing of biomass, chlorophyll and carotenoid production in continuous days from day to day 2.2.4 Study theeffectof dark – light ... cycle on Spirulina sp chlorophyll and carotenoid production Objectives: Testing and comparing theeffectof illumination time 12/24 and 24/24 hour on the growth of biomass, chlorophyll and carotenoid ... continuous days, the growth of Spirulina was determined by miroscopy andthe biomass increasing 2.2.6 Data analysis method Microsoft Excel and SPSS software were used for data analyzed RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS...
... traumatic injury tothe tooth that refers to total displacement ofthe tooth out of its socket (Andreasen 1994) The incidence ranges from 0.5 to 16% in permanent teeth andto 17% in primary teeth The ... cementum covering the root ofthe tooth andthe alveolar bone The PDL width ranges from 0.15 to 0.38 mm andthe thinnest portion is around the middle third ofthe root The function ofthe PDL can be ... resorption, the inflammatory process needs to be minimized Gentle rinsing ofthe tooth and socket could aid in controlling contamination ofthe root surface and socket (Masson et al., 1987) The use of antibiotics...
... ways of thinking about the world and broaden their understanding ofthe business world although there was a gender difference in this regard with more men expressing an interest in improving functional ... impact ofthe MBA and on specific skills acquired inthe process of earning the degree Some research has reported specific age and experience effects on the value ofthe MBA in skill acquisition and ... andan over-emphasis on functional skills at the expense of integrative learning (Mintzberg, 2004) Other critiques question the value ofthe degree even inthe face of continuing program expansion...
... for analyzing the data and writing the paper, with all ofthe authors contributing by reviewing and editing drafts ofthe manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Page of ... we included variables relating to whether individuals were repeat Page of diners and their reason for visiting the restaurant Chisquared and ANOVA tests were used to determine whether significant ... Davis, no competing interests Authors’ contributions All ofthe authors were involved in designing the research BE and JLL conducted the research and DD oversaw management ofthe restaurant BE had...
... (−y) (1:4) in random normed spaces inthe sense of Sherstnev under arbitrary continuous tnorms Inthe sequel, we adopt the usual terminology, notations and conventions ofthe theory of random normed ... Journal of Inequalities and Applications 2011, 2011:34 http://www.journalofinequalitiesandapplications.com/content/2011/1/34 Page of 12 On the other hand, in 1982-1998, J.M Rassias generalized the ... (2m−1 t))) (2:10) Since the right-hand side ofthe inequality (2.10) tends to as m and n tend to infin nity, the sequence { g(2n x) } is a Cauchy sequence Thus, we may define A(x) = limn→∞ g(2n...