... heat, steam, and power Mass and energy balances were performed for individual process components and the entire designAn overall process efficiency of 49% and 53% was achieved for DME and FT-fuels, ... Carbon cycle analysis of DME and FTD designs 68 Figure 27: Mass and energy flow of DME design and FTD design 69 List of Tables Table 1: Bleaching chemicals for ECF and TCF bleaching ... for Fischer-Tropsch synthesis and the effectiveness of wet and dry gas cleaning methods [79] 33 Table 6: Contaminant specification for cobalt FT synthesis, and cleaning effectiveness of wet and...
... (Jặmol)1) a AP1 +AP1 AP1 +AP1 AP1 +AP1 )106.11 )2 58. 02 ) 387 .10 0.60 7.91 12.51 )7.35 )17 .88 )26 .83 0.04 0.55 0 .87 )89 86.72 )2 185 2 .82 )32 785 .45 51.00 669 .85 1059.37 compressibility Table also shows ... (cm1) 285 4 285 3 285 2 285 1 285 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 Temperature (C) Fig FTIR lipid-phase transition analyses of SUVs with lipid compositions that correspond to those of E coli membranes, all ... the presence of lipid vesicles that mimicked membranes of E coli A standard toxicity assay showed that AP1 inactivated the organism, and the use of Antimicrobial properties ofan anionic a-helical...
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... Validation and Performance Evaluation The performance of the previously studied DQ-MAC energy-efficiency analysis is validated first with an analytical representation of the proposed model and thereafter ... protocol frame format and time sequence of diverse nature in an independent manner Note that the introduction of the fuzzy-logic techniques does not change the energy-consumption performance of the depicted ... for a traffic load of 80 % (i.e., high-density area) It can be seen that (i) BSN-MAC outperforms IEEE 80 2.15.4 MAC in 19.09% for payload length packet of 50 bytes; (ii) DQ-MAC outperforms IEEE 80 2.15.4...
... elevation angle, ranging from 0◦ to 90◦ with an angle interval of 30 degrees There are 12 transmitters for those three rings that have elevation angles of 0◦ , 30◦ , and 60◦ , respectively, and only ... site-based modeling for wireless infrared channels,” IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol 50, no 5, pp 759–765, 2002 J.-L Tang, P C Jui, and S C Wang, “Simulation and designof omni-directional ... Djahani and Kahn [13, 22] have used multibeam (quasidiffusive) transmitters and imaging diversity receivers to improve the link performance for both LOS and nonLOS IR links The link performance...
... 80 2.11 standard and not to entirely redesign the standard channel access mechanisms, we tried to find a flexible development platform providing an implementation of the legacy 80 2.11 standard Unfortunately, ... IEEE 80 2.11 standard at Mbps and not the newer versions at higher speed (for instance 80 2.11b and 80 2.11g) due to hardware limitations, and in particular the unavailability of inexpensive and ... the architectural design and implementation ofan enhanced 80 2.11 MAC protocol more suitable for ad hoc environments The MobileMAN project is an initiative funded by the European FET FP5 Programme...
... volcanic site, or structural monitoring of buildings, by means of samples captured by nodes randomly and uniformly distributed Samples are then transmitted to a sink with a selforganizing and ... and so forth 8. 1 Improvement with respect to LEACH B First of all, in Table 2, we compare the round when the first node expires for LEACH B [ 18] and the new LEACH B+ v1 Cross-Layer Designofan ... affected by the hidden node problem and the amount of data transmitted by nodes to the CHs First of all, we want to point out that the random changing of the CHs can mitigate the hidden terminal...
... 28 23 15 61 17 24 73 11 84 3 82 36 41 4 47 33 65 48 38 11 44 26 76 30 37 67 68 74 69 43 53 50 2 32 2 67 45 14 89 3 63 22 14 64 83 46 31 72 81 87 56 86 57 58 88 3 55 18 91 85 2 29 25 17 21 78 ... matching two types of transcriptional regulatory circuit motif - feedforward and bi-fan - overlap with one another and form large clusters [6,10,11] This suggests that instead of representing network ... subgraph can be transformed to the pattern by any combination of node identity permutations or link removals The p value for the enrichment ofan interconnection pattern is defined by the fraction of...
... 1991, 18: 38- 43 British National Formulary BMJ Group and RPS Publishing; 20 08 Curtis L: Unit Costs of Health and Social Care 20 08 PSSRU, University of Kent, Canterbury; 20 08 Department of Health: ... will be scanned in both longitudinal and transverse planes, along with the calcaneal and retrocalcaneal bursa, the plantar fascial calcaneal enthesis, the peroneal tendons, tibialis anterior, ... active and limited foot joint counts ranging 0– 28 Foot deformity will be assessed using the Structural Index (SI) to provide summated scores for rearfoot/ankle deformity (0–14) and forefoot deformity...
... Assessment and Diagnosis……………… 88 4.1 Proposed Human Spinal Deformity Measurement Indices and Parameter… 88 4.1.1 Spinal Visible Characteristics and Principles of Optimal Indices… 88 4.1.2 The ... Stewart Platform and the moveable frame 68 Figure 3.7 Model of structure of the Stewart Platform 69 Figure 3 .8 A new designof the system to include the forward bending and rotation movement of the ... staff and officers in the Advanced Manufacturing Laboratory, especially to Mr Tan Choon Huat, Mr Wong Chian Long, Mr Ho Yan Chee, Mr Lim Soon Cheong, Mr Simon Tan Suan Beng and Mr Lee Chiang Soon,...
... into quantity control of manufacturing systems for simultaneously improving performance measures Therefore, this thesis proposes anintegrated quantity and quality approach for performance analysis ... pressurizing manufacturers to enhance manufacturing performance for financial survival (Anand and Kodali, 2009) In the past decades, manufacturers of many industries have made relentless efforts to ... sampling plans into integrated quality and quantity analysis of manufacturing systems 2.3 Performance analysis of systems with both operational and quality failures Quality failures of manufacturing...
... Hooman Samani, Doros, Chamari, Asanka, Sanath, Prabhash, Charith, Anusha, Wang Xuan, Xavi, Pan Yew, Nyan, Elham, Hiroki san, Katsumoto san, Dr Eng Tat, Cathie, Ron, Nicole and all the FYPs and interns ... thank you for all the support and direction I would like to extend special thanks to Dr Suranga Nanayakkara and Prof Pattie Maes and all the people at the Media Lab Fluid Interfaces group for ... xvi LIST OF FIGURES 8. 1 Summary of timing characteristics for temperature ranges 140 8. 2 8. 3 Frame rate for di↵erent temperature ranges 141 Steady state power requirements for 1cm2...
... increasing rate of the capital cost is faster than that of revenues Currently, the cost of setting up a plant for chip manufacturing is nearly $10 billion, and more than 60% of this cost can be attributed ... 82 Conclusion 83 7.1 Summary of Results 83 7.2 Future Developments 85 Publication 87 Bibliography 88 Appendix 97 List of Figures ... especially my wife Shan DongMei, for their love, encouragement, understanding and support Wang Lan August, 20 08 iii Contents Summary i Acknowledgments iii List of Figures viii List of Tables xii Introduction...
... …………………………… 82 5 .8. 3 Analysis of Surface Roughness ……………………………………… .84 5 .8. 3.1 Influence of grinding wheel speed ………………………… .85 5 .8. 3.2 Influence of work rotation speed ………………………… 85 5 .8. 3.3 Influence of ... 5.7.3 Analysis of different form accuracy ………………………………… .80 5 .8 Measurement of surface roughness …………………………………………… 81 5 .8. 1 Surface roughness of Perspex ……………………………………… 81 5 .8. 2 Surface Roughness of ... picture of the turn table from (a) front and (b) rear side 3.4 DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OFAN ON-MACHINE PROFILE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM One of the most important targets of this study was to design and...
... half-reaction for any oxidant can be converted to equivalent half-reaction with the free reactive oxygen instead of electrons For the ultimate conversion ofan organic compound to CO2 and H2O, a ... rates of volatile solutes can be estimated within experimental error from generally available information The degradation rates of chlorinated methane, ethane and ethene (spanning the range of Henry’s ... is an extremely powerful oxidant, of which the coefficients of rates with organic molecules are generally in the range of 1 08 to 1010 M-1 s-1 (Glaze and Kang, 1 989 ) Lin et al ( 1996) proposed...
... responsible for immunosurveillance, there is strong evidence for their functional role in antigen binding First, an analysis of mutational patterns of membrane-bound and secreted forms of nurse ... possibility of disulphide bond formation genetically by replacement of residues Cys22 and Cys82 with alanine and valine, respectively, to give a cysteine minus mutant (12F-11DCys) Use of alanine and ... amino acid sequences (GenBank AY069 988 ; AF336094; AF336 087 ; AF336 088 ; AF336 089 ) Amino acids are designated with the singleletter code, and identical residues (dark shading) and conservative replacements...
... 2207–2215 ª 2005 FEBS Y Zhang et al Development ofan HSV-tk transgenic mouse model A B Fig Analysis of integration of transgene in mouse family TK5 (A) PCR analysis of the transgenic mice in TK5-F1 ... (SAS Software) A P-value < 0.05 was considered significant PCR analysis for the integration of the transgene The transgene in the founder animals and their progeny was identified by PCR analysis of ... rate of Hep-G2 cells was reduced significantly after transfection with HSV-tk (Fig 1B) Detection of inserted transgene and monitoring of the pedigree of mouse family TK5 by PCR A total of 182 eggs...