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An experimental study of effects of confinement ratio on swirl stabilized flame macrostructures

Swirl stabilized premixed flames are common in industrial gas turbines. The flame shape in the combustor is highly related to the combustion stability and the performance of the gas turbine. In the current paper, the effects of confinement on the time averaged flame structures or flame macrostructures are studied experimentally. Experiments are carried out with swirl number S = 0.66 in two cylindr

Nanoenvironmental Effects Dramatically Influence the Sensitivity of Immunoassays

It is possible to improve the sensitivity of immunoassays by several orders of magnitude by exploiting nanoenvironmental effects. This approach can detect trace amounts of compounds and will better illuminate the presence of signal substances in biological systems. Here we describe a method for ultrasensitive immunoassays using 'normal' antibodies (Abs).

Diesel soot aging in urban plumes within hours under cold dark and humid conditions

Fresh and aged diesel soot particles have different impacts on climate and human health. Whilefresh diesel soot particles are highly aspherical and non-hygroscopic, aged particles are sphericaland hygroscopic. Aging and its effect on water uptake also controls the dispersion of diesel soot inthe atmosphere. Understanding the timescales on which diesel soot ages in the atmosphere is thus important,Fresh and aged diesel soot particles have different impacts on climate and human health. While fresh diesel soot particles are highly aspherical and non-hygroscopic, aged particles are spherical and hygroscopic. Aging and its effect on water uptake also controls the dispersion of diesel soot in the atmosphere. Understanding the timescales on which diesel soot ages in the atmosphere is thus importa

Survival in individuals with severe alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency (PiZZ) in comparison to a general population with known smoking habits

Knowledge about the natural history of severe alpha 1-antitrypsin (AAT) deficiency (PiZZ) is limited. Our aim was to compare the survival of PiZZ individuals with randomly selected controls from the Swedish general population. The PiZZ subjects (n=1585) were selected from the Swedish National AATD Register. The controls (n=5999) were randomly selected from the Swedish population register. Smoking

A modular and compact long pulse modulator based on the SML topology for the ESS Linac

The ESS Linac project, phase I, requires 12 long pulse klystron modulators with compact footprint, high pulse power and improved quality both on the output pulse waveform and on the input AC power line. Conventional long pulse modulators are typically based on HV pulse transformers and commonly exhibit poor efficiency, low power density, large footprint and cost, with still limited performance on

Experimental investigation on the influences of bluff-body's position on diffusion flame structures

Effects of the bluff-body's position on diffusion flame structures and flame instability characteristics were investigated experimentally. A flame regime diagram together with the corresponding flow fields were proposed to evaluate the influences caused by the alternation of bluff-body's position. The disk shape bluff-body was placed 10 mm downstream or at the same height with the annular channel

From economic choice to social choice in coastal management : A critical assessment of the use of cost-benefit analysis in the evaluation of an erosion control project in Flagler County, Florida, U.S.A.

Sustainable development remains of general interest in both political and academic circles. Importantly, the approach to collective decision making adopted in pursuit of sustainable development has importance repercussions regarding what range of possible informational considerations get incorporated as relevant to a given choice exercise. The most dominant approach to environmental public policy

Assessment of Commonly used Tool Life Models in Metal Cutting

In this work, eleven different combinations of work piece materials and tool grades have been evaluated in wear test when turning with cemented carbide insert. The most commonly used tool life models such as the Taylor model, the Extended Taylor model, the Coromant Turning model version 1 and the Colding model have been tested on the data and their accuracy is presented. The well-known Taylor mode

Online Alkali Measurement during Oxy-fuel Combustion

Coal has been the main fuel in the generation of heat and power for many years and will continue to be so for years to come. Global warming awareness has led to the Kyoto Protocol, which targets the abatement of six greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide (CO2). For the abatement of CO2 emissions, co-combustion of coal and biomass is an attractive solution. Other mitigation solutions include ox

Om empatins problematik

Texten är en översättning av Edith Steins doktorsavhandling, Zum Problem der Einfühlung, publicerad 1917

Pyrolysis modeling of pvcusing distributed activation energy model-micro scale testing

Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) is a common thermoplastic whichfinds widespread applications in the construction industry for usage inceiling linings, flooring materials, electrical cables and roofing materials. Several fire requirements are put on these types of applications. For fire safety engineering and product development, thermo-chemical decomposition modeling of PVC isrequired. The FIRETOOLS proj

High levels of (un)switched memory B cells are associated with better outcome in patients with advanced atherosclerotic disease

Background--Atherosclerosis is an inflammatory lipid disorder and the main underlying pathology of acute ischemic events. Despite a vast amount of data from murine atherosclerosis models, evidence of B-cell involvement in human atherosclerotic disease is limited. We therefore investigated the association of circulating B-cell subtypes with the occurrence of secondary cardiovascular events in advan

Glucose-induced Changes in Gene Expression in Human Pancreatic Islets - Causes or Consequences of Chronic Hyperglycemia

Dysregulation of gene expression in islets from type 2 diabetic patients might be causally involved in the development of hyperglycemia or it could develop as a consequence of hyperglycemia, i.e. glucotoxicity. To separate the genes potentially causally involved in pathogenesis from those likely to be secondary to the hyperglycemia we exposed islets from human donors to normal or high glucose conc

Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in North India. Prevalence, Diagnostic Criteria, Pathophysiological Aspects and Genetic and Non-Genetic Origin in the State of Punjab.

Gestational diabetes mellitus(GDM) defines an unhealthy state of hyperglycaemia that develops in response to an otherwise normal physiological adaptive insulin resistance state during pregnancy. However, the exact plasma glucose levels differentiating the unhealthy GDM state from a normal pregnancy is unknown, and relies upon arbitrary cut off criteria based on associations with adverse health out

MRI of the swallow tail sign : A useful marker in the diagnosis of lewy body dementia?

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: There are, to date, no MR imaging diagnostic markers for Lewy body dementia. Nigrosome 1, containing dopaminergic cells, in the substantia nigra pars compacta is hyperintense on SWI and has been called the swallow tail sign, disappearing with Parkinson disease. We aimed to study the swallow tail sign and its clinical applicability in Lewy body dementia and hypothesized that

The effect of white matter hyperintensities on statistical analysis of diffusion tensor imaging in cognitively healthy elderly and prodromal Alzheimer’s disease

Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) has been used to study microstructural white matter alterations in a variety of conditions including normal aging and Alzheimer’s disease (AD). White matter hyperintensities (WMH) are common in cognitively healthy elderly as well as in AD and exhibit elevated mean diffusivity (MD) and reduced fractional anisotropy (FA). However, the effect of WMH on statistical analy