... smoke The presence of naphthenic and especially aromatic hydrocarbons increases the smoking tendency A "smoke point" specification is a measure of flame height at which the tip becomes smoky The ... Diesel Fuels 723 Diesel engines, developed by Rudolf Diesel, rely on the heat of compression to achieve ignition ofthe fuel Fuel is injected into the combustion chamber in an atomized spray at the ... Aviation jet fuels, gas turbine fuels, kerosenes, and diesel fuels are very similar The following note from Table of Ref 11 highlights this: No 0-GT includes naphtha, Jet B fuel, and other volatile...
... addresses of truck owners may be obtained fromthe automobile registration bureau in the office ofthe secretary of state or the commissioner of motor vehicles, as the case may be Duplicate Records ... or 50 miles fromthe cities Much of this short-haul freight can be carried on the highways by motor trucks It can be picked up at the door ofthe shipper and delivered at the door ofthe consignee, ... throughout the country The purpose is to take some ofthe burden ofthe short haul off the railroads and put it on motor trucks operating over the highways Very considerable quantities of merchandise...
... after the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers Taking into account the characteristics ofthe evolution of real credit, the variable under analysis in the rest of this paper is defined as the change in the ... the crisis while it decreased in the rest of Asia In the case of Mexico, the recovery of real credit took longer than in the rest ofthe region (ii) By the end of 2009, real credit growth and ... effects oftheglobal financial crisis in emerging market economies Some ofthe existing research analyses the effects of pre-crisis conditions on the behaviour of credit To date, however, all of these...
... captures the importance of banks in theglobal capital markets, particularly the importance ofglobal activity of investment banks The failure of a bank with a large share of underwriting of debt ... as the value of a bank’s payments sent through all ofthe main payments systems of which it is a member divided by the sum total ofthe figures reported by the banks in the sample Values of underwritten ... a bank's global systemic impact, ie the impact given the bank’s distress/failure and not the probability of distress/failure (ie the riskiness) ofthe bank; Views on the quality ofthe policy/resolution...
... on the catalyst used in the FT synthesis reactor, preparation ofthe synthesis gas may require raising the gas’s hydrogen content This involves reacting a portion ofthe carbon monoxide in the ... because of its apartheid policy, the government of South Africa decided to subsidize the production oftransportationfuelsfrom its domestic coal resources Today, Sasol in South Africa operates the ... Sheppard of Rentech; Rosemarie Forsythe and Samuel A Tabak of Exxon Mobil; Donald Paul of Chevron; Robert C Kelly of DKRW Advanced Fuels; Jim Rosborough of Dow Chemical; and John W Rich Jr of WMPI...
... giving the best fit to the scattering intensity The resulting dummy atom model represents the shape ofthe scattering particle To increase the reliability ofthe results, the final model for the dummy ... comparison with the one obtained at pH 6.0 No preferential loss of signal in the region of any ofthe aromatic residues was observed, suggesting a global loss ofthe tertiary structure of ovorubin ... by the Fourier inversion ofthe scattering intensity I(q) using the gnom 4.5 program [16] The low-resolution model of ovorubin was obtained fromthe algorithm built in the program dammin [36] The...
... CO2 are the combustion of fossil fuels, deforestation, unsustainable combustion of biomass, and the emission of mineral sources of CO2 The production of cement contributes to the emission of CO2 ... decarbonization of limestone, and there is no inclusive review ofthe emissions due to energy use in the cement industry This is the first review ofthe total CO2 emissions oftheglobal cement ... smaller source of CO2 is from consumption of electricity, assuming that the electricity is generated from fossil fuels Roughly half ofthe emitted CO2 originates from combustion ofthe fuel and...
... declining trend in the pre-crisis period, which reverts from 2007 for the Domestic banks, and from 2008 for theGlobal banks In the latter group, there is a sudden drop at the peak ofthe crisis, followed ... statistics ofthe variables are presented in Table 3, splitting the sample across Global and Domestic banks The magnitude ofthe difference in size between these two groups of banks is striking The ... the paper in the context ofthe literature Section III presents the dataset, discusses the criteria for the partition ofthe sample, and describes some stylized facts on the evolution of liquidity...
... in models of so-called “rational scrappage”, where the optimal decision ofthe owner to keep or scrap the vehicle is based on the minimization ofthe present value ofthe costs fromthe two alternatives, ... reflected in the parameter values (i.e., the emissions factors and the fuel economy ofthe new vehicles) On the basis ofthe changes introduced in the control scenario, data are needed on the incremental ... costs of each new taxi The capital cost include the initial scrappage subsidy (1,500 USD) and the incremental cost to the taxi owner fromthe purchase of a new vehicle The O&M costs include the...
... logarithm ofthe published RR estimates as the entered means ofthe distribution and the standard errors of these RR estimates derived fromthe published 95% CIs (Table I) For each ofthe output ... countries and in the WHO global assessment,6,34 the local population was divided into categories of people exposed or not exposed to indoor smoke from solid fuels on the basis ofthe energy source ... possible risk The attributable fraction of disease burden in the population is determined by the prevalence of exposure to the risk factor in the population and the relative risk (RR) of disease...
... on the catalyst used in the FT synthesis reactor, preparation ofthe synthesis gas may require raising the gas’s hydrogen content This involves reacting a portion ofthe carbon monoxide in the ... because of its apartheid policy, the government of South Africa decided to subsidize the production oftransportationfuelsfrom its domestic coal resources Today, Sasol in South Africa operates the ... Sheppard of Rentech; Rosemarie Forsythe and Samuel A Tabak of Exxon Mobil; Donald Paul of Chevron; Robert C Kelly of DKRW Advanced Fuels; Jim Rosborough of Dow Chemical; and John W Rich Jr of WMPI...
... W2 * f1 * f2 *f3 *f4 Where W1 = the inverse ofthe probability of selecting the school, W2 = the inverse ofthe probability of selecting the classroom within the school, fl = a school-level non ... conducted a re-analysis of data, participated in the interpretation of results, and drafting ofthe manuscript ASM participated in the interpretation ofthe results, and drafting ofthe manuscript ER ... by grade We used the following questions for the outcome of interest and some ofthe explanatory variables: "During the past 30 days, on how many days were you bullied?", with the responses days,...
... differentially expressed – most of them were upregulated (78 out of 102) – while at the onset phase ofthe disease, only 26 genes were differentially expressed At the chronic phase ofthe disease, 184 differentially ... upregulated after induction of CIA The expression of these genes reached a peak at the onset phase ofthe disease and functional clustering results revealed that they are related to the immune response ... expression profiling (black letters) The positions ofthe 120 genes and the peak markers ofthe QTL were retrieved from Ensembl [30] Confidence intervals of all the QTL were set as 40 Mb including...
... which often lie beyond the reach of policies and services Furthermore the interaction between well-intentioned policy and health services on the one hand, and patients and their families on the other ... research are therefore crucial to the development of socio-culturally appropriate chronic disease policies The application ofthe knowledge ofthe pathophysiology in co-morbidities of chronic diseases ... inform the design of interventions that address the needs of communities and individuals at risk of chronic diseases and their consequences The second broad category of research, complementary to the...
... DAA the cells that make up the core and cortex ofthe mature fruit stop dividing and the rate of cell expansion increases The control of cell division and cell expansion is a key part ofthe ... with the manuscript SMcA assisted in design ofthe experiments and managed the sample collection FBP assisted in the design of algorithms for normalisation ofthe data KCS assisted in design ofthe ... out of 35) of genes had the same pattern of expression in the microarray experiment as in the qRT-PCR experiment Interestingly no relationship was observed between the reproducibility of the...
... participated in the interpretation ofthe findings and drafting ofthe manuscript ER participated in the interpretation ofthe findings and drafting ofthe manuscript All authors read and approved the final ... effects of smoking are observed in adulthood, the majority of smokers initiate the habit of smoking as adolescents There is a growing body of literature on adolescent tobacco use Much ofthe research ... reported their sex, 63.3% and 36.7% were males and females, respectively However, 1122 responded to the question on whether they smoked cigarettes in the previous 30 days Altogether 15.8% ofthe respondents...
... is given by the following formula: W = W1 * W2 * f1 * f2 * f3 * f4 where W1 = the inverse ofthe probability of selecting the school W2 = the inverse ofthe probability of selecting the classroom ... in the analysis to reflect the likelihood of selection of each student into the sample and to reduce bias by compensating for differing patterns of non response The weight used for estimation of ... Forms 2–4) In the following factors, the "Never or Zero" category was recoded as "No" and the rest ofthe categories as "Yes" During the past 30 days, how often did you go hungry because there was...
... corticosteroids given their observed values ofthe 12 selected predictors in the propensity score model The propensity score is a single number which synthesizes the effect ofthe 12 covariants on the probability ... Page 11 of 14 Figure Comparison of within-region mortality N, the number of patients within the region, and the % of LDC represents the percentage of lowdose corticosteroid use within the region ... results from trials, guidelines and meta-analyses [25-28] Hitherto there has been a paucity of data regarding global practice ofthe usage of low dose corticosteroids in severe sepsis There appears...
... in the regions ofthe Midwest and Northeast, active transportation peaks during summer whereas regions ofthe South have relatively warm weather during the spring and autumn and hot humid weather ... systematic sample was then selected fromthe sorted list For the national sample, all Page of telephone numbers in the frame of 100-banks had an equal probability of selection The national sample ... contrast to the northern states, in southern states ofthe US where the summer months are hot and humid, children have lower physical activity in summer than in winter [20] The impact of season...
... The report is called "Fuel for Life: Household Energy and Health." It can be found on the World Health Organization Web site at w-h-o dot i-n-t (who.int) Enter the words "Fuel for Life" in the ... Organization Web site at w-h-o dot i-n-t (who.int) Enter the words "Fuel for Life" in the search box at the top This VOA Special English Development Report was written by Lawan Davis Read and listen to...