Our Boiler Feedwater Pumps Just Do Not Perform Like Before

Measurement of organic halogens in boiler feedwater

Materials of steam water cycles can suffer from corrosion induced by halide anions in feedwater. Organic halogen compounds in feedwater can be degraded and release halide anions under high temperature and pressure. Therefore it is necessary to be able to measure the organic halogen concentration. Existing measurements including Adsorbable Organic Halogens and Gas Chromatography are either not c...

Do Patents Perform like Property ?

Do patents provide critical incentives to encourage investment in innovation? Or, instead, do patents impose legal risks and burdens on innovators that discourage innovation, as some critics now claim? This paper reviews empirical economic evidence on how well patents perform as a property system. Do Patents Perform Like Property? 1

Personalised medicine: not just in our genes

interactions. This list was created by exploring the basic biomedical research literature (272 studies: candidate gene and genome-wide association studies) for " repurposed " or " effect modification " randomised trials—that is, studies that genotyped stored samples of participants in placebo controlled trials of cardiovascular drugs and thus enabled a test of the interaction between genotype a...

Sexual rehabilitation after myocardial infarction and coronary bypass surgery: why do we not perform our job?

BACKGROUND/AIM There is a perception that in patients with heart diseases in Serbia sexual rehabilitation does not exist. Why do we not perform our job? A kind of resistance to sexual rehabilitation is common for heart disease patients. Prejudices regarding patients' sexuality, fear and limited knowledge are not rare among the members of medical staff. The aim of this study was to assess knowle...

do we need to screen our patients for ebv igg antibody before kidney transplantation?