A new type of fast beam chopper was developed and installed at the HIMAC facility. Test operations of the chopper have been carried out. The chopper is basically a periodic beam-energy transformer that performs 10% modulation of beam’s kinetic energy. The modulated fraction of the beam is chopped off by the downstream RFQ due to the relatively narrow injection energy window of the RFQ. Some of ...

Five methods for extracting nematodes from soil were compared using three sandy soils and three clay soils. Although no one method was superior to the others for all the genera in any one particular soil, the decanting plus sieving plus Baermann tray method was generally the most efficient for sandy soils and the decanting plus sieving plus centrifugal sugar flotation method the most efficient ...

Pineapple production in Costa Rica increased nearly 300-fold during the last 30 yr, and >40,000 hectares of land are currently dedicated to this crop. At the end of the pineapple cropping cycle, plants are chopped and residues incorporated into the soil in preparation for replanting. Associated with increased pineapple production has been a large increase in stable fly, Stomoxys calcitrans (L.)...

Aimed at investigating the recovery of a specific mutant allele of the mating type locus (MAT) by switching a defective MAT allele, these experiments provide information bearing on several models proposed for MAT interconversion in bakers yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Hybrids between heterothallic (ho) cells carrying a mutant MAT a allele, designated mata-2, and MAT alpha ho strains show a h...

The effect of sample preparation on measures of in vitro digestibility was studied using leaves of Calliandra calothyrsus. They were chopped fresh (FrCh), chopped and oven-dried at 658C (ChOD), chopped and freeze-dried (ChFD), oven-dried and ground (ODGr) or freeze-dried and ground (FDGr). Samples were analysed for in vitro dry matter and nitrogen digestibility with or without PEG addition to b...

In this study, zeolite-chopped strands composites were produced by using traditional mixed oxide technique. The single phase natural zeolite compound was generated after sintering at 1000 °C for 4 h. For the structural investigation, various quantities powders of zeolite–chopped generated. X-ray diffraction (XRD) carried out analysis, which indicated that second did not form in zeolite. Additio...

Medication-assisted treatment (MAT) is underutilized in the treatment of drug-dependent, criminal justice populations. This study surveyed criminal justice agencies affiliated with the Criminal Justice Drug Abuse Treatment Studies (CJ-DATS) to assess use of MAT and factors influencing use of MAT. A convenience sample (N = 50) of criminal justice agency respondents (e.g., jails, prisons, parole/...

The measured metabolizable energy (ME) of whole almonds has been shown to be less than predicted by Atwater factors. However, data are lacking on the effects of processing (roasting, chopping or grinding) on the ME of almonds. A 5-period randomized, crossover study in healthy individuals (n = 18) was conducted to measure the ME of different forms of almonds (42 g per day), as part of a controll...