A rigorous model for staged high purity distillation based on rst principles is developped. The importance of the tray hydraulics to obtain good agreement between simulation and experiment is demonstrated. Analytical expressions to derive the hydraulic time constants l, v and the vapor constant for models with simpli ed tray hydraulics are presented. The validity of these key parameters is veri...

• Per AFNOR Certification guidelines, a preliminary study was conducted where the relative accuracy, linearity, detection and quantification limits, selectivity (inclusivity and exclusivity) and practicability of the Colilert-18/Quanti-Tray method were assessed using samples of distribution water and fountain water spiked with strains of both coliform bacteria and E. coli. All the assessed perf...

Let \(\varSigma \) and \(\varPi be disjoint alphabets, respectively called the static alphabet parameterized alphabet. Two strings x y over \cup \varPi of equal length are said to match (p-match) if there exists a renaming bijection f on which is identity maps characters those so that two become identical. The indexing version problem finding p-matching occurrences given pattern in text well-st...

Methylisothiazolinone (MI) is a preservative found in cosmetic and industrial products. Contact dermatitis caused by either methylchloroisothiazolinone/methylisothiazolinone (MCI/MI or Kathon CG) or MI has shown increasing frequency. The latter is preferably detected through epicutaneous testing with aqueous MI 2000 ppm, which is not included in the Brazilian standard tray. We describe a series...

This paper describes a practical stereo vision system for position measurement and recognition in an autonomous food-tray-carrying robot. Our food tray carrying robot delivers and collects food trays in medical care facilities. The vision system must position and recognize tables and trays for the robot to manipulate the trays. We have developed edge detectin techniques for the measurement of t...

A dynamic impression is a functional impression that records the functional movement of the patient's own muscle and muscle attachment. This process reduces the number of random factors. This article describes a method for making a special tray using a dynamic impression concept that was made from provisional dentures used for implant healing. The individual tray is used to make a wash-impressi...

The Computational Mass Transfer (CMT) model is composed of the basic differential mass transfer equation, closed by auxiliary equations and the appropriate accompanying CFD formulation. In the present modified CMT model, the closing auxiliary equations in the c2 1c model given by Liu (2003) are further simplified for reducing the computational complication. By this model, the turbulent mass tra...

The purpose of this study was to determine if residents (n = 26) living in an Iowa long-term care facility had differences in food intake at their noon meal and body weight when served traditional tray meal service for 10 weeks compared to being served restaurant-style meal service for 10 weeks. The study also evaluated the facility’s raw food costs of the two meal service styles. Mean meal int...