Although several workers have produced in vitro inhibition of the anaphylactic reaction with metabolic inhibitors (1, 2) and we have observed inhibition with chymotrypsin substrates and inhibitors (3), enhancement of the in vitro anaphylactic reaction has not been previously reported. While evaluating c-amino caproic acid, an inhibitor of plasminogen activation (4, 5), for its effect on the ana...

Current work reports the design and evaluation of circular rings for Ilizarov external fixator system. A radiolucent composite material of knitted aramid fibre (and short chopped carbon) and epoxy resin is used to replace stainless steel, currently the most commonly used material. The use of a radiolucent composite material permits easier and more accurate radiographic evaluation of the healing...

An alternative broiler litter to pine shavings may be switchgrass, a high yielding forage crop (8-12 tons per acre) that can grow across the Southeastern U.S. A study was conducted to determine the efficacy of chopped switchgrass as a litter material for broiler chickens. Pine Shavings (PS) and Switchgrass (SG) were used as litter treatments with 10 replications each. Body weight, body weight g...

Limonene is present in orange peel wastes and is known as an antimicrobial agent, which impedes biogas production when digesting the peels. In this work, pretreatment of the peels to remove limonene under mild condition was proposed by leaching of limonene using hexane as solvent. The pretreatments were carried out with homogenized or chopped orange peel at 20-40°C with orange peel waste and he...

The analysis of the lightning impulses is made graphical according to IEC 60060-1: 1989. A new algorithm has been proposed to analyse the parameters, front time, time to half, peak value, of full and chopped lightning impulses. The algorithm provides a procedure for obtaining the parameters of the impulse voltages from waveforms with varying degrees of distortions in the front part of the impul...

To provide a seamless integration of manufacturing processing simulation and fiber microstructure modeling, two new stochastic 3D microstructure reconstruction methods are proposed for two types of random fiber composites: random short fiber composites, and Sheet Molding Compounds (SMC) chopped fiber composites. A Random Sequential Adsorption (RSA) algorithm is first developed to embed statisti...

| This paper describes the principle and the design of a 0.5m CMOS, low-power, low-voltage, chopped ampliier for noise and ooset reduction in mixed analogue digital applications. The operation is based on chopping and dynamic element matching to reduce noise and ooset, without excessive increase of the charge injection residual ooset. It consists of a chopped transconductance stage and a new cl...

Miscanthus samples were scanned over the visible and near infrared wavelengths at several stages of processing (wet-chopped, air-dried, dried and ground, and dried and sieved). Models were developed to predict lignocellulosic and elemental constituents based on these spectra. The dry and sieved scans gave the most accurate models; however the wet-chopped models for glucose, xylose, and Klason l...

The present investigation was done on impact of different hardening substrates growth in vitro raised plantlets with objective to standardize media for acclimatization orchid plantlets. research laid out Completely Randomized Design (CRD) combination 16 treatments containing charcoal, brick, cocopeat, bark, rice husk, groundnut shell, chopped coconut husk and paddy straw all replicated thrice a...

On 3 consecutive cuttings, alfalfa from a single field was mowed with a John Deere 946 mower-conditioner (4-m cut width; Moline, IL) to leave narrow swaths (NS) ranging from 1.2 to 1.52 m wide (30-37% of cutter bar width) and wide swaths (WS) ranging from 2.44 to 2.74 m wide (62-67% of cutter bar width). Samples were collected from windrows and dry matter (DM) was monitored during wilting until...