Information on solar radiation is a critical issue in several environmental domains. The means for accessing information suffer from severe drawbacks. The SoDa project was launched (2000-2003, IST programme of the European Commission) to bring solutions by an efficient use of information and communication technologies. Integration of information sources of different natures was realized by the ...

To the Editor: Ezri et al.1 described serum electrolyte changes following ingestion of cathartics prior to bowel resection surgery. The authors dosed 90 mL of Fleet® Phospho-soda® to their subjects. This is twice the recommended dose of 30–45 mL according to the current professional Fleet® Phospho-soda® labelling.2 Fleet® Phospho-soda® should be used only at the recommended dosage and only in p...

This work examines online linear optimization with full information and switching costs (SCs) and focuses on regret bounds that depend on properties of the loss sequences. The SCs considered are bounded functions of a pair of decisions, and regret is augmented with the total SC. We show under general conditions that for any normed SC, σ(x,x) = ‖x−x′‖, regret cannot be bounded given only a bound...

background: today some bakeries for artificially production of bread in order to production process expedition and compensating defects that created by unnatural fermentation and as well as undesirable quality of flour. for cover superficial defects of bread use of harmful chemical material such as soda, that can cause health problems. the aim of this study is determination of soda and salt amo...

PURPOSE This cohort study investigated the association between sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) and diet soda consumption and the incidence of type 2 diabetes in Japanese men. METHODS The participants were 2,037 employees of a factory in Japan. We measured consumption of SSB and diet soda using a self-administered diet history questionnaire. The incidence of diabetes was determined in annual me...

A defined deletion in the Escherichia coli K-12 sodA gene (encoding manganese-superoxide dismutase) linked to a nontransposable selectable marker was generated by transposon Tn5 insertion in combination with in vitro mutagenesis. This mutant allele was used to replace the wild-type sodA gene in an E. coli clinical isolate of serotype O18ac:K1:H7 by bacteriophage P1 transduction. The O18ac:K1:H7...

We present two algorithms for dynamically maintaining a spanning forest of a graph undergoing edge insertions and deletions. Our algorithms guarantee worst-case update time and work against an adaptive adversary, meaning that an edge update can depend on previous outputs of the algorithms. We provide the first polynomial improvement over the long-standing O( √ n) bound of [Frederickson STOC’83,...

A method for the direct assessment of the dissolved CO2 concentration in supersaturated water is presented that is based on changes to the physical chemistry of soda lime due to uptake of CO2. The approach is an adaptation of a standard method used for the quantifi cation of soil respiration, and was found to agree with pCO2 measurements made using infrared gas analysis. In this method, the sod...

The study aims to compare the lignin extraction methods of OPEFB using different solvents; soda and dioxane solvent, reinforcement effects in polylactic acid (PLA) bio-composite. Different method has been found produce with properties purity. yield also highly dependent on types solvents used process. Soda treatment had shown a good removal 17.4 % yield, but only 8.08 for treatment. In contrast...