Parotid saliva placed in 35-mm-diameter tissue culture dishes developed increasing surface viscoelasticity at the interface with air. A surface layer became visible with time, and was collected and analysed by protein electrophoresis which indicated that a single protein (pI 4.2; molecular mass approx. 6 kDa) predominated. Western blot analysis demonstrated that the major protein band reacted w...

The use of air as biomass gasifying agent yields low heating value product gas and is only suitable for heat and power applications. Steam and oxygen gasification on the other hand can increase gas heating value as well as main gas constituents suitable for production of liquid fuels through synthesis processes. Experiments were carried out to investigate the influence of using oxygen enriched-...

0260-8774/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.jfoodeng.2010.11.019 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 509 335 2140; fax E-mail address: [email protected] (J. Tang). This study explored the application of radio frequency (RF) energy in conjunctionwith conventional hot air treatment to provide uniformheating for control ofmold in pre-packaged bread loaf. A 6 kW, 27.12 MHzRF system was...

As part of an intensive study of crop response to CO 2 enrichment in a free-air CO2 enrichment (FACE) experiment in the field, we determined aspects of the water relations of a cotton crop on selected dates in 1991. The atmosphere was enriched from 370 #mol CO2 mo1-1 (control) to about 550 #mol mo1-1 in free air during daylight hours. Under full irrigation, CO2 enrichment decreased stomatal con...

We examined the seasonal variations of isotopic composition of water vapor in the lower troposphere (850–500 hPa) to relate those of precipitation and groundwater using satellite observations from the Aura Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) over the volcanic Island of Jeju, Korea. We ran an isotope-enabled general circulation model (IsoGSM) and calculated 120-hr reversecalculated trajecto...

Abstract In order to study the propagation characteristics of rotating detonation wave (RDW) liquid fuel, an experimental was carried out with kerosene at room temperature as fuel and oxygen-enriched air oxygen volume fraction 38.5% oxidant in this paper. RDW equivalence ratio range 0.65~0.9 successfully obtained by controlling mass flow, a detailed analysis out. The results show that increase ...

Microalgal cultures are usually sparged with CO2-enriched air to preclude CO2 limitation during photoautotrophic growth. However, the CO2 vol% specifically required at operating conditions to meet the carbon requirement of algal cells in photobioreactor is never determined and 1-10% v/v CO2-enriched air is arbitrarily used. A scheme is proposed and experimentally validated for Chlorella vulgari...

[1] During the July 2002 CRYSTAL-FACE field program based from Key West, Florida, aircraft measurements showed that long-lived thin tropopause cirrus (TTC) layers were often present above thunderstorm anvils. This paper describes these clouds and explores their possible origins. Measurements showed that the horizontal dimensions of TTC layers were nearly identical to convectively formed anvils ...

BACKGROUND We have treated 4 patients of acute erythematous skin diseases with fever and/or pain by H2 enriched intravenous fluid. We also added data from two volunteers for assessing the mode of H2 delivery to the skin for evaluation of feasibility of H2 treatment for this type of skin diseases. METHODS All of the four patients received intravenous administration of 500 ml of H2 enriched flu...