Caspian kutum fish (Rutilus frisii) wild broodstocks were caught by gillnet during their upstream migration and subjected to short-time confinement stress and their physiological responses have been examined. Thirty fish (average weight of 1217.6 g) were divided into three experimental groups CO (control), OV (ovaprim) and CO+OV (cortisol+ovaprim) and placed into rearing tanks (10 fish tank-1; ...

A group of 59 workers (41 men and 18 women) employed in swine confinement areas was studied to assess the presence of acute and chronic respiratory symptoms and the prevalence of abnormalities in ventilatory function. A control group of 46 (31 men and 15 women) unexposed workers was studied for the prevalence of chronic respiratory symptoms. For both male and female swine confinement workers co...

Collisional cross-field transport due to electric or magnetic field asymmetries is important in many neutral and non-neutral plasma confinement devices. In magnetic mirrors, it has long been postulated that particles resonant with field asymmetries enhance radial diffusion [1], but experimental verification [2] is difficult. In tokamaks, “magnetic pumping” by a spatially varying magnetic field ...

Relations between stagnation and in-flight phases are derived both analytically and numerically, for hydrodynamic variables relevant to direct-drive inertial confinement fusion implosions. Scaling laws are derived for the stagnation values of the shell density and areal density; also the hot spot pressure, temperature and areal density. Simple formulas are derived for the thermonuclear energy g...

Reduction of heat loading appropriate for the plasma facing components (PFCs) such as the divertor and the first wall is crucial for a fusion reactor. Impurity gas seeding is one of techniques to decrease peak heat flux to the divertor both in steady-state and transient phases. Power handling by large radiation power loss has been studied in the ELMy H-mode plasmas on JT-60U with argon (Ar) gas...

Ground settlement is often the most serious concern when tunneling under an old city with numerous historic monuments. A successful engineering design under these conditions would require getting the most out of the ground strength parameters and avoiding any weakening maneuver throughout the operation. Knowing that surface settlement is highly affected by tunneling parameters in EPB shield tun...

BACKGROUND Both exposure to hypoxia and exercise training have the potential to modulate appetite and induce beneficial metabolic adaptations. The purpose of this study was to determine whether daily moderate exercise training performed during a 10-day exposure to normobaric hypoxia alters hormonal appetite regulation and augments metabolic health. METHODS Fourteen healthy, male participants ...

We propose a numerical method for maintaining a dynamic rolling motion of animated gaseous phenomena, such as smoke, that avoids dissipation due to numerical error. We compensate for the errors induced by a semi-Lagrangian scheme using an error estimate for each time interval. We develop a new advection term and perform vortex advection based on a vorticity confinement force. Example simulation...

Quark confinement in MSSM QCD as a consequence of supersymmetry and instanton effects. Abstract It is shown, that instanton effects naturally produce quark confinement in MSSM QCD. The confinement scale, calculated from the first principles, is in a good agreement with the experimental data. The proposed explanation is quite different from the dual Higgs mechanism.