Some philosophers, for example David Lewis, have argued for the need to introduce de se contents or centered contents, i.e. contents of thought and speech the correctness of believing which depends not only on the possible world one inhabits, but also on the location one occupies. Independently, philosophers like Robert Stalnaker (and also David Lewis) have developed the conversational score mo...

The goal of the present studies was to determine the exogenous and endogenous reserves of lead, cadmium, arsenic, copper, and zinc. Examinations were carried out in 2006 (N=19), 2007 (N=20), and 2008 (N=20). Hair samples were collected from the back part of the Limousine cattle pastured in the vicinity of the Glogow copper smelter. The cows, aged 4 to 5 years, were reared on green pastures. In ...

Two cases of botulism in horses are described in the article. In the first case two horses died, one survived and recovered after four weeks. Botulotoxin type B was detected using a mouse bioassay in the gastrointestinal content of both dead horses; Clostridium botulinum bacteria were cultivated from one of them. In the second case two horses were affected. One of them was euthanized because of...

Permeability is one of the most important parameters to evaluate gas production in shale reservoirs. Because shale permeability is extremely low, gas is often used in the laboratory to measure permeability. However, the measured apparent gas permeability is higher than the intrinsic permeability due to the gas slippage effect, which could be even more dominant for materials with nanopores. Incr...

Environmental pollution consists of different types of pollutants in air, soil, and water. Due to the fact that plants can respond to environmental pollution, they can be used as bio-indicators for environmental monitoring. Air pollution in areas with oil and gas refineries nearby is an important problem. This study aims to survey the effects of gas refinery air pollutants on Conocarpus erectus...

The nutritive value of pistachio epicarp (PE) was evaluated by in situ and in vitro techniques. Chemical analysis indicated that PE was high in crude protein (11.30%) and low in neutral detergent fiber (26.20%). Total phenols, total tannins, condensed tannins and hydrolysable tannins contents in PE were 8.29%, 4.48%, 0.49% and 3.79%, respectively. Ruminal dry matter and crude ...

A sharpened version of an important property of perfect gases proved by MONLEON & PEDREGAL [1] is proved here by exploiting fully the fact that every perfect gas has an entropy function. In this manner, the more advanced machinery of weak convergence employed in the earlier version is avoided, and a more elementary and accessible proof emerges. CONTENTS

Dit proefschrift is goedgekeurd door de promotoren: Romico Hold for providing know-how and information on the rotational particle sep-arator and related processes. iv Contents Centrifugal separation for cleaning well gas streams: from concept to prototype 1 Nomenclature 3 1 Introduction 7 1.

Studies have demonstrated that phenolic compounds andcarotenoids are essential for prevention of diseases. On the other hand, endogenous ethylene enhances the ripening of fruits and stimulatesthe biosynthesis of carotenoids as well as chlorophylls destruction. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of rootstocks on phenolic compounds andcarotenoids. The contents of individual phenolic...

I will briefly review various analytic approaches to understanding the contents and properties of the hot X-ray emitting gas contained in clusters and groups. Special emphases are given to the following three issues: (1)Reconstruction of the gas distribution in groups and clusters from a (joint) analysis of X-ray, SZ and gravitational lensing observations; (2)Test of the analytic density profil...