Direct injection diesel engines are in service for both heavy duty vehicles, light duty vehicles not only in the fields of agriculture and transport sectors, but also stationary engines consume maximum percentage of petroleum based fuels and have the evident benefit of a higher thermal efficiency than all other engines. However, the D. I. Diesel engine emits significant amount of pollutants suc...

The aim of this study was the evaluation of the relationship between values of selected biochemical blood parameters at the moment of cloprostenol (PGF2α) administration and the effectiveness of oestrus induction and fertility indices in dairy cows. Examinations were conducted on 121 cows with the corpus luteum between 45 and 120 d post calving. These animals were injected with 500 μg/cow of PG...

Hemiscorpius lepturus is the most dangerous scorpion species, endemic in Khuzestan province and other southwestern areas of Iran, causing morbidity and mortality in children and adults. The efficacy of the antivenom for reversal of manifestation caused by venom of this scorpion is a controversial issue. In the present work, H. lepturus venom (1500 µg/kg) was subcutaneously injected into two ...

Oxides of Nitrogen are the major emission from a diesel engine. It is due to heterogeneous diffusion combustion system with fuel-rich regions, which produce high local temperature around the periphery of the spray where high formation rate of NO is promoted. Various techniques are therefore employed to reduce the NOX emission like EGR, SCR, etc. In this present work a rotating injector is a tec...

Use of an Engine Cycle Simulation to Study a Biodiesel Fueled Engine. (August 2009) Junnian Zheng, B.A., Shanghai Jiaotong University Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. Jerald A. Caton Based on the GT-Power software, an engine cycle simulation for a biodiesel fueled direct injection compression ignition engine was developed and used to study its performance and emission characteristics. The major...

The injection of nitrate is one of the most commonly used technologies to impact the sulfur cycle in subsurface oil fields. Nitrate injection enhances the activity of nitrate-reducing bacteria, which produce nitrite inhibiting sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB). Subsequent reduction of nitrate to di-nitrogen (N2) alleviates the inhibition of SRB by nitrite. It has been shown for the Medicine Hat G...

Methods enabling kidney-specific gene transfer in adult mice are needed to develop new therapies for kidney disease. We attempted kidney-specific gene transfer following hydrodynamic tail vein injection using the kidney-specific podocin and gamma-glutamyl transferase promoters, but found expression primarily in the liver. In order to achieve kidney-specific transgene expression, we tested direc...

Investigations were carried out to evaluate the performance of direct injection diesel engine with medium grade low heat rejection (LHR) combustion chamber and 3 mm air gap insulated piston, 3 mm air gap insulated liner, and ceramic coated cylinder head [ceramic coating with the thickness of 500 µ was made on the inside portion of the cylinder head].The engine had different operating conditions...

A marked clinical improvement in critically ill human subjects after the intravenous administration of oxygen has been reported by a number of investigators (1 to 5) despite the fact that only about 1.5 to 10 per cent of the calculated basal oxygen requirement was injected. However, in normal and in anoxemic experimental animals, other workers (6 to 10) have observed not only rapid, shallow bre...

The injection of podophyllotoxin, colchicine, and a nitrogen mustard derivative, methyl-bis(beta-chloroethyl)amine, into normal animals causes a reduction of the respiration of the lymphatic tissues, spleen, and/or thymus. No effect was demonstrable on kidney, a representative tissue of non-lymphatic origin. The degree of inhibition was considerably less in suprarenalectomized animals, suggesti...