A life-cycle assessment (LCA) of corn ethanol was conducted to determine the reduction in the life-cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for corn ethanol compared to gasoline by integrating biomass fuels to replace fossil fuels (natural gas and grid electricity) in a U.S. Midwest dry-grind corn ethanol plant producing 0.19 hm y 1 of denatured ethanol. The biomass fuels studied are corn stover an...

for most people iterance to hospital is a disturbing experience and expects that nurses be sensitive to patient's physical, emotional and social need at admission. whereas interrupt of sleep due to physical, psychological and social status damage, knowing about effective mechanisms in retention and disturbance of sleep – wake cycles help nurses to make natural criteria for their patient&ap...

OBJECTIVE To study the intrinsic fertility of the human oocyte. DESIGN A large retrospective study of natural cycle single embryo transfer (ET) IVF cycles. SETTING Private IVF clinic, university, and private hospital. PATIENT(S) Patients were enrolled consecutively over an 8-year period in a single ET natural cycle protocol. INTERVENTION(S) A total of 13,949 oocyte retrievals with natur...

BACKGROUND It has been reported that a natural cycle (NC) is similar to or even better than hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in patients with regular cycles who undergo frozen embryo transfer (FET). Hundreds of FETs are managed yearly in our clinic. Scheduling these cycles is critical in a busy unit like ours. This is why we have to prove if a NC really shows a better outcome than other endome...

BACKGROUND Gradual increases in mass such as during pregnancy are associated with changes in gait at natural velocities. The purpose of this study was to examine how added mass at natural and imposed slow walking velocities would affect gait parameters. METHODS Eighteen adult females walked at two velocities (natural and 25 % slower than their natural pace) under four mass conditions (initial...

Bioretention or rain garden is a preferable low impact development (LID) approach due to its characteristics which reflect natural water cycle processes. However, this system is still little understood and quite complicated in terms of design and implementation due to many technical considerations. Hence, this paper gives a review of the challenges and developments for the use of bioretention f...

STUDY QUESTION Is there a difference in the characteristics of uterine peristalsis in natural and controlled ovarian hyperstimulation (COH) cycles? SUMMARY ANSWER COH significantly changed the uterine peristaltic pattern. WHAT IS KNOWN ALREADY In natural menstrual cycles, the periodic changes of uterine peristalsis are closely related to the reproductive process. STUDY DESIGN, SIZE, DURAT...

This article focuses on the use of natural language processing (NLP) to facilitate second language learning within the context of academic English. It describes a full cycle of educational software development, from needs analysis to software testing. Two studies are included: 1) the needs analysis conducted to develop the Intelligent Sentence Writing Tutor (ISWT) which diagnoses and at request...

This paperdescribes the framework for a new abstraction method that utilizes event-tmits written in sentences. Event-units are expressed in Language Information Structnrc (LIS) form and the projection of LIS from a sentence is f)cffonned by a semantic engine. ABEX (ABstraction EXtraction system) utilizes the LIS outpttt of the s e m a n t i c e n g i n e . A B I ' ; X can e x t r a c t e v e n ...

In Hokkaido, Japan, wild sika deer are highly infected with Fasciola flukes, suggesting that the flukes complete their life cycle via intermediate host snails and definitive host animals occurring in the natural environment. However, infected snails have been found only in cattle farms contaminated with fasciolosis. This study reports the first Fasciola larva infection in Galba truncatula snail...