It is well understood that induction motors draw higher currents during their starting operations than is the case under full load running conditions. Since the early days of induction motor availability, starting methods other than Direct-on-Line have been used, and in some cases mandated by Utilities, to reduce the effect of these high starting currents on the electrical distribution network....

An operational study was conducted in 6 public sector health facilities in the Southern Region of Malawi to determine a) drop-out rates during the referral process of patients to antiretroviral therapy (ART) and b) weight gained during the first 6 months in patients who were alive and on ART at that time. There were 738 adult HIV-infected eligible patients booked for group counseling, of whom 5...

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AIM The aim of this study was to develop and validate a prognostic score for 6-month mortality in elderly patients starting dialysis for end-stage renal disease. METHODS Using data from the French Rein registry, we developed a prognostic score in a training sample of 2500 patients aged 75 years or older who started dialysis between 2002 and 2006, which we validated in a similar sample of 1642...

Irrespective of thin film preparation methods such as PVD and CVD, the thin film process comprises three elementary stages including decomposition, transport, and nucleation and growth mechanisms. Fig. 1 shows the flow chart of the thin film process, where starting materials are successively modified to the resulting films. In the first stage, starting materials in the form of gas, liquid or so...

The article reviews a mathematical model of the optimization problem of packing different spheres into a container which can be a cuboid, a sphere, a right circular cylinder, an annular cylinder and a spherical layer. The assumption that sphere radii are variable is exploited. Based on the hypothesis a new way to derive starting point belonging to the feasible region of the problem is offered. ...