The present study aimed to evaluate the effects of transurethral dividing vaporesection of the prostate in the management of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). From October 2006 to June 2012, a total of 377 patients who met the inclusion criteria with low urinary tract symptom secondary to BPH were treated transurethrally under epidural or sacral anesthesia using the dividing vaporesection tec...

We hydrothermally treated monocultures of Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas putida, Bacillus subtilis, and Saccharomyces cerevisiae at isothermal (350 °C for 60 min) and fast (rapid heating for 1 min) liquefaction conditions. Fast hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) of P. putida and S. cerevisiae produced the highest biocrude yields of 47 ± 13 and 48 ± 9 wt %, respectively. Biocrudes generated via fast...

Computational disaster mitigation and reduction research unit is aimed at developing advanced largescale numerical simulation of natural disasters such as an earthquake, tsunami and heavy rain, for Kobe City and other urban areas in Hyogo Prefecture. Besides for the construction of a sophisticated urban area model and the development of new numerical codes, the unit seeks to be a bridge between...

Two centrifuge experiments were conducted at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) to evaluate and assess the validity of generalized scaling laws. The performed within framework Liquefaction Experiments Analysis Project (LEAP) consisted testing a saturated sloping deposit subjected tapered base input acceleration. two tested models reflected consistent soil conditions but built based on diffe...

Purpose: To use differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) to predict the liquefaction time and dissolution profile of some commercial paracetamol suppositories as well as paracetamol suppositories formulated with palm oil base. Methods: The suppository base was prepared by mixing hydrogenated palm oil and palm kernel stearin in a ratio of 8:2. Three commercial paracetamol suppositories (A, B, and...

Microwave-assisted selective liquefaction was proposed and used as a novel method for the isolation of holocellulose fibers. The results showed that the bamboo lignin component and extractives were almost completely removed by using a liquefaction process at 120 8C for 9 min, and the residual lignin and extractives in the solid residue were as low as 0.65% and 0.49%, respectively. Increasing th...

Passive site remediation is a new concept proposed for non-disruptive mitigation of liquefaction risk at developed sites susceptible to liquefaction. It is based on the concept of slow injection of stabilizing materials at the edge of a site and delivery of the stabilizer to the target location using the natural groundwater flow. Stabilizer candidates need to have long controllable gel times an...

bioleaching, molybdenum disulfide, catalyst residue Molybdenum disulfide, MoSz, is used as a catalyst in coal-oil coprocessing. For most processes using molybdenum catalysts to be economical, the molybdenum must be recovered and recycled. Chemical recovery schemes have been devised, but typically recover only a fraction of the molybdenum. There are reports in the literature that bacteria can ox...

The thermal decomposition characteristics of microwave liquefied rape straw residues with respect to liquefaction condition and pyrolysis conversion were investigated using a thermogravimetric (TG) analyzer at the heating rates of 5, 20, 50 C min. The hemicellulose decomposition peak was absent at the derivative thermogravimetric analysis (DTG) curve of liquefied residues, because it had been d...

This paper presents a hybrid genetic algorithm (GA) and support vector machine (SVM) techniques to predict the potential of soil liquefaction. GA is employed in selecting the optimal values of the kernel function and the penalty parameter in SVM model to improve the forecasting accuracy. The database used in this study includes 109 CPT-based field observations from five major earthquakes betwee...