Top-down and bottom-up processing are two distinct yet highly interactive modes of neuronal activity underlying normal and abnormal human cognition. Here we characterize the dynamic processes that contribute to these two modes of cognitive operation. We used a blind source separation algorithm called second-order blind identification (SOBI [1]) to extract from high-density scalp EEG (128 channe...

The evaluation of a membrane bioreactor (MBR) for pretreatment of reverse osmosis (RO) in order to reuse and reclamation of industrial town wastewater treatment plant was investigated in this study. Performance of MBR effluent through water quality in term of parameters such as chemical oxygen demand (COD), total suspended solids (TSS), total nitrogen (TN) and total coliform (TC) were measured....

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE, Mad cow disease) is generally considered to be caused by recycling animal by-products as ingredient in animal, especially ruminant, feed. Feed bans were enforced to minimize the risk on infections, and monitoring programs are effectuated for controlling the ban. The only official detection method is visual (microscopic) examination of the presence of prima...

When there are differences in economic value of self-consumed and exported electricity, economic profitable PV installations are dependent of accurate predictions of selfconsumed electricity. In this study, minute based data of PV production and the electricity use were logged in a single family house in Sweden. It is shown that when self-consumed electricity is estimated, a low time resolution...

the objective of this study was to assess the importance of strain and sex and their interaction effect on broiler chickens’ performance and susceptibility to ascites. chicks from three strains (ross 308, cobb 500 and arian, labeled as a, b and c respectively) were obtained from the same age breeder and sexed when one-day-old. each crosses’ sex was assigned to four pens of 60 broilers each. bod...

Flavie Luce Goutard senior epidemiologist 1 , Marion Bordier PhD candidate , Clémentine Calba research assistant , Elisabeth Erlacher-Vindel head of science and new technologies department , Delfy Góchez chargée de mission , Katinka de Balogh senior officer , Carolyn Benigno antimicrobial projects coordinator , Wantanee Kalpravidh regional manager , Francois Roger director 1 , Sirenda Vong regi...

Biodiesel is a promising alternative, and renewable, fuel. As its production increases, so does production of the principle co-product, crude glycerol. The effective utilization of crude glycerol will contribute to the viability of biodiesel. In this review, composition and quality factors of crude glycerol are discussed. The value-added utilization opportunities of crude glycerol are reviewed....

Article history: Received January 1 2012 Received in revised format April 15 2013 Accepted April 15 2013 Available online April 15 2013 Cutting force and chip reduction coefficient is the important index of machinability as it determines the power consumption and amount of energy invested in machining actions. It is primarily influenced by process parameters like cutting speed, feed and depth o...

The objective of the study was to compare the effects of a preventive in-feed medication program using tilmicosin (Pulmotil 200 premix, Elanco Animal Health) at 200 ppm with those of a Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae (Mh) vaccination program (Stellamune Mycoplasma, Pfizer Animal Health) in a pig herd with chronic respiratory disease. In total, 208 piglets were randomly allocated to either the medicati...

RSS feeds is a simple information medium that permits to reduce the information discovery delay. It requires some effort to consumers to find suitable information especially if they ignore providers that could provide it. Providers that lack an established reputation are marginalized by users. This paper presents Friticores, a RSS feed monitoring and dissemination system that addresses both iss...