Mortality and morbidity associated with extreme summer heat and poor air quality continues to be one of the most pressing human health challenges in cities and is likely to be exacerbated in the future due to urban growth and climate change. Heat is currently the leading weather-related cause of death in the developed world (e.g. CDC 2004), and future heat vulnerability for the elderly is proje...

The objective of this experiment was to optimize the post-harvest handling techniques for four Ixora genotypes grown loose flower purpose. laid out in Factorial Completely Randomised Design (FCRD) with namely viz., Red (Ixora casei-G1), Pink (I. chinensis-G2), Orange coccinea-G3) and Yellow chinensis-G4) six treatments replicated three times. Observations were made on floral quality criteria as...

Naphtha and kerosene are mixed with Iraqi heavy crude oil at different concentrations rounded between (3-12) wt.%, in order to reduce viscosity enhance its followability. This research investigated drag reduction (%Dr) mixtures flow rates (2 10 m3/hr) temperature range 20-50C. The experimental results proved that offered 40% pressure drop. Power law model was adopted this study empirically corr...

Case report A 65-year-old woman presented with a 48-hr history of rigors and generalized muscle pain and weakness. She had had no serious illness in the past and had been on no drugs before admission. She had no history of upper respiratory tract infection or bronchitis. On examination, her temperature was 38 50C; pulse was regular 90/min; BP, 100/70 mmHg. The heart sounds were normal and the c...

It is significant to understand the effect of the light intensity and temperature on output performance of the crystalline solar modules. Therefore, it is possible to evaluate the J-V curves of solar module under various environmental conditions. This paper discuses the effect of light intensity and temperature on performance parameters of mono-crystalline and poly-crystalline silicon solar mod...

Measurement in science has a long tradition as described by Lemmerich /LEMM88/. While the measurement of length the meter was defined in 1889 /LEMM88/, p.87, the measurement of temperature was more complicated. The graduation of the distance of the fixpoints was introduced by Fahrenheit in 1714 and by Celsius in 1742. Celsius devided the scale of 100 degrees and 0 degrees in hundred equal secto...

Cellulase and xylanase production from rice straw using M.thermophila SH1 was assessed. The waste was dried, grinded to mesh size of 2.0mm and microwave pretreated. The powdered waste was than used as a substrate. Fermentation was carried out in flasks containing pretreated and untreated rice straw, vogel;s medium, cultured at 50C initially for 8 days to verify cellulase production and for 5 da...

This report presents the design procedure of a buck converter, which converts a 22V∼32V DC input voltage to a 15V DC output, under a resistive load variation from 1.5Ω to 4.5Ω. Detailed analysis and simulation results, as well as electrical and thermal device specifications are provided. A voltage-mode PI controller is designed to stabilize the averaged system under input and load variations. T...

T he Chinese government has long been suspected of hiring as many as 2 million people to surreptitiously insert huge numbers of pseudonymous and other deceptive writings into the stream of real social media posts, as if they were the genuine opinions of ordinary people. Many academics, and most journalists and activists, claim that these so-called 50c party posts vociferously argue for the gove...