We conducted a serosurvey of landscapers to determine if they were at increased risk for exposure to Francisella tularensis and to determine risk factors for infection. In Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, landscapers (n=132) were tested for anti-F. tularensis antibody and completed a questionnaire. For comparison, serum samples from three groups of nonlandscaper Martha's Vineyard residents (n=...

This study is about the development of a control system design using Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) system which gives food to the fish with a blower method. To perform fish feeding system automatically the control system will include PLC system, touch screen, emergency button, terminal block, speed controller, relay NY-2N, and power supply 240V. The component of the input systems are auto...

Burning coal in power plants produces significant amounts of deposits like fouling and slagging on boiler surfaces which contributes to the overall poor performance of the power plants (by reducing electricity generation capacity, decreasing boiler efficiency and increasing overall maintenance cost). Recent research and development on boiler fouling and slagging problems, with the current preve...

In most of the Automotive Air Conditioning Systems (AACSs) though the compressor is powered by the car engine, the evaporator blower and the condenser fan are run by a 12-volt DC battery which is powered by an alternator. Any fault in the alternator, drops the battery output voltage. Owing to this, a stationary test rig for an AACS is developed with all actual automotive components. A continuou...

In this Comment, we show that the expression for as proposed by R. Breban, R. Vardavas, and S. Blower, Phys. Rev. E 72, 046110 (2005) is incorrect and we reveal the underlying conceptual mistake.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Scalp psoriasis is a frustrating disorder whose treatments can all too often be cumbersome and ineffective. Our objective was to test a combination device involving the 308-nm excimer laser in tandem with a hair blower for treating scalp psoriasis. STUDY DESIGN/MATERIALS AND METHODS Adult subjects with scalp psoriasis unresponsive to class I topical steroids used in ...

This paper presents a condition diagnosis method for a blower system using the rough sets, and a fuzzy neural network to detect faults and distinguish fault types. In order to solve the ambiguous problem between the symptoms and the fault types, the diagnosis knowledge for the training of the neural network is acquired by using the rough sets. The fuzzy neural network realized by partially-line...

Using a mathematical model, Blower et al. (1) predicted the impact of antiretroviral therapy (ART) on future trends in the sexual spread of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The model employed Latin hypercube sampling to allow for the high degree of uncertainty in the estimation of many model parameters. The authors incorporated into their model the assumption that patients with drug-resistan...