9 Low enthalpy geothermal energy is a renewable resource that is still underexploited nowadays, in 10 relation to its potential for development in the society worldwide. Most of its applications have 11 already been investigated, such as: heating and cooling of private and public buildings, roads defrost, 12 cooling of industrial processes, food drying systems or desalination. 13 Geothermal pow...

ing away from the fact that languages may choose a final devoicing rule conditioned by a prosodic category higher than the word, Table 10 contains all possible combinations of the relevant (de)voicing parameters. Because of the implicational relation that holds between syllable-final and word-final devoicing, some languages are predicted not to exist. We think these predictions are correct. One...

Autistic-spectrum disorders are among the most enigmatic forms of developmental disability. Although the cause of autism is largely unknown, recent advances point to the importance of genetic factors and early environmental insults, and several promising behavioral, educational, and psychopharmacologic interventions have been developed. Nevertheless, several factors render autism especially vul...

The rotary compressor accumulator with pre-charged oil has already been developed and the concept published.[I] Compared to the conventional accumulator, the new accumulator differentiates itself from the conventional one in that the new accumulator is pre-charged with a pre-determined amount of oil. It offers advantages as a conventional accumulator attached to rotary compressor. This paper no...

One of major failure causes of rotary compressor is lubrication-related. Under the premise that bearings involve no major faults either in the design and material selection, their reliability is sensitive to the amount of system refrigerant charge and the amount of oil. These two factors, oil and refrigerant in the oil sump of rotary compressor are of great interest for lubrication failure mode...