Lung resection remains the treatment of choice in the curative approach to nonsmall cell lung cancer. Because most lung cancer patients are current or former smokers, they are at increased risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and coronary artery disease, conditions associated with increased surgical morbidity and mortality. Careful preoperative assessment of the cardiopulmonary reserve...

Various analytical approaches to performance-based earthquake engineering are in development. This paper summarizes the approach being pursued by the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research (PEER) Center. It works in four stages: hazard analysis, structural analysis, damage analysis, and loss analysis. In the hazard analysis, one evaluates the seismic hazard at the facility site, producing samp...

A reactive distillation column in general can exhibit multiple steady states which reduce column operability and controllability during perturbations of manipulated variables and particularly during start-up and shut down. The objective of this paper was to compare the equilibrium (EQ) and nonequilibrium (NEQ) models of a reactive distillation column, focusing on the phenomenon of multiple stea...

In an e-service environment, workflow involves not only a single organization but also a number of business partners. Workflow inter-operability is therefore an important issue for workflow enactment in such an environment. In this paper, we introduce a novel concept of workflow views as a fundamental support for E-service workflow inter-operability and for controlled visibility by external par...

In order to meet the energy demands from industrial processes, utility plants must convert fuel and water into steam, electricity, and rotational power. Site utility systems are operated with different scenarios or operating conditions, due to variable conditions, such as different electric power tariffs, changing load in processes and variable ambient temperature. A novel methodology for the d...

This paper on scientific and technological achievements transformation of Chinese colleges and universities of problems existing in the income distribution has carried on the profound elaboration, and through the survey analysis, comparison research method, according to China's relevant policies of colleges and universities, the disposition and distribution of scientific and technological achie...

The problems of inter-operability are acute for manufacturing applications, as applications using process specifications do not necessarily share syntax and definitions of concepts. The Process Specification Language developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology proposes a formal ontology and translation mechanisms representing manufacturing concepts. When an application becom...