This paper investigates the effect of circuit inductance on pinch-time plasma focus. The dense focus is a discharge powered by capacitor bank. Mather type Dense Plasma Focus constructed in cylindrical geometry and made up coaxial anodes cathodes with varying radiuses. An insulator sleeve separates electrodes, cathode rode forms circles around anode tube. Different parameters, such as structure ...

A commercially available computational fluid dynamics code has been used to simulate temperature and flow profiles in the upper, convective heat transfer region of a recovery boiler for different bullnose designs. The convective heat transfer region of the furnace was simulated by examining a zone that begins below the bullnose and ends at the economizer. Superheater tubes and a boiler bank wer...

for banks and financial institutions, credit risk had been an essential factor that needed to be managed well. credit risk was the possibility that a borrower of counter party would fail to meet its obligations in accordance with agreed terms. credit risk; therefore arise from the bank’s dealings with or lending to corporate, individuals, and other banks or financial institutions.  credit risk...

Flow visualization with high-speed video of evaporating water films falling over flat horizontal tubes, representative of the external surfaces of microchannel tubes, is presented. Experiments were conducted with 1.4 mm thick and 27 mm tall tubes over a film Reynolds number range of 23 < Re < 126. In addition to a qualitative description of the flow mechanisms, this work quantifies key droplet ...

Plasma diagnostics were carried out in a theta-pinch device to investigate the applicability for plasma– material interaction under fusion-like conditions. A series of triple probe diagnostics show that the plasma is sustained for approximately 80 ls at each pulse, with 3.0 (10) m 3 plasma density and up to 40 eV electron temperature when a 32 lF main capacitor is discharged at 20 kV. In order ...

A set of flight tests designed to evaluate the relative utility of candidate displays with advanced symbology for general aviation terminal area instrument flight rules operations are discussed. The symbology was previously evaluated as part of the NASA Langley Research Center's Terminal Configured Vehicle Program for use in commercial airlines. The advanced symbology included vehicle track ang...

By a \tree-bank grammar" we mean a context-free grammar created by reading the production rules directly from hand-parsed sentences in a tree bank. Common wisdom has it that such grammars do not perform well, though we know of no published data on the issue. The primary purpose of this paper is to show that the common wisdom is wrong. In particular we present results on a tree-bank grammar base...

and Headnote We put “runs” back in the bank runs literature. A unified bank, one that invests in both liquid and illiquid assets, can easily avoid runs but it still faces a small probability of non-run rationing of depositors. In a separated financial system, the bank only holds relatively liquid assets; it is subject to runs with small probability, but because of its overinvestment in the liqu...

There have been rapid technological advances in blood banking in South Asian region over the past decade with an increasing emphasis on quality and safety of blood products. The conventional test tube technique has given way to newer techniques such as column agglutination technique, solid phase red cell adherence assay, and erythrocyte-magnetized technique. These new technologies are adaptable...

BACKGROUND Measurement of the ABO antibody (Ab) titer is important in ABO-incompatible transplantation. However, to the best of our knowledge, no standard protocol or external survey program to measure the ABO Ab titer has been established in Korea. We investigated the current status of ABO Ab titer measurements at various laboratories in Korea and the impact of the protocol provided to reduce ...