Currently, there is no cure for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The limited efficacy of current therapies for COPD indicates a pressing need to develop new treatments to prevent the progression of the disease, which consumes a significant amount of health care resources and is an important cause of mortality worldwide. Current national and international guidelines for the manageme...

Equal channel multi angular pressing (ECMAP) process is the efficient method to enhance the productivity of ultra-fine grained (UFG) materials, by increasing process continuity and as a result decreasing process required time. Comparing repetitive ECAP method, in the same period, the number of passes can be done by ECMAP. In this article, ECMAP of AL strips in two typical annealed and as receiv...

There is a wide range of industrial activities involving load balancing problems and there is currently no general approach to such problems. The genetic algorithm, (Holland 1975), has proved to be successful on optimisation problems and is often used in conjunction with other methods. This paper describes and compares two methods which use the genetic algorithm to balance the load of the press...

Abstract The passion fruit juice production generates around 70% of by-products comprising rind, seeds and arils that are commonly discarded. consist 4% weight with the potential to produce 2,500 ton/year high added-value oil in Brazil. In this work, from different manufacturers effect seed moisture were evaluated towards quality extraction efficiency, using a continuous expeller press 100 kg/h...

Current technical discussions of Internet privacy are often discussions about the hypertext protocol stack and things that people are doing with it: HTTP, HTTPS, JavaScript, HTML5, Flash/Silverlight/JVM, social networking and (partially) geolocation. Although there are other subjects that probably deserve just as much attention — such as wireless protocols and mobile devices — this position pap...

The total content of fatty oil from the raw and dry pulp sea buckthorn (Hippophae) fruits mountainous areas Georgia (the vicinity Stephantsminda) was studied. 4.30-21.02% oil, 12.20-58.38 mg% carotenoids 8.70-44.00% tocopherols (vitamin E) respectively.  Experimental studies have shown advantage feasibility extracting Georgian with a volatile solvent compared to pressing method, in order o...

This research was aimed at studying the potential of using residual lignin from acid hydrolysis as a binder in manufacturing eco-friendly, dry-process fibreboards. For that purpose, modification adhesive system and hot-pressing regime conducted. The applied composed 2 % phenol-formaldehyde (PF) resin 10 (based on dry fibres). PF does not only act but generally contributes to even distribution g...

Hot Isostatic Pressing (HIP'ing) is one of several processes used for consolidating porous materials (such as metal powders) to high density. The equations describing the HIP'ing system dynamics are immensely complicated and highly nonlinear, thus complicating any controller design for the system. Further complications arise due to the fact that one of the system's states, grain size, cannot be...

Intensive data collection and a modeling study have been underway for the past several years addressing two of the channel estuaries draining into the Gulf of Fonseca, Estero El Pedregal and Estero San Bernardo. Data have been compiled on the shrimp farm configurations, exchange rates, and effluent chemistry. Temperature, salinity, and dissolved oxygen profiles have been measured in the estuary...