Although wood densification by compression improves wood mechanical strength, dimensional stability is often a problem due to compression recovery. Alternatively, oil-heat treatment (OHT) improves wood dimensional stability and enhances resistance to biological attack. This study examined combined wood densification and OHT. Large wood veneer 700 × 700 mm specimens prepared with aspen (Populus ...

in this paper, a new combined power and refrigeration cycle is proposed, which combines the rankin power cycle and the ejector refrigeration cycle. this combined cycle produces both power output and refrigeration output simultaneously. this cycle is driven by the flue gas of gas turbines, industrial waste heats, solar energy and geothermal energy. an exergy analysis is performed to guide the th...

Assessment of neurological and psychiatric disorders like depression are unusual from a speech processing perspective, in that speakers can be prompted or instructed in what they should say (e.g. as part of a clinical assessment). Despite prior speech-based depression studies that have used a variety of speech elicitation methods, there has been little evaluation of the best elicitation mode. O...

This paper is a review of the existing testing algorithms for reversible circuits. Although a great amount of effort has been made on finding means to build reversible gates and circuits, little research has been done on the modeling the faults of reversible circuits according to their process technology and consequently on the development of testing algorithms for reversible circuits. The exis...

Abstract In this paper a fourth-order numerical scheme is developed and implemented for the solution of non-homogeneous heat equation ut = uxx + q(x, t) with integral boundary conditions. The results obtained show that the numerical method based on the proposed technique is fourth-order accurate as well as L-acceptable. Also the efficiency and the accuracy of the new scheme is in good agreement...

Arginine vasopressin (AVP) and its synthetic, long-acting analog terlipressin (TP) are potent alternative vasoconstrictors in the treatment of septic patients with catecholamine-refractive vasodilatatory shock. Recent clinical data suggest that early administration of AVP analogues may be advantageous compared to a last resort therapy. However, it is still unknown whether vasopressin and terlip...