Advances in Studies of Physical Processes

Physical Backwash Optimization in Membrane Filtration Processes: Seawater Ultrafiltration Case

Seawater ultrafi ltration (UF) as a pretreatment of reverse osmosis (RO) process in a thermal power plant was investigated using a 100 kDa hollow fi ber membrane. The choice of the UF physical backwash conditions remains arbitrary or ensuing from a sensibility study. As the optimum must take into account the factors interactions, we led a response surface study to analy...

Recent Advances in Physical Medicine

Recent advances in physical medicine.

Advances in stroke: population studies.

With ischemic heart disease (IHD) and stroke sharing many risk factors, one could presume a similar geographic pattern of stroke and IHD; however, Kim and Johnston described remarkable worldwide variations in disability-adjusted life-years (DALY) loss for both diseases.1 For stroke, much of Asia, eastern Europe, and Africa had DALY loss of 120/100 000 in contrast to North America, western Europ...

Advances in ancient DNA studies

The first aDNA studies used bacterial cloning to amplify small sequences retrieved from skins of animal and human mummies, and revealed the inefficient reaction kinetics of this technique (Higuchi et al., 1984; Pääbo 1985, 1989). These studies demonstrated that the genetic material surviving in ancient specimens was often principally microbial or fungal in origin. Endogenous DNA was generally l...