The need to reduce CO2 emissions forces the use of biomass as a fuel in conventional energy conversion process implemented by combustion. Burning alone can be problematic because high potential for slugging and fouling on boiler heating surfaces. Therefore, co-firing with coal is used. This article presents results study blends barley, straw, hard from Polish Makoszowy mine. sintering ash bioma...

background: about 5–10% of patients with asthma suffer from poorly-controlled disease despite corticosteroid (cs) therapy. methods: 21 severe and 30 mild asthma patients were recruited and underwent collection of blood sample. we determined whether there were any differences in inflammatory biomarkers between severe and mild asthma patients or not.results: levels of interleukin-8 (il-8) and int...

Phase transition of strongly excited granular materials in 2D pipe is investigated numerically. By changing the ratio between width of the pipe and the height of the granular bed, we observe the transition between the 1 dimensional like state and the actual 2 dimensional state. Moreover, it is found that the character of the transition changes when the magnitude of dissipation passes through a ...

In this study, the effect of a systematically varied excipient ratio plastic and brittle material, i.e., microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) crystalline α-lactose monohydrate (LAC), on compression properties dry granulated particles was investigated. Five powders with different MCC:LAC ratios were prepared by mixing; subsequently, they formed into slugs that milled sieved, giving granules two size...

purpose: to determine the anatomical sites and causes of severe visual impairment (svi) and blindness in children attending a school for the blind in ahvaz. methods: in this case series study, all 51 students of the only school for the blind in ahvaz were examined by two ophthalmologists. blindness and svi were defined according to the world health organization (who) criteria as visual acuity l...

severe thrombocytopenia with bleeding is rarely reported in children with brucellosis, and recurrent epistaxis is extremely rare. brucellosis with hemorrhage should be differentiated from viral hemorrhagic fever, malignancy, and other blood disorders. bone marrow aspiration (bma) is mandatory to differentiate from other blood diseases. an 8-year-old boy was admitted with recurrent epistaxis, pe...

The fluidized particle-in-tube solar receiver concept is promoted as an attractive solution for heating particles at high temperature in the context of next generation power tower. Similar to most existing central receivers, irradiated part system, absorber, composed tubes which circulate particles. In this concept, bottom tip immersed a bed generated vessel named dispenser. A secondary air inj...

severe  congenital  neutropenia  (scn)  is  a  rare  primary  immunodeficiency   disease. different genes are found to be associated with scn, including ela2, hax1, was, gfi1, g-csfr  and  g6pc3.  the  aim  of  this  study  was  to  find  different  gene  mutations responsible for scn in iranian patients. twenty-seven   patients   with   scn  referred   to  immunology,   asthma   and  allergy r...

severe congenital neutropenia (scn) is a rare primary immunodeficiency. different genes are found to be associated with scn, including ela2, hax1, was, gfi1, g-csfr. also, recently g6pc3 as a rare gene in scn has been reported. patients with g6pc3 often have cardiac and/or urogenital malformations. two patients with   persistent   severe   neutropenia,   recurrent   infections   and   maturatio...

scid disorder is major failure of the immune system, usually genetic. the aim of this study was on mutations detection of rag1, rag2, and il7rg genes in scid cases. mutation detection was performed by pcr sequencing. our results  indicated  that 13  mutations  were found  through  cases which  include 4 mutations in il7r gene (t661i, i138v, t56a, c57w), 7 mutations in rag1 (w896x, w204r, m324v,...