Tawfig Eltaif, Hossam M. H. Shalaby, Sahbudin Shaari, Mohammad M. N. Hamarsheh Photonics Technology Laboratory (PTL), Institute of Micro Engineering and Nanoelectronics, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600 UKM Bangi, Selangor, MALAYSIA Elect. Eng. Dept, Fac. of Engineering, Alexandria University, Alexandria 21544, EGYPT. Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Multimedia University, Ja...

Conventional thermo-statistics address infinite homogeneous systems within the canonical ensemble. However, some 170 years ago the original motivation of ther-modynamics was the description of steam engines, i.e. boiling water. Its essential physics is the separation of the gas phase from the liquid. Of course, boiling water is inhomogeneous and as such cannot be treated by conventional thermo-...

Several comments are given to previous proofs of the generalised second law of thermodynamics: black hole entropy plus ordinary matter entropy never decreases for a thermally closed system. Arguments in favour of its truism are given in the spirit of conventional thermo-dynamics. Thermodynamics (see [1, 2] for introduction) is one of the physical disciplines in which physical laws are governed ...

In this paper we analyze images from publications that were produced during the 1990s to educate Tibetan exiles living in Nepal and India about health-related issues. Our purpose is to show how these visual means promote pronatalism and ethnic endogamy, agendas that stem from the exiles’ conviction that they must increase their population and remain ethnically pure to counteract a perceived thr...

Correspondence 8 . Samara KD , Tzortzaki EG , Neofytou E , et al . Somatic DNA alterations in lung epithelial barrier cells in COPD patients . Pulm Pharmacol Ther . 2010 ; 23 ( 3 ): 208 214 . 9 . Makris D , Tzanakis N , Damianaki A , et al . Microsatellite DNA instability and COPD exacerbations . Eur Respir J . 2008 ; 32 ( 3 ): 612 618 . 10 . Matzinger P . The danger model: a renewed sense of s...

We previously reported a successful model for treatment of BW 5147 leukemia in AKR mice by adoptive immunother apy using allogeneic spleen cells from C57BL/6 mice. The leukemia cells were given 3 days before initiation of ther apy. Graft-versus-host reaction was prevented by treatment with spleen cells from a second allogeneic strain (CBA), followed by cyclophosphamide and syngeneic spleen cell...

A kinetic ux-splitting procedure used in conjunction with local ther-modynamic equilibrium in a nite volume allows us to investigate numerically discrete-velocity gas ows. The procedure, outlined for a general discrete-velocity gas, is used to simulate ows of the nine-velocity gas, a simple two dimensional multiple-speed discrete-velocity gas, wherein a mul-tiplicity of speeds ensures nontrivia...

Wei Qing Ong 1,*, Alan Wee Chiat Tan 1, V. Vijayakumar Vengadasalam 1, Cheah Heng Tan 2 and Thean Hai Ooi 2 1 Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Multimedia University, Jalan Ayer Keroh Lama, Melaka 75450, Malaysia; [email protected] (A.W.C.T.); [email protected] (V.V.V.) 2 Motorola Solutions Malaysia Sdn. Bhd., Plot 2 Technoplex Industrial Park, Mukim 12 SWD, Bayan Lepas, Penang 11900, Malay...

In this paper 1 we report results for the prediction of thermo-dynamic properties based on neural networks, evolutionary algorithms and a combination of them. We compare backpropagation trained networks and evolution strategy trained networks with two physical models. Experimental data for the enthalpy of vaporization were taken from the literature in our investigation. The input information fo...

On “Increasing muscle extensibility...” Weppler CH, Magnusson SP. Phys Ther. 2010;90:438–449. This perspective article was very interesting and thought provoking; however, I was slightly skeptical about your conclusions in the section on neuromuscular relaxation. Specifi cally, I am having trouble reconciling my clinical experience with your suggestion that an increase in extensibility during a...