The fate of lipophilic extractives from several nonwoody species (flax, hemp, sisal and abaca) used for the manufacturing of cellulose pulps, was studied during soda/anthraquinone (AQ) pulping and totally chorine free (TCF) and elemental chlorine free (ECF) bleaching. With this purpose, the lipophilic extracts from the raw materials and their unbleached and bleached industrial pulps, were analy...

Today’s embedded systems are pervasive, mobile, and in many cases, permanently connected. Yet, they are tightly integrated with their environment and barely coordinated. The next generation of distributed applications requires more decentralized and more dynamic interaction schemes, which the classic request/response communication paradigm can not accommodate. The Executable Choreography Framew...

About 60% of the adult human body is fluid. The most of this fluid is inside the cells and called intracellular fluid (ICF) and one third is in the space out side the cells and called extracellular fluid (ECF) (1). Evaluation of the two components of ECF and ICF is important in various disease conditions. The standard method for this purpose in clinical practice is dilution principle using a tr...

We constructed a Bacillus subtilis Marburg strain that harbors deletion mutations in all seven extracytoplasmic function (ECF) sigma genes. The strain shows wild-type growth at 37 degrees C both in a complex and in a synthetic medium and exhibits wild-type sporulation. ECF sigma genes of B. subtilis are dispensable as long as no stress is imposed, although they seem to be required for quick res...

This paper addresses point stabilization for the extended chained form (ECF), a control system that may be used to model a number of mechanical underactuated systems. A control law is proposed, based on well-known hybrid open-loop/feedback techniques, which exponentially stabilizes the origin of a dynamic extension of the ECF and ensures a degree of robustness to additive disturbance terms that...

We have evaluated a five-compartment model of [18F]fluoride kinetics in rats. The initial fluoride distribution was found to be similar to that of [77Br]bromide, a known extracellular-fluid (ECF) tracer, in agreement with the hypothesis underlying the model, and the measured uptake rate in rat bones compared well with the digital computer solution. Simpler models did not give a better fit. In d...

Using only implicit data, many recommender systems fail in general to provide a precise set of recommendations to users with limited interaction history. This issue is regarded as the “Cold Start” problem and is typically resolved by switching to content-based approaches where extra costly information is required. In this paper, we use a dimensionality reduction algorithm, Word2Vec (W2V), origi...

Introduction Water is the most abundant constituent of the human body. Human body has 60-70 % of weight due to its water content 1 . Water occupies two main fluid compartments 1. Intracellular fluid (ICF)about two third by volume, contained in cells 2. Extracellular fluid (ECF)-about one third by volume, consist of two major subdivisions  Plasma – the fluid portion of the blood  Interstitial ...

Carbon emission reduction could be achieved through extensive cooperation between relevant groups such as businesses, governments and consumers. Generally, carbon emissions stem from consumer behavior. To tackle the increasingly serious energy crisis and climate change in China, it is thus vital to control carbon emissions generated by the country’s urban consumers. From a consumption perspecti...

Secondary lymphoedema reduces both a patient’s physical and psychological quality of life (QOL; Franks et al, 2006; Chase and Wenzel, 2011; Fu et al, 2013) and is frequently seen in cancer patients after treatment that includes lymph node dissection (LND) or radiation therapy (Moffatt et al, 2003). The major symptoms of lymphoedema include discomfort, heaviness, problems with physical mobility,...