Companion animals and horses, veterinary clinics As MRSA could be isolated comparatively frequently up to now from infection processes in horses and companion animals, further characterisation of the MRSA strains of these animal species is advisable. Clinical assessment depends on the results of this diagnosis. It is important that special care is exercised when treating these patients in order...

Coarticulation is considered to be constrained by language specific grammar. In particular, prosodic units, which have an important function in organizing speech, are likely to affect the extent of coarticulation. The present study addresses the question of the relationship between V-to-V coarticulation and bimoraic foot in Japanese. It was shown that the foot boundary constrains the extent of ...

This paper presents the importance of understanding defect propagation/growth and its impact on in-line yield prediction. In order to improve the prediction accuracy, impact of defect propagation and growth phenomena needs to be modeled and incorporated into yield prediction system. We developed a new yield prediction model by taking into account defect carryover. The empirical results of inter...

Adenovirus vectors (rAd) are widely used in gene therapy to deliver genes of interest. It is therefore essential to develop a purification process that clears the adenovirus of undesired contaminants while purifying high titre stock adenovirus. The current standard method of purification uses a CsCl density gradient, which is formed during centrifugation. The limitations of this procedure inclu...

are subjected to direct PCR analysis. Alternatively, if sputum liquefaction must be performed, then conditions should be established such that the final concentration of mucolytic agent in the PCR reaction is kept suitably low. Finally, purification of target nudeic acids from liquefied sputum before PCR analysis, while adding further manipulations, would obviate the need for concern over the p...

1. Steam Generation 1.1. General Characteristics 1.2. Circulation in Boiling Water Reactors 1.3. Steam Generation in CANDU Reactors 1.4. Steam Generators 1.5. Steam Generator for PWR and CANDU Systems 1.6. Heat Transfer 2. Steam Generator Operation 2.1. Swelling and Shrinking 2.1.1. Steady State Swelling and Shrinking 2.1.2. Transient Swelling and Shrinking 2.2. Level Control 2.3. Carryover 2.4...

This paper proposes a mixed integer programming formulation for modeling the capacitated multi-level lot sizing problem with both backlogging and setup carryover. Based on the model formulation, a progressive time-oriented decomposition heuristic framework is then proposed, where improvement and construction heuristics are effectively combined, therefore efficiently avoiding the weaknesses asso...

The objective of this paper is to present the modeling and analysis of a 1.7 Mva SMES-based voltage sag corrector devices. The topology of the SMES-based system and its response to an upstream fault are described. This paper details various modeling aspects of the device including methods to generate a triangular signal and an internal reference voltage. Models to characterize the harmonic cont...