Direct fired supercritical CO2 (sCO2) power cycles allow for the combustion of gaseous fuels under oxyfuel conditions with inherent carbon capture. As is captured intrinsically, efficiency penalty capture on overall plant small, meaning that plants achieve a similar to traditional fossil fuel without and storage. However, at high pressures in large dilutions CO2, mechanisms are poorly understoo...

The ignition delay time (IDT) characteristics of new ternary and quaternary blended C1 – C3 gaseous hydrocarbons, including methane/ethane/ethylene methane/ethane/ethylene/propane, are studied over a wide range mixture composition, temperature (?800 2000 K), pressure (?1 135 bar), equivalence ratio (?0.5 2.0), dilution (?75 90%) using both experimental data kinetic modeling tools. In this regar...

BACKGROUND Surgical site infections (SSIs) cause morbidity after elective colorectal surgery, and antibiotic prophylaxis can decrease SSIs. The aim of this study was to determine compliance with an antibiotic administration protocol, including regimen, initial dose timing, and re-dosing, and determine the risk of SSI associated with each. We hypothesized that appropriate antibiotic administrati...

Skin testing with a suspected drug has been reported to be helpful in determining the cause of cutaneous adverse drug reactions (CADR). Many isolated reports of positive drug skin tests are published, but without detailed information concerning the clinical features of the CADR and the method used in performing drug skin tests, such data are not very informative. A working party of the European...

This Special Issue presents recent research results in the fast growing area of intelligent decision technologies (IDT) in dynamic environments. Intelligent decision making in dynamic environments can be distinguished by a number of aspects from a conventional decision making. First, due to situational changes in an operational field, time is an inherent dimension of the decision making process...

Fluid motion induced from high intensity sound waves is called acoustic streaming. SAW devices used in biological species detection suffer from fouling that results from binding of non-specific protein molecules to the device surface. The acoustic streaming phenomenon can be used to remove these non-specifically bound proteins to allow reuse of SAW devices. A finite element model of acoustic st...

Kamu İktisadi Teşebbüsleri (KİT’ler) faaliyet yapılarına göre Devlet Teşekkülü (İDT) ve Kuruluşu (KİK) olarak iki farklı statüde yapılanmıştır. KİT’ler için amaç yapıları doğrultusunda bu statülerden uygun olanı tercih edilmektedir. Söz konusu statüler özellikle KİT’lerin finansman yöntemi açısından büyük önem arz etmektedir. Zira faaliyetleri neticesinde karşılaşmış olduğu açıklarının karşılan...