-Electricity plays an important role in human civilization. Every aspect of human life and its well being depends on the energy conversion into electricity and utilize it for optimal performance in all kinds of industries. Wind energy is one such important energy being used in the world for producing electricity. However, wind speed is not predictable and thus the wind energy conversion is not ...

The purpose of this study was to establish the validity and reliability of a hydrostatic weighing method using total lung capacity (measuring vital capacity with a respirometer at the time of weighing) the prone position, and a small oblong tank. The validity of the method was established by comparing the TLC prone (tank) method against three hydrostatic weighing methods administered in a pool....

T he charcoal production process has been known since the Bronze Age, and was vital to metallurgy until the discovery of the conversion of coal to coke at the beginning of the 18th century. Brazil, now the largest charcoal producer of the world, with more than 12 million metric tons in year 2002, has preserved its charcoal based industries in large part because it has extensive iron deposits an...

Society needs strong voices to promote public health and the integrity of policymaking processes. This is especially critical given the dominant paradigm of marketbased solutions and the increasing conversion by transnational corporations of their economic power into political power. Nicky Hager‘s recent book Dirty Politics exposed an apparent systemic approach being used by the tobacco, alcoho...

T to the massive infusion of detailed production activity data into economic study over the past couple of decades, researchers in many fields have learned a great deal about how firms turn inputs into outputs. Productivity, the efficiency with which this conversion occurs, has been a topic of particular interest. The particulars of these studies have varied depending on the researchers’ specif...

Biocatalytic potential of microorganisms have been employed for centuries to produce bread, wine, vinegar and other common products without understanding the biochemical basis of their ingredients. Microbial enzymes have gained interest for their widespread uses in industries and medicine owing to their stability, catalytic activity, and ease of production and optimization than plant and animal...

Academia discovers industrial Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) for research and development. PLCs have the advantage that they are widely used in industries and generally accepted. Algorithms and applications running on such systems are becoming interesting for industries. To programme PLCs, mostly the PLC vendors and manufacturers provide at least one of the IEC 61131-3 languages to do so....