Detection of low-level bed bug, Cimex lectularius L. (Hemiptera: Cimicidae), infestations is essential for early intervention, confirming eradication of infestations, and reducing the spread of bed bugs. Despite the importance of detection, few effective tools and methods exist for detecting low numbers of bed bugs. Scent dogs were developed as a tool for detecting bed bugs in recent years. How...

Petrophysical interpretation of well logs acquired in organic shales and carbonates is challenging because of the presence of thin beds and spatially complex lithology; conventional interpretation techniques often fail in such cases. Recently introduced methods for thin-bed interpretation enable corrections for shoulder-bed effects on well logs but remain sensitive to incorrectly picked bed bou...

A thin-bed laminated shaly-sand reservoir of the Miocene formation was evaluated using two methods: high resolution microresistivity data from XRMI tool and conventional well logs. Based on data, Earth model defined in a way that allowed analyzed interval to be subdivided into thin layers sandstones, mudstones, claystones. Theoretical logs gamma ray, bulk density, horizontal vertical resistivit...

Executive Summary Hospitals in the United States are experiencing financial and operational stress. Margins are thin and bed capacity is at a premium. Experts project the need for new bed capacity to rise 20 percent by 2012.1 Adding new physical capacity is often out of the question. In some urban areas, the estimated cost of adding physical capacity can exceed $1 million per bed. For a facilit...

[1] We describe laboratory experiments of granular material flowing over an inclined plane covered by an erodible bed, designed to mimic erosion processes of natural flows travelling over deposits built up by earlier events. Two controlling parameters are the inclination of the plane and the thickness of the erodible layer. We show that erosion processes can increase the flowmobility (i.e., run...

Superheated steam drying technique has been known for a long time, but its application to food drying has received little attention. In this work, superheated steam was applied to dry fresh parsley (Petroselinum Cripsum). A mathematical model to simulate this drying process was developed by using mass and energy conservation equations for solid and steam phases. The resulting partial differenti...

Executive Summary Hospitals in the United States are experiencing financial and operational stress. Margins are thin and bed capacity is at a premium. Experts project the need for new bed capacity to rise 20 percent by 2012.1 Adding new physical capacity is often out of the question. In some urban areas, the estimated cost of adding physical capacity can exceed $1 million per bed. For a facilit...

lemon is one of the most important citrus fruit and is consumed as fresh and dry. in this study the effect of fruit moisture content on the size, sphericity, geometric mean diameters and kernel density were studied. the bulk density and porosity were also evaluated in three different arrangements. airflow resistance is a fundamental parameter for designing an efficient drying and aeration syste...

The technique of short bed--continuous development chromatography has been utilized to increase the separation of glycosphingolipids on high performance thin-layer chromatography plates. The theoretical goal of increasing separation of bands by decreasing solvent strength was achieved within a practical time span as a result of the high solvent velocities in the short bed tank. Examples are giv...