Asphaltene precipitation is traditionally modeled using polymer solution theories or cubic equations of state. We propose another approach based on artificial neural network technique to model onset of precipitation of dissolved asphaltene in the solution of solvent + precipitant. A mathematical model based on feed-forward artificial neural network technique, which takes advantage of a modified...

The direct immunofluorescence assay (DFA) was compared with culture for test-of-cure analysis for Chlamydia trachomatis in patients 7 to 10 days after antimicrobial therapy was given. DFA test-of-cure results correlated with culture results in 79.5% of 39 patients. Of DFA-negative patients, 97% had negative cultures. Six of seven patients with borderline DFA results had negative culture results.

abstract obligatory modelling of precipitations in various periods, have a lot of problems and weakness because of their casual nature in time and space. moreover, their uncertainty in predictions, reduce credibility of estimations which have done via these models. wavelet is one of the novel and very effective methods in analyzing of time series and signals considered in the hydrology in recen...

This study describes an EOF-based technique for statistical downscaling of high spatial resolution monthly mean precipitation from large scale reanalysis circulation fields. The method is demonstrated and evaluated for four widely-separated locations: the Southeast United States, the Upper Colorado River Basin, China’s Jiangxi Province, and Central Europe. For each location, the EOF-based downs...

Regional climate models (RCMs) in general can simulate the characteristics of heavy/extreme precipitation more accurately than general circulation models (GCMs) as a result of more realistic representation of topography and mesoscale processes. An analogue method of statistical downscaling, which identifies the resolved large-scale atmospheric conditions associated with heavy precipitation, is ...

OBJECTIVE To compare direct-measured HDL cholesterol with HDL cholesterol measured by a precipitation method. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We compared a homogeneous assay for direct HDL cholesterol analysis with the phosphotungstic acid magnesium chloride precipitation method in 55 type 1 diabetic patients, 70 type 2 diabetic patients, and 82 nondiabetic normal control subjects with plasma tri...

A technique has been developed for the rapid and simple measurement of ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate from isolated spinach chloroplasts. The endogenous ribulose bisphosphate was detected enzymically using (14)CO(2) and ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase released from the chloroplasts. Ribulose 5-phosphate kinase was inhibited with 0.4 to 0.6 millimolar 2,6-dichlorophenol-indophenol and 4 m...