Acquired VanE-type resistance to low levels of vancomycin (MIC = 16 microg/ml) in Enterococcus faecalis BM4405 is due to the inducible synthesis of peptidoglyean precursors terminating in D-alanine-D-serine (Fines,M., B. Prichon, P. Reynolds, D. Sahm, and P. Courvalin, Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 43:2161-2164, 1999). A chromosomal location was assigned to the vanE operon by pulsed-field gel e...

Vane oompressors can not maintain contact between a vane tip and a cylinder wall under start-up operation since backpressure acting on the vane is not sufficient. We theoretically analyzed transient behavior of the vane under the start-up operation by taking account of changes of the backpressure and discharge pressure after compression starting. The validity of the theoretical analysis was con...

In this theoretical paper, the wide-band low-gain feature of a tapered smooth wall gyro-traveling wave tube (gyro-TWT) was combined with the low beam energy, low magnetic field, and high gain, though narrow band, feature of a vane loaded nontapered gyro-TWT, to propose a distributed, tapered vane loaded gyro-TWT for both high gains and wide bandwidths. The device was analyzed for the tapering o...

We use AC impedance methods to investigate the effect of mechanical deformation on ion transport in commercial separator membranes and lithium-ion cells as a whole. A Bruggeman type power law relationship is found to provide an accurate correlation between porosity and tortuosity of deformed separators, which allows the impedance of a separator membrane to be predicted as a function of deformat...

The ion-optical characteristics of the separator should meet the requirements of the antiproton beam, the parameters of which are given in Table 1. The magnetic bending power is 13 Tm; the transverse acceptance is 240 mm mrad; the momentum acceptance is 6 %. These parameters require magnets with large aperture, especially in the horizontal plane (up to 400 mm). The ion optics of the antiproton ...

This paper shows the mixed lubrication analysis between the vane tip and rolling piston in a rotary refrigerant compressor, coupling the motion equations of vane and rolling piston, the elastohydrodynamic lubrication (EHL) analysis of line contact and the equations of viscosity characteristics of lubricating oil as a function of oil pressure, oil temperature and concentration of refrigerant. Th...

It is well known that the compressor with variable capacities has a higher efficiency than the typical single capacity compressors for the air-conditioner system. Therefore, many compressor makers are trying to develop variable types of capacity-controlling compressors, one of which is a vane locking controlled rotary compressor. This paper investigates the rotary compressor using a vane contro...

Curved vane demisters with high efficiency are widely used in power, chemical, and gas industries. To reveal the relationship between separation performance basic geometric parameters steam generator. In this paper, influence of wavelength on droplet has been numerically studied. Additionally, pressure drops, friction factor, two-phase flow analyzed. Then, grade is investigated, overall obtaine...

I N T R 0 D U C T I 0 N In recent years, the application of double-flow rotary vane compressor in automotive air-conditioning systems has been increased because of its multiple cylinder characteristic. A certain problem is its high friction loss at higher speeds. The greatest amount of the friction is caused by the lubrication systems between the vane tip and the cylinder wall and between vane ...