dissolved nitrogen predispersed solvent extraction (dnpdse) is a new method devised for improving the performance of equipment utilized in the solvent extraction (sx) method, especially for dilute solutions. in this method, for mixing the two phases, bubble dispersion of the organic phase (colloidal gas aphrons [cgas]) is used instead of its drop dispersion in the aqueous phase. through increas...

Direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing is an increasingly available option among individuals searching for information about their health risk factors and ancestry. This study is one of the first to examine predictors of interest in DTC genetic testing. Participants read one of the three types of information about DTC genetic testing (positive only, negative only or both) and reported percept...

The Photo Products Department of E. I. du Pont de Nemours has recently made available a new type of polyester film, Cronar, for use in the electrophoretic separation of plasma lipoproteins. This film does not take up lipid dyes. There is no background color. The film remains clear and transparent after staining for lipoproteins.

Engineering design education is traditionally structured such that each individual discipline is taught by a specialist in that discipline. This has artificially created an impression to students that a product should be looked at from different perspective in a segmented manner. This approach hence results in a great problem when computer model based teaching methods are introduced to tackle m...

In this paper, the evaluation of the characteristics of a new type rotating eddy-current probe for nondestructive Eddy-Current Testing (ECT) is carried out using 3-D edge-based FEM. The changes of the induced electromotive force are monitored for various inner and outer types of thin cracks inside the metal plate. It was veri ed that although the intensity of the signal obtained by this new typ...

Objectives The objective of this work is to develop a continuum sensitivity finite element analysis for the robust design of multi-stage metal forming processes in aircraft manufacturing. The computational forming design simulator being developed is applied to industrial forming design and provides the means to select the sequence of deformation processes, design the dies and preforms for each ...

We present a two-dimensional version of the classical one-dimensional Kolmogorov– Smirnov (K-S) test, extending an earlier idea due to Peacock (1983) and an implementation proposed by Fasano & Franceschini (1987). The two-dimensional K-S test is used to optimise the goodness of fit in an iterative source-detection scheme for astronomical images. The method is applied to a ROSAT/HRI x-ray image ...

In the present work we report the BeppoSAX observation of the Seyfert 1.9 galaxy NGC 526A in the band 0.1–150 keV. The high energy instrument onboard, PDS, has succeeded in measuring for the first time the spectrum of this source in the 13–150 keV range. The combined analysis of all Narrow Field Instruments provides a power law spectral index of ≃ 1.6 and confirms the flat spectral nature of th...