Abstract In this investigation, softwood pulp and bleached wheat straw were used as raw materials, Calcium Sulfate Whiskers (CSW) fillers. Based on the structural properties characteristics of CSW, printing paper with such whiteness, opacity, pH value, uniformity, Z-direction tensile strength surface strength, analyzed. The results showed that CSW has low solubility, high retention fiber-like a...

The economic and field performance of six Bombyx mori Linnaeus bivoltine strains were evaluated, namely ICIPE I, Chun-Lei X ZhengZhu (C X Z), QuiFeng X BaiYu (Q X B), Quingsong X Haoyoe (Q X H), Suju X Minghu (S X M) and 75xin X 7532 (75xin). Performance was based on larval, cocoon, pupa and shell weights, relationship of food consumption to larval weight, cocoon weight and shell weight. ICIPE ...

We evaluated the precision of land surface temperature (LST) operationally retrieved from the Korean multipurpose geostationary satellite, Communication, Ocean and Meteorological Satellite (COMS). The split-window (SW)-type retrieval algorithm was developed through radiative transfer model simulations under various atmospheric profiles, satellite zenith angles, surface emissivity values and sur...

Hyponatremia, serum sodium < 135 mEq/L, is the most common electrolyte abnormality and is in a state of flux. Hyponatremic patients are symptomatic and should be treated but our inability to consistently determine the causes of hyponatremia has hampered the delivery of appropriate therapy. This is especially applicable to differentiating syndrome of inappropriate antidiuresis (SIAD) from cerebr...

OBJECTIVE We used the hybrid capture assays to investigate the prevalence of human papillomavirus (HPV), Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae among commercial sex workers in Tokyo. METHODS Five hundred forty-six consecutive commercial sex workers (CSW) who visited an STD clinic for STD checkup in 1998 and 1999 were studied. A control group consisted of 233 consecutive women who vis...

Abstract The introduction of technology, particularly mobile phones, in the mediation commercial sex work (CSW) has meant that is expanding from traditional venue based (such as through hotels and massage parlors) to freelance work. It also changed face-to-face negotiation negotiations mediated online or by phone. Apart a few programmes, interventions largely use establishments entry points for...

Hyponatremia has been recognized as an important postoperative metabolic complication after central nervous system (CNS) operations in children. If not appropriately treated, the postoperative hyponatremia can cause several types of CNS and circulatory disorders such as cerebral edema, increased intracranial pressure. The postoperative hyponatremia after CNS surgery has been considered as one o...

We present an exploratory study for the nonperturbative determination of the coefficient of the O(a) improvement term to the Wilson action, cSW. Following the work by Lüscher et al., we impose the PCAC relation as a nonperturbative improvement condition on cSW, without, however, using the Schrödinger functional in our calculation.