The controlling kinetics of the water solubility of two synthesized mono azo naphthalimide based disperse dyestuffs in the presence of two different dispersing agents namely Irgasol DAM and lyoprint EV agents at various temperatures were investigated. An exponential rate equation was found to describe the dissolution process. The addition of Irgasol DAM and Lyoprint EV dispersing agents increas...

We consider the mid-term production planning problem in make-to-order production, which consists in scheduling production orders so that the variability in the resource utilization over time is minimized. The problem is modeled as a resource leveling project scheduling problem, where production orders for final products and main components correspond to activities of a project. We present a ne...

OBJECTIVE To investigate trends in obesity prevalence in recent years and to predict the obesity prevalence in 2015 in European populations. METHODS Data of 97,942 participants from seven cohorts involved in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) study participating in the Diogenes project (named as "Diogenes cohort" in the following) with weight measurements ...

At the Geodetic Laboratory at the Technical University Munich (TUM) there are the most advanced calibrators for precise leveling invar rods. They are equipped with a laser interferometer as a reference, and with an CCD array camera to detect the bars on the rod scales. The technical setup, which was initially developed at the Chair of Geodesy at the TUM and is now state-of-the-art, is explained...

We adopt Poisson wavelets for regional gravity field recovery using data acquired from various observational techniques; the method combines data of different spatial resolutions and coverage, and various spectral contents and noise levels. For managing the ill-conditioned system, the performances of the zeroand first-order Tikhonov regularization approaches are investigated. Moreover, a direct...

introduction paragangliomas are mostly localized in the adrenal medulla and they are usually pheochromocytomas, derived from the neural crest, but otherwise mesenteric paragangliomas are extremely rare tumors. case presentation in this article we represent a 59-year-old female with an abdominal mass and pain due to mesenteric paraganglioma. conclusions paragangliomas can occur as mesenteric tum...

in many countries, leveling networks are established for height determination which is one of the most important topics in geodesy. in these networks, the sum of the leveled height differences between a and b will not be equal to the difference in the orthometric heights ha and hb. the reason is that the leveling increment ?n, as we henceforth denote it, is different from the corresponding incr...

Flash memory has now become a crucial component in building Linux-based embedded computers. As the overall flash-memory lifetime is concerned with block endurance, wear leveling is needed to evenly erase all blocks. This paper presents a modularized implementation of a wear-leveling algorithm. Our goal is to instantly enable any existing Linux-based flash file systems the ability of wear leveli...