Long chain omega 3 (n-3) fatty acids, eicosapentaenoic (EPA) and/or docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), have been shown to suppress growth of most cancer cells. In vivo, alpha linolenic acid (ALA, 18:3n-3) can be converted to EPA or DHA. We hypothesized that substituting canola oil (10% ALA) for the corn oil (1% ALA) in the diet of cancer bearing mice would slow tumor growth by increasing n-3 fatty aci...

The majority of global petroleum is in the form of highly viscous heavy oil. Traditionally heavy oil in sands at shallow depths is accessed by large scale mining activities. Recently steam has been used to allow heavy oil extraction with greatly reduced surface disturbance. However, in situ thermal recovery processes can generate hydrogen sulphide, high levels of which are toxic to humans and c...

A heavy crude oil has been treated with deuterated alkylating reagents (CD₃I and C₂D₅I) and directly analyzed without any prior fractionation and chromatographic separation by high-field Orbitrap Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometry (FTMS) and Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometry (FT-ICR MS) using electrospray ionization (ESI). The reaction of a polycyclic aromatic sulfur ...

The aim of this study was to explore the heavy-metal resistance and hydrocarbonoclastic potential of microorganisms in a hypersaline soil. For this, hydrocarbonoclastic microorganisms were counted on a mineral medium with oil vapor as a sole carbon source in the presence of increasing concentrations of ZnSO4, HgCl2, CdSO4, PbNO3, CuSO4, and Na2HAsO4. The colony-forming units counted decreased i...

79 L~ST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 1. Elastic Hysteresis 2. Overdamped Vibration 3. Critically Damped Vibration 4. Underdamped Vibration 5. Optimum Damping Factor for Specified Error 6. Free Gyroscope 7. Inclined Plane 8. Sliding Shoe 9. Kingsbury Thrust :Bearing 10. Circular Pad Air :Bearing 11. Cylindrical Pad 12. Oil-Ring-Bearing 13. Lo\-T Friction Ball :Bearing 14. Low Friction Roller Bearing 15. Sec...

Development of robust and highly sensitive algorithms for detecting incipient bearing faults in gas turbine engines will greatly benefit both military and civil aviation through improved aircraft reliability and maintainability. Techniques including advanced vibration analysis and oil debris monitoring have proven effective in laboratory and industrial settings, but factors including poor trans...

Using finite element method and multi-body dynamics method, this study established an engine digitalized virtual prototype embraced tribological characteristics in virtual prototype and MATLAB platform, and introduced Elastohydrodynamics theory into the system, wrote program with difference equation method, and solved the Reynolds Equation through shafting-bearing self-feedback control system, ...

The AOC Granite 7-32-89-10 hole, drilled to search for oil in the Precambrian basement below the Alberta bituminous (tar) sands near Fort McMurray, Canada, penetrates layered biotite-hypersthene quartz diorite-gabbro sills that occur between 543 and 2363.3 meters depth. Three episodes of fracturing and cataclasis affected these sills. The first allowed Kand Si-metasomatism to change many parts ...