Previous research has shown high cortisol reactors to consume a greater amount of snack foods than low reactors following a laboratory stressor. The current study tested whether high cortisol reactors also consume more snacks than low reactors in response to field stressors. Fifty pre-menopausal women completed a laboratory stressor, provided saliva samples to assess cortisol reactor status and...

This paper addresses three questions that are relevant to integrating different regional transmission areas. Market integration normally increases the number of competitors and should therefore reduce prices but the first section shows that prices could rise when the number of generators initially increases. Regulatory effort will also be affected by market integration. If the number of generat...

Background and objective: Tetracyclines are the second most used group of antibiotics in the world. This type of antibiotic has a weak attraction in the body and enters wastewater through urine and feces. This study investigated the effectiveness of tetracycline removal from wastewater by air-cathode microbial fuel cells. Materials and methods: The current study was bench-scale experimental re...

The impurity transport simulation code TOTAL (TOroidal Transport Analysis Linkage) consisting of 1-D(dimensional) transport and 2or 3-D equilibrium is developed for analyzing tokamak and helical burning plasmas controlled by feedback scheme with gas puffing, pellet fueling injection and heating power modulations. In this code multi-species of impurity ions can be treated including neoclassical ...

Radiation doses from airborne effluents of model coal-fired and nuclear power plants (1000 megawatts electric) are compared. Assuming a 1 percent ash release to the atmosphere (Environmental Protection Agency regulation) and 1 part per million of uranium and 2 parts per million of thorium in the coal (approximately the U.S. average), population doses from the coal plant are typically higher tha...

Materials and Methods Microfluidic device design and fabrication: The microchemostat chip was fabricated out of the silicone elastomer polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) (General Electric RTV 615) using multi-layer soft lithography, as described previously (S1). Six reactors run in parallel on each chip. The microchemostat reader: The reader consists of a Nikon TE 2000 (A. G. Heinze Inc., Lake Forest,...

In this paper we study the structure and thermochemical properties of some new polycarbonyl compounds, with particular attention devoted to the study of (CO)n complexes, which are expected to be present in magnegases . The latter are anomalous gases produced by Hadronic Reactors of molecular type [2] (Patented and International Patents Pending) which expose atoms to the extremely intense electr...

A new configuration of a resonant full-bridge flying capacitor multicell inverter has been designed and constructed with the aim of achieving an extended output voltage frequency range with low harmonic distortion and reduced semiconductor commutation losses. This configuration was tested as a power supply for two different coaxial dielectric barrier discharge reactors, one of them employed for...

This chapter is devoted to reverse-engineering the cause of a dramatic increase in the total oxygen uptake rate by the lung, wherein oxygen is supplied to the blood to meet the increasing energetic demands between rest and exercise. This uptake rate increases despite a much smaller increase in the oxygen partial pressure difference across the lung’s exchange tissues (e.g. alveolar membranes), t...

STARFIRE A CONCEPTUAL DESIGN OF A COMMERCIAL TOKAMAK POWER PLANT. Starfire is a conceptual design for a commercial tokamak power plant based on the deuterium/tritium/lithium fuel cycle. The emphasis of the study is on the simplicity of the engineering design, maintainability, lower electricity cost, and improved safety and environmental features. The reactor has a 7-m major radius and produces ...