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This review gives an account of some of the factors affecting the transport of oxygen from the lungs until its final discharge in the tissues. The sequence of physiological and metabolic processes to be described may be considered collectively as the 'coarse adjust-ment' of oxygen transport. The 'fine adjustment' will be discussed in the succeeding chapter which surveys the local factors influe...

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This study examined the effect of urbanization on agricultural production in Abia State. Specifically, it categorized the land tenancy status of the farmers, analyzed the effect of urbanization on agricultural productivity and identified the constraints to agricultural productivity. Multistage random sampling technique was used to select the respondents. Primary data collected using structured ...

Availability modeling of the proposed International Linear Collider (ILC) predicts unacceptably low uptime with current electronics systems designs. High Availability (HA) analysis is being used as a guideline for all major machine systems including sources, utilities, cryogenics, magnets, power supplies, instrumentation and controls. R&D teams are seeking to achieve total machine high availabi...

1. The use of specific radiotracers called radiopharmaceuticals for imaging organ function and disease states is a unique capability of nuclear medicine. Unlike other imaging modalities such as Computed Tomography (CT), Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Ultrasonography (US), nuclear medicine procedures are capable of mapping physiological function and metabolic activity and thereby giving mo...

The current software development process in common use within industry is inefficient, in that the time required to incorporate results from competitive, beta, and previous releases into new versions available to customers is typically measured in years. Further, the accuracy of customer feedback returned to the development team is frequently weak or incomplete, with samples often drawn from on...