Wastewater demineralization by tubular reverse osmosis process /

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Demineralization of carbon-treated secondary effluent by spiral-wound reverse osmosis process /

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A preform design method for sheet superplastic bulging with finite element modeling

Superplastic bulging is the most successful application of superplastic forming (SPF) in industry, but the non-uniform wall thickness distribution of parts formed by it is a common technical problem yet to be overcome. Based on a rigid-viscoplastic finite element program developed by the authors, for simulation of the sheet superplastic forming process combined with the prediction of microstructure variations (such as grain growth and cavity growth), a simple and efficient preform design method is proposed and applied to the design of preform mould for manufacturing parts with uniform wall thickness. Examples of formed parts are presented here to demonstrate that the technology can be used to improve the uniformity of wall thickness to meet practical requirements. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Reverse engineering in many-body quantum physics: Correspondence between many-body systems and effective single-particle equations

The mapping, exact or approximate, of a many-body problem onto an effective single-body problem is one of the most widely used conceptual and computational tools of physics. Here, we propose and investigate the inverse map of effective approximate single-particle equations onto the corresponding many-particle system. This approach allows us to understand which interacting system a given single-particle approximation is actually describing, and how far this is from the original physical many-body system. We illustrate the resulting reverse engineering process by means of the Kohn-Sham equations of density-functional theory. In this application, our procedure sheds light on the nonlocality of the density-potential mapping of density-functional theory, and on the self-interaction error inherent in approximate density functionals.

Reverse logistics in the editorial sector: An exploratory study

Nowadays, the Reverse Logistics field is becoming very important. On one hand, laws areimposing companies to be responsible for the contamination made by their products. On theother hand, companies have discovered the profits derived from a good Reverse Logisticsprocess. This paper is the result of the work done by a group of companies from the SpanishEditorial sector to understand and improve their Reverse Logistics process. The paperdescribes the characteristics of the Reverse Logistics process in this sector and theimprovements identified by the work group .

Enriching Reverse Engineering with Annotations

Much of the knowledge about software systems is implicit, and therefore difficult to recover by purely automated techniques. Architectural layers and the externally visible features of software systems are two examples of information that can be difficult to detect from source code alone, and that would benefit from additional human knowledge. Typical approaches to reasoning about data involve encoding an explicit meta-model and expressing analyses at that level. Due to its informal nature, however, human knowledge can be difficult to characterize up-front and integrate into such a meta-model. We propose a generic, annotation-based approach to capture such knowledge during the reverse engineering process. Annotation types can be iteratively defined, refined and transformed, without requiring a fixed meta-model to be defined in advance. We show how our approach supports reverse engineering by implementing it in a tool called Metanool and by applying it to (i) analyzing architectural layering, (ii) tracking reengineering tasks, (iii) detecting design flaws, and (iv) analyzing features.

COORDINSPECTOR: a tool for extracting coordination data from legacy code

More and more current software systems rely on non trivial coordination logic for combining autonomous services typically running on different platforms and often owned by different organizations. Often, however, coordination data is deeply entangled in the code and, therefore, difficult to isolate and analyse separately. COORDINSPECTOR is a software tool which combines slicing and program analysis techniques to isolate all coordination elements from the source code of an existing application. Such a reverse engineering process provides a clear view of the actually invoked services as well as of the orchestration patterns which bind them together. The tool analyses Common Intermediate Language (CIL) code, the native language of Microsoft .Net Framework. Therefore, the scope of application of COORDINSPECTOR is quite large: potentially any piece of code developed in any of the programming languages which compiles to the .Net Framework. The tool generates graphical representations of the coordination layer together and identifies the underlying business process orchestrations, rendering them as Orc specifications

On the discovery of business processes orchestration patterns

COORDINSPECTOR is a Software Tool aiming at extracting the coordination layer of a software system. Such a reverse engineering process provides a clear view of the actually invoked services as well as the logic behind such invocations. The analysis process is based on program slicing techniques and the generation of, System Dependence Graphs and Coordination Dependence Graphs. The tool analyzes Common Intermediate Language (CIL), the native language of the Microsoft .Net Framework, thus making suitable for processing systems developed in any .Net Framework compilable language. COORDINSPECTOR generates graphical representations of the coordination layer together with business process orchestrations specified in WSBPEL 2.0

Recuperação parcial da água de lavagem dos filtros utilizados no tratamento da água de piscinas de uso público

Mestrado em Engenharia Química. Ramo optimização energética na indústria química

Traditional local medicines in the republic of Palau and non-communicable diseases (NCD), signs of effectiveness.

ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE: The aim of this survey was to describe which traditional medicines (TM) are most commonly used for non-communicable diseases (NCD - diabetes, hypertension related to excess weight and obesity) in Pacific islands and with what perceived effectiveness. NCD, especially prevalent in the Pacific, have been subject to many public health interventions, often with rather disappointing results. Innovative interventions are required; one hypothesis is that some local, traditional approaches may have been overlooked. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The method used was a retrospective treatment-outcome study in a nation-wide representative sample of the adult population (about 15,000 individuals) of the Republic of Palau, an archipelago of Micronesia. RESULTS: From 188 respondents (61% female, age 16-87, median 48,), 30 different plants were used, mostly self-prepared (69%), or from a traditional healer (18%). For excess weight, when comparing the two most frequent plants, Morinda citrifolia L. was associated with more adequate outcome than Phaleria nishidae Kaneh. (P=0.05). In case of diabetes, when comparing Phaleria nishidae (=Phaleria nisidai) and Morinda citrifolia, the former was statistically more often associated with the reported outcome "lower blood sugar" (P=0.01). CONCLUSIONS: Statistical association between a plant used and reported outcome is not a proof of effectiveness or safety, but it can help select plants of interest for further studies, e.g. through a reverse pharmacology process, in search of local products which may have a positive impact on population health.

Nanosuodatuksen käyttö voimalaitoksen lisäveden valmistuksessa

Työssä selvitettiin nanosuodatuksen soveltuvuutta ja kannattavuutta voimalaitoksen lisäveden valmistuksessa. Kirjallisuusselvityksen ja nanosuodatuskokeiden tavoitteena oli arvioida nanosuodatukseen perustuvien lisäveden valmistusprosessien toiminnallista ja taloudellista kilpailukykyä perinteisiin prosesseihin verrattuna. Voimalaitoksen lisävedellä tarkoitetaan vesi-höyrykiertoon syötettävää vettä, joka korvaa kierrossa menetetyn veden. Nykyisin se valmistetaan vesijohto- tai pintavedestä käänteisosmoosiin ja ioninvaihtoon perustuvilla menetelmillä. Nanosuodatus on käänteisosmoosin tapaan kalvotekniikkaan perustuva erotusprosessi. Kaikki kalvot poistivat orgaanisen aineksen tehokkaasti (>90 %). Suolaretentioissa oli suuria eroja kalvojen välillä, vaikka kalvotoimittajien ilmoittamat retentiot olivat samaa tasoa. NF90-kalvo tuotti puhtainta permeaattia. Kahden kalvon (NF90 ja ESNA1-LF2) kohdalla havaittiin vuon alenemista, kun vuo oli kokeiden alussa noin 30 ja 40 L/m2/h. Likaantumisen merkkejä ei havaittu minkään kalvon kohdalla, kun vuoarvo oli maltillinen (n. 20 L/m2/h). Raakaveden vaikutus NF90-permeaatin laatuun oli vähäinen. Muilla kalvoilla raakaveden vaikutus permeaatin laatuun oli merkittävä. Investointi- ja käyttökustannusten perusteella nanosuodatukseen perustuvat lisäveden valmistusprosessit ovat kilpailukykyisiä nykyisiin lisäveden valmistusprosesseihin verrattuna. Pintavettä raakavetenä käyttävät nanosuodatusprosessit maksavat itsensä takaisin 3–5 vuodessa vesijohtovettä raakavetenä käyttävään käänteisosmoosiprosessiin verrattuna.

Implementación de sistemas de información en los procesos de logística inversa de los Sets Quirúrgicos de Ortopedia

El presente documento es el producto de un análisis en cuanto al área de Logística Inversa del grupo empresarial AMAREY, el cual cuenta en la actualidad con más de dieciséis sistemas de sets quirúrgicos de ortopedia, es decir: sistema para mano, pie, radio, cadera, tibia, hombro, entre otros; de los cuales se tienen una cantidad específica de cada sistema, es decir: 4 sets del sistema Axsos. Se encuentra que la compañía no cuenta con ningún tipo de ayuda que le pueda brindar información exacta y a tiempo sobre las entradas y las salidas de los equipos de cirugía. Por lo anterior el resultado de la investigación está orientada a proponer la implementación de sistemas de información en los proceso de logística inversa de los sets quirúrgicos de ortopedia, con el fin de obtener una mejor gestión de la calidad al realizar la trazabilidad del material crítico y del set en general.

Termos botânicos

Há termos botânicos que são heterofônicos. O significado e a perfeita prosadia doles obém-se em linguagem científica, através da etimologia. Como exemplo,encontram-se mesofilo e mesófilo. Este, sendo proparoxítono, refere-se aquilo que vive em lugares de luz difusa e umidade média; e aquale, referindo-se a anatomia da folha, é paroxítono. Com relação ao termo taxinomia, formado pelos prefixos gregos taxi e namo e mais o sufixo -ia, não deixa de ser a melhor combinação e deve-se, portanto, rejeitar as formas paralelas de taxeonomia, taxionomia e taxonomia.

Modelo de Gerenciamento da Logística Reversa

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