Water-silicone oil emulsion with an additive, (C2H5O)3SiC3H6NH2, was examined as a heat storage material. A spiral tube used as a heat exchanger was immersed in a low temperature bath and the emulsion was circulated in the tube to make ice continuously. Ice was separated from the ice–liquid suspension in an outlet tank. The amount of formed ice, the temperatures of the inlet and the outlet of the heat exchanger, and the temperatures in the tube wall were measured and the overall heat transfer coefficient and the heat flux through the tube were calculated. Experiments were carried out, varying the flow rate, the temperature of cooling brine, and the thickness of tube wall. The condition under which slurry ice was formed continuously without adhesion of ice to the cooling wall was clarified. Though decrease in the thermal resistance of the tube increased the rate of ice formation or raised the brine temperature, it narrowed the range of the flow rate and of the brine temperature in which slurry ice was formed continuously. 相似文献
This paper discusses the feasibility of a vapor compression/absorption hybrid refrigeration cycle for energy saving and utilization of waste heat. The cycle employs propane as a natural refrigerant and a refrigeration oil as an absorbent. A prototype of the cycle is constructed, in which a compressor and an absorption unit are combined in series. The performance of the cycle is examined both theoretically and experimentally. Although the solubility of the propane with the oil is not enough as a working pair in the absorption unit, the theoretical calculation shows that the hybrid cycle has a potential to achieve a higher performance in comparison with a simple vapor compression cycle by using the waste heat. In the experiment, the prototype cycle is operated successfully and it is found that an improvement of an absorber is necessary to achieve the good performance close to the theoretical one. The application of an AHE (absorber heat exchanger) can reduce the heat input to a generator. Further examinations on some other combinations of refrigerant/refrigeration oil and additives are desirable. 相似文献
It is of interest to know whether or not the removal of the pyloric branch of the vagus nerve (subsequently referred to as vagotomy) is associated with the early stagnation of gastric contents supervening upon duodenectomy with preservation of the total stomach and pylorus (innervation of pylorus group 5, denervation of pylorus group 5). In the present study preservative duodenectomy was performed on dogs to determine the effects of vagotomy on gastroduodenojejunal motility and gastric emptying. The group of typical strong preprandial contraction waves (subsequently referred to as phase III) did not appear after vagotomy. The appearance of phase III was delayed and its duration was reduced. The duration of pyloric phase III significantly reduced, at 2 and 4 weeks post-surgery, in the denervation of pylorus group, compared to the innervation of pylorus group, and at 4 weeks, the area of phase III was significantly decreased in the denervation group. Post-vagotomy gastric emptying was poor throughout the course of observation. The results of this study suggest that the vagotomy-induced change in gastroduodenal motility in fasting conditions is one of the factors responsible for the stagnation of gastric contents. 相似文献
Thraustochytrids, marine protists whose dominant genera are Thraustochytrium and Schizochytrium, belong to the kingdom Chromista and are known as an industrial source of DHA. We describe here that thraustochytrid strain
KH105, isolated as a DHA producer, also accumulates significant levels of β-carotene and xanthophylls including canthaxanthin
and astaxanthin. A4-d cultivation using a medium composed of 10% glucose and less than 0.3% of nitrogen sources in a half-concentration
of seawater gave an astaxanthin production up to 6.1 mg/L, and canthaxanthin content reached more than 10 mg/L under conditions
where a higher concentration of nitrogen sources (6%) was employed. It might be advantageous in mass production systems for
these carotenoids to be extracted readily by simply suspending the cells with organic solvents such as acetone and chloroform.
Analyses on the morphological and life history features of the KH105 strain revealed that it belongs to the genus Schizochytrium. This particular species of thraustochytrids is thus considered to be a promising source of xanthophylls as well as DHA for
use in the food industry. 相似文献
The structure and composition of the 1/4{110} twin boundary in alpha-Zn7Sb2O12 have been determined by using quantitative high-angle annular dark field scanning transmission electron microscopy (HAADF STEM) analysis. The noise in the experimental HAADF STEM images is reduced by using the maximum entropy method and average processing, and the parameters used in dynamical simulations are experimentally determined. From the analysis, it has been found that octahedral sites in the twin boundary slightly shift parallel to the [110] direction, and a reduction of the Sb concentration at the octahedral sites on the plane adjacent to the twin boundary was detected. The reduction was measured from three regions in the same twin boundary, and the Sb concentrations were 4 +/- 3, 8 +/- 3 and 19 +/-2 at% from 33 at%. 相似文献
Epilepsy is a neurological disorder that may affect the autonomic nervous system (ANS) from 15 to 20 min before seizure onset, and disturbances of ANS affect R–R intervals (RRI) on an electrocardiogram (ECG). This study aims to develop a machine learning algorithm for predicting focal epileptic seizures by monitoring R–R interval (RRI) data in real time. The developed algorithm adopts a self-attentive autoencoder (SA-AE), which is a neural network for time-series data.
The results of applying the developed seizure prediction algorithm to clinical data demonstrated that it functioned well in most patients; however, false positives (FPs) occurred in specific participants. In a future work, we will investigate the causes of FPs and optimize the developing seizure prediction algorithm to further improve performance using newly added clinical data.
Purpose : We aimed to identify novel chemotherapy responsiveness biomarkers for osteosarcoma (OS) by investigating the global protein expression profile of 12 biopsy samples from OS patients. Experimental design : Six patients were classified as good responders and six as poor responders, according to the Huvos grading system. The protein expression profiles obtained by 2‐D DIGE consisted of 2250 protein spots. Results : Among them, we identified 55 protein spots whose intensity was significantly different (Bonferroni adjusted p‐value<0.01) between the two patient groups. Mass spectrometric protein identification demonstrated that the 55 spots corresponded to 38 distinct gene products including peroxiredoxin 2 (PRDX 2). Use of a specific antibody against PRDX 2 confirmed the differential expression of PRDX 2 between good and poor responders, while PRDX 2 levels as measured by Western blotting correlated highly with their corresponding 2‐D DIGE values. The predictive value of PRDX 2 expression was further confirmed by examining an additional four OS cases using Western blotting. Conclusions and clinical relevance : These results establish PRDX 2 as a candidate for chemotherapy responsiveness marker in OS. Measuring PRDX 2 in biopsy samples before treatment may contribute to more effective management of OS. 相似文献
Similarity search is important in information retrieval applications where objects are usually represented as vectors of high
dimensionality. This leads to the increasing need for supporting the indexing of high-dimensional data. On the other hand,
indexing structures based on space partitioning are powerless because of the well-known “curse of dimensionality”. Linear
scan of the data with approximation is more efficient in the high-dimensional similarity search. However, approaches so far
have concentrated on reducing I/O, and ignored the computation cost. For an expensive distance function such as Lp norm with fractional p, the computation cost becomes the bottleneck. We propose a new technique to address expensive distance functions by “indexing
the function” by pre-computing some key values of the function once. Then, the values are used to develop the upper/lower
bounds of the distance between a data vector and the query vector. The technique is extremely efficient since it avoids most
of the distance function computations; moreover, it does not involve any extra secondary storage because no index is constructed
and stored. The efficiency is confirmed by cost analysis, as well as experiments on synthetic and real data. 相似文献