This retrospective study assessed the effectiveness and complications of peripheral alcohol injections in the management of trigeminal neuralgia (TN). 100 patients were analyzed who received 250 peripheral alcohol injections from June 2004 to January 2010. The duration of effect of alcohol ...

Seventy five patients with severely bleeding peptic ulcer were included in a controlled comparative trial to assess the efficacy and safety of endoscopic injection therapy in preventing rebleeding from peptic ulcers that presented at endoscopy with a protruding vessel. Twenty five patients were treated with injection of epinephrine followed by polidocanol, ...

... Plasmodium falciparum: Role of Absolute Stereochemistry in the Antimalarial Activity of Synthetic Amino Alcohol Antimalarial Agents ...

... Title : Plasmodium Falciparum: Role of Absolute Stereochemistry in the Antimalarial Activity of Synthetic Amino Alcohol Antimalarial Agents. ...

Although the length of the path from the Sun affects the absolute injection time , it cannot change the relative ordering of the injection times as a ...

The absolute configuration of (+)-pinacolyl alcohol, although widely assumed to be (S), has never been firmly established and there is reason to question the usual assignment. Direct chemical correlation with (+)-(S)-lactic acid firmly establishes that th...

... ORIGINALLY ISSUED August Memorandum 1945 as Report E5H12 EFFECT OF WATER-ALCOHOL INJECTION AND MAXIMUM-ECONOMY ...

... Title : Effect of Water-Alcohol Injection and Maximum-Economy Spark Advance on Knock-Limited Performance and Fuel Economy of a Wright R ...

BACKGROUND: Alcohol injecting may cause intense irritation, serious vein damage, and additional risks. What little is known about alcohol injecting points to the potential role of social marginalisation. METHODS: Injecting drug users (N=215) were recruited between October 2005 and December 2006 ...

A 54-year-old woman was admitted to hospital for hypotension and anemia which was due to intermittent hemorrhage from a lumbar drain. She had undergone open nephrectomy ten days earlier in another hospital for the right dysfunctional kidney with staghorn calculi. Ultrasound in our hospital showed a right retroperitoneal hematoma. Surgical exploration was performed twice whereby the hematoma was ...

Abstract: In the development of Diesel engine fuel injection systems it is necessary to have an approximate hide. knowledge of the absolute viscosity of the ...

This report describes the results of tests carried out on a diesel engine equipped with two separate fuel injection systems and using alcohol as main fuel. There is possibility of using pure alcohol as min fuel in a diese engine equipped with two fuel inj...

M and W Gear Co. of Gibson City, IL, are marketing a new alcohol- injection system that permits turbocharged diesel engines to burn alcohol and claims to cut diesel consumption by 30% and more. The alcohol fuel, a blend of alcohol and water, does not meet the diesel fuel until the ...

This paper reports on the results of using multipoint port injection alcohol fumigation of a four-cycle turbocharged diesel engine in which the fumigation injection cycle was varied. The three cycles, dual with one-half of the alcohol injection on each engine revolution, single with all of the ...

Sixty-five patients with axillary hyperhidrosis took part in a trial of treatment with a solution of 20% aluminium chloride hexahydrate in absolute alcohol, applied topically each night for a week and then whenever the patient thought it necessary. Excellent control of sweating was achieved in 64 patients, and occlusion of the area was found to be ...

The objective of this study was to compare the diagnostic power of direct carbohydrate-deficient transferrin (CDT) immunoassay in alcohol abuse expressed in relative units with the diagnostic power of the results expressed in absolute units. Serum CDT was determined in 127 alcoholics using N Latex CDT direct immunonephelometric assay ...

... consume alcohol (31, 32), supporting folate-alcohol interactions in breast ... cancers, daily intravenous injections of fermentation Lactobacillus casei ...

... resistant container. Do not put them in a trash can. You can dispose of used alcohol pads and vials in the trash, but if you see blood on an alcohol ...

... in absolute alcohol. Sufficient Lecithin (approximately 0.20 to 0.22%) is added to produce standard reactivity. 4.2 ASI VDRL ...

... Abstract : Photographic data were obtained for the transverse injection of water and isopropyl alcohol from a flat-plate into airstreams having Mach ...

... alcohol as preservative in Water for Injection ... chronic renal failure (CRF), production of erythropoietin ... life parameters measured, including energy and activity ...

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of gelified ethanol, a newly developed sclerosing agent for slow-flow vascular malformations. METHODS: Seventy-nine sclerotherapy procedures were performed on 44 patients with 37 venous malformations, 2 glomuvenous malformations, 2 lymphatic malformations, 2 lymphatico-venous malformations, and 1 Klippel-Trenaunay syndrome. The median ...

Nine patients (five males, four females) with 14 hydatid cysts were treated with albendazole and percutaneous drainage under sonographic guidance. All but two cysts were hepatic. The average cyst diameter was 81.5 mm (range: 42-180 mm). There were eight type 1 cysts, two type 2, three type 3, and a single type 4. Type 1 and 2 cysts were treated by needle aspiration, type 3 and 4 by needle ...

to be resistant to standard Mosher-type esterification conditions.12 However, as in the case of all other alcohols sterically hindered chiral secondary alcohols that are resistant to standard esterification conditions

Production of fuel alcohol in a small scale is hampered by difficulty in obtaining good conversion of substrate to ethanol and variability of ethanol concentration in the product. Production of absolute ethanol suitable for blending with gasoline is not p...

...aqueous alcoholic solutions at 60 degrees Fahrenheit; thus, they read, 0 for water, 100 for proof spirits, and 200 for absolute alcohol. Because of temperature-density relationships and the selection of 60 degrees Fahrenheit for...

The aim of this thesis is to determine to what extent alcohol fuels can be used and to show characteristic engine- and operational parameters depending on essential, easily influenced engine data such as: start of injection, injection period, fuel distrib...

... doctor first. Memories of drug- or alcohol-using days Sometimes, the act of injecting interferon can bring ...

... Accession Number : ADA800781. Title : Flight Investigation of Thrust Augmentation of a Turbojet Engine by Water-Alcohol Injection. ...

Experiments were conducted on consolidated Berea sandstone cores in order to compare results of alcohol and combination alcohol-kerosine slug injection on tertiary oil recovery from a consolidated sandstone core. The core was flooded with brine until residual oil saturation was reached. The pure alcohol slug was ...

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that there is a thermodynamic advantage to fumigation compared to injection of the alcohol into the chamber. Both power output and thermal efficiency are potentially greater because of the significant cooling effect of alcohol evaporating before and during the compression process. 10 refs.

The use of alcohol as an alternative fuel for diesel motors was investigated. The suitability of methanol and ethanol as fuels is discussed. The test motor and test stand are described. The test results and the thermodynamic analysis show that the alcohol...

The author investigated the applicability of alcohol fuels in small diesel engines with modified combustion chamber configuration and with spark plugs. A thermodynamic analysis was carried out for the mixing and combustion processes with alcohol fuel. Pre...

Different methods of burning alcohol in diesel engines are discussed. The primary difficulty in usng alcohol as a diesel fuel is initiation of the flame. The methods are categorized by the ignition technique used; spark or hot surface, pilot injection which includes twin injection and fumigation, cetane improvement ...

The current use of alternative fuels is first described in this report. The tests on an diesel engine with double injection system using alcohol fuels, mainly ethanol fuels are also described. VALMET 311 D6S diesel engine with double injection was used as...

... injection of water and isopropyl alcohol from. ... Some photographic data for liquid injection obtained With ... Isopropanol 0.785 2.370 21.7 2ý.07 82.4 ...

In a method of recovering oil from a subsurface oil reservoir, the first step is injection of a bank of alcohol solvent, miscible with reservoir resident water. Behind this bank of alcohol solvent a second bank of mixed solvents (consisting essentially of a hydrocarbon solvent miscible with reservoir oil and an ...

This is a solvent flood oil-recovery method. The method consists of injecting, in sequence, into a formation in which there is at least one injection well and one production well, a quantity of a selected ethylene glycol ether, a slug of a water-miscible organic solvent, and floodwater to drive the injected materials toward the ...

Enhanced oil recovery process comprising the injection of aqueous alkaline hypochlorite solution and aqueous alkaline alcohol solution into a subterranean formation to react with crude oil and form carboxylate surfactants in-situ. In a preferred embodiment, aqueous alkaline hypochlorite solution is followed by injection of an aqueous ...

Pasteurisation of milk provides protection for the consumer against pathogens which may be present in the raw milk, and improves its keeping quality. Sterilisation provides indefinite keeping quality but has an undesirable effect on the flavour and nutritive value of the milk. Ultra high temperature (UHT) treatment produces a milk with prolonged shelf life at ambient temperatures yet has ...

Alcohol administration is known to alter several brain functions and behaviors in humans and in laboratory animals. One of the targets of ethanol is the mesocorticolimbic dopaminergic reward pathway. We used the "alcohol deprivation effect" test as a rat model of alcohol craving and relapse. The effect is characterized by increased ...

A method of introducing liquids into well tubing is described. The tubing has an injection valve and a packer located below the injection valve and expanded into contact with the casing. The liquid to be introduced into the tubing and a gas are introduced into the tubing-casing annulus. The gas pressure forces the liquid into the tubing through the ...

The combined effects of ethanol and microwaves on the permeation of Evans blue dye through the mammalian blood-brain barrier was studied in male Wistar rats. Anesthetized rats were infused through a cannula in the left femoral vein with 0.1, 0.3, 0.5 or 0.7 grams of absolute ethanol per kilogram of body mass. A control group was given 0.7 g/kg of isotonic saline. The left ...

A study has been made of the roles of the alcohol and electrolyte in changing the viscosity and electrical conductivity of single-phase microemulsions from a petroleum sulfonate, an aliphatic alcohol, decane, and water (or an aqueous electrolyte solution). As the alcohol concentration is increased, the system viscosity passes through a ...

To evaluate the quality of wine, we previously measured the complex relative permittivity of wine in the frequency range from 10 MHz to 6 GHz with a network analyzer, and suggested a possibility that the maturity and alcohol concentration of wine can simultaneously be estimated from the Cole-Cole plot. Although the absolute accuracy has not been examined ...

The literature review describes some new foreign studies on the use of ignition improvers, long-term engine tests, dual fuel injection systems and cold-startability of alcohol powered diesel engines. The experimental part of this work consists of three st...

When using alcohol for the fuel of a diesel, either the engine or the fuel must be converted due to the poor ignition of alcohols. A direct injection diesel engine is usually easy to convert into an otto engine. The otto version is technically simple, alt...

The objective of this study was to determine the effects of buoyancy on the absolute instability of low-density gas jets injected into high-density gas mediums. Most of the existing analyses of low-density gas jets injected into a high-density ambient hav...

... min. The extraction is repeated with phenol/chloroform/isoamyl alcohol and the DNA precipitated by adding 0.1 volumes of 3 M sodium acetate, pH 5.3, and 2 volumes of absolute ... ...

... Purity Ethyl Alcohol Absolute Isoamyl Acetate CP Ethyl Ether ... to 10 mm at 35,2 °C^V Isoamyl acetate and n-amyl acetate have about ...

A process of electrodepositing neptunium from solutions is given which comprises conducting the electrodeposition from an absolute alcohol bath containing a neptunium nitrate and lanthanum nitrate at a potential of approximately 50 volts and a current density of between about 1.8 and 4.7 ma/dm/ sup 2/.

... are pregnant, plan to become pregnant, or are breast-feeding. If you become ... you.remember that alcohol can add to the drowsiness caused by this drug.

flaw turbo jet engine using water-alcohol injection Uta the combustion ... the turbo jet engine fitted with an afterburner. On the other hand, the ...

... propellant rocket engines, Fuel injection, Combustion chambers, Turbines, Regenerative cooling, Pumping, Liquid oxygen, Alcohols, Water, Nitric ...

... 100% recycled content in the manufacture of thermoformed or injection molded articles for contact with non-alcoholic foods under Conditions of Use B through H ...

... are pregnant, plan to become pregnant, or are breast-feeding. If you become pregnant ... that alcohol can add to the drowsiness caused by this drug.tell ...

... rheological features of various ceramic-polymer HYDROXYPROPYL METHYL CELLULOSE AND POLYVINYL ALCOHOL (HPMC-PVA) in an ...

... further attempt was made to maintain a constant fuel flow when ... mixture injected at a water-alcohol-to-air ratio of ... FEATURES photos, graphs, drags ...

... are pregnant, plan to become pregnant, or are breast-feeding. If you become ... you.remember that alcohol can add to the drowsiness caused by this drug.

... induced in rats following periarticular injection of 0.1 ml of 20% benzyl alcohol in 70%'J polyethylene glycol (PEG). ... Methyl salicylate ... Dibenzyl ether ...

... Proposed Indication for Use: Treatment of patients with hereditary ... and one 10 ml vial sterile water for injection ... ml syringe, infusion set, and two alcohol swabs ...

and up to two in a liquid JP-8 fueled (TVC) for a range in water/fuel and fuel/ air ratios. ... 12 100 lbs thrust with water/alcohol injection (March Field ..... at the 10th International Symposium on Transport Phenomena and Dynamics of ...

A 1981 Datsun 200SX automobile was modified to enable it to operate on either methanol, ethanol, or gasoline. The electronic fuel injection system of the vehicle was modified to provide this multiple fuel capability, with optimum operation on each fuel. T...

The paper presents the results of alcohol fumigation as applied to an existing turbocharged six-cylinder, direct injection diesel engine. Three alcohol fuels - methanol, ethanol, and aqueous ethanol - were fumigated in the crossover pipe, between the turbocharger and the intake ports. There was no attempt made to optimize the ...

A new method was developed to assign the absolute configuration of molecules using kinetic resolution catalysts. Secondary alcohols were acylated in the presence of Birman's S-HBTM and R-HBTM catalysts, and the fast-reacting catalyst was identified by NMR analysis of the reaction mixture. A mnemonic was developed to assign configuration based on the ...

(13)C NMR, alone or in combination with (1)H NMR, allows the assignment of the absolute configuration of chiral alcohols, amines, carboxylic acids, thiols, cyanohydrins, sec,sec-diols and sec,sec-aminoalcohols, derivatized with appropriate chiral auxiliaries. This extends the assignment possibilities of NMR to fully deuterated and to nonproton containing ...

Historical accounts of alcohol administration to patients with breathing problems suggest that alcohol may have bronchodilating properties. We hypothesized that acute alcohol exposure will alter airway responsiveness (AR) in mice. To test this hypothesis, C57BL/6 mice were fed either 20% alcohol in drinking water ...

This patent describes an improved method of recovering oil under steam flooding conditions from an oil-bearing subterranean formation penetrated by an injection well and a production well, in which an aqueous fluid is injected into the formation through the injection well to displace oil to the production well. The improvement ...

The authors report here that summer flounder (Paralichthys dentatus) pretreated by injection of a small amount of the common alcohol, ethanol, or ethanol containing PCB, showed complete suppression of the immune response to a formalin-killed sewage sludge isolate of the human enteric bacteria, E. coli. The unresponsiveness persisted for up to 42 days after ...

In a miscible slug, secondary-recovery process, a slug of low molecular weight olefinic or mononuclear hydrocarbon is first injected into the formation. Then a quantity of amphipathic solvent such as isopropyl alcohol is injected. Finally, floodwater is injected to drive the oil toward the producing wells. Because ...

We have examined sensitivity and specificity of pseudocontinuous arterial spin labeling (PCASL) to detect global and regional changes in cerebral blood flow (CBF) in response to two different psychoactive drugs. We tested alcohol and morphine in a placebo-controlled, double-blind randomized study in 12 healthy young men. Drugs were administered intravenously. Validated ...

Injection testing conducted between March 25 and June 15, 1982 at the Raft River Site generated a substantial quantity of non-isothermal and various temperature transient pressure data. Injection pressure build-up measured at the wellhead strongly responds to temperature changes of the injected fluid. An increase in the fluid ...

This patent describes a process for enhancing the injectivity of an injection well and thereby accelerating the recovery of oil by a waterflood process from an oil-bearing subterranean formation penetrated by at least one injection well and at one production well wherein the near wellbore area of the formation penetrated by the ...

The major pollutants emitted from compression ignition (CI) engine with diesel as fuel are smoke and nitrogen oxides (NOx). When the diesel engine is run with alternate fuels, there is need to check alcohols (methanol or ethanol) and aldehydes also. Alcohols cannot be used directly in diesel engine and hence engine modification is essential as ...

Dicke radiometer, noise injection radiometer and total power radiometers used in remote sensing are described. The achievable temperature resolution and the absolute accuracy of the brightness temperature measurement are discussed. A remote sensing radiom...

... 2. an absolute oral bioavailability study (P172) for the 35 and 70 mg alendronate oral tablets as compare to an 125 �g alendronate intravenous injection (2.5 ...

SUNCT is a syndrome of short-lasting unilateral neuralgiform headache attacks with conjunctival injection and tearing. We are presenting now two cases absolutely responders to steroid therapy, one of them a SUNCT-like secondary to a prolactinoma and the other primary. PMID:19020800

In this paper we have demonstrated absolute wavelength tuning in an optical fiber multiwavelength filter based on a polarization-diversity loop structure by controlling electrical currents injected into enameled wires wound on polarization-maintaining fibers (PMFs), that is, adjusting Joule heat generated from current-flowing enameled wires. The proposed ...

A method is described for recovering crude oil from a subterranean reservoir having one or more injection means in fluid communication with one or more producing means. The method comprises injecting into said reservoir through said injection means an effective quantity of a solution of a fatty alcohol wherein the ...

Aims:? To characterize factors associated with injection cessation, relapse and initiation. Design:? MIDACS is a prospective cohort of injection drug users (IDUs) recruited in 2005-06 with semi-annual follow-up through 2009. Discrete-time survival models were used to characterize predictors of time to first injection cessation and ...

Indian youth have higher rates of using alcohol and drugs in ways that increase their risk--getting very drunk, drinking while driving, and using drugs and alcohol together. The highest rate is found among reservation youth, a lower rate among non-reservation Indians, and the lowest rate among non-Indian youth. Frequency of self-reported consequences from ...

Preparation of the skin prior to joint injection varies widely among disciplines and across regional borders. This is likely due to the paucity of literature on the most effective and efficient methods of preparation. There is no standard definition of clean technique prior to joint injection. Review of the available literature suggests that ...

Two separate studies were conducted to examine the effect of ethanol (EtOH) dose on atherogenic low density lipoprotein (LDL) subfractions and LDL metabolism in vivo. In the first study, male, atherosclerosis-susceptible squirrel monkeys were divided in three treatments: controls fed liquid diet, and low and high alcohol groups given liquid diet with vodka substituted for ...

Evaporative loss of ethanol during batch alcoholic fermentation has been modeled, employing modern concepts of kinetics and stoichiometry and the best available phase equilibrium thermodynamic data. Theoretical results demonstrate that loss is proportional to the second power of the sugar concentration utilized and that the logarithm of loss is proportional to reciprocal ...

The optically pure epoxy acetal was converted to the protected guanidino alcohol by reaction with NaN₃ in DMF, hydrogenation of the azide, and reaction of the amine with MeSC(NBoc)NHBoc, AgNO₃ and Et₃N. Treatment of the protected guanidino alcohol with 9:1 CDCl₃/TFA ...

Enantioselective syntheses of the alkaloids (?)-aurantioclavine, (+)-amurensinine, (?)-lobeline, and (?)- and (+)-sedamine are described. The syntheses demonstrate the effectiveness of the Pd-catalyzed asymmetric oxidation of secondary alcohols in diverse contexts and the ability of this methodology to set the absolute configuration of multiple ...

Production of fuel alcohol in a small scale is hampered by difficulty in obtaining good conversion of substrate to ethanol and variability of ethanol concentration in the product. Production of absolute ethanol suitable for blending with gasoline is not presently possible in a small scale using techniques used commercially. This research addressed the ...

Low molecular weight alcohols including fusel oil were determined using diethyl ether extraction and capillary gas chromatography. Twelve kinds of alcohols were successfully resolved on the HP-FFAP (polyethylene glycol) capillary column. The diethyl ether extraction method was very useful for the analysis of alcohols in ...

The acute toxicity of the alcoholic extracts of seeds, roots stems and leaves of the fully mature Corchorus olitorius L. plant was determined in mice by intraperitoneal injection. The cardiac glycosides content of each extract was estimated and the correlation between the two investigated parameters was established. The chronic toxicity of the ...

This report describes results from emissions testing of a prototype diesel engine, developed by Volvo Truck Corporation of Sweden, which uses pilot injection of diesel fuel for compression ignition of alcohol fuel injection for main combustion. In additio...

Clostridium septicum infections are generally associated with gastrointestinal or hematologic malignancies. We report the first case of hepatic metastases infection with Clostridium septicum that followed alcohol injection of liver lesion. Clinicians should consider this possibility in patients with underlying malignancy who present with hepatic abscess, ...

Clostridium septicum infections are generally associated with gastrointestinal or hematologic malignancies. We report the first case of hepatic metastases infection with Clostridium septicum that followed alcohol injection of liver lesion. Clinicians should consider this possibility in patients with underlying malignancy who present with hepatic abscess, ...

In this study, the feasibility of GC-MS was evaluated for the quantification of odorous volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in environmental samples. These included methyl ethyl ketone, isobutyl alcohol, methyl isobutyl ketone, and butyl acetate plus benzene, toluene, and xylene (BTX). For this purpose, the gaseous standard for these VOCs were analyzed by GC-MS with the aid of ...

Epidemiological studies provide definite evidence that alcohol drinking is an independent risk factor for laryngeal cancer. This risk increases with the amount of alcohol consumed: in a meta-analysis of 20 studies conducted in North America, Europe, Japan and Korea the multivariate relative risks were about 2 for 50 g ( approximately 4 drinks)/day and ...

New absolute measurements of the thermal conductivity of methanol, ethanol, propanol, butanol, pentanol, and hexanol at atmospheric pressure and in the temperature range 290-350 K are reported. The overall uncertainty in the reported thermal conductivity data is estimated to be better than +/- 0.5%, an estimate confirmed by the measurement of the thermal conductivity of water. ...

This study investigated the fumigation of ethanol and methanol into diesel engines with the aim of developing a simple and practical microchip-controlled alcohol injection system suitable for all engine-operating conditions. In contrast to most previous fumigation systems, the method selected used multiple injectors with one at each inlet-valve location. ...

This patent describes an alcohol fuel conversion apparatus for internal combustion engines comprising: fuel storage means for containing an alcohol fuel; primary heat exchange means in fluid communication with the fuel storage means for transferring heat to pressurized alcohol contained within the heat exchange means; a heat source ...

Determining injection flow profiles for various injected fluids was part of the surveillance program for monitoring the performance of Exxon's surfactant flood pilot test recently conducted in the Loudon Field, Fayette County, Illinois. Injection profiles for brine, microemulsion, and polymer drive water were measured using a ...

A method for cleaning and stimulating an oil, gas or injection well, in which wax, tar and/or bituminous materials are either already deposited or would be precipitated by the injection of an acidizing solution consisting of a mixture of an octanol and a lower alcohol with an aqueous acid solution, involves the ...

Apart from energy requirement estimations on the conventional normal-pressure process for ethanol concentration, economy comparisons on the azeotropic and extractive distillation for ethanol purification can be found in the literature. The processes introduced in this paper are compared with processes described in literature. The problem is, on one hand the studies were made on laboratory-scale ...

Experimental solubilities are reported for pyrene dissolved in five binary alcohol + cyclohexanol and seven binary alcohol + 1-pentanol solvent mixtures at 26 C. Alcohol cosolvents include 1-propanol, 2-propanol, 1-butanol, 2-butanol, 2-methyl-1-propanol, 3-methyl-1-butanol, and 2-pentanol. Results of these measurements are used to ...

It has been clearly established that individuals' alcohol consumption tends to covary with the rate and absolute quantity of a drinking partner. Sixty men and 73 women participated in a two-part study designed to examine the role of modeling and alcohol-related expectancies in predicting whether individuals would model the type of ...

Alcoholism is highly prevalent among bipolar disorder (BD) patients, and its presence is associated with a worse outcome and refractoriness to treatment of the mood disorder. The neurobiological underpinnings that characterize this comorbidity are unknown. We sought to investigate the neurochemical profile of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) of BD patients with ...

Alcoholism is highly prevalent among bipolar disorder (BD) patients, and its presence is associated with a worse outcome and refractoriness to treatment of the mood disorder. The neurobiological underpinnings that characterize this comorbidity are unknown. We sought to investigate the neurochemical profile of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) of BD patients with ...

An M and W alcohol Conversion kit was installed on an AC 7040 turbocharged diesel tractor. The unit was dynamometer tested with 100 proof and 185 proof ethanol. This system injects alcohol into the intake air stream and permits reduction of diesel fuel-consumption by 10-15 percent. Turbocharger blade wear, as well as other problems ...

This paper demonstrates that there are significant improvements in thermal efficiency possible by modifying the manner in which alcohols are used in Brayton cycle engines. It is shown that injection of the alcohol during the compression process can materially improve both thermal efficiency and specific work because of the intercooling ...

The purpose of this study was to determine if aversive effects of alcohol withdrawal could be detected in mice using the place conditioning procedure and whether the GABA_A receptor antagonist, pentylenetetrazol (PTZ), would increase the aversive effects of alcohol withdrawal and increase the probability of detecting conditioned place ...

A process of recovery of hydrocarbons from a subterranean formation (wherein an aqueous liquid is injected into an injection well and hydrocarbons are produced from a production well, wherein at least a portion of the aqueous liquid is thickened with an organic polymer, and wherein an aqueous mixture containing the organic polymer is filtered prior to ...

Conjunctival inclusion cysts following strabismus surgery are typically treated by surgical excision in a hospital setting. Cysts may be aspirated in the office setting with the aid of a slit lamp, but this approach is associated with recurrence. Thermal cautery and intracyst injection of doxycycline may also be performed in the office. We present 2 cases of conjunctival ...

A simple, rapid, and accurate column-switching liquid chromatography method was developed and validated for direct and simultaneous analysis of loxoprofen and its metabolites (trans- and cis-alcohol metabolites) in human serum. After direct serum injection into the system, deproteinization and trace enrichment occurred on a Shim-pack MAYI-ODS pretreatment ...

A process is provided for removing flow-restricting materials from a well and the adjacent formation to increase the well injectivity. This process is compatible with the common secondary recovery processes such as waterflood, miscible flood, and ammonia or carbon dioxide injection procedures. The injectivity of a well is increased by ...

Porous polymer packings have been used successfully in many applications of direct aqueous injection gas chromatography. The authors have expanded the use of aqueous injection to the quantitative analysis of 68 alcohols, acetates, ketones, ethers, sulfides, aldehydes, diols, dion...

A functional form for the vascular concentration of MRI contrast agent after intravenous bolus injection was developed that can be used to model the concentration at any vascular site at which contrast concentration can be measured. The form is based on previous models of blood circulation, and is consistent with previously measured data at long ...

This patent describes a process for recovering oil from a subterranean oil-bearing formation having relatively high permeability zones and relatively low permeability zones penetrated by at least one production well in fluid communication with a substantial portion of the formation. It comprises: injecting into the formation an aqueous gel-forming composition comprising water, ...

Aldehyde formation and emissions from alcohol fueled engines are presented in this paper. Several chemical kinetic models on the mechanism leading to aldehyde formation have been examined to explore the appropriate control methods to reduce exhaust aldehyde emissions. Control of aldehydes in exhaust emissions by suitable alteration of engine operating parameters, by in ...

A CW injection locked Coupled Opto-Electronic Oscillator (COEO) is presented with a 10.24 GHz spaced optical frequency comb output as well as a low noise RF output. A modified Pound-Drever-Hall scheme is employed to ensure long-term stability of the injection lock, feeding back into the cavity length to compensate for cavity resonance drifts relative to ...

This paper projects the consequences of modifying or eliminating the current national alcohol retail monopolies in Sweden, Norway and Finland as a possible result of those countries' membership in the European Union (EU). First, the authors project absolute alcohol consumption in each country based on different possible changes in ...

BackgroundAlcohol consumption causes an estimated 4% of the global disease burden, prompting goverments to impose regulations to mitigate the adverse effects of alcohol. To assist public health leaders and policymakers, the authors developed a composite indicator�the Alcohol Policy Index�to gauge the strength of a country's ...

Adolescents diagnosed with an alcohol use disorder show neurodegeneration in the hippocampus, a region important for learning, memory, and mood regulation. This study examines a potential mechanism by which excessive alcohol intake, characteristic of an alcohol use disorder, produces neurodegeneration. As hippocampal neural stem cells ...

Recent federal rules and traffic law changes impose breath-alcohol thresholds of 0.02 and 0.04 g/210 L upon some classes of motor vehicle operators, such as juveniles and commercial vehicle operators. In federally regulated alcohol testing in the workplace, removal of covered workers from safety-sensitive duties, and other adverse actions, also occur at ...

BackgroundStudies of injection drug use cessation have largely sampled adults in drug treatment settings. Little is known about injection cessation and relapse among young injection drug users (IDU) in the community.MethodsA total of 365 HCV-negative IDU under age 30 years were recruited by street outreach and interviewed quarterly for ...