LOMA: A fast method to generate efficient tagged-random primers despite amplification bias of random PCR on pathogens

10.1186/1471-2105-9-368BMC Bioinformatics9BBMI

Genetic Algorithm optimised Chemical Reactors network: A novel technique for alternative fuels emission prediction

Sustainability of the conventional jet fuels and climate change has attracted the aviation sector to diversity to alternative fuels. However, fuel diversification requires an assessment of the long term impact to engine performance and engine emissions through the combustion process, as alternative fuels are not as well understood as conventional jet fuel. A detailed experimental study on alternative fuels emissions across the entire aircraft fleet is impractical. Therefore a plausible method of computer modelling combined Genetic Algorithm and Chemical Reactors network was developed to predict alternative fuels gaseous emissions, namely, Carbon Monoxide, Nitrogen Oxides and Unburned Hydrocarbons in aircraft engines. To evaluate the feasibility and accuracy of the technique, exhaust emission measurements were performed on a re-commissioned Artouste Mk113 Auxiliary Power Unit, located at the University of Sheffield's Low Carbon Combustion Centre. The simulation produced results with good agreements with the experimental data. The optimised model was used to extrapolate emissions data from different blends of alternative fuels that did not operate during the campaign. The proposed technique showed that it can develop a data base of alternative fuels emissions and also act as a guideline for alternative fuels development

Representational predicaments for employees: Their impact on perceptions of supervisors\u27 individualized consideration and on employee job satisfaction

A representational predicament for a subordinate vis-à-vis his or her immediate superior involves perceptual incongruence with the superior about the subordinate\u27s work or work context, with unfavourable implications for the employee. An instrument to measure the incidence of two types of representational predicament, being neglected and negative slanting, was developed and then validated through an initial survey of 327 employees. A subsequent substantive survey with a fresh sample of 330 employees largely supported a conceptual model linking being neglected and negative slanting to perceptions of low individualized consideration by superiors and to low overall job satisfaction. The respondents in both surveys were all Hong Kong Chinese. Two case examples drawn from qualitative interviews illustrate and support the conceptual model. Based on the research findings, we recommend some practical exercises to use in training interventions with leaders and subordinates. © 2013 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC

Dietary guidelines in Australia

Dietary guidelines in Australia are now an integral part of our National Nutrition Policy. While the health and nutrition problems facing Australia may not be unique, our relatively small population, our diverse cultural heritage, and our geography provide us with a public health nutrition challenge. For more than a century Australia has been a leader in the provision of community-based prevention services that provided support for infant and child nutrition. In the 1930s the commonwealth government commenced the first of a series of nutrition advisory committees, of which the best known has been the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Nutrition Committee (l). It was this committee that developed the first national dietary guidelines (2) which were formally endorsed by the NHMRC in 1982

Dietary guidelines for older Australians

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Characterization of ultrashallow dopant profiles using spreading resistance profiling

10.1116/1.1426370Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B: Microelectronics and Nanometer Structures201483-487JVTB

Wideband LTCC CPW-fed two-layered monopole antenna

10.1049/el:20051921Electronics Letters4116889-890ELLE