Fuel Systems of SI-engines

Cílem této práce je vytvořit přehled palivových systémů používaných u moderních zážehových motorů a popsání základních komponent těchto systémů. Dále bude popsána funkce jednotlivých těchto komponent a režimy provozu palivového systému při různých režimech provozu motoru. Nakonec budou charakterizovány vybrané motory s těmito systémy.The aim of this work is to create a list of fuel systems used in modern gasoline engines and describe the basic components of these systems. It will then be described the function of each of these components and modes of operation of the fuel system at different modes of engine operation. Finally, will be characterized by the selected engines with these systems.

Middle Cerebral Artery Occlusion and the Effects of Physical Therapy in the Skilled Nursing Facility: A Case Study

Background and Purpose: Stroke is the leading cause of disability and fifth leading cause of death among adults in the Unites States. This case study evaluates the effectiveness of inpatient physical therapy following a right middle cerebral artery occlusion and the outcomes throughout the weeks of treatment. Case Description: The patient was an 80-year-old male who received physical therapy within the hospital for six days before he was referred to a skilled nursing facility. The patient completed four total weeks of skilled physical therapy in the nursing home prior to discharge. Intervention: The therapy provided to the patient utilized high frequency of sessions consisting of repetitive task training. These activities were completed to increase the patients core strength, balance, left side awareness, and efficiency and safety during transfers and ambulation. Outcomes: Throughout the four weeks of physical therapy, the patient made significant improvements in his strength, balance, endurance, and left side awareness. He demonstrated increased independence in all functional activities including bed mobility, transfers, and ambulation. Discussion: This case demonstrates its intended purpose by describing how the patient achieved significant gains during his time in the skilled nursing facility. The patient responded well to treatment, however further investigation into the efficacy of interventions for stroke patients with similar demographics and medical history is necessary

The Political Economy of a Neighborhood Spat

The dramas of daily life are often substance for true anthropological inquiry because they present us with examples of social conflict and its resolution, thereby illuminating perennial questions faced by members of a society. What can a dispute between two neighbors in a not-so-remote village of Cape Cod tell us that might be of interest to students of dispute resolution, resource use, and even political economy? The dispute examined here appears to have far-reaching implications not only because of the disputants themselves, representatives of two classes of American citizenry; but also because their conflict and the process used to achieve resolution address important environmental and ecological dilemmas faced by Americans today

The Queer Tourist in \u27Straight\u27(?) Space: Sexual Citizenship in Provincetown

Provincetown, Massachusetts USA, a rural out-of-the-way coastal village at the tip of Cape Cod with a yearround population of approximately 3,500, has \u27taken off\u27 since the late 1980s as a popular GLBTQ tourist destination. Long tolerant of sexual minorities, Provincetown transitioned from a Portuguese-dominated fishing village to a popular \u27queer\u27 gay resort mecca, as the fishing industry deteriorated drastically over the twentieth century. Today Provincetowners rely mainly on tourists—both straight and gay—who enjoy the seaside charm, rustic ambiance, and a healthy dose of non-heternormative performance content, in this richly diverse tourist milieu. As Provincetown\u27s popularity as a GLBTQ tourist destination increased throughout the 1980s and \u2790s, new forms of sexual outlaw lifestyles, including the leather crowd and the gay men\u27s tourist circuit, have appeared in Provincetown, which challenge heteronormative standards, social propriety rules, and/or simply standards of good taste, giving rise to moral outrage and even at time an apparent homophobic backlash. This conduct interrogates how far citizens are willing to go to tolerate non-heteronormative (and at times outlaw) sexual conduct, produced by sexual minorities whose lifestyle is on the edge of the law and sometimes outside it altogether. This paper will analyze sexual tourism in Provincetown, to interrogate sexual citizenship, and both contradictions and possibilities for overcoming the sexual divide

Albert Camus\u27s Absurd in 20th Century American Fiction

Out of the turmoil caused by significant intellectual and scientific developments during the 19th century, many people seem to believe that life has no inherent purpose. Albert Camus’s existential treatise The Myth of Sisyphus (1942) outlines his theory of the absurd. Using Camus’s thoughts on the absurd and various critical texts to supplement his theory, this thesis will show that the side effects of the humanity’s intellectual and scientific progress up to and including the late-20th century are documented at length in John Updike’s Rabbit, Run (1961), Paula Fox’s Desperate Characters (1970), and Bret Easton Ellis’s The Rules of Attraction (1987). Together these texts illustrate a pattern of absurdity in characters of 20th century American fiction. Although these novels largely limit these feelings to Americans of European descent who occupy places of privilege in society, they document an increase in absurdity in terms of both the extent to which the individual is affected as well as the number of people who confront the absurd

Decays of Non-strange Negative Parity Baryons in the 1/Nc Expansion

The decays of non-strange negative parity baryons via the emission of single $\pi$ and $\eta$ mesons are analyzed in the framework of the $1/N_c$ expansion. A basis of spin-flavor operators for the partial wave amplitudes is established to order $1/N_c$ and the unknown effective coefficients are determined by fitting to the S- and D-wave partial widths as provided by the Particle Data Group. A set of relations between widths that result at the leading order, i.e. order $N_c^0$, is given and tested with the available data. Up to a few exceptions, a good description of the partial decays widths is already obtained at that order. Because of the rather large errors in the empirical input data the next to leading order fit fails to pin down with satisfactory accuracy the subleading effective coefficients. The hierarchy expected from the $1/N_c$ expansion is reflected in the results.Comment: 24 pages, 8 table

A pilot project to evaluate intensive desensitisation, oral tolerance therapy and hunger provocation programme for children who have had prolonged tube feeds

Background: Some children with feeding difficulties may require nasogastric tube feeding or insertion of a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) from a young age. A small cohort of these children can develop severe oral aversions that can delay the re-introduction of oral feeding. Multidisciplinary approaches that provide an intensive approach are deemed the most effective method of intervention to reduce nasogastric and PEG dependency. Methods: Two children and their parents received an intensive approach to reduce PEG feeds (Child A and Child B), while one child and her parents elected to receive a traditional feeding clinic approach (Child C). The mean age of the participants was 4 years 4 months. Results: Child A initially took 2090 kJ (44% daily nutritional requirement) via her PEG before the intensive program, and Child B took 100% daily nutritional requirement via his PEG. Three months post the intervention, Child A took 100% of her nutritional requirements orally and Child B had reduced PEG requirement significantly to 38% of daily nutritional requirement. Child C showed no changes in PEG versus oral intake. Children who received the intervention were able to remain focused on mealtimes for longer, with fewer instances of leaving the table. Parents altered their language styles post coaching on the intensive intervention using fewer reprimands. No changes with these behaviours were noted with Child C. Conclusions: Although this was a small pilot study, there are some strategies used within an intensive multidisciplinary context that can enable children to reduce their reliance on PEG feeds significantly