Abstract Restriction of dietary salt is widely recommended in the management of hypertension, but assessment of individual salt intake has drawn little attention. Monitoring nutritional salt intake through sodium excretion has been popular, because the main route for so...

Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics simulations were performed to investigate the effect on the solubility, diffusion, and permeability of water and oxygen when adding graphene or single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) to polyethylene (PE). When compared with pure PE, a...

This paper presents two case studies of informal group communication using multimedia conferencing that supports various media including video, audio and chat. The studies provide a comparison of audio and chat as communication medium and present data on usage patterns,...

The main objectives of the present project were to increase the understanding of small intestinal precipitation of poorly soluble pharmaceutical drugs, investigate occurrence of crystalline small intestinal precipitation and effects of precipitation on absorption. The a...

In this work we report a theoretical investigation on behavior of the elastic constant ${\mathrm{C}}_{44}$ and the transverse optical phonon mode ${\mathrm{E}}_{2g}$ of $\ensuremath{\alpha}$-Hf under pressure within the density functional theory. In contrast to many oth...

Mega-sporting events today are central stages that not only feature professional athletes representing their country in competing for excellence, but also provide host nations with a universally legitimate way to present and promote their national identities and culture...

A response generating system can be seen as a mapping from a set of external states (inputs) to a set of actions (outputs). This mapping can be done in principally different ways. One method is to divide the state space into a set of discrete states and store the optima...

The purpose of the thesis is to develop a water samplingsolution to use with an aerial drone for remote water sampling and to investigate the feasibility of the system. The actuating hypothesis is that using a drone for this application will have many benefits over the ...