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Auritidibacter YASSIN ET AL. 2011
No full textEMENDED DESCRIPTION OF THE GENUS AURITIDIBACTER YASSIN ET AL. 2011 The genus Auritidibacter is as described by Yassin et al. [1] except that cells may be straight or curvy; morphologically, cells may or may not demonstrate a rod–coccus cycle over time. Motility may be difficult to demonstrate except by the hanging drop method. DNA G+C content of the type strain is 59.3% with a genome size of approx. 2589795 bps by WGS.Published as part of Bernard, K. A., Pacheco, A. L., Burdz, T., Wiebe, D., Beniac, D. R., Hiebert, S. L., Booth, T. F., Jakopp, B., Goldenberger, D., Seth-Smith, H. M. B., Egli, A. & Bernier, A-M, 2020, Emendation of the Genus Auritidibacter Yassin et al. 2011 and Auritidibacter ignavus Yassin et al. 2011 based on features observed from Canadian and Swiss clinical isolates and wholegenome sequencing analysis, pp. 83-88 in International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 70 (1) on page 86, DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.003719, http://zenodo.org/record/604866
Auritidibacter ignavus Yassin 2011
No full textEMENDED DESCRIPTION OF AURITIDIBACTER IGNAVUS YASSIN ET AL. 2011 Auritidibacter ignavus (ig.na′ vus. L. masc. adj. ignavus inactive). In addition to properties described for the emended genus or as described for A. ignavus by Yassin et al. [1], strains may show the following characteristics: cells measure 1.85±0.45 µm in length and have a width of 0.44±0.05 µm. May assimilate substrate at pH 6. Reduction of nitrite not observed. Vogues–Proskauer (acetoin) production, DNase and starch hydrolyses are variable. Pyrrolidonyl arylamidase, esterase, leucine arylamidase and naphthol-AS-BIphosphohydrolase are variable. Isolates may grow at 42 °C and not at 25 °C. Isolates neither ferment nor assimilate conventional sugars nor those found in API panels. Using the Biolog panel, isolates may be positive or borderline positive for the utilization of dextrin, L-glutamic acid,L-pyroglutamic acid, p -hydroxyphenylacetic acid, D-galacturonic acid, L-lactic acid, Tween 40, Ɣ- aminobutyric acid, α-hydroxybutyric acid, β-hydroxy-DL-butyric acid, α-ketobutyric acid and acetic acid. In sensitivity tests, tetrazolium dyes may be reduced at pH 6, in 1%, 4%, and 8% NaCl, nalidixic acid, lithium chloride, potassium tellurite, aztreonam, sodium butyrate and sodium bromate. The remaining substrates are variably utilized or not used. Isolates have been obtained from ear infections from patients located in Germany, Switzerland and Canada and detected by DNA sequencing from a bacteremia in Spain. A. ignavus NML 100628 has been deposited in two culture collections (NCTC 14178= LMG 30897) to serve as an additional reference strain for this species. The genomic DNA G+C content of the type strain (A. ignavus DSM 45359 T) is 59.3% with those of other strains ranging from 59.4 to 59.5%.Published as part of Bernard, K. A., Pacheco, A. L., Burdz, T., Wiebe, D., Beniac, D. R., Hiebert, S. L., Booth, T. F., Jakopp, B., Goldenberger, D., Seth-Smith, H. M. B., Egli, A. & Bernier, A-M, 2020, Emendation of the Genus Auritidibacter Yassin et al. 2011 and Auritidibacter ignavus Yassin et al. 2011 based on features observed from Canadian and Swiss clinical isolates and wholegenome sequencing analysis, pp. 83-88 in International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 70 (1) on pages 86-87, DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.003719, http://zenodo.org/record/604866
A web-based survey of United Kingdom sedation practice in the intensive care unit
No full textPurposeThe purpose of this work was to obtain a detailed perspective of sedation practice. Sedation included sedative and opioid choice, presence of local guidelines, and use of scoring systems.MethodsA Web-based survey was designed. The aim was to gain sufficient detail of UK sedation while also being succinct enough to complete in 15 minutes. It was composed of relevant demographics, policy, sedative choice, and analgesia. The survey was piloted before launch. The investigators selected the intensive care unit (ICU) pharmacist as the respondent.ResultsOne hundred fifty-seven ICUs responded. Eighty-nine (59%) reported use of sedation guidelines, 78% undertook sedation holds, and 87% use sedation scores. Only 42% used a daily sedation target. Seventy (43%) assess for delirium; 27 of those use a validated tool.Propofol (89%) use was common, followed by midazolam (49%). Morphine (49%), fentanyl (34%), and alfentanil (34%) were the most frequently used opioids.ConclusionThis survey confirmed expected variation in UK sedation practice. Recognized strategies such as target sedation score and sedation policy are underused. A 43% uptake in delirium screening suggests that larger engagement is required to meet national standards
Drosophila (Sophophora) mylenae Yassin & Suwalski & Raveloson Ravaomanarivo 2019, sp. nov.
No full textDrosophila (Sophophora) mylenae David & Yassin sp. nov. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: B64DA5B1-4F29-456B-B75E-0E84DFB3DA98 Figs 1–2, 8 C–D, 9B, D, F Diagnosis Male abdominal tergites T5 and T6 with a distinct dark brown stripe expanding in the middle and fainting towards the margins (Fig. 8B); hypandrium broad with a short anterior phragma; outer paraphases posterior margin not curved; aedeagus pilosity broad at tip (Fig. 9B, D); female abdominal tergites T2–T4 with a diffuse pale region on the antero-distal margins, T5 with distinct dark stripe (Fig. 8D); oviscapt fourth posterior peg-like outer ovisensillum on the same axis with the third and fifth ovisensilla, with anterior ovisensilla short and thick (Fig. 9F). Etimology A species dedicated to Mylène Dauvergne, co-collector of the type strain. Type material Holotype MADAGASCAR • ♂; Nosy Be; 13°20′ S, 48°15′ E; Jul. 2008 (ex-laboratory strain Feb. 2017); J.R. David and M. Dauvergne leg.; MNHN. Paratypes MADAGASCAR • 9 ♂♂, 10 ♀♀; same collection data as for holotype; MNHN. Other material MADAGASCAR • 5 ♂♂, 5 ♀♀; same collection data as for holotype; ZUAC. Description Male HEAD (Fig. 8C). Frons pale brown, frontal length 0.35 mm; frontal index = 1.00, frontal tapering ratio = 1.29. Frontal triangle concolorous; ocellar triangle slightly darker, about 43% of frontal length. Orbital plates about 86% of frontal length. Orbital setae black, distance of or3 to or1 = 50% of or3 to vtm, or1 / or3 ratio = 1.33, or2/or1 ratio = 0.38, postocellar setae = 29%, ocellar setae = 50%, vibrissal index = 1.00. Face white. Carina prominent, narrow. Cheek index about 12.00. Eye red, eye index = 1.15. Antennae whitish. Arista with four dorsal, three ventral branches, plus terminal fork. Proboscis brown. THORAX (Fig. 8C). Length 1.13 mm. Scutum mid brown, shining, darker before scutellum, six rows of acrostichal setulae. H index = 1.17. Transverse distance of dorsocentral setae 200% of longitudinal distance; dc index = 0.61. Scutellum dark; scut index = 0.80. Pleura slightly darker, shining. Legs whiteyellow, sex combs on protarsomeres 1 and 2, with about 18 and 13 peg-like setae, respectively. Wing dark, length 1.54 mm, length to width ratio = 2.08. Indices: C = 1.93, ac = 3.06, hb = 0.62, 4C = 1.72, 4v = 3.03, 5x = 0.56, M = 1.13, prox. x = 0.72. Haltere brown. ABDOMEN (Fig. 8C). Yellow, tergites T2–T4 with a diffuse brown posterior stripes, tergites T5 and T6 pale with small posterior stripes. TERMINALIA (Figs 3C, 9B, D). Epandrium pale brown, with 6 setae, the lower most being particularly long; ventral lobe with 5–7 bristles. Cercus pale brown; cercal ventral lobe yellow, partially separated from cercus, with a series of three strong, curved spines on the inner margin, and smaller spines along the ventral, outer and dorsal margins, larger dorsally. Surstylus with a regular row of five short, stout peg-like prensisetae, and a ventromedial cluster of prensisetae, the innermost pointing dorsally. Hypandrium yellow, slightly longer than broad, with a pointed medial posterior extension bearing two short, divergent thick bristles; posterior margin microtrichose with long fine hairs. Outer paraphyses large, ovoid, transverse, bearing three minute setulae. Inner paraphyses almost as long as aedeagus, swollen medially, tapering and incurved medioposteriorly. Aedeagus hirsute, broad at tip, subapically narrowed. Aedeagal apodeme yellow, broadened laterally. Female HABITUS (Fig. 8D). Similar to male, but with no sex combs on protarsi and with abdominal tergites brown. TERMINALIA (Fig. 9F). Valve of oviscapt mediodorsally mostly membranous, posteriorly rounded, ventrally slightly concave, with no discal and twelve marginal, peg-like, pointed-tipped, short and thick ovisensilla on the outer surface and one long, straight, subterminal and three tiny (microscopic) trichoidlike ovisensilla on the inner surface. Distribution Madagascar (endemic). Remarks Drosophila mylenae sp. nov. resembles D. vulcana in the shape of the male periphallic structures (compare Fig. 3C with figure 1 in Rafael 1984) and the female ovipositor (Fig. 9 E–F) as well as in the abdominal pigmentation pattern of females being darker than males (Fig. 8), which is rare among drosophilids. However, they differ in the degree of abdominal pigmentation for both sexes and in multiple phallic structures (Figs 8–9 A–D). The two species show a very low mitogenomic divergence of 0.5% (Figs 1–2). However, on the nuclear gene Amyrel they are quite distinct (Fig. 2), with an overall nuclear genome-wide divergence of 2.35% (Yassin, in prep.). Drosophila mylenae sp. nov. was only collected in the littoral forest on Nosy Be. It is absent from material collected from the inland, humid forests of Madagascar, i.e., Antananarivo, Mandraka, Andasibe and Ranomafana. It is also absent from Mayotte or other islands of the Western Indian Ocean. Females do not exhibit a sex-limited color dimorphism.Published as part of Yassin, Amir, Suwalski, Arnaud & Raveloson Ravaomanarivo, Lala H., 2019, Resolving the synonymy and polyphyly of the ' Drosophila bakoue species complex' (Diptera: Drosophilidae: ' D. montium species group') with descriptions of two new species from Madagascar, pp. 1-26 in European Journal of Taxonomy 532 on pages 21-22, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.532, http://zenodo.org/record/325156
The world of chilhood for Jabbar Yassin Hussin and the writing of life for Annie Ernaux
No full textDeux auteurs sont présents dans mon travail : l'écrivaine française Annie Ernaux et l'écrivain irakien Jabbar Yassin Hussin, ce sont les deux piliers sur lesquels se base mon analyse. C'est la condition de la femme qui s'impose fortement dans les écrits d'Annie Emaux où le féminisme atteint un degré maximal et où se croisent deux facteurs : L'inégalité des rôles entre la femme et l'homme, d'un côté, et d'un autre côté l'injustice masculine pratiquée sur les femmes par les hommes ainsi que par la société. Ce travail présente le visage semi-caché de l'auteure française où se mêlent l'enfance et l'intime, l'avortement et la mort, la relation conflictuelle des parents et leur amour. L'écriture chez elle est une pratique qui lui permet de relire sa vie passée pour en déduire les douleurs possibles. Cette même pratique d'écriture permet à l'écrivain irakien de retrouver l'enfant perdu qui vit dans son intérieur. Cet enfant autobiographique pousse Jabbar Yassin Hussin à relire son pays, dont il ne cesse de boire l'eau et de sentir l'air, pour guérir sa douleur du dépaysement. Notre étude montre donc que l'écriture exprime une cicatrice transcendée. Les deux auteurs expriment et s'expriment à partir d'un enfant qui leur semble à la fois étrange et familier, mais en vérité autobiographique. Annie Emaux écrit et dissèque une enfance vécue tandis que Jabbar Yassin Hussin explore une enfance perdue. Les deux écrivains sont proche l'un à l'autre au stade de la perte, l'écrivaine française cherche à cicatriser ses blessures de femme blessée et (( gelée ». L'irakien vise à remédier à la perte de son pays.Les deux auteurs cherchent, d'abord, à effacer les traces de cette perte et tiennent, ensuite, à réécrire des nouveaux traits de leur vie où la perte se transforme en mots. Annie Emaux raconte ses années à partir d'une mémoire riche et illustre ces années par des photos où apparaît d'abord une petite fille, puis une femme et finalement une vieille dame qui cherche à saisir le dernier fil d'espoir de son existence : l'écriture.Jabbar Yassin Hussin cherche, quant à lui, à raconter l'Irak, son pays d'origine, où l'enfant (auteur et narrateur) a passé des débuts d'existence tranquille et pour retrouver, de nouveau, beaucoup plus tard cette tranquillité première ; il prend l'écriture comme une solution indispensable et invulnérable. Notre étude se base donc sur trois notions : l'enfance, l'autobiographie et l'écriture comme solution pour échapper à une perte essentielle et existentielle chez nos deux auteurs.The two authors that presents my work are: the French writer Annie Emaux and the Iraqi writer Jabbar Yassin Hussin, they are the Two pillars which an: my analyses based on. It is the condition of the woman which imposes itself strongly in Annie Emaux's writings where the feminism reach a maximum degree and where two factors are intersects: inequality of roles between the women and man, in one side, and In the other side the male injustice which is practice on the woman from the men and also from the society. This work presents the semi hidden face of the French author where the childhood and intimacy, abortion and death, conflictual relations of parents and their love, are mixed. The writing for her is a practice which permits to her to re read her past life in order to reduce possible pains. It is the same writing practice which permits to the Iraqi writer to re find the lost child who is living inside him. This autobiographical child push Jabbar Yassin Hussin to re read his country which he could not stop himself from drinking from its water and breathing its air to heal his pain of exile. So our study shows that the writing express of an oppressive scar. The two writers expressed themselves through a child who seems to them strange and familiar at the same time, but he is in reality autobiographical. Annie Emaux writes and dissects living childhood while Jabbar Yassin Hussin is exploring a lost childhood. The two writers are close to each other on the field of loss. the French writer is searching for dressing her wound as an injury and «frozen woman". The Iraqi one seeks to therapy his lost of his country. The two authors search at the beginning to erasure the traces of that loss and trying to re-write a new features of their life where the loss is transformed in words. Annie Emaux tells her years through a rich memory and she illustrate these years by pictures where firstly a small girl appears then a woman and finally an old lady who is look for holding the last hope thread of her existence: the writing. Jabbar Yassin Hussin search for narrating Iraq, bis origin country, where the child (author and narrator) spend the beginning of his tranquility existing and to re-find, once again, Later that first tranquility; he takes the writing as an indispensable and an invulnerable solution. Our study is based on three notions: the childhood, the autobiography and the writing as a solution to escape from the essential and existential loss for our two authors
M-Clinic: mobile application system for UiTMT Health Center equipment reservation / Mohd Ridzuan Mat Yassin
No full textM-Clinic equipment reservation is a mobile application created for UiTM Terengganu Health Center use only. It allows user to make reservation of equipment available at UiTMT Health Center such as stick, wheelchair and First Aid Kit. Previous method is user has to go by themselves to the Health Center to make the reservation. M-Clinic system will make sure that the reservation entered by user using mobile will be send to the Health Center Database to be reviewed by the administrator. By doing this, user can do reservation and check their reservation only by mobile, they do not need to go to the Health Center unless to pick up the equipment reserved. It completes the objective of this project which is to determine the information needed to create the system for equipment reservation and information needed to mobilize the application. This system was develop in mobile platform using NetBeans by connecting to the database which is MySQL using tomcat server by creating the servlet. It involve three type of tiers which is Presentation Tier for the interface, Database Tier for centralize the data and information entered by the user and Business Tier which functions as connecter between the interface and the database. Besides, the needed of java such as J2ME helps to create the presentation tier for the mobile application interface
Le monde de l'enfance chez Jabbar Yassin Hussin et l'écriture de la vie chez Annie Ernaux.
No full textDeux auteurs sont présents dans mon travail : l'écrivaine française Annie Ernaux et l'écrivain irakien Jabbar Yassin Hussin, ce sont les deux piliers sur lesquels se base mon analyse. C'est la condition de la femme qui s'impose fortement dans les écrits d'Annie Emaux où le féminisme atteint un degré maximal et où se croisent deux facteurs : L'inégalité des rôles entre la femme et l'homme, d'un côté, et d'un autre côté l'injustice masculine pratiquée sur les femmes par les hommes ainsi que par la société. Ce travail présente le visage semi-caché de l'auteure française où se mêlent l'enfance et l'intime, l'avortement et la mort, la relation conflictuelle des parents et leur amour. L'écriture chez elle est une pratique qui lui permet de relire sa vie passée pour en déduire les douleurs possibles. Cette même pratique d'écriture permet à l'écrivain irakien de retrouver l'enfant perdu qui vit dans son intérieur. Cet enfant autobiographique pousse Jabbar Yassin Hussin à relire son pays, dont il ne cesse de boire l'eau et de sentir l'air, pour guérir sa douleur du dépaysement. Notre étude montre donc que l'écriture exprime une cicatrice transcendée. Les deux auteurs expriment et s'expriment à partir d'un enfant qui leur semble à la fois étrange et familier, mais en vérité autobiographique. Annie Emaux écrit et dissèque une enfance vécue tandis que Jabbar Yassin Hussin explore une enfance perdue. Les deux écrivains sont proche l'un à l'autre au stade de la perte, l'écrivaine française cherche à cicatriser ses blessures de femme blessée et (( gelée . L'irakien vise à remédier à la perte de son pays.Les deux auteurs cherchent, d'abord, à effacer les traces de cette perte et tiennent, ensuite, à réécrire des nouveaux traits de leur vie où la perte se transforme en mots. Annie Emaux raconte ses années à partir d'une mémoire riche et illustre ces années par des photos où apparaît d'abord une petite fille, puis une femme et finalement une vieille dame qui cherche à saisir le dernier fil d'espoir de son existence : l'écriture.Jabbar Yassin Hussin cherche, quant à lui, à raconter l'Irak, son pays d'origine, où l'enfant (auteur et narrateur) a passé des débuts d'existence tranquille et pour retrouver, de nouveau, beaucoup plus tard cette tranquillité première ; il prend l'écriture comme une solution indispensable et invulnérable. Notre étude se base donc sur trois notions : l'enfance, l'autobiographie et l'écriture comme solution pour échapper à une perte essentielle et existentielle chez nos deux auteurs.The two authors that presents my work are: the French writer Annie Emaux and the Iraqi writer Jabbar Yassin Hussin, they are the Two pillars which an: my analyses based on. It is the condition of the woman which imposes itself strongly in Annie Emaux's writings where the feminism reach a maximum degree and where two factors are intersects: inequality of roles between the women and man, in one side, and In the other side the male injustice which is practice on the woman from the men and also from the society. This work presents the semi hidden face of the French author where the childhood and intimacy, abortion and death, conflictual relations of parents and their love, are mixed. The writing for her is a practice which permits to her to re read her past life in order to reduce possible pains. It is the same writing practice which permits to the Iraqi writer to re find the lost child who is living inside him. This autobiographical child push Jabbar Yassin Hussin to re read his country which he could not stop himself from drinking from its water and breathing its air to heal his pain of exile. So our study shows that the writing express of an oppressive scar. The two writers expressed themselves through a child who seems to them strange and familiar at the same time, but he is in reality autobiographical. Annie Emaux writes and dissects living childhood while Jabbar Yassin Hussin is exploring a lost childhood. The two writers are close to each other on the field of loss. the French writer is searching for dressing her wound as an injury and frozen woman". The Iraqi one seeks to therapy his lost of his country. The two authors search at the beginning to erasure the traces of that loss and trying to re-write a new features of their life where the loss is transformed in words. Annie Emaux tells her years through a rich memory and she illustrate these years by pictures where firstly a small girl appears then a woman and finally an old lady who is look for holding the last hope thread of her existence: the writing. Jabbar Yassin Hussin search for narrating Iraq, bis origin country, where the child (author and narrator) spend the beginning of his tranquility existing and to re-find, once again, Later that first tranquility; he takes the writing as an indispensable and an invulnerable solution. Our study is based on three notions: the childhood, the autobiography and the writing as a solution to escape from the essential and existential loss for our two authors.TOURS-Bibl.électronique (372610011) / SudocSudocFranceF
The chromatographic study of fagopyrum methanol extract / Siti Zainab M. Yassin
No full textMedicinal plants have been greatly discovered by the researchers from around the world because of its contribution in treating and preventing disease in human body. Medicinal plants also can provide good health to human. Since the modern medications nowadays contain many chemicals, the medicinal plants are said to be the suitable replacement for those medication that contain chemical that will affect the body. So, the scientists are giving their full attention to do research about the plants by using various types of modern equipment in order to prove the benefits of the plants. In this study, the investigation of Fagopyrum esculentum Moench (common buckwheat) was restricted to the constituents that contain in the methanol extract of the seeds. All over the world, the benefits of the Fagopyrum esculentum Moench is said to be approved, so further study about this plant is considered to be attention grabbing. The objectives of this experiment are to investigate the traditional and medicinal values of common buckwheat and to compare the common and tartary buckwheats' contribution in preventing human disease. In addition, the objectives are to review the scientific evidence on the health effect of common buckwheat and to screen the phytochemicals in Fagopyrum esculentum. From the literature, common buckwheat is said as a healthful pseudocereal, has good amino acid and vitamins. It also has antioxidant activity and variety of bioactivities. In comparison, between common and tartary buckwheat, tartary buckwheat provides more medicinal benefit to human in terms of its rutin and other polyphenols content. The unsaturated fatty acids, protein content and vitamin B was higher in tartary than in common buckwheat. It can be said that tartary is an excellent food material compared with common buckwheat. In this experiment, the analytical and preparative TLC were used for the detection of compound. Furthermore, the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy is also used to identify the compound in common buckwheat. Finally, a fatty acid ester was identified as the derivative of the oleic acid. It can provides its own beneficial value to human · health. In conclusion, this study successfully met the objectives
A study of bioaerosol sampling cyclones
No full textA wetted wall cyclone using an airblast atomizer upstream of the inlet was designed as an improvement of a wetted wall cyclone developed by White et al. in 1975, which uses liquid injection through a port on the wall of the cyclone inlet. In the course of this project, many changes to different aspects of the White-type cyclone design and operation were considered. These included inlet configuration, liquid delivery, porous media, surface finishes and coatings, outlet skimmer design, and cyclone body length.
The final airblast atomizer cyclone (AAC) design considered has an aerosol-to-hydrosol collection efficiency cut-point of 1.6 ��m with collection efficiencies at 2 and 3 ��m of 65% and 85%, respectively. The efficiency reported for the White-type cyclone for single Bacillus globigii spores that have a particle size of about 1 ��m was approximately 81.8%. The aerosol-to-aerosol transmission efficiency for the AAC configuration was found to be approximately 50% for 1 ��m diameter particles as compared with 70 100% for the White-type cyclone.
A time response test was performed in which the White-type (ca. 2003) cyclone had an initial response of 3 minutes for a condition where there was no liquid carryover through the cyclone outlet and 8 minutes on average with hydrosol carryover. The decay response of the White-type cyclone was 1.25 minutes for non-liquid carryover conditions. The AAC had an initial response of 2.75 minutes and a decay response of
2.5 minutes. The shortened version of the AAC had an initial response of 1.5 minutes and a decay response of 1.25 minutes. There was no liquid carryover observed for any tests of this cyclone configuration.
Power consumption tests were performed comparing pressure drops across different variations of White-type cyclones (circa 2003 and 1999) including a variation with an electrical discharge machined (EDM) inlet profile, that reduces the pressure drop at a nominal air flowrate of 780 L/min from 18 inH2O for the basic White-type cyclone (ca. 2003) to 16 inH2O with use of the EDM inlet. Two different variations of White-type cyclones were found to have pressure drops of 25 inH2O and 18 inH2O at an air flowrate of 780 L/min
Design of bioaerosol sampling inlets
No full textAn experimental investigation involving the design, fabrication, and testing of an ambient sampling inlet and two additional Stokes-scaled inlets is presented here. Testing of each inlet was conducted at wind speeds of 2, 8, and 24 km/h (0.55, 2.22, and 6.67 m/s), and characterized for particle sizes between 5 and 20 ������m AD. The base-line ambient sampling inlet, which operates at 100 L/min, was developed to interface with a Circumferential Slot Virtual Impactor aerosol concentrator. The inlet displays wind-speed independent characteristics with a penetration above 90% for a nominal particle size of 10 ������m AD for all wind speeds. Particles up to 11.5 ������m AD are sampled through this inlet with a penetration above 80% at all wind speeds. In an effort to test the validity of Stokes scaling to assist in the design of inlets, two additional inlets were designed to accommodate design flow rates of 400 L/min and 800 L/min, with the 100 L/min unit as the base inlet. Scaling was achieved by applying a Stokes scaling factor to selective parameters, such as inlet aspiration gap, annular gap, window height, and the rise which is the vertical distance extending from the lower flange to the base of the window. The scaled inlets display wind independent penetration characteristics close to 95% for a nominal particle size of 10 ������m AD. The scaled inlets also have the ability to sample particles up to a size of 13 ������m AD with a penetration in excess of 80% at all wind speeds. Observations from the plots of penetration against the Stokes number based on the free stream velocity suggest that it is insufficient to use only Stokes-scaling for inlet design. A modified velocity ratio defined for omnidirectional inlets was incorporated into a summary of results obtained for all combinations of BSI units and wind speeds. Also, a correlation equation based on the Stokes number and a modified velocity ratio was developed as a model for predicting performance among the BSI family of inlets. This correlation used in unison with Stokes-scaling provides promise for predicting performance and improving the overall design process of inlets
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