Mobile banks

Porteous, David. 2006. The Enabling Environment for Mobile Banking in Africa. Report commissioned by the U.K. Department for International Development. Boston Bankable Frontier Associates. 

Pressure falloff tests following variable-rate injection of a PS(B) polymer solution indicated the presence of a non-Newtonian, low-mobility bank, proving that microbial control was at least partially successful. 

These tests generate several Gigabytes of data that are fed into a historical database. Although most of the analysis is performed automatically, human interaction is still needed to compare current and past data. Data are stored on optical CD S s from which the historical data bank are retrieved during field inspections from a mobile unit. Each of these is equipped with a CD-jukebox linked to an analysis station. The jukebox can handle 100 CD s, enough to store all previously recorded data. A dedicated software pre-fetches the historical data and compares it on-line with the newly acquired NDT-data. It is based on fuzzy algorithms applied to signal features. 

A summary of typical experimental conditions used with TSK-PW columns for nonionic polymers is described in Table 20.3. A common mobile phase is an aqueous solution of 0.05 N sodium nitrate. A salt solution of sodium nitrate is a good choice because it is not as corrosive as a solution of sodium chloride. For the descriptions and examples that follow, a bank of either five or six TSK-PW columns in series (G1000-G5000 or G1000-G6000) was used for the aqueous SEC work. These configurations allow for molecular mass characterization from less than 1,000 Da to 1,000,000 Da or greater. 

A commercially available cationic standard that can be used for the calibration of CATSEC columns is poly(2-vinyl pyridine), or PVP. Cationic PVP can be characterized easily on CATSEC columns over a broad range of molecular weight. DRI chromatograms of two cationic PVP standards using a bank of CATSEC columns (100-, 300-, 1000-, and 4000-A pore size) and a mobile phase of 0.05 N NaNOi/0.1% TFA are shown in Fig. 20.10. 

There is a need for small compressors to be driven from low-voltage d.c. supplies. Typical cases are batteries on small boats and mobile homes, where these do not have a mains voltage alternator. It is also possible to obtain such a supply from a bank of solar cells. This requirement has been met in the past by diaphragm compressors driven by a crank and piston rod from a d.c. motor, or by vibrating solenoids. The advent of suitable electronic devices has made it possible to obtain the mains voltage a.c. supply for hermetic compressors from low-voltage d.c. 

ATP is an ideal indicator of cell viability. Blood or blood cell concentrates prepared for transfusion are stored for periods of a few days to several weeks in the blood bank. Viability checking of the blood cells is necessary to avoid posttransfusional reactions [94], This quality control of the conserved red blood cells and platelets can easily be performed by measuring the ATP concentration as an expression of their integrity. By the same measurement it was possible to confirm the diagnosis and monitor the treatment effects in various cases of platelet disease [97], The possibility of determining cells viability can be exploited to examine more free cells or tissue, as in the spermatozoa viability test, based on the correlation between ATP content and mobility. 

Some, uPLC systems are equipped with UV absorbance detection, and other systems allow for both UV absorbance and fluorescence detection. Fluorescence detection increases the sensitivity and selectivity of certain applications and is the method of choice in many separation-based assays. The liquid (mobile phase + sample) leaving the individual flow cells designated for UV detection is transferred through capillaries to a bank of 24 flow cells designated for fluorescence detection. 

The mobility of very slowly degradable compounds or persistent metabolites present in surface water or bank filtration-enriched ground water is of particular interest for the production of potable water. In common with many other compounds, certain surfactants, and especially their polar metabolites, have the potential to bypass the technical purification units used, which may include flocculation (active charcoal) filtration, ozonation or chlorination, and thus can be found ultimately in drinking water destined for human consumption (see Chapter 6.4). 

From eLearning to e-books, test prep to test banks, language learning to video training, mobile apps, and more. 

A growing number of retirees are living happily in adult mobile parks, some of which are quite elegant. The homes are really prefabricated houses, and some have two or three bedrooms. Mobile homes normally cost less than condominiums or single-dwelling houses. Often you can sell a private home, buy a mobile home, and bank the difference. 

The described approach has been already applied when developing a coastal mobile hardware complex [11]. Software and hardware support of this complex comprises a database on standard documents in the radiation protection area reference databases on radiation-hazardous facihties, persotmel and equipment of emergency-rescue teams of Rosatom, digital map bank, computer systems for on-hne forecast and measurement of the radiation situation parameters, different data-exchange communication channels, etc. 

The surfactant has two important roles in CO2 foam. First, it increases the apparent viscosity of CO2 so that brine and oil are displaced in a stable manner. Second, the surfactant lowers the interfacial tension between CO2 and brine which promotes brine displacement. Reducing the brine saturation below S c allows bulk-phase CO2 to completely access the oil-filled pore network. A high-saturation brine bank also retards CO2 mobility by relative permeability effects. The brine bank carries surfactant and allows oil reconnection and mobilization ahead of the bulk CO2 phase because of the favorable partitioning of CO2 from brine into oil. 

The differences between the miscible CO2 foam process and a stable tertiary miscible solvent process are shown in Figures 2 and 3. In the miscible CO2 foam process, oil mobilization occurs as CO2 partitions into and swells the trapped oil above Sorw allowing it to be displaced by the mobile brine. The carbonated brine in turn is displaced by CO2 foam. In comparison, miscible N2 and LPG do not transfer to oil through solution in the water phase, as CO2 does. Instead of a brine bank, the solvent and oil are separated by a miscible dispersion zone. The brine saturation is not reduced below Swc ... 

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