Water hammer is one of the unsteady flows in urban water distribution networks, which has been of great importance due to the damage caused to the pipeline and has always been of interest to researchers.In this study, the phenomenon of water hammer due to the sudden closure of the valve in the downstream end has been investigated in a laboratory an
Historians of the U.S.Southwest invariably rely on English-language translations of original Spanish documents for their interpretive work.However, a philological approach Solder to the Spanish documents reveals all manner of translator shortcomings, some of which negatively impact the historical record.I document one such instance pertaining to th
In 1948 a corticosteroid compound was administered for the first time to a patient affected by rheumatoid arthritis by Philip Showalter Hench, a rheumatologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Cards Minnesota (USA).He was investigating since 1929 the role of adrenal gland-derived substances in rheumatoid arthritis.For the discovery of cortisone and
This paper documents the socialization process of beginner-level Japanese university students into an on-campus English lounge over a year.Although initially feeling highly stressed, ten out of 37 students successfully continued their bi-weekly visits to the English lounge over a full academic year by going there as a small group of three to four s
Regardless of the form of ownership or social capital, companies registered in Romania must prepare annual financial statements.Depending on the size criteria, these are mandatory to be audited.At thesame time, the auditing of the financial statements can be made outside Solder the established size criteria.Given the development of the Romanian soc