Abstract: The present disclosure relates to aerosol delivery devices and related methods of delivering aerosol to a user. The aerosol delivery devices may include a housing providing multiple aerosol pathways having a mouth-end opening through which aerosol can be inhaled by a user, the housing defining a first aerosol delivery pathway in fluid communication with the mouth-end opening and a second aerosol delivery pathway separate from the first aerosol delivery pathway and in fluid communication with the mouth-end opening. An atomizer including a heating element or piezoelectric element and a liquid transport element in fluid communication with an aerosol precursor composition is provided in fluid communication with the first aerosol delivery pathway. A flavorant-infused material is positioned within the second aerosol delivery pathway and adapted to produce a second aerosol upon contact between the flavorant-infused material and flowing air.

Abstract: A nasal cannula is described herein for respiratory therapy which includes a first gas supply tub with a distal end terminating in a first connector, and a nasal cannula body which includes a first end rotatably coupled to the first connector, a second end opposite the first end, a longitudinal axis extending from the first end to the second end, and a first nasal prong in fluid communication with the first gas supply tube. The first nasal prong is rotatable relative to the first gas supply tube about the longitudinal axis of the nasal cannula body.

Abstract: Embodiments of techniques for remediating soil contaminated with compounds, particularly nitro-based explosives, are disclosed. Plants capable of taking up the compounds are grown within contaminated soil for a period of time. The plants are exposed to anaerobic microbes in the rumen of a ruminant animal. The ruminal anaerobic microbes degrade the remediable compounds and render them substantially nontoxic to the animal. In some embodiments, the remediable compounds are nitroaromatic compounds, and are degraded by nitroreductases. In other embodiments, microbes are transferred from a consortium enriched in microbes capable of degrading the remediable compounds to a ruminant animal that lacks microbes capable of degrading the remediable compounds. In other embodiments, methods for isolating and identifying ruminal anaerobic microbes capable of degrading remediable compounds are disclosed.

Abstract: A method of producing a mixture or solution of a liquid and a fusible solid comprises providing, in a container, the liquid and the fusible solid; and subjecting the container to a rotational motion about a first axis in a first direction while rotating the container about a second axis in a second direction to effect a dissolution of the fusible solid and a mixing of the components of the mixture or solution.

Abstract: A method of producing and simultaneously deaerating a mixture comprises providing, in a container, components of the mixture; and subjecting the container to a rotational motion about a first axis in a first direction while rotating the container about a second axis in a second direction to effect a mixing and a substantially simultaneous deaeration.

Abstract: A method of producing a mixture comprises providing, in a container, at least a first component of the mixture at a first temperature; adding a remaining component of the mixture to said at least a first component; subjecting the container to a rotational motion about a first axis in a first direction while rotating the container about a second axis in a second direction to effect a mixing; wherein the first temperature is lower than the temperature of the mixture at the end of the mixing.

Abstract: A switch closure test method and apparatus is disclosed in which switch position information in the form of logic signals indicative of switch closure status of a plurality of switches is arranged in a predetermined waveform display format for simultaneous viewing.