Recent research has shown that cognate word processing is modulated by variables such as degree of orthographic and phonological overlap of cognate words and task requirements in such a way that the typical preferential processing observed in the literature for cognate words relative to non-cognate words can be annulled or even reversed (Comesaña et al., 2012; Dijkstra, Miwa, Brummelhuis, Sappelli, & Baayen, 2010). These findings beg the question about the precise representation and processing of identical cognates (e.g., plata-plata, silver in Spanish and Catalan, respectively) and non-identical cognates (e.g., braç-brazo [arm]). The aim of the present study was to further explore this issue by manipulating for the 1st time cross-linguistic similarities of identical and non-identical cognate words as well as stimuli list composition. Proficient balanced Catalan-Spanish bilinguals performed a lexical decision task in Spanish. In Experiment 1 identical and non-identical cognates along with non-cognates made up the experimental list, whereas in Experiment 2 identical cognates were excluded from the list. Results showed modulations in cognate processing as a function of their degree of orthographic and phonological overlap. These results confirm prior findings regarding the processing of cognates when cross-linguistic similarities are taken into account. Most important, the direction of the cognate effect was affected by the stimuli list composition (i.e., the preferential processing for cognate words was restricted to the list containing identical cognates). Results have important implications for the Bilingual Interactive Activation Plus model (BIA+; Dijkstra & van Heuven, 2002), especially regarding identical and non-identical cognate word representation.

Previous published work on scraped surface falling film heat exchangers has used the tube diameter as the characteristic dimension. The present investigation confirms that in such equipment the liquid is carried as a fillet, roughly triangular in shape in front of the blades. Using an equivalent diameter based on flow area of the fillet and the length of the are in contact with the transfer surface, a correlation based on earlier results is developed which is independent of tube diameter, except in defining the rotary inertia forces. The refined correlation is:—

Investigations using three experimental scraped surface falling film vertical heat exchanger tubes (6 in., 12 in. and 24 in. by 1 in. D.) have been made. Water and water‐glycerol mixtures have been heated in the tubes by passing them down the heated inside surface which was continuously scraped by rotating blades. Flowrates between 306 lb/hr.ft. and 1070 lb/hr.ft. were used, the rate of rotation was varied from 370 to 1600 rpm whilst the number of blades on the shaft was varied between 1 and 4. As a result of these experiments the following equation accurate within ± 20% is proposed for correlating the heat transfer coefficient in the range of the variables studied: Visual observations of the flow of the liquid down the tube indicate that the liquid is held as a continuous fillet in front of each blade. This fact is used in the Appendix* for the alternative suggestion for the characteristic dimension in the correlation.

The equivalent annulus width concept is used to characterize a small commercial thermogravitational thermal diffusion column and its validity checked experimentally by separating batchwise in the column mixtures of n-heptane-benzene with different initial concentrations. The equation of Ruppell and Coull was used to analyse the data in the short separation times range and determine the equivalent annulus width. Good agreement was obtained between the experimental and predicted time-separation curves when using the equivalent annulus width value and on averaged value of the thermal diffusion constant. A new method is presented for the simultaneous determination of the equivalent annulus width and the thermal diffusion constant of a binary mixture from a single set of experimental data.

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