this paper addresses an experimental investigation in the hydrodynamic behavior of a modified slotted sieve tray. slotted sieve tray (push valve sieve tray) is a sieve tray that the push valves have been utilized on the tray deck to eliminate liquid gradients and non-uniformity of liquid distribution on the tray. the air-water system was used in an industrial scale experimental rig with an inte...

Introduction: Ureilitic meteorites are ultramafic rocks with highly depleted REE abundance, while showing primitive signatures, such as abundant noble gases and oxygen isotopic heterogeneities. A lack of basaltic components among ureilitic meteorites is the major cause of our poor understanding of their evolution. Especially, chronological studies of ureilites are limited because of depletion o...

Introduction: An achondrite, Dhofar 007 (~27 kg) was found in the Oman desert and was initially classified as a cumulate eucrite [1]. However, Yamaguchi et al. [2] showed that a coarse-grained clast (CG clast) in Dhofar 007 has a high abundance of metallic phases and the high bulk Ni and Co contents, and suggested a possible relationship with mesosiderites. We performed an additional petrologic...

The Southwest Indian Ridge (SWIR) at 9^168E and 52^538S is characterized by ultra-slow, oblique spreading and contains one of the few documented occurrences of pyroxenite veins associated with abyssal peridotites. The origin of these uncommon lithologies is still debated.We present a detailed study (including electron microprobe and laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry) o...

Introduction: Miller Range 99301 (MIL 99301) was classified as an LL6 ordinary chondrite based on its recrystallized texture in thin section, chemical homogeneity of olivine and low-Ca pyroxene grains, and the presence of coarse (>50 μm) interstitial grains of plagioclase [1]. Determination of shock stage was problematic as various shock indicators gave contradictory information: olivine and pl...

In minor veins of leaves of Beta vulgaris L. (sugar beet) yellows virus particles were found both in parenchyma cells and in mature sieve elements. In parenchyma cells the particles were usually confined to the cytoplasm, that is, they were absent from the vacuoles. In the sieve elements, which at maturity have no vacuoles, the particles were scattered throughout the cell. In dense aggregations...

The security of pairing-based cryptography is based on the hardness of solving the discrete logarithm problem (DLP) over extension field GF(p) of characteristic p and degree n. Joux et al. proposed an asymptotically fastest algorithm for solving DLP over GF(p) (JLSV06-NFS) as the extension of the number field sieve over prime field GF(p) (JL03-NFS). The lattice sieve is often used for a largesc...

Electrostatic calculations estimated the energy of hypothetical ion clustering in intermediate plagioclase feldspars. The calculated energy appears too great to allow segregation of Ca and Na atoms into domains upon annealing without a corresponding movement of A1 and Si from an original disordered structure. The calculated energy may be sufficiently small that Ca and Na atoms can disorder part...

This paper reviews the use of texture analysis in studying the performance of hydrophilic matrices of highly soluble drugs and different types of excipients (i.e. water-soluble, water-insoluble and swellable, and water insoluble and non-swellable). Tablets were prepared by direct compression, and their swelling and erosion in presence of these different excipients were assessed with the help of...