Today coal is among the most important energy sources. In order to meet the world's energy demands, low-calorie lignite with a high ash content is generally used in the large capacity coal-fired thermal power plants. As a result of coal firing, wastes such as fly ash, slag, and flue gas are also produced. Subsequently, toxic trace elements within coal are transferred to wastes such as slag, fl...

Abstract Biomass is one of the world’s greatest sustainable energy potentials. Utilization biomass in form Co-firing coal fuel with alternative to reduce dependence fossil fuels towards green power plant. This paper addresses Co-Firing modelling test results up 50% using palm kernel shell (palm shell) Ketapang Coal Fired Power Plant (CFPP) 2x10 MW. CFPP has circulating fluidized bed (CFB) boile...

We recently described a new form of neural integration and firing in a subset of interneurons, in which evoking hundreds of action potentials over tens of seconds to minutes produces a sudden barrage of action potentials lasting about a minute beyond the inciting stimulation. During this persistent firing, action potentials are generated in the distal axon and propagate retrogradely to the soma...

objective: intra-peritoneal administration of riluzole has been shown to preserve the membrane properties and firing characteristics of purkinje neurons in a rat model of cerebellar ataxia induced by 3-acetylpyridine (3-ap). however, the exact mechanism(s) by which riluzole restores the normal electrophysiological properties of purkinje neurons is not completely understood. changes in the condu...

introduction: the main goal of this ex vivo study was to assess and compare the cellular and electrophysiological effects of two dental biomaterials, white mineral trioxide aggregate (wmta) and calcium enriched mixture (cem) cement, on neuronal cell excitability and electrical properties. materials and methods: a conventional intracellular current clamp technique was used to study the cellular ...

If you are reading this, you have one less problem than the crabs that are the subject of a new study in this issue of PLoS Biology. Humans, like all mammals (as well as birds), are ‘‘warm-blooded,’’ or more correctly ‘‘homeothermic,’’ meaning we maintain our core body organs at a constant temperature. We expend considerable energy to do so, and may die when we cannot. In contrast, crabs, cod, ...

The parallel chip-firing game is an automaton on graphs in which vertices “fire” chips to their neighbors. This simple model, analogous to sandpiles forming and collapsing, contains much emergent complexity and has connections to different areas of mathematics including self-organized criticality and the study of the sandpile group. In this work, we study firing sequences, which describe each v...