The importance of recycling and utilization of recycled fiber has recently been recognized because of concerns about environmental issues and economic aspects. In spite of several advantages offered by paper recycling such as wood savings through substitution of virgin pulp and reduction in chemical usage, recycled pulp also contains plenty of fines having high relative surface area and hig...

This article presents experimental results and analysis of change in freezing characteristics clays silts with pH moisture content the pore structures. The plastic non-plastic cold regions undergo significant changes thermal properties causing non-equilibrium conditions which can lead to frost-heave, thaw-weakening, thawing-induced landslides, mass wasting events. In geotechnical engineering, p...

Article history: Received 14 March 2016 Received in revised form 7 August 2016 Accepted 8 August 2016 Available online 16 August 2016 After recognition that debris flows co-occur with human activities, the next step in a hazards analysis involves estimating debris-flowprobability. Prior research published in this journal in 2010 used varnishmicrolamination (VML) dating to determine a minimum oc...

estimate the proportion of fines generated during the blasting process. The proposed framework is based on the combination of two Rosin-Rammler based distribution functions to model the full range of fragments expected to be produced during this process. This particular approach, which has been successfully applied for a number of years by the Julius Kruttschnitt Mineral Research Centre (JKMRC)...

An apparatus is designed and fabricated for conducting experiments concerning fluidized segregation to verify a proposed design concept for a more efficient comminution machine. Previous studies have found that the fines distribute the intended crushing load imposed by the machine on the particle bed; thus, the load that must be applied to crush the larger particles increases. By removing the f...

We investigated the effects of CO2 enrichment on fine root chemical composition of two tree species common to northern hardwood forests. Two-year-old Betula papyrifera and 3-year-old Acer saccharum saplings were grown under ambient (400 μmol·mol–1) and elevated (700 μmol·mol–1) CO2 in a glasshouse experiment. In both species, root/shoot ratios and fine root percentages (of total biomass) were u...

Using a fast X-ray tomography setup measurements have been done on a 25 cm diameter f luidized bed of Geldart B pow^der and a 24 cm bed of Geldart A powder. The average bubble sizes have been determined over a measurement period of 60 seconds. The resolution of this setup is about 4.5 m m per pixel at a rate of 250 reconstructions per second. I t is possible to detect bubbles as small as 2.5 cm...

The annual American Society of Plastic Surgeons’ “Plastic Surgery: The Meeting” is always filled with great educational events and endeavors, and the 2015 gathering in Boston was truly exceptional. Perhaps the most memorable and most rewarding panel that we had the honor and pleasure to be a part of was the Medical Student Session, moderated by one of the first Plastic and Reconstructive Surger...