The aim of the current research is to examine the potential of locally available natural clay mineral to act as an effective absorbent for waste engine oil treatment. The clay mineral was collected from the southern region of Saudi Arabia and was used without any kind of surface modification. The clay mineral was characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray fluorescence (XPS) and Braunner-Em...

during recent years, a series of climate projections provided for surface temperature increase and precipitation changes over the next century in various time slices. national institutes are using downscaling projections for more precise results. in this research study, various climate change projections in global, continental, regional and local scales have been examined in special forest ecos...

A novel synthesis route yields highly reactive nanobassanite with the largest surface area ever reported and potential applications in biomedicine heritage conservation.

Jing-Kai Huang, Jiang Pu, Chang-Lung Hsu, Ming-Hui Chiu, Zhen-Yu Juang, Yung-Huang Chang, Wen-Hao Chang, Yoshihiro Iwasa, Taishi Takenobu,* and Lain-Jong Li * Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei 106, Taiwan, Department of Applied Physics, Waseda University, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan, Department of Electrophysics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan, Q...

Here we present a large-area fabrication technique that is capable of producing size-tunable periodic silicon nanopillar arrays with sub-10 nm resolution. Our approach is to transfer the patterns created by nanosphere lithography into silicon substrates, forming nanopillar arrays and modify the size, shape and height of nanopillar arrays by various etching schemes. Introduction To construct nan...

In the current study, we planned to predict the optimal gene functions for osteosarcoma (OS) by integrating network-based method with guilt by association (GBA) principle (called as network-based gene function inference approach) based on gene oncology (GO) data and gene expression profile. To begin with, differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were extracted using linear models for microarray da...

this paper intends to identify and assess ecotourism potentials of different areas in maranjab desert, kashan district. the research is an applied one, and a descriptive-analytical research. both documentary and field studies have been adopted for data collection and thus identification and prioritization of areas with the highest potential for ecotourism development within the desert district ...

A field experiment was conducted in 2010, to evaluate the effects of plant density (D1, D2 and D3: 8, 14 and 20 plant/m2) on field performance of Sorghum under different nitrogen application rates (N1, N2 and N3: application of 40, 80 and 120 kg/ha Nitrogen, respectively). The experiment was arranged as factorial based...