Cork industries generate a considerable amount of solid waste during their processing. Its management implies a problem for companies that should reconsider its reuse for other purposes. In this work, an analysis of pelletizing of granulometric separation powder, which is one of the major wastes in cork industries and which presents suitable properties (as an raw material) for its thermal use, ...

Cork-based adsorbents have been gathering interest from the research community since 1990s. A first review was published on this topic in 2012. Still, last decade, novel activated carbons and biochars, multiple applications, produced using cork as a raw material. This presents these insights into properties of cork, its various forms, how they relate to adsorption capacity. Details new preparat...

1 Earth and Ocean Sciences and Ryan Institute, School of Natural Sciences, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland, 2 Zoology and Ryan Institute, School of Natural Sciences, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland, 3 Irish Centre for Research in Applied Geoscience, Earth and Ocean Sciences, School of Natural Sciences, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, ...

Ian P. Gent a, Chris Jefferson b, Tom Kelsey a, Inês Lynce c, Ian Miguel a, Peter Nightingale a, Barbara M. Smith d and S. Armagan Tarim d a School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews, KY16 9SX, UK E-mail: {ipg,tom,ianm,pn}@dcs.st-and.ac.uk Computing Laboratory, University of Oxford, UK E-mail:[email protected] c IST/INESC-ID, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal E-m...

*Correspondence: Ana Paula Duarte, Departamento de Engenharia Química, Instituto de Biotecnologia e Bioengenharia, Instituto Superior Técnico, Av. Rovisco Pais, Gabinete 5-1.10, Torre Sul, Lisboa 1049-001, Portugal e-mail: anapduarte@tecnico. ulisboa.pt This article aims to report the main applications of cork material from ancient times until nowadays, describing its industrial potential for o...

GRAEME C. HAYS1*, THOMAS K. DOYLE2, JONATHAN D. R. HOUGHTON1, MARTIN K. S. LILLEY1, JULIAN D. METCALFE3 AND DAVID RIGHTON3 1 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY, SWANSEA UNIVERSITY, SWANSEA SA2 8PP, UK, COASTAL AND MARINE RESOURCES CENTRE, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK, GLUCKSMAN MARINE FACILITY, NAVAL BASE, HAULBOWLINE, COBH, CORK, IRELAND AND CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT, FISHE...

It has been shown that a 32-bit logarithmic arithmetic unit can operate faster than, and maintain the accuracy of, a 32-bit floating point unit. It uses the logarithmic number system (LNS), in which a real number is represented as a fixedpoint logarithm. In this paper we investigate the implementation of three fast affine projection (FAP) algorithms using LNS. We propose a simplified Conjugate ...

1School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK 2School of Medicine, University College Cork, Brookfield Health Sciences Complex, College Road, Cork, Ireland 3School of Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Room 220, Bower Building, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK 4Molecular and Cellular Therapeutics, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin 2, Ireland 5Jiangsu Key Laboratory of...

Higher biodiversity leads to more productive ecosystems which, in turn, supports more biodiversity. Ongoing global changes affect ecosystem productivity and, therefore, are expected to affect productivity-biodiversity relationships. However, the magnitude of these relationships may be affected by baseline biodiversity and its lifeforms. Cork oak (Quercus suber) woodlands are a highly biodiverse...

Cork matrices biofunctionalized with Moringa oleifera seed extracts (MoSe) have potential for use as a biofilter antibacterial properties to reduce waterborne pathogens. The aim of this study was evaluate the effect cork active antimicrobial compounds MoSe (f-cork) on inhibition Escherichia coli (InhEc). LacZ gene from strain E. used target sequence using viability quantification Polymerase Cha...