In acid base accounting (ABA) estimates of acid mine wastes, the acid potential (AP) estimate can be improved by using the net carbonate value (NCV) reactive sulfide S method rather than total S assay methods but this does not give recovery of potentially acid producing ferrous and ferric sulfates present in many wastes. For more accurate estimation of AP, an effective, site-specific method to ...

For the first time, a method for sequential extraction of silicon (Si) from soils has been developed. This new method enables investigating different Si pools in soils and thus represents an important contribution to improve our understanding of biogeochemical Si-processes and global Si-cycling. The method fractionates and analyses various Si-pools, from the most mobile to immobile phases in so...

As a unique and promising biometric, video-based gait recognition has broad applications. The key step of this methodology is to learn the walking pattern individuals, which, however, often suffers challenges extract behavioral feature from sequence directly. Most existing methods just focus on either appearance or motion pattern. To overcome these limitations, we propose sequential convolution...

Translational protocols in cancer and carcinogenesis often require isolation of genomic DNA from paucicellular clinical samples. DNA extraction methods for PCR-based applications should optimize the recovery of amplifiable DNA. We compared five methods for DNA extraction in paucicellular epithelial and lymphocyte samples using proportion of extractions producing amplifiable DNA and mean real-ti...