The present paper presents the interactions between water retention/evaporation and cracking during desiccation of intact disturbed Belgian Luvisol. (DS) undisturbed (NDS) samples (reduced-tillage-residue-in (RTRI) conventional-tillage-residue-out (CTRO)) were collected from an agricultural field in Gembloux, Wallonia, Belgium. drying experiment took place controlled laboratory conditions at 25...

Inhalation of hard metal dust (WC-Co particles) has been associated with an increased risk for lung cancer in occupational settings. In vitro, WC-Co was genotoxic in human lymphocytes producing DNA strand breaks and micronuclei. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the in vivo genotoxic effects of WC-Co dust in rat type II pneumocytes. DNA breaks/alkali-labile sites (alkaline comet assa...

Measuring the structural composition of the cortex is critical to understanding typical development, yet few investigations in humans have charted markers in vivo that are sensitive to tissue microstructural attributes. Here, we used a well-validated quantitative MR protocol to measure four parameters (R1, MT, R2*, PD*) that differ in their sensitivity to facets of the tissue microstructural en...

We study steep capillary-gravity waves that form at the interface between two stably stratified layers of immiscible liquids in a horizontally oscillating vessel. The oscillatory nature of the external forcing prevents the waves from overturning, and thus enables the development of steep waves at large forcing. They arise through a supercritical pitchfork bifurcation, characterized by the squar...

In this article, a new WC- Al2O3 composite tool material is successfully fabricated by vacuum hot-pressed sintering process with high hardness and flexural strength as well fracture toughness, which solved the problem of mutual restriction between toughness existing WC-Co materials. By adding Al2O3, WC-based cemented carbide significantly improved, are also improved. The mode WC-Al2O3 composite...

this paper deals with the investigation of the microstructure and hardness of steel samples cladded with satellite 6-wc composites by using gas tungsten arc welding (gtaw) process. for this purpose, steel samples were coated with unreinforced and reinforced stellite (by 20, 30 and 40 wt.% wc). the cladded samples were evaluated by metallographic studies, microhardness measurement and x-ray diff...

In this work the effects of WC concentration on abrasive wear behavior by thermally sprayed WC coating was evaluated using three body abrasive wear tester. A different combination of WC and NI coatings were deposited on steel substrates by flame spraying using powder with different WC concentrations (0 %, 12.5 %, 25 %, and 50 %). Flame torch was used for heating and coating of process. Microstr...

The effects of body weight cycling on energy metabolism and body fat accumulation were examined in sedentary and exercised rats. Ten rats were sacrificed before the experiment to obtain basal data, and then 90 rats were divided into three groups; control (CN), food restricted (FR) and weight cycling (WC). Food intake in rats of the FR group was restricted constantly to 70% of the intake of the ...