Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in cooking oil fumes need to be efficiently removed due the significant damage they cause environment and human health. This review discusses emission characteristics, which are influenced by different temperatures, oils, cuisines. Then, various fume purification methods mainly classified into physical capture, chemical decomposition, combination methods. VOCs ...

In 1647, one year ahead of the official celebrations Peace Westphalia, Dutch poet and playwright Joost van den Vondel published a long panegyric called De getemde Mars (‘Mars Tamed’), poem fully translated into English for first time in this article. Despite celebrating Peace, did not refrain from presenting extremely violent scenes war middle part poem. Surprisingly, however, scene shifts wars...

Bacteria in Simulated Martian Conditions. M. Silver; S. Mora, M. Ivey, and V. Chevrier, Arkansas Center for Space and Planetary Sciences at the University of Arkansas. 332 N Arkansas Ave., Fayetteville, AR 72701. [email protected], The University of Arkansas Department of Biological Sciences. 1 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701. [email protected], The University of Arka...

In this paper, a tree based neural network viz. MARS (Friedman, 1991) for the modelling of the yield strength of a steel rolling plate mill is described. The inputs to the time series model are temperature, strain, strain rate, and interpass time and the output is the corresponding yield stress. It is found that the MARS-based model reveals which variable's functional dependence is nonlinear, a...

The one-dimensional model of Lippincott and Schroeder for hydrogen bond has Been re-examined and it has been shown that O-H bond distance depends on repulsive van der Waals and attractive electrostatic potentials.it has been shown that constant b in the van der Waals repulsion potential is not transferable to all hydrogen bonds. The possibility of obtaining the semi-empircal parameters i...

The small crater Airy-0 was selected from Mariner 9 images to be the reference for the Mars prime meridian. Initial analyses in the year 2000 tied Viking Orbiter and Mars Orbiter Camera images of Airy-0 to the evolving Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter global digital terrain model to update the location of Airy-0. Based upon this tie and radiometric tracking of landers/rovers from Earth, new express...

Goals 1. Understand the physiologic consequences of Fontan circulation 2. Understand the long term complications of patients with Fontan circulation 3. Understand how the Fontan operation has evolved in an attempt to reduce long term complications. 4. Understand how the physiologic changes of pregnancy affect Fontan circulation. 5. Understand the predictors we can use to determine how a patient...

We present a comprehensive model of martian pressure-temperature (P-T) phase space and compare it with that of Earth. Martian P-T conditions compatible with liquid water extend to a depth of ∼310 km. We use our phase space model of Mars and of terrestrial life to estimate the depths and extent of the water on Mars that is habitable for terrestrial life. We find an extensive overlap between inha...

This paper introduces a novel hybrid approach, combining machine learning algorithms with feature selection, for efficient modelling and forecasting of complex phenomenon governed by multifactorial nonlinear behaviours, such as crop yield. We have attempted to harness the benefits soft computing algorithm multivariate adaptive regression spline (MARS) selection coupled support vector (SVR) arti...