Previous work has identified that providing real time feedback or interventions to consumers can persuade consumers to change behaviour and reduce domestic electricity consumption. However, little work has investigated what exactly those feedback mechanisms should be. Most past work is based on an in-home display unit, possibly complemented by lower tariffs and delayed use of non-essential home...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Historically, acid pretreatment technology for the production of bio-ethanol from corn stover has required severe conditions to overcome biomass recalcitrance. However, the high usage of acid and steam at severe pretreatment conditions hinders the economic feasibility of the ethanol production from biomass. In addition, the amount of acetate and furfural produced during...

The purpose of this work was to prepare chitosan–essential oil microcapsules using the simple coacervation method and graft them onto cellulosic fibers obtain bio functional textile. morphology characterized by optical microscopy. 2D dimethyloldihydroxyethylene urea resin (DMDHEU) used as a binding agent on surface fibers. Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) photographs Attenuated Total Reflecta...

Increasing environmental concern has put forward the use of flax fibers instead glass in composite materials. However, durability performances these bio-fibers remain one their main issues. This study focuses on hydrothermal aging fibers. Flax tows were immersed distilled water at a temperature 80 °C for different durations. The effect mechanical properties was evaluated. Results showed strong ...

OBJECTIVE Aspiration of bronchial wash fluid is commonly used in conjunction with brushing and forceps biopsy to diagnose endoscopically visible lung cancer. However, the optimal sequence of these procedures is subject to debate. The objective of this study was to determine if the order in which bronchial washing is performed relative to bronchial brushing and forceps biopsy has any effect on t...

three hundred twin births from a hospital in tehran, iran have been analyzed for seasonal variation at birth and physical measurements. the results show that the highest twinning rates for mm (5.61), ff (7.73) and mf (5.36) were seen in april, january and september, respectively. the four physical measurements at birth showed non-significant differences among the male and female twins, but mm a...

a experiment was lay out in order to evaluate the effects  of different biofertilizers on yield and yield components of maize at the lorestan provience, iran. the experiment was a factorial design with three replications. treatments were three nitrogen biofrtilizers (nitrokara (n1), o4 (n2), o6 (n3) and control (n4)) and three phosphate biofrtilizers (phosphate barvar2 (p1), biozarr (p2), mc1+p...

studies show that any complications including hemorrhage, lack of blood supply, lack of oxygen supply, and death of cells in a tissue, will have a clear effect on electrical properties of that tissue. thus, by measuring impedance of a set of tissues, potential problems of the damaged tissue may be found. since electrical impedance is closely related to the measuring frequency, obviously, every ...

The water conservation campaigns in residential households are hindered by the poor understanding of residents of how much water they use. For the better designed interventions new tools are necessary to educate the consumers on the water usage of different consumption events. In this paper we use the fine grained (0.5 Hz) water consumption data that was collected nonintrusively in a household ...