Introduction IPTV is a young technology, barely five years old. It is now emerging as a mainstream service throughout the world, due in large part to the establishment of standards and availability of technology in the market. Although there is still a lack of “open standards” for interoperability and integration, particularly at the set top box level, IPTV vendors have teamed together to integ...

Larvae of many species of Sesiidae, the clearwing moths, are important pests in commercial nurseries, urban landscapes, timber stands, vineyards, and orchards. They cause economic loss by larval boring in stems and roots of herbaceous and woody plants. Researchers and growers often monitor for the presence of economically important sesiid adults with pheromone traps. These traps often attract m...

Pure borax and various boron compounds are produced from the solutions in which tincal is dissolved with various reagents. Economically important boron compounds such as boric acid, borax, boric oxide, and refined hydrated sodium borates and perborates are produced from boron-containing ores. The production of boric acid by using nitric acid from tincal is more advantageous because it evalu...

The scope of the CORE concept is the development of an action-ready economically viable technical solution to mitigate the environmental, and societal effects of green house gas emissions (GHG) resulting from internal combustion (IC) engines. The developed and proposed technology has been deemed Combustion of Optimized Reactivity in Engines, or CORE for short. In the United States, the transpor...

abstractbackground and objective: microwave-assisted extraction (mae) is one of the novel, fast, and efficient methods for extraction of bioactive compounds. the aim of this study was optimization of mae of betalains from red beet (beta vulgaris) and evaluating antioxidant activity of its methanolic extract.materials and methods: the effects of independent variables namely, microwave power leve...

Dampers can reduce structural response under dynamic loads. Since dampers are costly, the design of structures equipped with dampers should make their application economically justifiable. Among the effective cost reduction factors is optimal damper placement. Hence, this study intended to find the optimal viscous damper placement using efficient optimization methods. Taking into account the no...