The current study intended to improve the disintegration potential of paper mill sludge through alkyl polyglycoside-coupled disperser disintegration. biomass was fed and a maximum solubilization 6% attained at specific energy input 4729.24 kJ/kg TS. Solubilization further enhanced by coupling optimum condition with varying dosage polyglycoside. 11% suspended solid (SS) reduction 8.42% were achi...

In the proposed method, carbon tetrachloride and ethanol were used as extraction and dispersive solvents. Several factors that may be affected on the extraction process, such as extraction solvent, disperser solvent, the volume of extraction and disperser solvent, pH of the aqueous solution and extraction time were optimized. Under the optimal conditions, linearity was maintained between 1.0 ng...

We report experiments in which wavelength-parallel spectral polarimetry technology is used for measurement of the frequency-dependent polarization mode dispersion (PMD) vector. Experiments have been performed using either a grating spectral disperser, configured to provide 13.6 GHz spectral resolution over a 14 nm optical bandwidth, or a virtually imaged phased array spectral disperser, configu...

We show that the minimum size of a depth-two N-superconcentrator is (N log 2 N= loglog N). Before this work, optimal bounds were known for all depths except two. For the upper bound, we build superconcentrators by putting together a small number of disperser graphs; these disperser graphs are obtained using a probabilistic argument. We present two diierent methods for showing lower bounds. Firs...

In this paper, two structural results concerning low degree polynomials over finite fields are given. The first states that over any finite field F, for any polynomial f on n variables with degree d ≤ log(n)/10, there exists a subspace of F with dimension Ω(d·n1/(d−1)) on which f is constant. This result is shown to be tight. Stated differently, a degree d polynomial cannot compute an affine di...

— In this paper we analyze the seed dispersal stage of the Prunus mahaleb1 frugivorous bird interaction from fruit removal through seed delivery within the context of 2 disperser effectiveness. The effectiveness of a frugivorous species as a seed disperser is the 3 contribution it makes to plant fitness. Effectiveness depends on the quantity of seed dispersed 4 and the quality of dispersal prov...