The global phenolic content of argan oil and press cake samples (alimentary and cosmetic) was evaluated using the Folin-Ciocalteu colorimetric method and the phenolic composition of argan oil (alimentary and cosmetic) and press cake (alimentary) samples were analyzed by GC-MS after extraction with 80:20 (v/v) methanol:water and silylation. Identification of chromatographic peaks was made by mas...

In the present study, jatropha oil cake (JOC), a waste produced from processing jatropha seeds for biodiesel production, has been investigated for the removal of nickel (II) from aqueous solutions. Jatropha oil cake contains different functional groups that can participate in the metal ion complexation. Jatropha oil cake is used in its natural form (JOCN) as well as in its immobilized form (JOC...

Classic cake cutting protocols — which fairly allocate a divisible good among agents with heterogeneous preferences — are susceptible to manipulation. Do their strategic outcomes still guarantee fairness? We model the interaction among agents as a game and study its Nash equilibria. We show that each protocol in the novel class of generalized cut and choose protocols — which includes the most i...

Membrane bioreactors (MBRs) are applied for municipal wastewater treatment with advantages such as high effluent quality and low footprint. However, membrane fouling is inevitable even at low fluxes. This study aims to provide a deeper understanding of fouling mechanisms and filter cake characteristics based on modeling and results from both full, pilot and lab-scale MBRs. It has been found tha...

Cake cutting, a subfield of fair division, refers to the allocation of a heterogeneous, divisible, and continuous good among n players who have heterogeneous preferences. The challenge is to allocate the cake in such a way that is fair by using a procedure that encourages the players to be truthful about their preferences. There are several different notions of fairness studied in the literatur...

Continuous filtration of fine particles involves filter cake formation and removal of surface moisture by drawing air through the pore structure network. Conventional network theory can be use to study the phenomena of flow through a porous structure by treating the pores as discrete volumes and connecting these with pore throats as resistances of zero volume. In this regard, analysis of the po...

If you are like me, a huge fan of cake—birthday cake, wedding homemade ice cream cake and cream, etc. I am pretty basic on the flavors; white, lemon chocolate most flavors order. not coconut nuts in so that eliminates German cake. there is an opportunity to eat all in! This year at International Microwave Symposium, we celebrated IEEE Theory Technology Society’s (MTT-S’s) 70th anniversary were ...

The cake-cutting problem refers to the issue of dividing a cake into pieces and distributing them to players who have different value measures related to the cake, and who feel that their portions should be “fair.” The fairness criterion specifies that in situations where n is the number of players, each player should receive his/her portion with at least 1/n of the cake value in his/her measur...

15 When reading a fictional text, most readers feel they are in the middle of the story, and they eagerly or hesitantly wait to see what will happen next. Readers get inside of stories and vicariously experience them. They feel happy when good things occur, worry when characters are in danger, feel sad, and may even cry when misfortune strikes. While in the middle of a story, they are likely to...

Cake cutting is a playful name for the problem of fairly dividing a heterogeneous divisible good among a set of agents. The agent valuations for different pieces of cake are typically assumed to be additive. However, in certain practical settings this assumption is invalid because agents may not have positive value for arbitrarily small “crumbs” of cake. In this paper, we propose a new, more ex...