More recently, the concept of integrated forest biorefinery (IFBR) has received much attention as a promising solution for the struggling forest industry in North America and Europe to overcome its difficult financial period and competes globally. This new business paradigm offers a broad range of potentially attractive products, from bioenergy to value-added green organic chemicals in addition...

the paper will provide a summary of all lifelines performance in this strong earthquake. the paper will discuss the damage, emergency response, and recovery of electric power, telecommunication, transportation (roads and bridges), seaports, airports, water and wastewater, and their facilities. the impact as a result of the lifelines service interruption will be discussed; most important is the ...

The recovery of fibres from waste paper (WP) and deinking sludge (DIS) reduces the stress on nature compared to collection virgin pulp for production. Moreover, if not recycled, WP DIS are mainly landfilled incinerated, being thus responsible release greenhouse gases (GHGs) into atmosphere. In this context, energy would contribute increasing independence improving management in industry. From a...

We present a new technique that enables software recovery in legacy applications by retrofitting exception-handling capabilities, error virtualization using rescue points. We introduce the idea of “rescue points” as program locations to which an application can recover its execution in the presence of failures. The use of rescue points reduces the chance of unanticipated execution paths thereby...

gas injection into heavy oil reservoirs could result in high ultimate recovery of oil. experimental studies showed that an application of a combined technology of gas assisted gravity drainage (gagd) and vapor extraction (vapex) could increase final oil recovery of a candidate viscous oil reservoir. in this paper the results of laboratory investigation are presented, including pressure-volume-t...

In this short survey I mainly discuss some recent problems which occupied me and my colleagues and collaborators for the last few years . I will not give proofs but will either give references to the original papers or to the other survey papers . I hope I will be able to convince the reader that the subject is "alive and well" with many interesting, challenging and not hopeless problems . Deve...