Tannin/furanic rigid foams were modi ed by either polymeric 4,4’ diphenylmethane diisocyanate (pMDI) or a one-component polyurethane still presenting reactive isocyanate groups (PUR). Several di erent sequences of mixing the isocyanate and polyurethane with the chemicals used to prepare tannin-based foams were tested. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) showed that addition of either pMDI or PUR...

Despite a significant increase in whistle-blowing practices in work organizations, we know little about what differentiates whistle-blowers from those who observe a wrongdoing but chose not to report it. In this review article, we first highlight the arenas in which research on whistle-blowing has produced inconsistent results and those in which the findings have been consistent. Second, we pro...

We present the first satellite-detected perturbations of the outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) associated with blowing snow events over the Antarctic ice sheet using data from Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization and Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System. Significant cloud-free OLR differences are observed between the clear and blowing snow sky, with the sign andmagnitude dep...

This paper empirically explores how whistle-blowers, as members of a collective or as individual actors, are motivated to report a wrongdoing in public service organizations of Iran. Whistle-blowing in the service organizations of public sector utilizes the mass media to call the attention of public to corruption activities that are associated to the misuse of public funding in a direct way. Th...

Bottom-blowing, as widely adopted in electric arc furnace (EAF) steelmaking technology, stir the molten bath by blowing inert gas (Ar, N2) from the bottom of EAF to promote fluid flow and uneven metallurgical reaction in the molten bath. However, for eccentric structure design of electric arc furnace, the problem still exists in EBT(Eccentric Bottom Tapping)area. In this study, by the analysis ...

Now we come to the generalised notion of blowing up. In (I, §4) we defined the blowing up of a variety with respect to a point. Now we will define the blowing up of a noetherian scheme with respect to any closed subscheme. Since a closed subscheme corresponds to a coherent sheaf of ideals, we may as well speak of blowing up a coherent sheaf of ideals. The necessary background for this section i...

Designing an aircraft without conventional control surfaces is of interest to aerospace community. In this direction, smart actuator devices such as synthetic jets have been proposed to provide aircraft maneuverability instead of control surfaces. In this article, a numerical study is performed to investigate the effects of unsteady suction and blowing oil airfoils. The unsteady suction and blo...

The blowing and venting of ballast tanks could potentially be used as a complementary control system to improve the manoeuvrability of manned submarines. To test the feasibility of such a control system, we first propose a mathematical model for these operations. Then, the model is applied to the control of an emergency manoeuvre by using only the blowing and venting of ballast tanks as control...

The thermal gelation of black marlin muscle proteins treated with electric pulses and air-blowing was examined in connection with protein denaturation. Though the thermal gelation curve of the muscle paste treated with air-blowing gave an induction period between the first air-blowing and the main acceleration of the reaction, the induction period disappeared on enhancing effect when electric p...