The equilibrium moisture content (EMC) of biomass affects transportation, storage, downstream feedstock processing, and the overall economy of biorenewables production. Torrefaction is a thermochemical process conducted in the temperature regime between 200 and 300 °C under an inert atmosphere that, among other benefits, aims to reduce the innate hydrophilicity and susceptibility to microbial d...

A fully instrumented air conditioning laboratory unit capable of controlling drying air temperature and humidity integrated with an instantaneous weighing thin layer drying system was used to investigate the thin layer drying behavior and desorption equilibrium moisture content of canola (Brassica napus L.). To this aim, freshly harvested canola samples with moisture content of about 12±0.5% (d...

We study monotone simultaneous embeddings of upward planar digraphs, which are simultaneous embeddings where the drawing of each digraph is upward planar, and the directions of the upwardness of different graphs can differ. We first consider the special case where each digraph is a directed path. In contrast to the known result that any two directed paths admit a monotone simultaneous embedding...

Let P be a set of n points in general position in the plane, r of which are red and b of which are blue. In this paper we prove that there exist: for every α ∈ [ 0, 1 2 ] , a convex set containing exactly dαre red points and exactly dαbe blue points of P ; a convex set containing exactly ⌈ r+1 2 ⌉ red points and exactly ⌈ b+1 2 ⌉ blue points of P . Furthermore, we present polynomial time algori...

We extend the (recently introduced) notion of k-convexity of a two-dimensional subset of the Euclidean plane to finite point sets. A set of n points is ∗Corresponding author. Email addresses: [email protected] (Oswin Aichholzer), [email protected] (Franz Aurenhammer), [email protected] (Thomas Hackl), [email protected] (Ferran Hurtado), [email protected] (Alexander Pilz), pedro.ramos@uah...

a fully instrumented air conditioning laboratory unit capable of controlling drying air temperature and humidity integrated with an instantaneous weighing thin layer drying system was used to investigate the thin layer drying behavior and desorption equilibrium moisture content of canola (brassica napus l.). to this aim, freshly harvested canola samples with moisture content of about 12±0.5% (d...

Let P be a finite set of points in the plane in general position, that is, no three points of P are on a common line. We say that a set H of five points from P is a 5-hole in P if H is the vertex set of a convex 5-gon containing no other points of P . For a positive integer n, let h5(n) be the minimum number of 5-holes among all sets of n points in the plane in general position. Despite many ef...

Achieving abstinence in the treatment of cannabis dependence has been difficult. To date the most successful treatments have included combinations of motivational enhancement treatment plus cognitive–behavioural coping skills training and/or contingency management approaches rewarding abstinence. Although these approaches are theoretically based, their mechanisms of action have not been explore...

Despite the proliferation of policies ostensibly protecting all persons’ rights, and mounting critical academic debate and scholarship on sexuality and sexual orientation, sexual orientation in the academy remains a site of deep contestation. The first section of this paper discusses the national legal framework as a basis from which the state’s new social engineering uses liberal human rights ...