background: as fluoride concentration in drinking water is one of the effective parameters in human health, finding the ways to remove excess amount of fluoride is very important in water supply projects. this study aimed to evaluate mendon bauxite mine in the removal of fluoride from drinking water. methods: this experimental study was conducted from may to october 2013 on synthetic and actual...

biglar permo-triassic bauxite deposit is located in ~15 km northwest of abgarm, southwest of ghazvin province, west of central iran. it consists of 8 stratiform and discontinuous bauxite lenses lying along the contact of ruteh (permian) and elika (triassic) carbonate formations. petrographically, the bauxite ores exhibit collomorphic-fluidal, pseudo-breccia, pseudo-porphyritic, panidio-morphic-...

Despite the profound impact of airpower on the course and outcome of the Gulf War, its employment has not escaped controversy. The coalition quickly cleared the skies of Iraqi aircraft, neutralized Iraqi medium and high altitude air defenses, brought Iraq’s entire command structure and military under attack, and systematically struck at the Iraqi field army in the Kuwait theater of operations. ...

Title of dissertation: MATRIX EFFECTS ON INDIVIDUAL AND COMMUNITY-LEVEL RESPONSES OF BIRDS TO FOREST FRAGMENTATION IN JAMAICA Christina Marie Kennedy, Ph.D., 2009 Directed by: Associate Professor Maile C. Neel, Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture & Department of Entomology Professor William F. Fagan, Department of Biology Land cover between habitat patches (“matrix”) can impa...

Background: Fluoride plays an important role in bone and dentin mineralization; however, excess fluoride intake is harmful to mankind. Methods: This study evaluated the performance of bauxite from active Iranian mines in removing fluoride from drinking water. The effects of pH, contact time, adsorbent dose, and fluoride concentration on defluoridation and removal efficiency were determined. Ki...

Cu/Ba/bauxite possesses superior NOx storage and reduction (NSR) performances, high thermal stability, strong resistance against SO₂ poisoning and outstanding regeneration ability in comparison with Pt/Ba/Al₂O₃. It can serve as a cheap and promising alternative for traditional Pt/Ba/Al₂O₃ in NOx removal from lean-burn engines.

In this paper we describe a real-time speech recognition system developed for colloquial Iraqi Arabic. This system is currently used in our speech-to-speech translation system configured for bi-directional communication in English and Iraqi on a laptop. We present experimental results on Iraqi utterances from different speech-to-speech translation domains, and analyze the usefulness of acoustic...