At present, there is no reliable method in use that unequivocally describes paper industry material flows and makes it possible to compare geographical regions with each other. A functioning paper industry Material Flow Account (MFA) that uses uniform terminology and standard definitions for terms and structures is necessary. Many of the presently used general level MFAs, which are called frame...

changes of hydrodynamic parameters in microchannel branches affect the suspended biological samples in blood. to prevent denaturation and hemolysis, we have numerically investigated the effect of divergence angle on shear rate and velocity at branch entrance (discharge rate), under electroosmotic flow. in such flow, hydrodynamic properties are also affected by zeta potential at the microchannel...

Multiple regression analysis (MRA) and principal component analysis (PCA) have been used in the present study to examine the relationships between the operational conditions of a unique multi-functional rotor processor, material attributes such as water content during granulation, and a series of associated micromeritics, including the flowability, granule mean size and granule density values. ...

We thank Mr. Herbst for his comments and review of our article “Air transmission comparison of the Affinity Fusion oxygenator with an integrated arterial filter to the Affinity NT oxygenator with a separate arterial filter.” We designed this in vitro study to answer the question of whether the Fusion oxygenator with its integrated arterial filter was as safe as our clinically used Affinity NT o...

Laser Metal Deposition (LMD) is an additive manufacturing process with capabilities that include: producing new part directly from 3 Dimensional Computer Aided Design (3D CAD) model, building new part on the existing old component and repairing an existing high valued component parts that would have been discarded in the past. With all these capabilities and its advantages over other additive m...

In this supplementary document, we first present additional experiments to show the convergence of training in Section 1.1 and compare the performance of exact matching against a frequently used approximate nearest neighbour search library in Section 1.2. We then show the speed-ups we gain by the strided implementation of the patch-based dilated convolutions in Section 2.1. We compare the runti...

comIn the present study, CO2 removal from natural gas stream has been studied using a flat sheet membrane contactor. A three dimensional mathematical model is developed to describe the process. The model considers the transport of a gas mixture containing carbon dioxide and methane through a flat sheet membrane contactor module. The model is based on the non-wetted mode of operation, in which t...