Black liquor evaporation is generally the most energy intensive unit operation in a pulp and paper manufacturing facility. The black evaporators can represent third or more of total mill steam usage, followed by machine digester. Evaporator economy defined as mass required to evaporate water from (i.e., lb/lb kg/kg.) determined number effects an evaporator train system configuration. Older syst...

OBJECTIVES This report presents complete period life tables by Hispanic origin, race for the non-Hispanic white and non-Hispanic black populations, and sex for the United States based on age-specific death rates in 2006. METHODS The methods used to estimate the probability of death for ages 0-80 for the Hispanic population and 0-65 for the non-Hispanic white and non-Hispanic black populations...

PURPOSE Although the link between depression and lower levels of mastery is well established, limited information exists on ethnic and gender differences in the association between the two. The current study investigated ethnic, gender, and ethnic by gender differences in the link between major depressive disorder (MDD) and low mastery in the United States. METHODS We used data from the Natio...

Black rice is an heirloom rice landrace mostly grown in China, Korea, Japan, Thailand, Philippines and India [1]. This rice is highly rated in the market because of its huge nutritional value [2]. The main peculiarity of black rice is its anthocyanin which is both fat and water soluble. Earlier, it was believed that this rice enhance the longevity of life hence this rice is also known as long l...

in this study, postharvest characteristics of eight cut rose cultivars (valentine, king pride, prima donna, black baccara, victory, papagayo, royal baccara and yellow island) were investigated in a growth room with temperature of 20 ºc, relative humidity of 50% and light intensity of 10 µmol m-2 s-1 in autumn 2008. among cultivars significant differences were found for all of the attributes eva...

A multistate life table model is used to identify how labor force experiences and mortality determine the labor force participation rates (LFPRs) and the qualities of the retirement life cycle of Black and White older men. LFPRs and the life cycle measures are compared to assess inequities of retirement access for the racial groups. The results show that Blacks' lower LFPRs are a function of di...