Microwave attenuation in rain at C-band. observed in radar data from Alberta. Canada, has been assessed by means of two different estimators: one employing KDP measured simultaneously by an S-band radar and the other a comparison of synchronised Sand C-band reflectivity measurements. While good agreement between the two has been found in some cases, in others the second method gave a larger est...

The accuracy of the recently reported low-resolution NMR method (Goudappel, G. J. W.; et al. J. Colloid Interface Sci. 2001, 239, 535) for the determination of drop-size distribution in oil-in-water emulsions is evaluated by comparing the NMR results with precise data from video-enhanced optical microscopy. A series of 27 soybean-oil-in-water emulsions, differing in their mean drop size, polydi...

After a century of neglect the dilogarithm appeared twenty years ago in works of Gabrielov-Gelfand-Losik [GGL] on a combinatorial formula for the first Pontryagin class, Bloch on K-theory and regulators [Bl1] and Wigner on Lie groups. The dilogarithm has a single-valued cousin : the Bloch Wigner function L2(z) := ImLi2(z) + arg(1− z) log |z|. Let r(x1, ..., x4) be the cross-ratio of 4 distinct ...

Optical imaging of raindrops provides important information on the statistical distribution of raindrop size and raindrop shape. These distributions are critical for extracting rainfall rates from both dual- and single-polarization radar signals. A large number of raindrop images are required to obtain these statistics, necessitating automatic processing of the imagery. The accuracy of the meas...

The effect of storage time on the coalescence stability and drop size distribution of egg yolk (EY) and whey protein concentrate (WPC) stabilized emulsions is studied. The emulsion stability is evaluated by centrifugation, whereas the drop size distribution is measured by means of NMR and optical microscopy. The experimental results show that there is no general relation between the emulsion st...

The force, f, required to slide a drop past a surface is often considered in the literature as linear with the drop width, w, so that f/w = const. Furthermore, according to the Dussan equation for the case that the advancing and receding contact angles are constant with drop size, one can further simplify the above proportionality to f/V(1/3) = const where V is the drop volume. We show, however...

Palm oil mill effluent (POME) poses a great threat to the environment. However, it contains valuable resources such as energy, water and nutrients that could be recovered for sustainable development. Currently, anaerobic digester has been employed to recover the energy potential in POME. However, the presence of suspended solids in the digestate hinders the downstream nutrients recovery process...