The effect of artificial pozzolan (waste brick) on the physico-chemical properties of cement manufactured was investigated. The waste brick is generated by the manufacture of bricks. It was used in the proportions of 0%, 5%, 10%, 15% and 20% by mass of cement to study its effect on the physico-chemical properties of cement incorporating artificial pozzolan. The physicochemical properties of cem...

BACKGROUND Brick tea type fluorosis is a public health concern in the north-west area of China. The association between SNPs of genes influencing bone mass and fluorosis has attracted attention, but the association of SNPs with the risk of brick-tea type of fluorosis has not been reported. OBJECTIVE To investigate the modifying roles of GSTP1 rs1695 polymorphisms on this association. METHOD...

The effects of adding wheat and oat bran, at different levels and milled to varying particle size ranges, to dough formulations were investigated, with respect to aeration and dough development during mixing, expansion during proving and fi nal baked loaf characteristics. Addition of bran reduced the density of the dough at the end of mixing, largely because of the increased water absorption, w...

Knowledge of the fate and transport of functionalized carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in porous media is crucial to understand their environmental impacts. In this study, laboratory column and modeling experiments were conducted to mechanistically compare the retention and transport of two types of functionalized CNTs (i.e., single-walled nanotubes and multi-walled nanotubes) in acid-cleaned, baked, an...

In this paper we show that there is more than one way to skin a rabbit, by giving a couple of approaches to solving the problem: How many towers of all heights can be made if you have available a certain specified number of baked bean cans and spaghetti cans, but need not use them all in any one tower? We show the relevance of this problem, and more especially the techniques used to solve it, f...

We calculate the statistical entropy of a scalar field on the background of three-dimensional De Sitter space in terms of the brick wall method and finally derive the perimeter law of the entropy. ∗Electronic address: [email protected] 1 Entropy of black holes has an universal area law [1] and the entropy of the well-known Schwarzschild black hole satisfies the area law by means of thermal...