The inclusion of, for example, sunscreens in hair care products is of great interest because of the potential to reduce damage such as drying and loss of elasticity and also to reduce the fading of color-treated or bleached hair. For a variety of reasons traditional methods of incorporation of UV filters have often proved difficult and, at best, unsatisfactory; the need for additional solubiliz...

An ocean general circulation model (OGCM) with wetting and drying (WAD) capabilities removes the vertical-wall coastal assumption and allows simultaneous modeling of open-ocean currents and water run-up (and run-down) across movable land–sea boundaries. This paper implements and tests such a WAD scheme for the Princeton Ocean Model (POM) in its most general three-dimensional setting with strati...

Microarray techniques use a combinatorial approach to assess complex biochemical interactions. The fundamental goal is simultaneous, large-scale experimentation analogous to the automation achieved in the semiconductor industry. However, microarray deposition inherently involves liquids contacting solid substrates. Liquid droplet shapes are determined by surface and interfacial tension forces, ...

This study aimed to explore the use of additives in soil–cement mixtures that have undergone a wetting-drying cycle. In total, two types soil were used, granitic and lateritic, which are widely used road base construction Katingan area, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. The cement was ordinary Portland type I, while additive utilized for commercial purposes, predominantly contained CaCl2. research...

The adverse effects of hostile marine environment on concrete structure have inevitably resulted in huge economic loss and may contribute to catastrophic failure. Concrete is susceptible weathering, particularly under wetting-drying action (WDA), although its current state the art well established. diverse characteristics WDA at different site locations compromised reliability laboratory works....

The paper presents a simple yet efficient way to track the void ratio, water content, and degree of saturation swelling material during saturation. research aimed quantitatively describe drying wetting processes material, which should enable their better understanding easier modelling. Two identical tall samples, named “twins”, were formed by consolidating paste prepared from in montmorillonite...

In this paper, a bespoke stress and temperature controlled direct shear apparatus to test soil-geosynthetics interfaces is introduced. By adopting the apparatus, series of ‘rapid loading’ tests creep were conducted on Clay – Geosynthetic Drainage layer (GDL) assess functionality apparatus. The experimental results indicate that, modified can allow deformation behaviour under environmental durin...

A field experiment was conducted at the Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) to find out possible effects of alternate wetting and drying irrigation (AWDI) on the yield, water use and water use efficiency (WUE) of Boro rice. The experimental layout was furnitured using split-plot design (SPD) with two modern varieties (MV) of rice viz. BRRIdhan 28 and BRRIdhan 29, which received four irriga...