Graft copolymers, deproteinized natural rubber-graft-polystyrene (DPNR-g-PS) and deproteinized natural rubber-graft-polyacrylonitrile (DPNR-g-PAN), were prepared by the grafting of styrene (St) or acrylonitrile (AN) monomers ...

Much waste heat is generated in the rock salt boiling process and is usually discharged directly from a stack and the exhaust air. Recovering heat from the exhaust air by the heat exchanger is a promising technology that ...

Experimental and finite element analysis results of reinforced concrete beams under monotonic loading were presented in this study. In the experimental program, one beam was tested in an as-built condition. The other two ...

A hydrogel scaffold is a localized drug delivery system that can maintain the therapeutic level of drug concentration at the tumor site. In this study, the biopolymer hydrogel scaffold encapsulating doxorubicin was fabricated ...

Hypercholesterolemia is one of the major risk factors related to global health problems. Probiotics with cholesterol-lowering activity can improve cholesterol metabolism without any adverse effects. In this study, seventeen ...

Ambulatory surgery for acute appendicitis operated on by open technique has not been yet mentioned before. The authors reviewed a preliminary result of children treated with open appendectomy. The records of 33 consecutive ...

Different biomass stoves are introduced and distributed among people living in rural and urban areas, especially in developing countries. For salt crystal production in Thailand’s rural north-eastern area, open fire stoves ...

Several methods for signal acquisition in compressed sensing were proposed in the past. Iterative hard thresholding (IHT) algorithm and its variants can be considered as a kind of those methods based on gradient descent. ...

The acquisition of a discrete-time signal is an important part in compressive sensing problem. Instead of using l0-norm optimization, much attention is paid to lp-norm formulation for p ? (0,1) due to its fast convergence ...

This study first reported enzyme-free impedimetric biosensor-based molecularly imprinted polymers for selective and sensitive determination of L-hydroxyproline (L-hyp), a biomarker for the early diagnosis of bone diseases. ...