Textile structures are engineered and fabricated to meet worldwide structural applications. Nevertheless, research varying textile structure on natural fibre as composite reinforcement was found to be very limited. Most of the research is focusing on short fibre and random discontinuous orientation of the reinforcement structure. Realizing that natural fibre (NF) composite had been widely devel...

The risk of global water crisis is becoming more evident due to the increase in overall urban population and reduction freshwater availability. Treated greywater using greenwall technology was identified as a potential method produce for non-potable applications. filtering media acts growing plants filtration medium. In this study, pollutant removal efficiency environmental impacts associated w...

• Effects of MMT-NC/ESP hybrid fillers on jute/coir/polyester composites were studied. Absorption behaviors under dry, river and sea water conditions analyzed. Adding to reduced their moisture absorption rates. Mechanical behaviours the slightly decreased at wet conditions. Samples with equal 1.5 wt% MMT-NC ESP exhibited optimum properties. In this work, synergistic impact fibers mechanical, mo...

The effects of four commercial substrates, a peat-based substrate, and three coir types (coir pith, chips, pith + fibers) on yield, phytochemical accumulation, antioxidant activity were evaluated in Spinacia oleracea L. cv. ‘Manatee’. Soil-blocked spinach seedlings transplanted into Styrofoam planting boxes filled with the substrate. Each box was irrigated daily by drip complete nutrient soluti...

The subgrade layer’s stability considerably influences the long-term performance of pavement systems. This study investigates influence lime as a traditional stabiliser and activated carbon with coir fibre (ACF) waste materials an environmentally friendly binder to stabilise lateritic soil. Experiments, including one-dimensional consolidation unconfined compressive strength (UCS) tests, have be...

an efficient and cost effective protocol for in vitro propagation of pineapple (ananas comosus var. queen) has been developed. in the proliferation stage, agar based murashige and skoog (ms) media was supplemented with 3.0 mg/l benzyleaminopurine (bap), 0.5 mg/l indole acetic acid (iaa) and 50 mg/l adenine sulphate as rbc design experiment. two approaches were taken to reduce the chemical cost ...

This research was supported by the National Institute of Forestry, Livestock and Agricultural Research (INIFAP); the Council of Science and Technology of the State of Guanajuato (CONCYTEG); and the Protected Agriculture Project, University of Florida/IFAS. *Corresponding author; email: [email protected]; phone: (352) 392-1928, ext. 203 Yield and Quality of Greenhouse-grown Strawberries as Affected...

Lowering costs for software maintenance, development and reuse is a great challenge. Strategies like the 3 schema architecture for databases has shown to lower maintenance and development costs of databases. For a similar purpose an architecture has been developed over the last 10 years for object-oriented systems. This architecture is now named the COIR architecture and has helped in lowering ...