In February 2006, the Ministry of Environment (MOE) Japan and the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) in the UK set in motion an ambitious research project aimed at informing the Gleneagles Dialogue on Climate Change, Clean Energy and Sustainable Development established during the UK’s 2005 G8 Presidency (DEFRA, 2005). The Dialogue has engaged G8 and other interested count...

D. Y. He,1 L. J. Qiao,1,* Alex A. Volinsky,1,2 Y. Bai,1 and L. Q. Guo1 1Corrosion and Protection Center, Key Laboratory for Environmental Fracture (MOE), University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, People’s Republic of China 2Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida 33620, USA (Received 24 December 2010; revised manuscript received 5 Ma...

MAOAN HAN1, VALERY G. ROMANOVSKI2,3, XIANG ZHANG4∗ 1Department of Mathematics, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, 200234, P.R.China E-mail: [email protected] 2Center for Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics University of Maribor, SI-2000 Maribor, Slovenia 3Faculty of Natural Science and Mathematics, University of Maribor, SI-2000 Maribor, Slovenia E-mail: [email protected] 4...

PATHWAY TO ENHANCE VIRAL INFECTION Chang Zhou, Lu Lu , Suiyi Tan, Shibo Jiang , Ying-Hua Chen Laboratory of Immunology, School of Life Sciences; Beijing Key Laboratory for Protein Therapeutics; Protein Science Laboratory of MOE, Tsinghua University Beijing 100084, China; MOE/MOH Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology, Institute of Medical Microbiology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan Univ...

Numerical Investigations on the Thermohydraulic Performance of CrossWavy Channels with Multi-Periodic Boundary Conditions L. X. Du a , T. Ma a , M. Zeng a , Z. X. Guo b & Q. W. Wang a a Key Laboratory of Thermo-Fluid Science and Engineering, MOE, School of Energy and Power Engineering , Xi'an Jiaotong University , Xi'an , Shaanxi , P. R. China b Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineerin...

A recent case report in this journal highlighted the pathophysiology and management of bacterial malignant otitis externa (MOE) (1). We describe the case of an elderly gentleman who had a delayed diagnosis of fungal MOE with advanced diseased at time of diagnosis. This case highlights the changing microbiology of this serious disease and the difficulty in diagnosis given the rarity of this form...

Malaysia, especially the Borneo Island state of Sarawak, has a large variety of tropical wood species. In this study, selected raw tropical wood species namely Artocarpus Elasticus, Artocarpus Rigidus, Xylopia spp., Koompassia Malaccensis, and Eugenia spp. were chemically treated with sodium metaperiodate to convert them into plasticized wood (PW). Manufactured plasticized wood samples were cha...

Wood-plastic composites (WPC) have been developed into new and important wood-based composites because of their benefits for the environment, economy, and recyclability. When combined with structural adhesives, WPCs will have a greatly broadened application in the construction field. In this work, epoxy resin and acrylic ester were used to bond WPC adhesive joints. The shear strength of the adh...

A novel non-destructive method has been developed to predict modulus of elasticity (MOE) logs using measurements taken from cores extracted discs. The trees were felled and cut into allow validation our method; however, similar results would be obtained if the standing trees. shows that a single core breast height is sufficient MOE logs, allowing early grading sorting for optimal use processing...