Abstract Alkaline delignification of wood tissue is the core global pulping technology and most prominent large-scale separation main components. This work aims at improved understanding interplay between topochemistry alkaline associated morphological changes. Morphology chemical structure partially soda-delignified chips were studied combining X-ray tomography (XRT), diffraction analysis comp...

[1] Air pollution (ozone and particulate matter in surface air) is strongly linked to synoptic weather and thus is likely sensitive to climate change. In order to isolate the responses of air pollutant transport and wet removal to a warming climate, we examine a simple carbon monoxide–like (CO) tracer (COt) and a soluble version (SAt), both with the 2001 CO emissions, in simulations with the Ge...

Although we now have thousands of studies focused on the nano-, micro-, and whole-animal mechanics of gecko adhesion on clean, dry substrates, we know relatively little about the effects of water on gecko adhesion. For many gecko species, however, rainfall frequently wets the natural surfaces they navigate. In an effort to begin closing this gap, we tested the adhesion of geckos on submerged su...

A new multispectral image classification method is presented. The method is based on dividing the Near Infrared “NIR” and Visible Red “VR” scatterplot diagram into regions corresponding to their reflectance values. The best line discriminating the Soil’s components from the vegetated area is recognized by utilizing the least square fitting criterion. The vegetate line which differentiate the fu...

This paper discusses how a qualitative understanding on the physics of failure can lead to a theoretical derivation of effective features that are useful for condition monitoring of wet friction clutches. The physical relationships between the features and the mean coefficient of friction (COF) which can be seen as the representation of the degradation level of a wet friction clutch are theoret...

Stereology was used to quantify components within the kidney of honeyeater birds. Arid zone and wet zone inhabiting 'matched' body mass pairs of birds were examined. The kidney structure of the arid zone white-fronted honeyeater, Phylidonyris albifrons (16.9 g), was compared with that of the wet zone New Holland honeyeater, Phylidonyris novaehollandiae (21.9 g), and that of the arid zone spiny-...

The Kelvin probe measures surface electrical potential without making physical contact with the specimen. It relies on capacitive coupling between an oscillating metal tip that is normal to a specimen's surface. Kelvin probes have been increasingly used to study surface and electrical properties of metals and semiconductors and are capable of detecting material surface potentials with submilliv...

We have used molecular dynamics simulations to construct a microcanonical caloric curve for a 1415 atom Ni icosahedron. Prior to melting, the Ni cluster exhibits static solid-liquid phase coexistence. Initially, a partial icosahedral structure coexists with a partially wetting melt. However, at energies very close to the melting point the icosahedral structure is replaced by a truncated decahed...