Large container ports around the world are major hubs in the global cargo transport system. A container stack is a type of temporary store where containers await further transport by truck, train or vessel. The main efficiency problem for an individual stack is to ensure easy access to containers at the expected time of transfer. In this paper, we propose a planning tool for finding the best co...

This study aimed to evaluate the survival rate of microorganisms within different antiseptic formulations - povidone-iodine (PVP-I) and chlorhexidine (CHX) - after intentional contamination, and to establish the minimum care necessary to ensure sterilization of non-disposable antiseptic solution containers. A laboratory study was performed with 180 antiseptic containers, which were contaminated...

Considering the unique operation of each nuclear power plant and lack BWR fuel examination data after dry storage, Taiwan Power Company Institute Nuclear Energy Research conduct "The Fuel Storage Demonstration Project in Taiwan" to collect characteristics under storage. In this project, rods among different designs venders will be loaded into a simulated storage cask for 10 years. Different tem...

The Pre-Andean area of Chile exhibits saline soils of volcanic origin naturally contaminated with arsenic (As), and we hypothesise that revegetation with resistant species may be a valid alternative for soil management in this area. Thus, the xerophytic and halophytic shrubs Atriplex halimus and Atriplex atacamensis were cultivated in containers for 90 days in Pre-Andean soil, As-soil, (111±19 ...

The ingestion of seeds by vertebrates can affect the germinability and/or germination rate of seeds. It is, however, unclear if an earlier germination as a result of ingestion affects later plant performance. For sago pondweed, Potamogeton pectinatus, the effects of seed ingestion by ducks on both germinability and germination rate have been previously reported from laboratory experiments. We p...

Containers are a neat representation of a wide class of set functors. We have previously [1] introduced directed containers as a concise representation of comonad structures on such functors. Here we examine interpreting the opposite categories of containers and directed containers. We arrive at a new view of a di↵erent (considerably narrower) class of set functors and monads on them, which we ...