Use of engineered landfills for the disposal of industrial wastes is currently a common practice. Bentonite is attracting a greater attention not only as capping and lining materials in landfills but also as buffer and backfill materials for repositories of high-level nuclear waste around the world. In the design of buffer and backfill materials, it is important to know the swelling pressures o...

e have been studying the phenomenon of thickness swell in woodbased composites as part of our overall research program to address composite product manufacture and performance (Xu and Winistorfer 1995a, 1995b; Wang and Winistorfer 2000a, 2001). We purport that one of the key variables in understanding the thickness swell phenomenon is recognition of the density profile through the panel thickne...

The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of hot water extraction process on the dimensional stability of oriented strand composites. Aspen wood strands were extracted using various severity factor levels. Phenol formaldehyde and polymethylene diphenyl diisocyanate resins were used for production of the oriented strandboard panels. Six panel groups were produced from the extrac...

Guanosine 5'-O-(3-thiotriphosphate) (GTPgammaS) activated the I(Cl,swell) anion channel in N1E115 neuroblastoma cells in a swelling-independent manner. GTPgammaS-induced current was unaffected by ATP removal and broadly selective tyrosine kinase inhibitors, demonstrating that phosphorylation events do not regulate G protein-dependent channel activation. Pertussis toxin had no effect on GTPgamma...

BACKGROUND ICln is a multifunctional protein involved in the generation of chloride currents activated during regulatory volume decrease (RVD) after cell swelling (ICl(swell)). Growth factor receptors play a key role in different cellular processes and epidermal growth factor (EGF) regulates swelling-activated chloride permeability. AIM We set out to investigate if the EGF-induced upregulatio...

Dynamic Voltage Restorer (DVR) is a custom power device used in electrical distribution system for power quality improvement. The main application of DVR is for voltage compensation of sensitive loads against voltage disturbances such as voltage sag and voltage swell in distribution lines. It is a series connected device and is able to compensate voltage sag and voltage swell by injecting a vol...

Storms propagate over the ocean and create moving patches of strong winds that generate swell systems. Here, we describe dynamics wave generation under a storm by using simple parametric model development, forced temporally spatially varying wind field. This framework reveals how surface storms determine origin amplitude events. Swell systems are expected to originate from locations different t...