background sulfur oxides released from the burning of oil causes severe environmental pollution. the sulfur can be removed via the 4s pathway in biodesulfurization (bds). immobilization approaches have been developed to prevent cell contamination of oil during the bds process. objectives the encapsulation of rhodococcus erythropolis r1 in calcium alginate beads was studied in order to enhance c...

Exploration is an important survival strategy in evolution. The migration of expansive species depends on exploring their immediate or distant surroundings for new food sources or safe habitats; it can also come as a result of population pressures or environmental changes. The human species has added another reason for exploration, namely curiosity. This intellectual urge to explore the unknown...

The aim of this contribution is a survey of different nucleation and growth kinetics terms effects on modeling results of KNO3 Continuous Mixed Suspension Mixed Product Removal (CMSMPR) crystallizer. By studying the four different states in modeling, results show that, although these terms for similar crystallization system and operating conditions are similar, there is very different dynamic b...

There continues to be a lot of interest in corn silage harvested with a self-propelled forage harvester (SPFH) equipped with an aftermarket processor with cross-grooved processing rolls set for 2to 3-mm roll gap and greater roll speed differential than has typically been used (32% versus 21%). Also, the developer of this processor recommends that the SPFH be set for a longer theoretical length ...

M A R C H 2 0 0 6 C R E D IT Shielding Space Travelers I n science fiction, the worst threats to space travelers are large ones: careening asteroids, ravenous creatures, imperial battle cruisers. In reality, though, the scariest menaces for humans in space are the tiniest: fast-moving elementary particles known as cosmic rays. On a long journey, they would give astronauts a dose of radiation se...

Weyl particles are elusive relativistic fermionic particles with vanishing mass. While not having been found as an elementary particle, they are found to emerge in solid-state materials where three-dimensional bands develop a topologically protected point-like crossing, a so-called Weyl point. Photonic Weyl points have been recently realised in three-dimensional photonic crystals with complex s...

If the cosmological dark matter is primarily in the form of an elementary particle which has mass m(p) and cross section for self-interaction sigma, then seed black holes (formed in stellar collapse) will grow in a Hubble time t(H) due to accretion of the dark matter to a mass, M(H) = sqrt[IC(9)(A)t(H)(sigma/G(3)m(p)c(2))] = 7.1x10(6)(sigma/m(p))(1/2)V(9/2)(c)t(1/2)(H,15) solar masses. Here I i...

A topological insulator is a material with an insulating interior but time-reversal symmetry-protected conducting edge states. Since its prediction and discovery almost a decade ago, such a symmetry-protected topological phase has been explored beyond electronic systems in the realm of photonics. Electrons are spin-1/2 particles, whereas photons are spin-1 particles. The distinct spin differenc...

We review the main ideas discussed during the meeting and propose methods for a new generation of space accelerators