This report describes a complete and modernized procedure to evaluate pure species, binary and mixture transport properties of gases in the low density limit. This includes a description of the relationships used to calculate these quantities and the means used to obtain the necessary input data. The purpose of this work is to rectify certain limitations of previous transport packages, specific...

A concise and accurate solution to the problem of plane Couette flow for a binary mixture of rigid-sphere gases described by the linearized Boltzmann equation and general (specular-diffuse) Maxwell boundary conditions for each of the two species of gas particles is developed. An analytical version of the discrete-ordinates method is used to establish the velocity, heat-flow, and shearstress pro...

The presence of a mixture of progestogens at ng/L concentration levels in surface waters is a worldwide problem. Only a few studies explore the effect of progestogen treatment in a mixture as opposed to individual chemicals to shed light on how non-target species respond to these contaminants. In the present study, we used an invertebrate model species, Lymnaea stagnalis, exposed to a mixture o...

OBJECTIVE To determine the effect of a mixture of plant extracts on the adherence and retention of bacteria in dental biofilm. STUDY DESIGN Experimental study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Department of Oral Biology, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from December 2009 to December 2011. METHODOLOGY For determination of adhering ability, experimental pellic...

Living roots and their rhizodeposits can stimulate microbial activity and soil organic matter (SOM) decomposition up to several folds. This so-called rhizosphere priming effect (RPE) varies widely among plant species possibly due to species-specific differences in the quality and quantity of rhizodeposits and other root functions. However, whether the RPE is influenced by plant inter-species in...

In this paper we discuss the formulation of the fluctuating Navier-Stokes equations for multispecies, nonreactive fluids. In particular, we establish a form suitable for numerical solution of the resulting stochastic partial differential equations. An accurate and efficient numerical scheme, based on our previous methods for single species and binary mixtures, is presented and tested at equilib...

A multi-channel piezoelectric quartz crystal sensor with a homemade computer interface was prepared and employed in the present study to detect mixture of organic molecules. Back propagation neural network (BPN) was used to distinguish the species in the mixture organic molecules and multivariate linear regression analysis (MLR) was used to compute the concentration of the species. A six-channe...

This report documents a Fortran computer code package that is used for the evaluation of gas-phase multicomponent viscosities, thermal conductivities, diiusion coeecients, and thermal diiusion coeecients. The package is in two parts. The rst is a preprocessor that computes polynomial ts to the temperature dependent parts of the pure species viscosities and binary diiusion coeecients. The coeeci...

Macrophyte communities play an essential role in the way freshwater ecosystems function. It is thus of great concern to understand how environmental factors, especially anthropogenic ones, influence their composition and diversity. The aim of this study was to examine whether the effects of a herbicide mixture (50% atrazine, 35% isoproturon, 15% alachlor) on single macrophyte species can be use...

In this study, the early development of monocultures and mixtures of Cedrela odorata, Cordia alliodora, and Hyeronima alchorneoides was measured to determine what interspecific differences in structural characteristics lead to good ecological Ž . combining ability in fast-growing tropical tree species. Plantations were established at high density 2887 treesrha on fertile alluvial soil in the hu...