Conventional steam activation pyrolysis of waste materials such as oil palm kernel shell for production of biochar was investigated using central composite design. Conventional steam activation was carried out via an initial carbonization of oil palm kernel shell to obtain biochar and thereafter steam activation of the biochar using the conventional heating to produce activated carbon. Addition...

In-situ neutron diffraction measurements were performed on monocrystalline samples of the Ni-based superalloy CMSX-4 during N-type g0 raft formation under the tensile creep conditions of 1150 C/ 100 MPa, and subsequently on a rafted sample under the low temperature/high stress creep conditions of 715 C/825 MPa. During 1150 C/100 MPa creep, the g0 volume fraction decreased from ~70% to ~50%, the...

Sweet corn kernels were used in this research to study the dynamics of vitamin E, by evaluatingthe expression levels of genes involved in vitamin E synthesis, the accumulation of vitamin E, and the antioxidant activity during the different stage of kernel development. Results showed that expression levels of ZmHPT and ZmTC genes increased, whereas ZmTMT gene dramatically decreased during kernel...

Abstract We compute the multiplicative constant in large gap asymptotics of Meijer- G point process. This process generalizes Bessel and appears at hard edge Cauchy–Laguerre multi-matrix models certain product random matrix ensembles.

1.1 Markov Processes Consider a set of states S1, S2, . . . SN . A discrete Markov process is one in which the system is in a particular state at any given time. The state can be changed only at discrete intervals of time. We denote the time instants associated with state changes with as t = 1, 2, . . . and we denote the actual state at time t as qt. The current state in an n-order Markov proce...

to identify the high yielding lines with optimal characteristics, 40 recombinant inbred lines derived from a cross between ‘norstar’ (winter wheat) and ‘zagros’ (spring wheat) cultivars were examined using a randomized complete block design with three replications in 2014 at the research station of faculty of agriculture, university of tabriz, iran. the measured characters consisted of peduncle...