Osmotic evaporation (OE) process is usually suggested to concentrate aqueous solutions. OE is a concentration technique based on the use of mesoporous or macroporous and hydrophobic membranes. The difference between the activity of solutions results in a pressure difference between the upstream diluted solution and the downstream (usually concentrated brine) solution. The latter generates a wat...

In many nuclear reactions, one or more excited primary fragments are formed which decay by the evaporation of nucleons and light clusters. This evaporation process can substantially alter the proton-neutron asymmetry of the initial primary fragments. In a study of complex fragment emission in fusion reactions, the Z values of the detected secondary fragments were measured @1#. In order to estim...

Owing to their high reliability, simplicity of manufacture, passive operation, and effective heat transport, flat heat pipes and vapor chambers are used extensively in the thermal management of electronic devices. The need for concurrent size, weight, and performance improvements in high-performance electronics systems, without resort to active liquid-cooling strategies, demands passive heat sp...

Seeds of Aster kantoensis Kitamura (Compositae) were experimentally exposed to different cycles of hydration and dehydration: 3H1D (cycles of 3-d hydration and 1-d dehydration periods), 2H3D, 2H1D, 1H3D, 1H2D, and 1H1D. Under continuous hydration (control), all viable seeds germinated within 9 d. However, all viable seeds exposed to the 3H1D, 2H3D, and 2H1D cycles germinated within 36, 50, and ...

n air plasma spray process has been used to deposit tri-layer environmental barrier coatings consisting of a silicon bond coat, a mullite interiffusion barrier, and a Yb2SiO5 top coat on SiC substrates. Solidified droplets in as-deposited Yb2SiO5 and mullite layers were discovered to be epleted in silicon. This led to the formation of an Yb2SiO5 + Yb2O3 two-phase top coat and 2:1 mullite (2Al2O...

A disaggregation algorithm is applied to 40 km resolution SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) surface soil moisture using 1 km resolution MODIS (MODerature resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer), 90 m resolution ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection radiometer), and 60 m resolution Landsat-7 data. DISPATCH (DISaggregation based on Physical And Theoretical scale CHange) d...

Approximately 0.3 % of binary fission decays observed in the spontaneous or thermal neutron induced fission of a heavy nucleus are accompanied by emission of an energetic light particle or fragment in a direction perpendicular to the axis defined by the separating massive fragments. Considerable theoretical and experimental effort has been directed towards understanding this type of ternary fis...

A Perrone, F Gontad, A Lorusso, M Di Giulio, Esteban Broitman and M Ferrario, Comparison of the properties of Pb thin films deposited on Nb substrate using thermal evaporation and pulsed laser deposition techniques, 2013, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, (729), 451-455. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nim...