There are several parameters that affect the mechanical properties of carpets such as yarn characteristic and carpet construction. Yarn material is one most important factors which determine usage performance by consumers. This study investigated behaviours produced from polypropylene (PP) bulk continuous filament (BCF) yarns with not only homopolymer but also copolymer thermoplastic polyolefin...

Mercury (Hg) is one of the most toxic heavy metals, and it largely used in illegal gold extraction Peru. We evaluated tolerance to Hg Paronychia microphylla Phil, Ambrosia artemisioides Willd Croton ruizianus Müll. Arg. plants, using controlled concentrations (5, 10 80 mg L-1). Two groups were identified according antioxidant enzymatic bioaccumulation response, but changes soluble protein sugg...

Market systems development (MSD) programmes aim to influence private actor behaviour promote markets that work better for the poor. This article aims inform theory-based evaluation (TBE) of such programmes, arguing a stronger analysis market change is needed. It proposes ‘behaviour framework’ (BCF), building on recent advances in TBE literature. These focus attention as contingent alignment cap...

We present Bayesian Controller Fusion (BCF): a hybrid control strategy that combines the strengths of traditional hand-crafted controllers and model-free deep reinforcement learning (RL). BCF thrives in robotics domain, where reliable but suboptimal priors exist for many tasks, RL from scratch remains unsafe data-inefficient. By fusing uncertainty-aware distributional outputs each system, arbit...

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The aim of this work was to isolate and characterize bacteriocins produced by 2 Lactobacillus fermentum strains isolated from artisanal Mexican Cocido cheese. Fractions (F ≤3 kDa) obtained cell-free supernatants Lb. J23 J32 were further fractionated reversed-phase HPLC on a C18 column. Antimicrobial activities F kDa bacteriocin-containing fractions (BCF), fractionation against 4 indicator micro...

as a result of human activities, metal pollution has become one of the most serious environmental problems today. phytoremediation utilizes plants to uptake contaminants and can potentially be used to remediate metal-contaminated sites. a pot experiment was conducted to compare the phytoextraction and phytostabilization potential of two plant species (populus alba and morus alba) for some eleme...

background: heavy metals tend to bioaccumulate in living organisms, and their accumulation has been a major concern. as mammals are known to excrete heavy metals via their bile, it seems to be very promising to analyse metal burdens of par-asites that infect the biliary tree such as liver flukes of the genus fasciola . the pre-sent study was carried out to evaluate f. hepatica and f. gigantica ...