An agricultural waste i.e. rice husk has been used as a cheap adsorbent for the removal ofleadas a harmful heavy metal from contaminated water via adsorption. The adsorption capacity of rice husk was calculated by equilibrium models. The results showed that the adsorption process has the best accordance with Langmuir model. The kinetics of the adsorption was also investigated and obtained that ...

Introduction With the advances in fast MR imaging techniques, it is possible to monitor the traversal of a MR contrast agent within tissues at short time intervals (of the order of a few seconds or less), thereby allowing the possibility to study blood flow at the tissue level. Dynamic contrastenhanced MRI (DCE MRI) is emerging as a promising approach for in vivo assessment of tissue microcircu...

Supersulfated cement, with higher waste utilization and less cement clinker is the inevitable trend of the development of green material in the rapid developed industrial era. For the wide use of supersulfated cement in our country, the hydration heat is analyzed in this paper. The hydration kinetic parameters are obtained from the hydration heat and hydration heat rate curves measured by the i...

We present a new, optimization-based model for uptake kinetics of multiple nutrients, which has the same number of parameters (two for each nutrient) as the Michaelis–Menten model. We fit this model and an existing inhibition-based model to data from chemostat experiments at various flow rates (under extreme limitation by both nitrogen [N] and phosphorus [P]) and compared these models and the M...

SNARE proteins are conserved components of the core fusion machinery driving diverse membrane adhesion and fusion processes in the cell. In many cases micron-sized membranes adhere over large areas before fusion. Reconstituted in vitro assays have helped isolate SNARE mechanisms in small membrane adhesion-fusion and are emerging as powerful tools to study large membrane systems by use of giant ...

Abstract: In this paper, we present a mathematical model of diabetes mellitus, which is a metabolic disease concerned with the regulation process of glucose in the body by the pancreatic insulin. This study presents variations of Glucose and Insulin verses time with different parameter values under different conditions. The phase plane diagrams also illustrated for different values of partial v...