Biomass, as a renewable source of energy, can be used in many industries to reduce their dependence on fossil fuels. However, due to the significantly high and varied moisture content of biomass, its use has several drawbacks, such as low total efficiency and process instability. Drying biomass before combustion or gasification can eliminate these drawbacks. Besides these benefits, there ar...

Leukaemia Research Fund the condition is unlikely to be appreciably more common than our figures suggest. Statistical analysis is inappropriate for the small number of cases reported here, but, unless the calculation of the population of elderly shoe repairers at risk in our area is a large underestimate, our findings suggest an association between the occupation and the disease. Several other ...

Grainger’s Free Music remains a rich source of discovery for contemporary Australian musicians. Free Music represents a significant departure point for electronic musicians and instrument makers searching for new musical language, form and expression. This paper presents research undertaken by the Bent Leather Band exploring Grainger’s Free Music ideas within a 21 century music-making context e...

The visual inspection system was developed for defects detection on leather surfaces, which is an important component of automatic CAD/CAM cutting systems. The main functions of the system are quality control and raw material cutting. An efficient algorithm, which combines multiresolution approach, energy and entropy matrices, is presented for detection of defects embedded in leather surface im...

The results of the study drying thin natural leather pasted on a smooth surface are presented. solving differential equation non-stationary heat conduction with constant thermophysical coefficients used to determine average temperature during period decreasing rate. calculated values temperatures for moisture-proof and moisture-free skin surfaces given. Methods simplifying solutions nonlinear e...

Silver ions are a strong antiseptic with a broad spectrum. Treatment of textiles and leather with nanosilver particles is a new idea for real clean wear. The nanometer-size particles have a large specific surface resulting in the release of silver ions in antiseptic concentration. One way to investigate nanosilver treated leather is the intrinsic fluorescence of organic material. This fluoresce...

This paper presents an important problem for the Brazilian economy, the classification of bovine raw hide and leather, and argues that this problem can be handled by computer vision and machine learning techniques. Some promising results, using standard techniques, like color based models and cooccurrence matrix based texture analysis, are reported. The paper also presents what seems to be the ...

We have observed and re-evaluated the histology of the skin of the horse, using samples from four Thoroughbreds. The skin was composed of the usual three components: epidermis, dermis and subcutis. In particular, the dermis was found to have three fibrous components: a papillary layer, a reticular layer and a cordovan-leather tissue layer. The cordovan-leather tissue layer was subdivided into a...

The Hokkaido sika deer (Cervus Nippon yesoensis), the largest and most abundant of the sika deer subspecies in Japan, has recently attracted new attention as a target for leather production, in addition to its meat value. To provide fundamental data for facilitating the effective use of skin for leather, the histological properties of skin at the shoulder, back and abdominal regions of male and...

The observation of many multiple sclerosis (MS) cases among shoe and leather workers prompted a survey of the risk of MS in this working population. Eighty-one patients with definite or probable MS alive in Florence on May 1st 1976 were interviewed regarding their occupation at onset of the disease. Five of the 41 patients working at the time had worked in shoe a leather factories. The relative...