Petroleum hydrocarbons are important energy resources used by industry and in our daily life, whose production contributes highly to environmental pollution. To control such risk, bioremediation constitutes an environmentally friendly alternative technology that has been established and applied. It constitutes the primary mechanism for the elimination of hydrocarbons from contaminated sites by ...

Adsorption and conversion of various hydrocarbons on monolithic hydrocarbon adsorbers were studied using a new experimental model, temperature-programmed adsorption (TPA). In this study, methyl alcohol, acetone, acetaldehyde, 2,2,4-trimethylpentane, n-octane, and toluene were chosen as model hydrocarbons for cold start of a vehicle. The effect of the hydrocarbon components and oxygen concentrat...

Important information regarding the reactions of carcinogenic and related hydrocarbons has been obtained chiefly from the following four previous lines of investigation : ( a ) The extensive study of methods of synthesis of carcinogenic hydrocarbons by the technics of the organic chemist (4). ( b ) The experimental study of the oxidative and coupling reactions of such hydrocarbons under conditi...

LetX be an algebraicK3 surface. Fix an ample divisorH onX ,L ∈ Pic(X) and c2 ∈ Z. Let MH(r;L, c2) be the moduli space of rank r, H-stable vector bundles E over X with det(E) = L and c2(E) = c2. The goal of this paper is to determine invariants (r; c1, c2) for which MH(r;L, c2) is birational to some Hilbert scheme Hilb(X).

Microtext can be considered one form of micro-messaging which can include non-digital communications which have been digitized. We present our experiences and some results analyzing micro-messages in both military command and control (C2) and more general “C2-Lite” domains in order to predict other information such as the performance of a team, the topics of discussion, or the spread of ideas. ...

An approach to the generation of future adaptive mission-oriented command and control architectures is presented that uses “command and control capabilities” concept both for missions and C2 systems. The concept is modeled and formulated so that both missions and C2 systems can be normatively described by it: on the one hand, missions require the military has specific C2 capabilities and on the...

Let C1, C2 be Cantor sets embedded in the real line, and let τ1, τ2 be their respective thicknesses. If τ1τ2 > 1, then it is well known that the difference set C1 − C2 is a disjoint union of closed intervals. B. Williams showed that for some t ∈ int(C1−C2), it may be that C1∩ (C2 + t) is as small as a single point. However, the author previously showed that generically, the other extreme is tru...