This study pertains to incorporation of coffee silverskin (CSS) in partial replacement for ordinary Portland cement (OPC) mortar, by investigating its fresh properties (setting and workability), compressive strength (3, 7, 14 28-day), absorption microstructural characteristics. The objectives were reduce environmental solid wastes achieve cost efficiency the use construction materials. CSS was ...

This paper presents workability, compressive strength and microstructure for geopolymer pastes and mortars made of class C fly ash at mass ratios of water-to-fly ash from 0.30 to 0.35. Fluidity was in the range of 145-173 mm for pastes and 131-136 mm for mortars. The highest strengths of paste and mortar were 58 MPa and 85 MPa when they were cured at 70 °C for 24 h. In XRD patterns, unreacted q...

Environmental offsets are positive mitigation measures implemented during environmental impact assessment (EIA) approvals to compensate for unavoidable negative environmental actions. Through interviews with 29 practitioners experienced with offsets, this study investigated the level of support for environmental offsets in Western Australia, implementation of the mitigation sequence and achieve...

This paper presents an original method that can be used for identifying time-varying nonlinear damping characteristics of a nonlinear oscillation system. The method developed involves the nonparametric identification, in which only the system responses, namely, displacement and velocity need to be known for the identification. However, themethod is concernedwith a Volterratype integral equation...

An electronically tunable voltage-mode universal biquadratic filter with one input and five output terminals employing differential difference current conveyor transconductance amplifiers (DDCCTAs) has been proposed. The proposed circuit uses only two DDCCTAs, two grounded resistors and two grounded capacitors. It can realize all the five standard biquadratic filter functions, namely lowpass, b...

A new resistorless single-input-multi-output (SIMO) universal transadmittance (TA) type filter employing two voltage differencing transconductance amplifiers (VDTA) and two grounded capacitors is proposed. The proposed topology realizes simultaneously low pass (LP), high pass (HP), and band pass (BP) filter functions. Band rejects (BR) and all pass (AP) filters are also realizable through appro...

This paper presents a novel quadrature sinusoidal oscillator using second-generation current conveyor transconductance amplifier as an active building block. The proposed circuit employs only a single second-generation current conveyor transconductance amplifier, four passive components. The proposed circuit offers the advantages of independent control of the condition of oscillation and freque...

This paper presents two transadmittance mode universal filters having single voltage input and multiple current outputs. The filter employs three multiple output current controlled conveyors (MOCCCII) and two grounded capacitors. It can realize low pass, high pass, band pass, notch and all pass responses. As desired, the input voltage signal is inserted at high impedance input terminal and the ...

This fourth lecture illustrates the praxis and results of Systemic Medicine (SM) in various therapeutic applications. SM's success has made it popular throughout Venezuela and Puerto Rico. The treatment of over 300,000 patients by 150 orthodox MD's, trained and qualified in SM, in 35 medical establishments with above average results corroborate its effectiveness as an eCAM in chronic degenerati...

In this paper, two new electronically tunable filter configurations are proposed. The proposed filters operate current-mode (CM), voltage-mode (VM), transimpedance-mode (TIM) and transadmittance-mode (TAM). The first configuration realizes second-order VM band-pass and TAM high-pass filter characteristics from the same configuration. The second one realizes second-order TIM band-pass and CM low...