K.D. Glover, R.G. Hall, L.E. Osborne, J.A. Ingemansen, and J.R. Rickertsen, Plant Science Dep., South Dakota State Univ., Brookings, SD 57007; J.C. Rudd and R.N. Devkota, Agricultural Research and Extension Center, West Amarillo, TX 79106; Y. Jin, USDA-ARS and Dep. of Plant Pathology, Univ. of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108; D.D. Baltensperger, Dep. of Soil and Crop Sciences, Texas A&M Univ., Co...

Burnt bricks lined with mortar were among the materials used in the construction of historical load-bearing structures. The need to know the strength characteristics of masonry material arises during repairs of historical structures and their subsequent static securing. These can be investigated either by sampling a masonry specimen, or the employment of non-destructive testing methods. With de...

The article presents a proposal of a model of fatigue destruction of hydrophobised ceramic brick, i.e., a basic masonry material. The brick surface was hydrophobised with two inorganic polymers: a nanopolymer preparation based on dialkyl siloxanes (series 1-5) and an aqueous silicon solution (series 6-10). Nanosilica was added to the polymers to enhance the stability of the film formed on the b...

The effect of protein composition and content on the characteristics and properties of laminated baked products has been studied for a long time. However, there are no flour quality parameters related to its suitability to produce yeast-leavened laminated salty baked products. The relationships among flour characteristics, laminated dough pieces and baked products were studied in order to estab...

Bamboo salt, a Korean folk medicine, is prepared with solar salt (sea salt) and baked several times at high temperatures in a bamboo case. In this study, we compared the preventive effects of bamboo salt and purified and solar salts on hepatic damage induced by carbon tetrachloride in Sprague-Dawley rats. Compared with purified and solar salts, bamboo salts prevented hepatic damage in rats, as ...

Preparations of 6-phytase A (EC 3.1.3.26) and phytase B (acid phosphatase, EC 3.1.3.2) were applied alone and combined in the preparation of dough to estimate their catalytic potential for myo-inositol liberation from rye flour in the breadmaking technology. The experimental bread samples were ground after baking and subjected to determination of myo-inositol bioavailability by an in vitro meth...

A brick is a 3-connected graph such that the graph obtained from it by deleting any two distinct vertices has a perfect matching. Bricks are building blocks of the matching decomposition procedure of Kotzig, Lovasz and Plummer, and therefore many matching-related problems can be reduced to bricks. We prove, roughly, that every brick other than the Petersen graph can be generated from a “matchin...

In this work was investigated the feasibility to use Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) glasses in construction sector as secondary raw material. WEEE glasses were used in different percentages as a function of the product obtained: 30-40wt% for glaze formulations, about 40wt% for glass-ceramics and 5wt% in brick bodies. The laboratory and industrial scale up results demonstrated ...