A new type of low cost, environmentally friendly wood-plastic composites (WPC) 12 containing carbon nanotubes(CNT)of low content 0%, 0.05wt%, 0.1wt% and 0.15wt%, wood fibers 13 of 14wt% and polymer PES of 86wt% was manufactured by the selective laser sintering (SLS) 14 approach of 3D printing. The experimental results showed that the incorporating of CNTs could 15 obviously increase the mechani...

BACKGROUND The aim of the present study is to make a comparative study in human fetuses and in patients with cryptorchidism, analyzing the incidence of a number anomalies of the testes for both populations. METHODS We studied 326 testes from 163 human fetuses ranging in age from 10 to 35 weeks postconception (WPC) and 133 testes from 101 cryptorchid patients aged from 1 to 15 years old (mean,...

Egg alternatives may replace egg as a functional ingredient in French vanilla ice cream due to their functional and dietary benefits. These egg alternative ingredients include modified corn starch (MCS), whey protein concentrate (WPC) and soy protein isolate (SPI). The objective of this study was to compare the physical and sensory properties of several commercially available egg alternatives i...

This study investigated weathering effects on polyvinyl chloride (PVC) based wood plastic composites (WPC), with a focus on the color and structure that is attributed to the material composition. It is directed towards quantifying the main chemical modifications, such as carbonyl and vinyl groups which are formed during weathering. These composites were subjected to three weathering regimes: ex...

Thin coupons of white portland cement (WPC) and tricalcium silicate paste were decalcified by leaching in concentrated ammonium nitrate solutions, resulting in calcium-to-silicon molar ratios (C/S) ranging from 3.0 (control) down to 0.3. The microstructure and surface area were measured using both small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) and nitrogen gas sorption. The intensity in the SANS data re...

This chapter describes and validates the applicability of a visual analytics tool, named Workload Profile Analytics (WPA), in the context of incident management (IM) inside a large IT services provider. The WPA tool implements a method to evaluate the performance and quality of IM systems that uses temporal information from incident records (tickets). The method is based on a graphical represen...

Whey protein concentrates (WPC) and isolates (WPI), comprised mainly of β-lactoglobulin (β-LG), α-lactalbumin (α-LA) and casein glycomacropeptide (GMP), are added to foods to boost nutritional and functional properties. Supercritical carbon dioxide (SCO₂) has been shown to effectively fractionate WPC and WPI to obtain enriched fractions of α-LA and β-LG, thus creating new whey ingredients that ...

As the degree of instruction-level parallelism in superscalar architectures increases, the gap between processor and memory performance continues to grow requiring more aggressive techniques to increase the performance of the memory system. We propose a new technique, which is based on the wrong-path execution of loads far beyond instruction fetch-limiting conditional branches, to exploit more ...

The problem of wind power curtailment (WPC) during winter heating periods in China’s “Three-North regions” is becoming worse. Wind heating, though being an effective way to increase consumptions, constrained by high electric costs under a peak-to-valley electricity price pattern. This study develops real-time (RTP) decision model which adjusts the time-varying RTPs within acceptable range users...

Abstract The current study aimed to explore the hypothesis that probiotic bacteria are significantly involved in control of obesity using Wistar rats as test group by feeding high fat diets (HFD) induced obesity. A total four groups were considered viz., normal pellet diet fed (NC), HFD (DC), treated with fermented milk soy protein isolate (SPI) and whey concentrate (WPC) (T1), without WPC SPI ...