In this research, three faecal sludge sanitizing methods-lactic acid fermentation, urea treatment and lime treatment-were studied for application in emergency situations. These methods were investigated by undertaking small scale field trials with pit latrine sludge in Blantyre, Malawi. Hydrated lime was able to reduce the E. coli count in the sludge to below the detectable limit within 1 h app...

In this paper, the possibility of improving the global response of asphalt materials for pavement applications through the use of hydrated lime and Electric Arc-Furnace Steel Slag (EAFSS) was investigated. For this purpose, a set of asphalt mortars was prepared by mixing two different asphalt binders with fine granite aggregate together with hydrated lime or EAFSS at three different percentages...

Mobility poses peculiar challenges that must be addressed by novel programming constructs. LIME (Linda in a Mobile Environment) tackles the problem by adopting a coordination perspective inspired by work on the Linda model. The context for computation, represented in Linda by a single, globally accessible, persistent tuple space, is reinterpreted in LIME as the transient sharing of the tuple sp...

Reconfigurable hardware can deliver impressive performance for some applications, when a highly static hardware design closely matches application logic. Obliged to express efficient static hardware structures, hardware designers cannot currently employ abstractions using dynamic features of modern programming languages. We present the design and implementation of new features in the Lime progr...

This is a review of the geographic distribution of oropharyngeal cancers and of chewing habits which involve various plant materials and additives including lime. Cancers in the oropharynx and esophagus may be induced by the same carcino gens. Suspected plant carcinogens in the environments of patients with high frequencies of cancers of the oropharynx or esophagus are being tested in hamster c...

Lime-induced iron chlorosis in citrus and avocado trees may be controlled by chelating agents, such as EDTA-ethylene-diaminetetraacetic acid. Chelating agents have the ability to form complex compounds with metal ions-iron, zinc, manganese, and magnesium-holding the metals in a soluble form in various degrees of tenacity. Iron is held most firmly and, for this reason, the prospects may be best ...

This work presents a comparative analysis of top gate a-IGZO TFTs fabricated on both soda-lime-silica glass and alkali-free borosilicate glass. Low-temperature ALD is selected for the deposition of gate dielectric to minimize a thermal stress. Comparing with TFTs on alkali-free borosilicate glass, TFTs with soda-lime-glass show similar threshold voltage and subthreshold swing, but slightly degr...