The limiting content of combustibles to spread/suppress the fire in minestone coal tailing dump (gangue) was studied. This knowledge appears crucial mainly when deciding on possible usage as fireproof material for engineering purposes. Theoretical analysis, laboratory experiments well scale (in situ) considerations were performed. In laboratory, a model series coal–mineral matter mixtures and s...

The failure of a tailing dam occurs due to damage to the particles’ micro-structure. Understanding the deformation characteristics of the particle’ micro-structure is important for understanding the mechanics of instability in tailing dams. In our study, a series of experiments was conducted using a testing apparatus for micro-mechanics and the deformation of tailings from the Huangcaoping tail...

To obtain a better understanding of metabolically active microbial communities, we tested a molecular ecological approach using poly(A) tailing of environmental 16S rRNA, followed by full-length complementary DNA (cDNA) synthesis and sequencing to eliminate potential biases caused by mismatching of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) primer sequences. The RNA pool tested was extracted from marine s...

This study investigates the mechanisms underlying the deviation from Chick-Watson kinetics, namely a tailing curve, during the disinfection of viruses by chlorine dioxide (ClO2). Tailing has been previously reported, but is typically attributed to the decay in disinfectant concentration. Herein, it is shown that tailing occurs even at constant ClO2 concentrations. Four working hypothesis to exp...

PURPOSE Energy-resolved CT has the potential to improve the contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) through optimal weighting of photons detected in energy bins. In general, optimal weighting gives higher weight to the lower energy photons that contain the most contrast information. However, low-energy photons are generally most corrupted by scatter and spectrum tailing, an effect caused by the limited e...

Online trust is important in both business-to-business and business-to-consumer e-business. This paper focuses on the impact of trust in online retailing (e-tailing). Based on a review of selected studies, we articulate a conceptual framework of trust in e-tailing including its antecedents, and consequences, and propose some promising future research avenues in online trust. This paper will hel...

Although a growing body of research is developing to address the different e-business practices in the electronic marketplace, e-tailing strategies have only been investigated as part of the study of general e-business strategies. However, researchers recognise that innovative and unique modes of e-tailing operations have emerged in recent years. Therefore, this paper introduces an organising f...