plants firing fuel oil produce huge quantities of fly ash as solid waste, which needs to becharacterized prior to its proper management. it is worth mentioning that the published literature lackcomprehensive information on the characteristics of such fly ash. characteristics of fuel oil fly ash producedat selected power (pp) and water desalination (dp) plants were determined. the results showed...

The non-Abelian nature of QCD suggests that particles that have a gluon constituent, such as glueballs or hybrids, should exist. Experiments WA76, WA91 and WA102 have performed a dedicated search for these states in central production using the CERN Omega Spectrometer. Several non-qq candidates have been observed. This paper presents a study of central meson production as a function of the diff...

Tests of grating acuity often underestimate amblyopia and underrefer esotropic infants with a fixation preference. To evaluate the effect of the large grating field used in preferential looking (PL) procedures, an eight-alternative, small field (about 1 degrees) grating acuity test was devised. Gratings contained at least eight cycles. Thirty-seven strabismic and/or anisometropic amblyopes, age...

Dermal papilla (DP) plays important roles in hair follicle regeneration. Long-term culture of mouse DP cells can provide enough cells for research and application of DP cells. We optimized the culture strategy for DP cells from three dimensions: stepwise dissection, collagen I coating, and optimized culture medium. Based on the optimized culture strategy, we immortalized primary DP cells with S...

A microstructure consisting of ultrafine grained (UFG) ferrite with average grain size of ~ 0.7 µm and dispersed nano-sized carbides was produced by cold-rolling and tempering of the martensite starting microstructure in a low carbon steel. Subsequently, fine grained dual phase (DP) steel consisting of equiaxed ferrite grains with average size of ~ 5 µm and martensite islands with average size ...

The temperature-dependent ac susceptibility of the filled skutterudite superconductor PrPt4Ge12 has been measured under hydrostatic He-gas pressure to 0.58 GPa. The superconducting transition temperature Tc decreases linearly with pressure P from 7.91 K at ambient pressure to 7.83 K at 0.58 GPa, giving the rate dTc/dP = 0.19 ± 0.03 K/GPa. Evidence is presented that suggests that the value of Tc...

A Scalable FETI–DP Algorithm with Non–penetration Mortar Conditions on Contact Interface Zdeněk Dostál∗, David Horák†and Dan Stefanica‡§