The 2010 Deepwater Horizon (DwH) disaster challenged the integrity of Gulf Mexico (GOM) large-marine ecosystem at unprecedented scales, prompting concerns devastating injury for GOM fisheries in post-spill decade. Following catastrophe, projected economic losses regional commercial, recreational, and mariculture sectors decade after oiling were US$3.7–8.7 billion overall, owing to vulnerability...

One of the key challenges in using fossil fuels is environmental impacts these energy sources, and to reduce destructive effects, use renewable sources (biofuels) necessary. important biofuels biodiesel, which can be produced from cottonseed. To properly manage chain dealing with biodiesel production cottonseed (from farm manufactory), hotspots must pinpointed. In present study, it was attempte...

The wood of five European species: black poplar (Populus nigra L.), beech (Fagus sylvatica ash (Fraxinus excelsior oak (Quercus robur and Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) was subjected to thermal modification in nitrogen atmosphere at 190 °C during 6 h. Native modified varnished oiled industrial conditions. Thermally (TM) characterized by a greater absorption varnish oil when applying the first...

Renneted casein gels, often named cheese curds, are traditionally pre-heated by immersion in water before stretching, which influences functional properties. This work aims to understand the effect of pre-heating (cooking) on extrusion process curds at 80 and 90 °C a lab twin-screw, co-rotating extruder, consequences for composition, microstructure properties extrudates. The cooking significant...

Introduction.?During the monsoon in Assam, the rainfall is characterized by spells of heavy downpour followed by intervals, short or long, of hot, dry weather. The result of this irregularly distributed rainfall is that the permanent rivers and streams sometimes flow slowly and sluggishly, and at other times, after heavy rains, are converted into wide, deep, rapidlyflowing channels loaded with ...

Abstract The Shoreline Cleanup Assessment Technique (SCAT) was effectively applied from 2015 to 2019 during the first stage (Phase 1) of assessment and cleanup 1000 ha (2471 acres) intertidal dead mangroves oiled shorelines in Bodo, Eastern Niger Delta. New SCAT methods Phase 1 criteria were developed delineate oil levels very soft mud monitor clean up efforts. end goal reduce subsurface oiling...

n this study, two silicon wafer substrates were coated with vertially aligned multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) “forests” nd were used for pool boiling studies. The MWCNT forests (9 nd 25 m in height) were synthesized on the silicon wafer subtrates using chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process. The subtrates were clamped on a cylindrical copper block with embeded cartridge heaters. The heat ...

Crude oil spills are a worldwide ocean conservation threat. Fish are particularly vulnerable to the oiling of spawning habitats, and crude oil causes severe abnormalities in embryos and larvae. However, the underlying mechanisms for these developmental defects are not well understood. Here, we explore the transcriptional basis for four discrete crude oil injury phenotypes in the early life stag...