Although reclaimed water for potable applications has many potential benefits, it poses concerns for chemical and microbial risks to consumers. We present a quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA) Monte Carlo framework to compare a de facto water reuse scenario (treated wastewater-impacted surface water) with four hypothetical Direct Potable Reuse (DPR) scenarios for Norovirus, Cryptospor...

Active teaching is increasingly accepted as a better option for higher education STEM courses than traditional lecture-based instruction. However, concerns remain regarding student preferences and the impact of increased course structure on teaching evaluations. Undergraduates in a non-majors neuropharmacology course were enrolled in an enriched blended course format, providing online case-base...

Image blending is very important for image stitching with visible seams. An effective blending method for panoramic images in image-based virtual reality is proposed in this paper. The proposed blending method is a two-phase scheme. The histogram-based blending is first applied in the first phase scheme; and then in the second phase scheme, the weighted blending is used under the result of the ...

European Regulation 1169/2011 requires producers of foods that contain refined vegetable oils to label the oil types. A novel rapid and staged methodology has been developed for the first time to identify common oil species in oil blends. The qualitative method consists of a combination of a Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy to profile the oils and fatty acid chromatographic analys...

Blending different low molecular weight gelators (LMWGs) provides a convenient route to tune the properties of a gel and incorporate functionalities such as fluorescence. Blending a series of gelators having a common bis-urea motif, and functionalised with different amino acid-derived end-groups and differing length alkylene spacers is reported. Fluorescent gelators incorporating 1- and 2-pyren...

This study demonstrates the capabilities of NIR imaging as an effective tool for characterization of pharmaceutical powder blends. The powder system used in this small-scale powder blending study consists of acetaminophen (APAP, the model API), microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) and lactose monohydrate. Mixtures of these components were blended for different times for a total of ten time points (...

Commercial ecological gasoline is being obtained by blending multiple components. Increasing a refinery’s economic performance depends, among other things, on obtaining optimum blending recipes for the available components. To determine the optimum blending recipe, knowing the mathematical blending model for blending properties estimation and a linear optimization algorithm are necessary. As a ...

Gasoline blending is an important unit operation in gasoline industry. A good model for the blending system is beneficial for supervision operation, prediction of the gasoline qualities and realizing model-based optimal control. Gasoline blending process involves two types proprieties: static blending property and dynamic property of blending tanks. Since the blending cannot follow the ideal mi...

Image blending is a process of creating a set of discrete samples of a continuous, one-parameter family of images that links a pair of input images. Image blending has uses in a variety of computer graphics, cartoons and image processing applications. Image blending is to paste a source patch onto a objective image, which has received considerable attention. While gradient-domain blending is do...

Skeletal animation with vertex blending is a popular method to model believable 3D characters. Its main advantage is its speed that allows real-time deformation even on low-level hardware. However it has some drawbacks as well: for some movements it produces non-natural postures like twisting elbows. We present a new method called bones blending that can be used as an alternative to vertex blen...