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Bert Verstraeten, Jan Sermeus, Tom Van der Donck, Paul Schuurmans and Christ Glorieux
A laser ultrasonics approach to remotely characterize the elastic and thermal properties of a coating-substrate structure, used to protect fuel claddings in lead-bismuth eutectic cooled nuclear reactors, is presented and validated with experimental resul...
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Pietro Roncioni, Marco Marini, Oscar Gori, Roberta Fusaro and Nicole Viola
The request for faster and greener civil aviation is urging the worldwide scientific community and aerospace industry to develop a new generation of supersonic aircraft, which are expected to be environmentally sustainable and to guarantee a high-level p...
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Mario Kovac, Boris Ravnjak, Drago ?ubaric, Tomislav Vinkovic, Jurislav Babic, Ðurdica Ackar, Ante Loncaric, Antonija ?aric, Vesna Ocelic Bulatovic and Antun Jozinovic
Starch is a polysaccharide that is widely used in food and other industries; therefore, due to its great potential, it is attempted to be maximally isolated from various foods rich in starch. Commonly, potatoes are used for starch production due to the r...
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Dario Autovino, Vincenzo Alagna, Cristina Bondì and Massimo Iovino
Green roofs can be a valid solution for stormwater management in urban environments. The objective of this study was to develop a laboratory procedure for the hydraulic characterization of artificial substrates, used in the realization of green roofs, ba...
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Albina Scioti and Fabio Fatiguso
The construction industry involves some of the activities with the highest consumption of raw materials and significant waste production. According to the European Commission, it requires large quantities of resources, representing approximately 50% of a...
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NDiarel Baidy Ba, Radhia Souissi, Faouzi Manai, Imad Khalil Taviche, Bochra Bejaoui, Mohamed Abdallahi Bagga and Fouad Souissi
Since 2004, the processing of the iron oxide?copper?gold (IOCG) ore of Guelb Moghrein, Akjoujt, Mauritania, has resulted in the generation of approximately 40 million tons of mine tailings. The storage of these tailings poses significant environmental ch...
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Dongye Lv, Hanbing Liu, Qiang Miao, Wensheng Wang, Guojin Tan, Chengwei Shi and Hanjun Li
The passivation behavior of steel reinforcements in concrete is significantly influenced by the environment, concrete pore solution, and the passive film formed on the steel surface. The present study used electrochemical methods to successfully characte...
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Giuseppe Ciaburro, Gino Iannace, Laura Ricciotti, Antonio Apicella, Valeria Perrotta and Raffaella Aversa
In this paper, a metamaterial design based on lightweight geopolymeric elements was reported for applications in acoustic insulation.
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Sawsan T. Abu-Zeid, Ragab E. Saif, Hisham A. Mostafa and Hadeel Y. Edrees
Since the crystallinity of hydroxyapatite created by bioactive sealers could affect their solubility percentage, this study aimed to analyze the degree of crystallinity and mineral maturity of hydroxyapatite crystals formed by bioactive (Cerafil and Endo...
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Yaneth Vasquez, Jair Franco, Mario Vasquez, Felipe Agudelo, Eleni Petala, Jan Filip, Jose Galvis and Oscar Herrera
The tannery wastewater from the tanning stage (TWT) comprises organic and Cr pollutants, which can adversely affect aquatic life and have carcinogenic effects. In this study, we investigated the performance of a Fenton-like process using commercial Nano-...
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Ximena Capa-Camacho, Pedro Martínez-Pagán, José A. Acosta, Marcos A. Martínez-Segura, Marco Vásconez-Maza and Ángel Faz
The efficient management of slurry, which is a by-product rich in nutrients derived from feces, urine, cleaning water, and animal waste that stands out for its high concentration of nutrients such as nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, is of vital impor...
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Zain Abbas, Muhammad Ahmad Hassan, Weidong Huang, Haibing Yu, Mengqin Xu, Xiaoyu Chang, Xisheng Fang and Liqin Liu
An approximate revolution synthesis of magnesium oxide (MgO) nanoparticles has been prepared. For plant growth and development, MgO is essential. The effect and efficiency, respectively, in seed germination, seedling growth, and plant growth were also st...
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Yuqi Zhou, Shuhao Li, Shengxiang Ran, Yang Xu, Maomao Hou, Mingxuan Han and Fenglin Zhong
Superoxide dismutase (SOD) is an important antioxidant metalloenzyme present in plants that plays a vital role in plant growth and development, but studies on the SOD gene family in Pakchoi are lacking. In this study, we identified 13 SOD genes from pakc...
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Borja Velázquez Martí, Juan Gaibor-Chávez, John Eloy Franco Rodríguez and Isabel López Cortés
This work was aimed at the characterization of residual generated biomass from pruned tree species present in the Andean areas of Ecuador as a source of energy, both in plantations and in urban areas, as a response to the change in the energy matrix prop...
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Markeljan Fishta, Erica Raviola and Franco Fiori
The smart management of water resources is an increasingly important topic in today?s society. In this context, the paradigm of Smart Water Grids (SWGs) aims at a constant monitoring through a network of smart nodes deployed over the water distribution i...
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Daniyar Tajibayev, Kadyrzhan Mukin, Adylkhan Babkenov, Vladimir Chudinov, Abdelfattah A. Dababat, Karlyga Jiyenbayeva, Serik Kenenbayev, Timur Savin, Vladimir Shamanin, Kuttymurat Tagayev, Askhat Rsymbetov, Minura Yessimbekova, Vadim Yusov, Ruslan Zhylkybaev, Alexey Morgounov, Muhammad Tanveer Altaf, Muhammad Azhar Nadeem and Faheem Shehzad Baloch
Spring durum wheat occupies over 0.5 M ha in Kazakhstan and represents an important domestic and export commodity. This study aimed to characterize 151 durum wheat cultivars and advanced lines originating from eight breeding programs of the Kazakhstan?Si...
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Heena Saheewala, Suman Sanadhya, Sudhir Kumar Upadhyay, Santosh Ranjan Mohanty and Devendra Jain
Potassium (K) helps crop plants to resist biotic and abiotic challenges and plays a vital role in biochemical, metabolic, and physiological processes. Due to intense agricultural practices over the past few decades, the soil K reserve has been observed t...
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Marco Castaldi, Ignacio Mayo, Jacques Demolis and Frank Eulitz
Helicopter and turboprop engines are susceptible to the ingestion of debris and other foreign objects, especially during take-off, landing, and hover. To avoid deleterious effects, filters such as Inlet Particle Separators (IPS) can be installed. However...
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Fantasse Azeddine, Parra Angarita Sergio, Léonard Angélique, Lakhal El Khadir, Idlimam Ali and Bougayr El Houssayne
Drinking water treatment generates a high amount of pasty by-product known as drinking water treatment sludge (DWTS). The chemical composition, microstructure and rheological behavior of DWTS are of utmost importance in the calculation, design, optimizat...
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Asim Mehmood, Peter M. Dracatos, Linta Maqsood, Qudsia Yousafi, Abrar Hussain, Muhammad J. Jaskani, Muhammad W. Sajid, Muhammad S. Haider and Muhammad M. Hussain
Molecular germplasm characterization is essential for gathering information on favorable attributes and varietal improvement. The current study evaluated the genetic divergence and population structure of 80 potato genotypes collected from Punjab, Pakist...
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