Kapok is a hollow fiber with a 90% hollow degree. Compared with cotton fiber, kapok fiber has excellent performances, such as good hygroscopicity, and a good warmth retention property. In this work, desized indigo kapok/cotton denim fabrics were blea...
We examined the color processing of the commodity plastic buttons made of acrylic, polyester, nylon, and casein with scCO2. The buttons’ dyeing color depth (K/S) was measured over a wide range of scCO2 and correlated accurately with the respons...
Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) requires a large amount of potassium (K) for maintaining forage yield and stand persistence. Therefore, soil inherently low in K levels must be supplemented with K fertilizers. Although several commercial K fertilizers ar...
With the acceleration of urbanization and due to the impact of climate warming, economic losses caused by urban waterlogging have become increasingly severe. To reduce urban waterlogging losses under the constraints of limited economic and time resou...
With the development of the Internet environment, the trend of the retail industry in the future. It cannot be separated from the community, data and experience. Consumers’ lifestyles and purchasing behaviors are constantly changing and retailers mus...
Windows in new buildings in Korea are equipped with double or triple glazing, a low-E coating, and gas injection between the panes of glass, in accordance with the regulations for the reinforced insulation of windows. However, these windows have cert...
Kadsura coccinea (Lem.) A. C. Smith and Schisandra sphenantha rehd. et wils. are different genus plants of Schisandraceae, distributed in the north and south of China, respectively. These species are non-wood forest trees with important medicinal val...
This study analyzes the possibility of applying the acoustic emission method (AE) and the Kolmogorov-Sinai (K-S) metric entropy phenomenon in determining the structural changes that take place within the EN AW 7020 aluminum alloy. The experimental pa...
A solidification microstructure is formed under high cooling rates and temperature gradients in powder-based additive manufacturing. In this study, a non-equilibrium multi-phase field method (MPFM), based on a finite interface dissipation model, coup...
Powders of metallurgically prepared precursors expand to a foam differently depending on how fast they are heated to their foaming temperature. The foaming behavior of four alloys was studied with heating rates varying from 0.1 K/s to 18 K/s. It was...
By the method of molecular dynamics, computer simulation of the processes of isobaric cooling of argon particle systems under initial conditions with a temperature of 150 K at pressure values from 0.1 to 4 MPa to a temperature of 40 K with cooling ra...
Disperse dyeing for polyethylene terephthalate (PET) fiber in different non-aqueous solvent dyeing systems have been extensively studied over the past decades. In the present work, disperse dyeing for PET was investigated in a silicone solvent dyeing...
The use of error-correcting codes (ECCs) is essential for designing reliable digital communication systems. Usually, most systems correct errors under cooperative environments. If receivers do not know interleaver parameters, they must first find out...
Titanium dioxide (TiO2) has an extraordinary photocatalytic activity and it effectively provides self-cleaning properties for cotton products. With the presence of succinic acid, it helps the adherence of the TiO2 nanoparticles on cotton surfaces. Ho...
In this study, dilatometry and metallography were used to investigate the effect of silicon and copper alloying on the decomposition kinetics of 54SiCr6 steel during continuous slow cooling. It is different from the published literature for using the...
Though an important and chronic source of dyes released to the environment, the determination of the release of dyes that occurs during household or industrial washing is usually disregarded. The main scope of this study is to reveal the extent of dy...
Although heat-treatable Al-Zn-Mg-Cu alloys are widely used in aerospace industries, distortion and cracks exist due to the residual stress during quenching. Understanding the flow stress behavior and numerically modeling the process is the key to pre...
The primary goal of this study is to prepare chitosan nanoparticles (CSNPs) by the ionic gelation method via the treatment of chitosan (0.2 wt.%) with tripolyphosphate (0.2 wt.%) ultrasonically for 45 min. FT-IR spectroscopy and TEM images were used...
Hydraulic conductivity at and near saturation (Ks and K(h)) are among the most important characteristics defining water behavior in soil. Characterization of possibilities, advantages and limitations of the Mini Disk infiltrometer (MDI) for Ks and K(...
AISI M2 steel was smelted in a 150 kg medium-frequency induction furnace and cast to form round billets with a cross-section diameter of 100 mm via a vertical continuous caster and sand mold. The secondary dendrite arm spacing (λ2), cooling ra...
Recently, the natural dyeing process has achieved great importance in the textile wet processing industry due to its clean dyeing, eco-friendliness, and nontoxicity in nature. In the above research project, a unique natural dye extracted from dragon...
As part of an implementation in the Peruvian textile industry, the use of different sources to obtain blue hues in alpaca fiber has taken on a prominent role. The present study investigated the optimization of the dyeing process of alpaca fibers usin...
The solubility in water and the partition coefficients, K, in soils samples of residues of petroleum of different ages were determined using an organic cosolvent (methanol), and the solvophobic theory was applied for the interpretation of results. Th...
In hospitals, doctors’ and patients’ uniforms, as well as bedding and textiles, can be carriers of superbacteria. This study was conducted to test the anti-superbacterial activity of cotton fabrics dyed with extracts of Chamaecyparis obtu...
Identifying the species abundance distributions (SADs) in Tiankeng forests is crucial for restoring and managing degraded karst ecosystem, whereas previous studies rarely explored the differences and response of vegetation dynamics to environmental v...
Traditional water-based dyeing of polyester textiles usually generates burdensome processes and a great deal of wastewater, which can no longer meet the green and sustainable developments in the textile dyeing industry. In the silicone waterless dyei...
Poly(lactic acid) (PLA) is an aliphatic polyester considered a “green” material due to its natural-based origin and biodegradable properties. This is why PLA fibres may be compared with poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) fibres in an effo...
A novel approach toward the production of multifunctional printed technical textiles is reported. Three different metal oxides nanoparticles including titanium dioxide, magnesium oxide, and zinc oxide were prepared and characterized. Both natural woo...
The paper examines the influence of cotton cationization on the print quality in terms of penetration, colour yield and colour depth, which have been analysed in comparison to cotton untreated and pretreated with conventional acrylate binder. The pro...
In this study, the cationic Poly[Styrene-Butyl acrylate-(P-vinylbenzyl trimethyl ammonium chloride)] P(St-BA-VBT) nanospheres with N+(CH3)3 functional groups were successfully synthesized by soap-free emulsion polymerization and applied to different...
Flood frequency analysis is accepted as one of the most important applications of water resource engineering. Measurements with higher and lower values, such as outliers, can be seen in hydrological data sets based on longer observation periods that...
The aim of this study was to determine the correlation between the size and the distribution of microstructural constituents and their cooling rate, as well as the correlation between the mechanical properties and the cooling rate of AlSi9Cu3 aluminu...
This paper proposes a novel and reliable leak-detection method for pipeline systems based on acoustic emission (AE) signals. The proposed method analyzes signals from two AE sensors installed on the pipeline to detect leaks located between these two...
Cotton fabrics were dyed with the madder and compounds of citric acid (CA) and dicarboxylic acids [tartaric acid (TTA), malic acid (MLA), succinic acid (SUA)] as cross-linking agents and sodium hypophosphite (SHP) as the catalyst. The molecular struc...
The textile industry is seeking alternative coloration methods to comply with the global demands for eco-friendly and non-hazardous dyes, as synthetic colorants are costly and substantially toxic in nature, having deleterious effects on the environme...
This study evaluates GPM-IMERG (Global Precipitation Measurement-Integrated Multi-satellite Retrievals) and CHIRPS (Climate Hazards Group InfraRed Precipitation with Stations) satellite precipitation data in Türkiye’s Akçay Sub-Basi...
A two-dimensional model based on the Cellular Automaton (CA) technique for simulating free dendritic growth in the binary Al + 5 wt.% alloy was presented. In the model, the local increment of the solid fraction was calculated using a methodology that...
Cutaneous squamous cell carcinomas (cSCCs) account for about 20% of keratinocyte carcinomas, the most common cancer in the UK. Therapeutic options for cSCC patients who develop metastasis are limited and a better understanding of the biochemical path...
To overcome the recalcitrance of para-aramid textiles against dyeing, this study demonstrated that increasing the functionalities of soybean oil applied to the surface of para-aramids followed by a nonthermal plasma (NTP) treatment improved the dyein...
A diluted ethanol orange peel extract was used for sustainable dyeing and functionalization of different fabrics. The extract analysis was performed using UPLC-ESI-MS/MS; its total flavonoid (0.67 g RE/100 g d.w.) and antioxidant (2.81 g GAE/100 g d....
Recycling of composite materials is an important global issue due to the wide use of these materials in many industries. Waste management options are being explored. Mechanical recycling is one of the methods that allows obtaining polyester–gla...
Tammann’s two-stage crystal-nuclei-development method is applied for analysis of the thermal stability of homogenously formed crystal nuclei of poly(butylene isophthalate) (PBI) as well as their possible reorganization on transferring them to t...
This study aims at furthering our understanding of the Modified Philip–Dunne Infiltrometer (MPDI), which is used to determine the saturated hydraulic conductivity Ks and the Green–Ampt suction head Ψ at the wetting front. We have deve...
This work aims to conduct an eco-friendly textile finishing process by applying agricultural by-products as a dye for the finishing of polyamide fabrics. A natural dye was obtained from pomegranate peel extract. Polyamide fabrics were dyed at differe...
Various laboratory methods are used for packing sieved soil, thus influencing soil properties. This study tested a simple packing method and determined compaction effects on the dry bulk density, ρb, and saturated hydraulic conductivity, Ks, of t...
Evaluating the lateral saturated hydraulic conductivity, Ks,l, of soil horizons is crucial for understanding and modelling the subsurface flow dynamics in many shallow hill soils. A Ks,l measurement method should be able to catch the effects of soil...
The increase in the resistance of mutant strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae to the antibiotic ceftriaxone is pronounced in the decrease in the second-order acylation rate constant, k2/KS, by penicillin-binding protein 2 (PBP2). These changes can be cau...
Hot-melt extrusion produces a solid dispersion (SD) containing a poorly water-soluble drug (k) and matrix polymer surfactant (PS), thereby enhancing k’s solubility. When dissolving the SD, the PS is first dissolved, forming micelles. The amorph...
Cathepsin K plays a pivotal role in bone resorption and has emerged as a prominent therapeutic target for treating bone-related diseases such as osteoporosis. Despite significant advances in synthetic inhibitor development, none have achieved FDA app...
Multi-label classification as a data mining task has recently attracted increasing interest from researchers. Many current data mining applications address problems with instances that belong to more than one category. These problems require the deve...
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