Tangible variation of sensory characteristics is often observed in wine aged in similar barrels. Barrel-to-barrel variation in barrel-aged wines was investigated in respect of the most important phenolic compounds of oenological interest. A red wine...
The wear of small-caliber barrels is one of the key factors affecting barrel life. Based on the Archard wear model, a high-temperature pin plate wear experiment was carried out, and wear models of chrome-plated layers and gun barrel materials were es...
The time involved and the high economic cost of using oak barrels to age wines have led to a significant price difference compared to non-oak barrel aged wines and may lead to some fraudulent sales in the market. In this study, an untargeted metabolo...
Pork-barrel spending is the use of federal money for localized projects that yield only a narrow geographic benefit. It is a commonly held belief that politicians use this spending to improve their chances of re-election. One way that an incumbent ca...
The results of numerical simulations of transient heat transfer in the barrel wall of a 35 mm caliber cannon for a single shot and the sequences of seven shots and sixty shots for chosen barrel steels are presented. It was assumed that the cannon bar...
Biological nanopores are ultrasensitive and highly attractive platforms for disease diagnostics, including the sequencing of viral and microbial genes and the detection of biomarkers and pathogens. To utilize biological nanopores as diagnostic sensor...
In this paper, thermal diffusivity and heat capacity measurements were performed for three types of barrel steel, 38HMJ (1.8509), 30HN2MFA, and duplex (1.4462). Thermal diffusivity tests as a function of temperature were performed in the range of roo...
The barrel is the core component of the artillery, and its inner coating is the key material to effectively protect the barrel and improve its service lifetime. Due to its good properties, CrN/Cr composite is a potential alternative to the currently...
Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are designed to extract physical randomness from the underlying silicon. This randomness depends on the manufacturing process. It differs for each device. This enables chip-level authentication and key generation...
It is well established that C-glucosidic ellagitannins contribute to wine quality, and new forms of ellagitannins have been found recently in cognac eaux-de-vie. The contribution of some ellagitannin-derived spirit compounds to eaux-de-vie taste has...
Barley wine is one of the most chemically complex and historically significant beer styles, yet its molecular composition remains largely unknown. This study aims to create the first detailed molecular framework for understanding the chemical diversi...
Plastic is an attractive material for the fabrication of tubular optical instruments due to its light weight, high strength, and ease of processing. However, for plastic components fabricated using the injection molding technique, roundness and conce...
This paper focuses on investigating the influence of varying barrel fill levels on the mean residence time, granule properties (median size, size distribution, and shape), and tensile strength of tablets. Specific feed load (SFL) (powder feed rate di...
In the process of long-barrel coring, the improper selection of operating parameters can easily cause blocked deformation, violent vibration of the core, core fracture, and impact crushing, which lead to a reduction in the stability of the core and c...
To address the mismatch between solid conveying efficiency and melting efficiency in grooved barrel single-screw extruders (SSEs), the effects of barrel groove and screw channel structural parameters on the melting start point and melting length were...
Rain barrels can be technically shared through social practices or mutual agreement between individual households. This study proposes the evaluation system for a rain barrel sharing network (RBSN) considering three performance criteria of reliabilit...
Research on failure mechanism is essential for the prolonging of gun barrel lifetime. To explore the gun barrel failure mechanism, the damage characteristics of a machine gun barrel were characterized. The results show that the failure of the gun bar...
To address the issues of insufficient defect samples and low detection accuracy of barrel media, we propose a detection of the surface defects of barrel media based on a PaE-VGG model. The proposed PaE-VGG model is based on a modification of a state-...
Plastic optical components are light in weight, easy to manufacture, and amenable to mass production. However, plastic injection molded parts are liable to shrinkage and warpage as a result of the pressure and temperature variations induced during th...
Barrel tools are increasingly used in high-precision machining of free-form surfaces. However, limited studies evaluate their performance specifically on spherical geometries, where tool–surface contact characteristics differ significantly. Und...
The influence of the addition of oak chips and barrel ageing on basic wine parameters and volatile compounds of Chardonnay wines has been studied. Chardonnay wines were obtained by the traditional wine-making process. Oak chips (4 g/L—non-toasted and...
The freshly distilled wine spirit has a high concentration of ethanol and many volatile compounds, but is devoid of phenolic compounds other than volatile phenols. Therefore, an ageing period in the wooden barrel is required to attain sensory fullnes...
To meet the requirements of low frequency, high power, small size and light weight, a type of Class I barrel-stave flextensional transducer employing improved concave stave is presented. As the key component of flextensional transducer, concave stave...
This study investigated the main microbial groups characterizing the interior surface of oak barrels from different years (1890, 1895, 1920, 1975, 2008) used in the production of vino cotto. The yeasts were characterized for the following properties:...
A comprehensive analysis of phytochemicals, digestive stability, and bioaccessibility was conducted on a golden barrel cactus extract from 3- and 6-year-old plants. Both ages contained lutein and four chlorophyll derivatives (chlorophyll a, b, pheoph...
Selective laser melting (SLM) enables the production of metal complex shapes that are difficult or impossible to obtain with conventional production processes. However, the attainable surface quality is insufficient for most applications; thus, a sec...
Thin-coal-seam shearer mining efficiency is seriously restricted by the poor loading performance of the drum. The loading of the drum to the cracked coal lumps is based on a screw-conveying mechanism, and its loading performance is influenced by many...
The vertical launching barrel-cover device is a symmetry mechanism, so we can simplify this symmetry mechanism into an electro-hydraulic servo problem. The vertical launching barrel-cover of the underwater missile has parameter uncertainty, load time...
This paper presents the design and validation of a novel specialized fixture device for machining inclined planes with barrel cutters on 3-axis CNC machine tools. Barrel milling, also known as Parabolic Performance Cutting (PPC), is extensively used...
This study focuses on a 155 mm 32CrNi3MoV steel barrel and presents a thermochemically coupled phase transformation and diffusion dynamics model. The model leverages the significant disparity between radial and axial temperature gradients to simplify...
Barrel tools are relatively new tools that use atypical geometries to achieve shorter production times and improve surface quality. They have been increasingly used in the finishing operations industry, where they are gaining more and more popularity...
β-barrel proteins are the highly abundant in the outer membranes of Gram-negative bacteria and the mitochondria in eukaryotes. The assembly of β-barrels is mediated by two evolutionary conserved machineries; the β-barrel Assembly Machinery (BAM) in G...
This study investigates the utilization of barrel end-mills in machining titanium alloys for aerospace applications. It involves a comprehensive review of the relevant literature and a preliminary experimental investigation, incorporating the influen...
This study proposes a deflection-based criterion for the assessment of barrel support brackets to ensure the structural stability of large fire shutters installed in large-scale buildings such as logistics facilities. While the current extended appli...
(1) Background: Fungal metabolites such as haloanisoles (especially 2,4,6-tribromoanisole/ 2,4,6-TCA) are contaminants of cork and wood barrels, materials that are widely used in the wine industry. Thus, the accurate and timely detection of these sub...
Background: Endovascular aortic aneurysm repair (EVAR) is a commonly used treatment for abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs), but anatomical complexities limit its application in certain cases. Objective: This study evaluates the mid-term outcomes, refe...
High-power ultrasound (HPU) is an innovative cleaning method used in wineries for oak barrel sanitation and regeneration. The process is associated with hot water (HPUhw) to ensure microbial stabilization and has been proved to be highly effective in...
The outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria contains β-barrel proteins that form high-conducting ion channels providing a path for hydrophilic molecules, including antibiotics. Traditionally, these proteins have been considered to exist only in...
Double-barrel flap, vertical distraction and iliac crest graft are used to reconstruct the vertical height of the fibula. Twenty-four patients with fibula flap were reconstructed comparing these techniques (eight patients in each group) in terms of h...
This study aims to investigate the ability of high power ultrasound (HPU) to ensure oak barrel sterilization and wood structure preservation. Optimization was performed in terms of temperature and time and the impact of the HPU process on the porous...
This paper presents the results of an estimation of the structural and roughness parameters of the outer surface layers of a barrel drill made of cobalt matrix sintered tungsten carbide samples (WC-Co) made by sintering and subjected to finishing by...
With the increased incidence of wine fraud, a fast and reliable method for wine certification has become a necessary prerequisite for the vigorous development of the global wine industry. In this study, a classification strategy based on three-dimens...
The outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria is closely related to the pathogenicity and drug resistance of bacteria. Outer membrane proteins (OMPs) are a class of proteins with important biological functions on the outer membrane. The β-barrel...
Roofs are the building envelope component most exposed to solar radiation in hot–arid climates, and phase change materials (PCMs) are widely used to buffer the resulting heat gain. However, almost all reported PCM-roof studies use flat roofs, l...
Memory traces are believed to be broadly allocated in cerebral cortices and the hippocampus. Mutual synapse innervations among these brain areas are presumably formed in associative memory. In the present study, we have used neuronal tracing by pAAV-...
Additive manufacturing is now capable of delivering high-quality, complex-shaped metallic components. The titanium alloy Ti6Al4V is an example of a printable metal being broadly used for advanced structural applications. A sound characterization of s...
The BAM is a macromolecular machine responsible for the folding and the insertion of integral proteins into the outer membrane of diderm Gram-negative bacteria. In Escherichia coli, it consists of a transmembrane β-barrel subunit, BamA, and four oute...
To explore the sustainable development of grinding fluid in barrel finishing, the idea of water resource reuse in grinding fluid has been proposed. The influence of the graphene oxide (GO) and the sodium dodecyl benzene sulfonate (SDBS) as main compo...
Toxoplasma gondii, a pathogen of significant concern in animal production, companion animal health, and public health, particularly affects immunocompromised individuals and pregnant women. Current diagnostic techniques employ both direct and indirec...
Double-layer barrel vault roofs with double-layer vertical walls are widely used in important public buildings because of their high structural efficiency, favorable stiffness-to-weight ratio, and architectural versatility. Although incremental dynam...
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