This study involves the analysis of the residential segregation patterns in Jakarta, Indonesia, one of the largest global metropolitan cities. Our objective is to determine whether similarities in religion or socioeconomic status are more dominant in...
Segregated flow, including stratified and annular flows, is commonly encountered in several practical applications such as chemical, nuclear, refrigeration, and oil and gas industries. Accurate prediction of liquid holdup and the pressure gradient is...
Grain boundary (GB) segregation is an important phenomenon that affects many physical properties, as well as microstructure of polycrystals. The segregation of solute atoms on GBs and its effect on GB structure in Al were investigated using two appro...
Many applications require new materials that have good thermal conductivity, are electrical insulators and can be processed easily and with relatively little energy. A new innovative solution for this problem is thermally conductive composites, which...
This work presents an integrated multiphase flow model for downhole pressure predictions with the purpose of producing relatively more accurate predictions under wide-flowing conditions while maintaining a simple form. As a component of the integrate...
Central carbon segregation is a typical internal defect of continuous cast steel billets. Real-time and accurate carbon segregation prediction is of great significance for lean control of the production quality in continuous casting processes. In thi...
Segregation of household waste is an important means of achieving resource recovery, minimization and harmlessness of waste, which is of great significance in addressing the dilemma of the “rubbish siege”. However, at present, urban commu...
The properties of the segregated flow model (SFM), which considers split intestinal flow patterns perfusing an active enterocyte region that houses enzymes and transporters (<20% of the total intestinal blood flow) and an inactive serosal region (...
We harnessed the analytical power of geospatial analysis and modeling techniques, pioneering a novel approach to studying the spatial distribution of households with at least one senior aged 65 or over, known as senior households (SHHs). We developed...
Shear induced diffusion (SID) based flow segregation is a technique that can be used for concentration and fractionation purposes, and it has the potential to become an economical and sustainable alternative for e.g., membrane separation. When compar...
The characteristics of Au partitioning in a multiphase, multicomponent hydrothermal system at 450 °C and 1 kbar pressure were obtained using experimental and computational physicochemical modelling and laser ablation inductively coupled plasma ma...
We modelled with Density Functional Theory (DFT) an Al-Cu alloy covered with a passive film, with several Cu concentrations (from the limit of the isolated atom to the monolayer) at the interface with the oxide, as well as Guinier-Preston 1 (GP1) zon...
Urban segregation is an inherent feature of cities and becomes a problem when excluding or hindering certain groups from accessing services, activities and spaces. In Brazil, segregation by social class is dominant in the structure of cities and publ...
Robots are essential for carrying out tasks, for example, in a nuclear industry, where direct human involvement is limited. However, present-day nuclear robots are not versatile due to limited autonomy and higher costs. This research presents a merel...
On the basis of the Brody–Flemings model and modified Voller–Beckermann model, an analytical model of micro-segregation is established by considering the actual solidification cooling conditions of bloom. According to the developed model, the interde...
Grain boundary solute segregation is becoming increasingly common as a means of stabilizing nanocrystalline alloys. Thermodynamic models for grain boundary segregation have recently revealed the need for spectral information, i.e., the full distribut...
A key issue in understanding and effectively managing hydrogen embrittlement in complex alloys is identifying and exploiting the critical role of the various defects involved. A chemo-mechanical model for hydrogen diffusion is developed taking into a...
Electromagnetic stirring (M-EMS) has been extensively applied in continuous casting production to reduce the quality defects of casting billets. To investigate the effect of continuous casting electromagnetic stirring on billet segregation, a 3D mult...
Foam-assisted gas injection exhibits promising potential for enhancing sweep efficiency through the amelioration of gravity segregation, particularly within reservoirs characterized by heterogeneity. In this work, the implicit-texture (IT) model feat...
The cost segregation study is a tax planning strategy employed to optimize cash flow by redefining real estate assets as personal property and land improvement, enabling accelerated tax depreciation. However, conventional cost segregation practices s...
Both sorting on public goods and tastes for segregation contribute to the persistence of segregation in America. Incorporating Schelling’s (1969, 1971) concept of “neighborhood tipping” into a two-stage equilibrium sorting model, in which both neighb...
As an advanced near-net-shape processing method in which directly preformed, semi-finished products are created from liquid metals, spray forming has become popular in the development and application of new materials and is supporting industrializati...
The distribution of dopants and impurities in silicon grown with the floating zone method determines the electrical resistivity and other important properties of the crystals. A crucial process that defines the transport of these species is the segre...
In the present paper, the formation of columnar and layered structure during co-deposition of binary thin films is analyzed by kinetic modeling. The kinetic model is based on phase field theory and involves the main processes taking place during bina...
In many gold–antimony deposits throughout the world, the sequence of Au and Sb precipitation varies significantly. In high-temperature systems such as hydrothermal Au deposits, gold typically precipitates prior to antimony, whereas in lower-tem...
The prediction of motor learning in Parkinson’s disease (PD) is vastly understudied. Here, we investigated which clinical and neural factors predict better long-term gains after an intensive 6-week motor learning program to ameliorate micrograp...
In this paper, we investigate whether gender employment rate responses to upward and downward fluctuations in the business cycle are symmetric and whether these responses differ depending on gender employment segregation in sectors and on different t...
Phosphorus atoms in steels accumulate at grain boundaries via thermal and irradiation effects and induce grain boundary embrittlement, which is experimentally confirmed by an increase in the ductile-brittle transition temperature. Quantitative predic...
The economic evaluation of mastitis control is challenging. The objective of this study was to perform the economic evaluation of mastitis control, under different intervention scenarios, quantifying the total cost of mastitis caused by S. aureus in...
Rapid population growth, urbanization, and diverse production materials have led to a surge in municipal solid waste (MSW), harming the environment, climate, and sanitation. Despite China’s efforts to implement MSW segregation policies, results...
The paper investigates the behavior of bismuth and sulfur in modern free-cutting steels. It is shown that today there are no mutually consistent thermodynamic data for calculating the solubility of bismuth in a multi-component steel system. Based on...
Prokaryotes do not make use of a nucleus membrane to segregate their genetic material from the cytoplasm, so that their nucleoid is potentially free to explore the whole volume of the cell. Nonetheless, high resolution images of bacteria with very co...
We develop an agent-based model on a lattice to investigate territorial development motivated by markings such as graffiti, generalizing a previously-published model to account for K groups instead of two groups. We then analyze this model and presen...
Previous studies have shown that an accurate prediction of frost heaves largely depends on the pore water pressure and hydraulic conductivity of frozen fringes, which are difficult to determine. The segregation potential model can avoid this problem;...
An optimization model for the fuel distribution of the material layer with mechanism models and algorithms is presented, which can reduce the fuel ratio of ore blending and enhance the fuel content in the upper layer to improve the homogeneity of the...
This work describes an innovative three-dimensional model of a proton exchange membrane electrolyzer. For the first time, a multi-phase model has captured segregated channel flow together with multiphase flow in a porous medium, as well as heat trans...
Controlling the formation of MnS inclusions during solidification influences the mechanical properties and machinability of the resulfurized steel. A coupled segregation–nucleation–growth model was developed by the finite-difference metho...
Axial segregation of polydisperse granular mixtures in rotating drums have been observed in several experimental and discrete particle simulation studies reported in the literature. A common thread to both experimental and numerical studies is the fo...
A better understanding of cultivation of microorganisms in mixed culture is needed to identify the relationships between different bacterial strains. Lactobacillus acidophilus (ATCC 4796) Gram-positive bacteria and Escherichia coli (K12-MG1655) Gram-...
T cells are sensitive to 1 to 10 foreign-peptide-MHC complexes among a vast majority of self-peptide-MHC complexes, and discriminate selectively between peptide-MHC complexes that differ not much in their binding affinity to T-cell receptors (TCRs)....
A theoretical two-dimensional (2D) model is proposed that describes the effect of grain boundary (GB) segregations on the fracture toughness of nanocrystalline or ultrafine-grained alloys. It is shown that GB segregations can lead to crack curvature,...
The white-lipped deer (Cervus albirostris) is a rare and endangered species found in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in China. To understand the space occupancy, activity rhythm, and sexual segregation of the white-lipped deer, 24,096 effective photos and...
The formation of Zn and Mg segregations at a tilt Σ5{013} <100> grain boundary (GB) in Al and the effects of these solutes on deformation behavior of polycrystalline Al were investigated using ab initio total energy calculations. Using a step-b...
Human Adipose Tissue Stem Cells (hASCs) are a valuable source of cells for clinical applications (e.g., treatment of acute myocardial infarction and inflammatory diseases), especially in the field of regenerative medicine. However, for autologous (pa...
Microscopic phase-field chemomechanics (MPFCM) is employed in the current work to model solute segregation, dislocation-solute interaction, spinodal decomposition, and precipitate formation, at straight dislocations and configurations of these in a m...
Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) in fractured reservoirs presents significant challenges due to fluid channeling and poor sweep efficiency. In this study, a synergistic EOR system was developed with polymer-based weak gel as the primary component and foam...
The aim of this study was to obtain a predictive model able to perform an early detection of central segregation severity in continuous cast steel slabs. Segregation in steel cast products is an internal defect that can be very harmful when slabs are...
Human adipose tissue-derived stromal/stem cells (hASCs) are a valuable source of cells for clinical applications, especially in the field of regenerative medicine. Therefore, it comes as no surprise that the interest in hASCs has greatly increased ov...
In this work, the piezoresistive effect for a polymer nanocomposite with a highly segregated distribution of conductive filler was investigated. As a base polymer for the investigated nanocomposites, ultrahigh-molecular-weight polyethylene, processed...
This paper presents the detailed comparisons of solute macro-segregation pictures predicted by different meso-macroscopic simulations, based on the single-domain enthalpy–porosity approach coupled with distinct models of flow resistance in the...
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