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Effect of operating conditions and feedstock composition on the properties of manganese oxide or quartz charcoal pellets for the use in ferroalloy in…

2020

peer-reviewed The full text of this article will not be available until the embargo expires on the 26/12/2021 This study investigates the effect of heat treatment temperature on the properties of charcoal composite pellets used for the reduction of ferroalloys. The heavy fraction of biooil was used as a binder for the charcoal ore pellet preparation. The effect of heat treatment temperature on the pellet shrinkage was related to the degree of reduction which varied with feedstock and ore composition. The results showed that the size and shape of the charcoal pellets were not affected by the biooil devolatilization. Manganese charcoal pellets showed higher electrical resistance during pyroly…

Top-covered unbaffled stirred tanks: experiments and numerical simulations

2015

In this work computational fluid dynamics was employed to predict the flow field of an unbaffled stirred tank from steady to turbulent conditions

Late Breaking Abstract - Validation of a tool for the assessment of disease awareness (DA) in COPD

2017

Background: DA could influence adherence to treatment and outcomes. No validated tools are available to assess DA in COPD Aims: To generate a tool able to explore DA in COPD patients, the Disease Awareness in COPD Questionnaire (DACQ) Methods: A 2-step Delphi approach was used to develop a questionnaire that was tested for validity in a cohort of COPD patients of an Italian observational, multicenter, prospective study (SAT study - NCT02689492) Results: Consensus on a 27-item provisional questionnaire was obtained with 2 Delphi rounds. Factor analysis showed a 4-factor solution accounting for 35% of variance; each factor (disease acceptance, awareness of treatment needs, disease knowledge, …

A characterization of Hajłasz–Sobolev and Triebel–Lizorkin spaces via grand Littlewood–Paley functions

2010

Abstract In this paper, we establish the equivalence between the Hajlasz–Sobolev spaces or classical Triebel–Lizorkin spaces and a class of grand Triebel–Lizorkin spaces on Euclidean spaces and also on metric spaces that are both doubling and reverse doubling. In particular, when p ∈ ( n / ( n + 1 ) , ∞ ) , we give a new characterization of the Hajlasz–Sobolev spaces M ˙ 1 , p ( R n ) via a grand Littlewood–Paley function.

First Report of Tomato torrado virus Infecting Tomato in Italy.

2010

In 2009 and 2010, approximately 2% of plants had disease symptoms, including initial leaflet chlorosis that later developed into necrotic spots and general necroses along the leaflet. Fruit production on affected plants was substantially reduced and necroses were also present. Total RNA was extracted from five symptomatic plant samples using the RNeasy Plant Mini Kit (Qiagen, Hilden, Germany) and analyzed by reverse transcription (RT)-PCR with specific primer pair: TR2F (5′ GAAGGACGAAGAGCGACTG 3′), and TR2R (5′ AAGGTAGGTATGCGTTTGC 3′) (1). The primers amplified a 575-bp fragment within the coat protein Vp23 of Tomato torrado virus (ToTV). No RT-PCR products were observed when water or asym…

Polynomials generated by linear operators

2004

We study the class of Banach algebra-valued n n -homogeneous polynomials generated by the n t h n^{th} powers of linear operators. We compare it with the finite type polynomials. We introduce a topology w E F w_{EF} on E , E, similar to the weak topology, to clarify the features of these polynomials.

Complex Numbers and Polynomials

2016

As mentioned in Chap. 1, for a given set and an operator applied to its elements, if the result of the operation is still an element of the set regardless of the input of the operator, then the set is said closed with respect to that operator.

On the zeros of Jacobi polynomials

1994

Cloning of sponge heat shock proteins: evolutionary relationships between the major kingdoms

2009

In the present study we have cloned from sponges (Porifera) those molecules which are involved in the protection of organisms against physiological and stress conditions; the inducible heat shock protein Mr 70,000, hsp70, from the marine sponge Geodia cydonium, its interacting hsp40, a DnaJ-like protein (from G. cydonium) and the constitutively expressed counterpart the glucose-regulated protein Mr 78,000, GRP78 from Suberites domuncula. Alignments of the sequences revealed that the deduced aa sequences of all sponge hsp's share high homology to other metazoan sequences, and are separated from related sequences from plants and fungi (hsp70, GRP78, DnaJ) as well as Bacteria (DnaK, the hsp70 …

Older adult psychopathology: international comparisons of self-reports, collateral reports, and cross-informant agreement

2020

ABSTRACTObjectives:To conduct international comparisons of self-reports, collateral reports, and cross-informant agreement regarding older adult psychopathology.Participants:We compared self-ratings of problems (e.g. I cry a lot) and personal strengths (e.g. I like to help others) for 10,686 adults aged 60–102 years from 19 societies and collateral ratings for 7,065 of these adults from 12 societies.Measurements:Data were obtained via the Older Adult Self-Report (OASR) and the Older Adult Behavior Checklist (OABCL; Achenbach et al., 2004).Results:Cronbach’s alphas were .76 (OASR) and .80 (OABCL) averaged across societies. Across societies, 27 of the 30 problem items with the highest mean ra…