Sampling in Coal Handling and Preparation Plants

Sampling is the art of withdrawing a small quantity of material from a large lot in such a manner that the smaller fraction represents proportionally the same spec-ific composition and quality as present in the original entire lot. This is a difficult task and unless due atte-ntion is given to the sampling system white designing a plant it is not possible to achieve satisfactory results in our day to day practice. Attempt has been made in the present article to setforth some practical aspects of sampling and sampling procedure. Readers should use their own discretion and judgement to modify these techniques to suit their particular requirements always keeping in mind that the procedure adopted remained reliable and accurate

A cadaveric model to evaluate the effect of unloading the medial quadriceps on patellar tracking and patellofemoral joint pressure and stability

Background Vastus Medialis Muscles (VMM) damage has been widely identified following patellar dislocation. Rehabilitation programmes have been suggested to strengthen the VMM and reduce clinical symptoms of pain and instability. This controlled laboratory study investigated the hypothesis that reduced Vastus Medialis Obliquus (VMO) and Vastus Medialis Longus (VML) muscle tension would alter patellar tracking, stability and PFJ contact pressures. Methods Nine fresh-frozen dissected cadaveric knees were mounted in a rig with the quadriceps and iliotibial band loaded to 205 N. An optical tracking system measured joint kinematics and pressure sensitive film between the patella and trochlea measured PFJ contact pressures. Measurements were repeated for three conditions: 1. With all quadriceps heads and iliotibial band (ITB) loaded; 2. as 1, but with the VMO muscle unloaded and 3. as 1, but with the VMO and VML unloaded. Measurements were also repeated for the three conditions with a 10 N lateral displacement force applied to the patella. Results Reduction of VMM tension resulted in significant increases in lateral patellar tilt (2.8°) and translation (4 mm), with elevated lateral and reduced medial joint contact pressures from 0.48 to 0.14 MPa, and reduced patellar stability (all p < 0.05). Conclusions These findings provide basic scientific rationale to support the role of quadriceps strengthening to resist patellar lateral maltracking and rebalance the articular contact pressure away from the lateral facet in patients with normal patellofemoral joint anatomy

A rock- and paleomagnetic study of a Holocene lava flow in Central Mexico

Magnetic measurements of the Tres Cruces lava flow (ca. 8500 years BP, Central Mexico) show the presence of two remanence carriers, a Ti-rich titanomagnetite with a Curie temperature between 350 and 400 °C and a Ti-poor magnetite with a Curie temperature close to 580°C. Magnetic changes after heating indicate that the titanomagnetite exsolves into magnetite w and ilmenite when the sample is heated to 580 °C. Paleointensity estimates with the Thellier and Thellier method [Thellier, E., Thellier, O., 1959. Sur l'intensité du champ magnetique terrestre dans le passe historique et geologique. Ann. Geophysique., 15, 285-376] were only successful up to temperatures of 350 to 400 °C. This temperature corresponds with the Curie temperature of the titanomagnetite, which is probably pseudo-single or multi-domain. Therefore, the paleointensities should be interpreted with caution. The magnetic composition changes after 580 °C heating may explain the large w variations in previous paleointensity determinations for the Tres Cruces rocks [Gonzalez, S., Sherwood, G., Bohnel, H., Schnepp, E., 1997. Palaeosecular variation in Central Mexico over the last 30,000 years: the record from lavas. Geophys. J. Int., 130, 201-219] using the [Shaw method Shaw, J., 1974. A new method of determining the magnitude of the palaeomagnetic field: application to five historic lavas and five archaeological samples. Geophys. J. R. Astr. Soc., 39, 133-141]

Hubungan Kuat Geser Pada Tanah Dengan Hasil Percobaan Dynamic Cone Penetrometer Pada Ruas Jalan Wori-likupang Kabupaten Minahasa Utara

Dynamic Cone Penetrometer (DCP) test has been done in Indonesia on the geotechnical and transportation field, to evaluate the properties of flexible pavement or subgrade. Some research that have been done for example, are producing a correlation between CBR and DCP in some types of soil. The use of DCP, a relatively inexpensive, and can be done repeatedly, also have been developed for practical applications, such as generating approximate shear strength in the field (in situ). In this research at 5 points of examination on the road Wori-Likupang North Minahasa regency, the relationship between the shear strength on the field from the use of the DCP with the shear strength from triaxial testing equipment on laboratory is calculated. The result obtained is 4 points almost has the same value, so the use of a DCP for the determination of shear strength field can be used as a road construction planning data

Strong baselines for complex word identification across multiple languages

© 2019 Association for Computational Linguistics Complex Word Identification (CWI) is the task of identifying which words or phrases in a sentence are difficult to understand by a target audience. The latest CWI Shared Task released data for two settings: monolingual (i.e. train and test in the same language) and cross-lingual (i.e. test in a language not seen during training). The best monolingual models relied on language-dependent features, which do not generalise in the cross-lingual setting, while the best cross-lingual model used neural networks with multi-task learning. In this paper, we present monolingual and cross-lingual CWI models that perform as well as (or better than) most models submitted to the latest CWI Shared Task. We show that carefully selected features and simple learning models can achieve state-of-the-art performance, and result in strong baselines for future development in this area. Finally, we discuss how inconsistencies in the annotation of the data can explain some of the results obtained

Analisa Kelelahan Struktur Pada Sambungan Antar Tiang Pancang Akibat Beban Horisontal

Indonesia merupakan salah satu Negara yang memiliki banyak sumber daya alam terutama minyak bumi, hal ini menyebabkan berkembangnya bangunan offshore di Indonesia. Jenis bangunan offshore yang digunakan di Indonesia yaitu jenis jacket platform. Tugas akhir ini bertujuan untuk mendesain jacket, dengan data topside load 1567 ton, tinggi gelombang 4,9987 m, periode gelombang 7 second. Mendesain jacket menggunakan software sap 2000 dimana desainnya berdasarkan peraturan API RP 2A WSD tahun 2002. Untuk analisis fatigue mengunakan tabel peristiwa gelombang (25 tahun). Dimensi tiang pancang yang digunakan sebesar 1,2 m dengan Daya dukung vertikal tiang pancang sebesar 210,835 ton dan Daya dukung horizontal sebesar 253,1879 ton. Dari analisis fatigue di sambungan antar tiang pancang didapat umur bangunan 95,202 tahun sehingga desain jacket aman untuk umur rencana bangunan 40 tahun

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The corrosion inhibition of mild steel by miconazole nitrate, an antifungal drug has been investigated using potentiodynamic polarization, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy technique, and weight loss methods. The experimental results suggested miconazole nitrate is a good corrosion inhibitor for mild steel in 1 M hydrochloric acid medium. The inhibition efficiency increased with increase in inhibitor concentration. The thermodynamic parameters were determined and discussed. The inhibition was assumed to occur via adsorption of the inhibitor molecule on the surface of mild steel following Langmuir adsorption isotherm

Altitude and excess mortality during COVID-19 pandemic in Peru

We have read with interest the short communication published by Segovia-Juarez et al., 2020 in Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology establishing that high altitude reduces the infection rate of COVID-19 but not the case fatality rate in the Peruvian setting. We support this hypothesis, however there could be an important number of under registered deaths on account of a low rate of diagnostic tests performed per inhabitant and mostly in symptomatic patients (Pasquariello and Stranges, 2020).Revisión por pare

Decolorization of Synthetic Textile Dyes by Fungal Endophytes Isolated from the Leaves of Philippine Mangrove (Avicennia marina)

Textile dyes in wastewater can be harmful pollutants when released into the environment without treatment. Biodegradation of textile dye effluents by different microbes, including fungi, has become popular as an alternative to physicochemical methods. The mangrove Avicennia marina is known to harbor endophytic fungi which have the potential to carry out dye degradation. Therefore, this study assessed the ability to decolorize synthetic dyes of endophytic fungi isolated from the leaves of A. marina. Of the nine fungal endophytes, Aspergillus niger, Syncephalastrum racemosum and Penicillium citrinum exhibited the highest mycelial growths in solid media, while all endophytes adsorbed Congo red. Through liquid decolorization assay, four isolates decolorized Congo red at greater than 89% decolorization rates. P. citrinum (55.45%), Mycelia sterilia (85.19%), A. flavus (44.91%) showed the highest decolorization rates of Methylene blue, Malachite green and Rhodamine B, respectively. The ligninolytic enzymes produced by the endophytic fungi, laccase exhibited the highest activity with values higher than the positive control