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Cedar wooden-shingle boards, a traditional Japanese roofing material, are handmade by craftsmen using traditional techniques. Product selection is left primarily to the roofers, whose selection criteria are visual and no...

Combining densification with torrefaction can substantially improve fuel properties, including energy content, grindability, and hydrophobicity, enabling torrefied pellets to replace coal in pulverized fuel boilers. This...

Abstract This study evaluates the effectiveness of Competence-Based Training in fostering conceptual understanding, skill acquisition, and market opportunities for trainees at Nyamirama Technical Secondary School, Rwanda...

Laterite soil is essential in the construction industry, especially in road and building construction. The practice of abandoning borrow pits after mining laterite soil in the Northern Region of Ghana has resulted in lan...

We used dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA) to evaluate soy flour adhesives made with and without a conventional crosslinking agent, polyamideamine-epichlorohydrin (PAE). Fixed-frequency and constant strain rate studies re...

Objective Children and young people (CYP) presenting in mental health crisis to acute paediatric settings represent a growing clinical and system-level challenge. These environments, primarily designed for physical healt...

The contribution of fungi to the degradation of plant litter and transformation of dissolved organic matter (humic substances, in particular) in freshwater ecosystems has received increasing attention recently. However, ...

Solvent evaporation, a ubiquitous yet often limiting step in chemical synthesis, routinely creates critical bottlenecks in research workflows. We introduce a novel benchtop solvent evaporation platform engineered to dram...

Bioethanol is one of the most important renewable fuels and it is classified into four different generations (G) based on the feedstocks used for their production: edible food crops such as rice, corn, sugarcane, wheat, ...

"The thermochemical decomposition of beech wood biomass results in a poor quality bio-oil, which cannot be directly used in diesel engines. In order to make this oil resemble liquid fossil fuels, an upgrading technique s...