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Elise Bertheau, Valérie Simon and Christine Delgado Raynaud
Wood-based panels are ubiquitous in our daily lives, both as building materials and as furnishing materials. Numerous studies have revealed that these materials emit volatile organic compounds, such as formaldehyde, into indoor air, which can be harmful ...
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Agnieszka Medynska-Juraszek and Anna Szczepanska
Agricultural soils are considered as ?hot-spots? of plastic particles; however, due to a lack of standardized method of microplastic determination in soils, as well as no legal regulations requiring the monitoring of the soil environment in the context o...
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Edwin Rafael Alvarado-Ramírez, Gilberto Ballesteros-Rodea, Abdelfattah Zeidan Mohamed Salem, José Reyes-Hernández, Camelia Alejandra Herrera-Corredor, Javier Hernández-Meléndez, Andrés Gilberto Limas-Martínez, Daniel López-Aguirre and Marco Antonio Rivas-Jacobo
The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of the genotype on the chemical composition, feeding value and in vitro rumen degradability of fresh and ensiled forage of four native maize varieties (Amarillo, Olotillo, Tampiqueño and Tuxpeño) fro...
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Ashenafi Azage Mitiku, Dries Vandeweyer, Ines Adriaens, Yisehak Kechero, Leen Van Campenhout and Ben Aernouts
Preservation of widely available crop residues as silage could reduce feed shortages in Ethiopia. Four mixtures of banana pseudostem (BPS) and fresh maize stover (FMS) were prepared for fermentation considering the local conditions and available resource...
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Cristina E. Almeida-Naranjo, Elvia Gallegos, Elizabeth Domínguez, Paola Gutiérrez, Vladimir Valle, Alex Darío Aguilar, Alexis Debut and Catalina Vasco
Oil palm empty fruit bunch fibers (OPEFBF), in three size ranges (small: 250?450 µm, medium: 450?600 µm, large: 600?800 µm), were investigated as a filter-bed material in biofilters for the removal of organic matter and nutrients. After saturation, these...
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Tarek M. Galal, Esmat F. Ali, Ebrahem M. Eid, Hatim M. Al-Yasi, Ali Magrashi, Fayez Althobaiti and Emad A. Farahat
This study aimed to evaluate the nutrient content and nutritive value of pruning waste of the Taif Damask rose for its potential use as an organic fertilizer or animal forage in the Taif region, Saudi Arabia. For this purpose, the pruning waste of Taif?s...
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Virginia Mendizabal, Borja Martínez, Luis Mercedes, Ernest Bernat-Maso and Lluis Gil
The reinforcement of concrete structures using FRCM is a rather novelty approach that overcomes some of the drawbacks of organic composites such as carbon fiber CFRP. Moreover, the use of vegetal fabrics has a direct effect on the carbon footprint. Some ...
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Azadeh Hojat, Maddalena Ferrario, Diego Arosio, Marco Brunero, Vladislav Ivov Ivanov, Laura Longoni, Andrea Madaschi, Monica Papini, Greta Tresoldi and Luigi Zanzi
We present the results of laboratory experiments on a down-scaled river levee constructed with clayey material collected from a river embankment where a permanent resistivity instrument has operated since 2015. To create potential seepages through the le...
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Seungwon Kim, Topendra Oli and Cheolwoo Park
Many researchers have studied explosion prevention and fire resistance of high-strength concrete mixed with organic fiber and steel fibers. The fire resistance of high-performance fiber reinforced cement composites is desirable in terms of physical and m...
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Yingmei Xie, Hiroki Kurita, Ryugo Ishigami and Fumio Narita
Epoxy resins are a widely used common polymer due to their excellent mechanical properties. On the other hand, cellulose nanofiber (CNF) is one of the new generation of fibers, and recent test results show that CNF reinforced polymers have high mechanica...
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