Worldwide, algal biofuel research and development efforts have focused on increasing the competitiveness of algal biofuels by increasing the energy and financial return on investments, reducing water intensity and resource ...

This study contributes to the literature on activity time-use and activity timing analysis by developing a comprehensive, high resolution, out-of-home non-work activity generation model that considers daily activity time-use ...

We present ultraviolet through near-infrared (NIR) broadband photometry, and visual-wavelength and NIR spectroscopy of the Type lax supernova (SN) 2012Z. The data set consists of both early- and late-time observations, ...

This paper develops a conceptual and econometric framework of non-work activity location choice that is comprehensive in its incorporation of spatial cognition, heterogeneity in preference behavior, and spatial interaction. ...

Foamed cement is widely used in the oil and gas industry to provide zonal isolation. Foamed cement provides various advantages vs. pure cement. The primary purpose of foamed cement is to reduce the density of the cement ...

This report focuses on a method for serializing messages in Java which is somewhere between a customized solution and Java’s built-in serialization. Customized serialization will lead to the fastest, most optimized code, ...

Sucker rod pumps has been the most commonly used pumps in the petroleum industry. Therefore, many studies associated with sucker rods focuses on maximizing the rod life. Rod buckling is a leading problem which causes ...

A nonogram is a logic puzzle where one shades certain cells of a 2D grid to reveal a hidden image. One uses the sequences of numbers on the left and the top of the grid to figure out how many and which cells to shade. We ...