Baixada de resistencies d’un formigó provocat per les variacions de temperatura durant el seu curat i durabilitat resultant

Cada any durant els mesos d’estiu s’ha observat que molts formigons han patit baixades de resistències molt significatives fins al punt d’haver d’enderrocar l’element estructural afectat. Aquest fenomen que es repeteix periòdicament en els mesos de més calor de l’any va lligat a la variació de temperatures que experimenta el formigó en una de les seves etapes de formació més crítiques: el seu curat. En aquest període és quan reaccionen químicament els components del formigó fresc com a reacció exotèrmica que s’ha de controlar amb el manteniment d’una adequada humitat. La importància d’un bon curat és cabdal per la seva influència decisiva en la resistència i altres qualitats del formigó resultant

Formació i polivalència. La sinèrgia resultant de la interdisciplinarietat entre els docents. Exemple d'un grup ad-hoc a secundària. 'Formación y polivalencia. La sinergia resultante de la interdisciplinariedad entre los docentes. Ejemplo de un grupo ad-hoc en secundaria'.

Documento incluído en el volumen 'Experiències d'innovació educativa. Acció tutorial i formació'. En el crédito variable para la educación secundaria obligatoria 'Análisis demográfico de la localidad con el ordenador como herramienta de trabajo' se han repartido la materia a exponer dos profesores de dos disciplinas (ciencias sociales y tecnología administrativa). Trabajar en grupo con el objetivo de hacer un crédito, mejora la motivación del profesorado. Se explica la temporalización, justificación, objetivos, proceso de trabajo del grupo de profesores. Se sintetizan los resultados de la experiencia y se alude a la aplicabilidad para otros profesores. Se incluye en un anexo un test de evaluación del crédito.

Milling performance of north European hull-less barleys and characterization of resultant millstreams

Four hull-less barley samples were milled on a Buhler MLU 202 laboratory mill and individual and combined milling fractions were characterized. The best milling performance was obtained when the samples were conditioned to 14.3% moisture. Yields were 37-48% for straight-run flour, 47-56% for shorts, and 5-8% for bran. The beta-glucan contents of the straight-run white flours were 1.6-2.1%, of which approximate to49% was water-extractable. The arabinoxylan contents were 1.2-1.5%, of which approximate to17% was water-extractable. Shorts and bran fractions contained more beta-glucan (4.2-5.8% and 3.0-4.7%, respectively) and arabinoxylan (6.1-7.7% and 8.1-11.8%, respectively) than the white flours. For those fractions, beta-glucan extractability was high (58.5 and 52.3%, respectively), whereas arabinoxylan extractability was very low (approximate to6.5 and 2.0%, respectively). The straight-run white flours had low alpha-amylase, beta-glucanase, and endoxylanase activities. The highest alpha-amylase activity was found in the shorts fractions and the highest beta-glucanase and endoxylanase activities were generally found in the bran fractions. Endoxylanase inhibitor activities were low in the white flours and highest in the shorts fractions. High flavanoid, tocopherol, and tocotrienol contents were found in bran and shorts fractions.

Differential resultant formulas for linear od-polynomials.

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Linear Sparse Differential Resultant Formulas

Let P be a system of n linear nonhomogeneous ordinary differential polynomials in a set U of n-1 differential indeterminates. Differential resultant formulas are presented to eliminate the differential indeterminates in U from P. These formulas are determinants of coefficient matrices of appropriate sets of derivatives of the differential polynomials in P, or in a linear perturbation Pe of P. In particular, the formula dfres(P) is the determinant of a matrix M(P) having no zero columns if the system P is ``super essential". As an application, if the system PP is sparse generic, such formulas can be used to compute the differential resultant dres(PP) introduced by Li, Gao and Yuan.

Sparse differential resultant formulas: between the linear and the nonlinear case

A matrix representation of the sparse differential resultant is the basis for efficient computation algorithms, whose study promises a great contribution to the development and applicability of differential elimination techniques. It is shown how sparse linear differential resultant formulas provide bounds for the order of derivation, even in the nonlinear case, and they also provide (in many cases) the bridge with results in the nonlinear algebraic case.

Dietary selectivity for the toxic cyanobacterium Lyngbya majuscula and resultant growth rates in two species of opisthobranch mollusc

Trophodynamics of blooms of the toxic marine cyanobacterium Lyngkya majuscula were investigated to determine dietary specificity in two putative grazers: the opisthobranch molluscs, Stylocheilus striatus and Bursatella leachii. S. striatus is associated with L. majuscula blooms and is known to sequester L. majuscula metabolites. The dietary specificity and toxicodynamics of B. leachii in relation to L. majuscula is less well documented. In this study we found diet history had no significant effect upon dietary selectivity of S. striatus when offered a range of plant species. However, L. majuscula chemotype may alter S. striatus' selectivity for this cyanobacterium. Daily biomass increases between small and large size groups of both species were recorded in no-choice consumption trials using L. majuscula. Both S. striatus and B. leachii preferentially consumed L. majuscula containing lyngbyatoxin-a. Increase in mass over a 10-day period in B. leachii (915%) was significantly greater than S. striatus (150%), yet S. striatus consumed greater quantities of L. majuscula (g day(-1)) and thus had a lower conversion efficiency (0.038) than B. leachii (0.081) based on sea hare weight per gram of L. majuscula consumed day(-1). Our findings suggest that growth rates and conversion efficiencies may be influenced by sea hare maximum growth potential, acquisition of secondary metabolites or diet type. (C) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.