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Furthermore, leachate corrosion and the removal of some substances contributed to the decrease in penetration resistance after long-term seepage. The strength performance of temporary cover in laboratory short-term seepage and leachate soaking environments might be different from that in a landfill leachate seepage environment. This study improves understanding about the performance of temporary cover materials in landfill.Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is widely used in textile fiber, film, and bottles. PY-60 concentration Although PET bottle recycling has made great progress, other PET waste is still not recycled. Gasification could be an option for recycling or recovering energy and chemicals from PET waste. However, single stream PET steam gasification in fluidized bed is seldom investigated. In this paper, individual PET gasification experiments were then conducted in a lab-scale bubbling fluidized bed to investigate how gasifying agents, temperature, residence time and steam/fuel ratio affect the product composition. The results showed that, in steam gasification, steam was the main source of H2, but increasing the steam to fuel ratio cannot increase the H2 yield remarkably. Temperature was an essential parameter. Increasing temperature from 750 to 800 °C improved the yields of H2 (+87.7%), the dominant gas product CO2 (+40.3%), and biphenyl (+123%) notably. In contrast to other common thermoplastics, high concentrations of CO2 and biphenyl are the prominent characteristics of PET steam gasification. In addition, plastic steam gasification optimizations for syngas applications were discussed.When presented with locally paired dots moving in opposite directions, motion selective neurons in the middle temporal cortex (MT) reduce firing while neurons in V1 are unaffected. This physiological effect is known as motion opponency. The current study used psychophysics to investigate the neural circuit underlying motion opponency. We asked whether opposing motion signals could arrive from different eyes into the receptive field of a binocular neuron while still maintaining motion opponency. We took advantage of prior findings that orientation discrimination of the motion axis (along which paired dots oscillate) is harder when dots move counter-phase than in-phase, an effect associated with motion opponency. We found that such an effect disappeared when paired dots originated from different eyes. This suggests that motion opponency, at some point, involves strictly monocular processing. This does not mean that motion opponency is entirely monocular. Further, we found that the effect of a Glass pattern disappeared under similar viewing conditions, suggesting that Glass pattern perception also involves some strictly monocular processing.Thanatochemistry also known as chemistry of death and is used to determine post mortem interval (PMI). It is arguably one of the critical steps in forensic investigation. Recent addition of analyzing biochemical changes along with the traditional methods have gained importance, as they help us to record very early changes in the tissue specimens. In this view, our study aimed to correlate both histological changes and enzymatic changes in gingival tissue samples at intervals of immediate, 1 h, 5 h, 24 h and 48 h after death. Histologic changes noted were loss of epithelial architecture, chromatin clumping, nuclear vacuolation, karryopyknosis, eosinophilia and wide intercellular junctions. Two enzymes which differentiate between the autolytic phase (acid phosphatase) and putrefactive phase (ammonia) of decomposition were evaluated using UV spectrometer. Results in our study demonstrated there were variations as in gradual increase in ammonia levels (1.13±0.24-26.6±2.09) and gradual decrease in acid phosphatase levels (5.61±0.67-1.25±0.53) at different time intervals till 48 h. The cellular changes in gingival tissue could also be related to time. The result of our study helps us to identify potential of enzymatic changes which when correlated with histological reports helps us to predict the time of death accurately. Replicating this experiment in various known taphonomic conditions and other enzymes could highlight the usefulness of gingival tissue samples in determining time of death.An amino group at side chain of lysine residue can be targeted for protein modification because of the convenience for covalent bond formation. We have achieved an efficient protein modification by utilizing amine-clickable 6π-azaelectrocyclization, termed RIKEN click reaction recently, which enabled direct click labeling of protein without any introduction of specific functional groups such as alkynes and azides. On the basis of the RIKEN click reaction, we established the double click labeling method. The double click methods composed of copper-free strain-promoted [3 + 2] cyclization or tetrazine ligation and RIKEN click reaction were developed. The double click method realized highly effective proteins including radiolabeling of bioactive peptides and anti-tumor antibodies. In this personal review, the development of double click probes, practical radiolabeling of biological active molecules such as cyclic RGDyK peptides, proteins, and antibodies with α-emission or β-emission radionuclides, and their applications for PET imaging and α-emission cancer treatment are summarized.The Intracarotid amobarbital test (IAT), also called Wada test, is considered the "gold standard" for lateralizing language dominance in the pre-surgical evaluation of patients with epilepsy. In addition, it has been further modified to assess the postoperative risk of amnesia in patients undergoing temporal lobectomy. Since then it has been utilized to lateralize language and assess pre-surgical memory function. Over the years, its popularity has declined due to several limitations and availability of alternative procedures like fMRI and MEG. A survey of its use in the pre-surgical evaluation for epilepsy surgery has not been performed since the 2008 international survey by Baxendale et al. and it was heavily skewed due to data from European and North American countries. Only approximately 12% of the epilepsy centers indicated that they used the Wada test in every patient to assess preoperative memory function and language lateralization before temporal lobectomy. Nowadays, we have many functional mapping tools at our disposal.