Adsorption by Powders and Porous Solids Principles‚ Methodology and Applications Frangoise Rwqu~ra& Rouquerol and ’lean Hennet%Sing Centre de Therrnodynamique et de Microcalorimktrie du CNRS and Universite ’ de Provence‚ 26 rue du l4lLme RIA 13003 Marseille France ACADEMIC PRESS San Diego London Boston New York Sydney Tokyo Toronto This book is printed on acid-free paper. Copyright Q 1999 by Academic Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted
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epidemic of cocaine use by adolescents and young adults from all socioeconomic backgrounds. Epidemiologic data suggest that cocaine use is a serious public health problem because it is highly addictive and is associated with a variety of neurological complications. Cocaine‚ a natural alkaloid‚ is extracted from leaves of an Andean shrub‚ Erythroxylon coca. Coca leaves were used by the native populations to alleviate the rigors of high altitude and to diminish fatigue. Although cocaine was extracted
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Most cocaine is grown and processed in South America‚ particularly in Colombia‚ Bolivia‚ Peru‚ and smuggled into the United States and Europe‚ the United States being the world’s largest consumer of cocaine‚ where it is sold at huge markups; usually in the US at $80–$120 for 1 gram‚ and $250–300 for 3.5 grams. Crack cocaine is the most popularly used version of cocaine today. Smoking cocaine rocks began in the late 1970’s. Rocking-up cocaine powder and smoking it was originally the method developed
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Purity is expressed as the pristine and natural state of the soul while impurity is the concealing of the natural state of the soul by corruption. Hinduism is developed from principal scriptures and rules and from this comes the understanding of the values and attitudes of this religion. Hinduism places an importance of purity in the religion that is essential to everyday life. The idea of purity exists physically‚ mentally‚ spiritually‚ and emotionally in the Hindu religion and through influential
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and grinding machines‚ such as micro powder grinding mills‚ ultrafine mills‚ stone grinder mills‚ China‚ is a large professional manufacturer with import & export rights specializing in research‚ manufacture and sales of crushing machinery‚ mining equipment‚ and grinding machines‚ such as micro powder grinding mills‚ ultrafine mills‚ stone grinder mills‚ HGM series powder grinder mill is the new type mining equipment for making micro powders‚ fine powders‚which is widely applied in the industries
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Powder metallurgy is the process of blending fine powdered materials‚ pressing them into a desired shape or form (compacting)‚ and then heating the compressed material in a controlled atmosphere to bond the material (sintering). The powder metallurgy process generally consists of four basic steps: (1) powder manufacture‚ (2) powder blending‚(3) compacting‚ (4) sintering. Compacting is generally performed at room temperature‚ and the elevated-temperature process of sintering is usually conducted at
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Chapter I History Expert Testimony DNA Forensics At every crime scene there always some evidence left behind. Forensic Science is application of science to the law‚ everything from finger prints blood‚ hair to all in DNA analysis is used. It is the basic root to solving crimes. Forensic science involves many factors relating to the human body and has the most accurate type of convincing when it comes down in the court room. This in return gives forensics specialists to utilize different hypothesis
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MAYBELLINE CLEAR SMOOTH FACE POWDER Background Story Months after the successful launching of Maybelline Clear Smooth Face Powder‚ Rose B. Librieza‚ Coordinator of Marketing Operations‚ found herself reading survey results handed to her by one of her staff. As of three weeks ago‚ there is still no substantial data that will tell whether the Clear Smooth Face Powder is now the product leader in terms of its category in the market so she had a survey done to evaluate product performance. The report
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Despite Columbia’s growth as a primary cocaine producer and distributer‚ it was surpassed by Peru in 2015. There are an estimated 120‚000 hectares of coca crop in Peru‚ most of which are concentrated in the Huallaga Valley‚ representing a possible production of no less than 290 to 340 tons of cocaine product annually. The sheer magnitude of Peruvian coca production has been steadily increased from the mid-1970’s to the 1990’s. In 1975‚ Peru had an estimated 45‚000 hectares of coca crops – this figure
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NO. 6‚ JUNE 2013 Spatial Approximate String Search Feifei Li‚ Member‚ IEEE‚ Bin Yao‚ Mingwang Tang‚ and Marios Hadjieleftheriou Abstract—This work deals with the approximate string search in large spatial databases. Specifically‚ we investigate range queries augmented with a string similarity search predicate in both euclidean space and road networks. We dub this query the spatial approximate string (SAS) query. In euclidean space‚ we propose an approximate solution‚ the MHR-tree‚ which
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