Common konjac flour, especially of low grade, is a waste material produced in large quantities during purification of konjac glucomannan (KGM).It contains impurities, particularly oxalate salts, which irritate and may cause kidney stones.Konjac flour has glucomannan as a main component.Glucomannan is characterized by low crystallinity, high thermos
The text deals with the use of border defense as a means of protection against guerrilla attacks and infiltration, through a combination of principles of modern stationary fortifications and forward area defense.These are discussed on the case study of the Northern Border Security Project of Saudi Arabia.The role caruso milk thistle of attacker tak
Background: The solitary fibrous tumor is a rare soft tissue mesenchymal tumor which typically arises from the pleura but may be found anywhere in the body.Abdominal localizations are very rare.The solitary fibrous tumor is classified into two forms, pleural and extrapleural, and morphologically they resemble each other.The diagnostics of the tumor
The current practice of detailed seismic risk assessment cannot be easily applied to all the bridges in a large transportation networks due to limited resources.This paper presents a new approach for seismic risk assessment of large bridge inventories in a city or national bridge network based on the framework of probabilistic performance based sei