Pelletization of torrefied sawdust from a fluidized bed reactor was investigated to quantify the energy consumption and pellet properties, including moisture adsorption, pellet density and Meyer hardness. Energy consumptions in compaction and extrusion for torrefied sawdust were significantly...

To select items from a uni-dimensional scale to create a reduced scale for disease screening, Liu and Jin (2007) developed a non-parametric method based on binary risk classification. When the measure for the risk of a disease is ordinal or quantitative, and possibly subject to random censoring,...

Mental health is likely to be influenced by contextual variables that emerge only at the level of the group. We studied the effect of two such group-level variables, within-state income inequality and alcohol tax policy, on symptoms of current depression and alcohol dependence in a US national...

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