10 articles in this issue
Supanut Kaewumpai
Meshless method choosing Heaviside function as a test function for solving simply supported thin plates under various loads as well as on regular and irregular domains is presented in this paper. The shape functions using regular and irregular nodal arran... see more
Kanyarat Peng-ngummuang, Chanida Palanuvej, Nijsiri Ruangrungsi
Alyxia reinwardtii Blume is used in traditional medicine for a long time. This study was carried out to investigate the standardization parameters by qualitative and quantitative analyses as well as coumarin content of A. reinwardtii inner bark. Loss on d... see more
Panitpicha Yaowakulpattana, Takashi Wakasugi, Shinya Kondo, Kohei Kadono
The effect of alkaline and alkaline-earth metal oxides addition to the ZnO-Al2O3-SiO2 system on the glass formation has been studied and the crystallization behaviour of these glasses was investigated by DTA and XRD. The addition of alkaline metal oxides ... see more
Rungrawee Wattanapornprom, Boonchai Stitmannaithum
Waste glass has potential for use in building materials, for example, as an aggregate replacement, a filler in concrete, or a cement replacement. Finely ground glass powder (particle size of less than 38 µm) can be used as a pozzolan material in concrete ... see more
Warit Ua-amnueychai, Keishi Asada, Katsunori Hanamura
An asymmetric lanthanum doped ceria (LDC) membrane was prepared by sintering process. The membrane consisted of two layers, dense LDC and porous Ni-LDC layers with a total thickness of approximately 850 μm. According to the XRD pattern, sintering process... see more
Oratai Pitayatanakul, Kodai Iijima, Tomofumi Kadoya, Minoru Ashizawa, Tadashi Kawamoto, Hidetoshi Matsumoto, Takehiko Mori
In order to improve the ambipolar performance of indigo-based semiconductors, we have investigated halogen-substituted (1 - 4) and phenyl-substituted (5) indigo derivatives at the 5-position. We show that introduction of iodine atoms, namely 5,5'-diiodoin... see more
Mami Mihara, Equo Kobayashi, Tatsuo Sato
Effect of Ag addition on the age-hardening response and precipitate microstructure of the Al-3.0Mg-1.0Cu (wt%) alloy has been investigated by micro Vickers hardness and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The alloy compositions located in the (a+S+T) ... see more
Worawan Sornkom, Kozo Asano, Teruo Sone
Rice blast disease, caused by Magnaporthe oryzae, is a major rice disease over the world. Recent studies have identified avirulence effectors from the blast fungus that trigger rice immune against the pathogen invasion after specific interaction with resi... see more
Sakhon Ratchahat, Satoshi Kodama, Hidetoshi Sekiguchi, Wiwut Tanthapanichakoon, Khalid Al-Ali, Tawatchai Charinpanitkul, Apinan Soottitantawat, Apiluck Eiad-Ua, Kajornsak Faungnawakij
Mesoporous resorcinol-formaldehyde (RF) xerogels were difficult to obtain by conventional sol-gel polymerization at atmospheric pressure because the resulting tenuous RF-gel structures tended to shrink or collapse during subsequent hot-air drying. To avoi... see more
Natt Leelawat, Anawat Suppasri, Ingrid Charvet, Takayuki Kimura, Daisuke Sugawara, Fumihiko Imamura
A number of buildings were damaged by the 2011 Great East Japan tsunami in the Tohoku area. The research objective is to determine the significant predictor variables of the level of building damage. This paper used detailed data on damaged buildings in K... see more