The breakdown of plant material fuels soil functioning and biodiversity. Currently, process understanding of global decomposition patterns and the drivers of such patterns are hampered by the lack of coherent large-scale datasets. We buried 36,000 individual litterbags (tea bags) worldwide and found an overall negative correlation between initial m...
Cilj naloge je bil pripraviti kapsulacijski sistem za zaščito bioaktivnih spojin vodnega ekstrakta žafrana v mlečnih izdelkih. Ekstrakt žafrana smo kapsulirali v proste kazeinske micele in kazeinske micele z vezanim polisaharidom alginata oziroma pektina pri različnih razmerjih ekstrakta glede na ogrodni material (5 %, 10 %, 15 %, 20 %) ter posušil...
Published in Frontiers in Environmental Science
Cationic metals such as lead (Pb) and metalloids such as arsenic (As) in contaminated soil can be simultaneously immobilized by iron phosphate because As(V) is stabilized by binding to iron (hydr)oxides and metals precipitate with phosphate. However, phosphate competes with As for sorption sites, which may affect the simultaneous stabilization of P...
Published in Science and Engineering of Composite Materials
Expansive soils pose major geotechnical challenges due to significant volume changes. This research investigates an innovative stabilization approach using sand, expanded polystyrene (EPS) beads, and jute fibres to enhance the properties of expansive soil. The purpose is to utilize the unique characteristics of these admixtures to restrict swelling...
Published in Nano letters
Many virus-like particles (VLPs) have good chemical, thermal, and mechanical stabilities compared to those of other biologics. However, their stability needs to be improved for the commercialization and use in translation of VLP-based materials. We developed an endoskeleton-armored strategy for enhancing VLP stability. Specifically, the VLPs of phy...
Motivacija za nastanek doktorskega dela je nastala ob preizkušanju naprav energetske elektronike z digitalnimi simulacijami. Sodobne aktivne naprave energetske elektronike imajo visokofrekvenčna stikala. Ta upravlja regulacijski algoritem, ki se izvaja na industrijskem računalniku. Preden tako napravo priključimo v omrežje, je treba delovanje celot...
Published in Journal of Physics: Complexity
We revisit the sandpile model and examine the effect of introducing site-dependent thresholds that increase over time based on the generated avalanche size. This is inspired by the simplest means of introducing stability into a self-organized system: the locations of collapse are repaired and reinforced. Statistically, for the case of finite drivin...
V magistrski nalogi je predstavljena raziskava raztopin z različnimi koncentracijami vodikovega peroksida (VP) v ravnotežni zmesi s citronsko kislino (CA) in mineralno kislino kot katalizatorjem z namenom priprave stabilnih formulacij peroksicitronske kisline (PCA) za potencialno komercialno uporabo v dezinfekciji, prehrambni in farmacevtski indust...
Published in Radiochimica Acta
When operating and dismantling a nuclear facility that handles uranium, the surrounding soil may be contaminated, emphasizing the need for appropriate treatment and disposal methods for soil waste. This study assessed high-temperature sintering technology for uranium contaminated soil waste to overcome limitations in existing decontamination method...
In this work, we studied the exponential stability of the nonlinear KdV equation posed in a finite star shaped network. On each branch of the network we define a KdV equation posed on a finite domain (0, ℓ j) or the half-line (0, ∞). We start by proving well-posedness and some regularity results. Then, we state the exponential stability of the line...
