Yoruba Festival and the Dramatist: Satire as Spine in Soyinka’s A Dance of the Forests by Olusegun i Olu-Osayomi

“…The paper explains further that the festival's motif and cultural celebration built into the structure of the selected play and properly harnessed raw material for his poetry. The methodology is analytical and complemented by hermeneutics theory. …”
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Fertilization Induced Soil Microbial Shifts Show Minor Effects on <i>Sapindus mukorossi</i> Yield by Juntao Liu, Zhexiu Yu, Yingyun Gong, Jie Chen, Ling Zhou, Weihua Zhang, Liming Jia

“…In order to investigate the characteristics of soil physicochemical qualities and the bacterial community, we carried out a field experiment comparing various quantities of nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K) fertilizers to the unfertilized control treatments and the yield of <i>Sapindus mukorossi</i> in raw material forests in response to different applications of fertilizers and to try to clarify the interrelation among the three. …”
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Optimization of Cathechin Extraction for Development of Liquid Hand Soap Made From Gambier by Daimon Syukri, Rini Rini, Adhitya Jessica

“… This study has aimed to determine the potential use of catechins derived from gambier as an anti-microbial raw material in the manufacture of hand washing liquid soap. …”
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Investigation of Epoxidized Palm Oils as Green Processing Aids and Activators in Rubber Composites by DongJu Lee, Sung Ho Song

“…EPO in a rubber composite presents feasibility as a renewable raw material that can serve as an alternative to petrochemical oils in various applications.…”
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Physiochemical Characterization of Ethiopian Mined Kaolin Clay through Beneficiation Process by Adane Adugna Ayalew

“…In Ethiopia, the kaolin clay mineral is significant for financial growth as the raw material used in the industry sector. However, slight consideration was given to the chemical, physical, mineralogical, and morphological properties of kaolin. …”
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Defect Repair Efforts in Bone Plate Product Quality Control Using Six Sigma (Case Study: PT ABC) by Farrel Azriel Septrianto, Dwi Sukma Donoriyanto

“…Proposed improvements include improving raw material quality control, operator training, and routine machine maintenance to improve product quality and approach the Sigma level 6 target.   …”
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The Politics of Objects: Eliza Cook’s Biographies of Things by Fabienne Moine

“…Then this article turns to the social lives of things, more precisely of raw material, whose dignity is restored by giving them a voice and by showing that their self-sacrifice ensures the preservation of the community’s identity and promotes social cohesion. …”
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EXPERIMENTAL MANUFACTURE OF THE FOAM GLASS GRAVEL FROM GLASS WASTE AND SILICON CARBIDE ON A 10 kW-MICROWAVE OVEN by LUCIAN PAUNESCU, SORIN MIRCEA AXINTE, FELICIA COSMULESCU

“…The paper originality is the significant increase (about 8 times) of the amount of glass-based raw material foamed by the unconventional heating compared to the previous experiments. …”
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Gari, a Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) Derived Product: Review on Its Quality and Their Determinants by Franklin Ngoualem Kégah, Robert Ndjouenkeu

“…The present review aimed thus at achieving this goal through a review of up to now knowledge on (i) end-users preferences for cassava and Gari in SSA; (ii) the quality (nutritional and microbiological) of Gari found on market stalls; (iii) processing and raw material determinant of this quality; (iv) research and development trials which have been done to improve the nutritional quality of Gari. …”
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Synthesis of activated carbon from peanut shell as dye adsorbents for wastewater treatment by Huifang Wu, Ruoya Chen, Haixia Du, Jia Zhang, Lumeng Shi, Yu Qin, Lingzhi Yue, Junping Wang

“…In this study, the adsorption capacities of peanut shell activated carbon samples prepared using three types of peanut shell as raw material were compared. The effects of activation state, carbonization temperature, carbonization time, adsorption time during decolorization, and dosage on the performance of the peanut shell activated carbon samples were investigated. …”
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Dynamic Evolution of the Zinc-Nickel Battery Industry and Evidence from China by Xiangze Shi, Xiao Li, Zijian He, Hui Jiang

“…The finding show that the reduction of raw material cost is of great help to the development of the zinc-nickel battery industry.…”
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Un service de table en bronze et argent soigneusement rangé dans une cave à Reims/Durocortorum by Michaël Brunet, Fabienne Médard, Magalie Cavé, Stéphane Sindonino

“…Their analysis made it possible to isolate four different types of fabric, based mainly on technical data (fabric orientation, presence of a border or selvedge, for example), as well as on weft decoration and choice of raw material. In the first three fabric categories, the raw material used was a linen of very fine quality. …”
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Study on the Adsorption Effect of Renewable Biochar Based on Energy Gain by Zhanghang Yang, Qixiang Xu, Ruiqin Zhang, Qianming Huang, Mingxin Liu

“…In this paper, straw char at three temperatures of 300°C, 500°C, and 700°C, labeled as RS300, RS500, and RS700, was prepared by low temperature pyrolysis technique using straw as raw material, and the competitive adsorption desorption of Pb2+, Cd2+, Cu2+, and Zn2+ in acidic solution and the mechanism were investigated by static adsorption experiments. …”
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Bhavana, an Ayurvedic Pharmaceutical Method and a Versatile Drug Delivery Platform to Prepare Potentiated Micro-Nano-Sized Drugs: Core Concept and Its Current Relevance by Rohit Sharma, Prashant Bedarkar, Deepak Timalsina, Anand Chaudhary, Pradeep Kumar Prajapati

“…Bhavana is a unique traditional method of transformation of raw material/substances into the drug by levigation or wet grinding of powdered drugs with juice/decoction/solution of plant, animal, or mineral origin. …”
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COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM EFFICIENCY IN SOME COUNTIES FROM ROMANIA AND POLAND by OANA TIRTOACA (IRIMIA), PRZYDATEK GRZEGORZ

“…Two counties mainly difference composition of municipal waste with predominance of biodegradable waste (60 %) in Bacau County and glass waste (35 %) in Nowy Sącz County with raw material properties. Differences were also noticeable in the case of hygiene fees with exceed of average value 20 EUR in Nowy Sącz County. …”
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Changes in Lipase and Antioxidant Enzyme Activities during Processing of Cantonese Sausage with D-Sodium Erythorbate by Xiaolan Shang, Jie Qiao, Zhanxiong Chen

“…Pork was used as raw material to produce Cantonese sausage, with additions of 0.05% or 0.1% D-sodium erythorbate. …”
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Global oil risk price management in Iran and Russia by S. Alikhani

“…Oil is one of the most important sources of income for oil-exporting countries such as the Russian Federation and Iran, as well as the main raw material in the production process in oil-importing countries. …”
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Thermal behavior of calcite as an expansive agent by Shahraki B.K., Mehrabi B., Gholizadeh K., Mohammadinasab M.

“…In this paper, thermal behavior of calcite as raw material of CaO-based expansive agent was investigated. …”
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Wykorzystanie odpadów biodegradowalnych do produkcji biogazu jako alternatywnego źródła energii odnawialnej by Marlena Owczuk, Dorota Wardzińska, Anna Zamojska-Jaroszewicz, Anna Matuszewska

“…One method, which is gaining increased importance around the world, is anaerobic digestion, for which biodegradable waste is a valuable source of raw material (Ryckebosch et al. 2011; Deublein, Steinhauser 2008). …”
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USE OF THE MICROWAVE ENERGY FOR ALUMINUM WASTE FOAMING by LUCIAN PAUNESCU, MARIUS FLORIN DRAGOESCU, SORIN MIRCEA AXINTE, ANA CASANDRA SEBE

“… The paper presents an aluminum foam experimental technique using the microwave energy. The raw material was recycling aluminum waste processed by ecological melting and gas atomizing to obtain the fine powder required in the foaming process. …”
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