Sara Rios

TL;DR: African oil palm has the highest productivity amongst cultivated oleaginous crops and could provide a simple practical solution to eliminate global pro-vitamin A deficiency, and the molecular bases of agronomically important traits can be understood at the single base pair resolution, enabling gene-centered breeding and engineering of this remarkable crop.

TL;DR: Alkaline activation of fly ash (FA) was used to improve the mechanical performance of a silty sand, considering this new material as a replacement for soil-cement applications, namely, bases and subbases, for transportation infrastructures.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the compression behavior of artificially cemented soil by the adjusted porosity/cement index using a correlation established in the recent literature, and found that for each value of this index, defined as the ratio of porosity to the volumetric cement content, there was a unique normal compression line (NCL).

TL;DR: In this paper, a silty sand was stabilised with an alkali-activated cements (AAC) synthesised from low calcium fly ash and an alkaline solution made from sodium silicate and sodium hydroxide.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present results of low-to-high-pressure triaxial tests performed on pure and cemented specimens of decomposed granite where the dosage was controlled, chosen as a function of the ratio of porosity to volumetric cement content or adjusted porosity/cement index.