Secondary treatmentSecondary treatment (mostly biological wastewater treatment) is the removal of biodegradable organic matter (in solution or suspension) from sewage or similar kinds of wastewater. The aim is to achieve a certain degree of effluent quality in a sewage treatment plant suitable for the intended disposal or reuse option. A "primary treatment" step often precedes secondary treatment, whereby physical phase separation is used to remove settleable solids.
Quasi-experimentA quasi-experiment is an empirical interventional study used to estimate the causal impact of an intervention on target population without random assignment. Quasi-experimental research shares similarities with the traditional experimental design or randomized controlled trial, but it specifically lacks the element of random assignment to treatment or control. Instead, quasi-experimental designs typically allow the researcher to control the assignment to the treatment condition, but using some criterion other than random assignment (e.
Dodécaèdre rhombiqueEn géométrie, le dodécaèdre rhombique (aussi appelé granatoèdre) est un polyèdre convexe à 12 faces rhombiques identiques. Solide de Catalan, zonoèdre, il est le dual du cuboctaèdre. Pour le différencier du dodécaèdre de Bilinski, autre dodécaèdre rhombique à 12 faces identiques, on précise parfois dodécaèdre rhombique de première espèce. La grande diagonale de chaque face vaut exactement √2 fois la longueur de la petite diagonale, ainsi, les angles aigus de chaque face mesurent 2 tan(1/√2), ou approximativement 70,53°.
Folding (chemistry)In chemistry, folding is the process by which a molecule assumes its shape or conformation. The process can also be described as intramolecular self-assembly, a type of molecular self-assembly, where the molecule is directed to form a specific shape through noncovalent interactions, such as hydrogen bonding, metal coordination, hydrophobic forces, van der Waals forces, pi-pi interactions, and/or electrostatic effects.
