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Medium-temperature thermal recycling of magnesium oxychloride cement at 400–700 °C: Rehydration, microstructure and mechanical performance
Magnesium oxychloride (MOC) cement is gaining renewed attention as a low-carbon construction material. However, conventional MgO production is constrained by the geographically limited availability of MgCO3 and its energy-intensive calcination at temperatures up to 1000 °C. Thermal recycling of waste MOC has so far been demonstrated in the 600–1000 °C range, leaving the lower temperature limits underexplored.
VIB ra mắt PayFlex phát triển trên công nghệ VFC dành cho chủ thẻ Visa
Ngân hàng Quốc Tế (VIB) chính thức ra mắt VIB PayFlex, một tính năng tài chính đột phá được phát triển trên nền tảng công nghệ Visa Flexible Credential (VFC). VIB là một trong những ngân hàng đầu tiên tại Việt Nam triển khai công nghệ này, cho phép chủ thẻ VIB Visa sử dụng duy nhất một thẻ để thanh toán linh hoạt từ hai nguồn tiền: tài khoản tín dụng và tài khoản thanh toán (ghi nợ) nhằm kiểm soát tài chính thông minh và tối ưu ưu đãi.
'Phụ nữ không cần đặt gia đình lên trên sự nghiệp'
Đàn ông hay phụ nữ cũng đều nên tập trung phát triển sự nghiệp của mình thay vì phải hy sinh để ở nhà làm nội trợ. "Phụ nữ có nên lui về làm nội trợ?", nhiều độc giả VnExpress cho rằng không có lý do gì để người phụ nữ hiện đại phải hy sinh sự nghiệp để lo hết việc gia đình: Tôi không thích làm việc nhà, có thể nói là rất ghét, vì thế nên tôi tập trung kiếm tiền để thuê người có chuyên môn về khoản này để làm việc nhà cho mình, đó là người giúp việc.
Beautiful bulldogs took the stage
By PHONG LY The 40th Beautiful Bulldog Contest, which took place in the Knapp Center last Monday, kicked off Relays week crowning the new Drake Relays mascot: Beau. He was crowned in front of 3,000 spectators. It was up to the judges to decide how each Bulldog best represents these nine awards and both the judging time and the pageant is what they use to judge these categories. This is a show that most Drake students are excited for.
Accommodating different dietary needs
By PHONG LY Next semester, Jessica Ehm, a rising junior, will be moving off campus and away from the meal plan at Drake. Ehm said she is looking forward to having a full kitchen and being able to prepare the food her body can actually digest. “I have a stomach disease where my body doesn’t absorb nutrients how it’s supposed to, so I can’t have anything that’s harsh for my stomach,” Ehm said.
Earth Jam brings attention to environmental concerns
By PHONG LY Drake students gathered around the Olmsted pit to celebrate the end of Earth Week, organized by Drake Environmental Action League, with the annual music celebration Earth Jam. Artists were brought in to sing about the ocean and the earth in a “different and new style with their set” according to sophomore Sonita Van Der Leeuw. “Although the audiences faded as the evening went on, the artists were still able to captivate everyone who was in attendance,” Van Der Leeuw said.
4 Things World Class Content Marketers Do Every Time They Create Content
Content is by far the most valuable asset businesses can use, to not only engage and inform customers, but to increase traffic to their website and dramatically improve search rankings. If you have ever wondered why world class content marketers place so much effort into content marketing, it is because they find it a critical part of the marketing mix to help a brand be found among the 170 million-plus websites around the world.
Drake students celebrate the Lunar New Year
By PHONG LY Lunar New Year (also known as Chinese New Year) is right around the corner. People around the world are getting in gear to celebrate. Here at Drake, the Asian community is also getting ready to celebrate it in their own way. Sophomore Angela Dinh said her family often goes to their local church and celebrates with friends and family. “A group of people from the Vietnamese church usually sets it up,” Dinh said.
Off-Campus Housing Options
By PHONG LY College is likely the first time most students will be away from their family. Getting a place to stay is many students’ first thing to do. With so many options both on campus and off campus, the journey to finding a place can be overwhelming. Here at Drake, students are required to stay on campus if they have only been out of high school for less than two years. With this, most students don’t have to deal with housing their first two years at Drake.
Caffeine Conversations
By PHONG LY This past semester has witnessed the tension between members of Drake University and the Drake community as a result of the hate notes that were written on campus, along with the robberies that happened around Drake Neighborhood. Different people took different stands on the issue, which generated a lot of heated debates across campus.
Snow Safety Tips
By PHONG LY Winter weather has come in full effect, as heavy snowfall resulted in personnel casualties across the Midwest. According to WGN-9 of Chicago, the recent winter storm left at least seven dead when it hit Central U.S last week. The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported at least four people have died and scores of motorists were injured and stranded.
A show by D+, Brocal Chords and Fermata
By, PHONG LY Three student-run performance groups here at Drake just joined forces and put up a show at Pomerantz stage last Thursday. The show featured a different number of comedy routines and acapella musical performances from the two acapella groups on campus, the all-boys group Brocal Chords and Fermata the Blue. Senior Taylor Wahlberg, a member of D+ Improv, was happy with the turn out. “It was a good crowd,” Wahlberg said. “We filled all the seats in the house so that was pretty cool.
Trivia Night at Papa Keno’s
By PHONG LY The newest restaurant in the Drake University neighborhood, Papa Keno’s, held it’s very first trivia night on Wednesday, Nov. 14th. Now, on certain nights, patrons can come with a group of friends to enjoy pizza, drinks, trivia or some combination thereof. According to co-owner Alec Davis, having a trivia night is not common amongst all Papa Kenos’. Davis said that he thinks there’s at least one other location that also does it for its customers.
Help SAB choose an artist for the Relays concert
Relays can be an exciting time for Drake students. The track and field events attracted nearly 40,000 fans over four days of action to Des Moines and Drake last year, according to Drake Athletic Department. Besides the main events which are the actual competitions, the annual Drake Relays is also known for the concert with well-known artists brought to Drake by the Student Activities Board (SAB).
Celebrating 150 years since the landmark victory in Clark v. Board of Directors case
Drake University planned a celebration in honor of the 150th anniversary of the Iowa Supreme Court landmark case Clark v. Board of Directors last week from Sept. 25-28. The celebration began with the Cole Hall Rededication, which took place in Kern Commons, Cartwright Hall, featuring the presentation of a governor’s proclamation read by Iowa State Senator Jack Whitver in honor of the case’s anniversary. There was also the unveiling of artwork designed for the celebration.
New Additions for a Fresh New Academic Year
Drake’s campus this year has been subject to new changes, from the new sand volleyball court to the two new hammock lounges. Jose Garcia-Fuerte, Student Body President, stated that these changes derived from the need that he saw from Drake students. The newly elected student body president indicated that he saw the need for rental cars right away when he officially came into the office, so he helped push it forward.
Library Renovations
Most Drake students coming back from the summer were not disappointed to return to the the newly renovated Cowles Library. Sophomore Sarah Ball said she liked what they did to the library. “I didn’t go to the library a lot last year,” Ball said.
Former Drake President Wilbur C. Miller dies at 94
Drake University’s ninth president, Wilbur C. Miller, passed away on April 29. He was 94 years old. Miller was Drake’s president for 13 years, from 1972 to 1985, and made a big impact on Drake’s academic environment and also in his role as a member of the Drake community. Many of campus’s most recognizable landmarks, including The Harmon Fine Arts Center, Olmsted Center, Olin Hall of Biological Science, Cartwright Hall, the Bell Center and Aliber Hall, were all constructed under his leadership.
Millennial v. Gen Z
With the last of the previous generation, the millennials, entering the workforce, it is Generation Z’s turn to enter the workplace. According to the Pew Research Center, millennials were born between 1981 and 1996. Individuals born after 1996 are considered part of Generation Z (Gen Z). According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Gen Z makes up 25 percent of the population of the country. Millennials are now at 83.1 million people and represent more than one quarter of the nation’s population.
Iowa Senate approves “fetal heartbeat” legislation, sends bill to Iowa House
The Iowa Senate approved legislation on Feb. 28 that would prevent physicians from performing abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected. The measure was approved 30-20 and then headed to the House of Representatives, where it faces an uncertain future. On March 15, there was a hearing centered on the proposed bill at the Iowa Capitol. The hearing came at the request of Democrats on the House Human Resources Committee. The committee voted 12-9 for the “fetal heartbeat” amendment.
Beautiful, English and Sassy
The Beautiful Bulldog Contest is less than a month away, and this year’s contest at Drake University promises to be one of the fiercest competitions in history. More than 135 English bulldogs from 18 states are registered to compete in Drake’s world-famous Beautiful Bulldog Contest. From this record-breaking pool of precious pooches, only 40 were selected to compete in the 39th annual contest.
Coughing up a storm: when are you contagious?
Flu is still rampant across the United States, but the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that the epidemic has peaked. It eased a bit in the last weekend of February, for the second week in a row. The CDC reported 17 flu deaths among children that week, bringing the total number of pediatric deaths to 114. World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that annual flu seasons result in about 3 to 5 million cases of severe illness globally and 290,000 to 650,000 deaths.
8 Ways to Up Your Social Media Content Game
In today’s times, you can no longer limit strengthening your relationship with your audience to just talking to them about your brand, products and services. You need to create interesting and relevant content for them and, when you up your social media content marketing game, you can also add in curated items. That being said, content curation is more than just about sharing random content you like. To really make it work for you, you’ll have to put in extra effort.
Drake students deal with flu season
Flu season is wreaking havoc across the United States. Since last October, there have been over 18,068 laboratory-confirmed cases of Influenza A reported, and the disease has claimed the lives of 53 infants and children, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). The CDC has rated this year’s flu as “widespread” in 49 states, the most prevalent the virus has been in that many states at once in the past ten years.
Palestinian, American student discourse yields podcast series
Genesis Buckhalton, a first-year at Drake University, was supposed to have a six-week winter break like all the other first-years at Drake. Instead, she chose to be a part of a two-week long federally funded program with seven other American students and eight Palestinian students. Buckhalton said she first heard about this opportunity from an event she attended with her crew mentor. She was sitting right next to Darcie Vandegrift, who led the January workshop at Drake.
Advertising professor receives special opportunity during Super Bowl
Dorothy Pisarski, Drake associate professor of advertising, was selected to work with the Minnesota Super Bowl Host Committee and serve as a Skyway Host as part of Crew 52 during the Super Bowl. Professor Pisarski was in charge of providing information and suggestions to Minneapolis visitors who needed assistance navigating the Skyway system or general tourism information.
Art history students curate Drake architecture exhibit
An exhibition at Drake University’s Anderson Gallery will be showcasing the work of three pioneering minds in modernist architecture in the state of Iowa. The exhibition “Mies | Weese at Drake: Where We Live and Work” features previously unseen work by the renowned architects Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Harry Weese and Ben Weese, who collectively designed six buildings on Drake’s campus. The exhibition kicked off with an opening last Thursday.
Behind the counters: a look at the humans of Sodexo
If you’ve been at Drake for more than a few weeks, you have likely heard of Keith, quite literally. Keith is the kind of person that greets you out loud even if you are all the way across the room, and your introverted self would face the predicament of whether you should risk catching people’s attention to greet him back. But that’s one of the reasons why Bulldogs love Keith so much, and also because he is a member of the team in charge of the food Drake students need every day.
Printing problems frustrate students after fall break
College is full of surprises, whether it is a surprise exam right after a long break or a paper you didn’t know about that’s due the very next day. Drake students received a surprise coming back from fall break: the printers were not working. Tate Johnson, an environmental science major, said he noticed the issue on Tuesday night of fall break when he was trying to print out a reading assignment for a class he had the next day.
Fall drag show exceeds fundraising expectations
Over 500 Drake University students gathered inside Parents Hall on Wednesday, Oct. 11 to witness the performance of one of the biggest names in the drag world, Shangela Wadley. Shangela is a professional drag queen who started out on the famous reality show “RuPaul’s Drag Race.” The day of her performance at Drake was also the 29th anniversary of National Coming Out Day. National Coming Out Day is a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ) awareness day observed on Oct.
Tiny village hosted temporarily on Drake’s campus
In the past week, Bulldogs may have noticed the construction of small houses right across the street from Cole Hall. They’re a part of a project called “Tiny House.” The project was established by Joppa, a nonprofit organization that helps homeless people survive and rebuild their lives. Drake University is in charge of building three houses out of 50 in the spirit of the national DU Good Day as an opportunity for Drake to give back to the Des Moines community.
Mr. Drake celebrates 100th birthday over the summer
For sports enthusiasts and fans of Drake University, Paul Morrison, or Mr. Drake, is not an unfamiliar name nor an unfamiliar face. He has been to over 700 Drake football games and held court at almost 80 Drake Relays races. Including the years he attended Drake, he has devoted 74 years of his life to the school as a student, a sports information director and athletics business manager, and later on as a volunteer athletics historian.
3 Ways for Startups to Master the Art of Emailing by @phongtly
Chances are, your business needs something: more clients, members, customers, partners or publicity.: Whether you have an in-house team or hire a marketing company, you’ll want to create original, high-value content for those inevitable email campaigns.
8 Essential Growth-Hacking Tools to Build Your Business
Step 1: Research what other companies have done successfully to grow. Step 2: Copy them. Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. One of the biggest challenges startups face is scaling user and customer bases. This is particularly daunting for startups and smaller companies: They’re marketing without a well-known brand or the financial resources needed to make a substantial impact through conventional marketing outlets like radio, TV or paid digital advertising.
4 Things World Class Content Marketers Do Every Time They Create Content
Content is by far the most valuable asset businesses can use, to not only engage and inform customers, but to increase traffic to their website and dramatically improve search rankings. If you have ever wondered why world class content marketers place so much effort into content marketing, it is because they find it a critical part of the marketing mix to help a brand be found among the 170 million-plus websites around the world.
4 Things World Class Content Marketers Do Every Time They Create Content
Content is by far the most valuable asset businesses can use, to not only engage and inform customers, but to increase traffic to their website and dramatically improve search rankings. If you have ever wondered why world class content marketers place so much effort into content marketing, it is because they find it a critical part of the marketing mix to help a brand be found among the 170 million-plus websites around the world.
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