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  1. A Study of the Drag Characteristics and Polymer Diffusion in the Boundary Layer of an Axisymmetric Body

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    1976-03-12

    Reduction in Pipe Flow at R =14xl03 (from Hoyt (1972)) Guar Gum Karaya Polyox WSR 301 400 850 10 Polyacrylamide, Polyhall-250 20 21 ■.I...shown to be effec- tive drag reducers. Polysaccharides ( Guar ), polyethylene oxide, polyacrylamides, and sodium carboxymethyl...sifting the premeasured polyox powder onto the surface of the carefully weighed water which was being slowly stirred by a magnetic mixing bar. After a

  2. Effect of some additives on mass transfer coefficient at a vibrating horizontal screen

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    Nosier, S.A.; El-Abd, M.Z. [Chemical Engineering Dept., Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria Univ. (Egypt); Zaki, M.M. [Environmental Engineering Dept., Faculty of Engineering, Zagazig Univ. (Egypt)

    1998-01-01

    The addition of small amounts of high molecular weight substances, such as polymers and surface-active agents, to fluids can produce significant reduction of friction in turbulent flow. The objectiv of the present work is to study the effect of drag-reducing additives such as Polyox WSR 301 and sodium lauryl sulfate (anionic surfactant) on the rate of mass transfer at a vibrating horizontal screen. The variables studied were the concentration of polymer and surfactant, frequency of vibration and amplitude of vibration. (orig.)

  3. WSR-88D observations of volcanic ash

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    Wood, J.; Scott, C.; Schneider, D.

    2007-01-01

    Conclusions that may impact operations are summarized below: ??? Current VCPs may not be optimal for the scharacterization of volcanic events. Therefore, the development of a new VCP that combines the enhanced low level elevation density and increased temporal resolution of VCP 12 with the enhanced sensitivity of VCP 31. ??? Given currently available scan strategies, this preliminary investigation would suggest that it is advisable to use VCP 12 during the initial explosive phase of an eruptive event. Once the maximum reflectivity has dropped below 30 dBZ, VCP 31 should be used. ??? This study clearly indicates that WSR-88D Level II data offers many advantages over Level III data currently available in Alaska. The ability to access this data would open up greater opportunities for research. Given the proximity of WSR-88D platforms to active volcanoes in Alaska, as well as in the western Lower 48 states and Hawaii, radar data will likely play a major operational role when volcanic eruptions again pose a threat to life and property. The utilization of this tool to its maximum capability is vital.

  4. CLUJ-NAPOCA PRECIPITATION FORECAST USING WSR-98D DOPPLER RADAR

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    Narcis MAIER

    2011-11-01

    Full Text Available CLUJ-NAPOCA precipitation forecast using WSR-98D Doppler radar. Forecasting inundations requires accurate spatial and temporal estimation of rainfalls in an area. Depending on the Z-R relationship (reflectivity-precipitation rate, the thresholds, maximum reflectivity data processing, VIL, cloud height or speed, provided by the WSR-98D affects the estimated precipitation used in the prediction of inundations. How much precipitation receives a watershed during an extreme event and what response will result depends on the basin hydrographic characteristics. A study of summer weather events between the years 2004-2008 and a new method in establishing relations between the radar estimated and recorded precipitations led to the determination of new relations between them which will balance the connections between them.

  5. Polyox and carrageenan based composite film dressing containing anti-microbial and anti-inflammatory drugs for effective wound healing.

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    Boateng, Joshua S; Pawar, Harshavardhan V; Tetteh, John

    2013-01-30

    Polyethylene oxide (Polyox) and carrageenan based solvent cast films have been formulated as dressings for drug delivery to wounds. Films plasticised with glycerol were loaded with streptomycin (30%, w/w) and diclofenac (10%, w/w) for enhanced healing effects in chronic wounds. Blank and drug loaded films were characterised by texture analysis (for mechanical and mucoadhesive properties), scanning electron microscopy, differential scanning calorimetry, X-ray diffraction and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. In addition, swelling, in vitro drug release and antibacterial studies were conducted to further characterise the films. Both blank and drug loaded films showed a smooth, homogeneous surface morphology, excellent transparency, high elasticity and acceptable tensile (mechanical) properties. The drug loaded films showed a high capacity to absorb simulated wound fluid and significant mucoadhesion force which is expected to allow effective adherence to and protection of the wound. The films showed controlled release of both streptomycin and diclofenac for 72 h. These drug loaded films produced higher zones of inhibition against Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Escherichia coli compared to the individual drugs zones of inhibition. Incorporation of streptomycin can prevent and treat chronic wound infections whereas diclofenac can target the inflammatory phase of wound healing to relieve pain and swelling. Copyright © 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

  6. International incidence of childhood cancer, 2001-10: a population-based registry study.

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    Steliarova-Foucher, Eva; Colombet, Murielle; Ries, Lynn A G; Moreno, Florencia; Dolya, Anastasia; Bray, Freddie; Hesseling, Peter; Shin, Hee Young; Stiller, Charles A

    2017-06-01

    Cancer is a major cause of death in children worldwide, and the recorded incidence tends to increase with time. Internationally comparable data on childhood cancer incidence in the past two decades are scarce. This study aimed to provide internationally comparable local data on the incidence of childhood cancer to promote research of causes and implementation of childhood cancer control. This population-based registry study, devised by the International Agency for Research on Cancer in collaboration with the International Association of Cancer Registries, collected data on all malignancies and non-malignant neoplasms of the CNS diagnosed before age 20 years in populations covered by high-quality cancer registries with complete data for 2001-10. Incidence rates per million person-years for the 0-14 years and 0-19 years age groups were age-adjusted using the world standard population to provide age-standardised incidence rates (WSRs), using the age-specific incidence rates (ASR) for individual age groups (0-4 years, 5-9 years, 10-14 years, and 15-19 years). All rates were reported for 19 geographical areas or ethnicities by sex, age group, and cancer type. The regional WSRs for children aged 0-14 years were compared with comparable data obtained in the 1980s. Of 532 invited cancer registries, 153 registries from 62 countries, departments, and territories met quality standards, and contributed data for the entire decade of 2001-10. 385 509 incident cases in children aged 0-19 years occurring in 2·64 billion person-years were included. The overall WSR was 140·6 per million person-years in children aged 0-14 years (based on 284 649 cases), and the most common cancers were leukaemia (WSR 46·4), followed by CNS tumours (WSR 28·2), and lymphomas (WSR 15·2). In children aged 15-19 years (based on 100 860 cases), the ASR was 185·3 per million person-years, the most common being lymphomas (ASR 41·8) and the group of epithelial tumours and melanoma (ASR 39·5

  7. Changes in soil water availability in vineyards can be traced by the carbon and nitrogen isotope composition of dried wines.

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    Spangenberg, Jorge E; Zufferey, Vivian

    2018-04-13

    The grapevine is one of the most important edible fruit plants cultivated worldwide, and it is highly sensitive to changes in the soil water content. We studied the total carbon and nitrogen contents and stable isotope compositions (C/N WSR , δ 13 C WSR and δ 15 N WSR values) of the solid residues obtained by freeze-drying wines produced from two white grapevine cultivars (Vitis vinifera L. cv Chasselas and Petite Arvine) field grown under different soil water regimes while maintaining other climatic and ecopedological conditions identical. These experiments simulated the more frequent and extended climate change-induced periods of soil water shortage. The wines were from the 2009-2014 vintages, produced using the same vinification procedure. The plant water status, reflecting soil water availability, was assessed by the predawn leaf water potential (Ψ pd ), monitored in the field during the growing seasons. For both wine varieties, the δ 13 C WSR values are highly correlated with Ψ pd values and record the soil water availability set by soil water holding capacity, rainfall and irrigation water supply. These relationships were the same as those observed for the carbon isotope composition of fruit sugars (i.e., must sugars) and plant water status. In Chasselas wines, the nitrogen content and δ 15 N WSR values decreased with soil water deficit, indicating control of the flux of soil-water soluble nutrients into plants by soil water availability. Such a correlation was not found for Petite Arvine, probably due to different N-metabolism processes in this genetically atypical cultivar. The results presented in this study confirm and generalize what was previously found for red wine (Pinot noir); the carbon isotope composition of wine solid residues is a reliable indicator of the soil and the plant water status and thus can be used to trace back local climatic conditions in the vineyard's region. In most wines (except Petite Arvine) the C/N WSR and δ 15 N WSR

  8. Powerful infrared emitting diodes

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    Kogan L. M.

    2012-02-01

    Full Text Available Powerful infrared LEDs with emission wavelength 805 ± 10, 870 ± 20 and 940 ± 10 nm developed at SPC OED "OPTEL" are presented in the article. The radiant intensity of beam diode is under 4 W/sr in the continuous mode and under 100 W/sr in the pulse mode. The radiation power of wide-angle LEDs reaches 1 W in continuous mode. The external quantum efficiency of emission IR diodes runs up to 30%. There also has been created infrared diode modules with a block of flat Fresnel lenses with radiant intensity under 70 W/sr.

  9. Thinking Inside the Box: Simple Methods to Evaluate Complex Treatments

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    J. Michael Menke

    2011-10-01

    Full Text Available We risk ignoring cheaper and safer medical treatments because they cannot be patented, lack profit potential, require too much patient-contact time, or do not have scientific results. Novel medical treatments may be difficult to evaluate for a variety of reasons such as patient selection bias, the effect of the package of care, or the lack of identifying the active elements of treatment. Whole Systems Research (WSR is an approach designed to assess the performance of complete packages of clinical management. While the WSR method is compelling, there is no standard procedure for WSR, and its implementation may be intimidating. The truth is that WSR methodological tools are neither new nor complicated. There are two sequential steps, or boxes, that guide WSR methodology: establishing system predictability, followed by an audit of system element effectiveness. We describe the implementation of WSR with a particular attention to threats to validity (Shadish, Cook, & Campbell, 2002; Shadish & Heinsman, 1997. DOI: 10.2458/azu_jmmss.v2i1.12365

  10. Research and Measurement of Software Complexity Based on Wuli, Shili, Renli (WSR and Information Entropy

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    Rong Jiang

    2015-04-01

    Full Text Available Complexity is an important factor throughout the software life cycle. It is increasingly difficult to guarantee software quality, cost and development progress with the increase in complexity. Excessive complexity is one of the main reasons for the failure of software projects, so effective recognition, measurement and control of complexity becomes the key of project management. At first, this paper analyzes the current research situation of software complexity systematically and points out existing problems in current research. Then, it proposes a WSR framework of software complexity, which divides the complexity of software into three levels of Wuli (WL, Shili (SL and Renli (RL, so that the staff in different roles may have a better understanding of complexity. Man is the main source of complexity, but the current research focuses on WL complexity, and the research of RL complexity is extremely scarce, so this paper emphasizes the research of RL complexity of software projects. This paper not only analyzes the composing factors of RL complexity, but also provides the definition of RL complexity. Moreover, it puts forward a quantitative measurement method of the complexity of personnel organization hierarchy and the complexity of personnel communication information based on information entropy first and analyzes and validates the scientificity and rationality of this measurement method through a large number of cases.

  11. Development of Multiple-Unit Floating Drug Delivery System of Clarithromycin: Formulation, in vitro Dissolution by Modified Dissolution Apparatus, in vivo Radiographic Studies in Human Volunteers.

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    Reddy, Arun B; Reddy, Narendar D

    2017-07-01

    Clarithromycin (CM), a broad spectrum macrolide antibiotic used to eradicate H. pylori in peptic ulcer. Clarithromycin (CM) is well absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract, but has a bioavailability of 50% due to rapid biodegradation. The aim of this investigation was to increase the gastric residence time, and to control the drug release of clarithromycin by formulating into multiple unit floating mini-tablets. Floating tablets were prepared by using direct compression method with HPMC K 4 M and Polyox WSR 1105 as release retarded polymers and sodium bicarbonate as gas generating agent. The prepared mini-tablets were evaluated for thickness, weight variation, friability, hardness, drug content, in vitro buoyancy, swelling studies, in vitro dissolution studies by using modified Rossett-Rice test and in vivo radiographic studies in healthy human volunteers in fasting conditions. DSC analysis revealed that no interaction between drug and excipients. All the physical parameters of the tablets were within the acceptable limits. The optimized formulation (F6) had showed controlled drug release of 99.16±3.22% in 12 h, by zero-order release kinetics, along with floating lag time of 9.5±1.28 s and total floating time of 12±0.14 h. X-ray imaging studies revealed that in vivo gastric residence time of clarithromycin floating mini-tablet in the stomach was about 3.5 h. The results demonstrated that the developed floating mini-tablets of clarithromycin caused significant enhancement in gastric retention time along with sustained effect and increased oral bioavailability. © Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York.

  12. Semipolar MOVPE AlGaN on (10 anti 10) m-plane sapphire; MOVPE von semipolarem AlGaN auf (10 anti 10) m-plane Saphir

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    Mehnke, Frank; Stellmach, Joachim; Frentrup, Martin; Kusch, Gunnar; Wernicke, Tim; Pristovsek, Markus; Kneissl, Michael [Technische Universitaet Berlin, Institut fuer Festkoerperphysik, Hardenbergstr. 36, 10623 Berlin (Germany)

    2011-07-01

    The energy gap of AlGaN varies between 3.4 eV and 6.2 eV and allows light emitting diodes (LED) in the ultraviolet spectral region. The authors studied semipolar (11 anti 22) AlGaN layers that were deposited on (10 anti 10) m-plane sapphire using MOVPE (metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy) without nucleation layer with a substrate temperature below 1100 C in H2 atmosphere. The layers are preferably (11 anti 22) oriented. The sample show a surface roughness between 15 and 2 nm. The Al content of the smoothest samples is about 60% determined by transmission experiments. Below 60% Al content a triangular morphology was observed, the opening angle increased with decreasing Al content. The absorption edge was 0.05 eV (GaN) to 0.35 eV (AlN) below the band edge of (0001) oriented AlGaN layers. Further investigations of semipolar AlGaN layers to study the applicability for UV LEDs are under preparation.

  13. A 10 nN resolution thrust-stand for micro-propulsion devices

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    Chakraborty, Subha; Courtney, Daniel G.; Shea, Herbert, E-mail: herbert.shea@epfl.ch [Microsystems for Space Technologies Laboratory (LMTS), Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Neuchatel (Switzerland)

    2015-11-15

    We report on the development of a nano-Newton thrust-stand that can measure up to 100 μN thrust from different types of microthrusters with 10 nN resolution. The compact thrust-stand measures the impingement force of the particles emitted from a microthruster onto a suspended plate of size 45 mm × 45 mm and with a natural frequency over 50 Hz. Using a homodyne (lock-in) readout provides strong immunity to facility vibrations, which historically has been a major challenge for nano-Newton thrust-stands. A cold-gas thruster generating up to 50 μN thrust in air was first used to validate the thrust-stand. Better than 10 nN resolution and a minimum detectable thrust of 10 nN were achieved. Thrust from a miniature electrospray propulsion system generating up to 3 μN of thrust was measured with our thrust-stand in vacuum, and the thrust was compared with that computed from beam diagnostics, obtaining agreement within 50 nN to 150 nN. The 10 nN resolution obtained from this thrust-stand matches that from state-of-the-art nano-Newton thrust-stands, which measure thrust directly from the thruster by mounting it on a moving arm (but whose natural frequency is well below 1 Hz). The thrust-stand is the first of its kind to demonstrate less than 3 μN resolution by measuring the impingement force, making it capable of measuring thrust from different types of microthrusters, with the potential of easy upscaling for thrust measurement at much higher levels, simply by replacing the force sensor with other force sensors.

  14. Hydrogen bonded networks in formamide [HCONH2]n (n = 1 – 10 ...

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    Table S1: Comparison of interaction energy (I.E) in kcal/mol in four arrangements of formamide n=1-10 at B3LYP/D95** level of theory. n = #monomers. Table S2: O---H bond length (in Å) for formamide clusters n = (2-10). Table S3: N-H bond stretching frequency (in cm-1) for four arrangements of formamide clusters n.

  15. Single phase semipolar (11 anti 22) GaN on (10 anti 10) sapphire

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    Ploch, S.; Stellmach, J.; Schwaner, T.; Frentrup, M.; Wernicke, T.; Pristovsek, M.; Kneissl, M. [Institute of Solid States Physics, (Germany); Park, J.B.; Niermann, T.; Lehmann, M. [Institute of Optics and Atomic Physics, TU Berlin, Hardenbergstr. 36, 10623 Berlin (Germany)

    2011-07-01

    InGaN quantum well based light emitters grown on (0001) GaN suffer from poor quantum efficiencies with increasing indium mole fraction due to strong polarization fields along the polar crystal orientation. This effect can be greatly reduced by growing on semi- and non-polar GaN orientations. Semipolar (11 anti 22) GaN layers were deposited by metalorganic vapour phase epitaxy on (10 anti 10) sapphire. After sapphire substrate nitridation at 1000 C, a GaN nucleation layer was deposited at high temperature, followed by the deposition of 1.5 nm thick GaN buffer layers. The samples show predominantly (11 anti 22) orientation with a small fraction of (10 anti 13) oriented domains. With increasing nitridation layer thickness the (10 anti 13) phase is suppressed leading to a very smooth surface morphology (rms roughness < 4nm). PL measurements show dominant basel plane stacking fault (BSF) I{sub 1} luminescence without any other defects. Transmission electron microscopy measurements reveal a high BSF density. The FWHM of the X-ray diffraction rocking curve measurements of the (1122) reflection decreases to 1193 arcsec and 739 arcsec along [1 anti 100] and [11 anti 23] respectively with increasing nucleation temperature. Using high temperature nucleation smooth and homogeneous (11 anti 22) phase GaN layers have been obtained.

  16. PA01.81. Impact of globalisation on health w.s.r. metabolic syndrome and its ayurvedic management)

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    Layeeq, Shaizi; Srivastava, Alok K

    2012-01-01

    Purpose: According to WHO report 2002,Cardiovacular diseases (CVD) will be the largest cause of death and disability in India by 2012. Metabolic Syndrome (MetS), a constellation of dyslipidemia, elevated blood glucose, hypertension and obesity is emerging as the most common risk factor for CVD. The rising prevalence of individual components of Metabolic Syndrome is mainly attributed to globalisation which has made available cheap, unhealthy food on the main menu & also brought with it sedentary lifestyle. It is a need of time to pay due consideration on the problem and search for alternative medicine. So the aim of the study is: 1. To study the impact of globalisation on health w.s.r Metabolic Syndrome. 2. To assess the clinical efficacy of Panchakarma in its management. Method: For the study large-scale survey, other documented data and published articles were studied. For clinical contrieve 20 patients were registered and were given Virechana Karma followed by administration of Shuddha Guggulu as palliative measure. Result: The results show that globalisation has a great impact on all the components of Metabolic Syndrome. However on management with Panchakarma (Virechana Karma) followed by Shuddha Guggulu encouraging results were found. The overall effect of therapy was found to be 82.5%. Conclusion: There is a high prevalence of metabolic syndrome in India and it is a need of time to consider alternative treatment for its management alongwith change in lifestyle to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease.

  17. Structural transition of (InSb)n clusters at n = 6-10

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    Lu, Qi Liang; Luo, Qi Quan; Huang, Shou Guo; Li, Yi De

    2016-10-01

    An optimization strategy combining global semi-empirical quantum mechanical search with all-electron density functional theory was adopted to determine the lowest energy structure of (InSb)n clusters with n = 6-10. A new structural growth pattern of the clusters was observed. The lowest energy structures of (InSb)6 and (InSb)8 were different from that of previously reported results. Competition existed between core-shell and cage-like structures of (InSb)8. The structural transition of (InSb)n clusters occurred at size n = 8-9. For (InSb)9 and (InSb)10 clusters, core-shell structure were more energetically favorable than the cage. The corresponding electronic properties were investigated.

  18. Development and evaluation of a chronotherapeutic drug delivery system of torsemide

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    Songa Ambedkar Sunil

    2011-09-01

    Full Text Available The objective of this study was to prepare and evaluate chronotherapeutic drug delivery systems (ChrDDs of torsemide. Compression coated tablets (CCT containing torsemide in the core tablet were prepared by the compression coating technique with different grades of polyethylene oxide (PEO WSR 301 & 1105. The optimized formulations were characterised for tabletting parameters and drug polymer interaction by Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR.The hardness of all the CCT using PEO WSR 301 & PEO WSR 1105 were in the range 6-8 kg/cm² & 5.5 to 7 kg/cm² respectively. Their friability values were 99%. The FTIR studies showed no interaction throughout the process of development. Formulations of F7 and of P7 were considered optimized formulations since they yielded a predetermined lag time of 6h before burst release. Hence, these formulations can be exploited to achieve chronotherapeutic drug delivery systems of Torsemide for the treatment of hypertension at the time the patient needs it.O objetivo deste estudo foi preparar e avaliar sistemas cronoterapêuticos de liberação de fármacos (ChrDDs de torsemida. Comprimidos revestidos por compressão (CCT contendo torsemida no (núcleo foram preparados pela técnica de revestimento por compressão, com diferentes categorias de óxido de polietileno (PEO WSR 301 & 1105. As formulações otimizadas foram caracterizadas por parâmetros de compressão e interação fármaco polímero por Infravermelho com Transformada de Fourier (FTIR. A dureza dos CCT utilizando PEO WSR 301 e PEO WSR 1105 foi entre 6-8 kg/cm² e 5,5 a 7 kg/cm², respectivamente. Os valores de friabilidade foram 99%. Os estudos de FTIR mostraram que não h[a interação durante o processo de desenvolvimento. As formulações F7 e P7 foram consideradas otimizadas, uma vez que resultaram em tempo de retardo pré-determinado de 6 h antes da liberação por meio de explosão. Dessa forma, estas formulações podem ser exploradas para

  19. Partial breaking of N = 1, D = 10 supersymmetry

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    Bellucci, S.

    1999-01-01

    In this paper is described the spontaneous partial breaking of N =1, D =10 supersymmetry to N = (1, 0), d = 6 and its dimensionally-reduced versions in the framework of nonlinear realizations. The basic Goldstone superfield is N = (1, 0), d = 6 hyper multiplet superfield satisfying a nonlinear generalization of the standard hyper multiplet constraint. It is here interpreted the generalized constraint as the manifestly world volume supersymmetric form of equations of motion of the type 1 super 5-brane in D 10. The related issues here addressed are a possible existence of brane extension of off-shell hyper multiplet actions, the possibility to utilize vector N = (1, 0), d =6 supermultiplet as the Goldstone one, and the description of 1/4 breaking of N =1, D = 11 supersymmetry

  20. N-anti N oscillation in SO(10) and SU(6) supersymmetric grand unified models

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    Fujimoto, Y.; Zhiyong, Z.

    1982-06-01

    N-anti N oscillation in SO(10) and SU(6) S.G.U.M. is considered. We find a new type of diagram leading to a faster oscillation rate than in non-supersymmetric case. It is also noted that in SO(10) S.G.U.M. with intermediate SU(4)sub(C)xSU(2)sub(L)xSU(2)sub(R) symmetry N-anti N oscillation would be highly suppressed, which may not necessarily be the case for SU(6) S.G.U.M. (author)

  1. The 10B(n,α)7Li cross section

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    1997-01-01

    The data base relevant to an evaluation of the 10 B(n,α) standard cross sections have been improved through interlaboratory collaboration. Changes in the evaluated 10 B(n,α) cross sections resulted form the measurements made since the ENDF/B-VI evaluation have been estimated. 12 refs, 4 figs

  2. UNIVERSITIES WORLDSKILLS RUSSIA COMPETITIONS AS A MEANS OF DEVELOPING BACHELOR’S COMPETENCIES ON SPECIALTY “TOURISM”

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    Olga Victorovna Kandyba

    2018-01-01

    Full Text Available The relevance of the inclusion of the universities competitions in accordance with WorldSkills Russia standards (hereinafter – WSR is determined by the problematic situation that has developed in the higher education system and the modern requirements of the tourist industry labor market for graduates. Universities competitions in accordance with international standards are a new direction in the WSR movement, which can enhance the status of vocational education. This is the first experience in Russia, which, first, requires reflection, understanding and, accordingly, acceptance by the university teaching community of the WSR movement itself. Secondly, the conducted competitions have revealed a number of problems that must be solved on the way to effective implementation of WSR standards in the educational process. The article presents the matrix of professional competencies, compiled on the basis of the Federal State Educational Standard of the Higher Professional Education in “Tourism” training area 43.03.02 and the Skill WSR “Tourism” standards. On the basis of the developed matrix of competences, the correlation between the professional competencies of HPE FSES and competencies shown in the modules of the Skill WSR “Tourism” is revealed. Purpose Conducting a comparative analysis of the competencies of the HPE FSES in “Tourism” training area with competencies based on the modules of the competition task of the WSR Championship. Methodology In the article methods of included observation, peer review and comparative analysis were used. Results A comparative analysis of the competencies of the HPE FSES in “Tourism” training area with competencies necessary to complete the modules of the competition task of the WSR competition is conducted, recommendations on the expansion of the elements of the competition tasks for the university championship WSR are given. Practical implications The results obtained should be used to

  3. On the eletronic structure of Be sub(n) (3 < = n < = 10) clusters

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    Camargo, F.P.; Vianna, J.D.M.

    The electronic configurations, bonding energies and molecular orbital energies of Be(sub n) (n = 3, 4, 6, 10) have been calculated by the SCF-MO-CNDO theory parametrized by Boyd and Whitehead (CNDO/BW). Comparisons are made with the theoretical results which are available. (Author) [pt

  4. Sintesis 9-n-Pentoksi 10-Hidroksi n-Pentil Stearat Campuran Dari Asam Oleat

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    Tarigan, Aspriadi

    2011-01-01

    Compound of 9-n-penthoxy 10-hidroxy n-pentyl stearic mixture which is derivative of fatty acid and can be used for some activities such as lubricant, biodiesel, surfactan, or manufacture of polymeric materials by using oleic acid as substrat through esterification, epoxidation, followed by alcoxylation. Esterification of oleic acid with n-penthanol using catalyst concentrated sulfuric acid in benzen as solvent in reflux condition produce n-pentyl oleic with 89% of rendement. Epoxidation to n-...

  5. SVIP-N 1.0: An integrated visualization platform for neutronics analysis

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    Luo Yuetong; Long Pengcheng; Wu Guoyong; Zeng Qin; Hu Liqin; Zou Jun

    2010-01-01

    Post-processing is an important part of neutronics analysis, and SVIP-N 1.0 (scientific visualization integrated platform for neutronics analysis) is designed to ease post-processing of neutronics analysis through visualization technologies. Main capabilities of SVIP-N 1.0 include: (1) ability of manage neutronics analysis result; (2) ability to preprocess neutronics analysis result; (3) ability to visualization neutronics analysis result data in different way. The paper describes the system architecture and main features of SVIP-N, some advanced visualization used in SVIP-N 1.0 and some preliminary applications, such as ITER.

  6. ANTHROPOMETRIC INDICES IN ASSOCIATION WITH CARDIOMETABOLIC RISK FACTORS: FINDINGS OF THE ISFAHAN HEALTHY HEART PROGRAM

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    Nizal Sarrafzadegan

    2010-11-01

    Full Text Available Abstract    BACKGROUND: Obesity is increasing worldwide, but the debate about the most valid index associated with its health hazards remains unresolved. This study aimed to compare four main anthropometric indices by gender, to determine the best index in predicting cardiometabolic risk factors and to find their cutoff values in the population studied.    METHODS: This study was a cross-sectional community-based study performed on a representative sample of 12,514 adults (aged ≥19 years selected via 2-stage random cluster sampling from 3 cities in Iran. Partial correlation and ROC curve analyzes were used to determine the best anthropometric indices and their cutoff values.    RESULTS: The study population comprised 6123 males and 6391 females. In both genders, waist circumference (WC had the highest correlation with cardiometabolic risk factors (6 of 8 risk factors in men and 7 of 8 risk factors in women. ROC analyses showed that in males, the largest area under curve (AUC was obtained for waist-to-stature ration (WSR in most risk factors (6 of the 10 followed by body mass index (BMI and waist-to-height ratio (WHR with largest AUC (3 of the 10. The corresponding figure for females was obtained for WSR (9 of the 10 followed by BMI and WHR (1 of 10. Optimal cutoff values computed for combination of 3 major risk factors (including diabetes mellitus, hypertension and dyslipidemia revealed that in males and females, respectively, the cutoff values were 21.9 and 23.5 kg/m2 for BMI, 80.70 and 84.70 cm for WC, 0.85 and 0.86 for WHR and 0.47 and 0.53 for WSR.    CONCLUSION: WSR could be a valid anthropometric index for predicting cardiometabolic risk factors, and it has less variation than other indices among populations with ethnic differences in body size and fat distribution.      Keywords: Anthropometry, Cardiovascular Risk Factors, Iran, Obesity.

  7. Anomaly of strings of 6d N =(1,0) theories

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    Shimizu, Hiroyuki; Tachikawa, Yuji

    2016-01-01

    We obtain the anomaly polynomial of strings of general 6d N =(1,0) theories in terms of anomaly inflow. Our computation sheds some light on the reason why the simplest 6d N =(1,0) theory has E_8 flavor symmetry, and also partially explains a curious numerology in F-theory.

  8. Anomaly of strings of 6d {N}=(1,0) theories

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    Shimizu, Hiroyuki; Tachikawa, Yuji

    2016-11-01

    We obtain the anomaly polynomial of strings of general 6d {N}=(1,0) theories in terms of anomaly inflow. Our computation sheds some light on the reason why the simplest 6d {N}=(1,0) theory has E 8 flavor symmetry, and also partially explains a curious numerology in F-theory.

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  10. CompTIA network+ study guide exam N10-006

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    All-star N10-006 prep, fully updated for the new exam The CompTIA Network+ Study Guide is your one-stop comprehensive resource in preparing for exam N10-006 Bestselling author and networking Guru Todd Lammle guides you through 100% of all exam objectives detailing the fundamental concepts you will need to know to prepare for the exam. Coverage includes network technologies, installation and configuration, media and topologies, security, and much more, plus practical examples drawn from real-world situations. You also gain access to practice exams and electronic flashcards that facilitate info

  11. Soot and Spectral Radiation Modeling for a High-Pressure Turbulent Spray Flame

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    Ferreryo-Fernandez, Sebastian [Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States); Paul, Chandan [Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States); Sircar, Arpan [Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States); Imren, Abdurrahman [Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States); Haworth, Daniel C [Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States); Roy, Somesh P [Marquette University (United States); Modest, Michael F [University of California Merced (United States)

    2017-04-26

    Simulations are performed of a transient high-pressure turbulent n-dodecane spray flame under engine-relevant conditions. An unsteady RANS formulation is used, with detailed chemistry, a semi-empirical two-equation soot model, and a particle-based transported composition probability density function (PDF) method to account for unresolved turbulent fluctuations in composition and temperature. Results from the PDF model are compared with those from a locally well-stirred reactor (WSR) model to quantify the effects of turbulence-chemistry-soot interactions. Computed liquid and vapor penetration versus time, ignition delay, and flame lift-off height are in good agreement with experiment, and relatively small differences are seen between the WSR and PDF models for these global quantities. Computed soot levels and spatial soot distributions from the WSR and PDF models show large differences, with PDF results being in better agreement with experimental measurements. An uncoupled photon Monte Carlo method with line-by-line spectral resolution is used to compute the spectral intensity distribution of the radiation leaving the flame. This provides new insight into the relative importance of molecular gas radiation versus soot radiation, and the importance of turbulent fluctuations on radiative heat transfer.

  12. Synthesis and evaluation of novel bifunctional chelating agents based on 1,4,7,10-tetraazacyclododecane-N,N',N'',N'''-tetraacetic acid for radiolabeling proteins

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    Chappell, L.L.; Ma, D.; Milenic, D.E.; Garmestani, K.; Venditto, V.; Beitzel, M.P.; Brechbiel, M.W.

    2003-01-01

    Detailed synthesis of the bifunctional chelating agents 2-methyl-6-(p-isothiocyanatobenzyl)-1,4,7,10-tetraazacyclododecane-1,4,7,10 -tetraacetic acid (1B4M-DOTA) and 2-(p-isothiocyanatobenzyl)-5, 6-cyclohexano-1, 4, 7, 10-tetraazacyclododecane-1, 4, 7, 10-tetraacetate (CHX-DOTA) are reported. These chelating agents were compared to 2-(p-isothiocyanatobenzyl)-1, 4, 7, 10-tetraazacyclododecane-1, 4, 7, 10-tetraacetic acid (C-DOTA) and 1, 4, 7, 10-Tetraaza-N-(1-carboxy-3-(4-nitrophenyl)propyl)-N', N'', N'''-tris(acetic acid) cyclododecane (PA-DOTA) as their 177 Lu radiolabeled conjugates with Herceptin TM . In vitro stability of the immunoconjugates radiolabeled with 177 Lu was assessed by serum stability studies. The in vivo stability of the radiolabeled immunoconjugates and their targeting characteristics were determined by biodistribution studies in LS-174T xenograft tumor-bearing mice. Relative radiolabeling rates and efficiencies were determined for all four immunoconjugates. Insertion of the 1B4M moiety into the DOTA backbone increases radiometal chelation rate and provides complex stability comparable to C-DOTA and PA-DOTA while the CHX-DOTA appears to not form as stable a 177 Lu complex while exhibiting a substantial increase in formation rate. The 1B4M-DOTAmay have potential for radioimmunotherapy applications. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved

  13. The Kepler-10 planetary system revisited by HARPS-N

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    Dumusque, Xavier; Bonomo, Aldo S.; Haywood, Raphaelle D.

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    -N Collaboration decided to observe Kepler-10 intensively with the HARPS-N spectrograph on the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo on La Palma. In total, 148 high-quality radial-velocity measurements were obtained over two observing seasons. These new data allow us to improve the precision of the mass determination...

  14. CompTIA Network+ Review Guide Exam N10-005

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    Fast, focused review for the latest CompTIA Network+ Exam N10-005 CompTIA's Network+ certification is the leading non-vendor networking certification in the world and has become the standard certification for networking professionals. Make sure you're ready for CompTIA's new Network+ certification (exam N10-005) with this new edition of Sybex's CompTIA Network+ Review Guide. This concise guide is efficiently organized by exam objectives and covers all five exam domains. The book also includes 50 chapter review questions, as well as access to two online practice exams, and much more. It's the p

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  16. Research of H5N6 Treatment by Comparing with H6N1 and H10N8 by Using Decision Tree and Apriori Algorithm

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    2016-01-01

    Full Text Available Since 2003, 608 people in 15 countries have infected with human-infectious AI viruses and 359 of them died. Especially, in China, H6N1 and H10N8 viruses were wide-spread and a lot of people were infected and died. Recently, H5N6 virus emerged in China and the number of patients has been increasing gradually. Therefore, this research compared amino acid strain of Matrix Protein, Hemagglutinin, Neuraminidase and Nucleoprotein of H5N6, H6N1 and H10N8, by using Decision tree and Apriori Algorithm, to figure out their similarity and devise the treatment. In result, Matrix protein and Nucleoprotein sequences of H5N6 were similar with those of H6N1 and H10N8. Therefore, this research concluded that the treatment targeting those proteins of H6N1 and H10N8 will be also effective to H5N6.

  17. Water absorption and mechanical properties of water-swellable natural rubber

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    Diew Saijun

    2009-11-01

    Full Text Available Water-swellable rubber (WSR was prepared by blending superabsorbent polymer (SAP of crosslinked poly(acrylamide-co-sodium acrylate with natural rubber in latex condition. The crosslinked poly(acrylamide-co-sodium acrylate was first prepared by inverse suspension polymerization from acrylamide and sodium acrylate monomers with potassiumpersulfate initiator and N,N-methylenebisacrylamide crosslinker. The reaction was carried out at 60oC for 40 mins. Water absorption properties, such as the degree of water absorption, water absorption rate, degree of weight loss, and mechanicalproperties of WSR were then investigated. It was found that the degree of water absorption, water absorption rate, and thedegree of weight loss increased, while tensile strength and elongation at break decreased with increasing quantity of SAP inthe blends. However, the degree of water absorption, degree of weight loss, and elongation at break decreased, but tensilestrength increased with increasing quantity of the N-tert-butyl-2-benzothiazyl sulphenamide (TBBS accelerator used in thecompounds formulation.

  18. Activación del topacio natural irradiado por neutrones en el núcleo del reactor RP-10

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    Gómez, J.; Parreño, Fernando; Lázaro, Gerardo; Vela, Mariano

    2003-01-01

    Se obtuvieron cristales de topacio activados al ser irradiados con neutrones dentro del núcleo del reactor RP-10. La activación depende del flujo de neutrones, por ello se desarrolló portamuestras (canes de irradiación) para absorber que son los causantes de la activación

  19. Pielonefritis xantogranulomatosa: Revisión de 10 casos

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    Leoni, Alberto Francisco; Kinleiner, Pablo; Revol, Martín; Zaya, Alejandro; Odicino, Alejandro

    2009-01-01

    Objetivo: Comunicar nuestra experiencia en Pielonefritis Xantogranulomatosa (PX) forma de presentación, manifestaciones clínicas, diagnóstico, seguimiento y tratamiento. Método: Se efectuó un estudio multicéntrico, observa-cional, descriptivo y retrosprospectivo, durante un período de 6 años. Resultado: Estudiamos 10 pacientes, 8 femeninos y 2 masculinos, con una media de 50 años. El dolor lumbar y abdominal, pérdida de peso, palidez conjuntival, litiasis renal y evolución crónica, se present...

  20. The elastic scattering of 14N by 10B

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    Takai, H.

    1986-01-01

    The elastic scattering 10 B( 14 N, 14 N) 10 B was studied for four incident energies: 38.1, 42.0, 46.0 and 50.0 MeV. The angular distributions for these energies were determined in the center of mass frame from 16 0 to 176 0 with the introduction of target nucleus recoil detection techniques in a magnetic spectrograph with gas position sensitive detectors and in a scattering chamber with an Σ-ΔΣ detection system. For the forward angles, the angular distributions are well described by the optical model. For the backward angles, up to 160 0 , a satisfactory description is obtained by the elastic transfer analysis; for larger angles an accentuated deviation id observed. (author) [pt

  1. Post-sphaleron baryogenesis and n- anti n oscillation in non-SUSY SO(10) GUT with gauge coupling unification

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    Patra, Sudhanwa; Pritimita, Prativa

    2014-01-01

    ''Post-sphaleron baryogenesis'', a fresh and profound mechanism of baryogenesis accounts for the matter-antimatter asymmetry of our present universe in a framework of Pati-Salam symmetry. We attempt here to embed this mechanism in a non-SUSY SO(10) grand unified theory by reviving a novel symmetry breaking chain with Pati-Salam symmetry as an intermediate symmetry breaking step and as well to address post-sphaleron baryogenesis and neutron-antineutron oscillation in a rational manner. The Pati-Salam symmetry based on the gauge group SU(2) L x SU(2) R x SU(4) C is realized in our model at 10 5 -10 6 GeV and the mixing time for the neutron-antineutron oscillation process having ΔB = 2 is found to be τ n- anti n10 8 -10 10 s with the model parameters, which is within the reach of forthcoming experiments. Other novel features of the model include low scale right-handed W R ± , Z R gauge bosons, explanation for neutrino oscillation data via the gauged inverse (or extended) seesaw mechanism and most importantly TeV scale color sextet scalar particles responsible for an observable n- anti n oscillation which may be accessible to LHC. We also look after gauge coupling unification and an estimation of the proton lifetime with and without the addition of color sextet scalars. (orig.)

  2. Evolución de las propiedades mecánicas con la temperatura de cintas amorfas Mg10Ni10Y

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    Torrijos, M. A.

    2006-02-01

    Full Text Available The mechanical behaviour by tensile strength test from room temperature to 350 ºC in the rapidly solidified Mg-10Ni-10Y (at. % ribbon has been studied. To determine the effect of yttrium additions the results are compared with those of Mg-11Ni studied in a previous work. Before studding the mechanical behavior of the material the thermal stability of the amorphous ribbon and the crystallization reactions were determined by DSC experiments. Results show that yttrium stabilizes the amorphous phase but it has not reinforcement effect. The tensile strength and elongation to failure values of the ternary alloy are lower than those of Mg-11Ni

    El objetivo de este estudio es la caracterización mecánica, mediante ensayos de tracción, desde temperatura ambiente hasta 350 °C, de una aleación amorfa de composición Mg-10Ni-10Y (% at. obtenida mediante solidificación rápida por la técnica de la rueda. Se analiza la influencia de la adición de itrio al Mg-Ni para lo cual los resultados se comparan con los de la aleación binaria Mg-11Ni estudiada previamente. Antes de iniciar la caracterización mecánica del material, se realizó un estudio mediante calorimetría diferencial de barrido para comprobar la naturaleza amorfa de la cinta, analizar su estabilidad térmica y conocer las transformaciones que experimenta hasta la cristalización. Los resultados indican que el itrio es un estabilizador de la fase amorfa pero no mejora las propiedes mecánicas de la cinta binaria. Los valores de resistencia mecánica y alargamiento a rotura medidos en la cinta con itrio son menores que los obtenidos para la aleación binaria.

  3. 78 FR 77699 - Information Collection Request Sent to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Approval...

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    ... DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Fish and Wildlife Service [FWS-HQ-WSR-2013-N292]; [FVWF941009000007B-XXX-FF09W10000; FVWF51100900000-XXX-FF09W10000] Information Collection Request Sent to the Office of... technology constraints. We expanded to a cloud-computing environment in October 2012, and, effective January...

  4. Validación del modelo de modernización para la gestión de las organizaciones (MMGO versión 10

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    2016-02-01

    Full Text Available El modelo de modernización para la gestión de las organizaciones (MMGO se hizo público, de manera amplia, en el año 2011. Es necesario refrescar sus componentes y actualizarlo, para que se adecúe al siempre cambiante entorno de las pyme en Colombia, sin perder su esencia y sin desconocer los resultados de investigaciones anteriores relativas al mismo. De esto da cuenta la investigación que aquí se presenta. El grupo G3Pymes de la Universidad EAN, en el que se inscribe este proyecto, innova constantemente para desarrollar el modelo, que se encuentra en la versión 10, con la actualización de tres de sus componentes: análisis del entorno, comunicación e información y responsabilidad social.

  5. In vitro antibacterial effect of Withania somnifera root extract on Escherichia coli

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    Kumari, Mamta; Gupta, R. P.

    2015-01-01

    Aim: The aim was to investigate antibacterial activity of Withania somnifera (Ashwagandha), an Indian traditional medicinal plant against Escherichia coli O78, a pathogenic strain. Materials and Methods: Two-fold serial dilutions of 20% aqueous W. somnifera root (WSR) extract were inoculated with E. coli O78 @ 1*107 colony forming units grown in nutrient broth. Following inoculation, turbidity optical density was measured by spectrophotometer at 600 nm in all the tubes at 0, 2, 4, 6 and 8 h of incubation at 37°C. Result: The results revealed that the maximum inhibition of bacterial growth was observed at 1:8 dilution of WSR extract. The highest dilution of the extract that showed inhibited growth of the test organism when compared with control was 1:16. Therefore, the minimum inhibitory concentration of aqueous extract of WSR is 1:16. Conclusion: It is concluded that WSR possessed good antibacterial activity, confirming the great potential of bioactive compounds and its rationalizing use in health care. PMID:27046997

  6. Enrichment of 15N and 10B isotopes by chemical exchange process

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    D'Souza, A.B.; Sonwalkar, A.S.; Subrahmanyam, B.V.; Valladares, B.A.

    1994-01-01

    Many processes are available for separation of stable isotopes like distillation, chemical exchange, thermal diffusion, gaseous diffusion, centrifuge etc. Chemical exchange process is eminently suitable for separation of isotopes of light elements. Work done on separation and enrichment of two of the stable isotopes viz. 15 N and 10 B in Chemical Engineering Division is presented. 15 N is widely used as a tracer in agricultural research and 10 B is used in nuclear industry as control rod material, soluble reactor poison, neutron detector etc. The work on 15 N isotope resulted in a pilot plant, which was the only source of this material in the country for many years and later it was translated into a production plant as M/s. RCF Ltd. The work done on the ion-exchange process for enrichment of 10 B isotope which is basically a chemical exchange process, is now being updated into a pilot plant to produce enriched 10 B to be used as soluble reactor poison. (author)

  7. New software methods in radar ornithology using WSR-88D weather data and potential application to monitoring effects of climate change on bird migration

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    Mead, Reginald; Paxton, John; Sojda, Richard S.; Swayne, David A.; Yang, Wanhong; Voinov, A.A.; Rizzoli, A.; Filatova, T.

    2010-01-01

    Radar ornithology has provided tools for studying the movement of birds, especially related to migration. Researchers have presented qualitative evidence suggesting that birds, or at least migration events, can be identified using large broad scale radars such as the WSR-88D used in the NEXRAD weather surveillance system. This is potentially a boon for ornithologists because such data cover a large portion of the United States, are constantly being produced, are freely available, and have been archived since the early 1990s. A major obstacle to this research, however, has been that identifying birds in NEXRAD data has required a trained technician to manually inspect a graphically rendered radar sweep. A single site completes one volume scan every five to ten minutes, producing over 52,000 volume scans in one year. This is an immense amount of data, and manual classification is infeasible. We have developed a system that identifies biological echoes using machine learning techniques. This approach begins with training data using scans that have been classified by experts, or uses bird data collected in the field. The data are preprocessed to ensure quality and to emphasize relevant features. A classifier is then trained using this data and cross validation is used to measure performance. We compared neural networks, naive Bayes, and k-nearest neighbor classifiers. Empirical evidence is provided showing that this system can achieve classification accuracies in the 80th to 90th percentile. We propose to apply these methods to studying bird migration phenology and how it is affected by climate variability and change over multiple temporal scales.

  8. n Retoriese analise van Romeine 9:1–10:4

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    2015-06-01

    Full Text Available Die artikel is ’n poging om Paulus se retoriese strategie uit die teks self te rekonstrueer, eerder as om ’n klassieke of moderne retoriese model op die teks toe te pas. ’n Voorstel virso ’n teksgesentreerde benadering word kortliks opgesom, gevolg deur ’n beskrywing van die retoriese situasie wat Paulus in die brief wil ondersoek. Daar word geargumenteer dat Romeine 9:1–10:4 ’n integrale deel van Paulus se retoriese strategie vorm met die doel om sy gehoor te oortuig om sy siening van God se verlossingsplan, asook sy beoogde sending na Spanje te steun. In die proses van oorreding gebruik hy verskillende soorte argumente en retoriese tegnieke om die trefkrag van sy kommunikasie te verhoog. Die gevolgtrekkingis dat ’n teksgesentreerde benadering (met fokus op die funksionele aspekte van die teks ’n beter alternatief as die bestaande benaderings (met fokus op die formele aspekte van die teks bied. A rhetorical analysis of Romans 9:1-10:4. This article is an attempt to reconstruct Paul’s rhetorical strategy from the text itself, rather than applying ancient or modern rhetorical models to his letters. A proposal for such a text-centred approach is briefly summarised, followed by a discussion of the rhetorical situation that Paul wants to address in this letter. It is argued that Romans 9:1–10:4 forms an integral part of his rhetorical strategy, aimed at persuading his audience in Rome to support his view on God’s plan of salvationas well as his forthcoming mission to Spain. In the process of persuasion Paul uses various types of argument and rhetorical techniques to enhance the impact of his communication.The conclusion is that a text-centred approach (with its focus on the functional aspects of the text provides a better alternative to existing approaches (which focus on the formal aspects of the text.

  9. 40 CFR Table 1 to Subpart W of... - General Provisions Applicability to Subpart W

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    ... Subpart W 1 Table 1 to Subpart W of Part 63 Protection of Environment ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY... Polyamides Production Pt. 63, Subpt. W, Table 1 Table 1 to Subpart W of Part 63—General Provisions Applicability to Subpart W Reference Applies to subpart W BLR WSR WSR alternative standard, and BLR equipment...

  10. Dynamic Water Surface Detection Algorithm Applied on PROBA-V Multispectral Data

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    2016-12-01

    Full Text Available Water body detection worldwide using spaceborne remote sensing is a challenging task. A global scale multi-temporal and multi-spectral image analysis method for water body detection was developed. The PROBA-V microsatellite has been fully operational since December 2013 and delivers daily near-global synthesis with a spatial resolution of 1 km and 333 m. The Red, Near-InfRared (NIR and Short Wave InfRared (SWIR bands of the atmospherically corrected 10-day synthesis images are first Hue, Saturation and Value (HSV color transformed and subsequently used in a decision tree classification for water body detection. To minimize commission errors four additional data layers are used: the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI, Water Body Potential Mask (WBPM, Permanent Glacier Mask (PGM and Volcanic Soil Mask (VSM. Threshold values on the hue and value bands, expressed by a parabolic function, are used to detect the water bodies. Beside the water bodies layer, a quality layer, based on the water bodies occurrences, is available in the output product. The performance of the Water Bodies Detection Algorithm (WBDA was assessed using Landsat 8 scenes over 15 regions selected worldwide. A mean Commission Error (CE of 1.5% was obtained while a mean Omission Error (OE of 15.4% was obtained for minimum Water Surface Ratio (WSR = 0.5 and drops to 9.8% for minimum WSR = 0.6. Here, WSR is defined as the fraction of the PROBA-V pixel covered by water as derived from high spatial resolution images, e.g., Landsat 8. Both the CE = 1.5% and OE = 9.8% (WSR = 0.6 fall within the user requirements of 15%. The WBDA is fully operational in the Copernicus Global Land Service and products are freely available.

  11. 76 FR 46149 - Financial Assistance: Wildlife Restoration, Sport Fish Restoration, Hunter Education and Safety

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  12. Bis(1,10-phenanthroline-κ2N,N′(sulfato-κOcopper(II ethanol monosolvate

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    Natthaya Meundaeng

    2013-10-01

    Full Text Available The crystal structure of the title compound, [Cu(SO4(C12H8N22]·C2H5OH, arises from the assembly of the neutral complex [Cu(SO4(C12H8N22] and an ethanol solvent molecule. The CuII ion is five-coordinate, surrounded by two pairs of N atoms from two independent N,N′-chelating 1,10-phenanthroline ligands, and one O atom of monodentate sulfate ligand, in a distorted trigonal-bipyramidal fashion. Spatial orientation of the ligands and the assembly in the solid state are stabilized by the C—H...O hydrogen-bonding interactions, established between the O atoms (from the sulfate ligand and the ethanol molecule and the neighbouring 1,10-phenanthroline molecules. There is also an offset face-to-face π–π stacking between the 1,10-phenanthroline ligands. The ethanol solvent molecule is disordered over two orientations in the ratio 0.663 (10:0.337 (10. The crystal examined was subject to racemic twinning and the refined twin fraction was 0.346 (19.

  13. EADS-ST's Latest Bipropellant 10N Thruster and 400 N Engine: The Fully European Solution

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    Fick, M.; Dreer, T.; Gotzig, U.; Schulte, G.; Bachmann, J.; Lagier, F.; Benoit, E.

    2004-10-01

    Increasing restrictions, complications and bureaucratic hurdles for obtaining export licenses from the US government for American components to be used on certain projects and for certain launch sites or end customers, required the development of new or upgraded European flow control valves to guarantee an independent and unrestricted marketing of EADS-ST's orbital propulsion products to commercial customers worldwide. The development and qualification of the European flow control valves for EADS-ST's 10 N bipropellant thruster and 400 N bipropellant engine is highlighted, together with verification tests and the qualification programs at engine level. The 400 N engine under qualification with the new valves is an enhanced version with an increased area ratio of the nozzle.

  14. Prokofiev: Piano Concertos - N1 in Dflat major, Op. 10 / David J. Fanning

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    1990-01-01

    Uuest heliplaadist "Prokofiev: Piano Concertos - N1 in Dflat major, Op. 10, N4 in Bflat major, Op.53 "for the left hand", N5 in Gmajor, Op.55. Boris Berman (piano) Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Neeme Järvi". Chandos ABTD 1424. CHAN 8791

  15. Current gain above 10 in sub-10 nm base III-Nitride tunneling hot electron transistors with GaN/AlN emitter

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    Yang, Zhichao, E-mail: zcyang.phys@gmail.com; Zhang, Yuewei; Krishnamoorthy, Sriram; Nath, Digbijoy N. [Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210 (United States); Khurgin, Jacob B. [Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218 (United States); Rajan, Siddharth [Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210 (United States); Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210 (United States)

    2016-05-09

    We report on a tunneling hot electron transistor amplifier with common-emitter current gain greater than 10 at a collector current density in excess of 40 kA/cm{sup 2}. The use of a wide-bandgap GaN/AlN (111 nm/2.5 nm) emitter was found to greatly improve injection efficiency of the emitter and reduce cold electron leakage. With an ultra-thin (8 nm) base, 93% of the injected hot electrons were collected, enabling a common-emitter current gain up to 14.5. This work improves understanding of the quasi-ballistic hot electron transport and may impact the development of high speed devices based on unipolar hot electron transport.

  16. Proposal to search for mu- N -> e- N with a single event sensitivity below 10 -16

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    Carey, R.M.; Lynch, K.R.; Miller, J.P.; Roberts, B.L.; /Boston U.; Marciano, W.J.; Semertzidis, Y.; Yamin, P.; /Brookhaven; Kolomensky, Yu.G.; /UC, Berkeley; Molzon, W.; /UC, Irvine; Popp, J.L.; /City Coll., N.Y.; Ankenbrandt, C.M.; /Fermilab /Idaho State U. /Illinois U., Urbana /Moscow, INR /Massachusetts U., Amherst /MUONS Inc., Batavia /Northwestern U.

    2008-10-01

    We propose a new experiment, Mu2e, to search for charged lepton flavor violation with unprecedented sensitivity. We will measure the ratio of the coherent neutrinoless conversion in the field of a nucleus of a negatively charged muon into an electron to the muon capture process: R{sub {mu}e} = {mu}{sup -} + A(Z,N) {yields} e{sup -} + A(Z,N)/{mu}{sup -} + A(Z,N) {yields} {nu}{sub {mu}} + A(Z-1, N), with a sensitivity R{sub {mu}e} {le} 6 x 10{sup -17} at 90% CL. This is almost a four order-of-magnitude improvement over the existing limit. The observation of such a process would be unambiguous evidence of physics beyond the Standard Model. Since the discovery of the muon in 1936, physicists have attempted to answer I.I. Rabi's famous question: 'Who ordered that?' Why is there a muon? What role does it play in the larger questions of why there are three families and flavors of quarks, leptons, and neutrinos? We know quarks mix through a mechanism described by the Cabbibo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix, which has been studied for forty years. Neutrino mixing has been observed in the last decade, but mixing among the family of charged leptons has never been seen. The current limits are of order 10{sup -11} - 10{sup -13} so the process is rare indeed. Why is such an experiment important and timely? A major motivation for experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the possible observation of supersymmetric particles in the TeV mass range. Many of these supersymmetric models predict a {mu}-e conversion signal at R{sub {mu}e} {approx} 10{sup -15}. We propose to search for {mu}-e conversion at a sensitivity that exceeds this by more than an order of magnitude. The LHC may not be able to conclusively distinguish among supersymmetric models, so Mu2e will provide invaluable information should the LHC observe a signal. In the case where the LHC finds no evidence of supersymmetry, or other beyond-the-standard-model physics, Mu2e will probe for new physics at mass

  17. Tetraaquabis(1,10-phenanthroline-κ2N,N′strontium 5,5′-diazenediylditetrazolide

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    Bao-Juan Jiao

    2010-11-01

    Full Text Available The title complex, [Sr(C12H8N22(H2O4](C2N10, contains an [Sr(phen2(H2O4]2+ cation (phen is 1,10-phenanthroline and a 5,5′-diazenediylditetrazolide anion (site symmetry 2. The Sr2+ cation (site symmetry 2 is coordinated by four N atoms from two chelating phen and four water molecules. In the crystal structure, the water molecules and the N atoms in the tetrazolide rings form an extensive range of O—H...N hydrogen bonds which link the complex into a two-dimensional structure. An adjacent layer further yields a three-dimensional supramolecular network by offset face-to-face π–π stacking interactions of the phen ligands [with centroid–centroid distances of 3.915 (2 and 4.012 (2 Å]. The two bridging N atoms of the anion are equally disordered about the twofold rotation axis.

  18. Final report on bilateral comparison EURAMET.M.T-S3: Torque wrenches (10 N m - 1 kN m)

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    Röske, Dirk; Medina, Nieves

    2011-01-01

    A bilateral comparison from 10 N m up to 1000 N m has been carried out between Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) and Centro Español de Metrología (CEM) for reference torque wrenches calibrated according to DKD-R 3-7. The transfer standards have been two reference torque wrenches, 10 N m and 1000 N m respectively, that have been measured between November and December 2010. The results presented here demonstrate the metrological equivalence, within the quoted uncertainties, of both participant laboratories. Main text. To reach the main text of this paper, click on Final Report. Note that this text is that which appears in Appendix B of the BIPM key comparison database kcdb.bipm.org/. The final report has been peer-reviewed and approved for publication by EURAMET, according to the provisions of the CIPM Mutual Recognition Arrangement (MRA).

  19. Influenza A(H10N7) Virus in Dead Harbor Seals, Denmark

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    Krog, Jesper Schak; Hansen, Mette Sif; Holm, Elisabeth

    2015-01-01

    Since April 2014, an outbreak of influenza in harbor seals has been ongoing in northern Europe. In Denmark during June-August, 152 harbor seals on the island of Anholt were found dead from severe pneumonia. We detected influenza A(H10N7) virus in 2 of 4 seals examined.......Since April 2014, an outbreak of influenza in harbor seals has been ongoing in northern Europe. In Denmark during June-August, 152 harbor seals on the island of Anholt were found dead from severe pneumonia. We detected influenza A(H10N7) virus in 2 of 4 seals examined....

  20. Relación de la transición A G en la posición –21 del intrón 10 del gen NCF-2 con la expresión de la proteína p67-phox

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    El sistema NADPH oxidasa de las células fagocíticas es esencial
    para la producción de metabolitos reactivos de oxígeno que tienen
    acción microbicida importante. La proteína p67-phox, codificada por
    el gen NCF-2, tiene un papel importante en este sistema (1. Previamente nuestro grupo reportó algunos cambios nucleotídicos en regiones no codificadoras del gen NCF-2. Uno de estos corresponde a la
    transición de una adenina (A por una guanina (G en el intrón 10, 21
    nucleótidos antes del inicio del exón 11, sitio importante para la eliminación de este intrón y unión de los exones 10 y 11 durante el procesamiento del ARNm.
    En este proyecto se pretende determinar si existe alguna modificación
    en la expresión de p67-phox inducida por la transición A -►G en la posición -21 del intrón 10 en el gen NCF-2.

     

     

  1. One-loop divergences in 6D, N=(1,0) SYM theory

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    Buchbinder, I.L. [Department of Theoretical Physics, Tomsk State Pedagogical University,634061, Tomsk (Russian Federation); National Research Tomsk State University,634050, Tomsk (Russian Federation); Ivanov, E.A. [Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics,JINR, 141980 Dubna, Moscow region (Russian Federation); Merzlikin, B.S. [Department of Theoretical Physics, Tomsk State Pedagogical University,634061, Tomsk (Russian Federation); Department of Higher Mathematics and Mathematical Physics,Tomsk Polytechnic University,634050, Tomsk (Russian Federation); Stepanyantz, K.V. [Department of Theoretical Physics, Moscow State University,119991, Moscow (Russian Federation)

    2017-01-30

    We consider, in the harmonic superspace approach, the six-dimensional N=(1,0) supersymmetric Yang-Mills gauge multiplet minimally coupled to a hypermultiplet in an arbitrary representation of the gauge group. Using the superfield proper-time and background-field techniques, we compute the divergent part of the one-loop effective action depending on both the gauge multiplet and the hypermultiplet. We demonstrate that in the particular case of N=(1,1) SYM theory, which corresponds to the hypermultiplet in the adjoint representation, all one-loop divergencies vanish, so that N=(1,1) SYM theory is one-loop finite off shell.

  2. 9Be(d,n)10B-based neutron sources for BNCT

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    Capoulat, M.E.; Herrera, M.S.; Minsky, D.M.; González, S.J.; Kreiner, A.J.

    2014-01-01

    In the frame of accelerator-based BNCT, the 9 Be(d,n) 10 B reaction was investigated as a possible source of epithermal neutrons. In order to determine the configuration in terms of bombarding energy, target thickness and Beam Shaping Assembly (BSA) design that results in the best possible beam quality, a systematic optimization study was carried out. From this study, the optimal configuration resulted in tumor doses ≥40 Gy-Eq, with a maximum value of 51 Gy-Eq at a depth of about 2.7 cm, in a 60 min treatment. The optimal configuration was considered for the treatment planning assessment of a real Glioblastoma Multiforme case. From this, the resulted dose performances were comparable to those obtained with an optimized 7 Li(p,n)-based neutron source, under identical conditions and subjected to the same clinical protocol. - Highlights: • Study of the 9 Be(d,n) 10 B reaction as a source of epithermal neutrons for BNCT. • Evaluation of the optimal configuration of target thickness, deuteron energy and BSA design. • Computational dose assessment for brain tumor treatments using the MCNP code. • Treatment planning assessment of a particular clinical Glioblastoma Multiforme case. • Dose performances were comparable to those obtained with an optimized 7 Li(p,n)-based source

  3. Strength of 10CR-N martensitic steels

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    Bahrami, F.; Hendry, A.

    1993-01-01

    10Cr stainless steel has been employed to examine the effect of nitrogen on microstructure and strength. Applying Solid state gaseous nitrogenising treatments a whole range of nitrogen martensite structures containing up to 0.45 wt% were obtained. It was found that a linear relationship exists between strength and nitrogen content in precipitate free martensitic structures. Yield strength increased from 705 to 1295 MPa for nitrogen free base material and alloys with 0.35 wt%N respectively. Pronounce secondary hardening was observed at a tempering temperature of 500 C. A linear relationship was also observed between the lattice parameter and nitrogen concentration in these alloys. A model for mechanical behaviour is presented. (orig.)

  4. Emergence in China of human disease due to avian influenza A(H10N8)--cause for concern?

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    To, Kelvin K W; Tsang, Alan K L; Chan, Jasper F W; Cheng, Vincent C C; Chen, Honglin; Yuen, Kwok-Yung

    2014-03-01

    In December 2013, China reported the first human case of avian influenza A(H10N8). A 73-year-old female with chronic diseases who had visited a live poultry market succumbed with community-acquired pneumonia. While human infections with avian influenza viruses are usually associated with subtypes prevalent in poultries, A(H10N8) isolates were mostly found in migratory birds and only recently in poultries. Although not possible to predict whether this single intrusion by A(H10N8) is an accident or the start of another epidemic like the preceding A(H7N9) and A(H5N1), several features suggest that A(H10N8) is a potential threat to humans. Recombinant H10 could attach to human respiratory epithelium, and A(H10N4) virus could cause severe infections in minks and chickens. A(H10N8) viruses contain genetic markers for mammalian adaptation and virulence in the haemagglutinin (A135T, S138A[H3 numbering]), M1(N30D, T215A), NS1(P42S) and PB2(E627K) protein. Studies on this human A(H10N8) isolate will reveal its adaptability to humans. Clinicians should alert the laboratory to test for A(H5,6,7,9,10) viruses in patients with epidemiological exposure in endemic geographical areas especially when human influenza A(H1,3) and B are negative. Vigilant virological and serological surveillance for A(H10N8) in human, poultry and wild bird is important for following the trajectory of this emerging influenza virus. Copyright © 2014 The British Infection Association. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

  5. Markers of visceral obesity and cardiovascular risk in patients with polycystic ovarian syndrome.

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    Gateva, Antoaneta Trifonova; Kamenov, Zdravko Asenov

    2012-10-01

    Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) is one of most common endocrine disturbances in women of reproductive age. Besides its well known effects on reproductive health, it is also linked to increased cardiovascular risk in later life. The aim of this study was to investigate the link between some anthropometric indices of visceral obesity and surrogate markers of cardiovascular risk according to the Androgen Excess and Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (AE-PCOS) Society consensus. The study included 36 normal weight (BMIcardiometabolic profile and composite cardiovascular risk factors as defined by the AE-PCOS consensus. Both waist-to-stature ratio (WSR) (area under the curve 0.75, p=0.002) and waist circumference (WC) (area under the curve 0.77, p=0.001) but not waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) (area under the curve 0.62, p=0.143) were shown to be good markers of increased cardiovascular risk, insulin resistance and dislipidemia in PCOS patients. The cut-off point for WSR of 0.50 is useful and the cut-off of 80 cm for WC is more appropriate than 88 cm in detecting cardiovascular risk in PCOS patients. Androgen levels and immunoreactive insulin during an oral glucose tolerance test had lower power for predicting increased cardiovascular risk than WC and WSR. The study indicates that WSR and WC are better associated with composite cardiovascular risk factors as defined by the AE-PCOS consensus than WHR, and that the commonly used cut-off for WSR of 0.5 is useful for detecting cardiovascular risk in PCOS patients. Copyright © 2012 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.

  6. Raman spectroscopic studies on single supersaturated droplets of sodium and magnesium acetate.

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    Wang, Liang-Yu; Zhang, Yun-Hong; Zhao, Li-Jun

    2005-02-03

    Raman spectroscopy was used to study structural changes, in particular, the formation of contact-ion pairs in supersaturated aqueous NaCH(3)COO and Mg(CH(3)COO)(2) droplets at ambient temperatures. The single droplets levitated in an electrodynamic balance (EDB), lost water, and became supersaturated when the relative humidity (RH) decreased. For NaCH(3)COO droplet the water-to-solute molar ratio (WSR) was 3.87 without solidification when water molecules were not enough to fill in the first hydration layer of Na(+), in favor of the formation of contact-ion pairs. However, the symmetric stretching vibration band (nu(3) mode) of free -COO(-) constantly appeared at 1416 cm(-1), and no spectroscopic information related to monodentate, bidentate, or bridge bidentate contact-ion pairs was observed due to the weak interactions between the Na(+) and acetate ion. On the other hand, the band of methyl deformation blue shifted from 1352 to 1370 cm(-1) (at RH = 34.2%, WSR = 2.43), corresponding to the solidification process of a novel metastable phase in the highly supersaturated solutions. With further decreasing RH, a small amount of supersaturated solution still existed and was proposed to be hermetically covered by the metastable phase of the particle. In contrast, the interaction between Mg(2+) and acetate ion is much stronger. When WSR decreased from 21.67 to 2.58 for the Mg(CH(3)COO)(2) droplet, the band of C-C-symmetric stretching (nu(4) mode) had a blue shift from 936 to 947 cm(-1). The intensity of the two new shoulders (approximately 1456 and approximately 1443 cm(-1)) of the nu(3) band of free -COO(-) at 1420 cm(-1) increased with the decrease of WSR. These changes were attributed to the formation of contact-ion pairs with bidentate structures. In particular, the small frequency difference between the shoulder at approximately 1443 cm(-1) and the nu(3) band of the free -COO(-) group (approximately 1420 cm(-1)) was proposed to be related to the formation of a chain

  7. Corrosión de componentes de aluminio en el reactor RP-10

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    Morales Larrea, Soledad; Tenorio de la Cruz, Favio

    1983-01-01

    Se analiza la velocidad de corrosión, por pérdida de peso de placas de aluminio a diversos valores de pH y temperatura en solución acuosa. El estudio se hace simulando las condiciones de trabajo (pH y temperatura) a las que pueden verse sometidas las vainas de aluminio de los elementos combustibles del reactor RP-10.

  8. Channels with ordered water and bipyridine molecules in the porous coordination polymer {[Cu(SiF6(C10H8N22]·2C10N2H8·5H2O}n

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    Emmanuel Aubert

    2016-11-01

    Full Text Available The coordination polymer {[Cu(SiF6(C10H8N22]·2C10H8N2·5H2O}n, systematic name: poly[[bis(μ2-4,4′-bipyridine(μ2-hexafluoridosilicatocopper(II] 4,4′-bipyridine disolvate pentahydrate], contains pores which are filled with water and 4,4′-bipyridine molecules. As a result of the presence of these ordered species, the framework changes its symmetry from P4/mmm to P21/c. The 4,4′-bipyridine guest molecules form chains inside the 6.5 × 6.9 Å pores parallel to [100] in which the molecules interact through π–π stacking. Ordered water molecules form infinite hydrogen-bonded chains inside a second pore system (1.6 × 5.3 Å free aperture perpendicular to the 4,4′-bipyridine channels.

  9. Reorganización del Sistema Nacional de Salud, una gran transformación Ley 10 de 1990

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    Ricardo Galán Morera

    1990-04-01

    Full Text Available RESUMEN El sistema Nacional de Salud Colombiano  se creó a través del Decreto No 056 de 1975 y constituyó un hito histórico de especial relevancia Nacional. Después de 14 años de funcionamiento, el Gobierno Nacional, consideró urgente y necesario efectuar su restructuración, para ponerlo acorde con la descentralización política, administrativa  y fiscal y con las políticas  gubernamentales de “Erradicación de la pobreza Absoluta”, “Plan Nacional  de Rehabilitación”, “Participación Comunitaria” y “Participación Ciudadana”. El presente artículo señala, a manera de “flash”, las principales  características de la ley 10 de 1990, mediante la cual se “Reorganiza el Sistema Nacional de salud y se dictan otras disposiciones”.

  10. Tris(1,10-phenanthroline-κ2N,N′iron(II bis[(1,10-phenanthroline-κ2N,N′tetrakis(thiocyanato-κNchromate(III] acetonitrile trisolvate monohydrate

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    Volodymyr V. Bon

    2012-05-01

    Full Text Available Single crystals of the title heterometallic compound, [Fe(C12H8N23][Cr(NCS4(C12H8N2]2·3CH3CN·H2O or [Fe(Cphen3][Cr(NCS4(phen]2·3CH3CN·H2O, were prepared using the one-pot open-air reaction of iron powder, Reineckes salt and 1,10-phenanthroline (phen in acetonitrile. The asymetric unit consists of an [Fe(phen3]2+ cation, two [Cr(phen(NCS4]− anions, three acetonitrile solvent molecules and a water molecule. The Fe and Cr atoms both show a slightly distorted octahedral FeN6 and CrN6 coordination geometry with adjacent angles in the range 79.67 (12–95.21 (12°. No classical hydrogen bonding involving the water molecule is observed.

  11. Distracción osteogénica alveolar: una alternativa en la reconstrucción de rebordes alveolares atróficos: Descripción de 10 casos Alveolar distraction osteogenesis: an alternative in the reconstruction of atrophic alveolar ridges: Report of 10 cases

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    P.E. Maurette O’Brien

    2004-02-01

    Full Text Available La distracción osteogénica alveolar (DOA es un método alternativo para la reconstrucción de rebordes alveolares atróficos que ofrece un resultado previsible y que disminuye los tiempo de espera entre la reconstrucción del reborde alveolar atrófico y la colocación de los implantes óseo-integrados, en comparación con los métodos tradicionalmente utilizados. Fueron atendidos 10 pacientes que presentaban deficiencia de reborde alveolar mandibular y/o maxilar por medio de distracción osteogénica, utilizando un dispositivo yuxtaoseo (Conexión Implant System® - SP-Brasil. Todos los pacientes fueron atendidos de forma ambulatoria, bajo anestesia local y sedación conciente, comenzando la activación del dispositivo a los 7 días posteriores a la instalación, con un patrón de activación de 1 mm diarios hasta alcanzar la altura ósea deseada. Posteriormente se aguardaron 10 semanas como parte del periodo de consolidación ósea y se realizo la colocación de los implantes oseointegrados y local y el retiro del dispositivo de distracción, pudiéndose comprobar clínica y radiográficamente la ganancia de la altura y volumen óseo necesario para la rehabilitación por medio de implantes.The alveolar distraction osteogenesis is an alternative method for the reconstruction of atrophic alveolar ridges with success, that decrease the time of wait between the reconstruction of the alveolar ridge and the placement of the osseointegrated implants in comparison with the traditionally used methods. 10 patients that presented deficiency of the alveolar ridge in the maxilla and/or mandible were assisted by means of distraction osteogenesis, using a juxtaosseous device (Conexion Implant System® - SP-Brazil. All the patients were assisted of form ambulatory, under local anesthesia and conscientious sedation, beginning the activation from the device 7 days later to the installation, with a pattern of activation 1 mm diary until reaching the wanted

  12. Mxi1 and Mxi1-0 Antagonize N-Myc Function and Independently Mediate Apoptosis in Neuroblastoma

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    David A. Erichsen

    2015-02-01

    Full Text Available Neuroblastoma (NB is the third most common malignancy of childhood, and outcomes for children with advanced disease remain poor; amplification of the MYCN gene portends a particularly poor prognosis. Mxi1 antagonizes N-Myc by competing for binding to Max and E-boxes. Unlike N-Myc, Mxi1 mediates transcriptional repression and suppresses cell proliferation. Mxi1 and Mxi1-0 (an alternatively transcribed Mxi1 isoform share identical Max and DNA binding domains but differ in amino-terminal sequences. Because of the conservation of these critical binding domains, we hypothesized that Mxi1-0 antagonizes N-Myc activity similar to Mxi1. SHEP NB cells and SHEP cells stably transfected with MYCN (SHEP/MYCN were transiently transfected with vectors containing full-length Mxi1, full-length Mxi1-0, or the common Mxi domain encoded by exons 2 to 6 (ex2-6. After incubation in low serum, parental SHEP/MYCN cell numbers were reduced compared with SHEP cells. Activated caspase-3 staining and DNA fragmentation ELISA confirmed that SHEP/MYCN cells undergo apoptosis in low serum, while SHEP/MYCN cells transfected with Mxi1 or Mxi1-0 do not. However, SHEP/MYCN cells transfected with Mxi1 or Mxi1-0 and grown in normal serum showed proliferation rates similar to SHEP cells. Mxi ex2-6 did not affect cell number in low or normal serum, suggesting that amino terminal domains of Mxi1 and Mxi1-0 are critical for antagonism. In the absence of N-Myc, Mxi1 and Mxi1-0 induce apoptosis independently through the caspase-8–dependent extrinsic pathway, while N-Myc activates the caspase-9–dependent intrinsic pathway. Together, these data indicate that Mxi1 and Mxi1-0 antagonize N-Myc but also independently impact NB cell survival.

  13. Enrichment of {sup 15}N and {sup 10}B isotopes by chemical exchange process

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    D` Souza, A B; Sonwalkar, A S; Subrahmanyam, B V; Valladares, B A [Chemical Engineering Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai (India)

    1994-06-01

    Many processes are available for separation of stable isotopes like distillation, chemical exchange, thermal diffusion, gaseous diffusion, centrifuge etc. Chemical exchange process is eminently suitable for separation of isotopes of light elements. Work done on separation and enrichment of two of the stable isotopes viz. {sup 15}N and {sup 10}B in Chemical Engineering Division is presented. {sup 15}N is widely used as a tracer in agricultural research and {sup 10}B is used in nuclear industry as control rod material, soluble reactor poison, neutron detector etc. The work on {sup 15}N isotope resulted in a pilot plant, which was the only source of this material in the country for many years and later it was translated into a production plant as M/s. RCF Ltd. The work done on the ion-exchange process for enrichment of {sup 10}B isotope which is basically a chemical exchange process, is now being updated into a pilot plant to produce enriched {sup 10}B to be used as soluble reactor poison. (author). 5 refs., 2 figs., 3 tabs.

  14. Biological Effects of Thermal Neutrons and the B{sup 10}(n, {alpha}) Li{sup 7} reaction; Effets Biologiques des Neutrons Thermiques et la Reaction {sup 10}B(n, {alpha}){sup 7}Li; Biologicheskoe dejstvie teplovykh nejtronov i reaktsiya B{sup 10}(n, {alpha}) Li{sup 7}; Efectos Biologicos de los Neutrones Termicos y la Reaccion {sup 10}B(n, {alpha}){sup 7}Li

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    Archambeau, J. O.; Alcober, V.; Calvo, W. G.; Brenneis, H. [Medical Research Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY (United States)

    1964-05-15

    Irradiation of animals with thermal neutrons from the Medical Research Reactor (MRR) produces tissue effects which result from the gamma- and particulate-radiations arising from thermal-neutron capture by elements in tissue and shielding materials, and from gamma-radiation and fast neutrons from the fission process in the reactor core. The overall results from thermal-neutron irradiation are a function of the incident nvt. Because the thermal neutron flux decreases rapidly in tissue (HVL {approx_equal} 8 cm), large doses have to be incident on the suriace to ensure an adequate dose at depth. Consequently reactions of lung, gut, bone marrow and mucosa are attributed largely to the gamma-irradiation from thermal-neutron capture in the overlying tissue. Irradiation of dogs heads with an nvt of 1.4 x 10{sup 14}/cm{sup 2} results in epilation, erythema and moist desquamation with an accompanying haematological depression. However, recovery of the bone marrow and healing of the skin occurs in 25 to 30 days. When irradiated with an nvt of 5 x 10{sup 13}n/cm{sup 2} 30 min following intravenous injection of 35 mg/kg of boron-10 (B{sup 10}), the animals show a necrotizing epidermitis, scalp oedema, and conjunctivitis. The brain shows capillary haemorrhages and stasis with neutronal and astrocyte damage and alteration of the capillary endothelium. A marked platelet depression ensues which aggravates the local changes. The animals die from haemorrhage and/or cerebral damage on the fifth to ninth day following irradiation. The effects are attributed to both the gamma-irradiation and the alpha-irradiation produced from the neutron capture of boron B{sup 10}(n, {alpha}) Li{sup 7}. Irradiation of pig's skin with an nvt of 5 x 10{sup 12} n/cm{sup 2} produces no histological change. When the skin is irradiated with the same nvt following intravenous injection of 35 mg/kg of boron-10, a classic radioepidermitis is produced which heals in 36 to 40 days. Fractionation of the total nvt

  15. Designing Efficient Solar-Thermal Fuels with [n.n](9,10)Anthracene Cyclophanes: A Theoretical Perspective.

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    Ganguly, Gaurab; Sultana, Munia; Paul, Ankan

    2018-01-18

    Molecular solar thermal storage (MOST) systems have been largely limited to three classes of molecular motifs: azo-benzene, norbornadiene, and transition metal based fulvalene-tetracarbonyl systems. Photodimerization of anthracene has been known for a century; however, this photoprocess has not been successfully exploited for MOST purposes due to its poor energy storage. Using well-calibrated theoretical methods on a series of [n.n](9,10)bis-anthracene cyclophanes, we have exposed that they can store solar energy into chemical bonds and can release in the form of heat energy on demand under mild conditions. The storage is mainly attributed to the strain in the rings formed by the alkyl linkers upon photoexcitation. Our results demonstrate that the gravimetric energy storage density for longer alkyl-chain linkers (n > 3) are comparable to those for the best-known candidates; however, it lacks some of the deleterious attributes of known systems, thus making the proposed molecules desirable targets for MOST applications.

  16. Validación del software educativo Poliestudio 1.0: informe de investigación

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    Juan José Fallas-M

    2009-12-01

    Full Text Available Recibido 14 de agosto de 2008 • Aceptado 29 de abril de 2009 • Corregido 23 de junio de 2009     PoliEstudio 1.0 es una herramienta computacional de licencia gratuita diseñada para el trabajo con polinomios en una variable y fue creado por un equipo del cual forman parte los autores de este artículo. Aquí se documenta la validación cualitativa realizada a este software, con el objetivo de brindar al Sistema Educativo Costarricense un programa educativo validado, que dé respuesta parcial a la problemática que aqueja la formación matemática de los estudiantes de secundaria, en particular, en los temas concernientes a polinomios en una variable y, específicamente, a los estudiantes de octavo año.

  17. Supergraph analysis of the one-loop divergences in 6D, N=(1,0 and N=(1,1 gauge theories

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    I.L. Buchbinder

    2017-08-01

    Full Text Available We study the one-loop effective action for 6D, N=(1,0 supersymmetric Yang–Mills (SYM theory with hypermultiplets and 6D, N=(1,1 SYM theory as a subclass of the former, using the off-shell formulation of these theories in 6D, N=(1,0 harmonic superspace. We develop the corresponding supergraph technique and apply it to compute the one-loop divergences in the background field method ensuring the manifest gauge invariance. We calculate the two-point Green functions of the gauge superfield and the hypermultiplet, as well as the three-point gauge-hypermultipet Green function. Using these Green functions and exploiting gauge invariance of the theory, we find the full set of the off-shell one-loop divergent contributions, including the logarithmic and power ones. Our results precisely match with those obtained earlier in [1,2] within the proper time superfield method.

  18. Interaction mechanisms of ionic liquids [Cnmim]Br (n=4, 6, 8, 10) with bovine serum albumin

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    Yan Hua; Wu Junyong; Dai Guoliang; Zhong Aiguo; Chen Hao; Yang Jianguo; Han Deman

    2012-01-01

    It is important to study the interaction of ionic liquids (ILs) with protein for the applications of ILs in biochemical process, and help the researchers to choose and design the better ILs to serve as a solvent. In this work, the interaction between 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium bromide [C n mim]Br (n=4, 6, 8, 10) and bovine serum albumin (BSA) was systematically investigated for the first time by multi-spectroscopic approach (fluorescence, UV–vis and FT-IR spectroscopy) and density functional theory (DFT). [C n mim]Br (n=4, 6, 8, 10) can bind to BSA by H-bond interaction between their cationic headgroups and Asp/Glu amino acid residue at the surface of BSA, and hydrophobic interaction between their hydrocarbon chains and the hydrophobic amino acid residues in the interior of BSA. On the basis of thermodynamic parameters and the similar structure of [C n mim]Br (n=4, 6, 8, 10), it can be inferred that the hydrophobic interaction plays a major role in the interaction of [C 10 mim]Br with BSA, while the hydrogen bond and van der Waals force play a major role in the interaction of [C n mim]Br (n=4, 6, 8) with BSA. Synchronous fluorescence and FT-IR spectra indicate that [C 10 mim]Br could markedly change the secondary structure of BSA, while [C n mim]Br (n=4, 6, 8) could slightly change the secondary structure of BSA. The results allowed us to understand (i) the effect of the alkyl chain length of the cation on the mechanism of ILs–protein interaction and (ii) the effect of the alkyl chain length of the cation on the protein secondary structure. - Highlights: ► Interaction of [C n mim]Br with BSA was investigated by spectroscopy and DFT. ► Interaction mechanisms and BSA secondary structure were discussed. ► Effects of the alkyl chain length of cation were presented.

  19. Water Dancer II-a: a Non-tethered Telecontrollable Water Strider Robot

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    Licheng Wu

    2011-09-01

    Full Text Available Water Strider Robot (WSR is a kind of bio‐ inspired micro robot that can stand and move on water surface via surface tension. In this paper, a design method is presented with algorithms for designing driving leg. Structure, control system and software of the robot are also discussed in details. A prototype Water Dancer II‐a that is driven with two electric motors is presented as successfully tested in lab. The proposed WSR is tele‐controlled with infrared signals and has the capability of turning and speed regulation with features of light tiny volume and low power consumption. Experimental results are reported and discussed to show practical feasibility of the presented WSR prototype. The new results in the paper are related also to the WSR prototype design with a robot body of less than 30 x 30 mm size and with ten leg rods of 90 mm length and 0.2 diameter that are able to provide lifting force for a water walk of the 6.0 grams robot at a forward speed of 20 cm/s or angular velocity of 9 degree/s with two micro DC motors (RoomFlight 4 x 8 mm, 28 Ohm.

  20. Water Dancer II-A: A Non-Tethered Telecontrollable Water Strider Robot

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    Licheng Wu

    2011-09-01

    Full Text Available Water Strider Robot (WSR is a kind of bio-inspired micro robot that can stand and move on water surface via surface tension. In this paper, a design method is presented with algorithms for designing driving leg. Structure, control system and software of the robot are also discussed in details. A prototype Water Dancer II-a that is driven with two electric motors is presented as successfully tested in lab. The proposed WSR is tele-controlled with infrared signals and has the capability of turning and speed regulation with features of light tiny volume and low power consumption. Experimental results are reported and discussed to show practical feasibility of the presented WSR prototype. The new results in the paper are related also to the WSR prototype design with a robot body of less than 30 × 30 mm size and with ten leg rods of 90 mm length and 0.2 diameter that are able to provide lifting force for a water walk of the 6.0 grams robot at a forward speed of 20 cm/s or angular velocity of 9 degree/s with two micro DC motors(RoomFlight 4 × 8 mm, 28 Ohm.

  1. Revisit the landscape of protonated water clusters H+(H2O)n with n = 10-17: An ab initio global search

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    Shi, Ruili; Li, Keyao; Su, Yan; Tang, Lingli; Huang, Xiaoming; Sai, Linwei; Zhao, Jijun

    2018-05-01

    Using a genetic algorithm incorporated with density functional theory, we explore the ground state structures of protonated water clusters H+(H2O)n with n = 10-17. Then we re-optimize the isomers at B97-D/aug-cc-pVDZ level of theory. The extra proton connects with a H2O molecule to form a H3O+ ion in all H+(H2O)10-17 clusters. The lowest-energy structures adopt a monocage form at n = 10-16 and core-shell structure at n = 17 based on the MP2/aug-cc-pVTZ//B97-D/aug-cc-pVDZ+ZPE single-point-energy calculation. Using second-order vibrational perturbation theory, we further calculate the infrared spectra with anharmonic correction for the ground state structures of H+(H2O)10-17 clusters at the PBE0/aug-cc-pVDZ level. The anharmonic correction to the spectra is crucial since it reproduces the experimental results quite well. The extra proton weakens the O-H bond strength in the H3O+ ion since the Wiberg bond order of the O-H bond in the H3O+ ion is smaller than that in H2O molecules, which causes a red shift of the O-H stretching mode in the H3O+ ion.

  2. Comptia Network+ review guide exam N10-006

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    Ferguson, Bill

    2015-01-01

    Be prepared for the Network+ exam CompTIA Network+ Review Guide is your ideal study companion for preparing for the CompTIA Network+ exam (N10-006). This concise review is the perfect companion to the CompTIA Network+ Study Guide and the CompTIA Network+ Deluxe Study Guide, with full exam coverage organized by objective for quick review and reinforcement of key topics. Each of the book's five parts is devoted to a specific domain area of the exam, providing a focused review to bolster areas of weak understanding. You get access to the Sybex test engine, which includes two bonus practice tests

  3. Adaptación del Cuestionario de Autoeficacia Profesional (AU-10 a la población de trabajadores cordobeses

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    Luis Maffei

    2012-01-01

    expresar creencias más elevadas de autoeficacia profesional, tal como se esperaba a nivel teórico. Conclusión. Los resultados son prometedores porque se verifican algunas propiedades psicométricas importantes del AU- 10 en la población de trabajadores de Córdoba. Contar con un instrumento de estas características posibilita el desarrollo de futuras líneas de trabajo, tanto de índole práctica como aplicada.

  4. Structural and electronic properties of V{sub 2}B{sub n} (n = 1–10) clusters

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    Zhang, Li-Nan; Jia, Jianfeng, E-mail: jiajf@dns.sxnu.edu.cn; Wu, Hai-Shun, E-mail: wuhs@mail.sxnu.edu.cn

    2015-09-28

    Highlights: • Ground state isomers of V{sub 2}B{sub n} clusters are presented. • The growth pattern of V{sub 2}B{sub n} clusters is discussed. • V{sub 2}B{sub 6} is found to be the magically stable cluster. • The different ground state structure of V{sub 2}B{sub n} from that of Ta{sub 2}B{sub n} is caused by the small atomic radius of V atom. - Abstract: Inspired by the discovery of a series of Ta{sub 2}B{sub n} clusters, the geometric structures, stabilities, and electronic properties of V{sub 2}B{sub n} clusters up to n = 10 have been systematically investigated based on the density-functional B3LYP method and the CCSD(T) method. Among the small size clusters, the V{sub 2}B{sub 5} cluster was observed to have different geometric motif than Sc{sub 2}B{sub 5}, Ti{sub 2}B{sub 5} and Ta{sub 2}B{sub 5}. For V{sub 2}B{sub n} clusters with an n ⩾ 6, the bipyramidal structure is energetically favored, as for Sc{sub 2}B{sub n} and Ti{sub 2}B{sub n}. The second-order difference of energies, binding energies, dissociation energies, vertical ionization potentials, vertical electron affinities and chemical hardness of the V{sub 2}B{sub n} clusters were calculated and analyzed. The V{sub 2}B{sub 6} cluster was determined to be stable thermodynamically and might be observed in a future experiment. To understand the stability of the V{sub 2}B{sub 6} cluster, a detailed inspection of its occupied valence orbitals was performed.

  5. Quemaduras por frío: Revisión de 10 Años

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    EULUFÍ M, ALEX; PIÑEROS B, JOSÉ LUIS; CALDERÓN O, WILFREDO; CUADRA C, ÁLVARO; DANILLA E, STEFAN; LÉNIZ M, PATRICIO; ROCO M, HÉCTOR; ROA G, RICARDO; EULUFÍ M, CHRISTIAN

    2006-01-01

    La injuria por frío ha sido objeto de estudio desde la década de 1960, Este trabajo entrega los resultados de una revisión retrospectiva de un grupo de 10 pacientes ingresados al Hospital del Trabajador de Santiago (HTS) en un periodo de 10 años producto de accidentes laborales de distintas etiologías. Cabe señalar que solo encontramos reportes aislados de casos en la literatura revisada. Se revisaron retrospectivamente las fichas clínicas de 10 pacientes en el periodo 1993-2003. Las edades f...

  6. A model for the ethylene and acetylene adsorption on the surface of Cu{sub n}(n = 10–15) nanoclusters: A theoretical study

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    Farmanzadeh, Davood, E-mail: d.farmanzad@umz.ac.ir; Abdollahi, Tahereh

    2016-11-01

    Highlights: • The most stable structures of Cu{sub n} (n = 10–15) were structures with C{sub S} symmetry. • It is expected that even clusters are better electron donors than the odd clusters. • Acetylene and ethylene adsorb molecularly on the Cu nanoclusters surface. • Acetylene never orient toward di-σ mode for Cu−Cu bond in odd copper nanoclusters. • For di- σ-Cu{sub n}C{sub 2}H{sub 4}, no stable structure is identified. - Abstract: In this work, we report the results of density functional theory calculations of ethylene and acetylene adsorption on the most stable Cu{sub n} (n = 10–15) nanoclusters, in two π and di- σ adsorption modes. Both the hydrocarbons molecularly adsorbed on the surface. Our results show that the quality of interaction of ethylene and acetylene with odd copper nanoclusters (n = 11, 13, 15) is different from what is found on even copper nanoclusters (n = 10, 12, 14). One of the interesting features of this adsorption is that acetylene never orient toward di-σ mode for Cu−Cu bond in odd copper nanoclusters. Also, for di- σ-Cu{sub n}C{sub 2}H{sub 4}, no stable structure is identified. The highest interaction and deformation energies are seen for the adsorption of acetylene and ethylene on Cu{sub 11} in π-mode.

  7. A study of the 10, 11B(p,n)10, 11C reactions between Ep=13,7 and 14,7 MeV

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    Schelin, H.R.

    1985-01-01

    Using time-of-flight facilities of the Sao Paulo 8UD Pelletron Accelerator, absolute differential cross sections for the n 0 , n 1 , n 2 , n 3 , (n 4 +n 5 ), n 6 and n 7 groups for the reaction 11 B(p,n) 11 C and the n 0 and n 1 neutron groups for the reaction 10 B(p,n) 10 C have been measured at incident proton energies of 14.0, 14.3 and 14.6 MeV in the angular interval of 20 to 160 degrees. Excitation functions at θ lab =20 deg from Ep=13.7 to 14.7 MeV in intervals of 100 KeV were also measured. The theoretical analysis was conducted to determine relative contributions of the diret and compound nucleus processes in the differential cross sections. To this end, a two couple channel model model for the reactions was assumed. The DWBA model for the direct and the Hauser-Feshbch for the compound nucleus processes were in such a way as to simulate the exact coupled channels calculation through an appropriate choice of the absorption term W in the optical potential. The results indicate that about half of the cross section is due to the compound nucleus mechanism. The theoretical analysis aimed at obtaining the elastic enhancement factor for the channel 11 B(p,n 0 ) 11 C at Ep=14.3 MeV. This has been demonstrated to appear in compound nucleus charge reactions by Harney, Weidemueller and Richter and predicted to attain the value 2 when isospin is conserved. Our results show an enhancement factor larger than 1 indicating that isospin mixing is weak in this reaction. (Author) [pt

  8. Caracterización espacial de PM10 en la ciudad de Medellín mediante modelos geoestadísticos

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    Libardo Antonio Londoño Ciro

    2015-12-01

    Full Text Available En este artículo se presenta un modelo geoestadístico para caracterizar espacialmente el comportamiento del contaminante PM10 en la ciudad de Medellín Colombia. Los datos se han tomado de nueve sitios de monitoreo en valor promedio mensual (µg/m3 durante el periodo enero 2003 a diciembre 2007. Se evaluaron diferentes modelos mediante pruebas de validación cruzada. El mejor modelo es el j-bessel. Se calculan los parámetros del modelo mediante pruebas ANOVA para agrupaciones trimestrales. Con Kriging ordinario y sistemas de información geográfica, se obtienen mapas de caracterización espacial del contaminante.

  9. Influenza A (H10N7) Virus Causes Respiratory Tract Disease in Harbor Seals and Ferrets

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    van den Brand, Judith M A; Wohlsein, Peter; Herfst, Sander; Bodewes, Rogier; Pfankuche, Vanessa M; van de Bildt, Marco W G; Seehusen, Frauke; Puff, Christina; Richard, Mathilde; Siebert, Ursula; Lehnert, Kristina; Bestebroer, Theo; Lexmond, Pascal; Fouchier, Ron A M; Prenger-Berninghoff, Ellen; Herbst, Werner; Koopmans, Marion; Osterhaus, Albert D M E; Kuiken, Thijs; Baumgärtner, Wolfgang

    2016-01-01

    Avian influenza viruses sporadically cross the species barrier to mammals, including humans, in which they may cause epidemic disease. Recently such an epidemic occurred due to the emergence of avian influenza virus of the subtype H10N7 (Seal/H10N7) in harbor seals (Phoca vitulina). This epidemic

  10. Ultrasound surface treatment of Kh18N10T steel with different structural state. Ul'trazvukovaya poverkhnostnaya obrabotka stali Kh18N10T s razlichnym strukturnym sostoyaniem

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    Aksenov, V K; Danilov, P A; Mats, A V; Netesov, V M; Yaes, A A [AN Ukrainskoj SSR, Kharkov (Ukrainian SSR). Fiziko-Tekhnicheskij Inst.

    1989-09-01

    Ultrasound surface treatment (USST) is studied for its effect on the structure and mechanical-and-physical properties of Kh18N10T steel with different prehistory. It is shown that surface treatment may both increase and decrease steel microhardness.

  11. 化疗方案及疗程对乳腺癌患者体成分的影响%Effects of chemotherapy regimen and course of treatment on body composition of breast cancer patients

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    梁振华; 齐路霞; 寇小格; 王晶晶; 温有锋

    2017-01-01

    目的:研究不同方案和疗程对乳腺癌患者体成分的影响.方法:利用前瞻性研究,间接计算出患者的腰臀比、腰围身高比(WSR)、身体质量指数(BMI)、体脂率、体脂肪和瘦体质量等体质指标、体成分的含量.结果:不同疗程的WSR、BMI、体脂、体脂率差异有统计学意义,BMI、体脂、体脂率与疗程间的两两比较差异有统计学意义;WSR在表柔比星+环磷酰胺(EC)方案疗程间(第一、二次化疗比较除外)的两两比较差异有统计学意义,和多柔比星+环磷酰胺(AC)方案疗程间(第一次与化疗前,第二、三次疗程比较除外)的两两比较差异有统计学意义.结论:EC方案中,BMI、WSR、体脂肪、体脂率随疗程进展而增加;AC方案中,BMI、体脂肪、体脂率随疗程进展先减少后增加,WSR随疗程进展而增加.%Objective: To study the effect of different chemotherapy regimens on body composition in different courses of breast cancer patients. Methods: Prospective research methods were used to calculate the waist-to-hip ratio, waist height ratio (WSR), body mass index (BMI), body fat rate, body fat and lean body weight. Results: In the epirubicin+cyclophosphamide (EC) program, BMI, WSR, body fat and body fat rate of different courses of treatment had statistically significant differences. Differences among BMI, WSR (except for the comparison of the second chemotherapy and the first chemotherapy), body fat, body fat rate were statistically significant. In the doxorubicin+cyclophosphamide (AC) program, the differences of BMI, WSR, body fat and body fat rate of different courses of treatment were statistically significant, WSR (except for the comparison of the first and before chemotherapy, the second and third chemotherapy) had statistically significant difference between the two groups. The differences of BMI, body fat, body fat rate in the different courses of treatment between the two groups were statistically significant

  12. Ytterbium doped silicon clusters YbSi{sub n} (n = 4–10) and their anions: Structures, thermochemistry, and electron affinities

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    Xie, Xiaohong [School of Chemical Engineering, Inner Mongolia University of Technology, Hohhot 010051 (China); Hao, Dongsheng [School of Chemical Engineering, Inner Mongolia University of Technology, Hohhot 010051 (China); School of Mining and Technology, Inner Mongolia University of Technology, Hohhot 010051 (China); Yang, Jucai, E-mail: yangjc@imut.edu.cn [School of Chemical Engineering, Inner Mongolia University of Technology, Hohhot 010051 (China); School of Energy and Power Engineering, Inner Mongolia University of Technology, Hohhot 010051 (China)

    2015-11-05

    Highlights: • The ground-state structure of YbSi{sub n} and its anion is substitutional structure. • The four DFT AEAs are in excellent agreement with the experimental data. • Theoretical AEA of 2.33 eV of YbSi{sub 9} is more reasonable than the experimental 2.60 eV. • Hardness analysis reveals that doping Yb to Si{sub n} raises photochemical sensitivity. • Relative stabilities of YbSi{sub n} and their anions are examined. - Abstract: The structures, electron affinities, dissociation energies, hardness, and dipole moments of YbSi{sub n} (n = 4–10) and their anions were examined using B3LYP, TPSSh, PBE and wB97X methods. The lowest-energy structures can be regarded as replacing a Si of the ground-state structure of Si{sub n+1} with a Yb atom. The theoretical adiabatic electron affinities (AEAs) of YbSi{sub n} are in excellent agreement with experimental data. The average absolute errors from experiment are by 0.08, 0.07, 0.05 and 0.08 eV at the B3LYP, the TPSSh, the PBE and the wB97X levels, respectively. Theoretical AEAs of 2.33 ± 0.05 eV for YbSi{sub 9} are more reliable than the experimental value of 2.60 ± 0.05 eV. The hardness analysis reveals that doping Yb atom to Si{sub n} (n = 4–10) clusters raises the photochemical sensitivity. The dissociation energies of Yb atom from YbSi{sub n} and their anions were calculated to examine relative stabilities.

  13. Probing the Electronic Structure and Band Gap Evolution of Titanium Oxide Clusters (TiO2)n- (n=1-10) Using Photoelectron Spectroscopy

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    Zhai, Hua-jin; Wang, Lai S.

    2007-01-01

    TiO2 is a wide-band gap semiconductor and it is an important material for photocatalysis. Here we report an experimental investigation of the electronic structure of (TiO2)n clusters and how their band gap evolves as a function of size using anion photoelectron spectroscopy (PES). PES spectra of (TiO2)n- clusters for n = 1-10 have been obtained at 193 (6.424 eV) and 157 nm (7.866 eV). The high photon energy at 157 nm allows the band gap of the TiO2 clusters to be clearly revealed up to n = 10. The band gap is observed to be strongly size-dependent for n 1 appears to be localized in a tricoordinated Ti atom, creating a single Ti3+ site and making these clusters ideal molecular models for mechanistic understanding of TiO2 surface defects and photocatalytic properties

  14. Organización celular del área 10 de la corteza orbitofrontal del ser humano

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    Hernán J. Pimienta J.; John Umbarila Prieto

    2005-01-01

    La región orbital del área 10 de la corteza cerebral del humano se relaciona con la disociación de la atención, la introspección, la monitorización individuo-ambiente y la memoria prospectiva.  Los estudios imaginológicos funcionales han identificado asimetrías en la actividad prefrontal.  Los correlatos celulares de estas asimetrías son desconocidos.

  15. Organización celular del área 10 de la corteza orbitofrontal del ser humano

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    Hernán J. Pimienta J.

    2005-03-01

    Full Text Available La región orbital del área 10 de la corteza cerebral del humano se relaciona con la disociación de la atención, la introspección, la monitorización individuo-ambiente y la memoria prospectiva.  Los estudios imaginológicos funcionales han identificado asimetrías en la actividad prefrontal.  Los correlatos celulares de estas asimetrías son desconocidos.

  16. Eleventh Hour Network+ Exam N10-004 Study Guide

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    2009-01-01

    The 11th Hour Network+ Study Guide is keyed to the N10-004 revision of the CompTIA Network+ exam. This book is streamlined to include only core certification information and is presented for ease of last-minute studying. Main objectives of the exam are covered with key concepts highlighted. ..: ..; Fast Facts quickly review fundamentals ..; Exam Warnings highlight particularly tough sections of the exam ..; Crunch Time sidebars point out key concepts to remember ..; Did You Know? sidebars cover sometimes forgotten details ..; Top Five Toughest Questions and answers help you to prepare ..

  17. 4d N=1 from 6d (1,0)

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    Razamat, Shlomo S. [Physics Department, Technion,Haifa, 32000 (Israel); Vafa, Cumrun [Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Harvard University,Cambridge, MA 02138 (United States); Zafrir, Gabi [Physics Department, Technion,Haifa, 32000 (Israel); Kavli IPMU (WPI), UTIAS, the University of Tokyo,Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583 (Japan)

    2017-04-11

    We study the geometry of 4d N=1 SCFT’s arising from compactification of 6d (1,0) SCFT’s on a Riemann surface. We show that the conformal manifold of the resulting theory is characterized, in addition to moduli of complex structure of the Riemann surface, by the choice of a connection for a vector bundle on the surface arising from flavor symmetries in 6d. We exemplify this by considering the case of 4d N=1 SCFT’s arising from M5 branes probing ℤ{sub k} singularity compactified on a Riemann surface. In particular, we study in detail the four dimensional theories arising in the case of two M5 branes on ℤ{sub 2} singularity. We compute the conformal anomalies and indices of such theories in 4d and find that they are consistent with expectations based on anomaly and the moduli structure derived from the 6 dimensional perspective.

  18. Relación entre las partículas finas (PM 2.5 y respirables PM 10 en la ciudad de Medellín Relation between fine particles (PM 2.5 and breathable particles (PM 10 in Medellin city

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    2008-01-01

    Full Text Available En este trabajo se presenta parte de los resultados del proyecto 'Patologías respiratorias en niños preescolares y su relación con la contaminación atmosférica de Medellín', realizado por la Universidad de Medellín y la Universidad CES para la Secretaria de Salud de Medellín dentro del contrato 4700026668 de 2006. Se realizaron mediciones simultáneas de partículas finas (PM2.5 y respirables (PM10 durante el período de febrero a octubre de 2007 en varios sitios de la ciudad de Medellín, capital del departamento de Antioquia, habitada aproximadamente por 2’250.000 personas. Los resultados del análisis muestran, en la mayoría de los casos, una correlación positiva y lineal entre los dos parámetros. La relación (PM2.5/PM10 promedio para los sitios o zonas bajo consideración en este estudio fue de aproximadamente 0.67, valor bastante considerable que hace pensar que probablemente se puede cumplir con la norma anual para PM10, pero no para PM2.5. Los resultados obtenidos identifican las partículas finas como uno de los principales problemas de contaminación en la ciudad de Medellín.This article shows part of the results from the project called: 'Respiratory pathologies in pre-school children and their relation to atmospheric contamination in Medellin,' carried out by Universidad de Medellin and Universidad CES for Medellin Health Secretariat according to contract No. 4700026668, year 2006. Simultaneous measurements of fine particles (PM2.5 and breathable particles (PM10 were made from February to October, 2007 in several sites of Medellin, the capital city of Antioquia State, where about 2,250,000 inhabitants live. In almost all cases, analysis results show a positive and linear correlation between both parameters. Average ratio (PM2.5/PM10 for sites and zones tested in this study was 0.67 approximately, which is a very meaningful value, what makes us think that annual norm for PM10 can probably be accomplished, but not the one

  19. Thermospheric neutral temperatures derived from charge-exchange produced N{sub 2}{sup +} Meinel (1,0) rotational distributions

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    Mutiso, C.K.; Zettergren, M.D.; Hughes, J.M.; Sivjee, G.G. [Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach, FL (United States). Space Physics Research Lab.

    2013-06-01

    Thermalized rotational distributions of neutral and ionized N{sub 2} and O{sub 2} have long been used to determine neutral temperatures (T{sub n}) during auroral conditions. In both bright E-region (n} in the E-region cannot likewise be used to obtain T{sub n} in the F-region. Nevertheless, charge-exchange reactions between high-altitude (>or similar 130 km) species provide an exception to this situation. In particular, the charge-exchange reaction O{sup +}({sup 2}D)+N{sub 2}(X) {yields}N{sub 2}{sup +} (A{sup 2}{Pi}{sub u}, {nu}' = 1) + O({sup 3}P) yields thermalized N{sub 2}{sup +} Meinel (1,0) emissions, which, albeit weak, can be used to derive neutral temperatures at altitudes of {proportional_to} 130 km and higher. In this work, we present N{sub 2}{sup +} Meinel (1,0) rotational temperatures and brightnesses obtained at Svalbard, Norway, during various auroral conditions. We calculate T{sub n} at thermospheric altitudes of 130-180 km from thermalized rotational populations of N{sub 2}{sup +} Meinel (1,0); these emissions are excited by soft electron (n} from chargeexchange excited N{sub 2}{sup +} Meinel (1,0) emissions provides an additional means of remotely sensing the neutral atmosphere, although certain limiting conditions are necessary. These include precipitation of low-energy electrons, and a non-sunlit emitting layer. (orig.)

  20. 17 CFR 249.10 - Form 1-N for notice registration as a national securities exchange.

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    2010-04-01

    ... registration as a national securities exchange. 249.10 Section 249.10 Commodity and Securities Exchanges... or Exemption of, and Notification of Action Taken by, National Securities Exchanges § 249.10 Form 1-N for notice registration as a national securities exchange. This form shall be used for notice, and...

  1. CompTIA Network+ Study Guide Exam N10-005

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    Lammle, Todd

    2012-01-01

    Todd Lammle's latest CompTIA Network+ Study Guide, now updated for the new exam! CompTIA's Network+ certification tells the world you have the skills to install, configure, and troubleshoot today's basic networking hardware peripherals and protocols. But first, you have to pass the exam! This detailed CompTIA Authorized study guide by networking guru Todd Lammle has everything you need to prepare for the CompTIA's new Network+Exam N10-005. All exam objectives are covered. He thoroughly explains key topics, offers plenty of practical examples, and draws upon his own invaluable 25+ years of netw

  2. Influenza A (H10N7 Virus Causes Respiratory Tract Disease in Harbor Seals and Ferrets.

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    Judith M A van den Brand

    Full Text Available Avian influenza viruses sporadically cross the species barrier to mammals, including humans, in which they may cause epidemic disease. Recently such an epidemic occurred due to the emergence of avian influenza virus of the subtype H10N7 (Seal/H10N7 in harbor seals (Phoca vitulina. This epidemic caused high mortality in seals along the north-west coast of Europe and represented a potential risk for human health. To characterize the spectrum of lesions and to identify the target cells and viral distribution, findings in 16 harbor seals spontaneously infected with Seal/H10N7 are described. The seals had respiratory tract inflammation extending from the nasal cavity to bronchi associated with intralesional virus antigen in respiratory epithelial cells. Virus infection was restricted to the respiratory tract. The fatal outcome of the viral infection in seals was most likely caused by secondary bacterial infections. To investigate the pathogenic potential of H10N7 infection for humans, we inoculated the seal virus intratracheally into six ferrets and performed pathological and virological analyses at 3 and 7 days post inoculation. These experimentally inoculated ferrets displayed mild clinical signs, virus excretion from the pharynx and respiratory tract inflammation extending from bronchi to alveoli that was associated with virus antigen expression exclusively in the respiratory epithelium. Virus was isolated only from the respiratory tract. In conclusion, Seal/H10N7 infection in naturally infected harbor seals and experimentally infected ferrets shows that respiratory epithelial cells are the permissive cells for viral replication. Fatal outcome in seals was caused by secondary bacterial pneumonia similar to that in fatal human cases during influenza pandemics. Productive infection of ferrets indicates that seal/H10N7 may possess a zoonotic potential. This outbreak of LPAI from wild birds to seals demonstrates the risk of such occasions for mammals

  3. Ultraviyole a ışığının oluşturduğu oksidatif koenszim q10 ve alfa lipoik asit’in koruyucu etkisi

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    2013-01-01

    UVA ışınlarına maruz kalan hücrelerde oluşan reaktif oksijen ürünleri (ROS) lipid, protein ve nükleik asitlerde hasar oluşturabilirler. Antioksidanlar bu hasardan koruma ve iyileştirmede yararlı olabilirler. Bu çalışmada UVA ışınına maruz bıraktığımız sıçanların deri, kan ve karaciğerinde MDA, GSH ve KAT düzeylerini tespit ederken diğer yandan da bu parametreler üzerinde CoQ10 ve ALA’nın etkisini inceledik. Bunun için sıçanlar kontrol, UVA, UVA+mısır yağı, UVA+CoQ10, UVA+ALA ve UVA+CoQ10+ALA ...

  4. A human-infecting H10N8 influenza virus retains a strong preference for avian-type receptors

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    Zhang, Heng; de Vries, Robert P; Tzarum, Netanel; Zhu, Xueyong; Yu, Wenli; McBride, Ryan; Paulson, James C; Wilson, Ian A

    2015-01-01

    Recent avian-origin H10N8 influenza A viruses that have infected humans pose a potential pandemic threat. Alterations in the viral surface glycoprotein, hemagglutinin (HA), typically are required for influenza A viruses to cross the species barrier for adaptation to a new host, but whether H10N8

  5. Effect of rolling temperature on 12Kh18N10T steel tube hardening

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    Yushkevich, P.M.; Stepanovich, V.E.; Manankova, L.V.; Usenko, V.N.; Semenov, I.A.

    1984-01-01

    Mechanical properties and substructure of tubes at the constant reduction degree k(the ratio of deformation over wall thickness to deformation over diameter), depending on strain degree during cold and hot tube rolling, have been studied. The investigations are carried out using hot-rolled tubes with the dimensions 88x8 mm of 12Kh1hN10T steel. With the decrease of strain over the wall of the tube, produced of 12Kh18N10T steel as to strain over diameter the values of yield strength and ultimate strength increase with simultaneous decrease in ductility during warm rolling and yield strength and ultimate strength decrease with the increase in ductility-during cold rolling. During warm rolling of the tubes at 250 deg C the hardening of 12Kh18N10T steel is higher, than at the rolling temperature 150 deg C. The optimum temperature range of warm rolling is 120-150 deg C. Grain orientation in the metal of the tubes and degree of texture perfection increase with the temperature increase of the tube warm drolling as compared with col rolli

  6. Investigation of the 10B(n,t) reaction cross-section in the subthreshold energy region

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    Kornilov, N.V.; Balitskij, A.V.; Baryba, V.Ya.; Druzhnin, V.I.; Kagalenko, A.B.; Kharitonov, A.K.

    1991-01-01

    The 10 B(n,t) reaction cross-section has been measured at incident neutron energies of 0.025 eV, 420 KeV and 5 MeV. A detailed description of the experimental technique and the Monte Carlo simulation is given. It was confirmed that the cross-section of this reaction in the subthreshold region is non-zero. The recommended value of the 10 B(n,t) reaction cross-section at thermal is 8.5±2.0 mb. (author). 16 refs, 3 figs

  7. Fluorescence quenching of N,N-bis(2,5-di-tert-butylphenyl)-3,4:9,10-perylenebis(dicarboximide) (DBPI) by silver nanoparticles

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    El-Daly, Samy A., E-mail: samyeldaly@yahoo.com [Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, PO Box 80203, Jeddah 21589 (Saudi Arabia); Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Tanta University, Tanta 2173 (Egypt); Rahman, Mohammed M. [Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, PO Box 80203, Jeddah 21589 (Saudi Arabia); Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials Research (CEAMR), King Abdulaziz University, PO Box 80203, Jeddah 21589 (Saudi Arabia); Alamry, Kahlid A. [Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, PO Box 80203, Jeddah 21589 (Saudi Arabia); Asiri, Abdullah M. [Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, PO Box 80203, Jeddah 21589 (Saudi Arabia); Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials Research (CEAMR), King Abdulaziz University, PO Box 80203, Jeddah 21589 (Saudi Arabia)

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    The interaction of a perylene derivative namely N,N-bis(2,5-di-tert-butylphenyl)-3,4:9,10-perylenebis(dicarboximide) (DBPI) with colloidal silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) was studied in ethanol and ethylene glycol using steady state fluorescence quenching measurements. The Stern–Volmer quenching rate constant (K{sub sv}) was calculated as 4.03×10{sup 9} and 29.14×10{sup 9} M{sup −1} in ethanol and ethylene glycol, respectively. From fluorescence quenching data, static quenching and energy transfer play a major role in the fluorescence quenching of DBPI by AgNPs. The apparent association constant (k{sub app}) was calculated as 1.26×10{sup 8} M{sup −1} in EtOH and 1.83×10{sup 9} M{sup −1} in ethylene glycol. Due to potential AgNPs interaction with DBPI, the average AgNPs size is increased slightly from ∼37.1 nm (As-prepared) to 48.9 nm. -- Highlights: • Fluorescence quenching of photostable DBPI by AgNPs. • Static quenching mechanism of interaction between DBPI and AgNPs. • Enhancement of fluorescence quenching of DBPI in ethylene glycol.

  8. Simulación con el código MCNP del reactor nuclear RP-10 en su configuración #14, BOC

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    Lázaro, Gerardo; Parreño, Fernando

    2001-01-01

    Se presenta los resultados de exceso de reactividad del núcleo del reactor RP-10 en su configuración 14. Este exceso de reactividad ha sido calculado con MCNP4B con un modelo que describe en detalle las características de los elementos combustibles normales y de control, así como de cada elemento que constituye la configuración de trabajo #14. Este modelo fue previamente utilizado en el reactor RP-0 y ha sido aplicado en la configuración de arranque para el cálculo del exceso de reactividad y...

  9. Disordered crystal structure of 20H-AlON, Al10O3N8

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    Banno, Hiroki; Funahashi, Shiro; Asaka, Toru; Hirosaki, Naoto; Fukuda, Koichiro

    2015-01-01

    The disordered crystal structure of 20H-AlON (Al 10 O 3 N 8 ) was determined by combined use of X-ray powder diffraction and transmission electron microscopy. The title compound is hexagonal with space group P6 3 /mmc (Z=2) and the unit-cell dimensions are a=0.307082(5) nm, c=5.29447(8) nm and V=0.432376(12) nm 3 . The structural model showed the positional disordering of three of the six Al sites in the unit cell. The reliability indices calculated from the Rietveld method were R wp =6.97%, S (=R wp /R e )=1.68, R p =5.45%, R B =5.13% and R F =4.56%. We interpreted the disordered structure of 20H-AlON as a statistical average of six different types of ordered structural configurations, which are composed of an octahedral [Al(O, N) 6 ] layer and tetrahedral [Al(O, N) 4 ] layers. We demonstrated the high correlations between the hexagonal unit-cell dimensions and the octahedral layer concentrations for AlON and SiAlON polytypoids. - Graphical abstract: Variations of a and c/(n O +n T ) with n O /(n O +n T ). The a and c are the hexagonal unit-cell dimensions of AlON, SiAlON and AlN. The n O and n T are, respectively, the numbers of octahedral and tetrahedral layers in the unit cells. The unit-cell dimensions in literature are plotted in black plus for AlON and black cross for SiAlON. The unit-cell dimensions of AlN are a=0.3110 nm and c=0.4980 nm. - Highlights: • Crystal structure of Al10O3N8 is determined by laboratory X-ray powder diffraction. • The atom arrangements are represented by the split-atom model. • Six types of ordered atom arrangements are derived from the disordered structure. • Hexagonal unit-cell dimensions changed systematically for AlON and SiAlON compounds

  10. Dispersión de Contaminantes del Aire (PM10, NO2, CO, COV y HAP) emitidos desde una Estación Modular de Compresión, Tratamiento y Medición de Gas Natural

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    Rojano, Roberto E; Mendoza, Yoma I; Arregoces, Heli; Restrepo, Gloria M

    2016-01-01

    Este estudio presenta el análisis de la emisión, dispersión y concentración de PM10, CO, NO2, COV y HAP (contaminantes peligroso del aire), emitida desde una estación modular de compresión, tratamiento y medición de gas natural, ubicada en la península de La Guajira al norte de Colombia. Se aplicó el modelo de dispersión Gaussiana WKBK2 para fuentes puntuales para estimar las concentraciones de los contaminantes. Las emisiones de los contaminantes se estimaron utilizando los factores de emisi...

  11. Tribocorrosion behaviour of 08CH18N10T steel

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    Kubecka, P.; Tvrdy, M.; Wenger, F.; Ponthiaux, P.

    2000-01-01

    Tribocorrosion of the 08CH18N10T austenitic stainless steel in a potassium sulphate solution was investigated with the help of pin-on-disk tribometer and polarisation curves method. The results indicate the occurrence of synergetic interactions between electrochemical and mechanical conditions: the damaging of the passive film by friction was pointed out, leading to an increase in the dissolution rate of the metal and simultaneously, the occurrence of electrochemical reactions (gas evolution, dissolution, passivation) was found to modify the tribological conditions (friction coefficient). (author)

  12. Tris(1,10-phenanthroline-κ2N,N′zinc(II chloride 2-phenyl-4-selenazole-5-carboxylate decahydrate

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    Jin-Bei Shen

    2011-02-01

    Full Text Available The asymmetric unit of the title salt, [Zn(C12H8N23](C10H6NO2SeCl·10H2O, contains a [Zn(phen3]2+ cation (phen is 1,10-phenanthroline, uncoordinated chloride and 2-phenyl-4-selenazole-5-carboxylate anions and ten uncoordinated water molecules. The central ZnII ion is six-coordinated by six N atoms from three phen ligands in a distorted octahedral geometry. An extensive O—H...O, O—H...N and O—H...Cl hydrogen-bonding network stabilizes the crystal structure.

  13. IJS v10 n1.cdr

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    50nT < Dst < -lOOnT) and intense (Dst <, -100 nT) [Veira et al., 2001]. ... the solar wind and the terrestrial magnetosphere that significantly increased the geoeffectiveness of the solar wind. (i.e. Chukwuma 2007 and the reference therein).

  14. Caracterización Quimica de material particulado fraciión respirable pm 10 en la atmósfera de Rioacha la Guajira Colombia

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    Calos Julio Doria Argumedo

    2017-01-01

    Full Text Available Teniendo en cuenta la importancia desde el punto de vista de la contaminación ambiental, que tienen las partículas inhalables PM 10 en ambientes urbanos, y que los efectos que se puedan generar en la salud dependen de la composición química del material formado por partículas, se realizó este estudio con el objetivo de revelar la composición química de las partículas atmosféricas a través de técnicas de Espectrofotometría UV-VIS y Espectrometría de Masas con fuente de Plasma de Acoplamiento, generados principalmente por fuentes naturales y antrópicas en la ciudad de Riohacha al norte de Colombia; para ello se recolectaron 30 muestras de partículas atmosféricas por medio de filtros de cuarzo con una frecuencia mensual, durante el período de marzo a diciembre de 2014. Las PM 10 presentan una concentración promedio de 52,9 µg/m 3 y los iones solubles de mayor concentración corresponden a Na + , Cl - , Ca +2 y Mg +2 . Las diferencias entre los sitios de muestreo no fueron significativas (p> 0,6. El 70% del Ca +2 es de origen no marino, atribuyéndose al suelo y al tráfico vehicular y peatonal. Conocer la composición química del material particulado, PM 10 tiene relevancia no sólo desde el punto de vista de la química de la atmósfera, sino también sobre la calidad del aire que se respira en las ciudades.

  15. Aplicación del modelo polinomial en la evaluación de la uniformidad de riego del aspersor autocompensado Nelson R10

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    Fanny del Rocío Rodríguez-Jarama

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    Full Text Available Los métodos de evaluación de la uniformidad de riego estiman las condiciones hidráulicas de funcionamiento del sistema de riego y su influencia en la aplicación de láminas de agua, con base en las necesidades hídricas de un cultivo. El modelo de evaluación utilizado en la presente investigación fue el polinomial. El ensayo evaluó el funcionamiento del sistema de riego con 4 presiones de operación distintas, medidas a la salida de la válvula del módulo de riego, y por cada presión de operación se tomaron 16 datos de caudales, en 5 módulos de riego instalado con el aspersor autocompensado Nelson R10. Como resultado se obtuvo el coeficiente de uniformidad, el coeficiente de distribución, el área adecuadamente irrigada y el factor de adecuación del riego. Uno de los principales resultados fue la no existencia de diferencia significativa entre las presiones mientras esta se mantengan en el rango de autocompensación; por otro lado, en el coeficiente de distribución sí existen diferencias significativas entre los tratamientos, a pesar de que todos dan valores mayores al 90%, en contraste con los porcentajes del área relativa adecuadamente regada, que no superan el 50% en ninguno de los tratamientos. Con lo anterior se pudo validar y verificar que el aspersor Nelson R10 autocompensado, una vez instalado en campo, cumple con las características técnicas de operación expuestas en el catálogo del fabricante, sin embargo, sí se debe manejar y controlar la lámina de riego aplicada.

  16. CompTIA Network+ Certification Study Guide, Exam N10-004

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    2009-01-01

    CompTIA's Network+ certification is a globally-recognized, vendor neutral exam that has helped over 235,000 IT professionals reach further and higher in their careers. The 2009 Network+ exam (N10-004) is a major update with more focus on security and wireless aspects of networking. Our new study guide has been updated accordingly with focus on network, systems, and WAN security and complete coverage of today's wireless networking standards. As always this companion covers the core Network+ material including basic design principles, management and operation of a network infrastructure, and tes

  17. Concurso de Universidades - SB10mad “Ciudad sostenible: la rehabilitación como herramienta”

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    González Díaz, M. J.

    2011-10-01

    Full Text Available The competition was suggested by GBCEspaña and developed by ASA (Sustainability and Architecture Association, according to the items of SB10Mad Conference. The aim was to involve Spain and other Universities abroad in the study of revitalizing existing areas. Contestants had to suggest solutions to reach benefits in a neighborhood selected by themselves, in subjects such as resource’s economy, energy, water, social improvements and mitigating pollution. The success on variety and the quality of solutions suggest this matter as good university training and successful in developing ideas.

    El concurso fue una propuesta de GBCEspaña desarrollada por ASA (Asociación Sostenibilidad y Arquitectura, en concordancia con el Congreso SB10mad, con el objetivo de involucrar a las Universidades (españolas y extranjeras en las estrategias de revitalización de barrios existentes. Los concursantes debían proponer soluciones en materia de economía de recursos, energía, ciclo del agua, mejoras sociales y reducción de contaminación, sobre un barrio de su propia elección. El éxito de participación y calidad en las propuestas permite aventurar esta materia como de gran interés en la formación universitaria y en el desarrollo de soluciones.

  18. B10(n,α)Li7 irradiation effects on high impact polystyrene

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    Gupta, M.C.; Bansod, V.P.

    1984-01-01

    Irradiation effects of B 10 (n,α)Li 7 charged particles on high impact polystyrene were compared with those of Co 60 γ-rays, from the viewpoint of linear energy transfer (LET). For irradiation in air, the G values of crosslinks and main-chain scissions, G(X) and G(S) are 0.018 and 0.06, respectively, for γ-rays of low LET (ca. 0.22 eV/nm). Charged particles [B 10 (n,α)Li 7 ] of high LET (ca. 280 eV/nm) increase the G(X) value to 0.15 but G(S) is not much affected. All these findings are explained qualitatively by a difference in the distribution of energy deposition and the mechanism involving the competition between the deactivation of an excited molecule by the collision with ground state molecules and the macroradical formation by the bimolecular reaction of the excited molecules. These excited molecules in HIPS might be produced more closely to one another by charged particles than by γ-rays. (author)

  19. Crystal structure of an unknown solvate of (piperazine-κN{5,10,15,20-tetrakis[4-(benzoyloxyphenyl]porphyrinato-κ4N}zinc

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    Soumaya Nasri

    2016-07-01

    Full Text Available The title compound, [Zn(C72H44N4O8(C4H10N2] or [Zn(TPBP(pipz] (where TPBP and pipz are 5,10,15,20-tetrakis[4-(benzoyloxyphenyl]porphyrinato and piperazine ligands respectively, features a distorted square-pyramidal coordination geometry about the central ZnII atom. This central atom is chelated by the four N atoms of the porphyrinate anion and further coordinated by a nitrogen atom of the piperazine axial ligand, which adopts a chair confirmation. The average Zn—N(pyrrole bond length is 2.078 (7 Å and the Zn— N(pipz bond length is 2.1274 (19 Å. The zinc cation is displaced by 0.4365 (4 Å from the N4C20 mean plane of the porphyrinate anion toward the piperazine axial ligand. This porphyrinate macrocycle exhibits major saddle and moderate ruffling deformations. In the crystal, the supramolecular structure is made by parallel pairs of layers along (100, with an interlayer distance of 4.100 Å while the distance between two pairs of layers is 4.047 Å. A region of electron density was treated with the SQUEEZE [Spek (2015. Acta Cryst. C71, 9–18] procedure in PLATON following unsuccessful attempts to model it as being part of disordered n-hexane solvent and water molecules. The given chemical formula and other crystal data do not take into account these solvent molecules.

  20. Degradation of the metal-cyano complex tetracyanonickelate (II) by Fusarium oxysporum N-10.

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    Yanase, H; Sakamoto, A; Okamoto, K; Kita, K; Sato, Y

    2000-03-01

    A fungus with the ability to utilize a metalcyano compound, tetracyanonickelate (II) ¿K2[Ni (CN)4]; TCN¿, as its sole source of nitrogen was isolated from soil and identified as Fusarium oxysporum N-10. Both intact mycelia and cell-free extract of the strain catalyzed hydrolysis of TCN to formate and ammonia and produced formamide as an intermediate, thereby indicating that a hydratase and an amidase sequentially participated in the degradation of TCN. The enzyme catalyzing the hydration of TCN was purified approximately ten-fold from the cell-free extract of strain N-10 with a yield of 29%. The molecular mass of the active enzyme was estimated to be 160 kDa. The enzyme appears to exist as a homotetramer, each subunit having a molecular mass of 40 kDa. The enzyme also catalyzed the hydration of KCN, with a cyanide-hydrating activity 2 x 10(4) times greater than for TCN. The kinetic parameters for TCN and KCN indicated that hydratase isolated from F. oxysporum was a cyanide hydratase able to utilize a broad range of cyano compounds and nitriles as substrates.

  1. Effects of repository conditions on environmental impact reduction by recycling

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    Ahn, Joonhong

    2010-01-01

    The environmental impacts (EI) of high-level wastes (HLW) disposed of in a water-saturated repository (WSR) and in the Yucca Mountain Repository (YMR) for various fuel cycle cases have been evaluated and compared to observe the difference in the recycling effects for differing repository conditions. With the impacts of direct spent fuel disposal in each repository as the reference level, separation of actinides by Urex+ and borosilicate vitrification clearly reduces the environmental impacts of YMR, while separation by Purex and borosilicate vitrification would not necessarily reduce the environmental impact of WSR. (authors)

  2. Unusual Multiple Production of N-Acylhomoserine Lactones a by Burkholderia sp. Strain C10B Isolated from Dentine Caries

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    2014-05-01

    Full Text Available Bacteria realize the ability to communicate by production of quorum sensing (QS molecules called autoinducers, which regulate the physiological activities in their ecological niches. The oral cavity could be a potential area for the presence of QS bacteria. In this study, we report the isolation of a QS bacterial isolate C10B from dentine caries. Preliminary screening using Chromobacterium violaceum CV026 biosensor showed that isolate C10B was able to produce N-acylhomoserine lactones (AHLs. This bacterium was further identified as a member of Burkholderia, an opportunistic pathogen. The isolated Burkholderia sp. was confirmed to produce N-hexanoyl-L-homoserine lactone (C6-HSL, N-octanoyl-L-homoserine lactone (C8-HSL, N-decanoyl-L-homoserine lactone (C10-HSL and N-dodecanoyl-L-homoserine lactone (C12-HSL.

  3. GREEN CHEMISTRY APPLICATION FOR THE SYNTHESIS OF (1-N-4’-METHOXYBENZYL-1,10-PHENANTHROLINIUM BROMIDE

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    2010-06-01

    Full Text Available A simple, energy-efficient, and relatively quick synthetic procedure for the synthesis of (1-N-4'-methoxybenzyl-1,10-phenanthrolinium bromide, based on green chemistry principles has been carried out. The synthesis was started by solvent-free reduction of p-anisaldehyde with NaBH4 to give 4-methoxybenzyl alcohol in 98% yield to be followed by solvent-free treatment of the resulted alcohol with PBr3 to yield 4-methoxybenzyl bromide (86%. Furthermore, the obtained bromide was reacted with 1,10-phenanthroline in acetone at reflux for 12 h to give the phenanthrolinium salt target in 68% yield.   Keywords: green chemistry, p-anisaldehyde, (1-N-4'-methoxybenzyl-1,10-phenanthrolinium bromide

  4. Growth and characterization of nonpolar (10-10) ZnO transparent conductive oxide on semipolar (11–22) GaN-based light-emitting diodes

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    Kim, Ki-Wook; Choi, Nak-Jung [Department of Nano-Optical Engineering, Korea Polytechnic University, Siheung, Gyeonggi-do, 429-839 (Korea, Republic of); Kim, Kyoung-Bo [Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Inha Technical College, Incheon, 402-752 (Korea, Republic of); Kim, Moojin [Department of Renewable Energy, Jungwon University, 85, Munmu-ro, Goesan-eup, Goesan-gun, Chungbuk, 367-805 (Korea, Republic of); Lee, Sung-Nam, E-mail: snlee@kpu.ac.kr [Department of Nano-Optical Engineering, Korea Polytechnic University, Siheung, Gyeonggi-do, 429-839 (Korea, Republic of)

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    We have grown thin films of nonpolar m-plane (10-10) ZnO on a semipolar (11–22) GaN template by atomic layer deposition (ALD) at low growth temperatures (<200 °C). The surface morphology of the ZnO film is found to be an arrowhead-like structure, which is a typical surface structure of the semipolar (11–22) GaN films. On increasing the growth temperature of the ZnO films, the concentration and mobility of the charge carriers in the ZnO film are increased. However, the optical transmittance decreases with an increase in the growth temperature. Based on these results, we have fabricated semipolar (11–22) GaN-based light-emitting diodes (LEDs) with nonpolar m-plane ZnO film as a transparent conductive oxide (TCO) to improve the light extraction efficiency. In spite of a decrease in the optical transmittance, the operation voltage of semipolar (11–22) GaN-based LEDs is found to decrease with an increase in the growth temperature, which might be due to the improvements in the electrical properties and current spreading effect, resulting in an increase in the optical output power. - Highlights: • Polarity control of ZnO film grown in m-/c-sapphire and semipolar GaN template. • Achievement of high quality nonpolar m-plane ZnO flims on semipolar (11–22) GaN template. • The simultaneous improvements of carrier concentration and mobility in the nonpolar ZnO TCO flims. • Nonpolar ZnO TCO increases current spreading length and light output power of semipolar GaN-LED.

  5. Structure and Stability of GeAun, n = 1-10 clusters: A Density Functional Study

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    Priyanka,; Dharamvir, Keya; Sharma, Hitesh

    2011-01-01

    The structures of Germanium doped gold clusters GeAu n (n = 1-10) have been investigated using ab initio calculations based on density functional theory (DFT). We have obtained ground state geometries of GeAu n clusters and have it compared with Silicon doped gold clusters and pure gold clusters. The ground state geometries of the GeAu n clusters show patterns similar to silicon doped gold clusters except for n = 5, 6 and 9. The introduction of germanium atom increases the binding energy of gold clusters. The binding energy per atom of germanium doped cluster is smaller than the corresponding silicon doped gold cluster. The HUMO-LOMO gap for Au n Ge clusters have been found to vary between 0.46 eV-2.09 eV. The mullikan charge analysis indicates that charge of order of 0.1e always transfers from germanium atom to gold atom.

  6. Low-k SiOCH Film Etching Process and Its Diagnostics Employing Ar/C5F10O/N2 Plasma

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    Nagai, Mikio; Hayashi, Takayuki; Hori, Masaru; Okamoto, Hidekazu

    2006-09-01

    We proposed an environmental harmonic etching gas of C5F10O (CF3CF2CF2OCFCF2), and demonstrated the etching of low-k SiOCH films employing a dual-frequency capacitively coupled etching system. Dissociative ionization cross sections for the electron impact ionizations of C5F10O and c-C4F8 gases have been measured by quadrupole mass spectroscopy (QMS). The dissociative ionization cross section of CF3+ from C5F10O gas was much higher than those of other ionic species, and 10 times higher than that of CF3+ from C4F8 gas. CF3+ is effective for increasing the etching rate of SiO2. As a result, the etching rate of SiOCH films using Ar/C5F10O/N2 plasma was about 1000 nm/min, which is much higher than that using Ar/C4F8/N2 plasma. The behaviours of fluorocarbon radicals in Ar/C5F10O/N2 plasma, which were measured by infrared diode laser absorption spectroscopy, were similar to those in Ar/C4F8/N2 plasma. The densities of CF and CF3 radicals were markedly decreased with increasing N2 flow rate. Etching rate was controlled by N2 flow rate. A vertical profile of SiOCH with a high etching rate and less microloading was realized using Ar/C5F10O/N2 plasma chemistry.

  7. [(Nitrato-κO,O')(nitrito-κO,O')(0.25/1.75)]bis-(1,10-phenanthroline-κN,N')cadmium(II).

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    Najafi, Ezzatollah; Amini, Mostafa M; Ng, Seik Weng

    2011-01-22

    The reaction of cadmium nitrate and sodium nitrite in the presence of 1,10-phenanthroline yields the mixed nitrate-nitrite title complex, [Cd(NO(2))(1.75)(NO(3))(0.25)(C(12)H(8)N(2))(2)]. The metal ion is bis-chelated by two N-heterocycles as well as by the nitrate/nitrite ions in a distorted dodeca-hedral CdN(4)O(4) coordination environment. One nitrite group is ordered; the other is disordered with respect to a nitrate group (ratio 0.75:0.25) concerning the O atom that is not involved in bonding to the metal ion.

  8. Efecto del tiempo de exposición a PM10 en las urgencias por bronquitis aguda Effect of exposure time to PM10 on emergency admissions for acute bronchitis

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    Franz Muñoz

    2009-03-01

    Full Text Available Este trabajo analiza el efecto de las horas de exposición a PM10 en las urgencias diarias por bronquitis aguda, controlando por temperatura y humedad. El estudio fue realizado en seis sectores de la ciudad de Santiago, Chile, durante el período de invierno de los años 2002 al 2004, para lactantes ( 65 años. Analizamos el retraso de la respuesta mediante una función polinomial distributiva (pdl, incluida en un modelo lineal generalizado (GLM-pdl, y la estructura del efecto de la exposición, mediante modelos aditivos generalizados (GAM, utilizando regresión spline como técnica de estimación. Los resultados mostraron que al cuarto día de retardo, el efecto de la exposición fue mayor, especialmente en lactantes, y varió en la medida que incrementó la concentración atmosférica de PM10. El efecto de las horas de exposición a PM10 mostró una variación significativa, según el sector geográfico. Al estimar linealmente este efecto en el sector Oeste, notamos que el incremento de consultas diarias en lactantes fue de 3% por cada hora de exposición sobre os 150µg/m³.To study the health effect of air pollution, measured as particulate matter greater than 10mm in diameter (PM10, we analyzed the effect of daily hours of exposure on the number of urgency admissions for acute bronchitis, adjusting for temperature and humidity on the same day. The study was conducted in six regions of Santiago, Chile, during the winter of years 2002 to 2004, for infants and elders. The delay between pollution time series and disease was modeled using a polynomial distributed lag (PDL function included in a generalized linear model. The linearity assumption was evaluated using a smooth-spline model approach. The highest effect for exposure to PM10 was detected with 4 days of delay. For both groups, the effect of temperature was linear, but that of humidity was not. Air pollution effect varied according to level of exposure and geographic region, increasing

  9. Integral measurement of the $^{12}$C(n,p)$^{12}$B reaction up to 10 GeV

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    Žugec, P; Bosnar, D; Ventura, A; Mengoni, A; Altstadt, S; Andrzejewski, J; Audouin, L; Barbagallo, M; Bécares, V; Bečvář, F; Belloni, F; Berthoumieux, E; Billowes, J; Boccone, V; Brugger, M; Calviani, M; Calviño, F; Cano-Ott, D; Carrapiço, C; Cerutti, F; Chiaveri, E; Chin, M; Cortés, G; Cortés-Giraldo, M.A; Cosentino, L; Diakaki, M; Domingo-Pardo, C; Dressler, R; Duran, I; Eleftheriadis, C; Ferrari, A; Finocchiaro, P; Fraval, K; Ganesan, S; García, A R; Giubrone, G; Gómez-Hornillos, M B; Gonçalves, I F; González-Romero, E; Griesmayer, E; Guerrero, C; Gunsing, F; Gurusamy, P; Heinitz, S; Jenkins, D G; Jericha, E; Käppeler, F; Karadimos, D; Kivel, N; Kokkoris, M; Krtička, M; Kroll, J; Langer, C; Lederer, C; Leeb, H; Leong, L S; Meo, S Lo; Losito, R; Manousos, A; Marganiec, J; Martínez, T; Massimi, C; Mastinu, P; Mastromarco, M; Mendoza, E; Milazzo, P M; Mingrone, F; Mirea, M; Mondalaers, W; Musumarra, A; Paradela, C; Pavlik, A; Perkowski, J; Plompen, A; Praena, J; Quesada, J; Rauscher, T; Reifarth, R; Riego, A; Roman, F; Rubbia, C; Sarmento, R; Saxena, A; Schillebeeckx, P; Schmidt, S; Schumann, D; Tagliente, G; Tain, J L; Tarrío, D; Tassan-Got, L; Tsinganis, A; Valenta, S; Vannini, G; Variale, V; Vaz, P; Versaci, R; Vermeulen, M J; Vlachoudis, V; Vlastou, R; Wallner, A; Ware, T; Weigand, M; Weiß, C; Wright, T

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    The integral measurement of the $^{12}$C(n,p)$^{12}$B reaction was performed at the neutron time of flight facility n_TOF at CERN. The total number of $^{12}$B nuclei produced per neutron pulse of the n_TOF beam was determined using the activation technique in combination with a time of flight technique. The cross section is integrated over the n_TOF neutron energy spectrum from reaction threshold at 13.6 MeV to 10 GeV. Having been measured up to 1 GeV on basis of the $^{235}$U(n,f) reaction, the neutron energy spectrum above 200 MeV has been reevaluated due to the recent extension of the cross section reference for this particular reaction, which is otherwise considered a standard up to 200 MeV. The results from the dedicated GEANT4 simulations have been used to evaluate the neutron flux from 1 GeV up to 10 GeV. The experimental results related to the $^{12}$C(n,p)$^{12}$B reaction are compared with the evaluated cross sections from major libraries and with the predictions of different GEANT4 models, which m...

  10. Resting heart rate and its relationship with general and abdominal obesity in young male Saudi university students

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    2010-01-01

    An elevated resting heart rate (Rhr) has been linked with adverse cardiovascular outcomes. Obese people have altered autonomic balance that could lead to elevated Rhr and altered responses to postural changes. As no comparative data are available on Rhr in young normal weight (NW) and obese (OB) adults in Saudi Arabia, the present study was aimed at finding out the effect of adiposity on RHR and RHR response to change in posture. Methods: Second-year male students (n=231; age:19-20 years), were recruited from the Dammam University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia, during the period September 2008 to October 2009. Anthropometric measures were obtained and indices of obesity (body mass index [EMI], waist circumference [WC], waist-to-hip ratio [WHR], waist-to-stature ratio [WSR]) were calculated. RHR in standing and supine positions were obtained from radial pulse. Pearson's correlation (r) between obesity indices and RHR as well as the differences between RHR in NW and OB groups were calculated. Results: General obesity (BMI greater or equal to 25.0 kg/m1 was found in 45.5% students. Central obesity (WC>85 cm or WSR>50.0) was found in 36.8% students. RHR was significantly correlated with BMI, WC and WSR (r=O.305, 0.300, 0.299 respectively, p< O.01) . Subjects above the obesity indices cut-off points had significantly higher values of RHR in both standing and supine positions compared to NW individuals (p<0.05). There was a greater reduction in RHR on changing the posture to supine state in OB group. Conclusion: A significantly higher RHR and a greater change in RHR on changing the posture point towards an altered autonomic balance in OB group of young adolescent males. This underscores the need to implement health education program to combat obesity at school and college levels. (author)

  11. Circuló la edición número 10.000. EL PAÍS de Madrid y su liderazgo

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    Full Text Available El País (1978 renovador del periodismo, diario identificado como conservador en economía, de centro izquierda en lo político y más radical en los temas sociales, en el 2004 acaba de publicar la edición 10.000 luego de 28 años como líder de la prensa española.

  12. Nqrs Data for C3H2Cl10N2PSb[C3HCl4N2P·Cl6HSb](Subst. No. 0601)

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    Chihara, H.; Nakamura, N.

    This document is part of Subvolume A `Substances Containing Ag … C10H15' of Volume 48 `Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance Spectroscopy Data' of Landolt-Börnstein - Group III `Condensed Matter'. It contains an extract of Section `3.2 Data tables' of the Chapter `3 Nuclear quadrupole resonance data' providing the NQRS data for C3H2Cl10N2PSb [C3HCl4N2P·Cl6HSb] (Subst. No. 0601)

  13. EDICIÓN10 COMPLETA

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  14. Welding of high-strength stainless steel 03Kh12N10MT for cryogenic engineering

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    Pustovit, A.I.

    1989-01-01

    Consideration is being given to weld resistance to cold and hot cracking at 93 and 77K and to mechanical properties of welded joints of high-strength stainless steel 03Kh12N10MT, produced under the fluxes AN-17M, AN-18, AN-26, AN-45, ANF-5, 48-OF-6, ANK-45 and ANK-49 in combination with various welding wires. It is shown that welds on 03Kh12N10MT steel meet the requirements only when using 48-OF-6 or ANK-49 flux. It is noted that impact strength of welds at 77K is sufficiently affected by the volume fraction of non-metallic inclusions in weld metal

  15. A twistor-like D=10 superparticle action with manifest N=8 world-line supersymmetry

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    Galperin, A.; Sokatchev, E.

    1992-03-01

    We propose a new formulation of the D = 10 Brink-Schwarz superparticle which is manifestly invariant under both the target-space super-Poincare group and the world-line local N = 8 superconformal group. This twistor-like construction naturally involves the sphere S 8 as a coset space of the D = 10 Lorentz group. The action contains only a finite set of auxiliary fields, but they appear in unusual trilinear combinations. The origin of the on-shell D = 10 fermionic Κ symmetry of the standard Brink-Schwarz formulation is explained. The coupling to a D = 10 super-Maxwell background requires a new mechanism, in which the electric charge appears only on shell as an integration constant. (orig.)

  16. GESTIÓN DE LA CALIDAD CON EL MODELO EFQM EN 10 PYMES METALMECÁNICAS DE MEDELLÍN GESTÃO DA QUALIDADE COM O MODELO EFQM EM 10 PEMES METALMEC ÂNICAS DE MEDELLÍN QUALITY MANAGEMENT WITH MODEL EFQM IN 10 METALLURGICAL SMES IN MEDELLIN

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    Full Text Available La relevancia de las pymes para el país exige la generación de proyectos que lleven a su fortalecimiento, haciéndose necesario evaluar y mejorar su gestión de la calidad. Para ello, se utilizó el modelo EFQM, que consta de 9 criterios, 7 evaluados con los directivos, otro entre sus trabajadores (Resultados en Personas y Resultados en Clientes en una muestra de ellos, en cada una de las 10 pymes seleccionadas. Cada empresa recibió un diagnóstico detallado de su gestión de la calidad, una lista de actividades de mejoramiento y, en la mayoría, se emprendieron algunas. En la escala de 0-5, cuatro fueron calificadas sobre 4,0, y las tres inferiores, alrededor de 3,0. No se halló coherencia entre las acciones de los directivos y los resultados en las organizaciones, por lo cual se propuso como política pública al Municipio de Medellín la creación de un centro de calidad para enfrentar la competencia global.A relevância das pequenas e médias empresas (pemes para o país exige a geração de projetos que levem a seu fortalecimento, fazendo-se necessário avaliar e melhorar sua gestão da qualidade. Para isso, se utilizou o modelo EFQM, que consta de 9 critérios, 7 avaliados com os diretivos, outro entre seus trabalhadores (Resultados em Pessoas e Resultados em Clientes em uma mostra deles, em cada uma das 10 pymes selecionadas. Cada empresa recebeu um diagnóstico detalhado de sua gestão da qualidade, uma lista de atividades de melhoramento e, na maioria, se empreenderam algumas. Na escala de 0-5, quatro foram qualificadas sobre 4,0, e as três inferiores, cerca de 3,0. Não se achou coerência entre as ações dos diretivos e os resultados nas organizações, pelo qual se propôs como política pública ao Município de Medellín a criação de um centro de qualidade para enfrentar a concorrência global.The relevancy of small and medium enterprises SMEs for the country demands the generation of projects leading to their strengthening

  17. Caracterización química de material particulado PM10 en la atmósfera de La Guajira, Colombia

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    Durante el año 2013, se realizó un estudio en La Guajira, Colombia, con el fin de determinar la fracción respirable y la fracción acuosa del material particulado PM10, producto de las actividades mineras de carbón a cielo abierto que ocupan casi 30% del territorio; también se evaluó su asociación a fuentes naturales y antropogénicas. La recolección de filtros se realizó por medio de un sistema de monitoreo conformado por catorce estaciones mediante equipos muestreadores de alto volumen PM10 (...

  18. EDICIÓN10 COMPLETA

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  19. Evaluación de riesgos y gestión en desastres. 10 preguntas para la década actual

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    P. Alberto Maturana, Dr.

    2011-09-01

    Full Text Available La sociedad humana está siendo tensionada por crecientes eventos destructivos o alteradores de su calidad de vida, ya sea por causas de origen natural o creadas por la acción humana. Frente a estos retos, distintas iniciativas han pretendido en las Décadas 1990-1999 y 2000-2010, corregirlas con éxito. Desafortunadamente, la mayoría de ellas, originadas en el mundo de la Ciencia y Tecnología, no parecen generar igual compromiso y entusiasmo en los niveles políticos y de toma de decisión, expresándose en Políticas Públicas, Leyes, Reglamentos y Presupuestos para una Gestión Integral del Riesgo mucho más Preventiva y permanente en la Agenda Pública. El autor ha seleccionado 10 frecuentes preguntas de su quehacer académico y que nos ayudan a entender mejor este complejo proceso. La Globalización de algunos de estos eventos, como es el caso del Cambio Climático Global, hacen necesario políticas integradoras y un despertar de la comunidad organizada.

  20. Intensive cytokine induction in pandemic H1N1 influenza virus infection accompanied by robust production of IL-10 and IL-6.

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    Yu, Xuelian; Zhang, Xi; Zhao, Baihui; Wang, Jiayu; Zhu, Zhaokui; Teng, Zheng; Shao, Junjie; Shen, Jiaren; Gao, Ye; Yuan, Zhengan; Wu, Fan

    2011-01-01

    The innate immune system is the first line of defense against viruses by inducing expression of cytokines and chemokines. Many pandemic influenza H1N1 virus [P(H1N1)] infected severe cases occur in young adults under 18 years old who were rarely seriously affected by seasonal influenza. Results regarding host cytokine profiles of P(H1N1) are ambivalent. In the present study we investigated host cytokine profiles in P(H1N1) patients and identified cytokines related to disease severity. We retrieved 77, 59, 26 and 26 sera samples from P(H1N1) and non-flu influenza like illness (non-ILIs) cases with mild symptoms (mild patients), P(H1N1) vaccinees and healthy individuals, respectively. Nine and 16 sera were from hospitalized P(H1N1) and non-ILIs patients with severe symptoms (severe patients). Cytokines of IL-1, IL-2, IL-4, IL-5, IL-6, IL-8, IL-10, IL-12, IFN-γ and TNF-α were assayed by cytokine bead array, IL-17 and IL-23 measured with ELISA. Mild P(H1N1) patients produced significantly elevated IL-2, IL-12, IFN-γ, IL-6, TNF-α, IL-5, IL-10, IL-17 and IL-23 versus to healthy controls. While an overwhelming IL-6 and IL-10 production were observed in severe P(H1N1) patients. Higher IL-10 secretion in P(H1N1) vaccinees confirmed our observation that highly increased level of sera IL-6 and IL-10 in P(H1N1) patients may lead to disease progression. A comprehensive innate immune response was activated at the early stage of P(H1N1) infection with a combine Th1/Th2/Th3 cytokines production. As disease progression, a systemic production of IL-6 and IL-10 were observed in severe P(H1N1) patients. Further analysis found a strong correlation between IL-6 and IL-10 production in the severe P(H1N1) patients. IL-6 may be served as a mediator to induce IL-10 production. Highly elevated level of sera IL-6 and IL-10 in P(H1N1) patients may lead to disease progression, but the underlying mechanism awaits further detailed investigations.

  1. Intensive cytokine induction in pandemic H1N1 influenza virus infection accompanied by robust production of IL-10 and IL-6.

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    Xuelian Yu

    Full Text Available BACKGROUND: The innate immune system is the first line of defense against viruses by inducing expression of cytokines and chemokines. Many pandemic influenza H1N1 virus [P(H1N1] infected severe cases occur in young adults under 18 years old who were rarely seriously affected by seasonal influenza. Results regarding host cytokine profiles of P(H1N1 are ambivalent. In the present study we investigated host cytokine profiles in P(H1N1 patients and identified cytokines related to disease severity. METHODS AND PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: We retrieved 77, 59, 26 and 26 sera samples from P(H1N1 and non-flu influenza like illness (non-ILIs cases with mild symptoms (mild patients, P(H1N1 vaccinees and healthy individuals, respectively. Nine and 16 sera were from hospitalized P(H1N1 and non-ILIs patients with severe symptoms (severe patients. Cytokines of IL-1, IL-2, IL-4, IL-5, IL-6, IL-8, IL-10, IL-12, IFN-γ and TNF-α were assayed by cytokine bead array, IL-17 and IL-23 measured with ELISA. Mild P(H1N1 patients produced significantly elevated IL-2, IL-12, IFN-γ, IL-6, TNF-α, IL-5, IL-10, IL-17 and IL-23 versus to healthy controls. While an overwhelming IL-6 and IL-10 production were observed in severe P(H1N1 patients. Higher IL-10 secretion in P(H1N1 vaccinees confirmed our observation that highly increased level of sera IL-6 and IL-10 in P(H1N1 patients may lead to disease progression. CONCLUSION AND SIGNIFICANCE: A comprehensive innate immune response was activated at the early stage of P(H1N1 infection with a combine Th1/Th2/Th3 cytokines production. As disease progression, a systemic production of IL-6 and IL-10 were observed in severe P(H1N1 patients. Further analysis found a strong correlation between IL-6 and IL-10 production in the severe P(H1N1 patients. IL-6 may be served as a mediator to induce IL-10 production. Highly elevated level of sera IL-6 and IL-10 in P(H1N1 patients may lead to disease progression, but the underlying mechanism awaits

  2. Spatiotemporal Analysis of the Genetic Diversity of Seal Influenza A(H10N7) Virus, Northwestern Europe

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    Bodewes, Rogier; Zohari, Siamak; Krog, Jesper Schak

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    and Denmark. Within a few months, this virus spread to seals of the coastal waters of Germany and the Netherlands, causing the death of thousands of animals. Genetic analysis of the hemagglutinin (HA) and neuraminidase (NA) genes of this seal influenza A(H10N7) virus revealed that it was most closely related...... to various avian influenza A(H10N7) viruses. The collection of samples from infected seals during the course of the outbreak provided a unique opportunity to follow the adaptation of the avian virus to its new seal host. Sequence data for samples collected from 41 different seals from four different......, various sequencing methods were used to elucidate the genetic changes that occurred after the introduction and subsequent spread of an avian influenza A(H10N7) virus among harbor seals of northwestern Europe by use of various samples collected during the outbreak. Such detailed knowledge of genetic...

  3. APLICACIÓN DEL SOFTWARE PCA 1.0: PARA REDUCIR EL DETERIORO DE LA CALIDAD DEL AIRE EN CALI-COLOMBIA (FASE I

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    Luis Granada

    2009-01-01

    Full Text Available El PCA 1.0 se diseñó como herramienta de soporte para un Procedimiento Organizacional que colecta y trata la información obtenida en el monitoreo y control de contaminantes atmosféricos en Cali - Colombia1. El PCA 1.0 es una aplicación hecha en java con la Interfaz de Desarrollo (IDE NetBeans2. El software PCA 1.0 está diseñado para recepcionar, depurar, validar y generar reportes de manera sistemática de los datos obtenidos en la Red de Monitoreo de Calidad del Aire, Meteorología y de la Inspección Técnico Mecánica y de Gases. El PCA 1.0 estima los Factores de Emisión y la Carga Ambiental diaria generada por las fuentes móviles en kilogramos, así como el valor promedio horario de la concentración de contaminantes criterio. La metodología general del Procedimiento Organizacional se fundamentó en lo establecido en la ISO 14040 (Análisis del Ciclo de Vida. El resultado más importante de la aplicación del PCA 1.0, se evidencia en facilitar a la autoridad ambiental, sanitaria, tránsito y transporte, la toma de decisiones con base en la selección de escenarios de contaminación atmosférica y actuaciones encaminadas hacia la publicación de normas que buscan reducir el deterioro de la calidad del aire en Cali ¿ Colombia. Finalmente, el PCA 1.0 se perfila como una herramienta ágil y adaptable en los sistemas de gestión ambiental municipal en su componente aire.

  4. VIDA ÚTIL DE LA HUMITA PRECOCIDA, POR MÉTODOS FÍSICO Y QUÍMICO MEDIANTE FACTOR DE ACELERACIÓN Q10

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    Full Text Available El objetivo de la presente investigación fue estimar la vida útil de la humita en función a la temperatura de almacenamiento con la aplicación de conservante (ácido ascórbico y el factor de aceleración Q10. Se estudió el almacenamiento de la humita a 0 y 10°C (A, con dos métodos de aplicación de ácido ascórbico (aplicación directa e inmersión (B. La unidad experimental fue de 100 g. Para el experimento se aplicó un diseño completamente al azar con tres réplicas. Se evaluaron parámetros sensoriales como: sabor, olor, color, textura; químicos: pH, acidez y microbiológicos mohos y levaduras (UFC, vida útil mediante la ecuación de regresión lineal planteada por Labuza y el factor de aceleración Q10. En el análisis sensorial el tratamiento A1B2 presentó los mejores resultados. El número de UFC.g-1 tanto en mohos y levaduras, no superó los límites permitidos por la norma INEN de 50x103 UFC.g-1 (In=10.81 a excepción A2B1. En el pH los tratamientos A1B2 y A1B1 presentaron los mayores promedios cercanos al neutro. Los días de vida útil fueron 5.5, 0.9, 2.61 para los tratamientos A1B1, A1B2 y A2B1 respectivamente; y el valor Q10 que se obtuvo fue de 2.1. El mayor tiempo de vida útil se obtuvo a 0°C con aplicación directa del conservante. El factor Q10 permitió establecer que el cambio de temperatura en 10°C, acelera 2.1 veces las reacciones de deterioro.

  5. Design a 10 kJ IS Mather Type Plasma Focus for Solid Target Activation to Produce Short-Lived Radioisotopes 12C(d,n)13N

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    Sadat Kiai, S. M.; Adlparvar, S.; Sheibani, S.; Elahi, M.; Safarien, A.; Farhangi, S.; Zirak, A. R.; Alhooie, S.; Mortazavi, B. N.; Khalaj, M. M.; Khanchi, A. R.; Dabirzadeh, A. A.; Kashani, A.; Zahedi, F.

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    A 10 kJ (15 kV, 88 μF) IS (Iranian Sun) Mather type plasma focus device has been studied to determine the activity of a compound exogenous carbon solid target through 12C(d,n)13N nuclear reaction. The produced 13N is a short-lived radioisotope with a half-life of 9.97 min and threshold energy of 0.28 MeV. The results indicate that energetic deuterons impinging on the solid target can produce yield of = 6.7 × 10-5 with an activity of A = 6.8 × 104 Bq for one plasma focus shut and A ν = 4 × 105 Bq for 6 shut per mint when the projectile maximum deuterons energy is E max = 3 MeV.

  6. Fixed node diffusion Monte Carlo using a genetic algorithm: a study of the CO-(4)He(N) complex, N = 1…10.

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    Ramilowski, Jordan A; Farrelly, David

    2012-06-14

    The diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) method is a widely used algorithm for computing both ground and excited states of many-particle systems; for states without nodes the algorithm is numerically exact. In the presence of nodes approximations must be introduced, for example, the fixed-node approximation. Recently we have developed a genetic algorithm (GA) based approach which allows the computation of nodal surfaces on-the-fly [Ramilowski and Farrelly, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2010, 12, 12450]. Here GA-DMC is applied to the computation of rovibrational states of CO-(4)He(N) complexes with N≤ 10. These complexes have been the subject of recent high resolution microwave and millimeter-wave studies which traced the onset of microscopic superfluidity in a doped (4)He droplet, one atom at a time, up to N = 10 [Surin et al., Phys. Rev. Lett., 2008, 101, 233401; Raston et al., Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2010, 12, 8260]. The frequencies of the a-type (microwave) series, which correlate with end-over-end rotation in the CO-(4)He dimer, decrease from N = 1 to 3 and then smoothly increase. This signifies the transition from a molecular complex to a quantum solvated system. The frequencies of the b-type (millimeter-wave) series, which evolves from free rotation of the rigid CO molecule, initially increase from N = 0 to N∼ 6 before starting to decrease with increasing N. An interesting feature of the b-type series, originally observed in the high resolution infra-red (IR) experiments of Tang and McKellar [J. Chem. Phys., 2003, 119, 754] is that, for N = 7, two lines are observed. The GA-DMC algorithm is found to be in good agreement with experimental results and possibly detects the small (∼0.7 cm(-1)) splitting in the b-series line at N = 7. Advantages and disadvantages of GA-DMC are discussed.

  7. Influence of local microplastic strains on stress corrosion of 08Kh18N10T steel

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    Moskvin, L.N.; Efimov, A.A.; Sherman, Ya.I.; Fedorova, T.I.

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    Study on specific features of microhomogeneous strain in the process of plastic strain development and their role in stress corrosion of 08Kh18N10T steel sheet specimens subject to preliminary strain by 1, 3, 6, 16 and 23% and subsequent tests of stress corrosion in magnesium chloride solution at 150 deg C 140 MPa has been carried out. Analysis of test results has shown that microplastic strain is distributed over a specimen nonuniformly and is accompanied with the slip bands formation which are sources of corrosion crack origination and development. 08Kh18N10T steel manifests the highest trend to stress corrosion under 1% microplastic strain

  8. Heat capacity and Joule-Thomson coefficient of selected n-alkanes at 0.1 and 10 MPa in broad temperature ranges

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    Regueira Muñiz, Teresa; Varzandeh, Farhad; Stenby, Erling Halfdan

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    Isobaric heat capacity of six n-alkanes, i.e. n-hexane, n-octane, n-decane, n-dodecane, n-tetradecane and n-hexadecane, was determined with a Calvet type differential heat-flux calorimeter at 0.1 and 10 MPa in a broad temperature range. The measured isobaric heat capacity data were combined...

  9. Pecia Complutense. 10 años del Boletín de la Biblioteca Histórica

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    Moreno García, Pilar

    2014-06-01

    Full Text Available Pecia Complutense comenzó a publicarse en formato digital hace ahora 10 años. Con este motivo se analiza la trayectoria, evolución y perspectivas de futuro del Boletín de la Biblioteca Histórica. Tras una breve historia de la publicación, se dan a conocer sus objetivos, procedimientos de trabajo, procedencia de las colaboraciones, filiación de las autorías y algunos ejemplos de las estadísticas de uso en el repositorio en Acceso Abierto Complutense. También se analiza su visibilidad en las plataformas de evaluación, Directorios de revistas de CC. Sociales y Humanidades,Portales de publicaciones científicas como DIALNET y catálogos de Bibliotecas. Se plantea su revisión para adaptarse a las directrices y criterios de calidad en la investigación en Humanidades. Complutense Pecia began publication in digital format 10 years ago now in order to spread the Complutense bibliographic heritage. For this reason the path, evolution and future prospects of the Bulletin of the Historical Library are analyzed. Disclosed their goals, work procedures, source collaborations, authorship affiliation and examples of usage statistics. The visibility is also analyzed in the evaluation platforms, directories of Open Access Journals , Social and Humanities portals to scientific publications, as DIALNET and catalogs of libraries.On the other hand, all of the above will be reviewed in order to meet the guidelines and the highest number of quality criteria that are required for scientific publications in the Humanities.

  10. Using Common Spatial Distributions of Atoms to Relate Functionally Divergent Influenza Virus N10 and N11 Protein Structures to Functionally Characterized Neuraminidase Structures, Toxin Cell Entry Domains, and Non-Influenza Virus Cell Entry Domains

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    Weininger, Arthur; Weininger, Susan

    2015-01-01

    The ability to identify the functional correlates of structural and sequence variation in proteins is a critical capability. We related structures of influenza A N10 and N11 proteins that have no established function to structures of proteins with known function by identifying spatially conserved atoms. We identified atoms with common distributed spatial occupancy in PDB structures of N10 protein, N11 protein, an influenza A neuraminidase, an influenza B neuraminidase, and a bacterial neuraminidase. By superposing these spatially conserved atoms, we aligned the structures and associated molecules. We report spatially and sequence invariant residues in the aligned structures. Spatially invariant residues in the N6 and influenza B neuraminidase active sites were found in previously unidentified spatially equivalent sites in the N10 and N11 proteins. We found the corresponding secondary and tertiary structures of the aligned proteins to be largely identical despite significant sequence divergence. We found structural precedent in known non-neuraminidase structures for residues exhibiting structural and sequence divergence in the aligned structures. In N10 protein, we identified staphylococcal enterotoxin I-like domains. In N11 protein, we identified hepatitis E E2S-like domains, SARS spike protein-like domains, and toxin components shared by alpha-bungarotoxin, staphylococcal enterotoxin I, anthrax lethal factor, clostridium botulinum neurotoxin, and clostridium tetanus toxin. The presence of active site components common to the N6, influenza B, and S. pneumoniae neuraminidases in the N10 and N11 proteins, combined with the absence of apparent neuraminidase function, suggests that the role of neuraminidases in H17N10 and H18N11 emerging influenza A viruses may have changed. The presentation of E2S-like, SARS spike protein-like, or toxin-like domains by the N10 and N11 proteins in these emerging viruses may indicate that H17N10 and H18N11 sialidase-facilitated cell

  11. GaN-based High Efficiency Bidirectional DC-DC Converter with 10 MHz Switching Frequency

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    Kruse, Kristian; Zhang, Zhe; Elbo, Mads

    2017-01-01

    -isolated bidirectional DC-DC converter equipped with Gallium Nitride (GaN) semiconductor transistors is presented. The converter’s operation principles, zero-voltage switching (ZVS) constraints and dead-time effects are studied. Moreover, the optimization and tradeoffs on the adopted high-frequency inductor...... are achieved. Moreover, the measured losses can match the theoretically calculated counterparts well, therefore the design and analysis are verified. However, from the experimental test carried out, it can also be seen, that making a compact converter, even for a GaN-based one, operate at 10 MHz and 100 W...

  12. SÍNTOMAS RESPIRATORIOS Y FUNCIÓN PULMONAR EN NIÑOS DE 6 A 14 AÑOS DE EDAD Y SU RELACIÓN CON LA CONTAMINACIÓN POR MATERIAL PARTICULADO PM10 EN SANTA MARTA- COLOMBIA

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    Lídice Álvarez Miño

    2013-01-01

    Full Text Available undamentos: Los efectos del material particulado (PM10 sobre la salud respiratoria son de interés en salud pública por el alto riesgo de enfermar y morir de la población expuesta, más aun cuando se trata de niños. El objeti- vo del estudio fue identificar la asociación entre las concentraciones de PM10 con la presencia de síntomas respiratorios y la alteración de la función pulmonar en niños de 6 a 14 años en la ciudad de Santa Marta. Método: Estudio transversal. La muestra fue de 305 niños seleccionados aleatoriamente entre los escolares matriculados en los colegios de las zo- nas identificadas. Se aplicaron dos cuestionarios: (i la encuesta del Inter- national Study of Asthma Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC, para identifi- car síntomas de rinitis alérgica y asma y (ii la encuesta de identificación de co-variables en el ambiente domiciliario. Se realizaron espirometrías para evaluar la función pulmonar. Para caracterizar la exposición se defi- nieron cuatro zonas de la ciudad en las que se ubicaron muestreadores de bajo volumen fmrOMNI, para medir las concentraciones de PM10. Se uti- lizó EpiInfo 3.5.3 para los análisis bivariados (chi2 y multivariados (re- gresión logística y se calcularon odds ratio (OR. Resultados: La prevalencia de síntomas respiratorios en la población es- tudiada fue de 39,3%. Vivir en zonas expuestas (ORa=2,19 p=0,0015 y tener gatos (ORa=1,79 p=0,0389 aumentaron el riesgo de presentar sín- tomas del tracto respiratorio superior. Conclusiones: En escolares de 6 a 14 años la exposición a concentracio- nes de PM10 superiores a 70μg/m3 aumenta el riesgo de presentar sínto- mas de tracto respiratorio superior y de alterar la función pulmonar.

  13. Permanent magnets prepared from Sm{sub 10.5}Fe{sub 88.5}Zr{sub 1.0}N{sub y} without homogenization

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    Gebel, B.; Kubis, M.; Mueller, K.-H. [Institut fuer Festkoerper- und Werkstofforschung Dresden e.V. (Germany). Inst. fuer Metallische Werkstoffe

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    In as-cast Sm{sub 2}Fe{sub 17} the high amount of {alpha}-Fe caused by a peritectic reaction can be considerably reduced by a small addition of about 1 at% Zr. X-ray diffraction showed that as-cast Sm{sub 10.5}Fe{sub 88.5}Zr{sub 1.0} mainly consists of a phase with the Th{sub 2}Zn{sub 17}-type structure and SmFe{sub 3}. Non-homogenized Sm{sub 10.5}Fe{sub 88.5}Zr{sub 1.0} was milled and (i) annealed in vacuum or (ii) treated with a hydrogenation-disproportionation-desorp tion-recombination (HDDR) process. The annealed and subsequently nitrogenated powder is magnetically anisotropic and has a coercivity {mu}{sub 0J}H{sub C} up to 2.0 T and an energy product (BH){sub max} up to 136 kJ/m{sup 3}. HDDR-treated and nitrogenated powder is isotropic and exhibits values of {mu}{sub 0J}H{sub C} = 3.1 T and (BH){sub max} 103 kJ/m{sup 3}. Consequently, Sm{sub 10.5}Fe{sub 88.5}Zr{sub 1.0}N{sub y} (y {approx} 16) permanent magnets with very good properties can be prepared without the time-consuming homogenization procedure. (orig.). 11 refs.

  14. 10 CFR Appendix N to Part 52 - Standardization of Nuclear Power Plant Designs: Combined Licenses To Construct and Operate...

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    ... 10 Energy 2 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Standardization of Nuclear Power Plant Designs: Combined Licenses To Construct and Operate Nuclear Power Reactors of Identical Design at Multiple Sites N Appendix N... FOR NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS Pt. 52, App. N Appendix N to Part 52—Standardization of Nuclear Power Plant...

  15. Impact of Mutations in the Hemagglutinin of H10N7 Viruses Isolated from Seals on Virus Replication in Avian and Human Cells

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    Full Text Available Wild birds are the reservoir for low-pathogenic avian influenza viruses, which are frequently transmitted to domestic birds and occasionally to mammals. In 2014, an H10N7 virus caused severe mortality in harbor seals in northeastern Europe. Although the hemagglutinin (HA of this virus was closely related to H10 of avian H10N4 virus, it possessed unique nonsynonymous mutations, particularly in the HA1 subunit in or adjacent to the receptor binding domain and proteolytic cleavage site. Here, the impact of these mutations on virus replication was studied in vitro. Using reverse genetics, an avian H10N4 virus was cloned, and nine recombinant viruses carrying one of eight unique mutations or the complete HA from the seal virus were rescued. Receptor binding affinity, replication in avian and mammalian cell cultures, cell-to-cell spread, and HA cleavability of these recombinant viruses were studied. Results show that wild-type recombinant H10N4 virus has high affinity to avian-type sialic acid receptors and no affinity to mammalian-type receptors. The H10N7 virus exhibits dual receptor binding affinity. Interestingly, Q220L (H10 numbering in the rim of the receptor binding pocket increased the affinity of the H10N4 virus to mammal-type receptors and completely abolished the affinity to avian-type receptors. No remarkable differences in cell-to-cell spread or HA cleavability were observed. All viruses, including the wild-type H10N7 virus, replicated at higher levels in chicken cells than in human cells. These results indicate that H10N7 acquired adaptive mutations (e.g., Q220L to enhance replication in mammals and retained replication efficiency in the original avian host.

  16. Impact of Mutations in the Hemagglutinin of H10N7 Viruses Isolated from Seals on Virus Replication in Avian and Human Cells.

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    Dittrich, Anne; Scheibner, David; Salaheldin, Ahmed H; Veits, Jutta; Gischke, Marcel; Mettenleiter, Thomas C; Abdelwhab, Elsayed M

    2018-02-14

    Wild birds are the reservoir for low-pathogenic avian influenza viruses, which are frequently transmitted to domestic birds and occasionally to mammals. In 2014, an H10N7 virus caused severe mortality in harbor seals in northeastern Europe. Although the hemagglutinin (HA) of this virus was closely related to H10 of avian H10N4 virus, it possessed unique nonsynonymous mutations, particularly in the HA1 subunit in or adjacent to the receptor binding domain and proteolytic cleavage site. Here, the impact of these mutations on virus replication was studied in vitro. Using reverse genetics, an avian H10N4 virus was cloned, and nine recombinant viruses carrying one of eight unique mutations or the complete HA from the seal virus were rescued. Receptor binding affinity, replication in avian and mammalian cell cultures, cell-to-cell spread, and HA cleavability of these recombinant viruses were studied. Results show that wild-type recombinant H10N4 virus has high affinity to avian-type sialic acid receptors and no affinity to mammalian-type receptors. The H10N7 virus exhibits dual receptor binding affinity. Interestingly, Q220L (H10 numbering) in the rim of the receptor binding pocket increased the affinity of the H10N4 virus to mammal-type receptors and completely abolished the affinity to avian-type receptors. No remarkable differences in cell-to-cell spread or HA cleavability were observed. All viruses, including the wild-type H10N7 virus, replicated at higher levels in chicken cells than in human cells. These results indicate that H10N7 acquired adaptive mutations (e.g., Q220L) to enhance replication in mammals and retained replication efficiency in the original avian host.

  17. Synthesis and structure of a 1,6-hexyldiamine heptaborate, [H3N(CH2)6NH3][B7O10(OH)3

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    Yang Sihai; Li Guobao; Tian Shujian; Liao Fuhui; Xiong Ming; Lin Jianhua

    2007-01-01

    A new 1,6-hexyldiamine heptaborate, [H 3 N(CH 2 ) 6 NH 3 ][B 7 O 10 (OH) 3 ] (1), has been solvothermally synthesized and characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction, FTIR, elemental analysis, and thermogravimetric analysis. Compound 1 crystallizes in monoclinic system, space group P2 1 /n with a=8.042(2) A, b=20.004(4) A, c=10.103(2) A, and β=90.42(3) deg. The anionic [B 7 O 10 (OH) 3 ] n 2n- layers are interlinked via hydrogen bonding to form a 3D supramolecular network containing large channels, in which the templated [H 3 N(CH 2 ) 6 NH 3 ] 2+ cations are located. - Graphical abstract: A layered 1,6-hexyldiamine heptaborate, [H 3 N(CH 2 ) 6 NH 3 ][B 7 O 10 (OH) 3 ], was solvothermally synthesized at 150 deg. C. It is a layer borate and crystallized in monoclinic space group P2 1 /n with a=8.042(2) A, b=20.004(4) A, c=10.103(2) A, β=90.42(3) deg

  18. Magnetic Properties of NdFe10Mo2-N Bonded Magnet

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    Zhang, Hong-Wei; Hu, Bo-Ping; Han, Zhong-Fan; Jin, Han-Min; Fu, Quan

    1997-06-01

    The dependence of remanence and coercivity on the magnetizing field is studied for isotropic and anisotropic epoxy resin bonded magnets. It was found that the coercivity of the NdFe10Mo2-N bonded magnet is mainly controlled by nucleation of reversed magnetic domains. Variation of iHc with Zn content and heat treatment conditions is studied. The value of 0 iHc obtained in the best Zn-bonded condition is about 0.15 T higher than before bonding. The variation of the amount of α-Fe with processing conditions is demonstrated for anisotropic Zn-bonded magnets.

  19. La receta Penal Después de la llegada de la Ley N ° 12.234 / 10 , y su relación con las funciones de protección del Estado

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    Anelise Coelho Nunes

    2016-06-01

    Full Text Available Los cambios introducidos por la promulgación de la Ley n° 12.234 /10 trajeron una cierta controversia con respecto a una posible prescripción de la extinción (en forma retroactivo. En este sentido, el texto permite establecer un parámetro de la discusión, con la garantía de que el legislador optó por dar efecto ex tunc a la prescripción de la pretensión punitiva, en base a la sanción específica, sólo desde la recepción de la queja o reclamación. Por lo tanto, este estudio es necesario para tratar sobre el deber fundamental de la protección del Estado, que, por ley, acto administrativo o acciones de hecho, está obligado a actuar positivamente para evitar prácticas aceras sean perjudiciales para los derechos fundamentales.

  20. Theoretical exploration of the nanoscale host-guest interactions between [n]cycloparaphenylenes (n = 10, 8 and 9) and fullerene C₆₀: from single- to three-potential well.

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    Yuan, Kun; Zhou, Cai-Hua; Zhu, Yuan-Cheng; Zhao, Xiang

    2015-07-28

    The nanoscale host-guest interactions between [n]cycloparaphenylene ([n]CPP; n = 10, 8 and 9) nano-ring and fullerene C60 were explored theoretically. It is found that relatively small variations in the sizes of the [n]CPP host lead to very significant changes in encapsulation property toward the fullerene C60 guest. Expectedly, one stable inclusion-configuration of [10]CPP⊃C60 and one floating-configuration of [8]CPP⊃C60 are located on the potential surfaces of the two complexes, respectively. Unexpectedly, besides a floating-configuration (F-[9]CPP⊃C60), another stable inclusion-configuration (I-[9]CPP⊃C60) is also located on the potential surface of [9]CPP⊃C60 host-guest complex. Interaction energies and natural steric analysis show that these complexes are stabilized by balancing concave-convex π-π attractive and steric repulsive host-guest interactions. In contrast, the steric repulsive energy (Es) between host and guest of I-[9]CPP⊃C60 is as high as 233.12 kJ mol(-1), which is much larger than those in other complexes. The movements of C60 guest through the cavities of [n]CPP host (n = 10, 8 and 9) are simulated by calculating the energy profile, and the results interestingly reveal that the encapsulation of C60 by [10]CPP is in the manner of a single-potential well, by [8]CPP in the manner of a double-potential well, and by [9]CPP in the special manner of a three-potential well. We predict that the movement of C60 guest through the cavity of [9]CPP host should be experimentally observable owing to the relatively low energy barrier (<50 kJ mol(-1), M06-2X/6-31G(d)). Charge population analysis shows that an obvious charge transfer between host and guest takes place during the formation of I-[9]CPP⊃C60, which is different from those during the formation of [8]CPP⊃C60, [10]CPP⊃C60 and F-[9]CPP⊃C60. Additionally, the host-guest interaction regions were detected and visualized in real space based on the electron density and reduced density

  1. Microsolvation of the acetanilide cation (AA(+)) in a nonpolar solvent: IR spectra of AA(+)-L(n) clusters (L = He, Ar, N2; n10).

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    Schmies, Matthias; Patzer, Alexander; Schütz, Markus; Miyazaki, Mitsuhiko; Fujii, Masaaki; Dopfer, Otto

    2014-05-07

    Infrared photodissociation (IRPD) spectra of mass-selected cluster ions of acetanilide (N-phenylacetamide), AA(+)-Ln, with the ligands L = He (n = 1-2), Ar (n = 1-7), and N2 (n = 1-10) are recorded in the hydride stretch (amide A, νNH, νCH) and fingerprint (amide I-III) ranges of AA(+) in its (2)A'' ground electronic state. Cold AA(+)-Ln clusters are generated in an electron impact ion source, which predominantly produces the most stable isomer of a given cluster ion. Systematic vibrational frequency shifts of the N-H stretch fundamentals (νNH) provide detailed information about the sequential microsolvation process of AA(+) in a nonpolar (L = He and Ar) and quadrupolar (L = N2) solvent. In the most stable AA(+)-Ln clusters, the first ligand forms a hydrogen bond (H-bond) with the N-H proton of trans-AA(+) (t-AA(+)), whereas further ligands bind weakly to the aromatic ring (π-stacking). There is no experimental evidence for complexes with the less stable cis-AA(+) isomer. Quantum chemical calculations at the M06-2X/aug-cc-pVTZ level confirm the cluster growth sequence derived from the IR spectra. The calculated binding energies of De(H) = 720 and 1227 cm(-1) for H-bonded and De(π) = 585 and 715 cm(-1) for π-bonded Ar and N2 ligands in t-AA(+)-L are consistent with the observed photofragmentation branching ratios of AA(+)-Ln. Comparison between charged and neutral AA((+))-L dimers indicates that ionization switches the preferred ion-ligand binding motif from π-stacking to H-bonding. Electron removal from the HOMO of AA(+) delocalized over both the aromatic ring and the amide group significantly strengthens the C[double bond, length as m-dash]O bond and weakens the N-H bond of the amide group.

  2. Motivos de participación/no participación en actividades físicas de escolares de 10-12 años de Melilla. (Reasons for participation/no participation in physical activities of 10-12 years old schoolchildren from Melilla.

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    Juan Granda Vera

    2010-10-01

    Full Text Available ResumenEl presente artículo expone los resultados de un estudio dirigido a conocer la influencia del género en la frecuencia semanal y diaria de práctica de actividad física, así como en los motivos/no motivos de práctica de actividad física que manifiestan escolares de 10-12 años de Melilla. Los participantes han sido todos los escolares de los cursos 5º y 6º (10 - 12 años de tres colegios públicos de Melilla (n= 439. Los datos se han recogido a través del cuestionario de “Hábitos de participación en Actividades Físicas”. Los resultados muestran la existencia de diferencias significativas en función del género en la frecuencia diaria de práctica (z= 2,72, p AbstractThe present article presents the results of a study aimed at know the influence of gender in weekly and daily practice and in the reasons/non-reasons for practicing physical activity that show school age 10-12 years of Melilla. The participants were all schoolchildren in courses 5 and 6th (10-12 years from three public schools in Melilla (n= 439. Data were collected through the “Habits of Participation in Physical Activities Questionnaire”. The results show the significant differences gender in the daily frequency of practice (z= 2,72, p

  3. Quantization of anomaly coefficients in 6D $\\mathcal{N}=(1,0)$ supergravity

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    Monnier, Samuel; Moore, Gregory W.; Park, Daniel S.

    2017-01-01

    We obtain new constraints on the anomaly coefficients of 6D $\\mathcal{N}=(1,0)$ supergravity theories using local and global anomaly cancellation conditions. We show how these constraints can be strengthened if we assume that the theory is well-defined on any spin space-time with an arbitrary gauge bundle. We distinguish the constraints depending on the gauge algebra only from those depending on the global structure of the gauge group. Our main constraint states that the coefficients of the a...

  4. Study of the response to neutrons of a personal dosemeter in mixed fields (n, {gamma}) in function of Hp(10); Estudio de la respuesta a neutrones de un dosimetro personal en campos mixtos (n, {gamma}) en funcion de Hp(10)

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    Cruzate, J.; Gregori, B.; Carelli, J.; Aguerre, L.; Discacciatti, A. [Autoridad REgulatoria Nuclear, Av. del Libertador 8250 (1429), Buenos Aires (Argentina)]. e-mail: cruzate@cae.arn.gov.ar

    2006-07-01

    In this work it is presented the theoretical study and their experimental validation of the answer of the personal dosimetro in terms of the component of neutrons of the personal equivalent dose Hpn(10) in function of the energy, in presence of fields of neutrons and range. The personal dosimetro, based on detecting termoluminiscentes (TLD), it consists of two detectors 7LiF and two 6LiF, located low filters of plastic and cadmium starting from whose information is evaluated the component range and of neutrons of the dose. Additionally it consists of a detecting CaF2, used basically to discriminate against the energy of the component range and to make the corresponding corrections on the evaluation of the dose range obtained with the 7LiF. The answer to neutrons in function of the energy, defined as the quotient among the one I number of reactions 6Li(n, a)4He taken place in each TLD and the Hpn(10), it was calculated using the code MCNPX and the library ENDF/B-VI. You model the dosimetro under the irradiation conditions proposed by the ISO8529-3. Faces monoenergeticos were simulated in the range of energy understood between 70 keV and 5 MeV. The dispersion in each one of the results of the simulation is smaller than 3%. You I study the existent relationship among the answer te6rica, reactions (n,a)/Hpn(10) and the experimental one, nC/Hpn(10), for a given thermal treatment. The factor of resulting conversion is constant in the energy and similar to 1,71 104 reacciones(n, a)/nC, with a smaller standard deviation to 10%. The experimental answer was obtained starting from the irradiations carried out in the mark of the International Intercomparacion of Dosimetria in Mixed Campos (n,) 2004 organized by the OIEA next to the PTB (Germany) and the IRSN (France). The extension of these calculations to other spectra of neutrons of fields real they will allow to obtain group of factors of application conversion in routine and accidental situations. (Author)

  5. 50 CFR Table 3 (north) to Part 660... - 2010 Trip Limits for Open Access Gears North of 40°10N. Lat.

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    ... 50 Wildlife and Fisheries 9 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false 2010 Trip Limits for Open Access Gears North of 40°10â² N. Lat. 3 Table 3 (North) to Part 660, Subpart F Wildlife and Fisheries FISHERY... Limits for Open Access Gears North of 40°10N. Lat. ER01OC10.020 ER01OC10.021 ...

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  7. Sediment distribution in the oceans : the Atlantic between 10° and 19°N

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    Collette, B.J.; Ewing, J.I.; Lagaay, R.A.; Truchan, M.

    Between 10° and 19°N the North Atlantic Ocean has been covered by four east-west crossings and one north-south section at 60°W, using a continuous seismic reflection recorder (air gun). The northernmost section extends to the Canary Islands. The region comprises a great variety of phenomena:

  8. CARACTERIZACIÓN QUÍMICA DE MATERIAL PARTICULADO PM10 EN LA ATMÓSFERA DE RIOHACHA-LA GUAJIRA COLOMBIA

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    Calos Julio Doria Argumedo

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    Full Text Available Teniendo en cuenta la importancia desde el punto de vista de la contaminación ambiental, que tienen las partículas inhalables PM 10 en ambientes urbanos, y que los efectos que se puedan generar en la salud dependen de la composición química del material formado por partículas, se realizó este estudio con el objetivo de revelar la composición química de las partículas atmosféricas a través de técnicas de Espectrofotometría UV-VIS y Espectrometría de Masas con fuente de Plasma de Acoplamiento, generados principalmente por fuentes naturales y antrópicas en la ciudad de Riohacha al norte de Colombia; para ello se recolectaron 30 muestras de partículas atmosféricas por medio de filtros de cuarzo con una frecuencia mensual, durante el período de marzo a diciembre de 2014. Las PM 10 presentan una concentración promedio de 52,9 µg/m 3 y los iones solubles de mayor concentración corresponden a Na + , Cl - , Ca +2 y Mg +2 . Las diferencias entre los sitios de muestreo no fueron significativas (p> 0,6. El 70% del Ca +2 es de origen no marino, atribuyéndose al suelo y al tráfico vehicular y peatonal. Conocer la composición química del material particulado, PM 10 tiene relevancia no sólo desde el punto de vista de la química de la atmósfera, sino también sobre la calidad del aire que se respira en las ciudades

  9. Seroprevalence of Antibodies against Seal Influenza A(H10N7) Virus in Harbor Seals and Gray Seals from the Netherlands.

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    Bodewes, Rogier; Rubio García, Ana; Brasseur, Sophie M; Sanchez Conteras, Guillermo J; van de Bildt, Marco W G; Koopmans, Marion P G; Osterhaus, Albert D M E; Kuiken, Thijs

    2015-01-01

    In the spring and summer 2014, an outbreak of seal influenza A(H10N7) virus infection occurred among harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) off the coasts of Sweden and Denmark. This virus subsequently spread to harbor seals off the coasts of Germany and the Netherlands. While thousands of seals were reported dead in Sweden, Denmark and Germany, only a limited number of seals were found dead in the Netherlands. To determine the extent of exposure of seals in the Netherlands to influenza A/H10N7 virus, we measured specific antibody titers in serum samples from live-captured seals and seals admitted for rehabilitation in the Netherlands by use of a hemagglutination inhibition assay and an ELISA. In harbor seals in 2015, antibodies against seal influenza A(H10N7) virus were detected in 41% (32 out of 78) pups, 10% (5 out of 52) weaners, and 58% (7 out of 12) subadults or adults. In gray seals (Halichoerus grypus) in 2015, specific antibodies were not found in the pups (n = 26), but in 26% (5 out of 19) of the older animals. These findings indicate that, despite apparent low mortality, infection with seal influenza A(H10N7) virus was geographically widespread and also occurred in grey seals.

  10. Caracterización Quimica de material particulado fraciión respirable pm 10 en la atmósfera de Rioacha la Guajira Colombia

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    Calos Julio Doria Argumedo; Juan Reynerio Fagundo Castillo

    2017-01-01

    Teniendo en cuenta la importancia desde el punto de vista de la contaminación ambiental, que tienen las partículas inhalables PM 10 en ambientes urbanos, y que los efectos que se puedan generar en la salud dependen de la composición química del material formado por partículas, se realizó este estudio con el objetivo de revelar la composición química de las partículas atmosféricas a través de técnicas de Espectrofotometría UV-VIS y Espectrometría de Masas con fuente de Plasma de Acoplamiento, ...

  11. Estudio de genotoxicidad del material particulado (PM10) de la zona urbana del cantón Cuenca

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    Astudillo Alemán, Ana Lucía

    2014-01-01

    Las partículas aerodinámicas en suspensión (PM) están constituidas de una variedad de substancias genotóxicas, capaces de poner en peligro la salud humana.El objetivo de la presente investigación fue determinar las características químicas de la solución acuosa de Material particulado PM10, recolectado en tres sitios de monitoreo de la ciudad de Cuenca, y evaluar su genotoxicidad daño al DNA, mediante el ensayo de electroforesis unicelular en células epiteliales alveolares A549, las concentra...

  12. Growth of M-plane (10-10)InN on LiAlO2(100) substrate

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    Takagi, Yusuke; Muto, Daisuke; Araki, Tsutomu; Nanishi, Yasushi; Yamaguchi, Tomohiro

    2009-01-01

    In this study, we report the growth and characterization of M-plane InN films on LiAlO 2 (100) substrates by radio-frequency plasma assisted molecular beam epitaxy (RF-MBE). InN films were grown at various temperatures and under various V/III ratios on the substrates. Pure M -plane InN films were successfully grown at a high temperature of 450 C and under a slightly In-rich condition, while the incorporation of C-plane phase was observed in M -plane InN films grown at low temperatures of less than 400 C or under a N-rich condition. These indicate that controls of growth temperature and V/III ratio are important for the growth of pure M-plane InN films. The in-plane epitaxial relationships of M -plane InN on LiAlO 2 (100) were[0001] InN //[010] LiAlO 2 and[1-210] InN //[001] LiAlO 2 . A surface electron accumulation layer on the obtained M-plane InN film is also discussed. (copyright 2009 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH and Co. KGaA, Weinheim) (orig.)

  13. Cross section measurements of the 10B(d,n0)11C reaction below 160 keV

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    Stave, S.; Ahmed, M. W.; Blackston, M. A.; Crowell, A. S.; Henshaw, S. S.; Howell, C. R.; Kingsberry, P.; Perdue, B. A.; Weller, H. R.; Antolak, A. J.; Doyle, B. L.; Rossi, P.; Prior, R. M.; Spraker, M. C.

    2008-01-01

    New data were taken at the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory to investigate the plausibility of using low energy deuterons and the 10 B(d,n) 11 C reaction as a portable source of 6.3 MeV neutrons. Analysis of the data at and below incident deuteron energies of 160 keV indicates an n 0 neutron cross section that is lower than previous estimates by at least three orders of magnitude. In separate runs, deuterons with two different energies (160 and 140 keV) were stopped in a 10 B target. The resulting n 0 neutrons of approximately 6.3 MeV were detected at angles between 0 deg. and 150 deg. The angle integrated yields were used to determine the astrophysical S factor for this reaction assuming a constant value for the S factor below 160 keV. The cross sections reported between 130 and 160 keV were calculated using the extracted value of the S factor. The measured n 0 cross section is several orders of magnitude smaller than previous results, thus eliminating 10 B(d,n) 11 C as a portable source of intense neutrons with low energy deuteron beams on the order of tens of microamps. In order to gain insight into the reaction dynamics at these low energies the cross section results have been compared with results from calculations using the distorted wave Born approximation (DWBA) and a detailed Hauser-Feshbach calculation performed by the authors. The angular distribution is consistent with the Hauser-Feshbach calculation suggesting a statistical compound nucleus reaction rather than a direct reaction

  14. Effect of partial oxygen pressure on physicochemical properties of Kh18N10T steel at isothermal oxidation. Vliyanie partsial'nogo davleniya kisloroda na fiziko-khimicheskie svojstva poverkhnosti stali Kh18N10T pri izotermicheskom okislenii

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    Alekseev, V N; Oshe, E K; Fokin, M N; Bogdanova, S V; Loskutov, A I [AN SSSR, Moscow (USSR). Inst. Fizicheskoj Khimii

    1990-10-01

    Auger-electron spectroscopy, photoelectric polarization, conductometry methods have been used to analyze chemical and defect composition of surface oxide layers, formed on stainless steel Kh18N10T in vacuum (10{sup -9} - 10{sup -2} torr) and at temperatures 593-673 K. The boundary conditions of manifestation of extermal behaviour of the dependence of the surface oxide growth rate at isothermal oxidation of this steel are determined. The relation between passivation properties of the surface oxide and the magnitude of the edge angle of the surface wetting with molten tin is revealed.

  15. 10 CFR Appendix N to Part 50 - Standardization of Nuclear Power Plant Designs: Permits To Construct and Licenses To Operate...

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    ... 10 Energy 1 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Standardization of Nuclear Power Plant Designs: Permits To Construct and Licenses To Operate Nuclear Power Reactors of Identical Design at Multiple Sites N Appendix N... FACILITIES Pt. 50, App.N Appendix N to Part 50—Standardization of Nuclear Power Plant Designs: Permits To...

  16. Structural changes in surface layer of steel 08Kh18N10T during machining

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    Palenik, J.; Vodarek, V.

    1989-01-01

    The results are reported of a study of the surface layer of steel 08Kh18N10T affected by machining. Structural changes were studied caused by finish turning and by additional roller burnishing. Multiple deformation bands were observed to occur under the given cutting conditions; they mainly consisted of deformation doublets and only in isolated cases of ε-martensite. The presence of α'-martensite was not shown in the specimen surface layer following finish turning. The deformation shear bands in the roller-burnished specimen consisted of both ε-martensite and of deformation doublets. The amount of ε-martensite in the structure was significantly higher than in the specimen worked by turning. Local presence of α'-martensite formations was observed inside the deformation bands. It thus follows that roller burnishing is unsuitable as part of the manufacture of components from steel 08Kh18N10T. (J.B.). 5 figs., 1 tab., 9 refs

  17. Diseño de una formulación de fenilefrina 10 % y tropicamida 1 % colirio: eyedrops Design of a 10 % Phenylephrine and 1 % Tropicamide formula

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    Georgy Armando Zuñiga Dedorite

    2010-06-01

    Full Text Available El colirio de fenilefrina 10 % y tropicamida 1 % se emplea en la práctica médica como antihistamínico, analgésico, midriáticos y ciclopléjico. El objetivo del presente trabajo consistió en desarrollar una formulación de fenilefrina 10 % y tropicamida 1 % que cumpliera con las especificaciones de calidad establecidas por el fabricante, que fuera estable física, química y microbiológicamente, para lo cual se realizó un diseño y los estudios de preformulación. Se estudió además, las especificaciones de calidad de la formulación seleccionada, la estabilidad del producto y el tiempo de vigencia de este. Se desarrolló y validó un método analítico para el control de la calidad y el estudio de estabilidad del producto terminado por cromatografía líquida de alta resolución. Se realizaron los resultados analíticos del estudio de estabilidad acelerado y por vida de estante, para lo cual se emplearon 3 lotes del producto a escala piloto. El colirio resultó estable física, química y microbiológicamente envasado en frascos de polietileno de baja densidad, por un tiempo de 12 meses almacenados a temperatura ambiente.The 10 % Phenylephrine and 1 % Tropicamide eyedrops is used in medical practice as antihistaminic, analgesic, mydiatric and cycloplegic. The aim of present paper was to develop a 10% Phenylephrine and 1 % Tropicamide formula fulfilling the quality specifications established by manufacturer physically, chemically and microbiologically stable with the performing of a design and pre-formula studies. Also, we studied the quality specifications of selected formula, the product stability and its expiry time. An analytical method was developed and validated to quality control and stability study of the finished product by high-performance liquid chromatography. Analytical results of accelerated stability study and by shelf life using 3 batches of product at pilot scale. Eyedrops was physically, chemically and microbiologically

  18. THE EFFECT OF n-3 LC-PUFA SUPPLEMENTATION ON TENNIS SKILL ACQUISITION IN 10-12 YEAR OLD GIRLS

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    Asuman Şahan

    2012-07-01

    Full Text Available The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of 16 weeks of n-3 LC-PUFA (omega 3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid supplementation on tennis skill acquisition in 10-12 year old girls. This research was a single-blind placebo-controlled trial. 29 girls (10-12 years of age who had never played tennis before took part in the study. Ball Throws to the Target (BTT and Tennis Ability Test (TAT were performed three times. Before participants were allocated to the groups and received n-3 LC-PUFA or olive oil, they underwent preparatory training for three weeks. Anthropometric measurements, nutrition analysis, and 1st BTT and TAT tests were performed and they continued the preparatory training until the 3rd week. Then they were randomly allocated to two groups to receive either n-3 LC-PUFA (omega group; 670 mg · day-1; n=16 or olive oil (placebo group; 670 mg · day-1; n=13 during 16 weeks of tennis training which involved 3 hours per week for 19 weeks. The results show that significant improvements in TAT were found in both groups but the omega group had significantly higher scores than the placebo group at the 3rd measurements. Although there were no differences between groups at all measurements of BTT, the omega group showed significant improvement between the 1st and 3rd measurements. This study suggests that daily 670 mg n-3 LC-PUFA supplementation for 16 weeks might improve tennis ability test scores of 10-12 year old girls.

  19. In-situ SCC observation on thermally-sensitized type 304 stainless steel irradiated to 1 x 10{sup 25} n/m{sup 2}

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    Nakano, J.; Nemoto, Y.; Tsukada, T.; Usami, K. [Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Tokai-mura, Naga-gun, Ibaraki-ken (Japan); Hide, K. [Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Yokosuka-shi, Kanagawa-ken (Japan)

    2007-07-01

    Full text of publication follows: Irradiation assisted stress corrosion cracking (IASCC) is concerned as being one of the specific problems for water-cooled first wall/blanket components in the design activity of international thermonuclear experimental reactor (ITER). To examine the crack initiation and growth behaviors of IASCC, in-situ observation on gage length of specimens was conducted during slow strain rate tests (SSRT) in high temperature water. Results from in-situ observation on Type 304 stainless steel (SS) irradiated to 1.0 x 10{sup 26} n/m{sup 2} have been reported already. Type 304 SS was subjected to a solution annealing (SA), a thermally sensitization (TS) or a cold working (CW, 20%) and irradiated to 1.0 x 10{sup 25} n/m{sup 2} in the Japan Materials Testing Reactor (JMTR). After neutron irradiation, SSRT for the specimens was conducted in oxygenated high purity water at 561 K. The gage length of the specimen was observed through a window equipped on an autoclave during the SSRT. Subsequently, fracture surface examination was performed using a scanning electron microscope (SEM). In fracture surface examination of the specimens irradiated to 1.0 x 10{sup 25} n/m{sup 2}, almost entire intergranular stress corrosion cracking (IGSCC) was exhibited for the TS material while mixtures of transgranular stress corrosion cracking (TGSCC) and ductile dimple fracture were observed for the SA and the CW materials. Although crack initiation was observed immediately after maximum stress for the CW irradiated to 1.0 x 10{sup 26} n/m{sup 2}, crack initiation was observed immediately before maximum stress (99% of maximum stress) for the CW irradiated to 1.0 x 10{sup 25} n/m{sup 2} in in-situ observation. (authors)

  20. The X40×10 Halogen Bonding Benchmark Revisited: Surprising Importance of (n-1)d Subvalence Correlation.

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    Kesharwani, Manoj K; Manna, Debashree; Sylvetsky, Nitai; Martin, Jan M L

    2018-03-01

    We have re-evaluated the X40×10 benchmark for halogen bonding using conventional and explicitly correlated coupled cluster methods. For the aromatic dimers at small separation, improved CCSD(T)-MP2 "high-level corrections" (HLCs) cause substantial reductions in the dissociation energy. For the bromine and iodine species, (n-1)d subvalence correlation increases dissociation energies and turns out to be more important for noncovalent interactions than is generally realized; (n-1)sp subvalence correlation is much less important. The (n-1)d subvalence term is dominated by core-valence correlation; with the smaller cc-pVDZ-F12-PP and cc-pVTZ-F12-PP basis sets, basis set convergence for the core-core contribution becomes sufficiently erratic that it may compromise results overall. The two factors conspire to generate discrepancies of up to 0.9 kcal/mol (0.16 kcal/mol RMS) between the original X40×10 data and the present revision.

  1. A Sub-ppm Acetone Gas Sensor for Diabetes Detection Using 10 nm Thick Ultrathin InN FETs

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    Kao, Kun-Wei; Hsu, Ming-Che; Chang, Yuh-Hwa; Gwo, Shangjr; Yeh, J. Andrew

    2012-01-01

    An indium nitride (InN) gas sensor of 10 nm in thickness has achieved detection limit of 0.4 ppm acetone. The sensor has a size of 1 mm by 2.5 mm, while its sensing area is 0.25 mm by 2 mm. Detection of such a low acetone concentration in exhaled breath could enable early diagnosis of diabetes for portable physiological applications. The ultrathin InN epilayer extensively enhances sensing sensitivity due to its strong electron accumulation on roughly 5–10 nm deep layers from the surface. Platinum as catalyst can increase output current signals by 2.5-fold (94 vs. 37.5 μA) as well as reduce response time by 8.4-fold (150 vs. 1,260 s) in comparison with bare InN. More, the effect of 3% oxygen consumption due to breath inhalation and exhalation on 2.4 ppm acetone gas detection was investigated, indicating that such an acetone concentration can be analyzed in air. PMID:22969342

  2. NbN A/D Conversion of IR Focal Plane Sensor Signal at 10 K

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    Eaton, L.; Durand, D.; Sandell, R.; Spargo, J.; Krabach, T.

    1994-01-01

    We are implementing a 12 bit SFQ counting ADC with parallel-to-serial readout using our established 10 K NbN capability. This circuit provides a key element of the analog signal processor (ASP) used in large infrared focal plane arrays. The circuit processes the signal data stream from a Si:As BIB detector array. A 10 mega samples per second (MSPS) pixel data stream flows from the chip at a 120 megabit bit rate in a format that is compatible with other superconductive time dependent processor (TDP) circuits being developed. We will discuss our planned ASP demonstration, the circuit design, and test results.

  3. Development of plastic deformations in 12Kh18N10T steel under cyclic symmetrical bending of specimens of various length

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    Pisarenko, G.S.; Leonets, V.A.; Bega, N.D. (AN Ukrainskoj SSR, Kiev. Inst. Problem Prochnosti)

    1983-08-01

    Effect of specimen length on intensity of plastic deformation development and cyclic strength is studied for annealed 12Kh18N10T steel under cyclic symmetrical bending. The intensity of microplastic deformations and cyclic strength of annealed 12Kh18N10T steel in the considered case is due to self-heating.

  4. Influenza A outbreaks in Minnesota turkeys due to subtype H10N7 and possible transmission by waterfowl.

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    Karunakaran, D; Hinshaw, V; Poss, P; Newman, J; Halvorson, D

    1983-01-01

    Avian influenza outbreaks in Minnesota involving the H10N7 subtype occurred on two turkey farms in 1979 and on a third in 1980. The H10N7 (Hav2 Neq1) subtype had not previously been detected in turkeys in Minnesota or reported in the United States. The clinical signs ranged from severe, with a mortality rate as high as 31%, to subclinical. Antigenically indistinguishable viruses were isolated from healthy mallards on a pond adjacent to the turkey farms, suggesting that the virus responsible for the outbreak may have been introduced by feral ducks.

  5. IJS v10 n1.cdr

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    N.A. BABARINDE3, A.J. AKINYEMJ3 and K.A:ONIJAMAH3 ... and Ni than in the bottled water samples while the essential elements- Zn and Mn needful to the body .... Viable count were carried TDS of samples P and T were unexpectedly high.

  6. Synthesis and Characterization of Macrocyclic Polyether N,N'-Diallyl-7,16-diaza-1,4,10,13-tetraoxa-dibenzo-18-crown-6.

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    Toeri, Julius; Laborie, Marie-Pierre

    2016-01-29

    In this study an efficient and direct production procedure for a macrocyclic polyether N,N'-diallyl-7,16-diaza-1,4,10,13-tetraoxa-dibenzo-18-crown-6 from the reaction of catechol and N,N-bis(2-chloroethyl)prop-2-en-1-amine in n-butanol in the presence of a strong base is reported. The synthesis involves a two-step addition of sodium hydroxide to enhance the cyclization process, and at the end of the reaction, the reaction mixture is neutralized and the solvent replaced with water in-situ through distillation to afford a relatively pure precipitate that is easily recrystallized from acetone. The yield of the macrocycle was 36%-45% and could be scaled-up to one-mole quantities. The structure and purity of this compound was verified on the basis of elemental analysis, IR, UV-Vis, ¹H-, (13)C-NMR, 2D-NMR, mass spectroscopy, and thermal analysis. The white crystalline compound has a sharp melting point of 124 °C and a crystallization temperature of 81.4 °C determined by differential scanning calorimetry. Our motivation behind the synthesis of the bibracchial lariat azacrown polyether ligand was to examine its possible applications in ion-selective polymer-supported materials.

  7. 100-nm thick single-phase wurtzite BAlN films with boron contents over 10%

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    Li, Xiaohang; Wang, Shuo; Liu, Hanxiao; Ponce, Fernando A.; Detchprohm, Theeradetch; Dupuis, Russell D.

    2017-01-01

    Growing thicker BAlN films while maintaining single-phase wurtzite structure and boron content over 10% has been challenging. In this study, we report on the growth of 100 nm-thick single-phase wurtzite BAlN films with boron contents up to 14.4% by MOCVD. Flow-modulated epitaxy was employed to increase diffusion length of group-III atoms and reduce parasitic reactions between the metalorganics and NH3. A large growth efficiency of ∼2000 μm mol−1 was achieved as a result. Small B/III ratios up to 17% in conjunction with high temperatures up to 1010 °C were utilized to prevent formation of the cubic phase and maintain wurtzite structure.

  8. 100-nm thick single-phase wurtzite BAlN films with boron contents over 10%

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    Li, Xiaohang

    2017-01-11

    Growing thicker BAlN films while maintaining single-phase wurtzite structure and boron content over 10% has been challenging. In this study, we report on the growth of 100 nm-thick single-phase wurtzite BAlN films with boron contents up to 14.4% by MOCVD. Flow-modulated epitaxy was employed to increase diffusion length of group-III atoms and reduce parasitic reactions between the metalorganics and NH3. A large growth efficiency of ∼2000 μm mol−1 was achieved as a result. Small B/III ratios up to 17% in conjunction with high temperatures up to 1010 °C were utilized to prevent formation of the cubic phase and maintain wurtzite structure.

  9. Ateneo de Castellon, ANUARIO 1996-97 • N.10

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    Castell Alonso, Vicente (Presidente)

    1998-01-01

    SUMARIO: Memoria de actividades del curso. José TRULLÉN. Conferencia de apertura del curso 1997-98, del Dr. Javier Tusell, sobre "Tuñón de Lara y la historiografía contemporánea española". José TRULLÉN. Ciclo de Conferencias sobre la generación del 98. Hacia el 98, Literatura e Historia. (Carlos Bousoño, Poesía y generaciones. Andrés Amorós, El individualismo agónico de Unamuno. Francisco Javier Díez de Revenga, Azorín y el noventa y ocho. Jesús Rubio, Valle Inclán ¿excéntrico del 98?. ...

  10. Hybrid theory calculation of electron-N2 scattering at 5 and 10 eV

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    Chandra, N.; Temkin, A.

    1976-01-01

    Hybrid theory results pertaining to e-N2 scattering have been evaluated for differential elastic and first vibrational excitation cross sections at 5 and 10 eV. Comparison with the recent experiment of Chutjian, Srivastava, and Trajmar is good (1976), although there is an indication that the calculated nonresonant (adiabatic-nuclei) contribution is somewhat too small. A short discussion engendered by this point is given.

  11. Frecuencia de dislipidemias y relación con índice de masa corporal en población pediátrica entre los 10 y 18 años

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    Pérez Mejía, Andrea Catalina

    2013-01-01

    Introducción: Las dislipidemias constituyen factor de riesgo cardiovascular presente desde la infancia; pueden estar asociadas con estilos de vida poco saludables, obesidad y factores genéticos. Objetivos: Determinar la frecuencia de dislipidemia en niños y su relación con el índice de masa corporal (IMC); determinar la relación de dislipemia con su antecdente familiar, así como con los patrones de alimentación. Métodos: De una población de 1102 escolares de 10-18 años, con ...

  12. Integral measurement of the {sup 12}C(n, p){sup 12}B reaction up to 10 GeV

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    Zugec, P.; Bosnar, D. [University of Zagreb, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Zagreb (Croatia); Colonna, N.; Barbagallo, M.; Mastromarco, M.; Tagliente, G.; Variale, V. [Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Bari (Italy); Ventura, A. [Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Bologna (Italy); Mengoni, A. [ENEA, Bologna (Italy); Altstadt, S.; Langer, C.; Lederer, C.; Reifarth, R.; Schmidt, S.; Weigand, M. [Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universitaet, Frankfurt (Germany); Andrzejewski, J.; Marganiec, J.; Perkowski, J. [Uniwersytet Lodzki, Lodz (Poland); Audouin, L.; Leong, L.S.; Tassan-Got, L. [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/IN2P3 - IPN, Orsay (France); Becares, V.; Cano-Ott, D.; Garcia, A.R.; Gonzalez-Romero, E.; Martinez, T.; Mendoza, E. [Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnologicas (CIEMAT), Madrid (Spain); Becvar, F.; Krticka, M.; Kroll, J.; Valenta, S. [Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic); Belloni, F.; Mondalaers, W.; Plompen, A.; Schillebeeckx, P. [European Commission JRC, Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements, Geel (Belgium); Berthoumieux, E.; Fraval, K.; Gunsing, F. [CEA/Saclay - IRFU, Gif-sur-Yvette (France); Billowes, J.; Ware, T.; Wright, T. [University of Manchester, Manchester (United Kingdom); Boccone, V.; Brugger, M.; Calviani, M.; Cerutti, F.; Chiaveri, E.; Chin, M.; Ferrari, A.; Guerrero, C.; Losito, R.; Roman, F.; Rubbia, C.; Tsinganis, A.; Versaci, R.; Vlachoudis, V.; Weiss, C. [CERN, Geneva (Switzerland); Calvino, F.; Cortes, G.; Gomez-Hornillos, M.B.; Riego, A. [Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona (Spain); Carrapico, C.; Goncalves, I.F.; Sarmento, R.; Vaz, P. [Universidade de Lisboa, C2TN-Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa (Portugal); Cortes-Giraldo, M.A.; Praena, J.; Quesada, J. [Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla (Spain); Cosentino, L.; Finocchiaro, P. [INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania (Italy); Diakaki, M.; Karadimos, D.; Kokkoris, M.; Vlastou, R. [National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Athens (Greece); Domingo-Pardo, C.; Giubrone, G.; Tain, J.L. [CSIC-Universidad de Valencia, Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular, Valencia (Spain); Dressler, R.; Heinitz, S.; Kivel, N.; Schumann, D. [Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen (Switzerland); Duran, I.; Tarrio, D. [Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela (Spain); Eleftheriadis, C.; Manousos, A. [Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki (Greece); Ganesan, S.; Gurusamy, P.; Saxena, A. [Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai (India); Griesmayer, E.; Jericha, E.; Leeb, H. [Atominstitut der Oesterreichischen Universitaeten, Technische Universitaet Wien, Wien (Austria); Jenkins, D.G.; Vermeulen, M.J. [University of York, York, Heslington (United Kingdom); Kaeppeler, F. [Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institut fuer Kernphysik, Karlsruhe (Germany); Lo Meo, S. [Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Bologna (Italy); ENEA, Bologna (Italy); Massimi, C.; Mingrone, F.; Vannini, G. [Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita di Bologna (IT); INFN, Bologna (IT); Mastinu, P. [Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Legnaro (IT); Milazzo, P.M. [Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Trieste (IT); Mirea, M. [Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering - IFIN HH, Magurele (RO); Musumarra, A. [Universita di Catania, Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia DFA, Catania (IT); INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania (IT); Paradela, C. [European Commission JRC, Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements, Geel (BE); Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela (ES); Pavlik, A. [Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Wien (AT); Rauscher, T. [University of Hertfordshire, Centre for Astrophysics Research, School of Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics, Hatfield (GB); University of Basel, Department of Physics, Basel (CH); Wallner, A. [Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Wien (AT); Australian National University, Research School of Physics and Engineering, Canberra (AU)

    2016-04-15

    The integral measurement of the {sup 12}C(n, p){sup 12}B reaction was performed at the neutron time-of-flight facility nTOF at CERN. The total number of {sup 12}B nuclei produced per neutron pulse of the nTOF beam was determined using the activation technique in combination with a time-of-flight technique. The cross section is integrated over the nTOF neutron energy spectrum from reaction threshold at 13.6 MeV to 10 GeV. Having been measured up to 1GeV on basis of the {sup 235}U(n, f) reaction, the neutron energy spectrum above 200 MeV has been re-evaluated due to the recent extension of the cross section reference for this particular reaction, which is otherwise considered a standard up to 200 MeV. The results from the dedicated GEANT4 simulations have been used to evaluate the neutron flux from 1 GeV up to 10 GeV. The experimental results related to the {sup 12}C(n, p){sup 12}B reaction are compared with the evaluated cross sections from major libraries and with the predictions of different GEANT4 models, which mostly underestimate the {sup 12}B production. On the contrary, a good reproduction of the integral cross section derived from measurements is obtained with TALYS-1.6 calculations, with optimized parameters. (orig.)

  13. Observation of non-statistical structures in the excitation function of the reaction 10B(14N,12C)12C under extreme forward angles

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    Klauss, E.U.

    1984-01-01

    In the present thesis the excitation functions of the reaction 10 B( 14 N, 12 C) 12 C to the ground states, the first excited state at 4.43 MeV (Jsup(π) = 2 1 + ) of a 12 C residual nucleus, and to the double excitation of ejectile and residue nucleus to the 4.43 state are studied. The measurements were performed in an energy range 13MeV 14 N) 0 (in the c.m. system). By a fitting to elastic scattering data the optical potential for 10 B+ 14 N was determined. With this potential it was tried by means of Hauser-Feshbach calculations to calculate the cross sections of the reaction 10 B( 14 N, 12 C) 12 C. The strong 16 + resonance and indications of 18 + in the excitation function of the reaction 10 B( 14 N, 12 Csub(g.s.)) 12 Csub(g.s.) should be pronounced. An unexpected large cross section was observed in the reaction 10 B( 14 N, 12 Csub(g.s.)) 12 C(4 1 + ). This is considered as a further indication to the strong contribution of a direct process. (orig./HSI) [de

  14. Mef2c-F10N enhancer driven β-galactosidase (LacZ) and Cre recombinase mice facilitate analyses of gene function and lineage fate in neural crest cells.

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    Aoto, Kazushi; Sandell, Lisa L; Butler Tjaden, Naomi E; Yuen, Kobe C; Watt, Kristin E Noack; Black, Brian L; Durnin, Michael; Trainor, Paul A

    2015-06-01

    Neural crest cells (NCC) comprise a multipotent, migratory stem cell and progenitor population that gives rise to numerous cell and tissue types within a developing embryo, including craniofacial bone and cartilage, neurons and glia of the peripheral nervous system, and melanocytes within the skin. Here we describe two novel stable transgenic mouse lines suitable for lineage tracing and analysis of gene function in NCC. Firstly, using the F10N enhancer of the Mef2c gene (Mef2c-F10N) linked to LacZ, we generated transgenic mice (Mef2c-F10N-LacZ) that express LacZ in the majority, if not all migrating NCC that delaminate from the neural tube. Mef2c-F10N-LacZ then continues to be expressed primarily in neurogenic, gliogenic and melanocytic NCC and their derivatives, but not in ectomesenchymal derivatives. Secondly, we used the same Mef2c-F10N enhancer together with Cre recombinase to generate transgenic mice (Mef2c-F10N-Cre) that can be used to indelibly label, or alter gene function in, migrating NCC and their derivatives. At early stages of development, Mef2c-F10N-LacZ and Mef2c-F10N-Cre label NCC in a pattern similar to Wnt1-Cre mice, with the exception that Mef2c-F10N-LacZ and Mef2c-F10N-Cre specifically label NCC that have delaminated from the neural plate, while premigratory NCC are not labeled. Thus, our Mef2c-F10N-LacZ and Mef2c-F10N-Cre transgenic mice provide new resources for tracing migratory NCC and analyzing gene function in migrating and differentiating NCC independently of NCC formation. Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

  15. A study of the higher excitation levels of 11B via the 10B(n,n)10B and 10B(n,n')10B*(0.72, 1.74, 2.15, 3.59, 4.77 MeV) reactions

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    Sadowski, E.T.

    1988-11-01

    As part of the study of the higher energy-level structure of 11 B, cross sections for elastic and inelastic scattering of neutrons from isotopically enriched 10 B samples have been measured for incident neutron energies from 3.03 MeV to 6.45 MeV in 250 keV increments and from 7.02 MeV to 12.01 MeV in 500 keV increments. Inelastic angular distributions for scattering to the states in parentheses in 10 B have been measured from the indicated energy up to 12.01 MeV; (0.718) from 3.02 MeV; (1.74) from 3.27 MeV; (2.15) from 3.77 MeV; (3.59) from 5.52 MeV; (4.77) from 7.02 MeV. The measurements at 3.02, 3.51, 4.02, and 4.51 MeV were done at nine laboratory angles from 20/degree/ to 158/degree/ in 17.5/degree/ increments with a sample that is isotopically 95.86% 10 B. All other distributions measured scattering at 11 laboratory angles from 18/degree/ to 158/degree/ in 15/degree/ increments from a sample that is isotopically 99.49% 10 B. The data are corrected for air scattering, sample attenuation, minor isotope impurity, multiple scattering, and elastic and inelastic scattering from the sample of the neutron source continuum and contaminants. An eight-channel, multilevel R-matrix analysis was performed on the data. Level energies, spins, and parities were deduced for twelve levels above 13 MeV excitation in 11 B. Only two definite and three tentative assignments for T = /1/2/ levels had been made previously above 13 MeV. The two definite levels were confirmed. Good agreement between the data and the R-matrix calculation in all analyzed channels was obtained for the proposed structure. 122 refs., 40 figs., 7 tabs

  16. Bis(1,10-phenanthroline-κ2N,N′(sulfato-Ocopper(II ethane-1,2-diol monosolvate

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    Full Text Available In the title compound, [Cu(SO4(C12H8N22]·C2H6O2, the CuII ion is five-coordinated in a distorted square-pyramidal manner by four N atoms from two chelating 1,10-phenanthroline (phen ligands and one O atom from a monodentate sulfate anion. The four N atoms comprise a square and the one O atom the apex of a square pyramid. The two chelating N2C2 groups are oriented at 71.1 (2°. In the crystal, the components are connected by intermolecular O—H...O hydrogen bonding. The presence of pseudosymmetry in the structure suggests the higher symmetry space group C2/c, but attempts to refine the structure in this space group resulted in an unsatisfactory model.

  17. Validación de un método espectrofotométrico para la cuantificación de principio activo en tabletas de nifedipino 10 mg Validation of a spectrophotometric method for quantification of the active principle in 10 mg Nifedipine tablets

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    Full Text Available Se realizó la validación de una técnica espectrofotométrica para la cuantificación del principio activo en tabletas de nifedipino 10 mg con el empleo de etanol al 96 % como solvente. Se determinaron los parámetros de linealidad, exactitud, precisión intermedia, repetibilidad, especificidad y robustez. Se comprobó que el método es lineal, exacto y preciso en un rango de 85 a 115 %, lo que demuestra la fiabilidad del método y su posibilidad de empleo en el control de la calidad de la forma terminada.The validation of a spectrophotometric method for the determination of active principle in tablets of nifedipine 10 mg is presented in this work. The linearity, precision, exactitude, specificity and robustness of the method were evaluated. The method employed was linear, exact and precise in the interval of 85 % to 115%. This proves that the method can be used in the tablets' quality control.

  18. 14N + 10B fusion and elastic scattering cross section measurements near the interaction barrier

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    Wu, S.C.; Overley, J.C.; Barnes, C.A.; Switkowski, Z.E.

    1979-01-01

    The 14 N + 10 B fusion reactions were studied at c.m. energies between 2.9 and 7.5 MeV by measuring the yields of γ-rays from the residual nuclei formed by particle evaporation from the compound system. Cross sections for formation of the evaporation residues 16 O, 19 F, 19 Ne, 20 Ne, 21 Ne, 22 Ne, 22 Na, 23 Na and 23 Mg, as well as the total cross section, were deduced from these yields with the aid of statistical model calculations. 14 N + 10 B elastic scattering differential cross sections were measured from 4.3 to 9.1 MeV at THETA 74.4 degrees, and from 3.3 to 8.3 MeV at THETA = 90.0 degrees. The elastic scattering cross sections were analyzed within the framework of the incoming-wave boundary condition (IWBC) model. The fusion cross sections calculated for the real ion-ion potential deduced from the IWBC model fit to the elastic scattering are in good agreement with the measured values

  19. Erupción dentaria: estudio radiográfico de corredores de erupción de caninos superiores en niños con 10 años de edad.

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    Fernando Aguilera Zurira

    2014-12-01

    Full Text Available Las características anatómicas del canino superior lo convierten en el diente con mayor potencial de supervivencia en la arcada. Desde un punto de vista funcional, los caninos son considerados dientes claves en la oclusión. Con un gran protagonismo estético, dan armonía al frente anterior y la línea de la sonrisa. La erupción de los caninos superiores debe ser observada con frecuencia ya que es el diente en segundo lugar que presenta alteraciones en su erupción después de los terceros molares, este seguimiento se debe realizar con observaciones clínicas como radiográficas para tener la posibilidad de ir guiando el trayecto de erupción. Desde los 8 a 10 años de edad empieza a palparse la prominencia del canino en el fondo del vestíbulo. Si no se palpa a los 10 años, está indicado realizar un estudio radiológico para valorar la posición y reabsorción radicular del canino temporal. En este trabajo se realizó un estudio descriptivo en radiografías panorámicas en niños con 10 años de edad de ambos sexos de la ciudad de Quito, con el objetivo de analizar los corredores de erupción de caninos superiores, así como observar e interpretar la situación de los caninos superiores y su relación con las estructuras vecinas, describir las curvas y columnas de erupción en caninos superiores, para determinar si existe alteraciones y diferencias en cuanto a la erupción de los caninos definitivos en relación al sexo de los niños evaluados. La muestra estuvo constituida por 60 niños (30 hombres y 30 mujeres. De este grupo en cuanto a corredores de erupción se estableció que un 12% corresponde a curvas entrelazadas y un 7% a interrumpidas, estableciendo que el control clínico es fundamental y el seguimiento radiográfico secuencial permitirá ir revisando la evolución de la erupción de los caninos superiores y estructuras adyacentes. En cuanto a las columnas de erupción se determinó que el 2% de la muestra se encuentra en la

  20. Stress Corrosion Cracking Behavior of LD10 Aluminum Alloy in UDMH and N2O4 propellant

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    Zhang, Youhong; Chang, Xinlong; Liu, Wanlei

    2018-03-01

    The LD10 aluminum alloy double cantilever beam specimens were corroded under the conditions of Unsymmetric Uimethyl Hydrazine (UDMH), Dinitrogen Tetroxide (N2O4), and 3.5% NaCl environment. The crack propagation behavior of the aluminum alloy in different corrosion environment was analyzed. The stress corrosion cracking behavior of aluminum alloy in N2O4 is relatively slight and there are not evident stress corrosion phenomenons founded in UDMH.

  1. Inspection, maintenance and voyage repair experiene during 10 years operation of the N.S. Savannah

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    Jackson, E.L. Jr.

    1978-01-01

    This paper covers the development and performance of annual inspections on the N.S. Savannah over a 10 year period. Modifications and revisions to the inspection criteria were made during this period without sacrificing the safe performance of the reactor plant. The inspection experience gained during this period provides a information for future safe nuclear ship operations

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    ... 50 Wildlife and Fisheries 9 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false 2009-2010 Trip Limits for Open Access Gears North of 40°10â² N. Lat. 5 Table 5 (North) to Part 660, Subpart G Wildlife and Fisheries FISHERY... Trip Limits for Open Access Gears North of 40°10N. Lat. Link to an amendment published at 75 FR 60995...

  4. Polimorfismos de la región promotora del gen de la IL-10 y artritis reumatoide en una población colombiana

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    Olga María Moreno

    2007-03-01

    Conclusiones. La interleucina-10 es uno de los principales reguladores de la respuesta inmune y por lo tanto podría jugar un papel importante en la patogénesis de la artritis reumatoide; sin embargo, nuestros resultados no dan evidencia de una asociación genética entre los polimorfismos estudiados y el desarrollo o gravedad de la artritis reumatoide.

  5. Crystal structure of (4-cyanopyridine-κN{5,10,15,20-tetrakis[4-(benzoyloxyphenyl]porphyrinato-κ4N}zinc–4-cyanopyridine (1/1

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    Soumaya Nasri

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    Full Text Available In the title compound, [Zn(C72H44N4O8(C6H4N2]·C6H4N2 or [Zn(TPBP(4-CNpy]·(4-CNpy [where TPBP and 4-CNpy are 5,10,15,20-(tetraphenylbenzoateporphyrinate and 4-cyanopyridine, respectively], the ZnII cation is chelated by four pyrrole-N atoms of the porphyrinate anion and coordinated by a pyridyl-N atom of the 4-CNpy axial ligand in a distorted square-pyramidal geometry. The average Zn—N(pyrrole bond length is 2.060 (6 Å and the Zn—N(4-CNpy bond length is 2.159 (2 Å. The zinc cation is displaced by 0.319 (1 Å from the N4C20 mean plane of the porphyrinate anion toward the 4-cyanopyridine axial ligand. This porphyrinate macrocycle exhibits major saddle and moderate ruffling and doming deformations. In the crystal, the [Zn(TPBP(4-CNpy] complex molecules are linked together via weak C—H...N, C—H...O and C—H...π interactions, forming supramolecular channels parallel to the c axis. The non-coordinating 4-cyanopyridine molecules are located in the channels and linked with the complex molecules, via weak C—H...N interactions and π-π stacking or via weak C—H...O and C—H...π interactions. The non-coordinating 4-cyanopyridine molecule is disordered over two positions with an occupancy ratio of 0.666 (4:0.334 (4.

  6. IJS v10 n1.cdr

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    3, 7 and 28 day uncrushed concrete at 0.65 water-cement ratio in 75 mg/1 HCl concentration, the dissolved solids were 35062, 32286, and 33032 mg/1 respectively while compressive strength were 8.40, 11.23 and 12.66 N/mm2 respectively. It was concluded that solubility of concrete in HCI solution could be used as an ...

  7. Caracterización química de material particulado PM10 en la atmósfera de La Guajira Colombia

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    Full Text Available Durante el año 2013, se realizó un estudio en La Guajira, Colombia, con el fin de determinar  la composición química del  material particulado PM10, producto de las actividades mineras de carbón a cielo abierto que ocupan casi 30% del territorio; también se evaluó su asociación a fuentes naturales y antropogénicas. La recolección de filtros se realizó por medio de un sistema de monitoreo conformado por catorce estaciones mediante equipos muestreadores de alto volumen PM10 (Thermo Scientific VFC-PM10 High Volume Air Sampler. Para el análisis, los filtros de cuarzo fueron sometidos a extracción acuosa en caliente y se determinaron los iones por espectrofotometría UV-VIS e ICP-MS. Las concentraciones más altas corresponden a la especies SO42- (0,25 µg/m3, Cl- (0,19 µg/m3, NH4+ (0,032 µg/m3, Na+ (1,98µg/m3, Ca2+ (0,40 µg/m3 y Mg2+ (0,31 µg/m3. Los resultados indican que las principales fuentes responsables del material particulado corresponden al aerosol marino impulsado por las corrientes (Cl- y Na+ de origen natural, y las actividades agrícolas, pecuarias (NH4+ y mineras (SO42-, Ca2+ y Mg2+ de origen antropogénico.

  8. Structures and Spectroscopic Properties of F-(H2O) n with n = 1-10 Clusters from a Global Search Based On Density Functional Theory.

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    Shi, Ruili; Wang, Pengju; Tang, Lingli; Huang, Xiaoming; Chen, Yonggang; Su, Yan; Zhao, Jijun

    2018-04-05

    Using a genetic algorithm incorporated in density functional theory, we explore the ground state structures of fluoride anion-water clusters F - (H 2 O) n with n = 1-10. The F - (H 2 O) n clusters prefer structures in which the F - anion remains at the surface of the structure and coordinates with four water molecules, as the F - (H 2 O) n clusters have strong F - -H 2 O interactions as well as strong hydrogen bonds between H 2 O molecules. The strong interaction between the F - anion and adjacent H 2 O molecule leads to a longer O-H distance in the adjacent molecule than in an individual water molecule. The simulated infrared (IR) spectra of the F - (H 2 O) 1-5 clusters obtained via second-order vibrational perturbation theory (VPT2) and including anharmonic effects reproduce the experimental results quite well. The strong interaction between the F - anion and water molecules results in a large redshift (600-2300 cm -1 ) of the adjacent O-H stretching mode. Natural bond orbital (NBO) analysis of the lowest-energy structures of the F - (H 2 O) 1-10 clusters illustrates that charge transfer from the lone pair electron orbital of F - to the antibonding orbital of the adjacent O-H is mainly responsible for the strong interaction between the F - anion and water molecules, which leads to distinctly different geometric and vibrational properties compared with neutral water clusters.

  9. Immune protection induced on day 10 following administration of the 2009 A/H1N1 pandemic influenza vaccine.

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    Full Text Available BACKGROUND: The 2009 swine-origin influenza virus (S-OIV H1N1 pandemic has caused more than 18,000 deaths worldwide. Vaccines against the 2009 A/H1N1 influenza virus are useful for preventing infection and controlling the pandemic. The kinetics of the immune response following vaccination with the 2009 A/H1N1 influenza vaccine need further investigation. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: 58 volunteers were vaccinated with a 2009 A/H1N1 pandemic influenza monovalent split-virus vaccine (15 µg, single-dose. The sera were collected before Day 0 (pre-vaccination and on Days 3, 5, 10, 14, 21, 30, 45 and 60 post vaccination. Specific antibody responses induced by the vaccination were analyzed using hemagglutination inhibition (HI assay and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA. After administration of the 2009 A/H1N1 influenza vaccine, specific and protective antibody response with a major subtype of IgG was sufficiently developed as early as Day 10 (seroprotection rate: 93%. This specific antibody response could maintain for at least 60 days without significant reduction. Antibody response induced by the 2009 A/H1N1 influenza vaccine could not render protection against seasonal H1N1 influenza (seroconversion rate: 3% on Day 21. However, volunteers with higher pre-existing seasonal influenza antibody levels (pre-vaccination HI titer ≥1∶40, Group 1 more easily developed a strong antibody protection effect against the 2009 A/H1N1 influenza vaccine as compared with those showing lower pre-existing seasonal influenza antibody levels (pre-vaccination HI titer <1∶40, Group 2. The titer of the specific antibody against the 2009 A/H1N1 influenza was much higher in Group 1 (geometric mean titer: 146 on Day 21 than that in Group 2 (geometric mean titer: 70 on Day 21. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE: Recipients could gain sufficient protection as early as 10 days after vaccine administration. The protection could last at least 60 days. Individuals with a

  10. Investigations of neutron-rich nuclei at the dripline through their analogue states : The cases of $^{10}$Li - $^{10}$Be (T=2) and $^{17}$C - $^{17}$N (T=5/2)

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    We propose to study the elastic resonance scattering reactions $^{9}$Li+p and $^{16}$C+p to investigate the energies, spins and parities of the lowest T=2 states in $^{10}$Be and the T=5/2 states in $^{17}$N. These are analogue states of the ground states and first excited states in $^{10}$Li and $^{17}$C.

  11. Peritonitis fúngica en diálisis peritoneal continua ambulatoria: descripción de 10 casos

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    García Martos, P.; Gil de Sola, F.; Marín, P.; García-Agudo, L.; García-Agudo, R.; Tejuca, F.; Calle, L.

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    Antecedentes: La peritonitis fúngica es una complicación infrecuente pero grave en pacientes en diálisis peritoneal continua ambulatoria (DPCA). Métodos: Durante un período de 10 años (1999-2008), de un total de 175 pacientes con insuficiencia renal crónica en tratamiento con DPCA, estudiamos retrospectivamente 10 casos de peritonitis fúngica, analizando los factores predisponentes, aspectos clínicos, agentes etiológicos y tratamiento. El diagnóstico se estableció por la presencia de efluente...

  12. Value of a dual-polarized gap-filling radar in support of southern California post-fire debris-flow warnings

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    Jorgensen, David P.; Hanshaw, Maiana N.; Schmidt, Kevin M.; Laber, Jayme L; Staley, Dennis M.; Kean, Jason W.; Restrepo, Pedro J.

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    A portable truck-mounted C-band Doppler weather radar was deployed to observe rainfall over the Station Fire burn area near Los Angeles, California, during the winter of 2009/10 to assist with debris-flow warning decisions. The deployments were a component of a joint NOAA–U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) research effort to improve definition of the rainfall conditions that trigger debris flows from steep topography within recent wildfire burn areas. A procedure was implemented to blend various dual-polarized estimators of precipitation (for radar observations taken below the freezing level) using threshold values for differential reflectivity and specific differential phase shift that improves the accuracy of the rainfall estimates over a specific burn area sited with terrestrial tipping-bucket rain gauges. The portable radar outperformed local Weather Surveillance Radar-1988 Doppler (WSR-88D) National Weather Service network radars in detecting rainfall capable of initiating post-fire runoff-generated debris flows. The network radars underestimated hourly precipitation totals by about 50%. Consistent with intensity–duration threshold curves determined from past debris-flow events in burned areas in Southern California, the portable radar-derived rainfall rates exceeded the empirical thresholds over a wider range of storm durations with a higher spatial resolution than local National Weather Service operational radars. Moreover, the truck-mounted C-band radar dual-polarimetric-derived estimates of rainfall intensity provided a better guide to the expected severity of debris-flow events, based on criteria derived from previous events using rain gauge data, than traditional radar-derived rainfall approaches using reflectivity–rainfall relationships for either the portable or operational network WSR-88D radars. Part of the reason for the improvement was due to siting the radar closer to the burn zone than the WSR-88Ds, but use of the dual-polarimetric variables

  13. Maternal Diet Supplementation with n-6/n-3 Essential Fatty Acids in a 1.2 : 1.0 Ratio Attenuates Metabolic Dysfunction in MSG-Induced Obese Mice

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    Josiane Morais Martin

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    Full Text Available Essential polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs prevent cardiometabolic diseases. We aimed to study whether a diet supplemented with a mixture of n-6/n-3 PUFAs, during perinatal life, attenuates outcomes of long-term metabolic dysfunction in prediabetic and obese mice. Seventy-day-old virgin female mice were mated. From the conception day, dams were fed a diet supplemented with sunflower oil and flaxseed powder (containing an n-6/n-3 PUFAs ratio of 1.2 : 1.0 throughout pregnancy and lactation, while control dams received a commercial diet. Newborn mice were treated with monosodium L-glutamate (MSG, 4 mg g−1 body weight per day for the first 5 days of age. A batch of weaned pups was sacrificed to quantify the brain and pancreas total lipids; another batch were fed a commercial diet until 90 days of age, where glucose homeostasis and glucose-induced insulin secretion (GIIS as well as retroperitoneal fat and Lee index were assessed. MSG-treated mice developed obesity, glucose intolerance, insulin resistance, pancreatic islet dysfunction, and higher fat stores. Maternal flaxseed diet-supplementation decreased n-6/n-3 PUFAs ratio in the brain and pancreas and blocked glucose intolerance, insulin resistance, GIIS impairment, and obesity development. The n-6/n-3 essential PUFAs in a ratio of 1.2 : 1.0 supplemented in maternal diet during pregnancy and lactation prevent metabolic dysfunction in MSG-obesity model.

  14. Shear velocities in the oceanic crust at the East Pacific Rise 9° 18' N to 10° 30' N from compliance measurements

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    Nooner, S. L.; Webb, S. C.; Crawford, W. C.

    2007-12-01

    Compliance was measured at 21 sites along the East Pacific Rise (EPR) from 9° 18' N to 10° 30' N during the MADCAP (Melt And Diking from Compliance And Pressure) experiment on the R/V Atlantis from February 13 to March 19, 2007. Measurements at 10° 30' N across the ridge segment 22 km north of the Clipperton transform fault show a stiff lower crust, which suggests that there is little crustal melt. This is consistent with previous descriptions of this segment as "magmatically starved" based on its morphology. Most of the compliance measurements were made on the EPR segment south of the Clipperton transform fault. At the northern end of this ridge segment, a compliance transect at 10° 2' N spans the ridge axis and continues to a seamount 16 km east. These measurements indicate that shear velocities are low beneath the ridge axis but increase rapidly off axis to the east, suggesting no magmatic connection between the ridge axis and the Watchstander seamount chain. Shear velocities beneath the nearest (and most recently active) seamount are similar to other off axis sites, suggesting that there is little or no crustal melt there. A 26 km long compliance transect across the ridge axis near 9° 20' N suggests that the region of low crustal shear velocities is constrained to within 3-4 km of the ridge axis. The compliance measurements preclude the existence of a melt body 18-20 km east of the ridge axis as had been inferred from an apparent mid-crustal reflector observed in a recent OBS experiment. The compliance over that site show low shear velocities only in the uppermost crust associated with a thick layer 2A. A final compliance transect stretches northward along the ridge axis and across the Clipperton ridge-transform intersection (RTI). Measurements made north of where the ridge crosses the inferred location of the RTI show lower crustal shear velocities than normal for off-axis crust, but this observation is consistent with previous refraction work that

  15. Probing the structural and electronic properties of cationic rubidium-gold clusters: [AunRb]+ (n = 1-10)

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    Zhao, Ya-Ru; Zhang, Hai-Rong; Qian, Yu; Duan, Xu-Chao; Hu, Yan-Fei

    2016-03-01

    Density functional theory has been applied to study the geometric structures, relative stabilities, and electronic properties of cationic [AunRb]+ and Aun + 1+ (n = 1-10) clusters. For the lowest energy structures of [AunRb]+ clusters, the planar to three-dimensional transformation is found to occur at cluster size n = 4 and the Rb atoms prefer being located at the most highly coordinated position. The trends of the averaged atomic binding energies, fragmentation energies, second-order difference of energies, and energy gaps show pronounced even-odd alternations. It indicated that the clusters containing odd number of atoms maintain greater stability than the clusters in the vicinity. In particular, the [Au6Rb]+ clusters are the most stable isomer for [AunRb]+ clusters in the region of n = 1-10. The charges in [AunRb]+ clusters transfer from the Rb atoms to Aun host. Density of states revealed that the Au-5d, Au-5p, and Rb-4p orbitals hardly participated in bonding. In addition, it is found that the most favourable channel of the [AunRb]+ clusters is Rb+ cation ejection. The electronic localisation function (ELF) analysis of the [AunRb]+ clusters shown that strong interactions are not revealed in this study.

  16. NEXRAD Rainfall Data: Eureka, California

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    National Aeronautics and Space Administration — Next-Generation Radar (NEXRAD) Weather Surveillance Radar 1988 (WSR-88D) measurements were used to support AMSR-E rainfall validation efforts in Eureka, California,...

  17. Major compound-dependent variations of 10B(nα)7 Li RBE for the 9L RAT gliosarcoma in vitro and in vivo

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    Coderre, J.A.; Makar, M.S.; Micca, P.L.; Nawrocky, M.M.; Joel, D.D.; Slatkin, D.N.

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    Relative biological effectiveness (RBE) values for the high linear-energy-transfer (LET) radiations produced during born neutron capture therapy (BNCT) were determined using the 9L rat gliosarcorna both in vitro and as an intracerebral tumor. In the absence of 10 B, the combined effect of the recoiling protons from the 14 N(n,p) 14 C and the 1 H(n,n')p reactions, compared to an iso-effect endpoint produced by 250 kVp x-rays, yielded RBEs for these high-LET protons of 4.4 in vitro and 3.8 in an in vivo/in vitro assay. RBEs for the 10 B(n,α) 7 Li reaction were calculated from cell survival data following reactor irradiation in the presence or in the absence of the either of the amino acid, p-boronophenylalanine (BPA) or the sulfhydryl dodecaborane dimer (BSSB). With BPA, RBE values ranged from 3.5 to 11.4, while under the same set of conditions with BSSB, RBE values ranged from 1.1 to 4.3. In vitro, higher RBEs for the 10 B(n,α) 7 Li reaction using BPA than with BSSB suggest a difference in distribution of 10 B relative to the nucleus

  18. INT WFC follow-up photometry of the M31 nova M31N 2017-10a

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    Hermosa-Munoz, L.; Garcia-Rivas, M.; Gonzalez-Cuesta, L.; Jimenez-Gallardo, A.; Mantero-Castaneda, E. A.; Arce-Tord, C.; Prendin, M. G.; Rodriguez-Sanchez, M.; Esteban-Gutierrez, A.; Garcia-Broock, E.; Hernandez-Sanchez, M.; Lopez-Navas, E.; Otero-Santos, J.; Perez-Fournon, I.

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    We report follow-up photometry in the Sloan g, r, and i bands, 240s per band, of the nova M31N 2017-10a ( = PNV J00423905+4123006) from observations on the night of 29 October 2017 with the Wide Field Camera of the Isaac Newton Telescope*.

  19. Moderately inhibitory effects of N-dodecyloxymethylene-N-methylpiperidinium and N-dodecyloxymethylene-N-methylmorpholinium chlorides on seed germination

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    Full Text Available N-Dodecyloxymethylene-N-methylpiperidinium chloride (DMMP and N-dodecyloxyme-thylene-N-methylmorpholinium chloride (DMMM retarded germination of seeds of 9 cultivated plant species when applied at a concentration of 10-3 M, and inhibited germination at a concentration of 10-2 M. The exceptions were represented by Lepidium sativum L. and Linum usitatissimum L. seeds which germinated well even in 10-2 M solutions of either DMMP or DMMM.

  20. Study of the response to neutrons of a personal dosemeter in mixed fields (n, γ) in function of Hp(10)

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    Cruzate, J.; Gregori, B.; Carelli, J.; Aguerre, L.; Discacciatti, A.

    2006-01-01

    In this work it is presented the theoretical study and their experimental validation of the answer of the personal dosimetro in terms of the component of neutrons of the personal equivalent dose Hpn(10) in function of the energy, in presence of fields of neutrons and range. The personal dosimetro, based on detecting termoluminiscentes (TLD), it consists of two detectors 7LiF and two 6LiF, located low filters of plastic and cadmium starting from whose information is evaluated the component range and of neutrons of the dose. Additionally it consists of a detecting CaF2, used basically to discriminate against the energy of the component range and to make the corresponding corrections on the evaluation of the dose range obtained with the 7LiF. The answer to neutrons in function of the energy, defined as the quotient among the one I number of reactions 6Li(n, a)4He taken place in each TLD and the Hpn(10), it was calculated using the code MCNPX and the library ENDF/B-VI. You model the dosimetro under the irradiation conditions proposed by the ISO8529-3. Faces monoenergeticos were simulated in the range of energy understood between 70 keV and 5 MeV. The dispersion in each one of the results of the simulation is smaller than 3%. You I study the existent relationship among the answer te6rica, reactions (n,a)/Hpn(10) and the experimental one, nC/Hpn(10), for a given thermal treatment. The factor of resulting conversion is constant in the energy and similar to 1,71 104 reacciones(n, a)/nC, with a smaller standard deviation to 10%. The experimental answer was obtained starting from the irradiations carried out in the mark of the International Intercomparacion of Dosimetria in Mixed Campos (n,) 2004 organized by the OIEA next to the PTB (Germany) and the IRSN (France). The extension of these calculations to other spectra of neutrons of fields real they will allow to obtain group of factors of application conversion in routine and accidental situations. (Author)

  1. Eventos cardiovasculares en una población cerrada. Seguimiento a 10 años

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    Leandro M. Goldstraj

    2008-01-01

    Full Text Available IntroducciónEn estudios epidemiológicos previos se observó que poblaciones con igual riesgo por suma de factores clásicos poseían una incidencia y tipos de expresión de enfermedades cardiovasculares diferentes.ObjetivoDeterminar la incidencia de MACE, compuesta por infarto agudo de miocardio, angina inestable, accidente cerebrovascular, angioplastia transluminal coronaria, cirugía de revascularización miocárdica o muerte cardiovascular, y su asociación con los factores de riesgo en una población cerrada. Material y métodosEl presente es un estudio de cohorte prospectivo en el que fueron relevados hombres, de profesión policías, durante el año 1997. Luego se ingresaron en la base de datos hospitalaria aquellos que presentaron eventos en los 10 años posteriores. Se empleó la prueba de la t de Student para variables cuantitativas y regresión logística para las cualitativas. ResultadosSe incluyeron 2.379 personas de sexo masculino. La edad promedio fue de 39,5 ± 9,25 años. La prevalencia de factores de riesgo conocidos por las personas fue: HTA 11,1%, dislipidemia 20,3%, diabetes 2,4%, tabaquismo 43,3%. Noventa pacientes presentaron algún tipo de MACE. El odds ratio para diabetes fue 4,54 (IC 95% 2,1-9,81, HTA 2,3 (IC 95% 1,38-3,85, dislipidemia 2,74 (IC 95% 1,77-4,25 y para tabaquismo 1,48 (IC 95% 0,97-2,28. La edad, el LDL, el fibrinógeno y las horas trabajo diarias mostraron asociaciones significativas. El área bajo la curva ROC del puntaje de Framingham fue de 0,72 y para el puntaje europeo fue de 0,71. ConclusiónLos factores de riesgo de enfermedad cardiovascular clásicos tuvieron una importancia similar a los ya comunicados por los estudios epidemiológicos; es importante destacar algunos no clásicos como el fibrinógeno. Los puntajes de riesgo fueron predictores regulares en esta población. Las características especiales de la población analizada permiten la ejecución de programas de prevención acordes.

  2. Los isómeros cis-9, trans-11 y trans-10, cis-12 de ácido linoleico conjugado y su relación con producción de leche de vacas Holstein-Friesian. Revisión

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    Rufino López Ordaz

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    Full Text Available Los objetivos de la presente revisión fueron estudiar los mecanismos de la adición de cis-9, trans-11 y trans-10, cis- 12 del ácido linoleico conjugado (ALC en la dieta y su relación con producción de leche. Ambos isómeros se forman por la isomerización del ALC por la bacteria ruminal Butyrivibrio fribisolvens. También pueden ser producidos por desaturación del ácido vaccénico (18:1, trans-11 en el intestino delgado o el hígado de la vaca lechera. En humanos, el consumo de ambos se relaciona con funciones antiaterogénicas hipocolesterolemia, estimulantes del sistema inmune, protector contra ciertos tipos de cáncer, antioxidante y reductor del peso corporal. Por el contrario, en la vaca la adición de los isómeros incrementa el volumen de leche y reduce su contenido de grasa. El incremento en volumen se atribuye al cis-9, trans-11; mientras que la reducción de grasa se atribuye al tras-10, cis-12. La partición de la energía reduce el periodo del balance negativo de energía (BNE postparto. Este hecho se asocia con un mejoramiento de la eficiencia reproductiva y la salud de la vaca. La reducción de la grasa de leche por los isómeros o por las dietas que inducen reducción de grasa de leche se explica por la presencia de inhibidores de la síntesis de grasas. En conclusión, la adición de los isómeros a las dietas de vacas lecheras no influye en el consumo de materia seca, los cambios de peso y la producción de proteína. Por el contrario, la inclusión en la dieta de ambos isómeros incrementa el volumen de leche y se reduce su contenido de grasa.

  3. Los 10 frentes de la comunicación corporativa

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    José Carlos Losada Díaz

    2009-11-01

    Full Text Available Es muy complicado que una disciplina tan vinculada a la labor profesional como la comunicación corporativa no sea capaz de encontrar un equilibrio entre su constante renovación impulsada por las cambiantes necesidades de la economía de mercado y un acuerdo de mínimos sobre cuál debe ser el núcleo de trabajo real de esta disciplina. El presente artículo trata de ofrecer los que consideramos que son los diez frentes que deben orientar la labor profesional del gestor de la comunicación corporativa en los próximos años. Palabras clave

  4. Resistencia a la corrosión atmosférica del recubrimiento Zn-10,2% Fe sobre chapa de acero. Comparación con el recubrimiento de zinc

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    Arnau, G.

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    Full Text Available Zn-10.2 % Fe galvanized coating versus hot galvanized coating over carbon steel corrosion performance has been studied. Different periods of atmospheric exposures in various Valencia Community sites, and salt spray accelerated test have been done. Carbon steel test samples have been used simultaneously in order to classify exposure atmosphere corrosivity, and environmental exposure atmosphere characteristics have been analyzed. Corrosion velocity versus environmental parameters has been obtained.

    Se estudia el comportamiento a la corrosión atmosférica de un recubrimiento Zn-10,2 % Fe galvanizado en caliente, comparándolo con el comportamiento ofrecido por la chapa galvanizada, habiéndose aplicado ambos recubrimientos sobre chapa de acero de embutición. Se han realizado ensayos de exposición atmosférica en distintas atmósferas de la Comunidad Valenciana y ensayos acelerados de laboratorio en cámara de niebla salina. Se han empleado simultáneamente probetas testigo de acero con el fin de clasificar la corrosividad de las atmósferas, y se han estudiado las características medioambientales de las atmósferas donde se han llevado a cabo los ensayos. Mediante estos estudios se han obtenido las velocidades de corrosión y se han analizado en función de los parámetros ambientales.

  5. Synthesis and Heme Polymerization Inhibitory Activity (HPIA Assay of Antiplasmodium of (1-N-(3,4-Dimethoxybenzyl-1,10-Phenanthrolinium Bromide from Vanillin

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    Dhina Fitriastuti

    2014-03-01

    Full Text Available The synthesis of (1-N-(3,4-dimethoxy-benzyl-1,10-phenanthrolinium bromide had been conducted from vanillin. Heme polymerization inhibitory activity assay of the synthesized antiplasmodium has also been carried out. The first step of reaction was methylation of vanillin using dimethylsulfate and NaOH. The mixture was refluxed for 2 h to yield veratraldehyde in the form of light yellow solid (79% yield. Methylation product was reduced using sodium borohydride (NaBH4 with grinding method and yielded veratryl alcohol in the form of yellow liquid (98% yield. Veratryl alcohol was brominated using PBr3 to yield yellowish black liquid (85% yield. The final step was benzylation of 1,10-phenanthroline monohydrate with the synthesized veratryl bromide under reflux condition in acetone for 14 h to afford (1-N-(3,4-dimethoxy-benzyl-1,10-phenanthrolinium bromide (84% as yellow solid with melting point of 166-177 °C. The structures of products were characterized by FT-IR, GC-MS and 1H-NMR spectrometers. The results of heme polymerization inhibitory activity assay of (1-N-(3,4-dimethoxybenzyl-1,10-phenanthrolinium bromide showed that it had IC50 HPIA of 3.63 mM, while chloroquine had IC50 of4.37 mM. These results indicated that (1-N-(3,4-dimethoxybenzyl-1,10-phenanthrolinium bromide was more potential antiplasmodium than chloroquine.

  6. USO DEL AUDIT Y EL DAST-10 PARA LA IDENTIFICACIÓN DE ABUSO DE SUSTANCIAS PSICOACTIVAS Y ALCOHOL EN ADOLESCENTES

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    MARISOL PÉREZ RAMOS

    2009-08-01

    Full Text Available Normal 0 21 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Para detectar adolescentes en riesgo por abuso de sustancias psicoactivas y alcohol es necesario utilizar escalas de tamizaje, para la canalización terapéutica eficaz. El DAST-10 se ha utilizado para detectar abuso de sustancias psicoactivas; para el abuso de alcohol uno de los más usados es el AUDIT. Para evaluar la confiabilidad, validez y el poder de discriminación en población mexicana del DAST-10  y el AUDIT, se realizó un muestreo aleatorio simple estratificado en un plantel de bachillerato de Ciudad de México. Ambas escalas se aplicaron a  915 alumnos. Los dos instrumentos resultaron válidos y confiables. Además, fueron sensibles en la identificación del riesgo en consumo de sustancias y alcohol al diferenciar niveles de riesgo entre hombres y mujeres.

  7. The development of a combined b-mode, ARFI, and spectral Doppler ultrasound imaging system for investigating cardiovascular stiffness and hemodynamics

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    Doherty, Joshua R.; Dumont, Douglas M.; Trahey, Gregg E.

    2011-03-01

    The progression of atherosclerotic disease, caused by the formation of plaques within arteries, is a complex process believed to be a function of the localized mechanical properties and hemodynamic loading associated with the arterial wall. It is hypothesized that measurements of vascular stiffness and wall-shear rate (WSR) may provide important information regarding vascular remodeling, endothelial function, and the growth of soft-lipid filled plaques that could help a clinician better diagnose a patient's risk of clinical events such as stroke. To that end, the approach taken in this work was to combine conventional B-mode, Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI), Shear Wave Elasticity Imaging (SWEI), and spectral Doppler techniques into a single imaging system capable of simultaneously measuring the tissue displacements and WSR throughout the cardiac cycle and over several heartbeats. Implemented on a conventional scanner, the carotid arteries of human subjects were scanned to demonstrate the initial in vivo feasibility of the method. Two non-invasive ultrasound based imaging methods, SAD-SWEI and SAD-Gated Imaging, were developed that measure ARF-induced on-axis tissue displacements, off-axis transverse wave velocities, and WSR throughout the cardiac cycle. Human carotid artery scans were performed in vivo on 5 healthy subjects. Statistical differences were observed in both on-axis proximal wall displacements and transverse wave velocities during diastole compared to systole.

  8. Effect of water-sediment regulation and its impact on coastline and suspended sediment concentration in Yellow River Estuary

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    Hai-bo Yang

    2017-10-01

    Full Text Available Implementation of the water-sediment regulation (WSR scheme, mainly focused on solving the sedimentation problems of reservoirs and the lower reaches of the Yellow River, has inevitably influenced the sediment distribution and coastal morphology of the Yellow River Estuary. Using coastline delineation and suspended sediment concentration (SSC retrieval methods, this study investigated water and sediment changes, identified detailed inter-annual and intra-annual variations of the coastline and SSC in the normal period (NP: 1986–2001, before and after the flood season and WSR period (WSRP: 2002–2013, before and after WSR. The results indicate that (1 the sedimentation in the low reaches of the Yellow River turned into erosion from 2002 onward; (2 the inter-annual coastline changes could be divided into an accretion stage (1986–1996, a slow erosion stage (1996–2002, and a slow accretion stage (2002–2013; (3 an intra-annual coastline extension occurred in the river mouth in most years of the WSRP; and (4 the mean intra-annual accretion area was 0.789 km2 in the NP and 4.73 km2 in the WSRP, and the mean SSC increased from 238 mg/L to 293 mg/L in the NP and from 192 mg/L to 264 mg/L in the WSRP.

  9. High accuracy measurement of the $^{235}$U(n,f) reaction cross-section in the 10-30 keV neutron energy range

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    The analysis of the neutron flux of n_TOF (in EAR1) revealed an anomaly in the 10-30 keV neutron energy range. While the flux extracted on the basis of the $^{6}$Li(n,t)$^{4}$He and $^{10}$B(n,$\\alpha$)$^{7}$Li reactions mostly agreed with each other and with the results of FLUKA simulations of the neutron beam, the one based on the $^{235}$U(n,f) reaction was found to be systematically lower, independently of the detection system used. A possible explanation is that the $^{235}$U(n,f) crosssection in that energy region, where in principle should be known with an uncertainty of 1%, may be systematically overestimated. Such a finding, which has a negligible influence on thermal reactors, would be important for future fast critical or subcritical reactors. Furthermore, its interest is more general, since the $^{235}$U(n,f) reaction is often used at that energy to determine the neutron flux, or as reference in measurements of fission cross section of other actinides. We propose to perform a high-accuracy, high-r...

  10. Efecto de la adición de un 10 % en volumen de cromo en el comportamiento a tracción de aleaciones pulvimetalúrgicas NiAlCr

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    García-Barriocanal, J.

    2005-08-01

    Full Text Available The mechanical properties of Ni3Al-Cr reinforced with 10% in volume fraction of chromium particles produced by powder metallurgy have been studied. For this purpose, milled powders with composition of Ni-20.9Al-8Cr-0.49B (% at. with and without the addition of 10% in volume fraction of chromium particles have been produced. Both alloys were consolidated by hot isostatic pressing (HIP. After HIP, heat treatment was applied to homogenize the microstructure. The chromium reinforcement has an important effect in the yield strength and ultimate strength increase. The reinforced alloy presents a yield strength of 1300 MPa at room temperature with respect to 800 MPa for the un-reinforced material. After heat treatment, the yield strength of both alloys does not change significantly. However, a decrease in ductility and ultimate tensile strength have been observed

    En este trabajo se estudia la influencia de la adición de un 10 % en volumen, de cromo en las propiedades mecánicas de aleaciones Ni3Al-Cr procesadas por vía pulvimetalúrgica. Para ello se prepararon dos aleaciones: la primera, se obtuvo por molienda de polvo de composición Ni-20,9Al-8Cr-0,49B (% at. y, a la segunda, se le añadió un 10 % en volumen de partículas de cromo, mediante un proceso de mezcla, previo al de molienda. Ambas, fueron consolidadas mediante compactación isostática en caliente (HIP y, por último, se les aplicaron tratamientos térmicos para homogeneizar la microestructura. Los resultados experimentales han mostrado que el refuerzo de cromo tiene como efecto un importante aumento del límite elástico y de la resistencia. Así, el material reforzado presenta un límite elástico cercano a 1.300 MPa, a temperatura ambiente, frente a los 800 MPa que presenta el material sin reforzar, a la misma temperatura. En relación con las propiedades mecánicas de los materiales tratados térmicamente, se observa que ambos experimentan un acusado

  11. Syntheses, characterization and antifungal activity of tris(1,10-phenanthroline)iron(II) bis(n-r-sulfonyldithiocarbimate)zincate(II)

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    Bottega, Fernanda C.; Oliveira, Marcelo R. L.; Garcia, Camila V.; Menezes, Daniele C.; Rubinger, Mayura M.M., E-mail: marcelor@ufv.br [Departamento de Quimica, Universidade Federal de Vicosa, MG (Brazil); Zambolim, Laercio [Departamento de Fitopatologia, Universidade Federal de Vicosa, MG (Brazil)

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    Four new compounds with the general formula [Fe(phen){sub 3}][Zn(RSO{sub 2}N=CS{sub 2}){sub 2}], where phen = 1,10-phenanthroline, R = 4-FC{sub 6}H{sub 4}(1), 4-ClC{sub 6}H{sub 4} (2), 4-BrC{sub 6}H{sub 4} (3) and 4-IC{sub 6}H{sub 4} (4), respectively, were obtained by the reaction of the appropriate potassium N-R-sulfonyldithiocarbimate (RSO{sub 2}N=CS{sub 2}K{sub 2}) and tris(1,10-phenanthroline)iron(II) sulfate, with zinc(II) acetate dihydrate in dimethylformamide. The elemental analyses and the IR data were consistent with the formation of the expected complexes salts. The {sup 1}H and {sup 13}C NMR spectra showed the signals for the cationic iron(II) complex and dithiocarbamate moieties. The molar conductance data were consistent with the 1:1 cation:anion complexes in 1-4. The antifungal activities of the compounds were tested in vitro against Candida albicans, Candida tropicalis and Colletotrichum gloeosporioides. (author)

  12. Effect of partial oxygen pressure on physicochemical properties of Kh18N10T steel at isothermal oxidation

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    Alekseev, V.N.; Oshe, E.K.; Fokin, M.N.; Bogdanova, S.V.; Loskutov, A.I.

    1990-01-01

    Auger-electron spectroscopy, photoelectric polarization, conductometry methods have been used to analyze chemical and defect composition of surface oxide layers, formed on stainless steel Kh18N10T in vacuum (10 -9 - 10 -2 torr) and at temperatures 593-673 K. The boundary conditions of manifestation of extermal behaviour of the dependence of the surface oxide growth rate at isothermal oxidation of this steel are determined. The relation between passivation properties of the surface oxide and the magnitude of the edge angle of the surface wetting with molten tin is revealed

  13. Electron velocity of 6 × 10{sup 7 }cm/s at 300 K in stress engineered InAlN/GaN nano-channel high-electron-mobility transistors

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    Arulkumaran, S., E-mail: SArulkumaran@pmail.ntu.edu.sg; Manoj Kumar, C. M.; Ranjan, K.; Teo, K. L. [Temasek Laboratories@NTU, Nanyang Technological University, Research Techno Plaza, 50 Nanyang Drive, Singapore 637553 (Singapore); Ng, G. I., E-mail: eging@ntu.edu.sg [School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798 (Singapore); Shoron, O. F.; Rajan, S. [Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210 (United States); Bin Dolmanan, S.; Tripathy, S. [Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology, and Research), 3 Research Link, Singapore 117602 (Singapore)

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    A stress engineered three dimensional (3D) Triple T-gate (TT-gate) on lattice matched In{sub 0.17}Al{sub 0.83}N/GaN nano-channel (NC) Fin-High-Electron-Mobility Transistor (Fin-HEMT) with significantly enhanced device performance was achieved that is promising for high-speed device applications. The Fin-HEMT with 200-nm effective fin-width (W{sub eff}) exhibited a very high I{sub Dmax} of 3940 mA/mm and a highest g{sub m} of 1417 mS/mm. This dramatic increase of I{sub D} and g{sub m} in the 3D TT-gate In{sub 0.17}Al{sub 0.83}N/GaN NC Fin-HEMT translated to an extracted highest electron velocity (v{sub e}) of 6.0 × 10{sup 7 }cm/s, which is ∼1.89× higher than that of the conventional In{sub 0.17}Al{sub 0.83}N/GaN HEMT (3.17 × 10{sup 7 }cm/s). The v{sub e} in the conventional III-nitride transistors are typically limited by highly efficient optical-phonon emission. However, the unusually high v{sub e} at 300 K in the 3D TT-gate In{sub 0.17}Al{sub 0.83}N/GaN NC Fin-HEMT is attributed to the increase of in-plane tensile stress component by SiN passivation in the formed NC which is also verified by micro-photoluminescence (0.47 ± 0.02 GPa) and micro-Raman spectroscopy (0.39 ± 0.12 GPa) measurements. The ability to reach the v{sub e} = 6 × 10{sup 7 }cm/s at 300 K by a stress engineered 3D TT-gate lattice-matched In{sub 0.17}Al{sub 0.83}N/GaN NC Fin-HEMTs shows they are promising for next-generation ultra-scaled high-speed device applications.

  14. cis,trans-Dicarbonyldichlorido(1,10-phenanthroline-5,6-dione-κ2N,N′ruthenium(II

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    Tsugiko Takase

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    Full Text Available In the title compound, [RuCl2(C12H6N2O2(CO2], the RuII atom (site symmetry ..2 adopts a distorted octahedral coordination sphere defined by two carbonyl C atoms, two Cl− anions and two N atoms from the chelating 1,10-phenanthroline-5,6-dione (phendione ligand. The carbonyl ligands are cis to each other, while the Cl atoms are trans. In the phendione ligand, the C=O [1.239 (5 Å] and the C—C [1.537 (5 Å] bond lengths in the diketone moiety have typical values. In the crystal, C—H...Cl and C—H...O hydrogen bonds lead to the formation of a three-dimensional supramolecular network.

  15. Evaluación dietética de micronutrientes en niños entre 10 y 14 meses de edad Dietetic evaluation of micronutrients in children aged 10-14 months old

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    Mayleni Carrillo Selles; Onay Mercader Camejo; Gisela Pita Rodríguez

    2008-01-01

    INTRODUCCIÓN. Las vitaminas y los minerales son nutrientes esenciales en la formación de tejidos, la defensa del organismo y la regulación de procesos metabólicos. Son especialmente necesarios en los primeros 12 meses de edad, cuando la velocidad de crecimiento es alta y el desarrollo neurológico y conductual es complejo. El objetivo de este trabajo fue evaluar el aporte de vitaminas y minerales en la dieta de niños de 10 a 14 meses de edad, residentes en Ciudad de La Habana. MÉTODOS. Se real...

  16. Modelación de episodios críticos de contaminación por material particulado (PM10 en Santiago de Chile: Comparación de la eficiencia predictiva de los modelos paramétricos y no paramétricos Modeling critical episodes of air pollution by PM10 in Santiago, Chile: Comparison of the predictive efficiency of parametric and non-parametric statistical models

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    Sergio A. Alvarado

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    Full Text Available Objetivo: Evaluar la eficiencia predictiva de modelos estadísticos paramétricos y no paramétricos para predecir episodios críticos de contaminación por material particulado PM10 del día siguiente, que superen en Santiago de Chile la norma de calidad diaria. Una predicción adecuada de tales episodios permite a la autoridad decretar medidas restrictivas que aminoren la gravedad del episodio, y consecuentemente proteger la salud de la comunidad. Método: Se trabajó con las concentraciones de material particulado PM10 registradas en una estación asociada a la red de monitorización de la calidad del aire MACAM-2, considerando 152 observaciones diarias de 14 variables, y con información meteorológica registrada durante los años 2001 a 2004. Se ajustaron modelos estadísticos paramétricos Gamma usando el paquete estadístico STATA v11, y no paramétricos usando una demo del software estadístico MARS v 2.0 distribuida por Salford-Systems. Resultados: Ambos métodos de modelación presentan una alta correlación entre los valores observados y los predichos. Los modelos Gamma presentan mejores aciertos que MARS para las concentraciones de PM10 con valores Objective: To evaluate the predictive efficiency of two statistical models (one parametric and the other non-parametric to predict critical episodes of air pollution exceeding daily air quality standards in Santiago, Chile by using the next day PM10 maximum 24h value. Accurate prediction of such episodes would allow restrictive measures to be applied by health authorities to reduce their seriousness and protect the community´s health. Methods: We used the PM10 concentrations registered by a station of the Air Quality Monitoring Network (152 daily observations of 14 variables and meteorological information gathered from 2001 to 2004. To construct predictive models, we fitted a parametric Gamma model using STATA v11 software and a non-parametric MARS model by using a demo version of Salford

  17. Recombination dynamics of excitons with low non-radiative component in semi-polar (10-11)-oriented GaN/AlGaN multiple quantum wells

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    Rosales, D.; Gil, B.; Bretagnon, T.; Guizal, B.; Izyumskaya, N.; Monavarian, M.; Zhang, F.; Okur, S.; Avrutin, V.; Özgür, Ü.; Morkoç, H.

    2014-01-01

    Optical properties of GaN/Al 0.2 Ga 0.8 N multiple quantum wells grown with semi-polar (10-11) orientation on patterned 7°-off Si (001) substrates have been investigated. Studies performed at 8 K reveal the in-plane anisotropic behavior of the QW photoluminescence (PL) intensity for this semi-polar orientation. The time resolved PL measurements were carried out in the temperature range from 8 to 295 K to deduce the effective recombination decay times, with respective radiative and non-radiative contributions. The non-radiative component remains relatively weak with increasing temperature, indicative of high crystalline quality. The radiative decay time is a consequence of contribution from both localized and free excitons. We report an effective density of interfacial defects of 2.3 × 10 12 cm −2 and a radiative recombination time of τ loc  = 355 ps for the localized excitons. This latter value is significantly larger than those reported for the non-polar structures, which we attribute to the presence of a weak residual electric field in the semi-polar QW layers

  18. Recombination dynamics of excitons with low non-radiative component in semi-polar (10-11)-oriented GaN/AlGaN multiple quantum wells

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    Rosales, D.; Gil, B.; Bretagnon, T.; Guizal, B. [CNRS, Laboratoire Charles Coulomb, UMR 5221, F-34095 Montpellier (France); Université Montpellier 2, Laboratoire Charles Coulomb, UMR 5221, F-34095 Montpellier (France); Izyumskaya, N.; Monavarian, M.; Zhang, F.; Okur, S.; Avrutin, V.; Özgür, Ü.; Morkoç, H. [Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia 23238 (United States)

    2014-09-07

    Optical properties of GaN/Al{sub 0.2}Ga{sub 0.8}N multiple quantum wells grown with semi-polar (10-11) orientation on patterned 7°-off Si (001) substrates have been investigated. Studies performed at 8 K reveal the in-plane anisotropic behavior of the QW photoluminescence (PL) intensity for this semi-polar orientation. The time resolved PL measurements were carried out in the temperature range from 8 to 295 K to deduce the effective recombination decay times, with respective radiative and non-radiative contributions. The non-radiative component remains relatively weak with increasing temperature, indicative of high crystalline quality. The radiative decay time is a consequence of contribution from both localized and free excitons. We report an effective density of interfacial defects of 2.3 × 10{sup 12} cm{sup −2} and a radiative recombination time of τ{sub loc} = 355 ps for the localized excitons. This latter value is significantly larger than those reported for the non-polar structures, which we attribute to the presence of a weak residual electric field in the semi-polar QW layers.

  19. Barrier height and interface effect of Pt-n-GaN and Pd-n-GaN Schottky diodes

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    Khan, M.R.H.; Saha, S.L.; Sawaki, N.

    1999-01-01

    Schottky barriers on n-type GaN films by Pt and Pd are fabricated and characterized. A thin Pt or Pd layer is deposited on n-GaN layers to form Schottky contacts in a vacuum below 1x10/sup -6/ Torr. The area of all diodes is 3.46 x 10-4 cm/sup 2/. Several samples of Pt-n GaN and Pd-n GaN were studied. The ideality factor of Pt-n-GaN diode is 1.26 and of Pd-n-GaN is 1.17. The breakdown voltage of Pt-n-GaN and Pd-n-GaN diodes is 21 V and 26 V respectively. In both the cases the leakage current varies between 1x10-9 A and 5x 10-9 A. The Schottky barrier heights (phi/sub B/ ) of Pt-GaN diode is been determined to be 1.02 eV by current voltage (I-V) and 1.07 eV by capacitance (C-V) measurements Also, phi/sub B/ of Pd-GaN diode is determined to be 0.91 eV by I-V and 0.98 eV, by C-V measurements. The departure of the values of the ideality factor is considered to be due to spatial inhomogeneities at the meal semiconductor interface. The difference in the values of phi/sub B/ determined by I-V and C-V measurements is attributed to the deformation of the spatial barrier distribution. (author)

  20. Electron states at electrolyte/n-GaN and electrolyte/n-InGaN interfaces

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    Rudinsky, M. E., E-mail: rudinskym@mail.ru; Gutkin, A. A.; Brunkov, P. N. [Russian Academy of Sciences, Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute (Russian Federation)

    2012-06-15

    The differential capacitance and differential active conductance of rectifying contacts of n-GaN and n-In{sub x}Ga{sub 1-x}N (x Almost-Equal-To 0.15) with an electrolyte (0.2 M aqueous solutions of NaOH, NaCl, or HCl) have been studied. It was found that electron states with energies corresponding to the upper half of the energy gap of a semiconductor exist at the interface between these semiconductors and a NaOH solution. The density and characteristic recharging time of states noticeably contributing to the differential capacitance and differential active conductance at probe-voltage frequencies of 0.3-1 kHz grow with their binding energy and, for states lying at 0.15-0.3 eV below the conduction-band bottom of n-GaN, fall within the ranges 10{sup 12}-2 Multiplication-Sign 10{sup 13} cm{sup -2} eV{sup -1} and 10{sup -4}-10{sup -2} s, respectively. For contacts with NaCl and HCl solutions, there are no states of this kind. It is assumed that the observed states are related to the adsorption of hydroxyl groups.

  1. Performance of n-in-p pixel detectors irradiated at fluences up to $5x10^{15} n_{eq}/cm^{2}$ for the future ATLAS upgrades

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    INSPIRE-00219560; La Rosa, A.; Nisius, R.; Pernegger, H.; Richter, R.H.; Weigell, P.

    We present the results of the characterization of novel n-in-p planar pixel detectors, designed for the future upgrades of the ATLAS pixel system. N-in-p silicon devices are a promising candidate to replace the n-in-n sensors thanks to their radiation hardness and cost effectiveness, that allow for enlarging the area instrumented with pixel detectors. The n-in-p modules presented here are composed of pixel sensors produced by CiS connected by bump-bonding to the ATLAS readout chip FE-I3. The characterization of these devices has been performed with the ATLAS pixel read-out systems, TurboDAQ and USBPIX, before and after irradiation with 25 MeV protons and neutrons up to a fluence of 5x10**15 neq /cm2. The charge collection measurements carried out with radioactive sources have proven the feasibility of employing this kind of detectors up to these particle fluences. The collected charge has been measured to be for any fluence in excess of twice the value of the FE-I3 threshold, tuned to 3200 e. The first result...

  2. Density functional theory and surface reactivity study of bimetallic AgnYm (n+m = 10) clusters

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    Hussain, Riaz; Hussain, Abdullah Ijaz; Chatha, Shahzad Ali Shahid; Hussain, Riaz; Hanif, Usman; Ayub, Khurshid

    2018-06-01

    Density functional theory calculations have been performed on pure silver (Agn), yttrium (Ym) and bimetallic silver yttrium clusters AgnYm (n + m = 2-10) for reactivity descriptors in order to realize sites for nucleophilic and electrophilic attack. The reactivity descriptors of the clusters, studied as a function of cluster size and shape, reveal the presence of different type of reactive sites in a cluster. The size and shape of the pure silver, yttrium and bimetallic silver yttrium cluster (n = 2-10) strongly influences the number and position of active sites for an electrophilic and/or nucleophilic attack. The trends of reactivities through reactivity descriptors are confirmed through comparison with experimental data for CO binding with silver clusters. Moreover, the adsorption of CO on bimetallic silver yttrium clusters is also evaluated. The trends of binding energies support the reactivity descriptors values. Doping of pure cluster with the other element also influence the hardness, softness and chemical reactivity of the clusters. The softness increases as we increase the number of silver atoms in the cluster, whereas the hardness decreases. The chemical reactivity increases with silver doping whereas it decreases by increasing yttrium concentration. Silver atoms are nucleophilic in small clusters but changed to electrophilic in large clusters.

  3. CARACTERIZACIÓN QUÍMICA DE MATERIAL PARTICULADO PM10 EN LA ATMÓSFERA DE RIOHACHA-LA GUAJIRA COLOMBIA

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    Calos Julio Doria Argumedo; Juan Reynerio Fagundo Castillo

    2017-01-01

    Teniendo en cuenta la importancia desde el punto de vista de la contaminación ambiental, que tienen las partículas inhalables PM 10 en ambientes urbanos, y que los efectos que se puedan generar en la salud dependen de la composición química del material formado por partículas, se realizó este estudio con el objetivo de revelar la composición química de las partículas atmosféricas a través de técnicas de Espectrofotometría UV-VIS y Espectrometría de Masas con fuente de Plasma de Acoplamiento, ...

  4. Supervisión pedagógica y estrés laboral de docentes en IEE, Red 10, UGEL 06, Ate, 2015

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    Aliaga Pongo, Yolanda

    2015-01-01

    El presente trabajo de investigación titulado Supervisión pedagógica y estrés laboral de docentes en IEE Red 10, UGEL 06, Ate, 2015, tuvo como objetivo determinar la relación que existe entre la supervisión pedagógica con el estrés laboral. La población de estudio estuvo constituída por 171 docentes y la muestra fue de 120 aplicando la fórmula de Arkin y Colton. Esta investigación se desarrolló bajo un diseño no experimental de nivel correlacional de corte transeccional, con...

  5. A new polymorph of aquabis(1,10-phenanthroline-κ2N,N′copper(II dinitrate

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    Mehdi Boutebdja

    2014-05-01

    Full Text Available The title molecule, [Cu(C12H8N22(H2O](NO32, is a new polymorph of a compound which up to now has been reported to crystallize space groups in C2/c and Cc. The crystal studied was twinned by non-merohedry (final BASF factor of 0.40043 with the structure being solved and refined in P-1. The CuII atom is coordinated by four N atoms from two 1,10-phenanthroline ligands and an O atom from a water molecule in an approximate trigonal–bipyramidal geometry. Discrete entities of one cation and two nitrate anions are formed by water–nitrate O—H...O hydrogen bonds. The components are further assembled into a three-dimensional network by C—H...O hydrogen bonds.

  6. AC electrical conductivity and dielectric relaxation studies on n-type organic thin films of N, N‧-Dimethyl-3,4,9,10-perylenedicarboximide (DMPDC)

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    Qashou, Saleem I.; Darwish, A. A. A.; Rashad, M.; Khattari, Z.

    2017-11-01

    Both Alternating current (AC) conductivity and dielectric behavior of n-type organic thin films of N, N‧-Dimethyl-3,4,9,10-perylenedicarboximide (DMPDC) have been investigated. Fourier transformation infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy is used for identifying both powder and film bonds which confirm that there are no observed changes in the bonds between the DMPDC powder and evaporated films. The dependence of AC conductivity on the temperature for DMPDC evaporated films was explained by the correlated barrier hopping (CBH) model. The calculated barrier height using CBH model shows a decreasing behavior with increasing temperature. The mechanism of dielectric relaxation was interpreted on the basis of the modulus of the complex dielectric. The calculated activation energy of the relaxation process was found to be 0.055 eV.

  7. Relationship between interlayer hydration and photocatalytic water splitting of A'1-xNaxCa2Ta3O10.nH2O (A'=K and Li)

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    Mitsuyama, Tomohiro; Tsutsumi, Akiko; Sato, Sakiko; Ikeue, Keita; Machida, Masato

    2008-01-01

    Partial replacement of alkaline metals in anhydrous KCa 2 Ta 3 O 10 and LiCa 2 Ta 3 O 10 was studied to control interlayer hydration and photocatalytic activity for water splitting under UV irradiation. A' 1-x Na x Ca 2 Ta 3 O 10 .nH 2 O (A'=K and Li) samples were synthesized by ion exchange of CsCa 2 Ta 3 O 10 in mixed molten nitrates at 400 deg. C. In K 1-x Na x Ca 2 Ta 3 O 10 .nH 2 O, two phases with the orthorhombic (C222) and tetragonal (I4/mmm) structures were formed at x≤0.7 and x≥0.5, respectively. Upon replacement by Na + having a larger enthalpy of hydration (ΔH h 0 ), the interlayer hydration occurred at x≥0.3 and the hydration number (n) was increased monotonically with an increase of x. Li 1-x Na x Ca 2 Ta 3 O 10 .nH 2 O showed a similar hydration behavior, but the phase was changed from I4/mmm (x 1-x Na x Ca 2 Ta 3 O 10 .nH 2 O exhibited the activity increasing in consistent with n, whereas Li 1-x Na x Ca 2 Ta 3 O 10 .nH 2 O exhibited the activity maximum at x=0.77, where the rates of H 2 /O 2 evolution were nearly doubled compared with those for end-member compositions (x=0 and 1). - Graphical abstract: The partial substitution of Na in the interlayer of anhydrous-layered perovskite has been found as useful structural modification toward highly active hydrated photocatalysts

  8. Intimal hyperplasia and wall shear in arterial bypass graft distal anastomoses: an in vivo model study.

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    Keynton, R S; Evancho, M M; Sims, R L; Rodway, N V; Gobin, A; Rittgers, S E

    2001-10-01

    The observation of intimal hyperplasia at bypass graft anastomoses has suggested a potential interaction between local hemodynamics and vascular wall response. Wall shear has been particularly implicated because of its known effects upon the endothelium of normal vessels and, thus, was examined as to its possible role in the development of intimal hyperplasia in arterial bypass graft distal anastomoses. Tapered (4-7 mm I.D.) e-PTFE synthetic grafts 6 cm long were placed as bilateral carotid artery bypasses in six adult, mongrel dogs weighing between 25 and 30 kg with distal anastomotic graft-to-artery diameter ratios (DR) of either 1.0 or 1.5. Immediately following implantation, simultaneous axial velocity measurements were made in the toe and artery floor regions in the plane of the anastomosis at radial increments of 0.35 mm, 0.70 mm, and 1.05 mm using a specially designed 20 MHz triple crystal ultrasonic wall shear rate transducer Mean, peak, and pulse amplitude wall shear rates (WSRs), their absolute values, the spatial and temporal wall shear stress gradients (WSSG), and the oscillatory shear index (OSI) were computed from these velocity measurements. All grafts were harvested after 12 weeks implantation and measurements of the degree of intimal hyperplasia (IH) were made along the toe region and the artery floor of the host artery in 1 mm increments. While some IH occurred along the toe region (8.35+/-23.1 microm) and was significantly different between DR groups (p<0.003), the greatest amount occurred along the artery floor (81.6+/-106.5 microm, mean +/- S.D.) (p < 0.001) although no significant differences were found between DR groups. Linear regressions were performed on the paired IH and mean, peak, and pulse amplitude WSR data as well as the absolute mean, peak, and pulse amplitude WSR data from all grafts. The mean and absolute mean WSRs showed a modest correlation with IH (r = -0.406 and -0.370, respectively) with further improvements seen (r = -0

  9. Variabilidad temporal del PM10 en Bahía Blanca (Argentina y su relación con variables climáticas

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    Alicia M. Campo

    2017-01-01

    Full Text Available La contaminación atmosférica afecta a ciudades y países de todo el planeta. Uno de los conta- minantes atmosféricos más comunes es el material particulado atmosférico, que tiene directa incidencia sobre la salud de la población (OMS, 2006. Las condiciones meteorológicas definen en gran medida su concentración a nivel troposférico. Por consiguiente, el objetivo del presente trabajo es analizar la variabilidad temporal del PM10 de la ciudad de Bahía Blanca (Argentina, estableciendo posibles relaciones entre dicho comportamiento y variables físicas y antropogéni- cas que pueden incidir en su dinámica. Se observó que la concentración del material particulado en Bahía Blanca se relaciona con factores naturales y antropogénicos. El flujo vehicular y las actividades portuarias, principalmente el transporte y almacenamiento de granos, favorecen la producción del contaminante. Esto se manifiesta en una distribución diferencial a lo largo del día y entre días laborables y no laborables. La alta concentración de PM10 se ve afectada por la presencia de vientos de componente Norte y de altas velocidades, que suelen estar acompañados de nubes de polvo y humo. También fenómenos naturales, como la erupción del Complejo Vol- cánico Puyehue-Cordón Caulle, inciden en los valores hallados.

  10. 10. ročník „Berlin 10“ konference v Jihoafrické republice

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    -, č. 4 (2012) E-ISSN 1805-2800. [Berlin10. Stellenbosch, 06.11.2012-08.11.2012] Keywords : conferences * Berlin Open Access Conference * open access http://www.lib.cas.cz/casopis-informace/10-rocnik-%E2%80%9Eberlin-10-konference-v-jihoafricke-republice/

  11. Texts and Glosses -Issue 10- Barataria / Textos y glosas Barataria nº 10

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    Antonio Martín Cabello

    2009-10-01

    Full Text Available Paul Boghossian, catedrático de filosofía en la Universidad de Nueva York, presenta una obra, breve pero sustantiva, a contracorriente. La postmodernidad, un término quizá ya no tan de moda pero que duda cabe que influyente, lleva hermanada una epistemología constructivista y una praxis relativista. Este es el paradigma dominante entre las ciencia sociales. Lo objetivo y estructural sucumbe ante lo subjetivo e interpretativo. Y Boghossian pretende combatir este “mal” desde los presupuestos de la epistemología y la filosofía analítica. Las tesis básicas del constructivismo- relativista se pueden resumir en dos grandes principios: El primero, la “doctrina de la Validez Igual”, que afirma básicamente que “existen muchas formas radicalmente distintas, pero «igualmente válidas», de conocer el mundo, de las cuales la ciencia es sólo una” (p. 17; y segundo, la concepción de la “dependencia social del conocimiento”, según la cual “una creencia sea o no conocimiento estaría en función, al menos en parte, del entorno social y material contingente en el que haya sido producida (o sostenida” (p. 22. En otras palabras, que todo conocimiento es una creación humana contingente y, por tanto, relativa al grupo que la creó o utilizó.

  12. Development and Performance of the 10 kN Hybrid Rocket Motor for the Stratos II Sounding Rocket

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    Werner, R.M.; Knop, T.R.; Wink, J; Ehlen, J; Huijsman, R; Powell, S; Florea, R.; Wieling, W; Cervone, A.; Zandbergen, B.T.C.

    2016-01-01

    This paper presents the development work of the 10 kN hybrid rocket motor DHX-200 Aurora. The DHX-200 Aurora was developed by Delft Aerospace Rocket Engineering (DARE) to power the Stratos II and Stratos II+ sounding rocket, with the later one being launched in October 2015. Stratos II and Stratos

  13. Evaluación del cumplimiento de la guía de atención en desnutrición indicada por el Ministerio de Protección Social de 0 a 10 años. En un centro de atención ambulatoria en Santiago de Cali - Colombia

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    Alba M. Rengifo

    2007-01-01

    Full Text Available La desnutrición es un problema de salud pública que afecta en su mayoría a los niños y niñas de Colombia. El decreto 117 de la Resolución 412 de obligatorio cumplimiento reglamenta los procedimientos a seguirse con las enfermedades de interés en salud pública, como la desnutrición. Objetivo: Evaluar el cumplimiento y manejo de la guía de atención en niños diagnosticados con desnutrición Metodología: Se realizó un estudio descriptivo transversal, se incluyeron 17 registros de niños de 0 a 10 años afectados con desnutrición atendidos en un CAA de Cali. Resultados: Se analizaron 17 historias clínicas. 41.2% niños de 0 a 2 años de edad y 58.8% mayores de 2 años. 52.9% niñas y 47.1% niños. En los niños de 0 a 2 años el 100% de las historias incluía el peso-edad, talla-edad, y peso-talla. En los niños mayores de 2 años el 100% de las historias incluían el peso-edad y talla-edad, solo el 10% incluía el IMC. Las pruebas bioquímicas realizadas fueron en un 47.1% el cuadro hematico y TSH, en un 5.9% la creatinina. El coprológico se indico solo en un 23.5% .El 100% de las historias no incluían exámenes de proteínas totales, T3 y T4, Transferrina, Nitrógeno Ureico y Hormona de crecimiento. La intervención profesional la hace el médico y la auxiliar de enfermería, el seguimiento lo hace la auxiliar. Los niños no son valorados ni seguidos por nutricionistas. Conclusión: La guía de atención básica en desnutrición no se está cumpliendo en su totalidad por parte del CAA.

  14. Crystal structure of trans-(1,8-dibutyl-1,3,6,8,10,13-hexaazacyclotetradecane-κ4N3,N6,N10,N13bis(isonicotinato-κOcopper(II from synchrotron data

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    Jong Won Shin

    2015-02-01

    Full Text Available The title compound, [Cu(C6H4NO22(C16H38N6] has been synthesized and characterized by structure analysis based on synchrotron data and by FT–IR spectroscopy. The asymmetric unit consists of half of the CuII complex, the other half being completed by inversion symmetry. The CuII ion has a tetragonally distorted octahedral coordination sphere with four secondary N atoms of the azamacrocyclic ligand in the equatorial plane [Cu—Neq = 2.018 (12 Å] and two O atoms of the isonicotinate anions at the axial positions [Cu—Oax = 2.4100 (11 Å]. Intramolecular N—H...O hydrogen bonds between one of the secondary amine N—H groups of the azamacrocyclic ligand and the non-coordinating O atom of the isonicotinate ions stabilize the molecular structure. Intermolecular N—H...N hydrogen bonds between the other macrocyclic N—H group and the pyridine N atom of an adjacent isonicotinate anion as well as π–π interactions [centroid-to-centroid distance 3.711 (2 Å] lead to the formation of rods parallel to [001].

  15. Las dinámicas de la ciudadanía: posibilidades de una ciudadanía alternativa para la Comuna 10 de Medellín (Colombia

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    William Ortiz Jiménez

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    Full Text Available Las dinámicas de la ciudadanía en la Comuna 10 de Medellín abre las po- sibilidades de una ciudadanía alternativa mediante la cual los empleadores, porque generan actividad laboral y público que gesta sus funciones en ella, logren acuerdos y pactos para procurarse los derechos civiles, políticos y constitucionales que les han sido esquivos por parte de la administración municipal. El objetivo de la investigación consistió en reconocer las dinámi- cas de la ciudadanía alternativa que se llevan a cabo en la Comuna 10 de la ciudad de Medellín así como las formas de manifestación constitucional. La metodología gravitó sobre un estudio de caso único, en el cual se seleccionó la Comuna 10, más conocida como El Hueco, Guayaquil o la Candelaria; se diseñaron los instrumentos (la encuesta, la entrevista y el diario de campo, se elaboraron gráficos estadísticos y se hizo un análisis descriptivo-cuali- tativo de los resultados obtenidos. Previamente, se realizó una exhaustiva revisión bibliográfica sobre el tema de la ciudadanía, la cultura política y los análisis constitucionales en contextos de impacto social, político y territorial, con aplicación de instrumentos propios de las investigaciones cualitativas y aplicadas. La unidad de análisis la conformaron cinco organizaciones comunitarias de la Comuna 10, la Junta de Acción Comunal Local, entidades encargadas de las políticas de ordenamiento territorial, en este caso, Asoguayaquil y la Ge- rencia del Centro, así como la oficina responsable de la organización, planea- ción y desarrollo de la Comuna 10 y los empleadores, empleados y trabajado- res del sector, a quienes se les aplicó alguno de los instrumentos: 600 en total.

  16. N,N′-Diphenyl-9,10-dioxo-9,10-dihydroanthracene-2,7-disulfonamide

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    Wei-Guan Yuan

    2013-07-01

    Full Text Available The title molecule, C26H18N2O6S2, has an overall Z-shaped conformation, in which the benzene rings are inclined to the anthraquinone mean plane by 60.60 (9 and 50.66 (13°. In the crystal, N—H...O and C—H...O hydrogen bonds link the molecules into layers parallel to the bc plane.

  17. Construction of Eu3+ Ion-Selective Electrode Based on 1,2-Diaminopropane-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid

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    2011-01-01

    Full Text Available A new Eu3+ PVC membrane electrode based on 1,2-diaminopropane-N, N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid (DAPTA as a suitable ionophore has been prepared and studied. The electrode shows a good selectivity for Eu(III ion with respect to most common cations including alkali, alkaline earth, transition and heavy metal ions. This electrode has a wide linear dynamic range from 1.0×10-6 to 1.0×10-2 M with a Nernstian slope of 19.7±0.5 mV per decade and a low detection limit of 7.2×10-7 M in the pH range of 2.5–9.1, while the response time was rapid (<10 s. The practical utility of the electrodes has been demonstratedby their use as indicator electrodes in the potentiometric titration of Eu3+ ions with EDTA and for the determination of Eu3+ in some water sample solutions.

  18. TOR

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    National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce — A tornado warning is issued by the local NWS Weather Forecast Office (WFO) when a tornado is indicated by the WSR-88D radar or sighted by spotters.

  19. The 9Be(d,n)10B reaction as a source of polarized neutrons from a low energy accelerator

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    Bains, B.S.; Galloway, R.B.

    1977-01-01

    The 9 Be(d,n) 10 B reaction leading to the ground state of 10 B is found to provide a neutron beam with a polarization of 0.35 +- 0.06 at a reaction angle of 45 0 to a 400 keV deuteron beam. The suitability of such a polarized 4.5 MeV neutron beam for elastic scattering experiments is discussed. The polarization of the neutrons leading to the first excited state of 10 B is found to be - 0.08 +- 0.07 under the same conditions. (Auth.)

  20. Evaluación dietética de micronutrientes en niños entre 10 y 14 meses de edad Dietetic evaluation of micronutrients in children aged 10-14 months old

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    Mayleni Carrillo Selles

    2008-12-01

    Full Text Available INTRODUCCIÓN. Las vitaminas y los minerales son nutrientes esenciales en la formación de tejidos, la defensa del organismo y la regulación de procesos metabólicos. Son especialmente necesarios en los primeros 12 meses de edad, cuando la velocidad de crecimiento es alta y el desarrollo neurológico y conductual es complejo. El objetivo de este trabajo fue evaluar el aporte de vitaminas y minerales en la dieta de niños de 10 a 14 meses de edad, residentes en Ciudad de La Habana. MÉTODOS. Se realizó un estudio transversal en los meses de junio a septiembre del 2005, en áreas de salud de los municipios Centro Habana, Marianao y Plaza de la Revolución. Con la autorización previa de los padres, se evaluaron 80 niños de 10 a 14 meses de edad, escogidos al azar, que no presentaran síntomas de enfermedad en el momento del estudio. Los datos se recogieron en encuestas dietéticas durante 3 días consecutivos y se procesaron en el sistema automatizado CERES. RESULTADOS. Se encontraron niveles de vitamina A, vitamina C, tiamina, piridoxina, ácido fólico, calcio y cinc que se ajustan a las recomendaciones nutricionales para niños de esta edad. El aporte de hierro en los alimentos fue deficiente. CONCLUSIONES. De manera general los principales alimentos consumidos por los niños resultaron buenas fuentes de vitaminas y minerales, aunque el deficiente aporte de hierro demuestra la necesidad de estudiar la frecuencia de aparición de la anemia por deficiencia de hierro en los lactantes de Ciudad de La Habana y emplear esta investigación como punto de referencia para la implementación de nuevas estrategias de fortificación de alimentos dirigidas a niños de estas edades.INTRODUCTION. Vitamins and minerals are essential nutrients in the formation of tissues, the defense of the organism and the regulation of metabolic processes. They are specially necessary in the first 12 months of life, when the growth speed is high and the neurological and

  1. ParaTrough v1.0: Librería en Modelica para Simulación de Plantas Termosolares

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    Juan A. Romera Cabrerizo

    2017-10-01

    Full Text Available Resumen: El presente trabajo describe una librería desarrollada en Modelica que utiliza el entorno Dymola 6.1 para modelar y simular plantas termosolares de tecnología de colector cilindro-parabólico. El actual software de modelado y simulación es cada vez más potente gracias a los avances en computación y programación, pudiendo conseguir estimaciones muy precisas del comportamiento de estas plantas térmicas. Como mejora a otras propuestas actuales, la librería ParaTrough se ofrece como una herramienta pública, gratuita bajo licencia Modelica License 2, de código libre, flexible, modular, y por lo tanto fácilmente ampliable y modificable para los requerimientos específicos de cada planta y proceso en particular. En la versión 1.0 contemplada en este artículo, esta librería se puede usar para el modelado y simulación del recurso solar y del sistema de fluido de transferencia calorífica sin cambio de fase. Los modelos han sido validados con datos reales de una planta en operación, Andasol 3, en los términos municipales de Aldeire y La Calahorra (Granada. El objetivo de ParaTrough es poder ser utilizada gratuitamente y de forma amigable por analistas de procesos para uno o varios de los siguientes casos: evaluación del rendimiento, detección de fallos, exploración de nuevos modos de operación y optimización de la planta. Aunque en futuras versiones se puedan añadir otros elementos, esta aportación cubre una nueva área de aplicación específica para el software de Modelica y en su estado actual facilita la operación y mantenimiento de estas plantas. Abstract: This paper describes a Modelica-based library developed to the modeling and simulation of solar thermal plants with parabolic trough collectors. The Dymola 6.1 environment has been used. Unlike other commercial tools, the ParaTrough library is offered as a free open source tool, under Modelica License 2. Its modular code makes it easily extensible and modifiable to

  2. Brain-derived neurotrophic factor modulation of Kv1.3 channel is disregulated by adaptor proteins Grb10 and nShc

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    Marks David R

    2009-01-01

    Full Text Available Abstract Background Neurotrophins are important regulators of growth and regeneration, and acutely, they can modulate the activity of voltage-gated ion channels. Previously we have shown that acute brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF activation of neurotrophin receptor tyrosine kinase B (TrkB suppresses the Shaker voltage-gated potassium channel (Kv1.3 via phosphorylation of multiple tyrosine residues in the N and C terminal aspects of the channel protein. It is not known how adaptor proteins, which lack catalytic activity, but interact with members of the neurotrophic signaling pathway, might scaffold with ion channels or modulate channel activity. Results We report the co-localization of two adaptor proteins, neuronal Src homology and collagen (nShc and growth factor receptor-binding protein 10 (Grb10, with Kv1.3 channel as demonstrated through immunocytochemical approaches in the olfactory bulb (OB neural lamina. To further explore the specificity and functional ramification of adaptor/channel co-localization, we performed immunoprecipitation and Western analysis of channel, kinase, and adaptor transfected human embryonic kidney 293 cells (HEK 293. nShc formed a direct protein-protein interaction with Kv1.3 that was independent of BDNF-induced phosphorylation of Kv1.3, whereas Grb10 did not complex with Kv1.3 in HEK 293 cells. Both adaptors, however, co-immunoprecipitated with Kv1.3 in native OB. Grb10 was interestingly able to decrease the total expression of Kv1.3, particularly at the membrane surface, and subsequently eliminated the BDNF-induced phosphorylation of Kv1.3. To examine the possibility that the Src homology 2 (SH2 domains of Grb10 were directly binding to basally phosphorylated tyrosines in Kv1.3, we utilized point mutations to substitute multiple tyrosine residues with phenylalanine. Removal of the tyrosines 111–113 and 449 prevented Grb10 from decreasing Kv1.3 expression. In the absence of either adaptor protein

  3. Prevalencia de obesidad en una población de 10 a 19 años en la consulta pediátrica

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    Kovalskys, Irina; Bay, Luisa; Rausch Herscovici, Cecile; Berner, Enrique

    2005-01-01

    Introducción: La prevalencia mundial de obesidad es alarmante. La obesidad infantil está aumentando tanto en países desarrollados como en vías de desarrollo. Objetivo: Determinar la prevalencia de obesidad en niños y adolescentes de 10 a 19 años que asistieron a la consulta pediátrica pública y privada en Argentina. Población, material y métodos: Se utilizaron datos de un estudio poblacional mayor, diseñado para determinar prevalencia de trastornos alimentarios en adolescentes de 10 a 19 años...

  4. Synthesis of multiple deuterated N-n-propyl-norapomorphine N-(d/sub 7/) and derivatives

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    Gao, Yigong; Trainor, T.M.; Vouros, Paul; Neumeyer, J.L.

    1988-03-01

    Novapomorphine has been labelled using n-propyl iodide through alkylation of norcodeine followed by a multistep route which also affords the related deuterated analogs N-n-propylnorapocodeine, the prodrug 10,11-methylenedioxy-NPA and 10,11-dimethoxy-NPA.

  5. Thermal stability study of Cr/Au contact formed on n-type Ga-polar GaN, N-polar GaN, and wet-etched N-polar GaN surfaces

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    Choi, Yunju; Kim, Yangsoo; Ahn, Kwang-Soon; Kim, Hyunsoo

    2014-01-01

    Highlights: • The Cr/Au contact on n-type Ga-polar (0 0 0 1) GaN, N-polar (0 0 0 −1) GaN, and wet-etched N-polar GaN were investigated. • Thermal annealing led to a significant degradation of contact formed on N-polar n-GaN samples. • Contact degradation was shown to be closely related to the increase in the electrical resistivity of n-GaN. • Out-diffusion of Ga and N atoms was clearly observed in N-polar samples. - Abstract: The electrical characteristics and thermal stability of a Cr/Au contact formed on n-type Ga-polar (0 0 0 1) GaN, N-polar GaN, and wet-etched N-polar GaN were investigated. As-deposited Cr/Au showed a nearly ohmic contact behavior for all samples, i.e., the specific contact resistance was 3.2 × 10 −3 , 4.3 × 10 −4 , and 1.1 × 10 −3 Ω cm 2 for the Ga-polar, flat N-polar, and roughened N-polar samples, respectively. However, thermal annealing performed at 250 °C for 1 min in a N 2 ambient led to a significant degradation of contact, i.e., the contact resistance increased by 186, 3260, and 2030% after annealing for Ga-polar, flat N-polar, and roughened N-polar samples, respectively. This could be due to the different disruption degree of Cr/Au and GaN interface after annealing, i.e., the insignificant interfacial reaction occurred in the Ga-polar sample, while out-diffusion of Ga and N atoms was clearly observed in N-polar samples

  6. Thermal stability study of Cr/Au contact formed on n-type Ga-polar GaN, N-polar GaN, and wet-etched N-polar GaN surfaces

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    Choi, Yunju [School of Semiconductor and Chemical Engineering, Semiconductor Physics Research Center, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju 561-756 (Korea, Republic of); Suncheon Center, Korea Basic Science Institute, Suncheon 540-742 (Korea, Republic of); Kim, Yangsoo [Suncheon Center, Korea Basic Science Institute, Suncheon 540-742 (Korea, Republic of); Ahn, Kwang-Soon, E-mail: kstheory@ynu.ac.kr [School of Chemical Engineering, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, Gyeongbuk 712-749 (Korea, Republic of); Kim, Hyunsoo, E-mail: hskim7@jbnu.ac.kr [School of Semiconductor and Chemical Engineering, Semiconductor Physics Research Center, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju 561-756 (Korea, Republic of)

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    Highlights: • The Cr/Au contact on n-type Ga-polar (0 0 0 1) GaN, N-polar (0 0 0 −1) GaN, and wet-etched N-polar GaN were investigated. • Thermal annealing led to a significant degradation of contact formed on N-polar n-GaN samples. • Contact degradation was shown to be closely related to the increase in the electrical resistivity of n-GaN. • Out-diffusion of Ga and N atoms was clearly observed in N-polar samples. - Abstract: The electrical characteristics and thermal stability of a Cr/Au contact formed on n-type Ga-polar (0 0 0 1) GaN, N-polar GaN, and wet-etched N-polar GaN were investigated. As-deposited Cr/Au showed a nearly ohmic contact behavior for all samples, i.e., the specific contact resistance was 3.2 × 10{sup −3}, 4.3 × 10{sup −4}, and 1.1 × 10{sup −3} Ω cm{sup 2} for the Ga-polar, flat N-polar, and roughened N-polar samples, respectively. However, thermal annealing performed at 250 °C for 1 min in a N{sub 2} ambient led to a significant degradation of contact, i.e., the contact resistance increased by 186, 3260, and 2030% after annealing for Ga-polar, flat N-polar, and roughened N-polar samples, respectively. This could be due to the different disruption degree of Cr/Au and GaN interface after annealing, i.e., the insignificant interfacial reaction occurred in the Ga-polar sample, while out-diffusion of Ga and N atoms was clearly observed in N-polar samples.

  7. 1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition Reactions of 1-(4-Phenylphenacyl-1,10-phenanthrolinium N-Ylide with Activated Alkynes and Alkenes

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    A. Badoiu

    2005-02-01

    Full Text Available The 3 2 cycloaddition reaction of 1-(4-phenylphenacyl-1,10-phenanthrolinium ylide with activated alkynes gave pyrrolo[1,2- 4a][1,10]phenanthrolines 6a-d. The "one pot" synthesis of 6a,b,d from 4, activatedalkenes, Et3N and tetrakis-pyridine cobalt (II dichromate (TPCD is described. Thehelical chirality of pyrrolophenanthrolines 6b-d was put in evidence by NMRspectroscopy.

  8. Bis(1,10-phenanthroline-κ2N,N′(sulfato-κ2O,O′cobalt(II butane-2,3-diol monosolvate

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    Shi-Juan Wang

    2011-04-01

    Full Text Available In the title compound, [Co(SO4(C12H8N22]·C4H10O2, the Co2+ ion has a distorted octahedral coordination environment composed of four N atoms from two chelating 1,10-phenanthroline ligands and two O atoms from an O,O′-bidentate sulfate anion. The dihedral angle between the two chelating N2C2 groups is 83.48 (1°. The Co2+ ion, the S atom and the mid-point of the central C—C bond of the butane-2,3-diol solvent molecule are situated on twofold rotation axes. The molecules of the complex and the solvent molecules are held together by pairs of symmetry-related O—H...O hydrogen bonds with the uncoordinated O atoms of the sulfate ions as acceptors. The solvent molecule is disordered over two sets of sites with site occupancies of 0.40 and 0.60.

  9. Disfunción ventricular izquierda subclínica en diabéticos tipo 1 con menos de 10 años de evolución de la diabetes Subclinical left ventricular dysfunction in type 1 diabetics with less than 10 years of evolution of diabetes

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    Manuel Licea Puig

    2001-04-01

    Full Text Available Se realizó un estudio transversal en 32 diabéticos tipo 1 con menos de 10 años de evolución de la enfermedad, edades entre 17 y 40 años, para conocer la frecuencia de disfunción ventricular izquierda (DVI subclínica y factores asociados a la misma. Se excluyeron los pacientes que presentaron valvulopatías, cardiopatía isquémica, hipertensión arterial y otras enfermedades que provocan miocardiopatías. Se les realizó una historia clínica completa y se les indicó: glucemia en ayunas, HbA1, colesterol total, triglicéridos totales, HDL-colesterol, excreción urinaria de albúmina (EUA, velocidad de conducción motora y sensitiva de los miembros inferiores, electrocardiograma y ecocardiograma modo M, bidimensional y con Doppler pulsado. Se adoptaron los criterios propuestos por la Sociedad Americana de Ecocardiografía para el diagnóstico ecocardiográfico de DVI. Se comprobó DVI en el 25 %. Las alteraciones estructurales cardíacas se observaron en el 6,2 %. La neuropatía periférica se presentó en 6 de 8 pacientes con DVI. Los niveles de EUA fueron significativamente mayores en los afectados de DVI (219,5 ± 170,2 mg/L vs. 66,9 ± 86,9 mg/L. En conclusión, se afirmó que la DVI es de observación relativamente frecuente en los diabéticos con menos de 10 años de evolución y los niveles de EUA pudieran constituir un marcador de riesgo para el desarrollo de esta complicación.A cross-sectional study in 32 type l diabetics aged 17-40 with less than 10 years of evolution of the disease was conducted to know the frequency of subclinical left ventricular dysfunction (LVD and its associated factors. Patients with valvulopathies, ischemic heart disease, arterial hypertension and other diseases causing myocardiopathies, were excluded. Complete medical histories were obtained and fasting glycemia, HbAl, total cholesterol, total triglycerides, HDL-cholesterol, urinary excretion of albumin (USA, velocity of motor and sensitive conduction

  10. Hormona luteinizante y actividad ovárica en respuesta a kisspeptina-10 y su asociación con IGF-1 y leptina en becerras pre-púberes

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    Rubén Santos Echeverría

    2014-01-01

    Full Text Available Se evaluó el efecto de la kisspeptina-10 (Kiss-10, administrada repetidamente, sobre la liberación de LH y la actividad ovárica en becerras pre-púberes. Asimismo, se determinó la asociación de IGF-1 y leptina s éricas con dichos efectos. Catorce (14 becerras Holstein o Suizo Pardo por Cebú (11.2±0.2 meses de edad; 187.4±6.3 kg de peso, se asignaron aleatoriamente para recibir cada dos horas, durante tres días una aplicación i.v. de Ki ss-10 (Kisspeptina- 1 0; 5 μg/kg de peso; n=7 o solución salina fisiológica (Testigo, n=7. Se colectó sangre cada 15 min de las 0-6, 24-30 y 72-78 h, y cada 2 h hasta las 84 h. Cada aplicación de Kiss-10 fue seguida de un incremento de LH, cuya magn itud (área bajo la curva disminuyó ( P 0.05, y ninguna becerra manifestó actividad ovárica cíclica. Se concluye que la Kiss-10 administrada repetidamente a becerras pre-púberes es un estímulo suficiente para evocar incr ementos consistentes de LH, para inducir la ovulación y actividad lútea en animales con concentraciones séri cas elevadas de IGF-1 y bajas de leptina, pero no para inducir la ciclicidad estral.

  11. Enhanced π-Back-Donation as a Way to Higher Coordination Numbers in d10 [M(NHC)n] Complexes: A DFT Study

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    Nitsch, J.; Wolters, L.P.; Fonseca Guerra, C.; Bickelhaupt, F.M.; Steffen, A.

    2016-01-01

    We aim to understand the electronic factors determining the stability and coordination number of d10 transition-metal complexes bearing N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) ligands, with a particular emphasis on higher coordinated species. In this DFT study on the formation and bonding of Group 9–12 d10

  12. Enhanced pi-Back-Donation as a Way to Higher Coordination Numbers in d10 [M(NHC)n] Complexes: A DFT Study

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    Nitsch, J.S.; Wolters, L.P.; Fonseca Guerra, C.; Bickelhaupt, F.M.; Steffen, A.

    2017-01-01

    We aim to understand the electronic factors determining the stability and coordination number of d10 transition-metal complexes bearing N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) ligands, with a particular emphasis on higher coordinated species. In this DFT study on the formation and bonding of Group 9–12 d10

  13. In situ crystallization of the linear alkynes CnH2n–2 (n = 7, 8, 9, 10)

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    Bond, Andrew; Davies, John E

    2014-01-01

    A manual in situ crystallization technique is described, for application on a κ-geometry area-detector instrument. The technique has been applied to grow crystals of some linear alkynes: 1-heptyne, 1-octyne, 1-nonyne and 1-decyne, Cn H2n–2 (n=7, 8, 9, 10). The structures with odd n (1-heptyne and 1...... 5.7×7.2 Å, identical to the layers present in the previously published structures of 1,7-octadiyne and 1,9-decadiyne. The structures differ where the methyl groups meet, giving systematically greater packing efficiency for 1-heptyne and 1-nonyne, compared to 1-octyne and 1-decyne. This systematic...

  14. Una variante del gen CAPN10 y los factores ambientales muestran asociación con el exceso de peso en jóvenes colombianos

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    Ana C. Orozco

    2014-12-01

    Full Text Available Introducción. La obesidad resulta de la interacción entre factores de riesgo genéticos y ambientales. Objetivo. Evaluar el efecto de tres variantes genéticas y factores ambientales en el exceso de peso en jóvenes de 10 a 18 años de Medellín, Colombia. Materiales y métodos. Se hizo un estudio transversal en 424 jóvenes divididos en tres grupos: 100 obesos, 112 jóvenes con sobrepeso, y, pareados con ellos, 212 jóvenes con peso adecuado, que conformaron el grupo de control. Se evaluó la asociación entre tres polimorfismos genéticos (UCP3-rs1800849, FTO-rs17817449 y CAPN10-rs3842570 y el exceso de peso, así como su interacción con antecedentes familiares de enfermedad, el tiempo dedicado a ver televisión y a jugar videojuegos y el consumo de alimentos. Resultados. Los antecedentes familiares de obesidad, la dedicación de más de dos horas al día a ver televisión y jugar videojuegos, la falta de lactancia materna, el bajo consumo de cereales, legumbres, frutas y verduras y el gran consumo de comidas rápidas fueron más frecuentes entre los obesos que en los controles. Se observó una asociación significativa entre el genotipo I/I (SNP19 del CAPN10 y el exceso de peso, incluso en los jóvenes que llevaban una vida activa. Además, se encontró una asociación significativa entre los genotipos C/C del UCP3 y G/G y T/T del FTO y el exceso de peso, pero solo en los jóvenes sedentarios. Conclusiones. En esta población, la alimentación inadecuada y el sedentarismo aumentaron el riesgo de exceso de peso. El genotipo I/I de SNP19 del CAPN10 se asoció significativamente con el exceso de peso. Algunas variantes del FTO y el UCP3 mostraron tener efecto solo en jóvenes sedentarios.

  15. Evaluación y estandarización del análisis por activación neutrónica según el método del k-sub cero en el reactor nuclear RP-10: Estudio preliminar empleando irradiaciones cortas

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    Montoya Rossi, Eduardo Haroldo

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    Se ha estandarizado una posición de irradiación del reactor nuclear RP-10 para el uso del análisis por activación neutrónica según el método del k sub cero, empleando la convención de Högdahl y se ha evaluado el comportamiento de dicho método respecto a la exactitud y precisión de los resultados obtenidos en el análisis multielemental cuantitativo de diversos materiales certificados de referencia. Para comprobar que el método analítico se encuentra totalmente bajo control estadístico, se ha e...

  16. Influência do nível de performance na estratégia de ritmo de corrida em prova de 10 km de corredores recreacionais

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    Francisco de Assis MANOEL

    2015-09-01

    Full Text Available ResumoO objetivo do estudo foi verificar a influência do nível de performance na estratégia de ritmo de corrida de corredores recreacionais. Adicionalmente, objetivou-se descrever o comportamento da frequência cardíaca (FC obtida em prova de 10 km em pista de atletismo. Participaram 39 corredores recreacionais (31,5 ± 6,7 anos, experientes em provas de 10 km que realizaram uma performance nesta distância em pista de atletismo (400 m. A FC foi constantemente monitorada (Polar RS800 e o tempo a cada 400 m foi registrado para determinação da velocidade média (VM, posteriormente analisada a cada 2 km. Os participantes foram divididos em dois grupos de acordo com a VM alcançada nos testes: G1 = VM 10 km ≤ 11,81 (n = 20 e G2 = VM 10 km > 11,81 (n = 19. A comparação entre os valores de VM e FC obtidos nos diferentes momentos da performance para os dois grupos foi realizada pela Anova mista, adotando-se nível de significância de p < 0,05. Os valores de VM foram diferentes entre os grupos em todos os momentos analisados, com aumento significante da VM do momento 6-8 km para 8-10 km para o mesmo grupo. Os valores de FC foram diferentes apenas intra-grupos. No G1, houve aumento significante da FC a cada 2 km de prova. Para o G2, a FC aumentou do 2º ao 4º km e permaneceu estável até o 8º km, aumentando novamente nos últimos 2 km da performance. Concluímos que o nível de performance não influencia a estratégia de corrida de corredores recreacionais.

  17. How much does PSA matter after 10 years? Outcomes in 10-year clinical NED survivors after definitive radiotherapy for T1-3N0M0 prostate cancer

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    Johnstone, Peter A. S.; Powell, Curt; Riffenburgh, Robert; Saunders, Eric L.; Bethel, Kelly J.; Huisman, Thomas

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    Objective: Institutional policy in the 1970's and 80's dictated that patients with potentially curable prostate cancer undergo PLND prior to definitive XRT. Our group has reported 80% 15-year actuarial cause-specific survival for the 147 patients so treated. Analysis was made of PSA values and clinical outcomes of patients who were clinically without evidence of disease (NED) 10 years after a negative staging pelvic lymphadenectomy and definitive radiation therapy (XRT) for prostate cancer. Materials and Methods: One hundred patients underwent staging pelvic lymphadenectomy between 11/1/74 and 1/1/86, of which 98 had pathologically negative lymph nodes (N 0 ). These patients subsequently underwent definitive radiotherapy; a median dose of 66.6 Gy (range 63-70.2 Gy) was delivered. Forty-two N 0 patients with sufficient follow-up were alive and clinically NED 10 years post-operatively. None of these patients had ever received hormonal therapy. Distribution by disease stage at diagnosis was: Stage A2: 12 pts; Stage B: 19 pts; Stage B2/ C: 6 pts; Stage C: 5 pts. Median follow-up was 12 years 4 months, with a minimum follow-up of 10 years. Results: Of the 42 NED survivors at 10 years, 5 pts died subsequently without PSA data, remaining clinically NED (median 13y 3m post-operatively); 37 patients were alive and without evidence of disease off all therapy at 10 years post-operatively. Most recent PSA data reveal: Bone scans were performed on the 8 patients with elevated PSA. These revealed a single patient with diffuse but asymptomatic bone metastases. Ultrasound-guided sextant biopsies were performed on one 78-year-old patient with elevated PSA 19 years post-operatively, revealing an asymptomatic local recurrence. Conclusions: Radiation therapy delivered to a surgically staged population of prostate cancer patients contributes to normalization of PSA in 78% ((29(37))) of patients with ≥10 year follow-up. Most of these patients will have PSA levels ≤ 1.5 ng/ml. More

  18. Boletín Oficial núm. 53

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    Contiene: Modificación de la normativa sobre el nombramiento de profesores eméritos en la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, aprobado por el Consejo de Gobierno en su sesión de 10 de julio de 2014. (p. 3) . -- Modificación de la normativa reguladora de los estudios con docencia en inglés y de matriculación y evaluación de los estudiantes en dichos estudios, aprobado por el Consejo de Gobierno en su sesión de 10 de julio de 2014. (pp. 3-4) . -- Reglamento del fondo de cooperación al desarrollo ...

  19. Generalización de la ecuación de transformación de fases al análisis de la cinética de cristalización no-isoterma. Aplicación a la aleación vítrea Cu0.10As0.40Se0.50

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    Jiménez-Garay, R.

    2000-08-01

    Full Text Available The techniques of differential thermal analysis are frequently employed to study the kinetics of the transformation reactions and, in particular, the crystallization of the glassy alloys. The corresponding thermal data can be analyzed by the Kissinger method, which was originally derived for the study of homogeneous reactions. The consensus in the literature, in several decades, was that such applications (i.e. to heterogeneous solid state transformations of the Kissinger method are not valid. In the present work the principal objections to the mentioned applications are addressed and alternative derivations of theoretical results are provided. These results demonstrate that the Kissinger method is valid for heterogeneous reactions of the type described by Johnson-Mehl-Avrami equation in the isothermal case. Also the isothermal and non-isothermal data on crystallization of the Cu0.10As0.40Se0.50 glassy alloy are given. The experimental results and the discussion carried out here, help to clarify the effects of incubation time in non-isothermal transformation kinetics and provide a further demonstration of validity of the generalized Johnson-Mehl-Avrami theory for the description of heterogeneous solid state transformations.Las técnicas de análisis térmico diferencial se emplean con frecuencia para estudiar la cinética de las reacciones de transformación y, en particular la de la cristalización de aleaciones vítreas. Los datos térmicos correspondientes pueden analizarse por el método de Kissinger, que se desarrolló originalmente para el estudio de reacciones homogéneas. Durante varias décadas, el consenso en la literatura fue que tales aplicaciones (es decir, a transformaciones heterogéneas de estado sólido del método de Kissinger no eran válidas. En el presente trabajo se señalan las principales objeciones a las aplicaciones mencionadas y se da una deducción alternativa de los resultados teóricos. Estos resultados demuestran

  20. The Kepler-10 planetary system revisited by HARPS-N: A hot rocky world and a solid Neptune-mass planet

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    Dumusque, Xavier; Buchhave, Lars A.; Latham, David W.; Charbonneau, David; Dressing, Courtney D.; Gettel, Sara; Lopez-Morales, Mercedes [Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 (United States); Bonomo, Aldo S. [INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino, via Osservatorio 20, I-10025 Pino Torinese (Italy); Haywood, Raphaëlle D.; Cameron, Andrew Collier; Horne, Keith [SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St. Andrews, North Haugh, St. Andrews Fife KY16 9SS (United Kingdom); Malavolta, Luca [Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia " Galileo Galilei," Universita' di Padova, Vicolo dell' Osservatorio 3, I-35122 Padova (Italy); Ségransan, Damien; Pepe, Francesco; Udry, Stéphane [Observatoire Astronomique de l' Université de Genève, 51 ch. des Maillettes, CH-1290 Versoix (Switzerland); Molinari, Emilio; Cosentino, Rosario; Fiorenzano, Aldo F. M.; Harutyunyan, Avet [INAF - Fundacin Galileo Galilei, Rambla Jos Ana Fernandez Prez 7, E-38712 Brea Baja (Spain); Figueira, Pedro, E-mail: xdumusque@cfa.harvard.edu [Centro de Astrofìsica, Universidade do Porto, Rua das Estrelas, 4150-762 Porto (Portugal); and others

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    Kepler-10b was the first rocky planet detected by the Kepler satellite and confirmed with radial velocity follow-up observations from Keck-HIRES. The mass of the planet was measured with a precision of around 30%, which was insufficient to constrain models of its internal structure and composition in detail. In addition to Kepler-10b, a second planet transiting the same star with a period of 45 days was statistically validated, but the radial velocities were only good enough to set an upper limit of 20 M{sub ⊕} for the mass of Kepler-10c. To improve the precision on the mass for planet b, the HARPS-N Collaboration decided to observe Kepler-10 intensively with the HARPS-N spectrograph on the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo on La Palma. In total, 148 high-quality radial-velocity measurements were obtained over two observing seasons. These new data allow us to improve the precision of the mass determination for Kepler-10b to 15%. With a mass of 3.33 ± 0.49 M{sub ⊕} and an updated radius of 1.47{sub −0.02}{sup +0.03} R{sub ⊕}, Kepler-10b has a density of 5.8 ± 0.8 g cm{sup –3}, very close to the value predicted by models with the same internal structure and composition as the Earth. We were also able to determine a mass for the 45-day period planet Kepler-10c, with an even better precision of 11%. With a mass of 17.2 ± 1.9 M{sub ⊕} and radius of 2.35{sub −0.04}{sup +0.09} R{sub ⊕}, Kepler-10c has a density of 7.1 ± 1.0 g cm{sup –3}. Kepler-10c appears to be the first strong evidence of a class of more massive solid planets with longer orbital periods.

  1. Lattice damage and compositional changes in Xe ion irradiated In{sub x}Ga{sub 1-x}N (x = 0.32−1.0) single crystals

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    Zhang, Limin, E-mail: zhanglm@lzu.edu.cn; Peng, Jinxin; Ai, Wensi; Zhang, Jiandong; Wang, Tieshan [School of Nuclear Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000 (China); Jiang, Weilin; Dissanayake, Amila; Zhu, Zihua; Shutthanandan, Vaithiyalingam [Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352 (United States)

    2016-06-28

    Lattice disorder and compositional changes in In{sub x}Ga{sub 1-x}N (x = 0.32, 0.47, 0.7, 0.8, and 1.0) films on GaN/Al{sub 2}O{sub 3} substrates, induced by room-temperature irradiation of 5 MeV Xe ions, have been investigated using both Rutherford backscattering spectrometry under ion-channeling conditions and time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry. The results show that for a fluence of 3 × 10{sup 13 }cm{sup −2}, the relative level of lattice disorder in In{sub x}Ga{sub 1-x}N increases monotonically from 59% to 90% with increasing indium concentration x from 0.32 to 0.7; a further increase in x up to 1.0 leads to little increase in the disorder level. In contrast to Ga-rich In{sub x}Ga{sub 1-x}N (x = 0.32 and 0.47), significant volume swelling of up to ∼25% accompanied with oxidation in In-rich In{sub x}Ga{sub 1-x}N (x = 0.7, 0.8, and 1.0) is observed. In addition, irradiation-induced atomic mixing occurs at the interface of In-rich In{sub x}Ga{sub 1-x}N and GaN. The results from this study indicate an extreme susceptibility of the high In-content In{sub x}Ga{sub 1-x}N to heavy-ion irradiation, and suggest that cautions must be exercised in applying ion-implantation techniques to these materials at room temperature. Further studies of the irradiation behavior at elevated temperatures are warranted.

  2. A chemical perspective of day and night tropical (10°N-15°N) mesospheric inversion layers

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    Ramesh, K.; Sridharan, S.; Raghunath, K.; Rao, S. Vijaya Bhaskara

    2017-03-01

    The various occurrence characteristics of day and night tropical (10°N-15°N, 60°E-90°E) mesospheric inversion layers (MILs) are studied by using TIMED Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband Emission Radiometry satellite data products of kinetic temperature; volume mixing ratios of O, H, and O3; volume emission rates of O2 (1Δ) and OH (1.6 µm channel), and chemical heating rates due to seven dominant exothermic reactions among H, O, O2, O3, OH, HO2, and CO2 cooling rates for the year 2011. Although both dynamics and chemistry play important roles, the present study mainly focuses on the chemical processes involved in the formation of day and night MILs. It is found that the upper level height of daytime (nighttime) MIL descends (ascends) from 88 km ( 80 km) in winter to 72 km ( 90 km) in summer. The day and night inversion amplitudes are correlated with total chemical heating rates and CO2 cooling rates, and they show semi annual variation with larger (smaller) values during equinoxes (solstices). The daytime (nighttime) inversion layers are predominantly due to the exothermic reaction, R5: O + O + M → O2 + M and R6: O + O2 + M → O3 + M (R3: H + O3 → OH + O2). In addition, the CO2 causes large cooling at the top and small heating at the bottom levels of both day and night MILs. In the absence of dynamical effects, the chemical heating and CO2 cooling jointly contribute for the occurrence of day and night MILs.

  3. Aprendiendo a ayudar a aprender: Historia de 10 años de formación de tutores de residentes en Galicia

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    J.A. Garrido-Sanjuán

    Full Text Available Introducción. La formación de los tutores de residentes se ha configurado como uno de los ejes sobre los que recae la calidad del proceso formativo de los especialistas sanitarios. Objetivo. Describir y analizar las características de las acciones de formación de tutores en los 10 últimos años en Galicia, como base del aprendizaje reflexivo para la mejora. Materiales y métodos. Revisión de los programas, contenidos, materiales utilizados, características y procedencia de los participantes, contenidos de los proyectos docentes elaborados y encuestas de valoración. Resultados. Se describen los datos de las 8 ediciones del 'curso de metodología docente y de evaluación para tutores'. Realizaron la formación 86 facultativos. La distribución de participantes por especialidades y áreas sanitarias no se corresponde con el peso de éstas en el sistema asistencial y docente. Las especialidades con más tutores participantes fueron Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria, Anestesiología y Obstetricia-Ginecología. Los 10 facultativos que participaron como docentes estaban en ese momento en ejercicio de su responsabilidad en formación de residentes. Entre los contenidos de los proyectos docentes desarrollados destacan cuantitativamente los dedicados a mejorar la organización de rotaciones o la adaptación de los programas de la especialidad a los centros o unidades, y los dedicados a la mejora metodológica del aprendizaje de habilidades. Se incorporaron nuevas herramientas de evaluación formativa aprendidas durante el curso a muchos de estos proyectos. En las encuestas de valoración final, el curso fue valorado satisfactoriamente por los alumnos, considerando que su contenido era útil para su actividad profesional. Conclusiones. El conocimiento de las áreas sanitarias y especialidades en que ha existido menos incorporación a esta formación permite tenerlo en cuenta a la hora de diseñar acciones futuras. El aprendizaje de nuevas

  4. The 10B(n,α)7Li reaction in PWR coolants: calculations of the effect on coolant pH and on decreases in 10B isotopic fractions

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    Polley, M.V.

    1988-07-01

    Boron is used as a chemical shim in PWRs for reactivity control and is added in the form of boric acid to the primary coolant. The 10 B(n,α) 7 Li reaction leads to a continuous increase in 7 Li in the primary coolant and to a continuous decrease in 10 B the isotope of boron responsible for control of reactivity. The rate of increase in coolant pH due to 7 Li production is calculated for the Sizewell 'B' PWR to enable judgements to be made on the frequency of sampling and removal of lithium required to maintain the pH of the primary coolant within the desired limits. Calculations are contrasted for the cases of natural boron and 100% 10 B chemical shims, for both a normal cycle and an extended 18 month cycle. Calculations of 10 B depletion over 30 years of operation as a function of the quantity of boron discharged to waste are also presented. 10 B isotopic fractions are calculated for the reactor coolant (RC), boric acid tanks (BATs) and refuelling water storage tank (RWST) assuming rapid mixing of BAT and RC boron for tritium control and other reasons. Such predictions enable assessments of the reactor physics implications of 10 B consumption to be made. (author)

  5. Low-dimensional compounds containing cyanide groups. XXV. Synthesis, spectroscopic properties and crystal structures of two ionic iron(II) complexes with tricyanomethanide: tris(1,10-phenanthroline-κ(2)N,N')iron(II) bis(tricyanomethanide) and tris(2,2'-bipyridine-κ(2)N,N')iron(II) bis(tricyanomethanide) sesquihydrate.

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    Potočňák, Ivan; Váhovská, Lucia; Herich, Peter

    2014-05-01

    Two new diamagnetic coordination compounds, [Fe(phen)3][C(CN)3]2, (I), and [Fe(bpy)3][C(CN)3]2·1.5H2O, (II), have been synthesized and characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis, and IR and UV-Vis spectroscopy (phen is 1,10-phenanthroline, C12H8N2, and bpy is 2,2'-bipyridine, C10H8N2). Both compounds are ionic with distorted octahedral [Fe(phen)3](2+) or [Fe(bpy)3](2+) complex cations, with average Fe-N distances of 1.977 (2) and 1.971 (3) Å, respectively, and two uncoordinated planar tricyanomethanide, or [C(CN)3](-), counter-anions balancing the positive charges of the cations. Solvent water molecules and tcm anions in (II) are linked via O-H...N hydrogen bonds into negatively charged layers and the interlayer space is filled by [Fe(bpy)3](2+) cations. The structures of (I) and (II) are stabilized by π-π interactions between the stacked aromatic rings of the phen ligands of two adjacent cations and by O-H...N hydrogen bonds, respectively, and also by π-π stacking interactions between phen and tcm units in (I).

  6. A fast chemoenzymatic synthesis of [11C]-N5,N10-methylenetetrahydrofolate as a potential PET tracer for proliferating cells

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    Saeed, Muhammad; Tewson, Timothy J.; Erdahl, Colbin E.; Kohen, Amnon

    2012-01-01

    Introduction: Thymidylate synthase and folate receptors are well-developed targets of cancer therapy. Discovery of a simple and fast method for the conversion of 11 CH 3 Ito[ 11 C]-formaldehyde ( 11 CH 2 O) encouraged us to label the co-factor of this enzyme. Preliminary studies conducted on cell lines have demonstrated a preferential uptake of [11- 14 C]-(R)-N 5 ,N 10 -methylene-5,6,7,8-tetrahydrofolate ( 14 CH 2 H 4 folate) by cancerous cell vs. normal cells from the same organ (Saeed M., Sheff D. and Kohen A. Novel positron emission tomography tracer distinguishes normal from cancerous cells. J Biol Chem 2011;286:33872–33878), pointing out 11 CH 2 H 4 folate as a positron emission tomography (PET) tracer for cancer imaging. Herein we report the synthesis of 11 CH 2 H 4 folate, which may serve as a potential PET tracer. Methods: In a remotely controlled module, methyl iodide ( 11 CH 3 I) was bubbled into a reaction vial containing trimethylamine N-oxide in N,N-Dimethylformamide (DMF) and heated to 70°C for 2 min. Formaldehyde ( 11 CH 2 O) formed after the completion of reaction was then mixed with a solution of freshly prepared tetrahydrofolate (H 4 folate) by using a fast chemoenzymatic approach to accomplish synthesis of 11 CH 2 H 4 folate. Purification of the product was carried out by loading the crude reaction mixture on a SAX cartridge, washing with water to remove unbound impurities and finally eluting with a saline solution. Results: The synthesis and purification of 11 CH 2 H 4 folate were completed within 5 min. High-performance liquid chromatography analysis of the product after SAX purification indicates that more than 90% of the radioactivity that was retained on the SAX cartridge was in 11 CH 2 H 4 folate, with minor ( 11 CH 2 O. Conclusion: We present a fast (∼5 min) synthesis and purification of 11 CH 2 H 4 folate as a potential PET tracer. The final product is received in physiologically compatible buffer (100 mM sodium phosphate, pH 7

  7. Design Concept of a Seal-off Type 14 MeV Neutron Generator of 10''1''1n/s Range

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    In, S. R.; Oh, B. H. [KAERI, Daejeon (Korea, Republic of)

    2015-05-15

    The total neutron fluence during the life time is expected to be around 10MW·yr/m''2 which may cause a damage of -100 dpa in materials. To estimate the adaptability of candidate materials in a few years, a 14MeV neutron source with a flux level of 3 - 5 x 10''1''8 n/s·m''2, which is the goal of the IFMIF facility costing more than ¤1000M, is necessitated. The problem in making an intense neutron generator of beam target type is really not on the neutron production rate, but on the huge heat generated in the target, because the fusion power is only one of thousands of beam power exerted on the target. We have a plan to develop neutron generators step by step from a 10''8 n/s level. The final goal is establishing a 14MeV neutron irradiation facility at 10''1''4 intensity level.. Up to the 10''1''0 n/s level, there occurs basically no critical thermal problem, because beam power density is in the range of tens W/cm''2. The neutron generator designed in a sealed-off type because of tritium safety is mainly composed of an ion source, target, reaction chamber, and getter pump.. The major design concepts for the neutron generator with the neutron production rate of 10''1''1 n/s range were presented. The specifications of the ion source, target and getter have been determined for attaining the goal of the neutron generation rate.

  8. Solution processed white light photodetector based N, N′-di (2-ethylhexyl)-3,4,9,10-perylene diimide thin film phototransistor

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    Tozlu, Cem, E-mail: tozlu.cem@gmail.com [Department of Energy System Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University, 70100 Karaman (Turkey); Kus, Mahmut [Department of Chemical Engineering, Selcuk University, Konya 42075 (Turkey); Advanced Technology Research and Application Center, Selcuk University, Konya 42075 (Turkey); Can, Mustafa [Department of Engineering Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, Izmir Katip Celebi University, Cigli, 35620 Izmir (Turkey); Ersöz, Mustafa [Advanced Technology Research and Application Center, Selcuk University, Konya 42075 (Turkey); Department of Chemistry, Selcuk University, Konya 42075 (Turkey)

    2014-10-31

    In this study, a solution-processed n-type photo-sensing organic thin film transistor was investigated using polymeric dielectric under different white light illuminations. N, N′-di (2-ethylhexyl)-3,4,9,10-perylene diimide and divinyl tetramethyl disiloxane-bis (benzo-cyclobutene) were used as a soluble active organic semiconductor and as a dielectric material, respectively. Stable amplification was observed in the visible region without gate bias by the device. The electrical characterization results showed that an n-type phototransistor with a saturated electron mobility of 0.6 × 10{sup −3} cm{sup 2}/V·s and a threshold voltage of 1.8 V was obtained. The charge carrier density of the channel of the device exhibited photo-induced behaviors that strongly affected the electrical properties of the transistor. The photosensitivity and photoresponsivity values of the device were 63.82 and 24 mA/W, respectively. These findings indicate that perylene diimide is a promising material for use on organic based phototransistors. - Highlights: • A solution processed n-type organic phototransistor was fabricated. • The geometry of device allows to be used double sided photo-sensor to detect light. • The accumulation of charge carrier is effected strongly by illumination intensity. • The current amplification was observed clearly under illumination without gate bias.

  9. Inflammatory fibroid polyp of the gastrointestinal tract: 10 years of experience at the Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán.

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    Romano-Munive, A F; Barreto-Zuñiga, R; Rumoroso-García, J A; Ramos-Martínez, P

    2016-01-01

    Inflammatory fibroid polyp (lFP) is a rare, benign, and solitary neoplasm predominantly located in the gastric antrum and small bowel. Its clinical symptoms are heterogeneous and essentially depend on the location and size of the tumor. Definitive diagnosis is made through histopathology and this pathology has excellent long-term prognosis. To identify the cases of IFP seen at the Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán over a 10-year period. A retrospective, cross-sectional, descriptive, and observational study was conducted that included patients with histopathologic diagnosis of IFP within the time frame of January 2001 and December 2011. Six cases were found and 5/6 (83.3%) of them were women. The median age was 41 years (minimum-maximum range of 19-56 years). The most frequent symptoms were weight loss (n=3), fever (n=2), nausea (n=2), and vomiting (n=2). Three patients presented with iron deficiency anemia and 2 cases with intussusception. The IFPs were located at the following sites: esophagus (n=1), stomach (n=2), small bowel (n=2), and colon (n=1). Treatment was surgical in 5/6 (83.3%) of the patients. IFPs are extremely rare in our population. They usually present with weight loss and iron deficiency anemia and are more frequently located in the stomach and small bowel. This is the largest reported IFP case series in a Mexican population. Copyright © 2016 Asociación Mexicana de Gastroenterología. Publicado por Masson Doyma México S.A. All rights reserved.

  10. Comparison of trap characteristics between AlGaN/GaN and AlGaN/InGaN/GaN heterostructure by frequency dependent conductance measurement

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    Chakraborty, Apurba; Biswas, Dhrubes

    2015-01-01

    Frequency dependent conductance measurement is carried out to observe the trapping effect in AlGaN/InGaN/GaN double heterostructure and compared that with conventional AlGaN/GaN single heterostructure. It is found that the AlGaN/InGaN/GaN diode structure does not show any trapping effect, whereas single heterostructure AlGaN/GaN diode suffers from two kinds of trap energy states in near depletion to higher negative voltage bias region. This conductance behaviour of AlGaN/InGaN/GaN heterostructure is owing to more Fermi energy level shift from trap energy states at AlGaN/InGaN junction compare to single AlGaN/GaN heterostructure and eliminates the trapping effects. Analysis yielded interface trap energy state in AlGaN/GaN is to be with time constant of (33.8–76.5) μs and trap density of (2.38–0.656) × 10 12  eV −1  cm −2 in −3.2 to −4.8 V bias region, whereas for AlGaN/InGaN/GaN structure no interface energy states are found and the extracted surface trap energy concentrations and time constants are (5.87–4.39) ×10 10  eV −1  cm −2 and (17.8–11.3) μs, respectively, in bias range of −0.8–0.0 V

  11. Multiple anion...π interactions in tris(1,10-phenanthroline-κ(2)N,N')iron(II) bis[1,1,3,3-tetracyano-2-(2-hydroxyethyl)propenide] monohydrate.

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    Setifi, Zouaoui; Domasevitch, Konstantin V; Setifi, Fatima; Mach, Pavel; Ng, Seik Weng; Petříček, Vaclav; Dušek, Michal

    2013-11-01

    In the ionic structure of the title compound, [Fe(C12H8N2)3](C9H5N4O2)2·H2O, the octahedral tris-chelate [Fe(phen)3](2+) dications [Fe-N = 1.9647 (14)-1.9769 (14) Å; phen is 1,10-phenathroline] afford one-dimensional chains by a series of slipped π-π stacking interactions [centroid-to-centroid distances = 3.792 (3) and 3.939 (3) Å]. The 1,1,3,3-tetracyano-2-(2-hydroxyethyl)propenide anions, denoted tcnoetOH(-), reveal an appreciable delocalization of π-electron density, involving the central propenide [C-C = 1.383 (3)-1.401 (2) Å] fragment and four nitrile groups, and this is also supported by density functional theory (DFT) calculations at the B97D/6-311+G(2d,2p) level. Primary noncovalent inter-moiety interactions comprise conventional O-H...O(N) and weak C-H...O(N) hydrogen bonding [O...O(N) = 2.833 (2)-3.289 (5) Å and C...O(N) = 3.132 (2)-3.439 (2) Å]. The double anion...π interaction involving a nitrile group of tcnoetOH(-) and two cis-positioned pyridine rings (`π-pocket') of [Fe(phen)3](2+) [N...centroid = 3.212 (2) and 3.418 (2) Å] suggest the relevance of anion...π stackings for charge-diffuse polycyanoanions and common M-chelate species.

  12. 100 keV 10-B+ implantation into poly-(di-n-hexyl silane), (PDHSi)

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    Fink, D.; Mueller, M.; Behar, M.; Papaleo, R.M.

    2006-01-01

    100 keV 10 B + ions were implanted into poly-(di-n-hexyl silane) in different directions at a fluence of 1 x 10 14 cm -2 , and their depth distribution was determined by means of the neutron depth profiling technique. In no case were the projectile ions found to come to rest according to their predicted range profiles. Instead, they are always found to undergo considerable long-range migration. During the irradiation process this motion appears to be radiation-enhanced, and during the subsequent annealing steps one appears to deal with regular thermal diffusion. The implant redistribution is always found to be governed strongly by the self-created damage, insofar as both electronic and nuclear defects in the polymer act as trapping centers. Their population ratio is modified by thermal annealing. The as-implanted redistribution shows a pronounced directional dependence, which essentially is a consequence of the spatial distributions of the electronic and nuclear damage. The changes of the nuclear defect distribution during thermal annealing are studied by a specially developed tomographic method. It is found that boron is preferentially trapped along the irradiation direction, exhibiting quite pronounced prolate (i.e. cigar-like) distributions. This shape is almost unaffected by thermal annealing. (orig.)

  13. Adsorption behavior and electronic properties of Pdn (n10) clusters on silicon carbide nanotubes: a first-principles study

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    Wang Jianguang; Ma Li; Wang Guanghou

    2013-01-01

    First-principles calculations have been carried out to investigate the adsorption of Pd n (n10) clusters on the single-walled (8, 0) and (5, 5) SiC nanotubes (SiCNTs). We find that the Pd n clusters can be stably adsorbed on the outer surfaces of both SiCNTs through an exothermic adsorption process. The adsorption energies of the Pd n clusters on the (8, 0) SiCNT are generally larger than those of clusters on the (5, 5) SiCNT. The number of bonds between the Pd n clusters and the SiCNTs increases with increasing cluster size. The Pd atoms adjacent to the SiCNTs adsorb preferentially on the bridge sites over an axial Si–C bond. The adsorption leads to elongation of the Pd–Pd bond lengths and structural reconstruction for the Pd n clusters. Moreover, the adsorbed Pd n clusters show two-layered structures at the cluster size n ≥ 4. We also find that the adsorbed Pd n clusters induce some impurity states within the band gap of the pristine SiCNTs and the strong pd hybridization near the Fermi level, thereby reducing the band gap. The charge transfer from the SiCNTs to the Pd atoms that occurs is observed for all the systems considered. Due to the strong interactions between the Pd n clusters and the SiCNTs, most adsorbed Pd n clusters exhibit zero magnetic moment. (paper)

  14. Tris(1,10-phenanthroline-κ2N,N′nickel(II dinitrate tetrahydrate

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    Masoumeh Tabatabaee

    2011-12-01

    Full Text Available In the title complex, [Ni(C12H8N23](NO32·4H2O, the NiII ion is octahedrally coordinated by three bidentate 1,10-phenanthroline ligands, each forming a five-membered chelate ring. In the crystal, O—H...O and C—H...O hydrogen bonds are present between the complex cations, nitrate anions and water molecules. O—H...O hydrogen bonds between the uncoordinated water molecules lead to the formation of a four-membered ring water cluster, with a planar configuration. There were an additional five grossly disordered water molecules in the asymmetric unit, which were removed by the subroutine SQUEEZE; these were were excluded in the calculation of the molecular weight, etc. π–π stacking interactions between the aromatic rings are also observed [centroid–centroid distances = 3.697 (2, 3.728 (2 and 3.761 (2 Å].

  15. Cinética de engrosamiento de precipitados coherentes en la aleación Fe-10 % Ni-15 % Al

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    Cayetano-Castro, N.

    2008-04-01

    Full Text Available The coarsening kinetics and the morphology evolution of the coherent β’ (Fe, NiAl precipitates embedded in a ferritic matrix were studied in the aged Fe-10 % Ni-15 % Al alloy. Samples were solution treated at 1,100°C for 24 h and subsequently aged at 750, 850 and 920 °C for different times. XRD, SEM and TEM results showed the following decomposition reaction after aging treatment, αsss → α + β. Intragranular particles distribution changes from a random to an aligned on the elastically soft <100> crystallographic directions of the matrix. Additionally, the morphological evolution of the precipitates was as follows: spheres → cuboids → parallelepipeds → plates. The variation of the cube of mean radius of particles, r3, and the particle density as a function of time followed a linear relationship, as predicted by the Lifshitz, Slyosov and Wagner (LSW theory for diffusion-controlled coarsening. The rate constant (K increased with the aging temperature. The activation energy for coarsening process was determined to be about of 220 kJ/mol.

    La cinética de engrosamiento y la evolución morfológica de precipitados coherentes β’ (Fe, NiAl en una matriz ferrítica se estudió en la aleación Fe-10 % Ni-15 % Al. Se solubilizaron muestras a 1.100 °C por 24, y posteriormente, se envejecieron a 750, 850 y 920 °C por diferentes tiempos. Los resultados de DRX, MEB y MET mostraron la descomposición, αsss → α + β, durante su envejecido. La distribución de precipitados dentro del grano cambia, gradualmente, de aleatoria a un alineamiento preferencial sobre las direcciones cristalográficas <100> de la matriz. Asimismo, la evolución morfológica de los precipitados fue: esféricos → cúbicos → paralelepípedos → placas. La variación del tamaño de partícula, r3, y la densidad de precipitados en función del tiempo se comportan linealmente, como lo predice la teoría de Lifshitz

  16. Bilayer tablets of Paliperidone for Extended release osmotic drug delivery

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    Chowdary, K. Sunil; Napoleon, A. A.

    2017-11-01

    The purpose of this study is to develop and optimize the formulation of paliperidone bilayer tablet core and coating which should meet in vitro performance of trilayered Innovator sample Invega. Optimization of core formulations prepared by different ratio of polyox grades and optimization of coating of (i) sub-coating build-up with hydroxy ethyl cellulose (HEC) and (ii).enteric coating build-up with cellulose acetate (CA). Some important influence factors such as different core tablet compositions and different coating solution ingredients involved in the formulation procedure were investigated. The optimization of formulation and process was conducted by comparing different in vitro release behaviours of Paliperidone. In vitro dissolution studies of Innovator sample (Invega) with formulations of different release rate which ever close release pattern during the whole 24 h test is finalized.

  17. Evaluación del consumo de los combustibles (GM, E-10 y GNC en un vehículo de combustión interna de servicio público en la ciudad de Cali - Colombia

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    Luis Felipe Granada Aguirre

    2006-01-01

    Full Text Available En este documento se muestran los rendimientos (consumo de combustible obtenidos por un vehículo de combustión interna de servicio público que fue adaptado para funcionar con diferentes tipos de combustibles como Gasolina Motor (GM, mezcla de GM con 10% de etanol (E-10 y Gas Natural Comprimido (GNC. El vehículo utilizado fue un HYUNDAI ATOS modelo 2005, motor 1000 cc, conducido por un adulto de 23 años de edad. El periodo de evaluación fue entre junio 13 de 2005 y abril 13 de 2006.

  18. Design of a high charge (10 - 100 nC) and short pulse (2 - 5 ps) rf photocathode gun for wakefield acceleration

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    Gai, W.

    1998-01-01

    In this paper we present a design report on a 1-1/2 cell, L Band RF photocathode gun that is capable of generating and accelerating electron beams with peak currents >10 kA. We have performed simulation for bunch intensities in the range of 10-100 nC with peak axial electrical field at the photocathode of 30-100 MV/m. Unlike conventional short electron pulse generation, this design does not require magnetic pulse compression. Based on numerical simulations using SUPERFISH and PARMELA, this design will produce 20-100 nC beam at 18 MeV with rms bunch length 0.6-1.25 mm and normalized transverse emittance 30-108 mm mrad. Applications of this beam for wakefield acceleration is also discussed

  19. Construcción y validación de un instrumento exploratorio que haga parte del proceso de evaluación del Trastorno por Déficit de Atención con Hiperactividad en niños de las edades de 7 a 10 años de la población de Tunja

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    Sotomonte Ariza, Sonia Marcela; Jiménez Mendoza, Gina Lorena; Cárdenas Niño, Lucila

    2011-01-01

    El propósito de esta investigación de tipo tecnológica psicométrica, fue construir y validar un instrumento que hiciera parte del proceso exploratorio del trastorno por déficit de atención con hiperactividad (TDAH) llamada Escala del Trastorno por Déficit de Atención con Hiperactividad (ETDAH). La muestra estuvo conformada por padres y maestros de 315 niños de 7 a 10 años de seis colegios de Tunja. El instrumento comprendió una escala para padres con una confiabilidad de 0,93, una validez de ...

  20. El dolor de espalda como lesión deportiva en jóvenes de 10-12 años

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    Josep Vidal-Conti

    2014-01-01

    Full Text Available El objetivo de esta investigación es analizar la incidencia de dolor de espalda en jóvenes de entre 10 y 12 años en función de si practican o no algún deporte, cuál practican, con qué frecuencia, y las posibles diferencias entre género. El estudio se llevó a cabo en 2270 escolares (1214 niños y 1056 niñas de 10-12 años de Mallorca. La muestra se obtuvo por conglomerados (centros escolares por muestreo intencional. El cuestionario y la metodología de recogida de datos fueron previamente validados mediante el método test-retest. Los resultados obtenidos muestran que la existencia de dolor de espalda fue del 38.3% (34.5% en niños y 42.8% en niñas. Existe una relación significativa entre dolor de espalda y practicar deporte o no, en niños positiva y en niñas negativa, pudiendo ser explicado por las diferencias del tipo de deportes practicados según el género. Los mayores índices de incidencia de dolor de espalda aparecen entre los que practican voleibol, gimnasia deportiva y natación más de 4 horas semanales, y los que practican gimnasia rítmica. Este estudio sugiere, a partir de los resultados obtenidos, que el dolor de espalda es un mal que afecta de manera importante a la población juvenil, en especial al género femenino, y que el tipo de deporte practicado, así como su frecuencia, es determinante a la hora de definir si un deporte puede ser o no un factor de riesgo asociado al dolor de espalda.

  1. 77 FR 72439 - Residential, Business, and Wind and Solar Resource Leases on Indian Land

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    2012-12-05

    ... to streamline and expedite the leasing process, advance economic development, and spur renewable... entities; however, many tribes requested clarification regarding other taxation arising in the context of... residential, business, and WSR leasing subparts to subpart A. This section now addresses not only taxation of...

  2. Weighted Sum-Rate Maximization Using Weighted MMSE for MIMO-BC Beamforming Design

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    Christensen, Søren; De Carvalho, Elisabeth; Agarwal, Rajiv

    2009-01-01

    This paper studies linear transmit filter design for weighted sum-rate (WSR) maximization in the multiple input multiple output broadcast channel (MIMO-BC). The problem of finding the optimal transmit filter is non-convex and intractable to solve using low complexity methods. Motivated by recent ...

  3. Electron density and currents of AlN/GaN high electron mobility transistors with thin GaN/AlN buffer layer

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    Bairamis, A.; Zervos, Ch.; Georgakilas, A., E-mail: alexandr@physics.uoc.gr [Microelectronics Research Group, IESL, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), P.O. Box 1385, GR-71110 Heraklion, Crete (Greece); Department of Physics, University of Crete, P.O. Box 2208, GR-71003 Heraklion, Crete (Greece); Adikimenakis, A.; Kostopoulos, A.; Kayambaki, M.; Tsagaraki, K.; Konstantinidis, G. [Microelectronics Research Group, IESL, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), P.O. Box 1385, GR-71110 Heraklion, Crete (Greece)

    2014-09-15

    AlN/GaN high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) structures with thin GaN/AlN buffer layer have been analyzed theoretically and experimentally, and the effects of the AlN barrier and GaN buffer layer thicknesses on two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) density and transport properties have been evaluated. HEMT structures consisting of [300 nm GaN/ 200 nm AlN] buffer layer on sapphire were grown by plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy and exhibited a remarkable agreement with the theoretical calculations, suggesting a negligible influence of the crystalline defects that increase near the heteroepitaxial interface. The 2DEG density varied from 6.8 × 10{sup 12} to 2.1 × 10{sup 13} cm{sup −2} as the AlN barrier thickness increased from 2.2 to 4.5 nm, while a 4.5 nm AlN barrier would result to 3.1 × 10{sup 13} cm{sup −2} on a GaN buffer layer. The 3.0 nm AlN barrier structure exhibited the highest 2DEG mobility of 900 cm{sup 2}/Vs for a density of 1.3 × 10{sup 13} cm{sup −2}. The results were also confirmed by the performance of 1 μm gate-length transistors. The scaling of AlN barrier thickness from 1.5 nm to 4.5 nm could modify the drain-source saturation current, for zero gate-source voltage, from zero (normally off condition) to 0.63 A/mm. The maximum drain-source current was 1.1 A/mm for AlN barrier thickness of 3.0 nm and 3.7 nm, and the maximum extrinsic transconductance was 320 mS/mm for 3.0 nm AlN barrier.

  4. Electron density and currents of AlN/GaN high electron mobility transistors with thin GaN/AlN buffer layer

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    Bairamis, A.; Zervos, Ch.; Georgakilas, A.; Adikimenakis, A.; Kostopoulos, A.; Kayambaki, M.; Tsagaraki, K.; Konstantinidis, G.

    2014-01-01

    AlN/GaN high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) structures with thin GaN/AlN buffer layer have been analyzed theoretically and experimentally, and the effects of the AlN barrier and GaN buffer layer thicknesses on two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) density and transport properties have been evaluated. HEMT structures consisting of [300 nm GaN/ 200 nm AlN] buffer layer on sapphire were grown by plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy and exhibited a remarkable agreement with the theoretical calculations, suggesting a negligible influence of the crystalline defects that increase near the heteroepitaxial interface. The 2DEG density varied from 6.8 × 10 12 to 2.1 × 10 13 cm −2 as the AlN barrier thickness increased from 2.2 to 4.5 nm, while a 4.5 nm AlN barrier would result to 3.1 × 10 13 cm −2 on a GaN buffer layer. The 3.0 nm AlN barrier structure exhibited the highest 2DEG mobility of 900 cm 2 /Vs for a density of 1.3 × 10 13 cm −2 . The results were also confirmed by the performance of 1 μm gate-length transistors. The scaling of AlN barrier thickness from 1.5 nm to 4.5 nm could modify the drain-source saturation current, for zero gate-source voltage, from zero (normally off condition) to 0.63 A/mm. The maximum drain-source current was 1.1 A/mm for AlN barrier thickness of 3.0 nm and 3.7 nm, and the maximum extrinsic transconductance was 320 mS/mm for 3.0 nm AlN barrier.

  5. Caracterización metálica de material particulado PM10 en la atmósfera de Fonseca, La Guajira, Colombia

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    2017-01-01

    Teniendo en cuenta  la importancia del efecto sobre la salud de las partículas inhalables PM10 y los metales asociados a ellas, se evaluaron los niveles de  metales: Al, Cr, V, As, Se, Na, K, Mg, Ca, Bi, Fe, Hg y Pb, generados por fuentes naturales como el aerosol marino y la re-suspensión del suelo; y de fuentes antropogénicas como las actividades mineras de carbón y la circulación vehicular, en Fonseca, La Guajira, Colombia, Las muestras fueron colectadas en dos sitios cercanos al complejo ...

  6. Validación de método analítico para el control de la calidad de vitamina B12 10 000 inyección Validation of analytical method for quality control of B12 Vitamin-10 000 injection

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    Martha Botet García

    2009-12-01

    Full Text Available Se validó el método analítico reportado en la Farmacopea de los Estados Unidos, para el control de la calidad de vitamina B12 10 000 U (cianocobalamina inyectable, por espectrofotometría ultravioleta, por ser este un método más sencillo, económico y que permite controlar la calidad del producto terminado. La curva de calibración se realizó en el intervalo de 60 al 140 %, donde fue lineal con un coeficiente de correlación igual a 0,9999; la prueba estadística para el intercepto y la pendiente se consideró no significativa. Se obtuvo un recobrado del 99,97 % en el intervalo de concentraciones estudiado, y las pruebas de Cochran (G y Student (t resultaron no significativas. El coeficiente de variación en el estudio de la repetibilidad fue igual a 0,59 % para las 6 réplicas ensayadas, mientras que en los análisis de la precisión intermedia las pruebas de Fischer y Student no significativas. El método analítico resultó lineal, preciso, específico y exacto en el intervalo de concentraciones estudiadas.Analytical method reported by USA Pharmacopeia was validated for quality control of injectable B12 Vitamin (10 000 U by UV spectrophotometry because this is a simpler and low-cost method allowing quality control of finished product. Calibration curve was graphed at 60 to 140 % interval, where it was linear with a correlation coefficient similar to 0, 9999; statistical test for interception and slope was considered non-significant. There was a recovery of 99.7 % in study concentrations interval where the Cochran (G and Student(t test were not significant too. Variation coefficient in repetition study was similar to 0.59 % for the 6 assayed replies, whereas in intermediate precision analysis, the Fisher and Student tests were not significant. Analytical method was linear, precise, specific and exact in study concentrations interval.

  7. The 1H(t,n)3He reaction as monoenergetic neutron source in the (10/20) MeV energy interval

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    Zago, G.

    1981-01-01

    The 1 H(t,n) 3 He reaction, considered as a neutron source in the (10/20) MeV energy interval, is a ''white'' neutron source having intensity, mean energy, and directionality which may prove advantageous in technological and biomedical researches. (author)

  8. GESTIÓN FINANCIERA Y LEGITIMIDAD MUNICIPAL [doi: 10.5329/RECADM.20040302005

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    Edmundo Hernández Claro

    2004-11-01

    Full Text Available Normal 0 21 false false false PT-BR X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 RESUMEN A partir de los abusos que las autoridades municipales han hecho de los recursos públicos a su disposición, especialmente en el rubro de remuneraciones y compensaciones, el artículo sugiere que los gobiernos municipales enfrentan um deterioro en sus niveles de legitimidad. Destacando que el caso afecta en mayor medida a los municipios metropolitanos. Se sugiere trabajar tanto en mejores medidas de fiscalización, como en los ajustes institucionales que requieren las grandes concentraciones urbanas. Palavras chave: Eficacia, eficiencia, gasto público, gestión, inversión municipal, legitimidad, impuesto predial, nómina, recaudación, remuneraciones, sistemas complejos     ABSTRACT Since of the excess by the municipal authorities about the use of public resources, in reference to the remunerations, the article suggest that municipal government are facing a crisis in its levels of legitimacy. I suggest work in the improvement of the actions of supervision, and instutional adjusts, mainly for big urban concentrations. Key words: Efficiency, efficacy, complex system, public expenditure, management, municipal investment, legitimacy, payroll, tax

  9. Influence of He-ion irradiation on the characteristics of Pd/n-Si{sub 0.90}Ge{sub 0.10}/Si Schottky contacts

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    Mamor, M; Sellai, A; Bouziane, K; Harthi, S H Al; Busaidi, M Al; Gard, F S [Physics Department, Sultan Qaboos University, PO Box 36 Muscat 123, Sultanate of (Oman)

    2007-03-07

    Current-voltage (I-V) and capacitance-voltage (C-V) characteristics of He-ion irradiated Pd/n-Si{sub 09}Ge{sub 0.10} Schottky contacts have been measured in the temperature range from 100 to 300 K. Schottky barrier properties such as the Schottky barrier height ({phi}{sub bn}) and ideality factor (n) have been studied as a function of temperature. The degree to which their characteristics deviated from the ideal case increased as the temperature decreased. A decrease in {phi}{sub bn} and an increase in n with decreasing temperature are observed. Additionally, linear dependence between the so-called temperature factor T{sub 0} and temperature as well as between {phi}{sub bn} and n are shown. This type of strong temperature dependence indicates the presence of a large degree of lateral inhomogeneities of the barrier height, resulting from the He-ion irradiation induced defects and traps which produce a variation in the number of free carriers. The presence of electrically active defects introduced by He-ion irradiation at and below the Si{sub 0.90}Ge{sub 0.10} surface support this interpretation.

  10. Em torno da questão da verdade (On the question of the truth - DOI: 10.5752/P.2175-5841.2012v10n25p12

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    Antonio Manzatto

    2012-03-01

    Full Text Available A questão sobre a verdade, se não for bem colocada, pode dificultar o encontro e o diálogo entre teologia e literatura. A elaboração da ficção não é necessariamente distanciamento da verdade, nem o discurso teológico é o único verdadeiro. A metafísica tradicional já afirmava o belo e o verdadeiro como transcendentais. Hoje, mesmo em ciências, debate-se sobre a compreensão da verdade uma vez que tal conceito não é simples nem unívoco. Reconhecendo que há diversas ordens de verdade e diferentes caminhos para atingi-la, o texto enfoca as distintas maneiras de se colocar o problema da verdade em literatura e em teologia, mas de maneira a facilitar um real diálogo entre elas mostrando, por uma rápida referência aos estudos bíblicos, que tal diálogo é possível e mesmo desejável. Ali, não há que se opor, por exemplo, a verdade histórica à verdade literária, que é aquela apresentada pelo texto, mas busca-se alcançar a “verdade de salvação”, aquela que vai se relacionar de maneira mais direta com a fé.Palavras-Chave: Verdade. Teologia e Literatura. Narração. Estética. História.  AbstractThe question about the truth becomes difficult the dialogue between theology and literature. The development of fiction does not mean a separation of the truth.  In turn, the theological discourse is not the only true. Traditional metaphysics has already affirmed the beautiful and the true as a transcendental. Nowadays, even in science, there is a debate about the understanding of the truth since this concept is not simple, nor univocal. The text recognizes that there are several orders of truth and also different ways to achieve it. In other words, the paper looks at different ways of putting the question of truth in literature and in theology, aiming to facilitate the dialogue between them.Keywords: Truth. Theology and Literature. Narration. Aesthetics. History.- DOI: 10.5752/P.2175-5841.2012v10n25p12

  11. Probing structure, thermochemistry, electron affinity, and magnetic moment of thulium-doped silicon clusters TmSi n (n = 3-10) and their anions with density functional theory.

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    Huang, Xintao; Yang, Jucai

    2017-12-26

    The most stable structures and electronic properties of TmSi n (n = 3-10) clusters and their anions have been probed by using the ABCluster global search technique combined with the PBE, TPSSh, and B3LYP density functional methods. The results revealed that the most stable structures of neutral TmSi n and their anions can be regarded as substituting a Si atom of the ground state structure of Si n + 1 with a Tm atom. The reliable AEAs, VDEs and simulated PES of TmSi n (n = 3-10) are presented. Calculations of HOMO-LUMO gap revealed that introducing Tm atom to Si cluster can improve photochemical reactivity of the cluster. The NPA analyses indicated that the 4f electron of Tm atom in TmSi n (n = 3-10) and their anions do not participate in bonding. The total magnetic moments of TmSi n are mainly provided by the 4f electrons of Tm atom. The dissociation energy of Tm atom from the most stable structure of TmSi n and their anions has been calculated to examine relative stability.

  12. Mercury(II) selective sensors based on AlGaN/GaN transistors

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    Asadnia, Mohsen; Myers, Matthew; Akhavan, N.D.; O'Donnell, Kane; Umana-Membreno, Gilberto A.; Mishra, U.K.; Nener, Brett; Baker, Murray; Parish, Giacinta

    2016-01-01

    This work presents the first polymer approach to detect metal ions using AlGaN/GaN transistor-based sensor. The sensor utilised an AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistor-type structure by functionalising the gate area with a polyvinyl chloride (PVC) based ion selective membrane. Sensors based on this technology are portable, robust and typically highly sensitive to the target analyte; in this case Hg 2+ . This sensor showed a rapid and stable response when it was introduced to solutions of varying Hg 2+ concentrations. At pH 2.8 in a 10 −2  M KNO 3 ion buffer, a detection limit below 10 −8  M and a linear response range between 10 −8  M-10 −4  M were achieved. This detection limit is an order of magnitude lower than the reported detection limit of 10 −7  M for thioglycolic acid monolayer functionalised AlGaN/GaN HEMT devices. Detection limits of approximately 10 −7  M and 10 −6  M in 10 −2  M Cd(NO 3 ) 2 and 10 −2  M Pb(NO 3 ) 2 ion buffers were also achieved, respectively. Furthermore, we show that the apparent gate response was near-Nernstian under various conditions. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) experiments confirmed that the sensing membrane is reversible after being exposed to Hg 2+ solution and rinsed with deionised water. The success of this study precedes the development of this technology in selectively sensing multiple ions in water with use of the appropriate polymer based membranes on arrays of devices. - Highlights: • This work is the first polymer approach to detect metal ions using AlGaN/GaN transistor-based sensor. • The sensor utilised an AlGaN/GaN transistor by functionalising the gate area with a polyvinyl chloride (PVC) based membrane. • The sensor showed a rapid and linear response between 10 −8 M-10 −4 M for Hg 2+ detection at pH 2.8 in a 10 −2 M KNO 3 ion buffer. • Detection limits of approximately 10 −7 M and 10 −6 M in 10 −2 M Cd(NO 3 ) 2 and 10 −2 M Pb(NO 3 ) 2 ion buffers

  13. Polarization-enhanced InGaN/GaN-based hybrid tunnel junction contacts to GaN p-n diodes and InGaN LEDs

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    Mughal, Asad J.; Young, Erin C.; Alhassan, Abdullah I.; Back, Joonho; Nakamura, Shuji; Speck, James S.; DenBaars, Steven P.

    2017-12-01

    Improved turn-on voltages and reduced series resistances were realized by depositing highly Si-doped n-type GaN using molecular beam epitaxy on polarization-enhanced p-type InGaN contact layers grown using metal-organic chemical vapor deposition. We compared the effects of different Si doping concentrations and the addition of p-type InGaN on the forward voltages of p-n diodes and light-emitting diodes, and found that increasing the Si concentrations from 1.9 × 1020 to 4.6 × 1020 cm-3 and including a highly doped p-type InGaN at the junction both contributed to reductions in the depletion width, the series resistance of 4.2 × 10-3-3.4 × 10-3 Ω·cm2, and the turn-on voltages of the diodes.

  14. Polarization-enhanced InGaN/GaN-based hybrid tunnel junction contacts to GaN p–n diodes and InGaN LEDs

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    Mughal, Asad J.

    2017-11-27

    Improved turn-on voltages and reduced series resistances were realized by depositing highly Si-doped n-type GaN using molecular beam epitaxy on polarization-enhanced p-type InGaN contact layers grown using metal–organic chemical vapor deposition. We compared the effects of different Si doping concentrations and the addition of p-type InGaN on the forward voltages of p–n diodes and light-emitting diodes, and found that increasing the Si concentrations from 1.9 × 1020 to 4.6 × 1020 cm−3 and including a highly doped p-type InGaN at the junction both contributed to reductions in the depletion width, the series resistance of 4.2 × 10−3–3.4 × 10−3 Ωcenterdotcm2, and the turn-on voltages of the diodes.

  15. Polarization-enhanced InGaN/GaN-based hybrid tunnel junction contacts to GaN p–n diodes and InGaN LEDs

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    Mughal, Asad J.; Young, Erin C.; Alhassan, Abdullah I.; Back, Joonho; Nakamura, Shuji; Speck, James S.; DenBaars, Steven P.

    2017-01-01

    Improved turn-on voltages and reduced series resistances were realized by depositing highly Si-doped n-type GaN using molecular beam epitaxy on polarization-enhanced p-type InGaN contact layers grown using metal–organic chemical vapor deposition. We compared the effects of different Si doping concentrations and the addition of p-type InGaN on the forward voltages of p–n diodes and light-emitting diodes, and found that increasing the Si concentrations from 1.9 × 1020 to 4.6 × 1020 cm−3 and including a highly doped p-type InGaN at the junction both contributed to reductions in the depletion width, the series resistance of 4.2 × 10−3–3.4 × 10−3 Ωcenterdotcm2, and the turn-on voltages of the diodes.

  16. Investigation of avian influenza virus in poultry and wild birds due to novel avian-origin influenza A(H10N8) in Nanchang City, China.

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    Ni, Xiansheng; He, Fenglan; Hu, Maohong; Zhou, Xianfeng; Wang, Bin; Feng, Changhua; Wu, Yumei; Li, Youxing; Tu, Junling; Li, Hui; Liu, Mingbin; Chen, Haiying; Chen, Shengen

    2015-01-01

    Multiple reassortment events within poultry and wild birds had resulted in the establishment of another novel avian influenza A(H10N8) virus, and finally resulted in human death in Nanchang, China. However, there was a paucity of information on the prevalence of avian influenza virus in poultry and wild birds in Nanchang area. We investigated avian influenza virus in poultry and wild birds from live poultry markets, poultry countyards, delivery vehicles, and wild-bird habitats in Nanchang. We analyzed 1036 samples from wild birds and domestic poultry collected from December 2013 to February 2014. Original biological samples were tested for the presence of avian influenza virus using specific primer and probe sets of H5, H7, H9, H10 and N8 subtypes by real-time RT-PCR. In our analysis, the majority (97.98%) of positive samples were from live poultry markets. Among the poultry samples from chickens and ducks, AIV prevalence was 26.05 and 30.81%, respectively. Mixed infection of different HA subtypes was very common. Additionally, H10 subtypes coexistence with N8 was the most prevalent agent during the emergence of H10N8. This event illustrated a long-term surveillance was so helpful for pandemic preparedness and response. Copyright © 2014 Institut Pasteur. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.

  17. Estimation of cross sections of hypotetical 8n0, 10He2, 13Li3 nuclei production in the framework of fast fragmentation model

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    Lozhkin, O.V.; Oplavin, V.S.; Yakovlev, Yu.P.

    1983-01-01

    The possibilities of search for 8 n 0 , 10 He 2 , 13 Li 3 nuclides in the products of nuclear fragmentation under the action of high energy particles are analysed. Conclusions have been drawn that: available experimental data on determination of the upper boundary of a cross section of 8 n 0 fragments production exclude an existence of this nuclide in the form ''usual'' nuclear system; available experimental estimations of cross sections of 10 He and 13 Li production among fragmentation products are, for the present, insufficient to solve a problem of 13 Li nucleus existence in a bound state but testify on 10 He nucleus nuclear instability; serious model estimations of have functions and nuclide binding energy are necessary

  18. The FOCON96 1.0 computer code

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    Merle-Szeremeta, A.; Thomassin, A.

    1999-01-01

    The Institute of Protection and Nuclear Safety (I.P.S.N.) has developed a computer code, FOCON96 1.0 to calculate the dosimetric consequences of atmospheric radioactive releases from nuclear installations after several years of usual operation. This communication describes the principal characteristics of FOCON96 1.0 and its functionalities. The principal elements of a comparison between FOCON96 1.0 and PC-CREAM ( European computer code developed by the N.R.P.B. and answering the same criteria) are given here. (N.C.)

  19. Recombination dynamics of excitons with low non-radiative component in semi-polar (10-11)-oriented GaN/AlGaN multiple quantum wells

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    Rosales, D.; Gil, B.; Bretagnon, T.; Guizal, B.; Izyumskaya, N.; Monavarian, M.; Zhang, F.; Okur, S.; Avrutin, V.; Özgür, Ü.; Morkoç, H.

    2014-09-01

    Optical properties of GaN/Al0.2Ga0.8N multiple quantum wells grown with semi-polar (10-11) orientation on patterned 7°-off Si (001) substrates have been investigated. Studies performed at 8 K reveal the in-plane anisotropic behavior of the QW photoluminescence (PL) intensity for this semi-polar orientation. The time resolved PL measurements were carried out in the temperature range from 8 to 295 K to deduce the effective recombination decay times, with respective radiative and non-radiative contributions. The non-radiative component remains relatively weak with increasing temperature, indicative of high crystalline quality. The radiative decay time is a consequence of contribution from both localized and free excitons. We report an effective density of interfacial defects of 2.3 × 1012 cm-2 and a radiative recombination time of τloc = 355 ps for the localized excitons. This latter value is significantly larger than those reported for the non-polar structures, which we attribute to the presence of a weak residual electric field in the semi-polar QW layers.

  20. Validación de un método de análisis para la determinación de metales pesados en partículas pM10 colectadas en aire ambiente

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    Herrera-Murillo, Jorge; Rodríguez-Román, Susana

    2011-01-01

    Se validó un método de análisis para la determinación del contenido de metales presentes en partículas PM10 colectadas del aire ambiente de la ciudad de San José.Las muestras se tomaron utilizando dos muestreadores de aire de alto volumen con controlador de flujo, sobre filtros de cuarzo (20,3 cm x 25,4 cm), con un flujo promedio de 1,13 m3min-1 durante 24 h en dos sitios de la ciudad capital: Catedral Metropolitana y Junta de Educación de San José.  Para la determinación se utilizó espectrof...

  1. Validación de un método de análisis para la determinación de metales pesados en partículas pM10 colectadas en aire ambiente

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    Jorge Herrera-Murillo; Susana Rodríguez Román

    2010-01-01

    Se validó un método de análisis para la determinación del contenido de metales presentes en partículas PM10 colectadas del aire ambiente de la ciudad de San José.Las muestras se tomaron utilizando dos muestreadores de aire de alto volumen con controlador de flujo, sobre filtros de cuarzo (20,3 cm x 25,4 cm), con un flujo promedio de 1,13 m3min-1 durante 24 h en dos sitios de la ciudad capital: Catedral Metropolitana y Junta de Educación de San José.  Para la determinación se utilizó espectrof...

  2. Cross section measurement for the 10B(n ,t 2 α ) three-body reaction at 4.0, 4.5, and 5.0 MeV. II. Experimental setup and results

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    Wang, Zhimin; Bai, Huaiyong; Zhang, Luyu; Jiang, Haoyu; Lu, Yi; Chen, Jinxiang; Zhang, Guohui; Gledenov, Yu. M.; Sedysheva, M. V.; Khuukhenkhuu, G.

    2017-10-01

    Cross sections of the 10B(n ,t 2 α ) three-body reaction were measured at En=4.0 , 4.5, and 5.0 MeV using a twin gridded ionization chamber and a thin-film 10B sample. The present paper is the second part of the work. A digital data-acquisition system was developed for the gridded ionization chamber based on the waveform digitizer. A thin-film 10B sample was designed and prepared. The number of 10B atoms in the sample was determined by the relative method using the thermal neutron induced 10B(nt h,α )7Li and 6Li(nt h,t )4He reactions with a 6LiF sample as the reference. The measurement of the 10B(n ,t 2 α ) reaction was performed at the 4.5 MV Van de Graaff accelerator of Peking University. In the measurement, the double-coincidence technique was used, which involves the forward-backward and the grid-anode coincidence. In the data processing, the effective event area in the forward two-dimensional spectrum and the time window in the drift-time spectrum were employed to reject the background events. Cross sections of the 10B(n ,t 2 α ) and 10B(n ,α )7Li reactions were obtained. The present results are compared with the data of existing measurements and evaluations.

  3. 5-10. Sınıf Öğrencilerinin Savaş ve Barış Kavramına Yükledikleri Anlamların Resimler Yoluyla İncelenmesi

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    Özgür AKTAŞ

    2015-10-01

    Full Text Available Bu çalışmanın amacı ortaokul ve lise öğrencilerinin savaş ve barış kavramına yükledikleri anlamı ortaya koymaktır. Bu amaçla öğrencilerden savaş ve barış kavramını anlatan resimler çizmeleri istenmiştir. Çalışmaya 5-10nıflarda öğrenim gören öğrenciler katılmıştır. Çalışmaya beşinci sınıftan 111, altıncı sınıftan 108, yedinci sınıftan 103, sekizinci sınıftan 93, dokuzuncu sınıftan 76 ve onuncu sınıftan 83 öğrenci katılmıştır.  Çalışma doküman analizi yöntemine dayanmaktadır. Öğrencilerden elde edilen resimler dört kategoride değerlendirilmiştir. Öğrenciler çizdikleri resimlere bakılınca beş, altı ve yedinci sınıf öğrencileri savaşı şiddetle ve silahlarla anlatmaya meyillidirler. Buna karşılık lise öğrencilerinden önemli bir bölümü savaş ve barış kavramını sembolleştiren resimler çizmişlerdir. Öğrencilerin büyük çoğunluğu savaşı felaket olarak değerlendirmiş, barışın önemini vurgulayan resimler çizmişlerdir. Buna karşılık savaş ve barış kavramının bir arada çizildiği çok sayıda resim vardır. Birçok öğrenci savaş ve barışı, adeta “gece ile gündüz” gibi birbirine zıt kavram olarak betimlemiştir. Öğrencilerin bir kısmı ise savaşın kahramanlık yönüne vurgu yapan, milli simgelerin kullanıldığı resimler çizmişlerdir. Öğrenciler savaş ve barış konusuyla ilgili orijinal, yaratıcı ve etkili pek çok resim çizmiştir. Öğrencilerin yaşı arttıkça internetten ve sosyal medyadan etkilendiği ve benzer düşünce kalıplarına sahip olmaya başladığı görülmüştür. Türkiye’nin coğrafi ve tarihi yakınlığı olan Ortadoğu coğrafyasında şiddetli savaşlar yaşanmaktadır. Türkiye’de ise “çözüm süresi” adı verilen çatışmazlık dönemi biterek bölücü terör örgütünün yaptığı saldırılar tekrar başlamıştır.  Türk Silahlı Kuvvetleri ve

  4. Etendatakse 10-aastase kirjamehe näitemäng

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    Tartu katoliku kooli 3. klassi poisi Mario Raitari näitemäng "Kristoph Silvester von Tenderi lugu", mis on esimene lugu sarjast "Mario Raitari kroonika". Näidendit etendab Linnupuu Lastepereteatri trupp

  5. RELACIÓN DE LA INTENCIÓN E IDEACIÓN SUICIDA CON ALGUNAS VARIABLES

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    Full Text Available El objetivo de este estudio fue hallar la relación de la intención e ideación suicida con algunas variables sociodemográficas, las características de la enfermedad, el tratamiento antirretroviral y los aspectos piscoafectivos en personas con el VIH/SIDA que residen en Bogotá (Colombia y pertenecientes a una fundación. Para ello, se tomó una muestra de 75 pacientes con VIH positivo a quienes se evaluó a través de una entrevista semiestructurada y dos instrumentos: el inventario de depresión de Beck (IBD y la escala de Ideación Suicida (SSI. Los resultados mostraron que solo 29 personas tenían ideación suicida y 10 intención suicida: De los 10 solo 2 sujetos tenían intención después del diagnóstico. Se encontró una relación estadística significativa para ideación suicida e intención suicida con edad, estrato socioeconómico, estado civil, orientación sexual, las características de la enfermedad, el tratamiento antirretroviral y los aspectos piscoafectivos.

  6. Análisis del impacto ambiental asociado a los materiales de construcción empleados en las viviendas de bajo coste del programa 10 x10 Con Techo-Chiapas del CYTED

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    Cuchí Burgos, Albert

    2008-03-01

    Full Text Available The objective of the present work is the analysis of the environmental impact of the construction materials used in the building of ten low cost houses constructed within the Program 10x10 With Roof- Chiapas, propose by the investigators of the Ibero- American Program of Science and Technology for Development (CYTED, to verify if these technological proposals of roof are environmentally more sustainable than the constructive system of the roof most demanded in the central region of Chiapas. With the support of the environmental information provided in the database BEDEC PR/PCT of the Institute of the Construction of Catalonia (ITeC, and following the methodological pattern applied in the analysis of the environmental impact of the constructive materials in Lanzarote’s island, there has been evaluated every constructive product of the above mentioned housings along their life cycle assessment (LCA, with the purpose of specifying the interaction of the products with the environment: the energy cost and emissions of CO2. The obtained results show us that the technologies which material bases are the common brick and mortar, the concrete and the ferrocemento do not represent a signifi cant saving in the employment of the quantities of materials in the roofs of arid, cement, steel and water, and in consequence, prove with similar environmental impacts to the reference housing. Using quantities of energy and generating emissions of CO2 higher to the resultants in the construction of the roofs with wooden structures and ceramic tiles.El objetivo del presente trabajo es el análisis del impacto ambiental de los materiales de construcción utilizados en la edifi cación de las diez viviendas de bajo coste construidas dentro del Programa 10x10 Con Techo-Chiapas, propuestas por los investigadores del Programa Iberoamericano de Ciencia y Tecnología para el Desarrollo (CYTED, para verifi car si estas propuestas tecnológicas de techumbres son

  7. Producción de acido láctico por Lactobacillus plantarum L10 en cultivos batch y continuo

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    Waldir Estela

    2013-04-01

    Full Text Available Se ha ensayado a escala de laboratorio la cepa Lactobacillus plantarum L10, para la producción de ácido láctico en cultivos batch y continuo; además se ha optimizado la composición del medio y las condiciones de cultivo para este propósito. Los mejores parámetros de producción de ácido láctico encontrados en cultivo batch fueron los siguientes: YP/S 86,1%; PP 5,4 g/L/h; unido a YX/S 13,2%; PX 1,2 g/L/h y μ = 0,2 h-1, el cultivo se ha llevado a cabo en un medio conteniendo glucosa 70 g/L; extracto de levadura 12,1 g/L; KH2PO4 1,2 g/L; (NH42HPO4 1,2 g/L; citrato de amonio 3,0 g/L; MgSO4. 7H2O 0,3 g/L y MnSO4. 4H2O 0,03 g/L. Así mismo los mejores parámetros de producción de ácido láctico encontrados en cultivo continuo fueron los siguientes: YP/S 96%; P´P 6,0 g/L/h; unido a YX/S 19 %; P´X 1,2 g/L/h; y tasa de dilución (D 0,46 h-1.

  8. Mercury(II) selective sensors based on AlGaN/GaN transistors

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    Asadnia, Mohsen, E-mail: mohsen.asadnia@mq.edu.au [School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy., Crawley, Western Australia 6009 (Australia); Department of Engineering, Macquarie University, NSW 2109 (Australia); Myers, Matthew [School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy., Crawley, Western Australia 6009 (Australia); CSIRO Energy Flagship, Kensington, Western Australia 6151 (Australia); Akhavan, N.D. [School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy., Crawley, Western Australia 6009 (Australia); O' Donnell, Kane [Department of Imaging and Applied Physics, Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia 6102 (Australia); Umana-Membreno, Gilberto A. [School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy., Crawley, Western Australia 6009 (Australia); Mishra, U.K. [Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 (United States); Nener, Brett [School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy., Crawley, Western Australia 6009 (Australia); Baker, Murray [School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy., Crawley, Western Australia 6009 (Australia); Parish, Giacinta [School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy., Crawley, Western Australia 6009 (Australia)

    2016-11-02

    This work presents the first polymer approach to detect metal ions using AlGaN/GaN transistor-based sensor. The sensor utilised an AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistor-type structure by functionalising the gate area with a polyvinyl chloride (PVC) based ion selective membrane. Sensors based on this technology are portable, robust and typically highly sensitive to the target analyte; in this case Hg{sup 2+}. This sensor showed a rapid and stable response when it was introduced to solutions of varying Hg{sup 2+} concentrations. At pH 2.8 in a 10{sup −2} M KNO{sub 3} ion buffer, a detection limit below 10{sup −8} M and a linear response range between 10{sup −8} M-10{sup −4} M were achieved. This detection limit is an order of magnitude lower than the reported detection limit of 10{sup −7} M for thioglycolic acid monolayer functionalised AlGaN/GaN HEMT devices. Detection limits of approximately 10{sup −7} M and 10{sup −6} M in 10{sup −2} M Cd(NO{sub 3}){sub 2} and 10{sup −2} M Pb(NO{sub 3}){sub 2} ion buffers were also achieved, respectively. Furthermore, we show that the apparent gate response was near-Nernstian under various conditions. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) experiments confirmed that the sensing membrane is reversible after being exposed to Hg{sup 2+} solution and rinsed with deionised water. The success of this study precedes the development of this technology in selectively sensing multiple ions in water with use of the appropriate polymer based membranes on arrays of devices. - Highlights: • This work is the first polymer approach to detect metal ions using AlGaN/GaN transistor-based sensor. • The sensor utilised an AlGaN/GaN transistor by functionalising the gate area with a polyvinyl chloride (PVC) based membrane. • The sensor showed a rapid and linear response between 10{sup −8} M-10{sup −4} M for Hg{sup 2+} detection at pH 2.8 in a 10{sup −2} M KNO{sub 3} ion buffer. • Detection limits of

  9. Structure and Electronic Properties of Neutral and Negatively Charged RhBn Clusters (n = 3-10): A Density Functional Theory Study.

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    Li, Peifang; Mei, Tingting; Lv, Linxia; Lu, Cheng; Wang, Weihua; Bao, Gang; Gutsev, Gennady L

    2017-08-31

    The geometrical structure and electronic properties of the neutral RhB n and singly negatively charged RhB n - clusters are obtained in the range of 3 ≤ n10 using the unbiased CALYPSO structure search method and density functional theory (DFT). A combination of the PBE0 functional and the def2-TZVP basis set is used for determining global minima on potential energy surfaces of the Rh-doped B n clusters. The photoelectron spectra of the anions are simulated using the time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) method. Good agreement between our simulated and experimentally obtained photoelectron spectra for RhB 9 - provides support to the validity of our theoretical method. The relative stabilities of the ground-state RhB n and RhB n - clusters are estimated using the calculated binding energies, second-order total energy differences, and HOMO-LUMO gaps. It is found that RhB 7 and RhB 8 - are the most stable species in the neutral and anionic series, respectively. The chemical bonding analysis reveals that the RhB 8 - cluster possesses two sets of delocalized σ and π bonds. In both cases, the Hückel 4N + 2 rule is fulfilled and this cluster possesses both σ and π aromaticities.

  10. Crystal structure of tris(1,10-phenanthroline-κ2N,N′iron(II bis[bis(trifluoromethylsulfonylimide] monohydrate

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    Kazunori Teramoto

    2015-01-01

    Full Text Available The crystal structure of the title complex, [Fe(C12H8N23][(CF3SO22N]2·H2O, is constructed by one octahedral [Fe(phen3]2+ (phen = 1,10-phenanthroline cation (point group symmetry 2, two Tf2N− [bis(trifluoromethylsulfonylimide] anions, and one water molecule of crystallization (point group 2. The Fe—N bond lengths are indicative of a d6 low-spin state for the FeII ion in the complex. The dihedral angle between the phen ligands in the cation is 87.64 (6°. The Tf2N− counter-anion is non-coordinating, with the –CF3 groups arranged in a trans fashion with respect to each other, leading to an anti,anti conformation of the –CF3 groups and –SO2N– moieties relative to the S—C bonds. The water molecule of crystallization connects two O atoms of the Tf2N− anions through weak hydrogen bonds. C—H...O hydrogen-bonding interactions are also observed, consolidating the packing of the molecules into a three-dimensional network structure.

  11. Investigation of GaN LED with Be-implanted Mg-doped GaN layer

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    Huang, H.-W.; Kao, C.C.; Chu, J.T.; Kuo, H.C.; Wang, S.C.; Yu, C.C.; Lin, C.F.

    2004-01-01

    We report the electrical and optical characteristics of GaN light emitting diode (LED) with beryllium (Be) implanted Mg-doped GaN layer. The p-type layer of Be-implanted GaN LED showed a higher hole carrier concentration of 2.3 x 10 18 cm -3 and low specific contact resistance value of 2.0 x 10 -4 Ωcm 2 than as-grown p-GaN LED samples without Be-implantation. The Be-implanted GaN LEDs with InGaN/GaN MQW show slightly lower light output (about 10%) than the as-grown GaN LEDs, caused by the high RTA temperature annealing process

  12. The performance of obesity screening tools among young Thai adults.

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    Limpawattana, Panita; Kengkijkosol, Thepkhachi; Assantachai, Prasert; Krairit, Orapitchaya; Pimporm, Jiraporn

    2014-12-01

    Obesity is a worldwide medical condition that leads to physical and psychological impairment. Specific ethnicity, gender and age group are related to different performances of anthropometric indices to predict obesity. The objectives of this study were to estimate the performance of the anthropometric indices for detecting obesity based on percentage of body fat (PBF), to study the correlation among those indices, and to determine the optimal cut-off point of the indices among young Thai adults. This is a cross-sectional study of healthy urban subjects in Khon Kaen, Thailand who were aged 20-39 years. Baseline characteristics and anthropometric measures were collected. PBF was determined using bioelectrical impedance analysis. Demographic data and anthropometric variables were analyzed using descriptive statistics. Receiver-operating characteristic (ROC) curves were used to compare the performance of anthropometric measures as predictors of obesity. One-hundred men and 100 women were recruited for this study. Body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) and waist-to-stature ratio (WSR) were significantly correlated to PBF. BMI demonstrated the best performance according to the area under the ROC curves in both sexes at cut-off points of 22.5 in women or 25 kg/m(2) in men. WC and WSR showed better performance than WHR to detect obesity. In conclusion, anthropometric indices in young Thai adults were correlated well with PBF to predict obesity as shown in prior reports. Different cut-off points of these indices to define obesity in young Thai adults are recommended. The global cut-off points of WSR in women regardless of ethnicity are supported.

  13. Zb(10 610) and Zb(10 650) structures produced by the initial single pion emission in the Υ(5S) decays

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    Chen Dianyong; Liu Xiang

    2011-01-01

    We propose a unique mechanism called initial single pion emission existing in the Υ(5S) decays, and further study the line shapes of dΓ(Υ(5S→Υ(nS)π + π - ))/dm Υ(nS)π + (n=1,2,3) and dΓ(Υ(5S→h b (mP)π + π - ))/dm h b (mP)π + (m=1,2). We find sharp structures around 10 610 MeV and 10 650 MeV in the obtained theoretical line shapes of dΓ(Υ(5S→Υ(nS)π + π - ))/dm Υ(nS)π + and dΓ(Υ(5S→h b (mP)π + π - ))/dm h b (mP)π + distributions, which could naturally correspond to the Z b (10 610) and Z b (10 650) structures newly observed by Belle.

  14. Phase Diagrams of the n-Decane- n-Hexadecane-Cyclododecane, n-Decane-Cyclododecane, and n-Hexadecane-Cyclododecane Systems

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    Shamitov, A. A.; Garkushin, I. K.; Kolyado, A. V.; Petrov, E. P.

    2018-02-01

    The n-decane- n-hexadecane-cyclododecane, n-decane-cyclododecane, and n-hexadecane-cyclododecane systems are studied by means of low-temperature differential thermal analysis using a differential scanning heat flow calorimeter. It is noted that all studied systems belong to the eutectic type. It is concluded that in the n-decane- n-hexadecane-cyclododecane system, the eutectic composition contains 85.0 wt % n-C10H22, 4.0 wt % n-C16H34, and 11.0 wt % C12H24. It has a melting point of -35.0°C.

  15. 10 CFR Appendix N to Subpart B of... - Uniform Test Method for Measuring the Energy Consumption of Furnaces and Boilers

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    2010-01-01

    ... 10 Energy 3 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Uniform Test Method for Measuring the Energy Consumption... Appendix N to Subpart B of Part 430—Uniform Test Method for Measuring the Energy Consumption of Furnaces... average burner operating hours, average annual fuel energy consumption and average annual auxiliary...

  16. Super Yang-Mills theory in 10+2 dimensions, The 2T-physics Source for N=4 SYM and M(atrix) Theory

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    Bars, Itzhak

    2010-01-01

    In this paper we construct super Yang-Mills theory in 10+2 dimensions, a number of dimensions that was not reached before in a unitary supersymmetric field theory, and show that this is the 2T-physics source of some cherished lower dimensional field theories. The much studied conformally exact N=4 Super Yang-Mills field theory in 3+1 dimensions is known to be a compactified version of N=1 SYM in 9+1 dimensions, while M(atrix) theory is obtained by compactifications of the 9+1 theory to 0 dimensions (also 0+1 and others). We show that there is a deeper origin of these theories in two higher dimensions as they emerge from the new theory with two times. Pursuing various alternatives of gauge choices, solving kinematic equations and/or dimensional reductions of the 10+2 theory, we suggest a web of connections that include those mentioned above and a host of new theories that relate 2T-physics and 1T-physics field theories, all of which have the 10+2 theory as the parent. In addition to establishing the higher spa...

  17. Effect of agressive medium movement of local corrosion of the steel - 12Kh18N10T

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    Makartsev, V.V.; Pakhomov, V.S.; Abramova, I.M.

    1980-01-01

    The effect of agressive medium movement on the formation of pitting corrosion of the 12Kh18N10T stainless steel in the acidic chloride-nitrate solution at room temperature is studied. It is established that the agressive medium movement hinders the formation of pitting corrosion at potentials more negative than +0.4 V and practically does not affect it at more positive potentials. The investigations have been carried out on a disc electrode rotating at a speed from 0 to 2000 rot./min

  18. Uso del AUDIT y el DAST-10 para la identificación de abuso de sustancias psicoactivas y alcohol en adolescentes

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    EMILIA LUCIO GÓMEZ-MAQUEO

    2009-01-01

    Full Text Available Para detectar adolescentes en riesgo por abuso de sustancias psicoactivas y alcohol es necesario utilizar escalas de tamiza- je, para la canalización terapéutica eficaz. El DAST se ha utilizado para detectar abuso de sustancias psicoactivas; para el abuso de alcohol uno de los más usados es el AUDIT. Para evaluar la confiabilidad, validez y el poder de discriminación en población mexicana del DAST-10y el AUDIT, se realizó un muestreo aleatorio simple estratificado en un plantel de ba- chillerato de Ciudad de México. Ambas escalas se aplicaron a 915 alumnos. Los dos instrumentos resultaron válidos y confiables. Además, fueron sensibles en la identificación del riesgo en consumo de sustancias y alcohol al diferenciar niveles de riesgo entre hombres y mujeres.

  19. Aprendiendo a ayudar a aprender: Historia de 10 años de formación de tutores de residentes en Galicia Learning to help to learn: The history of 10 years of resident tutors' training in Galicia

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    J.A. Garrido-Sanjuán

    2009-09-01

    Full Text Available Introducción. La formación de los tutores de residentes se ha configurado como uno de los ejes sobre los que recae la calidad del proceso formativo de los especialistas sanitarios. Objetivo. Describir y analizar las características de las acciones de formación de tutores en los 10 últimos años en Galicia, como base del aprendizaje reflexivo para la mejora. Materiales y métodos. Revisión de los programas, contenidos, materiales utilizados, características y procedencia de los participantes, contenidos de los proyectos docentes elaborados y encuestas de valoración. Resultados. Se describen los datos de las 8 ediciones del 'curso de metodología docente y de evaluación para tutores'. Realizaron la formación 86 facultativos. La distribución de participantes por especialidades y áreas sanitarias no se corresponde con el peso de éstas en el sistema asistencial y docente. Las especialidades con más tutores participantes fueron Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria, Anestesiología y Obstetricia-Ginecología. Los 10 facultativos que participaron como docentes estaban en ese momento en ejercicio de su responsabilidad en formación de residentes. Entre los contenidos de los proyectos docentes desarrollados destacan cuantitativamente los dedicados a mejorar la organización de rotaciones o la adaptación de los programas de la especialidad a los centros o unidades, y los dedicados a la mejora metodológica del aprendizaje de habilidades. Se incorporaron nuevas herramientas de evaluación formativa aprendidas durante el curso a muchos de estos proyectos. En las encuestas de valoración final, el curso fue valorado satisfactoriamente por los alumnos, considerando que su contenido era útil para su actividad profesional. Conclusiones. El conocimiento de las áreas sanitarias y especialidades en que ha existido menos incorporación a esta formación permite tenerlo en cuenta a la hora de diseñar acciones futuras. El aprendizaje de nuevas

  20. Streptomyces sp. MC10 SUŞUNUN ALFA AMİLAZ ÜRETİM KABİLİYETİNİN BELİRLENMESİ - DETERMINATION OF ABILITY OF ALPHA AMYLASE PRODUCTION BY Streptomyces sp. MC10 STRAIN

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    Streptomyces sp. MC10 SUŞUNUN ALFA AMİLAZ ÜRETİM KABİLİYETİNİN BELİRLENMESİAmilazlar en önemli endüstriyel enzimlerden biridir. Amilaz üreticisi olan Streptomyces MC10 suşu Manisa Celal Bayar Üniversitesinden alınan toprak örneklerinden izole edilmiştir. Bu çalışmada Streptomyces MC10 suşundan α-amilaz üretimi ve karakterizasyonu gerçekleştirilmiştir. Bu amaçla suşun besiyerinde üremesi ve α-amilaz üretme yeteneği ve aktivite gösterdiği optimum sıcaklık, pH, inkübasyon süresi ve substrat kons...

  1. Ecology of fall-migrating ducks in central Illinois: A radar perspective

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    O'Neal, Benjamin J.

    Research from the last two decades has elucidated the importance of migration in the annual cycle of ducks, but many aspects of migration ecology remain poorly understood due to the difficulty of investigating movements that occur over large spatial scales, at substantial heights and at night. Weather surveillance radar (WSR) offers a unique tool for observing movements of birds aloft, but until now has been used primarily to address questions only relevant to broad taxonomic groups. Using thermal infrared imaging, portable radar, and natural history, I ground-truthed WSR echoes originating from a complex of wetlands in the central Illinois River valley to develop a technique for identifying and enumerating ducks as they emigrated from this important stopover area. With this technique, I quantified duck emigrations during 7 falls (1996, 1997, 2003, and 2005-2008). I used WSR-derived estimates of annual turnover in combination with aerial inventory estimates of duck use to estimate the average amount of time ducks spent at my study site during fall (stopover duration). The mean stopover duration estimate of 11 days (SD = 4 days) was much shorter than a historical estimate (28 days) that has been use for regional waterfowl conservation planning. I also regressed average annual stopover duration estimates against an index of annual foraging habitat quality and found a strong, positive relationship (r2 = 0.71), suggesting ducks assessed local habitat conditions and adjusted time spent at the site. Weather influences the timing of migration in many avian taxa, but this relationship is poorly understood for ducks. An evaluation of competing models including 15 years of data indicated following winds aloft, no precipitation, less cloud cover, decreasing temperatures, increasing barometric pressure and date best predicted emigration (R2 = 0.52). Based on this model, the odds of a duck emigration occurring when winds were following and precipitation was absent were 13.2 to

  2. Bis(1,10-phenanthroline-κ2N,N′(sulfato-κ2O,O′cobalt(II propane-1,3-diol solvate

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    Kai-Long Zhong

    2010-03-01

    Full Text Available The title compound, [Co(SO4(C12H8N22]·C3H8O2, was obtained unexpectedly as a by-product during an attempt to synthesize a mixed-ligand complex of CoII with 1,10-phenanthroline (phen and melamine via a solvothermal reaction. The CoII metal ions are in a distorted octahedral coordination environment formed by four N atoms from two chelating phen ligands and two O atoms from a bidentate sulfate ligand. The two chelating N2C2 groups are almost perpendicular to each other [dihedral angle = 80.06 (8°]. A twofold rotation axis passes through the Co and S atoms, and also through the central C atom of the propane-1,3-diol solvent molecule. Intermolecular O—H...O hydrogen bonds help to stabilize the structure.

  3. /sup 1/H(t,n)/sup 3/He reaction as monoenergetic neutron source in the (10/20) MeV energy interval

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    Zago, G. (Padua Univ. (Italy). Ist. di Fisica)

    1981-11-14

    The /sup 1/H(t,n)/sup 3/He reaction, considered as a neutron source in the (10/20) MeV energy interval, is a ''white'' neutron source having intensity, mean energy, and directionality which may prove advantageous in technological and biomedical researches.

  4. Measurements and calculations of 10B(n,He) reaction rates in a control rod in ZPPR

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    Brumbach, S.B.; Collins, P.J.; Grasseschi, G.L.; Oliver, B.M.

    1986-01-01

    The helium accumulation fluence monitor (HAFM) technique has been used to measure the 10 B(n,He) reaction rate within B 4 C pellets in a control rod in ZPPR. Knowledge of this reaction rate is important to control rod design studies because helium production leads to control rod swelling, buildup of gas pressure and a reduction in thermal conductivity which can limit the lifetime of a control rod. We believe these to be the first measurements of boron capture within boron pins in a fast reactor spectrum. Previously reported measurements used 235 U foils to measure fission rates in a control rod, and to infer boron capture rates

  5. Effects of Benzalkonium Chloride, Proxel LV, P3 Hypochloran, Triton X-100 and DOWFAX 63N10 on anaerobic digestion processes

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    Flores, German Antonio Enriquez; Fotidis, Ioannis; Karakashev, Dimitar Borisov

    2015-01-01

    In this study, the individual and synergistic toxicity of the following xenobiotics: Benzalkonium Chloride (BKC), Proxel LV (PRX), P3 Hypochloran (HPC), Triton X-100 (TRX), and DOWFAX 63N10 (DWF), on anaerobic digestion (AD) process, was assessed. The experiments were performed in batch and conti......In this study, the individual and synergistic toxicity of the following xenobiotics: Benzalkonium Chloride (BKC), Proxel LV (PRX), P3 Hypochloran (HPC), Triton X-100 (TRX), and DOWFAX 63N10 (DWF), on anaerobic digestion (AD) process, was assessed. The experiments were performed in batch...... and continuous (up-flow anaerobic sludge blanket, UASB) reactors with biochemical-industrial wastewater, as substrate. In batch experiments, half-maximal inhibitory concentrations (IC50) for the tested xenobiotics were found to be 13.1, 1003, 311.5 and 24.3 mg L1 for BKC, PRX, DWF and TRX, respectively while HPC...... observed from the batch reactors. Oppositely, TRX showed no inhibition in continuous mode, while inhibition was detected at batch mode....

  6. Relación entre la capacidad cardiorrespiratoria y el rendimiento en los tests de condición física relacionada con la salud incluidos en la batería ALPHA en niños de 10-12 años

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    2013-01-01

    Full Text Available La condición física es considerada un importante marcador relacionado con la salud en la infancia. Entre sus diferentes componentes, la resistencia cardiorrespiratoria ha sido la que constituye el principal exponente de salud. Sin embargo, su relación con otros componentes de la condición física aún no ha sido ampliamente estudiada entre los niños. El objetivo del presente estudio fue analizar la relación de presentar una alta (o baja capacidad cardiorrespiratoria y el nivel de condición física relacionada con la salud en niños de 10-12 años. Una muestra de 72 escolares (niños, n = 37; niñas, n = 35 voluntarios de 10-12 años de edad participaron en el presente estudio. Los estudiantes fueron evaluados mediante la batería ALPHA basada en la evidencia durante dos clases de Educación Física. En la primera sesión se realizaron las medidas de composición corporal (peso, talla y pliegues cutáneos y en la segunda las pruebas de dinamometría manual, salto de longitud y Course Navette. Los niños que presentaban una alta condición física cardiovascular (> percentil 50 en las marcas del test Course Navette mostraron menores valores de IMC, pliegues cutáneos, porcentaje de grasa corporal, así como mayores valores de salto de longitud, Course Navette y consumo máximo de oxígeno estimado que los del grupo de baja condición física cardiovascular (< percentil 50 en las marcas del test Course Navette. Las pruebas incluidas en la batería de tests ALPHA basada en la evidencia parecen presentar una clara relación con la salud cardiovascular de los niños de 10-12 años.

  7. Synthesis, structural and electrical properties of [C{sub 2}H{sub 10}N{sub 2}][(SnCl(NCS){sub 2}]{sub 2}

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    Karoui, Sahel [Laboratoire genie de materiaux et environnement, ENIS, BP.1173,3038- Sfax, Universite de Sfax (Tunisia); Kamoun, Slaheddine, E-mail: slah.kamoun@gmail.com [Laboratoire genie de materiaux et environnement, ENIS, BP.1173,3038- Sfax, Universite de Sfax (Tunisia); Jouini, Amor [Laboratoire de Chimie du Solide, Departement de Chimie, Faculte des Sciences de Monastir, 5019 Monastir (Tunisia)

    2013-01-15

    Synthesis, structural and electrical properties are given for a new organic stannous pseudo halide material. The structure of the [C{sub 2}H{sub 10}N{sub 2}][(SnCl(NCS){sub 2}]{sub 2} reveals that the adjacent Sn(II) centres are bridged by a pair of SCN{sup -} anions to form a 1-D array giving rise to the anionic chains (SnCl(NCS){sub 2}){sub n}{sup n-}. These chains are themselves interconnected by means of N-H Horizontal-Ellipsis Cl(S) hydrogen bonds originating from the organic cation [(NH{sub 3}){sub 2}(CH{sub 2}){sub 2}]{sup 2+}. The AC impedance measurements were performed as a function of both frequency and temperature. The electrical conduction and dielectric relaxation have been studied. The activation energy associated with the electrical relaxation determined from the electric modulus spectra was found close to that of the activation energy obtained for DC conductivity. The conduction mechanisms are attributed to the quantum mechanical tunneling model in phase I and to the proton hopping among hydrogen vacancies in phase II. - Graphical abstract: Atomic coordination in [C2H10N2][SnCl(NCS)2)2]. Highlights: Black-Right-Pointing-Pointer X-ray diffraction analysis shows the 1D network character of the structure. Black-Right-Pointing-Pointer DSC experiments show a phase transition at 336 K. Black-Right-Pointing-Pointer The AC conductivity is interpreted in terms of Jonsher's law. Black-Right-Pointing-Pointer Two conduction mechanisms are proposed for phase I and II.

  8. Cross sections and reaction rates for 23Na(p,n) 23Mg, 27Al(p,n) 27Si, 27Al(α,n) 30P, 29Si(α,n) 32S, and 30Si(α,n) 33S

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    Flynn, D.S.; Sekharan, K.K.; Hiller, B.A.; Laumer, H.; Weil, J.L.; Gabbard, F.

    1978-01-01

    The total neutron production cross sections for the 23 Na(p,n) 23 Mg, 27 Al(p,n) 27 Si, 27 Al(α,n) 30 P, 29 Si(α,n) 32 S, and 30 Si(α,n) 33 S reactions have been measured for bombarding energies from threshold to 6.3 MeV. The neutron detector was a 60-cm diameter sphere of polyethylene with eight 10 BF 3 counters and was insensitive to the angle and energy of the emitted neutrons. Cross sections for inverse reactions have been obtained using the principle of detailed balance. The data have been used to determine parameters for statistical model calculations to facilitate extrapolation of cross sections to higher bombarding energies. These reactions are relevant to problems of nucleosynthesis and stellar evolution and to studies of radiation damage. Nucleosynthesis reaction rates, N/sub A/(sigmav), were determined for the reactions studied and are tabulated for temperatures ranging from 0.4 x 10 9 to 10.0 x 10 9 K

  9. Die barmhartige Samaritaan: 'n Preekskets van Lukas 10: 25—37*^

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    1.2 Die verklaring vir hierdie redaksionele tendens lê nie in 'n oer-. Christelike Kommunisme nie, maar daarin dat Lukas aan 'n ver- volgde gemeente skryf. Gelowiges is in hierdie tyd aanvanklik met konfiskasie van hul besittings en uiteindelik met die dood gestraf. Die vonnis het in groot mate van die amptenare se oordeel ...

  10. Using the Doppler broadened γ line of the {sup 10}B(n,αγ){sup 7}Li reaction for thermal neutron detection

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    Ben-Galim, Y., E-mail: ybgx3@walla.com [Department of Nuclear Engineering, Ben Gurion University (BGU) of the Negev (Israel); Wengrowicz, U. [Department of Nuclear Engineering, Ben Gurion University (BGU) of the Negev (Israel); NRC-Negev, P.O. Box 9001, Beer-Sheva 84190 (Israel); Moreh, R. [Physics Department, Ben Gurion University (BGU) of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 84105 (Israel); Orion, I. [Department of Nuclear Engineering, Ben Gurion University (BGU) of the Negev (Israel); Raveh, A. [Advanced Coatings Center at Rotem Industries Ltd., MishorYamin D.N. Arava 86800 (Israel)

    2016-02-21

    When a thermal neutron is absorbed by {sup 10}B in the {sup 10}B(n,α){sup 7}Li reaction, there is a chance of 94% that a 478 keV photon be emitted by an excited {sup 7}Li nucleus. This reaction is exothermic with a Q-value of 2.31 MeV and the nuclei are emitted with kinetic energies of E(α)=1.47 MeV and E({sup 7}Li*)=0.84 MeV. This implies that the 478 keV γ line is emitted by a moving {sup 7}Li nucleus and hence is expected to be Doppler broadened. In the present work we suggest to use this broadening of the γ line as a fingerprint for the detection of thermal neutrons using a high resolution gamma spectrometer. We thus developed a Monte Carlo program using a MATLAB code based on a High Purity Germanium (HPGe) detector coupled with a Boron Carbide (B{sub 4}C) sheet to calculate the γ line broadening. Our simulation shows that the FWHM width of the resulting γ line is 12.6 keV, in good agreement with our measurement. Hence the broadened γ line emitted by the {sup 10}B(n,αγ){sup 7}Li reaction and detected by a HPGe detector shows that this method is an effective tool for neutron detection while maintaining good gamma discrimination. - Highlights: • Thermal neutron detection by measuring the Doppler broadened 478 keV γ line from the {sup 10}B(n,αγ){sup 7}Li interaction. • Natural Boron Carbide coupled with a HPGe detector were used in this study. • A mathematical Monte-Carlo model for the suggested detector was introduced. • A calibration tool for the suggested detector is introduced. • Experimental results show that the suggested method can be used for neutron detection.

  11. Entering tennis men’s Grand Slams within the top-10 and its relationship with the fact of winning the tournament. [Acceder a los Grand Slams de tenis masculino desde el top-10 y su relación con el hecho de ganar el torneo].

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    Jaime Prieto-Bermejo

    2016-10-01

    Full Text Available The purpose of this study was to analyse the relationship between entering tennis men’s singles Grand Slams within the top-10 ranking (i.e. title favourites and the fact of winning the tournament. In order to differentiate between these players in a more powerful way than just considering the ranking number, a cluster algorithm was used to classify the players into two groups depending on their number of ranking points (i.e. higher level top-10 players vs. lower level top-10 players. The possible winners entering the tournament outside the top-10 (if any were also considered. The sample comprised all the 92 men’s singles Grand Slams played between 1990 and 2012. As was expected, the majority of Grand Slams were won by players entering the tournament ranked in the top-10. However, the main result is contrary to the hypothesis that there would be significant differences in the number of titles won in favour of the players entering the tournament from the higher positions of the top-10 when comparing to those won by the players entering from the lower positions of the top-10. Several factors that may influence whether and to what extent a player is more or less favourite to win a Grand Slam title are presented in the discussion. Resumen El propósito del estudio fue analizar la relación entre acceder a los Grand Slam de tenis masculino desde el top-10 del ranking (favoritos al título y el hecho de ganar el torneo. Con el objeto de diferenciar a estos jugadores de una forma más potente que simplemente considerando su número de ranking, se empleó un algoritmo cluster que clasificó a los jugadores en dos grupos en función del número de puntos de ranking (jugadores de mayor nivel dentro del top-10 v. jugadores de menor nivel del top-10. Los posibles ganadores del torneo accediendo al mismo desde posiciones fuera del top-10 (si los hubiera fueron también considerados. La muestra comprendió los 92 torneos de Grand Slam masculinos jugados

  12. ATLAS irradiation studies of n-in-n and p-in-n silicon microstrip detectors

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    Allport, P P; Buttar, C M; Carter, J; Drage, L M; Ferrère, D; Morgan, D; Riedler, P; Robinson, D

    1999-01-01

    Prior to the module production of the ATLAS silicon microstrip tracker for the barrel and the forward wheels, the characterisation of full-size prototype silicon detectors after radiation to fluences corresponding to 10 years of ATLAS operation is required. The behaviour of p-in-n and n-in-n detectors produced by several manufacturers before and after irradiation to a fluence of 3*10/sup 14/ protons/cm/sup 2/ at the CERN PS facility is discussed. This article summarises some recent results from the ATLAS SCT collaboration. The measurements of leakage current, full depletion voltage, signal-to-noise ratio and charge collection efficiency are presented. Despite the better efficiency performance of n-in-n detectors below depletion, the collaboration chose the p-in-n technology due to its simpler and less costly production since good charge collection efficiencies were achieved at the desired maximum bias voltage. (14 refs).

  13. Data for the neutron interactions with 6Li and 10B

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    Poenitz, W.P.

    1984-01-01

    The 10 B(n,α), 10 B(n,α 1 ) and, increasingly in more recent measurement, the 6 Li(n,α) cross sections are the major references used in low energy experiments. Many data from modern measurements are available for the neutron interaction with 6 Li, including total, scattering, and absolute and relative (n,α) cross sections. A consensus has been reached with these new 6 Li + n data. In contrast, the data base for the 10 B neutron interaction cross sections is unfortunately poor. This is even the case for the total cross section which is supposed to be the easiest quantity to be measured. The most serious deficiency is the absence of data from absolute measurements of the 10 B(n,α) and 10 B(n,α 1 ) cross sections in the last 10 to 15 years. The available cross section data which were used for the ENDF/B-VI evaluation will be discussed. 43 references

  14. Lattice thermal expansions of NpN, PuN and AmN

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    Takano, Masahide; Akabori, Mitsuo; Arai, Yasuo; Minato, Kazuo

    2008-01-01

    Lattice parameters of NpN, PuN and AmN were measured by a high temperature X-ray diffraction method from room temperature up to 1478 K. Linear thermal expansions of these TRU nitrides were determined as a function of temperature. The average coefficients of linear thermal expansion from 293 to 1273 K were 8.8, 11.1 and 11.2 x 10 -6 K -1 for NpN, PuN and AmN, respectively. The instantaneous coefficient of thermal expansion either at 293 or at 1273 K against the reciprocal decomposition temperature under 1 atm of nitrogen showed a linear relationship for TiN, ZrN, HfN, UN, NpN and PuN. Based on this relationship, the decomposition temperature of AmN was roughly predicted to be 2700 K

  15. African Crop Science Journal - Vol 10, No 1 (2002)

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    Effect of intercropping cereal crops with forage legumes and source of nutrients on cereal grain yield and fodder dry matter yields. D R Mpairwe, E N Sabiiti, N N Ummuna, A Tegegne, P Osuji. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/acsj.v10i1.27559 ...

  16. Manufacture of rings of 08Kh18N10T sheet for internal structures of WWER type reactors

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    Fojta, A.; Nitka, B.

    1984-01-01

    Technology is presented of the manufacture of rings for the jacket, shaft, core catcher and shaft bottom of WWER-440 reactors produced by Vitkovice Steel Works. The rings are manufactured from sheets of austenitic steel 08Kh18N10T. The materials and technology problems are discussed of sheet production, ring welding technology and annealing following welding. The plastic properties are assessed of the welded joints and problems are outlined of ring production for WWER-1000 reactors. (B.S.)

  17. RRS "Discovery" Cruise D279, 04 Apr - 10 May 2004. A Transatlantic hydrography section at 24.5N

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    2005-01-01

    The cruise report describes the acquisition and processing of transatlantic hydrographic, velocity, chemistry and other measurements made during three cruises in Spring 2004 at 24.5°N. Measurements were made from shallow water near Africa to shallow water just off Palm Springs beach on the eastern seaboard of the USA. During the principal cruise, RRS Discovery Cruise D279 (4 April to 10 May 2004), 125 full depth CTD and lowered acoustic Doppler current profiler (LADP) stations were complete...

  18. Interactions of 10.6 GeV/n gold nuclei with light and heavy target nuclei in nuclear emulsion

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    Cherry, M.L.; Denes-Jones, P.

    1994-03-01

    We have investigated the particle production and fragmentation of nuclei participating in the interactions of 10.6 GeV/n gold nuclei in nuclear emulsions. A new criteria has been developed to distinguish between the interactions of these gold nuclei with the light (H, C, N, O) and heavy (Ag, Br) target nuclei in the emulsion. This has allowed separate analyzes of the multiplicity and pseudo-rapidity distributions of the singly charged particles emitted in Au-(H, C, N, O) and Au-(Ag, Br) interactions, as well as of the models of breakup of the projectile and target nuclei. The pseudo-rapidity distributions show strong forward asymmetries, particularly for the interactions with the light nuclei. Heavy target nuclei produce a more severe breakup of the projectile gold nucleus than do the lighter targets. A negative correlation between the number of fragments emitted from the target nuclei and the degree of centrality of the collisions has been observed, which can be attributed to the total destruction of the relatively light target nuclei by these very heavy projectile nuclei. (author). 14 refs, 11 figs, 1 tab

  19. Representation of the properties 10 CrMoNiNb 9 10

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    Dette, M.; Hahn, H.; Nieuwland, H.C.D.; Tichler, J.W.

    The high-temperature ferritic steal 10 CrMoNiNb 9 10 is used as structural material in nuclear steam generators. It is exposed to loads within the creep range. In order to resist safety also loads caused by incidents after long temperature stress, the time-independent stability parameters must not fall below specified minimum values. The material is characterised by the stability degree Nb/C+N and the niobium excess δ Nb. (orig.) [de

  20. Avaliação do estado nutricional de crianças menores de 10 anos no município de Ferros, Minas Gerais Evaluación del status nutricional de niños con menos de 10 años en la ciudad de ferros, estado de Minas Gerais Nutritional assessment in children under 10 in ferros, Minas Gerais

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    Mariana Santos Felisbino-Mendes

    2010-06-01

    Full Text Available A sociedade brasileira vivencia, além da desnutrição e fome, problemas relacionados à obesidade - a transição nutricional. Este trabalho é um estudo transversal com amostra de 1322 crianças menores de 10 anos, residentes no município de Ferros, Minas Gerais, e cadastradas no SISVAN. Observou-se que 20,7% das crianças apresentaram alguma alteração nutricional (10,1% risco nutricional, 3,8% desnutrição e 6,7% sobrepeso. Fatores de risco para o desenvolvimento de desnutrição foram pesquisados: baixo peso ao nascer, RP=3,57, IC 95% (1,96-6,52; baixa estatura RP=19,36, IC 95% (11,53-32,52; aleitamento materno ausente RP=2,23, IC 95% (1,19-4,18; renda familiar de até R$ 95, RP = 2,39, IC 95% (1,10-5,16. Destaca-se maior prevalência de sobrepeso em relação à desnutrição. Enquanto a população rural apresentou maior prevalência de desnutrição e risco nutricional, a urbana destacou-se pelo sobrepeso. Esses resultados são importantes para mostrar que intervenções nutricionais são necessárias e devem considerar os problemas específicos apontados.La sociedad brasileña experimenta, más allá de la desnutrición y el hambre, problemas relacionados con la obesidad -la transición nutricional-. Este trabajo es un estudio transversal, fue realizado sobre una muestra de 1322 niños con menos de 10 años residentes en Ferros, Minas Gerais, registrados en el SISVAN. Se observó que el 20,7% de los niños presentaba alguna alteración nutricional (10,1% riesgo nutricional, 3,8% desnutrición y 6,7% sobrepeso. Fueron investigados factores de riesgo para el desarrollo de la desnutrición: bajo peso al nacer, RP = 3,57, IC 95% (1,96-6,52; baja estatura, RP = 19,36, IC 95% (11,53-32,52; ausencia de amamantamiento, RP = 2,39, IC 95% (1,10-5,16. Es destacable la prevalencia del sobrepeso respecto de la desnutrición. Mientras la población rural presentó mayor prevalencia de desnutrición y riesgo nutricional, la urbana se destacó por

  1. Mercury(II) selective sensors based on AlGaN/GaN transistors.

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    Asadnia, Mohsen; Myers, Matthew; Akhavan, N D; O'Donnell, Kane; Umana-Membreno, Gilberto A; Mishra, U K; Nener, Brett; Baker, Murray; Parish, Giacinta

    2016-11-02

    This work presents the first polymer approach to detect metal ions using AlGaN/GaN transistor-based sensor. The sensor utilised an AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistor-type structure by functionalising the gate area with a polyvinyl chloride (PVC) based ion selective membrane. Sensors based on this technology are portable, robust and typically highly sensitive to the target analyte; in this case Hg 2+ . This sensor showed a rapid and stable response when it was introduced to solutions of varying Hg 2+ concentrations. At pH 2.8 in a 10 -2  M KNO 3 ion buffer, a detection limit below 10 -8  M and a linear response range between 10 -8  M-10 -4  M were achieved. This detection limit is an order of magnitude lower than the reported detection limit of 10 -7  M for thioglycolic acid monolayer functionalised AlGaN/GaN HEMT devices. Detection limits of approximately 10 -7  M and 10 -6  M in 10 -2  M Cd(NO 3 ) 2 and 10 -2  M Pb(NO 3 ) 2 ion buffers were also achieved, respectively. Furthermore, we show that the apparent gate response was near-Nernstian under various conditions. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) experiments confirmed that the sensing membrane is reversible after being exposed to Hg 2+ solution and rinsed with deionised water. The success of this study precedes the development of this technology in selectively sensing multiple ions in water with use of the appropriate polymer based membranes on arrays of devices. Crown Copyright © 2016. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

  2. VizieR Online Data Catalog: Orion Integral Filament ALMA+IRAM30m N2H+(1-0) data (Hacar+, 2018)

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    Hacar, A.; Tafalla, M.; Forbrich, J.; Alves, J.; Meingast, S.; Grossschedl, J.; Teixeira, P. S.

    2018-01-01

    Combined ALMA+IRAM30m large-scale N2H+(1-0) emission in the Orion ISF. Two datasets are presented here in FITS format: 1.- Full data cube: spectral resolution = 0.1 kms-1 2.- Total integrated line intensity (moment 0) map Units are in Jy/beam See also: https://sites.google.com/site/orion4dproject/home (2 data files).

  3. Gender-Specific Peculiarities of Motor Preparedness of Children Aged 6-10

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    О. В. Іващенко

    2017-03-01

    Full Text Available The objective is to determine the gender-specific peculiarities of motor preparedness of children aged 6-10.  Materials and methods: the participants in the study were girls aged 6 (n = 36, aged 7 (n = 48, aged 8 (n = 57, aged 9 (n = 38, aged 10 (n = 46; boys aged 6 (n = 48, aged 7 (n = 45, aged 8 (n = 60, aged 9 (n = 47, aged 10 (n = 40. To achieve the tasks set, the study relied on the following research methods: analysis of scientific literature, pedagogical testing and methods of mathematical statistics of research data reduction. The study used discriminant analysis as the modeling method. Results: the classification results of motor preparedness of girls and boys aged 6-10 indicate that the study has correctly classified 81.9-100% of the initial observations. The graphic material demonstrates the density of objects within each class and a clear distinction between the classes. This allows to maintain that there is a significant difference between girls and boys aged 6-10 in their motor preparedness. Conclusions. The girls aged 6-10 show the best results in movement coordination related to combinations of movements of arms and legs, as well as flexibility. The girls aged 10 show the best results in test No. 10 “300-m Race”. The boys aged 6-10, unlike the girls, show the best results in the development of general coordination of movements, strength, speed strength, strength and general endurance. It is possible to argue with a high level of reliability that by their classification characteristics girls and boys belong to different classes, and significantly differ in motor preparedness.

  4. The influence of (n-n')-mixing processes in He*(n)+He(1s2) collisions on He*(n) atoms' populations in weakly ionized helium plasmas

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    Mihajlov, A.A.; Ignjatovic, Lj.M.; Sreckovic, V.A.; Djuric, Z.

    2008-01-01

    The results of semi-classical calculations of rate coefficients of (n-n ' )-mixing processes due to collisions of Rydberg atoms He*(n) with He(1s 2 ) atoms are presented. It is assumed that these processes are caused by the resonant energy exchange within the electron component of He*(n)+He collision system. The method is realized through the numerical simulation of the (n-n ' )-mixing processes, and is applied for calculations of the corresponding rate coefficients. The calculations are performed for the principal quantum numbers n,n ' in ranges 4≤n ' ≤10, and the atom and electron temperatures, T a ,T e , in domains 5000K≤T a ≤T e ≤20000K. It is shown that the (n-n ' )-mixing processes can significantly influence the populations of Rydberg atoms in non-equilibrium weakly ionized helium plasmas with ionization degree ∼10 -4 . Therefore, these processes have to be included in the appropriate models of such plasmas

  5. Diaqua?bis?(1,10-phenanthroline-?2 N,N?)manganese(II) sulfate hexa?hydrate

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    Zhang, Chun; Zhu, Hong-lin

    2010-01-01

    In the title compound, [Mn(C12H8N2)2(H2O)2]SO4·6H2O, the complex cations assemble into positively charged sheets parallel to (010) via intermolecular π–π stacking interactions with a mean interplanar distance of 3.410 (6) along [100] and 3.465 (5) Å along [001]. The sulfate anions and uncoordinated water molecules are interconnected between these layers by hydrogen bonds, forming negatively charged layers which are li...

  6. Thermal isomerization of regiospecifically 10B-labeled icosahedral carboranes

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    Edvenson, G.M.; Gaines, D.F.

    1990-01-01

    Thermal treatment of regiospecifically 10 B-enriched (96%) 3-( 10 B)-1,2-C 2 n B 9 H 12 and 2-( 10 B)-1,7-C 2 n B 9 H 12 ( n B = boron with normal isotopic abundances) followed by 10 B and 11 B NMR analysis reveal that (1) 3-( 10 B)-1,2-C 2 n B 9 H 12 undergoes rearrangements that completely scramble the enriched boron atom, (2) these rearrangements occur at a rate faster than the conversion of 1,2-C 2 B 10 H 12 to 1,7-C 2 B 10 H 12 , (3) the 1,7-C 2 B 10 H 12 that is formed does not re-form 1,2-C 2 B 10 H 12 at a detectable rate, and (4) at temperatures at which 1,2-C 2 B 10 H 12 forms 1,7-C 2 B 10 H 12 at a significant rate, the latter undergoes no further rearrangements. The movement of 10 B at 350 degree C in 1,2-C 2 B 10 H 12 is compared to the movement predicted by various isomerization mechanisms. The mechanism that appears to give the closest agreement involves a 12-vertex nido intermediate. It was found that a number of previously considered mechanisms, including simple exchange between two boron sites, triangular face rotation in an icosahedron, diamond-square-diamond twist, and rotation of pentagonal pyramids, are extensions of the nido intermediate mechanism. The synthesis and thermal rearrangement of 3-F-3-( 10 B)-1,2-C 2 n B 9 H 11 demonstrate that independent intramolecular fluorine migration does not occur during rearrangement. 27 refs., 7 figs

  7. Metallographical procedure for detecting carburized layer in the 12Kh18N10T steel tubes

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    Najmark, S.I.; Shmalenyuk, R.P.

    1977-01-01

    The various causes of the tendency to intercrystalline corrosion of stainless steel tubing were studied. 12Kh18N10T steel tube specimens were metallographically investigated to reveal the presence and depth of the carburized layer. Unlubricated specimens and specimens with the graphite-saltpeter lubrication applied on them were austenized in the temperature range from 950 to 1250 deg C and then exposed to a provoking anneal at 650 deg C for 24 h. All the lubricated specimens showed a carbide network along grain boundaries and intercrystalline cracks. The specimens treated without lubrication had no cracks. The method offered can differentiate poor tube cleaning and the undesirable effect of other processing steps on the tubes

  8. 6d N=(1,0) theories on S{sup 1}/T{sup 2} and class S theories: part II

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    Ohmori, Kantaro; Shimizu, Hiroyuki [Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo,Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 133-0022 (Japan); Tachikawa, Yuji [Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo,Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 133-0022 (Japan); Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, University of Tokyo,Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583 (Japan); Yonekura, Kazuya [Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, University of Tokyo,Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583 (Japan); School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study,Princeton, NJ 08540 (United States)

    2015-12-21

    We study the T{sup 2} compactification of a class of 6d N=(1,0) theories that is Higgsable to N=(2,0) theories. We show that the resulting 4d N=2 theory at the origin of the Coulomb branch and the parameter space is generically given by two superconformal matter sectors coupled by an infrared-free gauge multiplet and another conformal gauge multiplet. Our analysis utilizes the 5d theories obtained by putting the same class of 6d theories on S{sup 1}. Our class includes, among others, the 6d theories describing multiple M5 branes on an ALE singularity, and we analyze them in detail. The resulting 4d theory has manifestly both the SL(2,ℤ) and the full flavor symmetry. We also discuss in detail the special cases of 6d theories where the infrared-free gauge multiplet is absent. In an appendix, we give a field-theoretical argument for an F-theoretic constraint that forbids a particular 6d anomaly-free matter content, as an application of our analysis.

  9. Testing of wet scrap recovery equipment for mixed oxide scrap reprocessing

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    Demiter, J.A.; Klem, M.J.; Owen, T.J.

    1984-08-01

    The Wet Scrap Recovery (WSR) program was initiated at the Hanford Engineering Development Laboratory (HEDL) by Westinghouse Hanford Company in Richland, Washington to demonstrate fuel fabrication scrap recovery and reconversion to fuel grade oxide powder using the continuous coprecipitation-calcination (COPRECAL) conversion process. Advancements in process control equipment and instrumentation were also developed and demonstrated

  10. Total Lightning as an Indicator of Mesocyclone Behavior

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    Stough, Sarah M.; Carey, Lawrence D.; Schultz, Christopher J.

    2014-01-01

    Apparent relationship between total lightning (in-cloud and cloud to ground) and severe weather suggests its operational utility. Goal of fusion of total lightning with proven tools (i.e., radar lightning algorithms. Preliminary work here investigates circulation from Weather Suveilance Radar- 1988 Doppler (WSR-88D) coupled with total lightning data from Lightning Mapping Arrays.

  11. Resonance particle production in inelastic N-N and π-N interactions

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    Amelin, N.S.; Barashenkov, V.S.; Slavin, N.V.

    1984-01-01

    Using the considerations connected with the scaling hypothesis and the Regge pole model the phenomenological expressions are obtained for differential single-particle inclusive production cross sections (Δ + , Δ 0 , Δ ++ ) and (p +- , p 0 , ω) resonances in inelastic π-N and N-N collisions at high energies. These expressions describe the known experimental data in a wide region of kinematic variables from 10 to several thousand GeV

  12. IDEA papers no 10; Les cahiers d'I.D.E.A. n.10

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    The Information network on the Economic Development in Aquitaine (IDEA) aims to collect and spread the environmental information concerning the Aquitaine, in order to implement an observatory of the regional environment and of the sustainable development. The IDEA paper no.10 is devoted to the sustainable development education. Examples of actions in agriculture schools and colleges are presented. (A.L.B.)

  13. NPCS98/3a: Resoluci??n del Presidente del Consejo Social de la Universidad de Granada en relaci??n a la propuesta normalizada de Cursos de ense??anzas propias, de fecha 10 de septiembre de 2015, remitida por la Escuela Internacional de Posgrado (???M??ster propio en gesti??n de eventos y comunicaci??n corporativa??? 6?? edici??n y ???M??ster propio en teor??a y pr??ctica del protocolo y las relaciones institucionales en las organizaciones nacionales e internacionales??? 8?? edici??n)

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    Resoluci??n del Presidente del Consejo Social de la Universidad de Granada en relaci??n a la propuesta normalizada de Cursos de ense??a nzas propias, de fecha 10 de septiembre de 2015, remitida por la Escuela Internacional de Posgrado (???M??ster propio en gesti??n de eventos y comunicaci??n corporativa??? 6?? edici??n y ???M??ster propio en teor??a y pr??ctica del protocolo y las relaciones institucionales en las organizaciones nacionales e internacionales??? 8?? edici??n). ...

  14. AJUSTE DE CURVAS MEDIANTE MÉTODOS NO PARAMÉTRICOS PARA ESTUDIAR EL COMPORTAMIENTO DE CONTAMINACIÓN DEL AIRE POR MATERIAL PARTICULADO PM10

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    Reina, Jhovana; Olaya, Javier

    2012-01-01

    Uno de los principales agentes contaminantes del aire es el material particulado de diámetro aerodinámico inferior a 10 micrómetros, comúnmente conocido como PM10. Su comportamiento varía de forma irregular y temporal en la atmósfera, debido a las actividades humanas, condiciones atmosféricas inestables y fenómenos meteorológicos. El propósito de este estudio es caracterizar con un modelo de suavización no paramétrica el comportamiento del PM10 en el aire a lo largo de un día, teniendo en cue...

  15. [Health and economic benefits of reducing 10 µm particulate matter (PM₁₀) in Metropolitan Area of Concepción, Chile].

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    Mardones, Cristian; Saavedra, Andrés; Jiménez, Jorge

    2015-04-01

    Several international studies show the effects of PM10 pollution on health but specific analyses for many cities in Chile are lacking. To relate PM10 concentrations to effects with population health and quantify the economic benefits of its reduction in Concepción Metropolitan Area. Poisson regression and generalized additive models were used to analyze the short-term effects of PM10 on mortality and morbidity, controlling for lags, seasonal, trend and weather variables. The damage function method to determine the economic impact of pollution reduction was used. The selected concentration-response (C-R) coefficients showed that PM10 concentrations had effects on hospital admissions with a two days lag for respiratory diseases in children under 15 years of age and with a one day lag for asthma in patients over 64 years. The effects on premature mortality had a six days lag. The decrease in 1 µg/m³ of PM10 concentration would generate benefits ranging from 1,025.8 to 32,490.9 million of Chilean pesos per year, with a confidence level of 95%, according the estimation based on concentration-response coefficients and their economic cost. Reduction of PM10 would have important health and economic benefits.

  16. Crystal structures of N2,N3,N5,N6-tetrakis(pyridin-2-ylmethylpyrazine-2,3,5,6-tetracarboxamide and N2,N3,N5,N6-tetrakis(pyridin-4-ylmethylpyrazine-2,3,5,6-tetracarboxamide

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    Dilovan S. Cati

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    Full Text Available The title compounds, C32H28N10O4· unknown solvent, (I, and C32H28N10O4, (II, are pyrazine-2,3,5,6-tetracarboxamide derivatives. In (I, the substituents are (pyridin-2-ylmethylcarboxamide, while in (II, the substituents are (pyridin-4-ylmethylcarboxamide. Both compounds crystallize in the monoclinic space group P21/n, with Z′ = 1 for (I, and Z′ = 0.5 for (II. The whole molecule of (II is generated by inversion symmetry, the pyrazine ring being situated about a center of inversion. In (I, the four pyridine rings are inclined to the pyrazine ring by 83.9 (2, 82.16 (18, 82.73 (19 and 17.65 (19°. This last dihedral angle involves a pyridine ring that is linked to the adjacent carboxamide O atom by an intramolecular C—H...O hydrogen bond. In compound (II, the unique pyridine rings are inclined to the pyrazine ring by 33.3 (3 and 81.71 (10°. There are two symmetrical intramolecular C—H...O hydrogen bonds present in (II. In the crystal of (I, molecules are linked by N—H...O and N—H...N hydrogen bonds, forming layers parallel to (10-1. The layers are linked by C—H...O and C—H...N hydrogen bonds, forming a three-dimensional framework. In the crystal of (II, molecules are linked by N—H...N hydrogen bonds, forming chains propagating along the [010] direction. The chains are linked by a weaker N—H...N hydrogen bond, forming layers parallel to the (101 plane, which are in turn linked by C—H...O hydrogen bonds, forming a three-dimensional structure. In the crystal of compound (I, a region of disordered electron density was treated with the SQUEEZE routine in PLATON [Spek (2015. Acta Cryst. C71, 9–18]. Their contribution was not taken into account during refinement. In compound (II, one of the pyridine rings is positionally disordered, and the refined occupancy ratio for the disordered Car—Car—Npy atoms is 0.58 (3:0.42 (3.

  17. Relacion entre capacidades físicas, índice de masa corporal (IMC) y la discriminación dentro de la clase de Educación Física en alumnos de 10 y 11 años, en cuatro colegios de Chillan, Chile

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    Portes Júnior, Moacyr; Avendaño R., Macarena; Baeza, Daniela G.; Castillo E., Gabriela; Cifuentes A., Claudio; Moraga M., Rodrigo

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    Objetivo: verificar relación entre IMC, capacidades físicas y discriminación en clase de Educación Física, alumnos entre 10 a 11 años, 4 colegios de Chillán, Chile. Metodología: medir flexibilidad, velocidad y resistencia; calcular IMC; posteriormente contestar cuestionario de auto percepción frente a sus pares en relación a discriminación en clases de Educación Física. Población: 178 sujetos; muestra: 44 indicaron discriminación. Resultados: IMC: 72,6% de la muestra, que sienten discriminaci...

  18. Tratamiento quirúrgico del granuloma central de células gigantes: estudio y seguimiento de 10 casos. Revisión de la literatura Surgical treatment of central giant-cell granuloma: Study and follow-up of 10 cases. Literature review

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    M. Fernández Ferro

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    Full Text Available Objetivos: El granuloma central de células gigantes (GCCG es una lesión benigna, no odontogénica, de origen incierto y con unas características epidemiológicas, clínicas y radiológicas bien conocidas. El objetivo de nuestro estudio es recoger, describir y evaluar nuestra experiencia en el tratamiento quirúrgico de este tipo de lesiones y su seguimiento, haciendo especial hincapié en los datos clínicos y radiológicos así como en las complicaciones y recidivas tras el mismo. Se realiza, además, una revisión de la literatura científica. Material y métodos: Se trata de un estudio retrospectivo de 10 casos intervenidos en nuestro centro entre los años 1998 y 2008. La edad media fue de 35 años. Se describen las características clínicas y radiológicas de cada caso, así como la mejor opción de tratamiento quirúrgico, evaluación del mismo, complicaciones y recidivas. Resultados: Se realiza tratamiento quirúrgico en los 10 casos, de los cuales 4 presentan características clínicas y radiológicas de agresividad. El tratamiento de elección es la escisión y curetaje hasta hueso sano en el 60%, y en el resto resección amplia con márgenes. El periodo de seguimiento medio es de 6,7 años, con una tasa de recidiva del 1%. Conclusión: En nuestra experiencia coincidimos con la mayoría de los autores al considerar el tratamiento quirúrgico de elección en el momento actual, señalando la importancia de realizar un adecuado diagnóstico y una clara diferenciación entre lesiones agresivas y no agresivas para determinar la radicalidad de la intervención.Objectives: Central giant-cell granuloma (CGCG is a benign, non-odontogenic lesion of uncertain origin and well-known epidemiologic, clinical and radiologic characteristics. The aim of this study was to compile, describe and evaluate the authors' experience with the surgical treatment of CGCG and its follow-up, with special emphasis on clinical and radiologic data, complications and

  19. Spectrally-resolved internal quantum efficiency and carrier dynamics of semipolar (10\\bar{1}1) core-shell triangular nanostripe GaN/InGaN LEDs

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    Okur, Serdal; Rishinaramangalam, Ashwin K.; Mishkat-Ul-Masabih, Saadat; Nami, Mohsen; Liu, Sheng; Brener, Igal; Brueck, Steven R. J.; Feezell, Daniel F.

    2018-06-01

    We investigate the spectrally resolved internal quantum efficiency (IQE) and carrier dynamics in semipolar (10\\bar{1}1) core–shell triangular nanostripe light-emitting diodes (TLEDs) using temperature-dependent photoluminescence (TDPL) and time-resolved photoluminescence (TRPL) at various excitation energy densities. Using electroluminescence, photoluminescence, and cathodoluminescence measurements, we verify the origins of the broad emission spectra from the nanostructures and confirm that localized regions of high-indium-content InGaN exist along the apex of the nanostructures. Spectrally resolved IQE measurements are then performed, with the spectra integrated from 400–450 nm and 450–500 nm to obtain the IQE of the QWs mainly near the sidewalls and apex of the TLEDs, respectively. TDPL and TRPL are used to decouple the radiative and non-radiative carrier lifetimes for different regions of the emission spectra. We observe that the IQE is higher for the spectral region between 450 nm and 500 nm compared to the IQE between 400 and 450 nm. This result is in contrast to the typical observation that the IQE of planar GaN-based LEDs is lower for longer wavelengths (i.e., higher indium contents). We also observe a longer non-radiative recombination lifetime for the longer wavelength portion of the spectrum. Several explanations are proposed for the improved IQE and longer non-radiative lifetime observed near the apex of the nanostructures. The results show that nanostructures may be leveraged to design more efficient green LEDs, potentially addressing a long-standing challenge in GaN-based materials.

  20. Transforming n=1 members of the Ruddlesden-Popper phases to a n=3 member through metathesis: synthesis of a new layered perovskite, Ca2La2CuTi2O10

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    Sivakumar, T.; Lofland, S.E.; Ramanujachary, K.V.; Ramesha, K.; Subbanna, G.N.; Gopalakrishnan, J.

    2004-01-01

    We report the formation of a new n=3 Ruddlesden-Popper (R-P) layered perovskite oxide, Ca 2 La 2 CuTi 2 O 10 (I), in the metathesis reaction between NaLaTiO 4 and Ca 2 CuO 2 Cl 2 (n=1 R-P phases) at 700 deg. C in air. Rietveld refinement of powder XRD data shows that I is isostructural with Sr 4 Ti 3 O 10 (space group I4/mmm; a=3.8837(5), c=27.727(6) A), consisting of triple perovskite CuTi 2 O 10 sheets wherein Cu and Ti are ordered at the central and terminal octahedral sites, respectively. Magnetization data provide support for the presence of strong antiferromagnetically coupled CuO 2 sheets in the structure. I is metastable decomposing at higher temperatures (∼950 deg. C) to a mixture of perovskite-like CaLa 2 CuTi 2 O 9 and CaO. Interestingly, the reaction between NaLaTiO 4 and Sr 2 CuO 2 Cl 2 follows a different metathesis route, 2NaLaTiO 4 +Sr 2 CuO 2 Cl 2 →La 2 CuO 4 +2SrTiO 3 +2NaCl, revealing multiplicity of reaction pathways for solid-state metathesis reactions

  1. AJUSTE DE CURVAS MEDIANTE MÉTODOS NO PARAMÉTRICOS PARA ESTUDIAR EL COMPORTAMIENTO DE CONTAMINACIÓN DEL AIRE POR MATERIAL PARTICULADO PM10 AJUSTE DE CURVAS MEDIANTE MÉTODOS NÃO PARAMÉTRICOS PARA ESTUDAR O COMPORTAMENTO DE CONTAMINAÇÃO DO AR POR MATERIAL PARTICULADO PM10 CURVE FITTING NONPARAMETRIC METHODS FOR STUDYING BEHAVIOR FROM AIR POLLUTION PM10

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    Jhovana Reina

    2012-12-01

    Full Text Available Uno de los principales agentes contaminantes del aire es el material particulado de diámetro aerodinámico inferior a 10 micrómetros, comúnmente conocido como PM10. Su comportamiento varía de forma irregular y temporal en la atmósfera, debido a las actividades humanas, condiciones atmosféricas inestables y fenómenos meteorológicos. El propósito de este estudio es caracterizar con un modelo de suavización no paramétrica el comportamiento del PM10 en el aire a lo largo de un día, teniendo en cuenta el día de la semana y los niveles de precipitación. El modelo propuesto se ilustra con registros sobre contaminación por PM10 y con datos de precipitación en el norte de Cali, Colombia. Se estiman curvas típicas diarias del comportamiento del PM10 usando suavizadores kernel y spline. El procesamiento se ejecuta con el software estadístico de libre distribución R. Las curvas estimadas permiten observar un comportamiento unimodal del PM10 durante las horas de la mañana, diferenciado por días de la semana y por días con lluvia y sin lluvia. Los modelos permiten caracterizar de manera robusta el comportamiento diario del PM10, teniendo en cuenta observaciones heterocedásticas bajo un escenario de múltiples respuestas por punto de diseño.Um dos principais agentes contaminantes do ar é o material particulado de diâmetro aerodinâmico inferior a 10 micrômetros, comumente conhecido como PM10. Seu comportamento varia de forma irregular e temporal na atmosfera, devido às atividades humanas, condições atmosféricas instáveis e fenômenos meteorológicos. O propósito deste estudo é caracterizar com um modelo de suavização não paramétrica o comportamento do PM10 no ar ao longo de um dia, tendo em conta o dia da semana e os níveis de precipitação. O modelo proposto ilustra-se com registros sobre contaminação por PM10 e com dados de precipitação no norte de Cali, Colômbia. Estimam-se curvas típicas diárias do

  2. El cuerpo-huella en el performance digital 10 minutos

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    Daniel Enrique Ariza Gómez, PhD

    2017-01-01

    Este artículo de reflexión aborda el concepto de cuerpo-huella, eje principal del performance “El fajadito”. Esta puesta en escena forma parte de una creación escénica más grande llamada 10 minutos, performance digital que pone en tensión la relación cuerpo-máquina en el entorno de una unidad de cuidados intensivos (UCI), y se entrelaza junto con otros tres para ofrecer al público la totalidad de una obra que surge del proceso de investigación-creación 10 minutos. El discurso del presente art...

  3. [(Nitrato-κ2O,O′(nitrito-κ2O,O′(0.25/1.75]bis(1,10-phenanthroline-κ2N,N′cadmium(II

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    Ezzatollah Najafi

    2011-02-01

    Full Text Available The reaction of cadmium nitrate and sodium nitrite in the presence of 1,10-phenanthroline yields the mixed nitrate–nitrite title complex, [Cd(NO21.75(NO30.25(C12H8N22]. The metal ion is bis-chelated by two N-heterocycles as well as by the nitrate/nitrite ions in a distorted dodecahedral CdN4O4 coordination environment. One nitrite group is ordered; the other is disordered with respect to a nitrate group (ratio 0.75:0.25 concerning the O atom that is not involved in bonding to the metal ion.

  4. 10 anos com Mafalda / 10 years with Mafalda

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    Santos, José Douglas Alves dos

    2013-01-01

    10 anos com Mafalda (2010), publicado pela Editora WMF Martins Fontes e traduzido por Monica Stahel, é um livro que reproduz as tiras de Mafalda e sua turma desenhadas por Quino, Joaquín Salvador Lavado, organizadas em 13 temas – a família, a rua, a escola, assim vai o mundo, Mafalda e a sopa, Férias, TV, Guile, Susanita, Felipe, Manolito, Miguelito e Liberdade.

  5. 10 Sugerencias para la visualización de datos

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    Cuanto más simple, mejor. Esta es la regla de oro. Elija siempre el mo- do más sencillo de transmitir información. 2. Que el mensaje que desea comuni- ... Evite seleccionar los datos según un interés específico, pero no trate todos los datos de igual manera. Los datos deben tener un orden de importancia. Esta jerarquía se ...

  6. Bis[(cyanido-κCbis(1,10-phenanthroline-κ2N,N′copper(II] pentakis(cyanido-κCnitrosoferrate(II dimethylformamide monosolvate

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    Olesia V. Kozachuk

    2012-09-01

    Full Text Available The title compound, [Cu(CN(C12H8N22]2[Fe(CN5(NO]·C3H7NO, is formed of discrete [Cu(phen2CN]+ cations (phen is 1,10-phenanthroline, nitroprusside [Fe(CN5(NO]2− anions and dimethylformamide (DMF molecules of crystallization. The metal atom has a distorted trigonal–bipyramidal coordination environment, defined by four N atoms of two phen molecules and a C atom of the cyanide group (in the equatorial position. The [Fe(CN5(NO]2− anion was found to be disordered about (but not on a crystallographic twofold rotation axis. Geometries were restrained to ideal values. The dimethylformamide solvent molecule was found to be disordered about a crystallographic inversion centre.

  7. 10th order laterally coupled GaN-based DFB laser diodes with V-shaped surface gratings

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    Kang, J. H.; Wenzel, H.; Hoffmann, V.; Freier, E.; Sulmoni, L.; Unger, R.-S.; Einfeldt, S.; Wernicke, T.; Kneissl, M.

    2018-02-01

    Single longitudinal mode operation of laterally coupled distributed feedback (DFB) laser diodes (LDs) based on GaN containing 10th-order surface Bragg gratings with V-shaped grooves is demonstrated using i-line stepper lithography and inductively coupled plasma etching. A threshold current of 82 mA, a slope efficiency of 1.7 W/A, a single peak emission at 404.5 nm with a full width at half maximum of 0.04 nm and a side mode suppression ratio of > 23 dB at an output power of about 46 mW were achieved under pulsed operation. The shift of the lasing wavelength of DFB LDs with temperature was around three times smaller than that of conventional ridge waveguide LDs.

  8. Crystal structure, NMR study, dc-conductivity and dielectric relaxation studies of a new compound [C2H10N2]Cd(SCN2Cl2

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    Gargouri M.

    2012-06-01

    Full Text Available The crystal structure, the solid NMR spectroscopy and the complex impedance study have been carried out on [C2H10N2]CdCl2(SCN2. Characterization by single crystal X-ray crystallography shows that the cadmium atoms have à 2N2S2Cl hexa-coordination sphere, exhibiting pseudo-octahedral geometry. The cadmium atoms are bridged by two thiocyanate ions generating 1-D polymeric-chains. These chains are themselves interconnected by means of N-H…Cl(NCS hydrogen bonds originating from the organic cation [(NH32(CH22]2+. 111Cd isotropic chemical shifts span a range of 268ppm. The cadmium atom exhibits multiplets that result from 111Cd-14N spin-spin coupling. Examination of 111Cd and 13C MAS line shapes shows direct measurement of the indirect spin-spin coupling constant 2J(111Cd, 14N = 105Hz and the dipolar coupling constant of 1381Hz . Impedance spectroscopy measurements of [C2H10N2]CdCl2(SCN2 have been studied from 209Hz to 5 MHz over the temperature range 300-370 K. The Cole-Cole (Z” versus Z’ plots are fitted to two equivalent circuits models. The formalism of complex permittivity and impedance were employed to analyze the experimental data. The dc conductivity follows the Arrhenius relation with an activation energy Ea = 0.54 (3 eV.

  9. Validación de un método de análisis para la determinación de metales pesados en partículas pM10 colectadas en aire ambiente

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    Jorge Herrera-Murillo

    2010-10-01

    Full Text Available Se validó un método de análisis para la determinación del contenido de metales presentes en partículas PM10 colectadas del aire ambiente de la ciudad de San José.Las muestras se tomaron utilizando dos muestreadores de aire de alto volumen con controlador de flujo, sobre filtros de cuarzo (20,3 cm x 25,4 cm, con un flujo promedio de 1,13 m3min-1 durante 24 h en dos sitios de la ciudad capital: Catedral Metropolitana y Junta de Educación de San José.  Para la determinación se utilizó espectrofotometría de absorción atómica con horno de grafito.Al analizar las muestras colectadas se determinó que las especies metálicas más abundantes son: Al, Fe y Mn; sin embargo solamente el Pb y Cu presentan factores de enriquecimiento importantes debido al posible aporte de actividades antropogénicas en la ciudad.

  10. Two-dimensional electron and hole gases in GaN/AlGaN heterostructures; Zweidimensionale Elektronen- und Loechergase in GaN/AlGaN-Heterostrukturen

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    Link, A.

    2004-12-01

    The aim of this PhD thesis is to investigate the electronic properties of electron and hole gases in GaN/AlGaN heterostructures. Particularly, a deeper and broadened understanding of scattering mechanisms and transport properties is in the focus of this work. The main experimental techniques used for this purpose are the study of Shubnikov-de Haas (SdH) effect and Hall measurements at low temperatures. By means of these magnetotransport measurements, a series of GaN/AlGaN heterostructures with different Al content of the AlGaN barrier were investigated. Since the sheet carrier density of the 2DEG in these semiconductor structures is strongly dependent on the Al content (n{sub s}=2 x 10{sup 12}-10{sup 13} cm{sup -2}), the variation of transport parameters was determined as a function of sheet carrier concentration. First, from the temperature dependence of the SdH oscillations the effective transport mass was calculated. A Hall bar structure with an additional gate contact was used as an alternative to tune the carrier density of a 2DEG system independent of varying structural parametes such as Al content. Thus, the scattering mechanisms were investigated in the carrier density region between 3 x 10{sup 12} and 9.5 x 10{sup 12} cm{sup -2}. The transport properties of subband electrons were studied for a 2DEG system with two occupied subbands. (orig.)

  11. Evaluation of threading dislocation densities in In- and N-face InN

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    Gallinat, C. S.; Koblmueller, G.; Wu, Feng; Speck, J. S.

    2010-01-01

    The threading dislocation (TD) structure and density has been studied in In- and N-face InN films grown on GaN by plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy. The TD densities were determined by nondestructive x-ray diffraction rocking curve measurements in on-axis symmetric and off-axis skew symmetric geometries and calibrated by transmission electron microscopy measurements. TD densities were dominated by edge-type TDs with screw-component TDs accounting for less than 10% of the total TD density. A significant decrease in edge-type TD density was observed for In-face InN films grown at increasingly higher substrate temperatures. In-face InN films grown with excess In exhibited lower TD densities compared to films grown under N-rich conditions. The edge-type TD density of N-face InN films was independent of substrate temperature due to the higher allowable growth temperatures for N-face InN compared to In-face InN. TD densities in In-face InN also showed a strong dependence on film thickness. Films grown at a thickness of less than 1 μm had higher TD densities compared with films grown thicker than 1 μm. The lowest measured TD density for an In-face InN film was ∼1.5x10 10 /cm 2 for 1 μm thick films.

  12. Niveles de plomo en sangre en niños de 8 a 10 años y su relación con la alteración en el sistema visomotor y del equilibrio

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    Azcona-Cruz María Isabel

    2000-01-01

    Full Text Available OBJETIVO: Identificar si existe una asociación negativa entre los niveles de plomo en sangre y la coordinación visomotora y el equilibrio de escolares. MATERIAL Y MÉTODOS: Se realizó un estudio transversal en 255 niños de 8 a 10 años de edad, que asistían a escuelas del Sector 1 del Instituto de Educación Pública del Estado de Oaxaca, durante noviembre y diciembre de 1998. Se les aplicaron las pruebas de evaluación de la percepción visual de Frostig y la subescala de equilibrio Frostig Movement Skills Test Battery y se les tomó una muestra de sangre para la determinación de plomo por medio de espectrometría de absorción atómica. Asimismo, se aplicó un cuestionario sociodemográfico y se evaluó la historia de salud del niño. Se relacionó el nivel de plomo sanguíneo con los resultados de las pruebas de percepción visual y del equilibrio mediante modelos de regresión múltiple. Se usó la técnica de simulaciones de Montecarlo para probar el efecto del plomo dentro del modelo. RESULTADOS: La media geométrica de las concentraciones de plomo en sangre fue de 11.5 µg/dl (DE geométrica= +6.3, -5.2. El nivel de plomo se relacionó significativamente con el cociente de integración visomotora (p>0.042. Este disminuye 1.78 (IC 95% -3.51, -0.06 puntos por cada incremento de 10 µg/dl en los niveles de plomo en sangre del niño. De las pruebas que constituyeron este cociente, sólo se relacionó significativamente el plomo con la de coordinación ojo-mano (p=0.045 y de relaciones espaciales (p=0.039. El ingreso familiar también se relacionó significativamente con el cociente de integración visomotora, a mayor ingreso los resultados en las pruebas del niño fueron más altos. Sólo 3.1% de los niños obtuvieron puntuaciones consideradas clínicamente anormales. No se encontró una relación significativa entre el plomo y el cociente de la respuesta motriz reducida, el cociente de percepción visual general y las pruebas de

  13. Caracterización metálica de material particulado PM10 en la atmósfera de Fonseca, La Guajira, Colombia

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    Carlos Doria Argumedo

    2017-09-01

    Full Text Available Teniendo en cuenta  la importancia del efecto sobre la salud de las partículas inhalables PM10 y los metales asociados a ellas, se evaluaron los niveles de  metales: Al, Cr, V, As, Se, Na, K, Mg, Ca, Bi, Fe, Hg y Pb, generados por fuentes naturales como el aerosol marino y la re-suspensión del suelo; y de fuentes antropogénicas como las actividades mineras de carbón y la circulación vehicular, en Fonseca, La Guajira, Colombia, Las muestras fueron colectadas en dos sitios cercanos al complejo carbonífero, durante las épocas de sequía y de lluvia, empleando un muestreador de alto volumen con filtros de fibra de cuarzo, con una frecuencia mensual para un total de 20. Las muestras fueron sometidas a un proceso de digestión ácida, y analizadas por Espectrometría de Masas con Plasma Acoplado Inductivamente (ICP-MS. Los niveles de PM10 reportados  superaron  el estándar anual  de 20 µg/m3 establecido por  la OMS. Los metales de mayor concentración corresponden a Na (2,4 µg/m3 + 1,49 µg/m3, Al (0,52 µg/m3 + 1.78 µg/m3, Ca (0,49 µg/m3 + 0,60 µg/m3 y Cr (0,40 µg/m3 +  0,18 µg/m3. No se presentaron diferencias estadísticamente significativas entre los sitios de muestreo. El V, Hg y Pb no excedieron el estándar de calidad del aire establecido para Colombia y la OMS; por su parte, el As sobrepasó ampliamente el límite permisible de Colombia y la OMS. Adicionalmente, el análisis estadístico permite concluir que los metales pueden provenir de una misma fuente, tanto natural  como antropogénica.

  14. Supra-molecular hydrogen-bonding patterns in the N(9)-H protonated and N(7)-H tautomeric form of an N(6) -benzoyl-adenine salt: N (6)-benzoyl-adeninium nitrate.

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    Karthikeyan, Ammasai; Jeeva Jasmine, Nithianantham; Thomas Muthiah, Packianathan; Perdih, Franc

    2016-02-01

    In the title molecular salt, C12H10N5O(+)·NO3 (-), the adenine unit has an N (9)-protonated N(7)-H tautomeric form with non-protonated N(1) and N(3) atoms. The dihedral angle between the adenine ring system and the phenyl ring is 51.10 (10)°. The typical intra-molecular N(7)-H⋯O hydrogen bond with an S(7) graph-set motif is also present. The benzoyl-adeninium cations also form base pairs through N-H⋯O and C-H⋯N hydrogen bonds involving the Watson-Crick face of the adenine ring and the C and O atoms of the benzoyl ring of an adjacent cation, forming a supra-molecular ribbon with R 2 (2)(9) rings. Benzoyl-adeninum cations are also bridged by one of the oxygen atoms of the nitrate anion, which acts as a double acceptor, forming a pair of N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds to generate a second ribbon motif. These ribbons together with π-π stacking inter-actions between the phenyl ring and the five- and six-membered adenine rings of adjacent mol-ecules generate a three-dimensional supra-molecular architecture.

  15. Iodide, azide, and cyanide complexes of (N,C), (N,N), and (N,O) metallacycles of tetra- and pentavalent uranium

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    Benaud, Olivier; Berthet, Jean-Claude; Thuery, Pierre; Ephritikhine, Michel

    2011-01-01

    In contrast to the neutral macrocycle [UN* 2 (N,C)] (1) [N* = N(SiMe 3 ) 3 ; N,C = CH 2 SiMe 2 N-(SiMe 3 )] which was quite inert toward I 2 , the anionic bismetallacycle [NaUN*(N,C) 2 ] (2) was readily transformed into the enlarged monometallacycle [UN*(N,N)I] (4) [N,N = (Me 3 Si)NSiMe 2 CH 2 CH 2 SiMe 2 N(SiMe 3 )] resulting from C-C coupling of the two CH 2 groups, and [NaUN*(N,O) 2 ] (3) [N,O = OC(=CH 2 )SiMe 2 N(SiMe 3 )], which is devoid of any U-C bond, was oxidized into the UV bismetallacycle [Na{UN*(N,O) 2 }2(μ-I)] (5). Sodium amalgam reduction of 4 gave the U(III) compound [UN*(N,N)] (6). Addition of MN 3 or MCN to the (N,C), (N,N), and (N,O) metallacycles 1, 4, and 5 led to the formation of the anionic azide or cyanide derivatives M[UN* 2 (N,C)(N 3 )] [M = Na, 7a or Na(15-crown-5), 7b], M[UN* 2 (N,C)(CN)] [M = NEt 4 , 8a or Na(15-crown-5), 8b or K(18-crown-6), 8c], M[UN*(N,N)(N 3 ) 2 ] [M = Na, 9a or Na(THF)4, 9b], [NEt 4 ][UN*(N,N)(CN) 2 ] (10), M[UN*(N,O) 2 (N 3 )] [M = Na, 11a or Na(15-crown-5), 11b], M[UN*(N,O) 2 (CN)] [M = NEt 4 , 12a or Na(15-crown-5), 12b]. In the presence of excess iodine in THF, the cyanide 12a was converted back into the iodide 5, while the azide 11a was transformed into the neutral UV complex [U(N{SiMe 3 }-SiMe 2 C{CHI}O) 2 I(THF)] (13). The X-ray crystal structures of 4, 7b, 8a-c, 9b, 10, 12b, and 13 were determined. (authors)

  16. Estudio de la regeneración de nervio periférico a través de cámaras permeables de silicona con poros de 10 y 60 micras

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    1999-09-01

    Full Text Available Se entubó el nervio ciático de ratas, luego de un corte transverso, utilizando una cámara de silicona de 14 mm de largo que tenía dos ventanas de 8 mm de largo cubiertas con malla de 10 o 60 pm. Después de 6 meses, los animales se perfundieron con una mezcla de glutaraldehído y paraformaldehído, y se evaluó el aspecto microscópico de los nervios regenerados en dos niveles dentro de la cámara (3 mm y nivel medio y 5 mm distal a ésta. Se contó el número de fibras mielínicas presentes en cada nivel y tratamiento, y se realizó una comparación entre ellos. Se encontró una importante desorganización del endoneurio a nivel medio de la cámara. Distalmente, los conteos de fibras mielínicas fueron muy bajos. No se observaron diferencias significativas entre los grupos con mallas de 10 y 60 pm. En conclusión, la presencia de poros de 10 o 60 pm no impide la entrada masiva de fibroblastos a la cámara, llevando a una marcada desorganización del nervio regenerado.

  17. Emerging role of N- and C-terminal interactions in stabilizing (β/α8 fold with special emphasis on Family 10 xylanases

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    Amit Bhardwaj

    2012-09-01

    Full Text Available Xylanases belong to an important class of industrial enzymes. Various xylanases have been purified and characterized from a plethora of organisms including bacteria, marine algae, plants, protozoans, insects, snails and crustaceans. Depending on the source, the enzymatic activity of xylanases varies considerably under various physico-chemical conditions such as temperature, pH, high salt and in the presence of proteases. Family 10 or glycosyl hydrolase 10 (GH10 xylanases are one of the well characterized and thoroughly studied classes of industrial enzymes. The TIM-barrel fold structure which is ubiquitous in nature is one of the characteristics of family 10 xylanases. Family 10 xylanases have been used as a “model system” due to their TIM-barrel fold to dissect and understand protein stability under various conditions. A better understanding of structure-stability-function relationships of family 10 xylanases allows one to apply these governing molecular rules to engineer other TIM-barrel fold proteins to improve their stability and retain function(s under adverse conditions. In this review, we discuss the implications of N-and C-terminal interactions, observed in family 10 xylanases on protein stability under extreme conditions. The role of metal binding and aromatic clusters in protein stability is also discussed. Studying and understanding family 10 xylanase structure and function, can contribute to our protein engineering knowledge.

  18. EMERGING ROLE OF N- AND C-TERMINAL INTERACTIONS IN STABILIZING (β;/α8 FOLD WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON FAMILY 10 XYLANASES

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    Amit Bhardwaj

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    Full Text Available Xylanases belong to an important class of industrial enzymes. Various xylanases have been purified and characterized from a plethora of organisms including bacteria, marine algae, plants, protozoans, insects, snails and crustaceans. Depending on the source, the enzymatic activity of xylanases varies considerably under various physico-chemical conditions such as temperature, pH, high salt and in the presence of proteases. Family 10 or glycosyl hydrolase 10 (GH10 xylanases are one of the well characterized and thoroughly studied classes of industrial enzymes. The TIM-barrel fold structure which is ubiquitous in nature is one of the characteristics of family 10 xylanases. Family 10 xylanases have been used as a “model system” due to their TIM-barrel fold to dissect and understand protein stability under various conditions. A better understanding of structure-stability-function relationships of family 10 xylanases allows one to apply these governing molecular rules to engineer other TIM-barrel fold proteins to improve their stability and retain function(s under adverse conditions. In this review, we discuss the implications of N-and C-terminal interactions, observed in family 10 xylanases on protein stability under extreme conditions. The role of metal binding and aromatic clusters in protein stability is also discussed. Studying and understanding family 10 xylanase structure and function, can contribute to our protein engineering knowledge.

  19. 1D helix, 2D brick-wall and herringbone, and 3D interpenetration d10 metal-organic framework structures assembled from pyridine-2,6-dicarboxylic acid N-oxide.

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    Wen, Li-Li; Dang, Dong-Bin; Duan, Chun-Ying; Li, Yi-Zhi; Tian, Zheng-Fang; Meng, Qing-Jin

    2005-10-03

    Five novel interesting d(10) metal coordination polymers, [Zn(PDCO)(H2O)2]n (PDCO = pyridine-2,6-dicarboxylic acid N-oxide) (1), [Zn2(PDCO)2(4,4'-bpy)2(H2O)2.3H2O]n (bpy = bipyridine) (2), [Zn(PDCO)(bix)]n (bix = 1,4-bis(imidazol-1-ylmethyl)benzene) (3), [Zn(PDCO)(bbi).0.5H2O]n (bbi = 1,1'-(1,4-butanediyl)bis(imidazole)) (4), and [Cd(PDCO)(bix)(1.5).1.5H2O]n (5), have been synthesized under hydrothermal conditions and structurally characterized. Polymer 1 possesses a one-dimensional (1D) helical chainlike structure with 4(1) helices running along the c-axis with a pitch of 10.090 Angstroms. Polymer 2 has an infinite chiral two-dimensional (2D) brick-wall-like layer structure in the ac plane built from achiral components, while both 3 and 4 exhibit an infinite 2D herringbone architecture, respectively extended in the ac and ab plane. Polymer 5 features a most remarkable and unique three-dimensional (3D) porous framework with 2-fold interpenetration related by symmetry, which contains channels in the b and c directions, both distributed in a rectangular grid fashion. Compounds 1-5, with systematic variation in dimensionality from 1D to 2D to 3D, are the first examples of d(10) metal coordination polymers into which pyridinedicarboxylic acid N-oxide has been introduced. In addition, polymers 1, 4, and 5 display strong blue fluorescent emissions in the solid state. Polymer 3 exhibits a strong SHG response, estimated to be approximately 0.9 times that of urea.

  20. Seasonal influenza A/H3N2 virus infection and IL-1Β, IL-10, IL-17, and IL-28 polymorphisms in Iranian population.

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    Rogo, Lawal Dahiru; Rezaei, Farhad; Marashi, Seyed Mahdi; Yekaninejad, Mir Saeed; Naseri, Maryam; Ghavami, Nastaran; Mokhtari-Azad, Talat

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    Increased blood cytokines is the main immunopathological process that were attributed to severe clinical outcomes in cases of influenza A/H3N2 virus infection. The study was aimed to investigate the polymorphisms of IL-1β, IL-10, IL-17, and IL-28 genes to find the possibility of their association with the clinical outcome of influenza A/H3N2 virus infection among the infected patients in Iran. This is a Case-Control study in which influenza A/H3N2 virus positive confirmed with real-time PCR were the cases. DNA samples from groups were genotyped for polymorphisms in rs16944 (IL-1β), rs1800872 (IL-10), rs2275913 (IL-17), and rs8099917 (IL-28). Confidence interval (95%CI) and Odds ratio (OR) were calculated. IL-17 rs2275913 (GG and AG) were associated with risk of infection with that were statistically significant (P rs16944) (GG) was associated with reduced risk of infection (P < 0.01, OR = 0.46). Genotype GG and GT of IL-10 (rs1800872) were associated with increased risk of infection with influenza A/H3N2 virus (P < 0.05, OR = 2.04-2.58). In addition, IL-28 (rs8099917) genotypes GG (P < 0.05, OR = 0.49) and TG (P < 0.05, OR = 0.59) were associated with reduced risk of ILI symptom while genotype TT (P < 0.01, OR = 4.31) was associated with increased risk of ILI symptom. The results of this study demonstrated that polymorphisms of genes involved in the inflammatory and anti-inflammatory process affect the outcome of disease caused by influenza A/H3N2 virus. Thorough insight on host immune response at the time of influenza A virus infection is required to ensure adequate patient care in the case of feature outbreaks. J. Med. Virol. 88:2078-2084, 2016. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

  1. [KDy(Hptc3(H3ptc]n·2n(Hbipy·5n(H2O, a Layered Coordination Polymer Containing DyO6N3 Tri-Capped Trigonal Prisms (H3ptc = Pyridine 2,4,6-Tricarboxylic Acid, C8H5NO6; Bipy = 2,2'-Bipyridine, C10H8N2

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    Shoaib Anwar

    2012-08-01

    Full Text Available The synthesis, structure and properties of the bimetallic layered coordination polymer, [KDy(C8H3NO63(C8H5NO6]n·2n(C10H9N2·5n(H2O = [KDy(Hptc3(H3ptc]n·2n(Hbipy·5n(H2O, are described. The Dy3+ ion is coordinated by three O,N,O-tridentate doubly-deprotonated pyridine tri-carboxylate (Hptc ligands to generate a fairly regular DyO6N3 tri-capped trigonal prism, with the N atoms acting as the caps. The potassium ion is coordinated by an O,N,O-tridentate H3ptc molecule as well as monodentate and bidentate Hptc ligands to result in an irregular KNO9 coordination geometry. The ligands bridge the metal-atom nodes into a bimetallic, layered, coordination polymer, which extends as corrugated layers in the (010 plane, with the mono-protonated bipyridine cations and water molecules occupying the inter-layer regions: Unlike related structures, there are no dysprosium–water bonds. Many O–HLO and N–HLO hydrogen bonds consolidate the structure. Characterization and bioactivity data are described. Crystal data: C52H42DyKN8O29, Mr = 1444.54, triclinic,  (No. 2, Z = 2, a = 9.188(2 Å, b = 15.7332(17 Å, c = 19.1664(19 Å, α = 92.797(6°, β = 92.319(7°, γ = 91.273(9°, V = 2764.3(7 Å3, R(F = 0.029, wR(F2 = 0.084.

  2. Identification of a negative regulatory region for the exchange activity and characterization of T332I mutant of Rho guanine nucleotide exchange factor 10 (ARHGEF10).

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    Chaya, Taro; Shibata, Satoshi; Tokuhara, Yasunori; Yamaguchi, Wataru; Matsumoto, Hiroshi; Kawahara, Ichiro; Kogo, Mikihiko; Ohoka, Yoshiharu; Inagaki, Shinobu

    2011-08-26

    The T332I mutation in Rho guanine nucleotide exchange factor 10 (ARHGEF10) was previously found in persons with slowed nerve conduction velocities and thin myelination of peripheral nerves. However, the molecular and cellular basis of the T332I mutant is not understood. Here, we show that ARHGEF10 has a negative regulatory region in the N terminus, in which residue 332 is located, and the T332I mutant is constitutively active. An N-terminal truncated ARHGEF10 mutant, ARHGEF10 ΔN (lacking amino acids 1-332), induced cell contraction that was inhibited by a Rho kinase inhibitor Y27632 and had higher GEF activity for RhoA than the wild type. The T332I mutant also showed the phenotype similar to the N-terminal truncated mutant. These data suggest that the ARHGEF10 T332I mutation-associated phenotype observed in the peripheral nerves is due to activated GEF activity of the ARHGEF10 T332I mutant.

  3. Identification of a Negative Regulatory Region for the Exchange Activity and Characterization of T332I Mutant of Rho Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factor 10 (ARHGEF10)*

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    Chaya, Taro; Shibata, Satoshi; Tokuhara, Yasunori; Yamaguchi, Wataru; Matsumoto, Hiroshi; Kawahara, Ichiro; Kogo, Mikihiko; Ohoka, Yoshiharu; Inagaki, Shinobu

    2011-01-01

    The T332I mutation in Rho guanine nucleotide exchange factor 10 (ARHGEF10) was previously found in persons with slowed nerve conduction velocities and thin myelination of peripheral nerves. However, the molecular and cellular basis of the T332I mutant is not understood. Here, we show that ARHGEF10 has a negative regulatory region in the N terminus, in which residue 332 is located, and the T332I mutant is constitutively active. An N-terminal truncated ARHGEF10 mutant, ARHGEF10 ΔN (lacking amino acids 1–332), induced cell contraction that was inhibited by a Rho kinase inhibitor Y27632 and had higher GEF activity for RhoA than the wild type. The T332I mutant also showed the phenotype similar to the N-terminal truncated mutant. These data suggest that the ARHGEF10 T332I mutation-associated phenotype observed in the peripheral nerves is due to activated GEF activity of the ARHGEF10 T332I mutant. PMID:21719701

  4. Semiconducting ZnSnN{sub 2} thin films for Si/ZnSnN{sub 2} p-n junctions

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    Qin, Ruifeng [Hebei Engineering Laboratory of Photoelectronic Functional Crystals, Hebei University of Technology (HEBUT), Tianjin 300401 (China); Ningbo Institute of Material Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Key Laboratory of Additive Manufacturing Materials of Zhejiang Province, Ningbo 315201 (China); Cao, Hongtao; Liang, Lingyan, E-mail: lly@nimte.ac.cn, E-mail: swz@hebut.edu.cn; Xie, Yufang; Zhuge, Fei; Zhang, Hongliang; Gao, Junhua; Javaid, Kashif [Ningbo Institute of Material Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Key Laboratory of Additive Manufacturing Materials of Zhejiang Province, Ningbo 315201 (China); Liu, Caichi; Sun, Weizhong, E-mail: lly@nimte.ac.cn, E-mail: swz@hebut.edu.cn [Hebei Engineering Laboratory of Photoelectronic Functional Crystals, Hebei University of Technology (HEBUT), Tianjin 300401 (China)

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    ZnSnN{sub 2} is regarded as a promising photovoltaic absorber candidate due to earth-abundance, non-toxicity, and high absorption coefficient. However, it is still a great challenge to synthesize ZnSnN{sub 2} films with a low electron concentration, in order to promote the applications of ZnSnN{sub 2} as the core active layer in optoelectronic devices. In this work, polycrystalline and high resistance ZnSnN{sub 2} films were fabricated by magnetron sputtering technique, then semiconducting films were achieved after post-annealing, and finally Si/ZnSnN{sub 2} p-n junctions were constructed. The electron concentration and Hall mobility were enhanced from 2.77 × 10{sup 17} to 6.78 × 10{sup 17 }cm{sup −3} and from 0.37 to 2.07 cm{sup 2} V{sup −1} s{sup −1}, corresponding to the annealing temperature from 200 to 350 °C. After annealing at 300 °C, the p-n junction exhibited the optimum rectifying characteristics, with a forward-to-reverse ratio over 10{sup 3}. The achievement of this ZnSnN{sub 2}-based p-n junction makes an opening step forward to realize the practical application of the ZnSnN{sub 2} material. In addition, the nonideal behaviors of the p-n junctions under both positive and negative voltages are discussed, in hope of suggesting some ideas to further improve the rectifying characteristics.

  5. Performance Analysis of GaN Capping Layer Thickness on GaN/AlGaN/GaN High Electron Mobility Transistors.

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    Sharma, N; Periasamy, C; Chaturvedi, N

    2018-07-01

    In this paper, we present an investigation of the impact of GaN capping layer and AlGaN layer thickness on the two-dimensional (2D)-electron mobility and the carrier concentration which was formed close to the AlGaN/GaN buffer layer for Al0.25Ga0.75N/GaN and GaN/Al0.25Ga0.75N/GaN heterostructures deposited on sapphire substrates. The results of our analysis clearly indicate that expanding the GaN capping layer thickness from 1 nm to 100 nm prompts an increment in the electron concentration at hetero interface. As consequence of which drain current was additionally increments with GaN cap layer thicknesses, and eventually saturates at approximately 1.85 A/mm for capping layer thickness greater than 40 nm. Interestingly, for the same structure, the 2D-electron mobility, decrease monotonically with GaN capping layer thickness, and saturate at approximately 830 cm2/Vs for capping layer thickness greater than 50 nm. A device with a GaN cap layer didn't exhibit gate leakage current. Furthermore, it was observed that the carrier concentration was first decrease 1.03 × 1019/cm3 to 6.65 × 1018/cm3 with AlGaN Layer thickness from 5 to 10 nm and after that it increases with the AlGaN layer thickness from 10 to 30 nm. The same trend was followed for electric field distributions. Electron mobility decreases monotonically with AlGaN layer thickness. Highest electron mobility 1354 cm2/Vs were recorded for the AlGaN layer thickness of 5 nm. Results obtained are in good agreement with published experimental data.

  6. Comorbidity adjustment index for the international classification of diseases, 10 Índice de ajuste de co-morbilidad para la 10a revisión de la clasificación internacional de enfermedades Índice de ajuste de comorbidade para a 10a revisão da classificação internacional de doenças

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    Full Text Available OBJECTIVE: To develop a Charlson-like comorbidity index based on clinical conditions and weights of the original Charlson comorbidity index. METHODS: Clinical conditions and weights were adapted from the International Classification of Diseases, 10th revision and applied to a single hospital admission diagnosis. The study included 3,733 patients over 18 years of age who were admitted to a public general hospital in the city of Rio de Janeiro, southeast Brazil, between Jan 2001 and Jan 2003. The index distribution was analyzed by gender, type of admission, blood transfusion, intensive care unit admission, age and length of hospital stay. Two logistic regression models were developed to predict in-hospital mortality including: a the aforementioned variables and the risk-adjustment index (full model; and b the risk-adjustment index and patient's age (reduced model. RESULTS: Of all patients analyzed, 22.3% had risk scores >1, and their mortality rate was 4.5% (66.0% of them had scores >1. Except for gender and type of admission, all variables were retained in the logistic regression. The models including the developed risk index had an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of 0.86 (full model, and 0.76 (reduced model. Each unit increase in the risk score was associated with nearly 50% increase in the odds of in-hospital death. CONCLUSIONS: The risk index developed was able to effectively discriminate the odds of in-hospital death which can be useful when limited information is available from hospital databases.OBJETIVO: Desarrollar un índice de co-morbilidad a partir de las condiciones clínicas y de los pesos de índice original de co-morbilidad de Charlson. MÉTODOS: Las condiciones clínicas y pesos del índice de Charlson fueron adaptados según la Clasificación Internacional de Enfermedades - 10a Revisión, y aplicados al diagnóstico principal de internación hospitalaria. Fueron estudiados 3.733 pacientes arriba de 18 a

  7. Particle track etch method for analysis of boron in silicon using 10B(n,α)7Li reaction

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    Chakarvarti, S.K.; Nagpaul, K.K.

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    Boron bulk doped p-type (111) silicon thin wafers of different resistivities (1 to 100 ohm-cm +- 20%) have been analysed for boron using cellulose nitrate-Daicel and red dyed LR-115 type II films as detectors of alpha particles from 10 B(n,α) 7 Li reaction. The two detectors measure the same value of boron (approximately 0.1 ppm) in 1 ohm-cm silicon samples and agree closely with the four-point probe electrical resistivity measurement results whereas large discrepancies are observed in case of samples with resistivity > 1 ohm-cm (B concentration 1 ohm-cm. (author)

  8. Temporal Lob Epilepsi'sinde L-Arginine ve CaEDTA'nın Etkileri

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    NOYAN, Behzat

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    Bu çalışmada, bir nitrik oksit (NO-) prekürsörü olan L-Arginine ve bir ekstrasellüler çinko şelatörü olan CaEDTA'nın pilokarpine HCl ile oluşturulan kısa süreli epileptik nöbet üzerine etkileri araştırıldı. Deney, nöbet kontrol (serum fizyolojik 10 µl, i.c.v., ve sonra 380 mg/kg pilokarpine HCl i.p.), L-Arginine (150 µg/10 µl, i.c.v.), CaEDTA (100 mM, 10 µl, i.c.v.), L-Arginine+CaEDTA olmak üzere 4 gruptan oluştu. Enjeksiyonlardan sonra iki saat boyunca nöbet davranışları gözlemlenen ...

  9. Electrical characterization of proton irradiated p+-n-n+ Si diode

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    Kim, J.H.; Lee, D.U.; Kim, E.K.; Bae, Y.H.

    2006-01-01

    Electrical characterization of p + -n-n + Si power electric diodes was done with proton irradiation. The kinetic energies of irradiated protons were 2.32, 2.55 and 2.97MeV, and for each energy condition, doses of 1x10 11 , 1x10 12 and 1x10 13 cm -2 were given. By modulating the kinetic energy, the proton penetration depth into Si crystal could be adjusted to the range of 55-90μm, and then controlled to the special depth regions such as junction region, depletion region and neutral region over the depletion layer in the p + -n-n + diode structure. Defects produced by the proton irradiation affected to electrical property of the Si diode because of their carrier trapping, and then the reverse recovery time was improved from 240 to 50ns. It appeared that the defect states with activation energies of 0.47 and 0.54eV may be responsible for the decrease of the minority carrier lifetime in the proton-irradiated diode with 2.97MeV energy and 1x10 13 cm -2 doses

  10. N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) formation during ozonation of N,N-dimethylhydrazine compounds: Reaction kinetics, mechanisms, and implications for NDMA formation control.

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    Lim, Sungeun; Lee, Woongbae; Na, Soyoung; Shin, Jaedon; Lee, Yunho

    2016-11-15

    Compounds with N,N-dimethylhydrazine moieties ((CH 3 ) 2 N-N-) form N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) during ozonation, but the relevant reaction chemistry is hitherto poorly understood. This study investigated the reaction kinetics and mechanisms of NDMA formation during ozonation of unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine (UDMH) and daminozide (DMZ) as structural model N,N-dimethylhydrazine compounds. The reaction of ozone with these NDMA precursor compounds was fast, and k O3 at pH 7 was 2 × 10 6  M -1  s -1 for UDMH and 5 × 10 5  M -1  s -1 for DMZ. Molar NDMA yields (i.e., Δ[NDMA]/Δ[precursor] × 100) were 84% and 100% for UDMH and DMZ, respectively, determined at molar ozone dose ratio ([O 3 ] 0 /[precursor] 0 ) of ≥4 in the presence of tert-butanol as hydroxyl radical (OH) scavenger. The molar NDMA yields decreased significantly in the absence of tert-butanol, indicating OH formation and its subsequent reaction with the parent precursors forming negligible NDMA. The k OH at pH 7 was 4.9 × 10 9  M -1  s -1 and 3.4 × 10 9  M -1  s -1 for UDMH and DMZ, respectively. Reaction mechanisms are proposed in which an ozone adduct is formed at the nitrogen next to N,N-dimethylamine which decomposes via homolytic and heterolytic cleavages of the -N + -O-O-O - bond, forming NDMA as a final product. The heterolytic cleavage pathway explains the significant OH formation via radical intermediates. Overall, significant NDMA formation was found to be unavoidable during ozonation or even O 3 /H 2 O 2 treatment of waters containing N,N-dimethylhydrazine compounds due to their rapid reaction with ozone forming NDMA with high yield. Thus, source control or pre-treatment of N,N-dimethylhydrazine precursors and post-treatment of NDMA are proposed as the mitigation options. Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

  11. Improved AlGaN/GaN HEMTs Grown on Si Substrates Using Stacked AlGaN/AlN Interlayer by MOCVD

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    Wang Yong; Yu Nai-Sen; Li Ming; Lau Kei-May

    2011-01-01

    AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) are grown on 2-inch Si (111) substrates by MOCVD. The stacked AlGaN/AlN interlayer with different AlGaN thickness and indium surfactant doped is designed and optimized to relieve the tensile stress during GaN epitaxial growth. The top 1.0μm GaN buffer layer grown on the optimized AlGaN/AlN interlayer shows a crack-free and shining surface. The XRD results show that GaN(002) FWHM is 480 arcsec and GaN(102) FWHM is 900 arcsec. The AGaN/GaN HEMTs with optimized and non-optimized AlGaN/AlN interlayer are grown and processed for comparison and the dc and rf characteristics are characterized. For the dc characteristics of the device with optimized AlGaN/AlN interlayer, maximum drain current density I dss of 737mA/mm, peak transconductance G m of 185mS/mm, drain leakage current density I ds of 1.7μA/mm, gate leakage current density I gs of 24.8 μA/mm and off-state breakdown voltage V BR of 67 V are achieved with L g /W g /L gs /L gd = 1/10/1/1 μm. For the small signal rf characteristics of the device with optimized AlGaN/AlN interlayer, current gain cutoff frequency f T of 8.3 GHz and power gain cutoff frequency f max of 19.9 GHz are achieved with L g /W g /L gs /L gd = 1/100/1/1 μm. Furthermore, the best rf performance with f T of 14.5 GHz and f max of 37.3 GHz is achieved with a reduced gate length of 0.7μm. (condensed matter: electronic structure, electrical, magnetic, and optical properties)

  12. Situación del sarampión en Colombia

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    2004-03-01

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    10pt; font-family: Arial">Los países de las Américas han realizado grandes progresos en la interrupción de la transmisión del virus autóctono de sarampión. En el 2002 se confirmaron 2584 casos de sarampión y en el 2003 se presenta el registro histórico más bajo en la Región de 104 casos confirmados; hasta la semana epidemiológica 26 del 2004 se han confirmado 85 casos. En 1994 Colombia se comprometió a alcanzar la meta de eliminación del virus de sarampión, basándose básicamente en una estrategia de vacunación que incluye tres componentes: i campaña masiva de puesta al día, ii vacunación de rutina en el programa regular y iii campañas de seguimiento. Desde 1996 hasta el año 2003, las coberturas nacionales de vacunación con triple viral (SRP han oscilado entre el 78.5% en 1999 y el 94% en 1996, con un promedio de 88%; durante los últimos tres años se han hecho grandes esfuerzos para que se mantengan por encima del 90%; es así como se ha alcanzado el 91%, 93.3% y 92.8% en los años 2001, 2002 y 2003 respectivamente. En Colombia en 1993 se presentó una epidemia de 5.000 casos, 48 muertes y una tasa de incidencia de 28 / 100.000 habitantes. Durante los últimos 10 años la notificación de casos sospechosos al sistema de vigilancia de sarampión (MESS ha presentado un promedio de 2132 casos, con un rango de 625 en 1997 a 6311 en 2002. En el periodo de 1996 - 2001 el número de casos confirmados por laboratorio fue inferior a 10 casos por año, en el 2002 se presentó la última epidemia de sarampión en el país con la confirmación de 140 casos. El caso primario se presentó en una niña de 7 años quién había tenido contacto con casos febriles eruptivos en la ciudad de Maracaibo (Venezuela, país que estaba presentando una epidemia de sarampión por reintroducción del virus desde Europa. El último caso confirmado se presentó en la semana 39 del 2002, y finalmente se

  13. Effects of Kisspeptin-10 on Lipid Metabolism in Cultured Chicken Hepatocytes

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    2012-09-01

    Full Text Available Our previous studies showed that kisspeptin-10 (Kp-10 injected in vivo can markedly increase lipid anabolism in liver of quails. In order to investigate the direct effect of Kp-10 on lipid metabolism of hepatocytes in birds, cells were separated from embryos livers and cultured in vitro with 0, 100 and 1,000 nM Kp-10, respectively. The results showed that after 24 h treatment, cells viability was not affected by 100 nM Kp-10, but showed a mild decrease with 1,000 nM Kp-10 compared to the control cells. Based on the results of the cell viability, 100 nM dosage of Kp-10 was selected for the further study and analysis. Compared with control cells, total cholesterol (Tch contents in 100 nM treated cells were increased by 51.23%, but did not reach statistical significance, while the level of triglyceride (TG, high density of lipoprotein-cholesterol (HDL-C and low density of lipoprotein-cholesterol (LDL-C were significantly increased. Real-time PCR results showed that ApoVLDL-II mRNA expression had a tendency to increase, genes including sterol regulatory element-binding protein-1 (SREBP-1, acetyl coenzyme A carboxylase α (ACCα, carnitine palmitoyltransferase 1 (CPT1, 3-hydroxyl-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A reductases (HMGCR and stearyl coenzyme A dehydrogenase-1 (SCD1 mRNA in hepatocytes were significantly down-regulated by 100 nM Kp-10. However, contrary to its gene expression, SREBP-1 protein expression was significantly up-regulated by 100 nM Kp-10. Some of the significant correlations in mRNA expression were found between genes encoding hepatic factors or enzymes involved in lipid metabolism in liver of birds. These results indicate that Kp-10 stimulates lipid synthesis directly in primary cultured hepatocytes of chickens.

  14. ICORG 10-14

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    Reynolds, J V; Preston, S R; O'Neill, B

    2017-01-01

    comprehensive modern staging, compares both these regimens. METHODS: This open label, multicentre, phase III RCT randomises patients (cT2-3, N0-3, M0) in a 1:1 fashion to receive CROSS protocol (Carboplatin and Paclitaxel with concurrent radiotherapy, 41.4Gy/23Fr, over 5 weeks). The power calculation is a 10......% difference in favour of CROSS, powered at 80%, two-sided alpha level of 0.05, requiring 540 patients to be evaluable, 594 to be recruited if a 10% dropout is included (297 in each group). The primary endpoint is overall survival, with a minimum 3-year follow up. Secondary endpoints include: disease free......). TRIAL REGISTRATION: NCT01726452 . Protocol 10-14. Date of registration 06/11/2012....

  15. Definición, etiopatogenia, clasificación y formas de presentación

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    Xavier Mas Garriga

    2014-01-01

    La artrosis de rodilla tiene una prevalencia del 10,2% en España y muestra una importante disociación clinicorradiológica. La artrosis de manos, con una prevalencia de afectación sintomática de alrededor del 6,2% puede adoptar diferentes formas de presentación (artrosis nodal, artrosis generalizada, rizartrosis y artrosis erosiva. La artrosis sintomática de cadera afecta entre el 3,5 y 5,6% de los mayores de 50 años y tiene diferentes patrones radiológicos en función de la migración de la cabeza femoral.

  16. El cuerpo-huella en el performance digital 10 minutos

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    Daniel Enrique Ariza Gómez, PhD

    2017-01-01

    Full Text Available Este artículo de reflexión aborda el concepto de cuerpo-huella, eje principal del performance “El fajadito”. Esta puesta en escena forma parte de una creación escénica más grande llamada 10 minutos, performance digital que pone en tensión la relación cuerpo-máquina en el entorno de una unidad de cuidados intensivos (UCI, y se entrelaza junto con otros tres para ofrecer al público la totalidad de una obra que surge del proceso de investigación-creación 10 minutos. El discurso del presente artículo se abrirá hacia la comprensión de la manera en que fue abordado, para el performance “El fajadito”, el cuerpo de las personas víctimas de minas antipersona en Colombia. Un cuerpo-huella que aparece en la puesta en escena como un cuerpo en suspensión proponiendo con ello una postura política y social sobre lo que ha significado, para Colombia, el uso de armas que no buscan la muerte del individuo, sino la provocación del dolor y exhibe un cuerpo mutilado como huella de guerra. Palabras clave: fajaditos, cuerpo-huella, 10 minutos, performance digital, minas antipersona.

  17. La salud bucal en los jóvenes de la Corporación de Residencias Universitarias 10 de mayo: una aproximación desde la determinación social con énfasis en pertenencia étnica

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    Shirley Andrade Benavides

    2012-09-01

    Full Text Available Objetivo: Investigar la determinación social de la salud bucal de los estudiantes universitarios pertenecientes a comunidades indígenas y afrocolombianos del sur occidente del país, domiciliarios de las Residencias Universitarias 10 de Mayo. Métodos: Se realizo un estudio descriptivo con apoyo en una encuesta individual fundamentada en la Determinación Social, DS. Resultados: La mayor parte de la población es de género femenino y presenta mejor salud bucal que los hombres. Esto se explica por los cambios alimentarios, culturales y sociales, así como el choque con nuevas formas de pensamiento. La mayoría pierde acceso a las Empresas Promotoras de Salud (EPS y subsisten solo con la cobertura de los servicios de bienestar universitario y en algunos casos con apoyo de otros servicios sociales. Conclusiones: La desigualdad social y la falta de acceso a políticas de equidad en salud determinan la salud bucal y el bienestar humano. Aunque se pudo constatar que cuentan con la información sobre cuidado en salud bucal, las condiciones de acceso a la educación son mínimas y tienen otras prioridades. Si bien la calidad de vida del individuo y sunúcleo familiar se puede mejorar, se reconoce que la salud bucal puede aportar a este propósito hábitos saludables de higiene, alimentación y autocuidados. Recomendaciones: Es necesario ampliar la cobertura de servicios de salud de los universitarios y especialmente de los grupos étnicos considerados minoría. Se deben hacer realidad los planteamientos de reconocimiento a las minorías por parte del gobierno. Es necesario un acompañamiento oportuno en primeros semestres.

  18. Niveles de plomo en sangre en niños de 8 a 10 años y su relación con la alteración en el sistema visomotor y del equilibrio Relationship of blood lead levels with visual-motor and equilibrium disturbances in children aged 8 to 10 years

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    María Isabel Azcona-Cruz

    2000-08-01

    Full Text Available OBJETIVO: Identificar si existe una asociación negativa entre los niveles de plomo en sangre y la coordinación visomotora y el equilibrio de escolares. MATERIAL Y MÉTODOS: Se realizó un estudio transversal en 255 niños de 8 a 10 años de edad, que asistían a escuelas del Sector 1 del Instituto de Educación Pública del Estado de Oaxaca, durante noviembre y diciembre de 1998. Se les aplicaron las pruebas de evaluación de la percepción visual de Frostig y la subescala de equilibrio Frostig Movement Skills Test Battery y se les tomó una muestra de sangre para la determinación de plomo por medio de espectrometría de absorción atómica. Asimismo, se aplicó un cuestionario sociodemográfico y se evaluó la historia de salud del niño. Se relacionó el nivel de plomo sanguíneo con los resultados de las pruebas de percepción visual y del equilibrio mediante modelos de regresión múltiple. Se usó la técnica de simulaciones de Montecarlo para probar el efecto del plomo dentro del modelo. RESULTADOS: La media geométrica de las concentraciones de plomo en sangre fue de 11.5 µg/dl (DE geométrica= +6.3, -5.2. El nivel de plomo se relacionó significativamente con el cociente de integración visomotora (p>0.042. Este disminuye 1.78 (IC 95% -3.51, -0.06 puntos por cada incremento de 10 µg/dl en los niveles de plomo en sangre del niño. De las pruebas que constituyeron este cociente, sólo se relacionó significativamente el plomo con la de coordinación ojo-mano (p=0.045 y de relaciones espaciales (p=0.039. El ingreso familiar también se relacionó significativamente con el cociente de integración visomotora, a mayor ingreso los resultados en las pruebas del niño fueron más altos. Sólo 3.1% de los niños obtuvieron puntuaciones consideradas clínicamente anormales. No se encontró una relación significativa entre el plomo y el cociente de la respuesta motriz reducida, el cociente de percepción visual general y las pruebas de

  19. W and WSix Ohmic contacts on p- and n-type GaN

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    Cao, X.A.; Ren, F.; Pearton, S.J.; Zeitouny, A.; Eizenberg, M.; Zolper, J.C.; Abernathy, C.R.; Han, J.; Shul, R.J.; Lothian, J.R.

    1999-01-01

    W and WSi Ohmic contacts on both p- and n-type GaN have been annealed at temperatures from 300 to 1000 degree C. There is minimal reaction (≤100 Angstrom broadening of the metal/GaN interface) even at 1000 degree C. Specific contact resistances in the 10 -5 Ω cm 2 range are obtained for WSi x on Si-implanted GaN with a peak doping concentration of ∼5x10 20 cm -3 , after annealing at 950 degree C. On p-GaN, leaky Schottky diode behavior is observed for W, WSi x and Ni/Au contacts at room temperature, but true Ohmic characteristics are obtained at 250 - 300 degree C, where the specific contact resistances are, typically, in the 10 -2 Ω cm 2 range. The best contacts for W and WSi x are obtained after 700 degree C annealing for periods of 30 - 120 s. The formation of β-W 2 N interfacial phases appear to be important in determining the contact quality. copyright 1999 American Vacuum Society

  20. Thermoelectric properties of In-rich InGaN and InN/InGaN superlattices

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    James (Zi-Jian Ju

    2016-04-01

    Full Text Available The thermoelectric properties of n-type InGaN alloys with high In-content and InN/InGaN thin film superlattices (SL grown by molecular beam epitaxy are investigated. Room-temperature measurements of the thermoelectric properties reveal that an increasing Ga-content in ternary InGaN alloys (0 < x(Ga < 0.2 yields a more than 10-fold reduction in thermal conductivity (κ without deteriorating electrical conductivity (σ, while the Seebeck coefficient (S increases slightly due to a widening band gap compared to binary InN. Employing InN/InGaN SLs (x(Ga = 0.1 with different periods, we demonstrate that confinement effects strongly enhance electron mobility with values as high as ∼820 cm2/V s at an electron density ne of ∼5×1019 cm−3, leading to an exceptionally high σ of ∼5400 (Ωcm−1. Simultaneously, in very short-period SL structures S becomes decoupled from ne, κ is further reduced below the alloy limit (κ < 9 W/m-K, and the power factor increases to 2.5×10−4 W/m-K2 by more than a factor of 5 as compared to In-rich InGaN alloys. These findings demonstrate that quantum confinement in group-III nitride-based superlattices facilitates improvements of thermoelectric properties over bulk-like ternary nitride alloys.

  1. Formulation of gastroretentive floating drug delivery system using hydrophilic polymers and its in vitro characterization

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    Venkata Srikanth Meka

    2014-04-01

    Full Text Available The aim of the present research is to formulate and evaluate the gastroretentive floating drug delivery system of antihypertensive drug, propranolol HCl. Gastroretentive floating tablets (GRFT were prepared by using a synthetic hydrophilic polymer polyethylene oxide of different grades such as PEO WSR N-12 K and PEO 18 NF as release retarding polymers and calcium carbonate as gas generating agent. The GRFT were compressed by direct compression strategy and the tablets were evaluated for physico-chemical properties, in vitro buoyancy, swelling studies, in vitro dissolution studies and release mechanism studies. From the dissolution and buoyancy studies, F 9 was selected as an optimized formulation. The optimized formulation followed zero order rate kinetics with non-Fickian diffusion mechanism. The optimized formulation was characterised with FTIR studies and observed no interaction between the drug and the polymers.

  2. Evaluación del programa de "baja visión", del HUSVP de Medellín, con respecto a la rehabilitación visual de los pacientes inscritos

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    Gonzalo Iván Marín Cordobés

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    10pt; font-family: MyriadPro-BoldCond">DISEÑO: 10pt; font-family: BelweBT-Light">estudio prospectivo observacional. Participantes: 38 pacientes nuevos atendidos en la consulta de “baja visión” del Hospital Universitario San Vicente de Paúl en el período comprendido entre julio de 2005 y junio de 2006.

    10pt; font-family: BelweBT-Light"> 10pt; font-family: MyriadPro-BoldCond">OBJETIVOS: 10pt; font-family: BelweBT-Light">determinar si existe mejoría en el desempeño en las áreas de autocuidado, socialización, lectura, escritura y actividades productivas, así como el grado de satisfacción personal de los pacientes rehabilitados en esta consulta. Además, determinar si esta mejoría se relaciona con el grado de “baja visión”.

    10pt; font-family: BelweBT-Light"> 10pt; font-family: MyriadPro-BoldCond">MÉTODOS: 10pt; font-family: BelweBT-Light">aplicación del cuestionario de evaluación de “baja visión” (CEBAVI diseñado por los investigadores para cuantificar el desempeño de los participantes antes y después de la aplicación de las ayudas brindadas por el estudio. Se analizaron los puntajes totales obtenidos sumando los de cada actividad o área evaluada. Los puntajes podían estar entre 0 y 73 puntos.

    10pt; font-family: BelweBT-Light"> 10pt; font-family: MyriadPro-BoldCond">PRINCIPALES RESULTADOS: 10pt; font-family: BelweBT-Light">se encontraron diferencias significativas (p < 0,001 entre todos los promedios de los puntajes inicial y final para todos los grupos de “baja visión” así: compromiso

  3. Cultivo in - vitro para la propagación y conservación de germoplasma de Musa

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    Dávila l

    2000-02-01

    Full Text Available El laboratorio de Cultivo de Tejidos de la UNAN-León realiza la clonación de 15 variedades de Musáceas mejoradas genéticamente, proporcionadas por la Universidad Católica de Leuven (KULeuven, que muestran resistencia a la Sigatoka negra, una de las principales plagas que afectan el cultivo de banano y plátano. Para la micropropagación de las variedades se utiliza un medio Murashige y Skoog suplementado con 10-2 mM de BAP y 10-3 mM de ALA para multiplicación y 10-3 mM de BAP y 10-3 mM de AIA para regeneración. Se estableció una colección in vitro a mediano plazo de germoplasma de Musa para conservar la variabilidad genética indispensable para iniciar programas de mejoramiento genético y seguridad alimentaria.

  4. New functionalized IRMOF-10 with strong affinity for methanol: A simulation study

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    Liu, Zewei; Zhang, Kai; Wu, Ying; Xi, Hongxia

    2018-05-01

    Grand Canonical Monte Carlo (GCMC) method simulation combined with density functional theory (DFT) calculation were used to investigate the methanol adsorption in IRMOF-10, with nitrogen and metal-doping functionalizations in order to understand the underlying performance of MOFs in methanol adsorption. New doped IRMOF-10s (M-2N-IRMOF-10, M = Be, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba) were theoretically constructed by binding nitrogen atoms of organic linkers in N-doping IRMOF-10 (2N-IRMOF-10) with various metal atoms. 2N-IRMOF-10 shows only a little higher methanol capacity in the measured pressure range. However, M-2N-IRMOF-10s (especially Be-2N-IRMOF-10) demonstrate much higher methanol capacity due to the stronger interaction between the induced Be atoms and methanol molecules. Furthermore, the obtained results can be attributed to the new adsorption sites created by metal-doping, as revealed by the more exothermic binding energies (BEs) on Be-sites (-160.8 kJ/mol) than Zn-sites (-19.4 kJ/mol). According to the simulation results, it can be concluded that functionalized IRMOF-10 are capable of enhancing the adsorption capacity of methanol at pressure from 0 to 12 kPa at 298 K. This study provides a new functionalized method to effectively enhance methanol adsorption capacity of MOFs, which might extend the application of MOFs on methanol adsorption in the near future.

  5. Exercise book n.10: the nuclear deterrence has to be thought again

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    2002-06-01

    Numerous questions about nuclear deterrence are tackled in this part. Some definitions are given (what is deterrence, nuclear winter). In practice what it means, lack of credibility, prevention between nuclear powers, hostility, suspicion, escalation. Ethical aspect and legality are tackled too. Toward a strategy giving a real security: the example of the New Zealand, a non nuclear strategy for O.T.A.N., the importance of checking. (N.C.)

  6. The influence of (n-n{sup '})-mixing processes in He*(n)+He(1s{sup 2}) collisions on He*(n) atoms' populations in weakly ionized helium plasmas

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    Mihajlov, A.A. [Institute of Physics, P.O. Box 57, 11001 Belgrade (Serbia and Montenegro); Ignjatovic, Lj.M. [Institute of Physics, P.O. Box 57, 11001 Belgrade (Serbia)], E-mail: ljuba@phy.bg.ac.yu; Sreckovic, V.A. [Institute of Physics, P.O. Box 57, 11001 Belgrade (Serbia); Djuric, Z. [Silvaco Data Systems, Compass Point, St Ives PE27 5JL (United Kingdom)

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    The results of semi-classical calculations of rate coefficients of (n-n{sup '})-mixing processes due to collisions of Rydberg atoms He*(n) with He(1s{sup 2}) atoms are presented. It is assumed that these processes are caused by the resonant energy exchange within the electron component of He*(n)+He collision system. The method is realized through the numerical simulation of the (n-n{sup '})-mixing processes, and is applied for calculations of the corresponding rate coefficients. The calculations are performed for the principal quantum numbers n,n{sup '} in ranges 4{<=}n{sup '}{<=}10, and the atom and electron temperatures, T{sub a},T{sub e}, in domains 5000K{<=}T{sub a}{<=}T{sub e}{<=}20000K. It is shown that the (n-n{sup '})-mixing processes can significantly influence the populations of Rydberg atoms in non-equilibrium weakly ionized helium plasmas with ionization degree {approx}10{sup -4}. Therefore, these processes have to be included in the appropriate models of such plasmas.

  7. DETERMINACIÓN DE LA PRESENCIA DE PARTÍCULAS (PM 10 ) EN PERÚ PRODUCIDAS POR QUEMA DE BIOMASA CON AYUDA DE MODELOS NUMÉRICOS

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    Moya Álvarez, Aldo Saturnino; Arredondo, René Estevan; Yuli Posadas, Ricardo Ángel

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    Resumen Con el objetivo de implementar una red de monitoreo de partículas (PM10) en Perú, se realiza una investigación con ayuda del modelo de pronóstico e investigaciones sobre el tiempo, acoplado con el modelo de química atmosférica (WRF-CHEM, por sus siglas en inglés) para determinar el transporte y dispersión de dichas partículas, producidas por la quema de biomasa, ya sea en Perú o en regiones aledañas. Se tomaron los datos de emisiones del inventario de incendios del Centro Nacional de ...

  8. 19 CFR 10.454 - Regional value content.

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    ... TREASURY ARTICLES CONDITIONALLY FREE, SUBJECT TO A REDUCED RATE, ETC. United States-Chile Free Trade Agreement Rules of Origin § 10.454 Regional value content. Where General Note 26, subdivision (n), HTSUS... 19 Customs Duties 1 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false Regional value content. 10.454 Section 10.454...

  9. Flipped SO(10)

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    Tamvakis, K.

    1988-01-28

    We construct an N=1 supersymmetric SO(10) GUT broken down to SU(3)c x SU(2)/sub L/ x U(1)/sub ..gamma../ with an intermediate flipped SU(5) x U(1)/sub chi/ gauge symmetry. A solution to the triplet-doublet mass-splitting problem is proposed in terms of a non-minimal missing-partner mechanism.

  10. Cluster correlation effects in 12C+12C and 14N+10B fusion-evaporation reactions

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    Morelli L.

    2015-01-01

    Full Text Available The decay of highly excited states of 24Mg is studied in fusion evaporation events completely detected in charge in the reactions 12C+12C and 14N+10B at 95 and 80 MeV incident energy respectively. The comparison of light charged particles measured spectra with statistical model predictions suggests that the dominant reaction mechanism is compound nucleus (CN formation and decay. However, in both reactions, a discrepancy with statistical expectations is found for α particles detected in coincidence with Carbon, Oxigen and Neon residues. The comparison between the two reactions shows that this discrepancy is only partly explained by an entrance channel effect. Evidence for cluster correlations in excited 24Mg CN is suggested by the comparison between the measured and calculated branching ratios for the channels involving α particles.

  11. Disfunción ventricular izquierda subclínica en diabéticos tipo I con 10 o más años de evolución de la diabetes Disfunción ventricular izquierda subclínica en diabéticos tipo I con 10 o más años de evolución de la diabetes Subclinical left ventricular dysfunction in type 1 diabetics with 10 or more years of diabetes progression

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    Omar Singh Linares

    2001-08-01

    Full Text Available Se realizó un estudio transversal en 32 diabéticos tipo 1 con 10 o más años de evolución, con edades entre 17 y 40 años, para conocer la frecuencia de disfunción ventricular izquierda (DVI subclínica y sus factores asociados. Se excluyeron los pacientes que presentaban valvulopatía, cardiopatía isquémica, hipertensión arterial y otras enfermedades que provocan miocardiopatía. A todos se les realizó una historia clínica completa y se les indicó: glucemia en ayunas, hemoglobina glucosilada (HbA1, colesterol total, triglicéridos totales, lipoproteína de alta densidad (HDL-colesterol, excreción urinaria de albúmina (EUA, velocidad de conducción nerviosa motora y sensitiva en los miembros inferiores, electrocardiograma y ecocardiograma a modo M, bidimensional y con Doppler pulsado. Para el diagnóstico ecocardiográfico de DVI se adoptaron los criterios propuestos por la Sociedad Americana de Ecocardiografía. Se comprobó DVI en el 34,3 %. Se observaron alteraciones estructurales cardíacas en el 18,75 %. Se presentó neuropatía periférica en 8/11 pacientes con DVI (72,7 %. Los niveles de EUA fueron significativamente mayores en los afectados de DVI (233,4 ± 176 mg/L. El engrosamiento de septum interventricular y de la pared posterior fue significativamente mayor en pacientes con DVI. Se concluyó que la DVI es una complicación frecuente en el diabético tipo 1, lo que obliga a su búsqueda sistemática en este grupo de pacientesA cross-sectional study of 32 type 1 diabetics aged 17-40 years, with 10 or more years of diabetes profession was conducted to find out the frequency of subclinical left ventricular dysfunction (LVD and its associated factors. Those patients presenting with valvulopathy, ischemic heart disease, blood hypertension and other diseases leading to myocardiopathy, were excluded. Their complete medical histories were made and they were indicated the following: glycemia in fasting conditions, glycosylated

  12. Estabilidad de las tabletas de clorodiazepóxido 10 mg

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    Vivian Tolosa Cubela

    1998-04-01

    Full Text Available Se estudió la estabilidad de las tabletas de clorodiazepóxido 10 mg que fueron elaboradas con un almidón modificado (GECLYN-ER2 de bajo costo en sustitución de la gelatina, aglutinante tradicional. Se emplearon como métodos analíticos para la cuantificación e identificación de clorodiazepóxido: cromatografía líquida de alta resolución, cromatografía en capa delgada y espectrofotometría. Los resultados obtenidos para las tabletas expuestas en condiciones variables de temperatura, humedad y de vida en estante confirman la factibilidad del empleo de este almidón, modificado para la fabricación de las tabletas de clorodiazepóxido 10 mg.The stability of chlordiazepoxide 10 mg tablets, which were made with low cost modified starch (GECLYN-ER2 to substitute gelatine, the traditional agglutinant, was studied. The following analytical methods were used for the quantification and identification of chlordiazipoxide: high pressure liquid chromatography thin layer chromatography, and spectrophotometry. The results attained for the tablets exposed to different conditions of temperature, humidity and shelf life confirmed the feasibility of this starch that was modified to make chlordiazepoxide 10 mg tablets.

  13. Neutron-scattering studies of the S=2 antiferromagnetic chain MnCl3(C10D8N2)

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    Granroth, G.E.; Nagler, S.E.; Coldea, R.; Eccleston, R.S.; Ward, B.H.; Talham, D.R.; Meisel, M.W.

    2002-01-01

    Quasi-elastic and inelastic neutron scattering studies of the quasi-one-dimensional S=2 antiferromagnet MnCl 3 (C 10 D 8 N 2 ) are reported. The quasi-elastic measurements exhibit a broad peak at Q∼0.69 A -1 , which is consistent with short-range antiferromagnetic coupling between neighboring Mn 3+ ions. Inelastic experiments, at 150 mK and Q=0.70 A -1 , reveal decreased magnetic scattering at energies less than 0.2 meV when compared to similar studies at 20 K. These results provide microscopic evidence for the presence of a Haldane gap and are consistent with the bulk magnetization measurements of Granroth et al. (orig.)

  14. [(Nitrato-κ2 O,O′)(nitrito-κ2 O,O′)(0.25/1.75)]bis­(1,10-phenanthroline-κ2 N,N′)cadmium(II)

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    Najafi, Ezzatollah; Amini, Mostafa M.; Ng, Seik Weng

    2011-01-01

    The reaction of cadmium nitrate and sodium nitrite in the presence of 1,10-phenanthroline yields the mixed nitrate–nitrite title complex, [Cd(NO2)1.75(NO3)0.25(C12H8N2)2]. The metal ion is bis-chelated by two N-heterocycles as well as by the nitrate/nitrite ions in a distorted dodeca­hedral CdN4O4 coordination environment. One nitrite group is ordered; the other is disordered with respect to a nitrate group (ratio 0.75:0.25) concerning the O atom that is not involved in bonding to the metal ion. PMID:21522904

  15. Tetraethylammonium tris(thiocyanato-κN[tris(1H-pyrazol-1-yl-κN2methane]nickelate(II

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    Ganna Lyubartseva

    2012-07-01

    Full Text Available The title salt, (C8H20N[Ni(NCS3(C10H10N6], consists of a tetraethylammonium cation and an anion comprising an octahedral NiII atom surrounded by three N atoms from a tripodal tris(pyrazol-1-ylmethane ligand, and three thiocyanate ligands, each bound at the N-atom end. The ligand Ni—N distances range from 2.097 (2 to 2.127 (2 Å for the tripodal ligand and from 2.045 (2 to 2.075 (2 Å for the thiocyanate ligands. The dihedral angles between the three pyrazole rings are 59.03 (12, 53.09 (10 and 67.90 (10°.

  16. Editorial: especial n.1 do segundo semestre de 2006 10.5007/1518-2924.2006v11nesp2pii

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    Juan Carlos Fernández Molina

    2006-12-01

    contribuciones a un congreso, como ha sido lo habitual hasta ahora, sino a una institución: la Facultad de Biblioteconomía y Documentación de la Universidad de Granada, aprovechando que se cumplen 20 años de sus primeros titulados y 10 de sus primeros doctores en Documentación. El objetivo era presentar una muestra significativa de la investigación que se desarrolla en esta institución, por lo que se han elegido contribuciones que abarcan diferentes campos y con autores que pertenecen a diferentes departamentos. En este sentido, conviene señalar que esta Facultad cuenta con casi 60 profesores, de los que unos 35 pertenecen al Departamento de Biblioteconomía y Documentación. Pues bien, la mayoría de los profesores que han colaborado pertenecen a este departamento, dado su claro predominio en la Facultad, pero también los hay del Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación e Inteligencia Artificial o del de Historia de la Ciencia. En cuanto a los temas, el dominante es sin duda la Bibliometría, reflejo de la hegemonía que este tema tiene en esta Facultad, que está representado por los trabajos de E. Ruiz de Osma y del Grupo Scimago. Un buen ejemplo de la colaboración entre los departamentos de Biblioteconomía y Documentación y Ciencias de la Computación es el trabajo de Herrera-Viedma et al., centrado en la aplicación de herramientas de lógica difusa a la evaluación de bibliotecas. También se centra en la evaluación el trabajo de Torres y Muñoz, pero en este caso de las páginas web de los centros universitarios que se dedican a los Estudios de las Mujeres. De gran actualidad es el tema abordado por la contribución de López Gijón et al.: el papel que debe jugar la biblioteca universitaria en el nuevo entorno de la educación universitaria en la Unión Europea surgido por el denominado “proceso de Bolonia”. Finalmente, la aportación de G. Olagüe, del Departamento de Historia de la Ciencia, analiza la colaboración entre España y América Latina en

  17. Measurement of (n,2n) and (n,3n) cross sections at incident energies between 8 and 15MeV

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    Frehaut, J; Mosinski, G

    1975-01-01

    Cross sections of (n,2n) and (n,3n) reactions were measured for several nuclides between 8 and 15MeV using a large liquid scintillator to count the neutrons directly. Measurements relative to the fission cross section of /sup 238/U were made for the Nd isotopes 142-144-146-148-150, for the Sm isotopes 148-150-152-154 and for the natural elements Ti, V, Cr, Cu, Zr, Mo and Pb. The relative accuracy of the measurements was generally of the order of 5 to 10%.

  18. Ab initio density functional theory study of non-polar (10-10), (11-20) and semipolar {20-21} GaN surfaces

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    Mutombo, Pingo; Romanyuk, Olexandr

    2014-01-01

    Roč. 115, č. 20 (2014), "203508-1"-"203508-5" ISSN 0021-8979 Grant - others:AVČR(CZ) M100101201 Institutional support: RVO:68378271 Keywords : non-polar GaN * semipolar GaN * surface reconstructions * DFT Subject RIV: BM - Solid Matter Physics ; Magnetism Impact factor: 2.183, year: 2014

  19. Detection of N-acetylglycine, N-acetylglycylglycine, and N-acetylglycylglycylglycine by paper chromatography

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    Sokol, H.A.

    1978-06-01

    This paper reports that the developing solvent of Kirchenmayer and Kuffner, n-butanol-acetic acid-water (8:1:10, v/v) can be used to separate and detect N-acetylglycine, N-acetylglycylglycine, and N-acetylglycylglycylglycine. The chromatographic procedure is described. After heating at 100 0 C, the spots could be seen under uv light; acetone-bromocresol green-morpholine can also be used to make the spots show up. The R/sub f/ values are 0.59, 0.43, and 0.33, respectively. This procedure was used to detect these compounds in aqueous solutions of diglycine, triglycine, and tetraglycine, which were used as gamma-radiolysis targets

  20. Enhancement of indium incorporation to InGaN MQWs on AlN/GaN periodic multilayers

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    Monavarian, Morteza; Hafiz, Shopan; Das, Saikat; Izyumskaya, Natalia; Özgür, Ümit; Morkoç, Hadis; Avrutin, Vitaliy

    2016-02-01

    The effect of compressive strain in buffer layer on strain relaxation and indium incorporation in InGaN multi-quantum wells (MQWs) is studied for two sets of samples grown side by side on both relaxed GaN layers and strained 10-pairs of AlN/GaN periodic multilayers. The 14-nm AlN layers were utilized in both multilayers, while GaN thickness was 4.5 and 2.5 nm in the first and the second set, respectively. The obtained results for the InGaN active layers on relaxed GaN and AlN/GaN periodic multilayers indicate enhanced indium incorporation for more relaxed InGaN active layers providing a variety of emission colors from purple to green.

  1. Synthesis and Characterization of Macrocyclic Polyether N,N′-Diallyl-7,16-diaza-1,4,10,13-tetraoxa-dibenzo-18-crown-6

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    Julius Toeri

    2016-01-01

    Full Text Available In this study an efficient and direct production procedure for a macrocyclic polyether N,N′-diallyl-7,16-diaza-1,4,10,13-tetraoxa-dibenzo-18-crown-6 from the reaction of catechol and N,N-bis(2-chloroethylprop-2-en-1-amine in n-butanol in the presence of a strong base is reported. The synthesis involves a two-step addition of sodium hydroxide to enhance the cyclization process, and at the end of the reaction, the reaction mixture is neutralized and the solvent replaced with water in-situ through distillation to afford a relatively pure precipitate that is easily recrystallized from acetone. The yield of the macrocycle was 36%–45% and could be scaled-up to one-mole quantities. The structure and purity of this compound was verified on the basis of elemental analysis, IR, UV-Vis, 1H-, 13C-NMR, 2D-NMR, mass spectroscopy, and thermal analysis. The white crystalline compound has a sharp melting point of 124 °C and a crystallization temperature of 81.4 °C determined by differential scanning calorimetry. Our motivation behind the synthesis of the bibracchial lariat azacrown polyether ligand was to examine its possible applications in ion-selective polymer-supported materials.

  2. La automatización en el sector terciario: evolución del service encounter [doi: 10.5329/RECADM.20121101004

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    Eva Diz-Comesaña

    2012-05-01

    Full Text Available RESUMEN Tradicionalmente, la mayoría de los servicios han sido el resultado de procesos que se realizan en su mayor parte, sino en su totalidad, en contacto directo entre el cliente y los representantes de la empresa prestataria del servicio, en un contexto organizativo determinado. No obstante, en la actualidad muchos investigadores han reconocido la importancia de la tecnología en la prestación del servicio. Desde esta perspectiva, en este trabajo se analizan los distintos elementos que intervienen en el service encounter y su evolución ante la incorporación de procesos automatizados. Para ello, se ha realizado un análisis empírico sobre cuatro subsectores- autopistas, aparcamientos, lavado de automóviles y alquiler de películas cinematográficas- donde se pone de manifiesto cierta evolución en los elementos que participan en la prestación del servicio y en las relaciones que éstos mantienen entre sí, y se deja intuir que la implantación de tales procesos podría permitir alcanzar cotas aceptables de productividad y flexibilidad, variables tradicionalmente antagónicas.   Palabras clave Servicios, Service Encounter, Automatización.     ABSTRACT Traditionally, the majority of the services have been the result of process mainly made in direct contact between customers and employees of the firm that is making the service. However, many researchers have recognized nowadays the importance of technology in the service delivery. Since this perspective, this work analyses the different elements of the service encounter and its evolution in front of incorporation of automated process. For this, we have realized an empirical study on four industries, namely, toll motorways, car parks, carwash and video/DVD rental companies. This study gave us the opportunity to see certain evolution in the elements that take part in the service encounter and in the relationships that these have between themselves. Would seem to indicate that the

  3. Type test of the Rados MTS-N thermoluminescent dosimetry system for individual monitoring of whole body photons in HP (10)

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    Ferreira, M.S.; Silva, E.R. da; Maurício, C.L.P.

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    The Institute of Radioprotection and Dosimetry (IRD/CNEN-RJ), uses an automatic thermoluminescent dosimetry (TL) system for evaluation of whole body for photons with individual monitors RADOS MTS-N, with TLF detector of LiF: Mg, Ti. The objective of this work was to characterize this system for the evaluation of H P (10) operating magnitude. The measuring range is 0.2 mSv to 2 Sv, for photon energies from 20 keV to 1250 keV. Performance tests were done for the following characteristics: homogeneity of the monitors, system reproducibility, linearity, temperature and humidity effect, energy and angular dependence and fading. The acceptance requirements used to test system performance have been drawn from national and international documents. The results obtained prove that the system can be used to measure the occupational dose of photons in H P (10)

  4. Psicología de la educación (Máster), 2009-10

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    2009-01-01

    I. Materiales de clase: Tema 1. Delimitación psicoeducativa del binomio enseñanza-aprendizaje. ¿Qué supone aprender?. Contenidos de enseñanza-aprendizaje; Tema 2. El proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje desde los procesos cognitivos y emocionales implicados. Condiciones psicoeducativas del aprendizaje: mediaciones frías y mediaciones cálidas; Tema 3. La intervención educativa. Los mecanismos implicados en el cambio educativo. Estrategias de aprendizaje y estrategias de enseñanza; Tema 4. La promo...

  5. n Sathyamurthy

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    Home; Journals; Journal of Chemical Sciences. N SATHYAMURTHY. Articles written in Journal of Chemical Sciences. Volume 128 Issue 10 October 2016 pp 1597-1606 Regular Article. The Effect of Hydration on the Cation-π Interaction Between Benzene and Various Cations · VIKASH DHINDHWAL N SATHYAMURTHY.

  6. Identificación de nombres personales por medio de sistemas de codificación fonética 10.5007/1518-2924.2006v11n22p105

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    Carmen Gálvez

    2006-12-01

    Full Text Available La necesidad de identificar las variantes de los nombres personales es un problema muy conocido en diversas aplicaciones, tales como los sistemas de recuperación de información (SRI, las bibliotecas digitales, las bases de datos de pacientes en un hospital, los sistemas de reservas aéreas, o los sistemas de censo. Los métodos de codificación fonética constituyen uno de los procedimientos para la solución de este problema, permitiendo obtener cadenas canónicas o normalizadas. Estos sistemas se engloban dentro de las técnicas generales de equiparación aproximada de cadenas. En este trabajo se realiza una revisión de los procesos que utilizan los sistemas Soundex, Daitch-Mokotoff Soundex, Phonix, Metaphone y NYSIIS para la asignación de claves fonéticas. La codificación fonética permite reducir a una forma común aquellos nombres personales que son similares en cuanto a su pronunciación, haciendo más sencilla la comparación de una cadena con otra, debido a que se almacena el código generado en lugar del nombre completo. Sin embargo, la principal limitación de estos sistemas es que son dependientes del lenguaje utilizado, lo que hace necesario la realización de modificaciones de acuerdo al idioma que se va a emplear.

  7. (2-Formyl-6-methoxyphenolato-κ2O1,O2(perchlorato-κO(1,10-phenanthroline-κ2N,N′copper(II

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    Zhi-Yong Wu

    2008-05-01

    Full Text Available In the title molecule, [Cu(C8H7O3(ClO4(C12H8N2], the CuII ion is five-coordinated by two N atoms [Cu—N = 1.995 (3 and 2.022 (3 Å] from a 1,10-phenanthroline ligand, two O atoms [Cu—O = 1.908 (2 and 1.927 (2 Å] from an o-vanillin ligand and one O atom [Cu—O = 2.510 (3 Å] from a perchlorate anion in a distorted square-pyramidal geometry. Three O atoms of the perchlorate anion are rotationally disordered between two orientations, with occupancies of 0.525 (13 and 0.475 (13. In the crystal structure, two molecules related by a centre of symmetry are paired in such a way that the phenolate O atom from one molecule completes the distorted octahedral Cu coordination in another molecule [Cu...O = 2.704 (2 Å].

  8. Dual vector multiplet coupled to dual N=1 supergravity in 10D

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    Nishino, Hitoshi; Rajpoot, Subhash

    2005-01-01

    We couple in superspace a dual vector multiplet (C m 1 ...m 7 ,λ α ) to the dual version of N=1 supergravity (e m a ,ψ m α ,M m 1 ...m 6 ,χ α ,Φ) in ten dimensions. The 7-form field C has its 8-form field strength H dual to the 2-form field strength F of the conventional vector multiplet. To simplify the computation, we use so-called beta-function-favored superspace constraints for dual supergravity developed for β-function computations. As in a more conventional constraint set, the H-Bianchi identity must have the form N and F, where N is the 7-form field strength in dual supergravity. The potential anomaly for the dual vector multiplet can be cancelled for the particular gauge group U(1) 496 by the Green-Schwarz mechanism. As a by-product, we also give the globally supersymmetric Abelian Dirac-Born-Infeld interactions for the dual vector multiplet for the first time

  9. The unbound isotopes He-9,He-10

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    Jonson, B; Cortina-Gil, D; Simon, H; Emling, H; Nyman, G; Nilsson, T; Johansson, H T; Borge, M J G; Paschalis, S; Muenzenberg, G; Zhukov, M V; Weick, H; Pramanik, U Datta; LeBleis, T; Meister, M; Reifarth, R; Chulkov, L V; Lantz, M; Riisager, K; Mahata, K; Suemmerer, K; Langer, C; Chatillon, A; Richter, A; Kulessa, R; Palit, R; Aksyutina, Yu; Geissel, H; Aumann, T; Prokopowicz, W; Forssen, C; Ickert, G; Fynbo, H O U; Tengblad, O; Boretzky, K

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    The unbound nuclei He-9 and He-10 have been produced in proton-knockout reactions from a 280 MeV/u Li-11 beam impinging on a liquid hydrogen target at the ALADIN-LAND setup at GSI. Information on their nuclear structure has been obtained from the relative-energy spectra, He-8 + n and He-8 + 2n, employing reaction models incorporating the structure of Li-11. The (8H)e + n relative-energy spectrum is dominated by a strong peak-like structure at low energy, which may be interpreted within the effective-range approximation as the result of an s-wave interaction with a neutron scattering length of -3.17(66) fm. This spectrum also shows evidence for resonance states at 1.33(8) MeV and at 2.4 MeV above the He-8 + n threshold. It is argued that the s-state might not be the He-9 ground state. For He-8 + n + n, the analysis of the relative-energy spectrum gives two alternative possibilities for an interpretation: either a narrow resonance at 1.42(10) MeV (Gamma = 1.11(76) MeV) superimposed on a correlated background, o...

  10. Features of argon-arc welding of aluminium alloy AD1 to stainless steel 12Kh18N10T

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    Sadov, I.I.

    1982-01-01

    Welding of pipes made of the 12Kh18N10T stainless steel and the AD1 aluminium alloy is proposed to perform using one-sided aluminizing. It is recommended to use shields in order to protect internal and external surfaces of pipes, aluminizing of which is impossible. It is shown that developed technological process for welded joints made of aluminium and stainless steel for cryogenic apparatus permits to create light-duty cryostat assembly using aluminium alloys instead of copper alloys, to increase reliability of apparatus (usage of welded joints instead of soldered ones), and to improve labour conditions

  11. Applicability of the {sup 9}Be(d,n){sup 10}B reaction to AB-BNCT skin and deep tumor treatment

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    Capoulat, M.E., E-mail: capoulat@tandar.cnea.gov.ar [Gerencia de Investigacion y Aplicaciones, CNEA. Av. Gral. Paz 1499 (B1650KNA), San Martin, Buenos Aires (Argentina)] [Escuela de Ciencia y Tecnologia, Universidad Nacional de San Martin, M. de Irigoyen 3100 (1650), San Martin, Buenos Aires (Argentina)] [CONICET, Avenida Rivadavia 1917 (C1033AAJ), Buenos Aires (Argentina); Minsky, D.M.; Kreiner, A.J. [Gerencia de Investigacion y Aplicaciones, CNEA. Av. Gral. Paz 1499 (B1650KNA), San Martin, Buenos Aires (Argentina)] [Escuela de Ciencia y Tecnologia, Universidad Nacional de San Martin, M. de Irigoyen 3100 (1650), San Martin, Buenos Aires (Argentina)] [CONICET, Avenida Rivadavia 1917 (C1033AAJ), Buenos Aires (Argentina)

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    In the range of low bombarding energies (less than about 1.5 MeV) the {sup 9}Be(d,n){sup 10}B reaction produces neutron spectra that can be moderated depending on the choice of the target thickness and the deuteron bombarding energy. In this work, a Monte Carlo simulation study to determine the capability of this reaction to deliver enough dose to efficiently control both skin and deep seated tumors has been performed by means of MCNP calculations using eight optimized {sup 9}Be targets.

  12. 19 CFR 10.455 - Value of materials.

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    2010-04-01

    ... Chile or of the United States. (c) Accounting method. Any cost or value referenced in General Note 26(n... 19 Customs Duties 1 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false Value of materials. 10.455 Section 10.455 Customs... of Origin § 10.455 Value of materials. (a) Calculating the regional value content. For purposes of...

  13. Joonistuste näitus "Improvisatsioon" Tallinna Kunstihoones 4. VIII - 10. IX

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    Rahvusvahelisel näitusel osaleb üle 70 kunstniku Eestist ning külalised: Valgerdur Hauksdottir, Kim Kang, Juho Karjalainen, Solveig (Sol) Kjok, Ingrid Ledent, Roman Tolici, Peter Shvetsov, Marie Sivak. Kontserdid ja tantsuetendus koos joonistajatega

  14. Influence of the GaN spacer thickness on the structural and photoluminescence properties of multi-stack InN/GaN quantum dots

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    Ke, Wen-Cheng; Lee, Shuo-Jen; Chen, Shiow-Long; Kao, Chia-Yu; Houng, Wei-Chung; Wei, Chih-An; Su, Yi-Ru

    2012-01-01

    Highlights: ► We present structural and photoluminescence characteristics of multi-stack InN/GaN QDs. ► A single crystalline 10-nm thick GaN capping layer is grown on the InN QDs. ► The PL intensity of the three-layer stacked sample is about 3 times that of the single-layer sample. - Abstract: This paper reports the structural and photoluminescence (PL) characteristics of single-layer and multi-stack InN/GaN quantum dots (QDs) with varying spacer thickness. A single crystalline 10-nm thick GaN capping layer is grown on the InN QDs by the flow-rate modulation epitaxy (FME) method. The PL peak is red shifted down to 18 meV and its full width at half maximum (FWHM) was narrowed from 104 meV to 77 meV as increasing GaN capping layer thickness to 20-nm. The red-shift and the linewidth narrowing of the PL spectra for the single-layer InN QDs as a result of the increase in capping thickness are believed to be due to the fact that the GaN capping layer decreases the surface defect density thereby decreasing the surface electron concentration of the InN QDs. However, the PL intensity decreases rapidly with the increase in GaN spacer thickness for the three-layer stacked InN/GaN QDs. Because of kinetic roughening, the 20-nm thick GaN capping layer shows a roughened surface. This roughened GaN capping layer degrades the InN QDs growth in the next layer of multi-stack InN QDs. In addition, the increased compressive strain on the InN QDs with the increase in GaN spacer thickness increases the defect density at the InN/GaN capped interface and will further decrease the PL intensity. After the GaN spacer thickness is modified, the PL intensity of the three-layer stacked sample with a 10-nm thick GaN spacer layer is about 3 times that of the single-layer sample.

  15. Supersymmetric SO(10) models inspired by deconstruction

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    Huang Chaoshang; Jiang Jing; Li Tianjun

    2004-01-01

    We consider 4-dimensional N=1 supersymmetric SO(10) models inspired by deconstruction of 5-dimensional N=1 supersymmetric orbifold SO(10) models and high-dimensional non-supersymmetric SO(10) models with Wilson line gauge symmetry breaking. We discuss the SO(10)xSO(10) models with bi-fundamental link fields where the gauge symmetry can be broken down to the Pati-Salam, SU(5)xU(1), flipped SU(5)xU(1)' or the Standard Model like gauge symmetry. We also propose an SO(10)xSO(6)xSO(4) model with bi-fundamental link fields where the gauge symmetry is broken down to the Pati-Salam gauge symmetry, and an SO(10)xSO(10) model with bi-spinor link fields where the gauge symmetry is broken down to the flipped SU(5)xU(1)' gauge symmetry. In these two models, the Pati-Salam and flipped SU(5)xU(1)' gauge symmetry can be further broken down to the Standard Model gauge symmetry, the doublet-triplet splittings can be obtained by the missing partner mechanism, and the proton decay problem can be solved. We also study the gauge coupling unification. We briefly comment on the interesting variation models with gauge groups SO(10)xSO(6) and SO(10)xflippedSU(5)xU(1)' in which the proton decay problem can be solved

  16. Psychological and Unconventional Warfare, 1941-1952: Origins of a Special Warfare Capability for the United States Army

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    1979-11-01

    nic -,L-dant orer unconventional wsr:fare? In shnrt, wfiat were-the pre-1952 roots of tbe’ P9ych𔃺rg1.ca1 WArfArPg Contme" artx], cMocom~tant y, the...General Robert A. McClure, 30 March 1948, from Co’.onel William S. Biddle , Assistant Chief, Plans and Policy Group, 1, 319, Plans and Operations Division

  17. cis-Difluoridobis(1,10-phenanthroline)chromium(III) perchlorate monohydrate

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    Birk, Torben; Bendix, Jesper; Weihe, Högni

    2008-01-01

    The title complex, [CrF(2)(C(12)H(8)N(2))(2)]ClO(4)·H(2)O, displays a slightly distorted octa-hedral coordination geometry around the central chromium(III) ion. The Cr environment is composed of a cis arrangement of two 1,10-phenanthroline [average Cr(III)-N = 2.0726 (10) Å] and two fluoride [ave...

  18. Water concentration controlled hydrolysis and crystallization in n-octanol to TiO{sub 2} nanocrystals with size below 10 nm

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    Wang Meilan [School of Chemical and Biological Science and Engineering, Yantai University, Yantai 264005 (China); He Tao, E-mail: htzy79@yahoo.com.cn [School of Chemical and Biological Science and Engineering, Yantai University, Yantai 264005 (China); Pan Yanfei; Liao Weiping [School of Chemical and Biological Science and Engineering, Yantai University, Yantai 264005 (China); Zhang Shangzhou; Du Wei [School of Environment and Materials Engineering, Yantai University, Yantai 264005 (China)

    2011-11-01

    Highlights: {yields} Controlled hydrolysis of alkoxide was realized by adjusting water concentration. {yields} Carrying out hydrolysis under different water concentration gave hydrolyzed intermediate with different composition. {yields} A precise size control below 10 nm for anatase TiO{sub 2} nanocrystals was realized. - Abstract: Hydrolysis of tetrabutyl titanate (TBT) and crystallization from hydrolyzed intermediates were carried out in a simple ternary system including n-octanol, TBT and water. Anatase TiO{sub 2} nanocrystals (NCS) were prepared with precise size control below 10 nm. The hydrolysis rate at different water concentration (C{sub water}) was evaluated by measuring the induction time before turbidity changing of the synthetic solution. Fourier transform infrared spectrum (FT-IR) and thermogravimetric/differential thermal analysis (TG/DTA) techniques were applied to make clear the composition of hydrolyzed intermediates obtained at different C{sub water}. Powder X-ray diffraction (XRD) technique was used to track the crystallization process of TiO{sub 2} NCS. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM), XRD, FT-IR and TG/DTA techniques were used to characterize the particular properties of NCS. The C{sub water} controlled mechanism responsible for the slow hydrolysis and crystallization were discussed. Since no other organic capping ligands or rapid injecting techniques were used to limit NCS' growth and the solvent n-octanol can be easily separated and reused, this simple synthetic process is of green chemistry and has application potential in large-scale preparation of inorganic NCS.

  19. Actividad radical, removilización y absorción de N en trigo en postantesis bajo dos sistemas de labranza y fertilización nitrogenada Postanthesis root activity, removilisation and N absortion in wheat under two tillage systems and nitrogen fertilization

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    S.I. Golik

    2007-06-01

    Full Text Available El objetivo del trabajo fue analizar la actividad radical y su relación con la acumulación, removilización y absorción de N en trigo durante postantesis bajo dos sistemas de labranza y distintas dosis de fertilización nitrogenada. La mayor acumulación de N bajo la labranza convencional se tradujo en un mayor aporte de N al grano (10,36 g m- 2 en 2002 y 10,19 g m- 2 en 2003 y en un mayor rendimiento (485,78 g m- 2 en 2002 y 468,2 g m- 2 en 2003. La siembra directa no presentó diferencias con la labranza convencional en el N absorbido postantesis, pero sí en el removilizado. La fertilización aumentó el N acumulado en cada etapa fenológica, el N removilizado y el N absorbido postantesis. La materia seca radical disminuyó desde antesis hacia madurez. No obstante su tasa de absorción específica de N (SARn se mantuvo, lo que sugiere que el N acumulado en el grano no sólo proviene del N removilizado sino también del absorbido postantesis. Durante el llenado de granos la MSR no mostró relación con la tasa de absorción de N, pero sí lo hizo su SARn (r= 0,99** y 0,97 ** para 2002 y 2003 respectivamente. Los cultivares presentaron un comportamiento diferencial frente a los distintos tratamientos analizados.The objective of this work was to evaluate postanthesis root activity and N accumulation, removilisation and absorption under two tillage systems and three N fertilizer levels. The higher N accumulation under the conventional tillage resulted in a greater contribution of N to the grain (10,36 g m- 2 in 2002 and 10,19 g m- 2 in 2003 and a greater yield (485,78 g m- 2 in 2002 and 468,2 g m- 2 in 2003. No-tillage did not present differences with the conventional tillage in the postanthesis N absorbed, but in the remobilised N differences between two tillage systems were observed. The fertilization increased postanthesis N accumulated, N remobilised and N absorbed. Root dry matter decreased from anthesis towards maturity. However, its

  20. Nuclear reaction of 10 B (n, α) 7 Li and grain size effects on the production of free radicals in alanine

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    Zurita Petatan, S.L.

    1993-01-01

    In general, it is important to know the physical and chemical properties of any material that is exposed to ionizing radiation. In particular, in dosimetric work, the amount of the absorbed doses by these materials is of much interest, in such a way that several methods have been developed in the past. An important and quantitatively accessible radiation effect in organic substances is the production of free radicals that can be easily measured by 'ELECTRON PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY (EPR)'. Numerous studies have been now been made on pure D L-Alanine irradiated with different radiation sources. Examination of the irradiated samples reveals the production of a stable free radical (CH 3 - CH. -COOH). In particular, gamma and electron irradiated D L-Alanine has received wide attention in the high doses interval (10 - 10 5 Gy). In contrast, there are very few EPR studies on thermal neutron radiation induced free radicals in pure D L-alanine. This may be due to the weak EPR signals observed in the irradiated samples. The objective of this work is to study for the first time the increase of the radical yield produced in neutron irradiated borated alanine by the EPR technique. For this purpose alanine has been mixed with borax in different stoichiometric proportions and grain sizes. When the mixture is neutron irradiated, the boron of the borax may experience a neutron capture reaction, 10 B (n, α) 7 Li. With this nuclear reaction it is supposed that the α particles will may impinge on the alanine molecules, producing in this way extra free radicals. Samples were irradiated in the thermal column of a Triga Mark III nuclear reactor with a thermal neutron flux of 5 x 10 7 n/Cm 2 -s. A signal enhancement of up to 1260 % is observed when samples of alanine-borax were intimately mixed in a stoichiometric ratio of 1:1. We also studied dosimetric characteristics of the mixed samples such as: a) Sensibility. b) Accuracy. c) Traceability. d) Stability. e)Fading. f

  1. Triosmium cluster compounds containing isocyanide and hydride ligands. Crystal and molecular structure of (μ-H)(μ-eta1-C==N(H)(t-C4H9))Os3(CO)10

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    Adams, R.D.; Golembeski, N.M.

    1979-01-01

    The crystal and molecular structure of the compound (μ-H)(μ-eta 1 -C==N(H)(t-C 4 H 9 ))Os 3 (CO) 10 has been determined by X-ray crystallographic methods. The compound crystallizes in the centrosymmetric monoclinic space group P2 1 /n[C/sub 2h/ 5 ]:a = 13.651 (4) A, b = 9.156 (4) A, c = 18.275 (5) A, β = 111.42 (2) 0 , V = 2126.3 (25) A 3 , Z = 4, rho/sub calcd/ = 2.92 g cm -3 . A uniform triangular cluster of three osmium atoms contains ten linear carbonyl groups and a μ-eta 1 -C==N(H)(t-C 4 H 9 ) iminyl ligand. The carbon atom of the iminyl ligand symmetrically bridges one osmium-osmium bond, as is shown by the internuclear separations Os(2)-C(11) = 2.066 (8) A and Os(3)-C(11) = 2.043 (8) A. The iminyl bond, C(11)-N, is double with the C-N distance being 1.298 (10) A

  2. Effect of low doses of gamma irradiation and N-fertilizer on N-sources in chickpea, using 15N

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    Kurd Ali, F.; Al-Shamma, M.; Al-Ayyobi, Z.

    1998-07-01

    A pot experiment was conducted to study the effect of low doses of gamma irradiation on the performance of winter chickpea in the presence of different levels of ammonium sulfate. The results showed an apparent effect of radiation and N-fertilizer on nodulation and N sub 2 -fixation. High levels of N-NH sup + sup 4 decreased N sub 2 - fixation but not nodule formation. However, the Presowing irradiation of chickpea with 10 Gy reduced the negative effect on N - fertilizer on N sub 2 - fixation (Author)

  3. Doppler Radar and Lightning Network Observations of a Severe Outbreak of Tropical Cyclone Tornadoes

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    Mccaul, Eugene W., Jr.; Buechler, Dennis E.; Goodman, Steven J.; Cammarata, Michael

    2004-01-01

    Data from a single Weather Surveillance Radar-1988 Doppler (WSR-88D) and the National Lightning Detection Network are used to examine the characteristics of the convective storms that produced a severe tornado outbreak, including three tornadoes that reached F3 intensity, within Tropical Storm Beryl s remnants on 16 August 1994. Comparison of the radar data with reports of tornadoes suggests that only 13 cells produced the 29 tornadoes that were documented in Georgia and the Carolinas on that date. Six of these cells spawned multiple tornadoes, and the radar data confirm the presence of miniature supercells. One of the cells was identifiable on radar for 11 h. spawning tornadoes over a time period spanning approximately 6.5 h. Several other tornadic cells also exhibited great longevity, with cell lifetimes longer than ever previously documented in a landfalling tropical cyclone (TC) tornado event. This event is easily the most intense TC tornado outbreak yet documented with WSR-88Ds. Time-height analyses of the three strongest tornadic supercells are presented in order to document storm kinematic structure and to show how these storms appear at different ranges from a WSR-88D. In addition, cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning data are examined in Beryl s remnants. Although the tornadic cells were responsible for most of Beryl's CG lightning, their flash rates were only weak to moderate, and in all the tornadic storms the lightning flashes were almost entirely negative in polarity. A few of the single-tornado storms produced no detectable CG lightning at all. There is evidence that CG lightning rates decreased during the tornadoes, compared to 30-min periods before the tornadoes. A number of the storms spawned tornadoes just after producing their final CG lightning flashes. Contrary to the findings for flash rates, both peak currents and positive flash percentages were larger in Beryl's nontornadic storms than in the tornadic ones.

  4. Improving Radar Quantitative Precipitation Estimation over Complex Terrain in the San Francisco Bay Area

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    Cifelli, R.; Chen, H.; Chandrasekar, V.

    2017-12-01

    A recent study by the State of California's Department of Water Resources has emphasized that the San Francisco Bay Area is at risk of catastrophic flooding. Therefore, accurate quantitative precipitation estimation (QPE) and forecast (QPF) are critical for protecting life and property in this region. Compared to rain gauge and meteorological satellite, ground based radar has shown great advantages for high-resolution precipitation observations in both space and time domain. In addition, the polarization diversity shows great potential to characterize precipitation microphysics through identification of different hydrometeor types and their size and shape information. Currently, all the radars comprising the U.S. National Weather Service (NWS) Weather Surveillance Radar-1988 Doppler (WSR-88D) network are operating in dual-polarization mode. Enhancement of QPE is one of the main considerations of the dual-polarization upgrade. The San Francisco Bay Area is covered by two S-band WSR-88D radars, namely, KMUX and KDAX. However, in complex terrain like the Bay Area, it is still challenging to obtain an optimal rainfall algorithm for a given set of dual-polarization measurements. In addition, the accuracy of rain rate estimates is contingent on additional factors such as bright band contamination, vertical profile of reflectivity (VPR) correction, and partial beam blockages. This presentation aims to improve radar QPE for the Bay area using advanced dual-polarization rainfall methodologies. The benefit brought by the dual-polarization upgrade of operational radar network is assessed. In addition, a pilot study of gap fill X-band radar performance is conducted in support of regional QPE system development. This paper also presents a detailed comparison between the dual-polarization radar-derived rainfall products with various operational products including the NSSL's Multi-Radar/Multi-Sensor (MRMS) system. Quantitative evaluation of various rainfall products is achieved

  5. [Determination of 10-hydroxy-2-decenoic acid (10-HDA) in Chinese traditional medicine preparations by high performance liquid chromatography].

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    Yang, J; Chen, L

    1998-03-01

    This paper reports the quantitative determination of 10-HDA in Chinese traditional medicine preparations by HPLC. Spherisorb C18 column was used. The mobile phase consisted of methanol-distilled water and phosphoric acid(45:55:0.5, V/V). The elute was monitored at 210 nm. The good linearity was shown between the concentration of 10-HDA and peak area in the concentration range of 6.0-30.0 mg/L (r = 0.9999, n = 5). The detection limit was 0.2 mg/L (S:N = 3:1). The within-day and between-day RSD were 2.1%-2.2% and 2.9%-4.0%, respectively. Peaks of 10-HDA and impurities in these samples were separated completely. This method is simple, sensitive and accurate.

  6. Impacto del ajuste por inflación financiero en la gestión empresarial

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    Oda Hilda Gómez de Angulo

    2009-01-01

    Full Text Available La inflación es un fenómeno económico que afecta la situación financiera de las organizaciones, por lo que existe la Declaración de Principios de Contabilidad No. 10 (DPC-10 que establece las normas para efectuar el ajuste por inflación a los estados financieros. Con el propósito de conocer el impacto de este ajuste, se seleccionaron dos empresas que realizan actividades diferentes. Se efectuó una revisión bibliográfica y documental de la DPC-10 y, con base a los informes al cierre de cada ejercicio económico de las empresas objeto de estudio, se recopilaron y prepararon los datos en una misma unidad de medida para efectos de comparación, análisis e interpretación. Los resultados obtenidos indican que en la empresa regida por la Comisión Nacional de Valores se justifica el ajuste por inflación financiero debido a la naturaleza de la estructura financiera y a que la toma de decisiones administrativas y legales se realiza con base a esta información; mientras que en la institución regida por la Superintendencia de Cajas de Ahorro no se justifica la presentación del ajuste por inflación financiero, ya que no aporta ningún valor agregado a la organización y la toma de decisiones se realiza con base a los estados financieros históricos.

  7. THE SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC DETERMINATION OF NITRITES WITH N,N-DIETHYLANILINE

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    O. S. Pogrebnyak

    2015-11-01

    Full Text Available A new spectrophotometric method for nitrite determination was proposed. The method is based on the measurement of absorbance of the N,N-diethylaniline nitrosation product at 475 nm in the hydrochloric acid medium. The optimum concentrations and the influence of various conditions on the determination sensitivity have been determined. The detection limit (blank + 3s for nitrite is 0.98 mg∙L–1 where sis the standard deviation of blank estimation. The linearity range of the calibration graph was over 1.0–100 mg∙L–1 of  nitrite (sr≤ 0.029, n = 8. The metrological characteristics of the procedure were checked by means of method of additives on the control samples and natural waters. The relative error did not exceed 0.06 for nitrite determination on the control samples. The effect of foreign ions in nitrite determination of 1,010−3 mol∙L–1 has been studied. The proposed procedure is simple  and suitable for nitrite determination in various objects.

  8. Fabrication of a PVC membrane samarium(III) sensor based on N,N Prime ,N Double-Prime -tris(4-pyridyl)trimesic amide as a selectophore

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    Zamani, Hassan Ali, E-mail: haszamani@yahoo.com [Department of Applied Chemistry, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad (Iran, Islamic Republic of); Naghavi-Reyabbi, Fatemeh [Resident of General Surgery, Endoscopic and Minimaly Invasive Surgery Research Center, Ghaem Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad (Iran, Islamic Republic of); Faridbod, Farnoush [Center of Excellence in Electrochemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Tehran, Tehran (Iran, Islamic Republic of); Mohammadhosseini, Majid [Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Basic Sciences, Shahrood Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahrood (Iran, Islamic Republic of); Ganjali, Mohammad Reza [Center of Excellence in Electrochemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Tehran, Tehran (Iran, Islamic Republic of); Tadjarodi, Azadeh; Rad, Maryam [Department of Chemistry, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran (Iran, Islamic Republic of)

    2013-03-01

    A new ion-selective electrode for Sm{sup 3+} ion is described based on the incorporation of N,N Prime ,N Double-Prime -tris(4-pyridyl)trimesic amide (TPTA) in a poly(vinylchloride) (PVC) matrix. The membrane sensor comprises nitrobenzene (NB) as a plasticizer, and oleic acid (OA) as an anionic additive. The sensor with the optimized composition shows a Nernstian potential response of 19.8 {+-} 0.5 mV decade{sup -1} over a wide concentration range of 1.0 Multiplication-Sign 10{sup -2} and 1 Multiplication-Sign 10{sup -6} mol L{sup -1}, with a lower detection limit of 4.7 Multiplication-Sign 10{sup -7} mol L{sup -1} and satisfactor applicable pH range of 3.6-9.2. Having a short response time of less than 10 s and a very good selectivity towards the Sm{sup 3+} over a wide variety of interfering cations (e.g. alkali, alkaline earth, transition and heavy metal ions) the sensor seemed to be a promising analytical tool for determination of the Sm{sup 3+}. Hence, it was used as an indicator electrode in the potentiometric titration of samarium ion with EDTA. It was also applied to the direct samarium recovery in binary mixtures. - Highlights: Black-Right-Pointing-Pointer A new Sm{sup 3+}-PVC membrane sensor is introduced for determination of Sm{sup 3+} ions in the solutions. Black-Right-Pointing-Pointer N,N Prime ,N Double-Prime -tris(4-pyridyl)trimesic amide was used as a suitable selectophore for samarium sensor. Black-Right-Pointing-Pointer Detection limit of the sensor is 4.7 Multiplication-Sign 10{sup -7} mol L{sup -1} with a short response time of less than 10 s.

  9. Thermal expansion and magnetostriction in Pr(n+2)(n+1)Nin(n-1)+2Sin(n+1) compounds

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    Jiles, D.C.; Song, S.H.; Snyder, J.E.; Pecharsky, V.K.; Lograsso, T.A.; Wu, D.; Pecharsky, A.O.; Mudryk, Ya.; Dennis, K.W.; McCallum, R.W.

    2006-01-01

    Thermal expansion and magnetostriction of members of a homologous series of compounds based on the alloy series Pr (n+2)(n+1) Ni n(n-1)+2 Si n(n+1) have been measured. The crystal structures of these compounds are closely interrelated because they form trigonal prismatic columns in which the number of trigonal prisms that form the base of the trigonal columns is determined by the value of n in the chemical formula. Two compositions were investigated, Pr 5 Ni 2 Si 3 and Pr 15 Ni 7 Si 10 , corresponding to n=3 and n=4, respectively. The results were analyzed and used to determine the location of magnetic phase transitions by calculating the magnetic contribution to thermal expansion using the Gruneisen-Debye theory. This allowed more precise determination of the magnetic transition temperatures than could be achieved using the total thermal expansion. The results show two phase transitions in each material, one corresponding to the Curie temperature and the other at a lower temperature exhibiting characteristics of a spin reorientation transition

  10. Kuluttaja-asiakkaiden mielikuva Concept.10-brändistä

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    Väisänen, Janna-Mari

    2011-01-01

    Tutkimuksen tavoitteena on selvittää, millainen käsitys Concept.10:n kuluttaja-asiakkailla on brändin eri osa-alueista ja millaisia mielleyhtymiä brändin mainonta, nimi, tunnus ja slogan herättävät. Näillä tekijöillä on vaikutusta kokonaismielikuvan syntymiseen brändistä. Tutkimusongelmana on, millainen mielikuva kuluttaja-asiakkailla on Concept.10-brändistä. Concept.10 toimii yhteisenä markkinointinimenä Mikkelin Puhelin Oyj:n omistamille yhtiöille ja niiden palveluille. Teoreettisessa v...

  11. Molecular and component volumes of N,N-dimethyl-N-alkylamine N-oxides in DOPC bilayers

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    Belicka, Michal; Klacsova, Maria; Karlovska, Janka

    2014-01-01

    The volumetric properties of fluid bilayers formed of dioleoylphosphatidylcholine (DOPC) with incorporated N ,N -dimethyl-N -alkylamine N -oxides (Cn NO, n = 6, 10–18 is the even number of carbons in alkyl chain) were studied by vibrating tube densitometry in the temperature interval from 20 °C...... to 50 °C. It was found that the DOPC and Cn NO mixed ideally in the investigated composition range and hence the molecular volumes of DOPC (V DOPC) and incorporated Cn NO (V CnNO) were constant and additive within error limits. From the temperature dependencies of the molecular volumes of DOPC and Cn...... NO their coefficients of isobaric thermal expansivities in the investigated temperature interval were obtained. The V CnNO volumes of Cn NO incorporated into DOPC bilayers showed linear dependencies on the Cn NO alkyl chain length at all measured temperatures. This allowed to calculate the component volume of the Cn...

  12. Dielectric response functions of the (000-1), (10-13) GaN single crystalline and disordered surfaces studied by reflection electron energy loss spectroscopy

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    Romanyuk, Olexandr; Jiříček, Petr; Zemek, Josef; Tougaard, S.; Paskova, T.

    2011-01-01

    Roč. 110, č. 4 (2011), 043507/1-043507/7 ISSN 0021-8979 R&D Projects: GA ČR GPP204/10/P028 Grant - others:MDA(US) HQ0147-09-C-0005 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z10100521 Keywords : GaN * REELS * optical constants * semiconductor surfaces Subject RIV: BM - Solid Matter Physics ; Magnetism Impact factor: 2.168, year: 2011

  13. Ajuste de curvas mediante métodos no paramétricos para estudiar el comportamiento de contaminación del aire por material particulado PM10

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    Reina, J. (Jhovana); Olaya, J. (Javier)

    2012-01-01

    Uno de los principales agentes contaminantes del aire es el material particulado de diámetro aerodinámico inferior a 10 micrómetros, comúnmente conocido como PM10. Su comportamiento varía de forma irregular y temporal en la atmósfera, debido a las actividades humanas, condiciones atmosféricas inestables y fenómenos meteorológicos. El propósito de este estudio es caracterizar con un modelo de suavización no paramétrica el comportamiento del PM10 en el aire a lo largo de un día, teniendo en cue...

  14. Development of a field-suitable test method to evaluate the danger of hydrogen embrittlement due to hydrochloric acid pickling bathes and comparison of the effectiveness of pickling inhibitors; Entwicklung eines praxisgeeigneten Pruefverfahrens zur Bewertung des Wasserstoffgefaehrdungspotenzials von Salzsaeurebeizen und zum Vergleich der Wirksamkeit von Inhibitoren

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    Schroeder-Rentrop, I.; Landgrebe, R.; Berger, C.; Hasselmann, U. [Institut fuer Werkstoffkunde, Staatliche Materialpruefungsanstalt Darmstadt, TU Darmstadt, Grafenstrasse 2, 64283 Darmstadt (Germany)

    2005-11-01

    Qualitaetssicherung beherrschbarer zu machen und moeglichst zu verbessern. Es wurde ein praxistaugliches Versuchsverfahren zur Prozessueberwachung inhibierter Beizen entwickelt. Bei dem Verfahren handelt es sich um einen Verspannversuch, der an Wellensicherungsringen (WSR) nach DIN 471 in einer hierfuer entwickelten Aufweitvorrichtung durchgefuehrt wird. Die Indikationssicherheit des Versuchsverfahrens wurde durch den Vergleich der Ergebnisse des Verspannversuches mit WSR mit den Ergebnissen aus anderen Untersuchungsverfahren, die mit den gleichen Salzsaeurebeizen erzielt wurden, belegt. Die ''Wiederholpraezision'' des Verspannversuches mit Wellensicherungsringen wurde durch uebereinstimmende Ergebnisse, die mit WSR aus unterschiedlichen Fertigungslosen und Waermebehandlungslosen erzielt wurden, belegt. Die Verspannversuche mit WSR eignen sich als praxistaugliches Pruefverfahren und zeichnen sich darueber hinaus durch einen geringen zeitlichen und materiellen Pruefaufwand, eine einfache Handhabung sowie einen robusten und fehlertoleranten Versuchsaufbau aus. Das im Rahmen des Projektes entwickelte, aus verschiedenen Versuchsfuehrungen bestehende Untersuchungsprogramm, ermoeglicht darueber hinaus die umfassende Bewertung geeigneter Inhibitoren fuer die Beizvorbehandlung hochfester vergueteter Verbindungselemente. (Abstract Copyright [2005], Wiley Periodicals, Inc.)

  15. Ultrasensitive detection of Hg2+ using oligonucleotide-functionalized AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistor

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    Cheng, Junjie; Li, Jiadong; Miao, Bin; Wu, Dongmin; Wang, Jine; Pei, Renjun; Wu, Zhengyan

    2014-01-01

    An oligonucleotide-functionalized ion sensitive AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) was fabricated to detect trace amounts of Hg 2+ . The advantages of ion sensitive AlGaN/GaN HEMT and highly specific binding interaction between Hg 2+ and thymines were combined. The current response of this Hg 2+ ultrasensitive transistor was characterized. The current increased due to the accumulation of Hg 2+ ions on the surface by the highly specific thymine-Hg 2+ -thymine recognition. The dynamic linear range for Hg 2+ detection has been determined in the concentrations from 10 −14 to 10 −8 M and a detection limit below 10 −14 M level was estimated, which is the best result of AlGaN/GaN HEMT biosensors for Hg 2+ detection till now.

  16. Comprehensive strain and band gap analysis of PA-MBE grown AlGaN/GaN heterostructures on sapphire with ultra thin buffer

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    Mahata, Mihir Kumar; Ghosh, Saptarsi; Jana, Sanjay Kumar; Bag, Ankush; Kumar, Rahul; Chakraborty, Apurba; Biswas, Dhrubes; Mukhopadhyay, Partha

    2014-01-01

    In this work, cluster tool (CT) Plasma Assisted Molecular Beam Epitaxy (PA-MBE) grown AlGaN/GaN heterostructure on c-plane (0 0 0 1) sapphire (Al 2 O 3 ) were investigated by High Resolution X-ray Diffraction (HRXRD), Room Temperature Raman Spectroscopy (RTRS), and Room Temperature Photoluminescence (RTPL). The effects of strain and doping on GaN and AlGaN layers were investigated thoroughly. The out-of-plane (‘c’) and in-plane (‘a’) lattice parameters were measured from RTRS analysis and as well as reciprocal space mapping (RSM) from HRXRD scan of (002) and (105) plane. The in-plane (out-of plane) strain of the samples were found to be −2.5 × 10 −3 (1 × 10 −3 ), and −1.7 × 10 −3 (2 × 10 −3 ) in GaN layer and 5.1 × 10 −3 (−3.3 × 10 −3 ), and 8.8 × 10 −3 (−1.3 × 10 −3 ) in AlGaN layer, respectively. In addition, the band structures of AlGaN/GaN interface were estimated by both theoretical (based on elastic theory) and experimental observations of the RTPL spectrum

  17. Measurement of (n,/alpha/) cross sections of chromium, iron, and nickel in the 5- to 10-MeV neutron energy range

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    Paulsen, A.; Liskien, H.; Arnotte, F.; Widera, R.

    1981-01-01

    A measuring program has been carried out at the Van de Graaff accelerator facility of the Central Bureau for Nuclear Measurements for the determination of (n,/alpha/) cross sections on the main constituents of fast reactor structural materials, namely the elements chromium, iron, and nickel. Results obtained in the energy range from 5 to 10 Mev are presented in terms of laboratory angle-differential cross sections, relative Legendre polynomial coefficients of angular distributions, angle-integrated cross sections, and average alpha energies. 13 refs

  18. AlGaN/GaN HEMT structures on ammono bulk GaN substrate

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    Kruszewski, P; Prystawko, P; Krysko, M; Smalc-Koziorowska, J; Leszczynski, M; Kasalynas, I; Nowakowska-Siwinska, A; Plesiewicz, J; Dwilinski, R; Zajac, M; Kucharski, R

    2014-01-01

    The work shows a successful fabrication of AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) structures on the bulk GaN substrate grown by ammonothermal method providing an ultralow dislocation density of 10 4  cm −2  and wafers of size up to 2 inches in diameter. The AlGaN layers grown by metalorganic chemical vapor phase epitaxy method demonstrate atomically smooth surface, flat interfaces with reproduced low dislocation density as in the substrate. The test electronic devices—Schottky diodes and transistors—were designed without surface passivation and were successfully fabricated using mask-less laser-based photolithography procedures. The Schottky barrier devices demonstrate exceptionally low reverse currents smaller by a few orders of magnitude in comparison to the Schottky diodes made of AlGaN/GaN HEMT on sapphire substrate. (paper)

  19. High reflectivity Ohmic contacts to n-GaN utilizing vacuum annealed aluminum

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    Yonkee, Benjamin P.; Young, Erin; DenBaars, Steven P; Speck, James S; Nakamura, Shuji

    2017-01-01

    Ohmic contacts to both c-plane and (202 ̅1 ̅) n-GaN are demonstrated using a pure aluminum layer which was vacuum annealed to prevent oxidation. Specific contact resistivities of 4.4 × 10-7 and 2.3 × 10-5 Ωcm2 were obtained without annealing for c-plane and (202 ̅1 ̅ ) samples respectively. A reflectivity of over 85% at 450 nm was measured for both samples. After a 300 °C anneal specific contact resistivities of 1.5 × 10-7 and 1.8 × 10-7 Ωcm2 were obtained for c-plane and (202 ̅1 ̅ ) samples respectively and the reflectivities remained higher than 80%.

  20. High reflectivity Ohmic contacts to n-GaN utilizing vacuum annealed aluminum

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    Yonkee, Benjamin P.

    2017-10-31

    Ohmic contacts to both c-plane and (202 ̅1 ̅) n-GaN are demonstrated using a pure aluminum layer which was vacuum annealed to prevent oxidation. Specific contact resistivities of 4.4 × 10-7 and 2.3 × 10-5 Ωcm2 were obtained without annealing for c-plane and (202 ̅1 ̅ ) samples respectively. A reflectivity of over 85% at 450 nm was measured for both samples. After a 300 °C anneal specific contact resistivities of 1.5 × 10-7 and 1.8 × 10-7 Ωcm2 were obtained for c-plane and (202 ̅1 ̅ ) samples respectively and the reflectivities remained higher than 80%.

  1. Validación del método analítico para el control de la calidad y estudio de estabilidad de fenilefrina 10 % colirio Validation of an analytical method for quality control and stability study of 10 % Phenylephrine eyedrops

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    Raiza Monteagudo Licea

    2010-12-01

    Full Text Available La fenilefrina se emplea como midriático en exámenes de ojos y otros procedimientos oftálmicos. Se utiliza como vasoconstrictor con anestésicos locales. En este trabajo se validó un método analítico por cromatografía líquida de alta resolución para el control de la calidad y los estudios de estabilidad de la fenilefrina 10 % colirio. El método se basó en la separación del principio activo a través una columna cromatográfica Lichrosorb RP-18 (5 µm (250 x 4 mm, con detección ultravioleta a 280 nm, para lo cual se empleó una fase móvil compuesta por una mezcla desgasificada de metanol:agua destilada (1:1, con 1,1 g de 1-octanosulfonato de sodio por litro ajustado a pH 3,0 con ácido fosfórico, con una velocidad de flujo de 1,0 mL/min. El método analítico resultó lineal, preciso, específico y exacto en el intervalo de concentraciones estudiadas.Phenylephrine is used like mydiatric in eye examinations and other ophthalmic procedures. It is used as vasoconstrictor with local anesthetic agents. In present paper a high ressolution liquid chromatography analytical method was validated to quality control and stability studies of 10 % Phenylephrine (eyedrops. Mathod was based in separation of active principle through a Lichrosorb RO-18 (5 µm (250 x 4 mm chromatography column with UV detection at 280 nm using a mobile phase composed by a non-gasified mixture of methanol distilled water (1:1 with 1.1 g of 1-sodium octane-sulphonate by liter adjusted to pH 3,0 with phosphoric acid at a flow speed of 1.0 mL/min. Analytical method was linear, accuracy, specific and exact in the interval of study concentrations.

  2. The Co-III-C bond in (1-thia-4,7-diazacyclodecyl-kappa N-3(4),N-7,C-10)(1,4,7-triazacyclononane-kappa N-3(1),N-4,N-7)-cobalt(III) dithionate hydrate

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    Harris, Pernille; Kofod, P.; Song, Y.S.

    2003-01-01

    In the title compound, [Co(C6H15N3)(C7H15N2S)]S2O6.H2O, the Co-C bond distance is 1.9930 (13) Angstrom, which is shorter than for related compounds with the linear 1,6-diamino-3-thiahexan-4-ide anion in place of the macrocyclic 1-thia-4,7-diazacyclodecan-8-ide anion. The coordinated carbanion pro...... produces an elongation of 0.102 (7) Angstrom of the Co-N bond to the 1,4,7-triazacyclononane N atom in the trans position. This relatively small trans influence is presumably a result of the triamine ligand forming strong bonds to the Co-III atom....

  3. IP-10 is a potential biomarker of cystic fibrosis acute pulmonary exacerbations.

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    George M Solomon

    Full Text Available Cystic fibrosis (CF is characterized by acute pulmonary exacerbations (APE. The CF nasal airway exhibits a similar ion transport defect as the lung, and colonization, infection, and inflammation within the nasal passages are common among CF patients. Nasal lavage fluid (NLF is a minimally invasive means to collect upper airway samples.We collected NLF at the onset and resolution of CF APE and compared a 27-plex cytokine profile to stable CF outpatients and normal controls. We also tested IP-10 levels in the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF of CF patients. Well-differentiated murine sinonasal monolayers were exposed to bacterial stimulus, and IP-10 levels were measured to test epithelial secretion.Subjects hospitalized for APE had elevated IP-10 (2582 pg/mL [95% CL of mean: 818,8165], N=13 which significantly decreased (647 pg/mL [357,1174], P<0.05, N =13 following antimicrobial therapy. Stable CF outpatients exhibited intermediately elevated levels (680 pg/mL [281,1644], N=13 that were less than CF inpatients upon admission (P=0.056 but not significantly different than normal controls (342 pg/mL [110,1061]; P=0.3, N=10. IP-10 was significantly increased in CF BALF (2673 pg/mL [1306,5458], N=10 compared to healthy post-lung transplant patients (8.4 pg/mL [0.03,2172], N=5, P<0.001. IP-10 levels from well-differentiated CF murine nasal epithelial monolayers exposed to Pseudomonas PAO-1 bacteria-free prep or LPS (100 nM apically for 24 hours were significantly elevated (1159 ± 147, P<0.001 for PAO-1; 1373 ± 191, P<0.001 for LPS vs. 305 ± 68 for vehicle controls. Human sino-nasal epithelial cells derived from CF patients had a similar response to LPS (34% increase, P<0.05, N=6.IP-10 is elevated in the nasal lavage of CF patients with APE and responds to antimicrobial therapy. IP-10 is induced by airway epithelia following stimulation with bacterial pathogens in a murine model. Additional research regarding IP-10 as a potential biomarker is

  4. Tunneling current via dislocations in Schottky diodes on AlInN/AlN/GaN heterostructures

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    Arslan, Engin; Ozbay, Ekmel; Altındal, Şemsettin; Özçelik, Süleyman

    2009-01-01

    The forward current–voltage–temperature characteristics of (Ni/Au)–Al 0.83 In 0.17 N/AlN/GaN heterostructures were studied in a temperature range of 80–375 K. The temperature dependences of the tunneling saturation current (I t ) and tunneling parameters (E 0 ) were obtained. Weak temperature dependence of the saturation current and the absence of temperature dependence of the tunneling parameters were observed in this temperature range. The results indicate that in the temperature range of 80–375 K, the mechanism of charge transport in the (Ni/Au)–Al 0.83 In 0.17 N/AlN/GaN heterostructure is performed by tunneling among dislocations intersecting the space-charge region. A model is used for nonuniform tunneling along these dislocations that intersect the space-charge region. The dislocation density that was calculated from the current–voltage characteristics, according to a model of tunneling along the dislocation line, gives the value 7.4 × 10 8 cm −2 . This value is close in magnitude to the dislocation density that was obtained from the x-ray diffraction measurements value of 5.9 × 10 8 cm −2 . These data show that the current flows manifest a tunneling character, even at room temperature

  5. N S Saxena

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    Home; Journals; Bulletin of Materials Science. N S Saxena. Articles written in Bulletin of Materials Science. Volume 23 Issue 5 October 2000 pp 369-375 Glasses. Differential scanning calorimetry studies of Se85Te15–Pb ( = 4, 6, 8 and 10) glasses · N B Maharajan N S Saxena Deepika Bhandari Mousa M Imran D D ...

  6. Farelo da vagem de algaroba associado a níveis de ureia na alimentação de ovinos: balanço de nitrogênio, N-ureico no plasma e parâmetros ruminais - doi: 10.4025/actascianimsci.v34i3.12759 Mesquite pod meal associated with levels of urea on feeding sheep: nitrogen balance, plasma urea-N and ruminal parameters - doi: 10.4025/actascianimsci.v34i3.12759

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    João Gonsalves Neto

    2012-05-01

    Full Text Available Objetivou-se neste trabalho avaliar os efeitos da inclusão de ureia em dietas contendo farelo da vagem de algaroba sobre o balanço de nitrogênio, N-uréico no plasma e parâmetros ruminais em ovinos. Foram utilizados oito animais, machos castrados, com peso médio de 33,5 kg, distribuídos em dois quadrados latinos 4 x 4. Os tratamentos constituíram da inclusão de níveis de ureia na dieta, sendo: 0; 0,5; 1,0 e 1,5% da MS total. A dieta foi fornecida como dieta total na relação volumoso:concentrado de 40:60 com base na MS total da dieta. Foi realizada a coleta total de urina e fezes e determinada a excreção de nitrogênio. Foi coletado sangue, seguido com a extração do plasma e determinação do N-uréico. Para avaliação do pH e N-amoniacal no líquido ruminal foram utilizados quatro animais fistulados no rúmen. A ingestão de N (31,68 g/dia e perdas vias fecal (7,94 g/dia e urinária (9,95 g/dia não sofreram alteração. As concentrações de N-amoniacal e N-uréico no plasma aumentaram de forma linear. O pH ruminal foi semelhante entre os tratamentos. A inclusão de uréia não influencia o balanço de nitrogênio, porém eleva as concentrações de N-amoniacal no rúmen e N-uréico no plasma podendo influenciar o gasto de energia no organismo.The goal of this study was to evaluate the effects of including urea in diets containing mesquite pod meal on nitrogen balance, plasma urea-N and ruminal parameters. Eight gelded males, with mean weight of 33.5 kg, were divided into two 4 x 4 Latin squares. Treatments consisted of following urea levels in diet: 0, 0.5, 1.0 and 1.5% of total dry matter. The diet was provided as total diet a 40:60 forage: concentrate ratio based on total diet DM. Total urine and feces were collected and nitrogen excretion was determined. Blood was collected, followed by plasma extraction and quantification of urea nitrogen. To evaluate pH and ammonia-N in rumen fluid, four rumen fistulated animals were used

  7. EXPLORANDO LA METACOGNICIÓN: EVIDENCIA EN ACTIVIDADES DE LECTURA Y ESCRITURA EN NIÑOS Y NIÑAS DE 5 A 10 AÑOS DE EDAD

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    Carolina Pérez Vanegas

    2003-07-01

    Full Text Available Este estudio se interesó por la evaluación de las operaciones metacognitivas de planeación, autorregulación y evaluación implicadas en los procesos de lectura y escritura presentadas por niños de los grados transición a quinto de primaria. Se tomó una población de 36 niños con un desarrollo del lenguaje acorde a la edad cronológica (18 niñas y 18 niños con edades comprendidas entre 5 y 10 años de edad, pertenecientes a una misma institución educativa de estrato socio-económico tres. Las variables que los instrumentos permitían evaluar eran: metacognición en lectura y escritura, comprensión lectora y producción escrita. Además se contrastaban estas variables con el género y el grado escolar al cual pertenecían los niños. Los hallazgos más significativos con base en los datos obtenidos sobre los desempeños de los individuos en los diferentes aspectos de las tareas fueron: (a la muestra se distribuyó en todos los niveles, mostrando diferencias en las cuatro variables; (b se encontró una relación directa y significativa entre las cuatro variables evaluadas por los instrumentos; y (c como se esperaba, se encontró una diferencia de las variables al comparar la ejecución entre los diversos grados escolares. Por otro lado, se halló una baja significación en la asociación entre el género y las otras variables del estudio.

  8. Structural and functional cardiac adaptations to a 10-week school-based football intervention for 9-10-year-old children

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    Krustrup, Peter; Hansen, Peter Riis; Nielsen, Claus Malta

    2014-01-01

    -randomized into a control group that maintained their usual activities (CON; two classes, n = 51, 21 boys and 30 girls) and a football training group that performed an additional 3 × 40 min of small-sided football training per week (FT; two classes, n = 46, 23 boys and 23 girls). No baseline differences were observed......The present study investigated the cardiac effects of a 10-week football training intervention for school children aged 9-10 years using comprehensive transthoracic echocardiography as a part of a larger ongoing study. A total of 97 pupils from four school classes were cluster...

  9. Photoneutron source based on a compact 10 MeV betatron

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    Chakhlov, V.L.; Bell, Z.W.; Golovkov, V.M.; Shtein, M.M.

    1999-01-01

    Accelerator-based photoneutron sources have enjoyed wide use and offer the advantages of long term stability, ease of control and absence of radioactive materials. We report here measurements of the yield of photoneutrons from a neutron generator using a compact betatron. Electrons were accelerated to energies up to 10 MeV and produced a bremsstrahlung beam with a dose rate of 0.16 Gy/min (at 10 MeV, 1 m from the bremsstrahlung target) to irradiate LiD, Be, depleted U, and Pb neutron-producing targets. The angular distributions of photoneutrons produced by bremsstrahlung beams were measured with a 'long' counter and integrated to determine neutron yield. In addition, neutron time of flight spectra were recorded from all targets using a 15.5 m flight path perpendicular to the photon beam. The maximum observed yields were 4.6x10 7 n/s obtained with 1 kg of LiD, 5.7x10 7 n/s from a 3.3 kg Be block, 6.2x10 6 n/s from 1.5 kg of depleted U, and 7.0x10 6 n/s from 10.7 kg of Pb. Optimization of target dimensions, shape, and positioning is expected to increase the yield from the LiD target by a factor of 35, while optimization of the other targets is expected to yield at most a factor of 10. With the increased yield and a deuteride target, this compact betatron-based system could find application in the interrogation of waste containers for fissile material

  10. Nanostructured multielement (TiHfZrNbVTa)N coatings before and after implantation of N+ ions (10{sup 18} cm{sup −2}): Their structure and mechanical properties

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    Pogrebnjak, A.D., E-mail: alexp@i.ua [Sumy State University, Department of Nanoelectronics, 40007, R.-Korsakova 2, Sumy (Ukraine); Bondar, O.V., E-mail: oleksandr.v.bondar@gmail.com [Sumy State University, Department of Nanoelectronics, 40007, R.-Korsakova 2, Sumy (Ukraine); Borba, S.O. [Sumy State University, Department of Nanoelectronics, 40007, R.-Korsakova 2, Sumy (Ukraine); Abadias, G. [Institut Pprime, CNRS, Université de Poitiers, ISAE-ENSMA, F86962 Futuroscope Chasseneuil (France); Konarski, P. [Tele and Radio Research Institute, Ratuszowa 11, 03-450 Warsaw (Poland); Plotnikov, S.V. [D. Serikbaev East-Kazakhstan State Technical University, 070004, Ust-Kamenogorsk, 69 Protozanov St. (Kazakhstan); Beresnev, V.M. [V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, 61022, Svobody Sq. 4, Kharkiv (Ukraine); Kassenova, L.G. [Kazakh University of Economics, Finance and International Trade, St. Zhubanov 7, 010005 Astana (Kazakhstan); Drodziel, P. [Lublin University of Technology, Nadbystrzycka 36, 20-618 Lublin (Poland)

    2016-10-15

    Highlights: • (TiZrHfVNbTa)N coatings were deposited by vacuum–arc evaporation of a cathode. • Nanostructured coatings were investigated experimentally and by MD simulations. • Good correlation between experimental data and simulation results is observed. • Ion implantation formed amorphous, nanocrystalline and nanostructured layers. • Hardness changed from 12 GPa in the implanted layer to 38 GPa with the depth. - Abstract: Multielement high entropy alloy (HEA) nitride (TiHfZrNbVTa)N coatings were deposited by vacuum arc and their structural and mechanical stability after implantation of high doses of N{sup +} ions, 10{sup 18} cm{sup −2}, were investigated. The crystal structure and phase composition were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Transmission Electron Microscopy, while depth-resolved nanoindentation tests were used to determine the evolution of hardness and elastic modulus along the implantation depth. XRD patterns show that coatings exhibit a main phase with fcc structure, which preferred orientation varies from (1 1 1) to (2 0 0), depending on the deposition conditions. First-principles calculations reveal that the presence of Nb atoms could favor the formation of solid solution with fcc structure in multielement HEA nitride. TEM results showed that amorphous and nanostructured phases were formed in the implanted coating sub-surface layer (∼100 nm depth). Concentration of nitrogen reached 90 at% in the near-surface layer after implantation, and decreased at higher depth. Nanohardness of the as-deposited coatings varied from 27 to 38 GPa depending on the deposition conditions. Ion implantation led to a significant decrease of the nanohardness to 12 GPa in the implanted region, while it reaches 24 GPa at larger depths. However, the H/E ratio is ⩾0.1 in the sub-surface layer due to N{sup +} implantation, which is expected to have beneficial effect on the wear properties.

  11. Percepción de la imagen corporal y su relación con el estado nutricional y emocional en escolares de 10 a 13 años de tres escuelas en Barranquilla (Colombia

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    Mariela Borda Pérez

    2016-01-01

    Full Text Available Objetivo: evaluar la percepción de la imagen corporal y su relación con el estado nutri - cional y emocional en escolares de 10 a 13 años en tres colegios públicos de Barranquilla. Materiales y métodos: estudio descriptivo transversal, en muestra de 262 escolares de tres colegios públicos. Previo consentimiento informado de padres y asentimiento de participantes, se tomaron mediciones biométricas y realizaron encuestas, empleando cuestionario de factores sociodemográficos, Test Krece Plus sobre hábitos alimentarios y de Actividad Física, Escala de Autoestima de Rosemberg, cuestionario Goldberg para ansiedad y depresión y test de las siluetas para imagen corporal. Resultados: La media de edad fue de 11.39 años (± 1.11 y el 61.5 % varones. El 22,6 % de la población presentó distorsión en su imagen corporal; el 67,8 % de los adolescentes con imagen distorsionada tuvo un Índice de Masa Corporal normal; de ellos, el 21.8 % tuvo malos hábitos alimentarios y el 17.2 % malos hábitos de actividad física; las alteraciones emocionales se presentaron en un 8.8 % baja autoestima, en un 7.3 % ansiedad y en un 6.9 % depresión. Se obtuvo tendencia en la asociación como factor determinante con el sexo masculino (p=0.008 y protector para la actividad fisca (p=0.000 y el IMC bajo (p=0.000 Conclusiones: Predominó la adecuada percepción de imagen corporal. La distorsión fue mayor en hombres, en el estado nutricional normal, los inadecuados hábitos alimentarios y de actividad física y autoestima baja. Hubo tendencia a la asociación con el sexo masculino, protector para la actividad física y el IMC bajo.

  12. Dual effects of N-acetyl-L-cysteine dependent on NQO1 activity: Suppressive or promotive of 9,10-phenanthrenequinone-induced toxicity

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    Toyooka, Tatsushi; Shinmen, Takuya; Aarts, Jac M.M.J.G.; Ibuki, Yuko

    2012-01-01

    A typical antioxidant, N-acetyl-L-cysteine (NAC) generally protects cells from oxidative damage induced by reactive oxygen species (ROS). 9,10-Phenanthrenequinone (9,10-PQ), a major quinone in diesel exhaust particles, produces ROS in redox cycling following two-electron reduction by NAD(P)H:quinone oxidoreductase 1 (NQO1), which has been considered as a cause of its cyto- and genotoxicity. In this study, we show that NAC unexpectedly augments the toxicity of 9,10-PQ in cells with low NQO1 activity. In four human skin cell lines, the expression and the activity of NQO1 were lower than in human adenocarcinoma cell lines, A549 and MCF7. In the skin cells, the cytotoxicity of 9,10-PQ was significantly enhanced by addition of NAC. The formation of DNA double strand breaks accompanying phosphorylation of histone H2AX, was also remarkably augmented. On the other hand, the cyto- and genotoxicity were suppressed by addition of NAC in the adenocarcinoma cells. Two contrasting experiments: overexpression of NQO1 in CHO-K1 cells which originally expressed low NQO1 levels, and knock‐down of NQO1 in the adenocarcinoma cell line A549 by transfection of RNAi, also showed that NAC suppressed 9,10-PQ-induced toxicity in cell lines expressing high NQO1 activity and enhanced it in cell lines with low NQO1 activity. The results suggested that dual effects of NAC on the cyto- and genotoxicity of 9,10-PQ were dependent on tissue-specific NQO1 activity. -- Highlights: ► NAC augmented the cytotoxicity of 9,10-PQ in skin cell lines. ► 9,10-PQ-induced DSBs accompanying γ-H2AX were also augmented by NAC. ► NAC suppressed the cyto- and genotoxicity of 9,10-PQ in adenocarcinoma cell lines. ► The dual effects of NAC on toxicity of 9,10-PQ were dependent on NQO1 activity.

  13. Development of neutron detector using sensor type surface barrier with (n,p) and (n,α) converters

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    Madi Filho, Tufic

    1999-01-01

    A Si semiconductor detector, surface barrier type, with a slim film of a converter material capable to produce charged particles was used as a sensor of neutrons in an environment of a zero power reactor. Two types of converters were used to improve the detection efficiency: (1) the polyethylene, n(CH 2 ), which produces recoil protons from the (n,p) interaction and, (2) the 10 B which generates a particle from the (n,alpha) reaction. The optimal thickness of those converters was determined experimentally and specifically for the polyethylene a mathematical model R(ips) = ε p · N 0 ·(1-e -Σ·Χ ) ·e -μ ·Χ + ε n · N 0 · -Σ · Χ was used to fit to the experimental data. For the polyethylene converter the thickness was of 0.058 cm (62.64 mg.cm -2 ) while for the 10 B it was equal to 6.55 [μm (1.54 mg.cm -2 ). The converter of polyethylene or 10 B improved the detection efficiency to a factor of 4.7 and 3.0 respectively. The comparison of the spectrum of the background radiation with the spectra of the recoil protons and the a radiation from the 10 B it was concluded that the polyethylene presented better performance than the 10 B converter. (author)

  14. Crystal and molecular structure of 6,9-bis(trimethylamine)-nido-decarborane(12) B10H12[N(CH3)3]2

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    Polyanskaya, T.M.; Volkov, V.V.

    1989-01-01

    The spatial structure of 6.9-bis(trimethylamine)-nido-decarborane (12) is established on the basis of X-ray diffraction analysis. Crystals are rhombic, a = 12.619, b = 11.804, c = 11.058A, Z=4, sp. gr. P na 2 1 . The structure is of molecular type. Main geometrical parameters of the molecule are: symmetry - C1, interatomic distances - B-B 1.66-1.90, B-N 1.61, N-C 1.50 A, angles - BBB 55.0-66.5, CNC 108, BBN 119.5 deg. The (B 10 H 12 ) cluster size between B(6) and B(9) is 3.30 A. Increase approximately by 0.1 A of lengths of external bonds B-B in comparison with internal ones and tightening approximately by 3 deg of valent angles BBB at external atoms of boron also in comparison with internal ones are observed

  15. The effect of thermoplastic treatment regimes on the microplastic strain of nitrogen-containing steel Kh21G10N7MBF

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    Bannykh, O.A.; Blinov, V.M.; Kostina, M.V.; Grachev, S.V.; Mal'tseva, L.A.

    2005-01-01

    A study is made into the influence of a percentage reduction during cold rolling and subsequent holdings at heat on development of microplastic deformation when bending sheet specimens of stainless austenitic high-nitrogen steel Kh21G10N7MBF. It is revealed that a maximum value of apparent limit of elasticity (∼1800 MPa) is attained due to plastic deformation by rolling at 20 Deg C with a total percentage reduction of 60 % and subsequent aging at 500 Deg C for 1-4 h [ru

  16. Comprehensive strain and band gap analysis of PA-MBE grown AlGaN/GaN heterostructures on sapphire with ultra thin buffer

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    Mahata, Mihir Kumar; Ghosh, Saptarsi; Jana, Sanjay Kumar; Bag, Ankush; Kumar, Rahul [Advanced Technology Development Center, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, 721302 (India); Chakraborty, Apurba; Biswas, Dhrubes [Department of Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, 721302 (India); Mukhopadhyay, Partha [Rajendra Mishra School of Engineering Entrepreneurship, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, 721302 (India)

    2014-11-15

    In this work, cluster tool (CT) Plasma Assisted Molecular Beam Epitaxy (PA-MBE) grown AlGaN/GaN heterostructure on c-plane (0 0 0 1) sapphire (Al{sub 2}O{sub 3}) were investigated by High Resolution X-ray Diffraction (HRXRD), Room Temperature Raman Spectroscopy (RTRS), and Room Temperature Photoluminescence (RTPL). The effects of strain and doping on GaN and AlGaN layers were investigated thoroughly. The out-of-plane (‘c’) and in-plane (‘a’) lattice parameters were measured from RTRS analysis and as well as reciprocal space mapping (RSM) from HRXRD scan of (002) and (105) plane. The in-plane (out-of plane) strain of the samples were found to be −2.5 × 10{sup −3}(1 × 10{sup −3}), and −1.7 × 10{sup −3}(2 × 10{sup −3}) in GaN layer and 5.1 × 10{sup −3} (−3.3 × 10{sup −3}), and 8.8 × 10{sup −3}(−1.3 × 10{sup −3}) in AlGaN layer, respectively. In addition, the band structures of AlGaN/GaN interface were estimated by both theoretical (based on elastic theory) and experimental observations of the RTPL spectrum.

  17. High-quality AlGaN/GaN grown on sapphire by gas-source molecular beam epitaxy using a thin low-temperature AlN layer

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    Jurkovic, M.J.; Li, L.K.; Turk, B.; Wang, W.I.; Syed, S.; Simonian, D.; Stormer, H.L.

    2000-07-01

    Growth of high-quality AlGaN/GaN heterostructures on sapphire by ammonia gas-source molecular beam epitaxy is reported. Incorporation of a thin AlN layer grown at low temperature within the GaN buffer is shown to result in enhanced electrical and structural characteristics for subsequently grown heterostructures. AlGaN/GaN structures exhibiting reduced background doping and enhanced Hall mobilities (2100, 10310 and 12200 cm{sup 2}/Vs with carrier sheet densities of 6.1 x 10{sup 12} cm{sup {minus}2}, and 5.8 x 10{sup 12} cm{sup {minus}2} at 300 K, 77 K, and 0.3 K, respectively) correlate with dislocation filtering in the thin AlN layer. Magnetotransport measurements at 0.3 K reveal well-resolved Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations starting at 3 T.

  18. Superconductivity in MBE grown InN

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    Gunes, M.; Balkan, N. [School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, CO4 3SQ, Colchester (United Kingdom); Tiras, E.; Ardali, S. [Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Anadolu University, Yunus Emre Campus, 26470, Eskisehir (Turkey); Ajagunna, A.O.; Iliopoulos, E.; Georgakilas, A. [Microelectronics Research Group, IESL, FORTH and Physics Department, University of Crete, P.O. Box 1385, 71110 Heraklion, Crete (Greece)

    2011-05-15

    We present the experimental investigation of superconductivity in unintentionally doped MBE grown InN samples with various InN film thicknesses. A significant change in resistivity was observed at 3.82 K, for an 1080 nm InN layer with carrier concentration n{sub 3D}=1.185x10{sup 19} cm{sup -3}. However, no significant resistance change was observed in the case of InN samples with carrier density of 1.024x10{sup 19} cm{sup -3}, 1.38x10{sup 19} cm{sup -3}, and thicknesses of 2070 and 4700 nm, respectively. The carrier density of all investigated samples was within the range of values between the Mott transition (2x10{sup 17} cm{sup -3}) and the superconductivity to metal transition (7x10{sup 20} cm{sup -3}). We believe that at lower temperatures ({sup 3}He) which we cannot achieve with our set-up, the phase transition in other samples is likely to be observed. The origin of the observed anisotropic type-II superconductivity is discussed (copyright 2011 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH and Co. KGaA, Weinheim) (orig.)

  19. Construcción de un índice de privación para los barrios de Madrid y Barcelona

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    Débora Álvarez-del Arco

    2013-01-01

    Full Text Available Fundamentos: los indicadores socioeconómicos que toman el barrio como unidad de referencia en nuestro contexto son escasos. Los objetivos de es- te artículo son describir el proceso de construcción y la validez de un índice de privación a nivel de barrio y analizar su asociación con la mortalidad.. Métodos: el esquema conceptual inicial del IP contuvo elementos que caracterizaban teóricamente la privación y para las que se realizó una recogida de variables de segundo nivel. El IP se adaptó a la disponibilidad de variables y a los resultados de sus análisis exploratorios. Finalmente, se realizó un análisis factorial para la validación del IP que se compuso de 5 dimensiones para Madrid (economía, población y territorio, vivienda, parque móvil y demografía y 4 para Barcelona (las mismas salvo “demografía”. Los barrios fueron agrupados en cuartiles según la puntuación obtenida para el IP (Q4: mayor nivel de privación. Se calcularon tasas de mortalidad prematura estratificadas por sexo y ajustadas por edad y razones de mortalidad para cada cuartil. Resultados: El IP explicó el 55% de la variabilidad observada en los indicadores para Madrid y el 69% para Barcelona. La tasa de mortalidad prematura para el Q1 en Madrid fue 1,65por 10 3 en hombres y 0,92 por 10 3 y de 2,81 por 10 3 en hombres y 1,22 por 10 3 en mujeres residentes en Q4. En Barcelona la tasa de mortalidad fue de 2,33 por 10 3 en hombres y de 1,15 por 10 3 mujeres en el Q1 y de 3,49 por 10 3 en hombres y 1,52 por 10 3 en mujeres del Q4. Conclusión: Las tasas de mortalidad mostraron mayor mortalidad prematura en los barrios con un índice de privación mayor.

  20. Synthesis and crystal structures of new complexes of Np(V) glycolate with 2,2'-bipyridine, [NpO2(C10H8N2)(OOC2H2OH)].1.5H2O and [NpO2(C10H8N2)(OOC2H2OH)].2.5H2O

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    Charushnikova, I.A.; Krot, N.N.; Starikova, Z.A.

    2009-01-01

    Single crystals were prepared, and the structures of two complexes of Np(V) glycolate with 2,2'-bipyridine of the compositions [NpO 2 (C 10 H 8 N 2 )(OOC 2 H 2 OH)].1.5H 2 O (I) and [NpO 2 (C 10 H 8 N 2 )(OOC 2 H 2 OH)]2.5H 2 O (II) were studied. The structures of the compounds are based on neptunyl-glycolate chains in which the glycolate anion manifests its complexation ability in different manner. In structure I, the bidentate-bridging anion links the adjacent NpO 2 - cations through the oxygen atoms of the carboxylate group. The neptunyl-glycolate chains of I exhibits the mutual coordination of the NpO 2 - cations acting toward each other simultaneously as ligands and coordinating centers. In compound II, the glycolate anion is bidentately coordinated to one neptunium atom to form a planar five-membered metallocycle [NpOCCO]. The O atom external with respect to the metallocycle is in the coordination environment of the adjacent neptunyl. The nitrogen-containing molecular ligand Bipy is included into the coordination environment of Np. The coordination polyhedron of the Np atoms in both structures is a pentagonal bipyramid in which the average Np-N bond length is 2.666 Aa (I) and 2.596 Aa (II). (orig.)