This paper focuses on the correlation between oxidative reactivity and electrical properties of soot particles. Soot particles were produced from an n-heptane inverse diffusion flame sampled at different heights above burner (HAB) using a thermophoretic probe sampling techniques. The characterized by conductivity work function, which evaluated atomic force microscopy. was assessed in terms acti...

Stryphnodendron rotundifolium is a phytotherapic used in the northeast of Brazil for the treatment of inflammatory processes which normally are associated with oxidative stress. Consequently, we have tested the antioxidant properties of hydroalcoholic (HAB) and aqueous extracts (AB) from the bark and aqueous extract (AL) from the leaves of Stryphnodendron rotundifolium to determine a possible a...

A point particle of mass μ moving on a geodesic creates a perturbation hab, of the spacetime metric gab, that diverges at the particle. Simple expressions are given for the singular μ/r part of hab and its distortion caused by the spacetime. This singular part hS ab is described in different coordinate systems and in different gauges. Subtracting hS ab from hab leaves a regular remainder h R ab...

Reports of toxic harmful algal blooms (HABs) attributed to the diatom Pseudo-nitzschia spp. have been increasing in California during the last several decades. Whether this increase can be attributed to enhanced awareness and monitoring or to a dramatic upswing in the development of HAB events remains unresolved. Given these uncertainties, the ability to accurately and rapidly identify an emerg...

Over the past years, two breeding lines, derived originally from outbred Wistar rats, have been established that differ markedly and consistently in their anxiety-related behaviour in the elevated plus-maze. At the age of ten weeks, rats were tested once on the elevated plus-maze and the males and females displaying the most anxious and the least anxious behaviour were sib-mated to start a new ...

It is presented, in the framework of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics, a justification of the usual Aharonov-Bohm hamiltonian (with solenoid of radius greater than zero). This is obtained by way of increasing sequences of finitely long solenoids together with a natural impermeability procedure; further, both limits commute. Such rigorous limits are in the strong resolvent sense and in both R a...

We are developing a Sensor Web-relevant system called the Telesupervised Adaptive Ocean Sensor Fleet that uses a group of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration extended-deployment autonomous surface vehicles to enable in-situ study of surface and sub-surface characteristics of Harmful Algal Blooms (HAB). The architecture supports adaptive reconfiguration based on environmental sensor ...

We present an on-line early warning system that is operational in Scottish coastal waters to minimize the risk humans and aquaculture businesses terms of human health economic impacts harmful algal blooms (HABs) their associated biotoxins. The includes both map time-series based visualization tools. A “traffic light” index approach used highlight locations at elevated HAB/biotoxin risk. High re...