In this study, an amide-functionalized metal-organic framework, namely TMU-24 was selected to adsorb Co(II) from wastewater with an adsorption capacity of 500 mg. g-1 in less than 20 minutes in neutral pH (pH=7). The effect of diverse parameters such as adsorbent dosage, competitive ions, and contact time on the adsorption process was investigated to find the optimal amounts of them. Also, the ...

Resistance gene analog polymorphism (RGAP) markers linked to Fusarium head blight resistance (FHB) and co-localize with Qfhs.ndsu-3BS were identified using F3 plants and F3:5 lines derived from a ‘Wangshuibai’ (resistant) / ‘Seri82’ (susceptible) cross. The mapping populations were genotyped using 50 degenerate primers designed based on the known R genes. Out of the 50 designed primer combinati...

Consider a matrix X, whose N rows have information on the attainments of N inviduals. Each column, therefore, hosts the distribution of each attainment across the population. The number of columns/variables is D. A typical attainment element of the matrix is: xnd (2 R), that is, the attainment of individual n in dimension/variable d. In the identi…cation stage, the variable-speci…c poverty line...

In a finite-trader version of the Diamond-Dybvig (1983) model, the symmetric, ex-ante efficient allocation is implementable by a direct mechanism (i.e., each trader announces the type of his own ex-post preference) in which truthful revelation is the strictly dominant strategy for each trader. When the model is modified by formalizing the sequential-service constraint (cf. Wallace, 1988), the t...

We study the Diamond-Dybvig model of financial intermediation (JPE, 1983) under the assumption that depositors have information about previous decisions. Depositors decide sequentially whether to withdraw their funds or continue holding them in the bank. If depositors observe the history of all previous decisions, we show that there are no bank runs in equilibrium independently of whether the r...

Texts and dialogues often express information indirectly. For instance, speakers’ answers to yes/no questions do not always straightforwardly convey a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer. The intended reply is clear in some cases (Was it good? It was great!) but uncertain in others (Was it acceptable? It was unprecedented.). In this paper, we present methods for interpreting the answers to questions like thes...

A classification is obtained of Borel measurable, GL(n) covariant, symmetric matrix valued valuations on the space of n-dimensional convex polytopes. The only ones turn out to be the moment matrix corresponding to the classical Legendre ellipsoid and the matrix corresponding to the ellipsoid recently discovered by Lutwak, Yang, and Zhang. A classical concept from mechanics is the Legendre ellip...

is known to be stable if and only if ρ(A) < 1. Models of real world dynamical phenomena often involve positive quantities. A dynamical system (1) is called positive if any trajectory of the system starting in the positive orthant R+ remains in R+. In this case, the matrix A has only real positive entries. In many cases, it may be useful to consider systems with a known “nominal” part A and a un...