We have clarified the adsorption and release mechanism of hydrogen to/from Pt clusters on an MCM-41 surface by using the XAFS technique. After reduction, the icosahedral Pt13 cluster of r(Pt-Pt) =0.273 nm is formed. In contrast, a very small oxidized metal particle of r(Pt-Pt) = 0.254 nm is formed after the oxidation. We have measured time-resolved energy dispersive XAFS in order to clarify the...

BACKGROUND The World Health Organization has declared tuberculosis a global emergency in 1993. It has been estimated that one third of the world population is infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis. The emergence of TB/HIV co-infection poses an additional challenge for the control of tuberculosis throughout the world. The World Health Organization is suppo...

We study the Schrödinger operator with a constant magnetic field in the exterior of a two-dimensional compact domain. Functions in the domain of the operator are subject to a boundary condition of the third type (Robin condition). In addition to the Landau levels, we obtain that the spectrum of this operator consists of clusters of eigenvalues around the Landau levels and that they do accumulat...

Third grade children (N = 404) and their mothers completed questionnaires and participated in interviews designed to identify children's friendships across multiple contexts, determine levels of social network closure for these friendships, and assess child well-being. Cluster analyses revealed distinct patterns in the contexts in which children's friendships were maintained. Closure was highes...

We have studied the stability of mixed (3)He/(4)He clusters in L=0 states by the diffusion Monte Carlo method, employing the Tang-Toennies-Yiu He-He potential. The clusters (3)He(4)He(N) and (3)He(2)(4)He(N) are stable for N>1. The lighter atoms tend to move to the surface of the cluster. The minimum number of 4He atoms able to bind three 3He atoms in a L=0 state is nine. Two of three fermionic...

Reactions of [Pt(PCy(3))(2)] (Cy = cyclohexyl) with group 12 metal dihalides have afforded the novel metal only Lewis pair (MOLP) complexes, [(Cy(3)P)(2)Pt→MX(2)] (M = Zn or Cd, X = Br or I), or the oxidative addition product, trans-[(Cy(3)P)(2)(I)PtHgI]. The zinc complex represents the first MOLP to contain an unsupported Pt→Zn linkage.

OBJECTIVE To study the cytomorphological features of squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) in serous effusions. METHODS Conventional smears from 23 SCC were reviewed for the following features: cellularity, single cells, cell clusters, long cords, squamous pearls, cell-in-cell, 'windows', polygonal cells, anucleated cells, tadpole cells, fibre cells, third-type cells, refractile cytoplasmic ring, two...

The developmental analysis of industrial clusters of small firms is particularly interested in replicating the famous successful stories of Italian industrial districts elsewhere in the world. This paper analyses the different views about the sources of successful clustering and the ways these views influence the developmental policy framework. Through the analysis of the districts of the Third...

We prove that the constraint languages invariant under a short sequence of Jónsson terms (containing at most three non-trivial ternary terms) are tractable by showing that they have bounded width. This improves the previous result by Kiss and Valeriote [16] and presents some evidence that the Larose-Zadori conjecture [19] holds in the congruence-