Emergency room (ER) visits for accidental casualties, according to the International Classification of Deceases 10th Revision Chapters 19 and 20, include injury, poisoning, and external causes (IPEC). Annual distribution of 187,008 ER visits that took place between 2009 and 2011 in Beijing, China displayed regularity rather than random characteristics. The annual cycle from the Fourier series f...

In situ heating of a LiNH2-2LiH mixture in an environmental scanning electron microscope (ESEM) was performed. The LiNH2-2LiH mixture showed extensive morphological changes with heating and attendant hydrogen desorbption. Static images and real-time movies were obtained during the dehydrogenation process. H2 evolution commences at ~ 150 o C (LiNH2 + 2LiH → Li2NH + H2 + LiH), 10 and continues un...

Temperature is an important factor regulating microbial activity and shaping the soil microbial community. Little is known, however, on how temperature affects the most important groups of the soil microorganisms, the bacteria and the fungi, in situ. We have therefore measured the instantaneous total activity (respiration rate), bacterial activity (growth rate as thymidine incorporation rate) a...

The thermal and electrical transport properties of the ordered intermetallic FeAl2 have been measured as a function of temperature between 10 and 300 K. The electrical resistivity (ρ) is about 400 μ cm over a broad temperature range. In character, it resembles those of semimetals, in spite of its anomalous low-temperature upturn. The thermal conductivity (κ) at room temperature is high, approxi...

There is considerable interest in using nano-emulsions (NEs) as delivery systems for lipophilicbioactive ingredients. In this study, the influence of G on the properties of vitamin E (VE) enriched NEsprepared using spontaneous emulsification (SE) method, were investigated. The particle size and optical clarityof the NEs depended strongly on the co-solvent presence, absence, an...

At low temperatures, proteins exist in a glassy state, a state that has no conformational flexibility and shows no biological functions. In a hydrated protein, at temperatures greater-- similar 220 K, this flexibility is restored, and the protein is able to sample more conformational substates, thus becoming biologically functional. This "dynamical" transition of protein is believed to be trigg...

6Li and 7Li two-time spin-alignment echo NMR correlation functions of single-crystalline LbN are recorded. Around room temperature, the decay of the spin-alignment echo amplitudes is induced by slow Li jumps perpendicular to the LbN layers. The hopping correlation functions can be best represented by a single exponential. The measured jump rates are consistent with those which were previously d...