Baixas concentrações dos catorze elementos de ocorrência natural da série lantanídeos foram diretamente determinadas por espectrometria de emissão óptica com plasma indutivamente acoplado (ICP OES). Avaliaram-se interferências espectrais e linhas espectrais mais adequadas foram selecionadas. Os desempenhos da nebulização pneumática e ultra-sônica foram comparados com respeito aos limites de det...

A validation study in order to evaluate the efficiency of the inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES) in the analysis of minor elements (Manganese, Chromium, Copper, Iron and Titanium) in aluminium alloys was carried out. Aluminium casting samples were obtained from addition to aluminium baths of compressed powder compacts of each alloying element and aluminium (minit...

Foram comparados vários procedimentos de preparo de amostras, isto é, decomposição total de uma mistura HNO3/H2O2 em placa de aquecimento, decomposição parcial por meio de solubilização em aqua regia e diluição com solução de HNO3 de baixa concentração, para determinação do conteúdo total de Ba, Ca, Cd, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mg, Mn, Ni, P, Pb, Sr e Zn em bebidas energéticas utilizando espectrometria de e...

Optical emission spectra ~OES! from CH4/N2 rf plasmas, which are used for the deposition of nitrogen-containing hydrogenated amorphous carbon ~a-C:H:N! thin films, have been characterized. Previously unidentified spectral lines have been assigned to atomic N. Further identified species include CH, H, H2, N2, N2 1 , N, and CN. Variations between spectra from the pure CH4 or N2 plasmas and the mi...

Current waste management policies favor biogases (digester gases (DGs) and landfill gases (LFGs)) valorization as it becomes a way for energy politics. However, volatile organic silicon compounds (VOSiCs) contained into DGs/LFGs severely damage combustion engines and endanger the conversion into electricity by power plants, resulting in a high purification level requirement. Assessing treatment...

Yogurt, a traditional Turkish dairy product is common in all region of Turkey. The different heavy metals were determined in commercial yogurts by inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometer (ICP–OES). Concentrations of calcium (Ca), phosphorus (P), sodium (Na), magnesium (Mg), aluminum (Al), zinc (Zn), iron (Fe), copper (Cu), manganese (Mn), boron (B), molybdenum (Mo), cadmium (Cd...

Previous studies have demonstrated that sharps-related infectious disease is a global concern. Several papers have also reported that students are at a higher risk than healthcare workers. The prevalence of sharps exposure in China, however, is unknown. This study explored the incidence of sharps exposure and its related risk factors among students in all academic years and majors at a medical ...

Regional oxidative metabolism was studied in vivo. Oxygen availability was monitored from polarographic electrodes in frontal cortical and subcortical tissue. The rate of oxygen extraction in these regions was estimated at frequencies of up to 3 measurements per minute. Transient ischemia of the frontal regions was induced and the resultant decay in the oxygen trace was analyzed kinetically. Th...

An Organic Embedded System (OES) architecture is developed for sustainable performance using SRAM-based Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), an Organic Computing (OC) observer/controller organization, and regeneration with Genetic Operators. Innovations include availability during online regeneration, aging and outlier driven repair assessment, and a uniform design for Autonomic Elements (AE...

A simple and rapid method for the determination of Ba isotope abundances in water samples by inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES) coupled with least-squares support vector machine regression (LS-SVM) is reported. By evaluation of emission lines of barium, it was found that the emission line at 493.408 nm provides the best results for the determination of Ba abundan...