The presence of N-phenyl-p-phenylenediamine (PPDA: a dimer of aniline) during microwave (MW) irradiation can significantly improve Pt-loading on the XC72 carbon matrix as a catalyst support of proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs). PPDA is converted to an emeraldine base state during MW-assisted redox reaction, which is characterized by both FTIR and Raman spectra. The increased degree o...

This article contains original experimental data, figures and methods to the study of Microwave-assisted emulsion polymerization of styrene under the frame of "Enhanced Microwave Synthesis" (EMS), has been examined to investigate the advantages of Microwave (MW) power use in emulsion polymerization (Ergan et al., Eur. Polym. J. 69, 2015, 374-384). For comparative purpose, MW and conventional he...

Mass of the W boson (MW ) is a fundamental parameter in the electroweak sector of the standard model (SM). The parameters, Fermi constant (GF ), the fine structure constant (α), mass of the Z boson (MZ), and electroweak radiative correction δr are expressed in terms of MW . Among these parameters GF , αEM , and MZ are measured to very high precision. Thus the measurement of MW can be used to co...

The various molecular weight (MW) regenerated silk fibroins were prepared with different dissolution condition and the effect of MW on the gelation behavior of regenerated aqueous silk fibroin (SF) solution was investigated. The result of gelation time measurement indicated that the gelation of SF aqueous solution was accelerated by the increase of MW and SF concentration. When formic acid was ...

This paper presents the COMBINA-PT project, a study of corpus-extracted Portuguese Multiword (MW) expressions. The objective of this on-going project is to compile a large lexical database of multiword (MW) units of the Portuguese language, automatically extracted from a balanced 50 million word corpus, interpreted with lexical association measures and manually validated. MW expressions conside...

OBJECTIVE This study investigates excessive mind wandering (MW) in adult ADHD using a new scale: the Mind Excessively Wandering Scale (MEWS). METHOD Data from two studies of adult ADHD was used in assessing the psychometric properties of the MEWS. Case-control differences in MW, the association with ADHD symptoms, and the contribution to functional impairment were investigated. RESULTS The ...

Toilet facilities in highly dense areas such as the slum and emergency settlements fill up rapidly; thus, requiring frequent emptying. Consequently, big quantities of fresh faecal sludge (FS) containing large amounts of pathogens are generated. Fast and efficient FS treatment technologies are therefore required for safe treatment and disposal of the FS in such conditions. This study explores th...

Although a great deal is known biochemically about peroxiredoxins (Prxs), little is known about their real physiological function. We show here that two cytosolic yeast Prxs, cPrxI and II, which display diversity in structure and apparent molecular weights (MW), can act alternatively as peroxidases and molecular chaperones. The peroxidase function predominates in the lower MW forms, whereas the...

FMHL (Forces Motrices Hongrin-Léman SA) is the owner’s company that belongs to the shareholders Romande Energie SA, Alpiq Suisse SA, Groupe E SA and City of Lausanne. Alpiq, as owners’ representative, is in charge of the supervision of the study and the implementation of the extension project and the operator is Hydro Exploitation SA. The FMHL power plant is a 240 MW pumped-storage power plant ...

A microwave (MW) preheating mechanism of anisotropic conductive adhesive film (ACF) has been introduced in order to reduce the bonding temperature for flip chip technology. Thermal curing of epoxy shows a very sluggish and non-uniform curing kinetics at the beginning of the curing reaction, but the rate increases with time and hence requires higher temperature. On the other hand MW radiation ha...