High-resolution molecular cytogenetic techniques such as genomic array CGH and MLPA detect submicroscopic chromosome aberrations in patients with unexplained mental retardation. These techniques rapidly change the practice of cytogenetic testing. Additionally, these techniques may improve genotype-phenotype studies of patients with microscopically visible chromosome aberrations, such as Wolf-Hi...

The most important unsolved problem for the introduction of the Hydrogen Economy is efficient and safe storage of hydrogen. Alanates, compounds based on the AlH4 unit, are among the most promising metal hydrides for reversible hydrogen storage. The storage capacity is large, e.g. NaAlH4 can release 5.6 wt% hydrogen below 200 C. Work during the last years has revealed that Ti additives improve t...

An application of Pontryagin's Maximum Principle, data assimilation is used to blend possibly incomplete or nonuniformly distributed spatio-temporal observational data into geo-physical models. Used extensively in engineering control theory applications, data assimilation has relatively recently been introduced into meteorological forecasting, natural-resource recovery model-ing, and climate dy...

Esters of plant oils are preferred to parent oils if used as fuels in diesel engines because esterification reduces the viscosity of plant oils and makes it comparable to that of diesel. The present work mainly deals with the effect of storage time on the quality of plant oils and their esters with respect to mainly FFA content, viscosity and change in weight. The study was carried out for a pe...

One-dimensional AlN nanowires/tubes were exploited as hydrogen storage media. The adsorption of atomic and molecular hydrogen on AlN nanowires was investigated by using density functional theory computations. Hydrogen atoms prefer to adsorb on top of neighboring threefold-coordinated N and Al atoms in pairs. A hydrogen molecule, however, prefers to adsorb on top of threefold-coordinated Al atom...

in order to maintain the quality and increase the shelf life of fruits, many studies have been carried out in terms of the packaging specially applications of the nano-composite packages in the packaging. because of the low storage ability of the plum fruit, in this study, the effects of the four nano-composite packages and common polyethylene (as a control) were analyzed on maintaining quality...

Cost estimates for CO2 capture and storage (CCS) systems typically focus on details of the CO2 capture process and make simplistic assumptions about the cost per ton of CO2 for the transport and storage components of the system. These ad hoc assumptions ignore the large variability in the storage cost from site-to-site caused by variation in storage reservoir characteristics. Moreover, the typi...