Apatite-wollastonite (A-W)-phlogopite glass-ceramic is considered to be difficult to resorb, but often, it has been incorporated in particulate form to create new bioactive composites for potential maxillofacial applications. With various compositions, the present work has attempted to prepare apatite-wollastonite (A-W)-phlogopite glass ceramic composites, by applying sintering. Here, three-poi...

Tubular cathodes provide a method to obtain high surface areas for scaling up microbial fuel cells (MFCs), but the importance of the cathode shape is not known. We therefore examined power production using cathodes in various configurations (tubes or flat). The MFC with a single internal carbon cloth tube cathode (71 W/m(3)) produced more power than previously obtained with an ultrafiltration m...

Investigating the direct integral decomposition of von Neumann algebras of bounded module operators on self-dual Hilbert W*-modules an equivalence principle is obtained which connects the theory of direct disintegration of von Neumann algebras on separable Hilbert spaces and the theory of von Neumann representations on self-dual Hilbert A-modules with countably generated Apre-dual Hilbert A-mod...

Let Γ denote a distance-regular graph with diameter D ≥ 3, intersection numbers ai, bi, ci and Bose-Mesner algebra M. For θ ∈ C ∪∞ we define a 1 dimensional subspace of M which we call M(θ). If θ ∈ C then M(θ) consists of those Y in M such that (A−θI)Y ∈ CAD, where A (resp. AD) is the adjacency matrix (resp. Dth distance matrix) of Γ. If θ = ∞ then M(θ) = CAD. By a pseudo primitive idempotent f...

Recently two different concepts of covers of acts over monoids have been studied by a number of authors and many interesting results discovered. One of these concepts is based on coessential epimorphisms and the other is based on Enochs’ definition of a flat cover of a module over a ring. Two recent papers have suggested that in the former case, strongly flat covers are not unique. We show that...

It is proved that for a vector space W , any set of parafermion-like vertex operators on W in a certain canonical way generates a generalized vertex algebra in the sense of [DL2] with W as a natural module. This result generalizes a result of [Li2]. As an application, generalized vertex algebras are constructed from Lepowsky-Wilson’s Z-algebras of any nonzero level.

The procedures for the power rating of tandem-cell-based concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) modules defined in international standard IEC 62670-3 are adapted to requirements flat plate PV modules. adjusted procedure describes how translate outdoor measured current–voltage characteristics test conditions (STC): 1000 W/m, 25°C cell temperature, AM1.5g spectral conditions. In this work, we describe o...

This is a continuation of ``Bipartite Distance-regular Graphs, Part I''. We continue our study of the Terwilliger algebra T of a bipartite distance-regular graph. In this part we focus on the thin irreducible T-modules of endpoint 2 and on those distance-regular graphs for which every irreducible T-module of endpoint 2 is thin. 8. Introduction to Part II Let G ˆ …X ;E† denote a bipartite distan...

Let the finite group G act linearly on the vector space V over the field k of arbitrary characteristic and let H < G be a subgroup. The extension of invariant rings k[V ] ⊂ k[V ] is studied using modules of covariants. An example of our results is the following. Let W be the subgroup of G generated by the reflections in G. A classical theorem due to Serre says that if k[V ] is a free k[V ]-modu...