the present work is aimed to find a new and efficient type of antioxidants for polypropylene. hence, effects of 3,3-bis(4-hydroxy-2-methyl-5-propan-2-ylphenyl)-2-benzofuran-1-one, generally known as thymolphthalein, on thermo-oxidative stability of polypropylene in solid and melt states were evaluated and compared with those of songnox 1010, an efficient commercially used antioxidant for the po...

Aggregation of sub-micron and nano-sized polystyrene latex particles was studied in room temperature ionic liquids (ILs) and in their water mixtures by time-resolved light scattering. The aggregation rates were found to vary with the IL-to-water molar ratio in a systematic way. At the water side, the aggregation rate is initially small, but increases rapidly with increasing IL content, and reac...

Glycosylation is one of the most common posttranslational modifications to occur in protein biosynthesis, yet its effect on the thermodynamics and kinetics of proteins is poorly understood. A minimalist model based on the native protein topology, in which each amino acid and sugar ring was represented by a single bead, was used to study the effect of glycosylation on protein folding. We studied...

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It is discovered that the negative effects on OER activity caused by stabilization of NPs with surface-capping polymers can be mitigated decreasing grafting density or increasing hydrophilicity polymer chains.

The thermodynamically stable (2 1), c(4 2) and c(6 2) surface structures were obtained under oxidative conditions on the SrTiO3(0 0 1) surface and studied with transmission electron microscopy. All three reconstructed surfaces exhibit similar morphological features––formation of flat h100i facets on the surface, stabilization of h110i originally polar facets as well as the existence of surface ...

A self-stabilizing system is one which can recover from transient faults in a nite number of steps. We present a theory for determining if a behavior speciication can be satissed with a self-stabilizing system and if not, then what the largest self-stabilizing subset and smallest self-stabilizing superset of the speciication is. The eeects of self-stabilizing behavior on the control of discrete...

A probabilistic self-stabilizing algorithm for a ring of identical processes is presented; the number of processes in the ring is odd, the processes operate synchronously, and communication is unidirectional in the ring. The normal function of the algorithm is to circulate a single token in the ring. If the initial state of the ring is abnormal, i.e. the number of tokens diiers from one, then e...

In this announcement, we report recent results where we address the open problem of snap-stabilization in messagepassing systems. (A full version of this paper is available as [3] at http://arxiv.org/abs/0802.1123.)