In this work we have fabricated hydrogen gas sensors based on undoped and 1 wt% multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWCNT)-doped tungsten oxide (WO(3)) thin films by means of the powder mixing and electron beam (E-beam) evaporation technique. Hydrogen sensing properties of the thin films have been investigated at different operating temperatures and gas concentrations ranging from 100 ppm to 50,000 p...

Compared with soy oil, 10 days treatment with seal oil (SO), 10mLx3 daily, self-administrated through a nasoduodenal feeding tube, relieves joint pain in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). This randomized, controlled, double blind pilot trial compares SO and whale oil (WO) administered similarly by duodenal tube, for 10 days in 18 patients with IBD-related joint pain (n=9 per group...

Yttrium tungstate precursors with novel 3D hierarchical architectures assembled from nanosheet building blocks were successfully synthesized by a hydrothermal method with the assistance of sodium dodecyl benzenesulfonate (SDBS). After calcination, the precursors were easily converted to Y(2)(WO(4))(3) without an obvious change in morphology. The as-prepared precursors and Y(2)(WO(4))(3) were ch...

Introduction: Dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) breast MRI has been shown to be very sensitive in cancer detection [1,2]. Most malignant tumors demonstrate an initial enhancement followed by a rapid wash-out (WO) or plateau curve in the post-contrast signal intensity time courses. The WO curve mainly reflects the hypervascularity associated with tumor angiogenesis essential for tumor growth [3-5]...

Bacteriophages are common viruses infecting prokaryotes. In addition to their deadly effect, phages are also involved in several evolutionary processes of bacteria, such as coding functional proteins potentially beneficial to them, or favoring horizontal gene transfer through transduction. The particular lifestyle of obligatory intracellular bacteria usually protects them from phage infection. ...

The title compound, dineodymium(III) tris-[tungstate(VI)], is a member of the Eu(2)(WO(4))(3) structure family and crystallizes isotypically with other rare earth tungstates and molybdates of this formula type. The structure is a derivative of the scheelite (CaWO(4)) structure and can be considered as an ordered defect variant with a threefold scheelite supercell and one rare earth (RE) site un...

A scalable and versatile method for the large-scale synthesis of tungsten trioxide nanowires and their arrays on a variety of substrates, including amorphous quartz and fluorinated tin oxide, is reported. The synthesis involves the chemical-vapor transport of metal oxide vapor-phase species using air or oxygen flow over hot filaments onto substrates kept at a distance. The results show that the...

The design study of an FEL oscillator with a bandwidth of Aw/wo < 10has been carried out. In this conceptual design, a grating rhomb is used to suppress the sideband instability. The spectral evolution of the FEL has been simulated using a one-dimensional, time-dependent FEL code. The system parameters for the simulations are: electron beam energy 120MeV, current I = 50A, electron micropulse le...