INTRODUCTION Carbon dioxide (CO2) has been validated as a contrast agent in a large series of studies. A particular advantages of CO2 over iodinated contrast medium (ICM) is the absence of nephrotoxicity and allergic reactions. One of the limitations of CO2 angiography is the difficulty of CO2 manual injection due to its compressibility. The manual gas injection does not permit optimal control ...

Vehicle Emission is one of the main causes of environmental damage. Vehicle engines produce carbon dioxide (CO2), hydrocarbon (HC), Nitrogen oxides (NOx) and many other harmful substances. An investigation was conducted using a compression-ignition engine fuelled with different ratios of blends of diesel and biodiesel at different EGR rates. The effects of different ratios of fuel blends and EG...

Carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) links together technologies that separate carbon dioxide (CO2) from fixed point source emissions and transport it by pipeline to geologic reservoirs into which it is injected underground for long-term containment. Previously, models have been developed to minimize the cost of a CCS infrastructure network that captures a given amount of CO2. The CCS proce...

Carbon dioxide fluxes between the soil and atmosphere were determined on the 1991 free-air carbon dioxide enrichment (FACE) experiment at the Maricopa Agricultural Center, Maricopa, Arizona. The study was conducted on drip-irrigated cotton in conjunction with other physical and physiological measurements. Fluxes were measured with a 1.6 1 closedchamber static sampling system. The main treatment...

In addition to being the principle greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide (CO2) is also the principle source of carbon for photosynthesis. Although the stimulation of plant growth by rising CO2 is usually viewed as a positive aspect of climate change, the rise in CO2 is indiscriminate with respect to the stimulation of both anthropogenically important and deleterious plant species. Here we present labo...

rhinophyma is a severe late complication of rosacea, which is characterized by progressive hyperplasia of sebaceous glands and connective tissue involving the lower two-thirds of the nose. it can be an emotionally devastating disorder, and serve as a medium for occult cancers and other health problems. many surgical treatments have been advocated, as well as dermabrasion and laser therapy. in l...

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is one of the most important anthropogenic greenhouse gases (GHG) that caused global environmental degradation and climate change. China has been the top carbon dioxide emitter since 2007, surpassing the USA by an estimated 8%. So, forecasting future CO2 emissions trend in China provides the basis for policy makers to draft scientific and rational energy and economic develo...

The use of carbon dioxide for neutralising pulp mill black liquor residuals and controlling paper machine stock pH has increased dramatically over the past decade. It is replacing, or supplementing, alum and sulfuric acid as the chemical of choice because it does not add any metal or sulfate ions to the water system; an important consideration with the trend to closed loop water systems in pape...

Carbon-11 labelled carbon dioxide is the cyclotron-generated feedstock reagent for most positron emission tomography (PET) tracers using this radionuclide. Most carbon-11 labels, however, are installed using derivative reagents generated from [(11)C]CO2. In recent years, [(11)C]CO2 has seen a revival in applications for the direct incorporation of carbon-11 into functional groups such as ureas,...

The role of General Circulation Models (GCMs) has become predominantly important as the practical interest in regional impacts from anthropogenic greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2) grows. This first report documents the quality of GCMs as a tool for describing and predicting ‘global warming’ and the related geographical pattern of climate change from the CO2 added to Earth’s atmosphere.