Reactivity of supported gold catalysts is a hot topic in catalysis for many years. This communication reports an investigation on the dissociation of molecular hydrogen at the perimeter sites of Au/TiO(2) and the spillover of hydrogen atoms from the gold to the support using density functional theory calculations. It is found that the heterolytic dissociation is favoured in comparison with homo...

Lattice thermal motion is of great importance because it has a significant effect on molecule activation on metal surfaces. Here, we present an in-depth quantum dynamics study of lattice thermal motion for methane dissociation on some static distorted Ni(111) surfaces based on an accurate, fourteen-dimensional potential energy surface fitted to ∼10(5)ab initio energy points. Our study reproduce...

INTRODUCTION Throughout Great Britain, increasing numbers of women having an early medical abortion are choosing to go home soon after administration of misoprostol, to expel the pregnancy at home (early medical discharge, EMD), rather than remain upon the hospital premises (day case). However, data are lacking on how this impacts upon an abortion service in terms of unscheduled re-attendance r...

KX” an S-shaped curve, described by Hill’s (2) equation y = 100 1 + xn in which y is the percentage saturation of blood with oxygen, x equals the oxygen pressure, and K and n are constants. Assuming that molecules of hemoglobin fall into aggregates in the presence of salts, Barcroft has interpreted n in the formula to mean the number of molecules in each aggregate, and K is regarded as the equi...

In single diffractive dissociation (SDD), pp → pX , one of the protons survives the interaction while the other dissociates in a hadronic system with invariant mass MX , separated from the first proton by a large rapidity interval devoid of particles. In the presence of a hard scale, such interactions may be regarded as the result of the exchange of a colourless object with vacuum quantum numbe...

It has been argued that hallucinations which appear to involve shifts in egocentric perspective (e.g., the out-of-body experience, OBE) reflect specific biases in exocentric perspective-taking processes. Via a newly devised perspective-taking task, we examined whether such biases in perspective-taking were present in relation to specific dissociative anomalous body experiences (ABE) - namely th...

Background: Drug abuse is a major public health problem. Some believe that when dissociation fails to defend against emotional, physical, or sexual trauma, the person will find relief from unpleasant thoughts and emotions in opium use. On the other hand, personality disorders are considered as important predictors of treatment outcomes in drug abusers. Due to lack of adequate research in this r...

Abstract Ethanol has a vast consumption around the world. Many researches confirmed some adverse effect of this component on human health. In addition, recent studies showed significant alteration in both cellular population, and protein profile of human foreskin fibroblast cell line (HFFF2) in the specific dosage of ethanol. Here, the role and interaction of some proteins (characterized by sig...

Different Aluminum: alkaline earth metal atomic weight ratios effects on structure transformations in alanates nanopowders were studied. Changes in crystal structures from alane to alanates by increasing alkaline earth metals dopants in the mixture with slight changes in crystal structures from rhombohedral centered – trigonal (alane) to trigonal (magnesium alanate), and monoclinic (calcium ala...