We examine the unusual dispersion and attenuation of transverse electromagnetic waves in the few-THz regime on nanoscale graphene and copper transmission lines. Conventionally, such propagation has been considered to be highly dispersive, due to the RC time constant-driven voltage diffusion below 1 THz and plasmonic effects at higher optical frequencies. Our numerical modeling across the microw...

A model was developed for the fate of the natural estrogens estrone (E1) and estradiol (E2) in municipal sewage collection systems. Six municipalities throughout the Northern Hemisphere provided data to aide in the calculation of the biotransformation/degradation kinetics of the natural estrogens estrone (E1) and estradiol (E2) in wastewater collection systems. The mean pseudo-first-order kinet...

A mean-field kinetic model was developed to describe a diffusion-controlled bulk cross-linking photopolymerization. This model incorporates all the physical transport limitations that directly or indirectly affect polymerization parameters and rate constants in such reactions. Events such as the continuous decrease in initiator efficiency and the presence of a temporary excess free volume were ...

We explored the CE with (bpy) (2+) (3) electrochemiluminescence detection for the kinetic study of drug-enzyme interaction. Effects of four nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs including aspirin, paracetamol, sodium salicylate and phenacetin on prolidase (PLD) activity in erythrocytes were investigated. Aspirin enhanced PLD activity whereas the other three had inhibiting effects. This may revea...

We present a simple kinetic model for the orientational dynamics of a chain of hydrogen-bonded molecules due to the diffusion of orientational defects. We derive an event-driven algorithm which allows us to do kinetic simulations for chains from nanoscopic to macroscopic lengths, spanning huge orders of magnitude in time. Our simulations and analytical calculations show that nanopore water exhi...

The Kinetic studies were made of the reactions between triphenylphosphine, dialkyl acetylenedicarboxylates in the presence of NH-acid, such as harman. To determine the kinetic parameters of the reactions, they were monitored by UV spectrophotometery. The second order fits were automatically drawn and the values of the second order rate constant (k2) were calculated using standard equations with...

As soon as Maxwell published his first paper on the kinetic theory of gases in 1860, he noted that a major consequence of its principles, namely the equipartition theorem, conflicted with known empirical data about the specific heats of poly-atomic gases. According to the equipartition theorem, the total kinetic energy of an isolated system of particles at equilibrium is equally distributed amo...

This paper reports an application of gas-kinetic BGK scheme to the computation of turbulent compressible convection in the stellar interior. After incorporating the Subgrid Scale (SGS) turbulence model into the BGK scheme, we tested the effects of numerical parameters on the quantitative relationships among the thermodynamic variables, their fluctuations and correlations in a very deep, initial...

the toxicity of chlorpyrifos to three iranian populations of two-spotted spider mite, collected from isfahan (isr), yazd (yz) and guilan (gus2) provinces were surveyed using the residual contact vial bioassay. the bioassay results showed that resistance ratios of isr and yz populations were 176.90 and 9.78 fold compared to the gus2 population, respectively. determination of esterase and glutath...

the aggregation of protein is the most prevalent and the most disturbing kind of instability and this challenge exists in almost every stage of the development of protein drug. the presence of insoluble aggregations in protein drugs will make the supply of the product a tough job. this study identifies the inhibition of the folded interferon beta 1-b’s aggregation with the assistance of some ex...