INTRODUCTION For many donor-conceiving heterosexual parents, the process of deciding whether and what to tell children about their genetic origin is challenging. We hypothesized that incomplete couple agreement about disclosure could be associated with parenting stress. The aim of the study was to investigate: (1) parenting stress levels among heterosexual parents of young children following ga...

Titania particles modified with an extremely small amount (<0.01 mol%) of a rhodium species exhibited photocatalytic activity for the oxidative decomposition of acetaldehyde in air under visible-light irradiation. The reaction proceeded via a two-photon band-gap excitation mechanism resembling the Z-scheme with an external redox couple, using a built-in Rh(iii)-Rh(iv) redox couple.

In this paper, a size-dependent formulation for the Bernoulli-Euler beam is developed based on a new model of couple stress theory presented by Hadjesfandiari and Dargush. The constitutive equation obtained in this new model, consists of only one length scale parameter that is capable of capturing the micro-structural size effect in predicting the mechanical behavior of the structure. Having on...

Recently, scrap tire rubber-modified asphalt binders and pavements have been the preferred choice of state DOTs parties involved due to desirable engineering, as well economic environmental impacts. Rheological mechanical properties rubber modifications main focus researchers for last couple decades. This paper investigates rutting potential, fatigue cracking resistance, continuous performance ...

a new hydroxylamine sensor has been fabricated by immobilizing oxadiazol denvative at the surface ol aglassy carbon electrode (gce) modified by multi-wall carbon nanotube (mivcnt). the adsorbed thin illms oroxadiazol derivative on the mwcnt modified gce show a pair of peaks with surface confined characierisnus.the oxadiazol derivative mwcni (omwcnt) modified gce shows highly catalytic activity ...

0A thin film of cobalt hexacyanoferrate (CoHCF), an analogue of mixed-valence Prussian blue, was deposited electrochemically on the glassy carbon, platinum and gold electrode surfaces in 0.5M KC1 solution. The electrochemical behavior of these modified electrodes show three couples of redox peaks by CV in a supporting electrolyte solution of 0.5M NaCl, whereas for Au modified electrode only ...

A non-classical model for transversely isotropic magneto-electro-elastic circular Kirchhoff plates is established based on the extended modified couple stress theory. The Gibbs-type variational principle used to obtain governing equations and boundary conditions. To illustrate newly derived model, static bending problem of a clamped plate subjected uniformly distributed constant load solved num...

The size dependent large displacement behavior of planar microbeams and microframes is studied in this paper using a corotational beam element. To account for the effect, modified couple stress theory (MCST) employed conjunction with Euler-Bernoulli deriving internal force vector tangent stiffness matrix Newton-Raphson based iterative procedure used combination arc-length method to solve nonlin...