The influence of gas-phase oxygen on the growth of Au nanoparticles on Mo-doped CaO films has been investigated by means of low temperature scanning tunnelling microscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Whereas at ideal vacuum conditions, only 2D Au islands develop on the oxide surface, the fraction of 3D deposits increases with increasing O2 pressure until they become the dominant specie...

Heterobimetallic NiZn complexes featuring metal centers in distinct coordination environments have been synthesized using diimine–dioxime ligands as binucleating scaffolds. A tetramethylfuran-containing ligand derivative enables a stable one-electron-reduced S 1⁄4 1/2 species to be accessed using Cp2Co as a chemical reductant. The resulting pseudo-square planar complex exhibits spectroscopic an...

taking behaviors also affected early initiation of sex and that these associations varied somewhat between male and female adolescents.3 In this article, a followup to that analysis, we use more recent data for the young adult children of female NLSY respondents to more fully investigate early sexual activity. Additionally, we examine the correlates of ineffective contraceptive use and early ch...

Address for correspondence: Stephanie Bell, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Department of Economics, 211 Haag Hall, 5100 Rockhill Road, Kansas City, MO 64110, USA; email [email protected] *University of Missouri-Kansas City. This paper was written while the author was Cambridge University Visiting Scholar at the Jerome Levy Economics Institute and was presented at the 1998 meetings of the Eas...

Motor skill learning is one of the key components of motor function recovery after stroke, especially recovery driven by neurorehabilitation. Transcranial direct current stimulation can enhance neurorehabilitation and motor skill learning in stroke patients. However, the neural mechanisms underlying the retention of stimulation-enhanced motor skill learning involving a paretic upper limb have n...

Abstract ZnO nanoparticles (ZnO-NPs) can reach soil in both deliberate and non-deliberate ways, which leads to contamination. Notwithstanding knowledge about ZnO-NPs impacts on earthworms inhabiting these soils is limited gaps appear the recovery of damaged functions after their migration unpolluted environments. To estimate impacts, (Eisenia andrei) were exposed different concentrations coated...

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Contamination of soil and irrigation water by heavy metals (HMs) is a genuine concern due to the possible effect on human well-being via food chain. Thus, an assessment was carried out find HMs concentration level in samples peri-urban areas National Capital Territory (NCT) Delhi. Analytical results revealed that significant amount were found water, which concentrations Cu (2590 ?g/L), Fe (5549...