The structure of the niobium oxide on alumina surface was investigated for low loading (5 wt.-%) and high loading (19 wt.-%) samples. The TPD profile of water molecules showed the appearance of water adsorption sites other than those on alumina. The XANES and EXAFS spectra clearly showed that niobic acid-like species are formed on the surface of 19 wt.-% NbO,/Al,O,. The XANES spectra of 5 wt.-%...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of normobaric oxygen (NBO) therapy on T2*-weighted images of intracranial hemorrhages (ICHs). METHODS Two common models of ICH were performed in mice, and longitudinal T2*-weighted images of the hematomas were acquired under normoxia or NBO. The effects of NBO were also investigated on perfusion-weighted imagin...

OBJECTIVE To define non-bacterial osteitis (NBO) as a clinical entity possibly associated with autoimmune manifestations. Patients with sterile osteitis were analysed to develop diagnostic criteria. METHODS A total of 89 patients with non-bacterial inflammatory bone lesions were observed for a median of 49 months. History, diagnostic imaging, laboratory and histological data were obtained. Mu...

Hyperbaric (HBO) and normobaric (NBO) oxygen therapy have been shown to be neuroprotective in focal cerebral ischemia. In previous comparative studies, NBO appeared to be less effective than HBO. However, the experimental protocols did not account for important advantages of NBO in the clinical setting such as earlier initiation and prolonged administration. Therefore, we compared the effects o...

In order to improve clinical trial design and translation of normobaric oxygen (NBO) treatment of ischemic stroke, NBO treatment parameters need to be better understood. This study investigated NBO treatment efficacy at two different stroke severities and two NBO treatment durations in rats. For the 60-min middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO), NBO treatment for 25 min and 150 min were studie...

BACKGROUND Voxel-based algorithms using acute multiparametric-MRI data have been shown to accurately predict tissue outcome after stroke. We explored the potential of MRI-based predictive algorithms to objectively assess the effects of normobaric oxygen therapy (NBO), an investigational stroke treatment, using data from a pilot study of NBO in acute stroke. METHODS The pilot study of NBO enro...

To determine the non-bonded interaction energies between Naphthalene and B12N12 Nano ring in different orientations and distances, geometry of molecules with B3LYP method and 6-31g* basis set optimized. Also reactivity and stability of Naphthalene alone and in the presence B12N12 Nano ring checked. Then calculated the NBO, NMR, FREQ, NICS and muliken charge of Naphthalene atoms alone and in the...

To determine the non-bonded interaction energies between Naphthalene and B12N12 Nano ring in different orientations and distances, geometry of molecules with B3LYP method and 6-31g* basis set optimized. Also reactivity and stability of Naphthalene alone and in the presence B12N12 Nano ring checked. Then calculated the NBO, NMR, FREQ, NICS and muliken charge of Naphthalene atoms alone and in the...

the structural stabilities, geometry and electronic properties of c24 and some its heterofullerenederivatives are compared at the b3lyp/6-311-efg**//b3lyp/6-31+g* level of theory. vibrationalfrequency calculations show that all the systems are true minima. the calculated binding energies ofheterofullerenes show c24 as the, most stable fullerenes by 9.03ev/atom. while decreasing bindingenergy in...