Purpose: To assess whether bisphenol A contamination occurred in seven brands of bottled drinking water in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Methods: Liquid-liquid extraction (using dichloromethane) was used to analytically extract bisphenol A from drinking water bottles and a gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer was employed for its detection using a splitless capillary column and helium as the carrier gas...

The edible mushroom Agrocybe chaxingu was stored in packages with or without silicon gum film windows in three different modified atmosphere systems (5% O2, with 5%, 10% and 15% CO2) at a temperature of 3± 1 ◦C. The results showed that there were significant differences between the packages with and without the silicon gum film windows on O2, CO2, and ethylene concentrations, respiration rate, ...

fundamental understanding of the goaf gas distribution in a gassy coal mine is necessary for developing effective goaf gas drainage strategies in the longwall coal mine. the goaf gas was subjected to the surface and body forces that were classified depending upon whether they acted on the surface area or the volume of the gas element. of these forces, the body forces were more predominant in di...

Formic acid is a promising energy carrier for on-demand hydrogen generation. Because the reverse reaction is also feasible, formic acid is a form of stored hydrogen. Here we present a robust, reusable iridium catalyst that enables hydrogen gas release from neat formic acid. This catalysis works under mild conditions in the presence of air, is highly selective and affords millions of turnovers. ...

The Extremely Low ENergy Antiproton ring (ELENA) is a small synchrotron equipped with an electron cooler, which shall be constructed at CERN to decelerate antiprotons to energies as low as 100 keV. Scattering of beam particles on rest gas molecules may have a detrimental effect at such low energies and leads to stringent vacuum requirements. Within this contribution scattering of the stored bea...

Like other third generation light sources, main contributions to the be am lifetime of the Pohang Light Source come from the beam-gas scattering and the Touschek effect. The beam-gas scattering lifetime is measured with extremely low stored current in the long train of bunches. By investigating the vertical gap dependence of the beam-gas scattering lifetime, it i possible to decompose the beam-...

The use of hydrogen as an energy source is advantageous because its combustion processes only produce water vapor, but not carbon dioxide. This excess can be stored in underground gas storage facilities, where it delivered mixed with natural gas. In gas- and oil industry the formation hydrate crystals cause significant damages. A huge amount crystal formed, plugs pipeline. Like gas, occurs case...

The aim of this paper is to track transmigrating leukocytes via TGV flow estimation. Recent results have shown the advantages of the nonlinear and higher order terms of TGV regularizers, especially in static models for denoising and medical reconstruction. We present TGV-based models for flow estimation with the goal to get an exact recovery of simple intracellular and extracellular flows, as w...