As an illustration, consider the following two-step adsorption cycle to purify helium diving gas. Helium diving gas is principally a mixture of oxygen and helium, when the diving chambers are depressurised, the contaminated gas will consist mainly of carbon dioxide, oxygen and helium. Traditionally this waste gas has been thrown away. The PSA cycle described below is a method of purifying this ...

In oral cancers, cytoplasmic BAG-1 overexpression is a marker of poor prognosis. BAG-1 regulates cellular growth, differentiation and survival through interactions with diverse proteins, including the vitamin D receptor (VDR), a key regulator of keratinocyte growth and differentiation. BAG-1 is expressed ubiquitously in human cells as three major isoforms of 50 kDa (BAG-1L), 46 kDa (BAG-1M) and...

At the start, 1.85K operation seemed reasonable and an all-helium four solution the only one possible. It is still evident that for 1.85K operation, an allhelium four cycle is optimum, not because of lowest capital cost, but due to less pumping power. In a hybrid helium three-helium four refrigerator, the specific power for pumping helium-three is 4.0026 I 3.016 times that of pumping helium four.

Membrane gas separation has potential for the recovery and purification of helium, because the majority of membranes have selectivity for helium. This review reports on the current state of the research and patent literature for membranes undertaking helium separation. This includes direct recovery from natural gas, as an ancillary stage in natural gas processing, as well as niche applications ...

Helium has always been a bit of an outsider on the Periodic Table. Its two isotopes, helium-3 and helium-4, remain liquid down to absolute zero and have the lowest liquefaction temperature among the gases. These features can be traced to the high zero-point energy relative to their attractive potential. In two dimensions, helium4 will form a liquid and become superfluid at temperatures that dep...

purpose the objectives of this study include: (1) determination of the attenuation of strike acceleration that tae kwon do sparring safety pads provide from kicks from olympic style tkd fighters, (2) the sex and weight differentiation in acceleration achieved within the thorax model with the roundhouse kicks. methods this prospective, observational study utilized 15 olympic style fighters from ...

In underwater diving, decompression schedules are based on compartmental models of nitrogen and helium tissue kinetics. However, these models are not based on direct measurements of nitrogen and helium kinetics. In isoflurane-anesthetized sheep, nitrogen and helium kinetics in the hind limb (n = 5) and brain (n = 5) were determined during helium-oxygen breathing and after return to nitrogen-oxy...

For the purpose of deriving the helium abundances in chemically peculiar stars, the importance of assuming a correct helium abundance has been investigated for determining the effective temperature and gravity of main sequence B-type stars, making full use of the present capability of reproducing their helium lines. Even if the flux distribution of main sequence B-type stars appears to depend o...

Helium was first solidified at the famous Kamerlingh Onnes low-temperature physics laboratories in Leiden by W. H. Keesom [1] on June 25, 1926. The initial experiments by Sir Francis Simon at Oxford University and by Keesom and their collaborators focused on the melting curve, the specific heat, and the thermal conductivity of solid helium as a test of our early understanding of solids. These m...

Part of the cellular and physiological functions of BAG-1 (Bcl-2-associated athanogene 1) has been ascribed to the ability of this hsp70 (heat-shock protein 70) co-chaperone to regulate steroid receptor activity. BAG-1 has been reported to inhibit the GR (glucocorticoid receptor) and stimulate the androgen receptor, but to leave the activity of the MR (mineralocorticoid receptor) unchanged. Giv...