Development of the new, insensitive, energetic compound, NTO (3-nitro-1,2,4-triazol-5-one), creates need for the data on NTO's fate and transport to predict its behavior in the environment and potential for groundwater contamination. To measure the transport of NTO in soils, we conducted miscible-displacement experiments under steady state and interrupted flow conditions using eight soils havin...

This paper presents the design and prototype of an intelligent Dimensional Queue DQ for high performance scalable input bu ered ATM switches DQ uses pointers and linked lists to organize ATM cells into multiple virtual queues according to prior ity destination and virtual connection It enforces per virtual connection Quality of Service QoS and elim inates Head Of Line HOL blocking Using Field P...

Methods for direct determination of antimony and chromium in human serum by Graphite Furnace Atomic Absorption Spectrometry (GF AAS) were proposed in this work. The samples were diluted in 1:1 with nitric acid 1% v/v and Triton® X-100 0.1% v/v. The optimization of the instrumental conditions was done using a multivariate approach. A factorial design (2) was employed to investigate the tendency ...

CONTEXT Serum levels of Insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) play a critical role in children growth and in the pathogenesis of several diseases. In addition, recent studies suggest that DDT-derivative organochlorine pesticides (OC-DDTs) could influence IGF levels in human beings. OBJECTIVE AND DESIGN Because it has been suggested that IGF-I peak levels at puberty could determine IGF-I levels...

Solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells of the type TiO(2)/dye/CuSCN have been made with thin Al(2)O(3) barriers between the TiO(2) and the dye. The Al(2)O(3)-treated cells show improved voltages and fill factors but lower short-circuit currents. Transient photovoltage and photocurrent measurements have been used to find the pseudo-first-order recombination rate constant (k(pfo)) and capacitance...

background: lymphocyte-dicentric assay is the most generally accepted method for biological dosimetry of overexposed individuals. in this study, the frequency of unstable chromosome aberration in blood lymphocytes was used to estimate radiation dose received by individuals. evaluation of dose using a calibration curve produced elsewhere may have a significant uncertainty therefore, experiments ...

The thermolabile oc-galactosidase (cy-galactosidase A) and thermostable a-galactosidase (cr-galactosidase B) were separated and purified from human placenta. A homogeneous a-galactosidase B preparation was obtained, but the a-galactosidase A preparation contained small amounts of contaminating protein and various other acid hydrolase activities. Each preparation had a molecular weight of approx...

In this paper, we develop a technique to compute the Weierstrass Gap Sequence at a given point, no matter if simple or singular, on a plane curve, with respect to any linear system V ⊆ H(C,OC (n)). This technique can be useful to construct examples of curves with Weierstrass points of given weight, or to look for conditions for a sequence to be a Weierstrass Gap Sequence. We use this technique ...

The afforestation of abandoned farmland significantly influences soil organic carbon (OC). However, the dynamics between OC inputs after afforestation and the original OC are not well understood. To learn more about soil OC dynamics after afforestation of farmland, we measured the soil OC content in paired forest and farmland plots in Shaanxi Province, China. The forest plots had been establish...

Oral contraceptive (OC) use is associated with an increased risk of venous thromboembolism. Previous data reported higher thrombotic risk in women using third-generation combined OC than in those using second generation OC. The difference could be explained by differential effects of progestagens on plasma sensitivity to activated protein C (APC). The main purpose of this cross-sectional study ...