CO2 emissions from combustion flue gases have turned into a major factor in global warming. Post-combustion carbon capture (PCC) from industrial utility flue gases by reactive absorption can substantially reduce the emissions of the greenhouse gas CO2. To test a new solvent (AIT600) for this purpose, a small pilot plant was used. This paper presents the results of studies ...

Anthocyanins are food colourants with strong antioxidant activities, but poor thermal stability limits their application in neutral foods. In the present study, impacts of yeast mannoproteins on the thermal stability of anthocyanins were studied at pH 7.0. The degradation of anthocyanins at 80 and 126 °C followed first order kinetics, and the addition of mannoproteins reduced the degradation ra...

Flow-injection manifolds are described which allow the preconcentration of lead for flame atomic absorption determinations, using columns contained within the sample loop of an injection valve. An interface was designed which allowed the valves and pump in the system to be controlled by an autosampler which enabled precise timing of preconcentration and elution steps. The effects of sample flow...

We hypothesized that prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) stimulates amniotic fluid transport across the amnion by upregulating vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) expression in amnion cells and that amniotic PGE2 concentration correlates positively with intramembranous (IM) absorption rate in fetal sheep. The effects of PGE2 at a range of concentrations on VEGF 164 and caveolin-1 gene expressions wer...

The interpretation of oral glucose tolerance tests is complicated by varying individual rates of absorption from the intestinal tract. Intravenous tests eliminate the absorption factor, but there is evidence that they may be less sensitive than oral tests in detecting impaired tolerance (Moyer and Womack, 1950). It was considered that a galactose tolerance test performed in parallel with a gluc...