The strong ion approach provides a quantitative physicochemical method for describing the mechanism for an acid-base disturbance. The approach requires species-specific values for the total concentration of plasma nonvolatile buffers (A(tot)) and the effective dissociation constant for plasma nonvolatile buffers (K(a)), but these values have not been determined for human plasma. Accordingly, th...

The manner in which the extreme modes of droplet evaporation (namely, the constant contact radius and the constant contact angle modes) become indistinguishable on strongly hydrophobic substrates is described. Simple asymptotic expressions are obtained which provide good approximations to the evolutions of the contact radius, the contact angle, and the volume of droplets evaporating in the extr...

The Galerkin weighted residuals method is extended solve the laminar, fully developed flow and heat transfer of Al2O3-water nanofluid inside polygonal ducts with round corners for the constant heat flux and uniform wall temperature boundary conditions. Using the method, semi-analytical, closed-form solutions are obtained for the friction coefficient and the Nusselt number in terms of the radius...

In this paper, we introduce a novel model, termed as Effective Radius (ER), to calculate the expected number of t-hop neighbors in a multi-hop wireless network with a uniform node distribution on the average. This ER model is an analytical tool that recursively computes a t-hop effective radius for t = 2, 3, · · · . The total number of nodes covered by the disk with a t-hop effective radius equ...

We have selected 42 elliptical galaxies from the literature and estimated their velocity dispersions at the effective radius (σRe) and at 0.54 effective radii (σ0.54Re). We find by a dynamical analysis that the normalized velocity dispersion of the dark halo of an elliptical galaxy σDM is roughly σRe multiplied by a constant, which is almost independent of the core radius or the anisotropy para...

The temperature dependence of the effective magnetic anisotropy constant, K(T), of MnFe2O4 nanoparticles is obtained based on superconducting quantum interference device magnetometry measurements. The variation of the blocking temperature, TB, as a function of particle radius, r, is first determined by associating the particle size distribution and the anisotropy energy barrier distribution ded...

In this article, we suggested a novel design of polarization splitter based on coupler waveguide on InP substrate at 1.55mm wavelength. Photonic crystal structure is consisted of two dimensional (2D) air holes embedded in InP/InGaAsP material with an effective refractive index of 3.2634 which is arranged in a hexagonal lattice. The photonic band gap (PBG) of this structure is determined using t...