A micell-mediated phase separation method for preconcentration of ultra-trace quantities of mercury as a prior step to its determination by UV-Vis spectrophotometry has been developed. The method is based on Hg(II)-dithizone complex formation in alkaline aqueous solution, and extraction of this Hg(II)-dithizone secondary complex into the surfactant-rich phase of the non-ionic surfactant oct...

in this study, a simple and low-cost method was developed for extraction and pre-concentration of brilliant blue(bb) and tropaeolin o(to) in food samples using cloud point extraction (cpe) prior to spectrophotometric determination. the effects of main factors such as ph, surfactant and salt concentrations, incubation time and temperature on the cloud point extraction of both dyes were investiga...

[1] An objective assessment of the impact of a new cloud scheme, called Microphysics of Clouds with Relaxed Arakawa-Schubert Scheme (McRAS) (together with its radiation modules), on the finite volume general circulation model (fvGCM) was made with a set of ensemble forecasts that invoke performance evaluation over both weather and climate timescales. The performance of McRAS (and its radiation ...

Suppression of spinal responses to noxious stimulation has been detected using spinal fMRI during placebo analgesia, which is therefore increasingly considered a phenomenon caused by descending inhibition of spinal activity. However, spinal fMRI is technically challenging and prone to false-positive results. Here we recorded laser-evoked potentials (LEPs) during placebo analgesia in humans. LEP...

By PETRI RÄISÄNEN , HOWARD W. BARKER , MARAT F. KHAIROUTDINOV , JIANGNAN LI and DAVID A. RANDALL Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Canada Cloud Physics Research Division, Meteorological Service of Canada, Canada Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, United States Climate Modelling and Analysis Division, Meteorological Service of Canada,...

Diagrammatic methods and Large N c QCD are used to argue that the nucleon as calculated in quenched QCD contains physics which can be ascribed to the pion cloud of the nucleon. In particular, it is argued that the physics corresponding to one-pion loops in chiral perturbation theory are included in the quenched approximation.

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions This discussion paper is/has been under review for the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP). Please refer to the corresponding final paper in ACP if available. Abstract A unique feature of the VOCALS Regional Experiment was the inclusion of a small, inexpensive, zenith-pointing millimeter-wavelength passive radiometer on the fourteen rese...

A suite of physical parameterizations (deep and shallow convection, turbulent boundary layer, aerosols, cloud microphysics, and cloud fraction) from the global climate model Community Atmosphere Model version 5.1 (CAM5) has been implemented in the regional model Weather Research and Forecasting with chemistry (WRF-Chem). A downscaling modeling framework with consistent physics has also been est...

in the last two decade the use of aerial laser scanner (als) or lidar (light detection and ranging) sensor in geomatics engineering and surveying application has augmented significantly . the main reason of the mentioned phenomenon is the reliability and accuracy of the data obtained by lidar sensors. the output of lidar is unclassified 3d point cloud. classification of the lidar point clouds i...