An injury potential is the direct current potential difference between the site of spinal cord injury and the healthy nerves. Its initial amplitude is a significant indicator of the severity of spinal cord injury, and many cations, such as sodium and calcium, account for the major portion of injury potentials. This injury potential, as well as injury current, can be modulated by direct current ...

The gas chromatographic properties of four derivatives of fatty acids (FA), namely fatty acid methyl esters, picolinyl esters, N-acyl pyrrolidides and 4,4-dimethyloxazoline derivatives, which contain various structural features (double bonds, branching, hydroxyl group) in their acyl chains have been compared on a low-polarity capillary column with a mass spectrometer as detector. Temperature pr...

Nanosecond surface dielectric barrier discharge (nSDBD) is an efficient tool for a multi-point plasma-assisted ignition of combustible mixtures at elevated pressures. The discharge develops as a set of synchronously propagated from the high-voltage electrode charged channels (streamers), with a typical density up to a few streamers per millimetre of the length of the electrode. In combustible m...

[1] We present a detailed investigation of X-ray emission from long laboratory sparks in air at atmospheric pressure. We studied 231 sparks of both polarities using a 1-MV Marx generator with gap lengths ranging from 10 to 140 cm. The X rays generated by the discharges were measured using five NaI/PMT detectors plus one plastic scintillator/PMT detector, all enclosed in 0.32-cm-thick aluminum b...

Surfactant molecules in a non-polar liquid form charged and uncharged inverse micelles. When a potential difference is applied over the mixture, the charged inverse micelles drift towards the electrode with the opposite polarity. The motion of charges is associated with a transient current, which can be measured in an external circuit. In this paper, transient currents and steady state charge d...

The ALPHA experiment has succeeded in trapping antihydrogen, a major milestone on the road to spectroscopic comparisons of antihydrogen with hydrogen. An annihilation vertex detector, which determines the time and position of antiproton annihilations, has been central to this achievement. This detector, an array of double-sided silicon microstrip detector modules arranged in three concentric cy...

In protein and RNA macromolecules, only a limited number of different side-chain chemical groups are available to function as catalysts. The myriad of enzyme-catalyzed reactions results from the ability of most of these groups to function either as nucleophilic, electrophilic, or general acid-base catalysts, and the key to their adapted chemical function lies in their states of protonation. Ion...

We have demonstrated a new approach for detecting biomolecular mass in the aqueous environment. Known as the suspended microchannel resonator (SMR), target molecules flow through a suspended microchannel and are captured by receptor molecules attached to the interior channel walls [1]. As with other resonant mass sensors, the SMR detects the amount of captured target molecules via the change in...

1350-4495/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.infrared.2009.09.002 * Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (A.G.U. Perera). 1 Also at NDP optronics LLC. A dual-band (two-color) tunneling-quantum dot infrared photodetector (T-QDIP) structure, which provides wavelength selectivity using bias voltage polarity, is reported. In this T-QDIP, photoexcitation takes pla...

The Pd nucleus has been studied with the Mo(B, p2nγ) reaction at 43 MeV incident energy. γ−γ− t, γ−γ− charged particle coincidences and directional correlation ratios were measured using the γ spectrometer formed by four Compton suppressed HPGe detectors and a 4π charged-particle ancillary detector system. The struture of the bands was interpreted within the framework of the cranked shell model...