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Properties a N D Catalytic Activity of a C I D - M O D I F I E D M O N T M O R I L L O N I T E a N D Vermiculite

-The acidic properties of acid-modified montmorillonite and vermiculite were determined by pyridine and ammonia adsorption to correlate with the alkylating and dehydrating activity of the activated samples. Treatment of the minerals with different concentrations of hydrochloric acid results in the variation of overall acidity and density of acidic sites. Infrared (IR) spectral and differential ...

M O N a D I C R O B O T I C S Monadic Robotics

We have developed a domain speci c language for the construction of robot controllers, Frob (Functional ROBotics). The semantic basis for Frob is Functional Reactive Programming, or simply FRP, a purely functional model of continuous time, interactive systems. FRP is built around two basic abstractions: behaviors, values de ned continuously in time, and events, discrete occurances in time. On t...