Radioactivity of Air-borne Dusts and Atmospheric Pressure Patterns

A microfabricated atmospheric-pressure microplasma source operating in air

An atmospheric-pressure air microplasma is ignited and sustained in a 25μm wide discharge gap formed between two co-planar gold electrodes. These electrodes are the two ends of a microstrip transmission line that is microfabricated on an Al2O3 substrate in the shape of a split-ring resonator operating with a resonant frequency of 895 MHz. At resonance, the device creates a peak gap voltage of ∼...

Chemical Kinetics in Air Plasmas at Atmospheric Pressure

The chapter, after a general introduction concerning plasmas produced in air at atmospheric pressure, describes the chemical kinetics happening in the plasma gas-phase, focusing on the nitrogen oxides mechanism of formation and elimination. After a general review of the chemical kinetic pattern, we discuss dielectric barrier discharges and their use for NOx remediation. In fact, research concer...

Air-Borne Infection

patterns and variations in native and non-native interlanguage pragmatic rating: effects of rater training, intercultural proficiency, and self-assessment

although there are studies on pragmatic assessment, to date, literature has been almost silent about native and non-native english raters’ criteria for the assessment of efl learners’ pragmatic performance. focusing on this topic, this study pursued four purposes. the first one was to find criteria for rating the speech acts of apology and refusal in l2 by native and non-native english teachers...

Influence of Altitude Atmospheric Pressure on Octane Requirement (RESEARCH NOTE).

The normal specifications of motor gasolines as well as their combustion characteristics in internal combustion engines are reviewed in this paper. The effective factors influencing the fuel performance, such as the molecular structure of the fuel constituents, the operating conditions and the atmospheric pressure and temperature are also discussed. A relationship between the optimum octane num...