Copper trimesate (Cu-BTC) MOF has been pointed out as a promising adsorbent for separating carbon dioxide from methane. However, MOF’s need to be shaped prior to their use in packed bed adsorbers in order to reduce pressure drop; on the other hand, the production of mechanically resistant shaped bodies reduces their adsorption performance. In this work, Cu-BTC tablets provided by BASF are evalu...

Proposals to create a national health care plan such as “Medicare for All” rely heavily on reducing the prices that insurers pay care. These changes affect physicians’ short-run incentives provision and may also change providers’ invest in capacity, thereby influencing availability of long term. We provide evidence these responses using major Medicare payment combined with survey data time use....

background:  radiochromic film is used for radiation dose measurement, xr-rv3 is used in fluoroscopy and ebt2 film in radiation therapy. the aim was to determine if the dosimetric properties of these two films are comparable in megavolt photon beams. materials and methods: comparison measurements included: calibration curves, heterogeneous phantom dose profiles, and nasopharynx dose distributio...

in the United Kingdom of those days. There was a time when Sir Robert Peel, the Prime Minister was told by a President of one of the then Royal Colleges: "No man who has an academic education ought to practise obstetrics." The same gentleman stated amidst applause in a subsequent meeting: "Obstetrics is no calling for a gentleman". The story in the book tells us how in 1946 in the same kingdom ...

We solve for the effective actions on the Coulomb branches of a class of N = 2 supersymmetric theories by finding the complex structure of an M5 brane in an appropriate background hyperkahler geometry corresponding to the lift of two O6 orientifolds and four D6 branes to M theory. The resulting Seiberg-Witten curves are of finite genus, unlike other solutions proposed in the literature. The sim...

the adsorption of lead (11) and copper (11) in a fixed bed column using activated carbonprepared from nipa palm nut was investigated. thomas model and yoon and nelson kinetic models were used to analyze the column performance. the rate constant for thomas model increased with increase in flow rate and initial ion concentration but remained constant at varying bed height. adsorption capacity for...

Radiation studies of vaccinia virus were carried out using two types of radiation, Coao gamma rays and ultraviolet light (UVL). When virus particles were irradiated with gamma rays a two-component survival curve was obtained. The capacity of Earle’s L cells to support the growth of vaccinia virus was relatively sensitive to gamma rays. Infectious centres formed by infecting L cells with vaccini...

We correct an alleged contradiction to Gallager’s capacity theorem for waveform channels as presented in a poster at the 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory. 1 Brief Description of the Poster [2] Gallager’s capacity theorem [1, Theorem 8.5.1] is literally reproduced on p. 1 of the poster along with the figure [1, Figure 8.5.1] plus some explanations taken from Gallager’s boo...

The history of the development Ultra-High Performance Concrete (UHPC) shear walls and current status today’s research as well future prospects are comprehensively collated. analysis process conclusive results present-day domestic international on UHPC highlighted. load displacement curves, hysteresis curves skeleton lines ultra-high performance concrete under different experimental loads collat...