The interfacial hydration structure of yttria-stabilized cubic zirconia (110) surface in contact with water was determined with ~0.5 Å resolution by high-resolution X-ray reflectivity measurement. The terminal layer shows a reduced electron density compared to the following substrate lattice layers, which indicates there are additional defects generated by metal depletion as well as intrinsic o...

in this paper‎, ‎we introduce the notion of $(m,n)$-‎algebr‎aically compact modules as an analogue of algebraically‎ ‎compact modules and then we show that $(m,n)$-algebraically‎ ‎compactness‎ ‎and $(m,n)$-pure injectivity for modules coincide‎. ‎moreover‎, ‎further characterizations of a‎ ‎$(m,n)$-pure injective module over a commutative ring are given‎.

A prototype distillation and storage system with recycle for producing ultrapure water was monitored for bacteriological contamination during a period of 24 months. Naturally occurring Pseudomonas aeruginosa and P. cepacia were found to grow rapidly to levels of about 10(5)/ml in water taken from the storage reservoir and also in commercially prepared distilled water. The system was found to el...

Sixteen red rice accessions from the southern United States were studied for their physical, milling, pasting, and thermal properties, chemical composition, and starch fine structure relative to cultivated medium- and long-grain rice varieties. All red rice samples were medium-grain, but their physicochemical properties were different from those of Bengal, a cultivated medium-grain rice. Their ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Discharge of wastewater from textile dyeing industries has been a problem in terms of pollution and treatment of these waters is a great task. Keeping this in mind, the aim of our current research is to study the effect of various bioprocess variables on decolorization of an azo dye, Congo red, by a fungal isolate, Aspergillus niger HM11. MATERIALS AND METHODS CENTRA...

COIIMAN, M. D., BLEDSOE, C. S., and LOPUSHINSKY, W. 1989. Pure culture response of ectomycorrhizal fungi to imposed water stress. Can. J. Bot. 67: 29-39. The ability of ectomycorrhizal fungal isolates to tolerate imposed water stress in pure culture was examined in 55 isolates of 18 species. Water potential treatments, adjusted with polyethylene glycol, were applied to Petri dish units. These u...

Solubility measurements in pure and modified water serve as a basis for optimizing the subcritical water extraction of target analytes such as food contaminants. The solvent strength of the water is affected by both the system's temperature and the amount and type of cosolvent modifier that is added to the water, which causes a reduction in the dielectric constant of water. In the present work,...

Adhesion promoting monomers for precious metals, 2,3-epithiopropyl methacrylate (EP1MA), 4,5-epithiopentyl methacrylate (EP3MA), 9,10-epithiodecyl methacrylate (EP8MA), 10,11-epithioundecyl methacrylate (EP9MA), 9,10-epithiodecyl 4-vinylbenzoate (EP8VB), 2,3-epithiocyclohexyl methacrylate (EPCHMA), and 3,4-epithiobutyl 2,2-bis(methacryloyloxymethyl)-propionate (EP2BMA), were used as surface tre...

Hydrophobins are small self-assembling proteins produced by fungi. A class I hydrophobin secreted by the basidiomycete fungus Pleurotus ostreatus was purified and identified. The pure protein is not water soluble, whereas complexes formed between the protein and glycans, produced in culture broth containing amylose, are soluble in water. Glycan structure matched to cyclic structures of alpha-(1...

for better understanding the effect of nanofluid flow in a porous medium, a set of experiments were conducted on a horizontal glass micromodel for al2o3-water nanofluids. to characterize the flow of nanofluids the same experiment was done by pure water. the glass micromodel was constructed by a photolithography technique. the al2o3-water nanofluids were produced by a two-step method and no surf...