The suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCNs) control circadian rhythms of numerous behavioral and physiological responses. In hamsters, constant light causes "splitting" of circadian rhythms, such that a single daily bout of activity separates into two components, 12 h apart, with antiphase circadian oscillations in the left and right SCN. Given the phenotypic and functional heterogeneity of the SCN, in w...

dry beans are rich sources of dietary fiber and phytochemicals such as flavonoids and phenolics that exhibit good functional properties. in current study line, cooking and soaking time effects were investigated on water absorption, splitting and texture properties of different iranian red kidney beans to determine the best lines and the best soaking time for industrial use. d81083 line showed t...

Titanium dioxide (TiO2) and zinc oxide (ZnO) nanostructures have been widely used as photo-catalysts due to their low-cost, high surface area, robustness, abundance and non-toxicity. In this work, four TiO2 and ZnO-based nanostructures, i.e. TiO2 nanoparticles (TiO2 NPs), TiO2 nanotubes (TiO2 NTs), ZnO nanowires (ZnO NWs) and ZnO@TiO2 core-shell structures, specifically prepared with a fixed th...

Seawater splitting powered by solar or wind sources is a significant renewable energy storage technology for the production of green hydrogen energy. However, both chlorine evolution reaction and chloride corrosion are intractable issues in seawater splitting. Here, porous electrode based on phosphate-intercalated NiFe (oxy)hydroxide shell coated nickel molybdate (NiMoO4) micropillar core (deno...

in this study, polystyrene ethylene butylene polystyrene (psebs) was functionalized to prepare mono and bipolar ion exchange membranes. in the case of the bipolar membrane, platinum was used as the intermediate layer. nacl solution of concentration ranging from 5 g/l to 25 g/l was used as the feed solution. a commercially procured ion exchange membrane made of polystyrene divinyl benzene was al...

this paper deals with scrutinizing the convergence properties of iterative methods to solve linear system of equations. recently, several types of the preconditioners have been applied for ameliorating the rate of convergence of the accelerated overrelaxation (aor) method. in this paper, we study the applicability of a general class of the preconditioned iterative methods under certain conditio...

Two-dimensional (2D) core/shell nanoplatelets (NPLs) synthesized via the hot-injection method provide excellent thermal and chemical stability for high-temperature doping, where an expanded flexible lattice is required. Here, a thermodynamic approach toward silver doping of these NPLs proposed demonstrated, which previously proved to be challenging due fast self-purification dopants with introd...

Density functional theory (DFT) embedding provides a formally exact framework for interfacing correlated wave-function theory (WFT) methods with lower-level descriptions of electronic structure. Here, we report techniques to improve the accuracy and stability of WFT-in-DFT embedding calculations. In particular, we develop spin-dependent embedding potentials in both restricted and unrestricted o...

The present work introduces a modified scheme for the solution of compressible 2-D full Navier-Stokes equations, using Flux Vector Splitting method. As a result of this modification, numerical diffusion is reduced. The computer code which is developed based on this algorithm can be used easily and accurately to analyze complex flow fields with discontinuity in properties, in cases such as shock...