The use of polymers as corrosion inhibitors has attracted much attention due to their low prices, inherent stability, availability and cost-effectiveness. inhibiting effect poly(sodium-4-styrenesulfonate) on carbon steel in phosphoric acid solution been investigated using weight loss scanning electron microscopy techniques (SEM) theoretical calculations based density functional theory (DFT). In...

In contrast to the photosensitization with a non-methylated analogue, supramolecular photochirogenesis with a novel permethylated mono(6-O-benzoyl)-beta-cyclodextrin exhibited a critical dependence of the product's enantiomeric excess upon temperature, and possessed a large differential entropy of activation (-11 J K(-1) mol(-1)) for which the flexible host skeleton is likely to be responsible.

the time evaluation of quantum entropy in a four-level double- type atomic system is theoretically investigated. quantum entanglement of the atom and its spontaneous emission fields is then discussed via quantum entropy. it is found that the degree of entanglement can be increased by the quantum interference induced by spontaneous emission. the phase dependence of the atom-field entanglement is...

The present fMRI study investigated whether human observers spontaneously exploit the statistical structure underlying continuous action sequences. In particular, we tested whether two different statistical properties can be distinguished with regard to their neural correlates: an action step's predictability and its probability. To assess these properties we used measures from information theo...

the canola drying process was investigated using three laboratory scale dryers connected to a computer which continuously recorded the drying processes of each unit. a completely randomized design (crd) with three replications was used for the statistical analysis. the effect of temperature (40°, 50°, 60°c) and air velocity (1, 2 m/s) on the drying kinetics of a monolayer were studied. the effe...

objective: to evaluate the efficacy of in vitro sperm activation (isa) using non-liquefied versus liquefied asthenozoospermic semen samples for improvement of sperm parameters. materials and methods: fifty six oligoasthenozoospermic (oa) patients (age range: 22-44 years; mean: 32.089 years) were enrolled in this study. oa patients were classified according to type of infertility. also, duration...

Shannon entropy is increasingly used in many applications. In this article, an estimator of the entropy of a continuous random variable is proposed. Consistency and scale invariance of variance and mean squared error of the proposed estimator is proved and then comparisons are made with Vasicek's (1976), van Es (1992), Ebrahimi et al. (1994) and Correa (1995) entropy estimators. A simulation st...

In this paper, Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy is studied using mathematical modeling of an observer $ Theta $. The relative entropy of a sub-$ sigma_Theta $-algebra having finite atoms is defined and then   the ergodic properties of relative  semi-dynamical systems are investigated.  Also,  a relative version of Kolmogorov-Sinai theorem  is given. Finally, it is proved  that the relative entropy of a...

the purpose of this paper is to investigate the egm method and the behavior of a solid particle suspended in a twodimensional rectangular cavity due to conjugate natural convection. a thermal lattice boltzmann bgk model is implemented to simulate the two dimensional natural convection and the particle phase was modeled using the lagrangian–lagrangian approach where the solid particles are treat...

High-entropy perovskite thin films, as the prototypical representative of high-entropy oxides with novel electrical and magnetic features, have recently attracted great attention. Here, we reported electronic structure charge transport properties sol-gel-derived Ba(Zr0.2Sn0.2Ti0.2Hf0.2Nb0.2)O3 films annealed at various temperatures. By means X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy absorption spectrum,...