The gas separation performance of commercial ceramic Titania and hybrid silica (HybSi®) membranes was assessed using the gas permeation and permporometry methods. Results indicated that the HybSi® membranes have a hybrid surface containing regions covered by a polymeric matrix and others with inorganic pores. These membranes have high H2 selectivity, which incre...

In-vitro labeling of RBC with 99mTc is an intricate procedure and there is always a need foran alternate blood pool imaging agent. The aim of this study was to prepare an effective nanosized liposome (NLs) similar to human RBC for blood pool scintigraphy. This study formulatesPEG-NLs and non-PEG-NLs using film method plus high pressure homogenization technique.Biodistribution studies were perfo...

In this paper, we discuss the application of hierarchical matrix techniques to the solution of Helmholtz problems with large wave number κ in two dimensions. We consider the Brakhage-Werner integral formulation of the problem, discretised by the Galerkin boundary element method. The dense n×n Galerkin matrix arising from this approach is represented by a sum of an H-matrix and an H2-matrix, two...

We investigated the reactive uptake of NO(3) (an important night-time oxidant in the atmosphere) on binary mixtures containing an unsaturated organic (methyl oleate) and saturated molecules (diethyl sebacate, dioctyl sebacate, and squalane) which we call matrix molecules. These studies were carried out to better understand the reactivity of unsaturated organics in multicomponent and multiphase ...

We study memoryless, discrete time, matrix channels with additive white Gaussian noise and input power constraints of the form Yi = ∑ j HijXj + Zi, where Yi ,Xj and Zi are complex, i = 1..m, j = 1..n, and H is a complex m × n matrix with some degree of randomness in its entries. The additive Gaussian noise vector is assumed to have uncorrelated entries. Let H be a full matrix (non-sparse) with ...

In this paper we derive canonical forms under structure preserving equivalence transformations for matrices and matrix pencils that have a multiple structure, which is either an H-selfadjoint or H-skew-adjoint structure, where the matrix H is a complex nonsingular Hermitian or skew-Hermitian matrix. Matrices and pencils of such multiple structures arise for example in quantum chemistry in Hartr...

A new backward stable, structure preserving method of complexity O(n) is presented for computing the stable invariant subspace of a real Hamiltonian matrix and the stabilizing solution of the continuous-time algebraic Riccati equation. The new method is based on the relationship between the invariant subspaces of the Hamiltonian matrix H and the extended matrix [ 0 H H 0 ] and makes use of the ...

It is well known that the projection of a matrix A onto a Krylov subspace span { h, Ah, Ah, . . . , Ak−1h } results in a matrix of Hessenberg form. We show that the projection of the same matrix A onto an extended Krylov subspace, which is of the form span { A−krh, . . . , A−2h, A−1h,h, Ah, Ah . . . , A`h } , is a matrix of so-called extended Hessenberg form which can be characterized uniquely ...

in this study, attempts were made to evaluate the effect of various acrylic acid based carbopols on the release profile of a beta-adrenoreceptor blocking drug, propranolol hcl, from matrix-type tablets invitro. for this purpose, tablets containing 160 mg of propranolol hcl along with various amounts of carbopols 934 (c934), 971 (c971), 974 (c974) and pemulen (pem) were prepared using the wet gr...

A new criterion for identifying generalized diagonally dominant matrices (GDDM, or H -matrices) was given in [K. Ojiro, H. Niki, M. Usui, A note on a new criterion for the H -matrix property, J. Comput. Appl. Math. 150 (2003) 293–302], where the criterion is effective when the given matrix is irreducible. However, when the matrix is reducible, it may lead to a false answer. In this work, to ove...