Nitrous oxide (NzO) is emitted from wastewater treatment processes. It is known as a greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming (over 200 times more per molecule than carbon dioxide) and to the destruction of the ozone layer. It is therefore of great importance to develop technology that can suppress N20 emission. The effects of an anoxic period on NzO emission and nitrogen removal were ...

The effect of hand muscle mechanical vibration on the somatosensory potential (SEP) evoked by median nerve stimulation, was investigated in 10 healthy subjects. A marked decrease in the amplitude of the N17, N20 and P25 components of the cerebral SEP was observed, while the S11 and S13 components of the cervical response did not change. The amplitude reduction of the SEP components was larger w...

Seventy five patients with the diagnosis of chronic Chagas' disease were studied by employing EPs techniques. Two of them had delayed arrival of the signal to the Erb's point and one to the spinal cord when looking at SEPs. Two patients had increment of the time interval between waves Ist and IIIrd, when studying PEATs. These findings were interpreted as due to peripheral nerve fibers damage, a...

The sensitivity of the different parameters (absolute latency, interwave latency, latency asymmetry, amplitude) of both cervical and cerebral responses evoked by stimulation of the median nerve at the wrist was assessed in patients with multiple sclerosis by discriminant analysis. The peak latency of N13 or N20 SEP components or both was found to be more sensitive than their amplitude, provided...

PURPOSE Evoked potentials were recorded in patients with DCD to evaluate the integrity the afferent pathways and to rule out the presence of any neurological lesions. MATERIAL AND METHODS Two boys: 5 and 16 years old with recognized DCD were examined. Battery of tests: short-latency somatosensory evoked potentials (SEP), pattern-reversal visual evoked potentials (VEP), cognitive event-related...

We have used sequential measurements of median nerve somatosensory evoked potentials (mnSSEP) in 10 children to estimate the equilibration time of an inhalation anaesthetic agent between alveolar gas, arterial blood and brain. MnSSEP were obtained sequentially every 90-180 s. After control measurements in the absence of isoflurane, the end-tidal concentration was increased stepwise (0.25, 0.5 a...

Why are new financial instruments created? Why are they needed and what purpose do they serve? This paper proposes the view that financial development arises as a response to the contractual needs of emerging technologies. Exogenous technological progress generates a demand for new financial instruments in order to share risk or overcome private information, for example. A model of the dynamics...

The reduction of nitric oxide by carbon monoxide, reaction (l), mediated by metal complexes has attracted great attention recently due to its relevance to the control of air pollution and the intrinsic interest in the mechanism of N20 and C02 formation. 1-7 While a number of catalyst systems for reaction (1) have been reported, only the RhIILRhI and the PdC12CuCI2. systems rapidly catalyse the ...

Using a one-dimensional radiative-convective model, we perform a sensitivity study of the effect of ozone depletion in the stratosphere on the surface temperature. There could be a cooling of the surface temperature by -0.2 K due to chlorofluoromethane-induced ozone depletion at steady state (assuming 1973 release rates). This cooling reduces significantly the greenhouse effect due to the prese...

This paper proposes the view that financial development and economic growth are linked through the characteristics of technology. Perhaps the most obvious connection between technology and financial innovation emerges through risk-sharing. Technology is modeled as a distribution function over output values. While progress allows higher output values to be attained, it also changes the risk prof...