In recent years there have been a number of attempts to study the cerebral blood flow. Kety and Schmidt' between 1945 and 1948 introduced a nitrous oxide method, and for the firet time measured quantitatively the minute volume of the brain. This was the first occasion on which the total oxygen consumption of the brain was measured through simultaneous determination of the arterial venous oxygen...

Organically templated thorium compounds were synthesized for the first time under hydrothermal conditions; the piperazine containing compound consists of 2-D layers, while the 2-methylpiperazine phase contains unprecedented 1-D chains of face-sharing ThF9 polyhedra.

Only a single thorium fullerene, Th@C84, has been reported to date (Akiyama, K.; et al. J. Nucl. Radiochem. Sci. 2002, 3, 151-154). Although the system was characterized by UV-vis and XANES (X-ray absorption near edge structure) spectra, its structure and properties remain unknown. In this work we used the density functional calculations to identify molecular and electronic structure of the Th@...

A method, involving the use of an advanced paper ionophoretic technique is described for the study of equilibria in mixed complex systems in solution. The method is based on the migration of a spot of metal ion, with the complexants added in the background electrolyte. The concentration of one of the complexants, methylcysteine, is kept constant while that of the second ligand, cysteine, is var...

The need for proliferation-resistance, longer fuel cycles, higher burn up and improvedwaste form characteristics has led to a renewed worldwide interest in thorium-based fuels and fuel cycles. In this paper the GEANT4 Monte Carlo code has been used to simulate the Thorium-Uranium fuel cycle. The accelerator driven fertile to fissile conversion rates have been calculated for various geometries. ...

Recent geochemical studies of uranium-thorium series disequilibrium in rocks from subduction zones require magmas to be transported through the mantle from just above the subducting slab to the surface in as little as approximately 30,000 years. We present a series of laboratory experiments that investigate the characteristic time scales and flow patterns of the diapiric upwelling model of subd...

The spin Hamiltonian parameters of Gd3+ in a single crystal of Thorium disulfide (TI1S2) are analysed by means of the superposition model, in its most general form of a two exponents power law. In fact, the approximated one exponent power law is not suitable for this compound, where the ion-ligand distances show a quite large spread. The results of the analysis are then applied to the case of G...

Electricity generated from nuclear power plants is generally associated with low emissions per kWh generated, an aspect that feeds into the wider debate surrounding nuclear power. This paper seeks to investigate how life-cycle emissions would be affected by including thorium in the nuclear fuel cycle, and in particular its inclusion in technologies that could prospectively operate open Th–U-bas...