Nitrogen-doped thiophene plasma polymer [N-ThioPP] thin films were deposited by radio frequency (13.56 MHz) plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition method. Thiophene was used as organic precursor (carbon source) with hydrogen gas as the precursor bubbler gas. Additionally, nitrogen gas [N2] was used as nitrogen dopant. Furthermore, additional argon was used as a carrier gas. The as-grown poly...

In these lecture notes, we give an overview about non-local field-theories and their application to polymerized membranes, i.e. membranes with a fixed internal connectivity. The main technical tool is the multi-local operator product expansion (MOPE), generalizing ideas from local field theories to the multi-local situation. These notes are largely inspired by: Kay Wiese, “Polymerized membranes...

A novel Brönsted-Lewis acidic heteropoly organic-inorganic salt has been prepared via the replacement of protons in neat phosphotungstic acid with both organic and metal cations. This hybrid catalyst, Sm0.33[TEAPS]2PW12O40, exhibited satisfactory performance in the dimerization of rosin to prepare polymerized rosin Under optimum conditions (15.0 g rosin and 5.0 g Sm0.33[TEAPS]2PW12O40 catalyst ...

New drug delivery systems for wound healing applications based on α/β/γ-cyclodextrin (α/β/γ-CD) acrylic (A) and styrenic (S) monomers have been synthesized co-polymerized with 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate (HEMA) via a cryo-polymerization technique.

The origins of herbal therapeutics 1 The common origins of diet and medicine 1 Matters of taste 2 Shape-shifting 5 Food, medicine and pharmacology 7 Co-evolution 9 Wholeness and complexity 11 The development of herbal medicine as a practice 14 The nature of life is change 14 Ethnobotanical insights 17 In search of ‘the herbalist’ 18 Phytotherapy 21 The varieties of phytotherapy 21 Phytotherapy ...

We review briefly some ideas and constructions for dKP (from KP) and its Hamiltonian dynamics, discuss its quantization via Moyal back to KP, and treat the KP hierarchy itself as a sequence of quantum Hamiltonian systems based on the dKP dynamics. Some connections to q-theories are also indicated. The constructions are all well known (cf. [6, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 23, 24, 29, 3...

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Does the party of government influence amount and type inward foreign investment? Correlational studies provide inconsistent evidence. Moreover no existing study, for any level or jurisdiction, uses methods that allow causal inference. We apply regression discontinuity to a set narrow margin US gubernatorial elections. Over course 4-year term election Republican governor causes 17% boost in gro...