Artificial light at night is an increasing threat to nocturnal biodiversity. Aside from the overall increase in emission, replacement of old monochromatic streetlighting by broad emission spectrum LED lights may be additional threat. Studies evaluating impacts these artificial on European common glow-worm (Lampyris noctiluca L.) are scarce. This study examines effects upward facing white mate s...

In this paper, we extend the third evolution of Technology Acceptance Model (TAM3) to incorporate warm-glow with aim understanding role phenomenon plays on user adoption decisions. Warm-glow is feeling satisfaction or pleasure (or both) that experienced by individuals after they do something "good" for their fellow human. Two constructs - perceived extrinsic (PEWG) and intrinsic (PIWG) were inc...

ABSTRACT In this work, the dry reforming of methane was studied using a corona and glow discharge plasma microreactors. A chemical kinetic model was developed to understand the reaction better. The modelization allowed prediction of the reactants conversion according to the energy transfer to the gas (P×τ). The β value is trait of the energy cost, whatever this value was leeser indicated ...

The hardness and stress of amorphous carbon lms prepared by glow discharge and by ion beam assisting deposition are investigated. Relatively hard and almost stress free amorphous carbon lms were deposited by the glow discharge technique. On the other hand, by using the ion beam assisting deposition, hard lms were also obtained with a stress of the same order of those found in tetrahedral amorph...

Chinese liquors are often a very important part of social event in China. Driven by high profit, some illegal traders often use inferior liquors instead of the products with high quality to cheat the customer. Therefore, it is highly required to authenticate Chinese liquors. In this paper a novel method based on ambient glow discharge ionization mass spectrometry has been developed to different...

Nitriding of p-type Si samples by pulsed DC glow discharge is carried out for different Ar concentrations (30% to 90%) in nitrogen-argon plasma whereas the other parameters like pressure (2 mbar), treatment time (4 hr) and power (175 W) are kept constant. The phase identification, crystal structure, crystallinity, chemical composition, surface morphology and topography of the nitrided layer are...