Aqueous biphasic catalysis is a convenient approach to convert organic, partially soluble molecules in water. However, converting more hydrophobic substrates is much more challenging as their solubility in water is extremely low. During the past ten years, substantial progress has been made towards improving the contact between hydrophobic substrates and a hydrophilic transition-metal catalyst....

This paper argues that Information Technology (IT) needs to be demystified, through critical consciousness, for educators to focus on IT as a means to enhance learning. It goes on to define the technical, sociohistorical and political-ideological levels of IT and to identify four theoretical constructs: tutorial, machine-as-human, tool kit and catalyst. Pervading these constructs is the underst...

A recognition model which defines a measure of shape similarity on the direct output of multiscale and multiorientation Gabor filters does not manifest qualitative aspects of human object recognition of contour-deleted images in that: a) it recognizes recoverable and nonrecoverable contour-deleted images equally well whereas humans recognize recoverable images much better, b) i t distinguishes ...

Micrococcal nuclease digestion of mouse TLT liver hepatoma chromatin proceeds rapidly to the point where approximately 35% of the DNA is recoverable by centrifugation of the chromatin DNA through 3M CsCl. The satellite DNA sequence content of this recoverable DNA is the same as whole chromatin DNA (10%). The 11s (penultimate digestion product) monomer, as well as intermediate multiples and rela...

It is now well understood that the l1 minimization algorithm is able to recover sparse signals from incomplete measurements [2], [1], [3] and sharp recoverable sparsity thresholds have also been obtained for the l1 minimization algorithm. However, even though iterative reweighted l1 minimization algorithms or related algorithms have been empirically observed to boost the recoverable sparsity th...

The effects of crystallographic orientation and temperature on pseudoelasticity and recoverable strain levels under constant stress are revealed for the Co-31at.%Ni-27at.%Al alloy single crystals under compression. The single crystals demonstrate a perfect pseudoelasticity at temperatures as high as 170 °C, recoverable transformation strains of 4% along the [100] orientation and 2.5% along the ...

Ferrites have excellent magnetic, electric, and optical properties that make them an indispensable choice of material for a plethora applications, such as in various biomedical fields, magneto–optical displays, rechargeable lithium batteries, microwave devices, internet technology, transformer cores, humidity sensors, high-frequency media, magnetic recordings, solar energy fluids. Recently, mag...

Proceedings of the 8thWorkshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modeling, Optimization, and Systems, held on Septmeber 18 in Karlsruhe, Germany. ATMOS 2008 Preface 8th Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modeling, Optimization, and Systems The 8th ATMOS workshop was held in Karlsruhe, September 18, 2008, within ALGO, a set of meetings related to algorithms. The ser...