Our recent studies suggest that H2 (hydrogen) has a potential as a novel radioprotector without known toxic side effects. The present study was designed to examine the underlying radioprotective mechanism of H2 and its protective role on irradiated germ cells. Produced by the Fenton reaction and radiolysis of H2O, hydroxyl radicals (•OH) were identified as the free radical species that were red...

This paper presents the experimental results of cogasification of coal and biomass in an intermittent fluidized bed reactor, aiming to investigate the influences of operation parameters such as gasification temperature (T), steam to biomass mass ratio (SBMR), and biomass to coal mass ratio (BCMR) on hydrogen-rich (H2-rich) gas production. The results show that H2-rich gas free of N2 dilution is...

We present a new four-dimensional (4D) potential energy surface for the HCl-H2 van der Waals system. Both molecules were treated as rigid rotors. Potential energy surface was obtained from electronic structure calculations using a coupled cluster with single, double, and perturbative triple excitations method. The four atoms were described using the augmented correlation-consistent quadruple ze...

The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class Ib molecule H2-M3 primes the rapid expansion of CD8+ T cells by presenting N-formylated bacterial peptides. However, the significance of H2-M3-restricted T cells in host defense against bacteria is unclear. We generated H2-M3-deficient mice to investigate the role of H2-M3 in immunity against Listeria monocytogenes (LM), a model intracellular bac...

Following previous investigations on H2 O and H2 O by cavity ring-down spectroscopy, this method has now been applied to investigate the energy region of the 5m polyad in the absorption spectrum of H2 O. In the range 16570–17125 cm , the highest energy range investigated for the H2 O isotopologue so far, 516 lines are attributed to H2 O and assigned from a newly generated line list. 2006 Elsevi...

Two cDNA clones isolated from a HepG2 lambda gt11 library encode the classical asialoglycoprotein receptor, H1, as well as a homologous membrane glycoprotein, H2 (Spiess, M., and Lodish, H.F. (1985) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 82, 6465-6469). To study the relationship of H2 to H1 and its possible role in receptor-mediated endocytosis of desialyated glycoproteins, we generated anti-peptide ant...

High-frequency measurements of atmospheric molecular hydrogen (H2) and carbon monoxide (CO) were made at an urban site in the United Kingdom (UK) from mid-December, 2008 until early March, 2009. Very few measurements of H2 exist in the urban environment, particularly within the UK, but are an essential component in the assessment of anthropogenic emissions of H2 and to a certain extent CO. Thes...

The a- and b-type rotational transitions of the weakly bound complexes formed by molecular hydrogen and OCS, para-H2-OCS, ortho-H2-OCS, HD-OCS, para-D2-OCS, and ortho-D2-OCS, have been measured by Fourier transform microwave spectroscopy. All five species have ground rotational states with total rotational angular momentum J=0, regardless of whether the hydrogen rotational angular momentum is j...

measles is a highly contagious disease. by the end of 2013, 84% of children had received at least a single dose of measles vaccine by their second birthday, and 148 countries had included a second dose as part of routine immunization. in 2002, the iranian ministry of health and medical education developed a comprehensive strategy to eliminate measles including mass immunization campaign for peo...

in this paper, we present a numerical algorithm for solving matrix equations $(a otimes b)x = f$  by extending the well-known gaussian elimination for $ax = b$. the proposed algorithm has a high computational efficiency. two numerical examples are provided to show the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.