Size dependent stabilities, fragmentation pathways and dissociation energies of a series of gas phase cationic doped gold clusters, Au(n)X+ (3 < or = n < or = 20; X = Y, Er and Nb), and pure Au(n)+ clusters were investigated in photofragmentation experiments. Size dependent stability patterns were obtained and the branching between monomer and dimer evaporation was studied. For bare gold, the c...

It has been known that workers of a honey bee colony bring water droplets into their hive, spraying it on the frames and brood cells, and fanning their wings when ambient temperature rises higher than appropriate. Meanwhile several species from Namibian beetles demonstrate unique water harvesting strategies from the morning fog via the bumps and troughs above their elytra, where water droplets ...

in order to investigate the effect of different irrigation regimes on yield and leaf proline content of a spring isfahan local variety of safflower, a field experiment was conducted as split plot in randomized complete block design with three replications at the research station of shahrekord university in 2013-2014. the main factor consisted of four different irrigation regimes (irrigation aft...

Despite its local and regional importance, hydrometeorological data on the Sudd (one of Africa’s largest wetlands) is very scanty. This is due to the physical and political situation of this area of Sudan. The areal size of the wetland, the evaporation rate, and the influence on the micro and meso climate are still unresolved questions of the Sudd hydrology. The evaporation flux from the Sudd w...

We extended the disk corona model (Meyer & Meyer-Hofmeister 1994; Meyer, Liu, & MeyerHofmeister 2000a) to the inner region of galactic nuclei by including different temperatures in ions and electrons as well as Compton cooling. We found that the mass evaporation rate and hence the fraction of accretion energy released in the corona depend strongly on the rate of incoming mass flow from outer ed...

Background and Objectives: Red colored fruits such as cornelian cherry (Cornus mas L) are recognized as being healthy. The color of these fruits is an important sensory property in assessment of product quality therefore, minimizing the loss of color in the process is very important. Materials and Methods: In this study, comparison of the color, turbidity, degradation rate of anthocyanin, an...

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OBJECTIVE To develop a simple, reproducible validation test protocol for classification of air-loss support systems. DESIGN Simultaneous experimental measurement of moisture loss and temperature reduction at the air-loss support surface-human body equivalent interface from a sweating human skin analogue. SETTING A hospital department of physical medicine and rehabilitation. OTHER PARTICIP...

The two-location field experiment was conducted to study the possible alleviation of droughtstress effects on red bean by ultrasonication and 24-epi-brassinolid. Locations were AgriculturalResearch Center in Shahrood, Iran and the other in bean farm, 40 km off Shahrood city in 2015.Experiment factors included irrigation of main plots at three levels of normal irrigation (60 mmevaporation from e...