Alumina nanomaterials were synthesized via a solution combustion technique using tris-(acetylacetonato) aluminum(III) complex (1) and tris-(2-formylphenolate) aluminum(III) complex (2) at 600, and 1000 °C for 3h. The obtained data showed that the procedure without using fuel resulted in a better phase and morphology. To investigate the phase formation, powder X-ray diffraction technique was use...

Kinetic behaviour of three samples of samarium oxide (cubic (Sm-1 ), monoclinic (Sm-3) and mixed cubic-monoclinic (Sm 2) ) were studied in the oxidative coupling of methane using a gradientless flow circulation system. The specific rate of C2product formation differed by a factor of 6-8 for Sm-1 and Sm-3. The specific activity for CO formation did not depend upon the crystal structure of samari...

The differentiation of Drosophila embryonic blood cell progenitors (prohemocytes) into plasmatocytes or crystal cells is controlled by lineage-specific transcription factors. The related proteins Glial cells missing (GCM) and GCM2 control plasmatocyte development, whereas the RUNX factor Lozenge (LZ) is required for crystal cell differentiation. We have investigated the segregation process that...

Many fuzzy rule induction algorithms have been proposed during the past decade or so. Most of these algorithms tend to scale badly with large dimensions of the feature space and in addition have trouble dealing with different feature types or noisy data. In this paper, an algorithm is proposed that extracts a set of so called mixed fuzzy rules. These rules can be extracted from feature spaces w...

To attack a well-known occlusion problem of conventional optical see-through displays, we have been developing ELMO (an Enhanced optical seethrough display using an LCD panel for Mutual Occlusion). The latest prototype display under construction has a real-time rangefinder as well as an embedded light-blocking mechanism, thereby presents a mixed reality environment with correct mutual occlusion...

Network formation among individuals constitutes an important part of many OR processes, but relatively little is known about how individuals make their linking decisions in networks. This article provides an investigation of heuristic effects in individual linking decisions for network formation in an incentivized lab-experimental setting. Our mixed logit analysis demonstrates that the inherent...