A proton NMR method for the drtermination of salvation numbers of alkaline earth cations with hexamethyl phosphoramide (HMPA) in nitromethane (NM) as diluents is described. The method is based on monitoring the resonance frequency of HMPA protons as a function of HMPA / metal ion molar ratio at constant metalion concentration. The average salvation number of cations,  , at any HMPA / metal ...

We characterize the search landscape of random instances of the job shop scheduling problem (JSP). Specifically, we investigate how the expected values of (1) backbone size, (2) distance between near-optimal schedules, and (3) makespan of random schedules vary as a function of the job to machine ratio ( M ). For the limiting cases N M → 0 and N M →∞ we provide analytical results, while for inte...

This is a somewhat curious little book which was intended to be a concise note-book for medical, dental and other students to give them a brief idea of the subject before they attend their lectures and practical classes. It is no doubt a novel and ingenious idea on which the author may be congratulated. Blank pages have been put in so that students may draw diagrams from what they actually see ...

Hydrophylic fumed silica AR974 was tested as a potential nanofiller for the production of composite isotactic polypropylene filaments/fibers (containing 0.25–2 vol % of nanoparticles) via melt compounding and subsequent hot drawing. The objectives of this study were as follows: (i) to investigate the effects of the composition and the processing conditions on the microstructure and the thermal ...