background: the sporadic cases of radiation-activated multiple sclerosis (ms) has been previously described, with a few studies focused on the relationship between radiation and the risk of ms. the aim of our study was to evaluate the association between history of x-ray radiation and ms.   methods : this case-control study was conducted on 150 individuals including 65 ms patients and 85 age- a...

The Ni4S3 thin films were prepared by chemical bath deposition method. The chemical bath contained nickel sulphate and sodium thiosulfate which supplied the Ni and S ions, respectively. The structure and morphology of the films were studied using X-ray diffraction and atomic force microscopy technique, respectively. Absorbance spectra data of the films were obtained by UV-Vis spectrophotometer....

Polycaprolactone (PCL) membrane was modified by grafting copolymerization of methacrylic acid (MAA) initiated under UV light. The covalent immobilization of gelatin on PCL-g-PMAA surface was consequently performed by using condensing agent, 1-ethyl-3-(3-dimethylamino propyl) carbodiimide hydrochloride. The occurrence of grafting copolymerization of PMAA and further immobilization of gelatin was...

The experimental results of X-ray diffraction (XRD), optical absorbance, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and photoelectron spectra (XPS) the core levels valence bands MAPbBr3 (MA-CH3NH3+) perovskite before after exposure to visible light for 700 h at temperatures 10 60 °C are presented. It reveals that soaking induces decomposition accompanied with decay organic cation release a PbBr2 phase...

The objective of this work was to investigate the potential of three different kinds of Iranian peat and swamp soils as sources of organic matter (OM) in the Golestan Province, Northern Iran. Comparison of the peats was done in terms of the degree of humification on the von Post scale. Moreover, the X-ray fluorescence, X-Ray Diffractometry, and Fourier transform infra-red (FT-IR) techniques wer...

Abstract This work aims at evaluating the selective solar absorbance (SSA) of Al 2 O 3 thin films deposited by physical vapor deposition (PVD) with two different metallic reflector interlayers. are on same substrate stainless steel (SS) 304L, interlayers between film and substrate, namely, nickel (Ni) aluminum (Al) used as interlayer SS304L/Al/Al SS304L/Ni/Al . A scanning electron microscope (S...

The aluminum oxide materials are widely used in ceramics, refractories and abrasives due to their hardness, chemical inertness, high melting point, non-volatility and resistance to oxidation and corrosion. The paper describes work done on synthesis of α-alumina by using the simple, non-expensive solution combustion method using glycine as fuel.Aluminum oxide (Al2O3) nanoparticles were synthesiz...

abstractbackground: an electron beam generated x-ray spectrum consists of characteristic x-ray and continuous bermsstrahlung. the aim of this research is calculating and comparing x-ray spectra for different target filter of mammograms. materials and methods: monte carlo is a very powerful tool to simulate a series of different target-filter assembly in order to calculate the x-ray spectra. mcn...

zinc oxide (zno) nanopowders were synthesized by the sol–gel method from an ethanol solution of zinc sulfate heptahydrate in the presence of diethylene glycol surfactant. detailed structural and microstructural investigations were carried out using x-ray diffraction (xrd), high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (hrtem), field emission scanning electron microscopy (fe-sem), fourier tra...

In 2012 it was forty years ago that the discovery of the first X-ray binary Centaurus X-3 became known. That same year it was discovered that apart from the High-Mass X-ray Binaries (HMXBs) there are also Low-Mass X-ray Binaries (LMXBs), and that Cygnus X-1 is most probably a black hole. By 1975 also the new class of Be/X-ray binaries was discovered. After this it took 28 years before ESAs INTE...