Alternative energy sources, such as various fuel cell technologies, have attracted intense attention due to their high efficiency and low emissions of pollutants. Methanol, with its high hydrogen/carbon ratio, low sulfur content and the absence of carbon–carbon bonds, has been identified as a highly suitable source for onboard production of hydrogen [1]. Among several reactions for converting m...

The overarching goal of the present study was to trace the development of mirror self-recognition (MSR), as an index of toddlers' sense of themselves and others as autonomous intentional agents, in different sociocultural environments. A total of 276 toddlers participated in the present study. Toddlers were either 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, or 21 months old at their first assessment and completed week...

It has been generally accepted, primarily from studies on methionine sulfoxide reductase (Msr) A, that the biological reducing agent for the members of the Msr family is reduced thioredoxin (Trx), although high levels of DTT can be used as the reductant in vitro. Preliminary experiments using both human recombinant MsrB2 (hMsrB2) and MsrB3 (hMsrB3) showed that although DTT can function in vitro...

Experimental work at the LR-0 reactor was carried out to determine possibility of mock-up neutron field creation for fluoride salt-based reactors. Previous calculations and experiments have shown that fast part molten salt (MSR) spectrum is shaped by fluorine even Teflon material suitable neutronics in energy range. Properly selected indices can describe MSR thermal intermediate parts spectrum....

We describe Vector Generation from Explicitly-defined Multidimensional semantic Space (VGEM), a method for converting a measure of semantic relatedness (MSR) into vector form. We also describe Best path Length on a Semantic Self-Organizing Map (BLOSSOM), a semantic relatedness technique employing VGEM and a connectionist, nonlinear dimensionality reduction technique. The psychological validity ...

A new approach for the rapid destruction of human waste using smouldering combustion is presented. Recently, self-sustaining smouldering combustion was shown to destroy the organic component of simulated human solid waste and dog faeces resulting in the sanitization of all pathogens using a batch process (Yermán et al., 2015). Here, a continuous smouldering process is demonstrated for the first...

The formation of a self-sustaining autocatalytic chemical network is a necessary but not sufficient condition for the origin of life. The question of whether such a network could form "by chance" within a sufficiently complex suite of molecules and reactions is one that we have investigated for a simple chemical reaction model based on polymer ligation and cleavage. In this paper, we extend thi...