[1] We identify dimethyl disulfide (DMDS) as the major reduced sulfur-containing gas emitted from bushfires in Australia’s Northern Territory. Like dimethyl sulfide (DMS), DMDS is oxidized in the atmosphere to sulfur dioxide (SO2) and methane sulfonic acid (MSA), which are intermediates in the formation of sulfuric acid (H2SO4). The mixing ratios of DMDS and DMS were the highest we have ever de...

In a group of patients with chronic bronchitis, repeated night sedation with 10 mg nitrazepam produced a fall in central respiratory drive and a steady rise in arterial carbon dioxide tension. The changes produced over a five-day period were not clinically important, except in two patients who were already hypercapnic before receiving nitrazepam. The use of this drug in patients with carbon dio...

Cryptosporidium parvum, which is resistant to chlorine concentrations typically used in water treatment, is recognized as a significant waterborne pathogen. Recent studies have demonstrated that chlorine dioxide is a more efficient disinfectant than free chlorine against Cryptosporidium oocysts. It is not known, however, if oocysts from different suppliers are equally sensitive to chlorine diox...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Evidence linking outdoor air pollution and incidence of stroke is limited. We examined effects of outdoor air pollution on the incidence of ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke at the population level focusing on middle-aged and older people. METHODS We used a small-area level ecological study design and a stroke register set up to capture all incident cases of first-ever st...

materials and methods in the first stage, no2 pollutant concentrations were measured using the data collected from air pollution monitoring stations. sampling was performed in six stations. the chosen stations have been based on the us environmental protection agency (epa) standards. in the next step, the data were processed using excel software and information was given to the airq model. data...

Carbon nanotube adhesion force measurements were performed on single-walled nanotubes grown over lithographically defined trenches. An applied vertical force from an atomic force microscope (AFM), in force distance mode, caused the tubes to slip across the 250-nm-wide silicon dioxide trench tops at an axial tension of 8 nN. The nanotubes slipped at an axial tension of 10 nN after being selectiv...

We have studied the infrared spectral characteristics of frozen carbon dioxide (CO2) formed after ion irradiation of several astrophysically relevant ice mixtures at 10 K. Carbon dioxide is in fact readily produced by ion irradiation of icy samples of CO, and CH3OH and mixtures H2O:CO, CO:O2, CO:N2, H2O:CH3OH, H2O:CH4, H2O:CH4:NH3. We have studied the profile (shape, width and peak position) of...

results results showed that naderi and havashenasi stations had the highest and the lowest sulfur and nitrogen dioxide concentrations, respectively during 2012. maximum annual concentrations of sulfur and nitrogen dioxide were 173 and 58 μg/m3, respectively, which observed during winter 2012. approximately 5.6% of the respiratory mortality and copd cases happened when the sulfur and nitrogen di...