an amoniumvanadate plus sodium molybdate mixed modifier graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometric method has been developed for determination of traces of lead in drinking water. the concentration of lead in the sample is obtained by direct comparison to linear working graph prepared from aqueous standards in the modifier medium, the results indicate the better performance of the propose...

Noun compounds, consisting of two nouns (the head and the modifier) that are combined into a single concept, differ in terms of their plausibility: school bus is a more plausible compound than saddle olive. The present study investigates which factors influence the plausibility of attested and novel noun compounds. Distributional Semantic Models (DSMs) are used to obtain formal (vector) represe...

Event nouns can lexically encode eventive information. Recently these nouns have generated considerable scholarly interest. However, little research has been conducted in their morphological and syntactic structure, qualia modification, event representing feature, and information inheritance characteristics. This study has these main findings. 1) Morphologically, the modifier and the head is ei...

To control the dispersibility of surface-modified nanoparticles in fluid, it is important to evaluate affinity between and solvents elucidate effect surface modification on at molecular level. In this study, chain length modifier solvent work adhesion Wadh was investigated for carboxylic acid-modified Al2O3/n-alkane interface by dynamics simulations using phantom-wall method. Here, we adopted h...

In this paper, we perform a complete analysis of the kinetic behavior of the general modifier mechanism of Botts and Morales in both equilibrium steady states and non-equilibrium steady states (NESS). Enlightened by the non-equilibrium theory of Markov chains, we introduce the net flux into discussion and acquire an expression of the rate of product formation in NESS, which has clear biophysica...

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The organic matter in sediment series across two organic-matter–rich layers from Ocean Drilling Program Hole 977A drilled in the Alboran Basin of the Western Mediterranean Sea has been characterized by organic geochemical methods. Organic carbon contents reached more than 2% in the organic-matter–rich layer and was ~1% in the background sediment under and overlying it. Molecular compositions of...

Academic Editor: Dominique Bonvin Received: 1 November 2016; Accepted: 15 December 2016; Published: 22 December 2016 Abstract: The modifier approach has been extensively explored and offers a theoretically-sound and practically-useful method to deploy real-time optimization. The recent directional-modifier adaptation algorithm offers a heuristic to tackle the modifier approach. The directional-...