This work deals with solid–vapor equilibria and solid–liquid–vapor of carbon dioxide in mixtures interest for natural gas purification biogas upgrading. Experimental data available the literature are reviewed an algorithm solving isobaric–isothermal flash coupled to a phase stability analysis is presented, which does not require a-priori knowledge number type phases existing at equilibrium. The...

Farmers face enormous production risks due to unpredictable rainfall, yet most do not have any formal insurance. One explanation for this is the existence of informal network-based risk sharing. Using a randomized controlled experiment, we study the demand for, and effects of, offering formal index-based rainfall insurance in an environment of tightly knit informal risk sharing networks: sub-ca...

Subband-coded images can be transmitted in the Internet using either the TCP or the UDP protocol. Delivery by TCP gives superior decoding quality but with very long delays when the network is unreliable, whereas delivery by UDP has negligible delays but with degraded quality when packets are lost. Although images are delivered currently over the Internet by TCP, we study in this paper the use o...

PURPOSE The need to increase the number oncology clinical trials with sufficient enrollments is a well-known issue, particularly for trials targeting therapeutic applications. It is critical to identify early predictors of eventual study accrual achievement. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN All nonpediatric phase I, I/II, II, and III therapeutic studies supported by the National Cancer Institute Cancer Th...

The limit to which the phase change memory material Ge2Sb2Te5 can be scaled toward the smallest possible memory cell is investigated using structural and optical methodologies. The encapsulation material surrounding the Ge2Sb2Te5 has an increasingly dominant effect on the material’s ability to change phase, and a profound increase in the crystallization temperature is observed when the Ge2Sb2Te...

Oxygen vacancy-rich high-entropy (Cr 0.2 Mn Fe Co Ni ) 3 O 4 oxide nanofibres with granular structure are good candidates for the preparation of electrocatalytic inks.

The recent demonstration of MoSi2N4 and its exceptional stability to air, water, acid, heat has generated intense interest in this family two-dimensional (2D) materials. Among these materials, NbSi2N4, VSi2N4, VSi2P4 are semiconducting, easy-plane ferromagnets with negligible in-plane magnetic anisotropy. They thus satisfy a necessary condition for exhibiting dissipationless spin superfluid mod...