Titanium dioxide (TiO2) was doped with the combination of several metal ions including platinum (Pt), chromium (Cr), vanadium (V), and nickel (Ni). The doped TiO2 materials were synthesized by standard sol-gel methods with doping levels of 0.1 to 0.5 at.%. The resulting materials were characterized by x-ray diffraction (XRD), BET surface-area measurement, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and...

Putative standards of skeletal alkaline phosphatase (ALP) (from bone, bone cells, osteosarcoma cells, and Pagetic serum) and hepatic ALP (from cholestatic serum and bile) were used to compare three methods for quantifying skeletal ALP activity in serum: heat inactivation, precipitation with wheat germ agglutinin (WGA), and precipitation with concanavalin A (Con A). All the skeletal ALP standard...

BACKGROUND Serum alkaline phosphatase (ALP) level has been shown to be a prognostic factor for myocardial infarction and stroke via its promotion of vascular calcification. AIM To investigate for the first time the correlation between serum ALP level and coronary collateral circulation (CCC) development. METHODS A total of 356 patients with stable angina pectoris were evaluated retrospectiv...

This paper presents the TPCALP framework, a theorem-proving approach which aims to unify Abductive Logic Programming (ALP), Constraint Logic Programming (CLP) and Semantic Query Optimization (SQO). The framework combines the use of deenitions, as in ordinary logic programming, with the use of integrity constraints, as in ALP and SQO. The programmer can choose to represent knowledge in either fo...

Abstract The temperature-dependent resistivity of heavily Al- and N-codoped 4H-SiC grown by physical vapor transport (PVT) with Al concentrations (C ) higher than 10 19 cm −3 is investigated to obtain high-growth-rate low-cost p + -type substrates suitable for the collectors n-channel insulated-gate bipolar transistors. compared that Al-doped chemical deposition (CVD). In band conduction region...

The independent predictions of edge ferromagnetism and the quantum spin Hall phase in graphene have inspired the quest of other two-dimensional honeycomb systems, such as silicene, germanene, stanene, iridates, and organometallic lattices, as well as artificial superlattices, all of them with electronic properties analogous to those of graphene, but a larger spin-orbit coupling. Here, we study ...

Axion or axion-like particle (ALP) has been usually considered as a CP-odd Nambu-Goldstone boson (NGB) from the spontaneous breakdown of global U(1) symmetry. In this paper, we point out that NGB behaves CP-even coupled to SM particles in large class simple (or perhaps simplest) renormalizable models. We provide first study collider phenomenology and cosmology ALP. natural parameter region, ALP...