Bismuth&d platinum electrodes were investigated as pH indicating electrodes in strong KOH solutions (pH 14-16). The E-pH curve of freshly prepared bismuth electrodes is linear, but the E-pH slope altered with time. It is shown that the slope is constant if the bismuth electrode has been aged via immersion in a concentrated KOH solution. The value of the E-pH slope depends on the KOH concentrati...

AIMS To determine the value of echocardiography including tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) and right ventricular (RV) speckle tracking analysis for the diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension (PH) and discrimination between pre- and postcapillary PH. METHODS AND RESULTS 155 consecutive patients (mean age 70.5±13.0 years, 81 [52%] male gender, BMI 27.2±6.1 kg/m(2)) with PH undergoing right heart cathe...

Introduction The peri-implant pH value is assumed to change after the implantation of biodegradable magnesium implants or the dissolution of its corrosion products [1]. However, the periimplant pH needs to be controlled to obtain an appropriate foreign body reaction, since the local pH value can influence the healing phase [2]. Mg(OH)2 seems to have high potential for scaffolds in regenerative ...

Singular points of random matrix-valued analytic functions are a common generalization of eigenvalues of random matrices and zeros of random polynomials. The setting is that we have an analytic function of z taking values in the space of n× n matrices. Singular points are those (random) z where the matrix becomes singular, that is, the zeros of the determinant. This notion was introduced in the...

The market value of US corporations declined by 50% during the period 1973-74 and stagnated for the following 15 years. This abrupt decline in market valuations coincided with a good news shock the start of the Information Technology Revolution and a bad news shock a slowdown in productivity growth -. I use general equilibrium theory to quantify the equity price and macroeconomic implications o...

We consider an infinite-horizon single-product pricing problem in which a fraction of customers is patient and the remaining fraction is impatient. A patient customer will wait up to some fixed number of time periods for the price of the product to fall below his or her valuation at which point the customer will make a purchase. If the price does not fall below a patient customer's valuation at...

Both naturally occurring and synthetic phosphatidic acid (PtdOH) molecules show the phenomenon of spontaneous vesiculation on jump in pH value. This method involves a transient increase in pH of smectic PtdOH dispersions to values between 10 and 12. Such a pH increase induces spontaneous vesiculation with the formation of small unilamellar vesicles of diameter less than 50 nm as shown by 31P NM...

Electrolyzed anode water (EAW) markedly extended the vase life of cut carnation flowers. Therefore, a flower-senescence hormone involving ethylene decomposition by EAW with potassium chloride as an electrolyte was investigated. Ethylene was added externally to EAW, and the reaction between ethylen and the available chlorine in EAW was examined. EAW had a low pH value (2.5), a high concentration...

pH values of aqueous solutions of acid potassium phthalate, National Bureau of Standards Standard Sample 84a, are given for concentrations from 0.001 to 0.2 m and for temperatures between 0° and 60° C. They were calculated from the values of the two dissociation constants of o-phthalic acid and the activity coefficients of the acid phthalate and phthalate ions. The pH values range from 3.88 to ...

Rice straw charcoal, soot and fly ash (collectively termed "black carbon" or BC), which were found to widely exist in the environment and exhibit strong sorption of many organic compounds, were prepared for this study, and recorded as RC, SC, and FC, respectively. The characterization, sorption isotherm, and the effect of pH (from 3.0 to 9.0) on sorption capacity of each BC were investigated. I...