The importance of syngas as intermediate product on the gas to chemicals route and for power generation with carbon dioxide separation for sequestration calls for new, innovative processes. Lurgi took up this challenge to fundamentally improve syngas production technology and decided to build a multi process demonstration unit for syngas production technologies. This project is jointly pursued ...

Although the age of acquisition of a language has an effect when learning a second language, the similarity between languages may also have a crucial role. The aim of the present study is to understand the influence of this latter factor in the acquisition of morphosyntactic information. With this purpose, two groups of highly proficient early Catalan-Spanish bilinguals were presented with a re...

A general method of obtaining many-electron wave functions which are eigenfunctions of h' and which also satisfy Pauli's principle is developed. This method is based on the properties of the irreducible units of the group algebra of the symmetric group. Using this method, expansions of the exact wave function are found which will in succeeding articles form the basis of a powerful method of obt...

Who knows it is a game? On strategic awareness and cognitive ability* We introduce the notion of strategic awareness in experimental games which captures the idea that subjects realize they are playing a game and thus have to form beliefs about others’ actions. The concept differs from both, rule understanding and rationality. We then turn to experimental evidence from a beauty contest game whe...

PURPOSE Zirconia ceramics are a viable alternative to titanium for use as dental implants. However, the smooth surface of zirconia means that longer healing periods are needed to accomplish osseointegration compared to roughened titanium surfaces. Surface modifications can be used to increase the roughness of zirconia. The aim of this study was to assess histologically and compare the degree of...

Congenital swine pox infection was identified in 13 piglets with typical gross cutaneous lesions that were present at birth. Characteristic microscopic features of swine pox infection were noted in the more acute cases, whereas chronic cases presented less specific skin lesions. In the four affected herds, disease occurred as a sporadic condition with low morbidity and high case fatality rates....

Standard Dutch and German have two reflexive forms: a weak form (zich in Dutch and sich in German) and a strong form (zichzelf in Dutch and sich selbst in German). The choice between the two reflexive forms in Dutch has been explained by the selectional restrictions of the verb, distinguishing between three verb classes: inherently reflexive verbs, accidentally reflexive verbs and transitive ve...

1. The action of potassium iodide in preventing a significant rise in the blood cholesterol of rabbits fed cholesterol was temporary. After about 4 months it lost its effectiveness and the blood cholesterol rose. 2. In rabbits with hypercholesterolemia resulting from long continued cholesterol feeding, the administration of potassium iodide caused a marked rise in the blood cholesterol. 3. On t...

Dirac electron theory and QED do not take into account gravitational field, while the corresponding Kerr-Newman solution with parameters of electron has very strong stringy, topological and non-local action on the Compton distances, polarizing space-time and deforming the Coulomb field. We discuss the relation of the electron to the Kerr’s microgeon model and argue that the Kerr geometry may be...

In cholesterol-fed rabbits, alloxan-diabetes has an anti-atherogenic effect, which is associated with severe elevation of plasma triglyceride concentrations. To study this effect, we measured lipoprotein sizes and aortic permeability coefficients for cholesteryl ester and for albumin in hypertriglyceridemic diabetic cholesterol-fed rabbits and in normotriglyceridemic cholesterol-fed rabbits. Wi...