Single-crystal platinum nanorods with high aspect ratios and tunable length were fabricated on a large scale by a glycol-assisted one-step vacuum impregnation method, using mesoporous inorganic silica SBA-15 as the host.

We formally deene the set-based abstraction of any language whose operational semantics can be deened by environment evaluation. The Aiken-Wimmers soft type system precisely corresponds to this set-based abstraction under their operational semantics. The Heintze set-based analysis is precisely this set-based abstraction under a diierent operational semantics. In general, set-based abstraction d...

Cyanide-functionalized mesoporous silica SBA-15 (CN/SBA-15) with pore diameters larger than 6 nm has been prepared by a one-pot synthesis. The structure of CN/SBA-15 is affected by the amount of the functional silane 2-cyanoethyltriethoxysilane (CTES) and the conditions of co-condensation in the acidic aqueous solution of the triblock copolymer Pluronic P123: whereas direct mixing of the silica...

We evaluated alamarBlue as a metabolic indicator in a standardized assay for the measurement of serum bactericidal activity (SBA) to Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) using sera containing natural and vaccine-induced anticapsular (polyribosylribitol phosphate) antibodies. SBA assays with a colorimetric and a fluorometric end point in the presence of alamarBlue were developed and compared to a...

ZigBee Specification defines a distributed address assignment mechanism (DAAM) for assigning addresses to nodes in ZigBee networks. However, some nodes are likely not to get addresses as DAAM limits the number of child nodes of a router in advance. To address this problem with the spare addresses that DAAM does not use, we first derive an upper bound of the probability that DAAM exhausts the 16...

The performance of ad hoc networks based on IEEE 802.11 DCF degrade when congestion increases. The issues concern efficiency and fairness. Many solutions can be found at the MAC layer in the literature, but very few solutions improve fairness and efficiency at the same time. In this paper, we design a new backoff solution, called SBA. SBA uses only local information and two contention window si...

* Recebido (Received from) do Serviço de Anestesiologia (CET/SBA) da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (FM-UFU), Uberlândia, MG. 1. Professor Doutor da Disciplina de Anestesiologia e Responsável pelo CET/ SBA da FM-UFU. Membro da Comissão de Normas Técnicas Segurança em Anestesiologia/SBA. 2. Co-Responsável pelo CET/SBA da FM-UFU. 3. Anestesiologista do Serviço de Anes...

A recent trend in Internet usage has seen large amounts of multimedia data due to increasingly large numbers of mobile users. To facilitate higher bandwidth, modern mobile routers are capable of supporting simultaneous multi-band, leading to less interference, higher capacity and better reliability. However, there exists neither previous work that attempts to maximize utilization of available b...

The adjuvant potential of two mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs), SBa-15 and SBa-16, was assessed in combination with a recombinant HSP70 surface polypeptide domain from Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae, the etiological agent of porcine enzootic pneumonia (PEP). The recombinant antigen (HSP70212-600), previously shown as immunogenic in formulation with classic adjuvants, was used to immunize BALB/c...