The species formed by exposure of a Pd/ceria catalyst to SO2 under various conditions have been studied using temperature-programmed desorption (TPD) and FTIR. For adsorption of SO2 between 298 and 473 K, a molecular SO2 species adsorbs on the surface, possibly as a surface sulfite; and this species converts to a sulfate above 473 K. Exposure of Pd/ceria to SO2 at temperatures above 473 K in th...

BACKGROUND Myocardial perfusion SPECT (MPS) is one of the frequently used methods for quantification of perfusion defects in patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease. This article describes open access software for automated quantification in MPS of stress-induced ischemia and infarction and provides phantom and in vivo validation. METHODS AND RESULTS A total of 492 patients w...

Mr. Henderson brings up a subject that is going to become increasingly more important with the passage of time. As noted by the author and in an article by Marjorie Clarke in the January 1988 issue of Waste Age magazine, several states have enacted stringent air pollution control requirements for incinerators that, in some cases, are applicable to units as small as 20 tons per day (TPD). Many o...

The transpalatal distractor (TPD) allows for maxillary expansion according to the concepts of distraction osteogenesis. Unlike tooth-borne, surgically assisted rapid palatal expansion devices, the bone-borne TPD is designed to avoid periodontal ligament compression, buccal root resorption, fenestration, tooth tipping, and orthodontic relapse during and after the expansion. When the distractor i...

BACKGROUND We define the repeatability coefficients (RC) of key quantitative and visual perfusion and function parameters that can be derived by the QGS/QPS automated software and by expert visual observer from gated myocardial perfusion SPECT (MPS) scans. METHODS Standard QGS/QPS algorithms have been applied to derive quantitative perfusion and function parameters in 200 99mTc-tetrofosmin re...

This is the first functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study to investigate the hemodynamic response related to somatosensory spatial discrimination, so-called two-point discrimination. During scanning, we examined two discrimination tasks using four types of electrical stimuli applied to one or two points with strong or weak intensity on the right and left forearm, respectively. In the...

We investigated the molecular adsorption of methane, ethane, propane and n-butane on stoichiometric and oxygen-rich RuO2(110) surfaces using temperature-programmed desorption (TPD) and dispersion-corrected density functional theory (DFT-D3) calculations. We find that each alkane adsorbs strongly on the coordinatively-unsaturated Ru (Rucus) atoms of s-RuO2(110), with desorption from this state p...

The vaporisation of ionic liquids has been investigated using temperature programmed desorption (TPD) and ultra-high vacuum (UHV) distillation. 1-Alkyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide ionic liquids, [C(n)C(1)Im][Tf(2)N] (n = 2, 8), have been distilled at UHV and T > 500 K in a specially designed still. The distillation process yielded spectroscopically pure ionic liquid di...

Education has the power to transform societies and contribute to social and economic development. In this paper we present the mobile technologies used for teacher professional development (TPD) and communicative language teaching in English in Action (EIA). The project aims to assist 25 million people access greater social and economic opportunities through English language teaching and TPD. E...