Previous work showed that the glycosaminoglycan (GAG) dextran sulfate (500 kDa) altered the binding and channel properties of α-amino-3-hydroxy-5- methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid (AMPA)-type glutamate receptors. The current ...

Surveys of mosquitos in Sri Lanka have generally been confined to the South. A recent study in Jaffna peninsula in northern Sri Lanka reported on the biology of peridomestic mosquito species. The present survey indicates ...

In experimental studies of hydrogen permeation through a Pd77Ag23 membrane at 25 and 50°C, forms of the time-dependent changes of hydrogen pressure within the membrane have been found to be clearly dependent on the catalytic ...

A well known method of estimating missing temperature observations has been refined and applied to estimate monthly temperature with a higher accuracy. The estimates are based on the temperature departures of stations in ...

Thin films of titanium were allowed to interact with a continuous flow of hydrogen until they were saturated (r(H/Ti)=2). Their dissociation pressure was 1.2*10-3 Torr at 20 degrees C and 4*10-2 Torr at 70 degrees C. These ...

The electron impact dissociative double-ionization cross sections for H2 O between 45 and 1500 eV have been measured using time of flight mass spectrometry. The energy dependence of the H+ +O H+ and H+ + O+ ion pair ...

Utilisations of palladium alloys as hydrogen purification membranes provide technological background circumstances for a phenomenon known as "Uphill Hydrogen Diffusion Effects". The membranes utilised have been in the form ...

We focus on the preparation of hybrid polymer/zinc oxide (ZnO) solar cells, in which the metal oxide consists of ZnO columnar structures grown perpendicularly on a flat, dense "backing" layer, as a means to provide a direct ...

Optical detection of magnetic resonance (ODMR) and photoluminescence (PL) studies are described for the sulfur-related metastable defect in silicon first reported by Brown and Hall. It is established that its two configurations, ...

The requisite methodology for performing optimal design--the synthesis of devices from specified performance standards--is now in place. Software that is reliable and transparent to the user is required. If this could be ...