Investigating metal oxides for C1 chemistry : a computational and experimental study by Bhola, Kartavya

“…With huge global natural gas reserves, coupled with depletion of fossil fuels, researchers are exploring potential technologies to convert methane into high value-added chemicals. …”
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Variability of ambient air ammonia in urban Europe (Finland, France, Italy, Spain, and the UK) by Xiansheng Liu, Rosa Lara, Marvin Dufresne, Lijie Wu, Xun Zhang, Tao Wang, Marta Monge, Cristina Reche, Anna Di Leo, Guido Lanzani, Cristina Colombi, Anna Font, Annalisa Sheehan, David C. Green, Ulla Makkonen, Stéphane Sauvage, Thérèse Salameh, Jean-Eudes Petit, Mélodie Chatain, Hugh Coe, Siqi Hou, Roy Harrison, Philip K. Hopke, Tuukka Petäjä, Andrés Alastuey, Xavier Querol

“…These results offer valuable insights into the spatio-temporal patterns of gas-phase NH3 concentrations in urban Europe, contributing to future efforts in benchmarking NH3 pollution control in urban areas.…”
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Evolution of barred galaxies and associated structures by Kruk, S

“…With the detailed structural analysis I obtain physical quantities such as the bar- and bulge-to-total luminosity ratios, effective radii, Sérsic indices and colours of the individual components. I find a clear difference in the colours of the components, the discs being bluer than the bars and bulges. …”

Some properties of paramagnetic salts at very low temperatures by Wolf, W

“…The susceptibility of this "gas" at very low temperatures would be expected to differ from that of normal oxygen on the basis of free rotation, but no appreciable difference was found in the range 1-5°K.…”

Individual Tree Attribute Estimation and Uniformity Assessment in Fast-Growing <em>Eucalyptus</em> spp. Forest Plantations Using Lidar and Linear Mixed-Effects Models by Rodrigo Vieira Leite, Carlos Alberto Silva, Midhun Mohan, Adrián Cardil, Danilo Roberti Alves de Almeida, Samuel de Pádua Chaves e Carvalho, Wan Shafrina Wan Mohd Jaafar, Juan Guerra-Hernández, Aaron Weiskittel, Andrew T. Hudak, Eben N. Broadbent, Gabriel Prata, Ruben Valbuena, Hélio Garcia Leite, Mariana Futia Taquetti, Alvaro Augusto Vieira Soares, Henrique Ferraço Scolforo, Cibele Hummel do Amaral, Ana Paula Dalla Corte, Carine Klauberg

“…Fast-growing Eucalyptus spp. forest plantations and their resultant wood products are economically important and may provide a low-cost means to sequester carbon for greenhouse gas reduction. The development of advanced and optimized frameworks for estimating forest plantation attributes from lidar remote sensing data combined with statistical modeling approaches is a step towards forest inventory operationalization and might improve industry efficiency in monitoring and managing forest resources. …”
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Characterization of the planar differential mobility analyzer (DMA P5): resolving power, transmission efficiency and its application to atmospheric relevant cluster measurements by Z. Xu, J. Gao, Z. Xu, M. Attoui, X. Pei, M. Amo-González, K. Zhang, Z. Wang, Z. Wang

“…The device is capable of sizing particles below 3.9 nm, with larger sizes measurable through a sheath gas flow restrictor. The resolving power was appraised under various recirculation arrangements, including suction and counterflow modes along with different sheath flow rates, using electrosprayed tetra-alkyl ammonium salts. …”
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Pharmacokinetic Evaluation of New Drugs Using a Multi-Labelling Approach and PET Imaging: Application to a Drug Candidate with Potential Application in Neuromuscular Disorders by Rossana Passannante, Vanessa Gómez-Vallejo, Maialen Sagartzazu-Aizpurua, Laura Vignau Arsuaga, Pablo Marco-Moreno, Garazi Aldanondo, Ainara Vallejo-Illarramendi, Pablo Aguiar, Unai Cossío, Abraham Martín, Jonas Bergare, Lee Kingston, Charles S. Elmore, Miguel Angel Morcillo, Pablo Ferrón, Jesus M. Aizpurua, Jordi Llop

“…PET imaging studies in rats after intravenous (IV) administration at different doses (1 µg/Kg and 5 mg/Kg) were combined with determination of arterial blood time-activity curves (TACs) and analysis of plasma samples by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) to quantify radioactive metabolites. …”
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Development of an ecophysiology module in the GEOS-Chem chemical transport model version 12.2.0 to represent biosphere–atmosphere fluxes relevant for ozone air quality by J. C. Y. Lam, A. P. K. Tai, A. P. K. Tai, J. A. Ducker, J. A. Ducker, C. D. Holmes

“…A new ecophysiology module was thus developed to mechanistically simulate land<span class="inline-formula">−</span>atmosphere exchange of important gas species in GEOS-Chem, a chemical transport model widely used in atmospheric chemistry studies. …”
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Photoaging of phenolic secondary organic aerosol in the aqueous phase: evolution of chemical and optical properties and effects of oxidants by W. Jiang, W. Jiang, C. Niedek, C. Niedek, C. Anastasio, C. Anastasio, Q. Zhang, Q. Zhang

“…<p>While gas-phase reactions are well established to have significant impacts on the mass concentration, chemical composition, and optical properties of secondary organic aerosol (SOA), the aqueous-phase aging of SOA remains poorly understood. …”
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Mass spectrometric analysis of unprecedented high levels of carbonaceous aerosol particles long-range transported from wildfires in the Siberian Arctic by E. Schneider, E. Schneider, H. Czech, O. Popovicheva, M. Chichaeva, V. Kobelev, N. Kasimov, T. Minkina, C. P. Rüger, C. P. Rüger, R. Zimmermann, R. Zimmermann

“…However, temporarily higher concentrations of five- and six-ring polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), different from the PAH signature of biomass burning, suggest a contribution of regional gas flaring. …”
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Single-species dinoflagellate cyst carbon isotope fractionation in core-top sediments: environmental controls, CO₂ dependency and proxy potential by J. Frieling, J. Frieling, L. van Roij, I. Kleij, G.-J. Reichart, G.-J. Reichart, A. Sluijs

“…Where several species could be analyzed from a single location, we often record significant differences in isotopic variance and offsets in mean <span class="inline-formula"><i>δ</i>¹³</span>C values between species, highlighting the importance of single-species carbon isotope analyses. …”
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A modeling approach to investigate drivers, variability and uncertainties in O₂ fluxes and O₂&thinsp;:&thinsp;CO₂ exchange ratios in a temperate fo... by Y. Yan, A. Klosterhalfen, F. Moyano, M. Cuntz, A. C. Manning, A. Knohl, A. Knohl

“…Due to the technical challenge in measuring directly the ER of entire terrestrial ecosystems (ER<span class="inline-formula">_eco</span>), little is known about variations in ER at hourly and seasonal scales, as well as how different components contribute to ER<span class="inline-formula">_eco</span>. …”
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The effect of ash, water vapor, and heterogeneous chemistry on the evolution of a Pinatubo-size volcanic cloud by M. Abdelkader, G. Stenchikov, A. Pozzer, H. Tost, J. Lelieveld

“…<p>We employ the ECHAM5/MESSy2 atmospheric chemistry general circulation model (EMAC) that incorporates calculations of gas-phase and heterogeneous chemistry coupled with the ozone cycle and aerosol formation, transport, and microphysics to calculate the 1991 Pinatubo volcanic cloud. …”
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Investigating the Relationship between Land Cover and Thermal Island Changes Using Single channel Algorithm and Decision Tree Conceptual Method (Case Study: Ahvaz) by Najma Esmailpoor, fatemah esmaeilpoor, mojtaba yami, hosein amirazodi

“…Ahvaz is one of the metropolises with ethnic diversity and mixed subcultures that has experienced a large and rapid increase in population and area over the last three decades and the city has expanded in different directions from south to southwest and north to northeast Has found. …”
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Modeling daytime and nighttime secondary organic aerosol formation via multiphase reactions of biogenic hydrocarbons by S. Han, M. Jang

“…Here, daytime and nighttime patterns of secondary organic aerosol (SOA) originating from biogenic hydrocarbons were predicted under varying environmental conditions (temperature, humidity, sunlight intensity, NO<span class="inline-formula">_<i>x</i></span> levels, and seed conditions) by using the UNIfied Partitioning Aerosol phase Reaction (UNIPAR) model, which comprises multiphase gas–particle partitioning and in-particle chemistry. …”
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Geochemistry, S and Sr isotopes and origin of the Shahneshin barite deposit, NW Kurdistan Province, Iran by Hadi Amin-Rasouli, Mehdi Moradi, Zahra Sadat Baleshabadi

“…Sulfur isotope analyses were measured by the use of a Delta V Plus Gas Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer. The analysis accuracy was determined to be ±0.2‰ (2σ) by using Canyon Diablo Troilite (CDT) as a standard (34S/32S=0.0450045). …”
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Novel Rheometric Techniques and Constitutive Models for Linear and Nonlinear Rheology: Applications to Polymeric Solutions and Colloidal Gels by John Rathinaraj, Joshua David

“…Complex fluids are used in a range of industries including the consumer goods, automotive, and oil and gas production sectors. Characterizing the rheology, understanding the flow behavior, and modeling the constitutive response of these complex fluids is important for predicting time-varying material performance under various processing conditions, thus helping prevent failures in large-scale industrial operations. …”
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An experimental approach to dike propagation : the effects of stress, solidification and internal flow by Pansino, Stephen

“…Each chapter explorers a different aspect of propagation using analogue experiments, in which gelatin models the solid medium. …”
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Understanding of the critical parameters in a vertical burning UL94 test using PA11 by Seah, Dean Geng Jie

“…To address the above mentioned points, different approaches were adopted in the thesis: •A top-down approach (where well-established FR additives for PA6 or PA6,6 are used in PA11). …”
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Acidos grasos del atún de diferentes zonas pesqueras del Pacífico mexicano, en aceite yagua by Maria Isabel Castro González, Sara Montaño Benavides, Fernando Pérez-Gil Romo

“…En general, el AW es un alimento más rico en AG omega 3 y omega 6 que el AA, independientemente de la localidad<br>Fatty acids of the tuna of different fishing areas of the Mexican Pacific, canned in oil and water. …”
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