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Contaminant removal from enclosed atmospheres by regenerable adsorbents
A system for removing contaminants from spacecraft atmospheres was studied, which utilizes catalyst-impregnated activated carbon followed by in-situ regeneration by low-temperature catalytic oxidation of the adsorbed contaminants. Platinum was deposited on activated carbon by liquid phase impregnation with chloroplatinic acid, followed by drying and high-temperature reduction. Results were obtained for the seven selected spacecraft contaminants by means of three experimental test systems. The results indicate that the contaminants could be removed by oxidation with very little loss in adsorptive capacity. The advantages of a catalyst-impregnated carbon for oxidative regeneration are found to be significant enough to warrent its use
Platelet Activating Factor Synthesis and Metabolism in Intestinal Ischaemia-Reperfusion Injury
The object of this study was to characterize the synthesis and
metabolism of platelet activating factor (PAF) by intestinal mucosa
subjected to ischaemia–reperfusion injury. Canine intestinal mucosa
produced 16:0-PAF, 18:0-PAF, and high levels of the corresponding
lyso- PAF metabolites. Three h of intestinal ischaemia and ischaemia
followed by 1 h of reperfusion did not affect the synthesis or
metabolism of PAF by intestinal mucosa. Intestinal mucosa elaborated
a factor that rapidly hydrolyzes PAF to lyso-PAF. The observed
hydrolysis rate was not altered by ischaemia or ischaemia and
reperfusion. In conclusion, this study suggests that intestinal
mucosa produces PAF and rapidly hydrolyzes PAF. The PAF synthesis
and metabolism rates of intestinal mucosa is not altered by
ischaemia reperfusion in this model under the imposed conditions
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The self-relevance system?
We suggest that the Self Attention Network (SAN) maybe part of a larger self-regulatory system, which we term the Self-Relevance System (SRS) of which the “core” or default network is a major part. It is within the core network that memories are generated and the future imagined. Such memories and imaginings are the basis of preoccupations. Within the SRS then preoccupations drive the emergence of attentional biases (ABs). ABs in turn are modulated by the SAN activating and inhibiting circuits that shape behavior. We consider briefly how this might function in dysfunctional appetitive behaviors, e.g., substance abuse
On the effect of Ti on Oxidation Behaviour of a Polycrystalline Nickel-based Superalloy
Titanium is commonly added to nickel superalloys but has a well-documented
detrimental effect on oxidation resistance. The present work constitutes the
first atomistic-scale quantitative measurements of grain boundary and bulk
compositions in the oxide scale of a current generation polycrystalline nickel
superalloy performed through atom probe tomography. Titanium was found to be
particularly detrimental to oxide scale growth through grain boundary
diffusion
Appearance of the Single Gyroid Network Phase in Nuclear Pasta Matter
Nuclear matter under the conditions of a supernova explosion unfolds into a
rich variety of spatially structured phases, called nuclear pasta. We
investigate the role of periodic network-like structures with negatively curved
interfaces in nuclear pasta structures, by static and dynamic Hartree-Fock
simulations in periodic lattices. As the most prominent result, we identify for
the first time the {\it single gyroid} network structure of cubic chiral
symmetry, a well known configuration in nanostructured soft-matter
systems, both as a dynamical state and as a cooled static solution. Single
gyroid structures form spontaneously in the course of the dynamical
simulations. Most of them are isomeric states. The very small energy
differences to the ground state indicate its relevance for structures in
nuclear pasta.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figure
Minkowski Tensors of Anisotropic Spatial Structure
This article describes the theoretical foundation of and explicit algorithms
for a novel approach to morphology and anisotropy analysis of complex spatial
structure using tensor-valued Minkowski functionals, the so-called Minkowski
tensors. Minkowski tensors are generalisations of the well-known scalar
Minkowski functionals and are explicitly sensitive to anisotropic aspects of
morphology, relevant for example for elastic moduli or permeability of
microstructured materials. Here we derive explicit linear-time algorithms to
compute these tensorial measures for three-dimensional shapes. These apply to
representations of any object that can be represented by a triangulation of its
bounding surface; their application is illustrated for the polyhedral Voronoi
cellular complexes of jammed sphere configurations, and for triangulations of a
biopolymer fibre network obtained by confocal microscopy. The article further
bridges the substantial notational and conceptual gap between the different but
equivalent approaches to scalar or tensorial Minkowski functionals in
mathematics and in physics, hence making the mathematical measure theoretic
method more readily accessible for future application in the physical sciences
Absence of circular polarisation in reflections of butterfly wing scales with chiral gyroid structure
The single Gyroid, a triply-periodic ordered chiral network of cubic symmetry, appears as a nanostructure in the green-colored wing scales of various butterflies. In lossless and perfectly ordered single Gyroid materials, the structural chirality leads to circularly polarized reflections from crystals oriented in the [100] direction. Here we report a circular polarisation study of the macroscopic reflections of the wing scales of Callophrys rubi and Teinopalpus imperialis that reveals no circular dichroism, that is, we find no significant difference in the reflectance values for left- and right-circularly polarized light. The reasons for the absence of circularly polarized reflections is likely to be a compound effect of various factors, including crystallite orientation, presence of both left- and right-handed single Gyroid enantiomers, and structural disorder. Each of these factors weakens, but does not fully extinguish, the circular polarisation signal. We further find a substantial amount of blue-absorbing pigment in those wing scales of C. rubi that are structured according to the single Gyroid. Numerical simulations demonstrate that absorption, while evidently reducing overall reflectance, does generally not reduce the circular dichroism strength. The experimental findings of this paper, however, clearly demonstrate that circular dichroism is absent from the reflections of the butterfly wing scale. Henceforth, the chiro-optical response of the idealised structure does not fulfil a biological photonic function
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