radio frequency rf plasma pretreatment

... 4.2.1 Why selectivity is required and how can it be achieved? 59 4.2.2 Our method: Radio Frequency (RF) plasma pretreatment 63 4.2.3 Mechanism 65 4.3 Results 67 4.3.1 ... Contact angles of Si and SU-8 surfaces measured before and after plasma treatment 66 Figure 4.10 Mechanism for selective silver coating on SU-8 surface: a) plasma irradiation generates ... before being coated 63 Figure 4.8 The coating coverage on both surfaces as a function of the plasma pretreatment dose, and the SEM images of coated (a) Si at dose=0; (b) SU-8 at...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 18:50

... ozone standards so far below the current NAAQS.  We estimate human health benefits  by adjusting monitored ozone values to just attain alternate standard levels; we can  only perform this extrapolation in counties containing an ozone monitor.     The predicted emission reductions necessary to attain these two alternative standards  ... ozone standards so far below the current NAAQS.  We estimate human health benefits  by adjusting monitored ozone values to just attain alternate standard levels; we can  only perform this extrapolation in counties containing an ozone monitor.     The predicted emission reductions necessary to attain these two alternative standards  ... Charlotte‐Gastonia‐Rock Hill, NC‐SC  Chattanooga, TN‐GA  Chico, CA  Cincinnati‐Hamilton, OH‐KY‐IN  Clearfield and Indiana Cos, PA  Cleveland, MS  Cleveland‐Akron‐Lorain, OH  Clinton, IA  Cochise Co, AZ ...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 21:20

... quantitative standard DNA The analysis was performed with the second derivative maximum method by using the LightCycler software 3.5 Quantification by FISH was performed with a Cy3-labeled PAOMIX (PAO462, ... analysis of the PCR products with DNA extracted from activated sludge Melting curve analysis was performed after amplification The reaction mixture was heated to 95 °C for sec, cooled to 50 °C for ... condition as that of quantitative PCR except that SYBR GREEN I was not added The sequencing work was performed with a DNA sequencer ABI 3100 (PE Applied Biosystem) using the BigDye Terminator v3.0 Cycle...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 09:38

... when mentioning test validation, we must consider the test’s content and method, test takers performance or abilities, test scores and test interpretation altogether As examining test validity ... what it purports to measure?” According to Ingram (1977: 18), face validity refers to the test’s surface credibility or public acceptability Heaton (1988: 259) gives a definition that if a test item ... PLIYACAIOPN sentences by CAPITALS to putting the verb form a word to in brackets with work Present perfect I’ve sent / been Look at the Jobs: challenging, 16 Unit GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY CHECKLIST Grammar...

Ngày tải lên: 06/02/2014, 14:45

... nearly $2.5 trillion will be spent in the United States in a health care system that is underperforming on many dimensions The current trend will drive expenditures to $4.3 trillion by 2017 (Keehan ... non-manual fields, indicating premature aging at the cellular level She went on to review the powerful overall impact of income and education on health status and life expectancy, including its ... Esther Sternberg noted that as the brain responds to stress, hormones are released that can interfere with the immune response and metabolic processes and damage the cardiovascular system On the...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 14:20

... fundamental unpredictability of nature also means that no technocratic elite can lay claim to perfect knowledge Science must inform decisions about how we should, or should not, use Earth’s lands ... other species? How much is enough? We have set aside a little more than one-tenth of the earth’s surface in relatively strictly protected areas for nature What will happen if we no more? Conservation ... those communities are held accountable for their actions, that vision becomes enormously more powerful Groups of people living near each other need more than just proximity to form the kind of communities...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 17:20

... wishes, the applicant may defer the radiograph until after delivery, but the civil surgeon cannot sign the medical examination form until the radiograph is performed and interpreted, and treatment ... the applicant is referred to another facility for a chest radiograph or laboratory test What is the length of validity of TST and chest radiograph results obtained by the civil surgeon? The examination ... then, the TST is the required method Which applicants are required to undergo a chest radiograph? A chest radiograph is required for all applicants who: • Have a TST reaction of mm or greater...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20

... statistics of relative specific radioactivity (radioactivity incorporated ⁄ amount of protein) in the different cytosolic regions of the GIRK1 G1 C-T, C-terminus (B) Upper: Autoradiogram of GIRK1 C-terminal ... specific radioactivity in the different regions of the GIRK1 C-terminus (C) Upper: autoradiogram of the entire GIRK1 C-terminus (wild-type and mutated) Lower: statistics of relative specific radioactivity ... and scanned Subse- 6224 quently, autoradiograms were performed using the Storm Phosphorimager (GE Healthcare Europe GmbH, Vienna, Austria) Incorporation of radioactive 32P into the protein was...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 00:20

... many cases producers have integrated their operations downstream to perform packing, processing, and shipping functions Performing these functions does not preclude such entities from membership ... paradoxically, litigation has ensued when associations have performed fewer and less extensive marketing activities than would be performed by a traditional agricultural marketing cooperative These ... Capper-Volstead’s protection Central and its offspring generally perform no handling or other traditional marketing activities, nor they perform a collective bargaining function for their members Rather,...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 13:20

... Governing Structure Samsung’s Powerful Owner-Centered Structure The Problems with Samsung’s Governing Structure Chapter - The Future of S ony and Samsung Electronics Superficial Crisis and Internal ... organization may have contributed to its stellar performance I further examine the challenges that Samsung Electronics faces, despite its remarkable performance, and evaluate Sony’s potential, despite ... these two companies changed so rapidly, but their evaluations are usually superficial and focus only on short-term performance Often, journalists anoint a CEO as a Best Manager one year, only to...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 14:02

... monitoring contractor performance and adequately performing quality assurance oversight responsibilities for construction projects for Special Operations Forces at Bagram Airfield Contracts Supporting ... emerging capabilities, such as cloud computing Joint Warfighting and Readiness Maintaining readiness and ensuring effective support for the warfighter is essential to the Department However, the ... Specifically, determine whether DoD is a properly monitoring contractor performance during construction and adequately performing quality assurance oversight responsibilities Deputy Inspector General...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 23:20

... was the presence of Val instead of Leu at position 311 (Fig 2A) Based on a blast analysis, the frequency of Leu at this position is high, because it was found in almost all PGK amino acid sequences ... alignment of the C-terminal domain of several PGKs The EhPGK amino acid sequence alignment was performed with the CLUSTALW2 tool and the indicated primary sequences for the other sources Numbering ... EhPGKs The Mg2+ concentration was10 mM in the assay Values represent the mean of two experiments performed with two purified protein preparations Kd (lM) Wild-type GDP ADP GTP ATP Y239F ⁄ E309M 11.5...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 01:20

... the two radiating surfaces; FG is a factor that takes into account the geometric orientation of the two radiating surfaces and A1 is the area of surface When a heat transfer surface, at temperature ... constant (5.669 × 10−8 ), in W/m2 K4 and Tw is the surface temperature, (K) The heat flux emitted by a real surface is less than that of a black surface and is given by (1.4) q = σ Tw 4 INTRODUCTION ... the top surface of the plate: qs AT (1.9) Heat loss from the plate to surroundings: Top surface: hAT (T − Ta ) + σ AT (T − Ta4 ) (1.10) hAS (T − Ta ) + σ AS (T − Ta4 ) (1.11) Side surface: INTRODUCTION...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 13:53

Ngày tải lên: 21/03/2014, 21:56

... and diagnostic applications For example, more powerful computer processing has decreased the time required for MRI imaging and overcome the interference of movement, enabling MRI to be applied ... researchers is to improve the ability to perform imaging of in vivo molecular and cellular events in real time Advances in the technology of magnets and MR surface coils as well as multimodal imaging ... the methodology used to perform at least some surgical procedures For these procedures, surgeons no longer directly touch or see the 30 structures on which they are performing surgery Instead,...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 13:20

... introduced them into that service, and continually improved and perfected their use until they had become the mighty engine of modern warfare and revolutionized the art of coast and harbour defense ... this mode of warfare, which, notwithstanding, has since, under Captain Maury's instruction, become the chief reliance of most maritime nations It was considered uncivilized warfare thus to attack ... so perfectly at first trial The secrecy, rapidity of movement, control of direction and precise explosion, indicate, I think, the introduction of the torpedo element as a means of certain warfare...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 05:20

... quarter of an inch Both sexes perforate the septum of the nose for rings, but I have only seen two worn by the Hydas, and these were silver The medicine men, while performing their dances, sometimes ... protect from overflow Proceeding northward there is no open country until Deleatlay* is reached, where there are about 900 acres of level land, about one-half of which is subject to overflow at high ... into the rough sea, and bringing out wounded seal which have sunk to the bottom One of my men performed such a feat, springing from the top of a great rock, where the ocean was breaking They are...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 08:21

... Acquire interface  input Acquire interface  input Calculate following  distance Acquire interface  input Output Provide interface  output Apply brake Provide interface  output Apply brake Provide interface  ... 16 ADAS Interface Design 2. Design Approach Problems Regarding the Interface The design of a user interface relies heavily on the underlying system. This system provides the interface with a  ... ADAS Interface Design 4. Interface Concept 4.4 INTERFACE CONCEPTS The preceding paragraphs of this chapter defined which information flows and interactions should be supported by  the interface. To design interface concepts, the brainstorm method is used to collect ideas. These ideas can be ...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 10:20

... quarter of an inch Both sexes perforate the septum of the nose for rings, but I have only seen two worn by the Hydas, and these were silver The medicine men, while performing their dances, sometimes ... protect from overflow Proceeding northward there is no open country until Deleatlay* is reached, where there are about 900 acres of level land, about one-half of which is subject to overflow at high ... into the rough sea, and bringing out wounded seal which have sunk to the bottom One of my men performed such a feat, springing from the top of a great rock, where the ocean was breaking They are...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 10:21

... treating solution containing 5% (v/v) 2-mercaptoethanol After SDS/PAGE, Western blot analysis was performed according to the protocol provided with the ECL detection system (Amersham Pharmacia Biotech) ... blotting using anti-GST Ig to detect the substrate Northern blot analysis Northern blotting was performed to show the mRNA expression of NUB1 and UbC1 in various human tissues For a probe of NUB1, ... labeled with [32P]dCTP[aP] by the Ready-ToGo DNA labeling kit (Amersham Pharmacia Biotech) The radioactive probe was then hybridized with a human multiple-tissue Northern blot (Clontech) in the...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 12:20