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A narrative-based collaborative writing tool for coherent technical documents
No full textOne important feature of an effective document that makes it easy to read and understand is known as coherence. Technical documents produced collaboratively are often incoherent due to a lack of group consensus and misaligned contributions by the individual authors. However, current document planning techniques and writing tools do not provide explicit support for improving coherence. The goal of this research, therefore, is to develop and evaluate a new technique and tool that helps teams of authors to structure coherent technical documents. The coherence of a document can be attributed to the story (or narrative) it conveys to the reader. If this story is consistent and coherent, the same can be said about the document. A discourse theory such as Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) that has been developed by linguists helps further to analyse and improve a narrative. RST explains the coherence of a text by virtue of relationships (such as “paragraph A justifies paragraph B”) between parts of the text. This research has combined the ideas from these parallel strands of research to develop a new document planning technique called narrative-based writing. The method involves writing down an explicit précis of the story (called a document narrative or DN) and then analysing it using RST. The DN and RST analysis are then used to structure the eventual document. To extend the usability of narrative-based writing to geographically-dispersed authors, I have designed and implemented a collaborative tool that allows co-authors to edit, analyse and review DNs. The thorough design for the tool uses a combination of three models (conceptual, business process and functional) culminating in a set of functions that enable collaborative narrative-based writing. This dissertation discusses how, in the future, these functions could be incorporated in existing collaborative writing tools. Implementing this tool, albeit in its current prototypic state, has been invaluable in understanding the complexities of modelling and manipulating DNs and RST structures. Initial investigations using the new technique and tool have been positive, encouraging me to continue the research and evaluation in this field
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Simultaneous removal of H{sub 2}S and NH{sub 3} from coal gas. Final report
No full textHydrogen sulfide (H{sub 2}S) and ammonia (NH{sub 3}) are the primary sulfur and nitrogen contaminants released when coal is gasified. Before coal gas can be utilized in an integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) plant to produce electricity, these contaminants need to be removed. The objective of this research was to develop sorbent-catalysts with the ability to simultaneously remove H{sub 2}S and NH{sub 3} from coal gas. Microreactor tests with HART-49, a zinc-based sorbent-catalyst with Ni, Co, and Mo as catalyst additives, showed that this material had the potential to remove 90% NH{sub 3} and reduce H{sub 2}S to <20 ppmv at 1 atm and 550 to 700 C. HART-49 was prepared in attrition-resistant fluidizable form (HART-56) using up to 75 wt% binder. Bench-scale fluidized-bed multicycle tests were conducted with the attrition-resistant sorbent-catalyst, HART-56, at 20 atm and 550 C. The H{sub 2}S and NH{sub 3} removal performance over the first two cycles was good in the presence of 5% steam but deteriorated thereafter when steam level was increased to 15%. The results point to a complex mechanism for simultaneous H{sub 2}S and NH{sub 3} removal, potentially involving both chemisorption and catalytic decomposition of NH{sub 3}. Further research and development is needed to develop a sorbent-catalyst for simultaneous H{sub 2}S and NH{sub 3} removal at IGCC hot-gas cleanup conditions
Self-management support for cancer-related fatigue: a systematic review
No full textAbstract not availableOluwaseyifunmi Andi Agbejule, Nicolas H. Hart, Stuart Ekberg, Megan Crichton, Raymond Javan Cha
Evaluatie suppleties Noord-Holland en Texel
No full textNote: NH-93.ANV002a.pdf bevat het hoofdrapport en NH-93.ANV002b.pdf bevat alle bijlagen. ----- De minister van Verkeer en Waterstaat heeft de kamer een interim-nota kustverdediging in 1993 toegezegd, waarin het kustverdedigingsbeleid wordt geëvalueerd. Een onderdeel van deze evaluatie is de evaluatie van de zandsuppleties. Om deze evaluatie uit te voeren is de werkgroep EVAZAND, onder leiding van de Dienst Getijdewateren, ingesteld. De evaluatie beperkt zich in principe tot de morfologische aspecten en is hoofdzakelijk gericht op het bepalen van de doelmatigheid of de effectiviteit van zandsuppleties. Omdat suppleties van 1990 of later zich vanwege de korte levensduur nauwelijks lenen voor evaluatie is een selectie gemaakt uit de suppleties van vóór 1990. Deze nota dient als de bijdrage van de Directie Noord-Holland aan het project EVAZAND en bevat de evaluatie van alle grote zandsuppleties van Noord-Holland en Texel van vóór 1990.EVAZAN
Dehydrogenation of the NH−NH Bond Triggered by Potassium tert-Butoxide in Liquid Ammonia
No full textA novel strategy for the dehydrogenation of NH-NH bond is disclosed using potassium t-butoxide (tBuOK) in liquid NH3 under air (O2) at room temperature. Its synthetic values are well demonstrated via highly efficient synthesis of aromatic azo compounds (up to 100% yield, 3 min), heterocyclic azo compounds, and dehydrazination of phenylhydrazine. The broad application of this strategy and its benefit to chemical biology is proved by a novel, convenient, one-pot and efficient synthesis of aliphatic diazirines, which are important photoreactive agents for photoaffinity labeling
Molecular tagging velocimetry of NH fluorescence in a high-enthalpy rarefied gas flow
No full textIn this paper a new type of molecular tagging velocimetry based on NH fluorescence was developed and validated for the velocity measurements of a high-enthalpy rarefied gas wind tunnel where the maximum flow velocity exceeds 6 km/ s near the nozzle exit at 0.2 Pa. The feasibility of this technique using the short-lived NH fluorescence was demonstrated in the hypersonic rarefied gas flow with yielding velocity profiles at multiple downstream locations from the nozzle exit. The total uncertainty of the measured flow velocities was estimated to be less than 6% when the flow velocity is above 2000 m/ s. For the new tagging technique only a single laser and a single time-gated camera are required for velocity measurement due to the existence of NH radicals in the arc-discharged-N2 mixed with a small amount of H-2. Therefore the NH-MTV not only shows great promise for tagging in high-enthalpy rarefied gas of nitrogen or air flows without seeding but also possesses high practicability and facility for velocity measurement
Un lema a revisar en Plinio, NH XXXII 149
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INTRAMOLECULAR NH \ldots N HYDROGEN BONDS
No full textAuthor Institution: Department of Chemistry, University of CalgarySpectroscopic evidence for intramolecular NH \ldots N hydrogen bonds in o-phenylenediamines, ethylenediamine, and the monocations of sparteine-and -isosparteine- N-oxides will be presented. Integrated intensity measurements, frequency measurements, and deuteration studies in the fundamental NH stretching region in dilute solution show evidence for intramolecular NH . . . N hydrogen bonds in o-phenylenediamines. Partial deuteration shows that the two NH bonds of a given amino group are nonequivalent, but that the two -NHD groups are identical, suggesting a conformation in which each amino group acts as both a proton donor and a proton acceptor. Similar studies on compounds where , etc., will be discussed with special reference to the conformation of ethylenediamine. In the monocations of sparteine- and -isosparteine-N-oxide the geometry of the system leads to very strong intramolecular hydrogen bonds, which remain unbroken even in dimethylsulphoxide solution
THE VALENCE STATES OF NH
No full textAuthor Institution: LOS Alamos Scientific Laboratory, University of CaliforniaTheoretical results from various levels of configuration interaction calculations are presented for the and states of the NH radical. In addition to spectroscopic constants for each state, dipole moments and transition moments between electronic states are reported
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