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Round-the-clock photocatalytic memory systems: Phenomenon and applications
No full textSemiconductor (SC) photocatalysis based on solar energy are progressively paving their ways toward the advancement of energy and environmental technologies and applications. Nonetheless, to expand their potential, studies have also been focused to make the activation of such catalytic reactions independent of photons and upgrade their activity not only under light irradiation but also in the dark. Thereby, it essentially enables the catalytic reactions round-the-clock from day to night. The construction of such catalytic materials requires an SC and a supporting material to accept/store the electrons during the light irradiation and supply them back in dark. Such phenomenon is essentially known as the “catalytic memory, " where the portion of photoinduced electrons, which stored in the material under illumination, reacts with adsorbed oxygen or water molecules and degrades pollutants under dark conditions at ambient temperature and pressure. This capacity of round-the-clock photocatalytic (PC) activity is significant toward the degradation of pollutants in wastewater or air, where it can be expanded toward designing the materials at low cost with low energy consumption. As a matter of fact, the exploitation of such PC memory systems has emerged as a promising field as a step forward toward producing more efficient PC materials for the degradation of various toxic organic pollutants, detoxification of heavy metal ions, bacterial disinfection, and hydrogen generation
Istanbul Office Market: Determining tenants satisfaction with their office and environmental quality
Get PDFProf. Dr. Lale BERKÃâZ ITU, Faculty of Architecture Department of Urban and Regional Planning Taksim, Taşkışla, 34437, İstanbul e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] Merve SAKAR Business Development Assistant Specialist Yapı Kredi Koray GYO A.Ş. Şişli, Elit Residence, No: 17, K: 17, D: 42, 34360, İstanbul e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] Abstract The effects of the social and spatial transformation caused by globalization can also be seen within the Istanbul metropolitan area. The growth of the service sector in Istanbul since the 1980s may be attributed to the expansion of foreign multinational corporations, transnational banks, growth in international relations, extension of foreign trade and enlargement of business size. Within this process, a need for qualified and user friendly office areas came into existence. This study will investigate the satisfaction and expectations of office tenants in Istanbul office market. The data collected in this study were obtained through a survey of 330 office tenants in Istanbul. The survey was conducted by internet interviews during April 2010 (Sakar, 2010). The results of collected data were compared with the study, What Office Tenants Want, that prepared by ULI/BOMA in 1999. The results of this research have particular policy and planning implications for Istanbul and may stimulate the creation of real estate development in developing user-satisfying and well-equipped office buildings for the city center that respond to the desires and needs of FİRE firms with respect to location and mechanical infrastructure necessitated by the new telecommunications systems.
Dr. Duane M. Jackson, Morehouse College, July 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Duane M. Jackson. Dr. Jackson talks about his paper, "Recall and the Serial Position Effect: The Role of Primacy and Recency on Accounting Students' Performance." Jackie Daniel, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
Bioengineered Fascicle-Like Skeletal Muscle Tissue Constructs
No full textTissue engineered skeletal muscle constructs have and will continue to be valuable in treating, and testing various muscle injuries and diseases. However a significant drawback to numerous methods of producing 3D skeletal muscle constructs grown in vitro is that muscle cell density as a fraction of total volume or mass, is often significantly lower than muscle found in vivo. Therefore a method to increase muscle cell density within a construct is needed. Topics: Biological tissues, MuscleNational Science Foundation (U.S.). Center on Emergent Behaviors of Integrated Cellular Systems (Grant CBET-0939511
"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States" By M. Carey.
No full text"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States: containing bried sketches of the moral and political character of those states.
By M. Carey, member of the American philosophical, and of the American Antiquarian Society, and author of The Olive Branch, Cindiciae Hibernicae, essays on banking, on political economy, and on internal improvement.
To which are now added the English editor's comments on the subject; together with Important Advice to Emigrants, and Cautions Against Impositions Practiced in the Outports
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Dr. Glendon Swarthout
No full textHosted by Roger M. Busfield, MSU Assistant Professor of Speech and Theater, Meet the Author is designed to introduce a general audience to a contemporary author and their work through in-depth interviews. This episode features a conversation between Dr. Glendon Swarthout, prolific author and English professor at MSU, and assistant professors Sam S. Baskett and Theodore B. Strandness
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