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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Support effects"”.
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Apparel retail buyers' attitude and acceptance behavior toward manufacturer's promotional support: effects of retail organization's orientation, size, and degree of centralization
Manufacturer's promotional support is an important factor in buyers' selection of their suppliers. Research into retail customers' needs examined apparel retail buyers' attitude and acceptance behavior toward manufacturer's promotional support, and the effects of retail organization's …
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Religious Belief, Coping, and Mental Health in Seventh-day Adventists
… religious belief, coping style, and social support influences on psychological adjustment in 401 Seventh-day Adventists. Based on cross cultural psychology guidelines, Adventist Sabbath and eschatology belief measures were created and integrated into a religious coping framework. Sabbath and …
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Novel Carbon-supported Transition Metal Phosphide Catalysts for Hydrodeoxygenation of Fast Pyrolysis Oil
… of this research was to explore inexpensive supported metal oxides/metal phosphide catalysts for the upgrading of pyrolysis oil into advanced drop-in hydrocarbon liquid fuels by HDO. The first stage of this thesis project investigates a series of molybdenum oxides/phosphide catalysts on …
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Tuning the Morphology and Electronic Properties of Single-Crystal LiNi<sub>0.5</sub>Mn<sub>1.5</sub>O<sub>4-δ</sub>
… the concept of utilizing LNMO as a tunable support for heterogeneous metal nanocatalysts, where alteration of the support structure and electronics can have an influence on catalytic properties due to unique support effects. Ultimately, this work illustrates the tunable nature of …
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Model systems for the investigation of metal-support interactions in cobalt based Fischer-Tropsch
… chain olefins [1]. The interaction between the support and the active metal, Co, has been observed to affect the activity and selectivity of the FT synthesis [2]. In order to investigate metal support interactions independent of other support effects, the inverse method was used in the synthesis …
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Ruthenium and Cobalt Catalysts for Hydrogen Production from Ammonia
… catalyst for ammonia cracking is ruthenium supported on carbon nanotubes (CNT). Future catalyst development requires a departure from trial-and-error catalyst discovery. This thesis presents a new method for the synthesis of catalysts with precise nanoparticle sizes to unlock fundamental …
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Metal oxide supported iron-nickel nano-alloys in the reverse water-gas shift reaction
… group of Fischer at the University of Cape Town, supported Fe-Ni nanoparticles showed promising CO2 activation potential. It was found that upon reduction of the oxidic Fe-Ni precursor nanoparticles, a mixture of fcc and bcc alloy phases was formed. An increase in Fe content increased the …