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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Vulcan"”.
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Dear Vulcan
<p>An original poetry collection.</p>
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These Lines are Material
<i>Bacchus, Vulcan and Metis walk into a bar . . .</i> The following dialogues took place beginning in January of this year. In a series of investigations through drawing, physical constucts and research, the project began to take shape. With the help of Bacchus, Vulcan and Metis, the building was …
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Using 2D and 3D basin modelling and seismic seepage indicators to investigate controls on hydrocarbon migration and accumulation in the Vulcan Sub-basin, Timor Sea, North-western Australia.
… of the southern and central parts of the Vulcan Sub-Basin, which is located in the Timor Sea, north-western Australia. This work was carried out in order to better elucidate the petroleum migration and accumulation histories and exploration potential of the region. The study area extended …
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A Comparative Study of Machine Learning and Traditional Techniques for Grade Prediction and Grade-Tonnage Evaluation in a Small VMS Deposit
… with 5 x 5 x 5 m resolution was constructed in Vulcan, and grade estimation was performed using Inverse Distance Weighting (IDW), Simple Kriging (SK), Ordinary Kriging (OK), and ensemble tree models. Traditional methods were assessed using cross-validation within Vulcan, while machine-learning …
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Monitoring of the effectiveness of the Land Transport Safety Authority's drink driving advertisement campaign: a theoretical approach
… campaign, LTSA employed Cameron and Vulcan (1998), the experts on the Victorian model, to evaluate New Zealand's SRSP performance. The review by Cameron and Vulcan (1998) indicated that SRSP was effective in changing social behaviour. These contradictory findings have created strong …
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Electronic structure of warm dense matter
… parylene-C and potassium chloride. The Vulcan laser facility was used to drive double sided shocks into the embedded chlorine samples creating a warm dense matter state with compressions greater than four times solid density and temperatures of around 10 eV. This resulted in red-shifts …
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Effect of Chemistry on the Transformation of Austenite to Martensite for Intercritically Austempered Ductile Iron
… diffraction under strain-controlled loading at VULCAN at the Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Both diffraction and tensile data were collected and synced using the VDRIVE software (a proprietary ORNL software package). The single peak fit method was employed in …
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Petrology and geochemistry of the recent eruption history at Rabaul Caldera, Papua New Guinea : implications for magmatic processes and recurring volcanic activity
… at Rabaul Caldera occurred with synchronous vulcanian and vulcanian-plinian eruptions from Tavurvur and Vulcan, respectively, on opposing sides of the caldera. A second phase of activity (Phase 2), beginning on 28 November 1995 and continuing until the present (2003), is characterised by …
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Petrology and geochemistry of the recent eruption history at Rabaul Caldera, Papua New Guinea : implications for magmatic processes and recurring volcanic activity
… at Rabaul Caldera occurred with synchronous vulcanian and vulcanian-plinian eruptions from Tavurvur and Vulcan, respectively, on opposing sides of the caldera. A second phase of activity (Phase 2), beginning on 28 November 1995 and continuing until the present (2003), is characterised by …
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Synthesis and characterization of Pt/TiO2/C composite catalysts for fuel cells prepared using a glucose modifier
… were first chemically bonded to the surfaces of Vulcan carbon to help anchor the Pt catalyst nanoparticles through strong metal-support interactions. Validation of a dual phase catalyst support is an important goal of this research. Each material phase offers a unique advantage that can only be …
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Electron Generations and Transportation in Fast Ignition Experiments
… The experiment was performed using the Vulcan PetaWatt laser at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. Capsules in which a re-entrant gold cone has been imbedded were involved in the experiment as targets. Gold cone targets, with a wall thickness of 20 μm and a tip thickness of 6 μm were …
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Impact of carbon micro/mesoporosity on the adsorption behavior of small molecules
… very different properties, Darco KB-G (AC) and Vulcan XC-72R (VC), and a mesoporous carbon synthesized for this purpose. The adsorption of glucose was examined using both gas chromatography and thermogravimetric analysis, while melamine adsorption was studied using UV-visible spectroscopy. The …
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Nanostructured carbon-based materials for electrochemical applications
… 1500oC, over performing an in-house prepared Pt/ Vulcan carbon reference sample. The deposition of TiO2 on carbon was also intended to improve the catalyst/substrate stability at lower annealing temperatures, some preliminary results are also presented in the thesis. Overall, the thesis has …
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Understanding the carbon morphology in sulfonated-silica ceramic carbon electrodes for the PEM fuel cell device
… the substitution of the typical carbon support, Vulcan, with ordered mesoporous carbon. In order to grasp a better understanding of the catalyst as a whole, mesoporous carbon will be used in efforts of obtaining more uniform Pt dispersion and greater catalytic activity. With a successful …
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Pre-clinical evaluation of lethal and sublethal DNA damage in human cell cultures by ultrashort pulse and ultra-high dose rate laser accelerated protons
… laser facilities based in the UK (TARANIS, VULCAN) and France (LULI), and results have been compared with outcomes from experiments performed with 225 kVp X-rays (low LET radiation) and α-particles from 5.5 MeV 241Am source, available in PGJCCR (Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, UK).
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The sintering and stability of catalytic nano-particles
… on two different carbon supports, Norit and Vulcan Carbon. Norit Carbon was imaged to be highly roughened and as a result had a large surface area (1000m2/g). The Vulcan Carbon was imaged to be more graphitic and contain two different types of structures, one similar to larger graphitic …
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The Redox Reaction of Anhydrous Hbr For Hydrogen Production and Bromine Hydrogen Flow Battery
… non Pt materials are developed. RuO2, carbon (Vulcan XC 72 R) and TiO2-Nb (10% wt.) are investigated for HBr electrochemical oxidation. IrO2/C and MoS2 are synthesized and characterized for hydrogen evolution reaction. They are prepared into membrane electrode assembly (MEAs) and evaluated in …
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Investigation of oxidation in nonaqueous lithium-air batteries
… in Li-air batteries. In the first part, Vulcan carbon-based electrodes were developed where chemically-synthesized lithium peroxide was included during the electrode preparation process. Variants of these electrodes which further included noble metal catalyst nanoparticles (Au, Pt, and …
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Laser-driven beams of fast ions, relativistic electrons and coherent x-ray photons
… laser at the Lund Laser Centre in Sweden and the Vulcan Petawatt laser at the Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory in the United Kingdom. The thesis discusses laser-plasma acceleration of protons and heavy ions from thin foil metallic targets. The ion energy scalings with laser pulse and target …
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Understanding and Controlling Wettability of Carbon Powders for PEM Fuel Cell Applications
… the wettability of conventional, microporous Vulcan® carbon (VC)/Nafion composites, showing that the wettability varies with VC content (from hydrophilic to superhydrophobic) and is significantly affected by the presence of Nafion. This is attributed primarily to the orientation and coverage …
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