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Another strategy reported by Sales links back to the superlattices discussed in Section 7.2.1.4. It was suggested by Mildred Dresselhaus s group at MIT (Hicks et al. 1993) that semiconductor quantum wells would have enhanced figures of merit compared with the same semiconductor in bulk form. PbTe quantum wells were confined by suitable intervening barrier layers. From the results, ZT values of 2 were estimated from single quantum wells. This piece of research shows the intimate links often found nowadays between apparently quite distinct functional features in materials. 

A general appreciation of some of the effect of gas pulsation on the performance and impact on the compressor pulsation drums, their nozzles, the piping system, and the cylinder valve performance, as well as possible other effects in some unique systems or items of equipment, can be discovered by examining the cylinder performance using an indicator card. This examination (see Chapter 12) can reveal acceptable and unacceptable performance in terms of pressure variations within the cylinder as the piston passes through its cycle. Hicks presents a helpful analysis see Figures 13-3 and 13M. 

Following the pioneering work of Clark and Lyons as well as Updike and Hicks... 

We collected sets of single-shot broadband LIBS spectra in the Army Research LIBS Laboratory for 27 obsidian samples from major sites across the CVF as well as for samples from 4 other California obsidian locations - Bodie Hills, Mt. Hicks, Fish Springs, and Shoshone. The resultant obsidian LIBS spectral database was analyzed by multivariate statistical analysis. 

The editors wish to thank the authors who tailored their chapters extensively to meet the goals of this project and the referees who were not authors for their helpful cooperation. Kevin Hicks of the ACS Carbohydrate Division and the U.S. Department of Agriculture provided superb logistical support, for which we are grateful as well. 

The relative importance of gas-phase and surface resistances depends on the nature of the pollutant and the surface as well as the meteorology (Shaw, 1984 Unsworth et al., 1984 Chameides, 1987 Wesely and Hicks, 1999). The gas-phase resistance (rgas) is determined by the vertical eddy diffusivity, which depends on the evenness of the surface and the meteorology, for example, wind speed, solar surface heating, and so on. The surface resistance (rsur[) depends on the detailed characteristics of the surface (e.g., type, whether... 

Multiple premalignant stages are apparent during chemical induction of skin and liver cancer (Farber, 1984), and multistage processes have been identified also in experimental lung (Yarita et colon cancer (Thumherr et al., 1973) as well. In chemically initiated mouse skin... 

The starting point of a number of theoretical studies of packed catalytic reactors, where an exothermic reaction is carried out, is an analysis of heat and mass transfer in a single porous catalyst since such system is obviously more conductive to reasonable, analytical or numerical treatment. As can be expected the mutual interaction of transport effects and chemical kinetics may give rise to multiple steady states and oscillatory behavior as well. Research on multiplicity in catalysis has been strongly influenced by the classic paper by Weisz and Hicks (5) predicting occurrence of multiple steady states caused by intrapellet heat and mass intrusions alone. The literature abounds with theoretical analysis of various aspects of this phenomenon however, there is a dearth of reported experiments in this area. Later the possiblity of oscillatory activity has been reported (6). 

Hick reaction time <0.25 for single parameters Poor not well understood0 Ambiguous1 R2 improved when several parameters combined... 

PVDF membranes have been used occasionally (Hicks and Vecoli, 1987 Williams, 1990). They have binding characteristics similar to charged nylon although the binding is hydrophobic, with possible electrostatic interactions since PVDF polymers have a strong dipole character. This may be the reason why PVDF functions very well in alkaline conditions. 

Type-I phase behavior is probably the type of behavior most familiar to chemical engineers, since the description of this phase behavior can be found in many undergraduate thermodynamic textbooks. Rowlinson and Swinton (1982) present compilations of type-I mixtures as well as other types of mixtures. Hicks and Young (1975) also present an extensive compilation of P-T-x information on a wide variety of solvent-solute pairs from which the specific type of each system can easily be determined. Two examples of type-I P-x diagrams are shown in figure 3.3 (Li, Dillard, and Robinson, 1981 Ng and Robinson, 1978). For these two examples, the P-T traee of the critieal mixture curve exhibits a maximum in pressure. 

Several strategies based on novel device architectures have been developed in an effort to improve overall thermoelectric efficiency, one of the most promising of which is the use of quantum well superlattices. In certain superlattice systems, the electrical conductivity through the wells is dramatically increased due to an increase in the density of electronic states in the two dimensional system. At the same time, in a layered structure such as a superlattice, thermal conductivity is decreased due to enhanced phonon scattering at interfaces. Hicks, et al. have shown that a significant increase in the figure of merit can be achieved using quantum well superlattices synthesized by molecular beam epitaxy (4). 

We also thank the Wiley team at Chichester, West Sussex Paul Deards, Richard Davies, Rebecca Ralf, and their colleagues for improving the quality and the presentation of the book and for the production, as well as Lyn Hicks for the copy-editing process, especially when the authors were writing in English, which is not our first language. 

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