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One of the extensively used synthetic polymers used as a support for immobilization of biocatalysts is polyacrylamide (PAAm) [287,288], The major advantage is that it can be polymerized either chemically or by using radiation. Advantages of y-ray polymerization against chemical polymerization is that the polymerization can be carried out even under frozen conditions thus allowing the matrix to be molded to any form such as beads or membranes [289-291], However one of the major drawbacks of this polymer especially in a membranous form is its brittleness. 

We have used the thiobarbituric acid reaction to measure the steady state level of lipid peroxidation products accumulating in vivo in vital organs and subcellular particles (Zalkin and Tappel, 1960 Zalkin et al., 1960). Some of these results in terms of equivalent peroxide and free radicals are shown in Table II, where they are compared in amount with known toxicity of lipid peroxides and the lethality of ionizing radiations. Advantages and limitations of the thiobarbitiuic acid have been discussed previously. Comparison of the amounts of lipid peroxides found in vitamin E-deficient animals with the known lethality of ionizing radiation and... 

Recently we have made available the isotope Selenium for non-destructive testing. These sources offer technical specifications as required by industrial applications and provide various advantages when compared with other radiation sources. 

The paper presents the results from systematic comparisons of contrast and resolution obtained with different types of radiation sources on steel thicknesses from 5 to 40 mm. These results have been taken into account with the definitions of the European standard for radiographic inspection of weldments (EN 1435) that is approved since 1997. Conclusions from practical investigations on pipe line sites, in petrochcemical plants and in nuclear power stations will be discussed as well. Furthermore, the presentation will stipulate a variety of advantages obtained from the new source in terras of coUimation and radiation protection. 

The physical properties of the Selenium also offer big advantages with respect to radiation shielding and beam collimation. Within the comparison of radiation isodose areas the required area-radius for a survey of 40pSv/h result in a shut off area that is for Selenium only half the size as for iridium. Sources of similar activity and collimators of same absorbtion value (95%) have been used to obtain values as mentioned in Table 3 below. 

Real Time Radiography (RTR) is an advanced method of radiography in which the image is formed while the job is exposed to ionising radiation. RTR is often applied to objects on assembly lines for rapid inspection. Accept-or-reject decisions may be made immediately without the delay or expense of film development. The main advantages of RTR are thus, reduction in inspection cost and processing time. 

XPS is also often perfonned employing syncln-otron radiation as the excitation source [59]. This technique is sometimes called soft x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (SXPS) to distinguish it from laboratory XPS. The use of syncluotron radiation has two major advantages (1) a much higher spectral resolution can be achieved and (2) the photon energy of the excitation can be adjusted which, in turn, allows for a particular electron kinetic energy to be selected. 

On metals in particular, the dependence of the radiation absorption by surface species on the orientation of the electrical vector can be fiilly exploited by using one of the several polarization techniques developed over the past few decades [27, 28, 29 and 30], The idea behind all those approaches is to acquire the p-to-s polarized light intensity ratio during each single IR interferometer scan since the adsorbate only absorbs the p-polarized component, that spectral ratio provides absorbance infonnation for the surface species exclusively. Polarization-modulation mediods provide the added advantage of being able to discriminate between the signals due to adsorbates and those from gas or liquid molecules. Thanks to this, RAIRS data on species chemisorbed on metals have been successfidly acquired in situ under catalytic conditions [31], and even in electrochemical cells [32]. 

The determination of an analyte s concentration based on its absorption of ultraviolet or visible radiation is one of the most frequently encountered quantitative analytical methods. One reason for its popularity is that many organic and inorganic compounds have strong absorption bands in the UV/Vis region of the electromagnetic spectrum. In addition, analytes that do not absorb UV/Vis radiation, or that absorb such radiation only weakly, frequently can be chemically coupled to a species that does. For example, nonabsorbing solutions of Pb + can be reacted with dithizone to form the red Pb-dithizonate complex. An additional advantage to UV/Vis absorption is that in most cases it is relatively easy to adjust experimental and instrumental conditions so that Beer s law is obeyed. 

As in all Fourier transform methods in spectroscopy, the FTIR spectrometer benefits greatly from the multiplex, or Fellgett, advantage of detecting a broad band of radiation (a wide wavenumber range) all the time. By comparison, a spectrometer that disperses the radiation with a prism or diffraction grating detects, at any instant, only that narrow band of radiation that the orientation of the prism or grating allows to fall on the detector, as in the type of infrared spectrometer described in Section 3.6. 

The advantage of using a hollow cathode rather than a broad-band continuum is illustrated in Figure 3.20. By using a continuum, sensitivity would be lost because only a relatively small amount of radiation would be absorbed. 

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