Publications by authors named "Zara Mir"

Background: Technology-enabled services (TES; clinical services that include both technology-driven [e.g., personal sensing technologies] and person-powered support elements) may address gaps in depression and anxiety treatments in healthcare settings.

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Furans are promising second generation biofuels with comparable energy densities to conventional fossil fuels. Combustion of furans is initiated and controlled to a large part by reactions with OH radicals, the kinetics of which are critical to understand the processes occurring under conditions relevant to low-temperature combustion. The reactions of OH radicals with furan (OH + F, R1), 2-methyl furan (OH + 2-MF, R2), and 2,5-dimethyl furan (OH + 2,5-DMF, R3) have been studied in this work over the temperature range 294-668 K at pressures between 5 mbar and 10 bar using laser flash photolysis coupled with laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) spectroscopy to generate and monitor OH radicals under pseudo-first-order conditions.

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The UV absorption cross-sections of the Criegee intermediate CHOO, and kinetics of the CHOO self-reaction and the reaction of CHOO with I are reported as a function of pressure at 298 K. Measurements were made using pulsed laser flash photolysis of CHI/O/N gas mixtures coupled with time-resolved broadband UV absorption spectroscopy at pressures between 6 and 300 Torr. Results give a peak absorption cross-section of (1.

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