A model of the Frumkin isotherm following adsorption on the surface of the rotating disk is developed with the purpose to calculate the time that is needed for the establishment of the near equilibrium state between the amount of adsorbate and the bulk concentration of surfactant. The "near" is quantified as 99% of the proper equilibrium surface coverage. The near equilibration time depends on the bulk concentration and on the coefficient of molecular attraction in the adsorbed layer. In the vicinity of the inflection point of the isotherm, this time exhibits sharp spike. It is caused by the diminished flux that increases surface coverage very slowly but continues for a long time. Eventually, both the flux and the surface coverage increase with time drastically under the influence of the exponential part of the Frumkin isotherm.
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December 2024
Hand and Microsurgery Unit, Trauma and Orthopedic Department, Rashid Hospital, Dubai Health Authority, Dubai, ARE.
Soft tissue injury in open fracture of the lower extremity represents a challenging trauma that requires complex strategies to reconstruct both bony and soft tissue defects. Various options are available to cover the soft tissue defect in the lower extremities, from simple skin grafting to local fasciocutaneous and muscle flaps. However, when the injury is extensive and involves a large surface area, options for treatment of local flap coverage become limited.
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Laboratory of Comparative and Environmental Virology, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 21040-360, Brazil.
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Institute of Medical Informatics, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany.
Purpose: This study aims to address the challenging estimation of trajectories from freehand ultrasound examinations by means of registration of automatically generated surface points. Current approaches to inter-sweep point cloud registration can be improved by incorporating heatmap predictions, but practical challenges such as label-sparsity or only partially overlapping coverage of target structures arise when applying realistic examination conditions.
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Department of Fisheries Resource Management, Faculty of Fisheries Science, Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies, Kochi, Kerala, 682506, India.
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Department of Mechanical Engineering, India KLS Vishwanathrao Deshpande Institute of Technology, Haliyal, India.
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