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Degradation efficiencies of azo dye Acid Orange 7 by the interaction of heat, UV and anions with common oxidants: persulfate, peroxymonosulfate and hydrogen peroxide.
J Hazard Mater. 2010 Jul 15; 179(1-3):552-8.JH
In this paper, the degradation of azo dye Acid Orange 7 (AO7) by three common peroxides (persulfate (PS), peroxymonosulfate (PMS) or hydrogen peroxide (H(2)O(2))) under various activation conditions, i.e., heat (25-80 degrees C), UV light (254 nm), or anions (SO(4)(2-), NO(3)(-), CO(3)(2-), HCO(3)(-), HPO(4)(2-), and Cl(-)), was investigated. The order of AO7 degradation efficiencies by heat activation is PS>>PMS>H(2)O(2). PS oxidation activated by heat (>50 degrees C) is an effective degradation technology, while PMS and H(2)O(2) are hardly activated. When assisted by UV, peroxides could all be activated and degrade AO7 quickly. The order is PS>H(2)O(2)>PMS. We activated peroxides, for the first time, by using some anions and compared the subsequently degradation efficiencies of AO7. It was found that PMS could be activated by some anions, but PS and H(2)O(2) cannot. The activation efficiencies of PMS by SO(4)(2-) and NO(3)(-) are negligible, whereas remarkable by HCO(3)(-), HPO(4)(2-), Cl(-) and CO(3)(2-). For HCO(3)(-), HPO(4)(2-) and Cl(-), the activation efficiencies become higher with the increase of anion concentration. For CO(3)(2-), however, the activation efficiency is higher at lower concentration.
Key Laboratory of Marine Environment and Ecology, Ministry of Education, Qingdao 266100, China. shiningpup@hotmail.com
Wang P
Yang X
Shan L
Shao X
Niu R
AnionsAzo CompoundsBenzenesulfonatesHot TemperatureHydrogen PeroxideHydrogen-Ion ConcentrationIndicators and ReagentsIndustrial WasteOxidantsPeroxidesPotassium CompoundsSpectrophotometry, UltravioletSulfatesSulfuric AcidsTemperatureUltraviolet RaysWaste Disposal, Fluid
Yang, Shiying, et al. "Degradation Efficiencies of Azo Dye Acid Orange 7 By the Interaction of Heat, UV and Anions With Common Oxidants: Persulfate, Peroxymonosulfate and Hydrogen Peroxide." Journal of Hazardous Materials, vol. 179, no. 1-3, 2010, pp. 552-8.
Yang S, Wang P, Yang X, et al. Degradation efficiencies of azo dye Acid Orange 7 by the interaction of heat, UV and anions with common oxidants: persulfate, peroxymonosulfate and hydrogen peroxide. J Hazard Mater. 2010;179(1-3):552-8.
Yang, S., Wang, P., Yang, X., Shan, L., Zhang, W., Shao, X., & Niu, R. (2010). Degradation efficiencies of azo dye Acid Orange 7 by the interaction of heat, UV and anions with common oxidants: persulfate, peroxymonosulfate and hydrogen peroxide. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 179(1-3), 552-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2010.03.039
Yang S, et al. Degradation Efficiencies of Azo Dye Acid Orange 7 By the Interaction of Heat, UV and Anions With Common Oxidants: Persulfate, Peroxymonosulfate and Hydrogen Peroxide. J Hazard Mater. 2010 Jul 15;179(1-3):552-8. PubMed PMID: 20371151.
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Anions
Azo Compounds
Benzenesulfonates
Hot Temperature
Hydrogen-Ion Concentration
Indicators and Reagents
Potassium Compounds
Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet
Ultraviolet Rays
Waste Disposal, Fluid
Involvements of chloride ion in decolorization of Acid Orange 7 by activated peroxydisulfate or peroxymonosulfate oxidation.
[Degradation of azo dye acid orange 7(AO7) by heat, ZVI and heat/ZVI activated persulfate].
Oxidative degradation of dyes in water using Co2+/H2O2 and Co2+/peroxymonosulfate.
Kinetics of oxidative decolorization and mineralization of Acid Orange 7 by dark and photoassisted Co2+-catalyzed peroxymonosulfate system.
Activated carbon catalyzed persulfate oxidation of Azo dye acid orange 7 at ambient temperature.
Excellent performance of cobalt-impregnated activated carbon in peroxymonosulfate activation for acid orange 7 oxidation.
The decolorization and mineralization of acid orange 6 azo dye in aqueous solution by advanced oxidation processes: a comparative study.
Efficient peroxymonosulfate activation by Zn/Fe metal-organic framework-derived ZnO/Fe3 O4 @carbon spheres for the degradation of Acid Orange 7.
Sulfate radical-induced degradation of Acid Orange 7 by a new magnetic composite catalyzed peroxymonosulfate oxidation process.
Removal of C.I. Acid Orange 7 from aqueous solution by UV irradiation in the presence of ZnO nanopowder.


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Elbe Stevens Films has a permanent team of three producers: Nadine Bemelmans, Floor Krooi and company founder Elbe Stevens. Elbe started out as a screenwriter and director and began producing in 2010. Nadine and Floor both studied Arts and Culture at Maastricht University and joined the team in 2014. They have an in-depth understanding of content and extensive knowledge of the media landscape. Nadine focuses on the dramaturgical development of projects, and Floor's strong organisational skills ensure the company's daily operation. Elbe turns up in the most unexpected places, always looking for plans and the money to make them happen. They have a reliable network of freelancers with whom they cooperate in the realisation of the films.
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Kepner Tregoe decision making is a structured methodology for gathering information and prioritizing and evaluating it. It was developed by Charles H. Kepner and Benjamin B. Tregoe in the 1960s.
This is a rational model that is well respected in business management circles. An important aspect of Kepner Tregoe decision making is the assessment and prioritizing of risk.
Potential problem analysis - the best of the alternatives is further scrutinized against potential problems and negative consequences and actions are proposed to minimize the risk.
Following the step-by-step approach of Kepner Tregoe decision making allows for the use of critical thinking skills in considering many possible factors that may be vital in making the decision.
- Firstly, eliminate any alternative that does not fit the 'must haves'.
- Going through each alternative one by one, rate it against each Want on a scale of 1 to 10.
- Next, multiply the weight of the objective by the satisfaction score to come up with the weighted score.
Analyze the weighted score versus the adversity rating for each and choose the high-scoring one.
Consider the winning option against each negative consequence and suggest a plan of action to minimize the adverse effects.
This step-by-step, systematic approach makes it easy to do the Kepner Tregoe decision analysis. It can be very useful where there are many potential options to consider as well as many possible unwanted effects. Built into it is the ability to minimize some of these negative effects.
Although it is offered as an unbiased decision matrix, somebody has to decide the relative importance of the objectives, the probability of occurrence of adverse reactions and the relative significance of each of these reactions. It's difficult to believe that there won't be any bias in there whatsoever!
Kepner Tregoe decision making sets up an outcome as well as how exactly it should be achieved. This is often problematic because the universe often has other plans! You can have one or the other, not usually both.
This decision making model deals with this only by troubleshooting at the end of the process.
It may also take considerable time to get through this process. Much patience and determination may be required!
This is only one of the many decision making tools and techniques available for business type decisions.


Several months ago I set out to measure the powers of all my lasers. What seemed like a simple process became a protracted hassle. As with my Dirod electrostatic generator I made a number of mistakes. First the DVM module that I had on hand wouldn't work so I had to buy another one. Next I discovered that the power sensor and DVM grounds have to be separate so I had to come up with another power supply for the DVM. Then I discovered that the IR output from the DPSS lasers was so high that I needed a filter in order to measure the visible output alone. Finally, I checked my meter's sensitivity using the supplied test circuit. That last thing didn't get done because I was futzing around with everything else. When I finally got around to it I discovered that I needed to use the power sensor's built-in shunt resistor to get accurate readings.
The next thing I acquired was a 200mW Calibrated Laser Power Meter Sensor from Lasersbee. You simply attach it to a Digital Voltage Meter and the reading in millivolts is the power of the laser. The power sensor is calibrated for 650nm lasers. For other wavelengths a conversion chart is provided. To make things look cool I bought a back-lit DVM module from Jameco. I found that the sensor and the DVM module need to have separate power supplies to work properly together. Right now I'm using batteries. For the sensor I got a lithium 9V from the local Batteries Plus store. It should last forever as far as this project is concerned. The DVM module is running off of AA batteries.
Laser pointers are a very popular item these days. They're cheap and the green ones are very bright to the eye. I got mine from DealExtreme, one of those "buy direct from China and wait four weeks for it to arrive" places that have sprung up over recent years. Despite the delay everything I've bought from them has been a really good deal. Note that they do offer a lot of junk so caveat emptor. (I don't think I'll be buying any of their condoms.) There are also tons of laser pointers for sale on ebay but it's a crap shoot. Most of the sellers say "5mW" and then lead you to believe it's actually a lot higher. They often take a 5mW and crank the power up. It works—for a while. Take a look at their feedback before you buy. When it comes to diode lasers you typically get what you pay for.
In some countries you can't import lasers at all so check before ordering. Here in the US you can't import laser pointers >5mW so don't bother ordering anything rated higher. You can, however, buy domestically manufactured "laser parts" of virtually any power. See Mad Science For Sale for dealers.
I used a fog machine to make the beams visible in the following tests. The density of the fog varies so the brightness of the beam doesn't correspond to the actual power. Also, these are 5 second exposures so the digits on the meter change and blur the readout sometimes.
This works out to about 25.5mW give or take the error range. The correction factor for 405nm is so high that the error range is quite large, ± a couple of milliwatts. As it happens, a friend of mine tested this laser with his pro-quality meter (with a pyrometer) and got exactly 24mW so I'd say we're doing pretty well there considering the limited accuracy. And 24mW is a bit higher than 5mW so I definitely need my googles on when working with this one. Shame on Dealextreme for offering 5mW and delivering 24mW.
Next up are the diode-pumped solid-state or DPSS lasers. They consist of two IR lasers and a frequency-doubling crystal. An 808nm laser pumps a 1064nm laser and its output has its wavelength halved to 532nm. The major hazard of DPSS lasers is that their efficiency is less than 100% so there's plenty of invisible infrared light being emitted. At 5mW or less this is not considered a hazard, but at higher powers it is. Remember, you can't see it so you don't know how bright it is or where it is. Because of this, DPSS lasers over 5mW should have an IR filter on the output. None of these cheap pointers of Asian origin have any discernible IR filtering. See this video for a demonstration of the problem. Note that you can also find videos that show how to disassemble a pointer and increase the power, burn things, etc. You're on your own with that stuff.
This filter is perfect. It passes 97% of the green and practically none of the IR. True, I had some trouble finding a way to mount it with the angle of incidence to within ±5°. But I'm going for ballpark measurements here.
It finally occurred to me that any assumptions about the absolute power of the IR emissions from these lasers are unfounded. The relative levels of the 808nm and 1064nm lasers are unknown to me. The Laserbee sensor has two different correction factors for the two IR wavelengths—one greater than one, the other less than one. If the ratio of the two were constant then the calculation could be made.
When I find out more I'll update this article again.
Unfortunately, I didn't manage to get a decent picture with the IR filter in place but the reading was 1.1mV, which about 1.8mW. With a reading of 4.1mV with all three wavelengths combined, obviously there's a lot of IR emission here and the visible power is well below 5mW.
About 11.2mV (18.25mW) visible. Lots of IR. Say, wasn't this supposed to be "≤5mW"? Heh.
About 60.6mW visible. Clearly this laser has some IR filtering but I can't tell how much. 50mW is very bright. I had to wear safety goggles to align the beam.
Next time around—lasers of the visible red kind.
You have a fantastic blog, great information and honestly I am amazed at the setup(s) you have for your experiments. I wish that I had the time and $$ to do similar work.
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One evening, as she drove along the highway in the rain, an old lady saw a killer robot dragging his death cannon behind him and trudging through mud at the edge of the road.
The old lady's heart skipped as she considered the dangers of picking up killer robot hitchhikers—suppose he took her checkbook and ran away!—but, being kind, and a hobbyist in the field of killer robotics besides, she stopped the car, rolled down the window, and called out "Where are you going? Would you like a ride?"
With a jerk the killer robot lifted his head and wiped his face plate, peering through the inches of rain between his face and that of the old woman's. "Roadway Street," he said. "In Landtown. Are you going that way?"
She was, and unlocked the door so the killer robot could get in the car.
Within the space of a minute, the killer robot had entered the car on the passenger side, had seated and buckled himself in the quickly dampening seat, and had laid his death cannon at his feet, at an angle away from the old lady so that, in case of accidental discharge, it would not blow her head off.
"What do you do for a living?" asked the old lady when a polite amount of time had passed. She had been interested in killer robots all throughout her life, but had never discovered what they actually did.
"My name is Rip Anteir," said the killer robot. "I work in food service." He did not say that his whole job comprised taking fast food orders from impatient, beady-eyed people.
"Oh!" said the old lady. "Did you always want to work in food service?"
The killer robot coughed in a way calculated to sound embarrassed. "No, actually. In my free time I conquer the world, and some day I would like to do that full time."
"Wonderful!" cried the old lady.
"Yes," he said. "It's sort of the thing killer robots are meant to do. You could almost say that being a killer robot means conquering the world."
The old lady sighed. "I've always wanted to be a killer robot. Can you give me any advice?"
The killer robot, full of bash, looked toward his metallic feet and smiled. "Oh, there's not much to it. Once you have a death cannon, you just keep going to countries and destroying their armies."
"What sorts of countries have you conquered already?" she asked.
"Albania and Chile," he said. "But I have my sights set on Belgium."
By this point the car had come a good way into Landtown, and was just then turning onto Roadway Street. The old lady stopped the car in a pool of oil and smiled at the killer robot as he disembarked. "Thank you for the lovely conversation!" she said. Then she left, and they never saw each other again.
The killer robot, feeling satisfied to be admired for his passion, entered his apartment building. It was a dark, mostly empty place, inhabited only by killer robots in the killer robot side of town. There were few of them, and they took up little space. It was space wasted on them, in the eyes of most people. The killer robots themselves had little opinion on the matter, not caring for much but the domination of the earth. In truth, no killer robot spent much time at home.
It was eight o'clock. The killer robot still had two hours before bed. He poured himself a cup of coffee from his death cannon and sat on the floor before his television to drink it. He had no furniture, being a killer robot, and so the floor was where he always sat, whether he was watching the television or eating cornflakes from the soup plate that his great-uncle had left behind in his will.
But two sips and four minutes into his television program, the killer robot remembered the old lady's encouragement and admiration, and felt guilty to be relaxing in the free time that his schedule allotted him.
So the killer robot rose, and turned off the television, and used a piece of paper and an old, dry marker—his pencils were all broken—to write an agenda for the following day. After a time the killer robot found he could free two hours and sixteen minutes from the following day, which he determined to devote to world domination.
Following this, the killer robot went to bed early. He had no furniture, and so sat on his charging cradle until morning.
The next day, the killer robot rose and went straight to world domination. He took a taxi to Belgium, because the bus would not allow the killer robot to carry along his death cannon, and in no time at all found that he had dominated the country.
Still having a good amount of time before the beginning of the workday, the killer robot conquered the world for a while longer. He threw down the governments of Germany, Wales, and Columbia, and then called his manager to inform him that the killer robot wouldn't be in that day, for he had things to do.
Within three days, the entire world was under the killer robot's rule. Humans walked about in shackles, singing the praises of their overlord, dragging sledges of salt from one end of a field to another.
The old lady, reading a newspaper, saw who was behind it, and smiled. "I know him," she said to a pair of children pulling three tons of salt up a hill. "I gave him a ride home last week!"
But before long the killer robot began to feel despondent. Having achieved his greatest dream, there was nothing left for him to do. Watching all the people of the earth drag salt at his command did little more to raise his spirits than receiving their fast food orders had ever done.
So, on one dreary Thursday, the killer robot climbed to the highest, furthest edge of the world, leaped off, and drowned forever in outer space.
It was not long before people began to lament the killer robot's passing. "He was a genius!" they cried. "A man well ahead of his time!" Hundreds of would-be overlords, both human and robot, tried to imitate the killer robot's previous success, but none succeeded. They turned to very practical methods of domination, things that did not inspire awe in onlookers, nor stirred passion in their perpetrators' chests.
"Such a shame," said the old woman. "He seemed so nice." She threw bits of her newspaper to the birds who gathered at the park bench upon which she sat in the midst of a park on a wonderful summer evening. It was a time bespoken for being content with the way one's life progresses while at the same time pretending one wishes for something more. "I really must become a killer robot myself some day," said the old lady. "I think I would be superb at it." The day continued, and recharged itself as on a cradle, and the old lady remained an old lady forever.
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Wrongful termination (or wrongful discharge) occurs when an employee is wrongly fired by his or her employer. Wrongful termination can be based on several theories, such as breach of an employment contract or protection given under the Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989.
A majority of workers are employed "at will," which means they do not have a formal employment contract with their employer. This means their employment may be ended at any time. In other cases, workers have signed a written contract that contains an "at will" clause stating an employee can terminate for any reason without cause. But even "at will" employees have certain rights against a wrongful termination and cannot be fired for reasons that violate public policy, or the law.
Both state and federal laws prohibit employers from retaliating against their employees (such as firing them) for whistle blowing.Whistle blowing is when employees provide information to the government about their employer's illegal actions, such as mismanagement or wasting funds.
There is another form of wrongful termination called "constructive wrongful termination" that occurs when an employer makes the work conditions so horrible that employees are forced to quit. Federal law states that if conditions or treatment of employees are so severe that a reasonable person could not continue working in that environment, the employee may quit and seek damages for their lost wages.
The law does recognize that employees cannot simply quit and then sue their employer; all workers are first required to use every avenue to resolve workplace issues before quitting. Any employee who fails to try and resolve their issue may forgo their ability to collect compensation.


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By The Bi: Now Playing At The International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival!
By The Bi Goes To Ireland!
By Ghia Vitale
By the Bi is making its European debut at The Dublin Gay Theatre Festival. On May 4 through 9, Blazing Change Players will be performing the play at the Teacher's Club (Main). By the Bi brings bisexual awareness to the forefront of both the stage and the minds of an international audience in a way that cannot be ignored or silenced. Since bisexuals receive little to no representation anywhere, the fact that By the Bi is playing at world's largest gay theatre festival is a huge step forward for bisexual visibility.
Those who wish to attend can purchase tickets online. Be sure to stay tuned via Facebook and Twitter!
By the Bi is a dramatic portrayal of the issues that bisexuals face. Popular "misconceptions" and stereotypes about bisexuality characterize bisexuals as promiscuous, greedy, and confused. The 15-vignette performance combines spoken word, dance, and music to speak out against the damage caused by these negative stereotypes. According to the official Blazing Change Players website, "[By the Bi ] gives a voice to a voiceless community and sheds light on issues of not only bisexual inequality but of human inequality."
This play invites the audience into a conversation that discusses how society's negative bisexual stereotypes and prejudicial attitudes perpetuate these problems.
"By the Bi focuses not only on stereotypes that bisexuals face," explains director Caroline Downs in a Quail Bell interview, "but it also addresses the disturbing statistics showing the heartbreakingly high rates of depression, suicide, drug abuse, domestic violence, sexual assault, and rape that go along with being bisexual."
By the Bi premiered in Richmond, Virginia. Caroline Downs and Morgan Barbour are the creators of By the Bi. While attending Virginia Commonwealth University as theatre performance majors, they also co-founded Blazing Change Players, an "educational theatre company that focuses on issues of social awareness." Barbour, the play's choreographer, and Downs founded Blazing Change Players for the sake of "[creating] dynamic new theatre that entertains, educates, and helps promote dialogue long after the curtain call." By the Bi lives up to that intention.
Those who wish to attend can purchase tickets online. To learn more about The Dublin Gay Theatre Festival's 2015 lineup or By the Bi, check out the brochure or learn more about the cast!
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After the evaluation, the air conditioning contractor will then determine the types of equipment qualified in the home's Roseburg Air Conditioning and furnace installation. Note that heating and cooling equipment are created with various capacities, features, technologies, configurations, and efficiencies. Sure, you can surf the web and read tons of reviews of air-con and heater brands, but in the end, your newly-gained info cannot trump the expertise of a licensed contractor.
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Conjugated polyaniline has shown anticorrosive, hydrophilic, antibacterial, pH-responsive, and pseudocapacitive properties making it of interest in many fields. However, in situ grafting of polyaniline without harsh chemical treatments is challenging. In this study, we report a simple, fast, and non-destructive surface modification method for grafting tetraaniline (TANI), the smallest conjugated repeat unit of polyaniline, onto several materials via perfluorophenylazide photochemistry. The new materials are characterized by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and electrospray ionization (ESI) mass spectroscopy. TANI is shown to be covalently bonded to important carbon materials including graphite, carbon nanotubes (CNTs), and reduced graphene oxide (rGO), as confirmed by transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Furthermore, large area modifications on polyethylene terephthalate (PET) films through dip-coating or spray-coating demonstrate the potential applicability in biomedical applications where high transparency, patternability, and low bio-adhesion are needed. Another important application is preventing biofouling in membranes for water purification. Here we report the first oligoaniline grafted water filtration membranes by modifying commercially available polyethersulfone (PES) ultrafiltration (UF) membranes. The modified membranes are hydrophilic as demonstrated by captive bubble experiments and exhibit extraordinarily low bovine serum albumin (BSA) and Escherichia coli adhesions. Superior membrane performance in terms of flux, BSA rejection and flux recovery after biofouling are demonstrated using a cross-flow system and dead-end cells, showing excellent fouling resistance produced by the in situ modification.


We report our developments on metaphor and affect sensing for several metaphorical language phenomena including affects as external entities metaphor, food metaphor, animal metaphor, size metaphor, and anger metaphor. The metaphor and affect sensing component has been embedded in a conversational intelligent agent interacting with human users under loose scenarios. Evaluation for the detection of several metaphorical language phenomena and affect is provided. Our paper contributes to the journal themes on believable virtual characters in real-time narrative environment, narrative in digital games and storytelling and educational gaming with social software.


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Essential Water Minerals Tests role in aquatic growth and algae blooms.
Essential Water Minerals Tests. Experiment for a first time science fair project. Water samples from lakes, creeks, ponds, rivers etc are tested for essential minerals required for biological growth. Testing only takes a few minutes per sample.
Each water sample is tested for this Set of parameters: Phosphate, Nitrate, Nitrite, Dissolved Metals (Combined Metals Cu+2, Co+2, Zn+2, Cd+2, Ni+2, etc.) and Iron +2 (5 tests per set).
Essential minerals role in aquatic growth and algae blooms.
Experiment for a first time science fair project. Water samples from lakes, creeks, ponds, rivers etc are tested for essential minerals required for biological growth. Testing only takes a few minutes per sample.