Na presente dissertação foi desenvolvido um procedimento automático para a determinação de selênio em rações para animais doméstico digeridas em meio ácido. O método automatizado foi baseado no efeito catalítico do selênio(IV) na reação de sulfato de ferro amoniacal com EDTA em meio contendo NaNO3. O módulo de análise foi baseado no processo de multicomutação em fluxo. Tendo em vista que reação tem cinética lenta, o módulo de análise foi projetado com seis bobinas de reação acopladas em paralelo para permitir tempo de residência da zona de amostra em torno de cinco minutos, sem comprometer a freqüência de amostragem. Após a definição das variáveis de controle, amostras de rações para animais digeridas em meio de ácido nítrico/perclórico foram processadas. Os resultados referentes ao testes de adição de padrão apresentaram recuperação entre 95 e 109 %. Outras características importantes tais como desvio padrão relativo em torno de 2% (n = 8) e freqüência de amostragem de 60 determinações por hora foram observadas. / In this work it was developed an automatic procedure for the determination of selenium in ration for domestic animals digested in acidic medium. The automated method was based on the catalytic effect caused by selenium (IV) on the reaction of ammoniacal iron sulfate with EDTA in medium containing NaNO3. The analytical module was based on multicommuted flow process. Considering that the kinetic of reaction was slow, the analytical module was designed with six reaction coupled in parallel in order to allow that residence time of sample zone was increased up to 5 min without decrease of the analytical throughput. After definition of the system control variables, sample of animal ration mineralized in nitric/perchloric acid medium were processed. The results concerning to standard solution addition assays gave recoveries between the range of 95 % up to 109 %. Other profitable features such as a relative standard deviation of 2 % (n = 8) and an analytical throughput of 60 samples determination per hours were also achieved.

Be stars are rapidly rotating B-type stars that eject large amounts of material into a circumstellar disk. Evidence of the presence of a disk is found through hydrogen emission lines in their spectra, IR excess flux, and linear intrinsic polarization. In this dissertation, we report the first simultaneous interferometric and spectroscopic observations of circumstellar disks around 24 bright Be stars made using the techniques of long baseline interferometry and moderate resolution spectroscopy in the near infrared. The goal of the project is to characterize the fundamental geometrical and physical properties of the emitting regions that are responsible for the IR flux excesses detected in the K-band in our sample stars. This observational work has been conducted with both the Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) Array at Mount Wilson Observatory, and the Mimir spectrograph at Lowell Observatory. The visibility measurements were interpreted with different geometrical and physical disk models in order to determine the spatial extension of the disk, the inclination angle, the position angle, and the density profile of the disk. We find that the spatial extension of the circumstellar disk in the K-band is only about a few stellar radii, and that the density structure of the disk is consistent with a radially decreasing function with a density exponent that ranges between 2.5 and 3.5. The resulting disk densities are in a good agreement with those derived from the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) measurements, and the resulting disk geometries are consistent with previous polarimetric measurements. We find that the K-band sizes of the emitting regions in the disk are smaller by a factor of two than the Hα sizes, and we show that this is due to the lower opacity of the continuum in the disk. By combining recent measurements of the projected rotational velocities with the disk inclination angles derived from interferometry, we were able to estimate the actual equatorial linear rotational velocities of the Be stars in our sample. The obtained linear rotational velocities indicate that Be stars are rapid rotators with an equatorial velocity that is about 0.7 - 0.9 of their critical velocities.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Institute of Paper Chemistry, 1943. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 96-98).

Thesis (Ph.D)--Chemical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010. / Committee Chair: Fuller, Thomas; Committee Member: Beckham, Haskell; Committee Member: Hess, Dennis; Committee Member: Koros, William; Committee Member: Meredith, Carson. Part of the SMARTech Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Collection.

Thin coatings of photoresponsive, pyrimidine-terminated molecules, attached to gold or quartz substrates in contact with water, undego photodimerisation and wettability changes when irradiated with UV light at 280 and 240mm. Spin-casting and chemisorption techniques were used to prepare the thin films. / Thesis (PhDApSc)--University of South Australia, 2000.

Thin coatings of photoresponsive, pyrimidine-terminated molecules, attached to gold or quartz substrates in contact with water, undego photodimerisation and wettability changes when irradiated with UV light at 280 and 240mm. Spin-casting and chemisorption techniques were used to prepare the thin films. / Thesis (PhDApSc)--University of South Australia, 2000.

Diss. (sammanfattning). Umeå : Sveriges lantbruksuniv., 2003. / Härtill 4 uppsatser.

Diss. (sammanfattning) Stockholm : Karol. inst., 2004. / Härtill 4 uppsatser.

Diss. (sammanfattning) Umeå : Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet, 2006. / Härtill 4 uppsatser.

Thesis (MSc.(Physiology)) -- University of Pretoria, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available online.