The kinetics of liquid-liquid phase separation and polymer crystallization observed in double-quench experiments with blends of poly(ethylene-co-hexene) and poly(ethylene-co-butene) are studied using time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau Model. Numerical simulations demonstrate that our model can successfully reproduce three experimental phenomena: The decrease in number and size of crystallized spher...

The sensitivites of urinary pathogens from general practice and from hospital to a range of antimicrobial drugs have been recorded for the period 1971-8. There have been changes in the proportions of the different bacterial species and in their sensitivites to antibiotics. In particular, the position of ampicillin/amoxycillin and cephalosporins has deteriorated, partly because more resistant sp...

For the first time, the controlled ring-opening polymerization (ROP) of ε-thionocaprolactone (tnCL) is conducted. The organocatalytic ROP of tnCL occurs without carbonyl scrambling, leading to homopoly(ε-thionocaprolactone) (PtnCL). The ROP by base catalysts alone is proposed to proceed via a nucleophilic mechanism, while the addition of an H-bond donating thiourea (TU) is shown to provide exce...

Although there have been many previous studies of research collaboration, comparatively little attention has been given to the concept of 'collaboration' or to the adequacy of attempting to measure it through co-authorship. In this paper, we distinguish between collaboration at different levels and show that inter-institutional and international collaboration need not necessarily involve inter-...

The main purpose of this paper is to consider the t-best co-approximation and t-best simultaneous co-approximation in fuzzy normed spaces. We develop the theory of t-best co-approximation and t-best simultaneous co-approximation in quotient spaces. This new concept is employed us to improve various characterisations of t-co-proximinal and t-co-Chebyshev sets.

BACKGROUND Co-localisation is a widely used measurement in immunohistochemical analysis to determine if fluorescently labelled biological entities, such as cells, proteins or molecules share a same location. However the measurement of co-localisation is challenging due to the complex nature of such fluorescent images, especially when multiple focal planes are captured. The current state-of-art ...

Raquel Gonzalez and colleagues highlight an urgent need to evaluate antimalarials that can be safely administered to HIV-infected pregnant women on antiretroviral treatment and cotrimoxazole prophylaxis.

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, (C(10)H(28)N(4))[CoCl(4)]Cl(2), contains two half-mol-ecules of the macrocycle, which are both completed by crystallographic inversion symmetry. In the dianion, the Co(2+) cation is tetra-hedrally coordinated by four Cl atoms; the Co-Cl bond lengths correlate with the number of hydrogen bonds that the chloride ions accept. The crystal cohesion is suppo...

1 Clinical Research Fellow, Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme and Department of Paediatrics, College of Medicine University of Malawi, Malawi ([email protected]). Tel: 265-1-676444; Fax: 265-1-675774. Ref. No. 03-010397 Uncertainty remains about the risks and benefits of implementing guidelines on the use of cotrimoxazole prophylaxis for prevention of HIV-related i...

First direct images of cobalt nanoparticles covered by a few atomic layers thick TiO(x) moieties after reduction treatment of a Co/TiO(2) system with the simultaneous formation of Co-O-Ti bonds confirm the development of the SMSI decoration effect.