BACKGROUND Biotin, a water-soluble vitamin, is used as a co-factor by enzymes involved in carboxylation reactions. Biotinidase (BTD) catalyzes the recycling of biotin from endogenous and dietary sources. Biotinidase deficiency (BD) is an autosomal recessively inherited disorder of biotin recycling that is associated with neurologic and cutaneous consequences when untreated. The aim of the study...

Retrievals of ice cloud properties using infrared measurements at 3.7, 6.7, 7.3, 8.5, 10.8, and 12.0 μm can provide consistent results regardless of solar illumination, but OPEN ACCESS Remote Sens. 2012, 4 3023 are limited to cloud optical thicknesses τ < ~6. This paper investigates the variations in radiances at these wavelengths over a deep convective cloud system for their potential to exten...

A compact and planar donor-acceptor molecule 1 comprising tetrathiafulvalene (TTF) and benzothiadiazole (BTD) units has been synthesised and experimentally characterised by structural, optical, and electrochemical methods. Solution-processed and thermally evaporated thin films of 1 have also been explored as active materials in organic field-effect transistors (OFETs). For these devices, hole f...

This paper deals with the challenging problem of counting the number of solutions of a CSP, denoted #CSP. Recent progress has been made using search methods, such as Backtracking with Tree-Decomposition (BTD) [Jégou and Terrioux, 2003], which exploit the constraint graph structure in order to solve CSPs. We propose to adapt BTD for solving the #CSP problem. The resulting exact counting method h...

Severe hailstorms frequently occurred in Beijing between May and August 2021, leading to extensive hail damage. These were observed by radar satellite data, reported surface observers. In this study, the spectral cloud microphysical characteristics of typical events 2021 analyzed using Himawari-8 products ground-based S-band weather data obtained from Meteorological Bureau. The relationship bri...

Abstract In this study, we investigate the relationship between tax avoidance and earnings management in largest five European Union economies by using artificial neural network regressions. This methodology allows us to deal with nonlinearities detected data, which is principal contribution previous literature. We analyzed Compustat data for Germany, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Spain 2006–2...

The synthesis of three new gold(I) benzothiadiazole derivatives has been carried out by the reaction 4-ethynyl-7-(4-nonylphenyl)benzo[c] [1,2,5]thiadiazole (L) with different gold(I)-PR3 (PR3 = triethylphosphane (2), triphenylphosphane (3) and tri-1-naphthylphosphane (4)) sources their light emitting properties thoroughly investigated. compounds display denoted luminescence fluorescence quantum...

A prática da agressividade fiscal visa amenizar o alto custo com impostos ocasionado pela complexidade legislação tributária, mira diminuir gastos tributários e maximizar desempenho das organizações. O presente estudo analisa impacto na rentabilidade empresas de capital aberto listadas B3 no período 2016 a 2020, posto que contexto brasileiro, as evidências sobre relação entre essa ainda são lim...

ABSTRACT This paper aimed to evaluate the moderation by variables related incentives for earnings management (indebtedness, profitability, and size) over effect of change in standards (accounting or tax) on book-tax differences (BTD). The end Transitional Tax Regime (RTT) enables us symmetry between divergence reconvergence accounting tax standards, helping identify moderating characteristics s...