A simple micro (0.1 ml.) colorimetric method is described for the determination of serum calcium. This method employs the differential chelating characteristic of glyoxyl bis (2-hydroxyanil) in the presence of other divalent cations. The serum sample is placed in a colorimetric tube followed by additions of water, glyoxyl bis (2-hydroxyanil) reagent, and alkaline carbonate color developer. Chlo...

An indole-azadiene conjugate (1), synthesized by facile one-step condensation, behaves as a highly selective probe for detection of fluoride ion both in colorimetric and fluorometric analyses. The probe 1 shows F(-)-selective color change from colorless to yellow and appearance of green fluorescence. 1H NMR analysis and ab initio calculation reveal that the F(-)-induced colorimetric and fluorom...

In this paper, we propose a new method to predict the images on a CRT and a hardcopy of skin color under various illuminants. Spectral reflectance of human skin is analyzed by principal component analysis and it is shown that the spectral reflectance can be estimated by three basis functions. The estimation allows colorimetric color reproduction without colorimetric measurements for each illumi...

Since color scanners are not colorimetric, the optimal mapping from scanned values to colorimetric values is inherently nonlinear. Characterization of the scanner requires approximating this nonlinear mapping from the space of scanned values to a device independant color space. Neural networks are particularly suited to this task. Performance using an arti cial neural network generated LUT is c...

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In commonly used procedures for colorimetric assay of orotic acid in biological materials, certain substances interfere, positively or negatively. Some that interfere negatively are ornithine, cysteine, citrulline, tyrosine, proline, hydroxyproline, and polyamines. Protein and interfering agents are easily removed by first isolating the total organic acid fraction. The orotic acid in this fract...

A fully automated method has been developed for the determination of total cholesterol in blood serum, using the AutoAnalyzer system. According to the new method, based on the cholesterol determination of Abell et a!. (1), the serum sample is saponified and subsequently extracted with carbon tetrachloride. After treatment with Liebermann-Burchard reagent, the amount of cholesterol is determined...

Different hexoprenaline (Hx(2)SO(4)) conventional and coated wire electrodes were constructed and evaluated. Membranes were based on hexoprenalinium phosphotungstate (Hx-PTA) and hexporenalinium phosphomolybdate (Hx-PMA). The electrodes were fully characterized in terms of their composition, response time, life span, pH, and temperature and then were applied to the potentiometric determination ...

Pattern bargaining is a negotiating strategy that is often employed by industry-wide unions in oligopolistic industries to set wages. The conventional wisdom is that pattern bargaining “takes labor out of competition” and therefore softens bargaining between the union and firms, resulting in higher industry wide wages. However, this does not explain why firms agree to pattern bargaining. We int...

We describe the in vitro activity of macrolides and tetracycline antibiotics against Pythium insidiosum. The MICs were determined according to CLSI procedures (visual MIC) and by a colorimetric method [3-(4,5-dimethyl-2-thiazyl)-2,5-diphenyl-2H-tetrazolium bromide (MTT)]. The lowest geometric mean (GM) MIC (MICs in μg/ml) (0.39 and 0.7 by visual reading and colorimetric method, respectively) an...