The reduction of Cu(II) oxide species in siliceous matrixes of different porosity (MFI, FAU, MCM-48) and in alumosilicate MFI was studied by temperature-programmed reduction in hydrogen (TPR), by X-ray absorption fine structure (after stationary hydrogen treatments), and by transmission electron microscopy. It was found that the reduction may proceed in one or in two reduction steps. The two-st...

Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is a highly advanced and invasive brain tumor due to which current treatments cannot completely treat GBM or prevent recurrence. Therefore, adjunctive treatments are required. As part of the invasive and angiogenic nature of GBM, it has been well established that matrix metalloprotease-2 (MMP-2) and MMP-9 are overactive. To better treat GBM using chemotherapy, we h...

Protein behavior in Hydrophobic Interaction Chromatography using different chromatographic conditions was investigated. A linear correlation was found between protein retention time on different matrixes and different initial elution salt concentrations. Mathematical correlations between retention times under different chromatographic conditions were obtained and validated, which can be used in...

Biofilms of a municipal water distribution system were characterized to assess the occurrence of fungi within surface matrixes. Densities of filamentous fungi ranged from 4.0 to 25.2 CFU cm(-2), whereas yeast densities ranged from 0 to 8.9 CFU cm(-2). Observations by scanning electron microscopy further suggested that spores, not hyphae or vegetative cells, comprised the primary source of viabl...

In this paper, a new algebraic soft-decision decoding algorithm for Reed-Solomon code is presented. It is based on rational interpolation and the interpolation points are constructed by Berlekamp-Messay algorithm. Unlike the traditional Kötter-Vardy algorithm, new algorithm needs interpolation for two smaller multiplicity matrixes, due to the corresponding factorization algorithm for re-constru...