A bifurcated optical fiber based chemical sensor for continuous monitoring of 2,6-dinitrophenol (2,6-DNP) has been proposed based on the reversible chemical reaction between a novel functional poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) as the sensing material and the analytes. The functional PVC (FPVC), containing a fluorescent curcumin moiety, was synthesized by the nucleophilic substitution of a fraction of ...

The pressure and temperature-dependent linear absorption spectrum of partially deuterated water HOD dissolved in heavy water D(2)O was measured in the OH-stretching spectral region. The temperature was varied in the interval of 298 K</=T</=700 K while the density was changed within the range of 12 moll</=rho</=58 moll corresponding to the liquid and the supercritical phases of the fluid solutio...

This paper analyses how, prior to the work of Sigmund Freud, an understanding of infant and childhood sexuality emerged during the nineteenth century. Key contributors to the debate were Albert Moll, Max Dessoir and others, as fin-de-siècle artists and writers celebrated a sexualised image of the child. By the beginning of the twentieth century, most paediatricians, sexologists, psychologists, ...

Water-soluble CdTe quantum dots (QDs) with five sizes (2.25, 2.50, 2.77, 3.12, and 3.26nm) were synthesized with the hydrothermal method. The electrochemiluminescence (ECL) of CdTe QDs was investigated in detail in air-saturated solution without adding foreign oxidant. It was found that the ECL of CdTe QDs displayed a size-dependent property. With the increasing in the particle size of the CdTe...

Recent population-based studies have examined the incidence, prevalence, and survival rates of patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA). Although there are still no completely satisfactory diagnostic criteria for PsA, Moll and Wright's criteria--although not a true classification/diagnostic scheme--are the most used. The sensitivity of these criteria is low (61%), as are the sensitivities of the...

BACKGROUND The study of psoriatic arthritis is difficult and has lagged behind the study of other arthropathies in that there are no universally agreed or properly validated case definitions. METHOD This paper examined the validity and practicality of the original Moll and Wright criteria and subsequent criteria sets. Key features discriminating between psoriatic and other arthropathies were ...

The central nervous system of the moth Manduca sexta contains a group of myoregulatory neuropeptides, the CAPs (Cardioacceleratory Peptides), which cause a physiologically important, dose-dependent increase in heart rate during wing inflation and flight in adult moths. We report here that the response of the adult heart to a subset of the CAPs, the CAP2S, is potentiated nearly twofold in the ch...

Cytokeratins (CK or CKs) are the largest complex group of IF proteins. These are proteins, that are crucial in the development and differentiation of epithelial cells, as well as essential for normal tissue structure and function. The first keratin protein nomenclature was published by Moll et al. (1982) and it has been repeatedly updated in recent years (Schweizer et al., 2006). Based on the r...

there has been a recent development and explosion of interest among academicians across a wide range of disciplines in the use of virtual class room. utilization of the virtual class room as a laboratory experimentation for teaching and learning has increased significantly in recent years as development tools for web based applications have become easier to use and computers have become more ca...