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Shuying Zhang Faculty Mentor: Yan Zeng Department of Pharmacology Fall 2012 Foremost, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my advisor Prof. Yan Zeng for the continuous support of my study and growing, for his patience, motivation, enthusiasm, and immense knowledge. His guidance helped me in all the time of research and writing of this report. I could not have imagined having a better...

Salinity gradient energy (SGE) refers to the energy created from the difference in salt concentration between two streams. There are three types of SGE namely, pressure retarded osmosis (PRO), reverse electrodialysis (RED), and capacitive mixing (CapMix). All these technologies require membrane for the system to be operational. In this short review, the membranes modifications for each principl...

use of wastewater treatment methods in aquaculture is one of the main ways for decreasing the environmental effects of this industry and applies the best management practices (bmps). anionic compounds are the main pollutants in recirculation aquaculture systems. ion exchangers such as clays are vastly applied in waste water industry but in aquaculture systems at yet there isn't any report ...

Poly(vinyl alcohol), PVA, is amenable to several structural modifications because of the presence of the hydroxyl moiety in the backbone. The chemical versatility of this polymer can be used for the obtainment of new wall-to-wall pH-responsive PVA chemical hydrogels and for the preparation of air-filled microspheres, for example, microbubbles. Here, we report on the characterization of the phys...

In 1983 the U.S. Army Academy of Health Sciences developed a Letter Requirement for a Blood Gas/pH Analyzer for use in Echelon 3 and 4 facilities. Field trials of several nondevelopment items and a subsequent market survey did not produce a suitable instrument. Recently, a relatively small, lightweight, and simple device became commercially available, and was tested for field applicability in a...

Previously, we reported the formation of a 2-deoxyribonolactone-containing nucleotide by UV irradiation of d(ApCpA). In this paper, we report some mechanical feature of this novel photoreaction. From the results of photolysis of d(GpCpG), this reaction is independent of neighboring bases. On photolysis of deoxycytidine at acidic pH, 2-deoxyribonolactone was produced with 74.2% isolated yield. A...

Hydrogels are cross-linked hydrophilic polymers that can imbibe water or biological fluids. Their biomedical and pharmaceutical applications include a very wide range of systems and processes that utilize several molecular design characteristics. This review discusses the molecular structure, dynamic behavior, and structural modifications of hydrogels as well as the various applications of thes...