Reaction of cadmium perchlorate and the prototypical linear bridging ligand 4,4’-bipyridine (4,4’-bipy) in an ethanol/water mixture affords the one-dimensional coordination polymer, [{Cd(μ-4,4’-bipy)(4,4’-bipy)2(H2O)2}(ClO4)2 ⋅ 2 4,4’-bipy ⋅ 4.5 H2O]n (1). The Cd ions adopt an octahedral coordination sphere and are joined into linear chains by 4,4’-bipy via two trans coordination sites. The rem...

The dynamics and statistical mechanics of N chaotically evolving point vortices in the doublyperiodic domain are revisited. The selection of the correct microcanonical ensemble for the system is first investigated. The numerical results of Weiss and McWilliams (Phys. Fluids, 19, 1459, 1991), who argued that the point vortex system with N = 6 is non-ergodic because of an apparent discrepency bet...

This study aims to characterize and classify serum surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) spectra between bladder cancer patients and normal volunteers by genetic algorithms (GAs) combined with linear discriminate analysis (LDA). Two group serum SERS spectra excited with nanoparticles are collected from healthy volunteers (n = 36) and bladder cancer patients (n = 55). Six diagnostic Raman b...

Chitinase-A (PrChi-A), of molecular mass 42 kDa, was purified from the leaves of a fern (P. ryukyuensis) using several column chromatographies. The N-terminal amino acid sequence of PrChi-A was similar to the lysin motif (LysM). A cDNA encoding PrChi-A was cloned by rapid amplification of cDNA ends and polymerase chain reaction. It consisted of 1459 nucleotides and encoded an open-reading frame...

AIM To establish the frequency, associations and risk factors for age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in hospital population of South India. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this cross-sectional hospital based study, 3549 subjects (2090 men and 1459 women) above 45 years of age were screened randomly for AMD. Participants underwent ocular evaluation and were interviewed for lifestyle variables and...

A gradient-based image analysis technique is applied to a class of non-Fourier stimuli. To create the stimuli, n translating sine waves with identical spatial and temporal frequencies, but separated by 2pi/n radians, are spatially randomly sampled to produce a P(n) stimulus. For n>or=2, the stimuli are non-Fourier. Local image gradients are represented in the form of a gradient plot, a histogra...

Analysis of the linear theory of capillary instability of threads of Maxwell fluids of diameter D is carried out for the unapproximated normal mode solution and for a solution based on viscoelastic potential flow. The analysis here extends the analysis of viscous potential flow [Int. J. Multiphase Flow 28 (2002) 1459] to viscoelastic fluids of Maxwell type. The analysis is framed in dimensionle...

Marquis, Robert E. (University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y.). Nature of the bactericidal action of antimycin A for Bacillus megaterium. J. Bacteriol. 89:1453-1459. 1965.-Antimycin A, a fungicidal antibiotic which specifically inhibits metabolic reduction of cytochrome c, was found to be lethal for Bacillus megaterium. However, the bactericidal action was correlated with a capacity of antimycin...

OBJECTIVE Germ line mutations of the LKB1 gene cause the autosomal dominant Peutz-Jeghers syndrome (PJS), and PJS has also been associated with an increased risk of developing cancers, suggesting LKB1 may act as a tumor suppressor in PJS. By contrast, LKB1 mutations are rare events in most sporadic tumors in non-PJS patients, except for lung cancers. To better understand the involvement of LKB1...

Orphanin FQ (OFQ) and endomorphins (EM) are newly characterized members of opioid peptide family. OFQ has been shown to antagonize morphine analgesia at supraspinal level, whereas endomorphins are highly selective endogenous ligands for mu receptor, showing analgesic effect at both spinal and supraspinal level. OFQ and EM-2 (EM2) immunoreactivity (ir) was measured by radioimmunoassay in nocicep...