In the title complex, [Cu(C(5)H(3)O(2)S)(2)(C(10)H(8)N(2))(H(2)O)], the Cu(II) atom is in a distorted square-pyramidal environment, with an Addison τ parameter of 0.07. The coordination geometry is defined by two nitro-gen donors from the 2,2'-bipyridine ligand, two O atoms from two monodentate thio-phene-2-carboxyl-ate ligands and one O atom from the aqua ligand. The latter occupies the elonga...

Three manganese(II) N-oxide complexes have been synthesized from the reaction of manganese(II) chloride with either pyridine N-oxide (PNO), 2-methyl-pyridine N-oxide (2MePNO) or 3-methyl-pyridine N-oxide (3MePNO). The compounds were synthesized from methano-lic solutions of MnCl2·4H2O and the respective N-oxide, and subsequently characterized structurally by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. Th...

QUESTION What is the body temperature response of healthy pregnant women exercising at moderate intensity in an aqua-aerobics class where the water temperature is in the range of 28 to 33 degrees Celsius, as typically found in community swimming pools? DESIGN An observational study. PARTICIPANTS One hundred and nine women in the second and third trimester of pregnancy who were enrolled in a...

UNLABELLED Multiple sequence alignment (MSA) is a central tool in most modern biology studies. However, despite generations of valuable tools, human experts are still able to improve automatically generated MSAs. In an effort to automatically identify the most reliable MSA for a given protein family, we propose a very simple protocol, named AQUA for 'Automated quality improvement for multiple s...

Users visiting health related web sites would be served best if they knew whether these sites meet a minimum level of quality standards. However manually labelling health resources is a tedious task. Based upon state-of-the-art technology in the areas of semantic web, content analysis and labelling, the MedIEQ project integrates existing technologies and tests them in a novel application: AQUA,...

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, {[Sm(2)(C(8)H(2)NO(6))(2)(H(2)O)(5)]·H(2)O}(n), contains two independent Sm(III) ions, two pyridine-2,4,6-tricarboxyl-ate (ptc) ligands, five aqua ligands and one lattice water mol-ecule. One Sm(III) ion is nine-coordinated by one N and five O atoms from the three ptc ligands and three aqua ligands in a distorted monocapped square antiprismatic geometr...

The AQuA architecture provides adaptive fault tolerance to CORBA applications by replicating objects and providing a high-level method that an application can use to specify its desired level of dependability. This paper presents the algorithms that AQuA uses, when an application’s dependability requirements can change at runtime, to tolerate both value faults in applications and crash failures...

In the title compound, [Ni(C5H4N3O2)2(H2O)2]·2H2O, the Ni(II) ion lies on an inversion center and is coordinated in an slightly distorted octa-hedral environment by two N,O-chelating 3-amino-pyrazine-2-carboxyl-ate (APZC) ligands in the equatorial plane and two trans-axial aqua ligands. In the crystal, O-H⋯O, N-H⋯O and O-H⋯N hydrogen bonds involving the solvent water mol-ecules, aqua and APZC l...