The purpose of this brief review is to separate the characteristic properties and side effects attributable to the pharmacology of the whole class of angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors from those attributable to the chemical structure and kinetics of each particular ACE inhibitor. The former would be predictable and probably similar for all agents and, therefore, would be expected t...

expansive soils undergo volumetric changes in response to changes in their moisture content that this characteristic causes irreparable problems particularly in civil projects. investigators have proposed chemical methods as well as mechanical treatments to stabilize the expansive soils. in this study, stabilization of expansive soil with randomly distributed fiber was investigated by reinforci...

General Aspects Determination of characteristic fluorescence parameters i.e. spectral properties, quantum yields, polarizations, and lifetimes, is important in the study of excited states of atoms, molecules, and crystals and also for diagnostic purposes in the physical, chemical, biological, and medical sciences. The appeal of fluorescence methodologies lies in their intrinsic sensitivity and ...

Line defects of a thin alumina film on NiAl(110) have been studied on the atomic level with scanning tunneling microscopy at 4 K. While boundaries between two reflection domains do not expose a characteristic structure, antiphase domain boundaries are well ordered. The latter boundaries result from the insertion of a row of O atoms, as atomically resolved images of the topmost oxygen layer show...

The purpose of this brief review is to separate the characteristic properties and side effects attributable to the pharmacology of the whole class of angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors from those attributable to the chemical structure and kinetics of each particular ACE inhibitor. The former would be predictable and probably similar for all agents and, therefore, would be expected t...

We study the notions of positive cone, characteristic and C-characteristic in (Krasner) hyperfields. demonstrate how these interact order to produce interesting results theory For instance, we provide a criterion for deciding whether certain hyperfields cannot be obtained via Krasner’s quotient construction. prove that any integer (larger than 1) can realized as some infinite hyperfield an anal...

A new representation of the molecular intrinsic characteristic contour (MICC) is carried out by using an ab initio method for some small organic molecules, such as methane, ethane, ethylene, acetylene and formaldehyde. The detailed comparison of the MICCs for these molecules with the respective isolated atomic characteristic boundary radii have been done for giving direct information about the ...

In living cells, chemical reactions are connected by sharing their products and substrates, and form complex networks, e.g., metabolic pathways. Here we developed a theory to predict the sensitivity, i.e., the responses of concentrations and fluxes to perturbations of enzymes, from network structure alone. Nonzero response patterns turn out to exhibit two characteristic features, localization a...