This paper presents a comprehensive theory of surface reconstruction from image derivatives in photometric stereo. For an object with an unknown, general isotropic BRDF, we show that just two measurements of the spatial and temporal image derivatives, under unknown light source positions on a circle, suffice to determine the surface. This result is the culmination of a series of fundamental obs...

A solid-phase procedure is used to synthesize racemic peptidomimetics based on the fundamental peptide unit. The peptidomimetics are constructed around proline or proline homologues variably substituted at the amine and carbonyl sites. The procedure expands the diversity of substituted peptidomimetic molecules available to the Distributed Drug Discovery (D3) project. Using a BAL-based solid-pha...

Zinc(II) complexes with dangling functional organic groups were synthesized by reaction of zinc acetate with a series of bifunctional p-substituted benzene derivatives (a combination of carboxylate, oximate, amino, β-ketoimine, and salicylaldime groups). Selective coordination to carboxylate groups was observed when the second functional group was an oxime or β-ketoimine group. When the second ...

Polymers are widely used as non-viral carriers for siRNA delivery, but concern has also arisen in their limited efficacy and inherent toxicity. Whilst many of previous efforts have been documented towards improving the performance of polymers via chemical modifications, the structure-activity relationships (SAR) of these ligand-modified polymers are not well understood. To address this issue, w...

interference with microtubule polymerization results in cell cycle arrest leading to cell death. colchicine is a well-known microtubule polymerization inhibitor which does so by binding to a specific site on tubulin. a set of 3',4'-bis (substituted phenyl)-4'h-spiro[indene-2,5'-isoxazol]-1(3h)-one derivatives with known antiproliferative activities were evaluated for their t...

in the present study, a series of new substituted oxazolone derivatives (4a-4h) were synthesized by the erlenmeyer condensation of phthaloylglycylglycine with different aldehydes in the presence of anhydrous sodium acetate and acetic anhydride. the structure of newly-synthesized compounds were evaluated by elemental analyses and spectral ( uv-visible, ir, nmr, mass) studies. all the synthesized...

in this article, we survey the asymptotic stability analysis of fractional differential systems with the prabhakar fractional derivatives. we present the stability regions for these types of fractional differential systems. a brief comparison with the stability aspects of fractional differential systems in the sense of riemann-liouville fractional derivatives is also given.

this paper is about discrete sensitivity analysis. a triangular bending element with constant moment and six degrees of freedom is used. the required derivatives for sensitivity analysis are calculated explicitly. these formulations, finite element method and sequential linear programming are utilized to find shape optimization of plate bending structures. the numerical examples, which show the...

Cationic amphiphilic polymethacrylate derivatives (PMAs) have shown potential as a novel class of synthetic antimicrobials. A panel of PMAs with varied ratios of hydrophobic and cationic side chains were synthesized and tested for antimicrobial activity and mechanism of action. The PMAs are shown to be active against a panel of pathogenic bacteria, including a drug-resistant Staphylococcus aure...