Work summarized in this final report covering three years of research includes: 1) A method for real-time monitoring of disperse dye exhaustion on polyester and acetate; 2) A method for realtime monitoring of both reactive dye exhaustion and hydrolysis; 3) A comparison of a newly developed method for real-time monitoring of indigo with the conventional titrametric method; 4) Models of direct dy...

Chemical synthesis of indigo poses harsh environmental hazards and adverse human health effects. This necessitates an environment-friendly and producer-friendly approach for indigo production. The present study was thus significant as it reports an indigenously isolated potential indigo pigment producing culture identified as Pseudomonas sp. HAV-1 with noteworthy antioxidant property. The bioin...

Investigation of the properties of indigo carmine reveals that it may be more suitable than the dye, T-1824, for circulator}' studies that are now commonly carried out using the dye dilution principle of Stewart and Hamilton. Comparison is made of simultaneous dilution curves of indigo carmine and radioactive iodinated serum albumin. Apparently, indigo carmine is bound to protein firmly enough ...

The performance of two techniques is compared for automated recognition of bird song units from continuous recordings. The advantages and limitations of dynamic time warping (DTW) and hidden Markov models (HMMs) are evaluated on a large database of male songs of zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) and indigo buntings (Passerina cyanea), which have different types of vocalizations and have been ...

The intrinsic photophysics of indigo has been studied using gas-phase time-resolved photoelectron imaging of the indigo carmine dianion (InC(2-)). The action spectrum reveals that the gas-phase absorption spectrum arising from the S(1) <-- S(0) transition in InC(2-) has a similar solvent shift to that of neutral indigo. Femtosecond spectroscopy shows that the S(1) state decays on a 1.4 ps times...