introduction: the aim of this study was to in-vestigate the effect of irradiation duration and distance of light tip to prepared samples in two different light curing unites on the degree of conversion of resin composite. materials and methods: conventional halogen and blue light emitting diode (led) units were used for polymerization of an opalis resin com-posite. the conversion measurements w...

dosulepin and doxepin are tricyclic antidepressants. the molecular geometries, harmonic vibrational frequencies, quantum chemical parameters and thermodynamic properties of dosulepin and doxepin were calculated by generalized gradient approximation methods developed by perdew and wang (gga-pw91) and becke-lee-yang-parr (gga-blyp) in the gas phase and solution media. the local reactivity of thes...

background: the seminal plasma is an excellent source for noninvasive detection of spermatogenesis. the seminal plasma of normospermic and azoospermic men has been analyzed for detection of spermatogenesis. methods: optical spectroscopy (attenuated total reflectance-infrared spectroscopy (atr-ir) and fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ft-ir) has been used to analyze the seminal plasma and...

background and objective: multi-walled carbon nano tubes (mwcnts) as an important element of nanosciences have a remarkable absorption in the region of nir window (650-900 nm) which can overcome the limitations of deep treatment in photothermal therapy. to disperse mwcnts in water, it is proposed to attach carboxylated functional group (-cooh) to mwcnts in order to increase dispersivity in wate...

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The secondary structure and thermal stability of the extrinsic 23 kDa protein (OEC23) of spinach photosystem II have been characterized in solution between 25 and 75 degrees C using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. Quantitative analysis of the amide I band (1700-1600 cm(-1)) shows that OEC23 contains 5% alpha-helix, 37% beta-sheet, 24% turn, and 34% disorder structures at 25 degrees C. ...

This paper deals with the problem of tracking an object from a sequence of images captured from a camera moving towards the object. Many conventional image based trackers trace key reference points over an image sequence using simple correlation processes 1]. However, the presence of noise and the magniication of image features as the camera approaches the object may cause a tracked point to dr...

0. Abstract In this paper we propose a simple enhancing protocol for pulsed infrared thermography. The method is based on stimulating the specimen with two heating pulses separated by a short time interval delta. This approach was tested on several specimens of low and high thermal diffusivity and showed to provide higher thermal contrasts when an optimum interval delta is chosen. The observed ...

In open-path Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy, the generation of a suitable background single-beam spectrum is of major concern. The Shifting Method is a derivative-like approach to correct for the background without the need to actually measure a background spectrum using the sample single-beam spectrum. A thorough study of the Shifting Method was conducted. A set of guidelines was deve...

Measuring brain activity is at task generally left for EEG or fMRI. However, there is a lesser known imaging technique known as near infrared spectrophotometry, in which near infrared light is shown into the patients head to measure changes in oxygenation that directly relate to brain activity. This paper describes a low-cost, wireless, portable near infrared spectrophotometry system that is ab...