In 1998, NASA launches EOS-AM1, the first of a series of the Earth Observing System (EOS) satellites. EOS will monitor the evolution of the state of the earth for 18 years, starting with the morning observations of EOS-AM1 (10:30 a.m. equatorial crossing time). An integrated view of the earth, as planned by EOS, is needed to study the interchange of energy, moisture, and carbon between the land...

Designer biosurfactants can be used to stabilise and functionalise interfaces. One particularly promising use is the stabilisation of oil-in-water emulsions, enabling fine tuning physical, chemical biological surface properties. The ability emulsion systems carry high payloads makes them attractive for applications in medicine, food fragrances, cosmetics. However, they have limited long-term st...

BACKGROUND Developing novel drugs from traditional medicinal knowledge can serve as a means to improve public health. Yet countries in sub-Saharan Africa face barriers in translating traditional medicinal knowledge into commercially viable health products. Barriers in moving along the road towards making a new drug available include insufficient manufacturing capacity; knowledge sharing between...

R ecent studies show that proton nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) imaging can detect myocardial ischemia and acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in animal models’-” and in humans.“m6 The area of AM1 appears as increased signal intensity on the spin-echo NMR images and most likely reflects the regional edema associated with tissue necrosis.’ Thus, the time course of regional edema and the evolutio...

The 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of azomethine ylides bearing the biologically active 1,4-dihydropiridine ring to C(60) was investigated by means of quantum mechanical calculations at the semiempirical AM1 and DFT (B3LYP/6-31G) methods. The presence of two chiral centers and one chiral axis in the resulting fulleropyrrolidines leads to four possible [6,6] cycloaddition products. Formation of atrop...

Helicoverpa armigera nucleopolyhedrovirus (HearNPV) is highly pathogenic to the cotton bollworm, H. armigera. There have been several attempts to develop in vitro production of this virus, including the selection of high producing cell line. In order to evaluate the potential of in vitro methods of producing this virus on a large-scale, the virus was propagated in the H. armigera (HAPO2) and H....

Adiabatic ionization energy (AIE) calculations were performed at the AM1, PM3, PM6, PDDG, HF/QZVP, and B3LYP/QZVP levels of theory on 722 atmospherically relevant organic compounds with available experimental kOH . From the starting set of molecules, a final suite of 114 monoand polyfunctionalized compounds provided converged neutral and cationic geometries without imaginary frequencies for all...

The aim of this study was to examine anatomical properties of the adductor magnus through a detailed classification, and to hypothesize its function and size to gather enough information about morphology. Ten cadaveric specimens of the adductor magnus were used. The muscle was separated into four portios (AM1-AM4) based on the courses of the corresponding perforating arteries, and its volume, m...