the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of additives, poly(ethylene glycol) (peg) 1450, poloxamer 407, polyvinyl alcohol (pva) and sodium chloride in order to improve physico-chemical characteristics, encapsulation efficiency and in vitro release of bovine serum albumin, form poly(d,l-lactic-co-glycolic acid) (plga) microparticles prepared by the w/o/w solvent evaporation method...

Poly[tris-(acetato-κ(2) O,O')(μ2-acetato-κ(3) O,O':O)tetra-kis-(μ3-acetato-κ(4) O,O':O:O')bis-(benzene-1,2-di-amine-κN)tetra-lead(II)], [Pb4(CH3COO)8(C6H8N2)2] n , (I), poly[(acetato-κ(2) O,O')(μ3-acetato-κ(4) O,O':O:O')(4-chloro-benzene-1,2-diamine-κN)lead(II)], [Pb(CH3COO)2(C6H7ClN2)] n , (II), and poly[(κ(2) O,O')(μ3-acetato-κ(4) O,O':O:O')(3,4-di-amino-benzo-nitrile-κN)lead(II)], [Pb(CH3COO...

In this paper we present a parameterized algorithm that solves the Convex Recoloring problem for trees in O(256k ∗ poly(n)). This improves the currently best upper bound of O(k(k/ log k)k ∗ poly(n)) achieved by Moran and Snir. © 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

We study two variants of seeded randomness extractors. The first one, as studied by Goldreich et al. [8], is seeded extractors that can be computed by AC circuits. The second one, as introduced by Bogdanov and Guo [3], is (strong) extractor families that consist of sparse transformations, i.e., functions that have a small number of overall input-output dependencies (called sparse extractor fami...

In the title compound, [Fe(C(12)H(6)O(4))](n), the Fe(II) atom is coordinated by six O atoms from six symmetrically equivalent naphthalene-1,4-dicarboxyl-ate ligands in a strongly distorted octa-hedral geometry. These octa-hedra are connected via common edges into chains that elongate along the a axis, with Fe⋯Fe distances of 2.9712 (4) and 2.9724 (4) Å. The chains are linked via the naphthalen...

In the title complex, [Zn(C₂O₄)(C₂H₆O₂)](n), the Zn(II) ion is in a distorted octa-hedral environment formed by two O atoms from an ethyl-ene glycol mol-ecule and four O atoms from two oxalate anions. The oxalate anions link the Zn(II) ions, forming a zigzag chain along [010]. The zigzag chains are extended into a three-dimensional network by O-H⋯O hydrogen bonds.

Core2 β-1,6-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase (C2GnT) forms an N-acetylglucosamine branch in the O-glycans (core2 O-glycans) of cell surface glycoproteins. We previously revealed that the expression of C2GnT is positively correlated with poor prognosis in prostate cancer patients. However, the detailed mechanisms underlying their poor prognosis remain unclear. In the current study, we report that...

We study the computational power of shallow quantum circuits with n input qubits, one output qubit, and two types of ancillary qubits: O(log n) initialized and O(poly(n)) uninitialized qubits. The initial state of the uninitialized ancillary qubits is arbitrary, and we have to return their state into the initial one at the end of the computation. First, to show the strengths of such circuits, w...