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It is well known that lead and cadmium can be determined with good sensitivity using anodic stripping voltammetry (ASV) and a mercury ®lm electrode. However, the mercury ®lm formation is poorly reproducible and cannot fully be removed electrochemically. We have evaluated procedures to improve the reproducibility and sensitivity of the ASV method and found that in the presence of thiocyanate the...

The instability behaviour of several supported liquid membranes (SLMs) has been studied for a system in which nitrate ions are removed from an aqueous feed phase and concentrated in a stripping phase. The composition of the aqueous phases and of the membrane liquid has been determined after the aqueous phases had flowed parallel to the membranes for a period of six days. From the experimental d...

Electron loss and capture processes arising in collisions of heavy low-charged ions with atoms and ions are the main charge-changing reactions in heavy-ion driven inertial fusion (HIDIF) [1]. However, at present time, virtually no experimental and theoretical data are available for removal processes involving fast heavy low-charged ions. In this work, the projectile-ionization (stripping) cross...

BACKGROUND The recovery of RNA from the upper epidermis by tape stripping yields variable RNA mass but has not been evaluated for its dependence on anatomical location. Gene expression at different body locations and the origin of RNA recovered by tape stripping have not been investigated. OBJECTIVES To characterize the recovery of RNA from different anatomical locations by tape stripping; to...

This paper describes a novel automatic skull-stripping method for premature infant data. A skull-stripping approach involves the removal of non-brain tissue from medical brain images. The new method reduces the image artefacts, generates binary masks and multiple thresholds, and extracts the region of interest. To define the outer boundary of the brain tissue, a binary mask is generated using m...

The transcription factor NF-κB is used in many systems for the transduction of extracellular signals into the expression of signal-responsive genes. Published structural data explain the activation of NF-κB through degradation of its dedicated inhibitor IκBα, but the mechanism by which NF-κB-mediated signaling is turned off by its removal from the DNA in the presence of newly synthesized IκBα (...

Synapse elimination in the adult central nervous system can be modelled by axotomy of spinal motoneurons which triggers removal of synapses from the cell surface of lesioned motoneurons by processes that remain elusive. Proposed candidate mechanisms are removal of synapses by reactive microglia and astrocytes, based on the remarkable activation of these cell types in the vicinity of motoneurons...