The crystal structure of compound (1), [CuCl(phen)(H₂NCH₂COO)]∙4H₂O, reveals an unusual hydrogen-bond water cluster aggregate T6(2)6(2). Four water molecules in (1) form an isolated water cluster, [(H₂O)14]n, resembling a "phenanthro-[1,2]phenanthrene polymer structure shape" along the ac plane. The two face-face parallel [(H₂O)14]n planes are bridged by Cl atoms in [CuCl(phen) (H₂NCH₂COO)] wit...

Samples of water, sediment and shrimp obtained from hatcheries and culture ponds were collected over a period of four months and were analyzed for Vibrio parahaemolyticus. Samples included the following: two samples of shrimp larva from two hatchery ponds (WLH); 14 samples of water, sediment and shrimp from 14 culture ponds supplied with shrimp larvae from the same hatchery ponds that were obta...

Complete List of Authors: Fuster, Daniel; CNRS, Institut D'Alembert Matas, Jean-Philippe; LEGI, Marty, Sylvain; LEGI, Popinet, Stéphane; NIWA (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research), PO Box 14-901 Kilbirnie; NIWA (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research), PO Box 14-901 Kilbirnie Hoepffner, Jerome; UPMC, Institut D'Alembert; Cartellier, Alain; LEGI, ; LEGI, B.P. 53 Za...

The identification of human artifacts at the early archaeological site of Monte Verde in southern Chile has raised questions of when and how people reached the tip of South America without leaving much other evidence in the New World. Remains of nine species of marine algae were recovered from hearths and other features at Monte Verde II, an upper occupational layer, and were directly dated bet...

Precise and direct dating of the Minoan eruption of Santorini (Thera) in Greece, a global Bronze Age time marker, has been made possible by the unique find of an olive tree, buried alive in life position by the tephra (pumice and ashes) on Santorini. We applied so-called radiocarbon wiggle-matching to a carbon-14 sequence of tree-ring segments to constrain the eruption date to the range 1627-16...

Objective: To evaluate the porosity of a tissue conditioner (Softone) and a temporary resilient liner (Trusoft) modified by minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) of antifungal agents for Candida albicans biofilm. Material and Methods: The porosity was measured by water absorption, based on exclusion of the plasticizer effect. Initially, it was determined by sorption isotherms that the adeq...