...................................................................................................................... iii CHAPTER 1: BACKGROUND OF QUANTUM DOTS...................................................1 1.1 What Are Quantum Dots ................................................................................1 1.2 Fluorescence and Fluorescence Sensing......................................

Nearly 1% of the patients registered under RNTCP are put on non-DOTS regimens. Understanding the reasons for initiation of non- DOTS and its treatment outcome is one of the priority areas on the research agenda of RNTCP. In phase I the data of patients put on non DOTS at two TUs under Yavatmal DTC from April 2005 to March 2007 was collected from TB registers and treatment cards. In Phase II the...

A novel report on microwave assisted synthesis of bright carbon dots (C-dots) using gum arabic (GA) and its use as molecular vehicle to ferry ciprofloxacin hydrochloride, a broad spectrum antibiotic, is reported in the present work. Density gradient centrifugation (DGC) was used to separate different types of C-dots. After careful analysis of the fractions obtained after centrifugation, ciprofl...

Several experiments were conducted to investigate the role of speed in global-motion processing; the extraction of the direction of motion of a small subset of coherently-moving (signal) dots in a stimulus in which the other (noise) dots move in random directions. The specific aim of the experiments was to determine whether multiple speed-tuned global-motion systems exist. The results of these ...

OBJECTIVE To describe the implantation and the effects of directly-observed treatment short course (DOTS) in primary health care units. METHODS Interviews were held with the staff of nine municipal health care units (MHU) that provided DOTS in Rio de Janeiro City, Southeastern Brazil, in 2004-2005. A dataset with records of all tuberculosis treatments beginning in 2004 in all municipal health...

BACKGROUND Tuberculosis is curable, but community surveys documenting epidemiological impact of the WHO-recommended DOTS strategy on tuberculosis prevalence have not been published. We used active community surveillance to compare the impact of DOTS with earlier programmes. METHODS We conducted tuberculosis disease surveys using random cluster sampling of a rural population in South India app...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to elucidate the mechanism of natural uptake of nonfunctionalized quantum dots in comparison with microinjected quantum dots by focusing on their time-dependent accumulation and intracellular localization in different cell lines. METHODS The accumulation dynamics of nontargeted CdSe/ZnS carboxyl-coated quantum dots (emission peak 625 nm) was analyzed i...

The comparison of growth processes and fluorescent properties of CdZnTe semiconductor quantum dots that are synthesized in different concentrations of Zn2+ in water are discussed in this paper. The samples are characterized through absorbtion (UV) and photoluminescence spectra (PL). The results show that when the reaction time is prolonged, the absorption peak and fluorescent emission peak pres...

Let $G$ be a graph with $p$ vertices and $q$ edges. The graph $G$ is said to be a super pair sum labeling if there exists a bijection $f$ from $V(G)cup E(G)$ to ${0, pm 1, pm2, dots, pm (frac{p+q-1}{2})}$ when $p+q$ is odd and from $V(G)cup E(G)$ to ${pm 1, pm 2, dots, pm (frac{p+q}{2})}$ when $p+q$ is even such that $f(uv)=f(u)+f(v).$ A graph that admits a super pair sum labeling is called a {...

The comparison of growth processes and fluorescent properties of CdZnTe semiconductor quantum dots that are synthesized in different concentrations of Zn2+ in water are discussed in this paper. The samples are characterized through absorbtion (UV) and photoluminescence spectra (PL). The results show that when the reaction time is prolonged, the absorption peak and fluorescent emission peak pres...