An international collaborative study involving 14 collaborators from 5 different countries was conducted to test a rapid liquid chromatographic (LC) method for detecting aflatoxins M1 and M2 in fluid milk. Each collaborator prepared artificially contaminated milk samples (0.078-1.31 ng M1/mL and 0.030-0.13 ng M2/mL) by adding solutions containing various concentrations of aflatoxins M1 and M2 t...

Hippocampal correlation coding is a putative neural mechanism underlying episodic memory. In this thesis, we look at two related phenomena: phase precession and reverse replay of behavioral sequences. Phase precession refers to the decrease of the firing phase of a place cell with respect to the local theta rhythm during the crossing of the place field. Reverse replay refers to reactivation of ...

The Raman spectrum of cyclosporin-A has been recorded in the solid phase. The conformation of the molecule has been discussed on the basis of Raman data. It has been concluded that in agreement with X-ray data, cyclosporin-A molecule has an antiparallel P- pleated sheet conformation. It may have some reverse P- turn structure in what has been assigned to a random coil conformation.

We present analytic calculations of synchrotron radiation from the forward and the reverse shock of gamma-ray burst blast waves, in the thick-shell scenario (i.e. when the reverse shock is relativistic). We show that this scenario can naturally account for the plateau phase, observed early in the afterglows of about half the bursts detected by Swift. We generalize our approach to include power-...