UNLABELLED The aim of this work was to develop a selective method for quantification of Sn(II) and Sn(IV) in dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA), ethylcysteinate dimer (ECD), methylenediphosphonic acid (MDP), and pyrophosphate radiopharmaceutical cold kits by differential pulse polarography. METHODS A dripping mercury electrode 150 polarographic/stripping analyzer with a conventional 3-electrode c...

and a method A of summability by means of which a given sequence Su S2, • • • is summable to <r as w—»oo. If a sequence sn is summable A, we say that A {sn} exists and that sn belongs to the summability field of A. If sn is summable A to <r, we say that A {sn} = <r. The method A is regular if A {sn} = lim sn whene...

The action of the symmetric group Sn on the set Parkn of parking functions of size n has received a great deal of attention in algebraic combinatorics. We prove that the action of Sn on Parkn extends to an action of Sn+1. More precisely, we construct a graded Sn+1-module Vn such that the restriction of Vn to Sn is isomorphic to Parkn. We describe the Sn-Frobenius characters of the module Vn in ...

The difference in clinical features and treatment outcomes between localized sinonasal diffuse large B cell lymphoma (SN-DLBCL) and sinonasal extranodal NK/T cell lymphoma (SN-ENKTL) is unclear. Therefore, we analyzed a total of 47 patients with localized SN-DLBCL and 211 patients with localized SN-ENKTL. The age distribution for these two subtypes is very distinct and the B symptoms were more ...

Euphorbia macrostegia or Persian wood spurge is one of the seventeen endemic plants of this genus in Iran. Three triterpenoids: 24-methylenecycloartan-3β-ol (1), butyrospermol (2) and cycloartenol (3) and three diglycerides: 1,2-di-O-α-linolenoyl-sn-glycerol (4), 1-O-linoleoyl-3-O-palmitoyl-sn-glycerol (5) and 1-O-α-linolenoyl-2-O-palmitoyl-sn-glycerol (6) were isolated from a hexane layer of m...

In the centrosymmetric tetra-nuclear title compound, [Sn(4)(C(4)H(9))(8)(C(7)H(5)O(3))(4)O(2)], one of the two independent Sn atoms is five-coordinate in a cis-C(2)SnO(3) trigonal-bipyramidal geometry [C-Sn-C = 142.7 (1)°]; the geometry is distorted owing to a long Sn⋯O(double bond) inter-action [Sn⋯O = 2.862 (1) Å]. The other Sn atom has a bent R(2)Sn skeleton [C-Sn-C = 144.0 (1)°], but the ge...

Room temperature stabilization of up to 3.5 ML epitaxial metastable a-Sn at the Si(1 1 1)-(7 7) surface is reported. The a-Sn layers remain stabilized at the interface even after the deposition of thick Sn layers that undergo the a-Sn ! b-Sn transformation. Additionally, a small decrease in the s-electron density at the Sn nucleus is found for submonolayer of Sn at the Sn/Si(1 1 1)-(7 7) interf...

Synthetic spectra generated with the parameterized supernova syntheticspectrum code SYNOW are compared to spectra of the unusual Type Ib supernova 2005bf. We confirm the discovery by Folatelli et al. (2006) that very early spectra (∼30 days before maximum light) contain both photospheric-velocity (∼8000 km s) features of He I, Ca II, and Fe II, and detached high-velocity (∼14,000 km s) features...

Nucleoside analog-associated sensory neuropathy (NRTI-SN) attributed to stavudine, didanosine, or zalcitabine (the dNRTIs) and distal sensory polyneuropathy (DSP) attributed to HIV are clinically indistinguishable. As inflammatory cytokines are involved in DSP, we addressed a role for inflammation in NRTI-SN by determining the alleles of immune-related genes carried by patients with and without...

Introduction: Hyperechogenicity of the substantia nigra (SN+) is a risk marker for Parkinson's disease (PD) which can be detected before the diagnosis. In healthy individuals, SN+ has been associated with slight deficits in specific cognitive functions, suggesting cognitive impairment as a possible pre-diagnostic marker for PD. However, the pattern of cognitive deficits associated with SN+ has ...