Pollen grains from grasses using the C3 and C4 photosynthetic pathways have distinct ranges of d C values that may be used to estimate their relative abundance in paleorecords. We evaluated a spooling-wire microcombustion device interfaced with an isotope-ratio mass spectrometer (SWiM-IRMS) for dC analysis of individual grass-pollen grains. Pollen from four C3 and four C4 grass species was isol...

The article draws our attention to studying the phenomenon of Russian Music Society (RMS) in Far-Eastern Republic (FER), one regions Russia history which is inscribed space musical culture. Exceeding boundaries Far Eastern regional studies, authors accentuate their on line succession allows them speak about as successor Imperial (IRMS) during period political modernization country provided tran...

Nonliving antiviral vaccines traditionally target proteins expressed at the surface of the virion with the hope of inducing neutralizing antibodies. Orthopoxviruses (OPVs), such as the human smallpox virus and the mouse-equivalent ectromelia virus (ECTV; an agent of mousepox), encode immune response modifiers (IRMs) that can increase virulence by decreasing the host immune response. We show tha...

The innate immune system critically shapes diabetogenic adaptive immunity during type 1 diabetes (T1D) pathogenesis. While the role of tissue-infiltrating monocyte-derived macrophages in T1D is well established, the role of their tissue-resident counterparts remains undefined. We now demonstrate that islet resident macrophages (IRMs) from non-autoimmune mice have an immunoregulatory phenotype a...

In this study, dC values of six cocaine samples were identified and classified using a single quadrupole mass spectrometer and an isotope ratio mass spectrometry (IRMS) as simultaneous gas chromatography detectors. Our instrument modification is simple to use and is useful (i) when the sample is of limited size or can only be injected once, (ii) to help identify peaks in a complicated IRMS chro...

Bacillus methylotrophicus strain L7, exhibited efficient heterotrophic nitrification-aerobic denitrification ability, with maximum NH(4)(+)-N and NO(2)(-)-N removal rate of 51.58 mg/L/d and 5.81 mg/L/d, respectively. Strain L7 showed different gaseous emitting patterns from those strains ever described. When (15)NH(4)Cl, or Na(15)NO(2), or K(15)NO(3) was used, results of GC-MS indicated that N(...

Controls in food industry are fundamental to protect the consumer health. For products of high quality, warranty of origin and identity is required and analytical control is very important to prevent frauds. In this article, the "state of art" of mass spectrometry in enological chemistry as a consumer safety contribute is reported. Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC/MS) and liquid-chromat...

• Study on ceramic lipid residues from Swifterbant Culture in comparison to faunal data. Continuous freshwater fish processing as a primary function of vessels. Evidence for temporal changes the exploitation terrestrial food resources. The first direct evidence dairy This paper focuses functional analysis pottery (c. 5000–3800 cal BC) Lower Rhine-Meuse area (the Netherlands). It examines use ac...

A common method to estimate the carbon isotopic composition of soil-respired air is to use Keeling plots (delta(13)C versus 1/CO2 concentration). This approach requires the precise determination of both CO2 concentration ([CO2]), usually measured with an infrared gas analyser (IRGA) in the field, and the analysis of delta(13)C by isotope ratio mass spectrometry (IRMS) in the laboratory. We meas...

The use of isotope ratio infrared spectroscopy (IRIS) for the stable hydrogen and oxygen isotope analysis of water is increasing. While IRIS has many advantages over traditional isotope ratio mass spectrometry (IRMS), it may also be prone to errors that do not impact upon IRMS analyses. Of particular concern is the potential for contaminants in the water sample to interfere with the spectroscop...