−− The interactions between Bovine Serum Albumin (BSA) and three flavonols, galangin, kaempferol and quercetin were studied by means of fluorescence spectroscopy. The fluorescence intensity of BSA exhibits remarkable decrease along with appreciable blue-shift of its maximum emission wavelength upon addition of the three compounds, respectively. The respective binding constant Kα and number of b...

Modelling studies are presented of positive streamers developing at various pressures in air in a point-to-plane discharge geometry. The modelling results emphasize that the quenching of the singlet excited states of molecular nitrogen emitting photoionizing radiation is responsible for non-similar behaviour of streamers at pressures higher than approximately 30 Torr. Our modelling results are ...

Medium modification of jet fragmentation function due to multiple scattering and induced gluon radiation leads directly to jet quenching or suppression of leading particle distribution from jet fragmentation. One can extract an effective total parton energy loss which can be related to the total transverse momentum broadening. For an expanding medium, both are shown to be sensitive to the initi...

aqueous polymer quenchants are being used increasingly in steel heat treatment industries as a substitution for conventional quenchants. by adjusting the quench parameters of the polymeric media, it is possible to achieve desirable microstructure and mechanical properties in addition to reduction in distortion and cracking. in this work, polyalkylene glycol (pag) aqueous solution was used as th...

Despite the potential devastating health consequences of intense total-body irradiation, and the decades of research, there still remains a dearth of safe and effective radiation countermeasures for emergency, radiological/nuclear contingencies that have been fully approved and sanctioned for use by the US FDA. Vitamin E is a well-known antioxidant, effective in scavenging free radicals generat...

Emiliania huxleyi, the most abundant coccolithophorid in the oceans, is naturally exposed to solar UV radiation (UVR, 280-400 nm) in addition to photosynthetically active radiation (PAR). We investigated the physiological responses of E. huxleyi to the present day and elevated CO2 (390 vs 1000 μatm; with pH(NBS) 8.20 vs 7.86) under indoor constant PAR and fluctuating solar radiation with or wit...

Consider the parabolic problem u t div (a(u;ru)ru) = u p (1) for t > 0, x 2 R n under initial and boundary conditions u = 1, say. Since p is assumed positive, the right hand side becomes singular as u ! 0. When u reaches zero in nite or in nite time, one says that the solution quenches in nite or in nite time. This article gives a survey of results on this kind of problem and emphasizes those t...

A study of label-free silicon nitride asymmetric double-microring resonators is presented. The use highly accurate 3D vector modal techniques permits an extensive exploration the parameter space defining architecture proposed device in search for optimal geometries and reaching configurations not addressed previous studies that had been limited to symmetrical configurations. Asymmetry, on other...

radio-protectors are agents that protect human cells and tissues from undesirable effects of ionizing radiation by mainly scavenging radiation-induced free radicals. although chemical radio-protectors diminish these deleterious side effects they induce a number of unwanted effects on humans such as blood pressure modifications, vomiting, nausea, and both local and generalized cutaneous reaction...

In the present work, the interaction ofFe3O4@CaAl LDH@ Lamivudine with human serum albumin (HSA) was investigated by applying UV–vis and fluorescence spectra. The nanocomposite was quenching the natural fluorescence of HSA, which was indicated the static quenching mechanism. The consequences demonstrated that this nanocomposite can strongly bind to HSA molecules. According to fluorescence quenc...