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Non-heme Fe(II) proteins form stable nitrosyl adducts. However, there are few synthetic examples of structurally characterized non-heme iron nitrosyl complexes, especially those that are coordinatively unsaturated. Presented herein is a series of non-heme {Fe-NO}7 complexes with trigonal bipyramidal coordination geometry. These complexes were synthesized with tripodal ligands derived from tris(...

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In this paper, we make a short foray through coding standards for still images and motion video. We first briefly discuss standards already in use, including: Group 3 and Group 4 for bilevel fax images; JPEG for still color images; and H.261, H.263, MPEG-1, and MPEG-2 for motion video. We then cover newly emerging standards such as JBIG1 and JBIG2 for bilevel fax images, JPEG-2000 for still col...

Sleepers awake! The Y2K Problem may or may not be a technological disaster. But either way, the aftermath of the technological problems will be legal problems. Litigation over who should have done what will include damage claims for failures of software and liability for failure to prepare. The legal problems will be a disaster costing potentially trillions of dollars. Once the frenzy of litiga...

Attention is directed to a number of principles that possibly can guide the on-going debates ongovernmental and administrative reform. The most important principles are the integrality ofpolitical decision-making at each self-governmental tier and territorial effectiveness ofinternalization of external effects, in particular the way hierarchy can be disaggregated. As theconcept ...

A system was designed for the continuous surface monitoring of hydrological, bio-optical, and biogeochemical properties in the vicinity of the Almeria-Oran jet-front system (Northwestern Mediterranean Sea). This system included a thermosalinograph, a fluorometer, an optical particle counter, and an absorbance-attenuance meter (AC9), allowing the estimation of the absorption [a(l), (m21)] and sc...

By factorial field experiments we analyzed the relative effects of increased nutrient (N1P) loading and natural grazing pressure on species composition, carbon storage, and nitrogen retention in the Baltic Sea littoral food web, composed of macroalgae, grazers (snails, isopods, amphipods), and predators (shrimps, crabs, fish). Nitrogen was depleted relative to phosphorus throughout most of the ...

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