An alignable, liquid-crystalline fluorene fused-ring thienothiophene copolymer has been synthesized with electroluminescence peaking at 410 nm for deep blue, polarised emission in polymer light-emitting diodes, light-emitting transistors and photonic structures.

The coordination of 2-pyridyltetrazolate and ortho-xylene-linked bis(NHC)cyclophane to Pt(II) yielded a novel complex characterised by enhanced pure deep-blue emission, whose intensity can be modulated via methylation of the tetrazole ring.

The aim of the Gemini Deep Deep Survey is to push spectroscopic studies of complete galaxy samples (both red and blue objects) significantly beyond z = 1; this is the redshift where the current Hubble sequence of ellipticals and spirals is already extant. In the Universe at z = 2 the only currently spectroscopically confirmed galaxies are blue, star-forming and of fragmented morphology. Explori...

In nany la;.RuaRes (e.g. Latin, Greek, Russian, Turkish, German) the relationship cf a noun phrase to the rest of a sentence is indicated by altered forms of the noun. The possible relationships are ealleo (surface) "cases". Because (1) it is difficult to specify semantic-free selection rules for the cases, and (?) related phenomena based on prepositions or word order appear in apparently case-...

?Blue waffle,? or ?blue waffle disease,? is many things, but real is not one of them. It is an urban legend, a myth, a tall tale, a rumor, a hoax, etc. about a fictional sexually transmitted infection [2] (STI). If you do an image search, you?ll find (fake) pictures of blue waffle on the Internet. The blue refers to one of the alleged symptoms, which Reader #2 pointed out, and waffle is slang f...

There is a strong need for simple and fast methods for wound infection determination. Myeloperoxidase, an immune system-derived enzyme was found to be a suitable biomarker for wound infection. Hence, alkoxysilane-derivatized Fast Blue RR was immobilized via simple hydrolytic polymerization. The resulting enzyme-responsive siloxane layers were incubated with myeloperoxidase, wound fluid or hemog...

PURPOSE To report the clinical and histologic features of combined nevi of the conjunctiva, a type of nevus that is not uncommon in the skin but has rarely been reported in the conjunctiva. METHODS Conjunctival nevi and melanomas from the files of the University of California, San Francisco, eye pathology laboratory were reviewed from 1984 to 1999 for the presence of features of both standard...