A water-soluble doubly N-confused hexaphyrin (N(2)CH) having two octa-arginine peptide arms displays an enhanced near-infrared (NIR) emission around 1050 nm in the presence of Zn(2+) in aqueous solution.

Many human degenerative diseases involve free radical processes that nutritional antioxidants may ameliorate or prevent, but the optimum intake of such nutrients has yet to be established. Requirement will depend in part on the level of exposure to exogenous and endogenous reactive oxygen species. Smokers incur a sustained degree of oxidant stress from both of these sources, increasing their re...

In this paper, the equiaxed superfine/nanocrystalline duplex PM-TiAl-based alloy with (γ + α₂) microstructure, Ti-45Al-5Nb (at %), has been synthesized by high-energy ball milling and vacuum hot pressing sintering. Superplastic deformation behavior has been investigated at 1000 °C and 1050 °C with strain rates from 5 × 10-5 s-1 to 1 × 10-3 s-1. The effects of deformation on the microstructure a...

It is known that immobilization of the rat hindlimb by plaster casting leads to muscle atrophy and loss of muscle protein. In the present study, immobilization of the rat hindlimb for 6 h resulted in a significant 27% decrease in the absolute rate of cytochrome c synthesis in the red quadriceps muscle, without any change in the relative amount of cytochrome c mRNA. Cytochrome c mRNA in normal r...

Hyperspectral remote sensing has demonstrated great potential for accurate retrieval of canopy water content (CWC). This CWC is defined by the product of the leaf equivalent water thickness (EWT) and the leaf area index (LAI). In this paper, in particular the spectral information provided by the canopy water absorption feature at 970 nm for estimating and predicting CWC was studied using a mode...

The ultrafine grained (UFGed) 1050 Al plates with a thickness of 2 mm, which were produced by the accumulative roll bonding technique after five cycles, were friction stir butt welded to 2 mm thick 6061-T6 Al alloy plates at a different revolutionary pitch that varied from 0.5 to 1.25 mm/rev. In the stir zone, the initial nano-sized lamellar structure of the UFGed 1050 Al alloy plate transforme...

ions for Context-aware Object References Tom Van Cutsem∗ Jessie Dedecker∗ Stijn Mostinckx† Wolfgang De Meuter Programming Technology Lab Vrije Universiteit Brussel Pleinlaan 2 1050 Brussels Belgium {tvcutsem,jededeck,smostinc,wdmeuter}@vub.ac.be

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