The relation between intragastric acidity and duodenal ulcer activity was studied prospectively in 21 patients with endoscopically proved duodenal ulcers. The 24 hour intragastric acidity was measured on four separate occasions by continuous recording using combined glass electrodes: (a) in the presence of an ulcer crater without treatment; (b) during active ulceration being treated with raniti...

Catalytic transformation of 1,2,4-trimethyl benzene has been investigated over two different USY zeolite based catalysts in a novel riser simulator at different operating conditions. FCC-SY catalyst has low acidity and FCC-CY contains high acidity. The effect of reaction conditions on the variation of isomerization to disproportionation products ratio (I/D), distribution of trimethylbenzene (TM...

Cross-metathesis involving N-heteroaromatic olefinic derivatives is disclosed. The introduction of an appropriate substituent on the heteroaromatic ring decreases the Lewis basicity of the nitrogen atom, thus preventing the deactivation of the ruthenium-centered catalyst. The reaction is quite general in terms of both N-heterocycles and olefinic partners.

The N-heterocyclic olefin, IPr=CH(2) (IPr = [(HCNDipp)(2)C], Dipp = 2,6-(i)Pr(2)C(6)H(3)) has been demonstrated to be of sufficient Lewis basicity to stabilize main group hydrides in unusually low oxidation states.

BACKGROUND Faba bean is an important starch-based protein crop produced worldwide. Soil acidity and aluminium toxicity are major abiotic stresses affecting its production, so in regions where soil acidity is a problem, there is a gap between the potential and actual productivity of the crop. Hence, we set out to evaluate acidity and aluminium tolerance in a range of faba bean germplasm using so...

We consider a perturbed system of exponents { en } n∈Z, when the sequence {λn }n∈Z has a definite asymptotics. We study basis properties (completeness, minimality, basicity) of this system in Lebesgue space of functions Lp(·) (−π, π) with variable summability exponent p(·), subject to parameters contained in the asymptotics {λn}n∈Z.

The very large cells of the marine green alga Valonia macrophysa permit one to obtain several cubic centimeters of fluid from the central vacuole of a single cell (cf. Wodehouse, 1917), without involving appreciable alteration in the composition of the cell-sap through protoplasmic 'injury during the process of extraction (cf. Chambers, 1917). Estimations have been made of the acidity of this c...