Contamination of surface waters with pathogens as well all diseases associated such events are a significant concern worldwide. In recent decades, there has been growing interest in developing analytical methods good performance for the detection this category contaminants. The most important applied determination bacteria traditional ones (such bacterial culturing methods, enzyme-linked immuno...

The analytical performance of non-chromatographic coupled hydride generation, integrated atom trap (HG–IAT) atomizer flame absorption spectrometry (FAAS) systems were evaluated for the determination of total mercury in environmental samples. Mercury, using formation of mercury vapors were atomized in air-acetylene flame-heated IAT. A new design of vapor generation integrated atom trap flame ato...

PURPOSE The author sought to integrate an ontology of rare diseases with a large ontological model of radiological diagnosis. MATERIALS AND METHODS The Orphanet Rare Disease Ontology (ORDO) comprised 6794 rare diseases. The Radiology Gamuts Ontology (RGO) incorporated 16 197 terms and 53,425 causal relations linking disorders to imaging manifestations. Semi-automated string-matching was used ...

The development during the last 15 years and the state-of-the-art in the analysis of bulk steroid hormone drugs and hormone-like structures and pharmaceutical formulations made thereof are summarized. Other steroids (sterols, bile acids, cardiac glycosides, vitamins D) as well as biological-clinical aspects and pharmacokinetic and metabolic studies are excluded from this review. The state-of-th...

Developing a pharmaceutical product has become increasingly difficult and expensive. With an emphasis on developing project knowledge at an earlier stage in development, the use of information-rich technologies (particularly MS) has continued to expand throughout product development. Continued improvements in LC/MS technology have widened the scope of utilizing MS methods for performing both qu...

Setting appropriate bin sizes to aggregate hyphenated high-resolution mass spectrometry data, belonging to similar mass over charge (m/z) channels, is vital to metabolite quantification and further identification. In a high-resolution mass spectrometer when mass accuracy (ppm) varies as a function of molecular mass, which usually is the case while reading m/z from low to high values, it becomes...

The analytical performances of coupled hydride generation, integrated atom trap (HG-IAT) atomizer flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS) systems were evaluated for determination of As and Se in biological and environmental reference materials. Arsenic and Se hydrides are atomized in air-acetylene flame-heated IAT. A new design of HG-IAT-FAAS hyphenated technique that would exceed the opera...

Ferrate(VI) is a green and efficient water treatment agent for drinking wastewater. It widely used in because it has multi-functional uses such as oxidation, algae removal, disinfection, adsorption flocculation. does not cause secondary pollution to the environment. This paper compares ferrate(VI) with other agents discusses three methods of preparing ferrate(VI). The adsorption, control organi...

Recently the number of studies investigating triterpenoid saponins has drastically increased due to their diverse and potentially attractive biological activities. Currently the literature contains chemical structures of few hundreds of triterpenoid saponins of plant and animal origin. Triterpenoid saponins consist of a triterpene aglycone with one or more sugar moieties attached to it. However...