Inertness and the indiscriminate use of synthetic polymers leading to increased land and water pollution are of great concern. Plastic is the most useful synthetic polymer, employed in wide range of applications viz. the packaging industries, agriculture, household practices, etc. Unpredicted use of synthetic polymers is leading towards the accumulation of increased solid waste in the natural e...

P-5m, an octapeptide derived from domain 5 of HKa, was initially found to inhibit the invasion and migration of melanoma cells. The high metastatic potential of melanoma cells was prevented by the HGK motif in the P-5m peptide in vitro and in an experimental lung metastasis model, suggesting that P-5m may play an important role in the regulation of tumor metastasis. The aim of this study was to...

Photolysis of [M(CO)6] (M /Cr, W) in CH2Cl2 at /78 8C generates [(CO)5M(CH2Cl2)]. Subsequent sequential reaction of [(CO)5M(CH2Cl2)] with terminal alkynes, HC /CR (R /COOMe, Ph, p -Tol), and diazoalkanes, R (R)CN2 (R 1 /Me, Et, Ph; R2 /Me, Et) affords 3H -pyrazole complexes, [(CO)5M / N N C(R) C(H) C /(R)(R)]. These complexes are derived from addition of diazoalkanes to alkyne complex intermedi...

Little is known about metabolic activity of bacteria, when viscosity of their environment changes. In this work, bacterial metabolic activity in media with viscosity ranging from 0.8 to 29.4 mPas was studied. Viscosities up to 2.4 mPas did not affect metabolic activity of Vibrio ruber. On the other hand, at 29.4 mPas respiration rate and total dehydrogenase activity increased 8 and 4-fold, resp...

Dear editor,I read with interest article that published entitled *Isolation and identification of bioactive compound producing Rhodococcus spp. isolated from soil samples {IJMCM/5(1) (2015) 463-468}* [1]. Some of the genus such as Nocardia, Gordonia, Mycobacterium and Rhodococcus are in actinomycete family and they are Gram-positive and partially acid-fast. Rhodococcus species usually stain Gra...

Open-domain human-computer conversation has been attracting increasing attention over the past few years. However, there does not exist a standard automatic evaluation metric for open-domain dialog systems; researchers usually resort to human annotation for model evaluation, which is timeand labor-intensive. In this paper, we propose RUBER, a Referenced metric and Unreferenced metric Blended Ev...