BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to evaluate the antimalarial effects of Iranian flora Artemisia khorassanica against Plasmodium bergheiin vivo and pharmacochemistry of its natural components. METHODS The aerial parts of Iranian flora A. khorasanica were collected at flowering stage from Khorassan Province, northeastern Iran in 2008. They were air-dried at room temperature; powder was mac...

Candida tropicalis ATCC 20336 excretes , -dicarboxylic acids as a by-product when cultured on n-alkanes or fatty acids as the carbon source. Previously, a -oxidation-blocked derivative of ATCC 20336 was constructed which showed a dramatic increase in the production of dicarboxylic acids. This paper describes the next steps in strain improvement, which were directed toward the isolation and char...

The electrochemical deposition of Au onto Au substrates modified by self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) was studied by linear sweep voltammetry (LSV), atomic force microscopy (AFM) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Patterned SAMs exhibiting electrochemical contrast were prepared by two different methods. One used microcontact printing (CP) to generate a binary SAM of -(4'-methyl-biphenyl-4...

Phytolacca octandra is a perennial usually about 1m high herb, dense and erect in full sun. As only few reports were available on the studies bioactive compounds various activities octandra, present study focuses bio active attributed to antibacterial activity plant extracts by Gas Chromatography – Mass Spectrometry (GCMS) molecular docking methods. Antibacterial of showed maximum inhibitory zo...

Due to the tremendous increase in population and emerging energy crisis, surging demand for thermal management of buildings has become essential. Thermal is high importance maintaining optimum comfort controlling drastic environmental impacts. To avoid consumption strategies continuous operation such as active air heaters conditioners, passive driven by phase change material-based storage are e...

In order to investigate the control mechanism of composite phase change materials (PCM), a series nano-phase emulsion (NPCE) were prepared in this paper with high thermal conductivity, heat storage and low supercooling using hexadecane, octadecane, hexadecanol, octadecanol various metal nano-particles. Through mechanism, it is expected adjust transition range NPCE desirable range. The NPCEs cha...

For a multi-component hydrocarbon mixture under supercritical conditions, especially for fuels injected into compression ignition engines, the mechanism transition of dominant mixing mode from evaporation to diffusion is not well established. In this paper, processes six-component fuel (13.16 mol% toluene, 13.81 n-decane, 22.30 n-dodecane, 24.60 n-tetradecane, 14.66 n-hexadecane and 11.47 n-oct...

The pheromone biosynthetic pathway for production of the sex pheromone disparlure, 2-methyl-7R,8S-epoxy-octadecane, was determined for the gypsy moth. Each step in the pathway was followed by using deuterium-labeled compounds that could be identified by using GCMS. This approach provides unequivocal determination of specific reactions in the pathway. It was shown that the alkene precursor, 2-me...