The voltammetric behaviour of cyproterone acetate (CPA) was studied using direct current (DCt) and differential pulse polarography (DPP). The drug manifests cathodic waves over the pH range of 4-11.8. In Britton-Robinson buffer (BRb) of pH 10, the diffusion current-concentration relationship was found to be rectilinear over the range 3.2-32 μg/mL and 0.5-14 μg/mL using DCt and DPP modes, respec...

Since 1998, StackGuard patches to GCC have been used to protect entire distributions from stack smashing buffer overflows. Performance overhead and software compatibility issues have been minimal. In its history, the parts of GCC that StackGuard has operated in have twice changed enough to require complete overhauls of the StackGuard patch. Since StackGuard is a mature technology, even seeing r...

A novel CMOS operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) is presented, using a fully differential singlestage core OTA as input stage and a differential to single current converter as output stage, each biased at a separate current level. A large gain-bandwidth (GBW) product (2.7 MHz) and a high slew-rate (5 V//.LS) can be obtained by applying a large bias current to the core OTA. Due to the c...

Climate models predict a multi-degree warming of the North Atlantic in the 21st century. A research priority is to understand the effect of such changes upon marine organisms. With 40 to 80 million individuals, planktivorous little auks Alle alle are an essential component of pelagic food webs in this region that is potentially highly susceptible to climatic effects. Using an integrative study ...

Poly (acridine red) modified glassy carbon electrode was used for the detection of dopamine in the presence of ascorbic acid in a pH 7.4 phosphate buffer solutions (PBS) by cyclic voltammetry and differential pulse voltammetry. The major difficulty of the overlapped oxidation potential of ascorbic acid could be overcome through the distinct attractive ability of poly (acridine red) film to cati...

HAL25 is a mixed low noise, low power consumption and radiation hardened ASIC intended for the Silicon Strip Detectors (SSD) read out in the ALICE tracker. It is designed in a 0.25 micron CMOS process. It contains 128 analogue channels, consisting each of a preamplifier, a shaper and a storage capacitor. The analogue data is sampled by an external logic signal and then is serially read out thro...

An improvement of selectivity for electrochemical detection of dopamine (DA) with differential pulse voltammetry is achieved by covalently modifying a glassy carbon electrode (GCE) with O-carboxymethylchitosan (OCMCS). The amphiphilic chitosan provides electrostatic accumulation of DA onto the electrode surface. In a phosphate buffer solution (pH 6.0), a pair of well-defined reversible redox wa...

In this paper, the focus is on a new kind of biodegradable semi-interpenetrating polymer networks, which derived from ɛ-caprolactone, lactide, 1,4-butane diisocyanate and ethylenediamine and also its potential has been investigated in soft tissue engineering applications. The polymers were characterized by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometry, fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (F...