Ochratoxin A (OTA) is one of the main mycotoxins that can be found in food. The use of gamma radiation is a technique for preserving food that may exert some effects on mycotoxins. OTA was irradiated in its dry form, in aqueous and in methanolic solutions, and in wheat flour, grape juice and wine. Additionally, the toxicity of OTA irradiated in water was tested. In aqueous solutions, more than ...

Combination of chemotherapy and radiotherapy is used to enhance local drug delivery while reducing off-target tissue effects. Anticancer drug doxorubicin (DOX) is loaded into l-cysteine modified G4.5 dendrimer (GC/DOX) and released at different pH values in the presence and absence of γ-radiation. Presence of γ-radiation significantly improves DOX release from the GC/DOX under acidic pH conditi...

We present a simple example of toughening mechanism in the homogenization of composites with soft inclusions, produced by crack deflection at microscopic level. We show that the mechanism is connected to the irreversibility of the crack process. Because of that it cannot be detected through the standard homogenization tool of the Γ-convergence.

Structure formation in the intergalactic medium (IGM) produces large-scale, collisionless shock waves, where electrons can be accelerated to highly relativistic energies. Such electrons can Compton scatter cosmic microwave background photons up to γ-ray energies. We study the radiation emitted in this process using a hydrodynamic cosmological simulation of a ΛCDM universe. The resulting radiati...

We prove the Γ-convergence of the one-dimensional Allen-Cahn action functional in the sharp-interface limit. In previous work, a good lower bound was developed under the assumption of single multiplicity, but the bound deteriorated in the case of higher multiplicity interfaces. We develop an improved bound by working directly with the limiting energy measures.

We characterize the macroscopic effective mechanical behavior of a graphene sheet modeled by a hexagonal lattice with twoand three-point atomic interactions, using Γ-convergence.

We prove that the family of functionals (Iδ) defined by Iδ(g) = ∫∫ RN×RN |g(x)−g(y)|>δ δ |x− y|N+p dx dy, ∀ g ∈ L(R ), for p ≥ 1 and δ > 0, Γ-converges in L(R ), as δ goes to 0, when p ≥ 1. Hereafter | | denotes the Euclidean norm of R . We also introduce a characterization for BV functions which has some advantages in comparison with the classic one based on the notion of essential variation o...

We study homogenization by Γ-convergence, with respect to the L1-strong convergence, of periodic multiple integrals in W 1,∞ when the integrand can take infinite values outside of a convex bounded open set of matrices.

We consider a sequence of linear Dirichlet problems as follows