Cytokinin-like activity in samples of xylem and phloem sap collected from field-grown plants of white lupin (Lupinus albus L.) over a period of 9 to 24 weeks after sowing was measured using the soybean hypocotyl callus bioassay following paper chromatographic separation. The phloem sap was collected from shallow incisions made at the base of the stem, the base of the inflorescence (e.g. stem to...

Group contribution methods, such as UNIFAC or ASOG can be successfully applied to the prediction of the real behavior of non electrolyte mixtures. Therefore these methods are used worldwide in the different process simulators for the synthesis and design of separation processes. Since the well known group contribution methods still show some weaknesses a modified version of the UNIFAC method ha...

Overview In free-surface flows the turbulence in the liquid may be sufficient to disturb the surface to the point of entraining air into the flow. This process is important, for example, in water treatment where air is needed to sustain microorganisms for water purification and in rivers and streams for sustaining a healthy fish population. Air entrainment is typically engineered into spillways...

A gas chromatographic technique with flame ionization detection, which is based on a solid-phase extraction (SPE) procedure using mixed-mode SPE columns, for the simultaneous quantitation of dextropropoxyphene and norpropoxyphene in urine is presented. Urine is treated with sodium hydroxide in order to rearrange, by base catalysis, norpropoxyphene to norpropoxyphene amide, which is then extract...

Triamterene, a diuretic drug used in combination with other drugs for the treatment of hypertension, was found in the blood and urine of a fatal aircraft accident victim. The extraction and identification of triamterene is difficult. It exhibits poor extraction efficiency using some standard base-extraction procedures, and the parent drug is unsuitable for analysis using gas chromatography. In ...

The MicroBooNE detector, to be located on axis in the Booster Neutrino Beamline (BNB) at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), consists of two main components: a large liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC), and a light collection system. Thirty 8inch diameter Hamamatsu R5912-02mod cryogenic photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) will detect the scintillation light generated in the...

Differential pulse voltammetry (DPV) and adsorptive stripping voltammetry (AdSV) at a hanging mercury drop electrode (HMDE) was used for the determination of trace amounts of carcinogenic nitrobiphenyls, namely 2-nitrobiphenyl (2-NBP), 3nitrobiphenyl (3-NBP) and 4-nitrobiphenyl (4-NBP) within the concentration range from 2.10 to 1.10 mol⋅L for DPV and from 2.10 to 1.10 mol⋅L for AdSV using a Br...

Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry is one of the most powerful methods for the identification and detection of chemical structures of lipids. In this study, we attempted to identify the chemical structures of glucosylceramides from maize, rice, mushroom (maitake) and sea cucumber by liquid chromatography-ion trap mass spectrometry. For structural analysis of glucosylceramides, [M+H]+, [M+H...

− In this paper we constructed the Decision Support System (DSS) for liquid cargo tankers based on the International Ship Management Code (ISM Code). To make this system, we first organized a base of expert knowledge concerning liquid tanker operations that largely affect ocean accidents. Based on this expert knowledge, we constructed the decision support system that provides a code of conduct ...

Diatomic Hypothesis and Calculation of Condensation Force Author: Zeljko Prebeg Lermanova 12a, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia [email protected] Abstract: The concept of a molecular pair as the base of organization for matter successfully describes the polymerization phenomena. For this reason, a diatomic hypothesis is hereto postulated. According to the diatomic hypothesis, matter is organized in ...