The thermoacidophilic iron-oxidizing archaeon Acidianus brierleyi is a microorganism that could be useful in the removal of inorganic As from wastewater, because it simultaneously oxidizes As(III) and Fe(II) to As(V) and Fe(III) in an acidic culture medium, resulting in the immobilization of As(V) as FeAsO₄. To investigate the oxidation mechanism, speciation of the As species in both the cells ...

A novel ICP-OES method has been developed for the determination of Si concentration, originating from polyorganophosphosilanes, in biological specimens that also contain metal ions. The is free hazardous hydrofluoric acid (HF) and involves digestion with HNO3/H2O2 prior to analysis by ICP-OES. High reproducible spike recovery was obtained controls.

Particle beam/hollow cathode-optical emission spectroscopy (PB/HC-OES) is presented as a tool for the determination of metal ion loading in transferrin (Tf). The elemental specificity of optical emission spectroscopy provides a means of assessing metal ion concentrations as well as the relative amounts of metal per unit protein concentration (up to 2 moles of Fe per mole of protein). The PB/HC-...

CuInSe2 nanoparticles have been prepared by reacting cuprous chloride, indium chloride with alcohol and selenium powder. The nanoparticles were characterized by TEM, XRD, ICP-OES and SEM. The formation of CuInSe2 nanoparticles with different precursor ratios was investigated by in-situ high temperature X-ray diffraction analysis. It was found that the growth of CIS followed a vapor-liquid-solid...

The study monitored the effect of differentiated mineral nutrition microgreens species by solution sodium selenate (2 mg Se/L) on content Se, chlorophylls, and other minerals. Chlorophylls were measured spectrophotometrically, Se electrothermal atomic absorption method (ETAAS) with Zeeman-effect background elements’ concentration was performed a dual Inductively coupled plasma emission spectros...

BACKGROUND Elevated concentrations of LDL cholesterol are associated with the development of atherosclerosis and therefore are considered an important target for intervention to prevent cardiovascular diseases. The inhibition of cholesterol absorption in the small intestine is an attractive approach to lowering plasma cholesterol, one that is addressed by drug therapy as well as dietary supplem...

The theorem of equivalence between the Kirchhoff aperture integration (AI) and the physical-optics (PO) approach applied to the interior walls of a open-ended waveguide [1] is generalized in this letter to the case of any open-ended structure (OES).

Organizational environmental scanning (OES) and organizational information interpretation (OII) are two critical organizational information processing (OIP) activities, whose importance is only intensified with globalization, intense competition and dynamic environments. This paper proposes a theoretical model in which environmental uncertainty reduction and organizational equivocal resolution ...

Disadvantages of flame AA are that releasing agents or modifiers are necessary and careful control of the flame stoichiometry is important to overcome chemical interferences [1]. While the atomic absorption technique offers adequate performance, in most cases it is a single element technique and is therefore slow. Analysis of Blood Serum on the Liberty Series II ICP OES with the AxiallyViewed P...