A prospective survey was conducted on 862 Enterobacteriaceae isolates with reduced susceptibility to carbapenems. The Carba NP test, UV spectrophotometry, and a DNA microarray were used to detect carbapenemase producers, and the results were compared to those from PCR and sequencing. The 172 carbapenemase producers were detected using the Carba NP test and UV spectrophotometry, whereas the DNA ...

This is a review of analytical methods, such as spectrophotometry, derivative spectrophotometry and various chromatographic (gas chromatography-GC, high-performance liquid chromatography-HPLC, thin-layer chromatography-TLC, high-performance thin-layer chromatography-HPTLC, liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry-LC-MS, microchip electrophoresis-MCE, capillary electrophoresis-CE) and elec...

Measuring brain activity is at task generally left for EEG or fMRI. However, there is a lesser known imaging technique known as near infrared spectrophotometry, in which near infrared light is shown into the patients head to measure changes in oxygenation that directly relate to brain activity. This paper describes a low-cost, wireless, portable near infrared spectrophotometry system that is ab...

Chrysophanol (Chry, Figure 1), 1,8-dihydroxy-3methylanthraquinone, is a free anthraquinone compound and a secondary metabolite of medicinal plant rhubarb. Chry has been reported to have many pharmacological effects such as anti-inflammatory activity [1], anti-microbial activity [2] and anti-cancer action [3]. Therefore, the detection of Chry is quite important and interesting. Until now, variou...

We present moderate-resolution optical spectrophotometry of 36 red supergiants (RSGs) in the LMC and 39 RSGs in the SMC. Using the MARCS stellar atmosphere models to fit this spectrophotometry, we determine the reddenings, effective temperatures and other physical properties, such as bolometric luminosity and effective stellar radii, and compare these to stellar evolutionary models. Current add...

Measurements ~t 1.2, 1.~, and 2.2 μm have been combined with visual spectrophotometry o~ 21 quasai:s havmg. redshifts z ;:;: 2.66. T~e primary result of this study is that the rest frame vism~.l/ultravIC?let contmua of the high-redshift quasars are well described by a sum of a power-law contmuum with slope -.-0.~ ~nd a 3000 A bump. The rest frame visual/ultraviolet continua of these quasars are...

Thin films of indium doped zinc sulfide (ZnS) for different indium (In) concentrations (x=0.0 - 0.8) were deposited onto glass substrate by spray pyrolysis method at 523K temperature. Aqueous solution of zinc acetate, indium chloride and thiorea were used to deposit the In-Zn-S film. The deposited thin films were characterized by Energy dispersive X-ray (EDX), Scanning electron microscopy (SEM)...