The Journal of Applied Research on Children is brought to you for free and open access by CHILDREN AT RISK at DigitalCommons@The Texas Medical Center. It has a "cc by-nc-nd" Creative Commons license" (Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives) For more information, Introduction Over the past decade, employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) for children has dropped by 12% due to increasing health care...

Characterization of therapeutic proteins represents a major challenge for analytical sciences due to their heterogeneity caused by post-translational modifications (PTM). Among these PTM, glycosylation which is possibly the most prominent, require comprehensive identification because of their major influence on protein structure and effector functions of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs). As a conse...

Workstation supercomputers powered by the Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 5300 series enable users of ESI Group simulation-based design and optimization solutions to dramatically enhance engineering productivity and deliver higher quality designs in less time, while improving the cost-effectiveness and flexibility of the high performance computing (HPC) infrastructure. White Paper Quad-Core In...

BACKGROUND Anecdotal report suggests that provocation of pain during epidural steroid injection (ESI) that is concordant with typical radicular symptoms predicts pain outcome following injection. However, limited evidence exists that substantiates this theory. Additionally, there is a paucity of literature investigating factors associated with the provocation of pain during ESI. OBJECTIVES Th...

Changes in protein conformation are thought to alter charge state distributions observed in electrospray ionization mass spectra (ESI-MS) of proteins. In most cases, this has been demonstrated by unfolding proteins through acidification of the solution. This methodology changes the properties of the solvent so that changes in the ESI-MS charge envelopes from conformational changes are difficult...

We predict that electron attachment may be used with ESI-MS techniques to observe neutral Al metal aqua-oxo-hydroxo species and the complex polymerization and precipitation reactions in which they participate. Neutral aqueous metal species have, so far, been invisible to ESI-MS techniques.

Collision induced dissociation (CID) of the m/z 479 ion, formed by ESI of Co(NO3)2-CH3OH solutions with either pure (1S,2S)-(+)-N-methylpseudoephedrine or its mixtures with (1S,2R)-(+)- or (1R,2S)-(-)-ephedrine, provides compelling evidence for fast, stereoselective reactions in Co(II)/neurotrasmitter(s) aggregates during solvent evaporation of the ESI droplets.

Electrospray ionization (ESI) generates intact gas-phase ions from analytes in solution for mass spectrometric investigations. ESI can proceed via different mechanisms. Low molecular weight analytes follow the ion evaporation model (IEM), whereas the charged residue model (CRM) applies to large globular species. A chain ejection model (CEM) has been proposed for disordered polymers.

Workstation supercomputers powered by the Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 5300 series enable users of ESI Group simulation-based design and optimization solutions to dramatically enhance engineering productivity and deliver higher quality designs in less time, while improving the cost-effectiveness and flexibility of the high performance computing (HPC) infrastructure. Performance Brief Quad-C...

We discovered novel calibrants, several 2,2,6,6-tetraalkylpiperidinyl derivatives, for accurate mass measurements by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI). These compounds showed excellent performance as internal calibrants for the accurate mass measurement in ESI-MS, without problems arising from differences in the ionization efficiencies between the analytes and calibrants.