Silica gel modified with 3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane was anchored with resacetophenone to prepare a new chelating surface (or matrix). It was characterized with cross polarization magic angle spinning C NMR spectroscopy and diffuse reflectance infrared Fourier transform (DRIFT) spectroscopy and used for the separation and preconcentration of Cu(II), Pb(II), Ni(II), Fe(III), Cd(II), Zn(II) and ...

The electrochemical activity of poly(8-hydroxyquinoline) (PHQ) in acid and alkaline media has been investigated by use of differential pulse polarography (DPP). The reduction peak height (I(p)) of PHQ in universal buffer solutions is not useful as an analytical signal, because it is highly affected by hydrogen evolution in acid media and appears as a small peak located at more negative potentia...

The unified hybrid censoring is a mixture of generalized Type-I and Type-II hybrid censoring schemes. This article presents the statistical inferences on Generalized Exponential Distribution parameters when the data are obtained from the unified hybrid censoring scheme. It is observed that the maximum likelihood estimators can not be derived in closed form. The EM algorithm for computing the ma...

We report a method to control the conformation of a weak polyampholyte (the protein β-casein) in Langmuir monolayers by light, even though the protein is not photosensitive. Our approach is to couple the monolayer state to a photochemical reaction excited in the liquid subphase. The conformational transition of the protein molecule is triggered through its sensitivity to a subphase bulk field (...

The performance of an 8-noded hexahedron C1* element in elasticity is investigated. Three translational displacements and their derivatives as strain in each direction are considered as degrees of freedom (d.o.f.’s) at each node. The geometric mapping is enforced using a C0 element with no derivative as nodal d.o.f.’s . The stiffness matrix of the element is also computed using a transformation...

Superconductivity has recently been discovered in Pr2Ba4Cu7O15−δ with a maximum Tc of about 15K. Since the CuO planes in this material are believed to be insulating, it has been proposed that the superconductivity occurs in the double (or zigzag) CuO chain layer. On phenomenological grounds we propose a theoretical interpretation of the experimental results in terms of a new phase for the zigza...

The temporal and spatial expression of link protein and cartilage matrix protein genes was defined during chondrogenesis in the developing chick embryonic wing bud, using RNA in situ hybridization. For comparison, the expression of genes encoding type II collagen and cartilage proteoglycan core protein was also examined. Link protein transcripts are first detected at stage 25 of Hamburger and H...

Chondrocytes isolated from bovine articular cartilage were plated at high density and grown in the presence or absence of ascorbate. Collagen and proteoglycans, the major matrix macromolecules synthesized by these cells, were isolated at times during the course of the culture period and characterized. In both control and ascorbate-treated cultures, type II collagen and cartilage proteoglycans a...