*Correspondence: Jerzy P. Lukaszewicz, Faculty of Chemistry, Nicolaus Copernicus University, ul. Gagarina 11, Torun 87-100, Poland e-mail: [email protected] Nature is a source of some biomaterials like wood and chitin, which can be successfully transformed into chars of advanced structural/surface parameters. The manuscript is discursive and suggests that particular components of the mate...

In this paper, the weakness of the traditional matrix division methods for giant matrix transpose is pointed; Specific to the nature of the giant matrixes’ transpose and based on the characteristics of asynchronous PRAM parallel computing model, some new division (such as booklet belt division, closed-loop division and Checkerboard-belt-shaped compound division) methods are proposed for improvi...

Conformational transformations were investigated for molecules of kojic acid trapped in low-temperature argon and nitrogen matrixes. Two conformers, differing from each other by 120° rotation of the hydroxymethyl (-CH2OH) moiety, were found to be populated in freshly deposited matrixes, prior to any irradiation. Matrixes containing isolated monomers of kojic acid were irradiated with narrowband...

A composting toilet, using charcoal and rice husk as matrixes, requires inactivation treatment against pathogenic microorganisms derived from human feces before agricultural reuse. High pH conditions by adding calcium oxide (CaO) and wood ash is effective for lethal inactivation of pathogenic bacteria. However, quantitative information about application is limited. Therefore this study investig...

Assessing flood risks on road infrastructures is critical for the definition of mitigation strategies and adaptation processes. Some efforts have been made to conduct a regional risk assessment support decision-making process exposed areas. However, these approaches focus physical damage civil without considering indirect impacts resulting from social aspects or traffic delays due functionality...

The modal frequencies, model shapes or their derivatives are generally used as the characteristic quantities of objective function for finite element (FEM) updating. However, measurement accuracy is low due to few numbers points actual structures, which results in a large correction error. antiresonant frequency reflects local information structure more accurately than mode shapes, good complem...

This paper presents the Lexicon-Grammar classification of Italian idioms that has been constructed on formal principles and, as such, can be exploited in information extraction. Among MWEs, idioms are those fixed constructions which are hard to automatically detect, given their syntactic flexibility and lexical variation. The syntactic properties of idioms have been formally represented and cod...

We have developed a new method for quantifying teicoplanin in complex matrixes, a receptor-antibody sandwich assay (RASA). The method is based on bioselective adsorption of teicoplanin onto microtiter plates coated with albumin-epsilon-aminocaproyl-D-alanyl-D-alanine, a synthetic analog of its biological target, and reaction with anti-teicoplanin antibodies. The sandwich complexes are detected ...

In this paper, the weakness of the traditional matrix division methods for giant matrix transpose is pointed; Specific to the nature of the giant matrixes’ transpose and based on the characteristics of asynchronous PRAM parallel computing model, some new division (such as booklet belt division, closed-loop division and Checkerboard-belt-shaped compound division) methods are proposed for improvi...

Rapid, sensitive, and accurate detection of analytes present in low concentrations in complex matrixes is a critical challenge. One issue that affects many biosensor protocols is the number and nature of the interferences present in complex matrixes such as plasma, urine, stool, and environmental samples, resulting in loss of sensitivity and specificity. We have developed a method for rapid pur...