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Nifedipine (NIF), a 1,4-dihydropyridine calcium channel antagonist, undergoes photo-degradation to dehydro-nifedipine (DNIF) upon exposure to ultraviolet (UV) light and to the nitroso analogue of dehydro-nifedipine (NDNIF) when exposed to sunlight or some kinds of artificial lights. NIF photo-degradation products do not contribute to clinical activity, thus prevention of photo-degradation of NI...

We propose a unified framework to study the walk problem in a polygonal area by two collaborative guards. A walk is conducted by the two mobile guards on the area’s boundary. They start at an initial boundary point, move along the boundary, and may possibly meet together again at an ending boundary point. It is required that the two guards maintain their mutual visibility at all times. Dependin...

A review of methods for volumetric scene reconstruction from multiple views is presented. Occupancy descriptions of the voxels in a scene volume are constructed using shape-from-silhouette techniques for binary images, and shapefrom-photo-consistency combined with visibility testing for color images.

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Inspired by the recent Democratic National Primary, we consider settings in which the members of a distributed population must balance their individual preferences over candidates with a requirement to quickly achieve collective unity. We formalize such settings as the “Democratic Primary Problem” (DPP) over an undirected graph, whose local structure models the social influences acting on

In one of his early papers Claude Berge proved a Helly-type theorem, which replaces the usual “nonempty intersection” condition with a “convex union” condition. Inspired by this we prove a fractional Helly-type result, where we assume that many (d+1)-tuples of a family of convex sets have a star-shaped union, and the conclusion is that many of the sets have a common point. We also investigate s...

This paper discusses evaluation in the context of public art and specifically of interactive digital art. The study reported is of ‘Light Logic’, an exhibition of retrospective and current drawings, paintings and interactive digital works by the second author. The study was conducted by Site Gallery Sheffield in association with UK and Australian researchers. A survey of evaluation practice amo...

abstract aims: the application of photocatalytic processes to remove heavy metals in aqueous solutions and industrial wastewater are regarded as extremely effective, clean and without producing waste methods. the goal of the present study was to investigate the photocatalytic activity of zno based on h-zsm-5 zeolite support. materials & methods: zno/h-zsm-5 composite synthesized by impregnation...