Modular chiral dendrimers with monodentate phosphoramidite ligands located at the core were synthesized and applied in the Rh-catalyzed asymmetric hydrogenations, afforded unprecedented enhancement of enantioselectivity.

Berhane Beyene Mentaye*, Mebratu Zelalem, Angelo Asha, Yosef Tiruneh, Aklog Afework, Menberu Tedela, Tsion Bezuneh, AlmazG/senbet, Femi Oyewole, Almaz Abebe, Tilahun Woldemichael and Oyewale Tomori Polio Laboratory and Virology and Ricketisiology Team, Ethiopian Health and Nutrition Research Institute, Disease Prevention and Control Department, Ministry of Health of Ethiopia, World Health Organ...

MARVIN REID,1,2 ASHA BADALOO,2 TERRENCE FORRESTER,2 JOHN F. MORLESE,1,2 MARGARET FRAZER,1 WILLIAM C. HEIRD,1 AND FAROOK JAHOOR1 1United States Department of Agriculture/Agricultural Research Service, Children’s Nutrition Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030; and 2Tropical Metabolism Research Unit, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingst...

The inclusion complexes of a new family of nonionic amphiphilic calix[4]arenes with the anti-inflammatory hydrophobic drugs naproxen (NAP) and ibuprofen (IBP) were investigated. The effects of the alkyl chain's length and the inner core of calix[4]arenes on the interaction of the two drugs with the calix[4]arenes were explored. The inclusion complexes of Amphiphiles 1a-c with NAP and IBP increa...

The aim of this study was to characterize 49 Salmonella Enteritidis (SE) isolates from different sources (poultry, human, cow, poultry house environment) in Iran with respect to drug resistance, plasmid profile, and random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis. Antimicrobial susceptibility test to 29 agents found 33 resistance patterns among the isolates. No resistance was observed to danof...

This paper estimates reduced-form Phillips curves for Brazil with a framework of time series with unobserved components, in the spirit of Harvey (2011). However, we allow for expectations to play a key role using data from the Central Bank of Brazil’s Focus survey. Besides GDP, we also use industrial capacity utilization rate and IBC-Br index, as measures of economic activity. Our findings supp...

To improve accuracy and reliability, Boolean combination (BC) can efficiently integrate the responses of multiple biometric systems in the ROC space. However, BC techniques assume that recognition systems are conditionally-independent and that their ROC curves are convex. These assumptions are rarely valid in practice, where systems face complex environments, and are designed using limited enro...

Data-Driven Inversion-Based Control (D-IBC) is a recently introduced control design method for uncertain nonlinear systems, relying on a two degree-of-freedom architecture, with a nonlinear controller and a linear controller running in parallel. In this paper, extending to the MIMO case a previous result holding for the SISO case, we derive a finite-gain stability sufficient condition for a clo...

PURPOSE To explore the feasibility, safety and efficacy of enterally administered topiramate (TPM) as an adjunctive treatment for adult patients with refractory generalized convulsive status epilepticus (RGCSE). METHODS This prospective open-label non-randomized clinical trial was performed at Namazee hospital, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran from January 2013 through Febr...

Background: Staphylococcus aureus is one of the major causes of food poisoning. Since milk is a nutritious source of proteins and vitamins, it could provide the optimal conditions for the growth of several bacterial pathogens, such as S. aureus. The present study aimed to assess the frequency of Staphylococcus aureus classical enterotoxin genes in raw milk samples in Zanjan, Iran. Methods: In ...