A moderately deep survey of stellar maser sources toward the Galactic center has been made in the SiO J=1-0 v=1 and v=2 transitions (∼ 43 GHz) with the Nobeyama 45-m telescope of a beam size of about 40. At the Galactic center (Sgr A*), 7 (4 new) SiO maser sources were detected in one beam. In order to investigate the spatial distribution of SiO maser sources, we have also observed the offset p...

Removal of selenium oxyanions by the binary oxide systems, Al- or Fe-oxides mixed with X-ray noncrystalline SiO(2), was previously not well understood. This study evaluates the adsorption capacity and kinetics of selenium oxyanions by different metal hydroxides onto SiO(2), and uses X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) to assess the interaction between selenium oxyanions and the sorbents at pH 5...

Silica nanoparticles (SiO2 NPs) have been shown to exert cytotoxic effects in hepato-cytes and to cause liver injury. In the liver, Kupffer cells (KCs), as the resident macrophages, play an important role in the normal physiology and homeostasis of the liver. Nevertheless, few studies have attempted to clarify the role of KCs in hepatic injury induced by SiO(2) NPs. In this study, we treated Bu...

The synthesis and characterization of bare silica (4 nm in diameter) nanoparticle-attached meso-tetra(N-methyl-4-pyridyl)porphine (SiO(2)-TMPyP, 6 nm in diameter) are described for pH-controllable photosensitization. Distinguished from organosilanes, SiO(2) nanoparticles were functionalized as a potential quencher of triplet TMPyP and/or singlet oxygen ((1)O(2)) at alkaline pH, thereby turning ...

The composites combining aluminum and silica nanoparticles with the addition of tetramethylammonium hydroxide (Al-SiO2(T)) and butanol (Al-SiO2(B)) as mixing media have been successfully fabricated. Corrosion behavior of Al-SiO2 composites before and after exposure in 1M NaCl solution was examined using potentiodynamic polarization (Tafel curve analysis). The st...

We have surveyed known large-amplitude variables within 15 of the Galactic center in the SiO J =1–0 v = 1 and 2 maser lines at 43 GHz, resulting in 79 detections and 58 non-detections. The detection rate of 58 percent is comparable to that obtained in Bulge IRAS source surveys. SiO lines were also detected from four other sources near the program objects. The SiO detection rate increases steepl...

The Semanticscience Integrated Ontology (SIO) is an ontology to facilitate biomedical knowledge discovery. SIO features a simple upper level comprised of essential types and relations for the rich description of arbitrary (real, hypothesized, virtual, fictional) objects, processes and their attributes. SIO specifies simple design patterns to describe and associate qualities, capabilities, funct...

Stepwise multiple regression analyses of the apparent R(SiO) bond lengths were completed for coesite and for the silica polymorphs together with the clathrasils as a function of the variables};(O), P (pressure), f,(Si), B(O), and B(Si). The analysis of 94 bond-length data recorded for coesite at a variety of pressures and temperatures indicates that all five of these variables make a significan...

BHR 71 is a well isolated Bok globule located at ∼200 pc, which harbours a highly collimated bipolar outflow. The outflow is driven by a very young Class 0 protostar with a luminosity of ∼9 L⊙. It is one of a very small number that show enhanced abundances of a number of molecular species, notably SiO and CH3OH, due to shock processing of the ambient medium. In this paper the properties of the ...

Figure S1: molecules used to chemically functionalize the surfaces. To the left, 3-Aminopropyl)-triethoxysilane (APTES). To the right, poly-L-lysine hydro bromide. Figure S2: Morphological AFM images. Scale bar is 10 µm A: Si/SiO 2 coated with 3-Aminopropyl)-triethoxysilane (APTES), B: Si/SiO 2 coated with, poly-L-lysine hydro bromide and C: Bare Si/SiO 2 .