C-linked neuraminic acid disaccharide was synthesized in a diastereoselective manner from a sulfone donor and aldehyde acceptor, which was protected as a propargyl ether, through a samarium-mediated coupling reaction. The resulting disaccharide has acetal and phenyl sulfide functional groups that can be easily converted into aldehyde and phenyl sulfone groups by photolysis and oxidation reactio...

Objectives This study was conducted to assess the views of the Jordanian general dental practitioners (GDPs) on the provision of continuing education to develop an educational programme that meets their needs. Methods A questionnaire was sent to a random sample of 200 GDPs working in eleven governances in Jordan in order to assess their views on: topics they would like continuing education prog...

BOARD BNVKI: EDITORIAL BOARD: Joost Kok (chair) Floris Wiesman (Editor in Chief) Rineke Verbrugge (member) Jaap van den Herik Wiebe van der Hoek (member) Bart de Boer Yao-Hua Tan (member) Shan-Hwei Nienhuys-Cheng Floris Wiesman (member) Cees Witteveen Luc DeHaspe (member) Antal van den Bosch (section editor) Walter Daelemans (member) Joris Van Looveren (editor Belgium) Bas Zinsmeister (member) ...

The purpose of this paper is the following: firstly, to chart how much economic reform of CEE electricity industries has taken place to date; secondly, to discuss why progress has been so limited; and, thirdly, to consider the prospects over the next few years. In charting the economic progress to date, we will consider and discuss progress in electricity price unbundling and rebalancing; in ut...

Running head: GGCX functional study using a cell-based assay Jian-Ke Tie, Jorge D. A. Carneiro, Da-Yun Jin, Ciro D. Martinhago, Cees Vermeer, and Darrel W. Stafford Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. Instituto da Criança, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, SP, Brazil. Chromosome Genomic ...

In this paper we analyse the impact of financial liberalization and reforms on the banking performance in 17 countries from CEE for the period 2004-2008 using a two-stage empirical model that involves estimating bank performance in the first stage and assessing its determinants in the second one. From our analysis it results that banks from CEE countries with higher level of liberalization and ...

In the title compound, [Sn(C(6)H(5))(3)(C(10)H(13)OS)]·0.17C(6)H(6), the Sn(IV) atom exhibits a slightly distorted tetra-hedral coordination geometry built up by four C atoms, which are the three ipso-C atoms of the phenyl rings and the α-C atom of the deprotonated γ-O-functionalized propyl phenyl sulfide. The benzene mol-ecule lies about a threefold rotoinversion axis.

Effects of polychlor~nated b~phenyls (PCBs) on a natural rnarlne rcosystem were studied employing controlled ecosystem enclosures (CEEs) which conta~ned 68 m ' of srdwater and the natural sea-water biota (Saan~ch Inlet, Br~tish Co lumb~a , Canada) Follotv~ng a d d ~ t ~ o ~ l of PCBs 150 { r r j I l ) to a CEE, prlmary productivity was initially reduced by PCBs to less than 30 % of the control ...

In this phase of rapid demographic change and low birth rate , coupled with an increasing life expectancy , the challenge for the future consists of being able to age in good health . European policies should therefore be aimed at promoting healthiness in the elderly and, although some CEE countries have introduced various projects and schemes, the majority are of a national or local nature and...