to study the effects of two irrigation regimes and application of barley residue, zeolite and superabsorbent polymer on forage yield and some physiological traits of maize and sorghum, an experiment was conducted over two years in kerman, iran. a randomized complete block design arranged in a factorial split was used with three replications. two irrigation regimes of normal irrigation and water...

The effects of zirconium (Zr) on T cells and macrophages in mice were studied in vitro using the indexes of immunological reactions, mitogenesis of C3H/HeJ mouse thymocytes induced by PHA and the production of interleukin-1 of C3H/He mouse intraperitoneal macrophages (MIL-1). The mitogenesis of thymocytes induced by PHA when stimulated with Zr solutions at various concentrations or culture supe...

An improved synthesis of 2,5-di(tert-butyl)-3,4-dimethylpyrrole (2-H, HPyr(tBu(2)Me(2))) and a subsequent reaction with KH yield K(Pyr(tBu(2)Me(2))) (2-K) in multi-gram quantities. Four different pyrrolyl (Pyr) and imidazolyl (Im) ligands were used in salt metathesis reactions with [(η(7)-C(7)H(7))ZrCl(tmeda)] (7) to afford a series of azatrozircenes: [(η(7)-C(7)H(7))Zr(η(5)-Pyr(tBu(2)))] (1-Zr...

A boronated analogue of the antiestrogen U 23,469-M (D. Lednicer, D. W. Emmert, S. C. Lyster, and G. W. Duncan, J. Med. Chem. 12, 881 (1969] was prepared, for possible use in neutron capture therapy of estrogen receptor-positive tumors. In this analogue, the terminal OH group was replaced by a B-decachloro-o-carboranyl residue. This compound showed a large, non-specific uptake in ZR 75-1 breast...

Hydrocracking of crude palm oil (CPO) to produce biofuels was conducted over zirconium nitride supported on SiO2 (SiO2/ZrN) catalyst. SiO2/ZrN prepared by nitriding the SiO2/Zr at 600 C for 3 hrs under NH3 gas cylindrical reactor. exhibited a surface acidity 0.7132 mmol pyridine g‒1 with area 96 m2 g‒1, forming predominant mesopores EDS- mapping analysis showed that ZrN species highly distribu...

The activation and catalytic performance of two representative Zr-containing intermetallic systems, namely Cu-Zr and Pd-Zr, have been comparatively studied operando using methanol steam reforming (MSR) as test reaction. Using an inverse surface science and bulk model catalyst approach, we monitored the transition of the initial metal/intermetallic compound structures into the eventual active an...

The underglycosylated form of the MUC1 glycoprotein, uMUC1, has been identified as a ligand for both E-selectin and ICAM-1 and can play multiple potential roles during rolling and firm adhesion events in the metastatic cascade. Using flow cytometry and confocal microscopy, the T47D and ZR-75-1 cell lines were verified to highly express uMUC1, however it was found that only ZR-75-1 cells express...

Reduction of Zr(IV) metallocenium cations with sodium amalgam (NaHg) produces EPR signals assignable to Zr(III) metallocene complexes. The chloro-bridged heterodinuclear ansa-zirconocenium cation [(SBI)Zr(μ-Cl)2AlMe2](+) (SBI = rac-dimethylsilylbis(1-indenyl)), present in toluene solution as its B(C6F5)4(-) salt, thus gives rise to an EPR signal assignable to the complex (SBI)Zr(III)(μ-Cl)2AlMe...

An improved methodology of the Zr specimen preparation was developed which allows fabrication of stable Zr nanotips suitable for FIM and AP applications. Initial oxidation of the Zr surface was studied on a Zr nanotip by FIM and on a polycrystalline Zr foil by XPS, both at low oxygen pressure (10(-8)-10(-7)mbar). The XPS data reveal that in a first, fast stage of oxidation, a Zr suboxide interl...

Atom probe tomography was utilized to measure directly the chemical compositions of Al(3)(Zr(1)-(x)Ti(x)) precipitates with a metastable L1(2) structure formed in Al-0.1Zr-0.1Ti (at.%) alloys upon aging at 375 degrees C or 425 degrees C. The alloys exhibit an inhomogeneous distribution of Al(3)(Zr(1)-(x)Ti(x)) precipitates, as a result of a nonuniform dendritic distribution of solute atoms afte...