It is extremely difficult to maintain a strictly academic discourse about a colleague that unexpectedly passed away when he was a friend and when he has been playing a key role in your recent research activities. He will be deeply missed. In this short note we shall bring here some highlights of the relationship between our research team and Da Ruan, starting with our relationship with the Inte...

The contributions of Sophya Kowalewski to the integrability theory of the equations for the heavy top extend to a larger class of Hamiltonian systems on Lie groups; this paper explains these extensions, and along the way reveals further geometric significance of her work in the theory of elliptic curves. Specifically, in this paper we shall be concerned with the solutions of the following diffe...

developing simple, sensitive and selective sensing systems for dopamine is important due to its biological significance. in this work, a silver nanoparticles-modified carbon paste electrode (agnps-cpe) has been constructed and used to detect of dopamine (da) in the simultaneous presence of ascorbic acid (aa) and uric acid (ua) at neutral ph 7.0 by cyclic voltammetry. the modified electrode show...

Glial cells form a network in the central nervous system to support neurons and interact with them. The glia consist essentially of astrocytes that help with the nutrition of neurons and react in some cases of injury, oligodendrocytes that produce myelin, and microglia that are derived from the haemopoietic system and are concerned with the immunological defense of the nervous system. Experimen...

Extensive circular dichroism studies have been conducted with the title polynucleotides under various solution conditions. The studies provided the following information: (i) The halogen atoms in place of thymine methyl hinder the isomerization into X-DNA. (ii) The brominated but not iodinated polynucleotide isomerizes into Z-DNA in concentrated NaCl+NiCl2. The transition takes place at lower N...

In conventional stereopsis, the depth between two objects is computed based on the retinal disparity in the position of matching points in the two eyes. When an object is occluded by another object in the scene, so that it is visible only in one eye, its retinal disparity cannot be computed. Nakayama and Shimojo (1990) found that a precept of quantitative depth between the two objects could sti...

In this issue of the Jornal de Pediatria, Geraldini et al. attempt to add another piece to the puzzle in order to provide additional insight into ocular symptoms associated with allergies. They used a validated instrument that focuses on the adolescent population in school with more than three episodes of ocular itching, who are more likely to have allergic rather than infectious etiologies, al...