The phase diagrams of some cholesterol-lipid mixtures exhibit two immiscibility regions along with a sharp cusp, pointing to a particular stoichiometry for possible lipid/cholesterol complex formation. It has been hypothesized that reactive cholesterol monomers are present in mixtures with cholesterol content greater than that at the cusp. To test this hypothesis, we have examined how the prese...

An enzymatic assay is described for non-albuminbound bilirubin in the serum of newborn infants. Unbound bilirubin is oxidized to colorless compounds by ethyl hydroperoxide in the presence of horseradish peroxidase (EC 1.11.1.7), while albumin-bound bilirubin is protected from oxidation. Because the equilibrium between albumin and bilirubin occurs rapidly, the oxidation step is rate limiting, an...

The phase behavior of poly(ethylene glycol) grafted liposomes (PEG-liposomes) was investigated by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), dynamic light scattering (DLS) and cryo-transmission electron microscopy (cryo-TEM). PEG-liposomes were prepared from mixtures of dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine (DPPC) and distearoyl phosphatidylethanolamine with a covalently attached PEG molecular weight o...

The Boltzmann equation for inelastic Maxwell models is considered in order to investigate the dynamics of an impurity (or intruder) immersed in a granular gas driven by a uniform shear flow. The analysis is based on an exact solution of the Boltzmann equation for a granular binary mixture. It applies for conditions arbitrarily far from equilibrium (arbitrary values of the shear rate a) and for ...

In this article, the dynamics and shock-control in a Reactive Distillation Column (RDC) for the transesterification of ethanol and acetic acid was studied and simulated. The dynamic behavior of the process was experimentally analyzed. The reactants were conducted in a fifteen stages RDC in a single feed stream. An appropriate strategy was chosen and performed for column start up to achieve the ...

An accurate model for the inversion charge centroid of strained-Si on Si Ge metal-oxide semiconductor field effect transistors (MOSFETs) has been developed including the dependencies on the germanium mole fraction, the doping concentration, and the width of the strained-Si layer. We have also obtained a good estimation of the inversion charge. The inclusion of quantum effects in classical simul...

In the previous communication (1) it was reported that the reaction of ribonuclease A with the bifunctional reagent, 1,5difluoro-2,4-dinitrobenzene leads to the formation of three major cross-linked derivatives. Each of them was shown to contain one N , N’-2,4-dinitrophenylene 1,5-cross-link per mole of the derivative. In this communication we are describing the structure of one of these deriva...

In this work, the cholesterol concentration in the supercritical (SC) CO2, under working conditions, is calculated by implementing the modified Peng Robinson equation of state (EoS) combined with the Van Der Waals mixing rules. Here, optimisations of the interaction coefficient (kij) between solvent and solute and the solute critical parameters (i.e. critical pressure and temperature) are the m...

This paper illustrates through distillation examples how the bounded Newton homotopy method considerably extends the area of convergence compared with the unbounded one. Sidestream column configurations with exact mole fraction specifications are used as demonstrative test cases. Starting point multiplicity is found to be a real challenge when solving distillation problems with Newton homotopy-...

A 1H NMR study of histidine hydrochloride dissolved in water/dimethyl sulfoxide mixtures gives evidence that dimethyl sulfoxide is able to induce a proton transfer from the imidazolinium nitrogens (mainly N3) to the carboxylate group when its mole fraction becomes greater than 42%. The new tautomeric equilibrium AH2++- in equilibrium AH2+ is quantitatively studied as a function of the solvent c...