Multifunctional polyesters as new candidate materials for biomedical applications. Synthesis and structural characterization

The present work was aimed at the development of functional polymeric materials to be used in the targeted delivery of proteic drug and tissue engineering fields. The adopted strategy was based on the design of special polymer classes whose structures and functionality could be easily modified by finely tuned synthetic procedures. Poly(ether ester)s containing H-bonding units were chosen as promising materials for the proposed applications. Commercially available precursors were successfully used for the synthesis of symmetrical diesters containing different H-bonding groups (amide, carbamate, and urea moieties). In all cases, pure products were obtained in good yields. Bulk polycondensation of the monomeric precursors with different mixtures of 1,4-butanediol and PEG 1000 diol afforded a variety of high molecular weight polymeric structures. Physical-chemical characterization of the polymers indicates that their thermal, mechanical, and swelling properties can be tailored by a proper selection of the H-bonding group and of the composition of the feed mixture.     

Measurement ofD meson production in 200 GeV π−-Be interactions

We have measured the differential and total cross sections ofD meson production in 200 GeV π^?-beryllium interactions, using a sample of 48 fully reconstructed and nearly background-freeD mesons in the decay channelsK ^?π^±,K ^?π^±π^± andK ^?π^?π^±π^±. A single electron trigger has been used to select events containing a pair of charmed particles. A vertex telescope of 6 silison microstrip detectors allowed the reconstruction of tracks of charged secondaries and the reconstruction of primary and decay vertices with high precision. The ratio of branching fractions for \(\mathop {D^0 }\limits^{( - )} \to K^ \mp \pi ^ \pm \) to \(\mathop {D^0 }\limits^{( - )} \to K^ \mp \pi ^ \mp \pi ^ \pm \pi ^ \pm \) , and an upper limit for \(D^0 - \bar D^0 \) mixing are presented.     

An information theoretical evaluation of the applicability of the ASTM infrared data base for retrieval purposes

Summary The information content of the identification by retrieval with binary coded infrared spectra (ASTM infrared datafile), taking into account the correlations between the speaks and the errors in the coded spectra, amounts to about 21 bits. This amount of information can be obtained when use is made of not more than 93 wavelength intervals, selected from the total number of 140 intervals that are available for retrieval. The information content can be raised to about 29 bits when for the retrieval procedure a window of 0.3 is introduced, thereby requiring only 72 intervals. The influence of the composition of the dataset upon the information content is considerable; for hydrocarbons an amount of information of only 15 bits is obtained with a search using 79 intervals.The probability of the match between the spectrum of the unknown compound and the right reference spectrum being superior to all other possible matches will increase from virtually zero to about 88% when a window of 0.3 is used.

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Eine informationstheoretische Auswertung der Anwendung der ASTM-Sammlung — Infrarotspektren für die Bibliothekssuche

Zusammenfassung Der Informationsgehalt für die Identifizierung durch Vergleich binÄr codierter Infrarotspektren (ASTM-Sammlung Infrarotspektren) betrÄgt unter Berücksichtigung der Ungenauigkeiten und der Korrelation zwischen den Banden etwa 21 Bits. Diese Informationsmenge kann erhalten werden aus dem Vergleich von nur 93 WellenlÄngen-Intervallen, die aus einer Gesamtzahl von 140 verfügbaren selektiert wurden.Der Informationsgehalt für die Bibliothekssuche kann bis zu 29 Bits zunehmen, wenn für die Suche ein Fenster von 0,3 angewendet wird; die Zahl der benötigten Intervalle betrÄgt dann nur 72. Aus verschiedenen Spektrensammlungen erhÄlt man verschiedene Informationsmengen; zum Beispiel betrÄgt der Informationsgehalt für Kohlenwasserstoffe nur 15 Bits unter Benutzung von 79 Intervallen. Die Wahrscheinlichkeit, da\ der Vergleich des Spektrums einer unbekannten Verbindung mit dem richtigen Vergleichsspektrum eine bessere übereinstimmung liefert als der Vergleich mit allen anderen Vergleichsspektren, nimmt von ungefÄhr null bis 88% zu, wenn ein Fenster von 0,3 angewendet wird.

     

Decay of correlation functions in hard-sphere mixtures: structural crossover

We investigate the decay of pair correlation functions in a homogeneous (bulk) binary mixture of hard spheres. At a given state point the asymptotic decay r-->infinity of all three correlation functions is governed by a common exponential decay length and a common wavelength of oscillations. Provided the mixture is sufficiently asymmetric, size ratios q less than or approximately 0.7, we find that the common wavelength reflects either the size of the small or that of the big spheres. By analyzing the (complex) poles of the partial structure factors we find a sharp structural crossover line in the phase diagram. On one side of this line the common wavelength is approximately the diameter of the smaller sized spheres whereas on the other side it is approximately the diameter of the bigger ones; the wavelength of the longest ranged oscillations changes discontinuously at the structural crossover line. Using density functional theory and Monte Carlo simulations we show that structural crossover also manifests itself in the intermediate range behavior of the pair correlation functions and we comment on the relevance of this observation for real (colloidal) mixtures. In highly asymmetric mixtures, q< or =0.1, where there is metastable fluid-fluid transition, we find a Fisher-Widom line with two branches. This line separates a region of the phase diagram where the decay of pair correlations is oscillatory from one in which it is monotonic.     

A Priori Estimations of a Global Homotopy Residue Continuation Method

This work is concerned with the a priori estimations of a global homotopy residue continuation method starting from a disjoint initial guess. Explicit conditions ensuring the quadratic convergence of the underlying Newton–Raphson algorithm are proved.