The structure of new lignans from the seeds of phytolacca americana

From the seeds of Phytolacca americana two new lignans, Americanin B and D, have been isolated and their structures elucidated mainly by spectroscopic methods     

Yangians: Their representations and characters

The finite-dimensional irreducible representations of the Yangian of sl₂ are parametrized by their highest weights, which are monic polynomials in one variable. In this paper, we give a formula for the character of such a representation which depends only on its highest weight, and is an analogue of the classical Weyl character formula.     

The concentration-dependence of the resistivity anomaly in dilute magnetic alloys at low temperatures

Ice single crystals were produced, which were homogeneously doped by HF. Distribution coefficients were determined, and ageing experiments were done. It is assumed: for fluorine-concentrations less than 10^?6 m/l the whole solute is concentrated in the grainboundaries of the microstructure, but at higher concentrations there exists no microstructure and the solute is regularly distributed in the bulk. The ageing experiments showed that the fluorineconcentration decreases while stored until a limiting concentration of 10^?6 m/l is reached. Then the microstructure may be rebuilt.     

Generalized jump-type Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes as limits of infinite-particle systems

We prove the existence and uniquencess of the solution to the martingale problem associated with jump-type Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes in the Schwartz space of distributions onR ^d. An example of a noninteracting infinite-particle system is given, which after rescaling has such a process as a limit. Cases when such a process has an invariant measure are identified.     

Nanoporous aluminosilicate catalyst with 3D cage-type porous structure as an efficient catalyst for the synthesis of benzimidazole derivatives

Herein we demonstrate for the first time, the synthesis of benzimidazoles through the coupling of aldehydes with o-phenylenediamine by using highly acidic nanoporous aluminosilicate with 3D structure and cage-type pores as the catalyst. The catalyst resulted in excellent yields in short reaction times presumably due to its high acidity, large pore diameter, high surface area, and cage-type 3D porous structure.     

Graded level zero integrable representations of affine Lie algebras

We study the structure of the category of integrable level zero representations with finite dimensional weight spaces of affine Lie algebras. We show that this category possesses a weaker version of the finite length property, namely that an indecomposable object has finitely many simple constituents which are non-trivial as modules over the corresponding loop algebra. Moreover, any object in this category is a direct sum of indecomposables only finitely many of which are non-trivial. We obtain a parametrization of blocks in this category.

     

Characters of Fundamental Representations of Quantum Affine Algebras

We give closed formulae for the q-characters of the fundamental representations of the quantum loop algebra of a classical Lie algebra, in terms of a family of partitions satisfying some simple properties. We also give the multiplicities of the eigenvalues of the imaginary subalgebra in terms of these partitions.     

Early Membrane Responses to Magnetic Particles are Predictors of Particle Uptake in Neural Stem Cells

Magnetic particles (MPs) offer several advantages for neural cell therapy, but limited particle uptake by neural cells is a barrier to translation. It is recently proved that tailoring particle physicochemical properties (by enhancing their iron content) dramatically improves uptake in neural stem cells (NSCs)—a major transplant population. High‐throughput screening of particles with varying physicochemical properties can therefore aid in identifying particles with optimal uptake features, but research is hampered by the lack of simple methodologies for studying neural cell membrane responses to nanoparticle platforms. A high‐resolution–high throughput method has been used to study early membrane responses of primary rodent NSCs to particles of variant magnetite loading, to attempt to correlate these responses with known particle internalization profiles. Membrane imaging is enhanced through sequential staining with osmium (O) and thiocarbohydrazide (T), a method termed OTOTO, combined with field‐emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM). A five‐point classification system was used to systematically evaluate early MP‐induced membrane responses to particles possessing distinct physicochemical properties. Significantly different profiles of membrane activation were noted that correlate with particle uptake profiles. It is suggested that our method can serve as a valuable predictor of particle internalization in neural cells for diverse particle platforms.