Mass-spectrometric study of isomeric 5-amino-1,2,3-thiadiazoles and 5-mercapto-1,2,3-triazoles

The behavior of the isomeric 5-amino-1,2,3-thiadiazoles and 5-mercapto-1,2,3-triazoles under electron impact was studied. It was shown that mass spectrometry can serve as a rapid and reliable method for the identification of these compounds. Key factors in the assignment of a compound to one or the other class are the peaks of the [M-N₂]⁺ ions, which are more intense in the case of the thiadiazoles, and the ions determined by the decomposition of the prototropic forms of the triazoles. The compositions of the ions were determined by the high-resolution mass spectra.Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 5, pp. 681–689, May, 1987.     

Muography of Large Natural and Industrial Objects

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Preparation of reagent indicator papers with silver triangular nanoplates for chemical analysis

An impregnation method to prepare reagent indicator papers with silver triangular nanoplates (TNPs) is developed. The conditions for obtaining modified papers (type of paper, method for applying TNPs, and drying conditions) allowing for an acceptably uniform distribution of the TNPs are chosen. The spectral characteristics of the prepared materials are studied. The presence of an intense TNP surface plasmon resonance band in the diffuse reflectance spectra of the modified papers, which is linearly related to the content of the TNPs in the samples, as well as the lability of its position and shape in the presence of some substances, gives rise to the prospects of using the prepared materials as test-tools in chemical analysis.     

Axisymmetric thermoelastoplastic stress-strain state of flexible laminated transversely isotropic shells

The paper presents a technique for numerical analysis of the elastoplastic stress-strain state of flexible laminated shells of revolution made of isotropic and transversely isotropic materials and subjected to axisymmetric loading and heating. The technique is based on the Kirchhoff-Love hypotheses for the whole laminate. The deformation of the isotropic materials is described using the theory of deformation along paths of small curvature. The deformation of the transversely isotropic material is described using the flow theory with isotropic hardening. The process of loading is divided into steps at each of which the stress-strain state is determined by the method of successive approximations. A numerical example is given __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 42, No. 12, pp. 76–86, December, 2006.     

Thermoelastoplastic axisymmetric stress-strain state of laminated orthotropic shells

A method is proposed for the numerical analysis of the thermoelastoplastic stress-strain state of laminated shells of revolution, made of isotropic and orthotropic materials, under axisymmetric loading. The method is based on the Kirchhoff-Love hypotheses for a layer stack, the theory of deformation along paths of small curvature for isotropic materials, and Hills theory of flow with isotropic hardening for orthotropic materials. The problem is solved by the method of successive approximations. A numerical example is given.__________Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 40, No. 12, pp. 84–91, December 2004.     

Elastoplastic Axisymmetric Stress-Strain State of Laminated Shells Made of Isotropic and Transversely Isotropic Materials with Different Moduli

A method is developed for analysis of the elastoplastic stress-strain state of laminated shells of revolution under axisymmetric loading. The shells are made of isotropic and transversally isotropic materials with different moduli. The method is based on the Kirchhoff-Love hypotheses for the whole laminate, the theory of deformation along paths of small curvature (for isotropic materials), and the theory of elasticity with different tensile and compressive moduli (transversely isotropic materials). The problem is solved by the method of successive approximations. Numerical examples are given __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 41, No. 8, pp. 88–96, August 2005.     

A laser photolysis study of the quenching kinetics of triplet-state all-<Emphasis Type="Italic">trans</Emphasis>-retinal by oxygen in aqueous albumin and liposome solutions

The kinetics of quenching of the all-trans-retinal triplet state by air oxygen in aqueous solutions of bovine serum albumin and in a cardiolipin liposome suspension was investigated by nanosecond laser photolysis. It was established that the quenching reaction rate constant in the albumin solution (1.8 × 10⁸ l mol⁻¹ s⁻¹) was an order of magnitude less than in liposomes (3.1 × 10⁹ l mol⁻¹ s⁻¹). These constants were 5.0 × 10⁹ and 1.1 × 10⁹ l mol⁻¹ s⁻¹ in methanol and aqueous solutions containing 10 vol % methanol, respectively. The effect of hindered oxygen access to the Lall-trans-retinal attached to albumin is discussed in terms of its influence on the photooxidation processes in the retina.     

Shares of sea and valence quarks in the proton spin puzzle

The first moments of the polarized valence parton distribution functions truncated to the wide Bjorken x region 0.004 < x < 0.7 are directly (without any fitting procedure) extracted in NLO QCD from the combined COMPASS and HERMES semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering data. Applying the proposed original procedure to these results, we estimate the contributions of light sea quarks to the proton spin, which occur just zero within the errors.