Radicaux libres dérivés de sucres. V. Dérivés d'osamines N-hydroxylées et composés voisins Communication préliminaire

Free sugar radicals. V. Deoxyhydroxylaminosugar derivatives and related compounds We describe several synthetic routes to deoxyhydroxylaminosugar derivatives of the type Glyc-N(OH)-R where Glyc stands for a sugar moiety linked by any of its C-atoms except the anomeric one and R for one of the following substituants: H-atom, acyl, phosphoryl groups, aminoacid or sugar residues. Compounds of the above structure are potentially close analogs, homoisosteres, ? NOH? replacing ? O? , of biochemically important molecules. Under aerobic conditions, solutions of these derivatives contain minute concentrations of the corresponding nitroxide radicals which do not decrease significantly the resolution of the NMR. spectra but render these compounds usable as a new kind of spin labels. Spectroscopic properties (¹H-NMR., ¹³C-NMR., ESR.) of some of these compounds are reported.     

Synthesis of 4-hydroxy-4,5-dihydro-1,2,4-triazol-5-ones

Summary A series of hydroxamic acid ethoxycarbonylhydrazides was obtained by reactions of ester ethoxycarbonylhydrazones with hydroxylamine. The corresponding 3-substituted 4-hydroxy-4,5-dihydro-1,2,4-triazol-5-ones were synthesized by cyclization of these hydroxamic acid derivatives in basic medium.

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Synthesen von 4-Hydroxy-4,5-dihydro-1,2,4-triazol-5-onen

Zusammenfassung Durch Reaktion von Esterethoxycarbonylhydrazonen und Hydroxylamin wurde eine Reihe von Hydroxamsäureethoxycarbonylhydraziden gewonnen; Cyclisierung dieser Verbindungen durch Base gab die entsprechenden 3-substituierten 4-Hydroxy-4,5-dihydro-1,2,4-triazol-5-one.

     

A novel amperometric biosensor based on spinach (Spinacia oleracea) tissue homogenate for urinary oxalate determination

In this study, a novel spinach (Spinacia oleracea) tissue homogenate-based biosensor for determination of oxalate in urine was developed. The biosensor was constructed by immobilizing tissue homogenate of spinach (S. oleracea) onto a high-sensitive teflon membrane of a dissolved oxygen (DO) probe. For the stability of the biosensor, general immobilization techniques were used to secure the spinach tissue homogenate in gelatin-glutaraldehyde cross-linking matrix. In the optimization and characterization studies, the amount of spinach tissue homogenate and gelatin, optimum pH, optimum temperature and thermal stability, interference effects, linear range and repeatability were investigated. A typical calibration curve for the sensor revealed a linear range of 1×10⁻⁵-10×10⁻⁵ M oxalate. In repeatability studies, variation coefficient (CV) was calculated as 1.8%. Of the various substrates tested, only oxalate was found to be specific, with a relative activity of 100%. The method was applied to the determination of oxalate in urine. The results showed that the method was applicable to oxalate determination in urine specifically and selectively.     

Removal of heavy metal ions from water by using poly(ethyleneglycol dimethacrylate-co-acrylamide) beads

Poly(ethyleneglycol dimethacrylate-co-acrylamide) (poly(EDGMA-co-AAm)) copolymer beads have been prepared for use in the separation Pb(II), Hg(II), and Cd(II), metal ions in aqueous solution by a batch equilibration technique. Adsorption capacity were increased with pH for Pb(II), Cd(II) and Hg(II) and then reached almost plateau value around 6.0. The high initial rate of metal ions uptake (<10 min) suggests that the adsorption occurs mainly at the bead surface. The metal uptake results show that poly(EGDMA-co-AAm) can be used for the adsorption of the following metals in the indicated order: Pb(II) > Cd(II) > Hg(II) expressed on a molar basis. However, when the uptake was expressed in terms of the amount of metal removed from solution was as follows: Pb(II) > Hg(II) > Cd(II). The beads still showed preference toward Pb(II) when this metal was in a mixture with Hg(II) and Cd(II). A linearized form of the Freundlich and the Langmuir isotherm model fits the experimental equilibrium concentration data of Hg(II) and Cd(II) better than isotherm type model of Pb(II). The recovery of the metal ions after adsorption and the regeneration of the adsorbent can be carried out by treatment of the loaded beads with either 0.5 M NaCl, or 1 M HNO₃.     

A novel approach to estimation of E. coli promoter gene sequences: Combining feature selection and least square support vector machine (FS_LSSVM)

In this paper, we have investigated the real-world task of recognizing biological concepts in DNA sequences. Recognizing promoters in strings that represent nucleotides (one of A, G, T, or C) has been performed using a novel approach based on combining feature selection (FS) and least square support vector machine (LSSVM). Dimensionality of Escherichia coli promoter gene sequences dataset has 57 attributes and 106 samples including 53 promoters and 53 non-promoters. The proposed system consists of two parts. Firstly, we have used the FS process to reduce the dimensionality of E. coli promoter gene sequences dataset that has 57 attributes. So the dimensionality of this dataset has been reduced to 4 attributes by means of FS process.Secondly, LSSVM classifier algorithm has been run to estimation the E. coli promoter gene sequences. In order to show the performance of the proposed system, we have used the success rate, sensitivity and specificity analysis, 10-fold cross validation, and confusion matrix. Whilst only LSSVM classifier has been obtained 80% success rate using 10-fold cross validation, the proposed system has been obtained 100% success rate for same condition. These obtained results indicate that the proposed approach improve the success rate in recognizing promoters in strings that represent nucleotides.     

Bridging radial and non-radial measures of efficiency in DEA

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) has been utilized worldwide for measuring efficiencies of banks, telecommunications, electric utilities and so forth. Yet, the existing models have some well-known shortcomings that limit their usefulness. In DEA we have two fundamental approaches to measuring efficiency with very different characteristics; radial and non-radial. We demonstrate a method for linking these two approaches in a unified framework called Connected-SBM (slacks-based measure). It includes two scalar parameters, and by changing the parameter values we can relocate the analysis anywhere between the radial and the non-radial models. An appropriate choice of these parameters can overcome the key shortcomings inherent in the two approaches, namely, proportionality and mixed patterns of slacks.     

Trajectory tracking control of parallel robots in the presence of joint drive flexibility

Trajectory tracking control of parallel manipulators is aimed in the presence of flexibility at the joint drives. Joint structural damping is also considered in the dynamic model. The system is first converted into an open-tree structure by disconnecting a sufficient number of unactuated joints. The closed loops are then expressed by constraint equations. It is shown that, in a parallel robot with flexible joint drives, the acceleration level inverse dynamics equations are singular because the control torques do not have an instantaneous effect on the end-effector accelerations due to the elastic media. Eliminating the Lagrange multipliers and the intermediate variables, a fourth-order input–output relation is obtained between the actuator torques and the end-effector position variables. The proposed control law decouples and linearizes the system and achieves asymptotic stability by feedback of positions and velocities of the actuated joints and rotors. As a case study, a three degree of freedom, two legged planar parallel manipulator is simulated to illustrate the performance of the method. The end-effector desired trajectory is chosen such that the kinematic and drive singular positions are avoided.     

HAMILTON OPERATORS AND HOMOTHETIC MOTIONS IN R3

IntroductionPfaff[1]hasbeendefinedaquaternionproductonleaf (theplanecontainingtheOx_axis) .Byaidoftheproduct,anewproductisdefinedonplaneswhichpassesthroughtheorigindonotcontaintheOx_axisandsomeofthepropertiesofthisproducthavebeeninvestigated .Agrawal[2 ]gavesomealgebricpropertiesofHamiltonoperators.Also ,quaternionswereexpressedintermsof 4× 4matricesbymeansoftheseoperators.Yayli[3]gavehomotheticmotionswithaidoftheHamiltonoperatorsatE4 .Hacisalihoglu[4 ]showedthatallHomotheticmotionsinn_di…     

Estimation of stochastic nonlinear dynamic response of rock-fill dams with uncertain material parameters for non-stationary random seismic excitation

This research investigates the effect of uncertain material parameters on the stochastic, dynamic response of a rock-fill dam-foundation system subjected to non-stationary random excitation. The uncertain material parameter of particular interest is the shear modulus, developed from a lognormal distribution model. The stochastic seismic response model of the dam-foundation system, with uncertain material parameters and subjected to random loads is the result of a Monte Carlo simulation method. The nonlinear behavior model arises from an equivalent linear method, which considers the nonlinear variation of soil shear modulus and soil damping as a function of shear strain. Specification of the non-stationary stochastic process arises from a simulation method, which generates artificial earthquake accelerograms obtained from the product of a deterministic function of time and a stationary process. The artificial earthquake ground acceleration records reflect the characteristics of soft, medium and firm soil types. Comparison of the numerical results from these approaches provides stochasticity in earthquake seismic excitation and randomness in material parameter (shear modulus) cases. Further, the results indicate that both these cases generally influence the nonlinear dynamic response of rock-fill dams to a non-stationary seismic excitation.