Extractive photometric determination of gold(III) with 1-(2',4',6'-trichlorophenyl)-4,4,6-trimethyl-(1H,4H)-2-pyrimidinethiol in presence of tri-iso-octylamine

Tervalent gold was determined spectrophotometrically as its anionic 1:4 gold-thiol complex extracted into chloroform from aqueous acidic medium (1.5M sulphuric acid) in the presence of tri-iso-octylamine. The complex exhibits maximum absorption at 480 nm (molar absorptivity 4.60 x 10(3) l.mole(-1).cm(-1)) and Beer's law is obeyed in the concentration range 5-50 microg of gold(III) per ml. The relative standard deviation and relative error, calculated from ten determinations of solutions containing 15 microg of gold(III) per ml were 1.0% and 0.8%. The method is simple, selective and reproducible. It permits separation of gold(III) from associated elements and its determination in synthetic mixtures.     

ACTION SPECTRUM AND THRESHOLD SENSITIVITY OF ENTRAINMENT OF ORCADIAN RUNNING ACTIVITY IN THE COCKROACH PERIPLANETA AMERICANA

Abstract— The interaction between the compound eye and the circadian timing system for running activity in the cockroach, Periplaneta americana , has been investigated by measuring the action spectrum for entrainment of such behavior by imposed photic stimuli. Test wavelengths were selected which spanned the spectral range of the dichromatic retina of this insect and intensities of such lights for which half of a population of animals failed to be entrained (threshold) were determined. Stimuli were presented either with a 12:12 light–dark regime or for 12h/day on a continuous background of orange light. The latter procedure altered the balance of sensitivity in the two groups of color receptors in the eye. A comparison of the resulting action spectra and the spectral sensitivities of receptors and visual interneurons measured under similar conditions suggest that the entrainment mechanism is dominated by the receptor group most sensitive to long wavelength light. Furthermore, the eye-clock mechanism shows an extraordinarily high sensitivity to such stimuli. We estimate that a mean flux of about 5 photons/eye/s is sufficient to entrain the behavior. The implications of these results are discussed.     

Simultaneous Determination of Pioglitazone and Glimepiride by High-Performance Thin-Layer Chromatography

JPC – Journal of Planar Chromatography – Modern TLC -     

同位素稀释超高效液相色谱-串联质谱法测定人血清中孕酮

建立了超高效液相色谱-串联质谱(UPLC-MS/MS)测定人血清中孕酮的分析方法。血清样品经乙酸乙酯、正己烷液液萃取(LLE)后,采用Acquity UPLC BEH C_(18)色谱柱(2.1 mm×100 mm,1.7μm)进行梯度分离,色谱运行时间为5 min,采用电喷雾(ESI)正离子电离模式和多反应监测(MRM)扫描模式,同位素内标法定量。考察了两步萃取法对孕酮的提取效果,不同流动相的分离效果以及样品稳定性,结果表明以甲醇-0.1%氨水溶液为流动相时分离效果较好。优化条件下,孕酮在10～10 000pg/mL范围内线性关系良好(r~2=0.999 8),方法检出限和定量下限分别为5、10 pg/mL;平均加标回收率为91.5%～106%,日内相对标准偏差(RSD)为1.2%～8.2%,日间RSD为4.1%～9.1%。采用该方法对30个真实血清样品进行测定,孕酮质量浓度为0.050 2～1.363 5 ng/mL,均在正常生理范围内。该方法灵敏度高、准确可靠,可用于临床血清样品中孕酮生理水平的检测。     

Sensitive,Selective, Precise and Accurate LC–MS Method for Determination of Clonidine in Human Plasma

A selective and sensitive liquid chromatography–mass spectrometric method in ESI (+ve) mode was developed and validated completely in human plasma. Clonidine and IS, carbamazapine, were extracted from human plasma via liquid–liquid extraction with ethyl acetate. Following evaporation under nitrogen, the residue was reconstituted with mobile phase and analyzed using API 4000 LC–MS–MS system. An isocratic program with binary mobile phases (0.1% formic acid in water and acetonitrile) was used to separate interference peaks by a C18 analytical column. Linearity range was 0.49–73.98 ng mL⁻¹. The intra- and inter-day accuracy and precision were within acceptable limits (≤15%). This method was successfully applied to a single dose 25 μg tablets BE study of clonidine in healthy male volunteers.

     

Effect of temperature and pH on interaction between bovine serum albumin and cetylpyridinium bromide: Fluorescence spectroscopic approach

The fluorescence spectroscopic technique has been efficiently employed to investigate the interaction between bovine serum albumin (BSA) and cetylpyridinium bromide (CPB) under different pH and temperature conditions. The binding constant, number of binding sites, thermodynamic parameters such as ΔG, ΔH, ΔS, and nature of binding forces between BSA and CPB were obtained by measuring the steady state fluorescence quenching of BSA by CPB. The experimental results showed that the fluorescence quenching of BSA by CPB was a result of the formation of CPB-BSA complex. The static quenching was confirmed from the Stern-Volmer quenching constant at different temperatures. The effect of CPB on the conformation of BSA was analyzed using synchronous and three-dimensional fluorescence spectroscopy. pH dependence complex formation between BSA-CPB is due to the interaction between cationic side chain of CPB and the net charge developed on BSA. The distance ‘r’ between BSA and CPB was obtained according to the fluorescence resonance energy transfer.     

产学研合作创新方式下政府补贴策略选择

创新补贴策略是政府鼓励企业创新的一种常见政策,考虑到企业内在的吸收能力与外部不同政府补贴策略方式的存在,本文以产学研合作创新方式为基础,通过建立三阶段博弈模型,利用模型解析与仿真分析讨论吸收能力与创新投入分配比例系数对政府补贴策略选择的影响。研究结果表明:无论政府采取哪一种补贴方式,均可以有效激励企业加大创新投入规模,并且企业的吸收能力与R&D投入、产量及社会福利均呈正相关关系;但是,吸收能力对利润及政府补贴的影响受限于补贴方式和企业的创新投入分配比例系数;此外,在创新产品补贴下,创新难度系数对政府补贴额度的影响并不明显,而创新产品补贴总体优于创新投入补贴。     

Angular distributions of muon pairs produced by 194 GeV/c negative pions

We present the angular distributions of muon pairs obtained in a high-statistics experiment using a 194-GeV/c π^- impinging on a tungsten target. Our results are based on the analysis of 145,000 events with positive Feynmanx and mass above 4.07 GeV/c², excluding the ? region. Simple first-order QCD relations allow us to determine the ratio of annihilation with hard-gluon emission to the sum of annihilation with hard-gluon emission and hard-gluon Compton scattering, which is found to be about 58% to 75%. We determine the parton square intrinsic transverse momenta to be of the order of 0.6 (GeV/c)², and about 30% larger in the pion than in the nucleon. At largex ₁, our data agree with the higher-twist hypothesis, and support the interpretation of the relevant scale parameter as the dimuon square transverse momentum.