Membrane introduction mass spectrometry

An overview of membrane introduction mass spectrometry (MIMS) is presented and comparisons are made with other direct sample introduction techniques. Special attention is given to the unique advantages and the limitations of newer variants on the MIMS technique, including affinity MIMS, reverse-phase and trap MIMS. The salient features of the interfaces used in MIMS are summarized and the various membrane materials commonly used are delineated. The applicability of MIMS is illustrated via discussion of

1. (i) bioreactor monitoring (represented by yeast fermentation),

2. (ii) environmental monitoring (illustrated by analysis of contaminated ground water samples) and

3. (iii) on-line chemical reaction monitoring (exemplified by the photolysis of aryl esters).

The applicability of MIMS to the analysis of environmental samples, including complex mixtures in water, air and soil, is noted.     

Poincaré’s inequalities and Talagrand’s concentration phenomenon for the exponential distribution

Summary. We present a simple proof, based on modified logarithmic Sobolev inequalities, of Talagrand’s concentration inequality for the exponential distribution. We actually observe that every measure satisfying a Poincaré inequality shares the same concentration phenomenon. We also discuss exponential integrability under Poincaré inequalities and its consequence to sharp diameter upper bounds on spectral gaps. Received: 10 June 1996 / In revised form: 9 August 1996     

Selective quenching of tryptophanyl fluorescence in bovine serum albumin by the iodide ion

Modified Stern-Volmer equation is obeyed by bovine serum albumin (BSA)-iodide system showing selective quenching of tryptophanyl fluorescence of BSA. The fraction of accessible protein fluorescence is 0.56 and the effective Stern-Volmer constant is 290 M^-1 at pH 7.4 in 0.005 M phosphate buffer at 25°C. Collisional quenching is operative both in the BSA -I⁻¹ system and the model system, tryptophan-I⁻¹. It is supported by the observed relationship between the ratio of quenching rate constants (k _q ) and diffusion coefficients and alsok _q with bulk viscosity.     

Nonequilibrium Vibrational Kinetics during Hypersonic Flow of a Solid Body in Nitrogen and Its Influence on the Surface Heat Flux

Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing - Nonequilibrium nitrogen dissociation-recombination kinetics in the boundary layer and on the surface of a solid body during hypersonic flow. the subsequent...     

On the conjugate boundary value problem

We study the conjugate boundary-value problem with boundary conditions whose orders can be as large as the order of the differential equation or larger. We construct the Green's function of the problem over the entire space when the separating surface is a hyperplane, and we describe its properties. Bibliography: 6 titles.Translated fromMatematicheskie Metody i Fiziko-Mekhanicheskie Polya, Issue 30, 1989, pp. 20–24.     

Barium ferrite particulates prepared by a salt-melt method

Barium ferrite particulates have been prepared by coprecipitation and calcination in a flux of NaCl-KCl. It was found that a flux containing more than 30 wt% KCl tends to seriously deteriorate the magnetic properties of resultant perticulates. The flux with 10 wt% KCl or less showed promising results. A Ba(CoZr)_0.75Fe_10.5O₁₉ particulate showed the best properties, i.e., a saturation magnetization of 68.5, a squareness ratio of 0.49, and a coercivity of 1280 Oe, when calcined in NaCl at 900°C for 4 h.     

The anomalous 3-boson couplings as an implication of the Higgs sector

We discuss the possible new electroweak interactions which may be generated by the Higgs sector at the scale of theZ mass. For this purpose, we give a set ofSU(2)×U(1) gauge invariant operators constructed in terms ofW, Z, γ and Higgs fields which in the unitary gauge describe all possible γWW andZWW anomalous couplings. The dimension of these operators varies from 6 to 12. This fact allows us to consider various scenaria for the manifestations of the New Physics. We conclude that the underlying dynamics induced by the Higgs sector can be tested through a model-independent amplitude analysis of gauge boson pair production at LEP2 and future colliders.     

Effects of strong coupling in homonuclear correlation spectroscopy

A calculation of the complex signals in homonuclear correlation spectra (HOMCOR) of strongly coupled ABX three-spin systems is presented. It is shown that the presence of strong coupling causes the behavior of the cross-peaks to differ significantly from that found in the case of weak coupling. Two classes of connectivity patterns, namely weak and strong connectivity pairs of transitions are distinguished. Closed expressions for the real amplitudes are given. The dependence of the real amplitude on the flip angle of the mixing pulse and on the coupling strength is analyzed.