Kinetische Uttersuchungen zur strahleninduzierten Lösungspolymerisation von Tetrafluoräthylen

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Proton spin lattice relaxation in single crystal of NaH3(SeO3)2

Proton spin lattice relaxation time in NaH₃(SeO₃)₂ was measured at temperatures 300-77 K at a frequency of 8.01 MHz. Except near the temperatures of the ferroelectric transitions at 196 and 100 K the relaxation rate is governed by paramagnetic impurities, and the formula derived by Blumberg for diffusion-limited case is applicable. A logarithmic divergence above 196 K is related to the anomaly of the dielectric constant in the same temperature range.     

Rare earth centers properties and electron trapping in SnO2 thin films produced by sol–gel route

Some very relevant optical, electrical, and structural properties of SnO₂ doped with rare-earth ions Er³⁺ and Eu³⁺ are presented. Films are produced by the sol–gel-dip coating process, and may be described as a combination of nanoscopic dimension crystallites (about 3–10 nm) with their respective intergrain potential barriers. The Er³⁺ and Eu³⁺ ions are expected to act as acceptors in SnO_2, which is a natural n-type conductor, inducing a high degree of charge compensation. Electron trapping and emission spectra data are presented and are rather distinct, depending on the location of the rare-earth impurity. This behavior allows the identification of two distinct centers: located either in the SnO₂ lattice or segregated at the particles surface. Based on a model for thermally activated cross-section defects, the difference between the capture energy of the photo-excited electron and the intergrain potential barrier is evaluated, leading to distinct values for high and low symmetry sites. A higher distortion in the lattice of undoped SnO₂ and SnO₂:Eu (1 at.%) was evaluated from Rietveld refinements of X-ray diffraction data. This was confirmed by Raman spectra, which are associated with the particles size and disorder. By comparing the samples with the same doping concentration, it was found that this disorder is higher in Eu-doped SnO₂ than in Er-doped SnO₂, which is in agreement with a higher energy for the lattice relaxation in the trapping process by Eu³⁺ centers.     

Highly sensitive restriction enzyme assay and analysis: a review

Biological assays at the single molecule level are crucial to fundamental studies of DNA-protein mechanisms. In order to cater for high throughput applications, one area of immense research potential is single-molecule bioassays where miniaturized devices are developed to perform rapid and effective biological reactions and analyses. With the success of various emerging technologies for engineering miniaturized structures down to the nanoscale level, supported by specialized equipment for detection, many investigations in the field of life science that were once thought impossible can now be actively explored. In this review, the significance of downscaling to the single-molecule level is firstly presented in selected examples, with the focus placed on restriction enzyme assays. To determine the effectiveness of single-molecule restriction enzyme reactions, simple and direct analytical methods based on DNA stretching have often been reliably employed. DNA stretching can be realized based on a number of working principles related to the physical forces exerted on the DNA samples. We then discuss two examples of a nanochannel system and a microchamber system where single-molecule restriction enzyme digestion and DNA stretching have been integrated, which possess prospective capabilities of developing into highly sensitive and high-throughput restriction enzyme assays. Finally, we take a brief look at the general trends in technological development in this field by comparing the advantages and disadvantages of performing assays at bulk, microscale and single-molecule levels. Figure Minaturization of Restriction Enzyme Assays and DNA Stretching     

Electrochemical behaviors of native and thermally denatured fish DNA in the presence of cytosine derivatives and porphyrin by cyclic voltammetry using boron-doped diamond electrode

The electrochemical behaviors of native and thermally denatured fish DNA was investigated using boron-doped diamond (BDD) film electrode by cyclic voltammetry. The BDD electrode afforded us to measure weak current less than muA for the DNA solution in 100 microl. The mixture of acetic acid and sodium acetate solution (0.2 M) was used as a supporting electrolyte. Two oxidation peaks were observed at about +1.1 V and +1.3 V at pH 4.6 for thermally denatured fish DNA. This is due to the oxidation of guanine and adenine in the denatured fish DNA, respectively. In contrast, the native fish DNA showed ill-defined peaks at +1.1 V. Furthermore, the electrochemical behaviors of thermally denatured fish DNA were studied in the presence of cytosine, cytidine, cytidine-5-monophosphate, tetrakis(1-methypyridinium-4-yl)porphyrin (H(2)(TMPyP)(4+)) and Ru(II)(TMPyP)(4+). The oxidation peak intensity at +1.1 V gradually decreased with the increase of the concentrations of the above compounds. Based on the above studies, electrochemical behaviors of the thermally denatured fish DNA at BDD electrode is discussed.     

Statistical solution to the capacity problem in direct-sequence code-division multiple-access communication systems

Tohru Kohda Department of Computer Science and Communication Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan Minoru Tabata Department of Mathematical Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka 599-8531, Japan Email: eshima{at}med.oita-u.ac.jp Received on September 21, 2005; Accepted on May 2, 2006 Capacity in the direct-sequence code-division multiple-access(DS/CDMA) communication system was considered according to thecode acquisition performance with the conventional serial-searchmethod, because code acquisition needs a difficult operation.Since capacity in DS/CDMA systems is defined by the maximumnumber of users that can simultaneously transmit their signalswith the same carrier frequencies, assuring a larger capacityis very important in DS/CDMA systems with respect to the economyof frequency source. This paper reconsiders the capacity problemthrough a statistical approach to code acquisition. First, aDS/CDMA system model is reviewed. Second, properties of thecounting method for code acquisition are discussed. It is provedthat the method can acquire the target user's code under anynumber of interference users that simultaneously transmit theirsignals, and that the method can guarantee a considerable precisionin code acquisition. Third, an observation time necessary forcode acquisition is given from a statistical discussion, andthe original counting method is modified into a simpler one.It is concluded that the capacity of the DS/CDMA communicationsystem can be set by the ‘bit error-rate-based capacityor signal-to-noise ratio-based capacity’, i.e. ‘post-acquisition-basedcriterion’, rather than the ‘acquisition-based capacity’.