Preparation of 99mTc-MIBI complex under ultrasound irradiation

The (37MBq) 99mTc-MIBI complex samples were prepared due to ultrasound irradiation technique or boiled water bath method as a standard method. The qualitative and quantitative studies have been performed. The accumulation of 99mTc-MIBI complexes prepared by two above mentioned modalities were approximately 3 ± 0.1 % in the rats’ heart. The ultrasound irradiation technique is recommended to prepared 99mTc-MIBI complex in efficiently amount. Our approach can potentially reduce medical risk to the patient by avoiding any delay in acute therapy particularly for myocardial infarction patients.     

Fabrication of a novel electrospun molecularly imprinted nanomembrane coupled with high‐performance liquid chromatography for the selective separation and determination of acesulfame

A novel in situ molecularly imprinted sol–gel nanomembrane using nylon 6 as backbone was prepared by the electrospinning technique and coupled on‐line with high‐performance liquid chromatography. The prepared electrospun membrane exhibited extensive selectivity toward acesulfame in the presence of some selected sweeteners in a beverage sample, while the porosity and mechanical stability remained. The prepared electrospun membrane could be applied for 35 consequence extractions without a significant change in extraction recovery, swelling, and flooding. To achieve the best condition and efficiency for on‐line extraction, the effect of influential parameters was investigated. The limit of detection (signal/noise = 3:1) and limit of quantification (signal/noise = 10:1) were 0.6 and 2.0 ng/mL for acesulfame in the beverage samples, respectively. The linearity for the acesulfame was in the range of 2.0–250 ng/mL in beverage samples. The coefficients of determination values were ≥0.997 for all runs. The extraction recoveries of acesulfame in the beverage samples were between 80 and 85%.     

Engineering the nonlinear phase shift

We treat the nonlinear phase shift response in the weak perturbation limit as a linear digital filter that can be synthesized into the values of its poles and zeros and mapped onto an optical architecture. This procedure results in a significant enhancement in the nonlinear sensitivity with a response that is robust to frequency changes within the filter passband. A precompensation technique can be used to reduce distortions under strongly driven nonlinear operation to achieve a larger phase shift. We also show that nonlinear sensitivity improves with increasing filter group delay and can be increased within constant linear bandwidth by use of higher-order filters.     

Efficient access to novel tetra- and pentacyclic dihydroquinolin-2-ones by catalyst-free domino Knöevenagel hetero-Diels–Alder reactions from <Emphasis Type="Italic">N</Emphasis>-(2-formylphenyl)-<Emphasis Type="Italic">N</Emphasis>-methylcinnamamides and cyclic 1,3-dicarbonyls in water

An efficient catalyst-free synthesis of novel annulated hybrid derivatives of two known scaffolds, dihydroquinolinone and pyranopyranone, pyranopyrimidinedione, pyranocoumarin or chromenone is described. N-(2-Formylphenyl)-N-methylcinnamamides underwent a one-pot domino Knöevenagel hetero-Diels–Alder reaction with dimedone, N,N-dimethylbarbituric acid, 1,3-indanedione, 4-hydroxycoumarins and 4-hydroxy-6-methyl-2H-pyran-2-one in water, affording the desired tetra and pentacyclic pyranoquinolinones in excellent yields.     

Chromium(III), manganese(II) and iron(III) complexes based on hydrazone Schiff-base and azide ligands: synthesis,crystal structure and antimicrobial activity

A tridentate NNO donor hydrazine Schiff base, HL, was obtained from condensation of pyridine 2-carbaldehyde and 4-hydroxy benzohydrazide. HL and azide ligands with Cr(III), Mn(II) and Fe(III) have been used to synthesize [Cr(L)(N₃)(OCH₃)]₂ (1), [Mn(HL)₂(N₃)₂] (2), and [Fe(L)(N₃)(OCH₃)]₂·H₂O (3). HL is quite diverse in its chelating ability and can be a neutral or monoanionic ligand as a tridentate unit. In this paper, we report structures showing different denticities of the ligand having different charges. The ligand 1–3 was characterized by elemental analysis, FT-IR, and UV–vis spectral studies and solid-state structures were determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis, revealing that 1 and 3 are binuclear, while 2 is mononuclear. The efficiencies of the ligand and the three complexes were evaluated for antimicrobial activity; MIC data revealed that HL 1–3 are not strongly active in comparison to standard drugs.     

Condensation of an ideal gas with intermediate statistics on the horizon

We consider a boson gas on the stretched horizon of the Schwartzschild and Kerr black holes. It is shown that the gas is in a Bose?CEinstein condensed state with the Hawking temperature T _c =T _H if the particle number of the system be equal to the number of quantum bits of space-time $N \simeq{A}/{l_{p}^{2}}$ . Entropy of the gas is proportional to the area of the horizon (A) by construction. For a more realistic model of quantum degrees of freedom on the horizon, we should presumably consider interacting bosons (gravitons). An ideal gas with intermediate statistics could be considered as an effective theory for interacting bosons. This analysis shows that we may obtain a correct entropy just by a suitable choice of parameter in the intermediate statistics.     

Calculation of on-state I–V characteristics of LDMOSFETs based on an accurate LDD resistance modeling

In this paper, we present an I–V model for LDMOSFETs. It is based on modeling the Lightly-Doped Drain (LDD) region of the device as voltage-controlled resistors where velocity saturation effect is also taken into account. Using the LDD region model along with a model for the channel region of the device, the on-state I–V characteristic of the transistor is accurately calculated. The models for the LDD region resistors can be incorporated into a circuit simulator such as HSPICE which has an accurate model for the channel region of the transistor. The accuracy of the models is verified by comparing its results with those of a device simulator. The results show a maximum error of 1% for a wide range of voltages and overlapped LDD region lengths.     

Primal-dual interior-point algorithm for semidefinite optimization based on a new kernel function with trigonometric barrier term

In this paper we propose primal-dual interior-point algorithms for semidefinite optimization problems based on a new kernel function with a trigonometric barrier term. We show that the iteration bounds are $O(\sqrt{n}\log(\frac{n}{\epsilon}))$ for small-update methods and $O(n^{\frac{3}{4}}\log(\frac{n}{\epsilon}))$ for large-update, respectively. The resulting bound is better than the classical kernel function. For small-update, the iteration complexity is the best known bound for such methods.     

Chiral bisoxazoline ligands with a biphenyl backbone: development and application in catalytic asymmetric allylic oxidation of cycloolefins

A simple and efficient method for the synthesis of chiral biphenylbisoxazoline ligands was developed. The bishydroxylamide precursors of ligands showed a dynamic atropselective resolution effect in the crystallization process. When biphenylbisoxazoline ligands were coordinated to tetrakis(acetonitrile)copper(I) hexafluorophosphate, it resulted in the formation of only a single diastereomer complex (S,aS,S), which behaved as a catalyst for the enantioselective allylic oxidation of cycloolefins. The enantioselectivity, yield, and rate of this reaction were optimized under different conditions, such as a change of solvents, temperature, and additives and also using various copper salts. The use of SBA-15 mesoporous silica as an additive played a crucial role in increasing the efficiency of the reaction.