Structural Characterization of Biocidal Oligoguanidines

Oligomeric guanidines can be obtained by polycondensation of guanidine hydrochloride and 1,2‐bis(2‐aminoethoxy)ethane. A comparative MALDI‐TOF mass spectrometry/NMR spectroscopy study with a ¹³C‐labeled sample enabled the unambiguous analysis of a guanidine‐based polymer. Among the four major product series unprecedented macrocyclic compounds were detected. The minimum inhibition concentrations for four different microorganisms were determined, showing excellent biocidal activities.

     

Chiral extrapolation and determination of low-energy constants from lattice data

We propose analytic approximations of chiral SU(3)$\mathit{SU}(3)$ amplitudes for the extrapolation of lattice data to the physical meson masses. The method allows the determination of NNLO low-energy constants in a controllable fashion. We test the approach with recent lattice data for the ratio FK/Fπ$F_K/F_{\pi }$ of meson decay constants.     

Complexity of scheduling of coupled tasks with chains precedence constraints and any constant length of gap

Coupled tasks scheduling was originally introduced for modelling complex radar devices. It is still used for controlling such devices and applied in similar applications. This paper considers a problem of coupled tasks scheduling on one processor, under the assumptions that all processing times are equal to 1, the gap has a constant exact length and the precedence constraints are strict. Although it is proven that the problem stated above is NP-hard in the strong sense if the precedence constraints have a form of a general graph, it is possible to solve some of its relaxed versions in polynomial time. This paper contains a solution for the problem of coupled tasks scheduling with an assumption that the precedence constraints graph has a form of chains and it presents an algorithm that can solve the problem with such assumption in time O(n?log?n).