Comparison of the ELP and multicanonical methods in simulation of the heptapeptide deltorphin

To investigate the performance of the energy landscape paving (ELP) procedure for peptides, we apply it here to deltorphin, a linear heptapeptide with bulky side chains (H-Tyr¹-D-Met²-Phe³-His⁴-Leu⁵-Met⁶-Asp⁷-NH₂) and compare the results with the Multicanonical method (MUCA) in regard of finding the low-energy structures. Deltorphin is modeled in vacuum by the potential energy function ECEPP. Received 23 July 2002 / Received in final form 18 September 2002 Published online 31 December 2002     

Dissipation-Managed Bright Soliton in a 1D Bose-Einstein Condensate in an Optical-Lattice Potential

We study the formation of a dynamically-stabilized dissipation-managed bright soliton in a quasi-one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate by including an imaginary three-body recombination loss term and an imaginary linear feeding one in the Gross-Pitaevskii equation, trapped in a shallow optical-latticepotential. Based on the direct approach of perturbation theory for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation, we demonstrate that the height (as well as width) of bright soliton may have little change through selecting experimental parameters.     

光束旋转90°多程放大系统的波前误差校正

光束通过神光-Ⅲ原型装置四程放大系统发生了90°旋转和扩束。在四程放大系统腔镜处放置变形镜校正系统像差是一种新的自适应光学方案，推导出被校正像差与变形镜面形之间的数学关系。理论推导表明，在扩束比大于1的前提下，腔镜处变形镜可以校正系统输出的任意类型的像差，且变形镜对应的面形唯一。理论分析和计算仿真说明该方案的校正能力与像差类型和扩束比有关，扩束比增大将增强变形镜校正像散的能力，但系统旋光消像散的能力也将减弱。     

1-苯并噻唑基-吡唑啉类荧光化合物的合成及其荧光光谱

合成了几种苯并噻唑基 -吡唑啉类化合物 ,经红外吸收光谱和荧光发射光谱测定 ,此类化合物具有一定的荧光性 ,其荧光强度的大小与衍生物中不同的取代基有关。     

Single production of fourth-family quarks at the LHC

We study the single production of fourth-family quarks through the process pp→Q′jX at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). We have calculated the decay widths and branching ratios of the fourth-family quarks (b′ and t′) in the mass range 300–800 GeV. The cross sections for the signal and background processes have been calculated in a Monte Carlo framework. It is shown that the LHC can discover single t′ and b′ quarks if the CKM matrix elements |V _t′q |,|V _qb′|≳0.01.     

Théorie des processus stochastiques généraux applications aux surmartingales

Sans résuméCe nous est un très agréable devoir d'adresser ici nos plus vifs remerciements à Monsieur J. Paris qui a bien voulu, avec une bienveillance toute particulière, veiller au meilleur déroulement de ce travail, partie de notre thèse de doctorat défendue à l'Université Catholique de Louvain.Nous sommes également très reconnaissants à Monsieur P.A. Meyer, qui nous a signalé la seconde partie du théorème 12.     

Investigation of directional solidified Al–Ti alloy

Al–1 wt% Ti alloy was directionally solidified upwards under argon atmosphere under the two conditions; with different temperature gradients (G = 2.20–5.82 K/mm) at a constant growth rate (V = 8.30 μm/s) and with different growth rates (V = 8.30–498.60 μm/s) at a constant temperature gradient (G = 5.82 K/mm) in a Bridgman furnace. The dependence of characteristic microstructure parameters such as primary dendrite arm spacing (λ₁), secondary dendrite arm spacing (λ₂), dendrite tip radius (R) and mushy zone depth (d) on the velocity of crystal growth and the temperature gradient were determined by using a linear regression analysis. A detailed analysis of microstructure development with models of dendritic solidification and with previous similar experimental works on dendritic growth for binary alloys were also made.     

Investigation of metal activation of a partially purified polyphenol oxidase enzyme electrode

Biosensors can be developed using different biological materials and immobilization technologies. Enzymes are generally used in biosensor construction, and some enzymes need metal ions or small organic molecules as a cofactor for their activation. Polyphenol oxidases can be activated by several metal ions such as Cu²⁺, Mg²⁺, Zn²⁺, Mn²⁺, and Ni²⁺. In this study, a new measurement method has been developed that is based on the metal ion activation of the polyphenol oxidase enzyme used in the biosensor preparation, especially to determine the concentration of Mg²⁺ ions. Polyphenol oxidase (PPO) (EC 1.10.3.1) was partially purified from potato (Solanum tuberosum) by using (NH₄)₂SO₄ precipitation, dialysis, and lyophylization processes. As a result of this processes, approximately 30-fold purification was achieved for PPO. For construction of the biosensor, the enzyme was immobilized on the dissolved oxygen probe membrane using gelatin and glutaraldehyde (2.5%). Using the biosensor, we obtained responses for catechol in the absence and presence of Mg²⁺ ions. Differences between the biosensor responses were related to the concentration of Mg²⁺ ions. The biosensor response depends linearly on concentration of Mg²⁺ ions between 0.05 and 7.5?mM. In the optimization studies, phosphate buffer (pH 7.0, 50?mM) and 35°C were determined to be the optimum conditions. This project will be a novel biosensor study and it might bring a new term, ‘activation based biosensor’ into the biosensor area.     

Synthesis of New Spirodifuranose Derivatives by Reduction of Stable Spiro-Endoperoxides

Synthesis of three new stable spirodifuranose derivatives (3, 5, and 7), which cannot be obtained easily using ordinary synthetic methods, has been achieved by reduction of 3-O-acetyl and 3-O-methyl derivatives of (4R)-1,2-O-alkylidene-5-eno-4,7-epidioxy-5,6,8-trideoxy-α-D-threo-1,4-furano-4,7-diulo-octoses (1, 4, and 6).     

高效液相色谱-荧光检测法测定血清中的犬尿氨酸

建立了高效液相色谱-荧光检测(HPLC-FLD)测定血清中犬尿氨酸(kynurenine,Kyn)含量的方法。采用Hypersil C8色谱柱(300 mm×6.0 mm,10 μm), 流动相为0.25 mol/L醋酸锌及50 mmol/L醋酸溶液(含3%乙腈),流速为1.5 mL/min, 荧光检测激发波长和发射波长分别为365 nm和480 nm。血清标本经5%(v/v)高氯酸溶液去除蛋白质后取上层清液直接进样, Kyn经流动相等度洗脱分离后,用FLD进行测定。研究结果表明Kyn保留时间约为8.3 min,线性范围为0.098～19.6 μmol/L,最低检出浓度为0.04 μmol/L,回收率为90.8%～96.2%,日内、日间测定的相对标准偏差均小于5%,苯丙氨酸、酪氨酸、色氨酸、5-羟色胺和犬尿喹啉酸等物质对犬尿氨酸的测定均无干扰。建立的方法简便、快速、灵敏、特异,适用于临床和科研应用。