Total flavonoid content in varieties of Calendula officinalis L. originating from different countries and cultivated in Estonia

Total flavonoid contents in the inflorescences of different varieties of Calendula officinalis L. were investigated. The commercial seeds (20 samples) of varieties of C. officinalis originating from eight European countries were cultivated in home gardens in two different counties of Estonia. Total flavonoid contents, determined spectrophotometrically (λ = 370 nm), varied from each other by more than three times (0.21-0.68%) in the investigated varieties. The variety with the highest flavonoid content was 'Kablouna', produced by the Finnish company Siemen (0.68%). Other varieties with high flavonoid content, such as 'Touch of Red' produced by the Latvian company Kurzemes Seklas (0.55%), 'Golden Emperor' produced by the Finnish company Suvipiha (0.50%), 'Pomyk' from Poland (0.50%), etc., may also be preferred for cultivation as natural sources, as they are also rich in flavonoids. The amount of total flavonoids depends on the variety and/or the place and time of cultivation. There appeared to be no conclusive relationship between the total flavonoid content and the colour of ligulate and tubular florets of C. officinalis.     

Identification of internal cracks in a three-dimensional solid body via Steklov–Poincaré approaches

This Note deals with the identification of internal planar cracks inside a three-dimensional elastic body via two approaches relying on domain decomposition using elastostatic measurements. These approaches consist in recasting the problem in terms of primal or dual Steklov–Poincaré equations. The primal approach is a straightforward continuation to the elastic Cauchy problem of the work presented in J. Ben Abdallah (2007) [1] which is devoted to the Cauchy problem for the scalar Laplace equation. The numerical performances of these formulations are compared.     

C-Totally real pseudo-parallel submanifolds of Sasakian space forms

Let be (2n + 1)-dimensional Sasakian space form of constant ϕ-sectional curvature (c) and M ⁿ be an ⁿ -dimensional C-totally real, minimal submanifold of . We prove that if M ⁿ is pseudo-parallel and , then M ⁿ is totally geodesic.     

Thermodynamic interactions in blends of poly(4-tert-butyl styrene) and polyisoprene by small-angle neutron scattering

The thermodynamic interactions between poly(4-tert-butyl styrene) [P(4tBS)] and 1,4-polyisoprene (PI; both hydrogenous) were obtained as functions of the temperature, PI molecular weight, and blend composition through the examination of miscible ternary blends of these two components with a common miscible labeled polymer [90% 1,2-deuterated polybutadiene (dPBD)] with small-angle neutron scattering. The thermodynamic interaction parameters between P(4tBS) and dPBD and between P(4tBS) and PI increased with increasing temperature and were consistent with lower critical solution temperature behavior. Although the binary blends of P(4tBS) and dPBD exhibited phase separation at elevated temperatures, the thermodynamic interaction parameters between P(4tBS) and PI remained large and negative and independent of the PI molecular weight. Finally, the thermodynamic interactions for PI and P(4tBS) depended strongly on the ratio of PI to P(4tBS) and were also sensitive to the amount of dPBD present in the ternary blend. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part B: Polym Phys 42: 3204–3217, 2004     

Reaction of neptunyl ions with mycobactin S in nonaqueous medium

Addition of solutions of mycobactin S in acetone or methanol/acetone mixtures to solutions of NpO ₂ ²⁺ in the same solvent leads to the immediate reduction of neptunium/VI/ to neptunium/V/. Np/V/ interacts with the ionophore to form a yellow complex with a cation: ligand ratio of 21. The course of these reactions is followed by measurement of changes in characteristic optical absorption and by spectrophotometric titration within the range 700–1350 nm.     

ON PSEUDOSYMMETRY TYPE HYPERSURFACES OF SEMI-EUCLIDEAN SPACES I

In this paper the authors investigate hypersurfaces M of a semi-Euclidean space Esn+1, n > 4, satisfying (aC + BR) ?H = LkQ(g, Hk), k = 1,2, 3. Using obtained results they show additional curvature properties of investigated hypersurfaces.     

Effect of Laponite and a nonionic polymer on the absorption character of cationic dye solutions

The effect of Laponite and an amphiphilic triblock copolymer of poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO)-poly(propylene oxide) (PPO)-poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) (PEO(99)-PPO(65)-PEO(99), and labeled F127) on the absorption character of two cationic dyes, methylene blue and toluidine blue O, was studied and interpreted in terms of the changing state of aggregation of the dye molecules. The combined effect of the polymer and Laponite on dye absorption was significantly different from their individual influences. Specifically, the presence of Laponite resulted in an increase in monomer population by dispersing the dye on the silicate surface. The presence of F127 also resulted in an increase in the dye monomer population, although to a smaller extent. The combined effect of the polymer and Laponite was an increase in the dimer or aggregate populations attributed to the competition of F127 with the dye molecules for the silicate surface.     

Kinetics and mechanism of the 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of phenyl azides to methyl 3-pyrrolidinoacrylate

Kinetics of cycloadditions of phenyl azides to methyl 3-pyrrolidinoacrylate (2) produced Hammett ? = 2.2. An E_a of 13.5 kcal mole ^?1 and Δ S^* of ?37.4 cal.K^?l mole^?1 were calculated for the cycloaddition of p-O₂NC₆H₄N₃ to 2. The cycloadditions are concerted, non-synchronous, and are controlled by LUMO (azide) - HOMO (dipolarophile) interactions.     

Submanifolds and their k-planar number

IfM is a submanifold of ⁿ the normal plane together with a tangent at a pointx M span an affine plane which intersectsM, locally, in a curve called the normal section. This paper introduces, for each integerk, a parameter called(k) which depends on the curvature and torsion of these normal sections. Results are obtained showing how these parameters for a product submanifold depend on the value of this parameter for the factor submanifolds.The first author is supported by Uludag University in TURKEY