Evaluation of infection imaging potential of <Superscript>131</Superscript>I-labeled imidazolium salt

Effective antimicrobial compounds are necessary due to increased resistance of antibiotics against microorganisms causing infectious diseases. In this study, imidazolium-TFSI salt [ITFSI: octyl-bis(3-methylimidazolium)-di(bis(trifluoromethane)sulfonimide)] was labeled with ¹³¹I with high efficiency. In vitro uptake experiments of ¹³¹I-ITFSI showed high uptake in gram-positive Staphylococcus aureus bacteria. ¹³¹I-ITFSI was also evaluated for comparison between bacterial infection and sterile inflammation by in vivo studies. The biodistribution results revealed that ¹³¹I-ITFSI might be used as a nuclear imaging agent for detection of bacterial infection.     

The effect of demineralization and torrefaction consequential pre-treatment on energy characteristic of palm empty fruit bunches

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry - The refined pitch (1#) and impregnating pitch (2#) were obtained under certain conditions with the modified pitch as the raw materials. The data of...     

Characteristics of X‐ray attenuation in electrospun bismuth oxide/polylactic acid nanofibre mats

The characteristics of the X‐ray attenuation in electrospun nano(n)‐ and micro(m)‐Bi₂O₃/polylactic acid (PLA) nanofibre mats with different Bi₂O₃ loadings were compared as a function of energy using mammography (i.e. tube voltages of 22–49 kV) and X‐ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) (7–20 keV). Results indicate that X‐ray attenuation by electrospun n‐Bi₂O₃/PLA nanofibre mats is distinctly higher than that of m‐Bi₂O₃/PLA nanofibre mats at all energies investigated. In addition, with increasing filler loading (n‐Bi₂O₃ or m‐Bi₂O₃), the porosity of the nanofibre mats decreased, thus increasing the X‐ray attenuation, except for the sample containing 38 wt% Bi₂O₃ (the highest loading in the present study). The latter showed higher porosity, with some beads formed, thus resulting in a sudden decrease in the X‐ray attenuation.     

Irresolvable complex mixture of hydrocarbons in soybean oil deodorizer distillate

Aliphatic hydrocarbons (HCs) can be used as a fingerprint of a given seed oil. Only by characterization of aliphatic HCs could contamination by mineral oil in that seed oil be confirmed. During the isolation of squalene from soybean oil deodorizer distillate, a significant amount of unknown HCs, ca. 44 wt%, was obtained. These seemingly‐easy‐to‐identify HCs turned out to be much more difficult to elucidate due to the presence of an irresolvable complex mixture (ICM). The objective of this study was to purify and identify the unknown ICM of aliphatic HCs from soybean oil deodorizer distillate. Purification of the ICM was successfully achieved by using modified Soxhlet extraction, followed by modified preparative column chromatography, and finally by classical preparative column chromatography. FT‐IR, TLC, elemental analysis, GC/FID, NMR and GC‐MS analyses were then performed on the purified HCs. The GC chromatogram detected the presence of ICM peaks comprising two major peaks and a number of minor peaks. Validation methods such as IR and NMR justified that the unknowns are saturated HCs. This work succeeded in tentatively identifying the two major peaks in the ICM as cycloalkane derivatives.     

优化光谱指数的露天煤矿区土壤重金属含量估算

光谱学提供了对土壤中许多元素进行定量分析和快速无损检测的方法。可见光和近红外反射光谱（Vis-NIR）为研究土壤重金属污染提供了一个有用的工具。于新疆准东露天煤矿区采集51个0～10 cm深度的土壤样品,在实验室中分别测定样品的有机质（SOM）含量、重金属砷（As）含量与高光谱;使用基于JAVA语言自主开发的两波段组合软件V1.0（No: 2018R11S177501）计算不同高光谱数据变换形式（原始反射率（R）,倒数（1/R）,对数（lgR）和平方根（）下Vis-NIR区域（400~2 400 nm）所有两波段组合得到的优化光谱指数（NPDI）与As的相关性,在最优光谱指数（|r|≥0.73和p=0.001）中通过变量重要性准则（VIP）进一步筛选VIP≥1的指数作为模型自变量,基于地理加权回归（GWR）模型估算As含量并使用四个交叉验证度量标准：相对分析误差（RPD）,决定系数（R2）,均方根误差（RMSE）和最小信息准则（ACI）评价模型精度,从而探讨优化光谱指数方法应用于高光谱检测露天煤矿区土壤重金属砷含量的可行性。结果表明：(1）研究区As含量离散度较高,所有样品中SOM含量均小于2％,且As含量与SOM含量在0.01的显著性水平上无显著相关性（|r|=0.113）。（2）As含量与单波段光谱反射率的相关性很低（|r|≤0.228）,而通过R,1/R,lgR,计算的NPDIs与As含量的相关性在近红外（NIR,780~1 100 nm）和短波红外（SWIR,1 100~1 935 nm）光谱中发现最高的相关系数和最低的p值（|r|≥0.73和p=0.001）,在长波近红外（LW-NIR）区域基于R形成的NPDIs与As含量相关性最高（|r|=0.74）。（3）VIP方法分别筛选NPDI_{R（1 417/1 246）},NPDI_{1/R（799/953,825/947）}、NPDI_{sqrt-R（1 023/1 257,1 008/1 249,1 021/1 250,1 020/1 247）}和NPDI_{lgR（801/953,811/953,817/951,825/947,828/945）}为GWR模型自变量。(4）从4个预测模型的表现可以看出,Model-a（R）与其他三个模型（Model-b（1/R）,Model-c（）和Model-d（lgR））相比,它具有最高的验证系数（R2=0.831,RMSE=4.912 μg·g-1,RPD=2.321）和最低的最小信息准则值（AIC=179.96）。优化光谱指数NPDI_{R(1 417/1 246)}有助于快速准确地估算As含量,为进一步获取地表土壤重金属污染分布信息提供理论支持和应用参考,促进露天煤矿区环境污染快速有效调查和生态可持续发展。     

New Organometallic Ruthenium(II) Compounds Synergistically Show Cytotoxic,Antimetastatic and Antiangiogenic Activities for the Treatment of Metastatic Cancer

In this study, we newly designed and synthesized a small library of ten structurally related C,N-cyclometalated ruthenium(II) complexes containing various pyridine-functionalized NHC ligand and chelating bipyridyl ligands (e.g., 2,2′-bipyridine, 5,5′-dimethyl-2,2′-bipyridine, and 1,10-phenanthroline (phen)). The complexes were well characterized by NMR, electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry, and single-crystal X-ray structure analyses. Among the new ruthenium(II) derivatives, we identified that the complex Ru8 bearing bulky moieties (i.e., phen and pentamethyl benzene) had the most potent cytotoxicity against all tested cancer cell lines, generating dose- and cell line-dependent IC₅₀ values at the range of 3.3–15.0 μm . More significantly, Ru8 not only efficiently inhibited the metastasis process against invasion and migration of tumor cells but also exhibited potent antivascular effects by suppressing HUVEC cells migration and tube formation in vitro and blocking vessel generation in vivo (chicken chorioallantoic membrane model). In a metastatic A2780 tumor xenograft-bearing mouse model, administration of Ru8 outperformed antimetastatic agent NAMI-A and clinically approved cisplatin in terms of antitumor efficacy and inhibition of metastases to other organs. Overall, these data provided compelling evidence that the new cyclometalated ruthenium complex Ru8 is an attractive agent because of synergistically suppressing bulky tumors and metastasized tumor nudes. Therefore, the complex Ru8 deserves further investigations.     

批量到达的、具有两种服务阶段和服务中断的重试排队系统的适定性

运用Hille-Yosida定理,Phillips定理与Fattorini定理证明批量到达、具有两种服务阶段和服务中断的重试排队系统存在唯一的、非负的、满足概率性质的时间依赖解.     

Optical properties of lithium magnesium borate glasses doped with Dy and Sm ions

Several studies showed the interesting properties of trivalent lanthanide ions when doped in various types of glasses. Optical and physical properties of lithium magnesium borate glasses doped with Dy³⁺ then with Sm³⁺ ions were determined by measuring their absorption and luminescence spectra in the visible region. The absorption spectra of Dy³⁺ showed eight absorption bands with hypersensitive transition at 1265 nm (⁶H_15/2→⁶F_11/2-⁶H_9/2) and three PL emission bands at 588 nm (⁴F_9/2→⁶H_15/2), 660 nm (⁴F_9/2→⁶H_13/2) and 775 nm (⁴F_9/2→⁶H_11/2). Regarding the Sm3⁺, nine absorption bands were observed with hypersensitive transition at 1237 nm (⁶H_5/2–⁶F_7/2); the PL spectrum showed four prominent peaks at ⁴G_5/2→⁶H_5/2 (yellow color), ⁴G_5/2→⁶H_7/2 (bright orange color), ⁴G_5/2→⁶H_9/2 (orange reddish color) and ⁴G_5/2→⁶H_11/2 (red color), respectively. Finally, a series of physical parameters such as the oscillator strengths, refractive index, ions concentration, Polaron radius and other parameters were calculated for each dopant.