Thermospray high performance liquid chromatographic/mass spectrometric analysis of some fusarium mycotoxins

Thermospray high performance liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (TSP HPLC/MS) was used to analyze five Fusarium mycotoxins in porcine plasma and urine. Four cytotoxic trichothecene mycotoxins, T-2 toxin, HT-2 toxin, diacetoxyscirpenol (DAS), deoxynivalenol (DON), T2 tetraol, and the fungal estrogen zearalenone (F-2 toxin) were analyzed. The thermospray mass spectrum contained molecular weight information with few, if any, fragment signals. Detection limits ranging from 1 to 10 ng of mycotoxin injected onto the HPLC column were obtained using selected ion monitoring (SIM) HPLC/MS. Neither the plasma nor the urine matrix interfered with TSP HPLC/MS analysis of these mycotoxins and no sample derivatization was necessary for the analysis. The TSP HPLC/MS technique appears to be ideal for very sensitive analysis of mycotoxins in biological samples.     

Banach spaces whose duals contain complemented subspaces isomorphic to C[0, 1]

We give several characterizations of those Banach spaces X such that the dual $\text{X}{}^1$ contains a complemented subspace isomorphic to $\text{C[0, 1]}{}^1$. We investigate operators on separable $\text{L}$_∞ spaces whose adjoints have nonseparable ranges and apply our results to obtain a structure theorem for $\text{L}$_∞ spaces whose duals are not isomorphic to l₁(Γ).     

Anchoring and steering gaussian quadrature for positive definite strong moment functionals

Algorithms for the construction of block-formed orthogonal Laurent polynomial sequences and corresponding Gaussian quadratures associated with positive definite strong moment functionals are introduced and compared. Cost estimates and numerical examples are included.