Electron paramagnetic resonance characterization of gamma irradiation damage centers in powder of L-(+)-tartaric acid,N-acetyl-L-alanine and 1-methyl-L-histidine

The electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) of γ-irradiated powders of l-(+)-tartaric acid, N-acetyl-l-alanine and 1-methyl-l-histidine were investigated at room temperature. Radiation damage centers are attributed to HOOCCH(OH)?(OH)COOH, CH₃?HCOOH and ?CH₂?HCOOH radicals. The spectra were computer-simulated. Hyperfine structure constants and g-values were determined for these three radicals. The unirradiated samples showed no EPR signal. Some spectroscopic properties and suggestions concerning the possible structure of the radicals are discussed in this paper.     

A polythiophene derivative bearing TEMPO as a cathode material for rechargeable batteries

A polythiophene derivative bearing TEMPO radical was synthesized by oxidative chemical polymerization of its monomer. The polymer had a high spin density (2.05 × 10²¹ spins/g of polymer). CV studies of the polymer showed that the electrochemical redox reaction of the TEMPO radicals were completely reversible. We demonstrated, for the first time, construction and charge/discharge characteristics of an organic radical battery utilizing a TEMPO bearing polythiophene based cathode material. The battery had an initial specific discharge capacity of 79 A h/kg (87% of the theoretical capacity) and an average output voltage of 3.6 V. The specific energy capacity initially discharged was 268 W h/kg.     

Towards near-infrared photosensitisation: a photosensitising hydrophilic non-peripherally octasulfanyl-substituted Zn phthalocyanine

A Zn(II) phthalocyanine substituted with eight hydroxylated sulfanyl moieties in non-peripheral positions was designed to exhibit properties desired for photodynamic therapy: hydrophilicity, isomeric purity and near-infrared absorption in addition to high singlet oxygen generation. Photophysical and photochemical studies proved to be promising.     

W doped SnO2 growth via sol–gel routes and characterization: Nanocubes

The effects of W doping on the characteristical properties of SnO₂ thin films prepared by sol–gel spin coating method were investigated. The SnO₂ thin films were deposited at various W doping ratios and characterized by various measurements. XRD studies indicated that the undoped and W doped SnO₂ films had cubic and tetragonal phases. The SEM images of WTO thin films showed cubic shaped nanocubes corresponding to cubic phase and the smaller particles corresponding to tetragonal phase were formed on the film surfaces, and their distributions and sizes were dependent on the W doping ratio. EDX spectroscopy analyses showed that the calculated and participated atomic ratios of W/(W + Sn) (at.%) in the starting solution and in the WTO thin films were almost close. It was found that the sheet resistance depended on W doping ratio and 2.0 at.% W doped SnO₂ (WTO) exhibited lowest value of sheet resistance (7.11 × 10³ Ω/cm²).     

Global existence and boundedness for a class of second-order nonlinear differential equations

In this paper we obtain new conditions for the global existence and boundedness of solutions for nonlinear second-order equations of the form ${\left(r\left(t\right){\left|u^{\prime }\right|}^{p?2}{u}^{\prime }\right)}^{\prime }+g(t,u,u^{\prime })u^{\prime }+a\left(t\right)f\left(u\right)=e\left(t\right)\text{,}$ where $p>1$ is a real constant. The results are applicable to well-known Emden–Fowler and Lienard type equations. An illustrative example is also provided.     

Dominant sets based movie scene detection

Multimedia indexing and retrieval has become a challenging topic in organizing huge amount of multimedia data. This problem is not a trivial task for large visual databases; hence, segmentation into low- and high-level temporal video segments might improve the realization of this task. In this paper, we introduce a weighted undirected graph-based movie scene detection approach to detect semantically meaningful temporal video segments. The method is based on the idea of finding the dominant scene of the video according to the selected low-level feature. The proposed method starts from obtaining the most reliable solution first and exploit each solution in the subsequent steps recursively. The dominant movie scene boundary, which can be the highest probability to be the correct one, is determined and this scene boundary information is also exploited in the subsequent steps. We handle two partitioning strategies to determine the boundaries of the remaining scenes. One is a tree-based strategy and the other is an order-based strategy. The proposed dominant sets based movie scene detection method is compared with the graph-based video scene detection methods presented in literature.     

Aflatoxin species: their health effects and determination methods in different foodstuffs

Carcinogenic and mutagenic properties of aflatoxin species are known in literature. Their intake over a long time period might be health-dangerous for human even at trace levels. It is well known that different foodstuffs can be contaminated by aflatoxin species through growing and storage. Due to the serious health effects, sensitive determination of aflatoxin species in any matrices related with the human being is very crucial at trace levels. In literature, there are sensitive techniques to analyze the different samples for the contents of their aflatoxin species. Each technique has some advantages and disadvantages over the other techniques. This review aims to summarize the different health effects of aflatoxin species, development of analytical techniques and applications of developed techniques in a variety of matrices.      

Synthesis,characterization and anti-tumor activity of Pd(II) complexes with 4,5-benzo-3H-1,2-dithiole-3-thione

Transition Metal Chemistry - Reaction of Na2[PdCl4] with two equivalents of 4,5-benzo-3H-1,2-dithiole-3-thione (btt) affords cis-[PdCl2(κ1-btt)2] (1), which provides a convenient entry into...     

Investigation of Bose-Einstein Condensates in q-Deformed Potentials with First Order Perturbation Theory

The Gross-Pitaevskii equation, which is the governor equation of Bose-Einstein condensates, is solved by first order perturbation expansion under various q-deformed potentials. Stationary probability distributions reveal one and two soliton behavior depending on the type of the q-deformed potential. Additionally a spatial shift of the probability distribution is found for the dark soliton solution, when the q parameter is changed.