Polymorphisme et analyse du comportement thermique d'une serie de 3-(α-hydroxy imino aryl) 1,2,2-trimethyl cyclopentane carboxylate

The infrared,¹H NMR and X-ray diffraction characteristics of a series of 3-(α-hydroxy-imino-aryl)-1,2,2-trimethyl cyclopentane carboxylate are reported. The thermal analysis of this series has been studied by differential scanning calorimetry. The results show a large variety of thermal behaviours with some of the compounds exhibiting polymorphism and the two types of isomers were detected.     

From simple to complex oscillatory behavior in metabolic and genetic control networks

We present an overview of mechanisms responsible for simple or complex oscillatory behavior in metabolic and genetic control networks. Besides simple periodic behavior corresponding to the evolution toward a limit cycle we consider complex modes of oscillatory behavior such as complex periodic oscillations of the bursting type and chaos. Multiple attractors are also discussed, e.g., the coexistence between a stable steady state and a stable limit cycle (hard excitation), or the coexistence between two simultaneously stable limit cycles (birhythmicity). We discuss mechanisms responsible for the transition from simple to complex oscillatory behavior by means of a number of models serving as selected examples. The models were originally proposed to account for simple periodic oscillations observed experimentally at the cellular level in a variety of biological systems. In a second stage, these models were modified to allow for complex oscillatory phenomena such as bursting, birhythmicity, or chaos. We consider successively (1) models based on enzyme regulation, proposed for glycolytic oscillations and for the control of successive phases of the cell cycle, respectively; (2) a model for intracellular Ca(2+) oscillations based on transport regulation; (3) a model for oscillations of cyclic AMP based on receptor desensitization in Dictyostelium cells; and (4) a model based on genetic regulation for circadian rhythms in Drosophila. Two main classes of mechanism leading from simple to complex oscillatory behavior are identified, namely (i) the interplay between two endogenous oscillatory mechanisms, which can take multiple forms, overt or more subtle, depending on whether the two oscillators each involve their own regulatory feedback loop or share a common feedback loop while differing by some related process, and (ii) self-modulation of the oscillator through feedback from the system's output on one of the parameters controlling oscillatory behavior. However, the latter mechanism may also be viewed as involving the interplay between two feedback processes, each of which might be capable of producing oscillations. Although our discussion primarily focuses on the case of autonomous oscillatory behavior, we also consider the case of nonautonomous complex oscillations in a model for circadian oscillations subjected to periodic forcing by a light-dark cycle and show that the occurrence of entrainment versus chaos in these conditions markedly depends on the wave form of periodic forcing. (c) 2001 American Institute of Physics.     

Pseudo‐c‐archimedean and pseudo‐finite cyclically ordered groups

Robinson and Zakon gave necessary and sufficient conditions for an abelian ordered group to satisfy the same first‐order sentences as an archimedean abelian ordered group (i.e., which embeds in the group of real numbers). The present paper generalizes their work to obtain similar results for infinite subgroups of the group of unimodular complex numbers. Furthermore, the groups which satisfy the same first‐order sentences as ultraproducts of finite cyclic groups are characterized.     

Identification of free radicals trapped in solid methacrylated resins

Photopolymerization of methacrylated dental resins at room temperature leads to the appearance of long‐life free radicals because of system vitrification. These free radicals were observed by electronic paramagnetic resonance (EPR), and their characterization was undertaken by reference to the reactional mechanism, from the comparison with the model EPR signal and from theoretical simulation. Overlapping of two EPR signals assigned to two different kinds of radicals because of methacrylate end groups accounted for all the experimental and theoretical results. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 41: 1691–1699, 2003     

MV-algebras and Partially Cyclically Ordered Groups

Order - We prove that there exists a functorial correspondence between MV-algebras and partially cyclically ordered groups which are the wound-rounds of lattice-ordered groups. It follows that some...     

Formal power series with cyclically ordered exponents

We define and study a notion of ring of formal power series with exponents in a cyclically ordered group. Such a ring is a quotient of various subrings of classical formal power series rings. It carries a two variable valuation function. In the particular case where the cyclically ordered group is actually totally ordered, our notion of formal power series is equivalent to the classical one in a language enriched with a predicate interpreted by the set of all monomials.Received: 24 February 2003     

First order theory of cyclically ordered groups

By a result known as Rieger's theorem (1956), there is a one-to-one correspondence, assigning to each cyclically ordered group H a pair $(G,z)$ where G is a totally ordered group and z is an element in the center of G, generating a cofinal subgroup $〈z〉$ of G, and such that the cyclically ordered quotient group $G/〈z〉$ is isomorphic to H. We first establish that, in this correspondence, the first-order theory of the cyclically ordered group H is uniquely determined by the first-order theory of the pair $(G,z)$. Then we prove that the class of cyclically orderable groups is an elementary class and give an axiom system for it. Finally we show that, in contrast to the fact that all theories of totally ordered Abelian groups have the same universal part, there are uncountably many universal theories of Abelian cyclically ordered groups.