A rat respiratory epithelial cell culture system for in vitro prediction of drug pulmonary absorption is currently lacking. Such a model may however enhance the understanding of interspecies differences in inhaled drug pharmacokinetics by filling the gap between human in vitro and rat in/ex vivo...

The detection of Energetic Neutral Particles (ENP) above 10 eV can unequivocally relate a surface-bound exosphere to surface features and can monitor instantaneously the effect of plasma precipitation onto the surface. In the framework of a mission to Jupiter's moons, 2D imaging of plasma p...

Rhamnolipid (RL) is a biosurfactant which is produced by the bacterial species Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Although applications of this material have been examined in various fields, its applications in the flotation of heavy metals remain to be explored. In this research, rhamnolipid was applied a...

The effects of consumption of white bread (low fiber) and brown bread (high fiber) on the fecal excretions of bile acids and neutral steroids and on fecal enzyme activities were assessed in ten healthy males (mean age 27 years). The study subjects included in their normal diet for one-week perio...

Feedback-related negativity (FRN) is an event-related brain potential that is elicited during outcome evaluation. Studies have found that FRN reflects a good vs. bad classification; more importantly, FRN reflects this classification in a context-dependent manner, which means that the outcome eva...

This study characterizes a primary reference dye standard, certified as being 99% C.I. Solvent Red 26, that is used in the United States to identify tax-free fuel, using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, thin-layer chromatography, gas chromatography/mass spectrometry and high-performance ...

A novel composite film (MCαN) based on microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) and nitrilotriacetic acid anhydride (NTAA) was prepared via casting method for the adsorption of methylene blue (MB) from aqueous solution. FT-IR, XRD, elemental analysis and TGA analysis demonstrated the success of modific...

CuFe2O4 particles were obtained by sol-gel process and characterized by XRD, SEM and EDS. The effects of tartaric acid (TA) on the degradation of methylene blue (MB) were studied in the presence of CuFe2O4 and H2O2 under light irradiation. The results showed that introducing TA enhanced MB decol...

The present study is aimed to utilize the seawater-based system for the production of bioethanol from black tea waste generated after the first brewing to reduce the consumption of freshwater in bioethanol industries. Two yeast isolates (Zygosaccharomyces bailii MTCC 8177 and Brettanomyces claus...

Because the commercialized graphitic carbon as an anode material is still limited by low capacities and poor long cyclic stability, new carbonaceous materials with good electrochemical performance are still needed to be sought. In the present work, a new fluorinated carbon material was obtained ...

The biosynthesis of surfactin has attracted broad interest; however, there is a bottleneck in its low yield in wild strains and the ability to engineer Bacillus producers. Because the key metabolic mechanisms in the surfactin synthesis pathway remain unclear, genetic engineering approaches are a...

ObjectiveThe beneficial effects of tea on health, including obesity, are well known. However, the comparative effects of black, green, white, and oolong teas, which are prepared from the same fresh leaves, on weight gain and the potential mechanisms involved are not yet fully understood. Bile ac...

The salts of dicarboxylic acids with alkaline earth metals are not very thoroughly studied and only a few such compounds are well known and characterized. In this work a detailed examination of the infrared spectra recorded at room temperature (RT) and at the liquid nitrogen boiling temperature ...

The tetragonal polar barium antimony tartrate trihydrate, Ba[Sb2((+)C4H2O6)2]·3H2O, was grown to large single crystals of optical quality and several cm dimensions. A vibrational spectroscopy study, thermal expansion measurements and a determination of the pyroelectric properties were performed...

In this research study, multi dopant barium hexaferrites nanoparticles with nominal composition of BaCoxCuxZr2xFe12-4xO19 (x = 0.0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, and 0.5) have been prepared by sol-gel auto-combustion method. Then, their magnetic and microwave properties were studied in detail. These chara...

Mica glass-ceramics are easily machined due to their “House-of-Cards” microstructure. Barium fluormica glass-ceramics were developed and indicated good mechanical properties. This work studies the effect of varying barium content on the crystallization and microhardness of mica glass-ceramics....

Polycrystalline ZnZr substituted barium hexaferrite (BaFe12-xZnx/2Zrx/2O19 where x = 0.3, 0.5, 0.7 and 1.0) specimen have been synthesized by two different methods, namely conventional and microwave sintering. The latter has resulted in magnetoplumbite phase in 5 min at a lower temperature (1000...

A core-shell structured Mn2O3/MgO microsphere was synthesized by a new facile self-assembly route. Characterization of the composite was conducted using X-ray diffraction (XRD), energy-dispersive X-ray spectrometry (EDX), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (T...

Arundo donax L. (A. donax) plant, which are naturally grown, is capable of removing heavy metals, toxins and dyes from the environment. In addition the cell structure A. donax enable the whole to make phytoremdation for the most of environmental pollutions. For that reasons, the A. donax cells w...

The decolorization of C.I. Reactive Red 2 using ozone-related, Fenton-like-related and ozone/Fenton-like hybrid systems was studied. The UV, H2O2, UV/Fe3+ and H2O2/Fe3+ systems did not achieve significant decolorization at pH 7; decolorization rates followed the order: pH 10 > pH 7 > pH 4 in the...