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  • 11
    ISSN: 0018-019X
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Organic Chemistry
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: The new bis-macrocycle 1, 1′-[(1H-pyrazol-3], 5-diyl)bis(methylene)bis[1, 4, 7-triazacyclononane] (1) was synthesized and its complexation with Cu2+ studied. Potentiometric and spectrophotometric titrations indicate that, in addition to the mononuclear species [Cu(LH2)]4+, [Cu(LH)]3+, [CuL]2+, and [Cu(LH-1)]+, binuclear complexes such as [Cu2L]4+, [Cu2(LH-1)]3+, and [Cu2(LH-2)]2+ are also formed in solution. The stability constants and spectral properties of these are reported. The binuclear species [Cu2(LH-1)]3+ specifically reacts with an azide ion to give a ternary complex [Cu2(LH-1)(N3)]2+, the stability and structure of which were determined spectrophotometrically and by X-ray diffraction, respectively. The two Cu2+ ions are in a square-pyramidal coordination geometry. The axial ligand is one of the N-atoms of the 1, 4, 7-triazacyclononane ring, whereas at the base of the square pyramid, one finds the other two N-atoms of the macrocycle, one N-atom of the pyrazolide and one of the azide, both of which are bridging the two metal centres. In [Cu2(LH-1)(N3)]2+, a strong antiferromagnetic coupling is present, thus resulting in a species with a low magnetic moment of 1.36 B.M. at room temperature.
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  • 12
    ISSN: 1590-3478
    Keywords: MRI ; Optic neuritis ; Multiple sclerosis ; VEP
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Description / Table of Contents: Sommario Si descrivono i risultati ottenuti con indagini di Risonanza Magnetica (RM) dei nervi ottici (eseguite all'esordio e 12 mesi dopo) in 20 pazienti affetti da Neurite Ottica (NO) acuta, valutata in funzione della sintomatologia clinica e delle alterazioni campimetriche e del potenziale evocato visivo. Sono state analizzate le immagini RM in Short Tau Inversion Recovery (STIR) mettendo a confronto i rilievi ottenuti con sequenza Short Time Echo (STE-STIR: 22 msec) rispetto a quelli ottenuti con Long Time Echo (LTE-STIR: 20 msec). Mentre con la convenzionale STE-STIR è stato possibile rilevare lesioni a carico dei nervi ottici nel 57.2% delle Neuriti Acute e nel 42.9% delle Neuriti Pregresse, la metodica LTE-STIR è risultata diagnostica nel 95.2% delle Neuriti Acute e nel 85% delle Neuriti Pregresse. Sia nelle NO acute che nelle pregresse, la lunghezza delle lesioni a carico dei nervi ottici sono risultate significativamente maggiori rispetto a quelle ottenute con la convenzionale metodica STE-STIR.
    Notes: Abstract Magnetic resonance images of optic nerves were obtained in 20 patients with acute optic neuritis (ON), and assessed by means of clinical, visual field and visual evoked potential evaluations; the imaging was repeated 1 year later. The results of the conventional Short Tau Inversion Recovery (STIR) sequence obtained using short time echo (STE-STIR: 22 msec) were compared with those of the long time echo sequence (LTE-STIR: 80 msec). The conventional STE-STIR sequence revealed lesions in 57.2% cases of acute ON and in 42.9% of the optic nerves affected by previous ON: the LTE-STIR sequence was diagnostic in 95.2% of acute ON cases and in 85% of patients with previous ON. The calculated length of the optic nerve lesions was significantly longer in the images obtained using the LTE-STIR sequence than in those obtained using conventional STE-STIR sequences.
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  • 13
    ISSN: 1590-3478
    Keywords: Visual evoked potentials ; VEP ; Optic neuritis ; Multiple sclerosis
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Description / Table of Contents: Sommario I 20 pazienti affetti da Neurite Ottica (NO), descritti nel precedente lavoro [23] sono stati sottoposti a registrazioni seriali multicanali dei Potenziali Evocati Visivi (PEV), per un periodo di 2 anni dall'esordio della NO. I PEV potevano correlare con le lesioni evidenziate con la Risonanza Magnetica, con le alterazioni campimetriche e con altri reperti clinici. Basandoci sulla loro distribuzione in mappa, i PEV sono stati classificati come realmente “ritardati” e “pseudo-ritardati”. PEV realmente “ritardati” potevano essere registrati all'esordio, o precocemente dopo l'episodio di NO, e la presenza del “ritardo” stava ad indicare un recupero della funzione visiva e, quindi, una prognosi fausta. Gli “pseudo-ritardi” indicavano un'alterazione del campo visivo a prognosi non favorevole per un recupero della funzione visiva, a meno che entro i primi 3 mesi dalla NO si fosse verificata una ricomparsa di componenti normali o “ritardate”. Gli “pseudo-ritardi” erano rilievi caratteristici nei pazienti con lesioni maggiormente lunghe alle immagini LTE-STIR MRI [23]. Nessuna correlazione è stata trovata tra latenza dei PEV e lunghezza delle placche. I nostri rilievi sono in disaccordo con precedenti teorie relative ai tempi di instaurazione-recupero delle alterazioni di conduzione nella NO e nella Sclerosi Multipla.
    Notes: Abstract Twenty patients with optic neuritis (ON) described in the previous study [23] underwent serial VEP recordings (using multiple electrode arrays) for two years. The VEPs could be correlated with the lesions revealed by MRI, Visual Field tests and other clinical findings. On the basis of their scalp distribution, they were classified as “really delayed” VEPs and “pseudo-delayed” VEPs. Real delays could be recorded at the onset of ON or shortly afterwards, and their appearance indicated the recovery of visual function and a good prognosis. Pseudo-delays indicated an alteration in the visual field and, unless a breakthrough of normal or delayed components appeared in the first three months, following acute ON, indicate a poor prognosis for the recovery of visual function. The pseudo-delayed VEPs were mainly observed in patients with longer lesions revealed by means of LTE-STIR MRI [23]; there was no correlation between VEP latency and the length of plaques. Our findings contradict previous theories on the timing of conduction alterations in ON and multiple sclerosis.
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  • 14
    ISSN: 1040-0397
    Keywords: Glucose ; Biosensor ; Nafion ; Oxygen dependence ; Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: We have prepared amperometric glucose sensitive electrodes with a composite active layer consisting of Nafion, glucose oxidase, and carbon-supported platinum particles. A particularly advantageous configuration results from the use of such a film on a gas diffusion electrode. We demonstrate that the gas diffusion electrode configuration enables us to supply oxygen from the back of the electrode, thus providing the capability of operating the sensor independent of dissolved oxygen. The insensitivity to solution oxygen concentration has been demonstrated by monitoring the glucose response of the electrode after extensive deoxygenation of solution. Cast composite layers yield mechanically robust coatings with high enzyme loadings, and thus high sensitivity to glucose. The electrode responds rapidly and is stable over a long period (90% activity after more than half a year) when stored in solution. We have optimized the composition of the sensitive layer with respect to Nafion to C/Pt ratio and enzyme loading.
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  • 15
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    Macromolecular Theory and Simulations 4 (1995), S. 111-117 
    ISSN: 1022-1344
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology , Physics
    Notes: When randomly branched polymers are grafted to a surface, polymer brushes are the result, similarly as well known in the case of linear grafted polymer chains. These brushes behave, however, special, as severe restrictions in the conformation of individual polymers are present. These restrictions are firstly due to the high degree of branching and secondly to the natural maximum stretching ratio of the branched molecules, that is given by Hmax = aM1/D. a is the typical size of a monomeric unit, D is the spectral dimension and M the total mass of the branched polymer. Brushes cannot exceed this height, and limits on the grafting density as functions of the spectral dimension are investigated. For all thermodynamic situations the minimum area per chain scales as σmin = aM(D - 1)/D.
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  • 16
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    Weinheim : Wiley-Blackwell
    Macromolecular Theory and Simulations 7 (1998), S. 59-63 
    ISSN: 1022-1344
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology , Physics
    Notes: In this note microgels with and without excluded volume interactions are considered. Based on earlier exact computations on Gaussian mircogels, which are formed by self-crosslinking (with M crosslinks) of polymer chains with chainlength N, Flory type approximations are used to get first insight to their behavior in solution. It is shown that two different types of microgels exist: A special type of branched polymer whose size scales as R ∝ N2/5/M-1/5, instead of R ∝ N1/2. The second type are c*-microgels whose average mesh sizes r are swollen and form self avoiding walks with a scaling law of the form r = a(N/M)3/5.
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  • 17
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    Weinheim : Wiley-Blackwell
    Macromolecular Theory and Simulations 7 (1998), S. 241-247 
    ISSN: 1022-1344
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology , Physics
    Notes: A self-consistent field (SCF) theory for the adsorption of polyelectrolyte chains onto oppositely charged spheres is considered. It is demonstrated that the criterion for critical adsorption shows a different behavior for small and large curvature of the surface. Experiments give indeed evidence for the power-law behavior as theoretically predicted for large curvature.
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  • 18
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    Weinheim : Wiley-Blackwell
    Macromolecular Theory and Simulations 5 (1996), S. 573-643 
    ISSN: 1022-1344
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology , Physics
    Notes: The polymer systems are discussed in the framework of the Landau-Ginzburg model. The model is derived from the mesoscopic Edwards Hamiltonian via the conditional partition function. We discuss flexible, semiflexible and rigid polymers. The following systems are studied: polymer blends, flexible diblock and multi-block copolymer melts, random copolymer melts, ring polymers, rigid-flexible diblock copolymer melts, mixtures of copolymers and homopolymers and mixtures of liquid crystalline polymers. Three methods are used to study the systems: mean-field model, self consistent one-loop approximation and self consistent field theory. The following problems are studied and discussed: the phase diagrams, scattering intensities and correlation functions, single chain statistics and behavior of single chains close to critical points, fluctuations induced shift of phase boundaries. In particular we shall discuss shrinking of the polymer chains close to the critical point in polymer blends, size of the Ginzburg region in polymer blends and shift of the critical temperature. In the rigid-flexible diblock copolymers we shall discuss the density nematic order parameter correlation function. The correlation functions in this system are found to oscillate with the characteristic period equal to the length of the rigid part of the diblock copolymer. The density and nematic order parameter measured along the given direction are anticorrelated. In the flexible diblock copolymer system we shall discuss various phases including the double diamond and gyroid structures. The single chain statistics in the disordered phase of a flexible diblock copolymer system is shown to deviate from the Gaussian statistics due to fluctuations. In the one loop approximation one shows that the diblock copolymer chain is stretched in the point where two incompatible blocks meet but also that each block shrinks close to the microphase separation transition. The stretching outweights shrinking and the net result is the increase of the radius of gyration above the Gaussian value. Certain properties of homopolymer/copolymer systems are discussed. Diblock copolymers solubilize two incompatible homopolymers by forming a monolayer interface between them. The interface has a positive saddle splay modulus which means that the interfaces in the disordered phase should be characterized by a negative Gaussian curvature. We also show that in such a mixture the Lifshitz tricritical point is encountered. The properties of this unusual point are presented. The Lifshitz, equimaxima and disorder lines are shown to provide a useful tool for studying local ordering in polymer mixtures. In the liquid crystalline mixtures the isotropic nematic phase transition is discussed. We concentrate on static, equilibrium properties of the polymer systems.
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  • 19
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    Electronic Resource
    Weinheim : Wiley-Blackwell
    Macromolecular Theory and Simulations 4 (1995), S. 67-76 
    ISSN: 1022-1344
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology , Physics
    Notes: Cross-linked mixtures of polystyrene and poly(vinyl methyl ether) exhibit a non-vanishing zero-angle intensity in small-angle neutron scattering experiments. A possible explanation is that fluctuations in composition in the mixture may be frozen by the presence of cross-links. Assuming this, we introduce a screening length κ by the condition that the scattered intensity should not be changed by cross-linking. We find κ2 ∼ C/(χ - χi), where C is an elastic constant, χ and χi, respectively, the inverse temperature and that where cross-linking is performed. When the temperature is varied, we find three regimes. In the first one, the scattered intensity is monotonously decreasing. In the second one, it has a finite maximum. In the last one, the maximum eventually diverges.
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  • 20
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    Weinheim : Wiley-Blackwell
    Macromolecular Theory and Simulations 5 (1996), S. 121-127 
    ISSN: 1022-1344
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology , Physics
    Notes: The persistence length lp of a polyelectrolyte chain can be represented as lp = lO + le where lO is the bare persistence and Ie is the electrostatic contribution coming from the effects of electrostatic chain self-interactions. Using a reparametrization-invariant path integral model of semiflexible polymers we find that Ie depends on the ionic strength I as Ie ∼ I-1/2. This result accords with experimental observations and recent Monte Carlo simulations. Reparametrization-invariance is apparently an essential constrainet in selecting acceptable models of semiflexible polymers.
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