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Standard Gibbs energies of transfer of potassium tetraphenylborate from water to straight-chain n-alkanols
Solubilities of potassium tetraphenylborate in water, methanol, ethanol, 1-propanol, 1-butanol, 1-pentanol, 1-hexanol, and 1-octanol at 15, 25, 35, 45, 55°C have been determined by spectrophotometry. The stand...
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Thermal decomposition of Mn(II) complex of nicotinamide
The complex Mn(Nica)2Cl2 (Nica=nicotinamide) was prepared, and its decomposition was studied by means of TG and DSC. The IR spectra of the products of thermal decomposition were examined at every stage. Kinetic a...
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Oat lipids
Oats are a significant world crop. While nutritional interest in food oats has concentrated on oats as a source of dietary fiber, the lipid component has both nutritional and technological potential. Thus, the...
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Effects of aluminum and cadmium toxicity on growth and antioxidant enzyme activities of two barley genotypes with different Al resistance
A hydroponic experiment was carried out to study genotypic differences in effect of Al and Cd on growth and antioxidant enzyme activities by using 2 two-row winter barley genotypes (Hordeum vulgare L.) with diffe...
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Study on the morphology and tribological properties of acrylic based polyurethane/fumed silica composite coatings
Two fumed silica (one hydrophilic and one hydrophobic) were used in the high solid acrylic based polyurethane coatings by directly mixing. The dispersion of fumed silica particles in the bulk of polyurethane c...
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Effect of the particle size of nanosilica on the performance of epoxy/silica composite coatings
Four kinds of colloidal silica particles with different size (27, 58, 79 and 173 nm, respectively) were synthesized by sol-gel process and modified with 3-glycidoxypropyltrimethoxysilicane, then homogenously d...
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Charge recombination in dye-sensitized nanoporous TiO2 solar cell
DSSC has been a subject of intense study throughout the world. The efforts to investigate DSSC are mainly focused on how to increase light absorption, speed electron transport in circuit and reduce charge reco...
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Encapsulation of Organic Pigment Particles with Silica via Sol-Gel Process
This paper presented a novel preparation method of silica coated organic pigment. In this approach, the surfaces of the organic pigment were first orderly modified by poly(sodium 4-styrenesulfonate) (PSS) and ...
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Interaction and Microstructure of Polyurethane/Silica Hybrid Films Prepared by Sol-Gel Process
The polyester/silica hybrid resins and their hybrid polyurethanes were prepared via in situ (IS) or blending (BL) method using different silica sols. The effects of preparation methods, silica type and content on...
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Open AccessA high-density consensus map of barley linking DArT markers to SSR, RFLP and STS loci and agricultural traits
Molecular marker technologies are undergoing a transition from largely serial assays measuring DNA fragment sizes to hybridization-based technologies with high multiplexing levels. Diversity Arrays Technology ...
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Preparation of raspberry-like PMMA/SiO2 nanocomposite particles
Water-borne raspberry-like PMMA/SiO2 nanocom-posite particles were prepared via free radical copolymerization of methyl methacrylate (MMA) with 1-vinylimidazole (1-VID) in the presence of ultrafine aqueous silica...
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Preparation and surface properties of silicone-modified polyester-based polyurethane coats
A series of novel silicone-modified polyesters (SPE) were prepared by substituting part of diol with low molecular weight hydroxyl-terminated poly(dimenthylsiloxane) (PDMS). Then, isophorone diisoclanate (IPDI...
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Aluminium tolerance in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.): Physiological mechanisms, genetics and screening methods
Aluminium (Al) toxicity is one of the major limiting factors for barley production on acid soils. It inhibits root cell division and elongation, thus reducing water and nutrient uptake, consequently resulting ...
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Open AccessModification of the Tet-On regulatory system prevents the conditional-live HIV-1 variant from losing doxycycline-control
We have previously constructed a doxycycline (dox)-dependent HIV-1 variant by incorporating the Tet-On gene regulatory system into the viral genome. Replication of this HIV-rtTA virus is driven by the dox-indu...
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Markov Random Field Modeled Level Sets Method for Object Tracking with Moving Cameras
Object tracking using active contours has attracted increasing interest in recent years due to acquisition of effective shape descriptions. In this paper, an object tracking method based on level sets using mo...
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Open AccessImproved single-chain transactivators of the Tet-On gene expression system
The Tet-Off (tTA) and Tet-On (rtTA) regulatory systems are widely applied to control gene expression in eukaryotes. Both systems are based on the Tet repressor (TetR) from transposon Tn10, a dimeric DNA-binding p...
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TiO2 nanotube arrays and TiO2-nanotube-array based dye-sensitized solar cell
To substitute the non-regular nano-crystalline semiconductor for a novel kind of ordered microstructure is a very important aspect in the domain of dye-sensitized solar cell. One of the researching hotspots is...
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Open AccessA DArT platform for quantitative bulked segregant analysis
Bulked segregant analysis (BSA) identifies molecular markers associated with a phenotype by screening two DNA pools of phenotypically distinct plants for markers with skewed allele frequencies. In contrast to ...
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High-resolution map** of the Alp locus and identification of a candidate gene HvMATE controlling aluminium tolerance in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.)
Aluminium (Al) tolerance in barley is conditioned by the Alp locus on the long arm of chromosome 4H, which is associated with Al-activated release of citrate from roots. We developed a high-resolution map of the
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Preparation and properties of UV-curable polymer/nanosized indium-doped tin oxide (ITO) nanocomposite coatings
UV-curable polymer/nanosized indium-doped tin oxide (ITO) nanocomposite coatings were fabricated by blending ITO slurry and oligomer and reactive monomers. The preparation of ITO slurry and the effect of the I...
