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Sources of life’s origin: A search for biomarkers
Until the commitment of the United States by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 to send a man to the Moon by the end of that decade, the only...
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Physicochemical aspects of the antiseptic action of nanohydroxyapatite
The mechanism of interaction of nanocrystals of hydroxyapatite with Staphylococcus aureus bacteria has been investigated. It was shown that the...
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Summary, Final Comments and Conclusions
This volume describes and discusses the oldest, extinct microorganisms from the depth of Earth and possible microbes from the upper spheres above...
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Catalogue of Minor Planet Names and Discovery Circumstances
Title page of Giuseppe Piazzi’s book “On the discovery of the new planet CERES FERDINANDEA, the eighth of those known in our solar system”. The...
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General Survey
Percussion, concussion, collision, impact, explosion, implosion, detonation and shock waves are rapid mechanical phenomena that are related to each...
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Laser-based systems for trace gas detection in life sciences
Infrared gas phase spectroscopy is becoming very common in many life science applications. Here we present three types of trace gas detection systems...
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Chronology
This table covers all kinds of high-rate phenomena, such as percussion, blast, shock waves, explosions, implosions and impact as well as milestones...
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Force Spectroscopy with Optical and Magnetic Tweezers
Micromanipulation of individual cells and molecules is increasingly important for a wide range of biophysical research because, although ensemble...
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Methods of highly sensitive gas analysis of molecular biomarkers in study of exhaled air
The methods of highly sensitive gas analysis of molecular biomarkers in exhaled air were reviewed. Specific features of the analysis of the chemical...
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Carbon dioxide and ammonia detection using 2 μm diode laser based quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy
Quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy was employed for trace gas concentration measurements of CO 2 and NH 3 using a continuous wave...
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Optical parametric oscillator-based photoacoustic detection of CO2 at 4.23 μm allows real-time monitoring of the respiration of small insects
A continuous wave, single frequency and continuously tunable optical parametric oscillator is used in combination with photoacoustic spectroscopy to...
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Protein surfaces and volumes: measurement and use
In the first part of this chapter, methods for the calculation of the volumes and areas of proteins are surveyed. The...
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The relevance of the Cambridge Structural Database in protein crystallography
The importance of high-resolution crystal structure data of small molecules to protein crystallography is highlighted....
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Dielectrophoresis of nanocolloids: A molecular dynamics study
Dielectrophoresis (DEP), the motion of polarizable particles in non-uniform electric fields, has become an important tool for the transport,...
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Biological and Biomedical Applications of Synchrotron Infrared Microspectroscopy
The high brightness of synchrotron light,which is about three orders of magnitudegreater than a thermal source, has beenexploited in biological and...
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Studies of strontium biokinetics in humans
The accidental release of radioactive isotopes of strontium, mainly 90 Sr, into the environment and its transfer into the biosphere results in an...
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Microbial Life in Terrestrial Permafrost: Methanogenesis and Nitrification in Gelisols as Potentials for Exobiological Process
The comparability of environmental and climatic conditions of the early Mars and Earth is of special interest for the actual research in...
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