Spatial and seasonal trends in biogenic secondary organic aerosol tracers and water-soluble organic carbon in the southeastern United States

Twenty-four hour integrated filter samples of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) were collected from May 2004 to April 2005 at one rural site and three urban sites located in the southeastern United States. Filters were extracted and analyzed for both biogenic secondary organic aerosol (SOA) tracers via gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS), and water-soluble organic carbon (WSOC) concentrations. The tracers reported in this study include isoprene-derived 2-methylthreitol and 2-methylerythritol, as well as pinene-derived cis-pinonic acid. The mean ambient concentrations ranged from 21.7 to 94.3 ng/m3, 5.31 to 17.9 ng/m3, and 1.87 to 3.18 microgC/m3 for 2-methyltetrols (sum of 2-methylerythritol and 2-methylthreitol), cispinonic acid and WSOC, respectively. Distinct spatial distributions were observed for all tracers with the highest concentration at the rural site and the lowest level at a coastal site. Although 2-methyltetrols were small fractions of WSOC, varying from 0.35% at an urban site to highest fractions of 1.09% at the rural site, WSOC exhibited significant correlation with 2-methyltetrols during summer, suggesting isoprene SOA makes an important contribution to WSOC. 2-Methyltetrols had the highest concentrations during the summer,when high temperature, intense solar radiation, and high ozone level occurred. However, no obvious seasonal variation was found for cispinonic acid. Between inland sites WSOC was more spatially homogeneous than the 2-methyltetrols, suggesting that WSOC was produced from a variety of mechanisms.     

Assessing forest fire as a potential PCDD/F source in Queensland, Australia

Forest fires are suggested as a potential and significant source of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs), even though no studies to date provide sufficient evidence to confirm forest fires as a source of PCDD/Fs. Recent investigations in Queensland, Australia have identified a widespread contamination of PCDDs (in particular OCDD) in soils and sediments in the coastal region from an unknown source of PCDD/Fs. Queensland is predominately rural; it has few known anthropogenic sources of PCDD/Fs, whereas forest fires are a frequent occurrence. This study was conducted to assess forest fires as a potential source of the unknown PCDD/F contamination in Queensland. A combustion experiment was designed to assess the overall mass of PCDD/Fs before and after a simulated forest fire. The results from this study did not identify an increase in sigmaPCDD/Fs or OCDD after the combustion process. However, specific non-2,3,7,8 substituted lower chlorinated PCDD/Fs were elevated after the combustion process, suggesting formation from a precursor. The results from this study indicate that forest fires are unlikely to be the source of the unknown PCDD contamination in Queensland, rather they are a key mechanism for the redistribution of PCDD/Fs from existing sources and precursors.     

Optoacoustic imaging using a three-dimensional reconstructionalgorithm

A novel three-dimensional (3-D) computational algorithm to reconstruct 3-D optoacoustic images from two-dimensional (2-D) pressure distributions generated at the sample surface is presented. The 2-D pressure distributions were measured as images at different delay times after the excitation laser pulse. The pressure images were captured with a gated CCD camera as the local pressure induces intensity changes of a reflected probe beam at the surface of the irradiated sample. The illumination time was 10 ns and the resolution of the surface pressure image was 20 μm. The reconstruction algorithm is based on the decomposition into plane waves. The algorithm was tested in the back projection of simulated pressure transients of three sources, and applied to different biological systems. Furthermore the algorithm was compared with the time of flight back projection algorithm. Optoacoustic images with a depth resolution of 15 μm and a lateral resolution of 100 μm are presented     

Photoluminescence and electroluminescence imaging of perovskite solar cells

Fast camera‐based luminescence‐imaging measurements on perovskite solar cells are presented. The fundamental correlation between the luminescence intensity and the open circuit voltage predicted by the generalised Planck law is confirmed, enabling various quantitative methods for the detection of efficiency‐limiting defects to be applied to this new cell structure. Interstinegly, it is found that this fundamental correlation is valid only for light‐soaked devices. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Heparin-Functionalized Adsorbents Eliminate Central Effectors of Immunothrombosis,including Platelet Factor 4, High-Mobility Group Box 1 Protein and Histones

Inflammation and thrombosis are closely intertwined in numerous disorders, including ischemic events and sepsis, as well as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Thrombotic complications are markers of disease severity in both sepsis and COVID-19 and are associated with multiorgan failure and increased mortality. Immunothrombosis is driven by the complement/tissue factor/neutrophil axis, as well as by activated platelets, which can trigger the release of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) and release further effectors of immunothrombosis, including platelet factor 4 (PF4/CXCL4) and high-mobility box 1 protein (HMGB1). Many of the central effectors of deregulated immunothrombosis, including activated platelets and platelet-derived extracellular vesicles (pEVs) expressing PF4, soluble PF4, HMGB1, histones, as well as histone-decorated NETs, are positively charged and thus bind to heparin. Here, we provide evidence that adsorbents functionalized with endpoint-attached heparin efficiently deplete activated platelets, pEVs, PF4, HMGB1 and histones/nucleosomes. We propose that this elimination of central effectors of immunothrombosis, rather than direct binding of pathogens, could be of clinical relevance for mitigating thrombotic complications in sepsis or COVID-19 using heparin-functionalized adsorbents.     

Chalkonaziridine. IV. Vergleich des spektroskopischen und massenspektrometrischen Verhaltens von trans-Chalkonaziridinen und trans-Chalkonepoxiden

Chalcone Aziridines. IV. Comparison of Spectroscopical and Mass Spectrometrical Behavior of trans-Chalcone Aziridines and trans-Chalcone Epoxides The aziridines 1 were compared with epoxides 2 by their i.r. and n.m.r. spectroscopical behavior and the threemembered ring electron densities. In the masse spectra we found not only identical path-ways i. e. the formation of M^⊕ and Ar₂CH^⊕ ions and onium or aryl fragmentation, but also differences as the formation of [M–17]^⊕ ions for 1 and carbonyl rearrangements for 2 .     

Substituenteneffekte in den 13C-NMR-Spektren von diastereomeren Chalkondihalogeniden. VIII. Untersuchungen an α- und β-Halogendihydrochalkonen und Berechnung von 13C-chemischen Verschiebungen bei diastereomeren Chalkondihalogeniden und Chalkonhalogenhydrinen

Substituent Effects in ¹³C-N.M.R. Spectra of Diastereomeric Chalcone Dihalogenides. VIII. Investigations of α- and β-Halogene Dihydrochalcones and Calculation of ¹³C-chemical Shifts of Diastereomeric Chalcone Dihalogenides and Chalcone Halogenohydrins The chemical shifts of C-α and C-β in the ¹³C-n.m.r. spectra are determined and compared with calculated values from an incremental system and Taft relationship. The correlations are extended for erythro and threo isomers of halohydrins and diastereometric dihalogenides 6 – 18 . The chemical shifts of C-α and C-β atoms of 6 – 18 are described in the dependence of the shifts calculated by an incremental system. Excellent correlations allowed the computation of chemical shifts of C-α and C-β for diastereomeric α,β-disubstituted dihydrochalcone derivatives likely 6 – 18 in advance.     

二维机读ID质量的要素

现在,几乎所有产品都需要有唯一的ID（身份证明）用以跟踪,这一用途的标签通常是由自动的在线系统印出的。Code 39码和Code 128码作为标识产品ID的条形码已经使用很多年了,然而,当今技术的发展和质量管理的需求不可避免的对产品ID提出了更高的要求,有以下三方面的因素需要考虑。