Crystal structure of (1E,3E)-4-methylthio-2-nitro-3-phenylsulfonyl-1- pyrrolidino-1,3-butadiene, C15H18N2O4S2

Abstract C15H18N2O4S2, monoclinic, P121/c1 (No. 14), a = 8.754(3) Å, b = 12.499(2) Å, c = 15.599(3) Å, β = 95.09(2)°, V = 1700.1Å3, Z = 4, Rgt(F) = 0.049, wRref(F2) = 0.128, T = 294 K

Proposals for Innovation and Improvement of the Quality of Life in Caprine Pastoralist Communities of Subsistence in the Monte Desert, Argentina

In a satisfactory alliance between the main environmental policy organizations and the academy, the National Observatory on Land Degradation and Desertification (ONDTyT) is created. The ONDTyD provides information regarding status and trends of land degradation/desertification in order to promote prevention and mitigation measures used for advising public and private decision-makers in Argentina. It is based in the development of 17 Pilot Sites that constitutes the local level network, providing bio-physical and socio-economic indicators of land degradation. In this network the pilot site of the Monte, the largest dry region of Argentina (Lavalle desert, Mendoza), aims to improve the living conditions of native communities dedicated to subsistence goat farming, located below the poverty line. Precipitation ranges from 80-100 mm/year, strongly affecting productive activities. The proposal includes innovative traits in an area whose natural resources have been devastated. It is framed within a conception of rural territory development generating sustainable development strategies of rural indigenous communities, improve the status of the ecosystem through an integral management of natural and cultural resources, and improve socioeconomic conditions of inhabitants, compatibilizing ecosystem regeneration with investment in infrastructure and services, diversification of productive activities and generation of employment. An interdisciplinary group designed the proposal and the integrated desertification assessment in the fields with active community participation through their knowledge, land and livestock. The pilot case can be replicated throughout the territory. The work combines participatory and integrated methodologies, showing that the Observatory is a successful example of partnership building between the political and scientific-technological sectors in Argentina

A New Horned Crocodile from the Plio-Pleistocene Hominid Sites at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

BACKGROUND: The fossil record reveals surprising crocodile diversity in the Neogene of Africa, but relationships with their living relatives and the biogeographic origins of the modern African crocodylian fauna are poorly understood. A Plio-Pleistocene crocodile from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, represents a new extinct species and shows that high crocodylian diversity in Africa persisted after the Miocene. It had prominent triangular "horns" over the ears and a relatively deep snout, these resemble those of the recently extinct Malagasy crocodile Voay robustus, but the new species lacks features found among osteolaemines and shares derived similarities with living species of Crocodylus. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: The holotype consists of a partial skull and skeleton and was collected on the surface between two tuffs dated to approximately 1.84 million years (Ma), in the same interval near the type localities for the hominids Homo habilis and Australopithecus boisei. It was compared with previously-collected material from Olduvai Gorge referable to the same species. Phylogenetic analysis places the new form within or adjacent to crown Crocodylus. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE: The new crocodile species was the largest predator encountered by our ancestors at Olduvai Gorge, as indicated by hominid specimens preserving crocodile bite marks from these sites. The new species also reinforces the emerging view of high crocodylian diversity throughout the Neogene, and it represents one of the few extinct species referable to crown genus Crocodylus

Identification of thiol from 11-(9-Carbazolyl)-1-undecyldisulfide by NMR spectroscopy and single step coating of gold nanoparticles.

Disul\ufb01de-functionalized \ufb02uorescent derivative of carbozole named 11-(9-carbazolyl)-1-undecyl disul\ufb01de (CBZDS) has been synthesized. Proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy was used to distinguish thiol from its corresponding symmetrical disul\ufb01de. Single step synthesis of gold nanoparticles coated with CBZDS was carried out which resulted in stable monolayers of CBZDS on gold nanoparticles

Synthesis of a disulfide functionalized diacetylenic derivative of carbazole as building-block of polymerizable self-assembled monolayers.

A new symmetrical disulfide containing a diacetylenic unit and bearing a fluorescent carbazolyl end-group forming polymerizable self-assembled monolayers on metallic nanostructures has been synthesized. Suitable modifications of the synthetic steps involved in the synthesis of such derivatives were made in order to assure better synthetic pathway. Conversion of the tosylated derivative into the final symmetrical disulfide is carried out using sodium hydrosulfide (NaSH)

Sedazione nello studio odontoiatrico: Questi i consigli clinici e quanto prevede la normativa

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