Eocene metatherians from Anatolia illuminate the assembly of an island fauna during Deep Time

Island biotas have disproportionately influenced the history and development of evolutionary biology, but understanding their genesis and evolution across geological timescales has been hindered by a poor fossil record. Here we augment the insular Eocene (~43 Ma) mammalian fauna known from the Pontide terrane of central Anatolia by describing two new metatherian taxa (stem marsupials) from the Lu¨ lu¨k Member of the Uzunc¸arşıdere Formation in the Orhaniye Basin. Geological and paleontological data indicate that the Pontide terrane was an island on the northern margin of Neotethys during the middle Eocene. Reflecting its geodynamic context in a region of active tectonic convergence, the Eocene Pontide terrane hosted a unique combination of Laurasian and Gondwanan mammals, including an anachronistic radiation of pleuraspidotheriids (archaic ungulates) that went extinct on the European mainland ~13 Ma earlier. Most of the mammalian clades occupying the Pontide terrane colonized it by dispersal across marine barriers rather than being stranded there through vicariance. Endemic radiations of pleuraspidotheriid ungulates and polydolopimorphian metatherians on the Pontide terrane reveal that in situ diversification was an important factor contributing to faunal assembly and evolution. The insular fauna that arose on the Pontide terrane is highly analogous to that of modern Sulawesi, which evolved under strikingly similar geological conditions. Illustrating the ephemeral nature of insular biotas across macroevolutionary timescales, the demise of the Pontide fauna coincided with paleogeographic changes enabling more cosmopolitan taxa to reach it for the first time. The high level of endemism shown by the mammalian fauna of the Uzunc¸arşıdere Formation eliminates the Pontide terrane as a potential early Eocene dispersal corridor between western Europe and India.INSU-2011 CT49215-12W296-13EAR- 154368

New approach for consideration of adsorption/desorption data

In this paper we proposed a new approach to modify the Langmuir model by considering nonlinear effects such as diffusion of water molecules in/out of an adsorbing film for humidity adsorption and desorption kinetics. The model was tested on the humidity adsorption and desorption data of a spin coated 50. nm thick Ruthenium polypridyl complex (Ru-PC K314) film, measured under relative humidity between 11% and 97% using by Quartz Crystal Microbalance (QCM) technique. © 2011 Elsevier B.V

New approach for consideration of adsorption/desorption data

In this paper we proposed a new approach to modify the Langmuir model by considering nonlinear effects such as diffusion of water molecules in/out of an adsorbing film for humidity adsorption and desorption kinetics. The model was tested on the humidity adsorption and desorption data of a spin coated 50. nm thick Ruthenium polypridyl complex (Ru-PC K314) film, measured under relative humidity between 11% and 97% using by Quartz Crystal Microbalance (QCM) technique. © 2011 Elsevier B.V

New approach for consideration of adsorption/desorption data

In this paper we proposed a new approach to modify the Langmuir model by considering nonlinear effects such as diffusion of water molecules in/out of an adsorbing film for humidity adsorption and desorption kinetics. The model was tested on the humidity adsorption and desorption data of a spin coated 50. nm thick Ruthenium polypridyl complex (Ru-PC K314) film, measured under relative humidity between 11% and 97% using by Quartz Crystal Microbalance (QCM) technique. © 2011 Elsevier B.V

Water Splitting Catalysis and Solar Fuel Devices Artificial Leaves on the Move

The development of new energy materials that can be utilized to make renewable and clean fuels from abundant and easily accessible resources is among the most challenging and demanding tasks in science today. Solar powered catalytic water splitting processes can be exploited as a source of electrons and protons to make clean renewable fuels, such as hydrogen, and in the sequestration of CO2 and its conversion into low carbon energy carriers. Recently, there have been tremendous efforts to build up a stand alone solar to fuel conversion device, the artificial leaf , using light and water as raw materials. An overview of the recent progress in electrochemical and photo electrocatalytic water splitting devices is presented, using both molecular water oxidation complexes WOCs and nano structured assemblies to develop an artificial photosynthetic syste

Repair of Descemet's membrane detachment after viscocanalostomy

We report an alternative descemetopexy technique in a case of Descemet's membrane detachment after viscocanalostomy, possibly caused by high-molecular-weight viscoelastic material

Evaluation of Tc-99m-Pheophorbide-a use in infection imaging: A rat model

WOS: 000292357500001PubMed ID: 21507668This study aims to prepare (99m)Technetium Pheophorbide-a (Tc-99m-PH-A) complex and evaluate its efficiency as an infection imaging agent. First, PH-A was obtained from Spirulina maxima algae, and the product compound was confirmed using H-1 NMR and MS (ESI) methods. The PH-A was then labeled with Tc-99m using the tin chloride method and its biological efficacy as a potential radiotracer for Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) infection was evaluated in bacterially infected and sterile inflamed rats. The radiochemical stability of the Tc-99m-PH-A in human serum was determined by thin-layer radiochromatography (TLRC). The radiochemical purity was 87 +/- 3.2% and remained constant at more than 80 +/- 0.1% even in serum for 120 min after radiolabeling. These experiments indicated that the ratio of Tc-99m-PH-A uptake in bacterially infected muscle, as compared to normal muscle, [target/non-target (T/NT)=5.6 at 1 h] was over four times higher than that in sterile inflamed muscle (T/NT=1.29 at 1 h). Disappearance of activity from the kidney and liver indicated that the urinary and hepatobiliary systems were the normal routes of excretion of the complex. (99m)Technetium Pheophorbide prepared with high yield is able to localize well in the bacterially infected muscle of the rats and Tc-99m-PH-A may be developed as a radiopharmaceutical agent to distinguish infection from inflammation by nuclear imaging. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved