Direct Energy Production From Hydrogen Sulfide in Black Sea Water - Electrochemical Study

A sulfide driven fuel cell is proposed to clean the Black Sea with the simultaneous A sulfide driven fuel cell is proposed to clean the Black Sea with the simultaneous production of energy. The process is hopeful even at low sulfide concentrations, i.e.10 to 25 mg/l being close to the ones in the Black Sea water. The main problem for the practical application of this type of fuel cell are the low current and power densities. The measurement of the generated electric current compared to the sulfide depletion show that the most probable anode reaction is oxidation of sulfide to sulfate. It is evident that parasite competitive reactions oxidation of sulfide occurs in the anode compartment of the fuel cell. The pH measurements shows that the transfer of hydroxylic anions from the cathodic compartment to the anodic one across the separating membrane is not fast enough to compensate its drop in the anode compartment

Chern - Simons Gauge Field Theory of Two - Dimensional Ferromagnets

A Chern-Simons gauged Nonlinear Schr\"odinger Equation is derived from the continuous Heisenberg model in 2+1 dimensions. The corresponding planar magnets can be analyzed whithin the anyon theory. Thus, we show that static magnetic vortices correspond to the self-dual Chern - Simons solitons and are described by the Liouville equation. The related magnetic topological charge is associated with the electric charge of anyons. Furthermore, vortex - antivortex configurations are described by the sinh-Gordon equation and its conformally invariant extension. Physical consequences of these results are discussed.Comment: 15 pages, Plain TeX, Lecce, June 199

Contact Hypersensitivity to Oxazolone Provokes Vulvar Mechanical Hyperalgesia in Mice

The interplay among pain, allergy and dysregulated inflammation promises to yield significant conceptual advances in immunology and chronic pain. Hapten-mediated contact hypersensitivity reactions are used to model skin allergies in rodents but have not been utilized to study associated changes in pain perception in the affected skin. Here we characterized changes in mechanical hyperalgesia in oxazolone-sensitized female mice challenged with single and repeated labiar skin exposure to oxazolone. Female mice were sensitized with topical oxazolone on their flanks and challenged 1-3 times on the labia. We then measured mechanical sensitivity of the vulvar region with an electronic pressure meter and evaluated expression of inflammatory genes, leukocyte influx and levels of innervation in the labiar tissue. Oxazolone-sensitized mice developed vulvar mechanical hyperalgesia after a single labiar oxazolone challenge. Hyperalgesia lasted up to 24 hours along with local influx of neutrophils, upregulation of inflammatory cytokine gene expression, and increased density of cutaneous labiar nerve fibers. Three daily oxazolone challenges produced vulvar mechanical hyperalgesic responses and increases in nerve density that were detectable up to 5 days post-challenge even after overt inflammation resolved. This persistent vulvar hyperalgesia is resonant with vulvodynia, an understudied chronic pain condition that is remarkably prevalent in 18-60 year-old women. An elevated risk for vulvodynia has been associated with a history of environmental allergies. Our pre-clinical model can be readily adapted to regimens of chronic exposures and long-term assessment of vulvar pain with and without concurrent inflammation to improve our understanding of mechanisms underlying subsets of vulvodynia and to develop new therapeutics for this condition

DEVELOPMENT OF A MOBILE HEART MONITOR

Developed the monitor with the function of sending data on a PC, smartphone and medical center. This allows you to monitor patients remotely and in the event of an emergency to provide medical assistance. The device is actual for all regions of the country, particularly the North, where a high risk of death from cardiovascular disease

Complex networks theory for analyzing metabolic networks

One of the main tasks of post-genomic informatics is to systematically investigate all molecules and their interactions within a living cell so as to understand how these molecules and the interactions between them relate to the function of the organism, while networks are appropriate abstract description of all kinds of interactions. In the past few years, great achievement has been made in developing theory of complex networks for revealing the organizing principles that govern the formation and evolution of various complex biological, technological and social networks. This paper reviews the accomplishments in constructing genome-based metabolic networks and describes how the theory of complex networks is applied to analyze metabolic networks.Comment: 13 pages, 2 figure

On traveling waves in lattices: The case of Riccati lattices

The method of simplest equation is applied for analysis of a class of lattices described by differential-difference equations that admit traveling-wave solutions constructed on the basis of the solution of the Riccati equation. We denote such lattices as Riccati lattices. We search for Riccati lattices within two classes of lattices: generalized Lotka - Volterra lattices and generalized Holling lattices. We show that from the class of generalized Lotka - Volterra lattices only the Wadati lattice belongs to the class of Riccati lattices. Opposite to this many lattices from the Holling class are Riccati lattices. We construct exact traveling wave solutions on the basis of the solution of Riccati equation for three members of the class of generalized Holing lattices.Comment: 17 pages, no figure

Проблема корректности порогового метода модулярного разделения секрета с маскирующим преобразованием

The article formulates the principles of constructing threshold cryptographic schemes for secret sharing based on a modular coding and a linear masking function with an additive variational component of pseudo-random type. The main attention is paid to the correctness problem of schemes of the considered class within the limits of the accepted model. The congruent condition in the module of the secret-original ring of the masking function values in full and partial modular number systems is obtained. On the basis of the above-said, the method of correct implementation of the threshold principle of secret information sharing is developed. The proposed approach to solving the problem under study is demonstrated by specific numerical examples.Сформулированы принципы построения пороговых криптосхем разделения секрета, базирующихся на модулярном кодировании и линейной маскирующей функции с аддитивной вариационной компонентой псевдослучайного типа. Главное внимание уделено проблеме корректности схем рассматриваемого класса в рамках принятой модели. Для пороговых криптосхем модулярного разделения секрета получено необходимое и достаточное условие равноостаточности по модулю кольца принадлежности секрета-оригинала значений функции маскирования и отвечающих им элементов диапазонов, определяемых наборами оснований числом, меньшим порогового значения. На базе установленного условия разработан метод корректной реализации порогового принципа разделения секретной информации. Предложенный подход к решению исследуемой проблемы демонстрируется на конкретных числовых примерах

RESEARCH OF THE ABSORPTION AND EMISSION SPECTRA OF VARIOUS SUBSTANCES

In modern science and technology, to determine the chemical composition of substances, use a variety of different methods. Among these methods, one of the important places is spectral analysis. In order to obtain and investigate the emission spectrum of the substance, a device was developed that was controlled from a PC. The device is mobile and can be used with a portable laptop in arctic expeditions