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5% versus 130.2% ± 2.4%) compared with those in Group I. The mothers of Group II had significantly higher basal serum PRL levels (116.4 ± 11.8 ng/mL versus 72.7 ± 7.77 ng/mL), but a significantly lower increase in PRL postsuckling (168.5% ± 23.1% versus 291.6% ± 37.6% of basal PRL). The frequency of suckling was positively correlated (r = 0.5) with the basal PRL level. Moreover, infant weight gain was significantly higher in male (144.7% ± 4.7%) than in female (132.3% ± 2.9%) infants. Conclusions Increase in frequency of breastfeeding of over 10/day is associated with baseline PRL levels and increased milk production and weight gain. These results provide useful information for breastfeeding women.Alcohol-free beers (AFBs) brewed by cold-contact fermentation exhibit a flavor reminiscent of wort which affects consumer acceptability. The aims of this study were to identify the odor-active compounds in AFB and elucidate the contribution of these to the overall aroma and worty character of the beer. Using a sensomics approach, 27 odor-active aroma compounds were identified and quantitated using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. The most odor-active compound was methional (boiled potato-like aroma), followed by 3-methylbutanal (cocoa-like), (E)-β-damascenone (apple, jam-like), 5-ethyl-3-hydroxy-4-methyl-2(5H)-furanone (curry, spicy-like), and phenylacetaldehyde (floral, honey-like). The important contribution of these flavor compounds to the worty and honey aroma of AFB was determined by sensory assessment of the recombinate in a beer-like matrix with omission tests. The role of 5-ethyl-3-hydroxy-4-methyl-2(5H)-furanone in AFB aroma was reported for the first time. The outcomes from this study are of relevance for the brewing industry to design strategies for the reduction of the wortiness of AFB.We report an iodoarene-catalyzed enantioselective synthesis of β,β-difluoroalkyl bromide building blocks. The transformation involves an oxidative rearrangement of α-bromostyrenes, utilizing HF-pyridine as the fluoride source and m-CPBA as the stoichiometric oxidant. A catalyst decomposition pathway was identified, which, in tandem with catalyst structure-activity relationship studies, facilitated the development of an improved catalyst providing higher enantioselectivity with lower catalyst loadings. NU7026 The versatility of the difluoroalkyl bromide products was demonstrated via highly enantiospecific substitution reactions with suitably reactive nucleophiles. The origins of enantioselectivity were investigated using computed interaction energies of simplified catalyst and substrate structures, providing evidence for both CH-π and π-π transition state interactions as critical features.Temperature is well known to affect the aggregation behavior of colloidal suspensions. This paper elucidates the temperature dependence of the rheology of portlandite (calcium hydroxide Ca(OH)2) suspensions that feature a high ionic strength and a pH close to the particle's isoelectric point. In contrast to the viscosity of the suspending medium (saturated solution of Ca(OH)2 in water), the viscosity of Ca(OH)2 suspensions is found to increase with elevating temperature. This behavior is shown to arise from the temperature-induced aggregation of polydisperse Ca(OH)2 particulates because of the diminution of electrostatic repulsive forces with increasing temperature. The temperature dependence of the suspension viscosity is further shown to diminish with increasing particle volume fraction as a result of volumetric crowding and the formation of denser fractal structures in the suspension. Significantly, the temperature-dependent rheological response of suspensions is shown to be strongly affected by the suspending medium's properties, including ionic strength and ion valence, which affect aggregation kinetics. These outcomes provide new insights into aggregation processes that affect the temperature-dependent rheology of portlandite-based and similar suspensions that feature strong charge screening behavior.Top-down proteomics by mass spectrometry (MS) involves the mass measurement of an intact protein followed by subsequent activation of the protein to generate product ions. Electron-based fragmentation methods like electron capture dissociation and electron transfer dissociation are widely used for these types of analyses. Recently, electron ionization dissociation (EID), which utilizes higher energy electrons (>20 eV) has been suggested to be more efficient for top-down protein fragmentation compared to other electron-based dissociation methods. Here, we demonstrate that the use of EID enhances protein fragmentation and subsequent detection of protein fragments. Protein product ions can form by either single cleavage events, resulting in terminal fragments containing the C-terminus or N-terminus of the protein, or by multiple cleavage events to give rise to internal fragments that include neither the C-terminus nor the N-terminus of the protein. Conventionally, internal fragments have been disregarded, as reliable assignments of these fragments were limited. Here, we demonstrate that internal fragments generated by EID can account for ∼20-40% of the mass spectral signals detected by top-down EID-MS experiments. By including internal fragments, the extent of the protein sequence that can be explained from a single tandem mass spectrum increases from ∼50 to ∼99% for 29 kDa carbonic anhydrase II and 8.6 kDa ubiquitin. When searching for internal fragments during data analysis, previously unassigned peaks can be readily and accurately assigned to confirm a given protein sequence and to enhance the utility of top-down protein sequencing experiments.The advent of miniaturized, fiber-based, Raman spectrometers provides a clear path for the wide implementation of surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) in analytical chemistry. For instance, miniaturized systems are especially useful in field applications due to their simplicity and low cost. However, traditional SERS substrates are generally developed and optimized using expensive Raman microscope systems equipped with high numerical aperture (NA) objective lenses. Here, we introduced a new type of SERS substrate with intrinsic Raman photon directing capability that compensates the relatively low signal collection power of fiber-based Raman spectrometers. The substrate was tested for the detection of buried 2,4-dinitrotoluene in simulated field conditions. A linear calibration curve (R2 = 0.98) for 2,4-dinitrotoluene spanning 3 orders of magnitude (from μg kg-1 to mg kg-1) was obtained with a limit of detection of 10 μg kg-1 within a total volume of 10 μL. This detection level is 2 orders of magnitude lower than that possible with the current state-of-the-art technologies, such as ion mobility spectrometry-mass spectrometry. The approach reported here demonstrated a high-performance detection of 2,4-dinitrotoluene in field conditions by a SERS platform optimized for miniaturized Raman systems that can be deployed for a routine inspection of landmine-contaminated sites and homeland security applications.2-Phenylquinoline (PQ) and four coumarin-based ligand isomers with ease of synthesis have been selected to construct the unsymmetric heteroleptic [Ir(C1∧N)(C2∧N)(acac)]-type complex phosphors for organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). Six unsymmetric heteroleptic Ir(III) complexes have been obtained by employing four coumarin-based ligand isomers (L-C5/L-C6/L-C7/L-C8) in the [Ir(PQ)(C∧N)(acac)] structure due to two different coordinating carbon atoms in ligands L-C6 and L-C7 to form C-Ir bond. Through adopting unsymmetric heteroleptic [Ir(C1∧N)(C2∧N)(acac)] structure, these Ir(III) complexes can not only achieve impressive absolute quantum yield Φp (ca. 0.5-1.0), higher than that of complex [Ir(PQ)2(acac)] (ca. 0.4), but also realize a dual modulation of both emission color from orange (AIrC6out, λ = 578 nm) to red (AIrC5, λ = 622 nm) and the character of the lowest triplet excited states (T1), showing both 3MLCT character and 3ILCT (intraligand charge transfer) character in their T1 states. AIrC5, AIrC7out, and AIrC7in show MLCT character from Ir(III) center to ligand L-C5 or L-C7 and ILCT character in ligand L-C5 or L-C7 in their T1 states, while AIrC6out, AIrC6in, and AIrC8 show MLCT character from Ir(III) center to ligand PQ and ILCT character in ligand PQ in their T1 states. Moreover, the color-tuning mechanism and the lowest triplet state characters are investigated in detail. AIrC6in and AIrC8 were selected as emitters to evaluate the electroluminescent (EL) performance due to their high ΦP of nearly up to unity. Optimal orange-emitting device B2 based on AIrC8 can give a maximum external quantum efficiency (ηext) of 23.9%, a maximum current efficiency (ηL) of 70.9 cd A-1, and a maximum power efficiency (ηP) of 60.7 lm W-1. All these impressive results can definitely demonstrate the effectiveness of our simple approach for tuning character of the triplet excited states and achieving high-performance Ir-based phosphors in OLEDs.Superoxide is one of the reactive oxygen species (ROS) in non-thermal plasmas generated by electrical discharges in air at room temperature and atmospheric pressure. One important application of such plasmas is the activation of advanced oxidation processes for air and water decontaminating treatments. When in contact with aqueous media, ROS and notably superoxide can react at the plasma/liquid interface or transfer and react into the liquid. While the detection of superoxide in plasma-treated water has been reported in the literature, to the best of our knowledge, quantitative determinations are lacking. We report here the determination of superoxide rate of formation and steady-state concentration in water subjected to air non-thermal plasma in a streamer discharge reactor used previously to treat various organic contaminants. After detecting the presence of superoxide by spin-trapping and electron paramagnetic resonance analyses, we applied superoxide-selective fluorescent probes to carry out quantitative determinations. The first probe tested, 3',6'-bis(diphenylphosphinyl) fluorescein (PF-1), was not sufficiently soluble, but the second one, fluorescein-bis-[(N-methylpyridinium-3-yl)sulfonate iodide] (FMSI), was applied successfully. Under typical plasma operating conditions, the rate of superoxide formation and its steady-state concentration were (0.27 ± 0.15) μM s-1 and (0.007 ± 0.004) nM, respectively. The procedure outlined here can be usefully applied to detect and quantify superoxide in water treated by different plasma sources in various types of plasma reactors.Metal ion-linked multilayers offer an easily prepared and modular architecture for controlling energy and electron transfer events on nanoparticle, metal oxide films. However, unlike with planar electrodes, the mesoporous nature of the films inherently limits both the thickness of the multilayer and subsequent diffusion through the pores. Here, we systematically investigated the role of TiO2 nanoparticle film porosity and metal ion-linked multilayer thickness in surface loading, through-pore diffusion, and overall device performance. The TiO2 porosity was controlled by varying TiO2 sintering times. Molecular multilayer thickness was controlled through assembling ZnII-linked bridging molecules (B = p-terphenyl diphosphonic acid) between the metal oxide and the Ru(bpy)2((4,4'-PO3H2)2bpy)]Cl2 dye (RuP), thus producing TiO2-(B n )-RuP films. Using attenuated total reflectance infrared absorption and UV-vis spectroscopy, we observed that at least two molecular layers (i.e., TiO2-B2 or TiO2-B1-RuP) could be formed on all films but subsequent loading was dependent on the porosity of the TiO2.
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