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Quite surprisingly, cisplatin and cis-[PtI2(NH3)2] were found to manifest significant differences in their reactions with the model protein lysozyme. We decided to explore whether these differences recur when reacting these two Pt compounds with other proteins. Notably, ESI-MS measurements carried out on cytochrome c nicely confirmed the reaction pattern observed for lysozyme. This prompted us to exploit a computational DFT approach to disclose the molecular basis of such behavior. We analyzed comparatively the reactions of cis-[PtCl2(NH3)2] and cis-[PtI2(NH3)2] with appropriate molecular models (Ls) of the sidechains of relevant aminoacids. We found that when Pt(II) complexes are reacted with sulfur ligands both quickly lose their halide ligands and then the resulting cis-[Pt(L)2(NH3)2] species loses ammonia upon reaction with a ligand excess. In the case of imidazole, again cis-[PtCl2(NH3)2] and cis-[PtI2(NH3)2] quickly lose their halide ligands but the resulting cis-[Pt(L)2(NH3)2] species does not lose ammonia by reaction with excess imidazole. These results imply that the two platinum complexes manifest a significantly different behavior in their reaction with representative small molecules in agreement with what observed in the case of model proteins. It follows that the protein itself must play a crucial role in triggering the peculiar reactivity of cis-[PtI2(NH3)2] and in governing the nature of the formed protein adducts. The probable reasons for the observed behavior are critically commented and discussed.Air pollution is an important issue, especially in megacities across the world. There are emission sources within and also in the regions around these cities, which cause fluctuations in air quality based on prevailing meteorological conditions. Short term air quality forecasting is used not to just possibly mitigate forthcoming high air pollution episodes, but also to plan for reduced exposures of residents. In this study, a model using Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) has been developed to forecast pollutant concentration of PM10, PM2.5, NO2, and O3 for the current day and subsequent 4 days in a highly polluted region (32 different locations in Delhi). The model has been trained using meteorological parameters and hourly pollution concentration data for the year 2018 and then used for generating air quality forecasts in real-time. It has also been equipped with Real Time Correction (RTC), to improve the quality of the forecasts by dynamically adjusting the forecasts based on the model performance during the past few days. The model without RTC performs decently, but with RTC the errors are further reduced in forecasted values. The utility of the model has been demonstrated in real-time and model validations were performed for the whole year of 2018 and also independently for 2019. The model shows very good performance for all the pollutants on several evaluation metrics. Coefficient of correlations for various pollutants varies from 0.79-0.88 to 0.49-0.68 between the Day0 to Day4 forecasts. Lowest deterioration of performance was observed for ozone over the four days of forecasts. Use of RTC further improves the model performance for all pollutants.Losing a spouse can increase the risk for premature mortality, and declines in immune health are thought to play a role. Most of the supporting data have come from cross-sectional studies comparing already-bereaved individuals to matched controls, which provides valuable information about health disparities between groups but does not reveal health changes over time. selleck products Moreover, the health consequences of bereavement may be unique for dementia family caregivers, a large and growing segment of the population. The current study sought to evaluate the course of health around 52 dementia spousal caregivers' bereavement by capturing lymphocyte proliferation to Con A and PHA and self-rated health before and after spousal loss. To investigate the moderating role of the social environment, we examined associations between social ties and health trajectories before and after spousal loss. Using piecewise linear mixed models to allow for turning points in caregivers' trajectories, we found that, for the average caregiver, lymphocyte proliferation to both mitogens weakened as bereavement neared and continued to decline after the loss, but at a slower pace. In tandem, perceived health degraded as bereavement approached but rebounded thereafter. Further, we found that socially isolated caregivers showed marked declines in immune responses to Con A and PHA over time both before and after bereavement, whereas their socially connected counterparts had shallower declines to PHA and maintained a level immune response to Con A. In addition, socially isolated caregivers reported poorer health before and after bereavement compared to their counterparts, whose self-rated health declined as the loss neared but later recovered to exceed prior levels. These findings shed new light on the dynamics of immune function in response to spousal bereavement after dementia caregiving longitudinal data reveal a pattern of health recovery following caregivers' loss, particularly among those with more robust social networks prior to bereavement.The objective is to investigate the release characteristics of potassium (K) and chlorine (Cl) for torrefied wheat straw during a combined pyrolysis-combustion system. Powder and flake wheat straw samples were torrefied at different temperature of 200-300 ℃. The basic characteristics of torrefied samples and the K and Cl release rates of torrefied samples and their char samples derived from pyrolysis at 400-800 ℃ were analyzed and characterized. The results indicated that release rate of Cl was significantly higher than that of K under the same torrefaction conditions. In order to keep most of K and Cl remaining in biochar as well as the volatiles were completely released, the pyrolysis temperature of 700 ℃ for pyrolysis-combustion system was suitable. The total release rate of K and Cl at the pyrolysis temperature of 700 ℃ both exhibited a change trend of decreasing first and then increasing with the increase of torrefaction severity.
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