Simulation of collision-induced absorption spectra based on classical trajectories and ab initio potential and induced dipole surfaces. II. CO-Ar rototranslational band including true dimer contribution.

This paper presents further development of the new semi-classical trajectory-based formalism described in Paper I [Chistikov et al., J. Chem.

Seroprevalence and B1 gene genotyping of Toxoplasma gondii in farmed European mink in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia.

Toxoplasma gondii is a protozoan parasite that infects almost all species of mammals and birds, including fur-bearing animals. However, the prevalence of T. gondii among Russian fur-bearing animals is unknown.

Simulation of collision-induced absorption spectra based on classical trajectories and ab initio potential and induced dipole surfaces. I. Case study of N-N rototranslational band.

This paper presents theoretical formalism and some results of the collision-induced absorption (CIA) spectral simulation based on the classical trajectory analysis. Our consideration relies on the use of ab initio potential energy and dipole moment surfaces for two interacting rigid monomers. Rigorous intermolecular Hamiltonian is represented and used in the body-fixed reference frame.

Comprehensive classical analysis of partition function and some observables for weakly interacting polyatomic dimers.

This paper presents the systematic classical consideration of a statistical averaging procedure that permits the calculation of partition function, equilibrium constant, and some observables for polyatomic dimers composed of weakly interacting rigid monomers. It was shown that the number of independent internal coordinates in a body-fixed frame is a crucial parameter that largely determines the temperature dependence of the partition function irrespective of the kinematic coupling within various degrees of freedom. The kinetic energy was derived for the molecular pair of arbitrary complexity in the body-fixed frame.

A technique of hand digit reconstruction using scarred and deformed donor segments.

Background: Hand digit reconstruction with transposition of hand segments in cases of hand injury is not used frequently by surgeons, at least in part because of potential ischemic complications after cicatricial changes in tissues. The aim of this study was to investigate the opportunities for expanding the set of indications for hand digit reconstruction using scarred and deformed donor segments.

Methods: We developed a technique of ischemic preconditioning and preforming the segment before transfer to improve macro-circulation and micro-circulation in scarred donor segments with a view to preventing ischemic complications in reconstructed digits.

The estimation of total petroleum hydrocarbons content in waste water by IR spectrometry with multivariate calibrations.

Alkanes, cycloalkanes and arenes have rather different sensitivities to IR-spectrometric determination, leading to high relative uncertainty (δc) for the total petroleum hydrocarbon index (TPH) in natural and waste waters. Another source of TPH uncertainty is the mismatch of group composition of the hydrocarbon mixture in the sample and in the standard substance used for one-dimensional calibration. Increasing the number of wavelengths and using of multivariate calibrations permit the reduction of δc to <10% rel.

Application of Ilizarov device for transfer of deformed digits, digital stumps, and metacarpal stumps.

Purpose: Digital transfer on a pedicle comprising only the neurovascular bundle may lead to irreversible ischemia in cases of severe hand tissue scarring. Previously described methods of such a transfer are conditional on the donor stump's being longer than both the recipient stump and the reconstructed digit. The aim was to develop a method of transferring deformed digits and their stumps after prior distraction of both neurovascular bundles and cutaneosubcutaneous pedicles with the help of the Ilizarov device.