Abstract:
A method of determining the cause of disease is described, which method uses the detection of “signature” or “fingerprint” volatile compounds in an emission, especially flatus, from a patient.
Abstract:
A reagent for determining the absolute configuration of a chiral compound containing as the active ingredient a metal porphyrin dimer crosslinked via a carbon chain in which, in at least one of the porphyrin rings of the dimer, at least one of the second carbon atoms counted from the carbon attached to the crosslinking carbon chain along the outer periphery of the porphyrin ring has a substituent bulkier than methyl and the central metal is an alkaline earth metal ion and a method of determining the absolute configuration of a chiral compound with the use of this reagent.
Abstract:
The mixed oxide WxMo1-xO3, where preferably x can be in the range 0.01 to 0.9, is very useful for the detection of oxidizing gases and in particular is superior for the detection of ozone. The preferred composition is in the range of 1 % to 21 % Mo (i.e. 99 % to 79 % W). The present example in which the composition of the sensing material is in the range WxMo1-xO3 with x varying from 0.01 to 0.9, is clearly distinct from the device claimed in applicant's earlier patent. Precipitation of the material as a mixed oxide from an aqueous solution of the ammonium metallates in concentrations of the appropriate stoichiometric proportions yields a powder that can be screen-printed to give an ideal microstructure. Resistivity of the material may be tailored to a desired value by adjusting the Mo/W ratio within the single phase field. Varying this ratio adjusts catalytic properties of the material.
Abstract:
A process and apparatus for extracting inorganic ionic contaminants from a front surface of a silicon wafer for chemical analysis. The wafer is placed in a container upon a support which holds the wafer in a generally level orientation and isolates the wafer to inhibit air circulation over the front surface. Air circulation can introduce contaminants to the extraction fluid, causing a false measurement of contaminants on the wafer. A layer of extraction fluid is deposited upon only the front surface of the wafer and held for a period of time so that contaminants on the front surface are extracted into the layer of fluid. A portion of the layer of fluid is collected by a sampling device for subsequent analysis.
Abstract:
The present invention provides an ammonia sensor comprising a pH sensitive fluorophore immobilized in a hydrophobic polymer, wherein the fluorophore can react quantitatively with ammonia and the transducing moiety of the fluorophore is neutrally charged when deprotonated. The present invention also provides a method for detecting ammonia using the ammonia sensor and optical sensing devices comprising the ammonia sensor.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a creatinine sensor material comprising a first layer of a protonated pH sensitive fluorophore immobilized in a hydrophobic polymer, wherein the fluorophore can react quantitatively with ammonia and the transducing moiety of the fluorophore is neutrally charged when deprotonated; a second layer of creatinine deiminase and a polymer; and a third layer of a polymer. The present invention also provides a method for detecting creatinine using the creatinine sensor material and optical sensing devices comprising the creatinine sensor material.
Abstract:
A system and method are provided for minimizing the effects of background signals in masking signals indicating the presence of substances to be detected such as contaminants in materials moving rapidly along a conveyor. The contaminants detected may include nitrogen containing compounds and hydrocarbons. The system and method of the present invention minimize during detection of the presence or absence of such substances, the number of falsely positive indications of the presence of such substances due to background signals and changes in background signals. The substances detected are divided into first and second sample portions and the respective portions are heated. The first heated portion is mixed with ozone to cause a chemical action therewith in order to generate radiation by chemiluminescence having characteristic weavelengths related to substances in the first portion. The second portion heated is also mixed with ozone to cause a chemical reaction therewith in order to generate radiation by chemiluminescence having characteristic wavelengths related to substances in the second portion. The radiation of the respective first and second portions is selectively detected. The heating and detecting steps are performed in a manner so as to yield a higher level of detected radiation from one of the portions of the sample than the other for at least some of the selected compounds being detected. Electrical signals from the respective first and second portions are generated and compared in order to determine the presence or absence of selected compounds in the sample. Appropriate reject signals for a bottle sorting system are generated accordingly.
Abstract:
The invention relates to improved control reagents. These materials contain an antioxidant or a hydroxylamine compound together with other ingredients, the most important of which is a known amount of the analyte for which the reagent acts as a control.
Abstract:
The use of anilines of the formula (I) in which R and R are hydrogen, possibly substituted alkyl, alkenyl, possibly substituted phenyl or R and R together with the nitrogen atoms bonding them are a hetercocyclic residue or R is also a possibly substituted hydroxy or possibly substituted amino; R and R are hydrogen, possibily substituted alkyl, alkenyl, cyano, nitro, acyl, acylamino possibly substituted hydroxy, possibly substituted carboxy methyl, possibly substituted amino, possibly substituted mercapto or possibly substituted sulphamoyl or together with R are alkylene or alkenylene or phenyl alkenylene; R is hydrogen, possibly substituted alkyl, alkenyl, possibly substituted hydroxy, possibly substituted amino, possibly substituted carboxyl or possibly substituted sulphamoyl; and R and R are hydrogen possibly substituted alkyl, alkenyl, possibly substituted phenyl, nitro, acylamino, possibly substituted hydroxy, possibly substituted amino, possibly substituted sulphamoyl, alkyl, sulphonyl, alkenyl, sulphonyl or aryl sulphonyl, acyl or possibly substituted carboxyl; provided that at least one of the residues R , R or R is hydrogen, for marking mineral oils, mineral oils marked with the above anilines and a process for detecting the above anilines in mineral oils are disclosed.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a general assay methodology suitable for the detection of organic analytes which are neither aldehydes nor ketones and for inorganic substances. The methodology utilizes prepared sensitized films of derivatizing agents and specific developer solutions for the selective and controlled formation of light scattering crystals whose presence serves as a qualitative and/or quantitative measure of the individual analyte of interest in the sample.