Oxidative amidation by Cu(ii)–guanidine acetic acid immobilized on magnetized sawdust with eggshell as a natural base

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (27) ◽  
pp. 11777-11785
Author(s):  
Atefeh Darvishi ◽  
Maryam Kazemi Miraki ◽  
Marzban Arefi ◽  
Akbar Heydari

Copper(ii)–guanidine acetic acid complex was immobilized on the surface of magnetized raw waste sawdust (SD) as an abundant natural biopolymer and employed as an efficient and recoverable catalyst in oxidative amidation reaction, while waste eggshell (ES) powder was used as a low-cost solid base.

2006 ◽  
Vol 125 (18) ◽  
pp. 184310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yohannes Abate ◽  
P. D. Kleiber
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2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mercy Nyamewaa Asiedu ◽  
Anish Simhal ◽  
Usamah Chaudhary ◽  
Jenna L. Mueller ◽  
Christopher T. Lam ◽  
...  

AbstractGoalIn this work, we propose methods for (1) automatic feature extraction and classification for acetic acid and Lugol’s iodine cervigrams and (2) methods for combining features/diagnosis of different contrasts in cervigrams for improved performance.MethodsWe developed algorithms to pre-process pathology-labeled cervigrams and to extract simple but powerful color and textural-based features. The features were used to train a support vector machine model to classify cervigrams based on corresponding pathology for visual inspection with acetic acid, visual inspection with Lugol’s iodine, and a combination of the two contrasts.ResultsThe proposed framework achieved a sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy of 81.3%, 78.6%, and 80.0%, respectively when used to distinguish cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN+) relative to normal and benign tissues. This is superior to the average values achieved by three expert physicians on the same data set for discriminating normal/benign cases from CIN+ (77% sensitivity, 51% specificity, 63% accuracy).ConclusionThe results suggest that utilizing simple color- and textural-based features from visual inspection with acetic acid and visual inspection with Lugol’s iodine images may provide unbiased automation of cervigrams.SignificanceThis would enable automated, expert-level diagnosis of cervical pre-cancer at the point-of-care.


2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 525-525
Author(s):  
Yifeng Lan Yifeng Lan ◽  
Lixiang Zuo Lixiang Zuo ◽  
Yangyang Zhou Yangyang Zhou ◽  
Yanli Wei and Chuan Dong Yanli Wei and Chuan Dong

In this work, a simple and rapid spectrophotometric method, which is based on the fact that Iron(Ⅱ) -gluconic acid complex as a kind of reducing agent deterioration of indigo carmine dyes, was developed to detect gluconic acid in food. Under the optimal experimental condition, a linear range of 3.6 M to 900 M was obtained for gluconic acid with a limit of detection of 1.1 μM. The colorimetric method was rapid and robust with a low cost and can be applied to gluconic acid detection in food samples.


2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (9) ◽  
pp. 098201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qing-Chi Meng ◽  
Song-Qiu Yang ◽  
Guang-Hua Ren ◽  
Tian-Shu Chu

KYAMC Journal ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 56-60
Author(s):  
Nahid Yusuf ◽  
Md Ahmed Ali ◽  
Nazmun Nahar ◽  
Shipra Chaudhury ◽  
Md Zillur Rahman

Background: Visual inspection of cervix after application of 3-5% acetic acid (VIA) is a potential alternative to Pap smear cytology for screening of cervical cancer in resource poor settings.Objectives: This study was to evaluate the performance of visual inspection based screening approach in the detection of precancerous and early cancerous lesions of the cervix.Materials & Methods: VIA was carried out in 540 eligible women attending Gynae OPD. Detection of well-defined, opaque, acetowhite lesion close to squamocolumnar junction or in transitional zone of the cervix constituted positive VIA. All screened women evaluated by colposcopy and biopsy were taken from colposcopically suspected areas. The final diagnosis was based on histology.Results: Out of 540 patients, 328 were VIA negative and 212 were VIA positive. Colposcopy showed normal results in 340 cases, low grade CIN in 138 cases, high grade CIN in 44 cases and cancer in 18 cases. There were biopsy proven chronic cervicitis and metaplastic changes in 423 cases, CIN I in 66 cases, CIN II in 25 cases, CIN III / carcinoma-in-situ in 5 cases. The sensitivity of VIA was 74.36%, specificity 70.45%, positive predictive value 41.04%, & negative predictive value 90.85%.Conclusion: VIA can differentiate a normal cervix from a precancerous cervix with reasonable accuracy. As it is low cost and simple method, it can be set in any hospital or any health care centre of rural or urban areas of poor resource settings.KYAMC Journal Vol. 9, No.-2, July 2018, Page 56-60


Synlett ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 23 (12) ◽  
pp. 1789-1792 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tetsuto Tsunoda ◽  
Taichi Nishimura ◽  
Takeki Iwata ◽  
Hironori Maegawa ◽  
Takeshi Nishii ◽  
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