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Development and characterization of essential oil component-based polymer films: a potential approach to reduce bacterial biofilm
2013
The development of new polymeric materials aimed to control the bacterial biofilm appears to be an important practical approach. The goal of the present study was to prepare and characterize poly(ethylene-co-vinyl acetate) copolymer (EVA) films containing citronellol, eugenol, and linalool and evaluate their efficiency on growth and biofilm formation of Listeria monocytogenes, Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus epidermidis, Escherichia coli, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa in monospecies and dual species. The results showed that the addition of oil components influenced the elastic modulus (15 % decrease), the tensile stress (30 % decrease), the elongation at break (10 % increase), and the co…
La Sicile, territoire de l'imaginaire dans les dictionnaires français du XVIIe siècle
2018
A partire da un corpus di dizionari monolingui francesi pubblicati tra il 1606 e il 1704, questo articolo si propone di estrarre l'idea di Sicilia dalle voci ad essa dedicate. L'articolo cerca altresì di mostrare che alcuni stereotipi riguardanti la Sicilia sono già saldamente istituiti nel Seicento e che questo territorio geografico è prevalentemente pensato attraverso il ricorso alla mitologia e al patrimonio culturale greco-latino. From a corpus of French monolingual dictionaries published between 1606 and 1704, this article proposes to extract the idea of Sicily from the entries devoted to it. This article also seeks to show that certain stereotypes concerning Sicily are already firml…
Three-dimensional splitting dynamics of giant vortices in Bose-Einstein condensates
2018
We study the splitting dynamics of giant vortices in dilute Bose-Einstein condensates by numerically integrating the three-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equation in time. By taking advantage of tetrahedral tiling in the spatial discretization, we decrease the error and increase the reliability of the numerical method. An extensive survey of vortex splitting symmetries is presented for different aspect ratios of the harmonic trapping potential. The symmetries of the splitting patterns observed in the simulated dynamics are found to be in good agreement with predictions obtained by solving the dominant dynamical instabilities from the corresponding Bogoliubov equations. Furthermore, we observe…
Molecular evidence for cosmopolitan distribution of platyhelminth parasites of tunas (Thunnus spp.)
2007
Global distribution of platyhelminth parasites and their host specificities are not well known. Our hypothesis was that platyhelminth parasites of large pelagic fishes are common around the world. We analysed molecular variation in three different taxa of platyhelminth parasites infecting four species of tunas: yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares, Scombridae) from Western Australia, southern bluefin tuna (Thunnus maccoyii, Scombridae) from South Australia, Pacific bluefin tuna (Thunnus orientalis, Scombridae) from Pacific Mexico and northern bluefin tuna (T. thynnus, Scombridae) from two localities in the Mediterranean (Spain and Croatia). Comparisons of ITS2 and partial 28S rDNA demonstrated…
Diversité génétique individuelle, différenciation morphologique et comportementale entres les sexes, patterns d'appariement et paramètres démographiq…
2013
Research in avian behavioral ecology is affected by a known bias in favour of temperate species despite the greatest diversity of tropical species and the radically remote natural conditions which make knowledge of temperate species hardly relevant to tropical species.We propose to reduce the lack of information about tropical birds through the study of a socially monogamous species, reproducing and defending an all-purpose territory all year round, the Zenaida dove, Zenaida aurita. We used monitoring data from a population of ringed birds in Barbados for six years. First, we focused on plumage coloration both to ascertain their sexually mono- or dichromatic nature and whether plumage colou…
Spatiotemporal dynamics in the oxidation of groups IV?V metals: study of zirconium
1997
Abstract This paper focus on the mechanism of zirconium oxidation at 850 °C by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and the interactions between chemical (oxide growth, phase proportion) and physical processes (oxide scale texture, mechanical stresses). The structural gradients in the oxide scale composed of monoclinic ZrO 2 (higher proportion) and tetragonal ZrO 2 were revealed by XRD at variable incidence. The spatial evolution of the monoclinic zirconia texture through the oxide scale was shown and quantified. Relaxation of the oxide compressive stresses was observed for different oxidation times and correlated to kinetic breakaway evidenced by other methods. A structural mechanism of the oxide forma…
Ethylene polymerization with FI complexes having novel phenoxy-imine ligands: Effect of metal type and complex immobilization
2011
A series of bis(phenoxy-imine) vanadium and zirconium complexes with different types of R3 substituents at the nitrogen atom, where R3 = phenyl, naphthyl, or anthryl, was synthesized and investigated in ethylene polymerization. Moreover, the catalytic performance was verified for three supported catalysts, which had been obtained by immobilization of bis[N-(salicylidene)-1-naphthylaminato]M(IV) dichloride complexes (M = V, Zr, or Ti) on the magnesium carrier MgCl2(THF)2/Et2AlCl. Catalytic performance of both supported and homogeneous catalysts was verified in conjunction with methylaluminoxane (MAO) or with alkylaluminium compounds (EtnAlCl3−n, n = 1–3). The activity of FI vanadium and zirc…
V-containing ZrO2 inorganic yellow nano-pigments
2015
In this work we report new results on the preparation, characterization and color properties of the inorganic yellow nano-pigmenting system based on monoclinic V–ZrO2 solid solution nanoparticles. The series of solid solution nanopowders were obtained by a polyol technique where the precipitates, obtained after heating at 180 °C ethylene glycol solutions of vanadyl acetonate and zirconium n-propoxide, were annealed at different temperatures up to 1300 °C for a short duration, in order to improve their crystallinity and control the crystalline form of the final nanoparticles. On annealing at around 450 °C highly crystalline tetragonal V-containing zirconia particles were developed, which tra…
Microstructure of Fe–ZrSiO4 solid solutions prepared from gels
2012
Abstract Microstructural changes associated with chemical and structural evolution from gels to Fe x –ZrSiO 4 solid solutions are reported. Mineralizer-free Fe x –ZrSiO 4 gels in the compositional range 0 ≤ x ≤ 0.15 were prepared by sol–gel liquid-phase route from mixtures of alkoxides of silicon and zirconium, and iron (III) acetylacetonate, and annealed at different temperatures and/or times. The first step on the whole process to the final Fe x –ZrSiO 4 solid solutions was the formation of aggregated of tetragonal Fe-doped ZrO 2 nanocrystals with diameters smaller than 50 nm. At this stage the tetragonal Fe–ZrO 2 were embedded in amorphous silica resulting nanocomposite materials. The …
Microstructural Evolution from Praseodymium-Containing Zircon Gels to Prx-ZrSiO4 Solid Solutions
2012
Structural evolution and coupled microstructural transformations occurred on annealing mineralizer-free Pr-containing ZrSiO4 gels up to final praseodymium-doped zircon yellow pigments are reported. Gels with nominal compositions Prx-ZrSiO4, 0 ≤ x ≤ 0.125, were prepared from mixtures of zirconium and silicon alkoxides and praseodymium acetylacetonate. Crystallization pathway and microstructural changes of thermally treated dried gels were followed by infrared spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, field emission scanning and transmission electron microscopies, respectively. Results indicated that the crystallization pathway through the whole process of final Prx-ZrSiO4 solid solutions formation di…