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Recently Blake et al.153) made such studies in the case of human (HL) and tortoise egg-white (TEWL) lysozyme based on crystallographic refinements at 1,5 and 1,6 A resolution, respectively. By these investigations they attempted to obtain information on the perturbations of water structure in the hydration shell by neighboured protein molecules and by high salt concentrations as well as on the degree of order of the bound water. The authors came to the conclusion that the number of ordered water molecules are 128 in TEWL and 140 in HL, whereas the overall content is made up of 650 and 350 water molecules per lysozyme molecule. 

Superoxide dismutases (SODs) are a family of cytosolic metalloenzymes that specifically remove (reviewed by Omar etal., 1992). SOD distribution within the body is ubiquitous, being found in erythrocytes as well as most organs and cell types. Three distinct mammalian SOD forms exist CuZnSOD, MnSOD and extracellular SOD (EC-SOD). Their amino-acid sequences differ as well as the transition metals at their active sites. Rheumatoid synovial fluid contains low levels of SOD activity and hence little protection from ROM generated by infiltrating PMNs (Blake etcU., 1981). Furthermore, leucocytes from patients with RA are deficient in MnSOD, which might promote the extracellular leakage of O2 (Pasquier et al., 1984). 

Equation 6.2 has been disputed by several investigators. Shepherd (1983) claimed that apparent LNAPL thicknesses in wells may become more exaggerated than accounted for in Equation 6.2 in certain cases. Hall, Blake, and Champlin (1984) described convincing laboratory experiments that contradicted Equation 6.2. Their results can be formalized as follows ... 

Blake, S. B. and Hall, R. A., 1984, Monitoring Petroleum Spills with Wells Some Problems and Solutions In Proceedings of the National Water Well Association of Ground Water Scientists and Engineers, Fourth National Symposium on Aquifer Restoration and Groundwater Monitoring, pp. 305-310. 

Blake, S. B. and Gates, M. N., 1986, Vacuum-Enhanced Hydrocarbon Recovery A Case Study In Proceedings of the National Water Well Association Conference on Petroleum Hydrocarbons and Organic Chemicals in Groundwater Prevention, Detection and Restoration, November, pp. 709-721. 

To model this, Duncan-Hewitt and Thompson [50] developed a four-layer model for a transverse-shear mode acoustic wave sensor with one face immersed in a liquid, comprised of a solid substrate (quartz/electrode) layer, an ordered surface-adjacent layer, a thin transition layer, and the bulk liquid layer. The ordered surface-adjacent layer was assumed to be more structured than the bulk, with a greater density and viscosity. For the transition layer, based on an expansion of the analysis of Tolstoi [3] and then Blake [12], the authors developed a model based on the nucleation of vacancies in the layer caused by shear stress in the liquid. The aim of this work was to explore the concept of graded surface and liquid properties, as well as their effect on observable boundary conditions. They calculated the hrst-order rate of deformation, as the product of the rate constant of densities and the concentration of vacancies in the liquid. 

Collection of air samples in stainless steel canisters whose surfaces have been passivated is another common collection technique for VOCs. (Aluminum has also been used but the stability of polar organics in them is poor Gholson et al., 1990.) Indeed, this method is used not only for sampling air but in medical applications as well, where they have been used to sample organics in a single breath (Pleil and Lindstrom, 1995). Passivation of the canisters is often carried out using a process called SUMMA and hence referred to as SUMMA canisters. The canisters also have to be thoroughly cleaned before use an example of one such procedure is described by Blake et al. (1994). The sample is then typically preconcentrated by transfer to a cold trap prior to injection onto the GC column (e.g., see Blake et al., 1994). 

In particular air masses, estimates of OH concentrations have also been derived from the relative rates of decay of a series of hydrocarbons in the air mass whose rate constants for reactions with OH are well known (e.g., Blake et al., 1993). Alternatively, organics can be added as tracers criteria for the choice of suitable compounds are discussed by Davenport and Singh (1987). However, such approaches can be complicated by the effects of transport and mixing of the air mass... 

Blake, N. J., S. A. Penkett, K. C. Clemitshaw, P. Anwyl, P. Lightman, A. R. W. Marsh, and G. Butcher, Estimates of Atmospheric Hydroxyl Radical Concentrations from the Observed Decay of Many Reactive Hydrocarbons in Well-Defined Urban Plumes, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 2851-2864 (1993). 

Karcher et al. (1996) suggest that this additional oxidation occurs on the soot particles that have been observed in the stratosphere and attributed to aircraft emissions (Pueschel et al., 1992a Blake and Kato, 1995). The oxidation of S02 on soot particles is known to occur in the troposphere as well (see Chapter 8.C.4). If the same is true of the exhaust from HSCTs, their emissions could lead to significant increases in both the number of particles in the lower stratosphere and as their associated surface area. 

The next major advance in LC-MS interfacing was developed by Blakely and Vestal (55, 56). To circumvent the solvent elimination problem, Blakely et al. (55) developed the thermospray interface that operates with aqueous-organic mobile phase at typical 4.6-mm i.d. column flow rates, 1-2 mL/min. The thermospray technique works well with aqueous buffers. This feature is an advantage when the versatility of the reversed-phase mode is considered. In fact, with aqueous buffers, ions are produced when the filament is off. A recent improvement in the thermospray technique is the development of an electrically heated vaporizer that permits precise control of the vaporization (56). This... 

HOC+, the metastable isomer to the well-known HCO+ molecule, has probably been detected in the galactic centre source Sgr B2 (Woods et al. 1983). This identification rests on only the J = 1 - 0 transition, which has been measured in the laboratory by Gudeman and Woods (1982). Since this line lies in the galactic centre near several rotational transitions of HCOOH, there remains some doubt as to the proper identification. An unambiguous interstellar identification of HOC + would therefore have to await the detection of higher rotational transitions, which have been measured in the laboratory by Blake et al. (1983), or isotopically substituted species. In addition, the HCO+/HCO+ abundance ratio of 330 obtained from the observation is at odds witt theoretical determinations (De Frees et al. 1984 Jarrold et al. 1986). 

Bosenberg, A.T., Brock-Utne, J.G., Gaffin, S.L., Wells, M.T., Blake, G.T. Strenuous exercise causes systemic endotoxemia. J Appl Physiol 65 (1988) 106-108. 

Read the following poem by William Blake from his book Songs of Experience, published in 1794. Read it out loud, because poetry is meant to be heard as well as read. Then read it again with your pen in hand Read actively, making your observations and comments in the margins. Then answer the questions that follow. 

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