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Bidimensional fluorescence spectra are commonly obtained in the three modes of emission, excitation, and synchronous-scan excitation, whereas tridimensional fluorescence (or total luminescence) spectra are obtained in the form of excitation-emission matrix (EEM) plots by measuring the fluorescence intensity emitted as a function of the wavelength over a range of excitation wavelengths. This technique allows to obtain more detailed information than that obtained by using conventional monodimensional fluorescence (Mobed et al., 1996). Fluorescence spectroscopy has provided valuable information on the molecular structure, functionalities, conformation, and intramolecular and intermolecular interactions of HS from organic amendments and unamended and amended soils (Senesi et al., 1990,1996, 2007 Mobed et al., 1996 Chen et al., 2003 Senesi and Plaza, 2007). 

Figure 4.5. Fluorescence excitation-emission matrix spectra of humic acids (HAs) isolated from sewage sludge (B) and two soils either unamended (TH1 and TH2, respectively) or amended with 3901 ha-1 of sewage sludge (THB1 and THB2, respectively) sampled from the surface (s, 0-25cm) and subsurface (ss, 25-50cm) layers. Reprinted from Bertoncini, E. I., D Orazio, V., Senesi, N., and Mattiazzo, M. E. (2005). Fluorescence analysis of humic and fulvic acids from two Brazilian oxisols as affected by biosolid amendment. Anal. Bioanal. Chem. 381,1281-1288, with permission from Springer.

Figure 16.41. Fluorescence excitation-emission matrix spectra of humic acids (HA) isolated from municipal solid waste compost (MSWC), from soil amended with MSWC at 40tha 1yr 1 (MSWC40), and from the corresponding unamended control soil (MSWC0), in the absence and presence of Cu2+, Zn2+, Cd2+, and Pb2+ ions at a total concentration of 40 xmol liter-1. EEWPmax denotes the excitation/emission wavelength pairs at maximum fluorescence intensity (Plaza et al., 2006).

In the above formula, Q is the nuclear coordinate, p, and I/r are the ground state and excited electronic terms. Here Kv is provided through the traditional Rayleigh-Schrodinger perturbation formula and K0 have an electrostatic meaning. This expression will be called traditional approach, which has, in principle, quantum correctness, but requires some amendments when different particular approaches of electronic structure calculation are employed (see the Bersuker s work in this volume). In the traditional formalism the vibronic constants P0 dH/dQ Pr) can be tackled with the electric field integrals at nuclei, while the K0 is ultimately related with electric field gradients. Computationally, these are easy to evaluate but the literally use of equations (1) and (2) definitions does not recover the total curvature computed by the ab initio method at hand. 

Approximately 4 months after sending in the amended claim, the patent attorney received the letter from the USPTO. He opened the letter and read that his amended claim would be allowed as is. It is surprising that the attorney did not seem at all excited or even very happy about the fact that the claim was now allowed. 

In the case of rubrene, the above mechanistic scheme must be somewhat amended. Taking into account the energies of the rubrene excited states, it becomes clear that an additional process should be added to the reaction scheme. The energy of the lowest rubrene triplet 3 = 1.15 eV [125,126]. The energy of the lowest rubrene singlet E is equal to 2.29 eV [127] giving lE- w Ei. It can be concluded that the rates of the formation of two neighboring triplets. 

As we have begun to enter new biopharmaceutical classes such as gene and cell therapy products, much new and exciting information will become common knowledge over the next few years and amend our analytical concepts and understanding. 

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