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Because excited triplet states decay more slowly than excited singlet states, it is much easier to determine the excited triplet-state lifetime 3t than H. Phosphorescence emission from a degassed sample at low temperature (77K) lasts for longer than 1ms and may even be several seconds. The molecules in the sample are irradiated with a short ( 1 ps) flash and the decay of the phosphorescence signal is monitored using an oscilloscope. Any accompanying fluorescence signal will decay too rapidly to be observed. The excited triplet-state lifetime is obtained as the time taken for the emission intensity to fall to 1/e of its initial value. 

By this time it was demonstrated that the [3Fe-4S]W+ form of aconitase is inactive, while the [4Fe-4S]2+ form is active. How is the activity of the enzyme affected by the oxidation state of the [4Fe-4S] cluster Because the active enzyme contains a [4Fe-4S]2+ cluster, either the 3+ or 1+ oxidation states may also be stable. The 3+ state is unstable since oxidation of the [4Fe-4S]2+ resulted in the immediate loss of a ferrous ion and conversion to a [3Fe-4S]i+ cluster (46,47). However, reduction of active aconitase by sodium dithionite or photoreduction in the presence of deazaflavin produced in high yields an EPR signal characteristic for [4Fe-4S]l+ clusters (47). When active enzyme within an anaerobic assay cuvette was photoreduced, the activity of the enzyme dropped to 1/3 of its initial value. Further photoreduction resulted in cluster destruction. Then, if the enzyme is reoxidized with air, the activity returned to its original value. This demonstrated that the redox state of the cluster can modulate the enzyme activity. A scheme summarizing the cluster interconversions and various redox states of the Fe-S cluster of aconitase is shown below. 

Use the same series of data and follow the same procedure as before to try out the Lorentz-Gauss convert window type. There is one single parameter LB available to adjust the window. Set the initial value to LB = 0, increment and decrement its value in small steps and inspect the shape of the window using the interactive mode. Note that for LB > 0 the shape of the window is similar to the exponential window (signal-to-noise improvement) whereas for LB < 0 the window shape is similar to the sine-bell squared window. Try out a few values to enhance the signal-to-noise ratio and to improve the resolution, store the results and compare the spectra using the multiple display. 

The modified electrode showed a very good stability even at pH 9. Although at this pH a decrease in the redox peaks in CV is observed after 250 cycles, the PB layer is still highly electroactive and sufficient to catalyse the H2O2 reduction. In fact, stirred batch amperometric measurements of H202 (10 pm oil ) were carried out before and after the continuous cycling at pH 9, and the decrease of the signal was only 10% of the initial value. 

The time constant of an exponential decay corresponds to the time needed for the signal to decrease to 37% of its initial value. 

A phase-locked loop is a bit of a hybrid of the oscillator circuit and the propagation measurement system discussed in the previous two sections. The instrumentation setup, shown in Figure 6.14 (page 374), closely resembles that used for propagation measurements. The phase is locked, or rather maintained at a constant value, in the following manner initially, before any perturbation occurs, the phase difference between the two IDTs of the AW device is recorded when a perturbation affects this phase difference, the frequency of the signal from the source is adjusted to return the phase to its initial value. In this way, the source frequency is constantly retuned to the extent dictated by the perturbation, and the phase difference between the two transducers remains locked. ... 

Exposure of POP film to uv radiation under vacuum for j200-600 hr caused the ESR signal intensity to increase about 2-4 times its initial value. Because of time limitations, no effort was made to go beyond this qualitative observation of photolnduced production of unpaired spins. 

Comparison with UV-visible photoabsorption spectroscopy showed that HRS was a more sensitive technique revealing the aggregation process at smaller antigen concentration. For instance, at an antigen concentration of 20 jtig/ml, the HRS signal had already increased by 6% from its initial value whereas tire extinction coefficient has not increased by more than 1%. 

After determination of pitches k, k and the initial values b, b of the approximating function for the direct and reverse movements, the dispersion of the output signal aroused by nonlinearity can be worked out from the following equations ... 

Figure 19. Classical trajectories for 1000 points for Gaussian distribution of initial values and Nb = 10, 4)b = —n/2 for the signal mode (upper figures) and the pump mode (lower figures). The evolution times are chosen as to compare with Fig. 18.

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