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The surface properties of many systems can be significantly improved by the use of coating exhibiting specific characteristics. Because of their outstanding properties, diamond films are involved in the coating of many products, such as cutting tools, optical items (disks, lenses, windows), biological implants. 

Incorporation of fluorine into a biological substrate opens a spectral window for viewmg biomolecular structure and dynamics in solution With mmimal background mletference, fluonne NMR can provide clear spectral information for fluorme conlainmg macromolecules, in contrast to an indecipherable mass of signals from proton or carbon NMR Whether the fluonnated unit is termed a probe, tag, marker, or reporter group, its function is the same to act as a beacon of spectral information... 

The presence of polymer, solvent, and ionic components in conducting polymers reminds one of the composition of the materials chosen by nature to produce muscles, neurons, and skin in living creatures. We will describe here some devices ready for commercial applications, such as artificial muscles, smart windows, or smart membranes other industrial products such as polymeric batteries or smart mirrors and processes and devices under development, such as biocompatible nervous system interfaces, smart membranes, and electron-ion transducers, all of them based on the electrochemical behavior of electrodes that are three dimensional at the molecular level. During the discussion we will emphasize the analogies between these electrochemical systems and analogous biological systems. Our aim is to introduce an electrochemistry for conducting polymers, and by extension, for any electrodic process where the structure of the electrode is taken into account. 

Complexity is a maddeningly slippery concept. The cellular automaton is to the study of complexity what E. coll or a planarian is to biology—a relatively simple preparation used to open a window on perplexing phenomena. 

Drugs, among all the environmental factors that we are exposed to, may be particularly likely to interact specifically and selectively with the genetic properties of a given individual, as their potency pitches them into a narrow therapeutic window , precariously balanced between potent potions and perilous poisons. We would predict that, based on a patients innate, individual biological makeup -as it affects the interaction with a drug - one or the other of these properties may manifest itself this phenomenon is covered by the term pharmacogenetics. 

Some proteins may have redox centers with ° s significantly higher than +0.4 V (e.g., the multicopper protein laccase). No general approach is presently available to deal with the high end of the biological redox window, and, in fact, the reduction potentials of these systems (again, e.g., laccases) are frequently poorly defined. 

The evident biological changes related to menopause elicit a feeling of vulnerability in women that makes them more receptive to measures aimed at detecting or preventing risk situations and, consequently, improving health status and life expectancy. This opens an opportunity window that must be used to enhance the introduction of a new lifestyle and reinforce the acceptance of pharmacological preventive measures when needed. 

The approach used in these experiments is different from that with window cells, which are generally not compatible with heating (71,72). The advances in characterization with liquid-phase reactants may lead to new opportunities for high-resolution imaging of a wide range of solution-solid and solution-gas-solid reactions in the chemical and biological sciences. 

It is used in windows, windscreens, sun visions and in air crafts, It is also used in optical fibres, contact lens, lighting fixtures, biological specimen preservation, dentures, presentation articles, automobile surface coatings, etc. 

Xu C, Zipfel W, Shera JB, Williams RM, Webb WW (1996) Multiphoton fluorescence excitation new spectral window for biological nonlinear microscopy. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 93 10763-10768... 

The end window of the tube must be thin enough to permit the weaker radiations to enter the tube (aluminium, 6-8 mg cm-2 mica, 2 mg cm-2) but even so alpha particles and very weak beta emissions are either completely or partially absorbed. The emissions from the biologically important isotopes of tritium and carbon-14 fall into this category and alternative detectors should be used for these isotopes. 

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