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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Desi"”.
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American Desi : representation and reproduction in diaspora /
… A textual analysis of three films: American Desi, Bollywood/Hollywood, and East Is East, helps frame the characteristics of South Asian diasporic film. Theoretical concepts of diaspora and identity are extended to this reading of the films. In-depth, open-ended, semi structured interviews …
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Investigation of Phospholipids in Ethanol Affected Prenatal Mouse Brain Using DESI-MS Imaging
… in various regions of the brain using DESI-MS imaging. FASD mouse models were used in this study in which alcohol was administered to the pregnant mice during first trimester and 30 day old offsprings were chosen for the analysis. Principal component analysis was performed on six …
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Development and Applications of Liquid Sample Desorption Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry (DESI-MS)
… electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (DESI-MS), a new ambient ionization method with focus on the direct analysis of liquid samples. A variety of new applications of liquid sample DESI are discussed in details including protein conformation study, fast reaction kinetics study, and the …
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Investigation of ion transfer efficiency through multi-channel capillaries for a Desorption Electrospray Ionization (DESI) interface
Desorption Electrospray Ionization (DESI) coupled with mass spectrometry (MS) is an efficient imaging technique for obtaining the spatial distribution of molecular species from a surface. In this study, we experimented with different capillary geometries to maximize the signal intensity of analyte …
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Exploring a Mediational Model of the Relationship Between Skin Color and Mate Selection in Desi Young Adults
… South Asia and is especially apparent within the Desi (i.e., South Asian) marriage market, where explicit preferences for fair-skinned marital partners are made and lighter skin is perceived as more attractive. It is also known that, through the halo effect, attractive people are perceived to …
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Ambient ionization - mass spectrometry: Advances toward intrasurgical cancer detection
… tissue using desorption electrospray ionization (DESI). The physical form of the tissue, e.g. in vitro sampling, sectioned, or smeared, was inconsequential in differentiating normal from cancerous tissue; however, the spectra acquired by TS and DESI differed due to differences in ionization …
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Mass Spectrometric Analysis of Thiol Proteins/Peptides Following Selenamide Derivatization And Electrolytic Reduction of Disulfide Bonds
… electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry (DESI-MS) provides direct ionization of analytes with little or no sample preparation. The capability for liquidsamples analysis allows DESI-MS to be coupled with many devices such as electrochemical cells and liquid chromatography (LC) for novel …
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Characterization, Imaging and Quantitation of Small Molecules by Ambient Ionization Mass Spectrometry
… of interest, ionization techniques such as DESI, PS, MALDI, etc are incorporated into the front of the mass spectrometer. In this work, the ambient ionization techniques, DESI-MS and PS-MS was modulated for characterization, imaging and quantification of small molecules. The use of DESI-MS …
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Molecular diagnosis of cancer using ambient ionization mass spectrometry
… electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (DESI-MS) imaging, which has been previously used to analyze and differentiate disease state (i.e. tumor and normal) and in some cases tumor subtype of human liver, kidney, bladder, testicular, prostate, and brain cancers. DESI-MS imaging is an ideal …
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Mass Spectrometry Imaging: Looking Fruits at Molecular Level
… imaging and desorption electrospray ionization (DESI) imaging, have been evaluated and compared by mapping the localization of a range of secondary and primary metabolites in apple and grapes, respectively. The work based on MALDI has been focused on the optimization of sample preparation for …
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Quality characteristics of Australian chickpeas (Cicer arietinum L.) for food usage
… qualities of four major commercially traded desi varieties, two kabuli varieties and some new releases collected from the important growing sites of Australia were evaluated over four harvests to study effect of location, season and genotype. The composition of these varieties were compared …
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Evaluation of Ion Transfer Capillary Geometry on Sensitivity of a Desorption Electrospray Ionization and Mass Spectrometry System
… Electrospray Ionization – Mass Spectrometry (DESI-MS) process. Previous work has shown that heating the ion transfer capillary to 450˚C will improve the resolution of images taken by the DESI-MS owing to increased ion desolvation. This thesis studies how changing the inner diameter and …
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Effect of genotype and phosphorus fertilizer rates on water use and yield of chickpea
… ICCV7307) laid in a randomized complete block design and replicated 3 times. Total crop biomass was determined at vegetative, 50% flowering, and harvest maturity (HM) stages and number of pods per plant, seeds per pod, 100 seed weight, grain yield and harvest index (HI) were determined at …
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Growth and nodulation of autumn sown chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) as affected by additional nitrogen: A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Bachelor of Horticultural Science (Honours) at Lincoln University
… and nodulation response of inoculated Kabuli and Desi chickpea to application of nitrogen. In the glasshouse experiments, a range of nitrogen levels were applied (0, 12.5, 25, 37.5, 50 and 100 mol N m⁻³). Leaf area and shoot dry matter production for both chickpea types, and nodule dry weight for …
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DESIS ON A SPECTRUM: THE POLITICAL AGENDAS OF SOUTH ASIAN AMERICANS
Desis and Racial Minority Politics: Disrupting Assumptions of Ethnoracial Solidarity: Current sociological analyses of Desi political interests are incomplete because they gravitate toward flattened identity-based, and electoral-based, understandings of ethnoracial groups. This study examines the …
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An Integrated Framework for Automated Data Collection and Processing for Discrete Event Simulation Models
… the proposed framework. The interface is called DESI, which stands for Discrete Event Simulation Inputs. The proposed integrated framework to automate DES input data preparation was evaluated against benchmark measures presented in the literature in order to show its positive impact in DES input …
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Towards successful implementation of 5Ss in a U.S. manufacturing company with Indian sub-continent workers
… well acquainted with the employees. The research design chosen for this research is ethnography. The researcher spent six months interviewing and observing 33 employees of the XYZ organization, acting as researcher and participant observer, while immersing himself in their lives. This helped him …
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Mass Spectral Imaging for Analysis of Pharmaceutical Ingredients
… competing and complementary techniques including DESI, MALDI, SIMS, and DART ionization techniques that allow the researchers to obtain appreciable ion intensities for mapping purposes. Instrumentation further is, rapidly advancing with significant progress in TOF, ion trap, and quadrupole …
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The effect of water stress and storage conditions on seed quality of chickpea genotypes characterized by differences in seed size and coat colour
… evaluate the performance of chickpea genotypes (Desi-K, Saina-K and ICCV-K) with different seed sizes on seedling emergence (i), seed ageing effect on seed quality and imbibition of genotypes produced under water stressed and non-stressed conditions (ii), and (iii) the effect of water stress …
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