Herein we describe the design, synthesis and characterization of a phenhomazine ligand with six pendant acetate arms designed for the combined coordination of copper(II) and lanthanide(III) ions, with the perspective of the development of a “turn-off” copper sensor. The key step for the ligand preparation was the one-step endomethylene bridge fission of a diamino Tröger’s base with a concomitant alkylation. Fluorescence and absorption spectroscopies as well as nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments were performed in order to analyze and understand the coordination properties of the ligand. Transition metal coordination was driven by the synergistic effect of the free nitrogen atoms of the diazocinic core and the two central acetate arms attached to those nitrogens, whereas lanthanide coordination is performed by external acetate arms, presumably forming a self-assembled 22 metallosupramolecular structure. The terbium complex shows the typical green emission with narrow bands and long luminescence lifetimes. The luminescence quenching produced by the presence of copper(II) ions was analyzed. This work sets therefore a starting point for the development of a phenhomazine-based “turn-off” copper(II) sensor.We aimed to investigate the pre-operative predictive role of haematological parameters in patients with testicular torsion. Ruboxistaurin The medical records of patients operated between January 2016 and November 2018 were retrospectively analysed. The demographic characteristics and complete blood count of the patients were recorded. We divided the patients who operated with testicular torsion into two groups detorsion (Group 1) and orchiectomy (Group 2). A control group (Group 3) was created from healthy volunteers. All haematological parameters and other demographic data were compared between three groups. A total of 144 participants were included; Group 1, Group 2 and Group 3; 61, 27 and 56 respectively. The duration of symptoms and monocyte counts were found statistically significantly higher in patients undergoing orchiectomy than detorsion (p less then .01). We found a significant difference in terms of neutrophil, lymphocyte, monocyte counts and neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio between patients with testicular torsion and controls. We also found that the monocytes count and symptom duration differed significantly between the detorsion group and the orchiectomy group. It is obvious that there is contradictory information according to the studies in the literature. We can say that the duration of symptoms and the number of monocytes are predictors of testicular viability.We suggest a regression approach to estimate the excess cumulative incidence function (CIF) when matched data are available. In a competing risk setting, we define the excess risk as the difference between the CIF in the exposed group and the background CIF observed in the unexposed group. We show that the excess risk can be estimated through an extended binomial regression model that actively uses the matched structure of the data, avoiding further estimation of both the exposed and the unexposed CIFs. The method naturally deals with two time scales, age and time since exposure and simplifies how to deal with the left truncation on the age time-scale. The model makes it easy to predict individual excess risk scenarios and allows for a direct interpretation of the covariate effects on the cumulative incidence scale. After introducing the model and some theory to justify the approach, we show via simulations that our model works well in practice. We conclude by applying the excess risk model to data from the ALiCCS study to investigate the excess risk of late events in childhood cancer survivors.The current study presents rhyolite as a novel and promising natural thermoluminescence emission (TL) material. The work focused on enhancing the TL sensitivity of rhyolite via optimization of the processing conditions annealing and pre-dose effect. The glow curves of irradiated rhyolite sample showed a single peak of about 110°C at 5°C sec-1 heating rate. Sensitization was performed following Fleming’s sensitization technique. It was found that applying 1 kGy pre-dose irradiation, followed by thermal activation at 550°C for 1 h, and cooling in air at room temperature were the optimum conditions for TL sensitivity improvement of this 110°C glow peak. Both nonsensitized and sensitized rhyolite have linear behaviour in the range 5-1500 Gy. The obtained results present rhyolite as a material for potential dosimetry applications.PHEX is predominantly expressed by bone- and tooth-forming cells, and its inactivating mutations in X-linked hypophosphatemia (XLH) lead to renal phosphate wasting and severe hypomineralization of bones and teeth. Also present in XLH are hallmark hypomineralized peri-osteocytic lesions (POLs, halos) that persist despite stable correction of serum phosphate (Pi ) that improves bulk bone mineralization. In XLH, mineralization-inhibiting osteopontin (OPN, a substrate for PHEX) accumulates in the extracellular matrix of bone. To investigate how OPN functions in Hyp mice (a model for XLH), double-null (Hyp;Opn-/- ) mice were generated. Undecalcified histomorphometry performed on lumbar vertebrae revealed that Hyp;Opn-/- mice had significantly reduced osteoid area/bone area (OV/BV) and osteoid thickness of trabecular bone as compared to Hyp mice, despite being as hypophosphatemic as Hyp littermate controls. However, tibiae examined by synchrotron radiation micro-CT showed that mineral lacunar volumes remained abnore independent of systemic Pi -regulating factors. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.This study reports the photocatalytic oxidative degradation of hydrocarbon pollutants present in refinery wastewater under UV light using Fe2 O3 , MnO2 , TiO2 and ZnO as catalysts. Among the catalysts, TiO2 exhibited the highest photocatalytic degradation activity i.e. 92, 98.8, 91.5 and 93 % conversion for benzene, toluene, phenol and naphthalene, respectively, in the model refinery wastewater under the optimum reaction conditions of pH 3, 30 °C, 90-min reaction time and 100 mg/L catalyst dose. The photocatalytic degradation of a real refinery wastewater sample containing 69.23 % aliphatics, 25.36 % aromatics, 3.2 % oxygenates and 2.21 % naphthenic hydrocarbons under the optimum conditions revealed a net decrease in chemical oxygen demand (93.2%) i.e. from 970 mg/L to 65 mg/L. GC-MS analysis of the reaction products confirmed that using UV/TiO2 system, complete photo-degradation of the parent hydrocarbons occurred, but some oxygenated byproducts were also observed. This study provides useful reference information for the treatment of wastewater from oil refineries to cope with the increasing environmental issues.