Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1- Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrometry: A Model Multi-Elemental Technique for Modern Analytical Laboratory (pp. 1)
George Zachariadis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Chapter 2- Iodine during Pregnancy and Lactation: Supplementation Versus Exposure (pp. 3)
Inés Velasco, Cristina Santos, Maria del Carmen Millón, Lucía Zarza, and Federico Soriguer (Servicio de Ginecología y Obstetricia, Hospital de Riotinto, Huelva, Spain and IDD Working Group of the SEEN: Sociedad Española de Endocrinología y Nutrición Servicio de Análisis Clínicos. Hospital de Riotinto, Huelva. Spain and Servicio de Endocrinología y Nutrición, Hospital Regional Universitario Carlos Haya, Málaga, Spain)
Chapter 3- Semiconductor-Photocatalyzed Iodine Generation (pp. 5-6)
C. Karunakaran and J. Jayabharathi (Department of Chemistry, Annamalai University,Annamalainagar 608002, Tamilnadu, India)
Chapter 4- Iodine, Iodine Transporters and Thyroid Cancer (pp. 7)
Xiao Hong Liu, Alexander C. Vlantis, Enders K. W. Ng, Shirley Y. W. Liu, C. Andrew van Hasselt, and George G. Chen (Department of Surgery and Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong, China)
Chapter 5- Thyroid Follicular Cell Carcinoma and Thyroiditis in Relation to Iodine Intake (pp. 9)
H. Rubén Harach (Pathology Laboratory, ―Dr. A. Oñativia‖ Hospital, Salta, Argentina)
Chapter 6- Optical Plasma Characteristics and Kinetics of Processes in the Longitudinal Glow Discharge in Mixtures of Helium and Iodine Vapours (pp. 11)
А. K. Shuaibov, A. I. Shchedrin and А. G. Kalyuzhnaya (Uzhgorod National University, Uzhgorod, Ukraine, and Institute of Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine)
Chapter 7- Study on Urinary Iodine and Thiocyanate Concentrations in Bulgarian Schoolchildren and Students (pp. 13-14)
Aneliya V. Bivolarska, Penka D. Gatseva and Mariana D. Argirova (Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Dept. of Hygiene, Ecology and Epidemiology, Medical University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria)
Chapter 8- Oxidation of 8-Oxoguanine with Iodine and Proposed Mechanisms (pp. 15)
Masayuki Morikawa, Katsuhito Kino, Masayo Suzuki, Takanobu Kobayashi, Rie Komori, and Hiroshi Miyazawa (Kagawa School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokushima Bunri University,Shido, Sanuki, Kagawa, Japan)
Chapter 9- Iodine: Characteristics, Sources, Implications (pp. 17-18)
Semra Cetinkaya (Sami Ulus Obstetrics and Gynecology, Children’s Health and Disease Training
and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey)
Chapter 10- Important Role of Cardiac Imaging Using Iodine Media for Implicating Arrhythmogenic Heart Disease (pp. 19-20)
Yasushi Akutsu, Youichi Kobayashi and Takehiko Gokan (Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine and Radiology, Showa University School of Medicine)
Chapter 11- Chemistry and Applications of Volatile Metal-Organic Iridium Compounds (pp. 21-22)
N. B. Morozova, N. V. Gelfond and I. K. Igumenov (Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Siberian Branch of RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia)
Chapter 12- Recent Advances of Homogeneous Iridium Catalysts in Aqueous Solution (pp. 23)
Wan-Hui Wang and Yuichiro Himeda (Energy Technology Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan)
Chapter 13- Iridium Catalysts for Sustainable Processes: Glycerol Dehydrogenation, Alkyne Polymerization and Post-Polymerization of Polyketones (pp. 25)
Erica Farnetti and Corrado Crotti (Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Farmaceutiche,
Università di Trieste, Italy and C.N.R. – Istituto Struttura della Materia, Unità staccata di Trieste, Trieste, Italy)
Chapter 14- Iridium-Carbonyl Complexes of Nitrogen-Oxygen and Phosphorus-Oxygen Donor Ligands: Synthesis, Characterisation and Reactivity (pp. 27-28)
Dipak Kumar Dutta (Materials Science Division, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research,
North-East Institute of Science and Technology, Jorhat, Assam, India)
Chapter 15- Progress in Iridium-Catalyzed Allylic Substitutions (pp. 29)
Hideto Miyabe (School of Pharmacy, Hyogo University of Health Sciences, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Japan)
Chapter 16- A Novel Amperometric Transducer Electrode with Iridium-Niobiu Binary Alloys (pp. 31-32)
Toru Matsumoto, Naoaki Sata and Yoko Yamabe-Mitarai (Green Innovation Research Laboratories, NEC Corporation, Japan and Exploratory Materials Research Laboratory for Energy and Environment Platinum group metals Group, NIMS, Sengen Japan)
Chapter 17- Highly Efficient Electrophosphorescent Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Based on Iridium(III) Complexes Containing Carbazole Units (pp. 33)
Wai-Yeung Wong and Cheuk-Lam Ho (Hong Kong Baptist University, Waterloo Road, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, P.R. China)
Chapter 18- Spatial and Temporal Variations of Soil-Radon Activity in Fault Zones of the Pribaikalie (East Siberia, Russia) (pp. 35-36)
K. Zh. Seminsky and A. A. Bobrov (Institute of the Earth‘s Crust, Siberian Branch of RAS., Russia)
Chapter 19- Radon: Its Properties and Applications (pp. 37)
M. Shakir Khan (Department of Applied Physics, Z. H. College of Engineering & Technology,
Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India)
Chapter 20- Beta and Gamma Dose Assessment due to Radon Short Lived Progeny (pp. 39
V. M. Markovic, N. Stevanovic, D. Krstic and D. Nikezic
