Voronezh State University

About: Voronezh State University is a education organization based out in Voronezh, Russia. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Silicon & Boundary value problem. The organization has 5166 authors who have published 6097 publications receiving 31680 citations. The organization is also known as: VSU & Voronezh University.

Isolation and properties of flight muscle mitochondria of the bumblebee Bombus terrestris (L.)

Abstract: This report describes the isolation procedure and properties of tightly coupled flight muscle mitochondria of the bumblebee Bombus terrestris (L.). The highest respiratory control index was observed upon oxidation of pyruvate, whereas the highest respiration rates were registered upon oxidation of a combination of the following substrates: pyruvate + malate, pyruvate + proline, or pyruvate + glutamate. The respiration rates upon oxidation of malate, glutamate, glutamate + malate, or succinate were very low. At variance with flight muscle mitochondria of a number of other insects reported earlier, B. terrestris mitochondria did not show high rates of respiration supported by oxidation of proline. The maximal respiration rates were observed upon oxidation of α-glycerophosphate. Bumblebee mitochondria are capable of maintaining high membrane potential in the absence of added respiratory substrates, which was completely dissipated by the addition of rotenone, suggesting high amount of intramitochondrial NAD-linked oxidative substrates. Pyruvate and α-glycerophosphate appear to be the optimal oxidative substrates for maintaining the high rates of oxidative metabolism of the bumblebee mitochondria.

The Effect of Oxygen on Copper Dissolution during Cathodic Polarization

Abstract: The effect of oxygen on the anomalous dissolution of copper in acidic chloride media is studied. An increase in the copper corrosion rate during cathodic polarization in the potential range from –0.4 to –0.7 V is attributed to stirring of the near-electrode layer by evolving hydrogen bubbles. An addition of surface-active tetrabutylammonium iodide shifts the overpotential of hydrogen evolution and eliminates this effect. The copper dissolution rate during cathodic polarization is shown to be directly proportional to the reduction rate of dissolved oxygen. It is shown experimentally that H2O2 does not affect the dissolution rate of copper during cathodic polarization. The latter fact makes it possible to assume that oxygen reduction stages, which involve hydrogen peroxide, do not affect the anomalous dissolution of copper.

Dielectric properties of porous aluminum and silicon oxides with inclusions of triglycine sulfate and its modified analogs

Abstract: This paper reports on an investigation of the temperature dependences of the capacitance and conductance of composite materials prepared by incorporating the ferroelectric TGS and its analogs—TGS with addition of L,α-alanine and chromium—into porous Al2O3 and SiO2 matrices. It has been established that conduction of the structures under study involves charge transport predominantly through the ferroelectric embedded in the porous matrix. A mechanism is proposed to account for the displacement of the phase transition temperature of the ferroelectric inclusion under “restricted geometry” conditions, which is driven by the difference between the thermal expansion coefficients of the porous matrix and the embedded ferroelectric.

On certain classes of functional inclusions with causal operators in Banach spaces

Abstract: We introduce the notion of a multivalued causal operator and consider an abstract Cauchy problem in a Banach space for various classes of functional inclusions with causal operators. The methods of the topological degree theory for condensing maps are applied to obtain local and global existence results for this problem and to study the continuous dependence of a solution set on initial data. As application we generalize some existence results for semilinear functional differential inclusions and Volterra integro-differential inclusions with delay.

On the steady Navier--Stokes equations in 2D exterior domains

Abstract: We study the boundary value problem for the stationary Navier--Stokes system in two dimensional exterior domain. We prove that any solution of this problem with finite Dirichlet integral is uniformly bounded. Also we prove the existence theorem under zero total flux assumption.