1. Editorial

   • Hitoshi Watarai

   EditorialNotes 28 February 2005 Pages: 75 - 75

2. Thermodynamic Analysis of Duplex Formation of the Heterochiral DNA with l-Deoxyadenosine

   • Junji Kawakami
   • Kazuhiko Tsujita
   • Naoki Sugimoto

   Original Papers 28 February 2005 Pages: 77 - 82

3. Theoretical Analysis Concerning the Characteristics of a Dye-binding Method for Determining Serum Protein Based on Protein Error of pH Indicator: Effect of Buffer Concentration of the Color Reagent on the Color Development

   • Yuji Suzuki

   OriginalPaper 28 February 2005 Pages: 83 - 88

4. Size Distribution and Characteristics of Chemical Components in Ambient Particulate Matter

   • Etsu Yamada
   • Sinichi Funoki
   • Yasuro Fuse

   OriginalPaper 28 February 2005 Pages: 89 - 94

5. Quantitative Analysis of Chloride in Brackish Water: An Application to the Hyperchromic Effect of Copper(II) Ion with Chloride Ion

   • Meng Heng
   • Masakazu Kita
   • Katsuo Murata

   OriginalPaper 28 February 2005 Pages: 95 - 99

6. An Integrated Dual Ultramicroelectrode with Lower Solution Resistance Applied in Ultrafast Cyclic Voltammetry

   • Zhiyong Guo
   • Xiaohua Jiang
   • Xiangqin Lin

   OriginalPaper 28 February 2005 Pages: 101 - 105

7. Membrane Sensors for the Selective Determination of Thiopental

   • Nashwa M. H. Rizk
   • Abdel-Hameed M. Othman

   OriginalPaper 28 February 2005 Pages: 107 - 110

8. Cetyltrimethylammonium Bromide-Enhanced Chemiluminescence Determination of Uric Acid Using a Luminol-Hexacyanoferrate(III)-Hexacyanoferrate(II) System

   • Suqin Han
   • Erbao Liu
   • Hua Li

   OriginalPaper 28 February 2005 Pages: 111 - 114

9. Chiral CE Separation of Dopamine-Derived Neurotoxins

   • Zhe Quan
   • Yaru Song
   • Yi-Ming Liu

   OriginalPaper 28 February 2005 Pages: 115 - 119

10. Analysis of Carbonic Acid in Water Samples by Ion-Exclusion Chromatography with Pure Water as Eluent

    • Hui Fan
    • Mingyu Ding
    • Wenzhi Hu

    OriginalPaper 28 February 2005 Pages: 121 - 123

11. Normal-Phase HPLC Enantioseparation of Novel Chiral Metal Tetrahedrane-type Clusters on an Amylose-based Chiral Stationary Phase

    • Xia Wang
    • Wen-zhi Li
    • Li-ren Chen

    OriginalPaper 28 February 2005 Pages: 125 - 128

12. Selective Extraction, Preconcentration and Transport Studies of Thorium(IV) Using Octa-Functionalized Calix[4]resorcinarene-Hydroxamic Acid

    • Vinod K. Jain
    • Shibu G. Pillai
    • Pranav S. Shrivastav

    OriginalPaper 28 February 2005 Pages: 129 - 135

13. Optimization of a Chemical Modifier in the Determination of Selenium by Graphite Furnace Atomic Absorption Spectrometry and Its Application to Wheat and Wheat Flour Analysis

    • Viorica Alexiu
    • Luminita Vladescu

    OriginalPaper 28 February 2005 Pages: 137 - 141

14. Sample Preparation for Evaluation of Detection Limits in X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry

    • M. K. Tiwari
    • A. K. Singh
    • K. J. S. Sawhney

    OriginalPaper 28 February 2005 Pages: 143 - 147

15. Simultaneous Determination of Food Dyes by First Derivative Spectrophotometry with Sorption onto Polyurethane Foam

    • Eliane C. Vidotti
    • Juliana C. Cancino
    • Maria do Carmo E. Rollemberg

    OriginalPaper 28 February 2005 Pages: 149 - 153

16. Indirect Determination of Uranium by the On-line Reduction and Fluorimetric Detection of Cerium(III)

    • Chatchalida Boonpanaid
    • Koichi Oguma

    OriginalPaper 28 February 2005 Pages: 155 - 159

17. Simultaneous Wavelength Selection and Outlier Detection in Multivariate Regression of Near-Infrared Spectra

    • Da Chen
    • Xueguang Shao
    • Qingde Su

    OriginalPaper 28 February 2005 Pages: 161 - 166

18. Detection Limit Estimated from Slope of Calibration Curve: An Application to Competitive ELISA

    • Yuzuru Hayashi
    • Rieko Matsuda
    • Masako Maeda

    OriginalPaper 28 February 2005 Pages: 167 - 169

19. Evaluation of the Membrane-binding Properties of the Proximal Region of the Angiotensin II Receptor (AT_1A) Carboxyl Terminus by Surface Plasmon Resonance

    • Hiroshi Kamimori
    • Sharon Unabia
    • Marie-Isabel Aguilar

    Notes 28 February 2005 Pages: 171 - 174

20. Potassium-Selective Membrane Electrodes Based on Macrocyclic Metacyclophanes Analogous to Calixarenes

    • Takashi Katsu
    • Yuutaku Yokoyama
    • Takehiko Yamato

    Notes 28 February 2005 Pages: 175 - 178

21. New Cadmium(II)-Selective Electrode Based on a Tetraazacyclohexadeca Macrocyclic Ionophore Ashok

    • Kumar Singh
    • Puja Saxena
    • Rupam Singh

    Notes 28 February 2005 Pages: 179 - 181

22. Adsorption and Desorption Properties of trans-Resveratrol on Cellulose Cotton

    • Yoshitaka Takagai
    • Toshio Kubota
    • Shukuro Igarashi

    Notes 28 February 2005 Pages: 183 - 186

23. Announcements

    Announcement 28 February 2005 Pages: 187 - 188