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Research Notes : United States : Measured and predicted yield response of soybeans to simulated acid rain
Modern soybean cultivars in the U.S. are highly related within the northern and within the southern maturity groups and they trace their genetic constitution to a small number of ancestral lines. On the other hand, there is much less genetic relationship between northern cultivars and southern cultivars. Examples of this can be seen in Figure 1, which shows the ancestral relationships among selected lines and cultivars developed from the northern and southern germplasm pools, respectively
Irradiation of benzene molecules by ion-induced and light-induced intense fields
Benzene, with its sea of delocalized -electrons in the valence orbitals,
is identified as an example of a class of molecules that enable establishment
of the correspondence between intense ion-induced and laser-light-induced
fields in experiments that probe ionization dynamics in temporal regimes
spanning the attosecond and picosecond ranges.Comment: 4 ps figure
Использование метода моделирования ситуаций при обучении студентов вуза английскому языку
В статье описывается опыт проведения занятий по английскому языку у студентов второго курса направления "Горное дело" с использованием современного активного метода обучения case study. Отмечаются преимущества применения технологии моделирования ситуации при преподавании профессионально-ориентированного курса английского языка в вузе
Omega 3, 6, 9 Enhanced Goat Meat (Omega-Chevon) from Flaxseed and Canola Fed Meat Goats
With growing obesity and cardiovascular disease concerns, the meat industry aims to reduce fat content in meat products. Currently Omega Fatty Acid (FA) enhanced beef and eggs are being marketed in the US, but Omega enhanced goat meat (Omega-Chevon) has not been developed. Meat goats were fed ground flaxseed and canola supplemented feed for 90 days. There were no palatability, weight, or health issues in meat goats fed canola and flaxseed supplemented feed. Chevon from goats fed canola and flaxseed had significant (
Low-Temperature Growth of Carbon Nanotube Forests Consisting of Tubes with Narrow Inner Spacing Using Co/Al/Mo Catalyst on Conductive Supports.
We grow dense carbon nanotube forests at 450 °C on Cu support using Co/Al/Mo multilayer catalyst. As a partial barrier layer for the diffusion of Co into Mo, we apply very thin Al layer with the nominal thickness of 0.50 nm between Co and Mo. This Al layer plays an important role in the growth of dense CNT forests, partially preventing the Co-Mo interaction. The forests have an average height of ∼300 nm and a mass density of 1.2 g cm(-3) with tubes exhibiting extremely narrow inner spacing. An ohmic behavior is confirmed between the forest and Cu support with the lowest resistance of ∼8 kΩ. The forest shows a high thermal effusivity of 1840 J s(-0.5) m(-2) K(-1), and a thermal conductivity of 4.0 J s(-1) m(-1) K(-1), suggesting that these forests are useful for heat dissipation devices.This work has been funded by the European projects Technotubes and Grafol. H.S. acknowledges a research fellowship from the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).This is the accepted manuscript. The final version is available at http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsami.5b04846
Electron attachment to valence-excited CO
The possibility of electron attachment to the valence state of CO
is examined using an {\it ab initio} bound-state multireference configuration
interaction approach. The resulting resonance has symmetry;
the higher vibrational levels of this resonance state coincide with, or are
nearly coincident with, levels of the parent state. Collisional
relaxation to the lowest vibrational levels in hot plasma situations might
yield the possibility of a long-lived CO state.Comment: Revtex file + postscript file for one figur
A multi-wavelength analysis of BL Her stars: Models versus Observations
We present new theoretical period--luminosity (PL) and period--radius (PR)
relations at multiple wavelengths (Johnson--Cousins--Glass and {\sl Gaia}
passbands) for a fine grid of BL~Herculis models computed using {\sc mesa-rsp}.
The non-linear models were computed for periods typical of BL~Her stars, i.e.
, covering a wide range of input parameters:
metallicity (2.0 dex [Fe/H] 0.0 dex), stellar mass (0.5--0.8
M), luminosity (50--300 L) and effective temperature (full
extent of the instability strip; in steps of 50K). We investigate the impact of
four sets of convection parameters on multi-wavelength properties. Most
empirical relations match well with theoretical relations from the BL~Her
models computed using the four sets of convection parameters. No significant
metallicity effects are seen in the PR relations. Another important result from
our grid of BL~Her models is that it supports combining PL relations of RR
Lyrae and Type~II Cepheids together as an alternative to classical Cepheids for
the extragalactic distance scale calibration.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures, Proceedings for IAUS376 'At the cross-roads of
astrophysics and cosmology: Period-luminosity relations in the 2020s',
Budapest, April 202
The propensity of molecules to spatially align in intense light fields
The propensity of molecules to spatially align along the polarization vector
of intense, pulsed light fields is related to readily-accessible parameters
(molecular polarizabilities, moment of inertia, peak intensity of the light and
its pulse duration). Predictions can now be made of which molecules can be
spatially aligned, and under what circumstances, upon irradiation by intense
light. Accounting for both enhanced ionization and hyperpolarizability, it is
shown that {\it all} molecules can be aligned, even those with the smallest
static polarizability, when subjected to the shortest available laser pulses
(of sufficient intensity).Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures, to be submitted to PR
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