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Resurrection of the sea pen genus Ptilella Gray, 1870 and description of Ptilella grayi n. sp. from the NE Atlantic (Octocorallia: Pennatulacea)
The order Pennatulacea covers a group of specialized and morphologically distinct octocorals found in all oceans from intertidal areas to more than 6000 m in depth. Sea pens constitute an important structural component in marine soft-bottom communities by increasing the complexity of these environments. Despite being both morphologically distinctive and ecologically important, the taxonomy and systematics of sea pens is still poorly understood. Recent molecular studies have shown the existence of convergent morphological features, making the current familial distribution of genera unstable. The genus Pennatula Linnaeus, 1758 was one of the first described octocoral genera. It is the type genus of its family, Pennatulidae. Colonies of this genus have a characteristic morphology. Recent sampling efforts in the northeastern Atlantic have provided a number of colonies initially attributable to the genus Pennatula. Both morphological and molecular (mtMutS, Cox1 and 28S genes) study of this material supports the polyphyletic nature of this genus and the need to resurrect the genus Ptilella Gray, 1870 to accommodate these and other species. A new species, Ptilella grayi n. sp., is described and illustrated. The species Pennatula bayeri is proposed to be a junior synonym of Pennatula bellissima (here also considered in the genus Ptilella)
Oxidized Forms of Antiaromatic Oligomers of Biphenylene
Rsumen de la comunicaciĂłnThe importance of antiaromatic molecules in Chemistry and more recently in material science is rising. In the particular case of applications in electronics, the antiaromatic skeleton offers the favorable situation of high energy (i.e., destabilized) occupied molecular orbitals allowing to ease oxidation, doping or electron transfer to form conductive and photo-active substrates.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional AndalucĂa Tec
Percolation study for the capillary ascent of a liquid through a granular soil
Capillary rise plays a crucial role in the construction of road embankments
in flood zones, where hydrophobic compounds are added to the soil to suppress
the rising of water and avoid possible damage of the pavement. Water rises
through liquid bridges, menisci and trimers, whose width and connectivity
depends on the maximal half-length {\lambda} of the capillary bridges among
grains. Low {\lambda} generate a disconnect structure, with small clusters
everywhere. On the contrary, for high {\lambda}, create a percolating cluster
of trimers and enclosed volumes that form a natural path for capillary rise.
Hereby, we study the percolation transition of this geometric structure as a
function of {\lambda} on a granular media of monodisperse spheres in a random
close packing. We determine both the percolating threshold {\lambda}_{c} =
(0.049 \pm 0.004)R (with R the radius of the granular spheres), and the
critical exponent of the correlation length {\nu} = (0.830 \pm 0.051),
suggesting that the percolation transition falls into the universality class of
ordinary percolation
Atomic Effective Pseudopotentials for Semiconductors
We derive an analytic connection between the screened self-consistent
effective potential from density functional theory (DFT) and atomic effective
pseudopotentials (AEPs). The motivation to derive AEPs is to address structures
with thousands to hundred thousand atoms, as given in most nanostructures. The
use of AEPs allows to bypass a self-consistent procedure and to address
eigenstates around a certain region of the spectrum (e.g., around the band
gap). The bulk AEP construction requires two simple DFT calculations of
slightly deformed elongated cells. The ensuing AEPs are given on a fine
reciprocal space grid, including the small reciprocal vector components, are
free of parameters, and involve no fitting procedure. We further show how to
connect the AEPs of different bulk materials, which is necessary to obtain
accurate band offsets. We derive a total of 20 AEPs for III-V, II-VI and group
IV semiconductors and demonstrate their accuracy and transferability by
comparison to DFT calculations of strained bulk structures, quantum wells with
varying thickness, and semiconductor alloys.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figures, submitted to PR
The Higgs decay rate to two photons in a model with two fermiophobic-Higgs doublets
We consider a three Higgs doublet model with an symmetry in which
beside the SM-like doublet there are two fermiophobic doublets. Due to the new
charged scalars there is an enhancement in the two-photon decay while the other
channels have the same decay widths that the SM neutral Higgs. The fermiophobic
scalars are mass degenerated unless soft terms breaking the symmetry are
added.Comment: typos were corrected, the figures have been modified and the
conclusions were increased. Still contains 15 pages, 2 figure
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