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Light-front quark distributions in the nucleon and nucleon electromagnetic form factors
Longitudinal and transverse quark momentum distributions in the nucleon are
calculated from a phenomenological quark-nucleon vertex function obtained
through an investigation of the nucleon electromagnetic form factors within a
light-front framework.Comment: 6 pages, 11 figs. proceedings of LC2009, to appear in Nucl. Phys.
Development and standardization of a protocol for sperm cryopreservation of two important commercial oyster species
Dissertação de mestrado, Aquacultura e Pescas, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade do Algarve, 2015Aquaculture activities have a huge contribution for the world food production and their development is extremely necessary to answer to the lack of resources, especially to the demand for seafood. Bivalve production, especially Crassostrea angulata (Portuguese oyster) has been practiced from long ago, and although its production suffered several constraints, in recent years it has been increasing the interests in recovering production and in preserving nature populations. In this sense, new research needs to guarantee an efficient and economically viable production, contributing to a relatively new environmental concern: wild population restoration.
Nowadays, pure wild populations of Crassostrea angulata are rare to find due to multiple factors that affected this oyster industry. Cryopreservation technology could promote alternative techniques to contribute for the resource management efficiency of the Portuguese oyster and associated economic activity. In this sense, standardization of procedures is important for Crassostrea genus. At the present there are no cryopreservation reports on Crassostrea angulata sperm, and therefore, one of the objectives of this work is to design a cryopreservation protocol for this species, testing the more adequate cryoprotectant solution, its ideal concentration, different freezing rates and types of containers. In parallel, this stablished protocol was applied in Crassostrea gigas and compared to other previously published for this species.
Analysis of motility, viability, agglutination and fertilizations were used as guides for the establishment of the protocol in C. angulata. Moreover, ATP content, DNA fragmentation and lipid peroxidation were done in order to standardize the same protocol for both species. Movement analysis were assessed by CASA system, viability through common staining techniques and flow cytometer, agglutination was quantified according to the scale developed by Dong et al., (2007), ATP content determined by bioluminescence, Comet assay was performed to quantify the DNA fragmentation and lipid peroxidation determined spectrophotometrically by measuring the absorbance of the malondialdehyde (MDA).
Significant differences were observed (p<0.05) for lipid peroxidation and fertilization trials whereas ATP content and fragmentation of DNA of the cryopreserved samples did
not differ significantly from the control. In C. gigas, the same analysis were performed and did not reveal post-thaw quality differences in the samples cryopreserved with 10% DMSO.
The established protocol revealed to be effective and with a low degree of cellular damage on C. angulata sperm and, at the same time, viable to apply in other species, such as Crassostrea gigas
Magnetoresistive Effects in Ferromagnet-Superconductor Multilayers
We consider a nanoscale system consisting of Manganite-ferromagnet and
Cuprate-superconductor multilayers in a spin valve configuration. The
magnetization of the bottom Manganite-ferromagnet is pinned by a
Manganite-antiferromagnet. The magnetization of the top Manganite-ferromagnet
is coupled to the bottom one via indirect exchange through the superconducting
layers. We study the behavior of the critical temperature and the
magnetoresistance as a function of an externally applied parallel magnetic
field, when the number of Cuprate-superconductor layers are changed. There are
two typical behaviors in the case of a few monolayers of the Cuprates: a) For
small magnetic fields, the critical temperature and the magnetoresistance
change abruptly when the flipping field of the top Manganite-ferromagnet is
reached. b) For large magnetic fields, the multilayered system re-enters the
zero-resistance (superconducting) state after having become resistive (normal).Comment: 3 pages, 3 figures. 2004 Magnetism and Magnetic Materials Conferenc
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Improved Reference Genome Sequence of Coccidioides immitis Strain WA_211, Isolated in Washington State.
Coccidioides fungi are widely distributed in the American continents, with an expanding western range documented by a recently discovered cryptic population of Coccidioides immitis in Washington State. The assembled and annotated reference genome sequence of the soil-derived C. immitis strain WA_211 will support population and functional genomics studies
Relativistic dynamics of Qqq systems
The bound state of constituent quarks forming a composite baryon is
investigated in a QCD-inspired effective light-front model. The light-front
Faddeev equations are derived and solved numerically. The masses of the spin
1/2 low-lying states of the nucleon, , and
are found and compared to the experimental data. The data is
qualitatively described with a flavor independent effective interaction.Comment: 18 pages, include 6 figures, 2 eps figures, use latex, revtex. To
appear Phys. Rev D (2002
Ground State Masses and Biding Energies of the Nucleon, Hyperon and Heavy Baryons in a Light-Front Model
The ground state masses and binding energies of the nucleon,
, , are studied within a constituent
quark QCD-inspired light-front model. The light-front Faddeev equations for the
composite spin 1/2 baryons, are derived and solved numerically. The
experimental data for the masses are qualitatively described by a flavor
independent effective interaction.Comment: 13 pages, include 4 eps figures, use latex, revte
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