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PHYSIOLOGICAL PARTICULARITIES OF PLANTS FROM THE CRASSULACEAE FAMILY
The interest in research regarding plants from the Crassulaceae family has arisen with the discovery of the fact that they have the ability to absorb and fix carbon dioxide during the night because during daytime they keep their stomata closed in order to save water.The data presented in the paper reveals that these plants have high drought resistance, both by providing high osmotic pressure at the cellular level, and by regulating the gas exchange (water, carbon dioxide, oxygen) due to the prompt reaction of closure and opening of the stomata.Absorptionand saving water in this way is very important in the environmental conditions in which these plants live.
Demonstration of all-optical beam steering in modulated photonic lattices
We demonstrate experimentally all-optical beam steering in modulated photonic
lattices induced optically by three beam interference in a biased
photorefractive crystal. We identify and characterize the key physical
parameters governing the beam steering, and show that the spatial resolution
can be enhanced by the additional effect of nonlinear beam self-localization.Comment: 3 pages, 3 figure
Hubble Space Telescope Near-IR Transmission Spectroscopy of the Super-Earth HD 97658b
Recent results from the Kepler mission indicate that super-Earths (planets
with masses between 1-10 times that of the Earth) are the most common kind of
planet around nearby Sun-like stars. These planets have no direct solar system
analogue, and are currently one of the least well-understood classes of
extrasolar planets. Many super-Earths have average densities that are
consistent with a broad range of bulk compositions, including both
water-dominated worlds and rocky planets covered by a thick hydrogen and helium
atmosphere. Measurements of the transmission spectra of these planets offer the
opportunity to resolve this degeneracy by directly constraining the scale
heights and corresponding mean molecular weights of their atmospheres. We
present Hubble Space Telescope near-infrared spectroscopy of two transits of
the newly discovered transiting super-Earth HD 97658b. We use the Wide Field
Camera 3's scanning mode to measure the wavelength-dependent transit depth in
thirty individual bandpasses. Our averaged differential transmission spectrum
has a median 1 sigma uncertainty of 23 ppm in individual bins, making this the
most precise observation of an exoplanetary transmission spectrum obtained with
WFC3 to date. Our data are inconsistent with a cloud-free solar metallicity
atmosphere at the 10 sigma level. They are consistent at the 0.4 sigma level
with a flat line model, as well as effectively flat models corresponding to a
metal-rich atmosphere or a solar metallicity atmosphere with a cloud or haze
layer located at pressures of 10 mbar or higher.Comment: ApJ in press; revised version includes an updated orbital ephemeris
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Innovative strategies related to forage production, utilization and feeding for dairy cow productivity
The SOLID project (Sustainable Organic Low-Input Dairying) carried out research to improve the sustainability of low-input/organic dairy systems in different ways. This deliverable is one of the three that are resulting from the WP1 of the SOLID project and presents and discusses a series of participatory on-farm studies that were conducted to test innovative approaches related to forage production, utilization and feeding in organic and low-input dairying systems. Specifically, the participatory studies focus on a) improvement of soil organic matter through grazing management and establishment of diverse swards b) on-farm strategies for the improvement of forage yield and protein content of the pasture c) utilisation of industrial by-products for dairy cow nutrition and d) the effects of dietary mineral supplementation on mineral concentrations in milk, with particular focus on iodine supplementation
Principal toroidal bundles over Cauchy-Riemann products
The main result we obtain is that given π:N→M a Ts-subbundle of the generalized Hopf fibration π¯:H2n+s→ℂPn over a Cauchy-Riemann product i:M⊆ℂPn, i.e. j:N⊆H2n+s is a diffeomorphism on fibres and π¯∘j=i∘π, if s is even and N is a closed submanifold tangent to the structure vectors of the canonical ℊ-structure on H2n+s then N is a Cauchy-Riemann submanifold whose Chen class is non-vanishing
Nonlinear Aharonov-Bohm scattering by optical vortices
We study linear and nonlinear wave scattering by an optical vortex in a
self-defocusing nonlinear Kerr medium. In the linear case, we find a splitting
of a plane-wave front at the vortex proportional to its circulation, similar to
what occurs in the scattered wave of electrons for the Aharonov-Bohm effect.
For larger wave amplitudes, we study analytically and numerically the
scattering of a dark-soliton stripe (a nonlinear analog of a small-amplitude
wavepacket) by a vortex and observe a significant asymmetry of the scattered
wave. Subsequently, a wavefront splitting of the scattered wave develops into
transverse modulational instability, ``unzipping'' the stripe into trains of
vortices with opposite charges.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Separability problem for multipartite states of rank at most four
One of the most important problems in quantum information is the separability
problem, which asks whether a given quantum state is separable. We investigate
multipartite states of rank at most four which are PPT (i.e., all their partial
transposes are positive semidefinite). We show that any PPT state of rank two
or three is separable and has length at most four. For separable states of rank
four, we show that they have length at most six. It is six only for some
qubit-qutrit or multiqubit states. It turns out that any PPT entangled state of
rank four is necessarily supported on a 3x3 or a 2x2x2 subsystem. We obtain a
very simple criterion for the separability problem of the PPT states of rank at
most four: such a state is entangled if and only if its range contains no
product vectors. This criterion can be easily applied since a four-dimensional
subspace in the 3x3 or 2x2x2 system contains a product vector if and only if
its Pluecker coordinates satisfy a homogeneous polynomial equation (the Chow
form of the corresponding Segre variety). We have computed an explicit
determinantal expression for the Chow form in the former case, while such
expression was already known in the latter case.Comment: 19 page
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