Vegetation-based landscape regions of Hungary.

he first version of the map of the Hungarian vegetation-based landscape regions were prepared at the scale of 1 : 200,000 (1 km or higher resolution). The primary goal of the map was to provide an exact background for the presentation and evaluation of the data of theMÉTA database. Secondly, we intended to give an up-to-date and detailed vegetation-based division of Hungary with a comprehensive nomenclature of the regions. Regions were primarily defined on the basis of their present zonal vegetation, or their dominant extrazonal or edaphic vegetation. Where this was not possible, abiotic factors that influence the potential vegetation, the flora were taken into consideration, thus, political and economical factors were ignored. All region borders were defined by local expert botanists, mainly based on their field knowledge. The map differs in many features from the currently used, country- wide, flora- or geography-based divisions in many features. We consider our map to be temporary (i.e. a work map), and we plan to refine and improve it after 5 years of testing

Creep-induced anisotropy in amorphous glass-covered wires

Results on the creep-induced anisotropy in CoFeSiB amorphous glass-covered wires with nearly zero magnetostriction and in such wires after glass removal are reported for the first time. The particular characteristics of such magnetic materials determine particular aspects of this anisotropy induced by stress-annealing. For the experimental investigation of the creep-induced anisotropy we used for the first time magneto-impedance-based measurements. Stress-annealed wires after glass removal behave similar to conventional in-rotating-water quenched amorphous wires with the same composition. The glass-covered wires display a specific behavior originating in the presence of the glass cover

Adsorption and switching properties of a N-benzylideneaniline based molecular switch on a Au(111) surface

High resolution electron energy loss spectroscopy is employed to analyze the adsorption geometry and the photoisomerization ability of the molecular switch carboxy-benzylideneaniline (CBA) adsorbed on Au(111). CBA adopts on the Au(111) surface a planar (trans) configuration in the first monolayer (ML) as well as for higher coverages (up to 6 ML), contrary to the geometry in solution, which is strongly non-planar. Illumination with UV light of CBA in direct contact with the Au(111) surface (≤ 1 ML) caused no changes in the vibrational structure, whereas at higher coverages ( > 1 ML) pronounced modifications of vibrational features are observed, which we assign to a trans → cis isomerization. Thermal activation induced the back reaction to trans-CBA. We propose that the photoisomerization is driven by a direct (intramolecular) electronic excitation of the adsorbed CBA molecules in the second ML (and above) analogous to CBA in the liquid phase

Effect of annealing on the giant magneto-impedance in amorphous CoFeSiB ribbons and wires

The results of the effect of annealing on the giant magneto-impedance response of CoFeSiB amorphous wires and ribbons with nearly zero magnetostriction are reported. The most sensitive magneto-impedance response is given by amorphous wires in every case. Annealing reduces the magnitude of the magneto-impedance both for ribbons and wires, due to the alteration of the favorable transverse domain structure that exists in the as-cast samples. Annealing at more elevated temperatures tends to increase the magneto-impedance almost to its initial value for the as-cast samples, due to the stress relief accompanied by the improvement of soft magnetic properties