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Circular 45
This circular provides guidance on fertilizing native hay meadows of
bluejoint reedgrass (Calamagrostis canadensis) on the lower Kenai Peninsula.
It is based on a num ber o f experim ental trials conducted by the authors on
Kachemak silt loam soil at various sites near Homer
Circular 61
Rapeseed is the oil-bearing seed from plants of the Brassica genus. It grows
well in the cooler agricultural regions o f the world and for this reason has long
been thought to be a promising crop for interior Alaska.
Rapeseed has been grow n in India and China for thousands and in Europe for
hundreds o f years (Bolton 1980). Its history in North America began in 1943 when
a small quantity of seed was imported into Canada. In recent years, its production
has been largely that from cultivars bred for production of seed low in erucic acid
and glucosinolate content. Seed from these cultivars is referred to by the Canadian
Rapeseed Industry as canola. Its qualities are desirable in the edible-oil market,
the largest market for products from canola seed. Canada is now one of the world’s
largest producers and is the world’s largest exporter o f rapeseed.
The meal that remains after oil extraction is high in protein and is used as a
supplement in livestock feeds. The whole seed can also be used as a feed supplement. Some cultivars o f rapeseed that are high in erucic acid are also grow n for
use in plastics and industrial oils (Genser and Eskin 1979). In addition, forage
rapeseed cultivars can be used as livestock pasture.
Research concerning the production of rapeseed has been addressed by the
Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station (AFES) for several years. O f specific
concern has been the selection of appropriate cultivars (Wooding et al. 1978),
response to various nitrogen (N) rates, row spacings and seeding rates (Lewis and
Knight 1987), performance in reduced-tillage systems in rotation with barley (Knight
and Lewis 1986), the potential for frost seeding in late fall and early spring (Knight
and Sparrow 1984) and response to boron (B) to enhance early seed ripening
(Wooding 1985). In addition, in 1978 the Cooperative Extension Service (CES)
began conducting seminars on production o f rapeseed for Alaskan farmers. In 1979
and 1980, CES employed Dr. J.L . Bolton, a rapeseed specialist from the University
o f Alberta, in an extension capacity to give technical assistance to farmers
on producing rapeseed (Bolton 1980)
Structure/activity relationships applied to the hydrogenation of α,β-unsaturated carbonyls: The hydrogenation of 3-butyne-2-one over alumina-supported palladium catalysts
The gas phase hydrogenation of 3-butyne-2-one, an alkynic ketone, over two alumina-supported palladium catalysts is investigated using infrared spectroscopy in a batch reactor at 373 K. The mean particle size of the palladium crystallites of the two catalysts are comparable (2.4 ± 0.1 nm). One catalyst (Pd(NO3)2/Al2O3) is prepared from a palladium(II) nitrate precursor, whereas the other catalyst (PdCl2/Al2O3) is prepared using palladium(II) chloride as the Pd precursor compound. A three-stage sequential process is observed with the Pd(NO3)2/Al2O3 catalyst facilitating complete reduction all the way through to 2-butanol. However, hydrogenation stops at 2-butanone with the PdCl2/Al2O3 catalyst. The inability of the PdCl2/Al2O3 catalyst to reduce 2-butanone is attributed to the inaccessibility of edge sites on this catalyst, which are blocked by chlorine retention originating from the catalyst’s preparative process. The reaction profiles observed for the hydrogenation of this alkynic ketone are consistent with the site-selective chemistry recently reported for the hydrogenation of crotonaldehyde, an alkenic aldehyde, over the same two catalysts. Thus, it is suggested that a previously postulated structure/activity relationship may be generic for the hydrogenation of α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compounds over supported Pd catalysts
Statistical Theory for Incoherent Light Propagation in Nonlinear Media
A novel statistical approach based on the Wigner transform is proposed for
the description of partially incoherent optical wave dynamics in nonlinear
media. An evolution equation for the Wigner transform is derived from a
nonlinear Schrodinger equation with arbitrary nonlinearity. It is shown that
random phase fluctuations of an incoherent plane wave lead to a Landau-like
damping effect, which can stabilize the modulational instability. In the limit
of the geometrical optics approximation, incoherent, localized, and stationary
wave-fields are shown to exist for a wide class of nonlinear media.Comment: 4 pages, REVTeX4. Submitted to Physical Review E. Revised manuscrip
Selective disruption of Tcf7l2 in the pancreatic β cell impairs secretory function and lowers β cell mass.
Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is characterized by β cell dysfunction and loss. Single nucleotide polymorphisms in the T-cell factor 7-like 2 (TCF7L2) gene, associated with T2D by genome-wide association studies, lead to impaired β cell function. While deletion of the homologous murine Tcf7l2 gene throughout the developing pancreas leads to impaired glucose tolerance, deletion in the β cell in adult mice reportedly has more modest effects. To inactivate Tcf7l2 highly selectively in β cells from the earliest expression of the Ins1 gene (∼E11.5) we have therefore used a Cre recombinase introduced at the Ins1 locus. Tcfl2(fl/fl)::Ins1Cre mice display impaired oral and intraperitoneal glucose tolerance by 8 and 16 weeks, respectively, and defective responses to the GLP-1 analogue liraglutide at 8 weeks. Tcfl2(fl/fl)::Ins1Cre islets displayed defective glucose- and GLP-1-stimulated insulin secretion and the expression of both the Ins2 (∼20%) and Glp1r (∼40%) genes were significantly reduced. Glucose- and GLP-1-induced intracellular free Ca(2+) increases, and connectivity between individual β cells, were both lowered by Tcf7l2 deletion in islets from mice maintained on a high (60%) fat diet. Finally, analysis by optical projection tomography revealed ∼30% decrease in β cell mass in pancreata from Tcfl2(fl/fl)::Ins1Cre mice. These data demonstrate that Tcf7l2 plays a cell autonomous role in the control of β cell function and mass, serving as an important regulator of gene expression and islet cell coordination. The possible relevance of these findings for the action of TCF7L2 polymorphisms associated with Type 2 diabetes in man is discussed
Isospin-Violating Meson-Nucleon Vertices as an Alternate Mechanism of Charge-Symmetry Breaking
We compute isospin-violating meson-nucleon coupling constants and their
consequent charge-symmetry-breaking nucleon-nucleon potentials. The couplings
result from evaluating matrix elements of quark currents between nucleon states
in a nonrelativistic constituent quark model; the isospin violations arise from
the difference in the up and down constituent quark masses. We find, in
particular, that isospin violation in the omega-meson--nucleon vertex dominates
the class IV CSB potential obtained from these considerations. We evaluate the
resulting spin-singlet--triplet mixing angles, the quantities germane to the
difference of neutron and proton analyzing powers measured in elastic
scattering, and find them commensurate to those computed
originally using the on-shell value of the - mixing amplitude.
The use of the on-shell - mixing amplitude at has been
called into question; rather, the amplitude is zero in a wide class of models.
Our model possesses no contribution from - mixing at , and
we find that omega-meson exchange suffices to explain the measured
analyzing power difference~at~183 MeV.Comment: 20 pages, revtex, 3 uuencoded PostScript figure
The Ginzburg regime and its effects on topological defect formation
The Ginzburg temperature has historically been proposed as the energy scale
of formation of topological defects at a second order symmetry breaking phase
transition. More recently alternative proposals which compute the time of
formation of defects from the critical dynamics of the system, have been
gaining both theoretical and experimental support. We investigate, using a
canonical model for string formation, how these two pictures compare. In
particular we show that prolonged exposure of a critical field configuration to
the Ginzburg regime results in no substantial suppression of the final density
of defects formed. These results dismiss the recently proposed role of the
Ginzburg regime in explaining the absence of topological defects in 4He
pressure quench experiments.Comment: 8 pages, 5 ps figure
The James Clerk Maxwell Telescope Spectral Legacy Survey
Original article can be found at: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/loi/pasp Copyright University of Chicago Press / AAS. DOI: 10.1086/511161Stars form in the densest, coldest, most quiescent regions of molecular clouds. Molecules provide the only probes that can reveal the dynamics, physics, chemistry, and evolution of these regions, but our understanding of the molecular inventory of sources and how this is related to their physical state and evolution is rudimentary and incomplete. The Spectral Legacy Survey (SLS) is one of seven surveys recently approved by the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) Board of Directors. Beginning in 2007, the SLS will produce a spectral imaging survey of the content and distribution of all the molecules detected in the 345 GHz atmospheric window (between 332 and 373 GHz) toward a sample of five sources. Our intended targets are a low-mass core (NGC 1333 IRAS 4), three high-mass cores spanning a range of star-forming environments and evolutionary states (W49, AFGL 2591, and IRAS 20126), and a photodissociation region (the Orion Bar). The SLS will use the unique spectral imaging capabilities of HARP-B/ACSIS (Heterodyne Array Receiver Programme B/Auto- Correlation Spectrometer and Imaging System) to study the molecular inventory and the physical structure of these objects, which span different evolutionary stages and physical environments and to probe their evolution during the star formation process. As its name suggests, the SLS will provide a lasting data legacy from the JCMT that is intended to benefit the entire astronomical community. As such, the entire data set (including calibrated spectral data cubes, maps of molecular emission, line identifications, and calculations of the gas temperature and column density) will be publicly available.Peer reviewe
Low-temperature electrical transport in bilayer manganite LaSrMnO
The temperature and magnetic field dependence of anisotropic in-plane
and out-of-plane resistivities have been investigated in
single crystals of the bilayer manganite LaSrMnO.
Below the Curie transition temperature 125 K, and
display almost the same temperature dependence with an up-turn around 50 K. In
the metallic regime (50 K 110 K), both and
follow a dependence, consistent with the two-magnon
scattering. We found that the value of the proportionality coefficient
and the ratio of the exchange interaction obtained
by fitting the data are in excellent agreement with the calculated
based on the two-magnon model and deduced from neutron scattering,
respectively. This provides further support for this scattering mechanism. At
even lower , in the non-metallic regime ( 50 K), {\it both} the in-plane
and out-of-plane conductivities obey a
dependence, consistent with weak localization effects. Hence, this demonstrates
the three-dimensional metallic nature of the bilayer manganite
LaSrMnO at .Comment: 7 pages and 5 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.
Precision Measurement of the Proton and Deuteron Spin Structure Functions g2 and Asymmetries A2
We have measured the spin structure functions g2p and g2d and the virtual
photon asymmetries A2p and A2d over the kinematic range 0.02 < x < 0.8 and 0.7
< Q^2 < 20 GeV^2 by scattering 29.1 and 32.3 GeV longitudinally polarized
electrons from transversely polarized NH3 and 6LiD targets. Our measured g2
approximately follows the twist-2 Wandzura-Wilczek calculation. The twist-3
reduced matrix elements d2p and d2n are less than two standard deviations from
zero. The data are inconsistent with the Burkhardt-Cottingham sum rule if there
is no pathological behavior as x->0. The Efremov-Leader-Teryaev integral is
consistent with zero within our measured kinematic range. The absolute value of
A2 is significantly smaller than the sqrt[R(1+A1)/2] limit.Comment: 12 pages, 4 figures, 2 table
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