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The Chemical Analysis of Water and Sediments in the Genesee River Watershed Study
This document describes the analytical procedures currently used at the Environmental Health Center, New York State Department of Health, for the chemical analysis of water and sediments in the Genesee River Watershed Study
The string model of the Cooper pair in the anisotropic superconductor
The analogy between the Cooper pair in high temperature superconductor and
the quark-antiquark pair in quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is proposed. In QCD
the nonlinear chromodynamical field between a quark and an antiquark is
confined to a tube. So we assume that there is the strong interaction between
phonons which can confine them to some tube too. This tube is described using
the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. We show that it has an infinite spectrum
of axially symmetric (string) solutions with negative finite linear energy
density. The one-dimensional nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation has a finite
spectrum (hence, it has a steady-state) which describes the Cooper pair
squezeed between anisotropy planes in the superconductor. It is shown that in
this model the transition temperature is approximately 45 K.Comment: final version, Latex, 9p, to be published in Phys. Rev.
Emission spectrum of PrO
The bands of PrO at 8488.95 A and 7986.44 A of system I and at 7662.85 A of system III have been photographed on 6.6 meter concave grating spectrograph at a dispersion of 1.2 A/mm and their rotational structure analysed. They are assigned transitions from v'=0 and 1 levels of A2 Δ5/2 and v'=0 level of B2 Δ5/2 to a common v"=0 level of the ground, X2 Π3/2 state
A localised chlorophyll deficiency associated with male sterility in Nicotiana tabacum L.
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Size--sensitive melting characteristics of gallium clusters: Comparison of Experiment and Theory for Ga and Ga
Experiments and simulations have been performed to examine the
finite-temperature behavior of Ga and Ga clusters.
Specific heats and average collision cross sections have been measured as a
function of temperature, and the results compared to simulations performed
using first principles Density--Functional Molecular--Dynamics. The
experimental results show that while Ga apparently undergoes a
solid--liquid transition without a significant peak in the specific--heat,
Ga melts with a relatively sharp peak. Our analysis of the
computational results indicate a strong correlation between the ground--state
geometry and the finite--temperature behavior of the cluster. If the
ground--state geometry is symmetric and "ordered" the cluster is found to have
a distinct peak in the specific--heat. However, if the ground--state geometry
is amorphous or "disordered" the cluster melts without a peak in the
specific--heat.Comment: 6 figure
From the zero-field metal-insulator transition in two dimensions to the quantum Hall transition: a percolation-effective-medium theory
Effective-medium theory is applied to the percolation description of the
metal-insulator transition in two dimensions with emphasis on the continuous
connection between the zero-magnetic-field transition and the quantum Hall
transition. In this model the system consists of puddles connected via saddle
points, and there is loss of quantum coherence inside the puddles. The
effective conductance of the network is calculated using appropriate
integration over the distribution of conductances, leading to a determination
of the magnetic field dependence of the critical density. Excellent
quantitative agreement is obtained with the experimental data, which allows an
estimate of the puddle physical parameters
Vertex-corrected perturbation theory for the electron-phonon problem with non-constant density of states
A series of weak-coupling perturbation theories which include the
lowest-order vertex corrections are applied to the attractive Holstein model in
infinite dimensions. The approximations are chosen to reproduce the iterated
perturbation theory in the limit of half-filling and large phonon frequency
(where the Holstein model maps onto the Hubbard model). Comparison is made with
quantum Monte Carlo solutions to test the accuracy of different approximation
schemes.Comment: 31 pages, 15 figures, typeset in ReVTe
Clinical delineation and natural history of the PIK3CA-related overgrowth spectrum.
Somatic mutations in the phosphatidylinositol/AKT/mTOR pathway cause segmental overgrowth disorders. Diagnostic descriptors associated with PIK3CA mutations include fibroadipose overgrowth (FAO), Hemihyperplasia multiple Lipomatosis (HHML), Congenital Lipomatous Overgrowth, Vascular malformations, Epidermal nevi, Scoliosis/skeletal and spinal (CLOVES) syndrome, macrodactyly, and the megalencephaly syndrome, Megalencephaly-Capillary malformation (MCAP) syndrome. We set out to refine the understanding of the clinical spectrum and natural history of these phenotypes, and now describe 35 patients with segmental overgrowth and somatic PIK3CA mutations. The phenotypic data show that these previously described disease entities have considerable overlap, and represent a spectrum. While this spectrum overlaps with Proteus syndrome (sporadic, mosaic, and progressive) it can be distinguished by the absence of cerebriform connective tissue nevi and a distinct natural history. Vascular malformations were found in 15/35 (43%) and epidermal nevi in 4/35 (11%) patients, lower than in Proteus syndrome. Unlike Proteus syndrome, 31/35 (89%) patients with PIK3CA mutations had congenital overgrowth, and in 35/35 patients this was asymmetric and disproportionate. Overgrowth was mild with little postnatal progression in most, while in others it was severe and progressive requiring multiple surgeries. Novel findings include: adipose dysregulation present in all patients, unilateral overgrowth that is predominantly left-sided, overgrowth that affects the lower extremities more than the upper extremities and progresses in a distal to proximal pattern, and in the most severely affected patients is associated with marked paucity of adipose tissue in unaffected areas. While the current data are consistent with some genotype-phenotype correlation, this cannot yet be confirmed
Inter-cluster reactivity of Metallo-aromatic and anti-aromatic Compounds and Their Applications in Molecular Electronics: A Theoretical Investigation
Local reactivity descriptors such as the condensed local softness and Fukui
function have been employed to investigate the inter-cluster reactivity of the
metallo-aromatic (Al4Li- and Al4Na-) and anti-aromatic (Al4Li4 and Al4Na4)
compounds. We use the concept of group softness and group Fukui function to
study the strength of the nucleophilicity of the Al4 unit in these compounds.
Our analysis shows that the trend of nucleophilicity of the Al4 unit in the
above clusters is as follows;
Al4Li- > Al4Na- > Al4Li4 > Al4Na 4
For the first time we have used the reactivity descriptors to show that these
clusters can act as electron donating systems and thus can be used as a
molecular cathode.Comment: 23 pages, 1 figure and 1 table of conten
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