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Ammonia formation caused by the presence of water in the wet grinding of silicon nitride powder
Si3 N4 powder (amorphous, alpha-, and beta-Si3 N4) was mixed with MeOH containing 8.87 mol. % H2O and ground. The NH3 generation rapidly increased after a grinding time of 100 hours. Silicon nitride sintered material was chosen as one of the high temperature, high strength structural materials and studies of the control of the raw material powder, preparation of the sintered body (finding the right assistant, hot press, high pressure sintering, fracture toughness and oxidation at high temperature were performed
Acupuncture and Pain: A Critical Analysis of Current Research
Acupuncture as a treatment for pain relief has recently gained popularity in the United States despite the lack of substantial clinical proof of its analgesic effect. In the recent past there have been several reviews of the clinical studies on acupuncture\u27s analgesic efficacy, all of which have demanded that future studies have more appropriate outcome measures, better design, and have proper credibility assessment. The present study critically analyzed the published literature over the past decade to see if the latest acupuncture studies provide a more definitive answer regarding acupuncture\u27s efficacy. Analysis revealed that recent studies do not provide any more proof for or against acupuncture analgesia. The author suggests that the analgesic effect of acupuncture may indeed exist but may be so minimal as not to produce scientifically significant results in its favor. More high quality studies are required before a definitive conclusion can be determined
Chemical potential shift induced by double-exchange and polaronic effects in Nd_{1-x}Sr_xMnO_3
We have studied the chemical potential shift as a function of temperature in
NdSrMnO (NSMO) by measurements of core-level photoemission
spectra. For ferromagnetic samples ( and 0.45), we observed an unusually
large upward chemical potential shift with decreasing temperature in the
low-temperature region of the ferromagnetic metallic (FM) phase. This can be
explained by the double-exchange (DE) mechanism if the band is split by
dynamical/local Jahn-Teller effect. The shift was suppressed near the Curie
temperature (), which we attribute to the crossover from the DE to
lattice-polaron regimes.Comment: 5 pages, 6 figure
Magnetic-field dependence of antiferromagnetic structure in CeRh1-xCoxIn5
We investigated effects of magnetic field H on antiferromagnetic (AF)
structures in CeRh_{1-x}Co_xIn_5 by performing the elastic neutron scattering
measurements. By applying H along the [1,-1,0] direction, the incommensurate AF
state with the propagation vector of q_{h1}=(1/2,1/2,0.297) observed at H=0 is
replaced by the commensurate AF state with the q_{c2} = (1/2, 1/2, 1/4)
modulation above 2 T for x=0.23, while the AF states with the
q_{c1}=(1/2,1/2,1/2) and q_{h2}=(1/2,1/2,0.42) modulations seen at H=0 change
into a single q_{c1}-AF state above ~1.6 T for x=0.7. These results suggest the
different types of AF correlation for Co concentrations of 0.23 and 0.7 in an
applied magnetic field H.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, to appear in the proceedings of ICM2009
(Karlsruhe, Germany
Mechanisms of homeostasis of blood coagulation factors
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/106052/1/jth05170.pd
Magnetic-field-induced switching between ferroelectric phases in orthorhombic-distortion-controlled MnO
We have investigated the dielectric and magnetic properties of
EuYMnO the presence of the 4 magnetic
moments of the rare earth ions, and have found two ferroelectric phases with
polarization along the and axes in a zero magnetic field. A magnetic
field induced switching from one to the other ferroelectric phase took plase in
which the direction of ferroelectric polarization changed from the a axis to
the c axis by the application of magnetic fields parallel to the a axis. In
contrast to the case of TbMnO, in which the 4 moments of Tb
ions play an important role in such a ferroelectric phase switching, the
magnetic-field-induced switching between ferroelectric phases in
EuYMnO does not originate from the magnetic
transition of the rare-earth 4 moments, but from that of the Mn 3 spins.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures, RevTeX4, Proceedings of MMM 2005, to appear in J.
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