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Ascendance : submission traits as correlated with some aspects of the authoritarian personality
The problem is to see if there is a correlation between some of the ideologies that make-up the fascist personality, as measured in terms of the University of California Public Opinion Study and Ascendance - Submission traits as measured in terms of the A-S Reaction Study. Is there a statistical correlation between the E - ethnocentric, PHC political-economic conservatism, and F - fascist scale, and ascendance-submission traits of individuals? If so, what does this correlation imply? What generalizations can be made on the basis of statistical indications, if any? Will this study indicate that it will be possible to predict from the score or category on one test as to the score on the other test
Comparison of alternating-current and direct-current metallic arc-welded joints
LD2668 .T4 1940 M66Master of Scienc
Gas Rich Dwarf Spheroidals
We present evidence that nearly half of the dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSph
and dSph/dIrr) in the Local Group are associated with large reservoirs of
atomic gas, in some cases larger than the stellar mass. The gas is sometimes
found at large distance (~10 kpc) from the center of a galaxy and is not
necessarily centered on it. Similarly large quantities of ionized gas could be
hidden in these systems as well. The properties of some of the gas reservoirs
are similar to the median properties of the High-Velocity Clouds (HVCs); two of
the HI reservoirs are catalogued HVCs. The association of the HI with the dwarf
spheroidals might thus provide a link between the HVCs and stars. We show that
the HI content of the Local Group dSphs and dIrrs exhibits a sharp decline if
the galaxy is within 250 kpc of either the Milky Way or M31. This can be
explained if both galaxies have a sufficiently massive x-ray emitting halo that
produces ram-pressure stripping if a dwarf ventures too close to either giant
spiral. We also investigate tidal stripping of the dwarf galaxies and find that
although it may play a role, it cannot explain the apparent total absence of
neutral gas in most dSph galaxies at distances less than 250 kpc. For the
derived mean density of the hot gas, n_0 = 2.5e-5 cm^-2, ram-pressure stripping
is found to be more than an order of magnitude more effective in removing the
gas from the dSph galaxies. The hot halo, with an inferred mass of 1e10 solar
masses, may represent a reservoir of ~1000 destroyed dwarf systems, either HVCs
or true dwarf galaxies similar to those we observe now.Comment: AASTex preprint style, 27 pages including 12 figures. Submitted to
ApJ. See also http://astro.berkeley.edu/~robisha
Theory of a Continuous H Normal-to-Superconducting Transition
I study the transition within the Ginzburg-Landau model, with
-component order parameter . I find a renormalized fixed point free
energy, exact in limit, suggestive of a nd-order
transition in contrast to a general belief of a st-order transition. The
thermal fluctuations for force one to consider an infinite set of
marginally relevant operators for . I find , predicting
that the ODLRO does not survive thermal fluctuations in . The result is
a solution to a critical fixed point that was found to be inaccessible within
-expansion, previously considered in E.Brezin, D.R.Nelson,
A.Thiaville, Phys.Rev.B {\bf 31}, 7124 (1985), and was interpreted as a
st-order transition.Comment: 4 pages, self-unpacking uuencoded compressed postscript file with a
figure already inside text; to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett
Tidal Imprints of a Dark Sub-Halo on the Outskirts of the Milky Way II. Perturber Azimuth
We extend our analysis of the observed disturbances on the outskirts of the
HI disk of the Milky Way. We employ the additional constraints of the phase of
the modes of the observed HI image and asymmetry in the radial velocity field
to derive the azimuth of the perturber inferred to be responsible for the
disturbances in the HI disk. We carry out a modal analysis of the phase of the
disturbances in the HI image and in SPH simulations of a Milky Way-like galaxy
tidally interacting with dark perturbers, the relative offset of which we
utilize to derive the perturber azimuth. To make a direct connection with
observations, we express our results in sun-centered coordinates, predicting
that the perturber responsible for the observed disturbances is between -50
\la l \la -10. We show explicitly that the phase of the disturbances in the
outskirts of simulated galaxies at the time that best fits the Fourier
amplitudes, our primary metric for the azimuth determination, is relatively
insensitive to the equation of state. Our calculations here represent our
continuing efforts to develop the "Tidal Analysis" method of Chakrabarti \&
Blitz (2009; CB09). CB09 employed SPH simulations to examine tidal interactions
between perturbing dark sub-halos and the Milky Way. They found that the
amplitudes of the Fourier modes of the observed planar disturbances are
best-fit by a perturbing dark sub-halo with mass one-hundredth that of the
Milky Way, and a pericentric approach distance of . The
overarching goal of this work is to attempt to outline an alternate procedure
to optical studies for characterizing and potentially discovering dwarf
galaxies -- whereby one can approximately infer the azimuthal location of a
perturber, its mass and pericentric distance (CB09) from analysis of its tidal
gravitational imprints on the HI disk of the primary galaxy.Comment: submitted to ApJ; 12 pages; higher resolution figures can be found
at: http://astro.berkeley.edu/~sukanya/perturbersubmit.pd
Aquilegia, Vol. 24 No. 5, November-December 2000: Newsletter of the Colorado Native Plant Society
https://epublications.regis.edu/aquilegia/1182/thumbnail.jp
Genetic regulation of glucoraphanin accumulation in BenefortĆ©Ā® broccoli
Diets rich in broccoli (Brassica oleracea var italica) have been associated with maintenance of cardiovascular health and reduction in risk of cancer. These health beneļ¬ts have been
attributed to glucoraphanin that speciļ¬cally accumulates in broccoli. The development of broccoli with enhanced concentrations of glucoraphanin may deliver greater health beneļ¬ts.
Three high-glucoraphanin F1 broccoli hybrids were developed in independent programmes through genome introgression from the wild species Brassica villosa. Glucoraphanin and other metabolites were quantiļ¬ed in experimental ļ¬eld trials. Global SNP analyses quantiļ¬ed the differential extent of B. villosa introgression
The high-glucoraphanin broccoli hybrids contained 2.5ā3 times the glucoraphanin content of standard hybrids due to enhanced sulphate assimilation and modiļ¬cations in sulphur partitioning between sulphur-containing metabolites. All of the high-glucoraphanin hybrids possessed an introgressed B. villosa segment which contained a B. villosa Myb28 allele. Myb28
expression was increased in all of the high-glucoraphanin hybrids. Two high-glucoraphanin hybrids have been commercialised as Beneforte broccoli.
The study illustrates the translation of research on glucosinolate genetics from Arabidopsis to broccoli, the use of wild Brassica species to develop cultivars with potential consumer beneļ¬ts, and the development of cultivars with contrasting concentrations of glucoraphanin for use in blinded human intervention studie
Comparison of approaches for rational siRNA design leading to a new efficient and transparent method
Current literature describes several methods for the design of efficient siRNAs with 19 perfectly matched base pairs and 2ānt overhangs. Using four independent databases totaling 3336 experimentally verified siRNAs, we compared how well several of these methods predict siRNA cleavage efficiency. According to receiver operating characteristics (ROC) and correlation analyses, the best programs were BioPredsi, ThermoComposition and DSIR. We also studied individual parameters that significantly and consistently correlated with siRNA efficacy in different databases. As a result of this work we developed a new method which utilizes linear regression fitting with local duplex stability, nucleotide position-dependent preferences and total G/C content of siRNA duplexes as input parameters. The new method's discrimination ability of efficient and inefficient siRNAs is comparable with that of the best methods identified, but its parameters are more obviously related to the mechanisms of siRNA action in comparison with BioPredsi. This permits insight to the underlying physical features and relative importance of the parameters. The new method of predicting siRNA efficiency is faster than that of ThermoComposition because it does not employ time-consuming RNA secondary structure calculations and has much less parameters than DSIR. It is available as a web tool called āsiRNA scalesā
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