124 research outputs found

    Nematodos bacteriófagos como bioindicadores y como organismos asociados a los procesos de biorremediacion

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    De la gran diversidad de organismos que viven en el suelo, los nematodos bacteriófagos constituyen un sujeto de estudio interesante en la búsqueda de bioindicadores adecuados para reflejar el grado de perturbación del suelo y la marcha de los procesos de recuperación. En el presente trabajo se hace una evaluación de distintas situaciones relacionadas con suelos alterados por actividades antrópicas y su relación con las poblaciones de nematodos bacteriófagos y bacterias, analizadas en laboratorio y a campo. Los resultados obtenidos muestran que el comportamiento de estos organismos responde a la evolución del los niveles de concentración del contaminante.Fil: Otero, María del C.. Universidad Nacional de Salta. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales; ArgentinaFil: Torres, N.. Universidad Nacional de Salta. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales; ArgentinaFil: Plaza, Gloria del Carmen. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Salta. Instituto de Investigaciones en Energía no Convencional. Universidad Nacional de Salta. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Departamento de Física. Instituto de Investigaciones en Energía no Convencional; ArgentinaFil: Pérez Brandan, C.. Universidad Nacional de Salta. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales; Argentin

    DWBA analysis of the 13C(6Li,d)17O reaction at 10 MeV/nucleon and its astrophysical implications

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    The value of the alpha spectroscopic factor (S_alpha) of the 6.356 MeV 1/2+ state of 17O is believed to have significant astrophysical implications due to the importance of the 13C(alpha,n)16O reaction as a possible source of neutron production for the s process. To further study this effect, an accurate measurement of the 13C(6Li,d)17O reaction at E_lab = 60 MeV has been performed recently by Kubono et al., who found a new value for the spectroscopic factor of the 6.356 MeV 1/2+ state of 17O based on a distorted wave Born approximation (DWBA) analysis of these data. This new value, S_alpha approximately = 0.011, is surprisingly much smaller than those used previously in astrophysical calculations (S_alpha approximately = 0.3-0.7) and thus poses a serious question as to the role of the 13C(alpha,n)16O reaction as a source of neutron production. In this work we perform a detailed analysis of the same 13C(6Li,d)17O data within the DWBA as well as the coupled reaction channel (CRC) formalism. Our analysis yields an S_alpha value of over an order of magnitude larger than that of Kubono et al. for the 6.356 MeV 1/2+ state of 17O.Comment: 17 pages, 4 figures, minor changes, accepted by Nuclear Physics

    Study of the effects of Pauli blocking and Pauli non-locality on the optical potential

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    Elastic scattering angular distributions for systems with reduced mass between 3 and 34 and energies varying between 25 and 120 MeV/nucleon were analyzed. The stable 4^4He, its exotic partner 6^6He, and the weakly bound 6,7^{6,7}Li nuclei were included as projectiles in the systematics. Optical model data analyzes were performed with an adjustable factor of normalization included in the imaginary part of the potential. These analyzes indicated a reduction of absorption for systems with small reduced masses that was detected due to the refractive nature of the scattering by light systems.Comment: 16 pages, 7 figure

    Application of Absorbing Boundary Condition to Nuclear Breakup Reactions

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    Absorbing boundary condition approach to nuclear breakup reactions is investigated. A key ingredient of the method is an absorbing potential outside the physical area, which simulates the outgoing boundary condition for scattered waves. After discretizing the radial variables, the problem results in a linear algebraic equation with a sparse coefficient matrix, to which efficient iterative methods can be applicable. No virtual state such as discretized continuum channel needs to be introduced in the method. Basic aspects of the method are discussed by considering a nuclear two-body scattering problem described with an optical potential. We then apply the method to the breakup reactions of deuterons described in a three-body direct reaction model. Results employing the absorbing boundary condition are found to accurately coincide with those of the existing method which utilizes discretized continuum channels.Comment: 21 pages, 5 figures, RevTeX

    Improved Nearside-Farside Decomposition of Elastic Scattering Amplitudes

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    A simple technique is described, that provides improved nearside-farside (NF) decompositions of elastic scattering amplitudes. The technique, involving the resummation of a Legendre partial wave series, reduces the importance of unphysical contributions to NF subamplitudes, which can arise in more conventional NF decompositions. Applications are made to a strong absorption model and to a 16^{16}O + 12^{12}C optical potential at Elab=132E_{\text{lab}} = 132 MeV.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figure

    Evaluación morfológica y funcional de la injuria renal inducida por doxorubicína

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    Doxorubicína (Adriamicina) es un antibiótico antraciclino citotóxico utilizado en la regresión de enfermedades neoplásicas diseminadas. Se une a los ácidos nucleicos, presumiblemente por una intercalación específica del núcleo antraciclino planar con el ADN de doble hélice y se caracteriza por inhibir el repliegue y la acción de las ADN polimerasas. Esta droga altera también la funcionalidad de las membranas celulares así como de las proteínas plasmáti­cas. Posee efecto citotóxico sobre células malignas, así como efectos tóxicos colaterales sobre diferentes órganos entre los que se destaca mielosupresión, cardio y nefrotoxicidad1,2. Se han desarrollado varios estudios de injuria renal inducida por Doxorubicína en modelos experimentales con el fin de elucidar su fisiopatología1,2. En general, muestran un periodo de estabilidad y luego desarrollan proteinuria, hipertensión arterial, elevación de la creatininemia. La biopsia renal evidencia glomérulos esclerosados y acumu­lación de material amorfo3,4. Estas alteraciones llevan a una disminución progresiva de la función renal5,6. La evolución hacia la fibrosis renal y la atrofia tubular son componentes inevitables de la patogénesis tubulointersticial que acom­paña a la toxicidad renal por Doxorubicína, como en la mayoría de las enfermedades renales progresivas.

    A Global Potential Analysis of the 16^{16}O+28^{28}Si Reaction Using a New Type of Coupling Potential

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    A new approach has been used to explain the experimental data for the 16^{16}O+28^{28}Si system over a wide energy range in the laboratory system from 29.0 to 142.5 MeV. A number of serious problems has continued to plague the study of this system for a couple of decades. The explanation of anomalous large angle scattering data; the reproduction of the oscillatory structure near the Coulomb barrier; the out-of-phase problem between theoretical predictions and experimental data; the consistent description of angular distributions together with excitation functions data are just some of these problems. These are long standing problems that have persisted over the years and do represent a challenge calling for a consistent framework to resolve these difficulties within a unified approach. Traditional frameworks have failed to describe these phenomena within a single model and have so far only offered different approaches where these difficulties are investigated separately from one another. The present work offers a plausible framework where all these difficulties are investigated and answered. Not only it improves the simultaneous fits to the data of these diverse observables, achieving this within a unified approach over a wide energy range, but it departs for its coupling potential from the standard formulation. This new feature is shown to improve consistently the agreement with the experimental data and has made major improvement on all the previous coupled-channels calculations for this system.Comment: 21 pages with 12 figure

    Quantum Tunneling in Nuclear Fusion

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    Recent theoretical advances in the study of heavy ion fusion reactions below the Coulomb barrier are reviewed. Particular emphasis is given to new ways of analyzing data, such as studying barrier distributions; new approaches to channel coupling, such as the path integral and Green function formalisms; and alternative methods to describe nuclear structure effects, such as those using the Interacting Boson Model. The roles of nucleon transfer, asymmetry effects, higher-order couplings, and shape-phase transitions are elucidated. The current status of the fusion of unstable nuclei and very massive systems are briefly discussed.Comment: To appear in the January 1998 issue of Reviews of Modern Physics. 13 Figures (postscript file for Figure 6 is not available; a hard copy can be requested from the authors). Full text and figures are also available at http://nucth.physics.wisc.edu/preprints

    Composición y abundancia de poblaciones fúngicas y bacterianas y sus actividades: respuesta al manejo agroecológico

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    La agroecología propone la autorregulación para lograr un equilibrio agrícola sustentable. Por lo tanto, considerando la rápida respuesta de las comunidades microbianas ante los pequeños cambios en el uso del suelo, el objetivo de este estudio fue evaluar su respuesta ante el manejo agroecológico versus convencional de la agricultura extensiva. El muestreo del suelo se llevó a cabo en 2016 y 2017 en tres tratamientos diferentes utilizando la secuencia soja/maíz (Glycine max L./Zea mays L.) como cultivo principal: Agroecológico (AE), convencional con cultivos de cobertura (CC) y convencional sin cultivos de cobertura (control). Las especies utilizadas como cultivos de cobertura fueron trigo (Triticum aestivum), vicia (Vicia sativa L.), avena (Avena sativa L.) y nabo forrajero (Raphanus sativus L.). El tratamiento CC mostró el mayor valor de hidrólisis de fluoresceína de diacetato, con valores 63,2% y 12,1% mayores que AE y el control, respectivamente. Sin embargo, el tratamiento AE registró la mayor relación hongo:bacteria (44,8) y el cociente metabólico más bajo (1,14), lo que indica una mejora en la eficiencia metabólica y la calidad del suelo. No se registraron diferencias significativas en la abundancia de las comunidades fúngicas y bacterianas entre los tratamientos. Los resultados sugieren que el manejo agroecológico se caracterizó por el predominio de los hongos del suelo y una mayor eficiencia metabólica microbiana en comparación con el manejo convencional. Se evidenció un uso más eficiente de los sustratos de carbono en los sistemas agroecológicos, lo que podría contrarrestar el efecto negativo de la falta de fertilización sintética y la labranza reducida en el largo plazo. Este trabajo demuestra que las herramientas agrícolas sustentables con un manejo adecuado se pueden utilizar efectivamente para preservar la calidad del suelo.EEA PergaminoFil: Chavarria, Diego N. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Instituto de Patología Vegetal; Argentina.Fil: Pérez Brandan, Carolina. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Salta; Argentina.Fil: Serri, Dannae Lilia. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Instituto de Patología Vegetal; Argentina.Fil: Meriles, José M. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (IMBIV- CONICET); Argentina.Fil: Restovich, Silvina Beatriz. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Pergamino. Laboratorio Suelo; Argentina.Fil: Andriulo, Adrian Enrique. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Pergamino. Laboratorio Suelo; Argentina.Fil: Jacquelin, Luis. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Pergamino. Laboratorio Suelo; Argentina.Fil: Vargas Gil, Silvina. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Instituto de Patología Vegetal; Argentina

    Toward a global description of the nucleus-nucleus interaction

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    Extensive systematization of theoretical and experimental nuclear densities and of optical potential strengths exctracted from heavy-ion elastic scattering data analyses at low and intermediate energies are presented.The energy-dependence of the nuclear potential is accounted for within a model based on the nonlocal nature of the interaction.The systematics indicate that the heavy-ion nuclear potential can be described in a simple global way through a double-folding shape,which basically depends only on the density of nucleons of the partners in the collision.The poissibility of extracting information about the nucleon-nucleon interaction from the heavy-ion potential is investigated.Comment: 12 pages,12 figure
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