314 research outputs found
The Energy Eigenvalues of the Two Dimensional Hydrogen Atom in a Magnetic Field
In this paper, the energy eigenvalues of the two dimensional hydrogen atom
are presented for the arbitrary Larmor frequencies by using the asymptotic
iteration method. We first show the energy eigenvalues for the no magnetic
field case analytically, and then we obtain the energy eigenvalues for the
strong and weak magnetic field cases within an iterative approach for
and states for several different arbitrary Larmor frequencies. The
effect of the magnetic field on the energy eigenvalues is determined precisely.
The results are in excellent agreement with the findings of the other methods
and our method works for the cases where the others fail.Comment: 13 pages and 5 table
Identification of New Resistance Sources From Diploid Wild Strawberry Against Powdery Mildew Pathogen
Powdery mildew pathogen causes diseases in berries and resistance breeding is hampered by the lack of sufficient sources.
While control of fungal pathogens relies on chemical fungicides. In either case, a reliable source of resistance for breeding
purposes is imperative for efficient protection of the crop plants. A powdery mildew isolate designated GOU1 has been
identified as Podosphaera aphanis var. aphanis using light microscopy and sequencing the ITS region. Pathogenicity tests
on 3 diploid wild strawberry (Fragaria vesca L.) ecotypes with GOU1 revealed 3 distinctive interaction phenotypes;
enhanced susceptible (ecotype 1), intermediate susceptible (ecotype 2) and resistant (ecotype 3). In vitro staining methods
with diaminobenzidine and trypan blue showed massive mycelial web and conidiophore production on the susceptible
ecotype, but there was no mycelia and conidiophore production on the resistant ecotype 3. In the ecotype 3 conidiospore
penetration was associated with accumulation of hydrogen peroxide production on the host cells. These findings suggest that
these ecotypes could be explored as resistant gene sources to powdery mildew fungus
The role of charged surfactants in the thermal and structural properties of lyotropic liquid crystalline mesophases of [Zn(H2O)6](NO3)2-CnEOm-H2O
The mixtures of [Zn(H2O)6](NO3)2 salt, 10-lauryl ether (C12H25(OCH2CH2)10OH, represented as C12EO10), a charged surfactant (cetyltrimethylammonium bromide, C16H33N(CH3)3Br, represented as CTAB or sodium dodecylsulfate, C12H25OSO3Na, SDS) and water form lyotropic liquid crystalline mesophases (LLCM). This assembly accommodates up to 8.0 Zn(II) ions (corresponds to about 80% w/w salt/(salt + C12EO10)) for each C12EO10 in the presence of a 1.0 CTAB (or 0.5 SDS) and 3.5 H2O in its LC phase. The salt concentration can be increased by increasing charged surfactant concentration of the media. Addition of charged surfactant to the [Zn(H2O)6](NO3)2-C12EO10 mesophase not only increases the salt content, it can also increase the water content of the media. The charged surfactant-C12EO10 (hydrophobic tail groups) and the surfactant (head groups)-salt ion (ion-pair, hydrogen-bonding) interactions stabilize the mesophases at such salt high and water concentrations. The presence of both Br- and NO3- ions influences the thermal and structural properties of the [Zn(H2O)6](NO3)2-C12EO10-CTAB(or SDS)-H2O LLCM, which have been investigated using XRD, POM (with a hot stage), FT-IR and Raman techniques. © 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved
Recommended from our members
Querying industrial stream-temporal data: An ontology-based visual approach
An increasing number of sensors are being deployed in business-critical environments, systems, and equipment; and stream a vast amount of data. The operational efficiency and effectiveness of business processes rely on domain experts’ agility in interpreting data into actionable business information. A domain expert has extensive domain knowledge but not necessarily skills and knowledge on databases and formal query languages. Therefore, centralised approaches are often preferred. These require IT experts to translate the information needs of domain experts into extract-transform-load (ETL) processes in order to extract and integrate data and then let domain experts apply predefined analytics. Since such a workflow is too time intensive, heavy-weight and inflexible given the high volume and velocity of data, domain experts need to extract and analyse the data of interest directly. Ontologies, i.e., semantically rich conceptual domain models, present an intelligible solution by describing the domain of interest on a higher level of abstraction closer to the reality. Moreover, recent ontology-based data access (OBDA) technologies enable end users to formulate their information needs into queries using a set of terms defined in an ontology. Ontological queries could then be translated into SQL or some other database query languages, and executed over the data in its original place and format automatically. To this end, this article reports an ontology-based visual query system (VQS), namely OptiqueVQS, how it is extended for a stream-temporal query language called STARQL, a user experiment with the domain experts at Siemens AG, and STARQL’s query answering performance over a proof of concept implementation for PostgreSQL
Is the middle cerebral artery bifurcation aneurysm affected by morphological parameters of bifurcation?
Background: Aneurysm formation is a multifactorial process involving genetic, anatomical and environmental risk factors. A research focusing on the relationship between the presence of aneurysm and the morphology of the arteries will help in the pathogenesis and prediction of intracranial aneurysms. In this study, the relationship between the presence of aneurysm and various morphological parameters of aneurysm-related arteries was evaluated in patients with saccular middle cerebral artery (MCA) bifurcation aneurysm.Materials and methods: The archival images of 74 patients (62.2% women) were evaluated retrospectively. In this study, the angle between the ipsilateral MCA M1 segment and the dominant truncus (Φ1), the angle between the M1 segment and the recessive truncus (Φ2), and the bifurcation angle (Φ1 + Φ2) were compared. Bilateral internal carotid artery (ICA), MCA M1 segment, dominant and recessive truncus diameters and these diameters ratios were compared with the aneurysmal side and the contralateral side without aneurysm.Results: When the dominant truncus, recessive truncus angles and bifurcation angle were compared, a significant difference was found on the aneurysmal side (p < 0.0001). In the receiver operating characteristic analysis, when the bifurcation angle of 147.5° was accepted as the limit value, 78.4% sensitivity, 79.7% specificity, 79.5% positive predictive value and 78.7% negative predictive value were determined (area under the curve: 0.85).Conclusions: Our study of the morphological features of arteries associated with MCA bifurcation aneurysms showed that the presence of MCA aneurysms was significantly associated with large bifurcation angles
Bound state solutions of the Dirac-Rosen-Morse potential with spin and pseudospin symmetry
The energy spectra and the corresponding two- component spinor wavefunctions
of the Dirac equation for the Rosen-Morse potential with spin and pseudospin
symmetry are obtained. The wave ( state) solutions for this
problem are obtained by using the basic concept of the supersymmetric quantum
mechanics approach and function analysis (standard approach) in the
calculations. Under the spin symmetry and pseudospin symmetry, the energy
equation and the corresponding two-component spinor wavefunctions for this
potential and other special types of this potential are obtained. Extension of
this result to state is suggested.Comment: 18 page
Dirac Equation with Spin Symmetry for the Modified P\"oschl-Teller Potential in -dimensions
We present solutions of the Dirac equation with spin symmetry for vector and
scalar modified P\"oschl-Teller potential within framework of an approximation
of the centrifugal term. The relativistic energy spectrum is obtained using the
Nikiforov-Uvarov method and the two-component spinor wavefunctions are obtain
are in terms of the Jacobi polynomials. It is found that there exist only
positive-energy states for bound states under spin symmetry, and the energy
levels increase with the dimension and the potential range parameter .Comment: 9 pages and 1tabl
4-(4-Ethylphenyldiazenyl)phenol
The crystal structure of the title compound, C14H14N2O, determined at 100 K, shows that the molecules are not planar in the solid state, in contrast to other diazene (azobenzene) derivatives. The dihedral angle between the planes of the two aromatic rings is 42.32 (7)°. The molecules are linked by intermolecular O—H⋯N hydrogen bonds, forming an infinite one-dimensional chain
- …