Patologías víricas en Ulmus laevis en el este de Alemania

Virus-like leaf symptoms and dieback were observed on elm trees in a public park near Potsdam. Infection with Cherry leaf roll virus (CLRV), Elm mottle virus (EMV), Arabis mosaic virus (ArMV) and Tobacco ringspot virus (TRSV), well known viruses to infected elm trees was excluded by bioassays and serological tests. Poty- or carlavirus- like flexible particles of approximately 750 nm in length were isolated repeatedly from diseased elms. The particles were transmissible to diverse Chenopodium species, a herbaceous indicator. The virus was not a member of the Potyviridae family, based on an ELISA and an RT-PCR assay using a potyvirus genus-specific broad-spectrum polyclonal antibody and family-specific primers, respectively. Also no potyvirus-like pinwheel inclusions were found in leaf cells of infected indicator plants in electron microscopic studies. Further molecular characterization of these virus isolates is under way.En olmos situados en un parque cercano a Postdam, se ha observado la presencia de síntomas foliares similares a los producidos por virus. Mediante bioensayos y pruebas serológicas se descartó la presencia de infecciones originados por el virus del enrollamiento de la hoja del cerezo (CLRV), el virus del moteado del olmo (EMV), el virus del mosaico de Arabis (ArMV) y el virus del anillamiento del tabaco (TRSV), todos ellos bien conocidos por afectar a los olmos. Repetidamente se aisló, en olmos enfermos, partículas flexibles de aproximadamente 750 mm de longitud similares a las de Potyvirus y Carlavirus. Las partículas fueron transmisibles a diversas especies de Chenopodium, un indicador herbáceo. Según una prueba ELISA y un ensayo RT-PCR en que se usaron, respectivamente, un anticuerpo policlonal específico de género de Potyvirus de amplio espectro, y cebadores específicos de la familia, el virus no es miembro de la familia Potyviridae. Tampoco se ha encontrado, en estudios mediante microscopía electrónica, inclusiones del tipo potyvirus en las células de las hojas de plantas indicadoras infectadas. En la actualidad se están realizando nuevas caracterizaciones moleculares de estos aislamientos víricos

Numerical Renormalization Group Calculations for the Self-energy of the impurity Anderson model

We present a new method to calculate directly the one-particle self-energy of an impurity Anderson model with Wilson's numerical Renormalization Group method by writing this quantity as the ratio of two correlation functions. This way of calculating Sigma(z) turns out to be considerably more reliable and accurate than via the impurity Green's function alone. We show results for the self-energy for the case of a constant coupling between impurity and conduction band (ImDelta = const) and the effective Delta(z) arising in the Dynamical Mean Field Theory of the Hubbard model. Implications to the problem of the metal-insulator transition in the Hubbard model are also discussed.Comment: 18 pages, 9 figures, submitted to J. Phys.: Condens. Matte

Eye Tracking as a Measure of Receptive Vocabulary in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

This study examined the utility of eye tracking research technology to measure speech comprehension in 14 young boys with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and 15 developmentally matched boys with typical development. Using eye tracking research technology, children were tested on individualized sets of known and unknown words, identified based on their performance on the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test. Children in both groups spent a significantly longer amount of time looking at the target picture when previous testing indicated the word was known (known condition). Children with ASD spent similar amounts of time looking at the target and non-target pictures when previous testing indicated the word was unknown (unknown condition). However, children with typical development looked longer at the target pictures in the unknown condition as well, potentially suggesting emergent vocabulary knowledge

Magnetic Properties of the t-J Model in the Dynamical Mean-Field Theory

We present a theory for the spin correlation function of the t-J model in the framework of the dynamical mean-field theory. Using this mapping between the lattice and a local model we are able to obtain an intuitive expression for the non-local spin susceptibility, with the corresponding local correlation function as input. The latter is calculated by means of local Goldstone diagrams following closely the procedures developed and successfully applied for the (single impurity) Anderson model.We present a systematic study of the magnetic susceptibility and compare our results with those of a Hubbard model at large U. Similarities and differences are pointed out and the magnetic phase diagram of the t-J model is discussed.Comment: 28 pages LaTeX, postscript figures as compressed and uuencoded file included fil

Memory Effect and Triplet Pairing Generation in the Superconducting Exchange Biased Co/CoOx/Cu41Ni59/Nb/Cu41Ni59 Layered Heterostructure

We fabricated a nanolayered hybrid superconductor-ferromagnet spin-valve structure, the resistive state of which depends on the preceding magnetic field polarity. The effect is based on a strong exchange bias (about -2 kOe) on a diluted ferromagnetic copper-nickel alloy and generation of a long range odd in frequency triplet pairing component. The difference of high and low resistance states at zero magnetic field is 90% of the normal state resistance for a transport current of 250 {\mu}A and still around 42% for 10 {\mu}A. Both logic states of the structure do not require biasing fields or currents in the idle mode.Comment: 9 pages, 4 figures, Accepted to Applied Physics Letter

Gesture Facilitates the Syntactic Analysis of Speech

Recent research suggests that the brain routinely binds together information from gesture and speech. However, most of this research focused on the integration of representational gestures with the semantic content of speech. Much less is known about how other aspects of gesture, such as emphasis, influence the interpretation of the syntactic relations in a spoken message. Here, we investigated whether beat gestures alter which syntactic structure is assigned to ambiguous spoken German sentences. The P600 component of the Event Related Brain Potential indicated that the more complex syntactic structure is easier to process when the speaker emphasizes the subject of a sentence with a beat. Thus, a simple flick of the hand can change our interpretation of who has been doing what to whom in a spoken sentence. We conclude that gestures and speech are integrated systems. Unlike previous studies, which have shown that the brain effortlessly integrates semantic information from gesture and speech, our study is the first to demonstrate that this integration also occurs for syntactic information. Moreover, the effect appears to be gesture-specific and was not found for other stimuli that draw attention to certain parts of speech, including prosodic emphasis, or a moving visual stimulus with the same trajectory as the gesture. This suggests that only visual emphasis produced with a communicative intention in mind (that is, beat gestures) influences language comprehension, but not a simple visual movement lacking such an intention

Ferromagnetism in the large-U Hubbard model

We study the Hubbard model on a hypercubic lattice with regard to the possibility of itinerant ferromagnetism. The Dynamical Mean Field theory is used to map the lattice model on an effective local problem, which is treated with help of the Non Crossing Approximation. By investigating spin dependent one-particle Green's functions and the magnetic susceptibility, a region with nonvanishing ferromagnetic polarization is found in the limit $U\to\infty$. The $\delta$-T-phase diagram as well as thermodynamic quantities are discussed. The dependence of the Curie temperature on the Coulomb interaction and the competition between ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism are studied in the large $U$ limit of the Hubbard model.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in Physical Review B, Rapid Communication

The NeuroDante Project: Neurometric measurements of participant’s reaction to literary auditory stimuli from dante’s “divina commedia”

Neurodante. Progetto di analisi neurometrica di alcuni brani della Commedi

Reentrant Superconductivity and Superconducting Critical Temperature Oscillations in F/S/F trilayers of Cu41Ni59/Nb/Cu41Ni59 Grown on Cobalt Oxide

Ferromagnet/Superconductor/Ferromagnet (F/S/F) trilayers constitute the core of a superconducting spin valve. The switching effect of the spin valve is based on interference phenomena occurring due to the proximity effect at the S/F interfaces. A remarkable effect is only expected if the core structure exhibits strong critical temperature oscillations, or most favorable, reentrant superconductivity, when the thickness of the ferromagnetic layer is increased. The core structure has to be grown on an antiferromagnetic oxide layer (or such layer to be placed on top) to pin by exchange bias the magnetization-orientation of one of the ferromagnetic layers. In the present paper we demonstrate that this is possible, keeping the superconducting behavior of the core structure undisturbed.Comment: 22 pages, 12 figures, 1 tabl