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\u3ci\u3eAcrobasis\u3c/i\u3e Shoot Moth (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) Infestation-Tree Height Link in a Young Black Walnut Plantation
Acrobasis shoot moth infestations were evaluated in a young black walnut progeny test for 4 years, from ages 3 to 6. Infestation levels were greatest on the largest trees in the fourth and fifth year after plantation establishment, and were declining by the sixth year. Acrobasis infestation appears to be a problem primarily on young trees less than 2.5 m in height. There was no evidence for genetic resistance to Acrobasis infestation in black walnut
Ultrastructure of Bone Marrow of Rats After Severe Hemodilution with Starch or Modified Hemoglobin
The ultrastructure of bone marrow of rats was studied 24 h after exchange-transfusion with solutions of starch or modified hemoglobin to a hematocrit of 10-15. Blood smears of the transfused rats had 17-20% reticulocytes as compared to 5-6% for sham operated controls. In the transfused rats marrow macrophages had numerous heterolysosomes apparently containing the starch or hemoglobin from the transfused solutions. Endothelial cells and reticular cells also possessed a few heterolysosomes thought to contain starch or hemoglobin. Reticular cells of the transfused rats contained numerous glycogen particles scattered throughout the cytoplasm or arranged in large masses. Synthesis of glycogen may indicate a metabolic change in reticular cells in response to tissue hypoxia induced by the exchange-transfusion procedure
Vortices on Hyperbolic Surfaces
It is shown that abelian Higgs vortices on a hyperbolic surface can be
constructed geometrically from holomorphic maps , where is also
a hyperbolic surface. The fields depend on and on the metrics of and
. The vortex centres are the ramification points, where the derivative of
vanishes. The magnitude of the Higgs field measures the extent to which
is locally an isometry.
Witten's construction of vortices on the hyperbolic plane is rederived, and
new examples of vortices on compact surfaces and on hyperbolic surfaces of
revolution are obtained. The interpretation of these solutions as
SO(3)-invariant, self-dual SU(2) Yang--Mills fields on is also given.Comment: Revised version: new section on four-dimensional interpretation of
hyperbolic vortices added
Improved fertilization and implantation rates after non-touch zona pellucida microdrilling of mouse oocytes with a 1.48 μm diode laser beam
The safety of microdrilling the zona pellucida of moose oocytes with a 1.48 μm diode laser has been investigated by determining the ability of mouse oocytes to fertilize in vitro and develop in vivo. Mice born after transfer of control and zona pelludda-microdrilled embryos into foster mothers were submitted to anatomical and immunohisto-chemical investigations, and their aptitude to breed was assessed in two subsequent generations. Decolonization of the oocytes with hyaluronidase induced a reduction of the fertilization and implantation rates, which was attributed to a zona hardening phenomenon. After laser zona pellucida microdrilling, these rates were restored to those obtained with embryos derived from untreated oocyte-cumulus complexes. Pups derived from zona pellucida microdrilled embryos were comparable with those obtained from control embryos, confirming the lack of deleterious effects of the laser treatment In conclusion, the 1.48 μm diode laser allows safe microdrilling of the zona pellucida of mouse oocytes after decoronization with hyaluronidase. Based on the health of the F2 generation and the lack of neuroanatom-ical and neurochemical differences, we concluded that this technology may be investigated in the human, particularly when the zona pellucida represents the main impediment for fertilization or embryo hatchin
Neutron-induced background in the CONUS experiment
CONUS is a novel experiment aiming at detecting elastic neutrino nucleus
scattering in the fully coherent regime using high-purity Germanium (Ge)
detectors and a reactor as antineutrino () source. The detector setup
is installed at the commercial nuclear power plant in Brokdorf, Germany, at a
very small distance to the reactor core in order to guarantee a high flux of
more than 10/(scm). For the experiment, a good
understanding of neutron-induced background events is required, as the neutron
recoil signals can mimic the predicted neutrino interactions. Especially
neutron-induced events correlated with the thermal power generation are
troublesome for CONUS. On-site measurements revealed the presence of a thermal
power correlated, highly thermalized neutron field with a fluence rate of
(74530)cmd. These neutrons that are produced by nuclear
fission inside the reactor core, are reduced by a factor of 10 on
their way to the CONUS shield. With a high-purity Ge detector without shield
the -ray background was examined including highly thermal power
correlated N decay products as well as -lines from neutron
capture. Using the measured neutron spectrum as input, it was shown, with the
help of Monte Carlo simulations, that the thermal power correlated field is
successfully mitigated by the installed CONUS shield. The reactor-induced
background contribution in the region of interest is exceeded by the expected
signal by at least one order of magnitude assuming a realistic ionization
quenching factor of 0.2.Comment: 28 pages, 28 figure
Factors driving the regrowth of European cities and the role of local and contextual impacts:A contrasting analysis of regrowing and shrinking cities
Transverse sound in a magnetic field in UPt_3
We have propagated transverse sound in a magnetic field in the basal plane of UPt_3, with the polarization vector oriented both in the basal plane and perpendicular to it. We observe a strong anisotropy in the magnetic field dependence of the attenuation for the two polarizations. Using a simple phenomenological model, we can understand the low-temperature field dependence as a natural consequence of the anisotropy with temperature in zero field reported earlier [Phys. Rev. Lett. 56, 1078 (1986)]. However, for increasing temperatures there are significant deviations from this model. In no case do we find evidence for new superconducting phases in a magnetic field
Quasiparticle photoemission intensity in doped two-dimensional quantum antiferromagnets
Using the self-consistent Born approximation, and the corresponding wave
function of the magnetic polaron, we calculate the quasiparticle weight
corresponding to destruction of a real electron (in contrast to creation of a
spinless holon), as a funtion of wave vector for one hole in a generalized
model and the strong coupling limit of a generalized Hubbard model. The
results are in excellent agreement with those obtained by exact diagonalization
of a sufficiently large cluster. Only the Hubbard weigth compares very well
with photoemission measurements in Sr_2CuO_2Cl_2.Comment: 11 pages, latex, 3 figure
Density of States and NMR Relaxation Rate in Anisotropic Superconductivity with Intersecting Line Nodes
We show that the density of states in an anisotropic superconductor with
intersecting line nodes in the gap function is proportional to for , where is the maximum value of
the gap function and is constant, while it is proportional to if
the line nodes do not intersect. As a result, a logarithmic correction appears
in the temperature dependence of the NMR relaxation rate and the specific heat,
which can be observed experimentally. By comparing with those for the heavy
fermion superconductors, we can obtain information about the symmetry of the
gap function.Comment: 7 pages, 4 PostScript Figures, LaTeX, to appear in J. Phys. Soc. Jp
Pump Built-in Hamiltonian Method for Pump-Probe Spectroscopy
We propose a new method of calculating nonlinear optical responses of
interacting electronic systems. In this method, the total Hamiltonian (system +
system-pump interaction) is transformed into a different form that (apparently)
does not have a system-pump interaction. The transformed Hamiltonian, which we
call the pump built-in Hamiltonian, has parameters that depend on the strength
of the pump beam. Using the pump built-in Hamiltonian, we can calculate
nonlinear responses (responses to probe beams as a function of the pump beam)
by applying the {\em linear} response theory. We demonstrate the basic idea of
this new method by applying it to a one-dimensional, two-band model, in the
case the pump excitation is virtual (coherent excitation). We find that the
exponent of the Fermi edge singularity varies with the pump intensity.Comment: 6 page
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