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The persistence(s) of the Old Regime

Reseña de: Rújula, Pedro y Francisco Javier Ramón Solans (eds.), El desafío de la revolución. Reaccionarios, antiliberales y contrarrevolucionarios (siglos xviii y xix), Granada, Comares, 2017, 368 pp

Self-assembly of Tween 80 micelles as nanocargos for oregano and trans-cinnamaldehyde plant-derived compounds

The self-assembly of Tween 80 (T80) micelles loaded with plant-based oregano essential oil (OR) and trans-cinnamaldehyde (TCA) was studied. The effect of different factors, including the surfactant to oil ratio, the presence of sodium chloride, thermal treatment, and dilution on their formation and physicochemical stability was evaluated. The creation of nano-cargos was confirmed by TEM. The self-associated structures had z-average droplet diameters of 92 to 337 nm without any energy input. Whereas addition of 10% (w/v) NaCl prevented the formation of oregano essential oil nano-assemblies of T80, swollen micelles containing TCA were successfully produced. Moreover, the OR or TCA loaded-micelles had only a slight droplet size variation upon thermal treatment. Ultimately, their antibacterial activity analysis against some food pathogens revealed that the encapsulation of OR and TCA within micelles crucially improved their antibacterial activity. These straightforward and cost-effective designed systems can be applicable in different products, including foods and agrochemicals

4,5-bis(benzoylsulfanyl)-1,3-dithiol-2-one

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Exotic criticality in the dimerized spin-1 XXZXXZ chain with single-ion anisotropy

We consider the dimerized spin-1 $XXZ$ chain with single-ion anisotropy $D$. In absence of an explicit dimerization there are three phases: a large-$D$, an antiferromagnetically ordered and a Haldane phase. This phase structure persists up to a critical dimerization, above which the Haldane phase disappears. We show that for weak dimerization the phases are separated by Gaussian and Ising quantum phase transitions. One of the Ising transitions terminates in a critical point in the universality class of the dilute Ising model. We comment on the relevance of our results to experiments on quasi-one-dimensional anisotropic spin-1 quantum magnets.Comment: Received the Select label. 20 pages, 7 figures, final versio

Permanent draft genome sequence of Nocardia sp. BMG111209, an actinobacterium isolated from nodules of Casuarina glauca

Nocardia sp. strain BMG111209 is a non-Frankia actinobacterium isolated from root nodules of Casuarina glauca in Tunisia. Here, we report the 9.1-Mbp draft genome sequence of Nocardia sp. strain BMG111209 with a G + C content of 69.19% and 8,122 candidate protein-encoding genes

Compromiso con la ciencia

The Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences has joined other Spanish organizations to denounce the serious social consequences of the lack of funding for scientific research. The Academic Professor D. Esteban Domingo Solans summarizes the main lines of the first declaration of the Academy of Sciences on the situation of funding and management of science in Spain.La Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales se ha sumado a otras organizaciones españolas para denunciar las graves consecuencias sociales de la falta de financiación de la investigación científica. El Académico Profesor D. Esteban Domingo Solans resume las líneas maestras de la primera declaración de la Academia de Ciencias sobre la situación de la financiación y gestión de la ciencia en España. &nbsp

Magnetic Properties of J-J-J' Quantum Heisenberg Chains with Spin S=1/2, 1, 3/2 and 2 in a Magnetic Field

By means of the density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) method, the magnetic properties of the J-J-J$^{\prime}$ quantum Heisenberg chains with spin $S=1/2$, 1, 3/2 and 2 in the ground states are investigated in the presence of a magnetic field. Two different cases are considered: (a) when $J$ is antiferromagnetic and $J^{\prime}$ is ferromagnetic (i.e. the AF-AF-F chain), the system is a ferrimagnet. The plateaus of the magnetization are observed. It is found that the width of the plateaus decreases with increasing the ferromagnetic coupling, and disappears when $$ passes over a critical value. The saturated field is observed to be independent of the ferromagnetic coupling; (b) when $J$ is ferromagnetic and $J^{\prime}$ is antiferromagnetic (i.e. the F-F-AF chain), the system becomes an antiferromagnet. The plateaus of the magnetization are also seen. The width of the plateaus decreases with decreasing the antiferromagnetic coupling, and disappears when $J^{\prime}/J$ passes over a critical value. Though the ground state properties are quite different, the magnetization plateaus in both cases tend to disappear when the ferromagnetic coupling becomes more dominant. Besides, no fundamental difference between the systems with spin half-integer and integer has been found.Comment: 8 pages, 9 figures, to be published in J. Phys.: Condens. Matte

Exact solution of the spin-1/2 Ising model on the Shastry-Sutherland (orthogonal-dimer) lattice

A star-triangle mapping transformation is used to establish an exact correspondence between the spin-1/2 Ising model on the Shastry-Sutherland (orthogonal-dimer) lattice and respectively, the spin-1/2 Ising model on a bathroom tile (4-8) lattice. Exact results for the critical temperature and spontaneous magnetization are obtained and compared with corresponding results on the regular Ising lattices.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figure