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Publications of the planetary biology program for 1975: A special bibliography
The Planetary Biology Program of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the first and only integrated program to methodically investigate the planetary events which may have been responsible for, or related to, the origin, evolution, and distribution of life in the universe. Research supported by this program is divided into the seven areas listed below: (1) chemical evolution, (2) organic geochemistry, (3) life detection, (4) biological adaptation, (5) bioinstrumentation, (6) planetary environments, and (7) origin of life. The arrangement of references in this bibliography follows the division of research described above. Articles are listed alphabetically by author under the research area with which they are most closely related. Only those publications which resulted from research supported by the Planetary Biology Program and which bear a 1975 publication date have been included. Abstracts and theses are not included because of the preliminary and abbreviated nature of the former and the frequent difficulty of obtaining the latter
Three path interference using nuclear magnetic resonance: a test of the consistency of Born's rule
The Born rule is at the foundation of quantum mechanics and transforms our
classical way of understanding probabilities by predicting that interference
occurs between pairs of independent paths of a single object. One consequence
of the Born rule is that three way (or three paths) quantum interference does
not exist. In order to test the consistency of the Born rule, we examine
detection probabilities in three path intereference using an ensemble of
spin-1/2 quantum registers in liquid state nuclear magnetic resonance (LSNMR).
As a measure of the consistency, we evaluate the ratio of three way
interference to two way interference. Our experiment bounded the ratio to the
order of , and hence it is consistent with Born's rule.Comment: 11 pages, 4 figures; Improved presentation of figures 1 and 4,
changes made in section 2 to better describe the experiment, minor changes
throughout, and added several reference
On possible violation of the CHSH Bell inequality in a classical context
It has been shown that there is a small possibility to experimentally violate
the CHSH Bell inequality in a 'classical' context. The probability of such a
violation has been estimated in the framework of a classical probabilistic
model in the language of a random-walk representation.Comment: 9 pages, 1 figur
Utilização da multiplicação rápida na propagação da mandioca (Manihot esculenta Crantz).
A mandioca (Manihot esculenta Crantz) é uma espécie rústica, que possui a capacidade de produzir em regiões de solos pobres e com escassez de água.Entretanto, ela possui certas caracterÃsticas que dificultam a sua propagação em larga escala num curto intervalo de tempo. Uma dessas caracterÃsticas é a sua baixa taxa de multiplicação. Cada planta de mandioca pode produzir de 5 a 10 manivas de 20 cm, num perÃodo de 12 meses, ou seja, a sua taxa de propagação é de 1:5 a 1:10. A multiplicação rápida, desenvolvida pelo Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), na Colômbia, é um método simples e barato de multiplicação da mandioca. O aumento da taxa de multiplicação deve-se, em primeiro lugar, ao fato de que, as manivas para a multiplicação rápida são cortadas com duas a três gemas (2 a 5 cm, a depender da distância entre as gemas), enquanto as manivas para plantio têm cerca de sete gemas (em torno de 20 cm). E em segundo lugar, na multiplicação rápida, a maniva ao brotar, tem o broto cortado ao atingir o tamanho de 10 a 15 cm, e rebrota novamente, induzida pelas condições de umidade e temperatura elevadas do interior da câmara de propagação, enquanto na multiplicação convencional, a maniva de 20 cm é plantada no campo, e gerará no máximo quatro hastes.PDF. 055
Anomalous Lattice Response at the Mott Transition in a Quasi-2D Organic Conductor
Discontinuous changes of the lattice parameters at the Mott metal-insulator
transition are detected by high-resolution dilatometry on deuterated crystals
of the layered organic conductor -(BEDT-TTF)Cu[N(CN)]Br.
The uniaxial expansivities uncover a striking and unexpected anisotropy,
notably a zero-effect along the in-plane c-axis along which the electronic
interactions are relatively strong. A huge thermal expansion anomaly is
observed near the end-point of the first-order transition line enabling to
explore the critical behavior with very high sensitivity. The analysis yields
critical fluctuations with an exponent 0.8 0.15
at odds with the novel criticality recently proposed for these materials
[Kagawa \textit{et al.}, Nature \textbf{436}, 534 (2005)]. Our data suggest an
intricate role of the lattice degrees of freedom in the Mott transition for the
present materials.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
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