Room-temperature quantum oscillations of static magnetic susceptibility of silicon-carbide epitaxial layers grown on a silicon substrate by the method of the coordinated substitution of atoms

The article presents the results of measurement and analysis of the field dependences of the static magnetic susceptibility of thin epitaxial silicon carbide films grown on the (110) surface of single-crystal silicon by the method of the coordinated substitution of atoms. In weak magnetic fields, the occurrence of two quantum effects at room temperature was experimentally found: the hysteresis of the static magnetic susceptibility and, in the field dependences, quantum Aharonov-Bohm oscillations of the static magnetic susceptibility. The simultaneous occurrence of these effects is a consequence of two- and one-particle interference of charge carriers (two-dimensional holes) on microdefects consisting of dipole centers with negative correlation energy (negative-U dipole centers).Comment: 8 pages, 2 figure

Villa Olímpica

At the Olympic Village a number of separate sectors were planned, namely: men's residential zone, ladies' residential zone, press and T.V. zone, general services, administrative services, reception, and others. Apartment buildings are of two types. Some have six storeys and others ten, and all of them have four apartments per storey. The whole Village was designed so that, after the Games, it could serve as a low rent urban zone, of common property, and consisting of 29 buildings, with a total of 900 flats, as well as schools, clinics, commercial zones, parochial church, club and a folkloric stage.En esta Villa Olímpica fueron organizados varios sectores, destinados: a residencia masculina; residencia femenina; zona de prensa y T.V.; servicios generales; servicios administrativos y de recepción; etc. Los edificios de apartamentos pertenecen a dos tipos: unos de 6 plantas y oíros de 10; pero en todos los casos con cuatro apartamentos por planta. Todo ello fue proyectado con el fin de que sirviera, después de los Juegos Olímpicos, como conjunto urbano popular, en régimen de condominio, formado por 29 edificios, con un total de: 900 apartamentos; escuelas; clínicas; zonas comerciales; templo parroquial; club, y «lienzo charro»

Lactobacillaceae and Cell Adhesion: Genomic and Functional Screening

The analysis of collections of lactic acid bacteria (LAB) from traditional fermented plant foods in tropical countries may enable the detection of LAB with interesting properties. Binding capacity is often the main criterion used to investigate the probiotic characteristics of bacteria. In this study, we focused on a collection of 163 Lactobacillaceace comprising 156 bacteria isolated from traditional amylaceous fermented foods and seven strains taken from a collection and used as controls. The collection had a series of analyses to assess binding potential for the selection of new probiotic candidates. The presence/absence of 14 genes involved in binding to the gastrointestinal tract was assessed. This enabled the detection of all the housekeeping genes (ef-Tu, eno, gap, groEl and srtA) in the entire collection, of some of the other genes (apf, cnb, fpbA, mapA, mub) in 86% to 100% of LAB, and of the other genes (cbsA, gtf, msa, slpA) in 0% to 8% of LAB. Most of the bacteria isolated from traditional fermented foods exhibited a genetic profile favorable for their binding to the gastrointestinal tract. We selected 30 strains with different genetic profiles to test their binding ability to non-mucus (HT29) and mucus secreting (HT29-MTX) cell lines as well as their ability to degrade mucus. Assays on both lines revealed high variability in binding properties among the LAB, depending on the cell model used. Finally, we investigated if their binding ability was linked to tighter cross-talk between bacteria and eukaryotic cells by measuring the expression of bacterial genes and of the eukaryotic MUC2 gene. Results showed that wild LAB from tropical amylaceous fermented food had a much higher binding capacity than the two LAB currently known to be probiotics. However their adhesion was not linked to any particular genetic equipment

Presence of additional peptidases in Streptococcus thermophilus CNRZ 302 compared to Lactococcus lactis

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Purification and characterization of a general aminopeptidase (St-PepN) from Streptococcus salivarius ssp. thermophilus CNRZ 302

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St-PepA, a Streptococcus thermophilus aminopeptidase with high specificity for acidic residues

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Detection of Coarsegrain Parallelism

While the chip multiprocessor (CMP) has quickly become the predominant processor architecture, its continuing success largely depends on the parallelizability of complex programs. In the early 1990s great successes were obtained to extract parallelism from the inner loops of scientific computations. In this paper we show that significant amounts of coarse-grain parallelism exists in the outer program loops, even in general-purpose programs. This coarse-grain parallelism can be exploited efficiently on CMPs without additional hardware support. KEYWORDS: thread-level parallelism, coarse-grain parallelism, DO-ACROSS

Detection of Functionlevel Parallelism

While the chip multiprocessor (CMP) has quickly become the predominant processor architecture, its continuing success largely depends on the parallelizability of complex programs. We present a framework that is able to extract coarse-grain function-level parallelism that can exploit the parallel resources of the CMP. The framework uses a profile-driven control and data dependence analysis between large code regions. We target coarse-grain parallelism by finding do-across parallelism in the outer-loops of a program. This parallelism can be exploited in a pipelined fashion. The identification of parallelism reduces the overall loop structure to a preset template by merging inter-dependent code regions. The actual parallelization is guided by the template. The extracted parallelism results in a significant speedup of factor 5 to 12 on an 8-core Sun UltraSPARC T1 processor. KEYWORDS: Function-level parallelism, Joint control and data dependence grap