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Incommensurate-Commensurate Magnetic Phase Transition in SmRuAl
Magnetic properties of single crystalline SmRuAl have been
investigated by electrical resistivity, magnetic susceptibility, and specific
heat. We have confirmed the successive magnetic phase transitions at
K and K. Resonant x-ray diffraction has
also been performed to study the magnetic structures. Below , the
Sm moments order in an incommensurate structure with . The magnetic moments are oriented along the orthorhombic axis, which
coincides with the magnetization easy axis in the paramagnetic phase. A very
weak third harmonic peak is also observed at . The
transition at is a lock-in transition to the commensurate
structure described by . A well developed third harmonic peak
is observed at . From the discussion of the magnetic
structure, we propose that the long-range RKKY interaction plays an important
role, in addition to the strong nearest neighbor antiferromagnetic interaction.Comment: 11 pages, 12 figures, accepted in PR
Charge transfer and weak bonding between molecular oxygen and graphene zigzag edges at low temperatures
Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) study of air-physisorbed defective
carbon nano-onions evidences in favor of microwave assisted formation of
weakly-bound paramagnetic complexes comprising negatively-charged O2- ions and
edge carbon atoms carrying pi-electronic spins. These complexes being located
on the graphene edges are stable at low temperatures but irreversibly
dissociate at temperatures above 50-60 K. These EPR findings are justified by
density functional theory (DFT) calculations demonstrating transfer of an
electron from the zigzag edge of graphene-like material to oxygen molecule
physisorbed on the graphene sheet edge. This charge transfer causes changing
the spin state of the adsorbed oxygen molecule from S = 1 to S = 1/2 one. DFT
calculations show significant changes of adsorption energy of oxygen molecule
and robustness of the charge transfer to variations of the graphene-like
substrate morphology (flat and corrugated mono- and bi-layered graphene) as
well as edges passivation. The presence of H- and COOH- terminated edge carbon
sites with such corrugated substrate morphology allows formation of ZE-O2-
paramagnetic complexes characterized by small (<50 meV) binding energies and
also explains their irreversible dissociation as revealed by EPR.Comment: 28 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables, accepted in Carbon journa
Kondo effect in CeX (X=S, Se, Te) studied by electrical resistivity under high pressure
We have measured the electrical resistivity of cerium monochalcogenices, CeS,
CeSe, and CeTe, under high pressures up to 8 GPa. Pressure dependences of the
antiferromagnetic ordering temperature , crystal field splitting, and
the anomaly of the Kondo effect have been studied to cover the whole
region from the magnetic ordering regime at low pressure to the Fermi liquid
regime at high pressure. initially increases with increasing pressure,
and starts to decrease at high pressure as expected from the Doniach's diagram.
Simultaneously, the behavior in the resistivity is enhanced, indicating
the enhancement of the Kondo effect by pressure. It is also characteristic in
CeX that the crystal field splitting rapidly decreases at a common rate
of K/GPa. This leads to the increase in the degeneracy of the state
and further enhancement of the Kondo effect. It is shown that the pressure
dependent degeneracy of the state is a key factor to understand the
pressure dependence of , Kondo effect, magnetoresistance, and the peak
structure in the temperature dependence of resistivity.Comment: 9 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in J. Phys. Soc. Jp
Reference gene validation for gene expression studies using quantitative RT-PCR during berry development of ‘Aki Queen’ grapes
In order to understand the gene regulation during berry development and examine the effect of abscisic acid (ABA) on gene expression related to berry maturation, we evaluated the validity of four housekeeping genes, elongation factor 1-α (EF1-α), glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH), ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme (UBC), and 60S ribosomal protein L40-1 (VvUbiquitin1), as references by using 'Aki Queen' grapes with and without ABA treatment. The main contribution of this study is that a gene expression analysis using GAPDH as a reference gene will help to elucidate the berry development process and the physiological effects of ABA on berry maturation of 'Aki Queen' grapes
Afadin requirement for cytokine expressions in keratinocytes during chemically induced inflammation in mice
Afadin is a filamentous actin-binding protein and a mediator of nectin signaling. Nectins are Ig-like cell adhesion molecules, and the nectin family is composed of four members, nectin-1 to nectin-4. Nectins show homophilic and heterophilic interactions with other nectins or proteins on adjacent cells. Nectin signaling induces formation of cell-cell junctions and is required for the development of epithelial tissues, including skin. This study investigated the role of afadin in epithelial tissue development and established epithelium-specific afadin-deficient (CKO) mice. Although showing no obvious abnormality in the skin development and homeostasis, the mice showed the reduced neutrophil infiltration into the epidermis during chemical-induced inflammation with 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol 13-acetate (TPA). Immunohistochemical and quantitative real-time PCR analyses showed that the expression levels of cytokines including Cxcl2, Il-1{beta} and Tnf-{alpha} were reduced in CKO keratinocytes compared with control keratinocytes during TPA-induced inflammation. Primary-cultured skin keratinocytes from CKO mice also showed reduced expression of these cytokines and weak activation of Rap1 compared with those from control mice after the TPA treatment. These results suggested a remarkable function of afadin, which was able to enhance cytokine expression through Rap1 activation in keratinocytes during inflammation
Radiosynthesis of 1-[2-[18F]Fluoro-1-(hydroxymethyl)-Ethoxy]methyl-2-Nitroimidazole([18F]FENI)
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Comparative Investigation of Microbial Communities Associated with Hydrothermal Activities in the Okinawa Trough
Verifying Temporal Regular Properties of Abstractions of Term Rewriting Systems
The tree automaton completion is an algorithm used for proving safety
properties of systems that can be modeled by a term rewriting system. This
representation and verification technique works well for proving properties of
infinite systems like cryptographic protocols or more recently on Java Bytecode
programs. This algorithm computes a tree automaton which represents a (regular)
over approximation of the set of reachable terms by rewriting initial terms.
This approach is limited by the lack of information about rewriting relation
between terms. Actually, terms in relation by rewriting are in the same
equivalence class: there are recognized by the same state in the tree
automaton.
Our objective is to produce an automaton embedding an abstraction of the
rewriting relation sufficient to prove temporal properties of the term
rewriting system.
We propose to extend the algorithm to produce an automaton having more
equivalence classes to distinguish a term or a subterm from its successors
w.r.t. rewriting. While ground transitions are used to recognize equivalence
classes of terms, epsilon-transitions represent the rewriting relation between
terms. From the completed automaton, it is possible to automatically build a
Kripke structure abstracting the rewriting sequence. States of the Kripke
structure are states of the tree automaton and the transition relation is given
by the set of epsilon-transitions. States of the Kripke structure are labelled
by the set of terms recognized using ground transitions. On this Kripke
structure, we define the Regular Linear Temporal Logic (R-LTL) for expressing
properties. Such properties can then be checked using standard model checking
algorithms. The only difference between LTL and R-LTL is that predicates are
replaced by regular sets of acceptable terms
Observation of Magnetic Edge State and Dangling Bond State on Nanographene in Activated Carbon Fibers
The electronic structure of nanographene in pristine and fluorinated
activated carbon fibers (ACFs) have been investigated with near-edge x-ray
absorption fine structure (NEXAFS) and compared with magnetic properties we
reported on previously. In pristine ACFs in which magnetic properties are
governed by non-bonding edge states of the \pi-electron, a pre-peak assigned to
the edge state was observed below the conduction electron {\pi}* peak close to
the Fermi level in NEXAFS. Via the fluorination of the ACFs, an extra peak,
which was assigned to the \sigma-dangling bond state, was observed between the
pre-peak of the edge state and the {\pi}* peak in the NEXAFS profile. The
intensities of the extra peak correlate closely with the spin concentration
created upon fluorination. The combination of the NEXAFS and magnetic
measurement results confirms the coexistence of the magnetic edge states of
\pi-electrons and dangling bond states of \sigma-electrons on fluorinated
nanographene sheets.Comment: 4 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev.
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