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Higher Order mz-elements in Coherent Quantales
No full textThe mz-elements of a coherent quantale have recently been defined by the author as an abstraction of the mz-ideals of a unital commutative ring.
Having as its starting point the Dube and Ighedo recent paper on higher order ideals in ring theory, this paper deals with the higher order mz-elements of a coherent quantale A. For each natural number n we define the mz^n-elements of A, so we obtain an ascending sequence that covers the set of all higher order mz-elements. We obtain a lot of properties of this sequence. In particular, the stationarity of the sequence is studied. Another category of results investigates how the coherent quantale morphisms preserve such properties
Photostimulated luminescence of silver clusters in zeolite-Y
No full textUpon UV-irradiation at 254 nm, the photoluminescence of silver atoms in zeolite-Y decreases, meanwhile an absorption band shows up around 840 nm. By photostimulation at 840 nm, fluorescence of silver atoms is detected, which is called photostimulated luminescence, and the photoluminescence of silver atoms is increased slightly. These phenomena are attributed to the charge-transfer interaction between the zeolite framework and the entrapped silver atoms. (C) 1997 Published by Elsevier Science B.V
A spectroscopic study of the bipolar planetary nebula Mz 3
No full textWe have obtained a medium-resolution, deep optical long-slit spectrum of the bipolar planetary nebula Mz 3. The spectrum covers the wavelength range 3420-7400 Å. Over 200 emission lines have been detected, many of them permitted and forbidden transitions from Fe +, Fe 2+ and Fe 3+ and other iron-group elements. The spectra have been used to determine nebular thermal and density structures and elemental abundances. The very rich and prominent [Fe III] emission lines observed in the optical spectrum of Mz 3 are found to originate exclusively from an unresolved emission region centred on the central star. The relative intensities of [Fe III] lines arising from the same upper level are in good agreement with the theoretical predictions. The [Fe III] lines detected in Mz 3, arising from levels of different excitation energies and critical densities, provide powerful diagnostic tools to probe the physical conditions in the central emitting region. We find that all the observed [Fe III] diagnostic line ratios consistently yield an electron temperature of T e = 11 000 K and a density of log N e(cm -3) = 6.5. The latter value is close to the densities where the ratios of these [Fe III] diagnostic lines are most sensitive to density variations, suggesting that the density in the central emission core could be even higher. In contrast, all the other standard nebular density- and temperature-diagnostic line ratios, all of lower critical densities than the [Fe III] lines and therefore only useful at densities ≤ 10 6 cm -3, yield consistently lower electron densities, with the resultant values correlating with their critical densities. This indicates that the central dense emission core has a highly stratified density structure such that forbidden lines of relatively low critical densities are collisionally suppressed in high-density regions. Given the highly stratified thermal and density structures of the core emission region, no reliable elemental abundances can be determined for this region, except possibly for iron, for which we find an abundance of approximately half the solar value. In contrast to the dense central core, emission from the extended bipolar lobes of Mz 3 are well represented by a mean electron temperature of 6800 K and density of 5200 cm -3. The elemental abundances derived for this region, on a logarithmic scale where H = 12, are He = 10.93, C = 8.41, N = 8.37, O = 8.50, Ne = 7.64, S = 7.15, Cl = 5.28 and Ar = 7.14. In all cases, the abundances are close to the average values deduced for Galactic planetary nebulae. In particular, there is no evidence of He enrichment, as claimed in previous studies. The newly derived heavy-element abundances are significantly higher than those published in the literature. In those earlier studies, as a result of the contamination of emission from the dense central core, the average electron temperature in Mz 3 was significantly overestimated, resulting in grossly underestimated heavy-element abundances. However, Mz 3 does seem to have a relatively high N/O abundance ratio, in line with the result derived from the ISO observations of the far-infrared fine-structure lines.link_to_OA_fulltex
Intraclass correlation between MZ twin pairs and between DZ twin pairs.
No full textNo overlap between MZ and DZ correlations implies genetic influences on the traits. The intraclass correlation with traits controlling for sex and age is included in S1 Table. CI, confidence interval; DZ, dizygotic; MZ, monozygotic. The data and code underlying this figure can be found at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.17054540.v1.</p
Intra-class correlations (ICC) estimates for MZ and DZ twin groups for whole CC DTI measures.
No full text<p><u>Notes:</u> MZ – monozygotic twins; DZ- Dizygotic twins; FA – Fractional anisotropy; MD- Mean diffusivity; RD- radial diffusivity; AD – Axial diffusivity; ICC- Intra-class correlations.</p><p>Intra-class correlations (ICC) estimates for MZ and DZ twin groups for whole CC DTI measures.</p
Zuckerberg Facebook 360 Video: Leslie Odom Jr., Wait For It
No full textCongratulations to Lin-Manuel Miranda and cast of Hamilton for their Tony Awards. A 360 video of Leslie Odom Jr. singing Wait For It, a favorite of MZ\u27s. Tagged: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr
Role of p53 in hematopoietic recovery after cytotoxic treatment.
No full textPrompt reconstitution of hematopoiesis after cytoreductive therapy is essential for patient recovery and may have a positive impact on long-term prognosis. We examined the role of the p53 tumor suppressor gene in hematopoietic recovery in vivo after treatment with the cytotoxic drug 5-fluorouracil (5-FU). We used p53 knock-out (p53-/-) and wild-type (p53+/+) mice injected with 5-FU as the experimental model. Analysis of the repopulation ability and clonogenic activity of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) and their lineage-committed descendants showed a greater number of HSCs responsible for reconstitution of lethally irradiated recipients in p53-/- bone marrow cells (BMCs) recovering after 5-FU treatment than in the corresponding p53+/+ BMCs. In post-5-FU recovering BMCs, the percentage of HSC-enriched Lin- Sca-1(+) c-Kit+ cells was about threefold higher in p53-/- than in p53+/+ cells. Although the percentage of the most primitive HSCs (Lin- Sca-1(+) c-Kit+ CD34(low/-)) did not depend on p53, the percentage of multipotential HSCs and committed progenitors (Lin- Sca-1(+) c-Kit+ CD34(high/+)) was almost fourfold higher in post-5-FU recovering p53-/- BMCs than in their p53+/+ counterparts. The pool of HSCs from 5-FU-treated p53-/- BMCs was exhausted more slowly than that from the p53+/+ population as shown in vivo using pre-spleen colony-forming unit (CFU-S) assay and in vitro using long-term culture-initiating cells (LTC-ICs) and methylcellulose replating assays. Clonogenic activity of various lineage-specific descendants was significantly higher in post-5-FU regenerating p53-/- BMCs than in p53+/+ BMCs, probably because of their increased sensitivity to growth factors. Despite all these changes and the dramatic difference in sensitivity of p53-/- and p53+/+ BMCs to 5-FU-induced apoptosis, lineage commitment and differentiation of hematopoietic progenitors appeared to be independent of p53 status. These studies suggest that suppression of p53 function facilitates hematopoietic reconstitution after cytoreductive therapy by: (1) delaying the exhaustion of the most primitive HSC pool, (2) stimulating the production of multipotential HSCs, (3) increasing the sensitivity of hematopoietic cells to growth factors, and (4) decreasing the sensitivity to apoptosis
Between-twin within and across trait correlations of MZ males (Pearson correlation).
No full textUrban = urbanization level. Nature duration = duration of public nature space visits. Nature frequency = frequency of public nature space visits. Garden duration = duration of domestic garden visits. Garden frequency = frequency of domestic garden visits. MZ, monozygotic. (DOCX)</p
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