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Chiral behaviour and screening masses close to the chiral phase transition
No full textLaermann E, Boyd G, Gupta S, Karsch F, Petersson B, Redlich K. Chiral behaviour and screening masses close to the chiral phase transition. Nuclear Physics, B: Proceedings Supplements. 1994;34:292-294.We investigate the temperature dependence of the chiral sector and of hadronic screening masses in quenched lattice QCD below the critical temperature
Letter, [Author unclear] to Paulina T. Merritt
No full textHandwritten letter to Paulina Merritt from an unknown author, October 1, 1876.
Critical interaction constants for binary gas mixtures for use in the Redlich-Kwong equation of state
No full textIn this work, critical interaction constants were used to evaluate the interaction coefficients of the Redlich - Kwong constants for bin-ary gas mixtures. From these constants, the pressure - volume - temperature behavior of the mixtures was calculated using the Redlich - Kwong equation.
The critical interaction constants, T12 and P12 , were evaluated for binary mixtures by solving, simultaneously, two second degree equations relating terminal slopes for critical pressure loci and the mole fractions of the components present. The feasibility of this method was tested by calculating P-V-T data for binary mixtures and comparing this with values obtained using the standard combination rules of Redlich and Kwong.
Solutions to the second degree equations were obtained for 90 % of the systems tested. Where P-V-T data was available to test these constants, however, the combination rules of Redlich and Kwong were found, generally, to give better results
The Effect of High Pressure on the Heck Reaction − A Contribution to a Deeper Understanding of the Mechanism
No full textThe influence of high pressure on the Heck reactions of iodobenzene with methyl, ethyl and tert-butyl acrylate, and of both 4-nitrophenyl iodide and 4-nitrophenyl triflate with methyl acrylate, has been studied for the first time by quantitative on-line FT-IR spectroscopy. Reaction rates and activation parameters (DeltaH(double dagger), DeltaS(double dagger), DeltaV(double dagger)) were determined at temperatures between 50 and 120 degreesC and pressures up to 3000 bar. A clear influence on the kinetics of the reactions was observed by the nature of the leaving group and by the steric and electronic features of the acrylate. tert-Butyl acrylate, which is more electron-rich than methyl acrylate according to PES measurements, was found to react 1.4-times faster on average than methyl acrylate and, at elevated pressures, triflate turned out to be a better leaving group than iodide. Thus, the observed activation volume for the reaction of iodobenzene with tert-butyl acrylate (DeltaV(double dagger) = -12cm(3) mol(-1)) is more negative than that of the reaction of iodobenzene with ethyl acrylate (DeltaV(double dagger) = -7 cm(3) mol(-1)) or methyl acrylate (DeltaV(double dagger) = -5 cm(3) mol(-1)). For the variation of the leaving group in 4-nitrophenyl iodide and 4-nitrophenyl triflate, the activation volumes for the reaction of each with methyl acrylate are -9 and -37 cm(3) mol(-1), respectively. The results suggest that the rate-determining step of the overall reaction is not the oxidative addition, but is either the alkene coordination or the subsequent carbopalladation. ((C) Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2003)
Xi-Produktion in Pb+Pb Stößen bei 40 A GeV am CERN SPS
No full textVortrag gehalten am 12. Januar 2005 in Frankfurt am Main, am Physikalischen Verein, anläßlich der Verleihung des Philipp-Siedler-Wissenschaftspreises an Dipl.-Phys. Christine Meurer, als Anerkennung für ihre Diplomarbeit "Xi- und Xi+ Produktion in Pb+Pb Stößen bei 40 A GeV am CERN SPS" (urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-13740). Am CERN, dem Europäischen Kernforschungszentrum, werden Bleiatomkerne auf nahezu Lichtgeschwindigkeit beschleunigt und zur Kollision gebracht. Dabei wird die Materie in einer Art Feuerball extrem verdichtet und erhitzt. Unter diesen Bedingungen brechen die Bestandteile der Atomkerne, die Nukleonen, auf und der Blick auf die eigentlichen Bausteine der Materie, die Quarks, wird möglich. Nach der Kollision expandiert der Feuerball und viele neue Teilchen, darunter auch die sogenannten seltsamen Teilchen, entstehen. Ihre Besonderheiten werden im Vortrag diskutiert: Ergebnisse zur Produktion des seltsamen Xi- -Teilchens in Pb+Pb-Stößen bei einer Energie von 40 A GeV werden vorgestellt. Aus dem transversalen Massenspektrum bei mittlerer Rapidität erhält man einen inversen Steigungsparamenter von T Xi- = (210±11±21)MeV . Die Integration des Rapiditätsspektrums liefert eine totale Anzahl der s im gesamten Phasenraum von (2.41 ± 0.15 ± 0.24) Teilchen pro Kollision. Desweiteren wird die Anregungsfunktion des Xi- -Hyperons sowie seine Zentralitätsabhänigkeit bei 40 A GeV diskutiert
Handwritten biographical information on Paulina T. McClung Merritt
No full textA handwritten biography of Paulina T. McClung Merritt by an unknown author, 1892.
Heterogeneous and tissue-specific regulation of effector T cell responses by IFN-gamma during Plasmodium berghei ANKA infection.
No full textIFN-γ and T cells are both required for the development of experimental cerebral malaria during Plasmodium berghei ANKA infection. Surprisingly, however, the role of IFN-γ in shaping the effector CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cell response during this infection has not been examined in detail. To address this, we have compared the effector T cell responses in wild-type and IFN-γ(-/-) mice during P. berghei ANKA infection. The expansion of splenic CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells during P. berghei ANKA infection was unaffected by the absence of IFN-γ, but the contraction phase of the T cell response was significantly attenuated. Splenic T cell activation and effector function were essentially normal in IFN-γ(-/-) mice; however, the migration to, and accumulation of, effector CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells in the lung, liver, and brain was altered in IFN-γ(-/-) mice. Interestingly, activation and accumulation of T cells in various nonlymphoid organs was differently affected by lack of IFN-γ, suggesting that IFN-γ influences T cell effector function to varying levels in different anatomical locations. Importantly, control of splenic T cell numbers during P. berghei ANKA infection depended on active IFN-γ-dependent environmental signals--leading to T cell apoptosis--rather than upon intrinsic alterations in T cell programming. To our knowledge, this is the first study to fully investigate the role of IFN-γ in modulating T cell function during P. berghei ANKA infection and reveals that IFN-γ is required for efficient contraction of the pool of activated T cells
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Pelevin’s Trinity in the novel “t”: author – protagonist – reader
No full textThe article attempts to interpret Pelevin's artistic strategy in the novel "T" by exploring its subject organization and addressing the key problems of the author, the protagonist, and the reader as they are seen by the researcher. The article analyzes the peculiarities of constructing the narrative reality in the novel "T", and goes on to discuss Pelevin's philosophic models of the development of the humankind, and the emergence of his new anthropology
Measuring industry-science links through inventor-author relations: A profiling method
No full textIn this pilot study we examine the performance of text-based profiling in recovering a set of validated inventor-author links. In a first step we match patents and publications solely based on their similarity in content. Next, we compare inventor and author names on the highest ranked matches for the occurrence of name matches. Finally, we compare these candidate matches with the names listed in a validated set of inventor-author names. Our text-based profile methodology performs significantly better than a random matching of patents and publications, suggesting that text-based profiling is a valuable complementary tool to the name searches used in previous studies.innovation; industry-science links; text-based profiling;
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