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Disorder effect on the spin susceptibility of the two-dimensional one-valley electron gas
No full textStarting from the quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) prediction for the ground-state energy of a clean two-dimensional one-valley (2D1V) electron gas, we estimate the energy correction due to scattering sources present in actual devices such as AlAs quantum wells and GaAs heterostructures. We find that the effect of uncorrelated disorder, in the lowest (second) order in perturbation theory, is to enhance the spin susceptibility leading to its eventual divergence. In the density region where the Born approximation is able to reproduce the experimental mobility, the prediction for the spin susceptibility yielded by perturbation theory is in very good agreement with the available experimental evidence
Ratios between number of neuroglial cells and number and volume of nerve cells in the spinal ganglia of two species of reptiles and three species of mammals
No full textWe studied the ratios between number of neuroglial (=satellite) cells and number and volume of neurons with which they are associated in the spinal ganglia of two species of reptiles (lizard and gecko) and three species of mammals (mouse, rat, and rabbit). In all five species, we found that the number of satellite cells associated with a nerve cell body increased with increasing volume of the latter. This result shows that there is a quantitative balance between neuroglia and nerve tissue in spinal ganglia. This balance seems to be maintained by a tight regulation of the number of satellite cells. We also found that the mean volume of nerve cell body corresponding to a satellite cell was lower for small neurons than for large ones. Since satellite cells metabolically support spinal ganglion neurons, the metabolic needs of small neurons are better satisfied than those of large ones. For a nerve cell body of a given size, the number of associated satellite cells did not differ between the lizard and gecko, nor between the mouse, rat, and rabbit. However, this number was significantly smaller in the reptiles than in the mammals. This result could be explained by the lower metabolic rate in the nervous system of poikilotherms than mammals, or could have a phylogenetic significance. These two interpretations are not mutually exclusive
Relazioni quantitative fra cellule satelliti e neuroni nei gangli spinali di alcune specie di vertebrati
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Gap junctions within perineuronal satellite cell sheaths : quantitative changes during ageing
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