Magnetic behaviour of TbMnFe

Neutron diffraction and M?ssbauer measurements have been carried out on the cubic Laves phase intermetallic TbMnFe. The magnetic moment on the transition metal atom is found to be low, 0.2μ _B, at room temperature. This moment is temperature independent down to 10 K. Magnetic moment on the rare earth atom varies from 2.5μ _B at 296 K to 7.27μ _B at 10 K. M?ssbauer spectra recorded at 298 K and 78 K have magnetic character but there is a large distribution of hyperfine field values. Both these features arise due to magnetic frustration created in the sample due to the competing ferro and antiferromagnetic interactions between the transition metal atoms.     

Electron-stimulated desorption of D (H) from condensed D2O (H2O) films

The electron-stimulated desorption (ESD) of D⁻ and H⁻ ions from condensed D₂O and H₂O films is investigated. Three low-energy peaks are observed in the ESD anion yield, which are identified as arising from excitation of ²B₁, ²A₁ and ²B₂ dissociative electron attachment (DEA) resonances. Additional structure is observed between 18 and 32 eV, which may be due to ion pair formation or to DEA resonances involving the 2a₁ orbital. The ion yield resulting from excitation of the ²B₁ resonance increases as the film is heated. We attribute the increase in the ion yield to thermally induced hydrogen bond breaking near the surface, which enhances the lifetimes of the excited states that lead to desorption.     

Quantum size effects in the attractive hubbard model

We investigate superconducting pair correlations in the attractive Hubbard model on a finite square lattice. Our aim is to understand the pronounced size dependence which they display in the weak and intermediate coupling regimes. These size effects originate from the electronic shell structure of finite systems and severely complicate a reliable extrapolation of numerical simulation data from small systems to the thermodynamic limit. To analyze the size effects in detail, we use the BCS approximation, as well as a particle number conserving modification of it and compare the results with those of quantum Monte Carlo simulations. As an application, we explore the possibility of reducing the shell effects in simulation data by changing the shape of the system and the imposed boundary conditions and by making use of the size dependence of corresponding BCS data.     

On the diameter and radius of randon subgraphs of the cube

The n-dimensional cube Qⁿ is the graph whose vertices are the subsets of {1,…n}, with two vertices adjacent if and only if their symmetric difference is a singleton. Clearly Qⁿ has diameter and radious n. Write M = n2^n-1 = e(Qⁿ) for the size of Qⁿ. Let Q = (Q_t)_o^M be a random Qⁿ-process. Thus Q^t is a spanning subgraph of Qⁿ of size t, and Q_t is obtained from Q_t–1 by the random addition of an edge of Qⁿ not in Q_t–1, Let t^(k) = τ(Q;δ?k) be the hitting time of the property of having minimal degree at least k. We show that the diameter d_t = diam (Q_t) of Q_t in almost every Q? behaves as follows: d_t starts infinite and is first finite at time t⁽¹⁾, it equals n + 1 for t⁽¹⁾ ? t⁽²⁾ and d_t, = n for t ? t⁽²⁾. We also show that the radius of Q_t, is first finite for t = t⁽¹⁾, when it assumes the value n. These results are deduced from detailed theorems concerning the diameter and radius of the almost surely unique largest component of Q_t, for t = Ω(M). © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

Gas chromatographic-mass spectrometric detection of trace amounts of organic compounds in the intravenous solution Infusio Darrowi.

A gas chromatographic-mass spectrometric procedure was employed to confirm the presence of trace amounts of organic compounds in the intravenous solution Infusio Darrowi. Organic contaminants in the solution analysed were concentrated by microextraction with n-pentane. The main compounds detected were 2,6-di-tert.-butyl-4-methylphenol, 2,6-di-tert.-butyl-4-ethylphenol, 2,6-di-tert.-butyl-4-methoxyphenol, benzothiazole, isomeric C9 alkyl phenols and di(n-butyl) phthalate. These impurities were leached from rubber stoppers during their sterilization into the intravenous solution at levels ranging ca. from 5 x 10(-6) to 5 x 10(-8) g/l.     

Temperature and velocity measurement of a 3-D thermal flow field using thermo-sensitive liquid crystals

It is an important challenge to analyze a three-dimensional thermal flow field in engineering, science, and agriculture. For such an analysis, it is essential to measure physical quantities such as temperature and velocity over the entire thermal flow field. This paper presents a measurement system based on color image processing for temperature and velocity vector distributions in a three-dimensional thermal flow field. Flow visualization is accomplished by the use of thermo-sensitive liquid crystal tracers. An algorithm for the color-to-temperature transformation using a multi-layer feed-forward neural network is applied to three-dimensional natural convection in a rotating cylindrical cell. Two-dimensional temperature distributions in a slit plane are obtained by using the algorithm. A three-dimensional temperature distribution is consequently constructed by interpolating the two-dimensional distributions using the B-spline function. In addition, the Spatio-Temporal correlation method is applied to the natural convection to obtain a three-dimensional velocity vector distribution.     

Construction of equations for classical equilibrium correlation Green's functions on the basis of kinetic equations. II

Moscow Institute of Electronic Engineering. Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 89, No. 1, pp. 132–150, October, 1991.     

Monitoring genomic alterations with a panel of oligonucleotide probes specific for various simple repeat motifs

Germline and somatic instability of the human genome was studied, using synthetic oligonucleotides specific for simple repeat motifs. The following probes were used: (GTG)5, (GACA)4, (GATA)4, (CT)8, (TTAGGG)3, (GT)8, (GAA)6 and (GGAT)4. Each of them is unique with respect to the target regions recognized in the genome. Thus compilation of the various fingerprint data provides a complex map of the genome (and its deviations). While the fingerprints of differentiated somatic tissues never showed any alterations, in tumor tissues (namely gliomas) many changes could be detected. Most of the latter reflect secondary karyological aberrations. In nearly one third of the gliomas, drastically amplified and apparently monomorphic DNA fragments were identified. This marker should make it possible to deal with causal pathogenetic mechanisms as well as novel diagnostic strategies.     

Actions by automorphisms of commutative compact groups with a countablefold Lebesgue component in the spectrum

Translated from Matematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 49, No. 2, pp. 14–22, February, 1991.