Runaway Electron Beam Instability in Slide-Away Discharges in the HT-7 Tokamak

Slide-away discharges are achieved by decreasing the plasma density or ramping down the plasma current in runaway discharges in the HT-7 tokamak. In the case of plasma current ramp down, the ratio of the electron plasma frequency to the electron cyclotron frequency is higher than in the stationary pulses when the discharge goes into a slide-away regime. The instability regime is characterized by relaxations in the electron cyclotron emission due to relativistic anomalous Doppler effect which transfers energy from parallel to perpendicular motion. The triggering of relativistic anomalous Doppler effect at higher density by ramping down of plasma current may provide a alternative runaway energy control scenario.     

Synthesis,characterization, and biological activity of some complex combinations of nickel with α-ketoglutaric acid and 1-(o-tolyl)biguanide

The four divalent nickel complexes having α-ketoglutaric acid (H₂A) and 1-(o-tolyl)biguanide (TB) ligands have been synthesized, characterized, and tested for antibacterial and antitumor activity.The proposed formulas for these complexes are [Ni(TB)(HA)(H₂O)₂]Cl (C1), [Ni(TB)(HA)(H₂O)₂]Br (C2), [Ni(TB)(HA)]NO₃·H₂O (C3), and [Ni(TB)(HA)]CH₃COO (C4), where HA represents deprotonated H₂A.For the four complexes and for the ligands used in the synthesis, the antibacterial activity against Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 25923 and Pseudomonas aeruginosa ATCC 27853 and antitumor activity in HeLa tumor cells were tested. A moderate cytotoxic effect of C3 and C4 complexes has been observed on the development and metabolic activity of HeLa cells, whereas C1 and C2 ligands have a very low effect on them.The synthesized complexes (obtained) inhibit adherence to the inert substrate of bacterial strains S. aureus and P. aeruginosa; therefore, they may be candidates for (potential) therapeutic applications.     

Preparation and characterization of strontium targets for nuclear astrophysics experiments

Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry - The present paper describes preparation and characterization of strontium targets for nuclear astrophysical experiments with alpha particles...     

On the structure of co-Kähler manifolds

By the work of Li, a compact co-Kähler manifold $M$ is a mapping torus $K_\varphi $ , where $K$ is a Kähler manifold and $\varphi $ is a Hermitian isometry. We show here that there is always a finite cyclic cover $\overline{M}$ of the form $\overline{M} \cong K \times S^1$ , where $\cong $ is equivariant diffeomorphism with respect to an action of $S^1$ on $M$ and the action of $S^1$ on $K \times S^1$ by translation on the second factor. Furthermore, the covering transformations act diagonally on $S^1, K$ and are translations on the $S^1$ factor. In this way, we see that, up to a finite cover, all compact co-Kähler manifolds arise as the product of a Kähler manifold and a circle.     

Ab initio study of exchange coupling for the consistent understanding of the magnetic ordering at room temperature in V[TCNE] x

We report quantum chemical calculations providing the exchange coupling constants of the V[TCNE]₂ model system, describing the amorphous room temperature molecular magnet V[TCNE] _x (TCNE = tetracyanoethylene, x ~ 2). The geometry is optimized for the ideal lattice using density functional theory (DFT) calculations with periodic boundary conditions. Broken-symmetry DFT calculations indicate antiparallel spin alignment resulting in ferrimagnetic ordering, but heavily overestimate the value of the exchange coupling. Better estimates of the exchange coupling parameters between the V(II) ion and the [TCNE]^? anionic radical are obtained by means of multiconfigurational calculations performed on smaller molecular models cut from the optimized crystal lattice. Complete active space self-consistent field and multireference second-order perturbation theory calculations provide the sign and the strength of the nearest-neighbor as well as next-nearest-neighbor interactions along all three crystallographic directions. We are able to explain also intuitively the mechanism for antiferromagnetic spin coupling in terms of the superexchange pathways, discussing the role of the main four types of contributions to superexchange. Moreover, we clarify the influence of the transition metal ion on the strength of the exchange interaction and on the critical temperature for long-range ferrimagnetic ordering.     

Scaffold topologies. 1. Exhaustive enumeration up to eight rings

Mapping the chemical space of small organic molecules is approached from a theoretical graph theory viewpoint, in an effort to begin the systematic exploration of molecular topologies. We present an algorithm for exhaustive generation of scaffold topologies with up to eight rings and an efficient comparison method for graphs within this class. This method uses the return index, a topological invariant derived from the adjacency matrix of the graph. Furthermore, we describe an algorithm that verifies the adequacy of the comparison method. Applications of this method for chemical space exploration in the context of drug discovery are discussed. The key result is a unique characterization of scaffold topologies, which may lead to more efficient ways to query large chemical databases.