Etude du Systeme Ternaire H2O-Al(NO3)3-Mg(NO3)2 I - Isothermes 15, 25, 30, 40 et 50°C

The solid-liquid equilibria of the ternary system H₂ O-Al(NO₃ )₃ -Mg(NO₃ )₂ were studied at 15, 25, 30, 40 and 50°C by using a synthetic method which allows to determine all the characteristic points of isothermal sections. In all isotherms the liquidus exhibit two curves corresponding to the saturation in Mg(NO₃ )₂ ⋅6H₂ O and Al(NO₃ )₃ ⋅9H₂ O. Neither double salts nor mixed crystals are observed in the temperature and composition field studied. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Time-domain Fresnel-to-Fraunhofer diffraction with photon echoes

A photon echo experiment in Tm(3+):YAG is reported that shows, for the first time to the authors' knowledge, the time-domain equivalent of the transition from near- to far-field diffraction, including Talbot self-imaging effects. The experiment demonstrates the huge dispersion capability of photon echoes and opens the way to further exploration of space-time duality.     

Low Mach Number Limit of Viscous Polytropic Flows: Formal Asymptotics in the Periodic Case

This article is devoted to the low Mach number limit of weak solutions to the compressible Navier–Stokes equations for polytropic fluids with periodic boundary conditions and ill‐prepared data. We derive formally the equation satisfied by the mean value of the velocity and the equations governing the dynamics of the nonlinear acoustic waves in dimension d= 2 or 3.     

THE EFFECT OF MONOCHROMATIC LIGHT ON TRANS-HEXADECENOIC ACID and CHLOROPHYLL ACCUMULATION IN ETIOLATED LEAVES OF VIGNA SINENSIS L.*

Abstract— Spectral sensitivities for C16 rranshexadecenoic acid accumulation in etiolated leaves of Vigna sinensis L. show two maxima, one in the blue and one in the far red, indicating a control by the high irradiance reaction. Spectral sensitivities are different for rranshexadecenoic acid and chlorophyll accumulation indicating that the biosynthesis of these compounds must not be obligatory linked.     

Is asymptotic freedom enough?

Quantum field theories with strong interactions are usually required to be not only renormalizable but also asymptotically free, in order to avoid diseases such as the Landau ghost. In this paper we suggest an even more restrictive requirement: “asymptotic convergence”, which means that at high energies it must be possible to formulate a convergent resummation procedure for the perturbation expansion. Such a convergent resummation technique exists in QCD in the infinite color limit (N → ∞). We give an outline of a proof of this statement, and a brief account of possible consequences of our asymptotic convergence condition on model building.