Reorientation precession measurements of quadrupole moments in103Rh

The quadrupole moments of the 3/2^– and 5/2^– states in¹⁰³Rh have been determined by measuring the precession of the gamma-ray angular distribution following Coulomb excitation;¹⁶O and³²S beams have been used. The structure of the negative-parity states in¹⁰³Rh is found to be in agreement with the model of Arima and Iachello.     

High spin states in 74Se

Gamma-ray transitions from the bombardment of ⁶⁴Ni by ¹⁶O up to 81 Me V were studied in a variety of experiments. Four transitions in coincidence with four previously known transitions in ⁷⁴Se were discovered. Information on energies, angular distributions, intensities multiplicities and lifetimes is given for these transitions. Excitation functions for this and several other channels are presented. Statistical calculations are in satisfactory agreement with experiment.     

Stochastic resonance enhances the electrosensory information available to paddlefish for prey capture

Recent behavior experiments have demonstrated that paddlefish can make use of stochastic resonance while feeding on Daphnia plankton. Here we calculate the information content of the noisy Daphnia signal at the paddlefish rostrum using an exact statistical treatment of threshold stochastic resonance as a minimal neural model. These calculations compare well with experimentally obtained data on paddlefish strikes at Daphnia prey.     

Adhesive Strength of Ni–Cu Surface Alloy Formation by Low-Energy High-Current Electron Beam

Russian Physics Journal - The paper presents the adhesive strength measurements of the Ni–Cu surface alloy formed on a copper substrate at a different thickness of the transition layer. The...     

A Combined Model of Charging of the Surface and Bulk of a Dielectric Target by Electrons with the Energies 10–30 keV

Russian Physics Journal - A physico-mathematical model of the processes of radiation-induced charging of dielectric materials with open surfaces, irradiated with monoenergetic electrons in the...     

Synthesis,structure, and electric properties of oxygen-deficient perovskites Ba<Subscript>3</Subscript>In<Subscript>2</Subscript>ZrO<Subscript>8</Subscript> and Ba<Subscript>4</Subscript>In<Subscript>2</Subscript>Zr<Subscript>2</Subscript>O<Subscript>11</Subscript>

Perovskite phases Ba₃In₂ZrO₈ and Ba₄In₂Zr₂O₁₁ with the nominal concentration of structural oxygen vacancies 1/9 and 1/12, respectively, were synthesized by solid-phase and solution methods. X-ray diffraction showed cubic symmetry of both phases with the unit cell parameter a = 0.4193(2) and 0.4204(3) nm, respectively. The absence of superstructural lines resulted in the conclusion on statistical arrangement of oxygen vacancies. Thermogravimetry and mass spectrometry proved that both phases can reversibly absorb water from gas phase (pH₂O = 2 × 10⁻² atm) with observed correlation between the concentration of oxygen vacancies and amount of absorbed water. The total water amount was up to 0.9 mol per formula unit or, if recalculated for perovskite unit ABO₃, 0.3 and 0.23 mol H₂O, respectively. The temperature curves of coductivity in the atmosphere with various partial water vapor pressures (pH₂O = 3 × 10⁻⁵ and 2 × 10⁻² atm) showed significantly higher conductivity and lower activation energy (0.52 eV) in humid atmosphere due to proton transfer. The proton conductivity is up to 5 × 10⁻⁴ Ohm⁻¹ cm⁻¹ at 300°C for Ba₃In₂ZrO₈ specimen. IR spectrometry showed that protons in the structure exist primarily in OH-groups.     

Effect of MWO<Subscript>4</Subscript> (M = Ca,Sr, Ba) dispersion on the interfacial processes in (+/−)WO<Subscript>3</Subscript>|MWO<Subscript>4</Subscript>|WO<Subscript>3</Subscript>(−/+) cells and transport properties of metacomposite phases

We compare data on the reciprocal electrosurface transfer (EST) of WO₃ and MWO₄ components through WO₃|MWO₄ eutectic heterointerfaces using MWO₄ (M = Ca, Sr, Ba) samples prepared by standard ceramic technology (CER) and nitrate-organic technology (N/O); these samples considerably differ in both the grain size of precursor powders and the grain size of sintered ceramics. When an electric field is applied, the interpenetration of WO₃ and MWO₄ components occurs though WO₃|MWO₄ (M = Ca, Sr, Ba) heterointerfaces. The general ⁽⁻⁾WO₃ ↔ MWO₄ ⁽⁺⁾ intermigration pattern in the cells is not influenced by tungstate preparation technology. However, interpenetration rates are far greater for MW₄^N/O. The transport properties of {MWO₄ · xWO₃} two-phase eutectic metacomposites manufactured by both technologies were studied. Tungstate and composite manufacturing technologies have no radical influence on the electric properties (overall and partial conductivity, transference numbers) of the samples, only changing conductivity versus concentration relationships. Our data well fit the model of formation of a nonautonomous electrolytic interphase.     

Direct use of unassigned resonances in NMR structure calculations with proxy residues

We present a method that significantly enhances the robustness of (automated) NMR structure determination by allowing the NOE data corresponding to unassigned NMR resonances to be used directly in the calculations. The unassigned resonances are represented by additional atoms or groups of atoms that have no interaction with the regular protein atoms except through distance restraints. These so-called "proxy" residues can be used to generate NOE-based distance restraints in a similar fashion as for the assigned part of the protein. If sufficient NOE information is available, the restraints are expected to place the proxies at positions close to the correct atoms for the unassigned resonance, which can facilitate subsequent assignment. Convergence can be further improved by supplying additional information about the possible identities of the unassigned resonances. We have implemented this approach in the widely used automated assignment and structure calculation protocols ARIA and CANDID. We find that it significantly increases the robustness of structure calculations with regard to missing assignments and yields structures of higher quality. Our approach is still able to find correctly folded structures with up to 30% randomly missing resonance assignments, and even when only backbone and beta resonances are present! This should be of significant value to NMR-based structural proteomics initiatives.