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1 Gondolo, PaoloAGAPE, a microlensing search in the direction of M31: status reportThe M31 galaxy in Andromeda is the nearest large galaxy after the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds. It is a giant galaxy, roughly 2 times as large as our Milky Way, and has its own halo. As pointed by some of us [1, 2] and independantly by A. Crotts [3], M31 provides a rich field of stars to searc...AGAPE; Andromeda Gravitational Amplification Pixel Experiment; Microlensing; MACHO; Massive compact halo objects1995
2 Coley, Phyllis D.Benefits and costs of defense in a neotropical shrubBenefits and costs are central to optimality theories of plant defense. Benefit is the gain in fitness to reducing herbivory and cost is the loss in fitness to committing resources to defense. We evaluate the benefits and costs of defense in a neotropical shrub, Psychotria horizontalis. Plants were ...Cost of defense; Growth-defense trade-off; Exclosures; Field experiment; Herbivory; Panama; Psychotria horizontalis; Rubiaceae; Tannins; Toughness; Tropics1995
3 Seger, Jon; Davidson, Diane W.Biological richness of desertsA desert is "waterless," "treeless," "barren," "remote," "uninteresting," and "presumably uninhabited," according to the authoritative Oxford English Dictionary. The word is derived from deserere, a Latin verb meaning "to leave." In English, to desert is still to "abandon," "forsake," or "fail." Bec...Desert life; Desert biodiversity1995
4 Golden, Kenneth M.Bounds on the complex permittivity of matrix-particle compositesThe complex effective dielectric constant E* of matrix-particle composites is considered. Such composites consist of separated inclusions of material of type one embedded in a matrix of material of type two. The analytic continuation method is used to derive a series of bounds which incorporate a n...Random; Parameters; Continuation1995
5 Golden, Kenneth M.Bounds on the complex permittivity of sea iceAn analytic method for obtaining bounds on effective properties of composites is applied to the complex permittivity e* of sea ice. The sea ice is assumed to be a two-component random medium consisting of pure ice of permittivity e1, and brine of permittivity e2. The method exploits the properties ...Brine; Properties; Geometry1995
6 Ehleringer, James R.Carbon isotope discrimination in the C4 shrub Atriplex confertifolia along a salinity gradientCarbon isotope discrimination (∆) was measured for leaves of Atriplex confertifolia along a salinity gradi~ ent in northern Utah. Over this gradient, the variation of ∆ values was high for a C4 species, and the ∆ values were positively correlated with salinity in both years of the study. Of th...Carbon isotope ratio; Salt stress; Bundle sheath leakiness; Halophyte; Atriplex confertifolia; Salinity gradient1995
7 Clayton, Dale H.Comparative effects of mites and lice on the reproductive success of rock doves (Columba livia)We report experimental data comparing the effects of Mesostigmatid mites and Ischnoceran lice on the reproductive performance of a single group of captive rock doves (Columba livid). Several components of host reproductive success were compared for the two groups, including number of eggs laid, hatc...Ectoparasites; Reproduction; Rock doves; Columba livia; Ischnocera; Mites; Lice1995
8 Gesteland, Raymond F.; Krapcho, Karen J.; Talbot, Phil; Thulin, CraigCrystallization of the MS2 translational repressor alone and complexed to bromouridineThe coat protein from the MS2 bacteriophage plays a dual role by encapsidating viral RNA and also by binding RNA as a translational repressor. In order to study the isolated dimer in a conformation not influenced by capsid interactions, a mutant molecule was crystallized that is defective in capsid ...Crystallization; RNA Bacteriophage; RNA Hairpin; Translational Repressor1995
9 Beckerle, Mary C.Cysteine-rich protein family of highly related LIM domain proteinsHere we describe a family of closely related LIM domain proteins in avian cells. The LIM motif defines a zinc-binding domain that is found in a variety of transcriptional regulators, proto-oncogene products, and proteins associated with sites of cell-substratum contact. One type of LIM-domain protei...LIM domains; Chicken embryo fibroblasts; Quail embryo fibroblasts; Cell growth; Cell development; Cysteine-rich proteins1995
10 Ailion, David CharlesHigh sensitivity nuclear quadrupole resonance approach for detection of modulation wave motion in incommensurate systemsIn contrast to conventional NMR techniques that use magnetic field gradients (MFCs) to detect the diffusion of moving atoms, we have developed a highly sensitive approach for detecting electric field gradient (EFG) fluctuations seen by stationary atoms. These EFG fluctuations were observed in the ...NMR; MFG; Magnetic field gradients; Diffusion constants; Atoms; Nuclei1995
11 Sperry, John S.Hydraulic architecture of palmsThe water transport and storage system of palms is adapted to maintain the primary stem xylem functional over the life of the shoot, and in spite of severe drought. However, our structural information far exceeds our knowledge of vascular function, and these functional considerations bring more que...Hydraulic architecture; Rhapis excelsa; Cavitation1995
12 Miller, Joel StevenIsolation and structural determination of {(1,1,2,2-tetracyano-1,2-ethanediyl)bis[imino(cyanomethylene)]}bis-(cyanamide) ion(2--), [C12N12]2--, a new cyanocarbonThe oxidative degradation of [N(PPh3)2]3[Mnilll(CN)6] leads to the isolation of the unprecedented [C12N12]2- dianion, which is characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and spectroscopic techniques.Cyanogen; Bond; Absorptions1995
13 Dale, ColinKinetics of maturation of trypanosome infections in tsetseEstimates of the time delay between the infective bloodmeal and maturation (incubation or maturation time) for 4 trypanosome stocks (2 Trypanozoon and 2 Trypanosoma congolense) show that maturation time in tsetse is not a parasite species-specific constant. The mean incubation time of a Trypanosoma ...1995
14 Mattis, Daniel C.Limit model of CuO2 planes: exact resultsWe solve the simplest tight-binding model of electrons in a CuO2 plane with Coulomb repulsion only on the copper ions, by a limiting procedure which retains all contributions 0(t2/U) while projecting out the higher order terms. In addition to the ground state energy we identify a variety of quasipar...Electrons; Particle-hole1995
15 Miller, Joel Steven; Epstein, Arthur J.Magnetic behavior of octaethylporphyrinatomanganese(III) tetracyanoethenide, [MnOEP][TCNE], and hexacyanobutadienide, [MnOEP][C4(CN)6]: the importance of a uniform chain for stabilizing strong effective ferromagnetic coupling[MnOEP][A] {A=[TCNE]'- and [C4(CN)6]'-} have been isolated as extended 1D coordination polymers with trans-U2"[A] bridging ligands with strong {A=[C4(CN)6].-} and weak {A=TCNE].-} ferromagnetic coupling as evidenced from the fit of the magnetic susceptibility to the Curie-Weiss law (0=5.1 and 67.1 K...Crystals; Inversion; Coupling1995
16 Williams, Clayton C.Micromachined submicrometer photodiode for scanning probe microscopyA submicrometer photodiode probe with a sub-50 nanometer tip radius has been developed for optical surface characterization on a nanometer scale. The nanoprobe is built to detect subwavelength optical intensity variations in the near field of an illuminated surface. The probe consists of an Al-Si...Submicrometer; Photodiode; Scanning probe microscopy; Nanoprobe1995
17 Williams, Clayton C.Micromachined submicrometer photodiode for scanning probe microscopyA submicrometer photodiode probe with a sub-50 nanometer tip radius has been developed for optical surface characterization on a nanometer scale. The nanoprobe is built to detect subwavelength optical intensity variations in the near field of an illuminated surface. The probe consists of an Al-Si Sc...Submicrometer photodiode; Scanning probe microscopy; Nanobrobes1995
18 Olivera, Baldomero M.; McIntosh, J. Michael; Gray, William Robert; Hillyard, David R.New family of conotoxins that block voltage-gated sodium channelsConus peptides, including ω-conotoxins and α-conotoxins (targeting calcium channels and nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, respectively) have been useful ligands in neuroscience. In this report, we describe a new family of sodium channel ligands, the μO-conotoxins.Conotoxins; Sodium channel blockers1995
19 Olivera, Baldomero M.; Gray, William RobertNew family of Conus peptides targeted to the nicotinic acetylcholine receptorIn this work, a new family of Conus peptides, the αA-conotoxins, which target the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, is defined. The first members of this family have been characterized from the eastern Pacific species, Conus purpurascens (the purple cone); three peptides that cause paralysis in fis...Conotoxins; Conus peptides; Conus purpurascens; Purple cone snail1995
20 Clayton, Dale H.New genus and three new species of chewing lice (Phthiraptera: Philopteridae) from Peruvian ovenbirds (Passeriformes: Furnariidae)The new genus Furnariphilus is described to include three new species from Peruvian hosts within the passerine family Furnariidae, subfamily Furnariinae: F. pagei, the type species of the genus, from Furnarius leucopus Swainson; F. griffithsi from Sclerurus mexicanus Sclater; and F. parkeri from Scl...Chewing lice; Peruvian ovenbirds; Phthiraptera; Furnariphilus; Ectoparasites; Peru; Furnarius leucopus; Sclerurus mexicanus; Sclerurus caudacutus1995
21 Vardeny, Zeev ValentineOptical probes of photoexcitations in fullerene thin films from femtoseconds to millisecondsWe have studied photoexcitations in various fiillerene thin films using transient photomodulation and photoluminescence from 100 fs to 50 ms and absorption-detected magnetic resonance (ADMR). We show that singlet Frenkel type excitons are the primary photoexcitations; their recombination kinetics in...Photoexcitations; Femtosecond; Transient photomodulation; Transient photoluminescence; Frenkel type excitons; Triplet excitons1995
22 Capecchi, Mario R.Personal view of gene targetingGene targeting provides the means for creating strains of mice with mutations in virtually any gene.1 First, the desired mutation is introduced into a cloned copy of the chosen gene by standard recombinant DNA technology. The mutation is then transferred to the genome of a pluripotent mouse embryo-d...1995
23 Vardeny, Zeev ValentinePhotoresponse and electroresponse of polymers light emitting diodesWe have studied the photoresponse and electroresponse of light emitting diodes (LEDs ) made from a variety of soluble conducting polymers sandwiched between indium tin oxide (ITO) and metals including calcium, aluminum and copper. Under illumination all freshly prepared LEDs exhibit relatively large...Photoresponse; Electroresponse; Photovoltage; I-V curves1995
24 Williams, Clayton C.; Huang, YufengQuantitative two-dimensional dopant profile measurement and inverse modeling by scanning capacitance microscopyQuantitative dopant profile measurements are performed on a nanometer scale by scanning capacitance microscopy (SCM). An atomic force microscope is used to position a nanometer scale tip at a semiconductor surface, and local capacitance change is measured as a function of sample bias. A new feedback...Dopant profile; Capacitance change; Scanning capacitance microscopy; Feedback control1995
25 Efros, Alexei L.Sensor-based distributed control scheme for mobile robotsIn this paper we present a sensor-based distributed control scheme for mobile robots. This scheme combines centralized and decentralized control strategies. A server-client model is used to implement this scheme where the server is a process that caries out the commands to be executed, and each clie...Sensor-based; Distributed control scheme1995
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