The AMANDA neutrino telescope has recently reported the detection of high-energy neutrinos spatially and temporally coincident with the flaring of the TeV blazar 1ES 1959+650. At present, the statistical significance of this observation cannot be reliably assessed, however. In this letter, we investigate whether circumstances exist where the source can produce the flux implied by the coincident...

For the leaf succulent Agave deserti and the stem succulent Ferocactus acanthodes, increasing the ambient CO(2) level from 350 microliters per liter to 650 microliters per liter immediately increased daytime net CO(2) uptake about 30% while leaving nighttime net CO(2) uptake of these Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) plants approximately unchanged. A similar enhancement of about 30% was found ...

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Surfactant-coated, fcc disordered FePt nanoparticles of three different sizes between 3 and 7 nm were prepared and washed according to a modified reaction route based on Sun et al. Hexane dispersions of nanoparticles were dried on transmission electron microscopy (TEM) grids, and the resulting monolayers were annealed by a sinter-free procedure at 600 C and at 650 C for 2 hours, respectively, d...

High-repetition fast-scan cyclic voltammetry and chronoamperometry were used to quantify and characterize the kinetics of dopamine and dopamine-o-quinone adsorption and desorption at carbon-fiber microelectrodes. A flow injection analysis system was used for the precise introduction and removal of a bolus of electroactive substance on a sub-second time scale to the disk-shaped surface of a micr...

Chromatin insulators, such as the chicken β-globin locus control region hypersensitive site 4 (HS4), and scaffold/matrix attachment regions (SARs/MARs) have been incorporated separately or in combination into retroviral vectors (RVs) in order to increase transgene expression levels, avoid silencing and reduce expression variability. However, their incorporation into RVs either produces a reduct...