Electronic structure calculations are used to study the stability, concentration, and migration of vacancydonor phosphorus, arsenic, and antimony complexes in germanium, in the presence of carbon. The association of carbon with mobile vacancy-donor pairs can lead to energetically favorable and relatively immobile complexes. It is predicted that the complexes formed between lattice vacancies, ca...

In past decades, ecological services and functions of alpine grassland in the Three-River Headwater Region (TRHR), Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, have been severely degraded due to overgrazing and overuse of yak dung as a fuel. Therefore, the eco-migration project has been implemented by the national government for improving eco-environmental quality in this region. This paper examines the carbon cyc...

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Copyright and Moral Rights for the articles on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. For more information on Open Research Online's data policy on reuse of materials please consult the policies page. Electronic structure calculations are used to study the stability, concentration, and migration of vacancy-donor ͑phosphorus, arsenic, and antimony͒ complexe...

Atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) data for the last 420 million years (My) show long-term fluctuations related to supercontinent cycles as well as shorter cycles at 26 to 32 My whose origin is unknown. Periodicities of 26 to 30 My occur in diverse geological phenomena including mass extinctions, flood basalt volcanism, ocean anoxic events, deposition of massive evaporites, sequence boundaries, a...

Migration is the permanent movement of some people called migrant, from one place to another for some reasons and values. Their migration is determined by some values and goals that lead to changes in migrants’ interaction system. In human history the shape of migration was changed due to social and environmental changes. From the eve of 19 century migration became important social phenom...

The enteric nervous system (ENS) of insects is a useful model to study cell motility. Using small-molecule compounds to activate or inactivate biosynthetic enzymes, we demonstrate that the gaseous messenger molecules carbon monoxide (CO) and nitric oxide (NO) regulate neuron migration in the locust ENS. CO is produced by heme oxygenase (HO) enzymes and has the potential to signal via the sGC/cG...

OBJECTIVE Heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1), via its enzymatic degradation products, exhibits cell and tissue protective effects in models of vascular injury and disease. The migration of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC) from the medial to the intimal layer of blood vessels plays an integral role in the development of a neointima in these models. Despite this, there are no studies addressing the effec...

GRA 95209 may provide our best opportunity to date to understand the earliest stages of core formation in asteroidal bodies. This lodranite preserves a physically, chemically, and mineralogically complex set of metal–sulfide veins. High-resolution X-ray computed tomography revealed three distinct lithologies. The dominant mixed metal–silicate–sulfide matrix is cut by metal-rich, graphite-bearin...

BACKGROUND A water filtered by jug filter system (JFS) can be applied for the preparation of food products, as well as it can be directly consumed as drinking water. In the European Union, in both above-mentioned cases the quality of water filtered using JFSs has to fulfill the requirements listed in Directive 98/83/EC. However, Directive 98/83/EC sets no parametric value for silver, JFSs are n...