Personality researchers have recently advocated the use of very short personality inventories in order to minimize administration time. However, few such inventories are currently available. Here I introduce an automated method that can be used to abbreviate virtually any personality inventory with minimal effort. After validating the method against existing measures in Studies 1 and 2, a new 1...

Guidance molecules, such as Sema3A or Netrin-1, induce growth cone (GC) repulsion or attraction. In order to determine the speed of action and efficiency of these guidance cues we developed an experimental procedure to deliver controlled amounts of these molecules. Lipid vesicles encapsulating 10-10(4) molecules of Sema3A or Netrin-1 were manipulated with high spatial and temporal resolution by...

The glutamate transporter GLT-1 from Rattus norvegicus was expressed at high level in baby hamster kidney (BHK-21) cells by the Semliki Forest Virus expression system. We examined the expressed GLT-1 in the plasma membrane and found that the transporter accumulates in detergent-insoluble lipid-protein assemblies. Freeze-fracture, immunogold labeling, and electron microscopy revealed that GLT-1 ...

Measuring the concentration of capillary hemoglobin (cHb) is a standard procedure before blood donation. To further assess the time period needed for cHb recovery after blood donation and to have a more in-depth understanding of features of recovery, we used data-mining tools in a large, retrospective data pool containing all 1 163 524 donor returns that took place in Finland in 2010 to 2015. T...

Using the HEXTE experiment on-board the RXTE satellite, we performed a search for hard X–ray tails in Sco X–1 spectra. We found strong evidence for the presence of such a non–thermal component on several occasions. Using the PCA/RXTE we were able to track the position of the source along the Z diagram, and we observed that the presence of the hard X–ray tail is not confined to a particular regi...

A molecular wind with an outflow speed in excess of 200 km s −1 has been found in the AGB carbon star V Hya. Observations of several molecular lines show that the circumstellar envelope is expanding at 15 km s −1 and is flattened and inclined to the line of sight. The fast wind appears to be expanding from the poles of the envelope, with the expansion speed increasing with distance from the sta...

Submesoscale (1–200km) wavenumber spectra of kinetic and potential energy and tracer variance are obtained from in situ observations in theGulf Stream region and in the eastern subtropical North Pacific. In the Gulf Stream region, steep kinetic energy spectra at scales between 200 and 20km are consistent with predictions of interior quasigeostrophic–turbulence theory, both in the mixed layer an...

This paper presents results from an experiment on the production of jets (groups of particles) with highP .L produced in 200-GeV/c interactions. Results are presented on the comparison of jet cross sections on aluminum and hydrogen targets. The jet fragmentation distributions are also examined. Both the cross section and the jet structure are found to depend strongly on the beam and target types.

In the title compound, [Ca(NO(3))(C(34)H(32)N(10))]NO(3)·3CH(4)O, the Ca(II) ion is coordinated by six N atoms of the EDTB ligand {EDTB is N,N,N',N'-tetra-kis[(2-benzimidazol-yl)meth-yl]-1,2-ethanediamine} and two O atoms from the nitrate ligand, to form a distorted dodeca-hedral geometry. The crystal packing is stabilized by inter-molecular N-H⋯O, N-H⋯N and O-H⋯O hydrogen bonds, which link the...