Iron-oxidizing thiobacilli were adapted to grow on a chalcopyrite and a galena ore concentrate. When grown on the chalcopyrite concentrate, the bacteria exhibited a doubling time of 38.4 +/- 2.9 h, with a final cellular protein concentration of 185 mug/ml and solubilization of 10.3 g of copper per liter. When grown on the galena ore concentrate, the generation time was 39.6 +/- 2.7 h, with a fi...

One-dimensional massive quantum particles (or 1 + 1-dimensional random walks) with short-ranged multi-particle interactions are studied by exact renormalization group methods. With repulsive pair forces, such particles are known to scale as free fermions. With finite m-body forces (m = 3, 4, . . .), a critical instability is found, indicating the transition to a fermionic bound state. These unb...

We use a cocrystal with components arranged in a 1D hydrogen-bonded chain as a pseudoseed to template the components of a cocrystal that otherwise forms a photoactive 0D assembly to form a photostable 1D chain structure.

The site response transfer functions using 1D layered velocity models based on microtremor array exploration in the Niigata area, Japan, were examined whether it would be possible to explain the estimated high-frequency site responses using observed earthquake records or not. Our results showed the site response transfer functions were relatively larger in the frequency over about 3 or 6 Hz tha...

Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) possess interesting one-dimensional (1D) properties at its edges and inversion domain boundaries, where properties markedly different from the 2D basal plane, such as 1D metallicity and charge density waves, can be observed. Although 2D TMDCs crystals are widely grown by chemical vapor deposition (CVD), the fabrication of 1D TMDCs ri...

Electron-phonon interactions of free charge-carriers in doped pi-conjugated polymers are conceptually described by 1-dimensional (1D) delocalization. Thereby, polaronic transitions fit the 1D-Froehlich model in quasi-confined chains. However, recent developments in conjugated polymers have diversified the backbones to become elaborate heterocylcic macromolecules. Their complexity makes it diffi...

25 Early visual motion signals are local and one-dimensional (1D). For specification of 26 global 2D motion vectors, the visual system should appropriately integrate these signals 27 across orientation and space. Previous neurophysiological studies have suggested that 28 this integration process consists of two computational steps (estimation of local 2D 29 motion vectors followed by their spat...

PURPOSE We investigated the relationship between various parameters, including volumetric parameters, and tumor invasiveness according to the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC)/American Thoracic Society (ATS)/European Respiratory Society (ERS) classification. MATERIALS AND METHODS We retrospectively reviewed 99 patients with completely resected stage IA lung adenoc...

The use of simple plasma treatments and polymer deposition to tailor the anisotropic wetting properties of one-dimensional (1D) submicrometer-scale grooved surfaces, fabricated using interferometric lithography in photoresist polymer films, is reported. Strongly anisotropic wetting phenomena are observed for as-prepared 1D grooved surfaces for both positive and negative photoresists. Low-pressu...

The recently discovered ascoviruses have a worldwide distribution. Here we report a new member of the family Ascoviridae, Spodoptera frugiperda ascovirus 1d (SfAV-1d) with a variable region in the genome. Restriction fragment length polymorphism, Southern hybridization and genome sequencing analyses confirmed that SfAV-1d and the earlier reported SfAV-1a are closely related but are not identica...