Layered heterostructure materials with two different functional building blocks can teach us about emergent physical properties and phenomena arising from interactions between the layers. We report intergrowth compounds KLa$M$$_{1-x}$Te$_{4}$ ($M$ = Mn, Zn; $x\approx$ 0.35) featuring chemically distinct alternating layers [LaTe$_3$] [K$M$$_{1-x}$Te]. Their crystal structures are incommensurate,...

In this sample paper, we describe and provide a novel Microstructured optical fiber for FTTH, which has 12 holes in its cladding. The fiber has very good bending properties. The bending losses of the novel Micro-structured fibers at the conditions of 2mm bendingradius are less than 0.1 dB at 1550 nm wavelength. The typical PMD of the novel Microstructure fibers are 0.062ps/km1/2.The splice loss...

Among other things, we prove the following two topologcal statements about closed hyperbolic 3-manifolds. First, every rational second homology class of a closed hyperbolic 3-manifold has a positve integral multiple represented by an oriented connected closed π1-injectively immersed quasiFuchsian subsurface. Second, every rationally null-homologous, π1-injectively immersed oriented closed 1-sub...

It was proved in the paper [KM1] that the properties of almost all points of Rn being not very well (multiplicatively) approximable are inherited by nondegenerate in Rn (read: not contained in a proper affine subspace) smooth submanifolds. In this paper we consider submanifolds which are contained in proper affine subspaces, and prove that the aforementioned Diophantine properties pass from a s...

The kinetics of the catalysis of Fe(I1) oxidation by crystalline human ferroxidase (ceruloplasmin) has been studied under various conditions at 30’. Two Km values with respect to Fe(U), Km1 = 0.6 /.tM and Km2 = 50 PM, were obtained at pH 6.5, at which ferroxidase gave the maximum activity of 550 Fe(I1) per ferroxidase per min in an acetate buffer. Competition between the two substrates, p-pheny...

The metabolic rate of (S)-(-)-2,8-dimethyl-3-methylene-1-oxa-8-azaspiro [4,5] decane-L-tartarate monohydrate (YM796), an antidementia agent, was determined by use of 12 different human liver microsomal samples. The metabolism of YM796 was shown to consist of three components; one high-affinity (Km1 = 1.67 microM), one low-affinity (Km2 = 654 microM) and a nonsaturable component. Good correlatio...

The displacement of Enterococcus faecalis 1131 from hydrophobic and hydrophilic substrata by isolates of Lactobacillus casei 36 and Streptococcus hyointestinalis KM1 was studied in a parallel plate flow chamber. The experiments were conducted with either 10 mM potassium phosphate buffer or human urine as the suspending fluid, and adhesion and displacement were measured by real-time in situ imag...

The purpose of this article is to explain how pseudo-holomorphic curves in a symplectic 4-manifold can be constructed from solutions to the Seiberg-Witten equations. As such, the main theorem proved here (Theorem 1.3) is an existence theorem for pseudo-holomorphic curves. This article thus provides a proof of roughly half of the main theorem in the announcement [T1]. That theorem, Theorem 4.1, ...