Collection of sebum. Samples of the sebum were obtained (Miescher & Schonberg, 1949) from the forehead of healthy white adults 16-60 years of age. Samples were analysed from 21 persons (11 men, 10 women) not suffering from skin diseases. To collect the sample, a strip of filter paper (Whatman no. 1, 3 cm. x 12 cm.), previously defatted by extraction with boiling light petroleum, was placed on t...

We examine highly super-Eddington black-hole models for SS 433, based on two-dimensional hydrodynamical calculations coupled with radiation transport. The super-Eddington accretion flow with a small viscosity parameter, α = 10, results in a geometrically and optically thick disk with a large opening angle of ∼ 60 to the equatorial plane and a very rarefied, hot, and optically thin high-velocity...

We compare line-of-sight magnetograms from the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and the Michelson Doppler Imager (MDI) onboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). The line-of-sight magnetic signal inferred from the calibrated MDI data is greater than that derived from the HMI data by a factor of 1.40. This factor varies somewhat with...

The observed iron Kα fluorescence lines in Seyfert I galaxies provide strong evidence for an accretion disk near a supermassive black hole as a source of the emission. Here we present an analysis of the geometrical and kinematic properties of the disk based on the extreme frequency shifts of a line profile as determined by measurable flux in both the red and blue wings. The edges of the line ar...

We present an analysis of the excitation conditions of the molecular gas in the streamers and the outflow of M 82 based on observations obtained at the IRAM 30 m telescope. Our analysis of J=1→0 and J=2→1 transitions of CO and 13 CO and the CO(J=3→2) line in 13 regions outside the central starburst disk shows that the gas density within the streamer/outflow system is about an order of magnitude...

Biomathematical models and experiments have indicated that passive extracellular conductors influence field stimulation. Because metallic conductors prevent optical mapping under the conductor, we have evaluated a passive translucent indium tin oxide (ITO) thin-film conductor to allow mapping of transmembrane potential (V(m)) and stimulatory current under the conductor. A 1-cm ITO disk was patt...

We report the first detection of c-C3H2 in a circumstellar disk. The c-C3H2 J=6− 5 line (217.882 GHz) is detected and imaged through Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) Science Verification observations toward the disk around the Herbig Ae star HD 163296 at 0.8 resolution. The emission is consistent with that arising from a Keplerian rotating disk. Two additional c-C3H2 transitions are also t...

Recent spectroscopic observations of intermediate-and high-velocity clouds (IVCs and HVCs) in the Milky Way halo have unveiled the presence of diffuse interstellar molecular hydrogen (H 2) several kpc away from the Galactic disk. Most of this H 2 gas appears to reside in relatively small (∼ 0.1 pc), dense (n H ≈ 30 cm −3) gaseous filaments that probably are part of the cold neutral medium (CNM)...