Vanadium K-edge x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) was used to examine whole blood preparations from the tunicates Ascidia nigra and Ascidia ceratodes. Each XAS spectrum exhibits a rising edge inflection near 5480 eV characteristic of vanadium(III) and an intensity maximum at 5484.0 eV. In A. ceratodes blood cells, intrinsic aquo-VSO4+ complex ion is indicated by an inflection feature at 5476 ...

Branner-Hubbard motion is a systematic way of deforming an attracting holomorphic dynamical system f into a family (fs)s∈L, via a holomorphic motion which is also a group action. We establish the analytic dependence of fs on s (a result first stated by Lyubich) and the injectivity of fs on f . We prove that the stabilizer of f (in terms of s) is either the full group L (rigidity), or a discrete...

This paper presents a software package whose aim is to provide a tool to be used for reliability indices analysis in radial distribution system. It contains all the main elements found in practical system. The software package employs the Graphical User Interface (GUI) capabilities of Matlab. The main advantage of the proposed package is that the reliability indices analysis can find in differe...