results the results showed that nl1-gc/ls2 primer set could yield species-specific amplicons, which were well distinguished and allowed better species discrimination than that generated by the its3-gc/its4 primer set, in both dgge and ttge profiles. all five candida species were discriminated by dgge and ttge using the nl1-gc/ls2 primer set. conclusions comparison of dgge and ttge profiles obta...

The measurement of temperature in a Magic Angle Spinning NMR probe in the temperature range 85-300K is discussed. It is shown that the shift of the (119)Sn resonance of Sm(2)Sn(2)O(7) makes a good thermometer with shift being given by delta=223 - 9.54x10(4)/Tppm and a potential precision of better than 0.5K over the entire temperature range. The sensitivity is such (e.g. 4.2ppm/K at 150K) that ...

Not only is zigzag charge and orbital ~CO! order shown to be present in the highly doped (x50.61) bilayered manganite system La222xSr112xMn2O7 , it demonstrates an enhanced stability relative to the x 50.5 composition where the ordered state might be expected to have the lowest entropy. No magnetic-field dependence is observed up to 5.25 T. The CO ordering temperature also increases from 210 K ...

2014 Single-spin-flip dynamics of discrete spin models on fractals and percolation structures is studied within the framework of a low temperature approach. Using a scaling theory we show that, in general, the energy barrier for overturning a finite cluster of s spins scales as In s. The probability distribution of the energy barriers for percolation clusters is argued to be given by the extrem...

The origin of life has previously been modeled by biological heat engines driven by thermal cycling, caused by suspension in convecting water. Here more complex heat engines are invoked to explain the origin of animals in the thermal gradient above a submarine hydrothermal vent. Thermal cycling by a filamentous protein ‘thermotether’ was the result of a temperature-gradient induced relaxation o...

The 1H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra and the dipolar spin-lattice relaxation time T1D for 1H in the natural natrolite (Na2Al2Si3O10·2H2O) have been measured in the temperature range of 190-390 K. From the temperature transformations of 1H NMR spectra, it follows that at T > 300 K, the diffusion of water molecules along the nano-channels is observed. From experimental T1D data, it fol...

a small salt gradient solar pond with an average surface area of 1.8 m2 and depth of 0.8m has been tested. the depths of storage, gradient and surface zones are 0.3, 0.27 and 0.07m, respectively. the temperature of the storage zone for the summer days reaches its maximum of 65˚ c after about 8 days. daily variation of the storage zone temperature was about 8˚c which is due to small volume of th...