Structural and optical properties of nonpolar (11-20) a-plane GaN grown on (1-102) r-plane sapphire substrate by plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy

We report the structural and optical properties of a-plane GaN film grown on r-plane sapphire substrate by plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy. High resolution X-ray diffraction was used to determine the out-of-plane and in-plane epitaxial relation of a-plane GaN to r-plane sapphire. Low-temperature photoluminescence emission was found to be dominated by basal stacking faults along with near-band emission. Raman spectroscopy shows that the a-GaN film is of reasonably good quality and compressively strained. (C) 2011 Acta Materialia Inc. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Sapientia, 1971, Vol. XXVI, nº 100-102 (número completo)

Contenido: Sapientia, Veinticinco años después / Octavio N. Derisi – Tomás de Aquino, peregrino de Dios / Adolfo Muñoz Alonso – Qu’est-ce que la philosophie? / A. Dondeyne – La subordinación de la lógica a la ciencia / A. Furlán – Volición y voluntad en Aristóteles / B. Raffo Magnasco – Entendement et imagination selon Aristote / A. Guy – Le problème de l’existence de Dieu dans le Commentaire de Saint Thomas sur la Physique d’Aristote / F. Van Steenberghen – Individuación, analogía y participación en el plano físico / J. E. Bolzán – La “Summa Physicorum” y la filosofía natural de Grosseteste / C. Lértora Mendoza – El infinito actual en Santo Tomás / O. Argerami – Tomás de Aquino en la Universidad de París / G. E. Ponferrada – Dante y la filosofía / G. Terán – El ámbito del objeto de la fenomenología en E. Husserl / O. N. Derisi – Orígenes doctrinales de la Tercera Escolástica en la filosofía argentina del siglo XIX / A. Caturelli – Hegel e Cristo / C. Fabro – Sapientia reconsidered / A. G. M. Van Melsen – El punto de partida de la metafísica : ¿abstracción o intuición? / J. R. Sanabria – La catégorie hégélienne de contradiction / R. Verneaux – La ontología modificada / C. A. Iturralde Colombres – L’acte moral et le sujet / J. de Finance – La crítica de Monseñor Derisi a la ciencia política empírica / A. E. Sampay – Notas y comentarios -- Bibliografía

Diário da Constituinte [gravação de vídeo] : [programa n. 102]

Bernardo Cabral (PMDB-PA), Relator da Comissão de Sistematização da Assembleia Nacional Constituinte (ANC) , reuniu-se com Ulysses Guimarães (PMDB-SP) e com os relatores auxiliares da Comissão de Sistematização e diz que ele escreverá o novo texto da carta constitucional, limpo e enxuto. Representantes de três nações indígenas levam denúncia à Constituinte. Reclamam que posseiros, garimpeiros e empresas de mineração estão invadindo as suas terras. Ailton Krenak, Coordenador da União das Nações Indígenas descreve como a invasão está sendo feita. Na sessão O Povo Pergunta, cidadã deseja saber o que vai mudar com a nova Constituição. Constituinte Vilson de Souza (PMDB-SC) responde que a futura Constituição deverá mudar o Brasil, tornando-o um país livre e independente voltado para o seu desenvolvimento, mas que há entraves. A Comissão do Sistema Tributário propõe maiores recursos aos municípios: 50% dos impostos arrecadados sobre as propriedades rurais; 50% do IPVA; 25% do ICM; 25% do ISS. Já o Fundo de Participação dos Municípios será ampliado para 22,5% do total recolhido pela União . Os constituintes Darci Deitos (PMDB-PR), Paulo Pimentel (PFL-PR) e Osmar Lima (PMDB-AC) defendem que a descentralização de renda é fundamental para o desenvolvimento regional.

Das Klima um Grönland - 1996

Based on air temperature data from three sites of West and East Greenland, on ice charts for the area 54°N, 71°N and 20°W, 70°W, and on CTD profile observations around Greenland, the annual variability of climate is shown. Mean monthly air temperature data from Nuuk/West Greenland reveal the long-term interannual changes of air temperature anomalies. The warming trend which was observed during November, December 1995 was maintained into 1996 for about five months. Thus, spring warming of the near surface water layers, especially on the shallow bank areas off West Greenland has been favoured. As a result of mild air temperatures over most of 1996, sea ice conditions were about normal around Greenland and off eastern Canada. Subsurface observations indicate considerable warming of the 0-200 m water layer off West Greenland. The thermal anomaly of this layer amounts to +1.59K, which is the second highest value on record since the warm 1964 event. The warmer than normal conditions as recorded since November 1995 off East and West Greenland, point at intermediate warming which is characteristic of the second half of the recent decades. The long-term trend of air temperature anomalies off West Greenland points, however, still at cooling, a trend which is persistent since the early 1970s. As the potential driving mechanism for the intermediate warming in the Labrador Sea area, the sea level air pressure gradient between Iceland and the Azores is identified. The 1996 value of this gradient, the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) Index, is strongly negative and this represents the flow of mild air masses from the midlatitude Atlantic Ocean to the Greenland/Labrador Sea region. Accordingly, air temperature anomalies indicated unusual warming during the month of February which amounted to >2K in the region of Baffin Land, Labrador and Greenland.

Influence of aniline on Daphnia magna Straus [Translation from: Trudy Saratov.Otdeleniya GosNIORKh 13 102-104, 1975]

Experiments were carried out by the method of direct effect of the tested substance on increase of biomass (1,2). Daphnia magna was cultured under laboratory conditions.The author concludes that concentrations of aniline from 5000 to 0.1 mg/1 appear acutely lethal. The disturbance of feeding, reproduction, the disorganization of the nervous system, speak of the toxicity of the substance.

Nutrient Enhanced Coastal Ocean Productivity (NECOP). Data report: CTD and hydrographic data, R/V Pelican cruise, April 3-11, 1993

The Nutrient Enhanced Coastal Ocean Productivity (NECOP) Program is a component of NOAA's Coastal Ocean Program. The central hypothesis of this research is: Anthropogenic nutrient inputs have enhanced coastal ocean productivity with subsequent impacts on coastal ocean water quality, living resource yields, and the global marine carbon cycle. The initial study area for this program is the Mississippi/Atchafalaya River Outflow and adjacent Louisiana shelf region.

Yeast screens identify the RNA polymerase II CTD and SPT5 as relevant targets of BRCA1 interaction.

BRCA1 has been implicated in numerous DNA repair pathways that maintain genome integrity, however the function responsible for its tumor suppressor activity in breast cancer remains obscure. To identify the most highly conserved of the many BRCA1 functions, we screened the evolutionarily distant eukaryote Saccharomyces cerevisiae for mutants that suppressed the G1 checkpoint arrest and lethality induced following heterologous BRCA1 expression. A genome-wide screen in the diploid deletion collection combined with a screen of ionizing radiation sensitive gene deletions identified mutants that permit growth in the presence of BRCA1. These genes delineate a metabolic mRNA pathway that temporally links transcription elongation (SPT4, SPT5, CTK1, DEF1) to nucleopore-mediated mRNA export (ASM4, MLP1, MLP2, NUP2, NUP53, NUP120, NUP133, NUP170, NUP188, POM34) and cytoplasmic mRNA decay at P-bodies (CCR4, DHH1). Strikingly, BRCA1 interacted with the phosphorylated RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) carboxy terminal domain (P-CTD), phosphorylated in the pattern specified by the CTDK-I kinase, to induce DEF1-dependent cleavage and accumulation of a RNAPII fragment containing the P-CTD. Significantly, breast cancer associated BRCT domain defects in BRCA1 that suppressed P-CTD cleavage and lethality in yeast also suppressed the physical interaction of BRCA1 with human SPT5 in breast epithelial cells, thus confirming SPT5 as a relevant target of BRCA1 interaction. Furthermore, enhanced P-CTD cleavage was observed in both yeast and human breast cells following UV-irradiation indicating a conserved eukaryotic damage response. Moreover, P-CTD cleavage in breast epithelial cells was BRCA1-dependent since damage-induced P-CTD cleavage was only observed in the mutant BRCA1 cell line HCC1937 following ectopic expression of wild type BRCA1. Finally, BRCA1, SPT5 and hyperphosphorylated RPB1 form a complex that was rapidly degraded following MMS treatment in wild type but not BRCA1 mutant breast cells. These results extend the mechanistic links between BRCA1 and transcriptional consequences in response to DNA damage and suggest an important role for RNAPII P-CTD cleavage in BRCA1-mediated cancer suppression.

Les cosaques : drame en 5 actes et 9 tableaux. [suivi de] Un monsieur qu'on n'attendait pas : scène comique en vers. Livr. 102 / par MM. Alph. Arnault et Louis Judicis ; par M. Alexandre Dufaï

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