We calculate the contributions Ji Iwo) and J2(2wo) to the NMR relaxation rate Tp~(wo) caused by the motion of proposed molecular defects in polymer liquid crystals. The results are Ji c~ w(/~ and J2 oc wj~/~ for low Lamor frequencies wo. The scaring of the J functions with chain length is also given. It is hoped that NMR may offer a way of deterrn%ing the contribution of molecular defects to dy...

In this paper, we present several gravity tests made in using the last INPOP08 planetary ephemerides. We first propose two methods to estimate the PPN parameter β and its correlated value, the Sun J2 and we discuss the correlation between the Sun J2 and the mass of the asteroid ring. We estimate possible advance in the planet perihelia. In the end we show that no constant acceleration larger th...

Winter survival of Meloidogyne incognita in six soil types (Fuquay sand, Norfolk loamy sand, Portsmouth loamy sand, muck, Cecil sandy clay loam, and Cecil sandy clay) was determined in microplots at one location from November 1981 to May 1982 and from November 1982 to March 1983. Survival, based on second-stage juveniles (J2) of M. incognita, from November 1981 until May 1982 ranged from 1% in ...

A clonogenicassayhasbeendevelopedthat utilizesBurkitt's lymphomatumor cell linesto detect eliminationof up to 5 logs of tumorcellcontaminationwithinhumanbonemarrow.Different Burkitt's lymphomalinesbearoneor moreof agroupof markers, includingcommonacute lymphoblasticleukemiaantigengp26 (glycoproteinwith a molecularweight of 26,000),B1, surface membraneimmunoglobulin, HLA,fo-microglobulin, andla....

Potato cultivars Katahdin (susceptible) and Rosa (resistant) were exposed to infective second-stage juveniles (J2) of Globodera rostochiensis for varying periods of time, after which root systems were washed and plants were placed in Hoagland's solution to assess J2 egression and male emergence. After transfer to liquid culture, many J2 egressed from both cultivars, but significantly more egres...

Aims. The aim of this paper is the dynamical determination of the quadrupole mass moment J2 of the main-sequence HD 209458 star. Methods. The adopted method is the confrontation between the measured orbital period of its transiting planet Osiris and a model of it. Osiris is assumed to move along an equatorial and circular orbit. Results. Our determination, for given values of the stellar mass M...

We consider the low but nonzero-temperature regimes of the Glauber dynamics in a chain of Ising spins with first- and second-neighbor interactions J1,J2. For 0<-J2/|J1|<1 it is known that at T=0 the dynamics is both metastable and noncoarsening, while being always ergodic and coarsening in the limit of T→0+. Based on finite-size scaling analyses of relaxation times, here we argue that in that l...

Preplant soil applications of oxamyl to shade grown tobacco in Globodera tabacum-infested field soil increased green leaf yields over untreated plots by 10.7 and 21.0% for 2.2 and 6.7 kg a.i. oxamyl/ha, respectively. Green leaf yield was negatively correlated (r = -0.60, P = 0.04) with initial G. tabacum density, which ranged from 33 to 154 second-stage juveniles (J2)/cm(3) soil. Numbers of G. ...

Co-culture of human primary epithelial cells with irradiated 3T3 fibroblast feeder cells (J2 cells) and the Rho kinase inhibitor Y-27632 (Y) allows for the unrestricted growth of cells of epithelial origin by the process termed conditional reprogramming. To better understand the nature of the signaling processes associated with conditionally reprogrammed cells, the effect of the two critical co...

The role of microbes associated with chicken litter in the suppression of Meloidogyne arenaria in amended soil was investigated. Amended soil treatments were prepared, including combinations of sterile and nonsterile chicken litter and soil. Microbial biomass in different treatments was compared by measuring carbon dioxide evolution. There was less CO evolved in sterile litter than in nonsteril...