We have fabricated Si nanoparticles from Si swarf using the beads milling method. The mode diameter of produced Si nanoparticles was between 4.8 and 5.2 nm. Si nanoparticles in hexane show photoluminescence (PL) spectra with peaks at 2.56, 2.73, 2.91, and 3.09 eV. The peaked PL spectra are attributed to the vibronic structure of adsorbed dimethylanthracene (DMA) impurity in hexane. The PL inten...

This data article contains supporting information regarding the research article entitled "Combined effect of permeant and non-permeant cryoprotectants on the quality of frozen/thawed chicken sperm"(Mosca et. al., 2016) [1]. The combined effect of the permeant cryoprotectants agent dimethylacetamide and the non-permeant cryoprotectants agent trehalose on the quality of frozen-thawed chicken sem...

Statistics of the Hurst scaling exponents calculated with the use of two methods: recently introduced Detrended Moving Average Analysis(DMA) and Detrended Fluctuation Analysis (DFA)are compared. Analysis is done for artificial stochastic Brownian time series of various length and reveals interesting statistical relationships between two methods. Good agreement between DFA and DMA techniques is ...

Chemical magnetometers are radical pair systems such as solutions of pyrene and N,N-dimethylaniline (Py-DMA) that show magnetic field effects in their spin dynamics and their fluorescence. We investigate the existence and decay of quantum entanglement in free geminate Py-DMA radical pairs and discuss how entanglement can be assessed in these systems. We provide an entanglement witness and propo...

Dark Matter annihilation (DMA) may yield an excess of gamma rays and antimatter particles, like antiprotons and positrons, above the background from cosmic ray interactions. The excess of diffuse Galactic Gamma Rays from EGRET shows all the features expected from DMA. The new precise measurements of the antiproton and positron fractions from PAMELA are compared with the EGRET excess. It is show...

Modern multicore processors, such as the Cell Broadband Engine, achieve high performance by equipping accelerator cores with small “scratch-pad” memories. The price for increased performance is higher programming complexity – the programmer must manually orchestrate data movement using direct memory access (DMA) operations. Programming using asynchronous DMA operations is error-prone, and DMA r...

Phytosiderophores (PS) are natural chelating agents, exuded by graminaceous plants (grasses) for the purpose of Fe acquisition (Strategy II). They can form soluble Fe complexes with soil-Fe that can be readily taken up. PS are exuded in a diurnal pulse release, and with the start of PS release a "window of iron uptake" opens. In the present study we examined how this window is constrained in ti...

The polycyclic nitroaromatic hydrocarbon 1-nitropyrene is an environmental pollutant, a potent bacterial mutagen, and a car cinogen. Xanthine oxidase, a mammalian nitroreductase, cata lyzed the in vitro metabolic activation of this compound to DNAbound adducts. Maximum adduct formation occurred at pH 5.5 to 6.0 and was increased by the addition of catatase to the incubation medium. DMA binding ...