Aims. We present the current status of ongoing searches for molecular hydrogen in high-redshift (1.8 < zabs ≤ 4.2) Damped Lyman-α systems (DLAs) capitalising on observations performed with the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) Ultraviolet and Visual Echelle Spectrograph (UVES). Methods. We identify 77 DLAs/strong sub-DLAs, with log N(H i) ≥ 20 and zabs > 1.8, which have data that include redshifte...

New ab initio surfaces of the potential energies and the induced electric dipole moments of H2–H2 and H2–He collisional complexes are obtained with H2 bond distances from 0.942 to 2.801 bohr. These data permit the calculation of collision-induced absorption (CIA) spectra of dense hydrogen-helium gas mixtures at temperatures up to thousands of kelvin, i.e., under conditions where strong rotovibr...

The cytomegalovirus resistance locus Cmv3 has been linked to an epistatic interaction between two loci: a Natural Killer (NK) cell receptor gene and the major histocompatibility complex class I (MHC-I) locus. To demonstrate the interaction between Cmv3 and H2(k), we generated double congenic mice between MA/My and BALB.K mice and an F(2) cross between FVB/N (H-2(q)) and BALB.K (H2(k)) mice, two...

The Spitzer spectrum of the giant FR II radio galaxy 3C 326 is dominated by very strong molecular hydrogen emission lines on a faint IR continuum. The H2 emission originates in the northern component of a double-galaxy system associated with 3C 326. The integrated luminosity in H2 pure-rotational lines is 8.0 × 10 erg s, which corresponds to 17% of the 8-70 μm luminosity of the galaxy. A wide r...

Studies of mouse lupus models have linked the MHC H2(b) haplotype with the earlier appearance of antinuclear autoantibodies and the worsening of nephritis. However, it is unknown whether H2(b) by itself, in the context of pure nonlupus strains, is "silent" or sufficient with regard to loss of tolerance to chromatin (nucleosomes). In this study we show that, beginning approximately 6-9 mo of age...

Fermentative production of bio-hydrogen (bio-H2) from organic residues has emerged as a promising alternative for providing the required electron source for hydrogen driven remediation strategies. Unlike the widely used production of H2 by bacteria in fresh water systems, few reports are available regarding the generation of biogenic H2 and optimisation processes in marine systems. The present ...

The approximation-solvability of a generalized system of nonlinear variational inequalities (SNVI) involving relaxed pseudococoercive mappings, based on the convergence of a system of projection methods, is presented. The class of relaxed pseudococoercive mappings is more general than classes of strongly monotone and relaxed cocoercive mappings. Let K1 and K2 be nonempty closed convex subsets o...

Previous studies have suggested that MHC and non-MHC genes contribute to the development of autoimmune disease in F1 hybrids of New Zealand black (NZB) and white (NZW) mice. We conducted a genome-wide screen of 148 female (NZB x NZW)F1 x NZB backcross mice to map dominant NZW genetic loci linked with lupus disease traits. In this backcross analysis, inheritance of the NZW MHC (H2(d/z) vs. H2(d/...

Previous calculations of the pregalactic chemistry have found that a small amount of H2, x[H2] ≡ n[H2]/n[H] ≈ 2.6 × 10 , is produced catalytically through the H−, H+2 , and HeH + mechanisms. We revisit this standard calculation taking into account the effects of the nonthermal radiation background produced by cosmic hydrogen recombination, which is particularly effective at destroying H− via ph...

A conjugated oligoelectrolyte (COE), which spontaneously aligns within cell membranes, was shown to completely inhibit H2 uptake by Geobacter sulfurreducens in microbial electrolysis cells. Coulombic efficiencies that were 490±95%, due to H2 recycling between the cathode and microorganisms on the anode, were reduced to 86±2% with COE addition. The use of the COE resulted in a 67-fold increase i...