The seaweed Fucus vesiculosus is unusual when compared with other algal species, in that it can survive in toxic-metal-contaminated aquatic environments. The metallothionein gene has been identified in F. vesiculosus by Kille and co-workers (Morris, C. A., Nicolaus, B., Sampson, V., Harwood, J. L., and Kille, P. (1999) Biochem. J. 338, 553), which suggests a possible protective mechanism agains...

A doctorate in one—albeit particularly prestigious—of the institutes of the USSR Academy of Sciences is an unlikely background for a democratic theorist. Yet, it is with this background that Andranik Tangian, now a resident of Germany, has taken up the task of writing a comprehensive treatise on the development of democratic thinking from its early beginnings ca. 500 BC to the modern days. Tang...

We present a new model of high-energy lightcurves from rotation powered pulsars. The key ingredient of the model is the gap region (i.e. the region where particle acceleration is taking place and high-energy photons originate) which satisfies the following assumptions: i) the gap region extends from each polar cap to the light cylinder; ii) the gap is thin and confined to the surface of last op...

We present specific sources, including specimens of the Medicean cabinet and geological outcrops in Tuscany, probably used by Nicolaus Steno to build a theory on origin organic fossils, crystals sedimentary strata, order construct history Earth based universal geometric principles. Phenomena he observed Tuscany precedeing travels were revealing sequence events consistent with biblical account. ...

Abstract In order to assess or determine the overall quality of surrounding geographical environment, it is necessary measure selected factors that directly indirectly affect its condition. The aspects be monitored include i.a. air pollution levels, surface water purity, soil erosion rates, as well night sky light pollution, a phenomenon increasingly often observed with unaided eye. To collect ...

Pythonic Black-box Electronic Structure Tool (PyBEST) represents a fully-fledged modern electronic structure software package developed at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toru?. The provides an efficient and reliable platform for calculations the interface between chemistry physics using unique methods, analysis tools, visualization. Examples are (orbital-optimized) pCCD-based models ground- ...

We study the rotational distortions of the vacuum dipole magnetic field in the context of geometrical models of the radio emission from pulsars. We find that at low altitudes the rotation deflects the local direction of the magnetic field by at most an angle of the order of r n, where rn = r/Rlc, r is the radial distance of the radio emission and Rlc is the light cylinder radius. To the lowest ...