Time-averaged structure of the Kuroshio/Oyashio system east of Japan was examined using historical hydrographic data. Unlike most of the earlier climatological analyses, the data were averaged along isopycnal rather than pressure surfaces in a 0.58 3 0.58 grid. As a result, most of the detailed phenomena associated with the narrow western boundary currents were revealed. Water from the Oyashio ...

Plant water status, leaf tissue pressure-volume relationships, and photosynthetic gas exchange were monitored in five coffee (Coffea arabica L.) cultivars growing in drying soil in the field. There were large differences among cultivars in the rates at which leaf water potential (Psi(L)) and gas exchange activity declined when irrigation was discontinued. Pressure-volume curve analysis indicate...

2014 Mössbauer experiments have been performed on Nafion ion exchange membranes neutralized with iron chloride. The recoilless fraction falls to zero at a temperature which depends on the water content, showing that the rigidity of the local ion environment is greatly influenced by the amount of water retained in these membranes. Two different iron sites are defined, whose relative intensities ...

1 Universitiit Konstanz, Universitiitsstr. 10, 78457 Konstanz, Germany 2Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland 3Laboratory for Microand Nanotechnology, Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland 4Department of Applied Physics, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven 5612 AZ, The Netherlands 5CNRS, Phynano team, Laboratoire de Photoniqu...

Exchange bias effect obtained after zero-field cooling from unmagnetized state usually exhibits a shift of hysteresis loop negative to the direction of the initial magnetic field, known as negative zero-field cooled exchange bias. Here, positive zero-field cooled exchange bias is reported in La0.5Sr0.5Mn0.8Co0.2O3 ceramics. In addition, a transition from positive to negative exchange bias has b...

In today’s mobile world inter-machine communication has become the key to information exchange. Until now at best networking was an annoyance, at worst it was a show stopper. Zero Configuration Networking aims to improve this by defining a set of protocols that can be used to assign IP addresses automatically, resolve names and discover services.