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2018-06-02

The Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM)

0022-3123

Medicine

2015-08-01

Nature Publishing Group (NPG)

0028-0836

1476-4687

Biology

Chemistry and Pharmacology

Medicine

Natural Sciences in General

Physics

2015-08-14

Nature Publishing Group (NPG)

0028-0836

1476-4687

Biology

Chemistry and Pharmacology

Medicine

Natural Sciences in General

Physics

2013-03-29

Nature Publishing Group (NPG)

0028-0836

1476-4687

Biology

Chemistry and Pharmacology

Medicine

Natural Sciences in General

Physics

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2018-12-17

Italian Society of Silviculture and Forest Ecology

1971-7458

Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition

2018-06-05

The American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

0022-3565

1521-0103

Medicine

2018-12-04

The Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM)

0022-3123

Medicine

2018-05-02

The Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM)

0022-3123

Medicine

2018-05-02

The Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM)

0022-3123

Medicine

2018-05-02

The Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM)

0022-3123

Medicine

2018-07-03

The Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM)

0022-3123

Medicine

2018-07-03

The Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM)

0022-3123

Medicine

1089-7550

AIP Digital Archive

Physics

The scaling of the volume pinning forces, Fp=jc×Ba, is performed versus the reduced fields bf=Ba/Bfp (where Ba is the applied field, and Bfp denotes the peak position of Fp,max) and h=Ha/Hirr (where Hirr denotes the irreversibility field) for two different NdBa2Cu3O7−δ superconductors, a single crystal and a melt-processed sample. In both cases, an excellent natural scaling is found to hold. Based on these good scaling results, we extend the scaling analysis towards lower temperatures. There, the scaling parameters are no longer directly accessible within our experimental field range, but can be deduced from the Fp(Ba) curves normalized using fitting values of Bfp and Fp,max so that these overlap with the high temperature curves. It is shown that such a procedure allows to obtain reasonably good estimates of Fp,max and Hirr, which leads in turn to an estimation of the irreversibility line well down to 0 temperature. At low temperatures, deviations from the analytical dependencies appear which are due to interference with the central and intermediate peak in the magnetization loops. The shape of the irreversibility line is discussed. © 1999 American Institute of Physics.

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1077-3118

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Physics

The outdiffusion behavior of oxygen and carbon in heat-treated Czochralski (CZ) silicon has been investigated by secondary ion mass spectroscopy. The results show that oxygen diffusion is greatly retarded by oxygen precipitation and strongly support a vacancy-dominant diffusion mechanism for oxygen in silicon. In carbon-doped CZ silicon, the diffusion of both oxygen and carbon is greatly enhanced at 750 °C, but is significantly retarded at 1000 °C. In conjunction with the infrared absorption data, the enhanced diffusion has been attributed to the formation of fast-diffusing O-C complexes, while the retarded diffusion of carbon has been tentatively attributed to the formation of slow-diffusing complexes, such as Si-O-C.

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1077-3118

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The dependence of minority-carrier lifetimes and diffusion length on starting silicon materials grown by the magnetic field applied Czochralski (MCZ), conventional Czochralski(CZ), and float-zone (FZ) methods has been investigated with a capacitance-time relaxation technique. MCZ silicon yields longer minority-carrier lifetimes and diffusion length than those of both CZ and FZ silicon materials. The generation lifetime of MCZ silicon increases, while the recombination lifetime decreases, with the initial oxygen concentration. These characteristics are correlated with grown-in defects and gettering by oxygen-related defects.

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1077-3118

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Physics

In this work the role of extended defects on the electrical performance of epitaxial silicon on substrates containing an insulating SiO2 layer has been examined. The buried SiO2 layers in the substrates were obtained by two techniques: implantation of oxygen and zone melt recrystallization. In order to make a thorough structural and electrical evaluation of silicon on the insulator substrates, 5-μm-thick epitaxial capping layers have been simultaneously deposited via chemical vapor deposition on representative insulating substrates and reference wafers. The average minority-carrier lifetime was found to vary from 2.5 to 242 μs depending on the density and distribution of dislocations emerging from the capping epitaxial layer.

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1077-3118

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Physics

A reduced oxygen atmosphere during melt processing turned out to be critical for the fabrication of NdBa2Cu3Oy (Nd123) superconductors possessing high superconducting transition temperature (Tc) with a sharp transition and large critical current density (Jc) at 77 K. In a dc magnetization measurement, Nd123 superconductors melt processed in flowing a mixture gas of 1% O2 in Ar exhibited the Tc of about 95 K and the transition width of 1.5 K with the applied field of 10 Oe. A four-probe measurement showed the zero resistive transition Tc (R=0) of about 95 K. An anomalous peak effect in the magnetization hysteresis (M-H) loops was commonly observed and lead to large magnetic Jc of 2×104 A/cm2 at 77 K and 2 T for the applied field H parallel to the c axis of a sample (H(parallel)c). This achievement is attributable to a preferential formation of high Tc phase (x〈0.1) among the Nd1+xBa2−xCu3Oy solid solutions in a reduced oxygen atmosphere.

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1749-6632

Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005

Natural Sciences in General

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1365-2826

Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005

Medicine

Melanin-concentrating hormone (MCH) is believed to be an important orexigenic peptide mainly localized in the lateral hypothalamic area. Its involvement in the hyperphagia induced by hypothalamic lesions and lactation remains unclear. In this study, we investigated MCH immunoreactivity in the hypothalamus using immunohistochemistry and MCH concentration in the peripheral circulation using an enzyme immunoassay in rats with a lesion in the ventromedial hypothalamus or the paraventricular nucleus, and in lactating rats. Bilateral lesions of the ventromedial or paraventricular nuclei were performed using an electrolytic method. Quantification of immunoreactivity by image analysis revealed that the number and mean staining intensity of MCH-immunoreactive neurones in the lateral hypothalamic area and the zona incerta were significantly decreased by both types of lesions compared to sham controls, whereas circulating MCH concentration was not significantly different on day 7 postlesion. By contrast, in lactating rats on days 11–12 postpartum, the expression of MCH in the lateral hypothalamic area and the zona incerta was significantly increased compared to nonlactating controls. Circulating MCH concentration was not changed in lactating rats. These results suggest that hyperphagia induced by lactation, but not hypothalamic lesion, might be induced by excessive expression of MCH in the lateral hypothalamic area and the zona incerta.

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1365-2826

Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005

Medicine

Microdialysis sampling was used to measure noradrenaline, dopamine and serotonin release in the supraoptic and paraventricular nuclei of urethane-anaesthetized rats following intravenous injection of 20μg/kg cholecystokinin. This dose of cholecystokinin stimulates oxytocin release from the posterior pituitary, while slightly inhibiting vasopressin release. Dialysis probes were placed in the paraventricular nucleus, and into dorsal or ventral regions of the supraoptic nucleus. Samples were collected at 10-min intervals in each animal before, during and after two injections of cholecystokinin, and following a control injection of 0.9% NaCI. The injections of cholecystokinin stimulated significant increases in the concentrations of noradrenaline, dopamine and serotonin in the paraventricular nucleus and of noradrenaline and serotonin in the dorsal supraoptic nucleus region. Conversely, in the ventral supraoptic nucleus region a significant reduction in noradrenaline release was observed, but dopamine and serotonin concentrations were not significantly affected. The control injections did not alter noradrenaline, dopamine or serotonin release.

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