There is, I think, something ethereal about i —the square root of minus one. I remember first hearing about it at school. It seemed an odd beast at that time—an intruder hovering on the edge of reality.

Usually familiarity dulls this sense of the bizarre, but in the case of i it was the reverse: over the years the sense of its surreal nature intensified. It seemed that it was impossible to write mathematics that described the real world in …

I and i

다중혈관 관상동맥 환자에서 y-문합을 이용하여 양쪽 내흉동맥만을 사용한 우회술의 조기 성적

KamLAND has measured the flux of nu;(e)'s from distant nuclear reactors. We find fewer nu;(e) events than expected from standard assumptions about nu;(e) propagation at the 99.95% C.L. In a 162 ton.yr exposure the ratio of the observed inverse beta-decay events to the expected number without nu;(e) disappearance is 0.611+/-0.085(stat)+/-0.041(syst) for nu;(e) energies >3.4 MeV. In the context of two-flavor neutrino oscillations with CPT invariance, all solutions to the solar neutrino problem except for the "large mixing angle" region are excluded.

First Results from KamLAND: Evidence for Reactor Anti-Neutrino Disappearance

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Bio-hydrogen production from waste materials

Occurrence, classification, and biological function of hydrogenases: an overview.

The MSSM candidates arising from the heterotic MiniLandscape feature a very constrained supersymmetry breaking pattern. This includes a fully predictable gaugino mass pattern, which is compressed compared to the CMSSM, and an inverted sfermion hierarchy due to distinct geometric localisation, featuring stops as light as 1 TeV. The observed Higgs mass sets a lower bound m_{gluino} > 1.2 TeV on the gluino mass. The electroweak fine-tuning is reduced by a UV relation between the scalar mass of the two heavy families and the gluino mass. While large parts of the favoured parameter space escape detection at the LHC, the prospects to test the MiniLandscape models with future dark matter searches are very promising.

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The heterotic MiniLandscape and the 126 GeV Higgs boson

The MSSM candidates arising from the heterotic MiniLandscape feature a very constrained supersymmetry breaking pattern. This includes a fully predictable gaugino mass pattern, which is compressed compared to the CMSSM, and an inverted sfermion hierarchy due to distinct geometric localisation, featuring stops as light as 1 TeV. The observed Higgs mass sets a lower bound $ {m_{{\widetilde{g}}}}>1.2\;\mathrm{TeV} $
 on the gluino mass. The electroweak fine-tuning is reduced by a UV relation between the scalar mass of the two heavy families and the gluino mass. While large parts of the favoured parameter space escape detection at the LHC, the prospects to test the MiniLandscape models with future dark matter searches are very promising.

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[FeFe]-hydrogenases are efficient biological hydrogen conversion catalysts and blueprints for technological fuel production. The relations between substrate interactions and electron/proton transfer events at their unique six-iron cofactor (H-cluster) need to be elucidated. The H-cluster comprises a four-iron cluster, [4Fe4S], linked to a diiron complex, [FeFe]. We combined 57Fe-specific X-ray nuclear resonance scattering experiments (NFS, nuclear forward scattering; NRVS, nuclear resonance vibrational spectroscopy) with quantum-mechanics/molecular-mechanics computations to study the [FeFe]-hydrogenase HYDA1 from a green alga. Selective 57Fe labeling at only [4Fe4S] or [FeFe], or at both subcomplexes was achieved by protein expression with a 57Fe salt and in vitro maturation with a synthetic diiron site precursor containing 57Fe. H-cluster states were populated under infrared spectroscopy control. NRVS spectral analyses facilitated assignment of the vibrational modes of the cofactor species. This approach...

Differential Protonation at the Catalytic Six-Iron Cofactor of [FeFe]-Hydrogenases Revealed by 57Fe Nuclear Resonance X-ray Scattering and Quantum Mechanics/Molecular Mechanics Analyses.

Publisher Summary Future energy sources need to be unlimited, renewable, and environmentally neutral, and hydrogen (H 2 )-photoproduction by green algae from water and sunlight perfectly meets these requirements. The theoretical potential of [Fe]-hydrogenases for H 2 -evolution is indisputably high; however, the physiological activity of the up-to-now characterized algal strains has not reached the necessary efficiency for a biotechnological application. This chapter presents two different strategies, which, in combination, could lead to this aim. The identification and molecular biological characterization of the up-to-now only marginal examined alga species C. moewusii are described in the chapter. Particularities such as additional or displaced cystein residues or deviations in important regions of protein architecture indicate that the hydA proteins of C. moewusii belong to a new hydrogenase subtype. Therefore, C. moewusii seems to be an interesting new candidate for further physiological examinations. The chapter also presents a new technique for the generation and identification of mutant strains with an altered physiological H 2 production activity.

The Isolation of Green Algal Strains with Outstanding H2-Productivity

We show that within MSSM singlet extensions the experimental hints beyond the standard model from the Fermi LAT telescope as well as from the LHC can be explained simultaneously while being consistent with all experimental constraints. In particular we present an example point which features a $\sim$ 130 GeV lightest neutralino with an annihilation cross section into photons consistent with the indication from the Fermi satellite with simultaneously the right relic abundance, a continuum photon spectrum consistent with observation, direct detection cross section below the experimental limits, electroweak observables consistent with experiment and a 125 GeV light Higgs boson with a slightly enhanced $h \rightarrow \gamma \gamma$ rate.

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Martin Wolfgang Winkler

Papers

The heterotic MiniLandscape and the 126 GeV Higgs boson

The heterotic MiniLandscape and the 126 GeV Higgs boson

Differential Protonation at the Catalytic Six-Iron Cofactor of [FeFe]-Hydrogenases Revealed by 57Fe Nuclear Resonance X-ray Scattering and Quantum Mechanics/Molecular Mechanics Analyses.

The Isolation of Green Algal Strains with Outstanding H2-Productivity

Enhanced diphoton rates at Fermi and the LHC