The ubiquity of circadian rhythms suggests that they have an intrinsic adaptive value (Ouyang et al. 1998; Ronneberg and Foster 1997). Some experiments have shown that organisms have enhanced longevity, development time ...

An amine-templated cobalt(II) sulfate with the kagome lattice, prepared for the first time, exhibits magnetic properties comparable to those of the analogous Fe(III) compounds.

In the nocturnal field mouse Mus booduga, the responsiveness of the circadian system to UV-A light of 2.5 W/m(2) and 30 minutes duration is known to be phase dependent. The results of our experiments indicate that the phase ...

Dielectric properties of the rare earth cobaltates, LnCoO3 (Ln = La, Pr and Gd), have been measured over the 85-300 K range at different frequencies. The dielectric constants increase markedly across the low-spin to ...

Electronic phase separation is increasingly getting recognized as a phenomenon of importance in understanding the magnetic and electron transport properties of transition metal oxides. The phenomenon dominates the rare-earth ...

Circadian clocks regulate physiological and behavioral processes in a wide variety of organisms, and any malfunction in these clocks can cause significant health problems. In this paper, we report the results of our study ...

The effect of restricted feeding (RF) cycles on the circadian locomotor activity rhythm was studied in the nocturnal field mouse Mus booduga. Mice were presented with a 2-h meal schedule every 24 h in continuous darkness ...

The eclosion rhythm of a laboratory population of Drosophila melanogaster was studied under 12h light, 12h dark (LD 12:12) cycles. Although most of the flies were found to eclose just after "lights on" in LD 12:12, termed ...

We suggest that the herringbone reconstruction of the Au(111) surface results from the spontaneous formation of "stress domains." The surface is described theoretically by a 2D Frenkel-Kontorova model. Upon including ...

Background: Circadian clocks have been implicated in the regulation of pre-adult development of fruit flies Drosophila melanogaster. It is believed that faster clocks speed up development and slower clocks slow it down. ...