A nucleolus-associated coiled body

One or two healthy structures frequently have been observed attached to nucleoli in facial motor neurons of the golden hamster. These round-to-oval structures, called "coiled bodies", were seen at 15, 19, and 24 days postnatal and in the adult, both in normal neurons and in chromatolytic neurons which had been axotomized 4 days previously. With one exception, the coiled bodies were seen to be attached via fibrillar material to the nucleolar periphery. Although the numbers of coiled bodies may be altered during neuronal maturation and as a result of axon section, the bodies revealed no structural alterations that could be attributed to developmental age or to experimental trauma.     

AutoPrep离子色谱法检测饮用水中痕量NO3-和NO2-

利用戴安公司全新的AutoPrep自动样品前处理技术，首次提出将OnGuard SPE前处理小柱在线使用的概念，对饮用水中的大部分氯离子进行在线去除的同时，还可对其中的亚硝酸盐和硝酸盐进行快速、准确的定量。该方法选用了自动在线水纯化装置CIRA和OnGuard Ag小柱，运用阀切换技术实现自动进样；适宜的色谱条件为：高容量氢氧化物选择性IonPac AS18阴离子交换色谱柱，淋洗液自动发生装置在线产生KOH进行梯度淋洗，抑制型电导检测；相关方法参数：对于自来水和瓶装水，亚硝酸盐和硝酸盐的检出限（S／N=3）分别为17．8μg/L和25．6μg/L，线性相关系数分别为0．9997和0．9999，RSD〈5％，加标回收率〉92％。该方法具有自动化程度高、操作简单、重现性好、节约时间、成本低廉和对环境友好的特点。此外，研究了前处理小柱的连续使用次数，并对在线和离线的除氯效果进行了比较，认为在线除氯可节约检测成本，且对除氯效果无太大影响。     

Depressed people are not less motivated by personal goals but are more pessimistic about attaining them.

Despite its theoretical importance, personal goal motivation has rarely been examined in clinical depression. Here we investigate whether clinically depressed persons (n = 23) differ from never-depressed persons (n = 26) on number of freely generated approach and avoidance goals, appraisals of these goals, and reasons why these goals would and would not be achieved. Participants listed approach and avoidance goals separately and generated explanations for why they would (pro) and would not (con) achieve their most important approach and avoidance goals, before rating the importance, likelihood, and perceived control of goal outcomes. Counter to hypothesis, depressed persons did not differ from never-depressed controls on number of approach or avoidance goals, or on the perceived importance of these goals. However, compared to never-depressed controls, depressed individuals gave lower likelihood judgments for desirable approach goal outcomes, tended to give higher likelihood judgments for undesirable to-be-avoided goal outcomes, and gave lower ratings of their control over goal outcomes. Furthermore, although controls generated significantly more pro than con reasons for goal achievement, depressed participants did not. These results suggest that depressed persons do not lack valued goals but are more pessimistic about their likelihood, controllability, and reasons for successful goal attainment. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved)     

Technical feasibility study on polycarbonate solar panels

This paper describes a technical feasibility study on the application of polycarbonate (PC) plates in a superstrate photovoltaic module design. The lamination process was performed in a conventional laminator apparatus using low temperature curing (100°C) ethylene-vinyl-acetate (EVA) as the potting material and multi-crystalline silicon solar cells. Thermo-mechanical calculations via the finite element method were performed to support the experimental results on various layer set-ups. Both experimental and numerical results revealed that PC superstrate laminates display a certain degree of warpage after the lamination process. This warpage can be attributed to stress built up in the modules due to differences in thermal expansion between solar cells and PC. This stress build-up can be diminished by application of thicker layers of PC or EVA leading to less curved laminates.     

Self-discrepancies and persecutory delusions: Evidence for a model of paranoid ideation.

The self-discrepancies of paranoid patients, depressed patients, and nonpatients were examined using a modified version of Higgins's Selves Questionnaire (E. T. Higgins, 1987). Nonpatients showed high consistencies between all domains of the self-concept, whereas depressed patients showed marked self-discrepancies. Paranoid patients alone displayed a high degree of consistency between self-perceptions and self-guides together with discrepancies between self-perceptions and the believed perceptions of parents about the self. Paranoid patients also believed that their parents had more negative views of them than did other participants. These findings are consistent with R. P. Bentall, P. Kinderman, and S. Kaney's (1994) model, which assumes that persecutory delusions. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Causal attributions in paranoia and depression: Internal, personal, and situational attributions for negative events.

Causal attributions for positive and negative hypothetical social events made by paranoid patients, depressed patients, and nonpatient participants were examined via a novel measure of causal locus, the Internal, Personal and Situational Attributions Questionnaire. Depressed patients tended to attribute negative social events to internal (self-blaming) causes. Nonpatient participants and patients with delusions of persecution tended to avoid such self-blame. However, whereas nonpatient participants tended to choose situational or circumstantial external attributions, paranoid patients tended to choose external attributions that located blame in other individuals. These findings support R. P. Bentall, P. Kinderman, and S. Kaney's (1994) defensive attributional model of persecutory delusions, suggest some modifications to that model, and have implications for the understanding of the relationship between causal attributions and social and self-perception. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Uniform pyramid formation on alkaline-etched polished monocrystalline (100) silicon wafers

Pyramidal texturing of monocrystalline silicon using alkaline etchants depends strongly upon the initial condition of the wafer surface and upon etching parameters. Texturization of polished wafers is often incomplete, with non-textured areas arising to yield high values of reflectance. A new technique is introduced for uniform pyramid formation on polished wafers. Nitrogen is used to expel dissolved oxygen in the etch solution, since it has been observed that oxidizing agents act to encourage polished etch surfaces.     

New methods for generating student's t and gamma variables

Algorithms based on ratio-of-uniforms method are developed for generating random variables from the Student'st and gamma families.     

Deposition and characterization of screen-printed porous multi-layer thick film structures from semiconducting and conducting nanomaterials for use in photovoltaic devices

Three-layer structures of thick (>5 m) films of nanosized titanium dioxide, zirconium dioxide, and carbon have been screen-printed on a semi-production level for use in photosensitized photovoltaic devices. The films have been characterized using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), and nitrogen adsorption/desorption. The rheology of the screen-printing pastes has been measured, and qualitatively matched to the quality of the resultant film. Three titanium dioxide candidates were evaluated for performance. At low light levels (<300 lux, i.e., typical indoor light levels), photosensitized photovoltaic modules made from these screen-printed structures exhibited equal or superior performance to a commercially available amorphous silicon module.