Creep, flow, and phase slippage regimes: an extensive view of the sliding charge-density wave revealed by coherent X-ray diffraction.

Coherent x-ray diffraction experiments have been used to probe the dynamics of the charge density wave (CDW) in the quasi-1D system NbSe(3). The 2k(F) satellite reflection associated with the CDW has been measured with respect to external dc currents, below and above the depinning current. These measurements illustrate for the first time the extensive behavior of a moving electronic crystal: the creep regime, with nucleation of CDW dislocations, the flow regime, with motional ordering, along with phase slippage and the role of strong pinning due to an extrinsic defect.

[Comparative study of apramycin-resistant microorganisms isolated from man and animals]. / Sravnitel'noe izuchenie apramitsinustoichivykh mikroorganizmov, vydelennykh ot cheloveka i zhivotnykh.

Apramycin-modifying strains isolated from pigs with coli bacteriosis, from humans and hospital environment were studied comparatively. Production of enzymes modifying the aminoglycoside was estimated with the radioactive cofactor procedure. E. coli isolates from the animals were phenotypically resistant to apramycin and a number of other aminoglycosides. They produced acetyltransferase AAC(3)IV, phosphotransferase APH(3')(5"), APH(3") and other enzymes. Resistance of the strains to gentamicin was also conditioned by AAC(3)IV since these strains did not produce AAD(2") and AAC(6'). In the resistant strains of E. coli and their transconjugates there were detected plasmids with a relative molecular weight of 60-80 MD. Some of the belonged to the compatibility group I1, the others belonged to the compatibility group H1. Strains of S. marcescens, K. pneumoniae. K. oxytoca and S. aureus isolated from humans and hospital environment were sensitive to apramycin. Only isolates of P. aeruginosa were resistant to this antibiotic. However, all the isolates produced AAC(3)IV. Some of them additionally produced AAC(6'), an enzyme modifying amikacin, kanamycin and other antibiotics and not acetylating apramycin. Almost all the strains produced kanamycin- and streptomycin phosphotransferases. Possible coselection of strains resistant to apramycin and gentamicin using one of these aminoglycosides is discussed.

Observation of correlations up to the micrometer scale in sliding charge-density waves.

A high resolution coherent x-ray diffraction experiment has been performed on the charge-density wave (CDW) system K0.3MoO3. The 2kF satellite reflection associated with the CDW has been measured with respect to external dc currents. In the sliding regime, the 2kF satellite reflection displays secondary satellites along the chain axis which corresponds to correlations up to the micrometer scale. This super long-range order is 1500 times larger than the CDW period itself. This new type of electronic correlation seems inherent to the collective dynamics of electrons in charge-density wave systems. Several scenarios are discussed.

[Conjugation transfer of plasmid resistance to gentamycin and other antibiotics in clinical strains of Ps. aeruginosa]. / Kon"iugatsionnaia peredacha plazmidnoi ustoichivosti k gentamitsinu i drugim antibiotikam u klinicheskikh shtammov Ps. aeruginosa.

A possibility of conjugation transfer of the markers of the plasmid resistance to gentamicin and other antibiotics from 10 clinical strains of Ps. aeruginosa, isolated from burn patients to the recipient strain of Ps. aeruginosa PTO 629 Rfr was shown. The marker of gentamicin resistance was transferred to 100 out of 110 of the exconjugants, i.e. 86.2 per cent. The rate of the conjugation transfer in the crosses between the clincal strains of Ps. aeruginosa and the recipient strain PTO 629 Rfr with respect to the gentamicin marker was about 10--7. The plasmid resistance markers in the clincal strains Ps. aeruginosa were transferred in various combinations. Transfer of the markers of resistance to streptomycin, carbenicillin, neomycin and combinations Sm, Nm and Sm, Nm, Cm was not achieved.

[Conjugational transfer of R factor RP1 in Ps. aeruginosa and the possibility of inhibiting this process with a series of substances]. / Kon"iugatsionnaia peredacha R-faktora RP1 u Ps. aeruginosa i vozmozhnost' ingibirovaniia étogo protsessa riadom veshchestv

It was shown that the conjugation system of Ps. aeruginosa PAO 2604 X PTO 629 rifr used for transfer of the plasmid markers of R-factor RPI was a convenient model for a number of genetic investigations (the rate of transfer of the antibiotic resistance markers was 2.2 X 10(-3) to 8.8 X 10(-5). 80.7 per cent of the exconjugants obtained from this crossing acquired all 3 resistance plasmid markers (carbenicillin tetracycline, neomycin). In 12 per cent of R+-exconjugants transfer of 2 or 1 resistance determinant of R-factor was observed. The use of the above conjugation system revealed the inhibitory effect of bonafton (an antiviral drug), acridine dyes (acrichin, metachrome orange), ethidium bromide and rifampicin. A possibility of intraspecies transfer of resistance plasmid markers was found in crosses Ps. aeruginosa PAO 2604 X X E. coli CSH--2 rifr and Ps. aeruginosa PAO 2604 X E. coli C600 rifr. Transfer of the resistance markers was observed in combinations of carbenicillin, tetracycline, neomycin (Cb, Tc, Nm), tetracycline (Tc) and carbenicillin (Cb).

Singlet exciton binding energy in poly(phenylene vinylene).

The exciton binding energy (E(b)) and the band gap energy (E(g)) of poly(phenylene vinylene) are determined by high-resolution measurements of the photoconductivity excitation profile as a function of light polarization, applied electric field, and temperature. At high applied electric fields, a peak in the photoconductivity is observed when the sample is pumped at a photon energy just below the onset of the band-to-band pi-pi* absorption. This peak is interpreted as resulting from field ionization of a weakly bound exciton with E(b) approximately 60 meV. The binding energy is obtained from the energy of the exciton peak relative to the band edge and independently from analysis of the dependence of the exciton dissociation on field and temperature.