Ein ergokryptinreiches Wildgrasmutterkorn

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The influence of the physical environment on the self-organised foraging patterns of ants

Among social insects such as ants, scouts that modulate their recruiting behaviour, following simple rules based on local information, generate collective patterns of foraging. Here we demonstrate that features of the abiotic environment, specifically the foraging substrate, may also be influential in the emergence of group-level decisions such as the choice of one foraging path. Experimental data and theoretical analyses show that the collective patterns can arise independently of behavioural changes of individual scouts and can result, through self-organising processes, from the physico-chemical properties of the environment that alter the dynamics of information transfer by chemical trails.     

己二胺有机废液在流化床中焚烧的实验研究

在实验室规模的热态流化床试验台上，进行了含5％己二胺有机废液的焚烧 实验研究，在700－900℃范围内，研究温度及空气过剩系数对NOx沿床高的变化规律，以及它们对NOx排放浓度的影响。实验结果表明，沿高度方向上NOx浓度 逐渐降低，并且存在NO2浓度大于NO浓度这一有趣现象，在900℃下氧量增加有利于密相区NO、NO2浓度的降低，说明在 有氧条件下NH2促进NOx的还原，在不同空气 过剩系数下和然相区出口NOx几乎为零 ，表明900℃是己二胺有机废液焚烧 的合适温度。     

Phthalide als Hauptbestandteile des ätherischen Öls der Früchte vonMeum athamanticum Jacq.

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Teleskope und Detektoren für die Infrarot-Astronomie

Infrared observations with ground-based and balloon-borne telescopes are hampered by thermal background radiation and absorption caused by the earth's atmosphere. A sensitivity gain of up to three orders of magnitude can be obtained under the low photon background conditions of a helium-cooled space telescope. Physical properties of photodetectors and bolometers as well as their application to the new infrared telescopes aboard satellites and Spacelab are discussed.     

Wax of a whitefly and its utilization by a chrysopid larva

Defense Mechanisms of Arthropods, no. 96; no. 95: Eisner et al.: Chemoecology (in press)