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The distribution of electrons and holes in the CuO$_2$ plane of the high-temperature superconducting cuprates is determined with nuclear magnetic resonance through the quadrupole splittings of $^{17}$O and $^{63}$Cu. Based on new data for single crystals of electron-doped Pr$_{2-x}$Ce$_x$CuO$_4$(x=0, 0.05, 0.10, 0.15) as well as Nd$_{2-x}$Ce$_x$CuO$_4$ (x=0, 0.13) the changes in hole contents $n_d$ of Cu 3d$(x^2-y^2)$ and $n_p$ of O 2$p_\sigma$ orbitals are determined and they account for the stoichiometrically doped charges, similar to hole-doped \lsco. It emerges that while $n_d+2n_p=1$ in all parent materials as expected, $n_d$ and $n_p$ vary substantially between different groups of materials. Doping holes increases predominantly $n_p$, but also $n_d$. To the contrary, doping electrons predominantly decreases $n_d$ and only slightly $n_p$. However, $n_p$ for the electron doped systems is higher than that in hole doped La$_{1.85}$Sr$_{0.15}$CuO$_4$. Cuprates with the highest maximum $T_{\rm c}$s appear to have a comparably low $n_d$ while, at the same time, $n_p$ is very high. The rather high oxygen hole content of the Pr$_2$CuO$_4$ and Nd$_2$CuO$_4$ with the low $n_d$ seems to make them ideal candidates for hole doping to obtain the highest $T_{\rm c}$., Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures

We report the results from a $^{75}$As NMR study on the overdoped iron pnictide superconductor, CeFeAsO$_{0.8}$F$_{0.2}$. Two peaks are observed in the NMR spectra for temperatures as high as 100 K, which is above the superconducting transition temperature of 39 K and hence they cannot be attributed to the effect of vortices in the superconducting state as previously suggested [A. Ghoshray, et al., Phys. Rev. B 79, 144512 (2009)]. The temperature dependence of the $^{75}$As NMR shifts for the two peaks is consistent with hyperfine coupling from magnetic Ce to As and with different Curie-Weiss temperatures. The appearance of two Curie-Weiss temperatures where one is near zero and the other is $\sim$-18 K suggests that the two peaks arise from ordered and disordered regions where the disorder could be due to regions with significant fluorine site disorder and/or clusters of oxygen vacancies. Similar to some other studies on ReFeAsO$_{1-x}$F$_x$ (Re is a rare earth) we find that there are more than one $^{75}$As spin-lattice and spin-spin relaxation rates that can be attributed to ordered and disordered regions in the ReO layer and suggests that inhomogeneity is a common feature in the ReFeAsO$_{1-x}$F$_x$ superconductors.