Defusing inflammasomes.

In this issue of JEM, Boucher et al. (https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.20172222) report isolation of active caspase-1 from macrophages after inflammasome activation. Surprisingly, they find that caspase-1 is quickly inactivated upon autoproteolytic processing

Inverse perturbation method for structural redesign with frequency and mode shape constraints

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/76581/1/AIAA-8777-705.pd

Superfield algorithm for higher order gauge field theories

We propose an algorithm for the construction of higher order gauge field theories from a superfield formulation within the Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism. This is a generalization of the superfield algorithm recently considered by Batalin and Marnelius. This generalization seems to allow for non-topological gauge field theories as well as alternative representations of topological ones. A five dimensional non-abelian Chern-Simons theory and a topological Yang-Mills theory are treated as examples.Comment: 17 pages in LaTeX, improved text, published versio

Linking country level food supply to global land and water use and biodiversity impacts : The case of Finland

The agricultural products consumed in Finland are increasingly grown on foreign farms. We analyze the Finnish imports of food and feed crops from 1986 to 2011 by products and by their geographic origin drawing a link to environmental impacts. The share of foreign crops consumed in Finland nearly doubled in the study period. The imports increased especially with commodities that could also be produced domestically. While the production of food increasingly shifted abroad, also the exports from Finland increased. >90% of the blue water of the Finnish crop supply came from foreignwater resources. Wemap the results of land and water use together with their impacts on global biodiversity, and show thatmost of the land and water use related biodiversity impacts (>93%) associated with the Finnish food consumption are related to the imports and therefore taken place outside the Finnish borders. The use ofmultiple environmental indicators can help identifying products and spatial hotspots associated with themost severe environmental impacts of the Finnish crop imports contributing to a more holistic decision-making and the promoting of sustainable food consumption both domestically and globally. (C) 2016 Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved.Peer reviewe

IceCube's In-Ice Radio Extension: Status and Results

In 2006-2010, several Radio Frequency (RF) detectors and calibration equipment were deployed as part of the IceCube array at depths between 5 to 1400 meters in preparation for a future large scale GZK neutrino detector. IceCube's deep holes and well-established data handling system provide a unique opportunity for deep-ice RF detection studies at the South-Pole. We will present verification and calibration results as well as a status-review of ongoing analyses such as ice-properties, RF noise and reconstruction algorithms.Comment: 4 pages, 6 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the Acoustic and Radio EeV Neutrino detection Activities (ARENA) 2010 conferenc

Nonlinear incremental inverse perturbation method for structural redesign

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/76715/1/AIAA-1983-892-392.pd

Nonlinear inverse perturbation method in dynamic analysis

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/76092/1/AIAA-8245-515.pd