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Home at Last: Neural Stem Cell Niches Defined
Adult neural stem cells (NSCs) are involved in regulating mammalian behavior and are controlled by diverse external stimuli. Improved understanding of the physical location of NSCs and the microenvironmental cues that regulate their behavior, which combine to define the NSC âhome,â or niche, may reveal how to control their function
Climate and juvenile recruitment as drivers of Arctic cod (Boreogadus saida) dynamics in two Canadian Arctic seas
Arctic cod (Boreogadus saida) is the most abundant forage fish species in Arctic seas and plays a pivotal role in
the transfer of energy between zooplankton and top predators. The dominance of Arctic cod and the Arcticâs
relatively low biodiversity interact such that changing population dynamics of Arctic cod have cascading
effects on whole Arctic marine ecosystems. Over the last decades, warming in the Arctic has led to
a decline in Arctic cod populations in the Barents Sea, but in the Canadian Arctic these conditions have
been correlated with up to a 10-fold higher biomass of age-0 Arctic cod at the end of summer. However,
whether this enhanced larval survival with warmer waters endures through age-1Ăž populations is unknown. A
better understanding of spatial variation in the response of Arctic cod populations to environmental
conditions is critical to forecast future changes in Arctic ecosystems. Here, we rely on a 17-year time
series of acoustic-trawl surveys (2003â2019) to test whether ice-breakup date, sea surface temperature,
zooplankton density, and Arctic climate indices during early life stages affect the subsequent recruitment of
age-1Ăž Arctic cod in the Beaufort Sea and Baffin Bay. In the Beaufort Sea, the biomass of age-1Ăž Arctic cod
correlated with both Arctic Oscillation indices and age-0 biomass of the previous year. In Baffin Bay, the
biomass of age-1Ăž Arctic cod correlated with previous-year North Atlantic Oscillation indices and the timing
of ice breakup. This study demonstrates that climate and environmental conditions experienced during the
early life stages drive the recruitment of the age-1Ăž Arctic cod population and helps to quantify spatial
variation in the main environmental drivers
The Concentration of Zn, Fe, Mn, Cu and Se in Fiber Fractions of Legumes in Indonesia
This study was carried out to evaluate concentration of micro minerals (Zn, Fe, Mn, Cu and Se) of forages and their distribution in fiber fraction (neutral detergent fiber/NDF and acid detergent fiber/ADF) in West Sumatra during dry and rainy seasons. Four species of common legume namely Leucaena leucocephala, Centrocema pubescens, Calopogonium mucunoides and Acacia mangium were collected at native pasture during rainy and dry seasons. The results showed that micro minerals concentration of forages and their distribution in fiber fraction varied among species and season. In general, concentration of micro minerals was slightly higher in rainy season compared to dry season either in legumes forages. Data on legume forages showed that 75% of legumes were deficient in Zn and Mn, 62.5 % deficient in Cu and 50 % deficient in Se. There was no species of legume deficient in Fe. Distribution of micro minerals in NDF and ADF were also significantly affected by species and season and depends on the kinds of element measured. Generally, micro minerals were associated in fiber fractions and it yield much higher during dry season compared to rainy season. Iron (Fe) and selenium (Se) in forages were the highest elements associated in NDF and ADF, while the lowest was found in Copper (Cu). (Animal Production 12(2): 105-110 (2010
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A low-order model investigation of the analysis of gravity waves in the ensemble Kalman filter.
The behavior of the ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) is examined in the context of a model that exhibits a nonlinear chaotic (slow) vortical mode coupled to a linear (fast) gravity wave of a given amplitude and frequency. It is shown that accurate recovery of both modes is enhanced when covariances between fast and slow normal-mode variables (which reflect the slaving relations inherent in balanced dynamics) are modeled correctly. More ensemble members are needed to recover the fast, linear gravity wave than the slow, vortical motion. Although the EnKF tends to diverge in the analysis of the gravity wave, the filter divergence is stable and does not lead to a great loss of accuracy. Consequently, provided the ensemble is large enough and observations are made that reflect both time scales, the EnKF is able to recover both time scales more accurately than optimal interpolation (OI), which uses a static error covariance matrix. For OI it is also found to be problematic to observe the state at a frequency that is a subharmonic of the gravity wave frequency, a problem that is in part overcome by the EnKF.However, error in themodeled gravity wave parameters can be detrimental to the performance of the EnKF and remove its implied advantages, suggesting that a modified algorithm or a method for accounting for model error is needed
Changing practice in dementia care in the community: developing and testing evidence-based interventions, from timely diagnosis to end of life (EVIDEM)
Background
Dementia has an enormous impact on the lives of individuals and families, and on health and social services, and this will increase as the population ages. The needs of people with dementia and their carers for information and support are inadequately addressed at all key points in the illness trajectory.
Methods
The Unit is working specifically on an evaluation of the impact of the Mental Capacity Act 2005, and will develop practice guidance to enhance concordance with the Act. Phase One of the study has involved baseline interviews with practitioners across a wide range of services to establish knowledge and expectations of the Act, and to consider change processes when new policy and legislation are implemented.
Findings
Phase 1, involving baseline interviews with 115 practitioners, identified variable knowledge and understanding about the principles of the Act. Phase 2 is exploring everyday decision-making by people with memory problems and their carers
Forum. Stratigraphic Fit to Phylogenies: A Proposed Solution
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/73634/1/j.1096-0031.1998.tb00333.x.pd
LIS1 determines cleavage plane positioning by regulating actomyosin-mediated cell membrane contractility
Heterozygous loss of human PAFAH1B1 (coding for LIS1) results in the disruption of neurogenesis and neuronal migration via dysregulation of microtubule (MT) stability and dynein motor function/localization that alters mitotic spindle orientation, chromosomal segregation, and nuclear migration. Recently, human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) models revealed an important role for LIS1 in controlling the length of terminal cell divisions of outer radial glial (oRG) progenitors, suggesting cellular functions of LIS1 in regulating neural progenitor cell (NPC) daughter cell separation. Here we examined the late mitotic stages NPCs in vivo and mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) in vitro from Pafah1b1-deficient mutants. Pafah1b1-deficient neocortical NPCs and MEFs similarly exhibited cleavage plane displacement with mislocalization of furrow-associated markers, associated with actomyosin dysfunction and cell membrane hyper-contractility. Thus, it suggests LIS1 acts as a key molecular link connecting MTs/dynein and actomyosin, ensuring that cell membrane contractility is tightly controlled to execute proper daughter cell separation
Performance of CMS muon reconstruction in pp collision events at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV
The performance of muon reconstruction, identification, and triggering in CMS
has been studied using 40 inverse picobarns of data collected in pp collisions
at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV at the LHC in 2010. A few benchmark sets of selection
criteria covering a wide range of physics analysis needs have been examined.
For all considered selections, the efficiency to reconstruct and identify a
muon with a transverse momentum pT larger than a few GeV is above 95% over the
whole region of pseudorapidity covered by the CMS muon system, abs(eta) < 2.4,
while the probability to misidentify a hadron as a muon is well below 1%. The
efficiency to trigger on single muons with pT above a few GeV is higher than
90% over the full eta range, and typically substantially better. The overall
momentum scale is measured to a precision of 0.2% with muons from Z decays. The
transverse momentum resolution varies from 1% to 6% depending on pseudorapidity
for muons with pT below 100 GeV and, using cosmic rays, it is shown to be
better than 10% in the central region up to pT = 1 TeV. Observed distributions
of all quantities are well reproduced by the Monte Carlo simulation.Comment: Replaced with published version. Added journal reference and DO
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