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    The development of a cislunar space infrastructure

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    The primary objective of this Advanced Mission Design Program is to define the general characteristics and phased evolution of a near-Earth space infrastructure. The envisioned foundation includes a permanently manned, self-sustaining base on the lunar surface, a space station at the Libration Point between earth and the moon (L1), and a transportation system that anchors these elements to the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) station. The implementation of this conceptual design was carried out with the idea that the infrastructure is an important step in a larger plan to expand man's capabilities in space science and technology. Such expansion depends on low cost, reliable, and frequent access to space for those who wish to use the multiple benefits of this environment. The presence of a cislunar space infrastructure would greatly facilitate the staging of future planetary missions, as well as the full exploration of the lunar potential for science and industry. The rationale for, and a proposed detailed scenario in support of, the cislunar space infrastructure are discussed

    Investigating the DSM-5 and the ICD-11 PTSD symptoms using network analysis across two distinct samples

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    Objective: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has long been debated with a recent focus on the consequences of having two different diagnostic descriptions of PTSD (i.e., the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-Fifth Edition [DSM-5] and the International Classification of Diseases-11th Edition [ICD-11]). Research has modeled PTSD as a network of interacting symptoms according to both diagnostic systems, but the relations between the two systems remain unclear regarding which symptoms are more central or interconnected. To answer this question, the present study is the first study to investigate the combined network structure of PTSD symptoms according to both systems using validated measurements (i.e., the International Trauma Questionnaire [ITQ] and the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist 5 [PCL-5] across two distinct trauma samples [a community sample, N = 2,367], and a military sample, N = 657). Method: We estimated two Gaussian Graphical Models of the combined ICD-11 and DSM-5 PTSD symptoms across the two samples. Results: Five of the six most central symptoms were the same across both samples. Conclusions: The results underline that a combination of five symptoms representing both diagnostic systems may hold central positions and potentially be important for treatment. However, the implications depend on if the different diagnostic descriptions can be reconciled in an indexical rather than constitutive perspective.Clinical Impact Statement Five identical posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms representing both diagnostic systems were identified across two distinct trauma exposed samples using network analysis. These symptoms may hold important positions compared with the remaining symptoms of the network and potentially be central for treatment. However, the implications depend on whether the results can be reconciled by viewing the two diagnostic descriptions of PTSD as indexical.Stress and Psychopatholog

    ChEMBL: a large-scale bioactivity database for drug discovery

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    ChEMBL is an Open Data database containing binding, functional and ADMET information for a large number of drug-like bioactive compounds. These data are manually abstracted from the primary published literature on a regular basis, then further curated and standardized to maximize their quality and utility across a wide range of chemical biology and drug-discovery research problems. Currently, the database contains 5.4 million bioactivity measurements for more than 1 million compounds and 5200 protein targets. Access is available through a web-based interface, data downloads and web services at: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/chembldb

    Measurements of double-helicity asymmetries in inclusive J/ψJ/\psi production in longitudinally polarized p+pp+p collisions at s=510\sqrt{s}=510 GeV

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    We report the double helicity asymmetry, ALLJ/ψA_{LL}^{J/\psi}, in inclusive J/ψJ/\psi production at forward rapidity as a function of transverse momentum pTp_T and rapidity y|y|. The data analyzed were taken during s=510\sqrt{s}=510 GeV longitudinally polarized pp++pp collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) in the 2013 run using the PHENIX detector. At this collision energy, J/ψJ/\psi particles are predominantly produced through gluon-gluon scatterings, thus ALLJ/ψA_{LL}^{J/\psi} is sensitive to the gluon polarization inside the proton. We measured ALLJ/ψA_{LL}^{J/\psi} by detecting the decay daughter muon pairs μ+μ\mu^+ \mu^- within the PHENIX muon spectrometers in the rapidity range 1.2<y<2.21.2<|y|<2.2. In this kinematic range, we measured the ALLJ/ψA_{LL}^{J/\psi} to be 0.012±0.0100.012 \pm 0.010~(stat)~±\pm~0.0030.003(syst). The ALLJ/ψA_{LL}^{J/\psi} can be expressed to be proportional to the product of the gluon polarization distributions at two distinct ranges of Bjorken xx: one at moderate range x0.05x \approx 0.05 where recent RHIC data of jet and π0\pi^0 double helicity spin asymmetries have shown evidence for significant gluon polarization, and the other one covering the poorly known small-xx region x2×103x \approx 2\times 10^{-3}. Thus our new results could be used to further constrain the gluon polarization for x<0.05x< 0.05.Comment: 335 authors, 10 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables, 2013 data. Version accepted for publication by Phys. Rev. D. Plain text data tables for the points plotted in figures for this and previous PHENIX publications are (or will be) publicly available at http://www.phenix.bnl.gov/papers.htm

    Nuclear dependence of the transverse-single-spin asymmetry for forward neutron production in polarized pp++AA collisions at sNN=200\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}}=200 GeV

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    During 2015 the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) provided collisions of transversely polarized protons with Au and Al nuclei for the first time, enabling the exploration of transverse-single-spin asymmetries with heavy nuclei. Large single-spin asymmetries in very forward neutron production have been previously observed in transversely polarized pp++pp collisions at RHIC, and the existing theoretical framework that was successful in describing the single-spin asymmetry in pp++pp collisions predicts only a moderate atomic-mass-number (AA) dependence. In contrast, the asymmetries observed at RHIC in pp++AA collisions showed a surprisingly strong AA dependence in inclusive forward neutron production. The observed asymmetry in pp++Al collisions is much smaller, while the asymmetry in pp++Au collisions is a factor of three larger in absolute value and of opposite sign. The interplay of different neutron production mechanisms is discussed as a possible explanation of the observed AA dependence.Comment: 315 authors, 8 pages, 4 figures, 1 table. v2 is version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett. Plain text data tables for the points plotted in figures for this and previous PHENIX publications are (or will be) publicly available at http://www.phenix.bnl.gov/papers.htm

    Cross Section and Transverse Single-Spin Asymmetry of η\eta Mesons in p+pp^{\uparrow}+p Collisions at s=200\sqrt{s}=200 GeV at Forward Rapidity

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    We present a measurement of the cross section and transverse single-spin asymmetry (ANA_N) for η\eta mesons at large pseudorapidity from s=200\sqrt{s}=200~GeV p+pp^{\uparrow}+p collisions. The measured cross section for 0.5<pT<5.00.5<p_T<5.0~GeV/cc and 3.0<η<3.83.0<|\eta|<3.8 is well described by a next-to-leading-order perturbative-quantum-chromodynamics calculation. The asymmetries ANA_N have been measured as a function of Feynman-xx (xFx_F) from 0.2<xF<0.70.2<|x_{F}|<0.7, as well as transverse momentum (pTp_T) from 1.0<pT<4.51.0<p_T<4.5~GeV/cc. The asymmetry averaged over positive xFx_F is AN=0.061±0.014\langle{A_{N}}\rangle=0.061{\pm}0.014. The results are consistent with prior transverse single-spin measurements of forward η\eta and π0\pi^{0} mesons at various energies in overlapping xFx_F ranges. Comparison of different particle species can help to determine the origin of the large observed asymmetries in p+pp^{\uparrow}+p collisions.Comment: 484 authors, 13 pages, 11 figures, 4 tables, 2008 data. v2 is version accepted by Phys. Rev. D. Plain text data tables for the points plotted in figures for this and previous PHENIX publications are (or will be)publicly available at http://www.phenix.bnl.gov/papers.htm
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