367 research outputs found
Glucksman Fellowship Program Student Research Reports
Shourya Ghosh, under the supervision of Edward Altman, does a
statistical comparison of credit ratings from Moody’s and
Standard & Poor’s to see whether there are any consistent
biases between the two rating agencies. Kenneth McDermid, under the
direction of Jeffrey Wurgler, investigates the performance of hedge
funds and confirms that institutions with fewer assets and more
concentrated portfolios outperform the others and that the
out-performance is the result of selection ability. Joe Mellet, under
the supervision of David Yermack, examines the market’s reaction
to 320 special dividend announcements made in October, November, and
December of 2012 in response to the looming tax increases and finds
significant Cumulative Abnormal Returns (CARs) in the days surrounding
the dividend announcement.
Existence of solutions for a higher order non-local equation appearing in crack dynamics
In this paper, we prove the existence of non-negative solutions for a
non-local higher order degenerate parabolic equation arising in the modeling of
hydraulic fractures. The equation is similar to the well-known thin film
equation, but the Laplace operator is replaced by a Dirichlet-to-Neumann
operator, corresponding to the square root of the Laplace operator on a bounded
domain with Neumann boundary conditions (which can also be defined using the
periodic Hilbert transform). In our study, we have to deal with the usual
difficulty associated to higher order equations (e.g. lack of maximum
principle). However, there are important differences with, for instance, the
thin film equation: First, our equation is nonlocal; Also the natural energy
estimate is not as good as in the case of the thin film equation, and does not
yields, for instance, boundedness and continuity of the solutions (our case is
critical in dimension in that respect)
Long time, large scale limit of the Wigner transform for a system of linear oscillators in one dimension
We consider the long time, large scale behavior of the Wigner transform
W_\eps(t,x,k) of the wave function corresponding to a discrete wave equation
on a 1-d integer lattice, with a weak multiplicative noise. This model has been
introduced in Basile, Bernardin, and Olla to describe a system of interacting
linear oscillators with a weak noise that conserves locally the kinetic energy
and the momentum. The kinetic limit for the Wigner transform has been shown in
Basile, Olla, and Spohn. In the present paper we prove that in the unpinned
case there exists such that for any the
weak limit of W_\eps(t/\eps^{3/2\gamma},x/\eps^{\gamma},k), as \eps\ll1,
satisfies a one dimensional fractional heat equation with . In the pinned case an analogous
result can be claimed for W_\eps(t/\eps^{2\gamma},x/\eps^{\gamma},k) but the
limit satisfies then the usual heat equation
Cyclodextrin-Based Nanostructure Efficiently Delivers siRNA to Glioblastoma Cells Preferentially via Macropinocytosis
© 2020 by the authors.Small interfering ribonucleic acid (siRNA) has the potential to revolutionize therapeutics since it can knockdown very efficiently the target protein. It is starting to be widely used to interfere with cell infection by HIV. However, naked siRNAs are unable to get into the cell, requiring the use of carriers to protect them from degradation and transporting them across the cell membrane. There is no information about which is the most efficient endocytosis route for high siRNA transfection efficiency. One of the most promising carriers to efficiently deliver siRNA are cyclodextrin derivatives. We have used nanocomplexes composed of siRNA and a β-cyclodextrin derivative, AMC6, with a very high transfection efficiency to selectively knockdown clathrin heavy chain, caveolin 1, and p21 Activated Kinase 1 to specifically block clathrin-mediated, caveolin-mediated and macropinocytosis endocytic pathways. The main objective was to identify whether there is a preferential endocytic pathway associated with high siRNA transfection efficiency. We have found that macropinocytosis is the preferential entry pathway for the nanoparticle and its associated siRNA cargo. However, blockade of macropinocytosis does not affect AMC6-mediated transfection efficiency, suggesting that macropinocytosis blockade can be functionally compensated by an increase in clathrin- and caveolin-mediated endocytosis.This research was funded, in part, by contract numbers PID2019-105858RB-I00 (MCI, AEI, FEDER,
UE) and RTI2018-097609-B-C21 (MICIU, AEI, FEDER, UE) to C.O.M. and J.M.G.F. and grants from the Spanish
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (project SAF2017-89288-R from MINECO/AEI/FEDER/UE), from Junta
de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha (project SBPLY/19/180501/000067), and ISCIII (AC19/00075) and ERANET
Euronanomed Program (project NANO4GLIO) to V.C. It also benefited from the framework of COST Action
Nano2Clinic (CA17140), supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology).Publisher’s versio
Glucksman Fellowship Program Student Research Reports
Shourya Ghosh, under the supervision of Edward Altman, does a
statistical comparison of credit ratings from Moody’s and
Standard & Poor’s to see whether there are any consistent
biases between the two rating agencies. Kenneth McDermid, under the
direction of Jeffrey Wurgler, investigates the performance of hedge
funds and confirms that institutions with fewer assets and more
concentrated portfolios outperform the others and that the
out-performance is the result of selection ability. Joe Mellet, under
the supervision of David Yermack, examines the market’s reaction
to 320 special dividend announcements made in October, November, and
December of 2012 in response to the looming tax increases and finds
significant Cumulative Abnormal Returns (CARs) in the days surrounding
the dividend announcement.
Trehalose-based Janus cyclooligosaccharides: the ‘‘Click’’ synthesis and DNA-directed assembly into pH-sensitive transfectious nanoparticles
This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.-- et al.The convergent preparation of Janus molecular nanoparticles by thiourea-‘‘clicking’’ of a,a0
-trehalose halves has been implemented; the strategy allows access to macrocyclic derivatives with seggregated
cationic and lipophilic domains that in the presence of DNA
undergo pH-dependent self-assembly into lamellar superstructures, as established by electrochemical, structural (SAXS), microscopical
(TEM) and computational techniques, that mediate transfection in vitro and in vivo.We acknowledge support by the CSIC Open Access Publication Initiative through its Unit of Information Resources for Research (URICI).The authors thank MINECO (contract numbers CTQ2012-
30821, SAF2013-44021-R, CTQ2015-64425-C2-1-R and CTQ2015-64425-C2-2-R), the Junta de Andalucía (contract number FQM2012-1467), University Complutense of Madrid (project no. UCMA05-33-010), the Government of Navarra (Department of Innovation and Industry, contract number IIQ14334.RI1), the University of Navarra Foundation (FUN), and the European Regional Development Funds (FEDER and FSE) for financial support.Peer reviewe
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