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Macrofaunal community inside and outside of the Darwin Mounds Special Area of Conservation, NE Atlantic
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Proximity Effects in Radiative Transfer
Though the dependence of near-field radiative transfer on the gap between two
planar objects is well understood, that between curved objects is still
unclear. We show, based on the analysis of the surface polariton mediated
radiative transfer between two spheres of equal radii and minimum gap ,
that the near--field radiative transfer scales as as
and as for larger values of up to the far--field limit. We
propose a modified form of the proximity approximation to predict near--field
radiative transfer between curved objects from simulations of radiative
transfer between planar surfaces.Comment: 5 journal pages, 4 figure
Microplastics and synthetic particles ingested by deep-sea amphipods in six of the deepest marine ecosystems on Earth
Funding Funding for the laboratory work and analysis was from Newcastle University internal support. This work was supported by the 2007–2010 HADEEP project, funded by the Nippon Foundation (2009765188) and the Natural Environmental Research Council (NE/E007171/1). The 2011–2013 Kermadec Trench sampling was supported by the TOTAL Foundation (France) through the projects ‘Multi-disciplinary investigations of the deepest scavengers on Earth’ (2010–2012) and ‘Trench Connection’ (2013–2015). The Mariana samples were derived from the ‘FISH2017’ expedition (RV Shinyo-Maru SY1615) supported by the Tokyo University for Marine Science and Technology. Acknowledgements We thank the captain, crew and company of the research expeditions who assisted in the collection of the amphipods between 2008 and 2017, namely the Japanese Hakuho-Maru, Tansei Maru and Shinyo-Maru, the German Sonne and the RV Kaharoa in New Zealand. The assistance of David Whitaker and Peter McParlin from The School of Marine Science and Technology at Newcastle University are much appreciated. We are extremely grateful to Bob Keighley and Dan Parnaby at Shimadzu UK Limited for facilitating the FTIR analysis and access to their material database. We also thank Heather Stewart from the British Geological Survey for calculating the distances between trenches.Peer reviewedPublisher PD
An Overview on Pashanabedha Medicinal Plants
One of the major kidney diseases that needs a well-targeted therapeutic approach is urolithiasis. For the treatment of lithiasis, a number of medications are available, including diuretics and stone inhibitors, however clinical examination of these medications has revealed a frequency of relapses, adverse effects, and drug interactions. This has served as the justification for the development of new antilithiatic medications, and the hunt for novel molecules has now included herbal medications that provide superior defence and lower relapse rates. Plant-based medications are becoming more popular and are being researched for a variety of illnesses, including lithiasis. A set of medicinal plants known as pashanabheda (literally, ”stonesolving”) are utilised by Ayurvedic doctors in India as anti-urolithiatic medications. The present article reviews the antilithiatic activity of some of the medicinal plants. Here attempt is made to review a few medicinal plants with documented anti-urolithiatic action. In this study, some of the significant plants noted for their antilithiatic effects have been highlighted. Keywords: Urolithiatic; AntiUrolithiatic; Maceration; Turbidimetry; Calcium Oxalat
Electronic Structure of Dinuclear Gold(I) Complexes
Cyclic voltammetry (CV) experiments on LL(AuSR∗)2
complexes [LL = diphenylphosphinomethane
(dppm), diphenylphosphinopentane (dpppn); R* =
p-SC6H4CH3] show anodic sweeps that broaden by
about 25 mV on going from the longer (dpppn) to the shorter (dppm) bidentate phosphine ligand.
Changing concentrations had no effect on the shape of the waveform. The result suggests a weak
intramolecular metal-metal interaction in dppm(AuSR∗)2
that correlates well with rate acceleration
occurring in the reaction of dppm(AuSR∗)2
with organic disulfides. Quantum yields for cis-dppee(AuX)2
[dppee = 1,2-bis(diphenylphosphino)ethylene; X = Cl, Br, I] complexes, (disappearance) Φ
, are significantly
higher in complexes with a softer X ligand, a trend that correlates well with aurophilicity. This result also
suggests that electronic perturbation caused by Au(I)-Au(I) interactions is important in explaining the
reactivity of some dinuclear gold(I) complexes. The crystal structure for cis-dppee(Aul)2
shows short
intramolecular Au(I)-Au(I) interactions of 2.9526 (6) A°, while the structure
of trans-dppee(AuI)2
, shows intermolecular Au(I)-Au(I) interactions of 3.2292 (9) A°. The substitution of .As for
P results in a ligand, cis-diphenylarsinoethylene
(cis-dpaee), that is photochemically active, in contrast to the cis-dppee ligand.
The complexes, cis-dpaee(AuX)2, are also photochemically active but
with lower quantum yields than the
cis-dppee(AuX)2
complexes
Observation of Fluctuation-Dissipation-Theorem Violations in a Structural Glass
The fluctuation-dissipation theorem (FDT), connecting dielectric
susceptibility and polarization noise was studied in glycerol below its glass
transition temperature Tg. Weak FDT violations were observed after a quench
from just above to just below Tg, for frequencies above the alpha peak.
Violations persisted up to 10^5 times the thermal equilibration time of the
configurational degrees of freedom under study, but comparable to the average
relaxation time of the material. These results suggest that excess energy flows
from slower to faster relaxing modes.Comment: Improved discussion; final version to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett. 4
pages, 5 PS figures, RevTe
An overview of the first 5 years of the ENIGMA obsessive–compulsive disorder working group: The power of worldwide collaboration
Abstract Neuroimaging has played an important part in advancing our understanding of the neurobiology of obsessive?compulsive disorder (OCD). At the same time, neuroimaging studies of OCD have had notable limitations, including reliance on relatively small samples. International collaborative efforts to increase statistical power by combining samples from across sites have been bolstered by the ENIGMA consortium; this provides specific technical expertise for conducting multi-site analyses, as well as access to a collaborative community of neuroimaging scientists. In this article, we outline the background to, development of, and initial findings from ENIGMA's OCD working group, which currently consists of 47 samples from 34 institutes in 15 countries on 5 continents, with a total sample of 2,323 OCD patients and 2,325 healthy controls. Initial work has focused on studies of cortical thickness and subcortical volumes, structural connectivity, and brain lateralization in children, adolescents and adults with OCD, also including the study on the commonalities and distinctions across different neurodevelopment disorders. Additional work is ongoing, employing machine learning techniques. Findings to date have contributed to the development of neurobiological models of OCD, have provided an important model of global scientific collaboration, and have had a number of clinical implications. Importantly, our work has shed new light on questions about whether structural and functional alterations found in OCD reflect neurodevelopmental changes, effects of the disease process, or medication impacts. We conclude with a summary of ongoing work by ENIGMA-OCD, and a consideration of future directions for neuroimaging research on OCD within and beyond ENIGMA
Insights from the management of offshore energy resources: Toward an ecosystem-services based management approach for deep-ocean industries
The deep ocean comprises complex ecosystems made up of numerous community and habitat types that provide multiple services that benefit humans. As the industrialization of the deep sea proceeds, a standardized and robust set of methods and metrics need to be developed to monitor the baseline conditions and any anthropogenic and climate change-related impacts on biodiversity, ecosystem function, and ecosystem services. Here, we review what we have learned from studies involving offshore-energy industries, including state-of-the-art technologies and strategies for obtaining reliable metrics of deep-sea biodiversity and ecosystem function. An approach that includes the detection and monitoring of ecosystem services, with open access to baseline data from multiple sectors, can help to improve our global capacity for the management of the deep ocean
Human Cell Chips: Adapting DNA Microarray Spotting Technology to Cell-Based Imaging Assays
Here we describe human spotted cell chips, a technology for determining cellular state across arrays of cells subjected to chemical or genetic perturbation. Cells are grown and treated under standard tissue culture conditions before being fixed and printed onto replicate glass slides, effectively decoupling the experimental conditions from the assay technique. Each slide is then probed using immunofluorescence or other optical reporter and assayed by automated microscopy. We show potential applications of the cell chip by assaying HeLa and A549 samples for changes in target protein abundance (of the dsRNA-activated protein kinase PKR), subcellular localization (nuclear translocation of NFκB) and activation state (phosphorylation of STAT1 and of the p38 and JNK stress kinases) in response to treatment by several chemical effectors (anisomycin, TNFα, and interferon), and we demonstrate scalability by printing a chip with ∼4,700 discrete samples of HeLa cells. Coupling this technology to high-throughput methods for culturing and treating cell lines could enable researchers to examine the impact of exogenous effectors on the same population of experimentally treated cells across multiple reporter targets potentially representing a variety of molecular systems, thus producing a highly multiplexed dataset with minimized experimental variance and at reduced reagent cost compared to alternative techniques. The ability to prepare and store chips also allows researchers to follow up on observations gleaned from initial screens with maximal repeatability
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