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R &D of wavelength-shifting reflectors and characterization of the quantum efficiency of tetraphenyl butadiene and polyethylene naphthalate in liquid argon
Published in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields (01-05-2022)“…Detectors based on liquid argon (LAr) often require surfaces that can shift vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) light and reflect the visible shifted light. For the LAr…”
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Opening the silvicultural toolbox: A new framework for conserving biodiversity in Chilean timber plantations
Published in Forest ecology and management (01-10-2018)“…•The role of timber plantations in global conservation efforts is hotly debated.•We examined biodiversity maintenance and loss in Chilean plantations.•Biases…”
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Monitoring and modelling the effects of ecosystem engineers on ecosystem functioning
Published in Functional ecology (01-01-2024)“…Abstract Biodiversity is crucial for supporting ecosystem functioning, yet some species play a disproportionate role in maintaining complex ecological…”
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THE PRECEDENTIAL EFFECTS OF THE SUPREME COURT'S EMERGENCY STAYS
Published in Harvard journal of law and public policy (22-06-2021)“…The Supreme Court of the US makes two types of decisions with far-reaching effects on American life. We are all familiar with the first type. In keeping with…”
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Clinical challenges in the co-management of diabetes mellitus and tuberculosis in southern Africa
Published in JEMDSA : the journal of endocrinology, metabolism and diabetes of South Africa (01-12-2013)“…Over the past 20 years, tuberculosis incidence in southern Africa has increased at an alarming rate, fuelled primarily by the human immunodeficiency virus…”
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Oncologic results following abdominoperineal resection for adenocarcinoma of the low rectum
Published in Diseases of the colon & rectum (01-07-2003)“…The role of abdominoperineal resection for rectal cancer has changed because of advances in sphincter-preserving surgery. Our aim was to evaluate the results…”
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Ecosystem carbon stocks of mangrove forests along the Pacific and Caribbean coasts of Honduras
Published in Wetlands ecology and management (01-04-2016)“…Among the many ecosystem services provided by mangrove ecosystems, their role in carbon (C) sequestration and storage is quite high compared to other tropical…”
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Conversion of Isoaspartyl Peptides to Normal Peptides: Implications for the Cellular Repair of Damaged Proteins
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (01-05-1987)“…The hypothesis that cellular protein carboxylmethylation reactions recognize altered aspartyl residues as part of a protein repair pathway has been tested in…”
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Responses of fish chromatophore-based cytosensor to a broad range of biological agents
Published in Journal of applied toxicology (01-09-2004)“…A cytosensor based on living chromatophores from Betta splendens Siamese fighting fish was used to test several classes of biologically active agents. Tested…”
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Understanding the enhancement of scintillation light in xenon-doped liquid argon
Published in Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment (11-01-2023)“…Measuring the scintillation light in noble gases is an important detection technique in particle physics. Numerous rare event searches like neutrino beam…”
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Blind and naïve classification of toxicity by fish chromatophores
Published in Journal of applied toxicology (01-09-2004)“…Cellular and molecular pathways involved in the ability of animals to change color have been studied previously as biosensors and cytosensors of active and…”
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EILATox-Oregon Biomonitoring Workshop: summary and observations
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A two-cell biosensor that couples neuronal cells to optically monitored fish chromatophores
Published in Biosensors & bioelectronics (01-09-2001)“…A two-cell biosensor was developed that uses optically detected changes in naturally colored fish chromatophores to measure the neurosecretory output of…”
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Solar neutrino detection sensitivity in DARWIN via electron scattering
Published in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields (01-12-2020)“…We detail the sensitivity of the proposed liquid xenon DARWIN observatory to solar neutrinos via elastic electron scattering. We find that DARWIN will have the…”
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Molecular Phylogenetics of a Protein Repair Methyltransferase
Published in Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (01-07-1997)“…Protein- l-isoaspartyl ( d-aspartyl) O-methyltransferase (E.C. 2.1.1.77) is a well-conserved and widely distributed protein repair enzyme that methylates…”
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Biosensors based on the chromatic activities of living, naturally pigmented cells: digital image processing of the dynamics of fish melanophores
Published in Biosensors & bioelectronics (01-01-1997)“…The activities of fish chromatophores, the colorful living cells in the skin and scales of fish, were tested for their suitability as optically interfaced,…”
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Large-scale, precision xenon doping of liquid argon
Published in Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment (21-09-2021)“…The detection of scintillation light from liquid argon is an experimental technique key to a number of current and future nuclear/particle physics experiments,…”
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Methylation at D-Aspartyl Residues in Erythrocytes: Possible Step in the Repair of Aged Membrane Proteins
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (01-04-1982)“…Reversibly methylated aspartyl residues in human erythrocyte membrane proteins are shown to be in the ``unnatural'' D configuration. This is demonstrated by…”
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Radiation-tolerant, low-mass, high bandwidth, flexible printed circuit cables for particle physics experiments
Published in Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment (11-09-2016)“…The design of meter long flexible printed circuit cables required for low-mass ultra-high speed signal transmission in the high radiation environment of the…”
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Measurement of Altered Aspartyl Residues in the Scrapie Associated Form of Prion Protein
Published in Biochemical and biophysical research communications (29-05-1998)“…In transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE), the endogenous protease-sensitive prion protein (PrP-sen) of the host is converted to a pathologic form…”
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