TY  - JOUR
A1  - Abramowski, Attila
A1  - Aharonian, Felix A.
A1  - Benkhali, Faical  Ait
A1  - Akhperjanian, A. G.
A1  - Angüner, Ekrem Oǧuzhan
A1  - Backes, Michael
A1  - Balzer, Arnim
A1  - Becherini, Yvonne
A1  - Tjus, J. Becker
A1  - Berge, David
A1  - Bernhard, Sabrina
A1  - Bernlöhr, K.
A1  - Birsin, E.
A1  - Blackwell, R.
A1  - Boettcher, Markus
A1  - Boisson, Catherine
A1  - Bolmont, J.
A1  - Bordas, Pol
A1  - Bregeon, Johan
A1  - Brun, Francois
A1  - Brun, Pierre
A1  - Bryan, Mark
A1  - Bulik, Tomasz
A1  - Carr, John
A1  - Casanova, Sabrina
A1  - Chakraborty, N.
A1  - Chalme-Calvet, R.
A1  - Chaves, Ryan C. G.
A1  - Chen, Andrew
A1  - Chretien, M.
A1  - Colafrancesco, Sergio
A1  - Cologna, Gabriele
A1  - Conrad, Jan
A1  - Couturier, C.
A1  - Cui, Y.
A1  - Davids, I. D.
A1  - Degrange, B.
A1  - Deil, C.
A1  - deWilt, P.
A1  - Djannati-Ata, A.
A1  - Domainko, W.
A1  - Donath, A.
A1  - Dubus, G.
A1  - Dutson, K.
A1  - Dyks, J.
A1  - Dyrda, M.
A1  - Edwards, T.
A1  - Egberts, Kathrin
A1  - Eger, P.
A1  - Ernenwein, J-P.
A1  - Espigat, P.
A1  - Farnier, C.
A1  - Fegan, S.
A1  - Feinstein, F.
A1  - Fernandes, M. V.
A1  - Fernandez, D.
A1  - Fiasson, A.
A1  - Fontaine, G.
A1  - Foerster, A.
A1  - Fuessling, M.
A1  - Gabici, S.
A1  - Gajdus, M.
A1  - Gallant, Y. A.
A1  - Garrigoux, T.
A1  - Giavitto, G.
A1  - Giebels, B.
A1  - Glicenstein, J. F.
A1  - Gottschall, D.
A1  - Goyal, A.
A1  - Grondin, M-H.
A1  - Grudzinska, M.
A1  - Hadasch, D.
A1  - Haeffner, S.
A1  - Hahn, J.
A1  - Hawkes, J.
A1  - Heinzelmann, G.
A1  - Henri, G.
A1  - Hermann, G.
A1  - Hervet, O.
A1  - Hillert, A.
A1  - Hinton, James Anthony
A1  - Hofmann, W.
A1  - Hofverberg, P.
A1  - Hoischen, Clemens
A1  - Holler, M.
A1  - Horns, D.
A1  - Ivascenko, A.
A1  - Jacholkowska, A.
A1  - Jamrozy, M.
A1  - Janiak, M.
A1  - Jankowsky, F.
A1  - Jung-Richardt, I.
A1  - Kastendieck, M. A.
A1  - Katarzynski, K.
A1  - Katz, U.
A1  - Kerszberg, D.
A1  - Khelifi, B.
A1  - Kieffer, M.
A1  - Klepser, S.
A1  - Klochkov, D.
A1  - Kluzniak, W.
A1  - Kolitzus, D.
A1  - Komin, Nu.
A1  - Kosack, K.
A1  - Krakau, S.
A1  - Krayzel, F.
A1  - Krueger, P. P.
A1  - Laffon, H.
A1  - Lamanna, G.
A1  - Lau, J.
A1  - Lefaucheur, J.
A1  - Lefranc, V.
A1  - Lemiere, A.
A1  - Lemoine-Goumard, M.
A1  - Lenain, J-P.
A1  - Lohse, T.
A1  - Lopatin, A.
A1  - Lu, C-C.
A1  - Lui, R.
A1  - Marandon, V.
A1  - Marcowith, Alexandre
A1  - Mariaud, C.
A1  - Marx, R.
A1  - Maurin, G.
A1  - Maxted, N.
A1  - Mayer, M.
A1  - Meintjes, P. J.
A1  - Menzler, U.
A1  - Meyer, M.
A1  - Mitchell, A. M. W.
A1  - Moderski, R.
A1  - Mohamed, M.
A1  - Mora, K.
A1  - Moulin, Emmanuel
A1  - Murach, T.
A1  - de Naurois, M.
A1  - Niemiec, J.
A1  - Oakes, L.
A1  - Odaka, H.
A1  - Oettl, S.
A1  - Ohm, S.
A1  - Opitz, B.
A1  - Ostrowski, M.
A1  - Oya, I.
A1  - Panter, M.
A1  - Parsons, R. D.
A1  - Arribas, M. Paz
A1  - Pekeur, N. W.
A1  - Pelletier, G.
A1  - Petrucci, P-O.
A1  - Peyaud, B.
A1  - Pita, S.
A1  - Poon, H.
A1  - Prokoph, H.
A1  - Puehlhofer, G.
A1  - Punch, M.
A1  - Quirrenbach, A.
A1  - Raab, S.
A1  - Reichardt, I.
A1  - Reimer, A.
A1  - Reimer, O.
A1  - Renaud, M.
A1  - de los Reyes, R.
A1  - Rieger, F.
A1  - Romoli, C.
A1  - Rosier-Lees, S.
A1  - Rowell, G.
A1  - Rudak, B.
A1  - Rulten, C. B.
A1  - Sahakian, V.
A1  - Salek, D.
A1  - Sanchez, David M.
A1  - Santangelo, Andrea
A1  - Sasaki, M.
A1  - Schlickeiser, R.
A1  - Schuessler, F.
A1  - Schulz, A.
A1  - Schwanke, U.
A1  - Schwemmer, S.
A1  - Seyffert, A. S.
A1  - Simoni, R.
A1  - Sol, H.
A1  - Spanier, F.
A1  - Spengler, G.
A1  - Spies, F.
A1  - Stawarz, L.
A1  - Steenkamp, R.
A1  - Stegmann, Christian
A1  - Stinzing, F.
A1  - Stycz, K.
A1  - Sushch, Iurii
A1  - Tavernet, J-P.
A1  - Tavernier, T.
A1  - Taylor, A. M.
A1  - Terrier, R.
A1  - Tluczykont, M.
A1  - Trichard, C.
A1  - Tuffs, R.
A1  - Valerius, K.
A1  - van der Walt, J.
A1  - van Eldik, C.
A1  - van Soelen, B.
A1  - Vasileiadis, G.
A1  - Veh, J.
A1  - Venter, C.
A1  - Viana, A.
A1  - Vincent, P.
A1  - Vink, J.
A1  - Voisin, F.
A1  - Voelk, H. J.
A1  - Vuillaume, T.
A1  - Wagner, S. J.
A1  - Wagner, P.
A1  - Wagner, R. M.
A1  - Weidinger, M.
A1  - Weitzel, Q.
A1  - White, R.
A1  - Wierzcholska, A.
A1  - Willmann, P.
A1  - Woernlein, A.
A1  - Wouters, D.
A1  - Yang, R.
A1  - Zabalza, V.
A1  - Zaborov, D.
A1  - Zacharias, M.
A1  - Zdziarski, A. A.
A1  - Zech, Alraune
A1  - Zefi, F.
A1  - Zywucka, N.
T1  - Acceleration of petaelectronvolt protons in the Galactic Centre
JF  - Nature : the international weekly journal of science
N2  - Galactic cosmic rays reach energies of at least a few petaelectronvolts (of the order of 1015 electronvolts). This implies that our Galaxy contains petaelectronvolt accelerators (‘PeVatrons’), but all proposed models of Galactic cosmic-ray accelerators encounter difficulties at exactly these energies. Dozens of Galactic accelerators capable of accelerating particles to energies of tens of teraelectronvolts (of the order of 1013 electronvolts) were inferred from recent γ-ray observations3. However, none of the currently known accelerators—not even the handful of shell-type supernova remnants commonly believed to supply most Galactic cosmic rays—has shown the characteristic tracers of petaelectronvolt particles, namely, power-law spectra of γ-rays extending without a cut-off or a spectral break to tens of teraelectronvolts4. Here we report deep γ-ray observations with arcminute angular resolution of the region surrounding the Galactic Centre, which show the expected tracer of the presence of petaelectronvolt protons within the central 10 parsecs of the Galaxy. We propose that the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* is linked to this PeVatron. Sagittarius A* went through active phases in the past, as demonstrated by X-ray outbursts5and an outflow from the Galactic Centre6. Although its current rate of particle acceleration is not sufficient to provide a substantial contribution to Galactic cosmic rays, Sagittarius A* could have plausibly been more active over the last 106–107 years, and therefore should be considered as a viable alternative to supernova remnants as a source of petaelectronvolt Galactic cosmic rays.
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1038/nature17147
SN  - 0028-0836
SN  - 1476-4687
VL  - 531
SP  - 476
EP  - +
PB  - Nature Publ. Group
CY  - London
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bougeois, Laurie
A1  - de Rafelis, Marc
A1  - Reichart, Gert-Jan
A1  - de Nooijer, Lennart J.
A1  - Dupont-Nivet, Guillaume
T1  - Mg/Ca in fossil oyster shells as palaeotemperature proxy, an example from the Palaeogene of Central Asia
JF  - Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology : an international journal for the geo-sciences
N2  - Fossil oyster shells are well-suited to provide palaeotemperature proxies from geologic to seasonal timescales due to their ubiquitous occurrence from Triassic to Quaternary sediments, the seasonal nature of their shell growth and their relative strong resistance to post-mortem alteration. However, the common use to translate calcitic oxygen isotopes into palaeotemperatures is challenged by uncertainties in accounting for past seawater delta O-18, especially in shallow coastal environment where oysters calcify. In principle, the Mg/Ca ratio in oyster shells can provide an alternative palaeothermometer. Several studies provided temperature calibrations for this potential proxy based on modem species, nevertheless their application to palaeo-studies remains hitherto unexplored. Here, we show that past temperature variability in seawater can be obtained from Mg/Ca analyses from selected fossil oyster species and specimens. High-resolution Mg/Ca profiles, combined with delta O-18, were obtained along 41 fossil oyster shells of seven different species from the Palaeogene Proto-Paratethys sea (Central Asia) found in similar as well as different depositional age and environments providing comparison. Suitable Mg/Ca profiles, defined by continuous cyclicity and reproducibility within one shell, are found to be consistent for specimens of the same species but differ systematically between species, implying a dominant species-specific effect on the Mg/Ca signal. Two species studied here (Ostrea (Turkostrea) strictiplicata and Sokolowia buhsii) provide an excellent proxy for palaeoclimate reconstruction from China to Europe in Palaeogene marine sediments. More generally, the protocol developed here can be applied to identify other fossil oyster species suitable for palaeoclimate reconstructions. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
KW  - Palaeoclimate
KW  - Oyster
KW  - Mg/Ca
KW  - Sclerochronology
KW  - Palaeogene
KW  - Central Asia
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.09.052
SN  - 0031-0182
SN  - 1872-616X
VL  - 441
SP  - 611
EP  - 626
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Konrad, Marcel
A1  - Jacob, Louis
A1  - Rapp, Michael A.
A1  - Kostev, Karel
T1  - Treatment of depression in patients with cardiovascular diseases by German psychiatrists
JF  - International journal of clinical pharmacology and therapeutics
N2  - Objective: To estimate the prevalence and the type of antidepressant medication prescribed by German psychiatrists to patients with depression and cardiovascular diseases (CVD). Methods: This study was a retrospective database analysis in Germany using the Disease Analyzer Database (IMS Health, Germany). The study population included 2,288 CVD patients between 40 and 90 years of age from 175 psychiatric practices. The observation period was between 2004 and 2013. Follow-up lasted up to 12 months and ended in April 2015. Also included were 2,288 non-CVD controls matched (1 : 1) to CVD cases on the basis of age, gender, health insurance coverage, depression severity, and diagnosing physician. Results: Mean age was 68.6 years. 46.2% of patients were men, and 5.9% had private health insurance coverage. Mild, moderate, or severe depression was present in 18.7%, 60.7%, and 20.6% of patients, respectively. Most patients had treatment within a year, many of them immediately after depression diagnosis. Patients with moderate and severe depression were more likely to receive treatment than patients with mild depression. There was no difference between CVD and non-CVD in the proportion of patients treated. Nonetheless, CVD patients received selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors / serotonin-noradrenaline reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs/SNRIs) significantly more frequently. Conversely, patients without CVD were more often treated with TCA. Conclusion: There was no association between CVD and the initiation of depression treatment. Furthermore, CVD patients received SSRIs/SNRIs more frequently.
KW  - depression
KW  - cardiovascular diseases
KW  - antidepressant therapy
KW  - psychiatric practices
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.5414/CP202591
SN  - 0946-1965
VL  - 54
SP  - 557
EP  - 563
PB  - Dustri-Verlag Dr. Karl Feistle
CY  - Deisenhofen-München
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Garbusow, Maria
A1  - Schad, Daniel
A1  - Sebold, Miriam
A1  - Friedel, Eva
A1  - Bernhardt, Nadine
A1  - Koch, Stefan P.
A1  - Steinacher, Bruno
A1  - Kathmann, Norbert
A1  - Geurts, Dirk E. M.
A1  - Sommer, Christian
A1  - Mueller, Dirk K.
A1  - Nebe, Stephan
A1  - Paul, Soeren
A1  - Wittchen, Hans-Ulrich
A1  - Zimmermann, Ulrich S.
A1  - Walter, Henrik
A1  - Smolka, Michael N.
A1  - Sterzer, Philipp
A1  - Rapp, Michael A.
A1  - Huys, Quentin J. M.
A1  - Schlagenhauf, Florian
A1  - Heinz, Andreas
T1  - Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer effects in the nucleus accumbens relate to relapse in alcohol dependence
JF  - Addiction biology
N2  - In detoxified alcohol-dependent patients, alcohol-related stimuli can promote relapse. However, to date, the mechanisms by which contextual stimuli promote relapse have not been elucidated in detail. One hypothesis is that such contextual stimuli directly stimulate the motivation to drink via associated brain regions like the ventral striatum and thus promote alcohol seeking, intake and relapse. Pavlovian-to-Instrumental-Transfer (PIT) may be one of those behavioral phenomena contributing to relapse, capturing how Pavlovian conditioned (contextual) cues determine instrumental behavior (e.g. alcohol seeking and intake). We used a PIT paradigm during functional magnetic resonance imaging to examine the effects of classically conditioned Pavlovian stimuli on instrumental choices in n=31 detoxified patients diagnosed with alcohol dependence and n=24 healthy controls matched for age and gender. Patients were followed up over a period of 3 months. We observed that (1) there was a significant behavioral PIT effect for all participants, which was significantly more pronounced in alcohol-dependent patients; (2) PIT was significantly associated with blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) signals in the nucleus accumbens (NAcc) in subsequent relapsers only; and (3) PIT-related NAcc activation was associated with, and predictive of, critical outcomes (amount of alcohol intake and relapse during a 3 months follow-up period) in alcohol-dependent patients. These observations show for the first time that PIT-related BOLD signals, as a measure of the influence of Pavlovian cues on instrumental behavior, predict alcohol intake and relapse in alcohol dependence.
KW  - human Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer
KW  - nucleus accumbens
KW  - relapse in alcohol use disorder
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1111/adb.12243
SN  - 1355-6215
SN  - 1369-1600
VL  - 21
SP  - 719
EP  - 731
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
CY  - Hoboken
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Liu, Shuyan
A1  - Schad, Daniel
A1  - Kuschpel, Maxim S.
A1  - Rapp, Michael A.
A1  - Heinz, Andreas
T1  - Music and Video Gaming during Breaks
BT  - Influence on Habitual versus Goal-Directed Decision Making
JF  - PLoS one
N2  - Different systems for habitual versus goal-directed control are thought to underlie human decision-making. Working memory is known to shape these decision-making systems and
their interplay, and is known to support goal-directed decision making even under stress. Here, we investigated if and how decision systems are differentially influenced by breaks filled with diverse everyday life activities known to modulate working memory performance. We used a within-subject design where young adults listened to music and played a video game during breaks interleaved with trials of a sequential two-step Markov decision task, designed to assess habitual as well as goal-directed decision making. Based on a neurocomputational model of task performance, we observed that for individuals with a rather limited
working memory capacity video gaming as compared to music reduced reliance on the goal-directed decision-making system, while a rather large working memory capacity prevented such a decline. Our findings suggest differential effects of everyday activities on key decision-making processes.
KW  - Decision making
KW  - Games
KW  - Working memory
KW  - Video games
KW  - Cognition
KW  - Cognitive impairment
KW  - Music cognition
KW  - Learning
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0150165
SN  - 1932-6203
VL  - 11
IS  - 3
SP  - 1
EP  - 12
PB  - Public Library of Science
CY  - Lawrence, Kan.
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Licht, Alexis
A1  - Pullen, A.
A1  - Kapp, P.
A1  - Abell, Jordan
A1  - Giesler, N.
T1  - Eolian cannibalism: Reworked loess and fluvial sediment as the main
sources of the Chinese Loess Plateau
JF  - Geological Society of America bulletin
N2  - The loess and paleosol sequences of the Chinese Loess Plateau are composed of Quaternary dust, the origin of which has been the subject of considerable debate. Some recent U-Pb geochronological studies of eolian zircons have proposed the existence of two major wind pathways: from the north and northwest, through the Badan Jaran, Tengger, and Mu Us Deserts during interglacials, and from the west, through the Qaidam Basin during glacials. Others have emphasized the importance of Yellow River sediment supply in the Chinese Loess Plateau sediment budget. However, tracking dust source regions through U-Pb dating in a statistically robust manner is particularly complex given the similar age peaks in the age probability distributions of potential source regions in Central Asia. This paper presents 2410 new U-Pb ages of detrital zircons from wind-eroded strata, Quaternary eolian deposits, and modern river sands in central China in order to increase the robustness and the spatial resolution of zircon age distributions in dust source regions. We then propose a new mixture modeling technique to statistically address the contribution of these different sources to the Chinese Loess Plateau sedimentary budget. Our contribution estimates indicate that eolian supply to the Chinese Loess Plateau is dominated (60%-70%) by reworking of Yellow River sediment. Moreover, evidence of Qaidam Basin-sourced zircons (15%-20%) in both loess (glacial) and paleosol (interglacial) layers corroborates the existence of an erosive wind pathway through the Qaidam Basin during glacials and implies that a substantial portion of the interglacial dust is recycled from older glacial loess. We propose that sediment reworking of Yellow River sediment and older loess deposits by wind on the Chinese Loess Plateau homogenized the eolian zircon populations toward a glacial provenance due to higher (2-20 times) dust accumulation rates during glacials. These findings suggest that the Chinese Loess Plateau has evolved as a more dynamic landform than previous thought, where wind deflation, fluvial input, lateral transport, and accumulation of sediment are equally important. These internal reworking effects would then significantly bias the paleoclimatic interpretations based on eolian dust properties of the Chinese Loess Plateau.
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1130/B31375.1
SN  - 0016-7606
SN  - 1943-2674
VL  - 128
SP  - 944
EP  - 956
PB  - American Institute of Physics
CY  - Boulder
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Blayney, Tamsin
A1  - Najman, Yani
A1  - Dupont-Nivet, Guillaume
A1  - Carter, Andrew
A1  - Millar, Ian
A1  - Garzanti, Eduardo
A1  - Sobel, Edward
A1  - Rittner, Martin
A1  - Ando, Sergio
A1  - Guo, Zhaojie
A1  - Vezzoli, Giovanni
T1  - Indentation of the Pamirs with respect to the northern margin of Tibet: Constraints from the Tarim basin sedimentary record
JF  - Tectonics
N2  - The Pamirs represent the indented westward continuation of the northern margin of the Tibetan Plateau, dividing the Tarim and Tajik basins. Their evolution may be a key factor influencing aridification of the Asian interior, yet the tectonics of the Pamir Salient are poorly understood. We present a provenance study of the Aertashi section, a Paleogene to late Neogene clastic succession deposited in the Tarim basin to the north of the NW margin of Tibet (the West Kunlun) and to the east of the Pamirs. Our detrital zircon U-Pb ages coupled with zircon fission track, bulk rock Sm-Nd, and petrography data document changes in contributing source terranes during the Oligocene to Miocene, which can be correlated to regional tectonics. We propose a model for the evolution of the Pamir and West Kunlun (WKL), in which the WKL formed topography since at least similar to 200 Ma. By similar to 25 Ma, movement along the Pamir-bounding faults such as the Kashgar-Yecheng Transfer System had commenced, marking the onset of Pamir indentation into the Tarim-Tajik basin. This is coincident with basinward expansion of the northern WKL margin, which changed the palaeodrainage pattern within the Kunlun, progressively cutting off the more southerly WKL sources from the Tarim basin. An abrupt change in the provenance and facies of sediments at Aertashi has a maximum age of 14 Ma; this change records when the Pamir indenter had propagated sufficiently far north that the North Pamir was now located proximal to the Aertashi region.
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1002/2016TC004222
SN  - 0278-7407
SN  - 1944-9194
VL  - 35
SP  - 2345
EP  - 2369
PB  - American Geophysical Union
CY  - Washington
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Han, Fang
A1  - Rydin, Catarina
A1  - Bolinder, Kristina
A1  - Dupont-Nivet, Guillaume
A1  - Abels, Hemmo A.
A1  - Koutsodendris, Andreas
A1  - Zhang, Kexin
A1  - Hoorn, Carina
T1  - Steppe development on the Northern Tibetan Plateau inferred from Paleogene ephedroid pollen
JF  - Grana
N2  - Steppe vegetation represents a key marker of past Asian aridification and is associated with monsoonal intensification. Little is, however, known about the origin of this pre-Oligocene vegetation, its specific composition and how it changed over time and responded to climatic variations. Here, we describe the morphological characters of Ephedraceae pollen in Eocene strata of the Xining Basin and compare the pollen composition with the palynological composition of Late Cretaceous and Paleocene deposits of the Xining Basin and the Quaternary deposits of the Qaidam Basin. We find that the Late Cretaceous steppe was dominated by Gnetaceaepollenites; in the transition from the Cretaceous to the Paleocene, Gnetaceaepollenites became extinct and Ephedripites subgenus Ephedripites dominated the flora with rare occurrences of Ephedripites subgen. Distachyapites; the middle to late Eocene presents a strong increase of Ephedripites subgen. Distachyapites; and the Quaternary/Recent is marked by a significantly lower diversity of Ephedraceae (and Nitrariaceae) compared to the Eocene. In the modern landscape of China, only a fraction of the Paleogene species diversity of Ephedraceae remains and we propose that these alterations in Ephedreaceae composition occurred in response to the climatic changes at least since the Eocene. In particular, the strong Eocene monsoons that enhanced the continental aridification may have played an important role in the evolution of Ephedripites subgen. Distachyapites triggering an evolutionary shift to wind-pollination in this group. Conceivably, the Ephedraceae/Nitrariaceae dominated steppe ended during the Eocene/Oligocene climatic cooling and aridification, which favoured other plant taxa.
KW  - pollen morphology
KW  - Eocene
KW  - climate
KW  - Ephedripites
KW  - Distachyapites
KW  - Gnetaceaepollenites
KW  - monsoon
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/00173134.2015.1120343
SN  - 0017-3134
SN  - 1651-2049
VL  - 55
SP  - 71
EP  - 100
PB  - Springer
CY  - Oslo
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Licht, Alexis
A1  - Dupont-Nivet, Guillaume
A1  - Pullen, A.
A1  - Kapp, P.
A1  - Abels, Hemmo A.
A1  - Lai, Z.
A1  - Guo, Z.
A1  - Abell, Jordan
A1  - Giesler, D.
T1  - Resilience of the Asian atmospheric circulation shown by Paleogene dust provenance
JF  - Nature Communications
N2  - The onset of modern central Asian atmospheric circulation is traditionally linked to the interplay of surface uplift of the Mongolian and Tibetan-Himalayan orogens, retreat of the Paratethys sea from central Asia and Cenozoic global cooling. Although the role of these players has not yet been unravelled, the vast dust deposits of central China support the presence of arid conditions and modern atmospheric pathways for the last 25 million years (Myr). Here, we present provenance data from older (42-33 Myr) dust deposits, at a time when the Tibetan Plateau was less developed, the Paratethys sea still present in central Asia and atmospheric pCO(2) much higher. Our results show that dust sources and near-surface atmospheric circulation have changed little since at least 42 Myr. Our findings indicate that the locus of central Asian high pressures and concurrent aridity is a resilient feature only modulated by mountain building, global cooling and sea retreat.
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12390
SN  - 2041-1723
VL  - 7
SP  - 885
EP  - 894
PB  - Nature Publ. Group
CY  - London
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Räling, Romy
A1  - Hanne, Sandra
A1  - Schröder, Astrid
A1  - Keßler, Carla
A1  - Wartenburger, Isabell
T1  - Judging the animacy of words
BT  - the influence of typicality and age of acquisition in a semantic decision task
N2  - The age at which members of a semantic category are learned (age of acquisition), the typicality they demonstrate within their corresponding category, and the semantic domain to which they belong (living, non-living) are known to influence the speed and accuracy of lexical/semantic processing. So far, only a few studies have looked at the origin of age of acquisition and its interdependence with typicality and semantic domain within the same experimental design. Twenty adult participants performed an animacy decision task in which nouns were classified according to their semantic domain as being living or non-living. Response times were influenced by the independent main effects of each parameter: typicality, age of acquisition, semantic domain, and frequency. However, there were no interactions. The results are discussed with respect to recent models concerning the origin of age of acquisition effects.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 305 
KW  - Age of acquisition
KW  - Animacy decision
KW  - Semantic classification task
KW  - Typicality
Y1  - 2016
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-98402
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Premke, Katrin
A1  - Attermeyer, Katrin
A1  - Augustin, Jürgen
A1  - Cabezas, Alvaro
A1  - Casper, Peter
A1  - Deumlich, Detlef
A1  - Gelbrecht, Jörg
A1  - Gerke, Horst H.
A1  - Gessler, Arthur
A1  - Großart, Hans-Peter
A1  - Hilt, Sabine
A1  - Hupfer, Michael
A1  - Kalettka, Thomas
A1  - Kayler, Zachary
A1  - Lischeid, Gunnar
A1  - Sommer, Michael
A1  - Zak, Dominik
T1  - The importance of landscape diversity for carbon fluxes at the landscape level: small-scale heterogeneity matters
JF  - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews : Water
N2  - Landscapes can be viewed as spatially heterogeneous areas encompassing terrestrial and aquatic domains. To date, most landscape carbon (C) fluxes have been estimated by accounting for terrestrial ecosystems, while aquatic ecosystems have been largely neglected. However, a robust assessment of C fluxes on the landscape scale requires the estimation of fluxes within and between both landscape components. Here, we compiled data from the literature on C fluxes across the air–water interface from various landscape components. We simulated C emissions and uptake for five different scenarios which represent a gradient of increasing spatial heterogeneity within a temperate young moraine landscape: (I) a homogeneous landscape with only cropland and large lakes; (II) separation of the terrestrial domain into cropland and forest; (III) further separation into cropland, forest, and grassland; (IV) additional division of the aquatic area into large lakes and peatlands; and (V) further separation of the aquatic area into large lakes, peatlands, running waters, and small water bodies These simulations suggest that C fluxes at the landscape scale might depend on spatial heterogeneity and landscape diversity, among other factors. When we consider spatial heterogeneity and diversity alone, small inland waters appear to play a pivotal and previously underestimated role in landscape greenhouse gas emissions that may be regarded as C hot spots. Approaches focusing on the landscape scale will also enable improved projections of ecosystems’ responses to perturbations, e.g., due to global change and anthropogenic activities, and evaluations of the specific role individual landscape components play in regional C fluxes. WIREs Water 2016, 3:601–617. doi: 10.1002/wat2.1147
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1147
SN  - 2049-1948
SN  - 2049-1948
VL  - 3
SP  - 601
EP  - 617
PB  - Wiley
CY  - Hoboken
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Cui, Pin
A1  - Löber, Ulrike
A1  - Alquezar-Planas, David E.
A1  - Ishida, Yasuko
A1  - Courtiol, Alexandre
A1  - Timms, Peter
A1  - Johnson, Rebecca N.
A1  - Lenz, Dorina
A1  - Helgen, Kristofer M.
A1  - Roca, Alfred L.
A1  - Hartman, Stefanie
A1  - Greenwood, Alex D.
T1  - Comprehensive profiling of retroviral integration sites using target enrichment methods from historical koala samples without an assembled reference genome
JF  - PeerJ
N2  - Background. Retroviral integration into the host germline results in permanent viral colonization of vertebrate genomes. The koala retrovirus (KoRV) is currently invading the germline of the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) and provides a unique opportunity for studying retroviral endogenization. Previous analysis of KoRV integration patterns in modern koalas demonstrate that they share integration sites primarily if they are related, indicating that the process is currently driven by vertical transmission rather than infection. However, due to methodological challenges, KoRV integrations have not been comprehensively characterized. Results. To overcome these challenges, we applied and compared three target enrichment techniques coupled with next generation sequencing (NGS) and a newly customized sequence-clustering based computational pipeline to determine the integration sites for 10 museum Queensland and New South Wales (NSW) koala samples collected between the 1870s and late 1980s. A secondary aim of this study sought to identify common integration sites across modern and historical specimens by comparing our dataset to previously published studies. Several million sequences were processed, and the KoRV integration sites in each koala were characterized. Conclusions. Although the three enrichment methods each exhibited bias in integration site retrieval, a combination of two methods, Primer Extension Capture and hybridization capture is recommended for future studies on historical samples. Moreover, identification of integration sites shows that the proportion of integration sites shared between any two koalas is quite small.
KW  - Integration sites
KW  - Retroviral endogenization
KW  - KoRV
KW  - Target enrichment
KW  - Clustering
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1847
SN  - 2167-8359
VL  - 4
PB  - PeerJ Inc.
CY  - London
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Rosa, Angelika D.
A1  - Pohlenz, Julia
A1  - de Grouchy, C.
A1  - Cochain, B.
A1  - Kono, Y.
A1  - Pasternak, S.
A1  - Mathon, O.
A1  - Irifune, Tetsuo
A1  - Wilke, Max
T1  - In situ characterization of liquid network structures at high pressure and temperature using X-ray absorption spectroscopy coupled with the Paris-Edinburgh press
JF  - High pressure research
N2  - We review recent progress in studying structural properties of liquids using X-ray absorption spectroscopy coupled with the Paris-Edinburgh press at third-generation synchrotron facilities. This experimental method allows for detecting subtle changes in atomic arrangements of melts over a wide pressure-temperature range. It has been also employed to monitor variations of the local coordination environment of diluted species contained in glasses, liquids and crystalline phases as a function of the pressure and temperature. Such information is of great importance for gaining deeper insights into the physico-chemical properties of liquids at extreme condition, including the understanding of such phenomena as liquid-liquid phase transitions, viscosity drops and various transport properties of geological melts. Here, we describe the experimental approach and discuss its potential in structural characterization on selected scientific highlights. Finally, the current ongoing instrumental developments and future scientific opportunities are discussed.
KW  - X-ray absorption
KW  - Paris-Edinburgh press
KW  - liquid structure
KW  - high pressure and temperature
KW  - EXAFS
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/08957959.2016.1199693
SN  - 0895-7959
SN  - 1477-2299
VL  - 36
SP  - 332
EP  - 347
PB  - American Geophysical Union
CY  - Abingdon
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Cohen, Abby
A1  - Campisano, Christopher
A1  - Arrowsmith, J. Ramon
A1  - Asrat, Asfawossen
A1  - Behrensmeyer, A. K.
A1  - Deino, A.
A1  - Feibel, C.
A1  - Hill, A.
A1  - Johnson, R.
A1  - Kingston, J.
A1  - Lamb, Henry F.
A1  - Lowenstein, T.
A1  - Noren, A.
A1  - Olago, D.
A1  - Owen, Richard Bernhart
A1  - Potts, R.
A1  - Reed, Kate
A1  - Renaut, R.
A1  - Schäbitz, Frank
A1  - Tiercelin, J.-J.
A1  - Trauth, Martin  H.
A1  - Wynn, J.
A1  - Ivory, S.
A1  - Brady, K.
A1  - O’Grady, R.
A1  - Rodysill, J.
A1  - Githiri, J.
A1  - Russell, Joellen
A1  - Foerster, Verena
A1  - Dommain, René
A1  - Rucina, J. S.
A1  - Deocampo, D.
A1  - Russell, J.
A1  - Billingsley, A.
A1  - Beck, C.
A1  - Dorenbeck, G.
A1  - Dullo, L.
A1  - Feary, D.
A1  - Garello, D.
A1  - Gromig, R.
A1  - Johnson, T.
A1  - Junginger, Annett
A1  - Karanja, M.
A1  - Kimburi, E.
A1  - Mbuthia, A.
A1  - McCartney, Tannis
A1  - McNulty, E.
A1  - Muiruri, V.
A1  - Nambiro, E.
A1  - Negash, E. W.
A1  - Njagi, D.
A1  - Wilson, J. N.
A1  - Rabideaux, N.
A1  - Raub, Timothy
A1  - Sier, Mark Jan
A1  - Smith, P.
A1  - Urban, J.
A1  - Warren, M.
A1  - Yadeta, M.
A1  - Yost, Chad
A1  - Zinaye, B.
T1  - The Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project
BT  - inferring the environmental context of human evolution from eastern African rift lake deposits
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - The role that climate and environmental history may have played in influencing human evolution has been the focus of considerable interest and controversy among paleoanthropologists for decades. Prior attempts to understand the environmental history side of this equation have centered around the study of outcrop sediments and fossils adjacent to where fossil hominins (ancestors or close relatives of modern humans) are found, or from the study of deep sea drill cores. However, outcrop sediments are often highly weathered and thus are unsuitable for some types of paleoclimatic records, and deep sea core records come from long distances away from the actual fossil and stone tool remains. The Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project (HSPDP) was developed to address these issues. The project has focused its efforts on the eastern African Rift Valley, where much of the evidence for early hominins has been recovered. We have collected about 2 km of sediment drill core from six basins in Kenya and Ethiopia, in lake deposits immediately adjacent to important fossil hominin and archaeological sites. Collectively these cores cover in time many of the key transitions and critical intervals in human evolutionary history over the last 4 Ma, such as the earliest stone tools, the origin of our own genus Homo, and the earliest anatomically modern Homo sapiens. Here we document the initial field, physical property, and core description results of the 2012-2014 HSPDP coring campaign.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe - 611 
KW  - Turkana-Basin
KW  - Adar formation
KW  - climate-change
KW  - olorgesailie formation
KW  - Southern Ethiopia
KW  - global climate
KW  - Kenya Rift
KW  - Pleistocene
KW  - variability
KW  - patterns
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-412498
IS  - 611
ER  - 
TY  - BOOK
A1  - Schmidt, Thorsten Ingo
ED  - Gosch, Dietmar
ED  - Hufeld, Ulrich
ED  - Kirchhof, Gregor
ED  - Rust, Alexander
ED  - Schenke, Ralf
ED  - Tappe, Henning
ED  - Weitemeyer, Birgit
T1  - Finanzierungspflichten und Konnexitätsprinzip
BT  - zur Konnexitätsrelevanz der Dynamisierungsklausel des § 19 KiBiz
T3  - Recht der Steuern und der öffentlichen Finanzordnung ; 10
N2  - Die Finanzkrise der Kommunen beruht auch auf der Übertragung staatlicher Aufgaben ohne entsprechenden finanziellen Ausgleich. Davor sollen nun das grundgesetzliche Aufgabenübertragungsverbot vom Bund auf die Kommunen und die landesverfassungsrechtlichen Konnexitätsregeln beim Transfer vom Land auf die Kommunen schützen. Zwar ist anerkannt, dass diese Vorschriften für Sachaufgaben gelten. Doch ist streitig, ob dies auch für die Auferlegung von Finanzierungspflichten zu gelten hat. 
Der Autor vergleicht die landesverfassungsrechtlichen Bestimmungen in ihrer Auslegung durch das jeweilige Landesverfassungsgericht und arbeitet unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der nordrhein-westfälischen Rechtslage heraus, dass die Übertragungsvorschriften nicht umgangen werden dürfen. Übertragung einer Sachaufgabe und Auferlegung einer Finanzierungspflicht sind funktionell gleichwertig und beide konnexitätsrelevant.
Der Autor ist Direktor des Kommunalwissenschaftlichen Instituts der Universität Potsdam.
Y1  - 2016
SN  - 978-3-8487-2822-0
PB  - Nomos
CY  - Baden-Baden
ER  - 
TY  - BOOK
A1  - Schmidt, Thorsten Ingo
ED  - Brüning, Christoph
ED  - Schmidt, Thorsten Ingo
T1  - Das Mitverwaltungsmodell
T3  - Kommunalrechtliche Studien ; 3
N2  - Demographischer Wandel einerseits und zunehmende Aufgaben andererseits erzwingen bei finanzieller Notlage kommunale Reformen. Vielfach antworten die Landesgesetzgeber auf diesen Reformbedarf mit immer größeren kommunalen Einheiten. Um dieser „Flucht in die Einheitsgemeinde“ entgegenzuwirken, entwickelt der Verfasser das Mitverwaltungsmodell: Eine Gemeinde bleibt zwar rechtlich selbstständig, bedient sich aber der hauptamtlichen Verwaltung einer anderen Gemeinde. Die Möglichkeit einer solchen öffentlich-rechtlichen Geschäftsbesorgung wird unter Wahrung der Selbstverwaltungsgarantie beider Gemeinden entfaltet. Die notwendigen gesetzlichen Bestimmungen und vertraglichen Regelungen werden entworfen. Dieses Modell soll im Rahmen der Brandenburgischen Verwaltungsstrukturreform umgesetzt werden und kann auch anderen Ländern als Vorbild dienen. 
Der Autor ist Direktor des Kommunalwissenschaftlichen Instituts der Universität Potsdam.
Y1  - 2016
SN  - 978-3-8487-2797-1
PB  - Nomos
CY  - Baden-Baden
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Lehmann, Andreas
A1  - Scheffler, Christiane
T1  - What does the mean menarcheal age mean?An analysis of temporal pattern in variability in a historical swiss population from the 19th and 20th centuries
JF  - American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council
N2  - ObjectivesAge at menarche is one of the most important factors when observing growth and development. The aim of this study was to assess the temporal pattern in variability of menarcheal age for a historic Swiss population from the 19th and 20th centuries. ResultsMean menarcheal age declined from 17.34 years (n=358) around 1830 to 13.80 years (n=141) around 1950. Within-cohort variance decreased from 7.5 to 2.1 year(2). Skewness was negatively correlated with birth year (r=-0.58). ConclusionThis study provided evidence for a secular trend in various statistical parameters for age at menarche since the 19th century. Furthermore, the results of the analysis of temporal pattern in variability revealed that the secular trend in menarcheal age happened in two phases. Am. J. Hum. Biol. 28:705-713, 2016. (c) 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.22854
SN  - 1042-0533
SN  - 1520-6300
VL  - 28
SP  - 705
EP  - 713
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
CY  - Hoboken
ER  -