TY  - JOUR
A1  - Maes, Sybryn L.
A1  - Perring, Michael P.
A1  - Vanhellemont, Margot
A1  - Depauw, Leen
A1  - Van den Bulcke, Jan
A1  - Brumelis, Guntis
A1  - Brunet, Jorg
A1  - Decocq, Guillaume
A1  - den Ouden, Jan
A1  - Härdtle, Werner
A1  - Hedl, Radim
A1  - Heinken, Thilo
A1  - Heinrichs, Steffi
A1  - Jaroszewicz, Bogdan
A1  - Kopecký, Martin
A1  - Malis, Frantisek
A1  - Wulf, Monika
A1  - Verheyen, Kris
T1  - Environmental drivers interactively affect individual tree growth across temperate European forests
JF  - Global change biology
N2  - Forecasting the growth of tree species to future environmental changes requires abetter understanding of its determinants. Tree growth is known to respond to global‐change drivers such as climate change or atmospheric deposition, as well as to localland‐use drivers such as forest management. Yet, large geographical scale studiesexamining interactive growth responses to multiple global‐change drivers are relativelyscarce and rarely consider management effects. Here, we assessed the interactiveeffects of three global‐change drivers (temperature, precipitation and nitrogen deposi-tion) on individual tree growth of three study species (Quercus robur/petraea, Fagus syl-vatica and Fraxinus excelsior). We sampled trees along spatial environmental gradientsacross Europe and accounted for the effects of management for Quercus. We collectedincrement cores from 267 trees distributed over 151 plots in 19 forest regions andcharacterized their neighbouring environment to take into account potentially confounding factors such as tree size, competition, soil conditions and elevation. Wedemonstrate that growth responds interactively to global‐change drivers, with species ‐specific sensitivities to the combined factors. Simultaneously high levels of precipita-tion and deposition benefited Fraxinus, but negatively affected Quercus’ growth, high-lighting species‐specific interactive tree growth responses to combined drivers. ForFagus, a stronger growth response to higher temperatures was found when precipita-tion was also higher, illustrating the potential negative effects of drought stress underwarming for this species. Furthermore, we show that past forest management canmodulate the effects of changing temperatures on Quercus’ growth; individuals in plotswith a coppicing history showed stronger growth responses to higher temperatures.Overall, our findings highlight how tree growth can be interactively determined by glo-bal‐change drivers, and how these growth responses might be modulated by past for-est management. By showing future growth changes for scenarios of environmentalchange, we stress the importance of considering multiple drivers, including past man-agement and their interactions, when predicting tree growth.
KW  - basal area increment
KW  - climate change
KW  - Fagus
KW  - Fraxinus
KW  - historical ecology
KW  - nitrogen deposition
KW  - Quercus
KW  - tree-ring analysis
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14493
SN  - 1354-1013
SN  - 1365-2486
VL  - 25
IS  - 1
SP  - 201
EP  - 217
PB  - Wiley
CY  - Hoboken
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Tape, Ken D.
A1  - Jones, Benjamin M.
A1  - Arp, Christopher D.
A1  - Nitze, Ingmar
A1  - Grosse, Guido
T1  - Tundra be dammed
BT  - beaver colonization of the arctic
JF  - Global change biology
N2  - Increasing air temperatures are changing the arctic tundra biome. Permafrost is thawing, snow duration is decreasing, shrub vegetation is proliferating, and boreal wildlife is encroaching. Here we present evidence of the recent range expansion of North American beaver (Castor canadensis) into the Arctic, and consider how this ecosystem engineer might reshape the landscape, biodiversity, and ecosystem processes. We developed a remote sensing approach that maps formation and disappearance of ponds associated with beaver activity. Since 1999, 56 new beaver pond complexes were identified, indicating that beavers are colonizing a predominantly tundra region (18,293km(2)) of northwest Alaska. It is unclear how improved tundra stream habitat, population rebound following overtrapping for furs, or other factors are contributing to beaver range expansion. We discuss rates and likely routes of tundra beaver colonization, as well as effects on permafrost, stream ice regimes, and freshwater and riparian habitat. Beaver ponds and associated hydrologic changes are thawing permafrost. Pond formation increases winter water temperatures in the pond and downstream, likely creating new and more varied aquatic habitat, but specific biological implications are unknown. Beavers create dynamic wetlands and are agents of disturbance that may enhance ecosystem responses to warming in the Arctic.
KW  - arctic tundra
KW  - beaver
KW  - climate change
KW  - permafrost
KW  - population recovery
KW  - salmon
KW  - shrub expansion
KW  - stream
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14332
SN  - 1354-1013
SN  - 1365-2486
VL  - 24
IS  - 10
SP  - 4478
EP  - 4488
PB  - Wiley
CY  - Hoboken
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Koehler, Friedrich
A1  - Koehler, Kerstin
A1  - Deckwart, Oliver
A1  - Prescher, Sandra
A1  - Wegscheider, Karl
A1  - Winkler, Sebastian
A1  - Vettorazzi, Eik
A1  - Polze, Andreas
A1  - Stangl, Karl
A1  - Hartmann, Oliver
A1  - Marx, Almuth
A1  - Neuhaus, Petra
A1  - Scherf, Michael
A1  - Kirwan, Bridget-Anne
A1  - Anker, Stefan D.
T1  - Telemedical Interventional Management in Heart Failure II (TIM-HF2), a randomised, controlled trial investigating the impact of telemedicine on unplanned cardiovascular hospitalisations and mortality in heart failure patients
BT  - study design and description of the intervention
JF  - European Journal of Heart Failure
N2  - Background Heart failure (HF) is a complex, chronic condition that is associated with debilitating symptoms, all of which necessitate close follow-up by health care providers. Lack of disease monitoring may result in increased mortality and more frequent hospital readmissions for decompensated HF. Remote patient management (RPM) in this patient population may help to detect early signs and symptoms of cardiac decompensation, thus enabling a prompt initiation of the appropriate treatment and care before a manifestation of HF decompensation. Objective The objective of the present article is to describe the design of a new trial investigating the impact of RPM on unplanned cardiovascular hospitalisations and mortality in HF patients. Methods The TIM-HF2 trial is designed as a prospective, randomised, controlled, parallel group, open (with randomisation concealment), multicentre trial with pragmatic elements introduced for data collection. Eligible patients with HF are randomised (1:1) to either RPM + usual care or to usual care only and are followed for 12 months. The primary outcome is the percentage of days lost due to unplanned cardiovascular hospitalisations or all-cause death. The main secondary outcomes are all-cause and cardiovascular mortality. Conclusion The TIM-HF2 trial will provide important prospective data on the potential beneficial effect of telemedical monitoring and RPM on unplanned cardiovascular hospitalisations and mortality in HF patients.
KW  - Chronic heart failure
KW  - Telemonitoring
KW  - Remote patient management
KW  - Hospitalisation
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1002/ejhf.1300
SN  - 1388-9842
SN  - 1879-0844
VL  - 20
IS  - 10
SP  - 1485
EP  - 1493
PB  - Wiley
CY  - Hoboken
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schotter, Elizabeth Roye
A1  - Leinenger, Mallorie
A1  - von der Malsburg, Titus Raban
T1  - When your mind skips what your eyes fixate
BT  - how forced fixations lead to comprehension illusions in reading
JF  - Psychonomic bulletin & review : a journal of the Psychonomic Society
N2  - The phenomenon of forced fixations suggests that readers sometimes fixate a word (due to oculomotor constraints) even though they intended to skip it (due to parafoveal cognitive-linguistic processing). We investigate whether this leads readers to look directly at a word but not pay attention to it. We used a gaze-contingent boundary paradigm to dissociate parafoveal and foveal information (e.g., the word phone changed to scarf once the reader's eyes moved to it) and asked questions about the sentence to determine which one the reader encoded. When the word was skipped or fixated only briefly (i.e., up to 100 ms) readers were more likely to report reading the parafoveal than the fixated word, suggesting that there are cases in which readers look directly at a word but their minds ignore it, leading to the illusion of reading something they did not fixate.
KW  - Word recognition
KW  - Text comprehension
KW  - Eye movements and reading
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-017-1356-y
SN  - 1069-9384
SN  - 1531-5320
VL  - 25
IS  - 5
SP  - 1884
EP  - 1890
PB  - Springer
CY  - New York
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Gonzalez Manrique, Sergio Javier
A1  - Kuckein, Christoph
A1  - Collados, M.
A1  - Denker, Carsten
A1  - Solanki, S. K.
A1  - Gomory, P.
A1  - Verma, Meetu
A1  - Balthasar, H.
A1  - Lagg, A.
A1  - Diercke, Andrea
T1  - Temporal evolution of arch filaments as seen in He I 10 830 angstrom
JF  - Astronomy and astrophysics : an international weekly journal
N2  - Aims. We study the evolution of an arch filament system (AFS) and of its individual arch filaments to learn about the processes occurring in them. Methods. We observed the AFS at the GREGOR solar telescope on Tenerife at high cadence with the very fast spectroscopic mode of the GREGOR Infrared Spectrograph (GRIS) in the He I 10 830 angstrom spectral range. The He I triplet profiles were fitted with analytic functions to infer line-of-sight (LOS) velocities to follow plasma motions within the AFS. Results. We tracked the temporal evolution of an individual arch filament over its entire lifetime, as seen in the He I 10 830 angstrom triplet. The arch filament expanded in height and extended in length from 13 ' to 21 '. The lifetime of this arch filament is about 30 min. About 11 min after the arch filament is seen in He I, the loop top starts to rise with an average Doppler velocity of 6 km s(-1). Only two minutes later, plasma drains down with supersonic velocities towards the footpoints reaching a peak velocity of up to 40 km s(-1) in the chromosphere. The temporal evolution of He I 10 830 angstrom profiles near the leading pore showed almost ubiquitous dual red components of the He I triplet, indicating strong downflows, along with material nearly at rest within the same resolution element during the whole observing time.
KW  - Sun: chromosphere
KW  - Sun: activity
KW  - methods: observational
KW  - methods: data analysis
KW  - techniques: high angular resolution
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201832684
SN  - 1432-0746
VL  - 617
PB  - EDP Sciences
CY  - Les Ulis
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Navarro-Retamal, Carlos
A1  - Bremer, Anne
A1  - Ingolfsson, Helgi I.
A1  - Alzate-Morales, Jans
A1  - Caballero, Julio
A1  - Thalhammer, Anja
A1  - Gonzalez, Wendy
A1  - Hincha, Dirk K.
T1  - Folding and Lipid Composition Determine Membrane Interaction of the Disordered Protein COR15A
JF  - Biophysical journal
N2  - Plants from temperate climates, such as the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, are challenged with seasonal low temperatures that lead to increased freezing tolerance in fall in a process termed cold acclimation. Among other adaptations, this involves the accumulation of cold-regulated (COR) proteins, such as the intrinsically disordered chloroplast-localized protein COR15A. Together with its close homolog COR15B, it stabilizes chloroplast membranes during freezing. COR15A folds into amphipathic alpha-helices in the presence of high concentrations of low-molecular-mass crowders or upon dehydration. Under these conditions, the (partially) folded protein binds peripherally to membranes. In our study, we have used coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations to elucidate the details of COR15A-membrane binding and its effects on membrane structure and dynamics. Simulation results indicate that at least partial folding of COR15A and the presence of highly unsaturated galactolipids in the membranes are necessary for efficient membrane binding. The bound protein is stabilized on the membrane by interactions of charged and polar amino acids with galactolipid headgroups and by interactions of hydrophobic amino acids with the upper part of the fatty acyl chains. Experimentally, the presence of liposomes made from a mixture of lipids mimicking chloroplast membranes induces additional folding in COR15A under conditions of partial dehydration, in agreement with the simulation results.
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2018.08.014
SN  - 0006-3495
SN  - 1542-0086
VL  - 115
IS  - 6
SP  - 968
EP  - 980
PB  - Cell Press
CY  - Cambridge
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Fedders, Ronja
A1  - Muenzner, Matthias
A1  - Weber, Pamela
A1  - Sommerfeld, Manuela
A1  - Knauer, Miriam
A1  - Kedziora, Sarah
A1  - Kast, Naomi
A1  - Heidenreich, Steffi
A1  - Raila, Jens
A1  - Weger, Stefan
A1  - Henze, Andrea
A1  - Schupp, Michael
T1  - Liver-secreted RBP4 does not impair glucose homeostasis in mice
JF  - The journal of biological chemistry
N2  - Retinol-binding protein 4 (RBP4) is the major transport protein for retinol in blood. Recent evidence from genetic mouse models shows that circulating RBP4 derives exclusively from hepatocytes. Because RBP4 is elevated in obesity and associates with the development of glucose intolerance and insulin resistance, we tested whether a liver-specific overexpression of RBP4 in mice impairs glucose homeostasis. We used adeno-associated viruses (AAV) that contain a highly liver-specific promoter to drive expression of murine RBP4 in livers of adult mice. The resulting increase in serum RBP4 levels in these mice was comparable with elevated levels that were reported in obesity. Surprisingly, we found that increasing circulating RBP4 had no effect on glucose homeostasis. Also during a high-fat diet challenge, elevated levels of RBP4 in the circulation failed to aggravate the worsening of systemic parameters of glucose and energy homeostasis. These findings show that liver-secreted RBP4 does not impair glucose homeostasis. We conclude that a modest increase of its circulating levels in mice, as observed in the obese, insulin-resistant state, is unlikely to be a causative factor for impaired glucose homeostasis.
KW  - liver
KW  - retinoid-binding protein
KW  - glucose metabolism
KW  - insulin resistance
KW  - mouse
KW  - TTR
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.RA118.004294
SN  - 1083-351X
VL  - 293
IS  - 39
SP  - 15269
EP  - 15276
PB  - American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
CY  - Bethesda
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Gerstenberg, Annette
A1  - Lindholm, Camilla
T1  - Language and aging research
BT  - new insights and perspectives
JF  - Linguistics vanguard
N2  - Our introduction to the special collection gives an overview of the research projects which were originally presented at the third CLARe network conference. We group the research under four cross-sectional topics that unite the different contributions: the data used in the research, the theoretical frameworks, the languages and varieties which are represented and the situational contexts which are examined. These projects represent the current state of research in this field and allows the reader to orient themselves within this diverse field but also leaves many questions open and provides impetus for future lines of research. The interaction and collaboration between diverse disciplines is the central aspect which unites all contributions to the special collection.
KW  - language and aging
KW  - lifespan
KW  - health communication
KW  - language change
KW  - interactional linguistics
KW  - conversation analysis
KW  - corpus linguistics
KW  - psycholinguistics
KW  - sociolinguistics
KW  - computational linguistics
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2019-0025
SN  - 2199-174X
VL  - 5
IS  - s2
PB  - De Gruyter
CY  - Berlin
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Fitzi, Gregor
A1  - Marcucci, Nicola
T1  - Durkheim in Germany
BT  - the performance of a classic
JF  - Journal of Classical Sociology
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1177/1468795X17735991
SN  - 1468-795X
SN  - 1741-2897
VL  - 17
IS  - 4
SP  - 271
EP  - 275
PB  - Sage Publ.
CY  - London
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Wolf, Thomas
A1  - Gühr, Markus
T1  - Photochemical pathways in nucleobases measured with an X-ray FEL
JF  - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series A : Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
N2  - The conversion of light energy into other molecular energetic degrees of freedom is often dominated by ultrafast, non-adiabatic processes. Femtosecond spectroscopy with optical pulses has helped in shaping our understanding of crucial processes in molecular energy-conversion. The advent of new, ultrashort and bright X-ray free electron laser sources opens the possibility to use X-ray-typical element and site sensitivity for ultrafast molecular research. We present two types of spectroscopy, ultrafast Auger and ultrafast X-ray absorption spectroscopy, and discuss their sensitivity to molecular processes. While Auger spectroscopy is able to monitor bond distance changes in the vicinity of an X-ray created core hole, near-edge absorption spectroscopy can deliver high-fidelity information on non-adiabatic transitions involving lone-pair orbitals. We demonstrate these features on the example of the UV-excited nucleobase thymine, investigated at the oxygen K-edge. We find a C-O bond elongation in the Auger data in addition to pi pi*/n pi* non-adiabatic transition in X-ray near-edge absorption. We compare the results from both methods and draw a conclusive scenario of non-adiabatic molecular relaxation after UV excitation.
KW  - nucleobase
KW  - time-resolved X-ray probing
KW  - Auger decay
KW  - femtosecond laser spectroscopy
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2017.0473
SN  - 1364-503X
SN  - 1471-2962
VL  - 377
IS  - 2145
PB  - Royal Society
CY  - London
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Miklashevsky, Alex A.
T1  - О высоком и низком: пространственная семантика абстрактных и конкретных существительных
JF  - Tomsk state university journal
N2  - Aim and material: In the present study, the data of the rating study presented earlier, where participants estimated the position of an object or phenomenon in vertical space by using the seven-point Likert scale, are used in order to systematically describe spatial information included in language units of different semantic categories. Background: The role of spatial semantics in language understanding is assumed by modern cognition theories and confirmed in experimental studies. Hypotheses: Based on conceptual metaphor theory, a number of hypotheses are proposed in the present study: different semantic categories of nouns (e.g., tools vs. animals vs. emotions etc.) should significantly differ in their spatial semantics as well; different semantic categories of abstract nouns (e.g., mental states vs. emotions vs. physical sensations) should also differ in their spatial semantics, as the latter is included in their conceptual structure; mental states and phenomena (e.g., imagination, thought or memory) should have higher values (i.e., be located higher in the virtual subjective space) than any other abstract concepts; emotional concepts (e.g., love, disgust or happiness) should be located higher than physical sensations (e.g., pain or softness); positive emotions (like joy or euphoria) should be located higher than negative ones (like feeling of guilt or disappointment). Methods: Statistical methods (parametric and non-parametric ones) are used in order to test the hypotheses. As additional cross-testing methods corpora data and expert assessment are included. Results: The results of the study confirmed all the hypotheses. A number of additional regularities were revealed: in general, abstract concepts get higher values on a scale, i.e., are located higher in the virtual subjective space than concrete ones; tool concepts are related more to the lower space, unlike sound concepts that are related to higher space. No difference was found between action concepts (like attack or running) and physical sensations. Discussion: The results obtained can also be explained in terms of other theories within the embodied cognition framework, as it is discussed in the conclusion (words as social tools by A. Borghi and F. Binkofski; ideas by G. Vigliocco and neurosemantic approach by F. Pulvermuller). The need in an integrative model and larger studies with other semantic categories is underlined.
N2  - Проведен анализ пространственной семантики различных категорий русских существительных, входящих в психолингви-стическую базуданных; особое внимание уделяется абстрактным концептам. Выявлены различия пространственной семантики наименований физических ощущений и действий, эмоций, ментальных процессов. Полученны ерезультаты обсуждаются с точки зрения отдельных подходов в рамках теории воплощенного познания – теории концептуальной метафоры, теории слов как социальных инструментов (WAT, Words As social Tools), нейросемантики.
T2  - About the high and the low: spatial semantics of abstract and concrete nouns
KW  - embodied cognition
KW  - spatial semantics
KW  - conceptual metaphor
KW  - neurosemantics
KW  - words as social tools
KW  - psycholinguistic databases
KW  - abstract concepts
KW  - абстрактные концепты
KW  - психолингвистическая база данных
KW  - слова как социальные инструменты
KW  - нейросемантика
KW  - концептуальная метафора
KW  - пространственная семантика
KW  - воплощенное познание
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.17223/15617793/424/4
SN  - 1561-7793
SN  - 1561-803X
IS  - 424
SP  - 26
EP  - 34
PB  - Tomsk Stata Univ
CY  - Tomsk
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Robrade, Jan
A1  - Oskinova, Lida
A1  - Schmitt, J. H. M. M.
A1  - Leto, Paolo
A1  - Trigilio, C.
T1  - Outstanding X-ray emission from the stellar radio pulsar CU Virginis
JF  - Astronomy and astrophysics : an international weekly journal
N2  - Context. Among the intermediate-mass magnetic chemically peculiar (MCP) stars, CU Vir is one of the most intriguing objects. Its 100% circularly polarized beams of radio emission sweep the Earth as the star rotates, thereby making this strongly magnetic star the prototype of a class of nondegenerate stellar radio pulsars. While CU Vir is well studied in radio, its high-energy properties are not known. Yet, X-ray emission is expected from stellar magnetospheres and confined stellar winds. Aims. Using X-ray data we aim to test CU Vir for intrinsic X-ray emission and investigate mechanisms responsible for its generation. Methods. We present X-ray observations performed with XMM-Newton and Chandra and study obtained X-ray images, light curves, and spectra. Basic X-ray properties are derived from spectral modelling and are compared with model predictions. In this context we investigate potential thermal and nonthermal X-ray emission scenarios. Results. We detect an X-ray source at the position of CU Vir. With LX approximate to 3 x 10(28) erg s(-1) it is moderately X-ray bright, but the spectrum is extremely hard compared to other Ap stars. Spectral modelling requires multi-component models with predominant hot plasma at temperatures of about T-X = 25MK or, alternatively, a nonthermal spectral component. Both types of model provide a virtually equivalent description of the X-ray spectra. The Chandra observation was performed six years later than those by XMM-Newton, yet the source has similar X-ray flux and spectrum, suggesting a steady and persistent X-ray emission. This is further confirmed by the X-ray light curves that show only mild X-ray variability. Conclusions. CU Vir is also an exceptional star at X-ray energies. To explain its full X-ray properties, a generating mechanism beyond standard explanations, like the presence of a low-mass companion or magnetically confined wind-shocks, is required. Magnetospheric activity might be present or, as proposed for fast-rotating strongly magnetic Bp stars, the X-ray emission of CU Vir is predominantly auroral in nature.
KW  - individual: CU Vir
KW  - stars: activity
KW  - stars: chemically peculiar
KW  - stars: magnetic field
KW  - X-rays: stars
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201833492
SN  - 1432-0746
VL  - 619
PB  - EDP Sciences
CY  - Les Ulis
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Jonscher, Ernst
A1  - Flemming, Sven
A1  - Schmitt, Marius
A1  - Sabitzki, Ricarda
A1  - Reichard, Nick
A1  - Birnbaum, Jakob
A1  - Bergmann, Bärbel
A1  - Höhn, Katharina
A1  - Spielmann, Tobias
T1  - PfVPS45 Is Required for Host Cell Cytosol Uptake by Malaria Blood Stage Parasites
JF  - Cell host & microbe
N2  - During development in human erythrocytes, the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum internalizes a large part of the cellular content of the host cell. The internalized cytosol, consisting largely of hemoglobin, is transported to the parasite’s food vacuole where it is degraded, providing nutrients and space for growth. This host cell cytosol uptake (HCCU) is crucial for parasite survival but the parasite proteins mediating this process remain obscure. Here, we identify P. falciparum VPS45 as an essential factor in HCCU. Conditional inactivation of PfVPS45 led to an accumulation of host cell cytosol-filled vesicles within the parasite and inhibited the delivery of hemoglobin to the parasite's digestive vacuole, resulting in arrested parasite growth. A proportion of these HCCU vesicle intermediates was positive for phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate, suggesting endosomal characteristics. Thus PfVPS45 provides insight into the elusive machinery of the ingestion pathway in a parasite that contains an endolysosomal system heavily repurposed for protein secretion.
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2018.11.010
SN  - 1931-3128
SN  - 1934-6069
VL  - 25
IS  - 1
SP  - 166
EP  - 173
PB  - Cell Press
CY  - Cambridge
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Scianna, Bastian Matteo
T1  - Stuck in the past?
BT  - British views on the Spanish army’s effectiveness and military culture, 1946-1983
JF  - War & Society
N2  - After the Civil War the Spanish army functioned as a guardian of domestic order, but suffered from antiquated material and little financial means. These factors have been described as fundamental reasons for the army’s low potential wartime capability. This article draws on British and German sources to demonstrate how Spanish military culture prevented an augmented effectiveness and organisational change. Claiming that the army merely lacked funding and modern equipment, falls considerably short in grasping the complexities of military effectiveness and organisational cultures, and might prove fatal for current attempts to develop foreign armed forces in conflict or post-conflict zones.
KW  - Spain
KW  - Franco
KW  - military effectiveness
KW  - military culture
KW  - organisational change
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/07292473.2019.1524347
SN  - 0729-2473
SN  - 2042-4345
VL  - 38
IS  - 1
SP  - 41
EP  - 56
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Abingdon
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Baran, Andrzej S.
A1  - Ostensen, R. H.
A1  - Telting, J. H.
A1  - Vos, Joris
A1  - Kilkenny, D.
A1  - Vuckovic, Maja
A1  - Reed, M. D.
A1  - Silvotti, R.
A1  - Jeffery, C. Simon
A1  - Parsons, Steven G.
A1  - Dhillon, V. S.
A1  - Marsh, T. R.
T1  - Pulsations and eclipse-time analysis of HW Vir
JF  - Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
N2  - We analysed recent K2 data of the short-period eclipsing binary system HW Vir, which consists of a hot subdwarf-B type primary with an M-dwarf companion. We determined the mid-times of eclipses, calculated O-C diagrams, and an average shift of the secondary minimum. Our results show that the orbital period is stable within the errors over the course of the 70 days of observations. Interestingly, the offset from mid-orbital phase between the primary and the secondary eclipses is found to be 1.62 s. If the shift is explained solely by light-travel time, the mass of the sdB primary must be 0.26 M-circle dot, which is too low for the star to be core-helium burning. However, we argue that this result is unlikely to be correct and that a number of effects caused by the relative sizes of the stars conspire to reduce the effective light-travel time measurement. After removing the flux variation caused by the orbit, we calculated the amplitude spectrum to search for pulsations. The spectrum clearly shows periodic signal from close to the orbital frequency up to 4600 mu Hz, with the majority of peaks found below 2600 mu Hz. The amplitudes are below 0.1 part-per-thousand, too low to be detected with ground-based photometry. Thus, the high-precision data from the Kepler spacecraft has revealed that the primary of the HW Vir system is a pulsating sdBV star. We argue that the pulsation spectrum of the primary in HW Vir differs from that in other sdB stars due to its relatively fast rotation that is (nearly) phase-locked with the orbit.
KW  - binaries: eclipsing
KW  - stars: oscillations
KW  - subdwarfs
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty2473
SN  - 0035-8711
SN  - 1365-2966
VL  - 481
IS  - 2
SP  - 2721
EP  - 2735
PB  - Oxford Univ. Press
CY  - Oxford
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Höfer, Chris Tina
A1  - Di Lella, Santiago
A1  - Dahmani, Ismail
A1  - Jungnick, Nadine
A1  - Bordag, Natalie
A1  - Bobone, Sara
A1  - Huan, Q.
A1  - Keller, S.
A1  - Herrmann, A.
A1  - Chiantia, Salvatore
T1  - Corrigendum to: Structural determinants of the interaction between influenza A virus matrix protein M1 and lipid membranes (Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. - 1861, (2019), pg 1123-1134)
T2  - Biochimica et biophysica acta : Biomembranes
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbamem.2019.07.002
SN  - 0005-2736
SN  - 1879-2642
VL  - 1861
IS  - 10
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Rinaldi, G.
A1  - Formisano, M.
A1  - Kappel, David
A1  - Capaccioni, F.
A1  - Bockelee-Morvan, D.
A1  - Cheng, Y-C
A1  - Vincent, J-B
A1  - Deshapriya, P.
A1  - Arnold, G.
A1  - Capria, M. T.
A1  - Ciarniello, M.
A1  - De Sanctis, M. C.
A1  - Doose, L.
A1  - Erard, S.
A1  - Federico, C.
A1  - Filacchione, G.
A1  - Fink, U.
A1  - Leyrat, C.
A1  - Longobardo, A.
A1  - Magni, G.
A1  - Mighorini, A.
A1  - Mottola, S.
A1  - Naletto, G.
A1  - Raponi, A.
A1  - Taylor, F.
A1  - Tosi, F.
A1  - Tozzi, G. P.
A1  - Salatti, M.
T1  - Analysis of night-side dust activity on comet 67P observed by VIRTIS-M
BT  - a new method to constrain the thermal inertia on the surface
JF  - Astronomy and astrophysics : an international weekly journal
N2  - On 2015 July 18, near perihelion at a heliocentric distance of 1.28 au, the Visible InfraRed Thermal Imaging Spectrometer (VIRTIS-M) on board the Rosetta spacecraft had the opportunity of observing dust activity in the inner coma with a view of the night side (shadowed side) of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. At the time of the measurements we present here, we observe a dust plume that originates on the far side of the nucleus. We are able to identify the approximate location of its source at the boundary between the Hapi and Anuket regions, and we find that it has been in darkness for some hours before the observation. Assuming that this time span is equal to the conductive time scale, we obtain a thermal inertia in the range 25-36 W K-1 m(-2) s(-1/2). These thermal inertia values can be used to verify with a 3D finite-element method (REM) numerical code whether the surface and subsurface temperatures agree with the values found in the literature. We explored three different configurations: (1) a layer of water ice mixed with dust beneath a dust mantle of 5 mm with thermal inertia of 36 J m(-2) K-1 S-0.5 ; (2) the same structure, but with thermal inertia of 100 J m(-2) K-1 S-0.5; (3) an ice-dust mixture that is directly exposed. Of these three configurations, the first seems to be the most reasonable, both for the low thermal inertia and for the agreement with the surface and subsurface temperatures that have been found for the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The spectral properties of the plume show that the visible dust color ranged from 16 +/- 4.8%/100 nm to 13 +/- 2.6%/100 nm, indicating that this plume has no detectable color gradient. The morphology of the plume can be classified as a narrow jet that has an estimated total ejected mass of between 6 and 19 tons when we assume size distribution indices between -2.5 and -3.
KW  - comets: general
KW  - comets: individual: 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
KW  - infrared: planetary systems
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201834907
SN  - 1432-0746
VL  - 630
PB  - EDP Sciences
CY  - Les Ulis
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ghaffari, Morteza Hosseini
A1  - Bernhoeft, Katrin
A1  - Etheve, Stephane
A1  - Immig, Irmgard
A1  - Hoelker, Michael
A1  - Sauerwein, Helga
A1  - Schweigert, Florian J.
T1  - Technical note: Rapid field test for the quantification of vitamin E, beta-carotene, and vitamin A in whole blood and plasma of dairy cattle
JF  - Journal of dairy science
N2  - Fast and easy tests for quantifying fat-soluble vitamins such as vitamin E and vitamin A, as well as beta-carotene, in whole blood without a need to preprocess blood samples could facilitate assessment of the vitamin status of dairy cattle. The objective of this study was to validate a field-portable fluorometer/spectrophotometer assay for the rapid quantification of these vitamins in whole blood and plasma of dairy cows and calves. We measured the concentrations of vitamin E and beta-carotene in whole blood and plasma from 28 dairy cows and 11 calves using the iCheck test (Bio-Analyt GmbH, Teltow, Germany) and compared the results with the current analytical standard (HPLC) in 2 independent laboratories, one at the University of Potsdam (Germany) and at one at DSM Nutritional Products Ltd. (Kaiseraugst, Switzerland). For vitamin A, the HPLC measurements were done only in the laboratory in Germany. The whole-blood concentrations of vitamin E as determined by iCheck (blood-hematocritcorrected) ranged from 1.82 to 4.99 mg/L in dairy cows and 0.34 to 3.40 mg/L in calves. These findings were moderately correlated (R-2 = 0.66) with the values assessed by HPLC in dairy cattle (cows + calves). When calves were excluded, the correlation was higher (R-2 = 0.961). The beta-carotene and vitamin A values obtained by the reference method HPLC were highly correlated with the iCheck methods in whole blood (R-2 = 0.99 and 0.88, respectively). In plasma, we observed strong correlations between the concentrations assessed by iCheck and those of HPLC for vitamin E (R-2 = 0.97), beta-carotene (R-2 = 0.98), and vitamin A (R-2 = 0.92) in dairy cattle (cows + calves). For vitamin E, beta-carotene, and vitamin A, we compared the relationship between the differences obtained by the iCheck assay and the HPLC measurements, as well as the magnitude of measurements, using Bland-Altman plots to test for systematic bias. For all 3 vitamins, the differences values were not outside the 95% acceptability limits; we found no systematic error between the 2 methods for all 3 analytes.
KW  - vitamin
KW  - cow-side assay
KW  - HPLC
KW  - method comparison
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2019-16755
SN  - 0022-0302
SN  - 1525-3198
VL  - 102
IS  - 12
SP  - 11744
EP  - 11750
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - New York
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Beckus, Siegfried
A1  - Bellissard, Jean
A1  - De Nittis, Giuseppe
T1  - Corrigendum to:  Spectral continuity for aperiodic quantum systems I. General theory. - [Journal of functional analysis. - 275 (2018), 11, S. 2917 – 2977]
T2  - Journal of functional analysis
N2  - A correct statement of Theorem 4 in [1] is provided. The change does not affect the main results.
KW  - Haar system
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfa.2019.06.001
SN  - 0022-1236
SN  - 1096-0783
VL  - 277
IS  - 9
SP  - 3351
EP  - 3353
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - San Diego
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Zupok, Arkadiusz
A1  - Górka, Michał Jakub
A1  - Siemiatkowska, Beata
A1  - Skirycz, Aleksandra
A1  - Leimkühler, Silke
T1  - Iron-Dependent Regulation of Molybdenum Cofactor Biosynthesis Genes in Escherichia coli
JF  - Journal of bacteriology
N2  - Molybdenum cofactor (Moco) biosynthesis is a complex process that involves the coordinated function of several proteins. In recent years it has become obvious that the availability of iron plays an important role in the biosynthesis of Moco. First, the MoaA protein binds two (4Fe-4S] clusters per monomer. Second, the expression of the moaABCDE and moeAB operons is regulated by FNR, which senses the availability of oxygen via a functional NFe-4S) cluster. Finally, the conversion of cyclic pyranopterin monophosphate to molybdopterin requires the availability of the L-cysteine desulfurase IscS, which is a shared protein with a main role in the assembly of Fe-S clusters. In this report, we investigated the transcriptional regulation of the moaABCDE operon by focusing on its dependence on cellular iron availability. While the abundance of selected molybdoenzymes is largely decreased under iron-limiting conditions, our data show that the regulation of the moaABCDE operon at the level of transcription is only marginally influenced by the availability of iron. Nevertheless, intracellular levels of Moco were decreased under iron-limiting conditions, likely based on an inactive MoaA protein in addition to lower levels of the L-cysteine desulfurase IscS, which simultaneously reduces the sulfur availability for Moco production. IMPORTANCE FNR is a very important transcriptional factor that represents the master switch for the expression of target genes in response to anaerobiosis. Among the FNR-regulated operons in Escherichia coli is the moaABCDE operon, involved in Moco biosynthesis. Molybdoenzymes have essential roles in eukaryotic and prokaryotic organisms. In bacteria, molybdoenzymes are crucial for anaerobic respiration using alternative electron acceptors. This work investigates the connection of iron availability to the biosynthesis of Moco and the production of active molybdoenzymes.
KW  - Escherichia coli
KW  - FNR
KW  - iron regulation
KW  - iron-sulfur cluster
KW  - anaerobic respiration
KW  - molybdenum cofactor
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1128/JB.00382-19
SN  - 0021-9193
SN  - 1098-5530
VL  - 201
IS  - 17
PB  - American Society for Microbiology
CY  - Washington
ER  -