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    • 2,3-Butanedione monoxime increases speed of relaxation in single muscle fibres of frog 

      Sun, Y-B.; Lou, Fang; Edman, K.A.P. (2001-05)
      The effects of 2,3-butanedione monoxime (BDM) on intracellular Ca2+ transient and cross-bridge function were studied in frog single fibres from the anterior tibialis muscle of Rana temporaria (sarcomere length, 2.2 microm; ...

    • 2-Cysteine Peroxiredoxins and Thylakoid Ascorbate Peroxidase create a water-water cycle that is essential to protect the photosynthetic apparatus under high light stress conditions 

      Awad, Jasmin; Stotz, Henrik; Fekete, Agnes; Krischke, Markus; Engert, Cornelia; Havaux, Michel; Berger, Susanne; Mueller, Martin J. (2015-04-01)
      Different peroxidases, including 2-cysteine (2-Cys) peroxiredoxins (PRXs) and thylakoid ascorbate peroxidase (tAPX), have been proposed to be involved in the water-water cycle (WWC) and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2)-mediated ...

    • A 2-D π–π dimer model system to investigate structure-charge transfer relationships in rubrene 

      Chung, Sherlyn J; McHugh, Callum J.; Calvo-Castro, Jesus (2019-01-23)
      Rubrene (5,6,11,12-tetraphenyltetracene) is undoubtedly one of the best performing organic charge transfer mediating materials, with experimentally determined mobilities up to 40 cm2 V−1 s−1. Consequently, there has been ...

    • 2-DPMP (desoxypipradrol, 2-benzhydrylpiperidine, 2-phenylmethylpiperidine) and D2PM (diphenyl-2-pyrrolidin-2-yl-methanol, diphenylprolinol) : A preliminary review 

      Corkery, John; Schifano, Fabrizio; Ghodse, A. Hamid; Elliott, S.; Corazza, Ornella (2012)
      2-DPMP (desoxypipradrol, 2-benzhydrylpiperidine, 2-phenylmethylpiperidine) and D2PM (diphenyl-2-pyrrolidin-2-yl-methanol, diphenylprolinol) are psychoactive substances, sold primarily over the Internet and in 'head' shops ...

    • 2-Hexadecynoic acid inhibits plasmodial FAS-II enzymes and arrests erythrocytic and liver stage Plasmodium infections 

      Tasdemir, Deniz; Sanabria, David; Lauinger, Ina L; Tarun, Alice; Herman, Rob; Perozzo, Remo; Zloh, Mire; Kappe, Stefan H.; Brun, Reto; Carballeira, Néstor M (2010)
      Acetylenic fatty acids are known to display several biological activities, but their antimalarial activity has remained unexplored. In this study, we synthesized the 2-, 5-, 6-, and 9-hexadecynoic acids (HDAs) and evaluated ...

    • 2-oxothiazolidine-4-carboxylic acid inhibits vascular calcification via induction of glutathione synthesis 

      Patel, Jessal; Bourne, Lucie E; Thakur, Shori; Farrington, Kenneth; Gorog, Diana; Orriss, Isabel R; Baydoun, Anwar (2020-09-12)
      Arterial medial calcification (AMC), the deposition of hydroxyapatite in the medial layer of the arteries, is a known risk factor for cardiovascular events. Oxidative stress is a known inducer of AMC and endogenous ...

    • 2006 WHOLE EARTH TELESCOPE OBSERVATIONS OF GD358: A NEW LOOK AT THE PROTOTYPE DBV 

      Provencal, J. L.; Montgomery, M. H.; Kanaan, A.; Shipman, H. L.; Childers, D.; Baran, A.; Kepler, S. O.; Reed, M.; Zhou, A.; Eggen, J.; Watson, T. K.; Winget, D. E.; Thompson, S. E.; Riaz, B.; Nitta, A.; Kleinman, S. J.; Crowe, R.; Slivkoff, J.; Sherard, P.; Purves, N.; Binder, P.; Knight, R.; Kim, S. -L.; Chen, Wen-Ping; Yang, M.; Lin, H. C.; Lin, C. C.; Chen, C. W.; Jiang, X. J.; Sergeev, A. V.; Mkrtichian, D.; Andreev, M.; Janulis, R.; Siwak, M.; Zola, S.; Koziel, D.; Stachowski, G.; Paparo, M.; Bognar, Zs.; Handler, G.; Lorenz, D.; Steininger, B.; Beck, P.; Nagel, T.; Kusterer, D.; Hoffman, A.; Reiff, E.; Kowalski, R.; Vauclair, G.; Charpinet, S.; Chevreton, M.; Solheim, J. E.; Pakstiene, E.; Fraga, L.; Dalessio, J. (2009-03-01)
      We report on the analysis of 436.1 hr of nearly continuous high-speed photometry on the pulsating DB white dwarf GD358 acquired with the Whole Earth Telescope (WET) during the 2006 international observing run, designated ...

    • The 2016 Analysis Of Information Remaining On Computer Hard Disks Offered For Sale On The Second Hand Market In the UAE 

      Jones, Andrew; Martin, Thomas; Alzaabi, Mohammed (2016-12-31)
      This research describes our survey of data remaining on computer hard disks sold on the second hand market in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). This is a repetition of the first survey conducted in 2012 (Jones, Martin, & ...

    • 2018 Prediction system on-farm validation cost-benefit analysis 

      Hall, Avice; Bo, Liu; Wileman, Hannah (University of Hertfordshire, 2021-07-23)
      Validations of the real-time prediction system were done in 2018 on two commercial farms. The grower at Invergowrie utilised the prediction system to determine when to apply fungicides on all strawberries grown on the farm ...

    • The 2022–2023 accretion outburst of the young star V1741 Sgr 

      Kuhn, Michael; Hillenbrand, Lynnee A.; Connelley, Michael S.; Rich, R. Michael; Staels, Bart; Carvalho, Adolfo S.; Lucas, Philip; Fremling, Christoffer; Karambelkar, Viraj R.; Lee, Ellen; Ahumada, Tomás; Ishida, Emille E.~O.; De, Kishalay; de Souza, Rafael S.; Kasliwal, Mansi M. (2024-04-01)
      V1741 Sgr (= SPICY 71482/Gaia22dtk) is a Classical T Tauri star on the outskirts of the Lagoon Nebula. After at least a decade of stability, in mid-2022, the optical source brightened by ∼3 mag over 2 months, remained ...

    • 2023: the best year ever for Future Pharmacology (and even better years to come) 

      Schifano, Fabrizio (2024-01-02)

    • 21-cm H I emission from the Damped Lyman-alpha absorber SBS 1543 593 

      Bowen, D.V.; Huchtmeier, W.; Brinks, E.; Tripp, T.M.; Jenkins, E.B. (2001-06)
      We detect 21-cm emission from the Low Surface Brightness (LSB) galaxy SBS 1543+593, which gives rise to a Damped-Ly (DLy ) absorption line in the spectrum of the background QSO HS 1543+5921 (ze = 0:807). We obtain an ...

    • The (234)U neutron capture cross section measurement at the n_TOF facility 

      Lampoudis, C.; Abbondanno, U.; Aerts, G.; Alvarez, H.; Alvarez-Velarde, F.; Andriamonje, S.; Andrzejewski, J.; Assimakopoulos, P.; Audouin, L.; Badurek, G.; Baumann, P.; Becvar, F.; Berthoumieux, E.; Calvino, F.; Calviani, M.; Cano-Ott, D.; Capote, R.; Carrapico, C.; Cennini, P.; Chepel, V.; Chiaveri, E.; Colonna, N.; Cortes, G.; Couture, A.; Cox, J.; Dahlfors, M.; David, S.; Dillmann, I.; Domingo-Pardo, C.; Dridi, W.; Duran, I.; Eleftheriadis, C.; Embid-Segura, M.; Ferrant, L.; Ferrari, A.; Ferreira-Marques, R.; Fujii, K.; Furman, W.; Goncalves, I.; Gonzalez-Romero, E.; Gramegna, F.; Guerrero, C.; Gunsing, F.; Haas, B.; Haight, R.; Heil, M.; Herrera-Martinez, A.; Igashira, M.; Jericha, E.; Rauscher, T.; n TOF Collaboration (EDP Sciences, 2008)
      The neutron capture cross-section of (234)U has been measured for energies from thermal up to the keV region in the neutron time-of-flight facility n_TOF, based on a spallation source located at CERN. A 4 pi BaF(2) array ...

    • 238U(n, γ) reaction cross section measurement with C 6D6 detectors at the n-TOF CERN facility 

      Mingrone, F.; Massimi, C.; Vannini, G.; Altstadt, S.; Andrzejewski, J.; Audouin, L.; Barbagallo, M.; Bécares, V.; Bečvář, F.; Belloni, F.; Berthoumieux, E.; Billowes, J.; Bosnar, D.; Brügger, M.; Calviani, M.; Calviño, F.; Cano-Ott, D.; Carrapiço, C.; Cerutti, F.; Chiaveri, E.; Chin, M.P.W.; Colonna, N.; Cortés, G.; Cortés-Giraldo, M.A.; Diakaki, M.; Domingo-Pardo, C.; Durán, I.; Dressler, R.; Eleftheriadis, C.A.; Ferrari, A.M.; Fraval, K.; Ganesan, S.; García, A. R.; Giubrone, G.; Gonçalves, I. F.; González-Romero, E.M.; Griesmayer, E.; Guerrero, C.; Gunsing, F.; Hernández-Prieto, A.; Jenkins, D. G.; Jericha, E.; Kadi, Y.; Käppeler, F.; Karadimos, D.; Kivel, N.; Koehler, P. E.; Krtička, M.; Kroll, J.; Lampoudis, C.; Langer, C.; Leal-Cidoncha, E.; Lederer, C.; Leeb, H.; Leong, L. S.; Losito, R.; Mallick, A.; Manousos, A.; Marganiec, J.; Martínez, T.; Mastinu, P.F.; Mastromarco, M.; Mendoza, E.; Mengoni, A.; Milazzo, P.M.; Mirea, M.; Mondalaers, W.; Paradela, C.; Pavlik, A.; Perkowski, J.; Plompen, A.J.M.; Praena, J.; Quesada, J.M.; Rauscher, T.; Reifarth, R.; Riego, A.; Robles, M.S.; Rubbia, C.; Sabaté-Gilarte, M.; Sarmento, R.; Saxena, A. C.; Schillebeeckx, P.; Schmidt, S.L.; Schumann, D.L.; Tagliente, G.; Taín, J. L.; Tarrío, D.; Tassan-Got, L.; Tsinganis, A.; Valenta, S.; Variale, V.; Vaz, P.; Ventura, A.; Vermeulen, M. J.; Vlachoudis, V.; Vlastou, R.; Wallner, A.; Ware, T.; Weigand, M.; Weiss, C.; Wright, T. J.; Žugec, P. (2014-04-14)
      The radiative capture cross section of 238U is very important for the developing of new reactor technologies and the safety of existing ones. Here the preliminary results of the 238U(n,γ) cross section measurement performed ...

    • 25 years of ‘sustainable projects’ : What we know and what the literature says 

      Sabini, Luca; Muzio, Daniel; Alderman, Neil (2019-08-01)
      Last few years have seen a huge increase of publications at the intersection of project management and sustainability. Nevertheless, this field has become increasingly fragmented undermining a steady and consistent ...

    • 25C-NBOMe: preliminary data on pharmacology, psychoactive effects and toxicity of a new potent hallucinogenic drug 

      Bersani, Francesco Saverio; Corazza, Ornella; Albano, Gabriella; Valeriani, Giuseppe; Santacroce, Rita; Bolzan, Flamina; Cinosi, Eduardo; Simonato, Pierluigi; Martinotti, Giovanni; Bersani, Giuseppe; Schifano, Fabrizio (2014-07-03)
      Introduction. The use of novel psychoactive substances (NPSs) has rapidly increased as well as their online availability. The aim of this paper is to provide a comprehensive review of the nature and the risks associated ...

    • 26Al gamma rays from the Galaxy with INTEGRAL/SPI 

      Pleintinger, Moritz M. M.; Diehl, Roland; Siegert, Thomas; Greiner, Jochen; Krause, Martin G. H. (2023-03-30)
      Context. The presence of radioactive 26Al at 1.8 MeV reveals an ongoing process of nucleosynthesis in the Milky Way. Diffuse emission from its decay can be measured with gamma-ray telescopes in space. The intensity, line ...

    • 26Al kinematics: superbubbles following the spiral arms? : Constraints from the statistics of star clusters and HI supershells 

      Krause, Martin; Diehl, R.; Bagetakos, Y.; Brinks, E.; Burkert, A.; Gerhard, O.; Greiner, J.; Kretschmer, K.; Siegert, T. (2015-06-12)
      High energy resolution spectroscopy of the 1.8 MeV radioactive decay line of 26Al with the SPI instrument on board the INTEGRAL satellite has recently revealed that diffuse 26Al has large velocities in comparison to other ...

    • 280 one-opposition near-Earth asteroids recovered by the EURONEAR with the Isaac Newton Telescope 

      Vaduvescu, O.; Hudin, L.; Mocnik, T.; Char, F.; Sonka, A.; Tudor, V.; Ordonez-Etxeberria, I.; Alfaro, M. Diaz; Ashley, R.; Errmann, R.; Short, P.; Moloceniuc, A.; Cornea, R.; Inceu, V.; Zavoianu, D.; Popescu, M.; Curelaru, L.; Mihalea, S.; Stoian, A. -M.; Boldea, A.; Toma, R.; Fields, L.; Grigore, V.; Stoev, H.; Lopez-Martinez, F.; Humphries, N.; Sowicka, P.; Ramanjooloo, Y.; Manilla-Robles, A.; Riddick, F. C.; Jimenez-Lujan, F.; Mendez, J.; Aceituno, F.; Sota, A.; Jones, D.; Hidalgo, S.; Murabito, S.; Oteo, I.; Bongiovanni, A.; Zamora, O.; Pyrzas, S.; Genova-Santos, R.; Font, J.; Bereciartua, A.; Perez-Fournon, I.; Martinez-Vazquez, C. E.; Monelli, M.; Cicuendez, L.; Monteagudo, L.; Agulli, I.; Bouy, H.; Huelamo, N.; Monguio, M.; Gansicke, B. T.; Steeghs, D.; Gentile-Fusillo, N. P.; Hollands, M. A.; Toloza, O.; Manser, C. J.; Dhillon, V.; Sahman, D.; Fitzsimmons, A.; McNeill, A.; Thompson, A.; Tabor, M.; Murphy, D. N. A.; Davies, J.; Snodgrass, C.; Triaud, A. H. M. J.; Groot, P. J.; Macfarlane, S.; Peletier, R.; Sen, S.; Ikiz, T.; Hoekstra, H.; Herbonnet, R.; Kohlinger, F.; Greimel, R.; Afonso, A.; Parker, Q. A.; Kong, A. K. H.; Bassa, C.; Pleunis, Z. (2018-01-01)
      Context. One-opposition near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) are growing in number, and they must be recovered to prevent loss and mismatch risk, and to improve their orbits, as they are likely to be too faint for detection in ...

    • 29th S.H. Foulkes Annual Lecture: Organizational Identity: The Paradox of Continuity and Potential Transformation at the Same Time 

      Stacey, R. (2005)