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- Sharapov, S.E., et al.
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Energetic particle instabilities in fusion plasmas
- 2013
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Ingår i: Nuclear Fusion. - : IOP Publishing. - 1741-4326 .- 0029-5515. ; 53:10, s. 104022-
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Remarkable progress has been made in diagnosing energetic particle instabilities on present-day machines and in establishing a theoretical framework for describing them. This overview describes the much improved diagnostics of Alfvén instabilities and modelling tools developed world-wide, and discusses progress in interpreting the observed phenomena. A multi-machine comparison is presented giving information on the performance of both diagnostics and modelling tools for different plasma conditions outlining expectations for ITER based on our present knowledge.
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- Agvald-Öhman, C, et al.
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Anaerobic bacteria commonly colonize the lower airways of intubated ICU patients
- 2003
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Ingår i: Clinical Microbiology and Infection. - : Elsevier BV. - 1198-743X .- 1469-0691. ; 9:5, s. 397-405
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Objectives To investigate respiratory tract colonization by aerobic and anaerobic bacteria in mechanically ventilated patients. Methods Bacterial colonization of the stomach and the respiratory tract was qualitatively and quantitatively analyzed over time in 41 consecutive mechanically ventilated patients in a Swedish intensive care unit (ICU), with special emphasis on elucidation of the role of anaerobic bacteria in the lower respiratory tract. Samples were taken from the oropharynx, gastric juice, subglottic space and trachea within 24 h (median 14 h) of intubation, and then every third day until day 18 and every fifth day until day 33. Results The patients were often heavily colonized with microorganisms not considered to belong to a healthy normal oropharyngeal and gastric flora on admission to the ICU. A majority harbored enterococci, coagulase-negative staphylococci and Candida spp. in at least one site on day 1. Anaerobic bacteria, mainly peptostreptococci and Prevotella spp., were isolated from subglottic and/or tracheal secretions in 59% of the patients. Different routes of tracheal colonization for different groups of microorganisms were found. Primary or concomitant colonization of the oropharynx with staphylococci, enterococci, enterobacteria and Candida was often seen, while Pseudomonas spp., other non-fermenting Gram-negative rods and several anaerobic species often primarily colonized the trachea, indicating exogenous or direct gastrointestinal routes of colonization. Conclusions Mechanically ventilated patients were heavily colonized in their lower airways by potential pathogenic microorganisms, including a high load of anaerobic bacteria. Different routes of colonization were shown for different species.
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- Båth, Petra, 1988, et al.
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Lipidic cubic phase serial femtosecond crystallography structure of a photosynthetic reaction centre
- 2022
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Ingår i: Acta Crystallographica Section D-Structural Biology. - : International Union of Crystallography (IUCr). - 2059-7983. ; 78, s. 698-708
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Serial crystallography is a rapidly growing method that can yield structural insights from microcrystals that were previously considered to be too small to be useful in conventional X-ray crystallography. Here, conditions for growing microcrystals of the photosynthetic reaction centre of Blastochloris viridis within a lipidic cubic phase (LCP) crystallization matrix that employ a seeding protocol utilizing detergent-grown crystals with a different crystal packing are described. LCP microcrystals diffracted to 2.25 angstrom resolution when exposed to XFEL radiation, which is an improvement of 0.15 angstrom over previous microcrystal forms. Ubiquinone was incorporated into the LCP crystallization media and the resulting electron density within the mobile Q(B) pocket is comparable to that of other cofactors within the structure. As such, LCP microcrystallization conditions will facilitate time-resolved diffraction studies of electron-transfer reactions to the mobile quinone, potentially allowing the observation of structural changes associated with the two electron-transfer reactions leading to complete reduction of the ubiquinone ligand.
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- Edlund, J. A., et al.
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Integrated information increases with fitness in the evolution of animats
- 2011
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Ingår i: PloS Computational Biology. - : Public Library of Science (PLoS). - 1553-734X .- 1553-7358. ; 7:10
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- One of the hallmarks of biological organisms is their ability to integrate disparate information sources to optimize their behavior in complex environments. How this capability can be quantified and related to the functional complexity of an organism remains a challenging problem, in particular since organismal functional complexity is not well-defined. We present here several candidate measures that quantify information and integration, and study their dependence on fitness as an artificial agent ("animat") evolves over thousands of generations to solve a navigation task in a simple, simulated environment. We compare the ability of these measures to predict high fitness with more conventional information-theoretic processing measures. As the animat adapts by increasing its "fit" to the world, information integration and processing increase commensurately along the evolutionary line of descent. We suggest that the correlation of fitness with information integration and with processing measures implies that high fitness requires both information processing as well as integration, but that information integration may be a better measure when the task requires memory. A correlation of measures of information integration (but also information processing) and fitness strongly suggests that these measures reflect the functional complexity of the animat, and that such measures can be used to quantify functional complexity even in the absence of fitness data. © 2011 Edlund et al.
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- Poveda-Reyes, Sara, et al.
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Injectable composites of loose microfibers and gelatin with improved interfacial interaction for soft tissue engineering
- 2015
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Ingår i: Polymer. - : Elsevier BV. - 0032-3861 .- 1873-2291. ; 74, s. 224-234
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Poly(L-lactic acid) (PLLA) microfibers were surface functionalized by graft photopolymerization of 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate (HEMA) onto the fiber surface. Grafted fibers were easily dispersed in enzymatically gelling tyramine-substituted gelatin, forming a homogeneous dispersion without hindering subsequent gelatin crosslinking. The obtained injectable hydrogels showed improved mechanical properties compared to analogues based on non-modified fibers. The composite with 1% (w/v) of surface modified fibers had a three-fold higher shear storage modulus (535.2 +/- 90 Pa) than pure gelatin (184.9 +/- 32 Pa) while no significant increase was observed in the case of non-grafted fiber composites. Moreover, PHEMA grafting on PLLA fibers did not compromise cell viability and proliferation within the hydrogel. The new injectable hydrogels offer improved potential as substrates for the regeneration of soft tissues.
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- Edlund, Petra, et al.
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The room temperature crystal structure of a bacterial phytochrome determined by serial femtosecond crystallography
- 2016
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Ingår i: Scientific Reports. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 2045-2322. ; 6
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Phytochromes are a family of photoreceptors that control light responses of plants, fungi and bacteria. A sequence of structural changes, which is not yet fully understood, leads to activation of an output domain. Time-resolved serial femtosecond crystallography (SFX) can potentially shine light on these conformational changes. Here we report the room temperature crystal structure of the chromophore-binding domains of the Deinococcus radiodurans phytochrome at 2.1 angstrom resolution. The structure was obtained by serial femtosecond X-ray crystallography from microcrystals at an X-ray free electron laser. We find overall good agreement compared to a crystal structure at 1.35 angstrom resolution derived from conventional crystallography at cryogenic temperatures, which we also report here. The thioether linkage between chromophore and protein is subject to positional ambiguity at the synchrotron, but is fully resolved with SFX. The study paves the way for time-resolved structural investigations of the phytochrome photocycle with time-resolved SFX.
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- Anderbrant, O., et al.
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Electrophysiological and morphological characteristics of pheromone receptors in male pine sawflies, Diprion pini (Hymenoptera : Diprionidae), and behavioural response to some compounds
- 1995
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Ingår i: Journal of Insect Physiology. - : Elsevier BV. - 0022-1910. ; 41:5, s. 395-401
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The morphology and physiology of pheromone receptors on the antennae of male pine sawflies, Diprion pini L., were investigated. Using scanning electron microscopy, five sensillar types were recognized. The type shown to be pheromone sensitive has a long (50-70 μm) cuticular hair, is single-walled, and is innervated by 8 or 9 sensory cells as revealed by transmission electron microscopy. Electroantennography (EAG) showed similar activity of the acetate and propionate of (2S,3R,7R)-3,7-dimethyl-2-tridecanol, precursor of the main constituent of the female-produced sex pheromone. No other isomer induced any significant response. Single-sensillum recordings confirmed the results of the EAG, and also showed that several neurons were excited by the active compound. EAG recordings and combined gas chromatographic-electroantennographic detection indicated that esters of three 3,7-dimethyl-2-pentadecanol (diprionol) isomers were active, but field tests could not demonstrate any behavioural effect. Diprionol esters are used as sex pheromones by all other pine sawflies investigated so far, and D. pini is thus the first diprionid species shown to use a different sex pheromone.
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- Benkestock, Kurt, et al.
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Automated Nano-Electrospray Mass Spectrometry for Protein-Ligand Screening by Noncovalent Interaction Applied to Human H-FABP and A-FABP
- 2003
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Ingår i: Journal of Biomolecular Screening. - : Elsevier BV. - 1087-0571 .- 1552-454X. ; 8:3, s. 247-256
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A method for ligand screening by automated nano-electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (nano-ESI/MS) is described. The core of the system consisted of a chip-based platform for automated sample delivery from a 96-well plate and subsequent analysis based on noncovalent interactions. Human fatty acid binding protein, H-FABP (heart) and A-FABP (adipose), with small potential ligands was analyzed. The technique has been compared with a previously reported method based on nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and excellent correlation with the found hits was obtained. In the current MS screening method, the cycle time per sample was 1.1 min, which is approximately 50 times faster than NMR for single compounds and approximately 5 times faster for compound mixtures. High reproducibility was achieved, and the protein consumption was in the range of 88 to 100 picomoles per sample. Furthermore, a novel protocol for preparation of A-FABP without the natural ligand is presented. The described screening approach is suitable for ligand screening very early in the drug discovery process before conventional high-throughput screens (HTS) are developed and/or used as a secondary screening for ligands identified by HTS.
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- Oertel, C., et al.
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D64: A corpus of richly recorded conversational interaction
- 2010
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Ingår i: Proceedings of LREC 2010 Workshop on Multimodal Corpora: Advances in Capturing, Coding and Analyzing Multimodality. ; , s. 27-30
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Rich non-intrusive recording of anaturalistic conversation was conducted in a domestic setting. Four (sometimes five) participants engaged in lively conversation over two 4-hour sessions on two successive days. Conversation was not directed, and ranged widely over topics both trivial and technical. The entire conversation, on both days, was richly recorded using 7 video cameras, 10 audio microphones, and the registration of 3-D head,torso and arm motion using an Optitrack system. To add liveliness to the conversation, several bottles of wine were consumed during the final two hours of recording. The resulting corpus will be of immediate interest to all researchers interested in studying naturalistic, ethologically situated, conversational interaction.
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