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- Aad, G, et al.
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- 2015
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- Schael, S., et al.
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Electroweak measurements in electron positron collisions at W-boson-pair energies at LEP
- 2013
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Ingår i: Physics Reports. - : Elsevier BV. - 0370-1573 .- 1873-6270. ; 532:4, s. 119-244
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- Electroweak measurements performed with data taken at the electron positron collider LEP at CERN from 1995 to 2000 are reported. The combined data set considered in this report corresponds to a total luminosity of about 3 fb(-1) collected by the four LEP experiments ALEPH, DELPHI, 13 and OPAL, at centre-of-mass energies ranging from 130 GeV to 209 GeV. Combining the published results of the four LEP experiments, the measurements include total and differential cross-sections in photon-pair, fermion-pair and four-fermion production, the latter resulting from both double-resonant WW and ZZ production as well as singly resonant production. Total and differential cross-sections are measured precisely, providing a stringent test of the Standard Model at centre-of-mass energies never explored before in electron positron collisions. Final-state interaction effects in four-fermion production, such as those arising from colour reconnection and Bose Einstein correlations between the two W decay systems arising in WW production, are searched for and upper limits on the strength of possible effects are obtained. The data are used to determine fundamental properties of the W boson and the electroweak theory. Among others, the mass and width of the W boson, m(w) and Gamma(w), the branching fraction of W decays to hadrons, B(W -> had), and the trilinear gauge-boson self-couplings g(1)(Z), K-gamma and lambda(gamma), are determined to be: m(w) = 80.376 +/- 0.033 GeV Gamma(w) = 2.195 +/- 0.083 GeV B(W -> had) = 67.41 +/- 0.27% g(1)(Z) = 0.984(-0.020)(+0.018) K-gamma - 0.982 +/- 0.042 lambda(gamma) = 0.022 +/- 0.019. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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- Schael, S, et al.
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Precision electroweak measurements on the Z resonance
- 2006
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Ingår i: Physics Reports. - : Elsevier BV. - 0370-1573 .- 1873-6270. ; 427:5-6, s. 257-454
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- We report on the final electroweak measurements performed with data taken at the Z resonance by the experiments operating at the electron-positron colliders SLC and LEP. The data consist of 17 million Z decays accumulated by the ALEPH, DELPHI, L3 and OPAL experiments at LEP, and 600 thousand Z decays by the SLID experiment using a polarised beam at SLC. The measurements include cross-sections, forward-backward asymmetries and polarised asymmetries. The mass and width of the Z boson, m(Z) and Gamma(Z), and its couplings to fermions, for example the p parameter and the effective electroweak mixing angle for leptons, are precisely measured: m(Z) = 91.1875 +/- 0.0021 GeV, Gamma(Z) = 2.4952 +/- 0.0023 GeV, rho(l) = 1.0050 +/- 0.0010, sin(2)theta(eff)(lept) = 0.23153 +/- 0.00016. The number of light neutrino species is determined to be 2.9840 +/- 0.0082, in agreement with the three observed generations of fundamental fermions. The results are compared to the predictions of the Standard Model (SM). At the Z-pole, electroweak radiative corrections beyond the running of the QED and QCD coupling constants are observed with a significance of five standard deviations, and in agreement with the Standard Model. Of the many Z-pole measurements, the forward-backward asymmetry in b-quark production shows the largest difference with respect to its SM expectation, at the level of 2.8 standard deviations. Through radiative corrections evaluated in the framework of the Standard Model, the Z-pole data are also used to predict the mass of the top quark, m(t) = 173(+10)(+13) GeV, and the mass of the W boson, m(W) = 80.363 +/- 0.032 GeV. These indirect constraints are compared to the direct measurements, providing a stringent test of the SM. Using in addition the direct measurements of m(t) and m(W), the mass of the as yet unobserved SM Higgs boson is predicted with a relative uncertainty of about 50% and found to be less than 285 GeV at 95% confidence level. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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- Sudhakar, P., et al.
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Biomarkers for IBD using OLINK Proteomics inflammation panel : Preliminary results from the COLLIBRI consortium
- 2022
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Ingår i: Journal of Crohn's & Colitis. - : Oxford University Press. - 1873-9946 .- 1876-4479. ; 16:Suppl. 1, s. I123-I124
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Background: Circulating serum proteins have provided insights into disease pathogenesis and are being used to identify prognostic, diagnostic and therapeutic biomarkers for chronic inflammatory diseases. With this pilot project, the Collaborative IBD Biomarker Research Initiative (COLLIBRI) consortium aimed to unravel disease heterogeneity in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).Methods: Serum samples were cross-sectionally obtained from 3,390 indi -viduals (Crohn’s disease (CD), n=1815; ulcerative colitis (UC), n=1170;healthy, n=405) recruited at nine centres from Sweden and Belgium. Relative levels of 92 proteins were analysed using the Proseek Multiplex Inflammation I Probe kit 96x96 (Olink Proteomics, Uppsala, Sweden) and reported as arbitrary units, i.e., normalised protein expression on a log2 scale. Using a multivariate integrative approach, we identified protein signatures distinguishing CD and UC samples and attempted to identify clusters or subgroups within patients. Recruiting centre, cohort and batch information were considered for the integrative analysis. Optimisation was performed for identifying the number of components and features per component using 5-fold cross-validation and Leave-One-Group-Out-Cross-Validation, respectively. Information on transcriptional regulators was retrieved from the ReMap project using the orthogonal regulatory resource ChEA3.Results: A panel of 8 proteins was identified which could segregate CD and UC patients (Figure 1). FGF19 exhibited a consistent trend of expression (downregulated in CD) across all batches of datasets. An integrated AUC of 72.5% was achieved across the different batches of samples used in the study with the highest AUC (79.2%, P-value 8.5e-07) being recorded for a single batch of samples (CD = 42, UC = 56). On a centre-specific dataset, the cross-centre integrated signature achieved an AUC of 75.1%. We identified three transcription factors (MEF2A, BATF, NFKB2), of which the two latter ones are known to modulate intestinal inflammation and which could potentially regulate the expression of at least half of the genes encoding the proteins in the predictive 8-protein panel.Conclusion: We identified an integrated proteomic biomarker panel capable of separating CD and UC patients. Through further integration of confounder variables along with using other supervised and unsupervised approaches, subsequent analyses may further refine the molecul arheterogeneity among CD and UC patients. Our results demonstrate the need for large datasets to identify relevant clusters of patients with IBD, since the diagnosis exhibits a high degree of clinical heterogeneity.
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- Mehbodniya, Abolfazl, et al.
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Fetal health classification from cardiotocographic data using machine learning
- 2021
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Ingår i: Expert systems (Print). - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0266-4720 .- 1468-0394. ; 39:6
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Health complications during the gestation period have evolved as a global issue. These complications sometimes result in the mortality of the fetus, which is more prevalent in developing and underdeveloped countries. The genesis of machine learning (ML) algorithms in the healthcare domain have brought remarkable progress in disease diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis. This research deploys various ML algorithms to predict fetal health from the cardiotocographic (CTG) data by labelling the health state into normal, needs guarantee, and pathology. This work assesses the influence of various factors measured through CTG to predict the health state of the fetus through algorithms like support vector machine, random forest (RF), multi-layer perceptron, and K-nearest neighbours. In addition to this, the regression analysis and correlation analysis revealed the influence of the attributes on fetal health. The results of the algorithms show that RF performs better than its peers in terms of accuracy, precision, recall, F1-score, and support. This work can further enhance more promising results by performing suitable feature engineering in the CTG data.
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- Nagarajan, Mony, et al.
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Growth of Zn3As2 on GaAs by liquid phase epitaxy and their characterization
- 2011
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Ingår i: Journal of Crystal Growth. - : Elsevier BV. - 0022-0248 .- 1873-5002. ; 314:1, s. 119-122
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Zn3As2 epitaxial layers were grown on GaAs (1 0 0) substrates by liquid phase epitaxy (LPE) using Ga as the solvent. Zinc mole fraction in the growth melt was varied from 1.07 x 10(-2) to 6 x 10(-2). X-ray diffraction spectrum exhibits a sharp peak at 43.3 degrees characteristic of Zn3As2 crystalline layer. The peak intensity increases with increase in zinc mole fraction in the growth melt. The compositions of the as-grown Zn3As2 layers were confirmed by energy dispersive X-ray (EDX) analysis. Surface morphology was studied using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and the thickness of the epilayers was also determined. The Hall measurements at 300 K indicate that Zn3As2 epilayers are unintentionally p-doped. With an increase of zinc mole fraction in the growth melt, carrier concentration increases and carrier mobility decreases. Infrared optical absorption spectroscopy showed a sharp absorption edge at 1.0 eV corresponding to the reported band gap of Zn3As2. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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- Nandi, Ganesh C., et al.
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Pd-catalyzed C-N coupling of vinylbromides and sulfonimidamides : a facile synthesis of N '-vinylsulfonimidamides
- 2015
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Ingår i: RSC Advances. - : Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). - 2046-2069. ; 5:76, s. 62084-62090
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- N'-Vinyl sulfonimidamides have been synthesized through a Pd-catalyzed C-N cross coupling between the N'-(imine nitrogen) of N'-deprotected sulfonimidamides and vinyl bromides. The hitherto unreported products were obtained in moderate to excellent yield, and the C-C double bond geometry of the vinylic substrates were retained during the course of reaction. Single crystal X-ray crystallographic analysis confirmed the product structure. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the formed N'-vinyl sulfonimidamides could undergo hydrogenation with Pd-C/H-2 to provide N'-alkyl sulfonimidamides.
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- Ochala, Julien, et al.
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Preferential skeletal muscle myosin loss in response to mechanical silencing in a novel rat intensive care unit model : underlying mechanisms
- 2011
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Ingår i: Journal of Physiology. - : Wiley. - 0022-3751 .- 1469-7793. ; 589:8, s. 2007-2026
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Non-technical summary Wasting and severely impaired function of skeletal muscle is frequently observed in critically ill intensive care unit (ICU) patients, with negative consequences for recovery and quality of life. An experimental rat ICU model has been used to study the mechanisms underlying this unique wasting condition in neuromuscularly blocked and mechanically ventilated animals at durations varying between 6 h and 2 weeks. The complete 'mechanical silencing' of skeletal muscle (removal of both weight bearing and activation) resulted in a specific myopathy frequently observed in ICU patients and characterized by a preferential loss of the motor protein myosin. A highly complex and coordinated protein synthesis and degradation system was observed in the time-resolved analyses. It is suggested the 'mechanical silencing' of skeletal muscle is a dominating factor triggering the specific myopathy associated with the ICU intervention, and strongly supporting the importance of interventions counteracting the complete unloading in ICU patients.The muscle wasting and impaired muscle function in critically ill intensive care unit (ICU) patients delay recovery from the primary disease, and have debilitating consequences that can persist for years after hospital discharge. It is likely that, in addition to pernicious effects of the primary disease, the basic life support procedures of long-term ICU treatment contribute directly to the progressive impairment of muscle function. This study aims at improving our understanding of the mechanisms underlying muscle wasting in ICU patients by using a unique experimental rat ICU model where animals are mechanically ventilated, sedated and pharmacologically paralysed for duration varying between 6 h and 14 days. Results show that the ICU intervention induces a phenotype resembling the severe muscle wasting and paralysis associated with the acute quadriplegic myopathy (AQM) observed in ICU patients, i.e. a preferential loss of myosin, transcriptional down-regulation of myosin synthesis, muscle atrophy and a dramatic decrease in muscle fibre force generation capacity. Detailed analyses of protein degradation pathways show that the ubiquitin proteasome pathway is highly involved in this process. A sequential change in localisation of muscle-specific RING finger proteins 1/2 (MuRF1/2) observed during the experimental period is suggested to play an instrumental role in both transcriptional regulation and protein degradation. We propose that, for those critically ill patients who develop AQM, complete mechanical silencing, due to pharmacological paralysis or sedation, is a critical factor underlying the preferential loss of the molecular motor protein myosin that leads to impaired muscle function or persisting paralysis.
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- Salomon, Benita, 1993-, et al.
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The serum protein profile across the IBD spectrum : Results from the COLLIBRI consortium
- 2024
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Ingår i: Journal of Crohn's & Colitis. - : Oxford University Press. - 1873-9946 .- 1876-4479. ; 18:Suppl. 1, s. I674-I676
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Background: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a heterogeneous disorder. Both subtypes, i.e., Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), differ in disease behaviour and inflamed gastrointestinal segments. Despite this, randomized controlled trials stratify patients based on CD and UC. Molecular characterization could uncover subtype-specific differences that could guide treatment and thereby overcome current therapeutic limitations. Therefore, we aimed to examine differences in serum inflammatory protein profiles across the IBD spectrum.Methods: This was a cross-sectional multicentre study of adult patients (≥18 years) with IBD from one Belgian and eight Swedish hospitals in the COLLIBRI consortium. IBD diagnosis and classification was based on international criteria, according to the Montreal classification. Relative serum protein levels were assessed using proximity extension assay technology (Olink Proteomics, Uppsala, Sweden; inflammation panel). We adopted smoothly clipped absolute deviation penalized logistic regression models to discriminate CD and UC patients. Using fitted CD vs UC logistic models, we estimated probability scores of CD vs UC for each patient based on their serum protein profiles. Scores ranged from 0 to 1, where lower scores indicated a higher molecular resemblance to UC. We evaluated the performance using leave-one-out cross-validation and the area under the curve (AUC).Results: Relative levels of 86 serum inflammatory proteins were available from 1,551 patients with IBD (CD, N=883; UC, N=639 and IBD-U, N=29) (Table 1). CD vs UC probability scores based on protein estimates for patients with UC, IBDU and different CD phenotypes (ileal CD, L1; colonic CD, L2; ileocolonic CD L3) are shown in Figure 1A. We observed a spectrum of IBD patients based on their CD vs CD probability scores with most pronounced differences between ileal CD and UC. Probability scores also differed significantly between colonic CD and ileal CD, but not between ileal and ileocolonic CD. The model performance to discriminate CD and UC yielded an AUC of 0.75. Restricting the samples to only one CD phenotype vs UC respectively resulted in the highest AUC for ileal CD (0.81), followed by ileocolonic CD (0.75) and colonic CD (0.65). Key proteins in the CD vs. UC model with higher protein estimates in UC were IL-17A, MMP10, FGF19. Contrary, CSF1, and SLAMF1, were higher in CD (Figure 1B).Conclusion: Our results on inflammation related serum proteins advocate for a more nuanced classification of CD into ileal-predominant and colonic-predominant subtypes. Such stratification could advance our understanding of IBD pathophysiology and may provide guidance for future therapeutic approaches.
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- Sudhakar, D. R., et al.
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Fragmentation of wood char in a laboratory scale fluidized bed combustor
- 2008
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Ingår i: Fuel Processing Technology. ; 89:11, s. 1121-1134
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This work proposes a transient heat transfer model to predict the thermal behaviour of wood in a heated bed of sand fluidized with nitrogen. The 2-D model in cylindrical coordinates considers wood anisotropy, variable fuel properties, fuel particle shrinkage, and heat generation due to drying and devolatilization. The influence of initial fuel moisture content, thermal diffusivity, particle geometry, shrinkage, external heat transfer coefficient, chemical reaction kinetics and heats of reaction on temperature rise is presented. The cylindrical wood particles chosen for the study have length (l) = 20 mm, diameter (d) = 4 mm and l = 50 mm and d = 10 mm, both having an aspect ratio (l/d) of 5. The bed temperature is 1123 K. The model prediction is validated using measurements obtained from literature. The temperature rise in the wood particle is found to be sensitive to changes in the moisture content and thermal diffusivity and heat of reaction (in larger particles) while it is less sensitive to the external heat transfer coefficient and chemical kinetics. Also shrinkage is found to have a compensating effect and it does not have any significant influence on the temperature rise. Beyond an aspect ratio of three, the wood particle behaves as a 1-D cylinder.
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