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Development of early calcareous nannoplankton in the late Triassic (Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria)

Calcareous nannofossils are considered to be the most productive calcifying organisms, but the impact of their emergence on the chemistry of the ocean in the Late Triassic is not understood yet. Evolutionary details of this bio-event are missing due to the scarcity of well-preserved outcrops worldwide. The current study focuses on the calcareous nannofossil assemblage of the middle Norian to lower

Plasma metabolites associate with all-cause mortality in individuals with type 2 diabetes

Alterations in the human metabolome occur years before clinical manifestation of type 2 diabetes (T2DM). By contrast, there is little knowledge of how metabolite alterations in individuals with diabetes relate to risk of diabetes complications and premature mortality. Metabolite profiling was performed using liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry in 743 participants with T2DM from the population-

Statistic estimation of cell compressibility based on acoustophoretic separation data

We present a new experimental method that measures the compressibility of phenotype-specific cell populations. This is done by performing statistical analysis of the cell counts from the outlets of an acoustophoresis chip as a function of the increasing actuator voltage (i.e. acoustic energy density) during acoustophoretic separation. The theoretical separation performance curve, henceforth, Side-

Geochronology of impact structures - constraining syn- and post-impact processes using the 40Ar/39Ar and U-Pb techniques

The discovery, at the beginning of the 20th century, that elements can transform into other elements, due to the spontaneous decay of an instable to a stable atomic nuclei, gave rise to a powerful source for age information in many fields of earth science. For impact structures, it is crucial to establish well-defined and precise ages in order to understand how impact events affect the Earth’s geoThe discovery, at the beginning of the 20th century, that elements can transform into other elements, due to the spontaneous decay of an instable to a stable atomic nuclei, gave rise to a powerful source for age information in many fields of earth science. For impact structures, it is crucial to establish well-defined and precise ages in order to understand how impact events affect the Earth’s geo

Laplace–Carleson Embeddings on Model Spaces and Boundedness of Truncated Hankel and Toeplitz Operators

A characterisation is given of bounded embeddings from weighted L2 spaces on bounded intervals into L2 spaces on the half-plane, induced by isomorphisms given by the Laplace transform onto weighted Hardy and Bergman spaces (Zen spaces). As an application necessary and sufficient conditions are given for the boundedness of truncated Hankel and Toeplitz integral operators, including the weighted cas

Novel structure of the N-terminal helical domain of BibA, a group B streptococcus immunogenic bacterial adhesin

BibA, a group B streptococcus (GBS) surface protein, has been shown to protect the pathogen from phagocytic killing by sequestering a complement inhibitor: C4b-binding protein (C4BP). Here, the X-ray crystallographic structure of a GBS BibA fragment (BibA126-398) and a low-resolution small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) structure of the full-length N-terminal domain (BibA34-400) are described. The

Model nuclear energy density functionals derived from ab initio calculations

We present the first application of a new approach, proposed in (2016 J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 43 04LT01) to derive coupling constants of the Skyrme energy density functional (EDF) from ab initio Hamiltonian. By perturbing the ab initio Hamiltonian with several functional generators defining the Skyrme EDF, we create a set of metadata that is then used to constrain the coupling constants of t

Low vitamin d levels and frailty status in older adults : A systematic review and meta-analysis

Serum vitamin D deficiency is widespread among older adults and is a potential modifiable risk factor for frailty. Moreover, frailty has been suggested as an intermediate step in the association between low levels of vitamin D and mortality. Hence, we conducted a systematic review of the literature and meta-analysis to test the possible association of low concentrations of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin