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Distinct donor and acceptor specificities of Trypanosoma brucei oligosaccharyltransferases
(2009)The EMBO JournalJournal Article -
Exploiting the weekly cycle as observed over Europe to analyse aerosol indirect effects in two climate models
(2009)Atmospheric Chemistry and PhysicsA weekly cycle in aerosol pollution and some meteorological quantities is observed over Europe. In the present study we exploit this effect to analyse aerosol-cloud-radiation interactions. A weekly cycle is imposed on anthropogenic emissions in two general circulation models that include parameterizations of aerosol processes and cloud microphysics. It is found that the simulated weekly cycles in sulfur dioxide, sulfate, and aerosol optical ...Journal Article -
Minority Voting and Public Project Provision
(2009)Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment JournalThe author proposes a two-round process called minority voting to allocate public projects in a polity. In the first round, a society decides by a simple majority decision whether to provide the public project. If the proposal in the first round is rejected, the process ends. Otherwise the process continues, but only the members of the minority keep agenda and voting rights for the second round, in which the financing scheme is determined. ...Journal Article -
Now or Never: Environmental Protection under Hyperbolic Discounting
(2009)Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment JournalThe author analyzes the optimal investment in environmental protection in a model of non-overlapping hyperbolically discounting agents. He shows that, in the long run and in the absence of a commitment device, society is stuck in a situation where all agents prefer further investments, yet no agent invests. This holds no matter whether agents are aware of the time inconsistency of their preferences. As a consequence, awareness of the ...Journal Article -
Modelling of cirrus clouds - Part 1a: Model description and validation
(2009)Atmospheric Chemistry and PhysicsA double-moment bulk microphysics scheme for modelling cirrus clouds including explicit impact of aerosols on different types of nucleation mechanism is described. Process rates are formulated in terms of generalised moments of the underlying a priori size distributions in order to allow simple switching between various distribution types. The scheme has been implemented into a simple box model and into the anelastic non-hydrostatic model ...Journal Article -
Statistical analysis of anthropogenic non-methane VOC variability at a European background location (Jungfraujoch, Switzerland)
(2009)Atmospheric Chemistry and PhysicsIn-situ measurements of 7 volatile hydrocarbons, CxHy, and 3 chlorinated organic compounds, CxHyClz, were performed at Jungfraujoch (Switzerland) during eight years (2000–2007). The analysis of 4-h resolved non-methane volatile organic compounds (NMVOCs) was achieved by using gas-chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Variabilities in the NMVOC time series dataset were modeled by factor analysis (positive matrix factorization, ...Journal Article -
Novel Anisotropic Porous Materials through Self-Assembly of Super-Paramagnetic Particles
(2009)ChimiaJournal Article -
Squaraine Planar-Heterojunction Solar Cells
(2009)International Journal of PhotoenergyThe photovoltaic performance of squaraine-based organic solar cells is investigated. Two squaraine derivatives with extraordinarily high extinction coefficients are used as electron donors in bilayer heterojunctions with fullerene as electron acceptor. Due to the very strong squaraine absorption band in the red spectral domain, antibatic behavior due to light filtering is observed in the photocurrent spectrum for film thicknesses of 35 nm ...Journal Article -
A general real-time formulation for multi-rate mass transfer problems
(2009)Hydrology and Earth System SciencesMany flow and transport phenomena, ranging from delayed storage in pumping tests to tailing in river or aquifer tracer breakthrough curves or slow kinetics in reactive transport, display non-equilibrium (NE) behavior. These phenomena are usually modeled by non-local in time formulations, such as multi-porosity, multiple processes non equilibrium, continuous time random walk, memory functions, integro-differential equations, fractional ...Journal Article -
Distinctively variable sequence-based nuclear DNA markers for multilocus phylogeography of the soybean- and rice-infecting fungal pathogen Rhizoctonia solani AG-1 IA
(2009)Genetics and Molecular BiologyA series of multilocus sequence-based nuclear DNA markers was developed to infer the phylogeographical history of the Basidiomycetous fungal pathogen Rhizoctonia solani AG-1 IA infecting rice and soybean worldwide. The strategy was based on sequencing of cloned genomic DNA fragments (previously used as RFLP probes) and subsequent screening of fungal isolates to detect single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Ten primer pairs were designed ...Journal Article