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Misregulation of AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR 8 Underlies the Developmental Abnormalities Caused by Three Distinct Viral Silencing Suppressors in Arabidopsis
(2011)PLoS PathogensIn Arabidopsis, micro (mi)RNAs and trans-acting (ta-si)RNAs synthesized directly or indirectly through the DICER-LIKE-1 (DCL1) ribonuclease have roles in patterning and hormonal responses, while DCL2,3,4-dependent small-interfering (si)RNAs are mainly involved in silencing of transposable elements and antiviral defense. Viral suppressors of RNA silencing (VSRs) produced by phytoviruses to counter plant defense may perturb plant developmental ...Journal Article -
Feedback Control Architecture and the Bacterial Chemotaxis Network
(2011)PLoS Computational BiologyBacteria move towards favourable and away from toxic environments by changing their swimming pattern. This response is regulated by the chemotaxis signalling pathway, which has an important feature: it uses feedback to ‘reset’ (adapt) the bacterial sensing ability, which allows the bacteria to sense a range of background environmental changes. The role of this feedback has been studied extensively in the simple chemotaxis pathway of ...Journal Article -
How Citation Boosts Promote Scientific Paradigm Shifts and Nobel Prizes
(2011)PLoS ONENobel Prizes are commonly seen to be among the most prestigious achievements of our times. Based on mining several million citations, we quantitatively analyze the processes driving paradigm shifts in science. We find that groundbreaking discoveries of Nobel Prize Laureates and other famous scientists are not only acknowledged by many citations of their landmark papers. Surprisingly, they also boost the citation rates of their previous ...Journal Article -
Study of Z Boson Production in PbPb Collisions at √sNN=2.76 TeV
(2011)Physical Review LettersA search for Z bosons in the μ+μ− decay channel has been performed in PbPb collisions at √sNN=2.76 TeV with the CMS detector at the LHC, in a 7.2 μb−1 data sample. The number of opposite-sign muon pairs observed in the 60–120 GeV/c2 invariant mass range is 39, corresponding to a yield per unit of rapidity (y) and per minimum bias event of [33.8±5.5(stat)±4.4(syst)]×10−8, in the |y|<2.0 range. Rapidity, transverse momentum, and centrality ...Journal Article -
Search for supersymmetry in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV in events with two photons and missing transverse energy
(2011)Physical Review LettersA search for supersymmetry in the context of general gauge-mediated breaking with the lightest neutralino as the next-to-lightest supersymmetric particle and the gravitino as the lightest is presented. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 36 pb−1 recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC. The search is performed by using events containing two or more isolated photons, at least one hadronic jet, and significant missing ...Journal Article -
Search for Pair Production of First-Generation Scalar Leptoquarks in pp Collisions at √s=7 TeV
(2011)Physical Review LettersA search for pair production of first-generation scalar leptoquarks is performed in the final state containing two electrons and two jets using proton-proton collision data at √s=7 TeV. The data sample used corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 33 pb−1 collected with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC. The number of observed events is in good agreement with the predictions for the standard model background processes, and an upper ...Journal Article -
Quantum response of dephasing open systems
(2011)New Journal of PhysicsWe develop a theory of adiabatic response for open systems governed by Lindblad evolutions. The theory determines the dependence of the response coefficients on the dephasing rates and allows for residual dissipation even when the ground state is protected by a spectral gap. We give the quantum response a geometric interpretation in terms of Hilbert space projections: for a two-level system and, more generally, for systems with a suitable ...Journal Article -
Study of neutrino interactions with the electronic detectors of the OPERA experiment
(2011)New Journal of PhysicsThe OPERA experiment is based on a hybrid technology combining electronic detectors (EDs) and nuclear emulsions. OPERA collected muon–neutrino interactions during the 2008 and 2009 physics runs of the CNGS neutrino beam, produced at CERN with an energy range of about 5–35 GeV. A total of 5.3×1019 protons on target equivalent luminosity have been analysed with the OPERA EDs: scintillator strips target trackers and magnetic muon spectrometers ...Journal Article -
The relevance of electrostatics for scanning-gate microscopy
(2011)New Journal of PhysicsScanning-probe techniques have been developed to extract local information from a given physical system. In particular, conductance maps obtained by means of scanning-gate microscopy (SGM), where a conducting tip of an atomic-force microscope is used as a local and movable gate, seem to present an intuitive picture of the underlying physical processes. Here, we argue that the interpretation of such images is complex and not very intuitive ...Journal Article -
Effects of Connectivity and Recurrent Local Disturbances on Community Structure and Population Density in Experimental Metacommunities
(2011)PLoS ONEMetacommunity theory poses that the occurrence and abundance of species is a product of local factors, including disturbance, and regional factors, like dispersal among patches. While metacommunity ideas have been broadly tested there is relatively little work on metacommunities subject to disturbance. We focused on how localized disturbance and dispersal interact to determine species composition in metacommunities. Experiments conducted ...Journal Article