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Nonstructural partitions and floor vibration serviceability

Author's accepted manuscript. The final published version is available from the publisher via DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)AE.1943-5568.0000171. © 2015 American Society of Civil Engineers.Non-structural vertical partitions and cladding can have a significant effect on the vibration
serviceability of floor systems. A typical modern office building, consisting of steel-concrete
composite floor systems, was created to investigate the potential beneficial effects of integrating
non-structural partitions into structural floor systems to reduce floor vibrations due to walking
excitation. Two models of this building were presented, one to represent the completed building
with an open-plan layout and another with partitions added in a beneficial pattern to enhance the
floor's vibration performance. The addition of non-structural partitions successfully reduced floor
accelerations due to walking excitation and helped the floor to satisfy the vibration serviceability
criterion for office floors.
The potential of vertical full-height non-structural partitions and cladding to transmit vibrations
between floors was also investigated. A vibration transmission simulation was conducted on the 
2
2
Finite Element (FE) model to quantify vibration transmission between floors through the
structural frame and non-structural vertical partitions and cladding. The results were then
compared with experimental results previously recorded on the floors of a real-life Charles
Institute building in Dublin featuring the same type of partitions but different structural frame. It
was concluded that both the FE model and real-life building featuring structural elements and
full-height partitions have the potential to transmit significant level of vibrations between two
adjacent floors.
The results presented in this study will be of interest to design engineers and researchers in the
area of vibration serviceability of floor systems, as it highlights the potential of non-structural
elements to reduce the floor vibration response to acceptable levels to transmit vibrations
between floors.Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology (IRCSET)Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC
White Australian adoptive mothers' understandings of birth cultures and families

This paper reports an analysis of interviews conducted with 10 White Australian women who had undertaken intercountry adoption. The paper begins with an overview of how issues of culture play out within discourses of intercountry adoption in general and how this occurs specifically in Australian policy in regard to intercountry adoption. The analysis highlights how the interviewees were in many ways inculcated in broader Australian discourses of intercountry adoption, as much as in some instances there was an attempt to resist this. The paper concludes by discussing how it might be possible for White adoptive mothers in Australia to do other than remain complicit with marginalizing accounts of adoptive children's birth cultures and parents
A global database of lake surface temperatures collected by in situ and satellite methods from 1985–2009

Global environmental change has influenced lake surface temperatures, a key driver of ecosystem structure and function. Recent studies have suggested significant warming of water temperatures in individual lakes across many different regions around the world. However, the spatial and temporal coherence associated with the magnitude of these trends remains unclear. Thus, a global data set of water temperature is required to understand and synthesize global, long-term trends in surface water temperatures of inland bodies of water. We assembled a database of summer lake surface temperatures for 291 lakes collected in situ and/or by satellites for the period 1985–2009. In addition, corresponding climatic drivers (air temperatures, solar radiation, and cloud cover) and geomorphometric characteristics (latitude, longitude, elevation, lake surface area, maximum depth, mean depth, and volume) that influence lake surface temperatures were compiled for each lake. This unique dataset offers an invaluable baseline perspective on global-scale lake thermal conditions as environmental change continues
Search for pair production of massive particles decaying into three quarks with the ATLAS detector in root s=7 TeV pp collisions at the LHC

A search is conducted for hadronic three-body decays of a new massive coloured particle in root s = 7 TeV p p collisions at the LHC using an integrated luminosity of 4.6 fb(-1) collected by the ATLAS detector. Supersymmetric gluino pair production in the context of a model with R-parity violation is used as a benchmark scenario. The analysis is divided into two search channels, each optimised separately for their sensitivity to high-mass and low-mass gluino production. The first search channel uses a stringent selection on the transverse momentum of the six leading jets and is performed as a counting experiment. The second search channel focuses on low-mass gluinos produced with a large boost. Large-radius jets are selected and the invariant mass of each of the two leading jets is used as a discriminant between the signal and the background. The results are found to be consistent with Standard Model expectations and limits are set on the allowed gluino mass
Echolucent or predominantly echolucent femoral plaques predict early restenosis after eversion carotid endarterectomy.

OBJECTIVE: Although the association between vulnerable lesions and cardiovascular events is well established, little is known about their relationship to postsurgery restenosis. To address this issue, we initiated a prospective, nonrandomized study to examine the femoral plaques on both sides in patients who were undergoing eversion carotid endarterectomy (CEA) and were longitudinally followed-up for early restenosis development. METHODS: The final analysis enrolled 321 patients (189 women) with a median age of 67.0 years (interquartile range, 59.0-73.0 years), who underwent eversion CEA (2005 to 2007). Using duplex ultrasound scanning, we evaluated 321 common femoral atherosclerotic lesions on the day before CEA. A quantitative scale was used to grade the size of plaques as grade 1, one or more small plaques (<20 mm2); grade 2, moderate to large plaques; and grade 3, plaques giving flow disturbances. The plaque morphology in terms of echogenicity was graded as echolucent, 1; predominantly echolucent, 2; predominantly echogenic, 3; echogenic 4; or calcified, 5. The plaque surface was categorized as smooth, irregular, or ulcerated. The patients underwent carotid duplex ultrasound imaging at 6 weeks and at 6, 12, and 24 months after CEA. Mann-Whitney U test, chi2 test, and multivariate logistic regression were used for statistical evaluation. RESULTS: Internal carotid artery restenosis of > or = 50% was detected in 33 patients (10.28%) in the operated region. Neither the size (grade 1, P = .793; grade 2, P = .540; grade 3, P = .395) nor the surface characteristics of the femoral plaques (smooth, P = .278; irregular, P = .281; ulcerated, P = .934) were significantly different between the patients with and without carotid restenosis. Echolucent-predominantly echolucent femoral lesions were an independent predictor of recurrent carotid stenosis (adjusted odds ratio, 5.63; 95% confidence interval, 2.14-10.89; P < .001). CONCLUSION: Ultrasound evaluation of femoral plaque morphology before CEA can be useful for identifying patients at higher risk for carotid restenosis
Probabilistic maturation reaction norms assessed from mark-recaptures of wild fish in their natural habitat

Published version of an article in the journal: Ecology and Evolution. Also available from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1044 Open AccessReaction norms are a valuable tool in evolutionary biology. Lately, the probabilistic maturation reaction norm approach, describing probabilities of maturing at combinations of age and body size, has been much applied for testing whether phenotypic changes in exploited populations of fish are mainly plastic or involving an evolutionary component. However, due to typical field data limitations, with imperfect knowledge about individual life histories, this demographic method still needs to be assessed. Using 13 years of direct mark-recapture observations on individual growth and maturation in an intensively sampled population of brown trout (Salmo trutta), we show that the probabilistic maturation reaction norm approach may perform well even if the assumption of equal survival of juvenile and maturing fish does not hold. Earlier studies have pointed out that growth effects may confound the interpretation of shifts in maturation reaction norms, because this method in its basic form deals with body size rather than growth. In our case, however, we found that juvenile body size, rather than annual growth, was more strongly associated with maturation. Viewed against earlier studies, our results also underscore the challenges of generalizing life-history patterns among species and populations
The Notch Delta-4 ligand helps to maintain the quiescence and the short-term reconstitutive potential of Haematopoietic Progenitor Cells through activation of a key gene network
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Delta-4/Notch pathway retains the HPCs potential

International audienceUnderstanding the role of Notch and its ligands within the different bone marrow niches could shed light on the mechanisms regulating haematopoietic progenitor cells (HPCs) maintenance and self renewal. Here, we report that murine bone marrow HPCs activation by the vascular Notch Delta4 ligand maintains a significant proportion of cells specifically in the G0 state. Furthermore, Delta4/Notch pathway limits significantly the loss of the in vivo short-term reconstitutive potential upon transplantation of Delta-4 activated HPCs into lethally irradiated recipient mice. Both effects are directly correlated with the decrease of cell cycle genes transcription such as CYCLIN-D1, − D2, and -D3, and the upregulation of stemness related genes transcription such as BMI1, GATA2, HOXB4 and C-MYC. In addition, the transcriptional screening also highlights new downstream post-transcriptional factors, named PUMILIO1 and − 2, as part of the stem signature associated with the Delta4/Notch signalling pathway
Mutations in TUBG1, DYNC1H1, KIF5C and KIF2A cause malformations of cortical development and microcephaly.

International audienceThe genetic causes of malformations of cortical development (MCD) remain largely unknown. Here we report the discovery of multiple pathogenic missense mutations in TUBG1, DYNC1H1 and KIF2A, as well as a single germline mosaic mutation in KIF5C, in subjects with MCD. We found a frequent recurrence of mutations in DYNC1H1, implying that this gene is a major locus for unexplained MCD. We further show that the mutations in KIF5C, KIF2A and DYNC1H1 affect ATP hydrolysis, productive protein folding and microtubule binding, respectively. In addition, we show that suppression of mouse Tubg1 expression in vivo interferes with proper neuronal migration, whereas expression of altered γ-tubulin proteins in Saccharomyces cerevisiae disrupts normal microtubule behavior. Our data reinforce the importance of centrosomal and microtubule-related proteins in cortical development and strongly suggest that microtubule-dependent mitotic and postmitotic processes are major contributors to the pathogenesis of MCD
Black Hole's 1/N Hair

According to the standard view classically black holes carry no hair, whereas
quantum hair is at best exponentially weak. We show that suppression of hair is
an artifact of the semi-classical treatment and that in the quantum picture
hair appears as an inverse mass-square effect. Such hair is predicted in the
microscopic quantum description in which a black hole represents a
self-sustained leaky Bose-condensate of N soft gravitons. In this picture the
Hawking radiation is the quantum depletion of the condensate. Within this
picture we show that quantum black hole physics is fully compatible with
continuous global symmetries and that global hair appears with the strength
B/N, where B is the global charge swallowed by the black hole. For large charge
this hair has dramatic effect on black hole dynamics. Our findings can have
interesting astrophysical consequences, such as existence of black holes with
large detectable baryonic and leptonic numbers.Comment: 13 pages, 2 Figure
GRO J1008−57: an (almost) predictable transient X-ray binary

International audienceA study of archival RXTE, Swift, and Suzaku pointed          observations of the transient high-mass X-ray binary GRO J1008−57 is presented. A new          orbital ephemeris based on pulse arrival-timing shows the times of maximum luminosities          during outbursts of GRO J1008−57 to be close to periastron at orbital phase − 0.03. This          makes the source one of a few for which outburst dates can be predicted with very high          precision. Spectra of the source in 2005, 2007, and 2011 can be well described by a simple          power law with high-energy cutoff and an additional black body at lower energies. The          photon index of the power law and the black-body flux only depend on the 15–50 keV source          flux. No apparent hysteresis effects are seen. These correlations allow us to predict the          evolution of the pulsar’s X-ray spectral shape over all outbursts as a function of just          one parameter, the source’s flux. If modified by an additional soft component, this          prediction even holds during GRO J1008−57’s 2012 type II outburst
High bandwidth-efficiency solar-blind AlGaN Schottky photodiodes with low dark current

Cataloged from PDF version of article.Al0.38Ga0.62N/GaN heterojunction solar-blind Schottky photodetectors with low dark current, high responsivity, and fast pulse
response were demonstrated. A five-step microwave compatible fabrication process was utilized to fabricate the devices. The solarblind
detectors displayed extremely low dark current values: 30lm diameter devices exhibited leakage current below 3 fA under
reverse bias up to 12V. True solar-blind operation was ensured with a sharp cut-off around 266 nm. Peak responsivity of
147mA/W was measured at 256 nm under 20 V reverse bias. A visible rejection more than 4 orders of magnitude was achieved.
The thermally-limited detectivity of the devices was calculated as 1.8 · 1013 cmHz1/2W 1
. Temporal pulse response measurements
of the solar-blind detectors resulted in fast pulses with high 3-dB bandwidths. The best devices had 53 ps pulse-width and 4.1GHz
bandwidth. A bandwidth-efficiency product of 2.9GHz was achieved with the AlGaN Schottky photodiodes. (C) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserve
The 3'-untranslated region directs ribosomal protein-encoding mRNAs to specific cytoplasmic regions

mRNA localization is a conserved post-transcriptional process crucial for a variety of systems. We have analyzed the subcellular distribution of mRNAs encoding human cytosolic and mitochondrial ribosomal proteins. Biochemical fractionation experiments showed that the transcripts for cytosolic ribosomal proteins associate preferentially with the cytoskeleton via actin microfilaments. Transfection in HeLa cells of a GFP reporter construct containing the cytosolic ribosomal protein L4 3'-UTR showed that the 3'-UTR is necessary for the association of the transcript to the cytoskeleton. Using confocal analysis we demonstrate that the chimeric transcript is specifically associated with the perinuclear cytoskeleton. We also show that mRNA for mitochondrial ribosomal protein S12 is asymmetrically distributed in the cytoplasm. In fact, this transcript was localized mainly in the proximity of mitochondria, and the localization was 3'-UTR-dependent. In summary, ribosomal protein mRNAs constitute a new class of localized transcripts that share a common localization mechanism
A dominant mutation in the gene encoding the erythroid transcription factor KLF1 causes a congenital dyserythropoietic anemia.

The congenital dyserythropoietic anemias (CDAs) are inherited red blood cell disorders whose hallmarks are ineffective erythropoiesis,\ud
hemolysis, and morphological abnormalities of erythroblasts in bone marrow. We have identified a missense mutation in KLF1 of\ud
patients with a hitherto unclassified CDA. KLF1 is an erythroid transcription factor, and extensive studies in mouse models have shown\ud
that it plays a critical role in the expression of globin genes, but also in the expression of a wide spectrum of genes potentially essential\ud
for erythropoiesis. The unique features of this CDA confirm the key role of KLF1 during human erythroid differentiation. Furthermore,\ud
we show that the mutation has a dominant-negative effect on KLF1 transcriptional activity and unexpectedly abolishes the expression of\ud
the water channel AQP1 and the adhesion molecule CD44. Thus, the study of this disease-causing mutation in KLF1 provides further\ud
insights into the roles of this transcription factor during erythropoiesis in humans
Genetic diversity of the pan-european freshwater mussel Anodonta anatina (bivalvia : unionoida) based on CO1 : new phylogenetic insights and implications for conservation

1. The duck mussel, Anodonta anatina, has been described as abundant and widespread in Europe. However, it is
listed as near threatened or threatened in several countries owing to severe declines in abundance and/or spatial
distribution.
2. Despite its potential ecological importance and conservation status almost nothing is known regarding its
genetic diversity.
3. As a preliminary analysis, variation within the cytochrome oxidase 1 mitochondrial gene was determined
from European specimens from Portugal in the south west, to Ukraine in the east, and Sweden in the north.
4. Three major mtDNA clades were retrieved: clade 1 includes all the individuals from Iberia, except those from
the Ebro basin; clade 2 includes all the European non-Iberian and non-Italian samples; and clade 3 includes all the
individuals from Italy and from the Ebro basin. AMOVA analysis revealed significant genetic differences among
the three clades. Within each of the major clades, several geographically related haplogroups were also retrieved,
especially in Iberia, where four genetically distinct groups (North-West, South-Central, South-West and Ebro)
were revealed.
5. Given the evidence of regional declines of A. anatina in Europe, the confirmation of geographically distinct
genotypes indicates a need for the development of management strategies directed towards the conservation of
localized populationsThis work was supported financially by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) project PTDC/AAC-AMB/117688/2010, and partly by the European Regional Development Fund through COMPETE, under the project PEst-C/MAR/LA0015/2011. We would like to thank our collaborators who kindly provided us with tissue samples: Erika Bodis, Karel Douda, Oksana Stolyar, Arpad Benko-Kiss, Nicoletta Riccardi. Marianna Soroka and Larissa Yanovich gave us the exact locations of their previously sequenced animals. We thank Jose Maria Irurita, Jose Miguel Barea Azcon, Keiko Nakamura, Pablo Redin and Esther Penin for all their help during the Spanish field campaigns. Official capture and sampling licences were issued by Junta de Castilla y Leon (Consejeria de Fomento y Medio Ambiente EP/CYL/331/2012, de 17 de Abril de 2012); Junta de Andalucia (Consejeria de Medio Ambiente- SGYB/FOA/AFR/SFS, de 17 de Julio de 2012); Xunta de Galicia (Conselleria de Medio Ambiente- 539/2012 de 15 de Setembro de 2012); Gobierno de Aragon (Direccion General de Conservacion del Medio Natural- 136.071/2012 de 12 de Julio de 2012)
Measurement of transverse energy-energy correlations in multi-jet events in pp collisions at s√=7 TeV using the ATLAS detector and determination of the strong coupling constant αs(mZ)

High transverse momentum jets produced in pp collisions at a centre of mass energy of 7 TeV are used to measure the transverse energy--energy correlation function and its associated azimuthal asymmetry. The data were recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC in the year 2011 and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 158 pb−1. The selection criteria demand the average transverse momentum of the two leading jets in an event to be larger than 250 GeV. The data at detector level are well described by Monte Carlo event generators. They are unfolded to the particle level and compared with theoretical calculations at next-to-leading-order accuracy. The agreement between data and theory is good and provides a precision test of perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics at large momentum transfers. From this comparison, the strong coupling constant given at the Z boson mass is determined to be αs(mZ)=0.1173±0.0010 (exp.) +0.0065−0.0026 (theo.).We acknowledge the support of ANPCyT, Argentina; YerPhI, Armenia; ARC, Australia; BMWFW and FWF, Austria; ANAS, Azerbaijan; SSTC, Belarus; CNPq and FAPESP, Brazil; NSERC, NRC and CFI, Canada; CERN; CONICYT, Chile; CAS, MOST and NSFC, China; COLCIENCIAS, Colombia; MSMT CR, MPO CR and VSC CR, Czech Republic; DNRF, DNSRC and Lundbeck Foundation, Denmark; EPLANET, ERC and NSRF, European Union; IN2P3-CNRS, CEA-DSM/IRFU, France; GNSF, Georgia; BMBF, DFG, HGF, MPG and AvH Foundation, Germany; GSRT and NSRF, Greece; RGC, Hong Kong SAR, China; ISF, MINERVA, GIF, I-CORE and Benoziyo Center, Israel; INFN, Italy; MEXT and JSPS, Japan; CNRST, Morocco; FOM and NWO, Netherlands; BRF and RCN, Norway; MNiSW and NCN, Poland; GRICES and FCT, Portugal; MNE/IFA, Romania; MES of Russia and NRC KI, Russian Federation; JINR; MSTD, Serbia; MSSR, Slovakia; ARRS and Slovenia; DST/NRF, South Africa; MINECO, Spain; SRC and Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden; SER, SNSF and Cantons of Bern and Geneva, Switzerland; NSC, Taiwan; TAEK, Turkey; STFC, the Royal Society and Leverhulme Trust, United Kingdom; DOE and NSF, United States of America
Spontaneous and induced dynamic fluctuations in glass formers. I. General results and dependence on ensemble and dynamics

We study theoretically and numerically a family of multipoint dynamic susceptibilities that quantify the strength and characteristic length scales of dynamic heterogeneities in glass-forming materials. We use general theoretical arguments (fluctuation-dissipation relations and symmetries of relevant dynamical field theories) to relate the sensitivity of averaged two-time correlators to temperature and density to spontaneous fluctuations of the local dynamics. Our theoretical results are then compared to molecular dynamics simulations of the Newtonian, Brownian, and Monte Carlo dynamics of two representative glass-forming liquids, a fragile binary Lennard-Jones mixture, and a model for the strong glass-former silica. We justify in detail the claim made by Berthier et al. [Science 310, 1797 (2005)] that the temperature dependence of correlation functions allows one to extract useful information on dynamic length scales in glassy systems. We also discuss some subtle issues associated with the choice of microscopic dynamics and of statistical ensemble through conserved quantities, which are found to play an important role in determining dynamic correlations