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1. Extraordinary Rendition: Addressing the Challenges of Accountability

Author

Guild, Elspeth, Bigo, Didier, Gibney, Mark, Centre de recherches internationales (CERI), Sciences Po (Sciences Po)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of North Carolina [Greensboro] (UNCG), University of North Carolina System (UNC), Elspeth Guild, Didier Bigo, Mark Gibney, Centre d'études et de recherches internationales ( CERI ), Sciences Po-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), The University of North Carolina Greensboro ( UNCG ), and Centre de recherches internationales (Sciences Po, CNRS) (CERI)

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[SHS.DROIT]Humanities and Social Sciences/Law, extraordinary rendition, rule of law, human rights protection, [ SHS.SCIPO ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Political science, [ SHS.DROIT ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Law, United States, [SHS.SCIPO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Political science
Abstract

The US led programme of extraordinary rendition created profound challenges for the international system of human rights protection and rule of law. This book examines the efforts of authorities in Europe and the US to re-establish rule of law and respect for human rights through the investigation of the program and its outcomes.The contributions to this volume examine the supranational and national inquiries into the US CIA-led extraordinary rendition and secret detention programme in Europe. The book takes as a starting point two recent and far-reaching developments in delivering accountability and establishing the truth: First, the publication of the executive summary of the US Senate Intelligence Committee (Feinstein) Report, and second, various European Court of Human Rights judgments regarding European Union Member States’ complicity with the CIA and their incompatibility with the European Convention of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR).The collective volume provides the first stock-taking review of the state of affairs in the quest for accountability in the EU, and identifies significant obstacles to further accountability in a selection of EU member states under investigation. It will be vital reading for students and scholars in a wide range of areas, including international relations, international law, public policy and counter-terrorism studies.

Published
2018

2. Broadband Photosensitive Medium Based on Amorphous Equichalcogenides

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Roman Golovchak, Jarres Plummer, Andriy Kovalskiy, Yuriy Holovchak, Tetyana Ignatova, Kyle Nowlin, Anthony Trofe, Yaroslav Shpotyuk, Catherine Boussard-Pledel, Bruno Bureau, Austin Peay State University, University of North Carolina [Greensboro] (UNCG), University of North Carolina System (UNC), Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Rzeszow University of Technology, Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes (ISCR), Université de Rennes (UR)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Rennes (INSA Rennes), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Rennes (ENSCR)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), National Science Foundation (NSF) [OISE-2106457], Joint School of Nanoscience and Nano-engineering, NSF [ECCS-1542174], and National Nano-technology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI)

Subjects
chalcogenide glass, Materials Chemistry, Electrochemistry, [CHIM]Chemical Sciences, light sensitivity, photocurrent, temperature dependence, wavelength dependence, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
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International audience; A photosensitive medium based on amorphous equichalcogenide thin films containing germanium and antimony is proposed with characteristics promising for applications in all-chalcogenide photonics, sensors, and photovoltaics. Optical properties, temperature, and exposure wavelength dependence of DC electrical conductivity are shown to be comparable with those for halide perovskites, which potentially makes amorphous equichalcogenides a very attractive alternative. The change in dark resistivity with temperature is found to follow exponential decay, covering 2 orders of magnitude over a 70 K temperature interval. Light exposure leads to several orders of relative changes in a current when compared to its dark value. A strong photocurrent response is observed under low power (milliwatts range) exposure across the entire 400-1000 nm range of the investigated wavelengths. An increase in temperature leads to a decrease in the photoresponse of the developed material, which is found to vanish at temperatures higher than 120 degrees C when only a few milliwatts of exposure power is used.

Published
2022

3. Phase-change materials based on amorphous equichalcogenides

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Roman Golovchak, Jarres Plummer, Andriy Kovalskiy, Yuriy Holovchak, Tetyana Ignatova, Anthony Trofe, Bohdan Mahlovanyi, Jozef Cebulski, Piotr Krzeminski, Yaroslav Shpotyuk, Catherine Boussard-Pledel, Bruno Bureau, Austin Peay State University, University of North Carolina [Greensboro] (UNCG), University of North Carolina System (UNC), Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes (ISCR), Université de Rennes (UR)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Rennes (INSA Rennes), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Rennes (ENSCR)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Rzeszow University of Technology, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, and This work was supported by National Science Foundation (grant OISE-2106457). It was co-financed by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (project code PPN/BFR/2020/1/00043) and French Ministries of Europe and Foreign Affairs and Higher Education, Research and Innovation (project code 46893NA) in the frame of the PHC POLONIUM.

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Multidisciplinary, [CHIM]Chemical Sciences
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Phase-change materials, demonstrating a rapid switching between two distinct states with a sharp contrast in electrical, optical or magnetic properties, are vital for modern photonic and electronic devices. To date, this effect is observed in chalcogenide compounds based on Se, Te or both, and most recently in stoichiometric Sb2S3 composition. Yet, to achieve best integrability into modern photonics and electronics, the mixed S/Se/Te phase change medium is needed, which would allow a wide tuning range for such important physical properties as vitreous phase stability, radiation and photo-sensitivity, optical gap, electrical and thermal conductivity, non-linear optical effects, as well as the possibility of structural modification at nanoscale. In this work, a thermally-induced high-to-low resistivity switching below 200 °C is demonstrated in Sb-rich equichalcogenides (containing S, Se and Te in equal proportions). The nanoscale mechanism is associated with interchange between tetrahedral and octahedral coordination of Ge and Sb atoms, substitution of Te in the nearest Ge environment by S or Se, and Sb–Ge/Sb bonds formation upon further annealing. The material can be integrated into chalcogenide-based multifunctional platforms, neuromorphic computational systems, photonic devices and sensors.

Published
2023

4. Emerging Technological Advances in Improving the Safety of Muscle Foods: Framing in the Context of the Food Revolution 4.0

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Abdo Hassoun, Shahida Anusha Siddiqui, Slim Smaoui, İ̇lknur Ucak, Rai Naveed Arshad, Zuhaib F. Bhat, Hina F. Bhat, María Carpena, Miguel A. Prieto, Abderrahmane Aït-Kaddour, Jorge A.M. Pereira, Carmela Zacometti, Alessandra Tata, Salam A. Ibrahim, Fatih Ozogul, José S. Camara, SAFIR - Système d'Analyse par Faisceaux d'Ions Rapides, Couches nanométriques : formation, interfaces, défauts (INSP-E5), Institut des Nanosciences de Paris (INSP), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut des Nanosciences de Paris (INSP), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Biochimie des Produits Aquatiques (BPA), Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale (ULCO)-Transfrontalière BioEcoAgro - UMR 1158 (BioEcoAgro), Université d'Artois (UA)-Université de Liège-Université de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV)-Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale (ULCO)-Université de Lille-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-JUNIA (JUNIA), Université catholique de Lille (UCL)-Université catholique de Lille (UCL)-Université d'Artois (UA)-Université de Liège-Université de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV)-Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale (ULCO)-Université de Lille-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-JUNIA (JUNIA), Université catholique de Lille (UCL)-Université catholique de Lille (UCL), Transfrontalière BioEcoAgro - UMR 1158 (BioEcoAgro), Technische Universität Munchen - Université Technique de Munich [Munich, Allemagne] (TUM), German Institute of Food Technologies, Univ Sfax, Fac Sci Sfax, Lab Sci Mat & Environm, Sfax 3018, Tunisia., Université de Sfax - University of Sfax, Niğde Ömer Halisdemir University, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), SKUAST Jammu, Partenaires INRAE, Faculty of Forestry, SKUAST-Kashmir, Universidade de Vigo, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Unité Mixte de Recherche sur le Fromage (UMRF), VetAgro Sup - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur et de recherche en alimentation, santé animale, sciences agronomiques et de l'environnement (VAS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA), Universidade da Madeira (UMA), Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie (IZSVe), University of North Carolina [Greensboro] (UNCG), University of North Carolina System (UNC), and Cukurova University

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emerging technologies, analytical methods, General Chemical Engineering, preservation, Muscle, processing, sustainability, [SDV.AEN]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Food and Nutrition, Food Science
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International audience; To address the issues related to high perishability and limited shelf life of food proteins from muscle origin, different innovative processing, and preservation techniques, as well as analytical methodological approaches have been developed to meet environmental challenges and consumer demand for food of high quality and sustainable production supported by circular economy principles. This development has been enhanced and increased during the ongoing age of the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0), which has been gaining momentum since 2015, coming up with a range of automated and digitized technologies. This review provides an updated overview of the recently developed thermal and nonthermal processing and preservation technologies, along with selected advanced analytical techniques used in the industry of muscle foods. Particular attention has been given to Industry 4.0 technologies and their role in achieving smart production with high automation and digitalization rates. As in other industry sectors, technology breakthroughs are reshaping the food industry, including the muscle food sector. Emerging technologies, such as pulsed electric field, high-pressure processing, ohmic heating, nanotechnology, advanced mass spectrometry and hyperspectral imaging sensors are among the key elements in the current food revolution 4.0. Although Industry 4.0 offers countless possibilities, more studies are still needed to capture its full potential and further harness its technologies to solve current challenges and move forward toward Industry 5.0.

Published
2022

5. Metaverse beyond the hype: Multidisciplinary perspectives on emerging challenges, opportunities, and agenda for research, practice and policy

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Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Laurie Hughes, Abdullah M. Baabdullah, Samuel Ribeiro-Navarrete, Mihalis Giannakis, Mutaz M. Al-Debei, Denis Dennehy, Bhimaraya Metri, Dimitrios Buhalis, Christy M.K. Cheung, Kieran Conboy, Ronan Doyle, Rameshwar Dubey, Vincent Dutot, Reto Felix, D.P. Goyal, Anders Gustafsson, Chris Hinsch, Ikram Jebabli, Marijn Janssen, Young-Gab Kim, Jooyoung Kim, Stefan Koos, David Kreps, Nir Kshetri, Vikram Kumar, Keng-Boon Ooi, Savvas Papagiannidis, Ilias O. Pappas, Ariana Polyviou, Sang-Min Park, Neeraj Pandey, Maciel M. Queiroz, Ramakrishnan Raman, Philipp A. Rauschnabel, Anuragini Shirish, Marianna Sigala, Konstantina Spanaki, Garry Wei-Han Tan, Manoj Kumar Tiwari, Giampaolo Viglia, Samuel Fosso Wamba, Emerging Markets Research Centre (EMaRC), School of Management [Swansea], Swansea University-Swansea University, King Abdulaziz University, ESIC Business & Marketing School, Audencia Business School, Al-Ahliyya Amman University, Swansea University, Indian Institute of Management Nagpur (IIM Nagpur), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University [Hong Kong] (POLYU), Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU), The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre (LERO), Groupe Sup de Co Montpellier (GSCM) - Montpellier Business School, Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), IPAG Business School, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley [Brownsville, TX] (UTRGV), Indian Institute of Management Shillong, BI Norwegian Business School [Oslo], Grand Valley State University, Université Internationale de Rabat (UIR), Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Sejong University, University of Georgia [USA], Universität der Bundeswehr München [Neubiberg], J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economic, University of North Carolina [Greensboro] (UNCG), University of North Carolina System (UNC), SRV Media Private Ltd, UCSI University, Chang Jung Christian University, Nanchang Institute of Technology, Newcastle University Business School, University of Agder (UIA), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), University of Cyprus [Nicosia] (UCY), Korea University [Seoul], National Institute of Industrial Engineering [Mumbai] (NITIE), Fundação Getúlio Vargas - Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo (FGV-EAESP), Fundacao Getulio Vargas [Rio de Janeiro] (FGV), Deemed University, Département Technologies, Information & Management (IMT-BS - TIM), Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-Institut Mines-Télécom Business School (IMT-BS), Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT), Laboratoire en Innovation, Technologies, Economie et Management (EA 7363) (LITEM), Université d'Évry-Val-d'Essonne (UEVE)-Université Paris-Saclay-Institut Mines-Télécom Business School (IMT-BS), Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT), University of Piraeus, Curtin University [Perth], Planning and Transport Research Centre (PATREC), Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur), University of Portsmouth, Toulouse Business School (TBS), and LITEM-NPR

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Virtual world, Avatars, Metaverse, Computer Networks and Communications, Second life, Augmented reality, Library and Information Sciences, Virtual reality, [SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences, Extended reality, VDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200, [INFO]Computer Science [cs], Information Systems, Z665, VDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Biblioteks- og informasjonsvitenskap: 320
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FNEGE 3, HCERES A, ABS 2; International audience; The metaverse has the potential to extend the physical world using augmented and virtual reality technologies allowing users to seamlessly interact within real and simulated environments using avatars and holograms. Virtual environments and immersive games (such as, Second Life, Fortnite, Roblox and VRChat) have been described as antecedents of the metaverse and offer some insight to the potential socio-economic impact of a fully functional persistent cross platform metaverse. Separating the hype and “meta…” rebranding from current reality is difficult, as “big tech” paints a picture of the transformative nature of the metaverse and how it will positively impact people in their work, leisure, and social interaction. The potential impact on the way we conduct business, interact with brands and others, and develop shared experiences is likely to be transformational as the distinct lines between physical and digital are likely to be somewhat blurred from current perceptions. However, although the technology and infrastructure does not yet exist to allow the development of new immersive virtual worlds at scale - one that our avatars could transcend across platforms, researchers are increasingly examining the transformative impact of the metaverse. Impacted sectors include marketing, education, healthcare as well as societal effects relating to social interaction factors from widespread adoption, and issues relating to trust, privacy, bias, disinformation, application of law as well as psychological aspects linked to addiction and impact on vulnerable people. This study examines these topics in detail by combining the informed narrative and multi-perspective approach from experts with varied disciplinary backgrounds on many aspects of the metaverse and its transformational impact. The paper concludes by proposing a future research agenda that is valuable for researchers, professionals and policy makers alike.

Published
2022

6. En-face analysis of short posterior ciliary arteries crossing the sclera to choroid using wide-field swept-source optical coherence tomography

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Raphael Atia, Raphael Lejoyeux, Jay Chhablani, Kunal K. Dansingani, Kiran Kumar Vupparaboina, José-Alain Sahel, Mohammed Nasar Ibrahim, S. Suthaharan, Fondation Ophtalmologique Adolphe de Rothschild [Paris], Centre Hospitalier National d'Ophtalmologie des Quinze-Vingts (CHNO), University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE), Indian Institute of Technology [Hyderabad] (IIT Hyderabad), University of North Carolina [Greensboro] (UNCG), University of North Carolina System (UNC), and University of Pittsburgh (PITT)

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Male, medicine.medical_specialty, genetic structures, Science, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], Posterior pole, Visual Acuity, Article, Ciliary Arteries, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Medical research, Optical coherence tomography, medicine.artery, Ophthalmology, medicine, Humans, Segmentation, Retrospective Studies, Multidisciplinary, medicine.diagnostic_test, business.industry, Choroid, Healthy subjects, Short posterior ciliary arteries, Wide field, eye diseases, Sclera, medicine.anatomical_structure, Cross-Sectional Studies, Optics and photonics, 030221 ophthalmology & optometry, Medicine, Female, sense organs, Anatomy, business, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Algorithms, Tomography, Optical Coherence
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To study the topographic distribution of the short posterior ciliary arteries (SPCA) entry sites into the choroid in normal eyes using structural en-face swept source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT). Retrospective analysis of SS-OCT scans (wide-field structural SS-OCT 12 × 12 mm) of 13 healthy subjects was performed. Cross-sectional swept-source OCT scans derived from a volume scan were represented as en-face image display following the Choroid-Scleral Interface to obtain en-face OCT. SPCAs in their last scleral location before choroidal entrance were identified manually, counted and localized by two masked observers. Correlations between two masked observers were analyzed using inter- and intra-class correlation. Accuracy for the choroidal inner and outer border segmentation was 95–99%. Eighteen eyes from 13 normal subjects were included for SPCA analysis. The mean number of arteries was 13.8 ± 3.5 per eye. Thirty-six percent were in the center of the posterior pole image; however, 21% were in the temporal part of the posterior pole. Median accuracy of the detection is 0.94. The correlation between the two observers was fair (0.54). Our algorithm allows visualization of the SPCA at the posterior pole of the eye using wide-field en-face SS-OCT. It can also help the clinicians to study the SPCAs in numerous ocular diseases, particularly its relationship with focal choroidal diseases.

Published
2021

7. Therapeutic potential of parkin as a tumor suppressor via transcriptional control of cyclins in glioblastoma cell and animal models

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Lígia Ramos dos Santos, Frédéric Checler, Aurore Bernardin, Lila Rouland, Guidalberto Manfioletti, Cristine Alves da Costa, Ahmed Idbaih, Eric Duplan, Karen S. Katula, Institut de pharmacologie moléculaire et cellulaire (IPMC), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA), University of North Carolina [Greensboro] (UNCG), University of North Carolina System (UNC), Università degli studi di Trieste = University of Trieste, Institut du Cerveau = Paris Brain Institute (ICM), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Gestionnaire, HAL Sorbonne Université 5, Rouland, L, Duplan, E, Ramos Dos Santos, L, Bernardin, A, Katula, K, Manfioletti, G, Idbaih, A, Checler, F, Alves da Costa, C., Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA), University of Trieste, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moëlle Epinière = Brain and Spine Institute (ICM), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], and Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

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Male, Cyclin A, Proliferation, Cyclin B, Medicine (miscellaneous), Gene Expression, 01 natural sciences, 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging, Mice, 0302 clinical medicine, Transcriptional regulation, Genes, Tumor Suppressor, parkin, Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (miscellaneous), transcription factor, Cyclin, Mice, Knockout, biology, medicine.diagnostic_test, Chemistry, Brain Neoplasms, Cell Cycle, Cell cycle, Flow Cytometry, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, Models, Animal, Cyclins, Glioblastoma, Parkin, Transcription factor, Female, [SDV.NEU]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Neurons and Cognition [q-bio.NC], cyclins, Research Paper, Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases, proliferation, 010402 general chemistry, Flow cytometry, 03 medical and health sciences, Cell Line, Tumor, medicine, Animals, Humans, RNA, Messenger, [SDV.NEU] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Neurons and Cognition [q-bio.NC], Cell Proliferation, glioblastoma, 0104 chemical sciences, MicroRNAs, Tumor progression, biology.protein, Cancer research
Abstract

International audience; Parkin (PK) is an E3-ligase harboring tumor suppressor properties that has been associated to various cancer types including glioblastoma (GBM). However, PK is also a transcription factor (TF), the contribution of which to GBM etiology remains to be established. Methods: The impact of PK on GBM cells proliferation was analyzed by real-time impedance measurement and flow cytometry. Cyclins A and B proteins, promoter activities and mRNA levels were measured by western blot, luciferase assay and quantitative real-time PCR. Protein-protein and protein-promoter interactions were performed by co-immunoprecipitation and by ChIP approaches. The contribution of endogenous PK to tumor progression in vivo was performed by allografts of GL261 GBM cells in wild-type and PK knockout mice. Results: We show that overexpressed and endogenous PK control GBM cells proliferation by modulating the S and G2/M phases of the cell cycle via the trans-repression of cyclin A and cyclin B genes. We establish that cyclin B is regulated by both E3-ligase and TF PK functions while cyclin A is exclusively regulated by PK TF function. PK invalidation leads to enhanced tumor progression in immunocompetent mice suggesting an impact of PK-dependent tumor environment to tumor development. We show that PK is secreted by neuronal cells and recaptured by tumor cells. Recaptured PK lowered cyclins levels and decreased GBM cells proliferation. Further, PK expression is decreased in human GBM biopsies and its expression is inversely correlated to both cyclins A and B expressions. Conclusion: Our work demonstrates that PK tumor suppressor function contributes to the control of tumor by its cellular environment. It also shows a key role of PK TF function in GBM development via the control of cyclins in vitro and in vivo. It suggests that therapeutic strategies aimed at controlling PK shuttling to the nucleus may prove useful to treat GBM.

Published
2021

8. Tribute to Professor Edgar H. Sibley and his contributions to the IS discipline

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Patrick Y. K. Chau, Jose Benitez, Prashant Palvia, Ting-Peng Liang, University of North Carolina [Greensboro] (UNCG), University of North Carolina System (UNC), Rennes School of Business, University of Granada [Granada], National Sun Yat-Sen University (NSYSU), and University of Nottingham Ningbo [China]

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Information Systems and Management, media_common.quotation_subject, 05 social sciences, Tribute, Passion, 02 engineering and technology, Professor edgar henry sibley, Management Information Systems, Founding editor of information & management, [INFO.INFO-IT]Computer Science [cs]/Information Theory [cs.IT], 020204 information systems, Information systems discipline, Legacy, 0502 economics and business, Information & management, 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, Information system, [SHS.GESTION]Humanities and Social Sciences/Business administration, Sociology, 050203 business & management, Classics, Information Systems, media_common
Abstract

International audience; Professor Edgar Henry Sibley (the Founding Editor of Information & Management, in short, I&M) passed away peacefully in Virginia, USA on January 12, 2020. As an eminent scholar in Information Systems (IS) and the Founding Editor of I&M, Professor Sibley has left a remarkable legacy to both the journal and the IS discipline. If the journal (I&M) could talk, it would tell the story of the passion, effort, untold amount of time, and incredible rigor Professor Sibley put into this journal. As the second and the current Editor-in-Chief of the journal, I took the liberty to invite three IS scholars, one from each region of the Association for Information Systems (AIS) community to speak about professor Sibley’s contributions to the IS discipline. They are Professor Prashant Palvia from the University of North Carolina Greensboro, USA Professor Jose Benitez from Rennes School of Business, France and the University of Granada, Spain and Professor T.P. Liang from National Sun-Yat-Sen University, Taiwan. All three scholars had different and positive interactions and experiences with Professor Sibley and I&M that they are eager to share with us. We hope the whole IS community will join us to acknowledge and pay our heart-felt tribute to Professor Sibley´s many contributions to our discipline.

Published
2020

9. General destabilizing effects of eutrophication on grassland productivity at multiple spatial scales

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Martin Schütz, Peter B. Adler, Melinda D. Smith, Lars A. Brudvig, Yann Hautier, Carlos Alberto Arnillas, Michel Loreau, Andy Hector, Marc W. Cadotte, Forest Isbell, Juan Alberti, Mahesh Sankaran, Jonathan D. Bakker, Peter A. Wilfahrt, John W. Morgan, Pablo Luis Peri, Amandine Hansar, Jonathan S. Lefcheck, Peter B. Reich, Sally E. Koerner, Kevin R. Wilcox, Christiane Roscher, Philip A. Fay, Miguel N. Bugalho, Edwin Pos, Mick Crawley, Elizabeth T. Borer, Pengfei Zhang, Rebecca L. McCulley, Anita C. Risch, Laura E. Dee, Jodi N. Price, Maria C. Caldeira, Johannes M. H. Knops, Oliver Carroll, Nico Eisenhauer, Risto Virtanen, Sally A. Power, Carly J. Stevens, Andrew S. MacDougall, Anu Eskelinen, Benjamin Gilbert, Jarrett E. K. Byrnes, Glenda M. Wardle, Scott L. Collins, Eric W. Seabloom, Joslin L. Moore, Akira Mori, Shaopeng Wang, Pedro M. Tognetti, Kimberly J. Komatsu, Pedro Daleo, Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht University [Utrecht], Lanzhou University, Shandong University, Ministry of Justice Hub for Research & Practice in Eco-Environmental Forensics, Station d'écologie théorique et expérimentale (SETE), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Wyoming (UW), University of Minnesota [Twin Cities] (UMN), University of Minnesota System, University of Massachusetts [Boston] (UMass Boston), University of Massachusetts System (UMASS), University of North Carolina [Greensboro] (UNCG), University of North Carolina System (UNC), Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC), University of Oxford, Utah State University (USU), Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras [Mar del Plata] (IIMyC), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas [Buenos Aires] (CONICET)-Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales [Mar del Plata], Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata [Mar del Plata] (UNMdP)-Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata [Mar del Plata] (UNMdP), University of Toronto at Scarborough, University of Washington [Seattle], Michigan State University System, Universidade de Lisboa = University of Lisbon (ULISBOA), University of Guelph, Imperial College London, The University of New Mexico [Albuquerque], University of Colorado [Boulder], German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Leipzig University, Helmholtz Zentrum für Umweltforschung = Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), University of Oulu, USDA-ARS Grassland, Soil, and Water Research Laboratory, Temple, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology [University of Toronto] (EEB), University of Toronto, CEREEP-Ecotron Ile de France (UMS 3194), Département de Biologie - ENS Paris, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University [Suzhou], University of Kentucky (UK), Monash University [Clayton], La Trobe University [Melbourne], Yokohama National University, INTA UNPA CONICET SANTA CRUZ ARG, Partenaires IRSTEA, Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA), Western Sydney University, Charles Sturt University [Australia], Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, National Centre for Biological Sciences, TIFR, Bangalore, University of Leeds, Colorado State University [Fort Collins] (CSU), Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University, Lancaster University, Universidad de Buenos Aires [Buenos Aires] (UBA), The University of Sydney, Peking University [Beijing], Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota System-University of Minnesota System, Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, University of Oxford [Oxford], Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales [Mar del Plata], Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata [Mar del Plata] (UNMdP)-Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata [Mar del Plata] (UNMdP)-Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas [Buenos Aires] (CONICET), University of Toronto [Scarborough, Canada], Universidade de Lisboa (ULISBOA), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Département de Biologie - ENS Paris, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), University of Kentucky, and Nature Publishing Group

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0106 biological sciences, Grassland ecology, Spatial scales, Environmental change, Beta diversity, Biodiversity, spatial variation, Functional Ecosystem Change, 01 natural sciences, Plantas, Biomass, lcsh:Science, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Índices de Diversidad, Diversity Alpha, Biomass (ecology), Ecology, spatial scales, Life Sciences, food and beverages, Phosphorus, Eutrophication, Plants, Pastizales, Productivity (ecology), Abundancia, Grasslands, Nutrient cycles, EUTROPHICATION, Escalas de Análisis, Diversity Indices, Preservación de las Funcionalidades de los Pastizales, Eutrofización, Primary Productivity, Nitrogen, [SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes, Science, Diversidad Biológica, CONSERVATION, ECOLOGY, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Article, Productividad Primaria, Ecosystem, Community ecology, PRESERVATION, Author Correction, Estabilidad, PLANT DIVERSITY, 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology, 15. Life on land, destabilizing effects, ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE, Diversity Beta, Ciclo de nutrientes en ecosistemas, Fósforo, lcsh:Q, Species Richness, Cambios en las Funciones del Ecosistema, Fertilizer Application, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, General Physics and Astronomy, purl.org/becyt/ford/1 [https], Abundance, Abonos, Riqueza de Especies, Productivity, Diversidad Beta, 2. Zero hunger, Praderas, grassland productive, Multidisciplinary, LARGE SCALE STABILITY, Preserving Grassland Functional Stability, Nitrógeno, chronic fertilization, respiratory system, Biota, Grassland, Implicancias en la productividad, Stability, Diversidad Alfa, Biology, ENVIRONMENTAL FLUCTUATIONS, 010603 evolutionary biology, Models, Biological, [SDV.EE.ECO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology, environment/Ecosystems, Productividad de la Tierra, Ecosystem services, purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6 [https], grassland productivity, Pastures, Plant community, General Chemistry, plant diversity, Fertilization, Spatial variability, [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology, COMMUNITIES, human activities
Abstract

Eutrophication is a widespread environmental change that usually reduces the stabilizing effect of plant diversity on productivity in local communities. Whether this effect is scale dependent remains to be elucidated. Here, we determine the relationship between plant diversity and temporal stability of productivity for 243 plant communities from 42 grasslands across the globe and quantify the effect of chronic fertilization on these relationships. Unfertilized local communities with more plant species exhibit greater asynchronous dynamics among species in response to natural environmental fluctuations, resulting in greater local stability (alpha stability). Moreover, neighborhood communities that have greater spatial variation in plant species composition within sites (higher beta diversity) have greater spatial asynchrony of productivity among communities, resulting in greater stability at the larger scale (gamma stability). Importantly, fertilization consistently weakens the contribution of plant diversity to both of these stabilizing mechanisms, thus diminishing the positive effect of biodiversity on stability at differing spatial scales. Our findings suggest that preserving grassland functional stability requires conservation of plant diversity within and among ecological communities., Eutrophication has been shown to weaken diversity-stability relationships in grasslands, but it is unclear whether the effect depends on scale. Analysing a globally distributed network of grassland sites, the authors show a positive role of beta diversity and spatial asynchrony as drivers of stability but find that nitrogen enrichment weakens the diversity-stability relationships at different spatial scales.

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2020

10. Metal-based photosensitizers for photodynamic therapy: the future of multimodal oncology?

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Arkady Mandel, Sherri A. McFarland, Roger Dumoulin-White, Gilles Gasser, University of North Carolina [Greensboro] (UNCG), University of North Carolina System (UNC), Institute of Chemistry for Life and Health Sciences (iCLeHS), Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris - Chimie ParisTech-PSL (ENSCP), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Euroepéen GRANT ERC, and European Project: 681679, H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC),681679,PhotoMedMet(2017)

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0301 basic medicine, Oncology, medicine.medical_specialty, Metals in medicine, medicine.medical_treatment, Photodynamic therapy, Antineoplastic Agents, 010402 general chemistry, 01 natural sciences, Biochemistry, Article, Analytical Chemistry, 03 medical and health sciences, Structure-Activity Relationship, Coordination Complexes, Internal medicine, Neoplasms, Medicine, Humans, [CHIM]Chemical Sciences, Photosensitizer, Bacteriochlorophylls, Bioinorganic Chemistry, Photosensitizing Agents, business.industry, Combined Modality Therapy, eye diseases, 3. Good health, 0104 chemical sciences, Radiation therapy, [CHIM.THEO]Chemical Sciences/Theoretical and/or physical chemistry, 030104 developmental biology, Critical parameter, Photochemotherapy, Solubility, Photodynamic Therapy, Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor, business
Abstract

International audience; Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is an approved medical technique to treat certain forms of cancer. It has been used to complement traditional anticancer modalities such as surgery, chemotherapy or radiotherapy, and in certain cases, to replace these treatments. One critical parameter of PDT is the photosensitizer (PS); historically, a purely organic macrocyclic tetrapyrrole-based structure. This short review surveys two recent clinical examples of metal complexes, namely TOOKAD®-Soluble and TLD-1433, which have ideal photophysical properties to act as PDT PSs. We highlight the important role played by the metal ions in the PS for PDT activity.

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2020

11. Bee Viruses: Routes of Infection in Hymenoptera

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Yañez, Orlando, Piot, Niels, Dalmon, Anne, de Miranda, Joachim, Chantawannakul, Panuwan, Panziera, Delphine, Amiri, Esmaeil, Smagghe, Guy, Schroeder, Declan, Chejanovsky, Nor, Swiss Bee Research Centre, Universität Bern- University of Bern [Bern], Partenaires INRAE, Universiteit Gent = Ghent University [Belgium] (UGENT), Abeilles et Environnement (AE), Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Chiang Mai University (CMU), Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle Jena Leipzig, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, University of North Carolina [Greensboro] (UNCG), University of North Carolina System (UNC), Computer Science (North Carolina State University), North Carolina State University [Raleigh] (NC State), University of North Carolina System (UNC)-University of North Carolina System (UNC), University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN United States, University of Reading (UOR), Institute of Plant Sciences, Volcani Center, and Institute of Plant Science

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Agriculture and Food Sciences, viruses, DEFORMED-WING-VIRUS, artificial infection, CHINESE SACBROOD VIRUS, Review, virus, complex mixtures, Microbiology, VERTICAL-TRANSMISSION, BOMBUS-TERRESTRIS, non-Apis, QUEEN-CELL-VIRUS, PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS, [SDV.BA]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Animal biology, HONEYBEES APIS-MELLIFERA, fungi, transmission, SMALL HIVE BEETLE, natural infection, Microbiology (Microbiology in the medical area to be 30109), Apis, VARROA-DESTRUCTOR, [SDV.MP.VIR]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Virology, behavior and behavior mechanisms, 570 Life sciences, biology, ACUTE PARALYSIS VIRUS, bee
Abstract

Numerous studies have recently reported on the discovery of bee viruses in different arthropod species and their possible transmission routes, vastly increasing our understanding of these viruses and their distribution. Here, we review the current literature on the recent advances in understanding the transmission of viruses, both on the presence of bee viruses in Apis and non-Apis bee species and on the discovery of previously unknown bee viruses. The natural transmission of bee viruses will be discussed among different bee species and other insects. Finally, the research potential of in vivo (host organisms) and in vitro (cell lines) serial passages of bee viruses is discussed, from the perspective of the host-virus landscape changes and potential transmission routes for emerging bee virus infections.

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2020

12. The Importance of Earth Reference Controls in Spaceflight -Omics Research: Characterization of Nucleolin Mutants from the Seedling Growth Experiments

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F. Javier Medina, Raúl Herranz, Alicia Villacampa, Julio Sáez-Vásquez, John Z. Kiss, Aránzazu Manzano, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas (CSIC), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), Laboratoire Génome et développement des plantes (LGDP), Université de Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of North Carolina [Greensboro] (UNCG), University of North Carolina System (UNC), ANR-10-LABX-0041,TULIP,Towards a Unified theory of biotic Interactions: the roLe of environmental(2010), Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España), NASA Astrobiology Institute (US), Villacampa, Alicia [0000-0002-7398-8545], Sáez-Vásquez, J. [0000-0002-2717-7995], Kiss, John Z. [0000-0003-1326-127X], Medina, F. Javier [0000-0002-0866-7710], Herranz, Raúl [0000-0002-0246-9449], Villacampa, Alicia, Sáez-Vásquez, J., Kiss, John Z., Medina, F. Javier, and Herranz, Raúl

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0301 basic medicine, Cell division, Mutant, Arabidopsis, Ribosome biogenesis, Plant Biology, Omics, RNA-Seq, 02 engineering and technology, Biology, Spaceflight, Article, law.invention, 03 medical and health sciences, law, lcsh:Science, Gene, Ground controls, Multidisciplinary, Stress response, food and beverages, Nucleolus, [SDV.BV.BOT]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Vegetal Biology/Botanics, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, biology.organism_classification, Cell biology, 030104 developmental biology, lcsh:Q, 0210 nano-technology, Nucleolin, Space Sciences
Abstract

Summary Understanding plant adaptive responses to the space environment is a requisite for enabling space farming. Spaceflight produces deleterious effects on plant cells, particularly affecting ribosome biogenesis, a complex stress-sensitive process coordinated with cell division and differentiation, known to be activated by red light. Here, in a series of ground studies, we have used mutants from the two Arabidopsis nucleolin genes (NUC1 and NUC2, nucleolar regulators of ribosome biogenesis) to better understand their role in adaptive response mechanisms to stress on Earth. Thus, we show that nucleolin stress-related gene NUC2 can compensate for the environmental stress provided by darkness in nuc1 plants, whereas nuc2 plants are not able to provide a complete response to red light. These ground control findings, as part of the ESA/NASA Seedling Growth spaceflight experiments, will determine the basis for the identification of genetic backgrounds enabling an adaptive advantage for plants in future space experiments., Graphical Abstract, Highlights • Ribosome synthesis is a target of spaceflight stressor effects on plant development • Nucleolin mutants promote a differential response to light/darkness stress • Red light and NUC2 may counteract the spaceflight alterations in gene expression • Ground controls are important for the interpretation of spaceflight -omics experiments, Plant Biology; Omics; Space Sciences

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2020

13. Earth Science Is Ready for Preprints

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David Fernández-Blanco, Allison M. L. Enright, Daniel E. Ibarra, Brandon Whitehead, Sabine K. Lengger, Alodie Bubeck, Victor Venema, Evan B. Goldstein, Stéphanie Girardclos, Tom Narock, Christopher A.-L. Jackson, Anson W. Mackay, Alfonso Fernández, Jean-Paul Ampuero, Jamie Farquharson, Goucher College, University of North Carolina [Greensboro] (UNCG), University of North Carolina System (UNC), Imperial College London, University of Tuebingen, Géophysique expérimentale (IPGS) (IPGS-GE), Institut de physique du globe de Strasbourg (IPGS), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Concepcion, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de La Réunion (UR)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-IPG PARIS-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS), University of Geneva [Switzerland], University of California [Berkeley], University of California, Institute of Marine Studies, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, Plymouth PL4 8AA, affiliation inconnue, Géoazur (GEOAZUR 7329), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA), Universidad de Concepción - University of Concepcion [Chile], Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, and COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud])

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Sociology of scientific knowledge, Earth science, Computer science, Library science, [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences, 010501 environmental sciences, Environmental and planetary scientists, 050905 science studies, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, law, ddc:550, Preprint, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, ddc:333.7-333.9, Moderation policy, 05 social sciences, Open access, Scientific paper, CobB, Accessibility, Preprint server, Printing press, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, Open science, 0509 other social sciences, EarthArXiv
Abstract

For years, publication in a peer-reviewed scientific journal has served as the official announcement that a piece of research has entered the accepted body of scientific knowledge. However, chances are good that the data, method innovations, and preliminary conclusions contained in a scientific paper have been circulating among the researchers’ colleagues for a year or more before the paper is officially published. By the time a journal issue goes to the printing press, the research may have made significant progress beyond what the published papers document. Preprints—published, non-peer-reviewed scholarly papers that often precede publication in a peer-reviewed journal—have been a part of science since at least the 1960s [Cobb, 2017]. ArXiv, arguably the most prominent preprint system, has served the physics, mathematics, and computer science communities for more than 25 years.

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2019

14. Introduction - Extraordinary Rendition

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Guild, Elspeth, Gibney, Mark, University of North Carolina [Greensboro] (UNCG), University of North Carolina System (UNC), Didier Bigo, Elspeth Guild, Mark Gibney, and Sciences Po Institutional Repository, Spire

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[SHS.DROIT]Humanities and Social Sciences/Law, [SHS.DROIT] Humanities and Social Sciences/Law, extraordinary rendition, rule of law, human rights protection, [SHS.SCIPO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Political science, United States, [SHS.SCIPO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Political science
Abstract

The US-led extraordinary rendition programme directed by the George W. Bush administration a short time after the 9/11 attacks against the United States, and which continued until the advent of the Obama administration, created profound challenges for the international system of human rights protection and the rule of law. The programme run by the CIA as part of the Global War on Terror consisted of the kidnapping, transportation, imprisonment and subjection to various “enhanced interrogation” techniques – torture is the more precise term – of individuals either suspected of engaging in antiUS activities or who were considered to have potential to do so at some point in the future. Extraordinary rendition not only engaged the United States but also involved both the active and passive participation of countries across the world, including many of the Western European democracies. The programme constituted a profound challenge to fundamental principles of international human rights protection and the rule of law, which ultimately resulted in enormous international concern and condemnation. This book examines the efforts of authorities in Europe and the United States to re-establish the rule of law and respect for human rights through the investigation of the programme and its outcomes. In particular, it addresses the obstacles of establishing accountability and the human rights implications of this. The book takes as its starting point two developments in delivering accountability and establishing the truth. One is the publication of the executive summary of the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s (SSCI’s) Study of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Detention and Interrogation Program (the Feinstein Report); the second consists of judgements of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) regarding the complicity of some of the member states of the European Convention of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR). In 20121 and 2015,2 the European Parliament published two studies that assessed the state of affairs regarding the formal inquiries conducted in several European countries since the first allegations regarding the complicity of EU states in the CIA renditions programme were made public. These studies have allowed for a more in-depth examination of the consequences of the CIA-led programme and the participation of various EU states in it.

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2018

15. Dying to Be Noticed: Epigenetic Regulation of Immunogenic Cell Death for Cancer Immunotherapy

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Brianne Cruickshank, Michael Giacomantonio, Paola Marcato, Sherri McFarland, Jonathan Pol, Shashi Gujar, Dalhousie University [Halifax], University of North Carolina [Greensboro] (UNCG), University of North Carolina System (UNC), Institut Gustave Roussy (IGR), Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers (CRC), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), and HAL UPMC, Gestionnaire

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0301 basic medicine, lcsh:Immunologic diseases. Allergy, Mini Review, medicine.medical_treatment, Immunology, [SDV.CAN]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Cancer, Epigenesis, Genetic, 03 medical and health sciences, Immune system, Cancer immunotherapy, [SDV.CAN] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Cancer, Neoplasms, immunogenic cell death, medicine, Animals, Humans, tumor microenvironment, Immunology and Allergy, Epigenetics, immune evasion, Tumor microenvironment, cancer immunotherapy, Cell Death, biology, epigenetics, T cell immunity, business.industry, Cancer, [SDV.IMM.IMM]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Immunology/Immunotherapy, medicine.disease, 3. Good health, 030104 developmental biology, Cancer cell, Cancer research, biology.protein, Immunogenic cell death, Immunotherapy, [SDV.IMM.IMM] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Immunology/Immunotherapy, business, lcsh:RC581-607, Calreticulin
Abstract

International audience; Immunogenic cell death (ICD) activates both innate and adaptive arms of the immune system during apoptotic cancer cell death. With respect to cancer immunotherapy, the process of ICD elicits enhanced adjuvanticity and antigenicity from dying cancer cells and consequently, promotes the development of clinically desired antitumor immunity. Cancer ICD requires the presentation of various " hallmarks " of immunomodulation, which include the cell-surface translocation of calreticulin, production of type I interferons, and release of high-mobility group box-1 and ATP, which through their compatible actions induce an immune response against cancer cells. Interestingly, recent reports investigating the use of epigenetic modifying drugs as anticancer therapeutics have identified several connections to ICD hallmarks. Epigenetic modifiers have a direct effect on cell viability and appear to fundamentally change the immunogenic properties of cancer cells, by actively subverting tumor microenvironment-associated immunoevasion and aiding in the development of an antitumor immune response. In this review, we critically discuss the current evidence that identifies direct links between epigenetic modifications and ICD hallmarks, and put forward an otherwise poorly understood role for epigenetic drugs as ICD inducers. We further discuss potential therapeutic innovations that aim to induce ICD during epigenetic drug therapy, generating highly efficacious cancer immunotherapies.

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2018
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16. Transitions in Regional Economic Development

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Miguelez, Ernest, Turok, Ivan, Bailey, David, Jennifer, Clark, Du, Jun, Fratesi, Ugo, Fritsch, Michael, John, Harrison, Kemeny, Thomas, Dieter, Kogler, Lagendijk, Arnoud, Tomasz, Mickiewicz, Usai, Stefano, Wishlade, Fiona, Groupe de Recherche en Economie Théorique et Appliquée (GREThA), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Bordeaux (UB), Urban Studies [Glasgow], University of Glasgow, Space Research Centre of Polish Academy of Sciences (CBK), Polska Akademia Nauk = Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), Dipartimento di Dipartimento di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Ambiente Costruito, Politecnico di Milano [Milan] (POLIMI), Friedrich-Schiller-Universität = Friedrich Schiller University Jena [Jena, Germany], University of North Carolina [Greensboro] (UNCG), University of North Carolina System (UNC), Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Radboud university [Nijmegen], European Policies Research Centre, University of Strathclyde [Glasgow], Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and horain, anne

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[QFIN]Quantitative Finance [q-fin], [QFIN] Quantitative Finance [q-fin], ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
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International audience

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2018

17. Family governance and family firm outcomes

Author

Manisha Singal, Céline Barrédy, Esra Memili, University of North Carolina [Greensboro] (UNCG), University of North Carolina System (UNC), Virginia Tech [Blacksburg], Université Paris Nanterre - UFR Sciences économiques, gestion, mathématiques, informatique (UPN SEGMI), Université Paris Nanterre (UPN), Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur les Organisations et la Stratégie (CEROS), BARREDY, CELINE, and HAL Nanterre, Administrateur

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Successor cardinal, Socioemotional selectivity theory, Strategy and Management, Bond, Corporate governance, 05 social sciences, Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous), Control (management), [SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences, Identification (information), Interpersonal ties, Real estate investment trust, 0502 economics and business, Economics, [SHS.GESTION]Humanities and Social Sciences/Business administration, 050211 marketing, [SHS] Humanities and Social Sciences, Marketing, [SHS.GESTION] Humanities and Social Sciences/Business administration, 050203 business & management, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
Abstract

We are pleased to present this Special Issue on Family Governance in the Journal of Family Business Management. The focus of the six articles in this Special Issue is on family governance, idiosyncratic family firm behavior, strategies, and performance. This Guest Editor’s note synthesizes the contributing authors’ propositions and findings concerning family governance and provides future research directions. Many firms around the world exhibit family governance via family ownership, family’s involvement in management and/or board, and other forms which can in turn substantially influence their strategies, behavior, and performance. When family business members pursue particularistic goals and strategies, these reflect on to firm strategies, behavior, and performance. For instance, the particularistic pursuit of family-centered non-economic goals create intentions to preserve socioemotional wealth (SEW), including family control and influence, binding social ties, emotional attachment, family members’ identification with the firm, and renewal of family bonds to the firm through dynastic succession (Berrone et al., 2012; Carney, 2005). The achievement of non-economic goals is contingent upon the family’s control of the firm through family governance mechanisms (Chrisman et al., 2014). Hence, when SEW is coupled with family governance components such as family ownership, they are influential on firm strategies, behavior, and performance. Accordingly, some of the articles in the Special Issue suggest and show that the family governance driven by SEW preservation concerns shape strategic behaviors such as innovation and different types of innovators (i.e. limited, intended, potential, and active) (Li and Daspit, 2016) and unique family controlled Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITS) driven by SEW perform differently depending on CEO founder vs successor in charge (Chang and Noguera, 2016).

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2016

18. Corrigendum to 'The Brumer-Stark conjecture in some families of extensions of specified degree'

Author

Greither, Cornelius, Tangedal, Brett, Roblot, Xavier-François, Roblot, Xavier-Franç Ois, Institute for Theoretical Computer Science and Mathematics, University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of North Carolina [Greensboro] (UNCG), University of North Carolina System (UNC)-University of North Carolina System (UNC), Combinatoire, théorie des nombres (CTN), Institut Camille Jordan [Villeurbanne] (ICJ), École Centrale de Lyon (ECL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université Jean Monnet [Saint-Étienne] (UJM)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (INSA Lyon), Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École Centrale de Lyon (ECL), and Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
Discrete mathematics, Algebra and Number Theory, Conjecture, Root of unity, Applied Mathematics, Prime degree, Proposition, 010103 numerical & computational mathematics, 01 natural sciences, [MATH.MATH-NT]Mathematics [math]/Number Theory [math.NT], 010101 applied mathematics, Combinatorics, Computational Mathematics, Quadratic equation, Norm (mathematics), Galois extension, 0101 mathematics, Mathematics
Abstract

International audience; Barry Smith has found an error in the statement and proof of Lemma 2.5 in our paper [GRT] (Math. Comp. 73 (2004), 297-315). This lemma concerns a cyclic Galois extension K/E of CM fields of odd prime degree p. Towards the end of the proof, it is claimed that every root of unity in E is a norm from K. Our reasoning for this has a gap (the local part of the argument does not work at places where the quadratic extension E/E + is split, where F = E + is the maximal totally real subfield of E), and the statement can indeed fail, as confirmed by a concrete example calculated by Barry Smith. We will first state a corrected version of the lemma, and then we will explain how the proof of Proposition 2.2 has to be adapted. Fortunately, the statement of this proposition (please refer to [GRT]) need not be changed at all, and therefore the rest of the paper is unaffected. (The only other place where Lemma 2.5 is used is in the proof of Proposition 2.1, but there ζ p is not in K, so the relevant case of the lemma is case (i) below, where the formula remains the same.) Lemma 2.5 (revised).

Published
2014

19. Responses of diversity and dominance to grazing. A global analysis

Author

Koerner, Sally, Smith, Melinda, Burkepile, Deron, Anderson, Mike, Avolio, Meghan, Eby, Stephanie, Forrestel, Elisabeth, Lemoine, Nathan, Thompson, Dave, Aguado-Santacruz, Gerardo, Anderson, John, Angassa, Ayana, Ariela, Cesa, Augustine, David, Bagchi, Sumanta, Bakker, Elisabeth, Bastin, Gary, Bond, William, Chaneton, Enrique, Cheng, Jimin, Dean, Sue, Deleglise, Claire, Dembele, Fadiala, Dorrough, Josh, Fernández-Lugo, Silvia, Fraser, Lauchlan, Freedman, Bill, Goheen, Jake, Guo, Liang, Hanan, Niall, Husheer, Sean, Karembe, Moussa, Knops, Jean, Krajj, Tineke, Kulmatiski, Andrew, Kytöviita, Minna-Maarit, Lezama, Felipe, Loucougaray, Gregory, Loydi, Alejandro, Milchunas, Dan, Morgan, John, Moxham, Claire, Nehring, Kyle, Olff, Hans, Pringle, Robert, Riginos, Corinna, Risch, Anita, Ritchie, Mark, Rueda, Marta, Sankaran, Mahesh, Sasaki, Takehiro, Schuetz, Martin, Schultz, Nick, Schwabe-Kratochwil, Angelika, Siebert, Frances, Smit, Chris, STORM, Christian, Strong, Dustin, Su, Jishuai, Todd, Simon, Veblen, Kari, Vermeire, Lance, Ward, David, Wu, Jianshuang, Young, Truman, Yu, Qiang, Zelikova, Jane, University of North Carolina [Greensboro] (UNCG), University of North Carolina System (UNC), DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FORT COLLINS COLORADO USA, Colorado State University [Fort Collins] (CSU), Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University, Marine Science Institute [Santa Barbara] (MSI), University of California [Santa Barbara] (UCSB), University of California-University of California, Johns Hopkins University (JHU), Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology [New Haven], Yale University [New Haven], Technology Institute Roque (Instituto Tecnológico de Roque), Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral (UNPA), Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Indian Institute of Science [Bangalore] (IISc Bangalore), Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiologicas y Ecologicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA), Facultad de Agronomía [Buenos Aires], Universidad de Buenos Aires [Buenos Aires] (UBA)-Universidad de Buenos Aires [Buenos Aires] (UBA)-Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas [Buenos Aires] (CONICET), Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Agroscope, New South Wales Office of Environment and Heritage, Universidad de La Laguna [Tenerife - SP] (ULL), Department of Natural Resource Sciences, Thompson Rivers University, Dalhousie University [Halifax], INSTITUT D'ECONOMIE RURALE BAMAKO MLI, Partenaires IRSTEA, Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA), Utah State University (USU), Department of Biological and Environmental Science [Jyväskylä Univ] (JYU), University of Jyväskylä (JYU), Universidad de Buenos Aires [Buenos Aires] (UBA), Laboratoire des EcoSystèmes et des Sociétés en Montagne (UR LESSEM), Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA), University of Groningen [Groningen], University of Wyoming (UW), Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Yokohama National University, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Federation University [Churchill, Australia], Technische Universität Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt), Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University [South Aftrica] (NWU), Northwestern University [Evanston], Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT), Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), University of California [Davis] (UC Davis), and University of California

Subjects
[SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes, [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
Abstract

International audience

Published
2015

20. The Rise and Fall of Urban Economies

Author

Storper, Michael, Kemeny, Thomas, Osman, Taner, Makarem, Naji, Institutional Research Information Service, Centre de sociologie des organisations (Sciences Po, CNRS) (CSO), Sciences Po (Sciences Po)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of North Carolina [Greensboro] (UNCG), University of North Carolina System (UNC), University of California [Los Angeles] (UCLA), University of California, and Centre de sociologie des organisations (CSO)

Subjects
San Francisco, economic development of metropolitan regions, [SHS.GEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Geography, Bay Area, [SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance, Los Angeles
Abstract

Today, the Bay Area is home to the most successful knowledge economy in America, while Los Angeles has fallen progressively farther behind its neighbor to the north and a number of other American metropolises. Yet, in 1970, experts would have predicted that L.A. would outpace San Francisco in population, income, economic power, and influence. The usual factors used to explain urban growth—luck, immigration, local economic policies, and the pool of skilled labor—do not account for the contrast between the two cities and their fates. So what does?The Rise and Fall of Urban Economies challenges many of the conventional notions about economic development and sheds new light on its workings. The authors argue that it is essential to understand the interactions of three major components—economic specialization, human capital formation, and institutional factors—to determine how well a regional economy will cope with new opportunities and challenges. Drawing on economics, sociology, political science, and geography, they argue that the economic development of metropolitan regions hinges on previously underexplored capacities for organizational change in firms, networks of people, and networks of leaders. By studying San Francisco and Los Angeles in unprecedented levels of depth, this book extracts lessons for the field of economic development studies and urban regions around the world. [Publisher's abstract]

Published
2015

21. Is specialization good for regional economic development?

Author

Michael Storper, Thomas Kemeny, University of North Carolina [Greensboro] (UNCG), University of North Carolina System (UNC), Centre de sociologie des organisations (CSO), Sciences Po (Sciences Po)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Centre de sociologie des organisations (Sciences Po, CNRS) (CSO)

Subjects
Relative scale, Economic growth, [SHS.SOCIO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Sociology, Urban agglomeration, media_common.quotation_subject, Agglomeration, Wage, General Social Sciences, Metropolitan area, Regional studies, 8. Economic growth, Specialization (functional), Regional economic development, Economics, General Environmental Science, media_common, Specialization
Abstract

Kemeny T. and Storper M. Is specialization good for regional economic development?, Regional Studies. Debates about urban growth and change often centre on specialization. However, arguments linking specialization to metropolitan economic development contain diverse, and sometimes conflicting, claims. Is it better to be highly specialized or diversified? Does specialization refer to the absolute or relative scale of an activity in a region? Does specialization have static or evolutionary effects? This paper investigates these questions in theoretical and empirical terms. By analysing local agglomerations over time, it is found that growing absolute specialization is positively linked to wages, while changes in relative concentration are not significantly associated with wage dynamics.

Published
2014

22. Silibinin inhibits hepatitis C virus entry into hepatocytes by hindering clathrin-dependent trafficking

Author

Blaising, Julie, Levy, Pierre L., Gondeau, Claire, Phelip, Capucine, Varbanov, Mihayl, Teissier, Elodie, Ruggiero, Florence, Polyak, Stephen J., Oberlies, Nicholas H., Ivanovic, Tijana, Boulant, Steeve, Pécheur, Eve-Isabelle, Bases moléculaires et structurales des systèmes infectieux (BMSSI), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon (UNICANCER/CRCL), Centre Léon Bérard [Lyon]-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Cellules souches normales et cancéreuses, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Montpellier 1 (UM1)-Université de Montpellier (UM), Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon (IGFL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon), University of Washington [Seattle], University of North Carolina [Greensboro] (UNCG), University of North Carolina System (UNC), Harvard University [Cambridge], University of Colorado [Boulder], Université Montpellier 1 (UM1)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Montpellier (UM), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Harvard University, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon (CRCL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre Léon Bérard [Lyon]-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL)

Subjects
virus diseases, [CHIM]Chemical Sciences
Abstract

International audience; Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a global health concern infecting 170 million people worldwide. Previous studies indicate that the extract from milk thistle known as silymarin and its main component silibinin inhibit HCV infection. Here we investigated the mechanism of anti-HCV action ofsilymarin-derived compounds at the molecular level. By using live-cell confocal imaging, single particle tracking, transmission electron microscopy and biochemical approaches on HCV-infected human hepatoma cells and primary hepatocytes, we show that silibinin potently inhibits HCV infection and hinders HCV entry by slowing down trafficking through clathrin-coated pits and vesicles. Detailed analyses revealed that silibinin altered the formation of both clathrin-coated pits and vesicles in cells and caused abnormal uptake and trafficking of transferrin, a well-known cargo of the clathrin endocytic pathway. Silibinin also inhibited infection by other viruses that enter cells by clathrin-mediated endocytosis including reovirus, vesicular stomatitis and influenza viruses. Our study demonstrates that silibinin inhibits HCV early steps of infection by affecting endosomal trafficking of virions. It provides new insights into the molecular mechanisms of action of silibinin against HCV entry and also suggests that silibinin is a potential broad-spectrum antiviral therapy.

Published
2013

23. The Sources of Urban Development: Wages, Housing, and Amenity Gaps Across American Cities

Author

Thomas Kemeny, Michael Storper, University of North Carolina [Greensboro] (UNCG), University of North Carolina System (UNC), Centre de sociologie des organisations (CSO), Sciences Po (Sciences Po)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de sociologie des organisations (Sciences Po, CNRS) (CSO), and Sciences Po Institutional Repository, Spire

Subjects
Labour economics, [SHS.SOCIO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Sociology, media_common.quotation_subject, Etats-Unis, 0211 other engineering and technologies, Urban density, 02 engineering and technology, Environmental Science (miscellaneous), Development, Urban geography, Urban planning, 0502 economics and business, Economics, Population growth, 050207 economics, Real wages, media_common, [SHS.SOCIO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Sociology, Amenity, 05 social sciences, Economic rent, 1. No poverty, 021107 urban & regional planning, Microdata (HTML), 8. Economic growth, ville
Abstract

This paper asks whether worker utility levels—composed of wages, rents, and amenities—are being equalized among American cities. Using microdata on U.S. urban workers in 1980 and 2000, little evidence of equalization is found. Comparable workers earn higher real wages in large cities, where amenities are also concentrated. Moreover, population growth between 1980 and 2000 has not been significantly different in low- and high-utility cities, suggesting that other forces are at work shaping the sorting processes that match workers and firms. We outline an alternative view of the drivers of change in the American urban system, and urban development more generally, by applying theory from economic geography.

Published
2012

24. The Traditional Medicine Spilanthes acmella, and the Alkylamides Spilanthol and Undeca-2E-ene-8,10-diynoic Acid Isobutylamide, Demonstrate In Vitro and In Vivo Antimalarial Activity

Author

Spelman, Kevin, Depoix, Delphine, McCray, Megan, Mouray, Elisabeth, Grellier, Philippe, National Institutes of Health [Bethesda] (NIH), Molécules de Communication et Adaptation des Micro-organismes (MCAM), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of North Carolina [Greensboro] (UNCG), and University of North Carolina System (UNC)

Subjects
Male, Plant Extracts, Polyunsaturated Alkamides, alkylamides, Plasmodium falciparum, malaria, phytotherapy, Plasmodium yoelii, Asteraceae, traditional medicine, Amides, Article, Antimalarials, Inhibitory Concentration 50, Mice, [SDV.MP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology, parasitic diseases, Fatty Acids, Unsaturated, Animals, [CHIM]Chemical Sciences, Female, deca-2E 6Z 8E-trienoic acid isobutylamide
Abstract

International audience; Spilanthes spp. are used as traditional herbal medicines in Africa and India to treat malaria. Yet, to date, there is no data on active constituents or most effective extraction methods for this indication. The isolated alkylamides, spilanthol and undeca-2E-ene-8,10-diynoic acid isobutylamide, found in S. acmella Murr., were shown to have IC50s of 16.5 μg/mL and 41.4 μg/ mL on Plasmodium falciparum strain PFB and IC50s of 5.8 μg/mL and 16.3 μg/mL for the chloroquine resistant P. falciparum K1 strain, respectively. Further investigations revealed that at relatively low concentrations, spilanthol and the water extract of S. acmella reduced the parasitemia 59% and 53% in mice infected with P. yoelii yoelii 17XNL at 5 mg/kg and 50 mg/kg, respectively. Unexpectedly, the 95% ethanol extract of S. acmella was less effective (36% reduction in parasitemia) at 50 mg/kg. These results provide the first evidence supporting S. acmella against malaria and demonstrating active constituents in S. acmella against P. falciparum.

Published
2011

25. Mysteries of Economic Development: Los Angeles and San Francisco since 1970

Author

Storper, Michael, Kemeny, Thomas, Sciences Po Institutional Repository, Spire, Centre de sociologie des organisations (Sciences Po, CNRS) (CSO), Sciences Po (Sciences Po)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of North Carolina [Greensboro] (UNCG), and University of North Carolina System (UNC)

Subjects
[SHS.SOCIO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Sociology, [SHS.SOCIO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Sociology
Published
2010

26. Metabolite analysis of human fecal water by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry with ethyl chloroformate derivatization

Author

Catherine Juste, Xianfu Gao, Jean-François Martin, Wei Jia, Estelle Pujos-Guillot, Pilar Galan, Jean-Louis Sébédio, Unité de Nutrition Humaine (UNH), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université d'Auvergne - Clermont-Ferrand I (UdA)-Clermont Université, Unité de Recherche en Epidémiologie Nutritionnelle, UMR U557 Inserm, U1125 INRA, Cnam, CRNH IdF, Université Paris 13 (UP13), Unité de recherche d'Écologie et Physiologie du Système Digestif (UEPSD), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), University of North Carolina [Greensboro] (UNCG), University of North Carolina System (UNC), INRA, France, and Université d'Auvergne - Clermont-Ferrand I (UdA)-Clermont Université-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)

Subjects
Alkylating Agents, Databases, Factual, Formic Acid Esters, Human fecal water, Biophysics, Mass spectrometry, 01 natural sciences, Biochemistry, Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry, 03 medical and health sciences, chemistry.chemical_compound, Feces, Body Water, [CHIM.ANAL]Chemical Sciences/Analytical chemistry, Humans, Metabolomics, [SDV.BBM]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Derivatization, Molecular Biology, 030304 developmental biology, Detection limit, 0303 health sciences, Chemical ionization, Chromatography, Chloroformates, 010401 analytical chemistry, Analytic Sample Preparation Methods, Reproducibility of Results, Cell Biology, Repeatability, Hydrogen-Ion Concentration, Reference Standards, 6. Clean water, 0104 chemical sciences, chemistry, Multivariate Analysis, Solvents, Metabolome, Ethyl chloroformate, Indicators and Reagents, Gas chromatography, Gas chromatography–mass spectrometry
Abstract

International audience; Fecal water is a complex mixture of various metabolites with a wide range of physicochemical properties and boiling points. The analytical method developed here provides a qualitative and quantitative gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) analysis, with high sensitivity and efficiency, coupled with derivatization of ethyl chloroformate in aqueous medium. The water/ethanol/pyridine ratio was optimized to 12: 6: 1, and a two-step derivatization with an initial pH regulation of 0.1 M sodium bicarbonate was developed. The deionized water exhibited better extraction efficiency for fecal water compounds than did acidified and alkalized water. Furthermore, more amino acids were extracted from frozen fecal samples than from fresh samples based on multivariate statistical analysis and univariate statistical validation on GC/MS data. Method validation by 34 reference standards and fecal water samples showed a correlation coefficient higher than 0.99 for each of the standards, and the limit of detection (LOD) was from 10 to 500 pg on-column for most of the standards. The analytical equipment exhibited excellent repeatability, with the relative standard deviation (RSD) lower than 4% for standards and lower than 7% for fecal water. The derivatization method also demonstrated good repeatability, with the RSD lower than 6.4% for standards (except 3,4-dihydroxyphenylacetic acid) and lower than 10% for fecal water (except dicarboxylic acids). The qualitative means by searching the electron impact (EI) mass spectral database, chemical ionization (CI) mass spectra validation, and reference standards comparison totally identified and structurally confirmed 73 compounds, and the fecal water compounds of healthy humans were also quantified. This protocol shows a promising application in metabolome analysis based on human fecal water samples.

Published
2009

27. Computation of 2-groups of narrow logarithmic divisor classes of number fields

Author

Jean-François Jaulent, Michael Pohst, Florence Soriano-Gafiuk, Sebastian Pauli, Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux (IMB), Université Bordeaux Segalen - Bordeaux 2-Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut Polytechnique de Bordeaux (Bordeaux INP)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Mathematics and Statistics (DMS), University of North Carolina [Greensboro] (UNCG), University of North Carolina System (UNC)-University of North Carolina System (UNC), Institut für Mathematik [Berlin], Technische Universität Berlin (TU), Laboratoire de Mathématiques et Applications de Metz (LMAM), and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paul Verlaine - Metz (UPVM)

Subjects
Logarithm, Computation, Divisor (algebraic geometry), 01 natural sciences, Wild kernel, Combinatorics, 0502 economics and business, FOS: Mathematics, Number Theory (math.NT), 050207 economics, 0101 mathematics, 11R70 11R29, Mathematics, Discrete mathematics, 11R70, 11R29, Algebra and Number Theory, Mathematics - Number Theory, Degree (graph theory), 010102 general mathematics, 05 social sciences, Algebraic number field, [MATH.MATH-NT]Mathematics [math]/Number Theory [math.NT], Computational Mathematics, Logarithmic class group, Narrow logarithmic classes, Kernel (category theory)
Abstract

We present an algorithm for computing the 2-group [email protected][email protected]?"F^r^e^s of narrow logarithmic divisor classes of degree 0 for number fields F. As an application, we compute in some cases the 2-rank of the wild kernel WK"2(F) and the 2-rank of its subgroup K"2^~(F):[email protected]?"n">="1K"2^n(F) of infinite height elements in K"2(F).

Published
2009

28. A General Empirical Law of Public Budgets: A Comparative Analysis

Author

Jones, Bryan, Baumgartner, Frank, Breunig, Christian, Wlezien, Christopher, Soroka, Stuart, Foucault, Martial, Francois, Abel, Green-Pedersen, Christoffer, John, Peter, Koski, Chris, Mortensen, Peter Bjerre, Robinson, Scott, Varone, Frederic, Walgrave, Stefaan, University of Texas at Austin [Austin], University of North Carolina [Greensboro] (UNCG), University of North Carolina System (UNC), University of Toronto, Temple University [Philadelphia], Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE), Centre de recherches politiques de Sciences Po (Sciences Po, CNRS) (CEVIPOF), Sciences Po (Sciences Po)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA), Aarhus University [Aarhus], University of Geneva [Switzerland], and Universiteit Antwerpen [Antwerpen]

Subjects
Structure (mathematical logic), Government, Public budget, Sociology and Political Science, business.industry, Politics, Distribution (economics), [SHS.SCIPO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Political science, Comparative perspective, Law, Political Science and International Relations, ddc:320, Economics, business
Abstract

We examine regularities and differences in public budgeting in comparative perspective. Budgets quantify collective political decisions made in response to incoming information, the preferences of decision makers, and the institutions that structure how decisions are made. We first establish that the distribution of budget changes in many Western democracies follows a non-Gaussian distribution, the power function. This implies that budgets are highly incremental, yet occasionally are punctuated by large changes. This pattern holds regardless of the type of political systemparliamentary or presidentialand for level of government. By studying the power function's exponents we find systematic differences for budgetary increases versus decreases (the former are more punctuated) in most systems, and for levels of government (local governments are less punctuated). Finally, we show that differences among countries in the coefficients of the general budget law correspond to differences in formal institutional structures. While the general form of the law is probably dictated by the fundamental operations of human and organizational information processing, differences in the magnitudes of the law's basic parameters are country- and institution-specific.

Published
2009

29. Les orientations de valeur des enseignants. Une revue de question en éducation physique

Author

Catherine D. Ennis, Denis Pasco, Centre de Recherche sur l'Education, les apprentissages et la didactique (CREAD), Institut universitaire de formation des maîtres - Bretagne (IUFM Bretagne), Université de Brest (UBO)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Université européenne de Bretagne - European University of Brittany (UEB)-Université de Rennes 2 (UR2), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES), Département de Kinésiologie, University of North Carolina [Greensboro] (UNCG), and University of North Carolina System (UNC)-University of North Carolina System (UNC)

Subjects
Physiology, 4. Education, [SHS.EDU]Humanities and Social Sciences/Education, 05 social sciences, 050301 education, Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation, 030229 sport sciences, orientations de valeur, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Physiology (medical), enseignants, 0503 education, éducation physique
Abstract

En fonction des contraintes de temps, des ressources disponibles et des contenus a enseigner definis par les programmes, les enseignants font des choix et determinent des priorites pour leurs eleves. Durant les vingt-cinq dernieres annees, des chercheurs en education ont developpe l’idee que ces priorites reposaient sur un ensemble de positions philosophiques ou d’orientations de valeur. Les orientations de valeur representent les systemes de croyances des educateurs a propos des contenus qu’ils enseignent, de la facon dont ils sont enseignes et par extension, des contenus qui sont appris. Cinq orientations de valeur ont ete decrites en education physique : la maitrise de la discipline, le processus d’apprentissage, l’auto-actualisation, la responsabilisation sociale et l’integration ecologique. Le but de cet article est de presenter les resultats de ce domaine de recherche en education physique, d’identifier les principales limites et de dresser des perspectives pour des recherches futures.

Published
2009

30. A new Algorithm for the Computation of logarithmic l-Class Groups of Number Fields

Author

Diaz Y Diaz, Francisco, Jaulent, Jean-François, Pauli, Sebastian, Pohst, Michael, Soriano-Gafiuk, Florence, Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux (IMB), Université Bordeaux Segalen - Bordeaux 2-Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut Polytechnique de Bordeaux (Bordeaux INP)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Mathematics and Statistics (DMS), University of North Carolina [Greensboro] (UNCG), University of North Carolina System (UNC)-University of North Carolina System (UNC), Institut für Mathematik [Berlin], Technische Universität Berlin (TU), Laboratoire de Mathématiques et Applications de Metz (LMAM), and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paul Verlaine - Metz (UPVM)

Subjects
Mathematics - Number Theory, FOS: Mathematics, Number Theory (math.NT), 11R70 11R29 11R23, 11R70, 11R29, 11R23, [MATH.MATH-NT]Mathematics [math]/Number Theory [math.NT]
Abstract

We present an algorithm for the computation of logarithmic l-class groups of number fields. Our principal motivation is the effective determination of the l-rank of the wild kernel in the K-theory of number fields.

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2008
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31. Computation of 2-groups of positive classes of exceptional number fields

Author

Jean-François Jaulent, Michael Pohst, Florence Soriano–Gafiuk, Sebastian Pauli, Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux (IMB), Université Bordeaux Segalen - Bordeaux 2-Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut Polytechnique de Bordeaux (Bordeaux INP)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Mathematics and Statistics (DMS), University of North Carolina [Greensboro] (UNCG), University of North Carolina System (UNC)-University of North Carolina System (UNC), Institut für Mathematik [Berlin], Technische Universität Berlin (TU), Laboratoire de Mathématiques et Applications de Metz (LMAM), and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paul Verlaine - Metz (UPVM)

Subjects
11R70, 11R29, Algebra and Number Theory, Kernel (set theory), Mathematics - Number Theory, 010102 general mathematics, 010103 numerical & computational mathematics, Divisor (algebraic geometry), Algebraic number field, 01 natural sciences, [MATH.MATH-NT]Mathematics [math]/Number Theory [math.NT], Combinatorics, wild kernel, Number theory, Calculus, FOS: Mathematics, Number Theory (math.NT), 0101 mathematics, positive divisor classes, exceptional number fields, 11R70 11R29, Mathematics
Abstract

We present an algorithm for computing the 2-group Cl pos F of the posi- tive divisor classes in case the number field F has exceptional dyadic places. As an application, we compute the 2-rank of the wild kernel WK2(F) in K2(F). Resume. Nous developpons un algorithme pour determiner le 2-groupe Cl pos F des classes positives dans le cas ou le corps de nombres considere F possede des places paires exceptionelles. Cela donne en particulier le 2-rang du noyau sauvage WK2(F).

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2008
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32. How audio and visual cues combine to discriminate the tempo of swing groove drumming

Author

Love, Scott, Hillis, J.M., Waadeland, Carl Haakon, Rocchesso, Davide, Avanzini, Federico, Dahl, Sofia, Pollick, Frank, School of Psychology, University of Queensland [Brisbane], Department of Music, Norwegian University of Science and Technology [Trondheim] (NTNU), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)-Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Department of Computer Science [Verona] (UNIVR | DI), University of Verona (UNIVR), Universita di Padova, School of Music, University of North Carolina [Greensboro] (UNCG), and University of North Carolina System (UNC)-University of North Carolina System (UNC)

Subjects
tempo, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], audiovisual, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
Abstract

International audience

Published
2007

33. The Brumer-Stark Conjecture in Some Families of Extensions of Specified Degree

Author

Cornelius Greither, Xavier-François Roblot, Brett A. Tangedal, Institute for Theoretical Computer Science and Mathematics, University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich, Institut Girard Desargues (IGD), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of North Carolina [Greensboro] (UNCG), University of North Carolina System (UNC)-University of North Carolina System (UNC), Roblot, Xavier-François, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), and Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
Pure mathematics, Algebra and Number Theory, Conjecture, Elliott–Halberstam conjecture, Applied Mathematics, Mathematics::Number Theory, 010102 general mathematics, Abelian extension, abc conjecture, 010103 numerical & computational mathematics, 01 natural sciences, Prime (order theory), [MATH.MATH-NT]Mathematics [math]/Number Theory [math.NT], Collatz conjecture, Combinatorics, Computational Mathematics, Prime gap, 0101 mathematics, Lonely runner conjecture, [MATH.MATH-NT] Mathematics [math]/Number Theory [math.NT], Mathematics
Abstract

International audience; As a starting point, an important link is established between Brumer's conjecture and the Brumer-Stark conjecture which allows one to translate recent progress on the former into new results on the latter. For example, if K/F is an abelian extension of relative degree 2p, p an odd prime, we prove the ℓ-part of the Brumer-Stark conjecture for all odd primes ℓ≠p with F belonging to a wide class of base fields. In the same setting, we study the 2-part and p-part of Brumer-Stark with no special restriction on F and are left with only two well-defined specific classes of extensions that elude proof. Extensive computations were carried out within these two classes and a complete numerical proof of the Brumer-Stark conjecture was obtained in all cases.

Published
2004

34. Harnessing the Anti-Tumor Mediators in Mast Cells as a New Strategy for Adoptive Cell Transfer for Cancer.

Author

Fereydouni M, Motaghed M, Ahani E, Kafri T, Dellinger K, Metcalfe DD, and Kepley CL

Abstract

The emergence of cancer immunotherapies utilizing adoptive cell transfer (ACT) continues to be one of the most promising strategies for cancer treatment. Mast cells (MCs) which occur throughout vascularized tissues, are most commonly associated with Type I hypersensitivity, bind immunoglobin E (IgE) with high affinity, produce anti-cancer mediators such as tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) and granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF), and generally populate the tumor microenvironments. Yet, the role of MCs in cancer pathologies remains controversial with evidence for both anti-tumor and pro-tumor effects. Here, we review the studies examining the role of MCs in multiple forms of cancer, provide an alternative, MC-based hypothesis underlying the mechanism of therapeutic tumor IgE efficacy in clinical trials, and propose a novel strategy for using tumor-targeted, IgE-sensitized MCs as a platform for developing new cellular cancer immunotherapies. This autologous MC cancer immunotherapy could have several advantages over current cell-based cancer immunotherapies and provide new mechanistic strategies for cancer therapeutics alone or in combination with current approaches., Competing Interests: The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest., (Copyright © 2022 Fereydouni, Motaghed, Ahani, Kafri, Dellinger, Metcalfe and Kepley.)

Published
2022
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35. Good times make you sick.

Author

Ruhm CJ

Subjects
Acute Disease economics, Adult, Chronic Disease economics, Female, Health Services Needs and Demand trends, Hospitalization statistics & numerical data, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Office Visits statistics & numerical data, Prevalence, Probability, Socioeconomic Factors, Time, United States epidemiology, Acute Disease epidemiology, Chronic Disease epidemiology, Health Services Needs and Demand economics, Health Status, Models, Economic
Abstract

This study uses microdata from the 1972-1981 National Health Interview Surveys (NHIS) to examine how health status and medical care utilization fluctuate with state macroeconomic conditions. Personal characteristics, location fixed-effects, general time effects and (usually) state-specific time trends are controlled for. The major finding is that there is a counter-cyclical variation in physical health that is especially pronounced for individuals of prime-working age, employed persons, and males. The negative health effects of economic expansions persist or accumulate over time, are larger for acute than chronic ailments, and occur despite a protective effect of income and a possible increase in the use of medical care. Finally, there is some suggestion that mental health may be procyclical, in sharp contrast to physical well-being.

Published
2003
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