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Phylogenomic fingerprinting of tempo and functions of horizontal gene transfer within ochrophytes.

Author(s): Dorrell RG, Villain A, Perez-Lamarque B, Audren de Kerdrel G, McCallum G, Watson AK, Ait-Mohamed O, Alberti A, Corre E, Frischkorn KR, Piere...

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is an important source of novelty in eukaryotic genomes. This is particularly true for the ochrophytes, a diverse and important group of algae. Previous studies have ...

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Increased drought severity tracks warming in the United States' largest river basin.

Author(s): Martin JT, Pederson GT, Woodhouse CA, Cook ER, McCabe GJ, Anchukaitis KJ, Wise EK, Erger PJ, Dolan L, McGuire M, Gangopadhyay S, Chase KJ, L...

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 May 11;: Authors: Martin JT, Pederson GT, Woodhouse CA, Cook ER, McCabe GJ, Anchukaitis KJ, Wise EK, Erger PJ, Dolan L, McGuire M, Gangopadhyay S, Chase KJ, Littell ...

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Late-spring frost risk between 1959 and 2017 decreased in North America but increased in Europe and Asia.

Author(s): Zohner CM, Mo L, Renner SS, Svenning JC, Vitasse Y, Benito BM, Ordonez A, Baumgarten F, Bastin JF, Sebald V, Reich PB, Liang J, Nabuurs GJ, ...

Late-spring frosts (LSFs) affect the performance of plants and animals across the world's temperate and boreal zones, but despite their ecological and economic impact on agriculture and forestr...

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Reply to Drescher: Interdisciplinary collaboration is essential to understand and implement climate-resilient strategies in cities.

Author(s): Ziter CD, Pedersen EJ, Kucharik CJ, Turner MG

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 Dec 17;: Authors: Ziter CD, Pedersen EJ, Kucharik CJ, Turner MG PMID: 31848251 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Behavior is the ultimate arbiter: An alternative explanation for the inhibitory effect of fluoxetine on the ovulatory homolog model of orgasm in rabbits.

Author(s): Quintana GR, Mac Cionnaith CE, Pfaus JG

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 Dec 03;: Authors: Quintana GR, Mac Cionnaith CE, Pfaus JG PMID: 31796602 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Epigenetic control of pheromone MAPK signaling determines sexual fecundity in Candida albicans.

Author(s): Scaduto CM, Kabrawala S, Thomson GJ, Scheving W, Ly A, Anderson MZ, Whiteway M, Bennett RJ

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 12 26;114(52):13780-13785 Authors: Scaduto CM, Kabrawala S, Thomson GJ, Scheving W, Ly A, Anderson MZ, Whiteway M, Bennett RJ

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Biogenic membranes of the chloroplast in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.

Author(s): Schottkowski M, Peters M, Zhan Y, Rifai O, Zhang Y, Zerges W

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Nov 20;109(47):19286-91 Authors: Schottkowski M, Peters M, Zhan Y, Rifai O, Zhang Y, Zerges W

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Neural network retuning and neural predictors of learning success associated with cello training

Author(s): Wollman I; Penhune V; Segado M; Carpentier T; Zatorre RJ;

The auditory and motor neural systems are closely intertwined, enabling people to carry out tasks such as playing a musical instrument whose mapping between action and sound is extremely sophisticated. While the dorsal auditory stream has been shown to medi...

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Linking plasma formation in grapes to microwave resonances of aqueous dimers.

Author(s): Khattak HK, Bianucci P, Slepkov AD

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 Feb 19;: Authors: Khattak HK, Bianucci P, Slepkov AD

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mTOR signaling in VIP neurons regulates circadian clock synchrony and olfaction

Author(s): Liu D; Stowie A; de Zavalia N; Leise T; Pathak SS; Drewes LR; Davidson AJ; Amir S; Sonenberg N; Cao R;...

Mammalian/mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) signaling controls cell growth, proliferation, and metabolism in dividing cells. Less is known regarding its function in postmitotic neurons in the ...

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Superoxide dismutase activity confers (p)ppGpp-mediated antibiotic tolerance to stationary-phase Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

Author(s): Martins D, McKay G, Sampathkumar G, Khakimova M, English AM, Nguyen D

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 09 25;115(39):9797-9802 Authors: Martins D, McKay G, Sampathkumar G, Khakimova M, English AM, Nguyen D

Article GUID: 30201715
Title:Linking plasma formation in grapes to microwave resonances of aqueous dimers.
Authors:Khattak HK,  Bianucci P,  Slepkov AD
Link:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30782800?dopt=Abstract
Category:Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
PMID:30782800
Dept Affiliation: PHYSICS
1 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Trent University, Peterborough, ON, Canada K9L 0G2.
2 Department of Physics, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada H4B 1R6.
3 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Trent University, Peterborough, ON, Canada K9L 0G2; aaronslepkov@trentu.ca.

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Linking plasma formation in grapes to microwave resonances of aqueous dimers.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 Feb 19;:

Authors: Khattak HK, Bianucci P, Slepkov AD

Abstract

The sparking of cut grape hemispheres in a household microwave oven has been a poorly explained Internet parlor trick for over two decades. By expanding this phenomenon to whole spherical dimers of various grape-sized fruit and hydrogel water beads, we demonstrate that the formation of plasma is due to electromagnetic hotspots arising from the cooperative interaction of Mie resonances in the individual spheres. The large dielectric constant of water at the relevant gigahertz frequencies can be used to form systems that mimic surface plasmon resonances that are typically reserved for nanoscale metallic objects. The absorptive properties of water furthermore act to homogenize higher-mode profiles and to preferentially select evanescent field concentrations such as the axial hotspot. Thus, beyond providing an explanation for a popular-science phenomenon, we outline a method to experimentally model subwavelength field patterns using thermal imaging in macroscopic dielectric systems.

PMID: 30782800 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]