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About: Free University of Berlin is a education organization based out in Berlin, Germany. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Context (language use). The organization has 35195 authors who have published 66525 publications receiving 2094403 citations. The organization is also known as: FU Berlin.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined measurement invariance and age-related robustness of a short 15-item Big Five Inventory (BFI-S) of personality dimensions, which is well suited for applications in large-scale multidisciplinary surveys.
Abstract: We examined measurement invariance and age-related robustness of a short 15-item Big Five Inventory (BFI–S) of personality dimensions, which is well suited for applications in large-scale multidisciplinary surveys. The BFI–S was assessed in three different interviewing conditions: computer-assisted or paper-assisted face-to-face interviewing, computer-assisted telephone interviewing, and a self-administered questionnaire. Randomized probability samples from a large-scale German panel survey and a related probability telephone study were used in order to test method effects on self-report measures of personality characteristics across early, middle, and late adulthood. Exploratory structural equation modeling was used in order to test for measurement invariance of the five-factor model of personality trait domains across different assessment methods. For the short inventory, findings suggest strong robustness of self-report measures of personality dimensions among young and middle-aged adults. In old age, telephone interviewing was associated with greater distortions in reliable personality assessment. It is concluded that the greater mental workload of telephone interviewing limits the reliability of self-report personality assessment. Face-to-face surveys and self-administrated questionnaire completion are clearly better suited than phone surveys when personality traits in age-heterogeneous samples are assessed.
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Oregon State University1, Duke University2, Field Museum of Natural History3, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign4, Pennsylvania State University5, University of Graz6, University of Oslo7, University of Arizona8, Kaiserslautern University of Technology9, Harvard University10, Brandon University11, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research12, University of Hamburg13, Free University of Berlin14
TL;DR: Pezizomycotina is the largest subphylum of Ascomycota and includes the vast majority of filamentous, ascoma-producing species, and the seven remaining classes formed a monophyletic group that corresponds to Leotiomyceta.
Abstract: Pezizomycotina is the largest subphylum of Ascomycota and includes the vast majority of filamen- tous, ascoma-producing species. Here we report the results from weighted parsimony, maximum likelihood and Bayesian phylogenetic analyses of five nuclear loci (SSU rDNA, LSU rDNA, RPB1, RPB2 and EF-1a) from 191 taxa. Nine of the 10 Pezizomycotina classes currently recognized were represented in the sam- pling. These data strongly supported the monophyly of Pezizomycotina, Arthoniomycetes, Eurotiomycetes, Orbiliomycetes and Sordariomycetes. Pezizomycetes and Dothideomycetes also were resolved as mono- phyletic but not strongly supported by the data. Lecanoromycetes was resolved as paraphyletic in parsimony analyses but monophyletic in maximum likelihood and Bayesian analyses. Leotiomycetes was polyphyletic due to exclusion of Geoglossaceae. The two most basal classes of Pezizomycotina were Orbilio- mycetes and Pezizomycetes, both of which comprise species that produce apothecial ascomata. The seven
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TL;DR: The identification of SLAH3 as the nitrate-, calcium-, and ABA-sensitive guard cell anion channel provides insights into the relationship among stomatal response to drought, signaling by nitrate, and nitrate metabolism.
Abstract: S-type anion channels are direct targets of abscisic acid (ABA) signaling and contribute to chloride and nitrate release from guard cells, which in turn initiates stomatal closure. SLAC1 was the first component of the guard cell S-type anion channel identified. However, we found that guard cells of Arabidopsis SLAC1 mutants exhibited nitrate conductance. SLAH3 (SLAC1 homolog 3) was also present in guard cells, and coexpression of SLAH3 with the calcium ion (Ca2+)-dependent kinase CPK21 in Xenopus oocytes mediated nitrate-induced anion currents. Nitrate, calcium, and phosphorylation regulated SLAH3 activity. CPK21-dependent SLAH3 phosphorylation and activation were blocked by ABI1, a PP2C-type protein phosphatase that is inhibited by ABA and inhibits the ABA signaling pathway in guard cells. We reconstituted the ABA-stimulated phosphorylation of the SLAH3 amino-terminal domain by CPK21 in vitro by including the ABA receptor-phosphatase complex RCAR1-ABI1 in the reactions. We propose that ABA perception by the complex consisting of ABA receptors of the RCAR/PYR/PYL family and ABI1 releases CPK21 from inhibition by ABI1, and then CPK21 is further activated by an increase in the cytosolic Ca2+ concentration, leading to its phosphorylation of SLAH3. Thus, the identification of SLAH3 as the nitrate-, calcium-, and ABA-sensitive guard cell anion channel provides insights into the relationship among stomatal response to drought, signaling by nitrate, and nitrate metabolism.
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TL;DR: It may be possible to create a functional atlas of the AL in which particular molecular receptive ranges are attributed to each glomerulus, based on measured glomerular responses to 30 different odors in the AL of honeybees.
Abstract: Odors are coded by glomerular activity patterns in the insect antennal lobe (AL) and in the mammalian olfactory bulb. We measured glomerular responses to 30 different odors in the AL of honeybees using calcium-sensitive dyes. By subsequently staining glomeruli and identifying individual glomerular outlines, we were able to compare the patterns between animals. Regardless of whether the odors were mixtures or pure substances, environmental odors or pheromones, their representations were highly conserved among individuals. Therefore, it may be possible to create a functional atlas of the AL in which particular molecular receptive ranges are attributed to each glomerulus.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented a two-graph receiver operating characteristic (TG-ROC) analysis which is a plot of the test sensitivity (Se) and specificity (Sp) against the threshold (cut-off) value assuming the latter to be an independent variable.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Andreas Pfeiffer | 149 | 1756 | 131080 |
Nicholas A. Peppas | 141 | 825 | 90533 |
Robert H. Purcell | 139 | 666 | 70366 |
Andrea Castro | 132 | 1500 | 90019 |
Klaus Ley | 129 | 495 | 57964 |
Klaus-Robert Müller | 129 | 764 | 79391 |
Britton Chance | 128 | 1112 | 76591 |
Stefan H. E. Kaufmann | 126 | 925 | 58891 |
Thomas F. Tedder | 123 | 426 | 48374 |
Aravinda Chakravarti | 120 | 451 | 99632 |
Jerome Ritz | 120 | 644 | 47987 |
Thomas C. Quinn | 120 | 827 | 65881 |
Angela D. Friederici | 120 | 701 | 50191 |
E. K. U. Gross | 119 | 1154 | 75970 |
Alexander Rich | 115 | 539 | 50171 |