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National University of La Plata
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About: National University of La Plata is a education organization based out in La Plata, Argentina. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Stars. The organization has 12993 authors who have published 30013 publications receiving 495118 citations. The organization is also known as: UNLP & Universidad Nacional de La Plata.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors measured the effect of jet suppression in heavy ion collisions at the LHC and provided a direct sensitivity to the physics of jet quenching, using a sample of lead-lead collisions at root S-NN = 2.76 TeV.
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International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources1, Autonomous University of Baja California2, University of Exeter3, NatureServe4, National Autonomous University of Mexico5, Arizona State University6, National Scientific and Technical Research Council7, Conservation International8, National University of La Plata9, University of Guadalajara10, Autonomous University of Queretaro11, University of Havana12, Universidad Veracruzana13, University of North Carolina at Asheville14, University of Chile15, University of Arizona16, Botanical Society of America17, Montgomery Botanical Center18, University of Concepción19, Missouri Botanical Garden20, San Juan College21, United Nations Environment Programme22, Spanish National Research Council23, State University of Feira de Santana24, University of Florida25, Desert Botanical Garden26, Autonomous University of Tamaulipas27, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden28, Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research29, Miami University30, United States Fish and Wildlife Service31, National University of Rosario32, National University of Salta33, Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden34, National University of San Marcos35, Sul Ross State University36, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala37, Global Environment Facility38, Royal Botanic Gardens39, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana40
TL;DR: It is shown that cacti are among the most threatened taxonomic groups assessed to date, with 31% of the 1,478 evaluated species threatened, demonstrating the high anthropogenic pressures on biodiversity in arid lands.
Abstract: A high proportion of plant species is predicted to be threatened with extinction in the near future. However, the threat status of only a small number has been evaluated compared with key animal groups, rendering the magnitude and nature of the risks plants face unclear. Here we report the results of a global species assessment for the largest plant taxon evaluated to date under the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List Categories and Criteria, the iconic Cactaceae (cacti). We show that cacti are among the most threatened taxonomic groups assessed to date, with 31% of the 1,478 evaluated species threatened, demonstrating the high anthropogenic pressures on biodiversity in arid lands. The distribution of threatened species and the predominant threatening processes and drivers are different to those described for other taxa. The most significant threat processes comprise land conversion to agriculture and aquaculture, collection as biological resources, and residential and commercial development. The dominant drivers of extinction risk are the unscrupulous collection of live plants and seeds for horticultural trade and private ornamental collections, smallholder livestock ranching and smallholder annual agriculture. Our findings demonstrate that global species assessments are readily achievable for major groups of plants with relatively moderate resources, and highlight different conservation priorities and actions to those derived from species assessments of key animal groups.
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TL;DR: Unraveling the enormous complexity in the mechanisms by which PKC isozymes have an impact on tumorigenesis and metastasis is key for reassessing their potential as pharmacological targets for cancer treatment.
Abstract: Since their discovery in the late 1970s, protein kinase C (PKC) isozymes represent one of the most extensively studied signaling kinases. PKCs signal through multiple pathways and control the expression of genes relevant for cell cycle progression, tumorigenesis and metastatic dissemination. Despite the vast amount of information concerning the mechanisms that control PKC activation and function in cellular models, the relevance of individual PKC isozymes in the progression of human cancer is still a matter of controversy. Although the expression of PKC isozymes is altered in multiple cancer types, the causal relationship between such changes and the initiation and progression of the disease remains poorly defined. Animal models developed in the last years helped to better understand the involvement of individual PKCs in various cancer types and in the context of specific oncogenic alterations. Unraveling the enormous complexity in the mechanisms by which PKC isozymes have an impact on tumorigenesis and metastasis is key for reassessing their potential as pharmacological targets for cancer treatment.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the Stahel-Donoho estimators (t, V) of multivariate location and scatter are defined as a weighted mean and a weighted covariance matrix with weights of the form w(r), where w is a weight function and r is a measure of "outlyingness", obtained by considering all univariate projections of the data.
Abstract: The Stahel-Donoho estimators (t, V) of multivariate location and scatter are defined as a weighted mean and a weighted covariance matrix with weights of the form w(r), where w is a weight function and r is a measure of “outlyingness,” obtained by considering all univariate projections of the data. It has a high breakdown point for all dimensions and order √n consistency. The asymptotic bias of V for point mass contamination for suitable weight functions is compared with that of Rousseeuw's minimum volume ellipsoid (MVE) estimator. A simulation shows that for a suitable w, t and V exhibit high efficiency for both normal and Cauchy distributions and are better than their competitors for normal data with point-mass contamination. The performances of the estimators for detecting outliers are compared for both a real and a synthetic data set.
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01 Apr 2001TL;DR: The goal of this paper is to argue the need to approach the personalization issues in Web applications from the very beginning in the application’s development cycle through a design view, rather than only an implementation view.
Abstract: The goal of this paper is to argue the need to approach the personalization issues in Web applications from the very beginning in the application’s development cycle. Since personalization is a critical aspect in many popular domains such as e-commerce, it important enough that it should be dealt with through a design view, rather than only an implementation view (which discusses mechanisms, rather than design options). We present different scenarios of personalization covering most existing applications. Since our design approach is based on the Object-Oriented Hypermedia Design Method, we briefly introduce i the way in which we build Web application models as object -oriented views of conceptual models. We show how we specify personalized Web applications by refining views according to users’ profiles or preferences; we show that an object -oriented approach allows maximizing reuse in these specifications. We discuss some implementation aspects and compare our work with related approaches, and present some concluding remarks.
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David Cameron | 154 | 1586 | 126067 |
Subir Sarkar | 149 | 1542 | 144614 |
Mayda Velasco | 137 | 1309 | 87579 |
Diego F. Torres | 137 | 948 | 72180 |
Heidi Sandaker | 128 | 999 | 76517 |
Vincent Garonne | 128 | 921 | 76980 |
Farid Ould-Saada | 128 | 931 | 76394 |
Ole Røhne | 128 | 1038 | 75752 |
Peter Hansen | 128 | 1271 | 86210 |
Maria-Teresa Dova | 127 | 778 | 73558 |
Vladimir Sulin | 127 | 884 | 75329 |
Andrei Snesarev | 127 | 875 | 74907 |
James Catmore | 127 | 892 | 75086 |
Ruslan Mashinistov | 126 | 860 | 73897 |
Fernando Monticelli | 126 | 843 | 73385 |