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University of Avignon
Education•Avignon, Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur, France•
About: University of Avignon is a education organization based out in Avignon, Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur, France. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Speaker recognition. The organization has 1526 authors who have published 3766 publications receiving 88928 citations.
Topics: Population, Speaker recognition, Context (language use), Extraction (chemistry), Wireless network
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TL;DR: It is concluded that olefin and 5-hydroxy-imidacloprid are specific agonists of two subtypes of an nAChR that are differentially expressed during adult maturation of young honeybees.
Abstract: Habituation of the proboscis extension reflex (PER) in honeybees (Apis mellifera) is age-dependent. Very young bees ( or =8 days old). A nicotinic agonist, imidacloprid, modifies this behaviour by increasing the number of trials in < or =7-day-old bees and by decreasing it in older bees [Neurobiol. Learn. Mem. 76 (2001) 183.]. Here we tested our hypothesis that this effect is associated with a differential expression of two subtypes of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs). By testing the effects of six metabolites of imidacloprid, we show that two of them, olefin and 5-hydroxy-imidacloprid, modify the number of trials needed to habituate the PER in a contrasting manner. Olefin increases the number of trials in both age groups, whereas 5-hydroxy-imidacloprid decreases the number of trials, but only in 8-day-old individuals. We conclude that olefin and 5-hydroxy-imidacloprid are specific agonists of two subtypes of an nAChR that are differentially expressed during adult maturation of young honeybees. Olefin is the agonist of an nAChR expressed in both age groups, whereas 5-hydroxy-imidacloprid is the agonist of a late-onset nAChR that is activated in 8-day-old bees. The implications of this finding for the honeybee biology are discussed.
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TL;DR: It is demonstrated for the first time that intestinal scavenger receptors participate in the absorption of dietary phylloquinone in mice overexpressing SR-BI compared with controls.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a TCP optimization through proper tuning of power management, code redundancy, and ARQ in wireless environments (WLAN and WWAN) and evaluated TCP performance under different settings.
Abstract: TCP performance degrades when end-to-end connections extend over wireless connections - links which are characterized by high bit error rate and intermittent connectivity. Such link characteristics can significantly degrade TCP performance as the TCP sender assumes wireless losses to be congestion losses resulting in unnecessary congestion control actions. Link errors can be reduced by increasing transmission power, code redundancy (FEC) or number of retransmissions (ARQ). But increasing power costs resources, increasing code redundancy reduces available channel bandwidth and increasing persistency increases end-to-end delay. The paper proposes a TCP optimization through proper tuning of power management, FEC and ARQ in wireless environments (WLAN and WWAN). In particular, we conduct analytical and numerical analysis taking into account the three aforementioned factors, and evaluate TCP (and wireless-aware TCP) performance under different settings. Our results show that increasing power, redundancy and/or retransmission levels always improves TCP performance by reducing link-layer losses. However, such improvements are often associated with cost and arbitrary improvement cannot be realized without paying a lot in return. It is therefore important to consider some kind of net utility function that should be optimized, thus maximizing throughput at the least possible cost.
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TL;DR: This work suggests that the influence of environmental factors on the quantitative changes in sporulation boundaries and rates was similar to their influence on changes in growth rate.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the coexistence of saline and freshwater lakes in close proximity and similar climatic conditions in the Nhecolândia region, Pantanal wetlands in Brazil was studied.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Peter J. Diggle | 85 | 518 | 40325 |
Frédéric Baret | 73 | 289 | 25453 |
Farid Chemat | 71 | 339 | 18533 |
Eitan Altman | 60 | 637 | 16760 |
Mathilde Causse | 56 | 122 | 11973 |
Giancarlo Cravotto | 54 | 484 | 13555 |
Montserrat Dueñas | 52 | 117 | 6401 |
Catherine M.G.C. Renard | 52 | 235 | 9183 |
Pierre Renault | 49 | 172 | 23844 |
Yves Le Conte | 48 | 155 | 7985 |
Christophe Nguyen-The | 47 | 122 | 7499 |
Olivier Ouari | 46 | 145 | 6231 |
Miguel A. Pappolla | 46 | 121 | 9864 |
Marie-Josèphe Amiot | 45 | 113 | 7893 |
Marie Weiss | 44 | 139 | 9955 |