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University of Bordeaux
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About: University of Bordeaux is a education organization based out in Bordeaux, France. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Laser. The organization has 28811 authors who have published 55536 publications receiving 1619635 citations. The organization is also known as: UB.
Topics: Population, Laser, Context (language use), Raman spectroscopy, Medicine
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TL;DR: It is found that the expression of specific inflammasome gene modules stratifies older individuals into two extremes: those with constitutive expression of IL-1β, nucleotide metabolism dysfunction, elevated oxidative stress, high rates of hypertension and arterial stiffness; and those without constitutive expresses IL- 1β, who lack these characteristics.
Abstract: Low-grade, chronic inflammation has been associated with many diseases of aging, but the mechanisms responsible for producing this inflammation remain unclear. Inflammasomes can drive chronic inflammation in the context of an infectious disease or cellular stress, and they trigger the maturation of interleukin-1β (IL-1β). Here we find that the expression of specific inflammasome gene modules stratifies older individuals into two extremes: those with constitutive expression of IL-1β, nucleotide metabolism dysfunction, elevated oxidative stress, high rates of hypertension and arterial stiffness; and those without constitutive expression of IL-1β, who lack these characteristics. Adenine and N4-acetylcytidine, nucleotide-derived metabolites that are detectable in the blood of the former group, prime and activate the NLRC4 inflammasome, induce the production of IL-1β, activate platelets and neutrophils and elevate blood pressure in mice. In individuals over 85 years of age, the elevated expression of inflammasome gene modules was associated with all-cause mortality. Thus, targeting inflammasome components may ameliorate chronic inflammation and various other age-associated conditions.
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20 Sep 2006TL;DR: In this paper, a detailed look at one of the key focal points where nanotechnology and polymers meet provides both an introductory view for beginners as well as in-depth knowledge for specialists in the various research areas involved.
Abstract: This first book to take a detailed look at one of the key focal points where nanotechnology and polymers meet provides both an introductory view for beginners as well as in-depth knowledge for specialists in the various research areas involved. It investigates all types of application for block copolymers: as tools for fabricating other nanomaterials, as structural components in hybrid materials and nanocomposites, and as functional materials. The multidisciplinary approach covers all stages from chemical synthesis and characterization, presenting applications from physics and chemistry to biology and medicine, such as micro- and nanolithography, membranes, optical labeling, drug delivery, as well as sensory and analytical uses. © 2006 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the sensitivity of hedonic models of house prices to the spatial interpolation of measures of air quality was investigated, using a sample of 115,732 individual house sales for 1999 in the South Coast Air Quality Management District of Southern California.
Abstract: This paper investigates the sensitivity of hedonic models of house prices to the spatial interpolation of measures of air quality. We consider three aspects of this question: the interpolation technique used, the inclusion of air quality as a continuous vs discrete variable in the model, and the estimation method. Using a sample of 115,732 individual house sales for 1999 in the South Coast Air Quality Management District of Southern California, we compare Thiessen polygons, inverse distance weighting, Kriging and splines to carry out spatial interpolation of point measures of ozone obtained at 27 air quality monitoring stations to the locations of the houses. We take a spatial econometric perspective and employ both maximum-likelihood and general method of moments techniques in the estimation of the hedonic. A high degree of residual spatial autocorrelation warrants the inclusion of a spatially lagged dependent variable in the regression model. We find significant differences across interpolators...
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TL;DR: This article determined the source area from which dusts from the last glacial maximum (LGM) section of the Dome C ice core were derived, by comparing their strontium and neodymium isotopic ratios with those of samples from potential source areas.
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TL;DR: In this article, the existence of states made of four heavy quarks in the context of potential models already used in the study of heavy mesons and baryons was discussed, where the quarks have the same mass and interact through a two-body potential due to color-octet exchange.
Abstract: We discuss the existence of states made of four heavy quarks in the context of potential models already used in the study of heavy mesons and baryons. We first consider the situation where the quarks have the same mass and interact through a two-body potential due to color-octet exchange. In this case, we show that for any reasonable confining potential there is no state below the threshold corresponding to the spontaneous dissociation into two mesons. We investigate in detail different possibilities of modifying this negative result. This concerns the effect of hyperfine corrections, the case of orbitally excited states, the case of unequal quark masses, and the use of the static potential derived from the bag model treated in the adiabatic approximation.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Nicholas G. Martin | 192 | 1770 | 161952 |
George F. Koob | 171 | 935 | 112521 |
Daniel J. Jacob | 162 | 656 | 76530 |
Arthur W. Toga | 159 | 1184 | 109343 |
James M. Tour | 143 | 859 | 91364 |
Floyd E. Bloom | 139 | 616 | 72641 |
Herbert Y. Meltzer | 137 | 1148 | 81371 |
Jean-Marie Tarascon | 136 | 853 | 137673 |
Stanley Nattel | 132 | 778 | 65700 |
Michel Haïssaguerre | 117 | 757 | 62284 |
Liquan Chen | 111 | 689 | 44229 |
Marion Leboyer | 110 | 773 | 50767 |
Jean-François Dartigues | 106 | 631 | 46682 |
Alexa S. Beiser | 106 | 366 | 47457 |
Robert Dantzer | 105 | 497 | 46554 |