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University of Mons
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About: University of Mons is a education organization based out in Mons, Belgium. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Large Hadron Collider & Standard Model. The organization has 3073 authors who have published 9465 publications receiving 294776 citations.
Topics: Large Hadron Collider, Standard Model, Lepton, Fiber Bragg grating, Muon
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TL;DR: It is shown that extracts from the heads of young cuckoo bumblebee males contain a repellent odor that prevents parasite males from being attacked by host workers, and that social parasitism reduces host worker aggressiveness and helps parasite offspring acceptance.
Abstract: Social parasites exploit the colony resources of social insects. Some of them exploit the host colony as a food resource or as a shelter whereas other species also exploit the brood care behavior of their social host. Some of these species have even lost the worker caste and rely completely on the host's worker force to rear their offspring. To avoid host defenses and bypass their recognition code, these social parasites have developed several sophisticated chemical infiltration strategies. These infiltration strategies have been highly studied in several hymenopterans. Once a social parasite has successfully entered a host nest and integrated its social system, its emerging offspring still face the same challenge of avoiding host recognition. However, the strategy used by the offspring to survive within the host nest without being killed is still poorly documented. In cuckoo bumblebees, the parasite males completely lack the morphological and chemical adaptations to social parasitism that the females possess. Moreover, young parasite males exhibit an early production of species-specific cephalic secretions, used as sexual pheromones. Host workers might thus be able to recognize them. Here we used a bumblebee host-social parasite system to test the hypothesis that social parasite male offspring exhibit a chemical defense strategy to escape from host aggression during their intranidal life. Using behavioral assays, we showed that extracts from the heads of young cuckoo bumblebee males contain a repellent odor that prevents parasite males from being attacked by host workers. We also show that social parasitism reduces host worker aggressiveness and helps parasite offspring acceptance.
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31 Aug 2005
TL;DR: A reference model for overlay networks is proposed which is capable of modeling different approaches in this domain in a generic manner and is intended to allow researchers and users to assess the properties of concrete systems, to establish a common vocabulary for scientific discussion, and to serve as the basis for defining a standardized API to make overlay networks interoperable.
Abstract: The success of the P2P idea has created a huge diversity of approaches, among which overlay networks, for example, Gnutella, Kazaa, Chord, Pastry, Tapestry, P-Grid, or DKS, have received specific attention from both developers and researchers. A wide variety of algorithms, data structures, and architectures have been proposed. The terminologies and abstractions used, however, have become quite inconsistent since the P2P paradigm has attracted people from many different communities, e.g., networking, databases, distributed systems, graph theory, complexity theory, biology, etc. In this paper we propose a reference model for overlay networks which is capable of modeling different approaches in this domain in a generic manner. It is intended to allow researchers and users to assess the properties of concrete systems, to establish a common vocabulary for scientific discussion, to facilitate the qualitative comparison of the systems, and to serve as the basis for defining a standardized API to make overlay networks interoperable.
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TL;DR: In this article, a search for narrow resonances with a mass of at least 1 TeV in the dijet mass spectrum is performed using pp collisions at root s = 7 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1 fb(-1), collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC.
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TL;DR: The results indicate that the intrinsic electronic structure, the relevant intramolecular vibrational modes, and the intermolecular interactions in ADT are very similar to those in pentacene.
Abstract: The molecular parameters that govern charge transport in anthradithiophene (ADT) are studied by a joint experimental/theoretical approach involving high-resolution gas-phase photoelectron spectroscopy and quantum-mechanical methods. The hole reorganization energy of ADT has been determined by an analysis of the vibrational structure of the lowest ionization band in the gas-phase photoelectron spectrum as well as by density-functional theory calculations. In addition, various dimers and clusters of ADT molecules have been considered in order to understand the effect of molecular packing on the hole and electron intermolecular transfer integrals. The results indicate that the intrinsic electronic structure, the relevant intramolecular vibrational modes, and the intermolecular interactions in ADT are very similar to those in pentacene.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors considered the case of pure Einstein and Gauss-Bonnet gravity, respectively, and observed that the critical temperature at which condensation sets in decreases with increasing GaussBonnet coupling.
Abstract: We study holographic superconductors in 3+1 dimensions away from the probe limit, i.e. taking backreaction of the space-time into account. We consider the case of pure Einstein and Gauss-Bonnet gravity, respectively. Similar to the probe limit we observe that the critical temperature at which condensation sets in decreases with increasing Gauss-Bonnet coupling. The decrease is however stronger when taking backreaction of the space-time into account. We observe that the critical temperature becomes very small, but stays positive for all values of the Gauss-Bonnet coupling no matter how strong the backreaction of the space-time is.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Giacomo Bruno | 158 | 1687 | 124368 |
Krzysztof Piotrzkowski | 141 | 1269 | 99607 |
Maria Elena Pol | 139 | 1414 | 99240 |
Rupert Leitner | 136 | 1201 | 90597 |
Christophe Delaere | 135 | 1320 | 96742 |
Vincent Lemaitre | 134 | 1310 | 99190 |
Jean-Luc Brédas | 134 | 1026 | 85803 |
Luiz Mundim | 133 | 1413 | 89792 |
Ulrich Landgraf | 131 | 959 | 83320 |
Markus Elsing | 131 | 1111 | 82757 |
Evangelos Gazis | 131 | 1147 | 84159 |
Loic Quertenmont | 129 | 905 | 76221 |
Michele Selvaggi | 129 | 1214 | 83525 |
Roberto Castello | 128 | 965 | 76820 |
Olivier Bondu | 128 | 1049 | 76124 |