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About: University of Plymouth is a education organization based out in Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Context (language use). The organization has 7301 authors who have published 20396 publications receiving 679758 citations.
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TL;DR: It is concluded that the presence of tricyclic diamondoid acids, never before even considered as NA, suggests an unprecedented degree of biodegradation of some of the oil in the oil sands.
Abstract: Expansion of the oil sands industry of Canada has seen a concomitant increase in the amount of process water produced and stored in large lagoons known as tailings ponds. Concerns have been raised, particularly about the toxic complex mixtures of water-soluble naphthenic acids (NA) in the process water. To date, no individual NA have been identified, despite numerous attempts, and while the toxicity of broad classes of acids is of interest, toxicity is often structure-specific, so identification of individual acids may also be very important. Here we describe the chromatographic resolution and mass spectral identification of some individual NA from oil sands process water. We conclude that the presence of tricyclic diamondoid acids, never before even considered as NA, suggests an unprecedented degree of biodegradation of some of the oil in the oil sands. The identifications reported should now be followed by quantitative studies, and these used to direct toxicity assays of relevant NA and the method used to identify further NA to establish which, or whether all NA, are toxic. The two-dimensional comprehensive gas chromatography-mass spectrometry method described may also be important for helping to better focus reclamation/remediation strategies for NA as well as in facilitating the identification of the sources of NA in contaminated surface waters.
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TL;DR: The gut microbiota of Atlantic salmon showed similarities with that of mammals and was found in 80% of the samples, and microbial richness and diversity differed significantly and were higher in the digesta than the mucosa.
Abstract: Gut health challenges, possibly related to alterations in gut microbiota, caused by plant ingredients in the diets, cause losses in Atlantic salmon production. To investigate the role of the microbiota for gut function and health, detailed characterization of the gut microbiota is needed. We present the first in-depth characterization of salmon gut microbiota based on high-throughput sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene’s V1-V2 region. Samples were taken from five intestinal compartments: digesta from proximal, mid and distal intestine and of mucosa from mid and distal intestine of 67.3 g salmon kept in seawater (12–14 °C) and fed a commercial diet for 4 weeks. Microbial richness and diversity differed significantly and were higher in the digesta than the mucosa. In mucosa, Proteobacteria dominated the microbiota (90%), whereas in digesta both Proteobacteria (47%) and Firmicutes (38%) showed high abundance. Future studies of diet and environmental impacts on gut microbiota should therefore differentiate between effects on mucosa and digesta in the proximal, mid and the distal intestine. A core microbiota, represented by 22 OTUs, was found in 80% of the samples. The gut microbiota of Atlantic salmon showed similarities with that of mammals.
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TL;DR: It is pointed out that a similar method can be applied to a larger class of conformal field theories, whether unitary or not, and no free parameter remains, provided the authors know the fusion algebra of the low lying primary operators.
Abstract: Recently an efficient numerical method has been developed to implement the constraints of crossing symmetry and unitarity on the operator dimensions and operator product expansion coefficients of conformal field theories in diverse space-time dimensions. It appears that the calculations can be done only for theories lying at the boundary of the allowed parameter space. Here it is pointed out that a similar method can be applied to a larger class of conformal field theories, whether unitary or not, and no free parameter remains, provided we know the fusion algebra of the low lying primary operators. As an example we calculate using first principles, with no phenomenological input, the lowest scaling dimensions of the local operators associated with the Yang-Lee edge singularity in three and four space dimensions. The edge exponents compare favorably with the latest numerical estimates. A consistency check of this approach on the 3D critical Ising model is also made.
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Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center1, University of Lyon2, University of Amsterdam3, University of Melbourne4, Roswell Park Cancer Institute5, Saarland University6, Lille University of Science and Technology7, Stanford University8, Genentech9, European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer10, Mayo Clinic11, Fox Chase Cancer Center12, University of Bologna13, University of Copenhagen14, Charles University in Prague15, Janssen Pharmaceutica16, Harvard University17, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center18, Hackensack University Medical Center19, Cleveland Clinic20, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre21, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich22, National Institutes of Health23, University Hospital Centre Zagreb24, Celgene25, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center26, University of Plymouth27, University of California, Los Angeles28, University of Michigan29, Columbia University30, NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital31, University of Pennsylvania32
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that assessment of tumor burden in lymphoma clinical trials can use the sum of longest diameters of a maximum of three target lesions, and a new lymphoma response criteria (RECIL 2017) was developed.
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Paul M. Thompson | 183 | 2271 | 146736 |
Peter B. Jones | 145 | 1857 | 94641 |
Timothy M. Frayling | 133 | 500 | 100344 |
Robert S. Brown | 130 | 1243 | 65822 |
Mark D. Griffiths | 124 | 1238 | 61335 |
James A. Russell | 124 | 1024 | 87929 |
Edzard Ernst | 120 | 1326 | 55266 |
Wayne Hall | 111 | 1260 | 75606 |
Paul Dieppe | 105 | 618 | 53529 |
Rod S Taylor | 104 | 524 | 39332 |
Aldo R. Boccaccini | 103 | 1234 | 54155 |
Roger B. Davis | 97 | 386 | 40354 |
Michael N. Weedon | 87 | 201 | 60701 |
Richard C. Thompson | 87 | 380 | 45702 |
David J. Kavanagh | 86 | 578 | 35658 |