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About: University of Wisconsin-Madison is a education organization based out in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Gene. The organization has 108707 authors who have published 237594 publications receiving 11883575 citations.
Topics: Population, Gene, Context (language use), Health care, Poison control
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University of California, Santa Cruz1, University of California, Los Angeles2, California Institute of Technology3, Pennsylvania State University4, Harvard University5, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology6, University of Arizona7, University of Wisconsin-Madison8, Miami University9, Incorporated Research Institutions For Seismology10, United States Geological Survey11
TL;DR: Tsunami and geodetic observations indicate that additional slow slip occurred in the north over a time scale of 50 minutes or longer, and fault slip of up to 15 meters occurred near Banda Aceh, Sumatra, but to the north, along the Nicobar and Andaman Islands, rapid slip was much smaller.
Abstract: The two largest earthquakes of the past 40 years ruptured a 1600-kilometer-long portion of the fault boundary between the Indo-Australian and southeastern Eurasian plates on 26 December 2004 [seismic moment magnitude (Mw) = 9.1 to 9.3] and 28 March 2005 (Mw = 8.6). The first event generated a tsunami that caused more than 283,000 deaths. Fault slip of up to 15 meters occurred near Banda Aceh, Sumatra, but to the north, along the Nicobar and Andaman Islands, rapid slip was much smaller. Tsunami and geodetic observations indicate that additional slow slip occurred in the north over a time scale of 50 minutes or longer.
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TL;DR: Ground water temperature data and associated analytical tools are currently underused and have not yet realized their full potential, according to this review paper.
Abstract: Heat carried by ground water serves as a tracer to identify surface water infiltration, flow through fractures, and flow patterns in ground water basins. Temperature measurements can be analyzed for recharge and discharge rates, the effects of surface warming, interchange with surface water, hydraulic conductivity of streambed sediments, and basin-scale permeability. Temperature data are also used in formal solutions of the inverse problem to estimate ground water flow and hydraulic conductivity. The fundamentals of using heat as a ground water tracer were published in the 1960s, but recent work has significantly expanded the application to a variety of hydrogeological settings. In recent work, temperature is used to delineate flows in the hyporheic zone, estimate submarine ground water discharge and depth to the salt-water interface, and in parameter estimation with coupled ground water and heat-flow models. While short reviews of selected work on heat as a ground water tracer can be found in a number of research papers, there is no critical synthesis of the larger body of work found in the hydrogeological literature. The purpose of this review paper is to fill that void and to show that ground water temperature data and associated analytical tools are currently underused and have not yet realized their full potential.
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TL;DR: It is shown here that each cycle of the slow oscillation is a traveling wave, which provides a blueprint of cortical excitability and connectivity and may play a role in spike timing-dependent synaptic plasticity during sleep.
Abstract: During much of sleep, virtually all cortical neurons undergo a slow oscillation (<1 Hz) in membrane potential, cycling from a hyperpolarized state of silence to a depolarized state of intense firing. This slow oscillation is the fundamental cellular phenomenon that organizes other sleep rhythms such as spindles and slow waves. Using high-density electroencephalogram recordings in humans, we show here that each cycle of the slow oscillation is a traveling wave. Each wave originates at a definite site and travels over the scalp at an estimated speed of 1.2-7.0 m/sec. Waves originate more frequently in prefrontal-orbitofrontal regions and propagate in an anteroposterior direction. Their rate of occurrence increases progressively reaching almost once per second as sleep deepens. The pattern of origin and propagation of sleep slow oscillations is reproducible across nights and subjects and provides a blueprint of cortical excitability and connectivity. The orderly propagation of correlated activity along connected pathways may play a role in spike timing-dependent synaptic plasticity during sleep.
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University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign1, Nankai University2, University of Maryland, College Park3, University of Georgia4, University of California, Berkeley5, Rutgers University6, Pennsylvania State University7, Indiana University8, United States Department of Agriculture9, Texas A&M University10, J. Craig Venter Institute11, University of Tennessee Health Science Center12, University of Hawaii at Manoa13, WiCell14, Michigan State University15, University of Wisconsin-Madison16, Duke University17, University of California, Davis18, Applied Biosystems19
TL;DR: Papaya offers numerous advantages as a system for fruit-tree functional genomics, and this draft genome sequence provides the foundation for revealing the basis of Carica’s distinguishing morpho-physiological, medicinal and nutritional properties.
Abstract: Papaya, a fruit crop cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions, is known for its nutritional benefits and medicinal applications. Here we report a 3x draft genome sequence of 'SunUp' papaya, the first commercial virus-resistant transgenic fruit tree to be sequenced. The papaya genome is three times the size of the Arabidopsis genome, but contains fewer genes, including significantly fewer disease-resistance gene analogues. Comparison of the five sequenced genomes suggests a minimal angiosperm gene set of 13,311. A lack of recent genome duplication, atypical of other angiosperm genomes sequenced so far, may account for the smaller papaya gene number in most functional groups. Nonetheless, striking amplifications in gene number within particular functional groups suggest roles in the evolution of tree-like habit, deposition and remobilization of starch reserves, attraction of seed dispersal agents, and adaptation to tropical daylengths. Transgenesis at three locations is closely associated with chloroplast insertions into the nuclear genome, and with topoisomerase I recognition sites. Papaya offers numerous advantages as a system for fruit-tree functional genomics, and this draft genome sequence provides the foundation for revealing the basis of Carica's distinguishing morpho-physiological, medicinal and nutritional properties.
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TL;DR: This review provides a detailed description of three signal transduction pathways that utilize PAS protein heterodimers to drive their transcriptional output and develops the idea that most eukaryotic PAS proteins can be classified by functional similarities, as well as by predicted phylogenetic relationships.
Abstract: Over the past decade, PAS domains have been identified in dozens of signal transduction molecules and various forms have been found in animals, plants, and prokaryotes. In this review, we summarize this rapidly expanding research area by providing a detailed description of three signal transduction pathways that utilize PAS protein heterodimers to drive their transcriptional output. It is hoped that these model pathways can provide a framework for use in understanding the biology of the less well-understood members of this emerging superfamily, as well as of those to be characterized in the days to come. We use this review to develop the idea that most eukaryotic PAS proteins can be classified by functional similarities, as well as by predicted phylogenetic relationships. We focus on the a-class proteins, which often act as sensors of environmental signals, and the b-class proteins, which typically act as broad-spectrum partners that target these heterodimers to their genomic targets.
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Eric S. Lander | 301 | 826 | 525976 |
Ronald C. Kessler | 274 | 1332 | 328983 |
Gordon H. Guyatt | 231 | 1620 | 228631 |
Yi Chen | 217 | 4342 | 293080 |
David Miller | 203 | 2573 | 204840 |
Robert M. Califf | 196 | 1561 | 167961 |
Ronald Klein | 194 | 1305 | 149140 |
Joan Massagué | 189 | 408 | 149951 |
Jens K. Nørskov | 184 | 706 | 146151 |
Terrie E. Moffitt | 182 | 594 | 150609 |
H. S. Chen | 179 | 2401 | 178529 |
Ramachandran S. Vasan | 172 | 1100 | 138108 |
Masayuki Yamamoto | 171 | 1576 | 123028 |
Avshalom Caspi | 170 | 524 | 113583 |
Jiawei Han | 168 | 1233 | 143427 |