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  • The bioinformatic characterization of five novel poxviruses 
    Tu, Shin-Lin (Cindy) (2018-04-23)
    Poxviruses are double stranded (ds) DNA viruses with large brick-shaped virions (~200x300nm) that can be seen by light microscopy. The Chordopoxvirus (ChPV) subfamily demonstrates a vast genetic diversity in poxvirus ...
  • Oncolytic vesicular stomatitis virus expressing interferon-γ has enhanced therapeutic activity 
    Bourgeois-Daigneault, Marie-Claude; Roy, Dominic Guy; Falls, Theresa; Twumasi-Boateng, Kwame; St-Germain, Lauren Elizabeth; Marguerie, Monique; Garcia, Vanessa; Selman, Mohammed; Jennings, Victoria Ann; Pettigrew, Jessica; Amos, Amos; Diallo, Jean-Simon; Nelson, Brad; Bell, John Cameron (Molecular Therapy Oncolytics, 2016)
    Oncolytic viruses are known to stimulate the antitumor immune response by specifically replicating in tumor cells. This is believed to be an important aspect of the durable responses observed in some patients and the field ...
  • A study of the effects of friction and mixing on the exchange flow through the Bosphorus (Strait of Istanbul) 
    Gerdes, Frank (2018-04-05)
    This thesis presents observations from the Bosphorus (Strait of Istanbul), Turkey, made to study the effects of mixing, entrainment and frictionally induced shear on the dynamics of an exchange flow. The well known ...
  • A primer for use of genetic tools in selecting and testing the suitability of set-aside sites protected from deep-sea seafloor massive sulfide mining activities 
    Boschen, Rachel E.; Collins, Patrick C.; Tunnicliffe, Verena; Carlsson, Jens; Gardner, Jonathan P.A.; Lowe, Jonathan; McCrone, Ann; Metaxas, Anna; Sinniger, Frederic; Swaddling, Alison (Ocean & Coastal Management, 2016)
    Seafloor massive sulfide (SMS) mining will likely occur at hydrothermal systems in the near future. Alongside their mineral wealth, SMS deposits also have considerable biological value. Active SMS deposits host endemic ...
  • Sensitivity study for s process nucleosynthesis in AGB stars 
    Koloczek, A.; Thomas, B,; Glorius, J.; Plag, R.; Pignatari, M.; Reifarth, R.; Ritter, C.; Schmidt, S.; Sonnabend, K. (Atomic Data and Nuclear Data Tables, 2016)
    In this paper we present a large-scale sensitivity study of reaction rates in the main component of the s process. The aim of this study is to identify all rates, which have a global effect on the s process abundance ...
  • Analysis of muon and electron neutrino charged current interactions in the T2K near detectors 
    Hillairet, A. (Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings, 2016)
    We present the updated measurement of the muon neutrino interaction rates and spectrum at the T2K near detector complex, ND280, located at the JPARC accelerator facility in Tokai, Japan, 280 meters downstream from the ...
  • The global roadmap for advancing development of vaccines against sexually transmitted infections: Update and next steps 
    Gottlieb, Sami L.; Deal, Carolyn D.; Giersing, Birgitte; Rees, Helen; Boland, Gail; Johnston, Christine; Timms, Peter; Gray-Owen, Scott D.; Jerse, Ann E.; Cameron, Caroline E.; Moorthy, Vasee S.; Kiarie, James; Broutet, Nathalie (Vaccine, 2016)
    In 2014, the World Health Organization, the US National Institutes of Health, and global technical partners published a comprehensive roadmap for development of new vaccines against sexually transmitted infections (STIs). ...
  • Expression and purification of the full murine NPM2 and study of its interaction with protamines and histones 
    Ellard, Katherine; Serpa, Jason J.; Petrotchenko, Evgeniy V.; Borchers, Christoph H.; Ausió, Juan (Biochemistry andBiophysicsReports, 2016)
    Mouse nucleoplasmin M.NPM2 was recombinantly expressed and the protein consisting of the complete sequence was purified and characterized. Similar to its Xenopus laevis X.NPM2 counterpart, the protein forms stable pentameric ...
  • Emerging trends in the sea state of the Beaufort and Chukchi seas 
    Thomson, Jim; Fan, Yalin; Stammerjohn, Sharon; Stopa, Justin; Rogers, W. Erick; Girard-Ardhuin, Fanny; Ardhuin, Fabrice; Shen, Hayley; Perrie, Will; Shen, Hui; Ackley, Steve; Babanin, Alex; Liu, Qingxiang; Guest, Peter; Maksym, Ted; Wadhams, Peter; Fairall, Chris; Persson, Ola; Doble, Martin; Graber, Hans; Lund, Bjoern; Squire, Vernon; Gemmrich, Johannes; Lehner, Susanne; Holt, Benjamin; Meylan, Mike; Brozena, John; Bidlot, Jean-Raymond (Ocean Modelling, 2016)
    The sea state of the Beaufort and Chukchi seas is controlled by the wind forcing and the amount of ice-free water available to generate surface waves. Clear trends in the annual duration of the open water season and in the ...
  • AWAKE, The Advanced Proton Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiment at CERN 
    Gschwendtner, E.; Adli, E.; Amorim, L.; Apsimon, R.; Assmann, R.; Bachmann, A.-M.; Batsch, F.; Bauche, J.; Berglyd Olsen, V.K.; Bernardini, M.; Bingham, R.; Biskup, B.; Bohl, T.; Bracco, C.; Burrows, P.N.; Burt, G.; Buttenschön, B.; Butterworth, A.; Caldwell, A.; Cascella, M.; Chevallay, E.; Cipiccia, S.; Damerau, H.; Deacon, L.; Dirksen, P.; Doebert, S.; Dorda, U.; Farmer, J.; Fedosseev, V.; Feldbaumer, E.; Fiorito, R.; Fonseca, R.; Friebel, F.; Gorn, A.A.; Grulke, O.; Hansen, J.; Hessler, C.; Hofle, W.; Holloway, J.; Hüther, M.; Jaroszynski, D.; Jensen, L.; Jolly, S.; Joulaei, A.; Kasim, M.; Keeble, F.; Li, Y.; Liu, S.; Lopes, N.; Lotov, K.V.; Mandry, S.; Martorelli, R.; Martyanov, M.; Mazzoni, S.; Mete, O.; Minakov, V.A.; Mitchell, J.; Moody, J.; Muggli, P.; Najmudin, Z.; Norreys, P.; Öz, E.; Pardons, A.; Pepitone, K.; Petrenko, A.; Plyushchev, G.; Pukhov, A.; Rieger, K.; Ruhl, H.; Salveter, F.; Savard, N.; Schmidt, J.; Seryi, A.; Shaposhnikova, E.; Sheng, Z.M.; Sherwood, P.; Silva, L.; Soby, L.; Sosedkin, A.P.; Spitsyn, R.I.; Trines, R.; Tuev, P.V.; Turner, M.; Verzilov, V.; Vieira, J.; Vincke, H.; Wei, Y.; Welsch, C.P.; Wing, M.; Xia, G.; Zhang, H. (Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, 2016)
    The Advanced Proton Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiment (AWAKE) aims at studying plasma wakefield generation and electron acceleration driven by proton bunches. It is a proof-of-principle R&D experiment at CERN ...
  • Identification of novel splice site mutation IVS9 + 1(G > A) and novel complex allele G355R/R359X in Type 1 Gaucher patients heterozygous for mutation N370S☆ 
    Hoitsema, Kourtnee; Amato, Dominick; Khan, Aneal; Sirrs, Sandra; Choy, Francis Y.M. (Meta Gene, 2016)
    Gaucher disease is an autosomal recessive lysosomal storage disorder resulting from deficient glucocerebrosidase activity. More than 350 mutations that cause Gaucher disease have been described to date. Novel mutations can ...
  • Progranulin as a Novel Factor in Gaucher Disease 
    Choy, Francis Y.M.; Christensen, Chloe L. (EBioMedicine, 2016)
  • Study of the process e+e−→K0SK0L in the center-of-mass energy range 1004–1060 MeV with the CMD-3 detector at the VEPP-2000 e+e− collider 
    Kozyrev, E.A.; Solodov, E.P.; Amirkhanov, A.N.; Anisenkov, A.V.; Aulchenko, V.M.; Banzarov, V.S.; Bashtovoy, N.S.; Berkaev, D.E.; Bondar, A.E.; Bragin, A.V.; Eidelman, S.I.; Epifanov, D.A.; Epshteyn, L.B.; Erofeev, A.L.; Fedotovich, G.V.; Gayazov, S.E.; Grebenuk, A.A.; Gribanov, S.S.; Grigoriev, D.N.; Ignatov, F.V.; Ivanov, V.L.; Karpov, S.V.; Kasaev, A.S.; Kazanin, V.F.; Kirpotin, A.N.; Korobov, A.A.; Kovalenko, O.A.; Kozyrev, A.N.; Koop, I.A.; Krokovny, P.P.; Kuzmenko, A.E.; Kuzmin, A.S.; Logashenko, I.B.; Lukin, P.A.; Mikhailov, K.Yu.; Okhapkin, V.S.; Otboev, A.V.; Pestov, Yu.N.; Popov, A.S.; Razuvaev, G.P.; Ruban, A.A.; Ryskulov, N.M.; Ryzhenenkov, A.E.; Senchenko, A.I.; Shebalin, V.E.; Shemyakin, D.N.; Shwartz, B.A.; Shwartz, D.B.; Sibidanov, A.L.; Shatunov, P.Yu.; Shatunov, Yu.M.; Titov, V.M.; Talyshev, A.A.; Vorobiov, A.I.; Yudin, Yu.V. (Physics Letters B, 2016)
    The e+e−→K0SK0L cross section has been measured in the center-of-mass energy range 1004–1060 MeV at 25 energy points using 6.1 ×105events with K0S→π+π−decay. The analysis is based on 5.9pb−1of an integrated luminosity ...
  • Anomalous hydrodynamics kicks neutron stars 
    Kaminski, Matthias; Uhlemann, Christoph F.; Bleicher, Marcus; Schaffner-Bielich, Jürgen (Physics Letters B, 2016)
    Observations show that, at the beginning of their existence, neutron stars are accelerated briskly to velocities of up to a thousand kilometers per second. We argue that this remarkable effect can be explained as a ...
  • The combined use of visual and acoustic data collection techniques for winter killer whale (Orcinus orca) observations 
    Burham, R.E.; Palm, R.S.; Duffus, D.A.; Mouy, X.; Riera, A. (Global Ecology and Conservation, 2016)
    Observations of cetaceans during the winter are difficult, if not impossible in some locations, yet their presence, habitat use, and behaviour during this period are important for conservation and management. Typically, ...
  • Standard Model Extension and Casimir effect for fermions at finite temperature 
    Santos, A.F.; Khanna, Faqir C. (Physics Letters B, 2016)
    Lorentz and CPT symmetries are foundations for important processes in particle physics. Recent studies in Standard Model Extension (SME) at high energy indicate that these symmetries may be violated. Modifications in the ...
  • Gödel and Gödel-type universes in Brans–Dicke theory 
    Agudelo, J.A.; Nascimento, J.R.; Petrov, A. Yu.; Porfírio, P.J.; Santos, A.F. (Physics Letters B, 2016)
    In this paper, conditions for existence of Gödel and Gödel-type solutions in Brans–Dicke (BD) scalar–tensor theory and their main features are studied. The consistency of equations of motion, causality violation and existence ...
  • Lepton flavor violating Z’ explanation of the muon anomalous magnetic moment 
    Altmannshofer, Wolfgang; Chen, Chien-Yi; Bhupal Dev, P.S.; Soni, Amarjit (Physics Letters B, 2016)
    We discuss a minimal solution to the long-standing (g−2)μ anomaly in a simple extension of the Standard Model with an extra Z’ vector boson that has only flavor off-diagonal couplings to the second and third generation of ...
  • Particle systems with quasihomogeneous interaction 
    Stoica, Cristina (2018-03-16)
    In this dissertation we analyse from a qualitative standpoint motion in a quasihomogeneous potential field: we offer a complete description of the flow associated with the two-body problem in quasihomogeneous field, obtain ...
  • A superconducting RF deflecting cavity for the ARIEL e-linac separator 
    Storey, Douglas W. (2018-03-13)
    The ARIEL electron linac is a 0.3MW accelerator that will drive the production of rare isotopes in TRIUMF's new ARIEL facility. A planned upgrade will allow a second beam to be accelerated in the linac simultaneously, ...

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