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  • The Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE): Fifth Data Release 
    Kunder, Andrea; Kordopatis, Kordopatis; Steinmetz, Matthias; Zwitter, Tomaž; McMillan, Paul J.; Casagrande, Luca; Enke, Harry; Wojno, Jennifer; Valentini, Marica; Chiappini, Cristina; Matijevič, Gal; Siviero, Alessandro; de Laverny, Patrick; Recio-Blanco, Alejandra; Bijaoui, Albert; Wyse, Rosemary F. G.; Binney, James; Grebel, E. K.; Helmi, Amina; Jofre, Paula; Antoja, Teresa; Gilmore, Gerard; Siebert, Arnaud; Famaey, Benoit; Bienaymé, Olivier; Gibson, Brad K.; Freeman, Kenneth C.; Navarro, Julio F.; Munari, Ulisse; Seabroke, George; Anguiano, Borja; Žerjal, Maruša; Minchev, Ivan; Reid, Warren; Bland-Hawthorn, Joss; Kos, Janez; Sharma, Sanjib; Watson, Fred; Parker, Quentin A.; Scholz, Ralf-Dieter; Burton, Donna; Cass, Paul; Hartley, Malcolm; Fiegert, Kristin; Stupar, Milorad; Ritter, Andreas; Hawkins, Keith; Gerhard, Ortwin; Chaplin, W. J.; Davies, G. R.; Elsworth, Y. P.; Lund, M. N.; Miglio, A.; Mosser, B. (The Astronomical Journal, 2017)
    Data Release 5 (DR5) of the Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE) is the fifth data release from a magnitude-limited (9 < I < 12) survey of stars randomly selected in the Southern Hemisphere. The RAVE medium-resolution spectra ...
  • Radiation-Induced Glycogen Accumulation Detected by Single Cell Raman Spectroscopy Is Associated with Radioresistance that Can Be Reversed by Metformin 
    Matthews, Quinn; Isabelle, Martin; Harder, Samantha J.; Smazynski, Julian; Beckham, Wayne; Brolo, Alexandre G.; Jirasek, Andrew; Lum, Julian J. (PLoS ONE, 2015)
    Altered cellular metabolism is a hallmark of tumor cells and contributes to a host of properties associated with resistance to radiotherapy. Detection of radiation-induced biochemical changes can reveal unique metabolic ...
  • Radiative forcing at high concentrations of well-mixed greenhouse gases 
    Byrne, B.; Goldblatt, C. (Geophysical Research Letters, 2014-01)
    We present new calculations of radiative forcing at very high concentrations of CO2, CH4, and N2O, relevant to extreme anthropogenic climate change and paleoclimate studies. CO2 forcing is calculated over the range 100 ...
  • Radiative forcings for 28 potential Archean greenhouse gases 
    Byrne, B.; Goldblatt, C. (European Geosciences Union, 2014)
    Despite reduced insolation in the late Archean, evidence suggests a warm climate which was likely sustained by a stronger greenhouse effect, the so-called faint young sun problem (FYSP). CO2 and CH4 are generally thought ...
  • Radical Stabilization Algorithm as a Predictive Tool for Novel and Reported Noncanonical Thiele’s Acid Analogues 
    Chen, Jun; Lu, Lingxiao; Wulff, Jeremy E. (Synlett, 2017)
    We recently showed that a simple radical-stabilization algorithm outperformed traditional frontier-molecular orbital methods for rationalizing the outcome of the venerable Thiele’s acid (or ester) Diels–Alder dimerization. ...
  • The RADIOSTAR project 
    Lugaro, Maria; Côté, Benoit; Pignatari, Marco; Yagüe López, Andrés; Brinkman, Hannah; Cseh, Borbála; Den Hartogh, Jacqueline; Doherty, Carolyn Louise; Karakas, Amanda Irene; Kobayashi, Chiaki; Lawson, Thomas; Pető, Mária; Soós, Benjámin; Világos, Blanka (Universe, 2022)
    Radioactive nuclei are the key to understanding the circumstances of the birth of our Sun because meteoritic analysis has proven that many of them were present at that time. Their origin, however, has been so far elusive. ...
  • Raman microspectroscopy and machine learning for use in identifying radiation-induced lung toxicity 
    Ali-Adeeb, Ramie N.; Shreeves, Phil; Deng, Xinchen; Milligan, Kirsty; Brolo, Alexandre G.; Lum, Jullian J.; Haston, Christina; Andrews, Jeffrey L.; Jirasek, Andrew (PLOS One, 2022)
    Objective: In this work, we explore and develop a method that uses Raman spectroscopy to measure and differentiate radiation induced toxicity in murine lungs with the goal of setting the foundation for a predictive ...
  • Raman spectroscopy detects metabolic signatures of radiation response and hypoxic fluctuations in non-small cell lung cancer 
    Van Nest, Samantha J.; Nicholson, Leah M.; Pavey, Nils; Hindi, Mathew N.; Brolo, Alexandre G.; Jirasek, Andrew; Lum, Julian J. (BMC Cancer, 2019)
    Background Radiation therapy is a standard form of treating non-small cell lung cancer, however, local recurrence is a major issue with this type of treatment. A better understanding of the metabolic response to radiation ...
  • Raman spectroscopy identifies radiation response in human non-small cell lung cancer xenografts 
    Harder, Samantha J.; Isabelle, Martin; DeVorkin, Lindsay; Smazynski, Julian; Beckham, Wayne; Brolo, Alexandre G.; Lum, Julian J.; Jirasek, Andrew (Scientific Reports, 2016)
    External beam radiation therapy is a standard form of treatment for numerous cancers. Despite this, there are no approved methods to account for patient specific radiation sensitivity. In this report, Raman spectroscopy ...
  • A Rapid and Sensitive Nucleic Acid Amplification Technique for Mycoplasma Screening of Cell Therapy Products 
    Dreolini, Lisa; Cullen, Mark; Yung, Eric; Laird, Lawrence; Webb, John R.; Nelson, Brad H.; Hay, Kevin A.; Balasundaram, Miruna; Kekre, Natasha; Holt, Robert A. (Molecular Therapy: Methods & Clinical Development, 2020)
    Mycoplasma species (spp.) bacteria can infect cell cultures, posing a potential threat to recipients of cell therapy products. Conventional Mycoplasma testing methods are highly sensitive but typically require a minimum ...
  • A rapid, non-invasive population assessment technique for marine burrowing macrofauna inhabiting soft sediments 
    Campbell, L.; Wood, L.; Allen Gerwing, A.M.; Allen, S.; Sizmur, T.; Rogers, M.; Gray, O.; Drewes, M.; Juanes, Francis; Gerwing, T.G. (Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 2019)
    Population assessment techniques for soft-sediment infauna (invertebrates within the substrate) requires excavation of specimens, damaging or killing the specimen and surrounding habitat, while being time-consuming and ...
  • Rate of biological invasions is lower in coastal marine protected areas 
    Juanes, Francis (Scientific Reports, 2016)
    Marine biological invasions threaten biodiversity worldwide. Here we explore how Marine Protected areas, by reducing human use of the coast, confer resilience against the introduction of non-indigenous species (NIS), using ...
  • The rate-determining step in electrochemical impedance spectroscopy 
    Harrington, David A. (Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 2015)
    The concept of the rate-determining step (rds) is applied to electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). For consecutive (sequential) reaction steps with adsorption and fast mass transport, if the rds is preceded by rapid ...
  • Re-Assembly and Analysis of an Ancient Variola Virus Genome 
    Smithson, Chad; Imbery, Jacob; Upton, Chris (Viruses, 2017)
    We report a major improvement to the assembly of published short read sequencing data from an ancient variola virus (VARV) genome by the removal of contig-capping sequencing tags and manual searches for gap-spanning reads. ...
  • Reactivity of [Pt2(μ-S)2(PPh3)4] towards activated aliphatic bromoacyl electrophiles: Formation of mono-, homodi-, heterodi- and intramolecular-bridged alkylated products 
    Ujam, Oguejiofo T.; Janusson, Eric; Stoddard, Rhonda L.; Mclndoe, J. Scott; Oliver, Allen G.; Odo, Paschal C.; Ogbonna, Ogbonna C. (Inorganica Chimica Acta, 2016)
    Reactions of [Pt2(μ-S)2(PPh3)4] with activated aliphatic bromoacyl alkylating agents BrCH2C(O)C(CH3)3, BrCH2C(O)CH2CH3 and BrCH2C(O)C(O)CH2Br, were investigated by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) in real ...
  • Real-time analysis of methylalumoxane formation 
    Joshi, Anuj; Zijlstra, Harmen S.; Liles, Elena; Concepcion, Carina; Linnolahti, Mikko; McIndoe, J. Scott (Chemical Science, 2020)
    Methylalumoxane (MAO), a perennially useful activator for olefin polymerization precatalysts, is famously intractable to structural elucidation, consisting as it does of a complex mixture of oligomers generated from ...
  • Real-time analysis of Pd2(dba)3 activation by phosphine ligands 
    Janusson, Eric; Zijlstra, Harmen S.; Nguyen, Peter P.T.; MacGillivray, Landon; Martelino, Julio; McIndoe, J. Scott (Chemical Communications, 2017-01)
    A combination of UV-Vis spectroscopy and electrospray ionization mass spectrometry is used for real-time monitoring of Pd2(dba)3 activation with sulfonated versions of PPh3 and Buchwald-type ligands. This provides insight ...
  • The Real-Time Evolution of V4334 Sgr 
    Van Hoof, Peter A. M.; Kimeswenger, Stefan; Van de Steene, Griet C.; Avison, Adam; Zijlstra, Albert A.; Guzman-Ramirez, Lizette; Herwig, Falk; Hadjuk, Marcin (Galaxies, 2018)
    V4334 Sgr (Sakurai’s object) is an enigmatic evolved star that underwent a very late thermal pulse a few years before its discovery in 1996. It ejected a new hydrogen-deficient nebula in the process. The source has been ...
  • Recent Hits Acquired by BLAST (ReHAB): A tool to identify new hits in sequence similarity searches 
    Whitney, Joe; Esteban, David J; Upton, Chris (BMC Bioinformatics, 2005-02-08)
    Background: Sequence similarity searching is a powerful tool to help develop hypotheses in the quest to assign functional, structural and evolutionary information to DNA and protein sequences. As sequence databases ...
  • Recent progress on our understanding of the biological effects of mercury in fish and wildlife in the Canadian Arctic 
    Scheuhammer, Anton; Braune, Brigit; Chan, Hing Man; Frouin, Héloïse; Krey, Anke; Letcher, Robert; Loseto, Lisa; Noël, Marie; Ostertag, Sonja; Ross, Peter; Wayland, Mark (Science of the Total Environment, 2015)
    This review summarizes our current state of knowledge regarding the potential biological effects of mercury (Hg) exposure on fish and wildlife in the Canadian Arctic. Although Hg in most freshwater fish from northern Canada ...

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