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Genomic and Proteomic Analysis of Wine Yeasts
2011
Publisher Summary Saccharomyces cerevisiae is the main microorganism involved in wine fermentation. It has been used as a model organism in molecular biology for many years and is the only wine yeast species for which abundant genomic and proteomic information is available. Most of the techniques currently used in functional genomics and proteomics were initially developed in this yeast. The fact that S. cerevisiae was the first microorganism to be widely used in the development of genome technology allowed other phylogenetically related yeasts to be analyzed subsequently in global sequencing projects, and the use of comparative genomics has since led to important conclusions regarding gene…
Red Wine and Cardiovascular Health
2012
There is strong epidemiological evidence that light-to-moderate consumption of alcoholic drinks, but neither zero nor more than moderate intake, reduces mortality from all causes and also diminishes cardiovascular risk.1 The lowest risk for coronary heart disease mortality is seen with 1 to 2 drinks (12.5–25g alcohol) per day. Article, see p 1065 Hypertension is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease, and there is a clear inverse relationship between light-to-moderate alcohol intake and blood pressure. Thus, the reduced cardiovascular risk associated with moderate consumption of alcoholic drinks may be due, in part, to a reduction in blood pressure. The greatest blood pressure benef…
Games and Bisimulations for Intuitionistic First-Order Kripke Models
2021
The aim of this paper is to introduce the notion of a game for intuitionisticfirst-order Kripke models. We also establish links between notions presented here and thenotions of logical equivalence and bounded bisimulation for intuitionistic first-order Kripkemodels, and the Ehrenfeucht–Fra ̈ıss ́e game for classical first-order structures.
Zero-Dimensional Hybrid Organic−Inorganic Lead Halides and Their Post-Synthesis Reversible Transformation into Three-Dimensional Perovskites
2021
Zero-dimensional (0D) mixed-halide hybrid organic-inorganic MA4PbX6·2H2O (MA = CH3NH3+; X = Br1 - xIx with 0 < x < 1) has been synthesized by a solvent-free mechanochemical approach. It has been shown that this 0D phase with sharp absorption features in the near-UV is a hydrated structure, which can be reversibly transformed into the three-dimensional perovskite phase MAPbX3 by simple thermal annealing (dehydration) in air. This work reveals a new approach to hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites and related 0D structures, which have so far only been thoroughly studied for the inorganic Cs4PbX6 compounds. Hetero-structures for Efficient Luminescent Devices (HELD) REFERENCIA: 834431 PCIN-2019…
Electronic transport in molecular junctions : The generalized Kadanoff–Baym ansatz with initial contact and correlations
2021
The generalized Kadanoff-Baym ansatz (GKBA) offers a computationally inexpensive approach to simulate out-of-equilibrium quantum systems within the framework of nonequilibrium Green's functions. For finite systems the limitation of neglecting initial correlations in the conventional GKBA approach has recently been overcome [Phys. Rev. B 98, 115148 (2018)]. However, in the context of quantum transport the contacted nature of the initial state, i.e., a junction connected to bulk leads, requires a further extension of the GKBA approach. In this work, we lay down a GKBA scheme which includes initial correlations in a partition-free setting. In practice, this means that the equilibration of the …
Iron’s Wake: The Performance of Quantum Mechanical-Derived Versus General-Purpose Force Fields Tested on a Luminescent Iron Complex
2020
Recently synthetized iron complexes have achieved long-lived excited states and stabilities which are comparable, or even superior, to their ruthenium analogues, thus representing an eco-friendly and cheaper alternative to those materials based on rare metals. Most of computational tools which could help unravel the origin of this large efficiency rely on ab-initio methods which are not able, however, to capture the nanosecond time scale underlying these photophysical processes and the influence of their realistic environment. Therefore, it exists an urgent need of developing new low-cost, but still accurate enough, computational methodologies capable to deal with the steady-state and trans…
Multi-scale optimisation vs. genetic algorithms in the gradient separation of diuretics by reversed-phase liquid chromatography
2019
Abstract Multi-linear gradients are a convenient solution to get separation of complex samples by modulating carefully the gradient slope, in order to accomplish the local selectivity needs for each particular solute cluster. These gradients can be designed by trial-and-error according to the chromatographer experience, but this strategy becomes quickly inappropriate for complex separations. More evolved solutions imply the sequential construction of multi-segmented gradients. However, this strategy discards part of the search space in each step of the construction and, again, cannot deal properly with very complex samples. When the complexity is too large, the only valid alternative for fi…
Towards Stable Radial Basis Function Methods for Linear Advection Problems
2021
In this work, we investigate (energy) stability of global radial basis function (RBF) methods for linear advection problems. Classically, boundary conditions (BC) are enforced strongly in RBF methods. By now it is well-known that this can lead to stability problems, however. Here, we follow a different path and propose two novel RBF approaches which are based on a weak enforcement of BCs. By using the concept of flux reconstruction and simultaneous approximation terms (SATs), respectively, we are able to prove that both new RBF schemes are strongly (energy) stable. Numerical results in one and two spatial dimensions for both scalar equations and systems are presented, supporting our theoret…
Shock-capturing schemes: high accuracy versus total-variation boundedness
2007
In this reseach work we analyze the total variation growth of some high order accurate reconstruction procedures used for the design of shock capturing schemes. This study allows to measure how oscillatory a high order accurate method is in terms of the basic elementary function chosen to increase the order of accuracy. (© 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)
Singular points of electrochemical impedance function
2004
A model of EIS response for a system with two consecutive monoelectron transfers is developed in this work. Relevant information on the mechanism of these electrochemical systems is provided by the parametrical identification of the theoretical faradaic impedance function. The kinetic parameters of this model are easily calculated through the calculus of the characteristic points of this function. This calculus allows to interpret the metals anodic dissolution according to the reaction mechanism and, therefore, allows us to establish easily the kinetic and thermodynamic behaviour of these systems with respect to any experimental parameter.