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1Latest Papers from Table of Contents or Articles in PressG. Borgia ; B. J. Coyle ; J. Keagy
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Published 2012Staff ViewPublication Date: 2012-07-24Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)Print ISSN: 0036-8075Electronic ISSN: 1095-9203Topics: BiologyChemistry and PharmacologyComputer ScienceMedicineNatural Sciences in GeneralPhysicsKeywords: Animals ; Female ; Male ; *Mating Preference, Animal ; *Optical Illusions ; Passeriformes/*physiology ; *Sexual Behavior, AnimalPublished by: -
2Latest Papers from Table of Contents or Articles in PressP. Abbot ; J. Abe ; J. Alcock ; S. Alizon ; J. A. Alpedrinha ; M. Andersson ; J. B. Andre ; M. van Baalen ; F. Balloux ; S. Balshine ; N. Barton ; L. W. Beukeboom ; J. M. Biernaskie ; T. Bilde ; G. Borgia ; M. Breed ; S. Brown ; R. Bshary ; A. Buckling ; N. T. Burley ; M. N. Burton-Chellew ; M. A. Cant ; M. Chapuisat ; E. L. Charnov ; T. Clutton-Brock ; A. Cockburn ; B. J. Cole ; N. Colegrave ; L. Cosmides ; I. D. Couzin ; J. A. Coyne ; S. Creel ; B. Crespi ; R. L. Curry ; S. R. Dall ; T. Day ; J. L. Dickinson ; L. A. Dugatkin ; C. El Mouden ; S. T. Emlen ; J. Evans ; R. Ferriere ; J. Field ; S. Foitzik ; K. Foster ; W. A. Foster ; C. W. Fox ; J. Gadau ; S. Gandon ; A. Gardner ; M. G. Gardner ; T. Getty ; M. A. Goodisman ; A. Grafen ; R. Grosberg ; C. M. Grozinger ; P. H. Gouyon ; D. Gwynne ; P. H. Harvey ; B. J. Hatchwell ; J. Heinze ; H. Helantera ; K. R. Helms ; K. Hill ; N. Jiricny ; R. A. Johnstone ; A. Kacelnik ; E. T. Kiers ; H. Kokko ; J. Komdeur ; J. Korb ; D. Kronauer ; R. Kummerli ; L. Lehmann ; T. A. Linksvayer ; S. Lion ; B. Lyon ; J. A. Marshall ; R. McElreath ; Y. Michalakis ; R. E. Michod ; D. Mock ; T. Monnin ; R. Montgomerie ; A. J. Moore ; U. G. Mueller ; R. Noe ; S. Okasha ; P. Pamilo ; G. A. Parker ; J. S. Pedersen ; I. Pen ; D. Pfennig ; D. C. Queller ; D. J. Rankin ; S. E. Reece ; H. K. Reeve ; M. Reuter ; G. Roberts ; S. K. Robson ; D. Roze ; F. Rousset ; O. Rueppell ; J. L. Sachs ; L. Santorelli ; P. Schmid-Hempel ; M. P. Schwarz ; T. Scott-Phillips ; J. Shellmann-Sherman ; P. W. Sherman ; D. M. Shuker ; J. Smith ; J. C. Spagna ; B. Strassmann ; A. V. Suarez ; L. Sundstrom ; M. Taborsky ; P. Taylor ; G. Thompson ; J. Tooby ; N. D. Tsutsui ; K. Tsuji ; S. Turillazzi ; F. Ubeda ; E. L. Vargo ; B. Voelkl ; T. Wenseleers ; S. A. West ; M. J. West-Eberhard ; D. F. Westneat ; D. C. Wiernasz ; G. Wild ; R. Wrangham ; A. J. Young ; D. W. Zeh ; J. A. Zeh ; A. Zink
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Published 2011Staff ViewPublication Date: 2011-03-25Publisher: Nature Publishing Group (NPG)Print ISSN: 0028-0836Electronic ISSN: 1476-4687Topics: BiologyChemistry and PharmacologyMedicineNatural Sciences in GeneralPhysicsKeywords: *Altruism ; Animals ; *Biological Evolution ; Cooperative Behavior ; Female ; Game Theory ; *Genetic Fitness ; Genetics, Population ; Heredity ; Humans ; Male ; *Models, Biological ; Phenotype ; Reproducibility of Results ; *Selection, Genetic ; Sex RatioPublished by: -
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ISSN: 1089-7550Source: AIP Digital ArchiveTopics: PhysicsNotes: Magnetic resonance imaging and relaxation analysis are combined in a spatially resolved technique (relaxation tomography), which is able to quantify the parameters connected to the local structure in the internal regions of a porous material saturated by water, giving information on the pore space structure beyond the nominal instrumental resolution. Voxel-by-voxel longitudinal (T1) and transverse (T2) relaxation curves are acquired in order to obtain T1, T2 and S(0) maps, where S(0) is the extrapolation to zero time of the total equilibrium magnetization corrected for T2 decay. The proposed method permits evaluation of the porosity (ratio of pore space to total volume), at different length scales, from the sample to the voxel, not all achievable by traditional methods. More striking is its ability to describe how porosity is shared among different classes of surface-to-volume ratios of diffusion cells (the regions that the individual water molecules, starting at their particular positions, can experience by diffusion before relaxing). This is a consequence of the fact that relaxation times of water confined in a porous material can, under favorable circumstances, distinguish regions with the same local porosity but with different pore sizes and connections. So, parameters can be introduced, such as the microporosity fraction, defined as the fraction of the "micropore" volume with respect to the total pore volume, and several voxel average porosities, defined as the average porosities of the voxels characterized by particular classes of diffusion cells. Moreover, the imaging methods enable us to get all this information in a user-defined region of interest. The method has been applied to quantify changes in the structure of carbonate cores with wide distributions of pore sizes induced by repeated cycles of freezing and heating of the sample. With freezing, the microporosity fraction decreases significantly; the voxel average porosity of voxels with T1 shorter than for free water tend to decrease; and the distributions of porosity as functions of T1 show a trend, with much more signal with the T1 of free water, in accordance with the picture suggesting large vugs breaking, with fractures contributing to homogenizing the structure of the pore space and favoring coupling between neighboring pores. © 2001 American Institute of Physics.Type of Medium: Electronic ResourceURL: -
4Articles: DFG German National LicensesBorgia, G. C. ; Brown, R. J. S. ; Fantazzini, P.
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Published 1996Staff ViewISSN: 1089-7550Source: AIP Digital ArchiveTopics: PhysicsNotes: The simplest model for the contribution of pore surfaces to nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) relaxation of a pore fluid gives R, the average relaxation rate minus the bulk rate, equal to a constant ρ, the velocity at which nuclear magnetization flows out of the pore fluid at the surfaces, times the pore-space surface-to-volume ratio S/V. Although ρ can vary widely, a great variety of porous media exhibit ρ values of the order of a few μm/s for longitudinal relaxation when S/V is measured by gas adsorption by the Brunauer, Emmett, and Teller (BET) method or high pressure mercury injection. For samples with wide distributions of relaxation rates it is of interest to find what functions of the relaxation data correlate best with S/V measurements and how different relaxation parameters relate to each other. Longitudinal relaxation data were taken for 77 sandstone samples of different origin, which had been cleaned and saturated with brine. After the NMR measurements the samples were dried and surface areas measured by BET. The samples have S/V from 1.5 to 150 (μm)−1, porosity from 3% to 28%, and permeability from less than 0.1 mD to more than 1 D. Longitudinal relaxation data were taken from 400 μs to 6 s and analyzed in many different ways, including stretched-exponential fits and multiexponential fits up to five components. S/V and ln(S/V) were correlated with various relaxation rates derived from these computed parameters.In principle, the relaxation parameter to use with a ρ value is the average rate, which is initial slope divided by initial amplitude, namely, R(0), where R(t)=(d/dt)ln S(t) at t=0 and S(t) is the relaxing signal. One can extrapolate an n component fit to t=0 to get Rn(0), but very good signal quality is required even to get small short components reliably for t well within the times covered by the data. Over half of the points have ρ's within a factor of 2 of the minimum value 0.9 μm/s when the average rate of a five-component fit to the data is used. There are numerous points with ρ up to 7 μm/s, but none of the high-ρ points are for samples with high S/V. All samples with high S/V have wide distributions of relaxation rates, but not vice versa. The best simple correlation with ln(S/V) was ln(S/V)≈1.81 ln(R33)−5.73, where R33 is the highest rate of a three-component fit without regard to the corresponding amplitude, and where S/V is in (μm)−1 and rate in s−1. This result was unexpected. This fit does not represent proportionality to a velocity ρ and does not correspond to any obvious physical model, but it can be of practical interest to estimate in a very simple and noninvasive manner S/V at the BET scale in sandstones. © 1996 American Institute of Physics.Type of Medium: Electronic ResourceURL: -
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ISSN: 1089-7550Source: AIP Digital ArchiveTopics: PhysicsNotes: Irreducible fluid saturation in porous media is the fraction of the wetting phase which remains trapped in the solid matrix after displacement with a nonwetting phase. Methods have been proposed to estimate irreducible saturation in fully water-saturated porous samples by means of proton nuclear magnetic resonance relaxation times, but the results are quite varied. Some features are discussed of the trapped fluid and it is shown that the fraction of nonmobile water can be well estimated for a varied suite of clean sandstones, using only measurements on the fully saturated samples. This is done by combining relaxation measurements with those of electrical resistivity factor F. One of several simple correlations is Swi ∝(square root of)F/T1s, where T1s is the stretched-exponential relaxation time.Type of Medium: Electronic ResourceURL: -
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ISSN: 1089-7550Source: AIP Digital ArchiveTopics: PhysicsNotes: Fluid-flow properties of porous media, such as permeability k and irreducible water saturation Swi, can be estimated from water 1H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) relaxation data, but there are basic questions regarding data processing and interpretation. We found that Swi and k are better estimated if different forms of "average" relaxation time are used. NMR longitudinal relaxation data for a suite of 106 water-saturated clean sandstones were used. Sandstones represent a specialized class of porous media, where even for small porosity, substantially all pore space is connected. The sandstones exhibit distributions of relaxation times ranging over factors from at least 10 to more than 103. We tried several forms of "average" relaxation time T. One family of Ts is 〈Tp〉1/p, where lim p→0 gives the geometric mean. The best estimator we found for Swi uses a form of average relaxation time only, rather than relaxation time cutoff. The time used can be any of several forms of T, giving more emphasis to short times than the geometric mean does. On the contrary, the best T for estimating permeability without other information is precisely the geometric mean. The best estimates of permeability came from fits of ln (k/φ) using Ts with emphasis at slightly longer times. While Swi is better estimated by using all the data points (starting from our minimum 0.4 ms), k is better estimated by starting at a few ms, that is by ignoring a non-negligible fraction of the signal for some samples. These results can be obtained also by using computations that do not need to invert multiexponential relaxation data, and good results are obtained even with only a few data points. The results are compatible with the reasonable picture, where high surface-to-volume pores, giving signal components with short relaxation times but not contributing to the permeability, are important in determining the fraction of the wetting phase which remains trapped in the solid matrix after displacement with a nonwetting phase. © 1997 American Institute of Physics.Type of Medium: Electronic ResourceURL: -
7Articles: DFG German National LicensesBorgia, G. ; Crowell, J. ; Cocchiararo, M. ; Abrescia, N. ; Lambiase, A. ; D'alfonso, G. ; Schreil, W. ; Piazza, M.
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ISSN: 0392-6737Keywords: Nuclear magnetic resonance and relaxation ; Effect of internal magnetic fields ; Biomedical engineering ; diagnostic imaging techniques ; nuclear magnetic resonanceSource: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000Topics: PhysicsNotes: Summary NMR relaxation of water1H confined in restricted geometries, whatever is the nature of the system (porous media saturated by water as well as biological tissues), exhibits common characteristics. Artificial microporous media saturated by water have been chosen as model systems to study the longitudinal and transverse relaxation of1H magnetization of water molecules diffusing in restricted geometries. These systems are very stable, easy to prepare, with well-characterized pore size distribution and connections, and with highly homogeneous surface properties. The response was compared with that from more complex natural porous media. Scanning Electron Microscopy techniques demonstrated spatial characteristics and surface properties of the samples. The information content of longitudinal relaxation curves associated with spatial structure and due to restricted diffusion is shown in these samples. The effect on transverse relaxation of self-diffusion in the presence of spatially varying magnetic fields due to susceptibility differences is shown. A simple linear relationship has been found in all samples between the transverse relaxation rate and the interpulse delay in CPMG experiments, in spite of the variety of pore shapes and sizes. In general, one can say that relaxation curves beardiffusion-weighted information on the pore space framework. The role of the investigated relaxation mechanisms is important also in the response of biological tissues, including in the presence of MR Imaging contrast agents inducing microscopic magnetic-field gradients.Type of Medium: Electronic ResourceURL: -
18Articles: DFG German National LicensesBorgia, G. ; Reynaud, L. ; Cerini, R. ; Ciampi, R. ; Schioppa, O. ; Dello Russo, M. ; Gentile, I. ; Piazza, M.
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Published 2000Staff ViewISSN: 1439-0973Keywords: Key words Paracoccidioidomycosis ; Therapy of paracoccidioidomycosis ; Mycosis ; Osteolysis ; ItraconazoleSource: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000Topics: MedicineNotes: Summary We describe long-term therapy for paracoccidioidomycosis occurring in a 61-year-old housepainter from Venezuela. The diagnostic examinations made in South America had shown pulmonary granulomatous lesions and an osteolytic pattern of the left knee that had been considered suspect of malignant disease with an indication for limb amputation. With the aid of fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) and culture examination we diagnosed an osteomyelitis by Paracoccidioides brasiliensis and initiated therapy with itraconazole, 400 mg per day reduced to 200 mg per day after 2 months. At the end of 2 years of drug therapy, we observed complete regression of the pulmonary lesions and of the osteolytic area of the left knee. Moreover, we have periodically observed our patient to verify his clinical development and he is still in good health. We suggest that this pathology be considered in differential diagnosis of leprosy, tuberculosis, leishmaniasis, and systemic mycoses, even in non-endemic areas.Type of Medium: Electronic ResourceURL: