The NuMI neutrino beam Adamson, P.; Andrews, R.; Augustine, D. ...
Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment,
01/2016, Letnik:
806
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This paper describes the hardware and operations of the Neutrinos at the Main Injector (NuMI) beam at Fermilab. It elaborates on the design considerations for the beam as a whole and for individual ...elements. The most important design details of individual components are described. Beam monitoring systems and procedures, including the tuning and alignment of the beam and NuMI long-term performance, are also discussed.
Stress is associated with poorer physical and mental health. To improve our understanding of this link, we performed genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of depressive symptoms and genome-wide by ...environment interaction studies (GWEIS) of depressive symptoms and stressful life events (SLE) in two UK population-based cohorts (Generation Scotland and UK Biobank). No SNP was individually significant in either GWAS, but gene-based tests identified six genes associated with depressive symptoms in UK Biobank (DCC, ACSS3, DRD2, STAG1, FOXP2 and KYNU; p < 2.77 × 10
). Two SNPs with genome-wide significant GxE effects were identified by GWEIS in Generation Scotland: rs12789145 (53-kb downstream PIWIL4; p = 4.95 × 10
; total SLE) and rs17070072 (intronic to ZCCHC2; p = 1.46 × 10
; dependent SLE). A third locus upstream CYLC2 (rs12000047 and rs12005200, p < 2.00 × 10
; dependent SLE) when the joint effect of the SNP main and GxE effects was considered. GWEIS gene-based tests identified: MTNR1B with GxE effect with dependent SLE in Generation Scotland; and PHF2 with the joint effect in UK Biobank (p < 2.77 × 10
). Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) analyses incorporating GxE effects improved the prediction of depressive symptom scores, when using weights derived from either the UK Biobank GWAS of depressive symptoms (p = 0.01) or the PGC GWAS of major depressive disorder (p = 5.91 × 10
). Using an independent sample, PRS derived using GWEIS GxE effects provided evidence of shared aetiologies between depressive symptoms and schizotypal personality, heart disease and COPD. Further such studies are required and may result in improved treatments for depression and other stress-related conditions.
Virus recognition has been driven to the forefront of molecular recognition research due to the COVID‐19 pandemic. Development of highly sensitive recognition elements, both natural and synthetic is ...critical to facing such a global issue. However, as viruses mutate, it is possible for their recognition to wane through changes in the target substrate, which can lead to detection avoidance and increased false negatives. Likewise, the ability to detect specific variants is of great interest for clinical analysis of all viruses. Here, a hybrid aptamer‐molecularly imprinted polymer (aptaMIP), that maintains selective recognition for the spike protein template across various mutations, while improving performance over individual aptamer or MIP components (which themselves demonstrate excellent performance). The aptaMIP exhibits an equilibrium dissociation constant of 1.61 nM toward its template which matches or exceeds published examples of imprinting of the spike protein. The work here demonstrates that “fixing” the aptamer within a polymeric scaffold increases its capability to selectivity recognize its original target and points toward a methodology that will allow variant selective molecular recognition with exceptional affinity.
A new aptamer specific for wild‐type SARS‐CoV‐2 spike protein is developed and incorporated into a molecularly‐imprinted polymer (MIP) nanoparticle. This hybrid outperforms both individual components (aptamer and MIP) with an equilibrium binding constant below that of the SARS‐CoV‐2 spike—ACE2 receptor interaction; and with clearly superior variant selectivity suggesting a new way to rapidly develop variant selective recognition nanomaterials.
To elucidate the mechanism of the basal hyperinsulinemia of obesity, we perfused pancreata from obese Zucker and lean Wistar rats with substimulatory concentrations of glucose. Insulin secretion at ...4.2 and 5.6 mM glucose was approximately 10 times that of controls, whereas beta-cell volume fraction was increased only 4-fold and DNA per islet 3.5-fold. We therefore compared glucose usage at 1.4, 2.8, and 5.6 mM. Usage was 8-11.4 times greater in Zucker islets at 1.4 and 2.8 mM and 4 times greater at 5.6 mM; glucose oxidation at 2.8 and 5.6 mM glucose was > 12 times lean controls. To determine if the high free fatty acid (FFA) levels of obesity induce these abnormalities, normal Wistar islets were cultured with 0, 1, or 2 mM long chain FFA for 7 days. Compared to islets cultured without FFA insulin secretion by FFA-cultured islets (2 mM) perifused with 1.4, 3, or 5.6 mM glucose was increased more than 2-fold, bromodeoxyuridine incorporation was increased 3-fold, and glucose usage at 2.8 and 5.6 mM glucose was increased approximately 2-fold (1 mM FFA) and 3-fold (2 mM FFA). We conclude that hypersecretion of insulin by islets of obese Zucker fatty rats is associated with, and probably caused by, enhanced low Km glucose metabolism and beta-cell hyperplasia, abnormalities that can be induced in normal islets by increased FFA.
Objective. This report describes our experience with fetal congenital heart disease since 1980.
Background. Knowledge and expertise in the diagnosis, management and natural history of fetal ...congenital heart disease is increasingly demanded by both obstetricians and parents. The analysis of a large series should help the pediatric cardiologist to provide this service.
Methods. The notes of 1,006 patients, where a prospective diagnosis of fetal congenital heart disease was made, were reviewed. The reason for referral, the diagnosis made, the accuracy of diagnosis, the fetal karyotype and the outcome of the pregnancy were noted. The cases were grouped into malformation categories, and the spectrum of disease seen was compared with that found in Infants.
Results. Most fetal cardiac anomalies are now suspected by the ultrasonographer during obstetric scanning. A different incidence of abnormalities is seen compared with that expected in infants. Chromosomal anomalies were more frequent in the fetus than in live births. The accuracy of diagnosis was good. The survival rate after diagnosis was poor because of frequent parental choice to interrupt pregnancy and the complexity of disease.
Conclusions. A large experience with fetal congenital heart disease allows the spectrum of disease to be described with accuracy and compared with that in infancy. Knowledge of the natural history of heart malformations when they present in the fetus allows accurate counseling to be offered to the parents. If the trend in parental decisions found in this series continues, a smaller number of infants and children with complex cardiac lesions will present in postnatal life.
We examine the teleportation of an unknown spin-1/2 quantum state along a quantum spin chain with an even number of sites. Our protocol, using a sequence of Bell measurements, may be viewed as an ...iterated version of the 2-qubit protocol of C. H. Bennett et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 1895 (1993). A decomposition of the Hilbert space of the spin chain into 4 vector spaces, called Bell subspaces, is given. It is established that any state from a Bell subspace may be used as a channel to perform unit fidelity teleportation. The space of all spin-0 many-body states, which includes the ground states of many known antiferromagnetic systems, belongs to a common Bell subspace. A channel-dependent teleportation parameter symbol: see text is introduced, and a bound on the teleportation fidelity is given in terms of symbol: see text.
Expression of peroxisome proliferator- activated receptor alpha (PPAR alpha) and enzymes of fatty acid (FA) oxidation is markedly reduced in the fat-laden, dysfunctional islets of obese, prediabetic ...Zucker diabetic fatty (fa/fa) rats with mutated leptin receptors (OB-R). Leptin, PPAR alpha/retinoid x receptor ligands, and FA all up-regulate PPAR alpha and enzymes of FA oxidation and stimulate 3H-palmitate oxidation in normal islets but not in islets from fa/fa rats. Overexpression of normal OB-R in islets of fa/fa rats corrects all of the foregoing abnormalities and reverses the diabetic phenotype. PPAR alpha is a OB-R-dependent factor required for normal fat homeostasis in islet cells
This Letter reports results from the MINOS experiment based on its initial exposure to neutrinos from the Fermilab NuMI beam. The rates and energy spectra of charged current nu(mu) interactions are ...compared in two detectors located along the beam axis at distances of 1 and 735 km. With 1.27 x 10(20) 120 GeV protons incident on the NuMI target, 215 events with energies below 30 GeV are observed at the Far Detector, compared to an expectation of 336+/-14 events. The data are consistent with nu(mu) disappearance via oscillations with |Delta(m)2/32|=2.74 +0.44/-0.26 x10(-3)eV(2) and sin(2)(2theta(23))>0.87 (68% C.L.).
The NuMI neutrino beam Andrews, M.; Anghel, I.; Barish, B. ...
Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment,
10/2015, Letnik:
806, Številka:
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Our paper describes the hardware and operations of the Neutrinos at the Main Injector (NuMI) beam at Fermilab. It elaborates on the design considerations for the beam as a whole and for individual ...elements. The most important part of our design details pertaining to individual components is described. Beam monitoring systems and procedures, including the tuning and alignment of the beam and NuMI long-term performance, are also discussed.
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