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CRISPR/Cas systems in genome editing: methodologies and tools for sgRNA design, off-target evaluation and strategies to mitigate off-target effects (2020)
Journal Article
Manghwar, H., Li, B., Ding, X., Hussain, A., Lindsey, K., Zhang, X., & Jin, S. (2020). CRISPR/Cas systems in genome editing: methodologies and tools for sgRNA design, off-target evaluation and strategies to mitigate off-target effects. Advanced Science, 7(6), Article 1902312. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.201902312

Life sciences have been revolutionized by genome editing (GE) tools, including zinc finger nucleases, transcription activator‐Like effector nucleases, and CRISPR (clustered regulatory interspaced short palindromic repeats)/Cas (CRISPR‐associated) sys... Read More about CRISPR/Cas systems in genome editing: methodologies and tools for sgRNA design, off-target evaluation and strategies to mitigate off-target effects.

The Role of Executive Functions in Socioeconomic Attainment Gaps: Results From a Randomized Controlled Trial (2020)
Journal Article
Blakey, E., Matthews, D., Cragg, L., Buck, J., Cameron, D., Higgins, B., Pepper, L., Ridley, E., Sullivan, E., & Carroll, D. (2020). The Role of Executive Functions in Socioeconomic Attainment Gaps: Results From a Randomized Controlled Trial. Child Development, 91(5), 1594-1614. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13358

The socioeconomic attainment gap in mathematics starts early and increases over time. This study aimed to examine why this gap exists. Four‐year‐olds from diverse backgrounds were randomly allocated to a brief intervention designed to improve executi... Read More about The Role of Executive Functions in Socioeconomic Attainment Gaps: Results From a Randomized Controlled Trial.

Selling to buy: Asset sales and acquisitions (2020)
Journal Article
Mavis, C. P., McNamee, N. P., Petmezas, D., & Travlos, N. G. (2020). Selling to buy: Asset sales and acquisitions. Journal of Corporate Finance, 62, Article 101587. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2020.101587

This study explores the impact of joint corporate asset restructuring decisions, where firms sell an asset in order to fund a subsequent acquisition (selling-to-buy). We find that firms with asset sales are associated with increased acquisition proba... Read More about Selling to buy: Asset sales and acquisitions.

The accuracy of weak lensing simulations (2020)
Journal Article
Hilbert, S., Barreira, A., Fabbian, G., Fosalba, P., Giocoli, C., Bose, S., Calabrese, M., Carbone, C., Davies, C. T., Li, B., Llineares, C., & Monaco, P. (2020). The accuracy of weak lensing simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 493(1), 305-319. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa281

We investigate the accuracy of weak lensing simulations by comparing the results of five independently developed lensing simulation codes run on the same input N-body simulation. Our comparison focuses on the lensing convergence maps produced by the... Read More about The accuracy of weak lensing simulations.

A solution to the parameter selection and current static error issues with frequency shift islanding detection methods (2020)
Journal Article
Liu, M., Zhao, W., Wang, Q., Huang, S., & Shi, K. (2020). A solution to the parameter selection and current static error issues with frequency shift islanding detection methods. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 68(2), 1401-1411. https://doi.org/10.1109/tie.2020.2970684

Frequency shift islanding detection methods have been widely used in inverter-based distributed generations. Two representatives of such methods, Sandia frequency shift (SFS) and reactive current perturbation (RCP) methods, are investigated in this p... Read More about A solution to the parameter selection and current static error issues with frequency shift islanding detection methods.

Evidence of wildfires and elevated atmospheric oxygen at the Frasnian−Famennian boundary in New York (USA): Implications for the Late Devonian mass extinction (2020)
Journal Article
Liu, Z., Selby, D., Hackley, P. C., & Over, D. J. (2020). Evidence of wildfires and elevated atmospheric oxygen at the Frasnian−Famennian boundary in New York (USA): Implications for the Late Devonian mass extinction. GSA Bulletin, 130(9-10), 2043-2054. https://doi.org/10.1130/b35457.1

The Devonian Period experienced significant fluctuations of atmospheric oxygen (O2) levels (∼25−13%), for which the extent and timing are debated. Also characteristic of the Devonian Period, at the Frasnian−Famennian (F−F) boundary, is one of the “bi... Read More about Evidence of wildfires and elevated atmospheric oxygen at the Frasnian−Famennian boundary in New York (USA): Implications for the Late Devonian mass extinction.

Jet cross sections at the LHC and the quest for higher precision (2020)
Journal Article
Bellm, J., Buckley, A., Chen, X., Ridder, A. G.-D., Gehrmann, T., Glover, N., Höche, S., Huss, A., Huston, J., Kuttimalai, S., Pires, J., Plätzer, S., & Re, E. (2020). Jet cross sections at the LHC and the quest for higher precision. The European Physical Journal C, 80(2), Article 93. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7574-x

We perform a phenomenological study of Z plus jet, Higgs plus jet and di-jet production at the Large Hadron Collider. We investigate in particular the dependence of the leading jet cross section on the jet radius as a function of the jet transverse m... Read More about Jet cross sections at the LHC and the quest for higher precision.

The deglaciation of the Americas during the Last Glacial Termination (2020)
Journal Article
Palacios, D., Stokes, C. R., Phillips, F. M., Clague, J. J., Alcalá-Reygosa, J., Andres, N., Angel, I., Blard, P.-H., Briner, J. P., Hall, B. L., Dahms, D., Hein, A. S., Jomelli, V., Mark, B. G., Martini, M. A., Moreno, P., Riedel, J., Sagredo, E., Stansell, N. D., Vazquez-Selem, L., …Ward, D. J. (2020). The deglaciation of the Americas during the Last Glacial Termination. Earth-Science Reviews, 203, Article 103113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103113

This paper reviews current understanding of deglaciation in North, Central and South America from the Last Glacial Maximum to the beginning of the Holocene. Together with paleoclimatic and paleoceanographic data, we compare and contrast the pace of d... Read More about The deglaciation of the Americas during the Last Glacial Termination.

Obtaining Tertiary Protein Structures by the ab Initio Interpretation of Small Angle X-ray Scattering Data (2020)
Journal Article
Prior, C., Davies, O. R., Bruce, D., & Pohl, E. (2020). Obtaining Tertiary Protein Structures by the ab Initio Interpretation of Small Angle X-ray Scattering Data. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 16(3), 1985-2001. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.9b01010

Small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) is an important tool for investigating the structure of proteins in solution. We present a novel ab initio method representing polypeptide chains as discrete curves used to derive a meaningful three-dimensional mod... Read More about Obtaining Tertiary Protein Structures by the ab Initio Interpretation of Small Angle X-ray Scattering Data.

Investigation of Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence from a Donor–Acceptor Compound with Time-Resolved Fluorescence and Density Functional Theory Applying an Optimally Tuned Range-Separated Hybrid Functional (2020)
Journal Article
Scholz, R., Kleine, P., Lygaitis, R., Popp, L., Lenk, S., Etherington, M. K., Monkman, A. P., & Reineke, S. (2020). Investigation of Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence from a Donor–Acceptor Compound with Time-Resolved Fluorescence and Density Functional Theory Applying an Optimally Tuned Range-Separated Hybrid Functional. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 124(8), 1535-1553. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.9b11083

Emitters showing thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) in electroluminescent devices rely on efficient reverse intersystem crossing (rISC) arising from small thermal activation barriers between the lowest excited triplet and singlet manifol... Read More about Investigation of Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence from a Donor–Acceptor Compound with Time-Resolved Fluorescence and Density Functional Theory Applying an Optimally Tuned Range-Separated Hybrid Functional.

Mutual Coupling Reduction in Microstrip Array Antenna by Employing Cut Side Patches and EBG Structures (2020)
Journal Article
Mohamadzade, B., Lalbakhsh, A., Simorangkir, R. B. V. B., Rezaee, A., & Hashmi, R. M. (2020). Mutual Coupling Reduction in Microstrip Array Antenna by Employing Cut Side Patches and EBG Structures. Progress in electromagnetics research M, 89, 179-187. https://doi.org/10.2528/pierm19100703

This paper presents the simultaneous application of Minkowski fractal geometry and EBG structures for mutual coupling reduction in microstrip array antennas for the first time. In this approach, a modified version of Minkowski fractal geometry is app... Read More about Mutual Coupling Reduction in Microstrip Array Antenna by Employing Cut Side Patches and EBG Structures.

"Poética e ideología en la cronística postalfonsí" (2020)
Book Chapter
Hijano, M. (2020). "Poética e ideología en la cronística postalfonsí". In I. Fernández-Ordonez (Ed.), El legado de Ramón Menéndez Pidal (1869-1968) a principios del siglo XXI (471-497). CSIC

Secondary products in supersymmetric field theory (2020)
Journal Article
Beem, C., Ben-Zvi, D., Bullimore, M., Dimofte, T., & Neitzke, A. (2020). Secondary products in supersymmetric field theory. Annales Henri Poincaré, 21(4), 1235-1310. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00023-020-00888-3

The product of local operators in a topological quantum field theory in dimension greater than one is commutative, as is more generally the product of extended operators of codimension greater than one. In theories of cohomological type, these commut... Read More about Secondary products in supersymmetric field theory.

Are Some Perfumes Works of Art? (2020)
Journal Article
Brozzo, C. (2020). Are Some Perfumes Works of Art?. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 78(1), 21-32. https://doi.org/10.1111/jaac.12687

What more do we need to fully appreciate perfumes, beyond considering them objects for aesthetic appreciation? My contention is that our appreciation of some perfumes would be largely incomplete, unless we acknowledged them as works of art. I defend... Read More about Are Some Perfumes Works of Art?.

What is the value of wild animal welfare for restoration ecology? (2020)
Journal Article
Capozzelli, J. F., Hecht, L., & Halsey, S. J. (2020). What is the value of wild animal welfare for restoration ecology?. Restoration Ecology, 28(2), 267-270. https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.13114

The restoration community continues to discuss what constitutes good environmental stewardship. One area of tension is the extent to which the wellbeing of wild animals should inform restoration efforts. We discuss three ways that the perspective of... Read More about What is the value of wild animal welfare for restoration ecology?.

Decay in Retinoic Acid Signaling in Varied Models of Alzheimer’s Disease and In-Vitro Test of Novel Retinoic Acid Receptor Ligands (RAR-Ms) to Regulate Protective Genes (2020)
Journal Article
Khatib, T., Chisholm, D. R., Whiting, A., Platt, B., & McCaffery, P. (2020). Decay in Retinoic Acid Signaling in Varied Models of Alzheimer’s Disease and In-Vitro Test of Novel Retinoic Acid Receptor Ligands (RAR-Ms) to Regulate Protective Genes. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 73(3), 935-954. https://doi.org/10.3233/jad-190931

Retinoic acid has been previously proposed in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Here, five transgenic mouse models expressing AD and frontotemporal dementia risk genes (i.e., PLB2APP, PLB2TAU, PLB1Double, PLB1Triple, and PLB4) were used to i... Read More about Decay in Retinoic Acid Signaling in Varied Models of Alzheimer’s Disease and In-Vitro Test of Novel Retinoic Acid Receptor Ligands (RAR-Ms) to Regulate Protective Genes.