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1. What is the maximum differential group delay achievable by a space-time wave packet in free space?

Author: H. Esat Kondakci, Ayman F. Abouraddy, Murat Yessenov, George K. Atia, Basanta Bhaduri, Lam H. Mach, Miguel A. Alonso, Davood Mardani, Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers (CREOL), University of Central Florida [Orlando] (UCF)-School of Optics, The College of Optics and Photonics [Orlando] (CREOL), University of Central Florida [Orlando] (UCF), MOSAIC (MOSAIC), Institut FRESNEL (FRESNEL), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-École Centrale de Marseille (ECM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-École Centrale de Marseille (ECM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École Centrale de Marseille (ECM)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École Centrale de Marseille (ECM)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)
Subjects: Physics, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-OPTICS]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Optics [physics.optics], business.industry, Wave packet, Bandwidth (signal processing), FOS: Physical sciences, 02 engineering and technology, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, 01 natural sciences, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 010309 optics, Wavelength, Optics, Differential group delay, 0103 physical sciences, Group velocity, Light beam, Spatial frequency, 0210 nano-technology, business, Group delay and phase delay, Physics - Optics, Optics (physics.optics)
Abstract: The group velocity of 'space-time' wave packets $-$ propagation-invariant pulsed beams endowed with tight spatio-temporal spectral correlations $-$ can take on arbitrary values in free space. Here we investigate theoretically and experimentally the maximum achievable group delay that realistic finite-energy space-time wave packets can achieve with respect to a reference pulse traveling at the speed of light. We find that this delay is determined solely by the spectral uncertainty in the association between the spatial frequencies and wavelengths underlying the wave packet spatio-temporal spectrum $-$ and not by the beam size, bandwidth, or pulse width. We show experimentally that the propagation of space-time wave packets is delimited by a spectral-uncertainty-induced `pilot envelope' that travels at a group velocity equal to the speed of light in vacuum. Temporal walk-off between the space-time wave packet and the pilot envelope limits the maximum achievable differential group delay to the width of the pilot envelope. Within this pilot envelope, the space-time wave packet can locally travel at an arbitrary group velocity and yet not violate relativistic causality because the leading or trailing edge of superluminal and subluminal space-time wave packets, respectively, are suppressed once they reach the envelope edge. Using pulses of width $\sim$4ps and a spectral uncertainty of $\sim$ 20 pm, we measure maximum differential group delays of approximately $\pm$ 150 ps, which exceed previously reported measurements by at least three orders of magnitude.
Published: 2019
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2. Early Release Science of the exoplanet WASP-39b with JWST NIRSpec PRISM

Author: Rustamkulov, Z., Sing, D. K., Mukherjee, S., May, E. M., Kirk, J., Schlawin, E., Line, M. R., Piaulet, C., Carter, A. L., Batalha, N. E., Goyal, J. M., López-Morales, M., Lothringer, J. D., MacDonald, R. J., Moran, S. E., Stevenson, K. B., Wakeford, H. R., Espinoza, N., Bean, J. L., Batalha, N. M., Benneke, B., Berta-Thompson, Z. K., Crossfield, I. J. M., Gao, P., Kreidberg, L., Powell, D. K., Cubillos, P. E., Gibson, N. P., Leconte, J., Molaverdikhani, K., Nikolov, N. K., Parmentier, V., Roy, P., Taylor, J., Turner, J. D., Wheatley, P. J., Aggarwal, K., Ahrer, E., Alam, M. K., Alderson, L., Allen, N. H., Banerjee, A., Barat, S., Barrado, D., Barstow, J. K., Bell, T. J., Blecic, J., Brande, J., Casewell, S., Changeat, Q., Chubb, K. L., Crouzet, N., Daylan, T., Decin, L., Désert, J., Mikal-Evans, T., Feinstein, A. D., Flagg, L., Fortney, J. J., Harrington, J., Heng, K., Hong, Y., Hu, R., Iro, N., Kataria, T., Kempton, E. M.-R., Krick, J., Lendl, M., Lillo-Box, J., Louca, A., Lustig-Yaeger, J., Mancini, L., Mansfield, M., Mayne, N. J., Miguel, Y., Morello, G., Ohno, K., Palle, E., Petit Dit De La Roche, D. J. M., Rackham, B. V., Radica, M., Ramos-Rosado, L., Redfield, S., Rogers, L. K., Shkolnik, E. L., Southworth, J., Teske, J., Tremblin, P., Tucker, G. S., Venot, O., Waalkes, W. C., Welbanks, L., Zhang, X., Zieba, S., University of St Andrews. School of Physics and Astronomy, Rustamkulov, Z. [0000-0003-4408-0463], Sing, D. K. [0000-0001-6050-7645], Line, M. R. [0000-0001-6247-8323], Piaulet, C. [0000-0002-2875-917X], Goyal, J. M. [0000-0002-8515-7204], López-Morales, M. [0000-0003-3204-8183], Lothringer, J. D. [0000-0003-3667-8633], Stevenson, K. B. [0000-0002-7352-7941], Wakeford, H. R. [0000-0003-4328-3867], Benneke, B. [0000-0001-5578-1498], Powell, D. K. [0000-0002-4250-0957], Gibson, N. P. [0000-0002-9308-2353], Molaverdikhani, K. [0000-0002-0502-0428], Nikolov, N. K. [0000-0002-6500-3574], Taylor, J. [0000-0003-4844-9838], Wheatley, P. J. [0000-0003-1452-2240], Aggarwal, K. [0000-0002-7004-8670], Ahrer, E. [0000-0003-0973-8426], Alderson, L. [0000-0001-8703-7751], Allen, N. H. [0000-0002-0832-710X], Banerjee, A. [0000-0002-9124-6537], Barrado, D. [0000-0002-5971-9242], Barstow, J. K. [0000-0003-3726-5419], Crouzet, N. [0000-0001-7866-8738], Daylan, T. [0000-0002-6939-9211], Decin, L. [0000-0002-5342-8612], Mikal-Evans, T. [0000-0001-5442-1300], Feinstein, A. D. [0000-0002-9464-8101], Harrington, J. [0000-0002-8955-8531], Hu, R. [0000-0003-2215-8485], Kempton, E. M.-R. [0000-0002-1337-9051], Lillo-Box, J. [0000-0003-3742-1987], Mancini, L. [0000-0002-9428-8732], Mansfield, M. [0000-0003-4241-7413], Mayne, N. J. [0000-0001-6707-4563], Morello, G. [0000-0002-4262-5661], Palle, E. [0000-0003-0987-1593], Petit dit de la Roche, D. J. M. [0000-0002-8963-3810], Redfield, S. [0000-0003-3786-3486], Southworth, J. [0000-0002-3807-3198], Tremblin, P. [0000-0001-6172-3403], Zhang, X. [0000-0002-8706-6963], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, Johns Hopkins University (JHU), University of California [Santa Cruz] (UC Santa Cruz), University of California (UC), Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory [Laurel, MD] (APL), Imperial College London, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE), Arizona State University [Tempe] (ASU), Department of Physics [Montréal], McGill University = Université McGill [Montréal, Canada], NASA Ames Research Center (ARC), National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), Harvard University-Smithsonian Institution, Utah Valley University (UVU), Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan, Carl Sagan Institute, Cornell University [New York], Lunar and Planetary Laboratory [Tucson] (LPL), H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory [Bristol], University of Bristol [Bristol], Space Telescope Science Institute (STSci), Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics [Chicago], University of Chicago, Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences [Boulder], University of Colorado [Boulder], Department of Physics and Astronomy [Lawrence Kansas], University of Kansas [Lawrence] (KU), Earth and Planets Laboratory [Washington], Carnegie Institution for Science, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA), INAF/Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino, Turin, Italy, Trinity College Dublin, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux [Pessac] (LAB), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University Observatory Munich, Ludwig-Maximillians University Munich, Ludwig Maximilian University [Munich] (LMU), Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur (OCA), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Oxford, University of Warwick [Coventry], Indian Institute of Technology Indore (IITI), Observatories [Carnegie Institution], The Open University [Milton Keynes] (OU), Astronomical Institute Anton Pannekoek (AI PANNEKOEK), University of Amsterdam [Amsterdam] (UvA), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), Bay Area Environmental Research Institute (BAER), New York University [Abu Dhabi], NYU System (NYU), University of Leicester, European Space Agency (Baltimore) Space Telescope Science Institute (ESA), University of St Andrews [Scotland], Leiden Observatory [Leiden], Universiteit Leiden, Department of Physics, Princeton University (DPPU), Princeton University, Université Catholique de Louvain = Catholic University of Louvain (UCL), Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics [UCSC Santa Cruz], University of California (UC)-University of California (UC), Florida Space Institute [Orlando] (FSI), University of Central Florida [Orlando] (UCF), California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), Institut de recherches Arctiques Jean Malaurie (IRAM), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Paris-Saclay, Maison de la Simulation (MDLS), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques (LISA (UMR_7583)), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 (UPEC UP12)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA, Entomological Society of America, ESA, Space Telescope Science Institute, STScI, Heising-Simons Foundation, HSF, Canadian Space Agency, CSA, (JWST-ERS-01366, NAS 5-03127), Rustamkulov, Z [0000-0003-4408-0463], Sing, DK [0000-0001-6050-7645], Line, MR [0000-0001-6247-8323], Piaulet, C [0000-0002-2875-917X], Goyal, JM [0000-0002-8515-7204], López-Morales, M [0000-0003-3204-8183], Lothringer, JD [0000-0003-3667-8633], Stevenson, KB [0000-0002-7352-7941], Wakeford, HR [0000-0003-4328-3867], Benneke, B [0000-0001-5578-1498], Powell, DK [0000-0002-4250-0957], Gibson, NP [0000-0002-9308-2353], Molaverdikhani, K [0000-0002-0502-0428], Nikolov, NK [0000-0002-6500-3574], Taylor, J [0000-0003-4844-9838], Wheatley, PJ [0000-0003-1452-2240], Aggarwal, K [0000-0002-7004-8670], Ahrer, E [0000-0003-0973-8426], Alderson, L [0000-0001-8703-7751], Allen, NH [0000-0002-0832-710X], Banerjee, A [0000-0002-9124-6537], Barrado, D [0000-0002-5971-9242], Barstow, JK [0000-0003-3726-5419], Crouzet, N [0000-0001-7866-8738], Daylan, T [0000-0002-6939-9211], Decin, L [0000-0002-5342-8612], Mikal-Evans, T [0000-0001-5442-1300], Feinstein, AD [0000-0002-9464-8101], Harrington, J [0000-0002-8955-8531], Hu, R [0000-0003-2215-8485], Kempton, EM-R [0000-0002-1337-9051], Lillo-Box, J [0000-0003-3742-1987], Mancini, L [0000-0002-9428-8732], Mansfield, M [0000-0003-4241-7413], Mayne, NJ [0000-0001-6707-4563], Morello, G [0000-0002-4262-5661], Palle, E [0000-0003-0987-1593], Petit Dit de la Roche, DJM [0000-0002-8963-3810], Redfield, S [0000-0003-3786-3486], Southworth, J [0000-0002-3807-3198], Tremblin, P [0000-0001-6172-3403], and Zhang, X [0000-0002-8706-6963]
Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP), 141, MCC, Multidisciplinary, Settore FIS/05, 134, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], 639/33/445/862, article, FOS: Physical sciences, 639/33/445/824, DAS, 639/33/34/862, 5109 Space Sciences, 140, QC Physics, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, QB Astronomy, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), 51 Physical Sciences, Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR), QC, Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, QB
Abstract: Transmission spectroscopy of exoplanets has revealed signatures of water vapor, aerosols, and alkali metals in a few dozen exoplanet atmospheres. However, these previous inferences with the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes were hindered by the observations' relatively narrow wavelength range and spectral resolving power, which precluded the unambiguous identification of other chemical species$-$in particular the primary carbon-bearing molecules. Here we report a broad-wavelength 0.5-5.5 $\mu$m atmospheric transmission spectrum of WASP-39 b, a 1200 K, roughly Saturn-mass, Jupiter-radius exoplanet, measured with JWST NIRSpec's PRISM mode as part of the JWST Transiting Exoplanet Community Early Release Science Team program. We robustly detect multiple chemical species at high significance, including Na (19$\sigma$), H$_2$O (33$\sigma$), CO$_2$ (28$\sigma$), and CO (7$\sigma$). The non-detection of CH$_4$, combined with a strong CO$_2$ feature, favours atmospheric models with a super-solar atmospheric metallicity. An unanticipated absorption feature at 4$\mu$m is best explained by SO$_2$ (2.7$\sigma$), which could be a tracer of atmospheric photochemistry. These observations demonstrate JWST's sensitivity to a rich diversity of exoplanet compositions and chemical processes., Comment: 41 pages, 4 main figures, 10 extended data figures, 4 tables. Under review in Nature
Published: 2023
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3. Evidence of symmetry breaking in a Gd2 di-nuclear molecular polymer

Author: Thilini Ekanayaka, Tao Jiang, Emilie Delahaye, Olivier Perez, Jean-Pascal Sutter, Duy Le, Alpha T. N'Diaye, Robert Streubel, Talat S. Rahman, Peter A. Dowben, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, University of Nebraska System, University of Central Florida [Orlando] (UCF), Laboratoire de chimie de coordination (LCC), Institut de Chimie de Toulouse (ICT), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de cristallographie et sciences des matériaux (CRISMAT), Université de Caen Normandie (UNICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-École Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Caen (ENSICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche sur les Matériaux Avancés (IRMA), Normandie Université (NU)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Rouen Normandie (UNIROUEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Institut national des sciences appliquées Rouen Normandie (INSA Rouen Normandie), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Normandie Université (NU)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Rouen Normandie (UNIROUEN), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Normandie Université (NU)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory [Berkeley] (LBNL), National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy (DOE), and ANR-15-CE08-0020,MHYCONIA,Synthèse ionothermale de réseaux hybrides multiferroïques(2015)
Subjects: [CHIM.POLY]Chemical Sciences/Polymers, General Physics and Astronomy, [CHIM.COOR]Chemical Sciences/Coordination chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
Abstract: International audience; A chiral 3D coordination compound, [Gd2(L)2(ox)2(H2O)2], arranged around a dinuclear Gd unit has been characterized by X-ray photoemission and X-ray absorption measurements in the context of density functional theory studies. Core level photoemission of the Gd 5p multiplet splittings indicates that spin orbit coupling dominates over j–J coupling evident in the 5p core level spectra of Gd metal. Indications of spin–orbit coupling are consistent with the absence of inversion symmetry due to the ligand field. Density functional theory predicts antiferromagnet alignment of the Gd2 dimers and a band gap of the compound consistent with optical absorption.
Published: 2023
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4. Luminescence properties of Eu3+ or Dy3+/Au co-doped SiO2 nanoparticles

Author: M. García, F.E. Hernández, Véronique Jubera, Kathleen Richardson, J. Griffin, Laeticia Petit, N. Carlie, Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers (CREOL), University of Central Florida [Orlando] (UCF)-School of Optics, Institut de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Bordeaux (ICMCB), Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Polytechnique de Bordeaux-Université de Bordeaux (UB), The College of Optics and Photonics [Orlando] (CREOL), University of Central Florida [Orlando] (UCF), School of Material Science and Engineering, and Clemson University
Subjects: Luminescence, Materials science, chemistry.chemical_element, Nanoparticle, Nanotechnology, 02 engineering and technology, 010402 general chemistry, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Ion, Adsorption, Europium, Dysprosium, Gold nanoparticles, General Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, Doping, [CHIM.MATE]Chemical Sciences/Material chemistry, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, Condensed Matter Physics, SiO2 nanoparticles, 0104 chemical sciences, chemistry, Mechanics of Materials, Colloidal gold, Physical chemistry, 0210 nano-technology
Abstract: Silica nanoparticles, prepared by the Stober method, have been doped with Eu 3+ , Dy 3+ , or processed to result in Au nanoparticles on the silica surface. The luminescence of the rare earth (RE)-doped SiO 2 particles has been studied as a function of the nature of the RE, their concentration and also of the presence of Au nanoparticles at the surface of the SiO 2 nanoparticles. We have shown that the Eu 3+ emission is observable over the experimental conditions examined, whereas it was not possible to observe any emission for Dy 3+ doped materials. No enhancement of the Eu 3+ emission was observed following the adsorption of gold nanoparticles at the surface of the SiO 2 nanoparticle, however an excitation at 250 nm leads to both the emission of the matrix and Eu 3+ showing an energy transfer from the SiO 2 matrix to Eu 3+ ions.
Published: 2007
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5. The past, present and future of photonic glasses: A review in homage to the United Nations International Year of glass 2022

Author: Wilfried Blanc, Yong Gyu Choi, Xianghua Zhang, Marcelo Nalin, Kathleen A. Richardson, Giancarlo C. Righini, Maurizio Ferrari, Animesh Jha, Jonathan Massera, Shibin Jiang, John Ballato, Laeticia Petit, Institut de Physique de Nice (INPHYNI), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA), Korea Aerospace University, Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes (ISCR), Université de Rennes (UR)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Rennes (INSA Rennes), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Rennes (ENSCR)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho = São Paulo State University (UNESP), University of Central Florida [Orlando] (UCF), Institute of Applied Physics 'Nello Carrara' (IFAC), National Research Council of Italy | Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), University of Leeds, University of Tampere [Finland], Clemson University, Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) - Ministry of Science and ICT [2020M3D1A2101797], Institute of Information and Communications Technology Planning and Evaluation (IITP) - Ministry of Science and ICT [2021-0-00019], Sao Paulo Research Foundation - FAPESP [2013/07793-6], UCF Board of Trustee Endowed Chair program, Academy of Finland [331924, 328079], Jane and Aatos Erkko foundation, Academy of Finland [PREIN-320165, 326418, 316483, 328078], and Pirkanmaa Regional Fund
Subjects: Optical glass, Chalcogenide glass, Glass -ceramic, Waveguide, General Materials Science, Composite, Fiber, [CHIM.MATE]Chemical Sciences/Material chemistry, Hybrid, Film
Abstract: International audience; Since the invention and further development of lasers in the 1960s, photonics has grown into a field that permeates virtually every aspect of modern life. As photonics deals with the generation, transmission, modulation, amplification, conversion, and detection of light, glasses have played crucial and central roles in a multitude of applications given glasses' diverse range of composi-tions, properties, and forms. They are also low-cost materials, recyclable and generally easy to fabricate. In homage to the United Nations International Year of Glass 2022, this paper reviews the past, present, and future of photonic glasses.
Published: 2023
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6. Barcode entropy of geodesic flows

Author: Ginzburg, Viktor L., Gurel, Basak Z., Mazzucchelli, Marco, University of California [Santa Cruz] (UC Santa Cruz), University of California (UC), University of Central Florida [Orlando] (UCF), Unité de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées (UMPA-ENSL), and École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Mathematics - Differential Geometry, Differential Geometry (math.DG), Mathematics - Symplectic Geometry, [MATH.MATH-DG]Mathematics [math]/Differential Geometry [math.DG], [MATH.MATH-DS]Mathematics [math]/Dynamical Systems [math.DS], FOS: Mathematics, Symplectic Geometry (math.SG), 37D40, 37B40, 58E10, Dynamical Systems (math.DS), Mathematics - Dynamical Systems, [MATH.MATH-SG]Mathematics [math]/Symplectic Geometry [math.SG]
Abstract: We introduce and study the barcode entropy for geodesic flows of closed Riemannian manifolds, which measures the exponential growth rate of the number of not-too-short bars in the Morse-theoretic barcode of the energy functional. We prove that the barcode entropy bounds from below the topological entropy of the geodesic flow and, conversely, bounds from above the topological entropy of any hyperbolic compact invariant set. As a consequence, for Riemannian metrics on surfaces, the barcode entropy is equal to the topological entropy. A key to the proofs and of independent interest is a crossing energy theorem for gradient flow lines of the energy functional., Comment: 41 pages
Published: 2022

7. Perspective: Molecular transistors as substitutes for quantum information applications

Author: Dhingra, Archit, Hu, Xuedong, Borunda, Mario, Johnson, Joseph, Binek, Christian, Bird, Jonathan, N’diaye, Alpha, Sutter, Jean-Pascal, Delahaye, Emilie, Switzer, Eric, Barco, Enrique Del, Rahman, Talat, Dowben, Peter, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, University of Nebraska System, University at Buffalo [SUNY] (SUNY Buffalo), State University of New York (SUNY), Oklahoma State University [Stillwater] (OSU), Villanova University [USA], Advanced Light Source [LBNL Berkeley] (ALS), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory [Berkeley] (LBNL), Laboratoire de chimie de coordination (LCC), Institut de Chimie de Toulouse (ICT), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Central Florida [Orlando] (UCF), National Science Foundation - NSF-DMR 2003057, EPSCoR RII, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, CNRS, ANR-15-CE08-0020,MHYCONIA,Synthèse ionothermale de réseaux hybrides multiferroïques(2015), and ANR-11-JS10-0009,DYNAMECS,Processus dynamiques dans des matériaux magnétoélectriques(2011)
Subjects: Quantum information science, Mach–Zehnder interferometer, Quantum devices, [CHIM.COOR]Chemical Sciences/Coordination chemistry, Molecular transistors
Abstract: International audience; Applications of quantum information science (QIS) generally rely on the generation and manipulation of qubits. Still, there are ways to envision a device with a continuous readout, but without the entangled states. This concise perspective includes a discussion on an alternative to the qubit, namely the solid-state version of the Mach–Zehnder interferometer, in which the local moments and spin polarization replace light polarization. In this context, we provide some insights into the mathematics that dictates the fundamental working principles of quantum information processes that involve molecular systems with large magnetic anisotropy. Transistors based on such systems lead to the possibility of fabricating logic gates that do not require entangled states. Furthermore, some novel approaches, worthy of some consideration, exist to address the issues pertaining to the scalability of quantum devices, but face the challenge of finding the suitable materials for desired functionality that resemble what is sought from QIS devices.
Published: 2022
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8. Ultimate efficiency of spectral beam combining by volume Bragg gratings

Author: Glebov, L.B., Drachenberg, Derrek, Andrusyak, Oleksiy, Venus, George, Smirnov, Vadim, Lumeau, Julien, Glebov, Leonid, The College of Optics and Photonics [Orlando] (CREOL), University of Central Florida [Orlando] (UCF), Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers (CREOL), University of Central Florida [Orlando] (UCF)-School of Optics, OptiGrate, OptiGrate Corporation, RCMO (RCMO), Institut FRESNEL (FRESNEL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École Centrale de Marseille (ECM)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École Centrale de Marseille (ECM)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU), and Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-École Centrale de Marseille (ECM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-École Centrale de Marseille (ECM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: [SPI.OPTI]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Optics / Photonic
Abstract: International audience; Spectral beam combining (SBC) by volume Bragg gratings (VBGs) recorded in photo-thermo-refractive (PTR) glass is a powerful tool for laser applications that require higher radiance than a single laser unit can achieve. The beam-combining factor (BCF) is introduced as a tool to compare various beam-combining methods and experiments. It describes the change of radiance provided by a beam-combining system but is not affected by the initial beam quality of the combined lasers. A method of optimization of VBGs providing the maximum efficiency of SBC has been described for an arbitrary number of beams. An experiment confirming the proposed modeling for a two-beam SBC system by a single VBG has demonstrated a total combined power of 301 W with a channel separation of 0.25 nm, combining efficiency of 97%, close to diffraction limited divergence with M2=1.18, BCF of 0.77, and spectral radiance of 770 TW/(sr⋅m2⋅nm), the highest to date for SBC.
Published: 2013

9. Modeling of the induced refractive index kinetics in photo-thermo-refractive glass

Author: Glebov, L.B., Lumeau, Julien, Glebov, Leonid, Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers (CREOL), University of Central Florida [Orlando] (UCF)-School of Optics, RCMO (RCMO), Institut FRESNEL (FRESNEL), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-École Centrale de Marseille (ECM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-École Centrale de Marseille (ECM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), The College of Optics and Photonics [Orlando] (CREOL), University of Central Florida [Orlando] (UCF), Lumeau, Julien, and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École Centrale de Marseille (ECM)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École Centrale de Marseille (ECM)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)
Subjects: [SPI.OPTI] Engineering Sciences [physics]/Optics / Photonic, [SPI.OPTI]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Optics / Photonic, Physics::Optics, sense organs, skin and connective tissue diseases
Abstract: International audience; Photo-thermo-refractive (PTR) glass is a photosensitive multi-component silicate glass that exhibits refractive index change after successive UV-exposure and thermal treatment. The refractive index change was demonstrated to be associated with the precipitation of NaF nano-crystals in the glass matrix. This paper presents a systematic study of the dependence of the refractive index change on dosage of UV-exposure and thermal treatment duration and temperature in already UV-exposed and nucleated samples. It is shown using Avrami plots that the refractive index change in PTR glass is determined by a diffusion-controlled growth of particles from pre-existing nuclei while all coefficients have exponential dependence on temperature (Boltzmann law). The developed model, which includes both photo-chemistry and crystallization processes, allow describing the refractive index change dependence on dosage for a wide range of thermal treatment duration and temperature and an accuracy better than 10%.
Published: 2013

10. Non-asymptotic approach to varying coefficient model

Author: Olga Klopp, Marianna Pensky, Modélisation aléatoire de Paris X (MODAL'X), Université Paris Nanterre (UPN), Department of Mathematics, University of Central Florida, Department of Mathematics (University of Central Florida), and University of Central Florida [Orlando] (UCF)-University of Central Florida [Orlando] (UCF)
Subjects: Statistics and Probability, Mathematical optimization, media_common.quotation_subject, low rank matrix estimation, Mathematics - Statistics Theory, 010103 numerical & computational mathematics, Statistics Theory (math.ST), 01 natural sciences, 010104 statistics & probability, [MATH.MATH-ST]Mathematics [math]/Statistics [math.ST], FOS: Mathematics, Applied mathematics, 0101 mathematics, Finite set, Oracle inequality, Mathematics, media_common, Pointwise, Estimation, Estimator, [STAT.TH]Statistics [stat]/Statistics Theory [stat.TH], Infinity, statistical learning, Sample size determination, 60G57, varying coefficient model, 62H12, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, 62J99, Focus (optics), 62J99, 62H12, 60G57
Abstract: In the present paper we consider the varying coefficient model which represents a useful tool for exploring dynamic patterns in many applications. Existing methods typically provide asymptotic evaluation of precision of estimation procedures under the assumption that the number of observations tends to infinity. In practical applications, however, only a finite number of measurements are available. In the present paper we focus on a non-asymptotic approach to the problem. We propose a novel estimation procedure which is based on recent developments in matrix estimation. In particular, for our estimator, we obtain upper bounds for the mean squared and the pointwise estimation errors. The obtained oracle inequalities are non-asymptotic and hold for finite sample size.
Published: 2013

11. Strong Bragg Gratings in Highly Photosensitive Photo-Thermo-Refractive-Glass Optical Fiber

Author: N. Peyghambarian, Julien Lumeau, Peter Hofmann, Rodrigo Amezcua-Correa, Larissa Glebova, Ivan Divliansky, Marc SeGall, Leonid B. Glebov, Daniel Ott, Enrique Antonio-Lopez, Axel Schülzgen, University of Arizona, Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers (CREOL), University of Central Florida [Orlando] (UCF)-School of Optics, The College of Optics and Photonics [Orlando] (CREOL), University of Central Florida [Orlando] (UCF), RCMO (RCMO), Institut FRESNEL (FRESNEL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École Centrale de Marseille (ECM)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École Centrale de Marseille (ECM)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU), and Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-École Centrale de Marseille (ECM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-École Centrale de Marseille (ECM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: All-silica fiber, PHOSFOS, Materials science, genetic structures, business.industry, 020208 electrical & electronic engineering, Polarization-maintaining optical fiber, 02 engineering and technology, Long-period fiber grating, Graded-index fiber, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, 020210 optoelectronics & photonics, Optics, Fiber Bragg grating, 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, [SPI.OPTI]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Optics / Photonic, Optoelectronics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, business, Plastic optical fiber, Photonic-crystal fiber
Abstract: International audience; A new type of photosensitive fiber is demonstrated. Long lengths (>100 m) of coreless optical fiber are fabricated from highly photosensitive photo-thermo-refractive glass. A minimum loss of
Published: 2013

12. Surrogate modeling: tricks that endured the test of time and some recent developments

Author: Tushar Goel, Felipe A. C. Viana, Christian Gogu, University of Central Florida [Orlando] (UCF), Institut Clément Ader (ICA), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Toulouse (INSA Toulouse), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-IMT École nationale supérieure des Mines d'Albi-Carmaux (IMT Mines Albi), Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace (ISAE-SUPAERO), Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace (ISAE-SUPAERO)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Toulouse (INSA Toulouse), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-IMT École nationale supérieure des Mines d'Albi-Carmaux (IMT Mines Albi), and Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)
Subjects: Control and Optimization, Computer science, 0211 other engineering and technologies, 02 engineering and technology, Variable screening, Machine learning, computer.software_genre, 01 natural sciences, 010104 statistics & probability, [STAT.ML]Statistics [stat]/Machine Learning [stat.ML], Data sampling, [MATH.MATH-ST]Mathematics [math]/Statistics [math.ST], sequential sampling, 0101 mathematics, Sequential sampling, Uncertainty quantification, 021103 operations research, business.industry, Dimensionality reduction, Design of experiments, Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, surrogate modeling, [SPI.MECA.GEME]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Mechanics [physics.med-ph]/Mechanical engineering [physics.class-ph], Computer Science Applications, Test (assessment), design of experiments, Control and Systems Engineering, Artificial intelligence, Engineering design process, business, computer, Software
Abstract: International audience; Tasks such as analysis, design optimization, and uncertainty quantification can be computationally expensive. Surrogate modeling is often the tool of choice for reducing the burden associated with such data-intensive tasks. However, even after years of intensive research, surrogate modeling still involves a struggle to achieve maximum accuracy within limited resources. This work summarizes various advanced, yet often straightforward, statistical tools that help. We focus on four techniques with increasing popularity in the surrogate modeling community: (i) variable screening and dimensionality reduction in both the input and the output spaces, (ii) data sampling techniques or design of experiments, (iii) simultaneous use of multiple surrogates, and (iv) sequential sampling. We close the paper with some suggestions for future research.
Published: 2021
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13. Link between Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Size and Aqueous Alteration in Carbonaceous Chondrites Revealed by Laser Mass Spectrometry

Author: Katerina Slavicinska, Dumitru Duca, Dmitrii Egorov, Tirthankar Mitra, Yvain Carpentier, Cristian Focsa, Christopher J. Bennett, Claire Pirim, University of Central Florida [Orlando] (UCF), Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, Atomes et Molécules - UMR 8523 (PhLAM), Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Physique Moléculaire aux Interfaces (PMI), and Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean, Atmosphere, Atmospheric Science, Space and Planetary Science, Geochemistry and Petrology, [SDE.IE]Environmental Sciences/Environmental Engineering, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-CHEM-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Chemical Physics [physics.chem-ph], ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
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Published: 2022
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14. On a radiolytic origin of red organics at the surface of the Arrokoth Trans-Neptunian Object

Author: Eric Quirico, Aurore Bacmann, Cédric Wolters, Basile Augé, Laurène Flandinet, Thibault Launois, John F. Cooper, Véronique Vuitton, Thomas Gautier, Lora Jovanovic, Philippe Boduch, Hermann Rothard, Léopold Desage, Alexandre Faure, Bernard Schmitt, Olivier Poch, William M. Grundy, Silvia Protopapa, Sonia Fornasier, Dale P. Cruikshank, S. Alan Stern, Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (IPAG), Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (OSUG ), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Météo-France -Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Météo-France, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), PLANETO - LATMOS, Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique = Laboratory of Space Studies and Instrumentation in Astrophysics (LESIA), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Centre de recherche sur les Ions, les MAtériaux et la Photonique (CIMAP - UMR 6252), Université de Caen Normandie (UNICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-École Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Caen (ENSICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche sur les Matériaux Avancés (IRMA), Normandie Université (NU)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Rouen Normandie (UNIROUEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Institut national des sciences appliquées Rouen Normandie (INSA Rouen Normandie), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Normandie Université (NU)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Rouen Normandie (UNIROUEN), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Normandie Université (NU)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Lowell Observatory [Flagstaff], Southwest Research Institute [Boulder] (SwRI), Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), Ministère de l'Education nationale, de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche (M.E.N.E.S.R.), and University of Central Florida [Orlando] (UCF)
Subjects: [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], Space and Planetary Science, Astronomy and Astrophysics
Abstract: International audience; The classical Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) Arrokoth was surveyed by the New Horizons spacecraft on 1st January 2019, revealing a small bilobed object with a red surface, whose spectral slope lies in the average of the whole KBOs population. This red color has been assigned to reddish organic materials, either inherited from the protosolar disk during accretion, or formed through radiolytic processes in the surface due to exposure to solar or interstellar photons, Solar Wind, Solar Energetic Particles or Galactic Cosmic Rays. We report here a study investigating the radiolytic scenario, based on numerical calculations and experimental simulations run with swift heavy ions (74.8 MeV136Xe19+ and 33.06 MeV58Ni9+), and low-energy 105 keV18O6+ions on CH3OH ice, the only molecule identified at Arrokoth’s surface.
Published: 2023
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15. First steps of blue phosphorene growth on Au(1 1 1)

Author: Hanna Enriquez, Hamid Oughaddou, Wei Zhang, Gérald Dujardin, Azzedine Bendounan, Abdelkader Kara, Andrew J. Mayne, Ari P. Seitsonen, Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d'Orsay (ISMO), Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Synchrotron SOLEIL (SSOLEIL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Département de Chimie - ENS Paris, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), University of Central Florida [Orlando] (UCF), and CY Cergy Paris Université (CY)
Subjects: 010302 applied physics, In situ, Materials science, 02 engineering and technology, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, Epitaxy, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Phosphorene, chemistry.chemical_compound, chemistry, Electron diffraction, Chemical physics, law, 0103 physical sciences, Density functional theory, [PHYS.COND]Physics [physics]/Condensed Matter [cond-mat], Scanning tunneling microscope, 0210 nano-technology, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Single layer
Abstract: Blue phosphorene (blue-P) has attracted considerable attention due to its potential applications in optical and electronic devices. However, its synthesis has remained a challenge. Here, we report an experimental investigation of the first steps of blue-P growth on Au(1 1 1) surface by molecular-beam epitaxy. The structure was characterized by in situ low temperature scanning tunneling microscopy, low-energy electron diffraction, combined with density functional theory calculations. We reveal two-dimensional (2D) phosphorus clusters (P-clusters) formed on surface at 150 °C, where the most prevalent structure of P-clusters is composed of triangles with six protrusions. We also demonstrate the transformation of these P-clusters into a single layer of blue-P after post-annealing at 260 °C. Our observation of the growth process is a necessary step for exploring the growth mechanisms further.
Published: 2021
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16. Prediction and manipulation of hydrodynamic rogue waves via nonlinear spectral engineering

Author: Alexey Tikan, Felicien Bonnefoy, Giacomo Roberti, Gennady El, Alexander Tovbis, Guillaume Ducrozet, Annette Cazaubiel, Gaurav Prabhudesai, Guillaume Michel, Francois Copie, Eric Falcon, Stephane Randoux, Pierre Suret, Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, Atomes et Molécules - UMR 8523 (PhLAM), Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Laboratoire de recherche en Hydrodynamique, Énergétique et Environnement Atmosphérique (LHEEA), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École Centrale de Nantes (Nantes Univ - ECN), Nantes Université (Nantes Univ)-Nantes Université (Nantes Univ), University of Northumbria at Newcastle [United Kingdom], Department of Mathematics (University of Central Florida), University of Central Florida [Orlando] (UCF), Matière et Systèmes Complexes (MSC), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Laboratoire de physique de l'ENS - ENS Paris (LPENS), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)-Département de Physique de l'ENS-PSL, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Institut Jean Le Rond d'Alembert (DALEMBERT), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Modélisation, Propagation et Imagerie Acoustique (IJLRDA-MPIA), Institut Jean le Rond d'Alembert (DALEMBERT), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Simons Foundation/MPS No. 651463EPSRC (UK) grant EP/R00515X/2NSF (USA) grant DMS 2009647Dstl (UK) grant DSTLX-1000116851, ANR-11-LABX-0007,CEMPI,Centre Européen pour les Mathématiques, la Physique et leurs Interactions(2011), ANR-16-IDEX-0004,ULNE,ULNE(2016), ANR-21-CE30-0061,SOGOOD,Gaz de solitons en optique et en hydrodynamique(2021), and ANR-17-CE30-0004,DYSTURB,Dynamique et propriétés statistiques des grandes échelles en turbulence(2017)
Subjects: Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes, F300, turbulence, Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn), Computational Mechanics, FOS: Physical sciences, Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS), Physics - Fluid Dynamics, dynamics, Nonlinear Sciences - Pattern Formation and Solitons, tritronquee solution, peregrine soliton, gravity, modulation, schrodinger-equation, catastrophe, Modeling and Simulation, compact equation, universality, [PHYS.MECA.MEFL]Physics [physics]/Mechanics [physics]/Fluid mechanics [physics.class-ph], Nonlinear Sciences::Pattern Formation and Solitons
Abstract: International audience; Peregrine soliton (PS) is widely regarded as a prototype nonlinear structure capturing properties of rogue waves that emerge in the nonlinear propagation of unidirectional wave trains. As an exact breather solution of the one-dimensional focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation with nonzero boundary conditions, the PS can be viewed as a soliton on finite background, i.e., nonlinear superposition of a soliton and a monochromatic wave. A recent mathematical work showed that both nonzero boundary conditions and solitonic content are not pre-requisites for the PS occurrence. Instead, it has been demonstrated that PS can emerge locally, as an asymptotic structure arising from the propagation of an arbitrary large decaying pulse, independently of its solitonic content. This mathematical discovery has changed the widely accepted paradigm of the solitonic nature of rogue waves by enabling the PS to emerge from a partially radiative or even completely solitonless initial data. In this work, we realize the mathematically predicted universal mechanism of the local PS emergence in a water tank experiment with a particular aim to control the point of the PS occurrence in space-time by imposing an appropriately chosen initial chirp. By employing the inverse scattering transform for the synthesis of the initial data, we are able to engineer a localized wave packet with a prescribed solitonic and radiative content. This enabled us to control the position of the emergence of the rogue wave by adjusting the inverse scattering spectrum. The proposed method of the nonlinear spectral engineering is found to be robust to higher-order nonlinear effects inevitable in realistic wave propagation conditions.
Published: 2022
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17. Femtosecond Spectroscopy and Nonlinear Optical Properties of aza-BODIPY Derivatives in Solution

Author: Hao‐Jung Chang, Mykhailo V. Bondar, Natalia Munera, Sylvain David, Olivier Maury, Gerard Berginc, Boris Le Guennic, Denis Jacquemin, Chantal Andraud, David J. Hagan, Eric W. Van Stryland, University of Central Florida [Orlando] (UCF), National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU), Laboratoire de Chimie - UMR5182 (LC), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Thales LAS France, Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes (ISCR), Université de Rennes (UR)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Rennes (INSA Rennes), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Rennes (ENSCR)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Chimie Et Interdisciplinarité : Synthèse, Analyse, Modélisation (CEISAM), Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Nantes université - UFR des Sciences et des Techniques (Nantes univ - UFR ST), Nantes Université - pôle Sciences et technologie, Nantes Université (Nantes Univ)-Nantes Université (Nantes Univ)-Nantes Université - pôle Sciences et technologie, Nantes Université (Nantes Univ)-Nantes Université (Nantes Univ), Army Research Laboratory. Grant Number: W911NF-15-2-0090, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Grant Number: VC/188, and V-204, and Thales Group
Subjects: Boron Compounds, Porphobilinogen, Spectrum Analysis, Organic Chemistry, TD-DFT calculations, aza-boron dipyrromethene derivatives, [CHIM]Chemical Sciences, two-photon absorption, General Chemistry, femtosecond transient absorption pump-probe spectroscopy, Catalysis, Boron, Fluorescent Dyes
Abstract: International audience; The fast relaxation processes in the excited electronic states of functionalized aza-boron-dipyrromethene (aza-BODIPY) derivatives (1-4) were investigated in liquid media at room temperature, including the linear photophysical, photochemical, and nonlinear optical (NLO) properties. Optical gain was revealed for nonfluorescent derivatives 3 and 4 in the near infrared (NIR) spectral range under femtosecond excitation. The values of two-photon absorption (2PA) and excited-state absorption (ESA) cross-sections were obtained for 1-4 in dichloromethane using femtosecond Z-scans, and the role of bromine substituents in the molecular structures of 2 and 4 is discussed. The nature of the excited states involved in electronic transitions of these dyes was investigated using quantum-chemical TD-DFT calculations, and the obtained spectral parameters are in reasonable agreement with the experimental data. Significant 2PA (maxima cross-sections ∼2000 GM), and large ESA cross-sections ∼10(-20) m(2) of these new aza-BODIPY derivatives 1-4 along with their measured high photostability reveal their potential for photonic applications in general and optical limiting in particular.
Published: 2022
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18. The Mars system revealed by the Martian Moons eXploration mission

Author: Kazunori Ogohara, Hiromu Nakagawa, Shohei Aoki, Toru Kouyama, Tomohiro Usui, Naoki Terada, Takeshi Imamura, Franck Montmessin, David Brain, Alain Doressoundiram, Thomas Gautier, Takuya Hara, Yuki Harada, Hitoshi Ikeda, Mizuho Koike, François Leblanc, Ramses Ramirez, Eric Sawyer, Kanako Seki, Aymeric Spiga, Ann Carine Vandaele, Shoichiro Yokota, Antonella Barucci, Shingo Kameda, Kyoto Sangyo University, Graduate School of Science [Sendai], Tohoku University [Sendai], Laboratoire de Physique Atmosphérique et Planétaire (LPAP), Université de Liège, Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy / Institut d'Aéronomie Spatiale de Belgique (BIRA-IASB), Artificial Intelligence Research Center [Tokyo] (AIST), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology [Tokyo] (AIST), Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency [Sagamihara] (JAXA), Graduate School of Frontier Sciences [Kashiwa], The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), PLANETO - LATMOS, Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS), Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics [Boulder] (LASP), University of Colorado [Boulder], Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA (UMR_8109)), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Space Sciences Laboratory [Berkeley] (SSL), University of California [Berkeley], University of California-University of California, Graduate School of Science [Tokyo], Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering [Higashi-Hiroshima], Hiroshima University, Earth-Life Science Institute [Tokyo] (ELSI), Tokyo Institute of Technology [Tokyo] (TITECH), Space Science Institute [Boulder] (SSI), Department of Physics [Orlando] (UCF | Physics), University of Central Florida [Orlando] (UCF), Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), Department of Earth and Planetary Science [Tokyo], The University of Tokyo (UTokyo)-The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (UMR 8539) (LMD), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Département des Géosciences - ENS Paris, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), Ministère de l'Education nationale, de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche (M.E.N.E.S.R.), Graduate School of Science [Toyonaka], Osaka University, and Rikkyo University [Tokyo]
Subjects: QB275-343, QE1-996.5, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Paleoclimate, Dust cycle, Mars, Mars system, Geology, 01 natural sciences, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], 0103 physical sciences, Geography. Anthropology. Recreation, Transport process, Atmospheric escape, Water cycle, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Geodesy, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Abstract: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) plans a Phobos sample return mission (MMX: Martian Moons eXploration). In this study, we review the related works on the past climate of Mars, its evolution, and the present climate and weather to describe the scientific goals and strategies of the MMX mission regarding the evolution of the Martian surface environment. The MMX spacecraft will retrieve and return a sample of Phobos regolith back to Earth in 2029. Mars ejecta are expected to be accumulated on the surface of Phobos without being much shocked. Samples from Phobos probably contain all types of Martian rock from sedimentary to igneous covering all geological eras if ejecta from Mars could be accumulated on the Phobos surface. Therefore, the history of the surface environment of Mars can be restored by analyzing the returned samples. Remote sensing of the Martian atmosphere and monitoring ions escaping to space while the spacecraft is orbiting Mars in the equatorial orbit are also planned. The camera with multi-wavelength filters and the infrared spectrometer onboard the spacecraft can monitor rapid transport processes of water vapor, dust, ice clouds, and other species, which could not be traced by the previous satellites on the sun-synchronous polar orbit. Such time-resolved pictures of the atmospheric phenomena should be an important clue to understand both the processes of water exchange between the surface/underground reservoirs and the atmosphere and the drivers of efficient material transport to the upper atmosphere. The mass spectrometer with unprecedented mass resolution can observe ions escaping to space and monitor the atmospheric escape which has made the past Mars to evolve towards the cold and dry surface environment we know today. Together with the above two instruments, it can potentially reveal what kinds of atmospheric events can transport tracers (e.g., H2O) upward and enhance the atmospheric escape. Graphical Abstract
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19. Non-Oxide Optical Materials: introduction to the special issue

Author: Laurent Calvez, Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem, Changgui Lin, J. David Musgraves, Kathleen Richardson, Yaroslav Shpotyuk, Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes (ISCR), Université de Rennes (UR)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Rennes (INSA Rennes), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Rennes (ENSCR)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Adelaide, Ningbo University (NBU), University of Central Florida [Orlando] (UCF), and Rzeszow University of Technology
Subjects: Optical materials, [CHIM]Chemical Sciences, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Abstract: International audience; This is an introduction to the feature issue of Optical Materials Express on Non-Oxide Optical Materials. © 2022 Optica Publishing Group under the terms of the Optica Open Access Publishing Agreement
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20. Constraints on the structure and seasonal variations of Triton’s atmosphere from the 5 October 2017 stellar occultation and previous observations

Author: J. Marques Oliveira, B. Sicardy, A. R. Gomes-Júnior, J. L. Ortiz, D. F. Strobel, T. Bertrand, F. Forget, E. Lellouch, J. Desmars, D. Bérard, A. Doressoundiram, J. Lecacheux, R. Leiva, E. Meza, F. Roques, D. Souami, T. Widemann, P. Santos-Sanz, N. Morales, R. Duffard, E. Fernández-Valenzuela, A. J. Castro-Tirado, F. Braga-Ribas, B. E. Morgado, M. Assafin, J. I. B. Camargo, R. Vieira-Martins, G. Benedetti-Rossi, S. Santos-Filho, M. V. Banda-Huarca, F. Quispe-Huaynasi, C. L. Pereira, F. L. Rommel, G. Margoti, A. Dias-Oliveira, F. Colas, J. Berthier, S. Renner, R. Hueso, S. Pérez-Hoyos, A. Sánchez-Lavega, J. F. Rojas, W. Beisker, M. Kretlow, D. Herald, D. Gault, K.-L. Bath, H.-J. Bode, E. Bredner, K. Guhl, T. V. Haymes, E. Hummel, B. Kattentidt, O. Klös, A. Pratt, B. Thome, C. Avdellidou, K. Gazeas, E. Karampotsiou, L. Tzouganatos, E. Kardasis, A. A. Christou, E. M. Xilouris, I. Alikakos, A. Gourzelas, A. Liakos, V. Charmandaris, M. Jelínek, J. Štrobl, A. Eberle, K. Rapp, B. Gährken, B. Klemt, S. Kowollik, R. Bitzer, M. Miller, G. Herzogenrath, D. Frangenberg, L. Brandis, I. Pütz, V. Perdelwitz, G. M. Piehler, P. Riepe, K. von Poschinger, P. Baruffetti, D. Cenadelli, J.-M. Christille, F. Ciabattari, R. Di Luca, D. Alboresi, G. Leto, R. Zanmar Sanchez, P. Bruno, G. Occhipinti, L. Morrone, L. Cupolino, A. Noschese, A. Vecchione, C. Scalia, R. Lo Savio, G. Giardina, S. Kamoun, R. Barbosa, R. Behrend, M. Spano, E. Bouchet, M. Cottier, L. Falco, S. Gallego, L. Tortorelli, S. Sposetti, J. Sussenbach, F. Van Den Abbeel, P. André, M. Llibre, F. Pailler, J. Ardissone, M. Boutet, J. Sanchez, M. Bretton, A. Cailleau, V. Pic, L. Granier, R. Chauvet, M. Conjat, J. L. Dauvergne, O. Dechambre, P. Delay, M. Delcroix, L. Rousselot, J. Ferreira, P. Machado, P. Tanga, J.-P. Rivet, E. Frappa, M. Irzyk, F. Jabet, M. Kaschinski, A. Klotz, Y. Rieugnie, A. N. Klotz, O. Labrevoir, D. Lavandier, D. Walliang, A. Leroy, S. Bouley, S. Lisciandra, J.-F. Coliac, F. Metz, D. Erpelding, P. Nougayrède, T. Midavaine, M. Miniou, S. Moindrot, P. Morel, B. Reginato, E. Reginato, J. Rudelle, B. Tregon, R. Tanguy, J. David, W. Thuillot, D. Hestroffer, G. Vaudescal, D. Baba Aissa, Z. Grigahcene, D. Briggs, S. Broadbent, P. Denyer, N. J. Haigh, N. Quinn, G. Thurston, S. J. Fossey, C. Arena, M. Jennings, J. Talbot, S. Alonso, A. Román Reche, V. Casanova, E. Briggs, R. Iglesias-Marzoa, J. Abril Ibáñez, M. C. Díaz Martín, H. González, J. L. Maestre García, J. Marchant, I. Ordonez-Etxeberria, P. Martorell, J. Salamero, F. Organero, L. Ana, F. Fonseca, V. Peris, O. Brevia, A. Selva, C. Perello, V. Cabedo, R. Gonçalves, M. Ferreira, F. Marques Dias, A. Daassou, K. Barkaoui, Z. Benkhaldoun, M. Guennoun, J. Chouqar, E. Jehin, C. Rinner, J. Lloyd, M. El Moutamid, C. Lamarche, J. T. Pollock, D. B. Caton, V. Kouprianov, B. W. Timerson, G. Blanchard, B. Payet, A. Peyrot, J.-P. Teng-Chuen-Yu, J. Françoise, B. Mondon, T. Payet, C. Boissel, M. Castets, W. B. Hubbard, R. Hill, H. J. Reitsema, O. Mousis, L. Ball, G. Neilsen, S. Hutcheon, K. Lay, P. Anderson, M. Moy, M. Jonsen, I. Pink, R. Walters, B. Downs, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España), Junta de Andalucía, European Research Council, European Commission, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal), Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique = Laboratory of Space Studies and Instrumentation in Astrophysics (LESIA), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho = São Paulo State University (UNESP), Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), Johns Hopkins University (JHU), Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (UMR 8539) (LMD), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Département des Géosciences - ENS Paris, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Institut Polytechnique des Sciences Avancées (IPSA), Institut de Mécanique Céleste et de Calcul des Ephémérides (IMCCE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Lille-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur (OCA), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Comisión Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Aeroespacial (CONIDA), Observatorio Astronómico de Moquegua, Florida Space Institute [Orlando] (FSI), University of Central Florida [Orlando] (UCF), Federal University of Technology - Paraná (UTFPR), Observatório Nacional [Rio de Janeiro] (ON), Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia, Inovações e Comunicações (MCTIC), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Polo Educacional Sesc [Rio de Janeiro], Université de Lille, Universidad del Pais Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea [Espagne] (UPV/EHU), International Occultation Timing Association (IOTA), Internationale Amateursternwarte [Mittenwalde] (IAS), Société Astronomique de France (SAF), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Analyse, ingénierie et contrôle des micro-organismes (MICROCOSME), Inria Grenoble - Rhône-Alpes, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Laboratoire Ondes et Matière d'Aquitaine (LOMA), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), European Project: 669416,H2020,ERC-2014-ADG,LUCKY STAR(2015), and European Project: 687378,H2020,H2020-COMPET-2015,SBNAF(2016)
Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP), planets and satellites: atmospheres, planets and satellites: physical evolution, [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], photometric [Techniques], FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, methods: data analysis, techniques: photometric, Space and Planetary Science, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], atmospheres [Planets and satellites], observational [Methods], methods: observational, data analysis [Methods], physical evolution [Planets and satellites], Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Abstract: J.M.O. acknowledges financial support from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) and the European Social Fund (ESF) through the PhD grant SFRH/BD/131700/2017. The work leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Community's H2020 2014-2021 ERC grant Agreement nffi 669416 "Lucky Star". We thank S. Para who supported some travels to observe the 5 October 2017 occultation. T.B. was supported for this research by an appointment to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Post-Doctoral Program at the Ames Research Center administered by Universities Space Research Association (USRA) through a contract with NASA. We acknowledge useful exchanges with Mark Gurwell on the ALMA CO observations. This work has made use of data from the European Space Agency (ESA) mission Gaia (https://www.cosmos.esa.int/gaia), processed by the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC, https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/dpac/consortium).Funding for the DPAC has been provided by national institutions, in particular the institutions participating in the Gaia Multilateral Agreement. J.L.O., P.S.-S., N.M. and R.D. acknowledge financial support from the State Agency for Research of the Spanish MCIU through the "Center of Excellence Severo Ochoa" award to the Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia (SEV-2017-0709), they also acknowledge the financial support by the Spanish grant AYA-2017-84637-R and the Proyecto de Excelencia de la Junta de Andalucia J.A. 2012-FQM1776. The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, under Grant Agreement no. 687378, as part of the project "Small Bodies Near and Far" (SBNAF). P.S.-S. acknowledges financial support by the Spanish grant AYA-RTI2018-098657-J-I00 "LEO-SBNAF". The work was partially based on observations made at the Laboratorio Nacional de Astrofisica (LNA), Itajuba-MG, Brazil. The following authors acknowledge the respective CNPq grants: F.B.-R. 309578/2017-5; R.V.-M. 304544/2017-5, 401903/2016-8; J.I.B.C. 308150/2016-3 and 305917/2019-6; M.A. 427700/20183, 310683/2017-3, 473002/2013-2. This study was financed in part by the Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior -Brasil (CAPES) -Finance Code 001 and the National Institute of Science and Technology of the e-Universe project (INCT do e-Universo, CNPq grant 465376/2014-2). G.B.R. acknowledges CAPES-FAPERJ/PAPDRJ grant E26/203.173/2016 and CAPES-PRINT/UNESP grant 88887.571156/2020-00, M.A. FAPERJ grant E26/111.488/2013 and A.R.G.Jr. FAPESP grant 2018/11239-8. B.E.M. thanks CNPq 150612/2020-6 and CAPES/Cofecub-394/2016-05 grants. Part of the photometric data used in this study were collected in the frame of the photometric observations with the robotic and remotely controlled telescope at the University of Athens Observatory (UOAO; Gazeas 2016). The 2.3 m Aristarchos telescope is operated on Helmos Observatory by the Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing of the National Observatory of Athens. Observations with the 2.3 m Aristarchos telescope were carried out under OPTICON programme. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 730890. This material reflects only the authors views and the Commission is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained therein. The 1. 2m Kryoneri telescope is operated by the Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing of the National Observatory of Athens. The Astronomical Observatory of the Autonomous Region of the Aosta Valley (OAVdA) is managed by the Fondazione Clement Fillietroz-ONLUS, which is supported by the Regional Government of the Aosta Valley, the Town Municipality of Nus and the "Unite des Communes valdotaines Mont-Emilius". The 0.81 m Main Telescope at the OAVdA was upgraded thanks to a Shoemaker NEO Grant 2013 from The Planetary Society. D.C. and J.M.C. acknowledge funds from a 2017 'Research and Education' grant from Fondazione CRT-Cassa di Risparmio di Torino. P.M. acknowledges support from the Portuguese Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia ref. PTDC/FISAST/29942/2017 through national funds and by FEDER through COMPETE 2020 (ref. POCI010145 FEDER007672). F.J. acknowledges Jean Luc Plouvier for his help. S.J.F. and C.A. would like to thank the UCL student support observers: Helen Dai, Elise Darragh-Ford, Ross Dobson, Max Hipperson, Edward Kerr-Dineen, Isaac Langley, Emese Meder, Roman Gerasimov, Javier Sanjuan, and Manasvee Saraf. We are grateful to the CAHA, OSN and La Hita Observatory staffs. This research is partially based on observations collected at Centro Astronomico HispanoAleman (CAHA) at Calar Alto, operated jointly by Junta de Andalucia and Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (IAA-CSIC). This research was also partially based on observation carried out at the Observatorio de Sierra Nevada (OSN) operated by Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia (CSIC). This article is also based on observations made with the Liverpool Telescope operated on the island of La Palma by Liverpool John Moores University in the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias with financial support from the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council. Partially based on observations made with the Tx40 and Excalibur telescopes at the Observatorio Astrofisico de Javalambre in Teruel, a Spanish Infraestructura Cientifico-Tecnica Singular (ICTS) owned, managed and operated by the Centro de Estudios de Fisica del Cosmos de Aragon (CEFCA). Tx40 and Excalibur are funded with the Fondos de Inversiones de Teruel (FITE). A.R.R. would like to thank Gustavo Roman for the mechanical adaptation of the camera to the telescope to allow for the observation to be recorded. R.H., J.F.R., S.P.H. and A.S.L. have been supported by the Spanish projects AYA2015-65041P and PID2019-109467GB-100 (MINECO/FEDER, UE) and Grupos Gobierno Vasco IT1366-19. Our great thanks to Omar Hila and their collaborators in Atlas Golf Marrakech Observatory for providing access to the T60cm telescope. TRAPPIST is a project funded by the Belgian Fonds (National) de la Recherche Scientifique (F.R.S.-FNRS) under grant PDR T.0120.21. TRAPPIST-North is a project funded by the University of Liege, and performed in collaboration with Cadi Ayyad University of Marrakesh. E.J. is a FNRS Senior Research Associate., Context. A stellar occultation by Neptune's main satellite, Triton, was observed on 5 October 2017 from Europe, North Africa, and the USA. We derived 90 light curves from this event, 42 of which yielded a central flash detection. Aims. We aimed at constraining Triton's atmospheric structure and the seasonal variations of its atmospheric pressure since the Voyager 2 epoch (1989). We also derived the shape of the lower atmosphere from central flash analysis. Methods. We used Abel inversions and direct ray-tracing code to provide the density, pressure, and temperature profiles in the altitude range similar to 8 km to similar to 190 km, corresponding to pressure levels from 9 mu bar down to a few nanobars. Results. (i) A pressure of 1.18 +/- 0.03 mu bar is found at a reference radius of 1400 km (47 km altitude). (ii) A new analysis of the Voyager 2 radio science occultation shows that this is consistent with an extrapolation of pressure down to the surface pressure obtained in 1989. (iii) A survey of occultations obtained between 1989 and 2017 suggests that an enhancement in surface pressure as reported during the 1990s might be real, but debatable, due to very few high S/N light curves and data accessible for reanalysis. The volatile transport model analysed supports a moderate increase in surface pressure, with a maximum value around 2005-2015 no higher than 23 mu bar. The pressures observed in 1995-1997 and 2017 appear mutually inconsistent with the volatile transport model presented here. (iv) The central flash structure does not show evidence of an atmospheric distortion. We find an upper limit of 0.0011 for the apparent oblateness of the atmosphere near the 8 km altitude., Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology SFRH/BD/131700/2017, European Social Fund (ESF) SFRH/BD/131700/2017, European Research Council under the European Community's H2020 2014-2021 ERC grant 669416, Spanish Government SEV-2017-0709 AYA-2017-84637-R AYA-RTI2018-098657-J-I00, Junta de Andalucia 2012-FQM1776, European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, as part of the project "Small Bodies Near and Far" (SBNAF) 687378, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPQ), Fundacao de Apoio a Pesquisa do Distrito Federal (FAPDF) 309578/2017-5 304544/2017-5 401903/2016-8 308150/2016-3 305917/2019-6 427700/2018-3 310683/2017-3 473002/2013-2, Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior (CAPES) 001, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPQ) 465376/2014-2 CAPES-FAPERJ/PAPDRJ grant E26/203.173/2016 CAPES-PRINT/UNESP grant 88887.571156/2020-00, Fundacao Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado do Rio De Janeiro (FAPERJ) E26/111.488/2013, Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP) 2018/11239-8, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPQ) 150612/2020-6, European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme 730890, Regional Government of the Aosta Valley, Town Municipality of Nus, Unite des Communes valdotaines Mont-Emilius, Planetary Society, Fondazione CRT-Cassa di Risparmio di Torino, Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology PTDC/FISAST/29942/2017, FEDER through COMPETE 2020 POCI010145 FEDER007672, UK Research & Innovation (UKRI), Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Fondos de Inversiones de Teruel (FITE), Spanish Government AYA2015-65041P PID2019-109467GB-100, Grupos Gobierno Vasco IT1366-19, Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique - FNRS PDR T.0120.21, University of Liege, CAPES/Cofecub-394/2016-05
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21. Understanding, Modeling and Simulating Unintended Positional Drift during Repetitive Steering Navigation Tasks in Virtual Reality

Author: Ferran Argelaguet, Maud Marchal, Anne-Hélène Olivier, Hugo Brument, Gerd Bruder, 3D interaction with virtual environments using body and mind (Hybrid), Inria Rennes – Bretagne Atlantique, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-MEDIA ET INTERACTIONS (IRISA-D6), Institut de Recherche en Informatique et Systèmes Aléatoires (IRISA), Université de Bretagne Sud (UBS)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Rennes (INSA Rennes), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-École normale supérieure - Rennes (ENS Rennes)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-CentraleSupélec-IMT Atlantique Bretagne-Pays de la Loire (IMT Atlantique), Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-Université de Bretagne Sud (UBS)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Rennes (INSA Rennes), Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-Institut de Recherche en Informatique et Systèmes Aléatoires (IRISA), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-École normale supérieure - Rennes (ENS Rennes)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT), University of Central Florida [Orlando] (UCF), Sensor-based and interactive robotics (RAINBOW), Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-SIGNAUX ET IMAGES NUMÉRIQUES, ROBOTIQUE (IRISA-D5), Analysis-Synthesis Approach for Virtual Human Simulation (MIMETIC), Université de Rennes 2 (UR2), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Inria Rennes – Bretagne Atlantique, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-École normale supérieure - Rennes (ENS Rennes)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), Université de Rennes (UR)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Rennes (INSA Rennes), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Bretagne Sud (UBS)-École normale supérieure - Rennes (ENS Rennes)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-CentraleSupélec-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-IMT Atlantique (IMT Atlantique), Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-Université de Rennes (UR)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Rennes (INSA Rennes), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Bretagne Sud (UBS)-École normale supérieure - Rennes (ENS Rennes)-CentraleSupélec-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-IMT Atlantique (IMT Atlantique), and Université de Rennes 2 (UR2)-Inria Rennes – Bretagne Atlantique
Subjects: Computer science, Movement, Context (language use), 02 engineering and technology, Workspace, Virtual reality, Task (project management), User-Computer Interface, Human–computer interaction, Joystick, Computer Graphics, 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, Humans, Computer Simulation, [INFO]Computer Science [cs], [INFO.INFO-HC]Computer Science [cs]/Human-Computer Interaction [cs.HC], navigation, Orientation (computer vision), motion analysis, Virtual Reality, 020207 software engineering, Mixture model, Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, [INFO.INFO-GR]Computer Science [cs]/Graphics [cs.GR], Visualization, Signal Processing, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, steering techniques, Software
Abstract: International audience; Virtual steering techniques enable users to navigate in larger Virtual Environments (VEs) than the physical workspace available. Even though these techniques do not require physical movement of the users (e.g. using a joystick and the head orientation to steer towards a virtual direction), recent work observed that users might unintentionally move in the physical workspace while navigating, resulting in Unintended Positional Drift (UPD). This phenomenon can be a safety issue since users may unintentionally reach the physical boundaries of the workspace while using a steering technique. In this context, as a necessary first step to improve the design of navigation techniques minimizing the UPD, this paper aims at analyzing and modeling the UPD during a virtual navigation task. In particular, we characterize and analyze the UPD for a dataset containing the positions and orientations of eighteen users performing a virtual slalom task using virtual steering techniques. Participants wore a head-mounted display and had to follow three different sinusoidal-like trajectories (with low, medium and high curvature) using a torso-steering navigation technique. We analyzed the performed motions and proposed two UPD models: the first based on a linear regression analysis and the second based on a Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) analysis. Then, we assessed both models through a simulation-based evaluation where we reproduced the same navigation task using virtual agents. Our results indicate the feasibility of using simulation-based evaluations to study UPD. The paper concludes with a discussion of potential applications of the results in order to gain a better understanding of UPD during steering and therefore improve the design of navigation techniques by compensating for UPD.
Published: 2021
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22. Electron beam analysis induces Cl vacancy defects in a NaCl thin film

Author: Abdelkader Kara, Azzedine Bendounan, Abdelilah Benyoussef, Khalid Quertite, Hanna Enriquez, Abdallah El Kenz, Nicolas Trcera, Andrew J. Mayne, Yannick J. Dappe, Hamid Oughaddou, Gérald Dujardin, Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d'Orsay (ISMO), Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Mohammed V de Rabat [Agdal] (UM5), Synchrotron SOLEIL (SSOLEIL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Service de physique de l'état condensé (SPEC - UMR3680), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Groupe Modélisation et Théorie (GMT), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Rayonnement Matière de Saclay (IRAMIS), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, University of Central Florida [Orlando] (UCF), CY Cergy Paris Université (CY), and ANR-10-LABX-0035,Nano-Saclay,Paris-Saclay multidisciplinary Nano-Lab(2010)
Subjects: insulating surfaces, [PHYS]Physics [physics], Auger electron spectroscopy, Materials science, Low-energy electron diffraction, Mechanical Engineering, Analytical chemistry, DFT calculation, Bioengineering, General Chemistry, Substrate (electronics), atomic vacancies, law.invention, Mechanics of Materials, law, Desorption, Vacancy defect, Monolayer, General Materials Science, two-dimensional materials, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Scanning tunneling microscope, Thin film, low temperature scanning tunneling microscopy
Abstract: This work reports on the electron-induced modification of NaCl thin film grown on Ag(110). We show using low energy electron diffraction that electron beam bombardment leads to desorption and formation of Cl vacancy defects on NaCl surface. The topographic structure of these defects is studied using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) showing the Cl defects as depressions on the NaCl surface. Most of the observed defects are mono-atomic vacancies and are located on flat NaCl terraces. Auger electron spectroscopy confirms the effect of electron exposure on NaCl thin films showing Cl atoms desorption from the surface. Using density functional theory taken into account the van der Waals dispersion interactions, we confirm the observed experimental STM measurements with STM simulation. Furthermore, comparing the adsorption of defect free NaCl and defective NaCl monolayer on Ag(110) surfaces, we found an increase of the adhesion energy and the charge transfer between the NaCl film and the substrate due to the Cl vacancy. In details, the adhesion energy increases between the NaCl film and the metallic Ag substrate from 30.4 meV Å−2 for the NaCl film without Cl vacancy and from 39.5 meV Å−2 for NaCl film with a single Cl vacancy. The charge transfer from the NaCl film to the Ag substrate is enhanced when the vacancy is created, from 0.63e− to 1.25e−.
Published: 2021
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23. De novo and inherited variants in ZNF292 underlie a neurodevelopmental disorder with features of autism spectrum disorder

Author: Jonathan A. Bernstein, Leah J. Rowe, Kimberly Foss, Samin A. Sajan, Kun Xia, Juliane Hoyer, Anita E. Beck, Shayna Svihovec, Vincent Gatinois, Lance H. Rodan, Roksana Sasanfar, Christiane Zweier, Alban Ziegler, Sonal Mahida, Kristin G. Monaghan, Charlotte W. Ockeloen, André Reis, Milen Velinov, Janson White, Evan E. Eichler, Nasim Vasli, Jennifer Friedman, Constance Smith-Hicks, Gilles Morin, Rachel Westman, Sandra Yang, Joshua Scheck, Christian Thiel, John B. Vincent, Deborah A. Nickerson, Michelle E. Ernst, Jacqueline Harris, Natasha Zeid, Bernt Popp, Francesca Mattioli, Zehra Agha, Ellen van Binsbergen, Julian A. Martinez-Agosto, Karen W. Gripp, Gwenaël Le Guyader, Catherine Vincent-Delorme, Lori-Anne Schillaci, Jennefer N. Kohler, Kimberly A. Aldinger, Laurence J. Walsh, Jessica X. Chong, David Geneviève, Rami Abou Jamra, Amy Yang, Cigdem I. Akman, Sha Tang, Ricardo Harripaul, Rick Person, Marleen Simon, Hui Guo, Muhammad Ayub, Laura S. Farach, Patricia Blanchet, Austin Larson, Marie Vincent, Luis Rohena, Michael J. Bamshad, Raheel Qamar, Gregory M. Enns, Joshua Rotenberg, Katelyn Payne, William J. Sunderland, Anne C.-H. Tsai, Annika M. Dries, Michèle Mathieu-Dramard, Dominique Bonneau, Ghayda M. Mirzaa, Bénédicte Gérard, Elise Schaefer, Amélie Piton, Patricia G Wheeler, Division of Medical Genetics [Seattle], University of Washington [Seattle], Détoxication et réparation tissulaire, Université de Rennes (UR)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Les Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg (HUS), Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Center for Integrative Brain Research [Seattle, WA, USA], University of Washington [Seattle]-Seattle Children's Research Institute, Central South University [Changsha], Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Center for Integrative Brain Research, Ambry Genetics [Aliso Viejo, CA, USA], China Agricultural University (CAU), Biologie Neurovasculaire et Mitochondriale Intégrée (BNMI), Université d'Angers (UA)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire d'Angers (CHU Angers), PRES Université Nantes Angers Le Mans (UNAM), Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Washington University in Saint Louis (WUSTL), Kennedy Krieger Institute [Baltimore], Institute of Human Genetics [Erlangen, Allemagne], Universität Leipzig, Yale University [New Haven], Oregon Health and Science University [Portland] (OHSU), McGovern Medical School [Houston, Texas], Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), Indiana University System, Indiana University [South Bend], The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University [New York], Service de génétique médicale, CHU Strasbourg-Hôpital de Hautepierre [Strasbourg], CHU Strasbourg, Cellules Souches, Plasticité Cellulaire, Médecine Régénératrice et Immunothérapies (IRMB), Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Montpellier] (CHRU Montpellier)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Montpellier (UM), Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Montpellier] (CHRU Montpellier), University Medical Center [Utrecht], Stanford University School of Medicine [CA, USA], Memorial Hermann Heart and Vascular Institute [Houston, TX, USA], University of Central Florida [Orlando] (UCF), Department of Pediatrics [Univ California San Diego] (UC San Diego), School of Medicine [Univ California San Diego] (UC San Diego), University of California [San Diego] (UC San Diego), University of California (UC)-University of California (UC)-University of California [San Diego] (UC San Diego), University of California (UC)-University of California (UC), University of Colorado Anschutz [Aurora], Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry [Bern], University of Bern, Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC), Signal Processing Lab [Boise - Idaho], Boise State University, University Hospitals Case Medical Center (CLEVELAND - UHCMC), University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Hôpital Jeanne de Flandres, Université de Lille, Droit et Santé-Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Lille] (CHRU Lille), Department of Psychology [University North Carolina Wilmington], University of North Carolina [Wilmington] (UNC), University of North Carolina System (UNC)-University of North Carolina System (UNC), Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IGBMC), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre hospitalier universitaire de Poitiers (CHU Poitiers), Service d'hématologie et immunologie, Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-AP-HP - Hôpital Bichat - Claude Bernard [Paris], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Unité de génétique médicale et oncogénétique [CHU Amiens Picardie], CHU Amiens-Picardie, Institut d'histoire du temps présent (IHTP), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Massachusetts Medical School [Worcester] (UMASS), University of Massachusetts System (UMASS), Queen's University [Kingston, Canada], Department of Molecular Genetics [Toronto], University of Toronto, GeneDx [Gaithersburg, MD, USA], Department of Genome Sciences [Seattle] (GS), Department of Pediatrics [Stanford], Stanford Medicine, Stanford University-Stanford University, Stanford School of Medicine [Stanford], Stanford University, University of California (UC), COMSATS Institute of Information Technology [Islamabad] (CIIT), Boston Children's Hospital, University of California [Los Angeles] (UCLA), Radboud University Medical Center [Nijmegen], Centre hospitalier universitaire de Nantes (CHU Nantes), Department of Psychiatry, Seattle University [Seattle], Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Universität Leipzig [Leipzig], Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Montpellier] (CHRU Montpellier), Department of Pediatrics [san Diego], UC San Diego School of Medicine, Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-AP-HP - Hôpital Bichat - Claude Bernard [Paris], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), and University of California
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Proband, Male, Adolescent, Autism Spectrum Disorder, autism spectrum disorders, Nerve Tissue Proteins, Neuroimaging, 030105 genetics & heredity, Biology, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, Neurodevelopmental disorder, ZNF292, Intellectual disability, mental disorders, Exome Sequencing, medicine, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Child, Genetics (clinical), Exome sequencing, Genetics, Zinc finger, next generation sequencing, Genetic heterogeneity, High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing, medicine.disease, Phenotype, 3. Good health, 030104 developmental biology, [SDV.GEN.GH]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics/Human genetics, Autism spectrum disorder, intellectual disability, Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Child, Preschool, next-generation sequencing, [SDV.NEU]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Neurons and Cognition [q-bio.NC], Female, Carrier Proteins, [SDV.MHEP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology, Rare cancers Radboud Institute for Health Sciences [Radboudumc 9]
Abstract: Contains fulltext : 218267.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access) PURPOSE: Intellectual disability (ID) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are genetically heterogeneous neurodevelopmental disorders. We sought to delineate the clinical, molecular, and neuroimaging spectrum of a novel neurodevelopmental disorder caused by variants in the zinc finger protein 292 gene (ZNF292). METHODS: We ascertained a cohort of 28 families with ID due to putatively pathogenic ZNF292 variants that were identified via targeted and exome sequencing. Available data were analyzed to characterize the canonical phenotype and examine genotype-phenotype relationships. RESULTS: Probands presented with ID as well as a spectrum of neurodevelopmental features including ASD, among others. All ZNF292 variants were de novo, except in one family with dominant inheritance. ZNF292 encodes a highly conserved zinc finger protein that acts as a transcription factor and is highly expressed in the developing human brain supporting its critical role in neurodevelopment. CONCLUSION: De novo and dominantly inherited variants in ZNF292 are associated with a range of neurodevelopmental features including ID and ASD. The clinical spectrum is broad, and most individuals present with mild to moderate ID with or without other syndromic features. Our results suggest that variants in ZNF292 are likely a recurrent cause of a neurodevelopmental disorder manifesting as ID with or without ASD.
Published: 2019
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24. Electron-Induced Excitation, Recombination, and Dissociation of Molecular Ions Initiating the Formation of Complex Organic Molecules

Author: Kalyan Chakrabarti, Ousmanou Motapon, I. F. Schneider, Nicolas Douguet, Zsolt J. Mezei, Michel D. Epée Epée, Chi Hong Yuen, Samantha Fonseca dos Santos, Viatcheslav Kokoouline, Mehdi Ayouz, Laboratoire Ondes et Milieux Complexes (LOMC), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Le Havre Normandie (ULH), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU), Centre for Atomic Molecular Physics and Quantum Optic [Douala] (CEPAMOQ), Université de Douala, University of Central Florida [Orlando] (UCF), Laboratoire de Génie des Procédés et Matériaux - EA 4038 (LGPM), CentraleSupélec, and Department of Physics [Orlando] (UCF | Physics)
Subjects: Atmospheric Science, Materials science, Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph), FOS: Physical sciences, 01 natural sciences, Molecular physics, Dissociation (chemistry), Physics - Atomic Physics, Ion, Quantum defect, Geochemistry and Petrology, Physics - Chemical Physics, 0103 physical sciences, Physics::Atomic and Molecular Clusters, Physics::Chemical Physics, 010306 general physics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Dissociative recombination, [PHYS]Physics [physics], Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph), Polyatomic ion, Rotational–vibrational spectroscopy, Diatomic molecule, Physics - Plasma Physics, 3. Good health, Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph), Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Excitation
Abstract: We review the study of dissociative recombination and ro-vibrational excitation of diatomic and small polyatomic molecular ions initiating complex organic molecules formation. In particular, we show how Multichannel Quantum Defect Theory (MQDT) and R-matrix methods are used to compute cross sections and rate coefficients for cations in well defined ro-vibrational levels of the ground electronic state, from sub-meV up to few eV collision energies. The most recent MQDT results are compared with either other theoretical data, or with measured data obtained in storage-ring experiments., Comment: 20 pages, 13 figures
Published: 2019
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25. Phosphorene: A promising candidate for H2 storage at room temperature

Author: M. Garara, M. Louilidi, Abdelilah Benyoussef, H. Benzidi, M. Lakhal, Omar Mounkachi, A. El Kenz, Hamid Ez-Zahraouy, M. Hamedoun, Abdelkader Kara, LMPHE, Université Mohammed V de Rabat [Agdal], Department of Physics [Orlando] (UCF | Physics), and University of Central Florida [Orlando] (UCF)
Subjects: Materials science, Energy Engineering and Power Technology, 02 engineering and technology, 010402 general chemistry, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Hydrogen storage, symbols.namesake, chemistry.chemical_compound, Physisorption, Diffusion (business), ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, Condensed Matter Physics, Bond-dissociation energy, Potential energy, 0104 chemical sciences, [CHIM.THEO]Chemical Sciences/Theoretical and/or physical chemistry, Phosphorene, Fuel Technology, chemistry, Chemical physics, symbols, Density functional theory, van der Waals force, 0210 nano-technology
Abstract: Owing to the existence of periodic channels in phosphorene, this 2D material can be a good candidate for room temperature reversible hydrogen storage. The density functional theory calculations (DFT), including van der Waals interactions (vdW-DF2) coupled with the cooper exchange functional (C09), has been applied to study the potential of phosphorene as a new 2D material for hydrogen storage. Our results show that the adsorption energy (−292 to −277 meV) of H2 on phosphorene is appropriate for storage. The analysis of diffusion pathways between different physisorbed states on phosphorene shows that a single hydrogen molecule diffuses very easily along the open channel (less than 1 meV along the zigzag direction), as compared to 14 meV for diffusion across the channels (along the armchair direction). The potential energy surfaces for the dissociative chemisorption of H2 was computed on highly symmetric sites of phosphorene and the highest activation barrier was found to be 2.77 eV. The very large dissociation energy coupled with a strong physisorption of H2 on phosphorene and facile diffusion, makes this 2D material a promising candidate for H2 storage at room temperature.
Published: 2019
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26. Analyse et Conception de Faisceaux de Fibres Infrarouges Pour L'imagerie Thermique à Large Champ de Vision

Author: Lopez-Zelaya, Cesar, University of Central Florida [Orlando] (UCF), University of Central Florida, and C. Kyle Renshaw
Subjects: [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-OPTICS]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Optics [physics.optics], optical fibers, infrared imaging, verre chalcogénure, wide-angle imaging, coupled-mode theory, chalcogenide glass, compact imaging system, fibres optiques, [SPI.OPTI]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Optics / Photonic, imagerie grand angle, imagerie infrarouge, théorie des modes couplés, système d'imagerie compact
Abstract: During the DARPA SCENICC program, J. Ford, et al., demonstrated that CFBs provide a compelling route to compact, wide angle imagers. Monocentric lenses readily provide diffraction-limited images over wide field but onto a hemispherically curved image surface. They demonstrated visible CFBs can be tapered, cut and polished to relay curved images to flat sensors. We have shown that this provides a volumetric imaging efficiency a hundredfold larger than bulk optics can produce; a hundred times the resolution in the same volume or a hundred times less volume for the same resolution. Ford's work leveraged commercial fiber bundles available for the visible spectrum based on silica. We have developed hybrid fiber bundles using step-index confinement between chalcogenide glass cores and polymer cladding with high index-contrast. The high contrast is necessary to provide tight confinement to the high-index As-Se core with minimal crosstalk between closely spaced cores. Tight confinement also minimizes absorption losses in the PEI polymer cladding. The high contrast of this system also provides a large NA to optimize coupling into the CFB from fast lenses. We introduce disorder into the core radius as a mechanism to further decouple adjacent cores, reduce crosstalk and increase fill-factor. We present coupled-mode theory, modal crosstalk superposition, and finite-element modelling to quantify coupling losses and crosstalk as a function of geometry and disorder. We fabricated preforms, drew small fiber bundles and characterized optical properties of the bundles to aid scale-up to megapixel MWIR CFBs.; Au cours du programme DARPA SCENICC, J. Ford et al. ont démontré que les faisceaux de fibres cohérents (FFC) offrent une voie convaincante aux imageurs compacts à grand angle. Les lentilles monocentriques fournissent facilement des images à diffraction limitée sur un grand champ mais sur une surface d'image incurvée de manière hémisphérique. Ils ont démontré que les FFCs visibles peuvent être effilés, coupés et polis pour transmettre des images incurvées à des capteurs plats. Nous avons montré que cela fournit une efficacité d'imagerie volumétrique cent fois supérieure à ce que l'optique en vrac peut produire ; cent fois la résolution dans le même volume ou cent fois moins de volume pour la même résolution. Les travaux de Ford ont tiré parti des faisceaux de fibres commerciaux disponibles pour le spectre visible à base de silice. Nous avons développé des faisceaux de fibres hybrides utilisant un confinement à saut d'indice entre des noyaux de verre chalcogénure et une gaine polymère à fort contraste d'indice. Le contraste élevé est nécessaire pour fournir un confinement serré au cœur As-Se à indice élevé avec une diaphonie minimale entre des cœurs rapprochés. Un confinement étanche minimise également les pertes par absorption dans le revêtement en polymère PEI. Le contraste élevé de ce système fournit également un grand NA pour optimiser le couplage dans le FFC à partir des objectifs rapides. Nous introduisons du désordre dans le rayon du noyau comme mécanisme pour découpler davantage les noyaux adjacents, réduire la diaphonie et augmenter le facteur de remplissage. Nous présentons la théorie des modes couplés, la superposition de diaphonie modale et la modélisation par éléments finis pour quantifier les pertes de couplage et la diaphonie en fonction de la géométrie et du désordre. Nous avons fabriqué des préformes, dessiné de petits faisceaux de fibres et caractérisé les propriétés optiques des faisceaux pour faciliter la mise à l'échelle des FFCs mégapixels MWIR.
Published: 2021

27. Revealing the origin of chemical complexity in extraterrestrial matter by combining multiple characterization techniques: HR-L2MS, TOF-SIMS, and micro-Raman spectroscopy: Invited talk

Author: Pirim, Claire, Dumitru, Duca, Slavicinska, Katerina, Ferrari, Brian, Carpentier, Yvain, Vojkovic, Marin, Chazallon, Bertrand, Focsa, Cristian, Bennett, Christopher J., Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, Atomes et Molécules - UMR 8523 (PhLAM), Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Physique Moléculaire aux Interfaces (PMI), Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and University of Central Florida [Orlando] (UCF)
Subjects: [CHIM.THEO]Chemical Sciences/Theoretical and/or physical chemistry, [PHYS]Physics [physics], Astrochemistry -meteorites, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], Mass spectrometry imaging techniques, Micro-Raman Spectroscopy, Laser desorption ionization mass spectrometry, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-CHEM-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Chemical Physics [physics.chem-ph], Secondary ion mass spectrometry SIMS, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
Abstract: International audience
Published: 2021

28. Benzothiadiazole substituted aza-BODIPY dyes: two-photon absorption enhancement for improved optical limiting performances in the SWIR range

Author: Gérard Berginc, Boris Le Guennic, Olivier Maury, David J. Hagan, Carl Brännlund, Sylvain David, Cesar Lopes, Chantal Andraud, Denis Jacquemin, Hao-Jung Chang, Eric W. Van Stryland, Mykailo V Bondar, Laboratoire de Chimie - UMR5182 (LC), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Central Florida [Orlando] (UCF), Swedish Defense Research Agency (FOI), Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes (ISCR), Université de Rennes (UR)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Rennes (INSA Rennes), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Rennes (ENSCR)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Thales LAS France, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU), Chimie Et Interdisciplinarité : Synthèse, Analyse, Modélisation (CEISAM), Université de Nantes - UFR des Sciences et des Techniques (UN UFR ST), Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Rennes (ENSCR)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Rennes (INSA Rennes), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA), and Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)
Subjects: Aza-bodipy dyes, 010405 organic chemistry, Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Optical power, General Chemistry, 010402 general chemistry, Photochemistry, 01 natural sciences, Two-photon absorption, Catalysis, 0104 chemical sciences, Delocalized electron, two photon absorption, Intramolecular force, nonlinear optic, Moiety, Molecule, [CHIM]Chemical Sciences, optical limitation, Absorption (electromagnetic radiation), Spectroscopy, photophysics
Abstract: International audience; Aza-boron dipyrromethenes (aza-BODIPYs) presenting a benzothiadiazole substitution on upper positions are described. The strong electron-withdrawing effect of the benzothiadiazole moiety permits enhancement of the accepting strength and improves the delocalization of the aza-BODIPY core to attain a significant degree of electronic communication between the lower donating groups and the upper accepting groups. The nature of the intramolecular charge transfer is studied both experimentally and theoretically. Linear spectroscopy highlighted the strongly redshifted absorption and emission of the synthesized molecules with recorded fluorescence spectra over 1000 nm. Nonlinear optical properties were also investigated. Strong enhancement of the two-photon absorption of the substituted dyes compared with the unsubstituted one (up to 4520 GM at 1300 nm) results in an approximately 15-20 % improvement of the optical power limiting performances. These dyes are therefore a good starting point for further improvement of optical power limiting in the short-wave IR range.
Published: 2021
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29. Investigation of ZnSe stability and dissolution behavior in As-S-Se chalcogenide glasses

Author: Matthieu Chazot, Justin Cook, Cesar Blanco, Kathleen Richardson, Dominique Verreault, Sylvain Danto, Vincent Rodriguez, Frédéric Adamietz, Anupama Yadav, Martin Richardson, Chanelle Arias, David Furniss, Thomas J. Loretz, Kenneth L. Schepler, Myungkoo Kang, Angela B. Seddon, Alexandros Kostogiannes, Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers (CREOL), University of Central Florida [Orlando] (UCF)-School of Optics, Institut des Sciences Moléculaires (ISM), Université Montesquieu - Bordeaux 4-Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie et de Physique de Bordeaux (ENSCPB)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Bordeaux (ICMCB), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut Polytechnique de Bordeaux-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Computer Engineering Service, George Green Institute for Electromagnetics Research, University of Nottingham, UK (UON), and The authors thank the financial support of AFOSR for the Grant FA9550-19-1-0127. This work was partially supported by the University of Central Florida under the Pre-eminent Postdoctoral Program (P3). VR and DV thanks financial support from the French National Research Agency (ANR) in the framework of the 'Investments for the Future' Programme IdEx Bordeaux LAPHIA (ANR-10-IDEX-03-02).
Subjects: Materials science, Optical fiber, Chalcogenide, Physics::Optics, 02 engineering and technology, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Crystal, chemistry.chemical_compound, Condensed Matter::Materials Science, law, Fiber laser, Condensed Matter::Superconductivity, 0103 physical sciences, Materials Chemistry, Fiber, Composite material, Dissolution, 010302 applied physics, Dopant, business.industry, [CHIM.MATE]Chemical Sciences/Material chemistry, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, Condensed Matter Physics, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Semiconductor, chemistry, Ceramics and Composites, 0210 nano-technology, business
Abstract: International audience; Optical composite fibers based on active transition metal (TM)-doped semiconductor crystals are being investigated for use in mid-infrared (mid-IR) fiber laser systems. This study evaluates a candidate glass matrix system assessing its key physical properties and suitability for optical fiber drawing and examines the stability of TM-doped ZnSe crystals during processing. Results indicate that despite excellent refractive index matching between crystal and glass matrix and good fiber draw attributes, the stability of the crystalline dopant within the glass melt is severely impacted by melt conditions. The time and temperature dependence of this stability is mapped by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and second-harmonic generation (SHG) microscopy, illustrating how these tools can be used to track the phase stability and robustness throughout the melting process. Results show that in a range of sulfo-selenide based matrices, dissolution and re-precipitation of Zn-containing crystalline phases is a dominant mechanism.
Published: 2021
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30. Unveiling the impact of embedding resins on the physicochemical traits of wood cell walls with subcellular functional probing

Author: Michael Molinari, Véronique Aguié-Béghin, N.B. Bercu, Brigitte Chabbert, Raphael Coste, Karima Lasri, Sylvain Potiron, Laurene Tetard, Mikhael Soliman, Fractionnement des AgroRessources et Environnement (FARE), Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), University of Central Florida [Orlando] (UCF), Laboratoire de Recherche en Nanosciences - EA 4682 (LRN), SFR Condorcet, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA)-Université de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA)-Université de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA)-SFR CAP Santé (Champagne-Ardenne Picardie Santé), Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA)-Université de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV)-Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA)-Université de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV), Chimie et Biologie des Membranes et des Nanoobjets (CBMN), and École Nationale d'Ingénieurs des Travaux Agricoles - Bordeaux (ENITAB)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Materials science, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], Mechanical properties, 02 engineering and technology, 010402 general chemistry, 01 natural sciences, symbols.namesake, Atomic force microscopy, Microscopy, [CHIM]Chemical Sciences, Composite material, Penetration depth, Nanoscopic scale, Microscale chemistry, General Engineering, Epoxy, Nanoindentation, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, 0104 chemical sciences, [CHIM.POLY]Chemical Sciences/Polymers, visual_art, Raman spectroscopy, Ceramics and Composites, symbols, visual_art.visual_art_medium, 0210 nano-technology, Infrared (IR) spectroscopy, Secondary cell wall, Natural fibres
Abstract: International audience; As pressing needs for exploring molecular interactions in plants soar, conventional sample preparation methods come into question. Though resins used to embed plant tissues have long been assumed to bear no palpable effect on their properties, discrepancies in recent studies exploiting nanoscale microscopy suggest that their impact could be significant at small scales. By juxtaposing the traits of poplar sections prepared with and without embedding, we evaluate the diffusion (penetration depth) of acrylic and epoxy resins commonly used for embedding. Our results unveil critical quantitative differences when probing mechanical properties with a microscale nanoindentation indenter or a nanoscale tip. The latter resolves significant stiffness variations between the compound middle lamellae, the secondary cell wall layers S1 and S2, and the cell corner, not accessible with nanoindentation. Similar observations are drawn from comparing confocal Raman and nanoscale infrared spectroscopy. Our findings shed light on the effect of resin diffusion suggesting acrylic LR White to be the least diffusive for plant cell wall studies.
Published: 2021
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31. Integrative technology hubs for urban food- energy-water nexuses and cost-benefit-risk tradeoffs (I): Global trend and technology metrics

Author: Bruno Molle, Séverine Tomas, Martin Perrin, Lixing Gu, Marie-Claire ten Veldhuis, Ana Pires, Jia-Wei Lu, Ni-Bin Chang, Edo Abraham, Chelsea Kaandorp, Mengnan Chen, Nick van de Giesen, Rémi Declercq, Andrea Valencia, Jiangxiao Qiu, Léon Conradi, Nassim Ait-Mouheb, Geoffrey Molle, Deborah Dotta, Uzzal Hossain, Qipeng P. Zheng, University of Central Florida [Orlando] (UCF), University of South Florida [Tampa] (USF), University of Florida [Gainesville] (UF), South China Institute of Environmental Sciences (SCIES), South China Agr Univ, Coll Resources & Environm, Guangzhou 510642, Guangdong, Peoples R China, Department of Civil Engineering and Geosciences [Delft], Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Gestion de l'Eau, Acteurs, Usages (UMR G-EAU), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-AgroParisTech-Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro), Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), ECOFILAE MONTPELLIER FRA, Partenaires IRSTEA, Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA), and ECOSEC MONTPELLIER FRA
Subjects: Environmental Engineering, 0208 environmental biotechnology, Urban sustainability, 02 engineering and technology, 010501 environmental sciences, Environmental economics, 01 natural sciences, Pollution, technology hubs integration, 020801 environmental engineering, [SPI]Engineering Sciences [physics], 13. Climate action, 11. Sustainability, Silo, Food energy, food-energy-water nexus, Business, Cost benefit, Waste Management and Disposal, Nexus (standard), Cost-benefit-risk tradeoff, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Water Science and Technology
Abstract: International audience; The Food-Energy-Water (FEW) nexus for urban sustainability needs to be analyzed via an integrative rather than a sectoral or silo approach, reflecting the ongoing transition from separate infrastructure systems to an integrated social-ecological-infrastructure system. As technology hubs can provide food, energy, water resources via decentralized and/or centralized facilities, there is an acute need to optimize FEW infrastructures by considering cost-benefit-risk tradeoffs with respect to multiple sustainability indicators. This paper identifies, categorizes, and analyzes global trends with respect to contemporary FEW technology metrics that highlights the possible optimal integration of a broad spectrum of technology hubs for possible cost-benefit-risk tradeoffs. The challenges related to multiscale and multiagent modeling processes for the simulation of urban FEW systems were discussed with respect to the aspects of scaling-up, optimization process, and risk assessment. Our review reveals that this field is growing at a rapid pace and the previous selection of analytical methodologies, nexus criteria, and sustainability indicators largely depended on individual FEW nexus conditions disparately, and full-scale cost-benefit-risk tradeoffs were very rare. Therefore, the potential full-scale technology integration in three ongoing cases of urban FEW systems in Miami (the United States), Marseille (France), and Amsterdam (the Netherlands) were demonstrated in due purpose finally.
Published: 2021
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32. Space-time wave packets localized in all dimensions

Author: Murat Yessenov, Justin Free, Zhaozhong Chen, Eric G. Johnson, Martin P. J. Lavery, Miguel A. Alonso, Ayman F. Abouraddy, The College of Optics and Photonics [Orlando] (CREOL), University of Central Florida [Orlando] (UCF), Clemson University, University of Glasgow, École Centrale de Marseille (ECM), Institut FRESNEL (FRESNEL), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-École Centrale de Marseille (ECM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), MOSAIC (MOSAIC), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-École Centrale de Marseille (ECM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-École Centrale de Marseille (ECM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and University of Rochester [USA]
Subjects: [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-OPTICS]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Optics [physics.optics], Optical physics, Multidisciplinary, Other photonics, General Physics and Astronomy, FOS: Physical sciences, General Chemistry, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Physics - Optics, Optics (physics.optics)
Abstract: Optical wave packets that are localized in space and time, but nevertheless overcome diffraction and travel rigidly in free space, are a long sought-after field structure with applications ranging from microscopy and remote sensing, to nonlinear and quantum optics. However, synthesizing such wave packets requires introducing non-differentiable angular dispersion with high spectral precision in two transverse dimensions, a capability that has eluded optics to date. Here, we describe an experimental strategy capable of sculpting the spatio-temporal spectrum of a generic pulsed beam by introducing arbitrary radial chirp via two-dimensional conformal coordinate transformations of the spectrally resolved field. This procedure yields propagation-invariant `space-time' wave packets localized in all dimensions, with tunable group velocity in the range from $0.7c$ to $1.8c$ in free space, and endowed with prescribed orbital angular momentum. By providing unprecedented flexibility in sculpting the three-dimensional structure of pulsed optical fields, our experimental strategy promises to be a versatile platform for the emerging enterprise of space-time optics., Comment: 12 pages of Main text with 7 figures. 37 pages of Supplementary document with 18 figures
Published: 2021
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33. Impacts of Privately Owned Electric Vehicles on Distribution System Resilience: A Multi-agent Optimization Approach

Author: Baghali, Sina, Guo, Zhaomiao, Baghali, Sina, and University of Central Florida [Orlando] (UCF)
Subjects: [SPI]Engineering Sciences [physics], Distribution system resilience, [SPI] Engineering Sciences [physics], multi-agent optimization, FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, convex reformulation, Systems and Control (eess.SY), [MATH] Mathematics [math], [MATH]Mathematics [math], incentive design, Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Systems and Control, electric vehicles
Abstract: We investigate the effects of private electric vehicles (EVs) on the resilience of distribution systems after disruptions. We propose a framework of network-based multi-agent optimization problems with equilibrium constraints (N-MOPEC) to consider the decentralized decision making of stakeholders in transportation and energy systems. To solve the high-dimensional non-convex problem, we develop an efficient computational algorithm based on exact convex reformulation. Numerical studies are conducted to illustrate the effectiveness of our modeling and computational approach and to draw policy insights. The proposed modeling and computational strategies could provide a solid foundation for the future study of power system resilience with private EVs in coupled transportation and power networks., Presentation purposes only, the full version is under review in a respective journal
Published: 2021

34. Refractive index modulation in media with saturable photosensitivity

Author: Julien Lumeau, Sergiy Mokhov, The College of Optics and Photonics [Orlando] (CREOL), University of Central Florida [Orlando] (UCF), RCMO (RCMO), Institut FRESNEL (FRESNEL), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-École Centrale de Marseille (ECM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-École Centrale de Marseille (ECM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École Centrale de Marseille (ECM)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École Centrale de Marseille (ECM)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)
Subjects: Materials science, business.industry, Physics::Optics, 02 engineering and technology, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, Diffraction efficiency, 01 natural sciences, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, 010309 optics, Optics, Amplitude, Photosensitivity, Modulation, 0103 physical sciences, Thermal, Ultraviolet light, [SPI.OPTI]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Optics / Photonic, sense organs, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 0210 nano-technology, business, Saturation (magnetic), Refractive index
Abstract: International audience; Permanent change of the refractive index of photo-thermo-refractive glass can be achieved by exposure to ultraviolet light followed by thermal development. The dependence of the change on the dosage is nonlinear because the photochemical process of photosensitivity involves saturation. With a holographic recording of Bragg gratings inside glass, a sinusoidally modulated dosage is imprinted into distorted modulation of the refractive index. We investigate this distorted modulation and derive analytical expressions for the amplitudes of its spatial harmonics.
Published: 2021
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35. Sperm Vitality and Necrozoospermia: Diagnosis, Management, and Results of a Global Survey of Clinical Practice

Author: Yoshiharu Morimoto, Kasonde Bowa, Israel Maldonado Rosas, Marjan Sabbaghian, Ralf Henkel, Juan Manuel Corral Molina, Chak-Lam Cho, Kristian Leisegang, Hisanori Taniguchi, Mohamed Ali Sadighi Gilani, Germar-Michael Pinggera, Sunil Jindal, Christopher Chee Kong Ho, Gianmaria Salvio, Marlon Martinez, Juan Carlos Alvarez, Taha A. Abdel-Meguid, Jean de la Rosette, Taymour Mostafa, Mohamed S. Al-Marhoon, Sava Micic, Ashok Agarwal, Jonathan Ramsay, Samantha B. Schon, Ala'a Farkouh, Kareim Khalafalla, Gian Maria Busetto, Nicholas N. Tadros, Sajal Gupta, Edoardo Pescatori, Gökhan Çeker, Renata Finelli, Ayad Palani, Damayanthi Durairajanayagam, Marcelo Gabriel Rodriguez, Florence Boitrelle, Rupin Shah, Eric Chung, Mohamed Arafa, Ramadan A Saleh, Christina Anagnostopoulou, Shinnosuke Kuroda, Parviz Kavoussi, Shinichiro Fukuhara, Armand Zini, Giovanni M. Colpi, Paraskevi Vogiatzi, Neel Parekh, Hussein Kandil, Tan V. Le, Raghavender Kosgi, Ponco Birowo, Rossella Cannarella, Giancarlo Balercia, Mara Simopoulou, Sijo Parekattil, Ettore Caroppo, Aldo E. Calogero, Mesut Berkan Duran, Osvaldo Rajmil, Amarnath Rambhatla, Haitham Elbardisi, Hyun Jun Park, Saleem Ali Banihani, Fotios Dimitriadis, Edmund Y. Ko, Rakesh Sharma, Cleveland Clinic, CHI Poissy-Saint-Germain, Biologie de la Reproduction, Environnement, Epigénétique & Développement (BREED), École nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort (ENVA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Paris-Saclay-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Hamad Medical Corporation [Doha, Qatar], Weill Cornell Medicine [Qatar], The Chinese University of Hong Kong [Hong Kong], Henry Ford Health System, Imperial College London, University of the Western Cape, The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), Loma Linda University, Fakih IVF Fertility Center, University of Garmian, Università Politecnica delle Marche [Ancona] (UNIVPM), Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine, Fundació Puigvert [Barcelona, Spain], Jordan University of Science and Technology [Irbid, Jordan], University of Michigan Medical School [Ann Arbor], University of Michigan [Ann Arbor], University of Michigan System-University of Michigan System, Pham Ngoc Thach Medical University [Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam] (PNTUM), Faculty of Medicine [Jakarta, Indonesia], Universitas Indonesia [Jakarta, Indonesia], Taylor's University Malaysia, University of Catania [Italy], Hamad medical corporation, McGill University = Université McGill [Montréal, Canada], University of Queensland [Brisbane], Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Innsbruck Medical University [Austria] (IMU), Università degli Studi di Foggia - University of Foggia, Kansai Medical University, Pusan National University, Hammersmith Hospital NHS Imperial College Healthcare, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Royan Institute for Reproductive Biomedicine [Tehran, Iran], UNIVERSITY OF SANTO TOMAS MANILA PHL, Partenaires IRSTEA, Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA), Sultan Qaboos University (SQU), Università degli studi di Catania [Catania], Osaka University [Osaka], University of Central Florida [Orlando] (UCF), Minia University, King Abdulaziz University, and Lilavati Hospital and Research Centre
Subjects: Aging, Vitality, 0302 clinical medicine, Pharmacology (medical), TESTICULAR SPERMATOZOA, Andrology, Sperm motility, 0303 health sciences, 030219 obstetrics & reproductive medicine, Spermatozoon, Health Policy, Urology & Nephrology, Spermatozoa, 3. Good health, Psychiatry and Mental health, medicine.anatomical_structure, Asthenozoospermia, EosineYellowish-(YS), Eosine Yellowish-(YS), Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Infertility, medicine.medical_specialty, endocrine system, Urology, Semen, ICSI, PARAMETERS, 03 medical and health sciences, Endocrinology & Metabolism, medicine, Intensive care medicine, 030304 developmental biology, Nigrosin, Science & Technology, SEMINAL PLASMA, business.industry, urogenital system, MALE-INFERTILITY, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, [SDV.BDLR]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Reproductive Biology, medicine.disease, Sperm, VIABILITY, IMMOTILE, Health Care Sciences & Services, Reproductive Medicine, DNA-DAMAGE, SEMEN QUALITY, Etiology, business, HYPOOSMOTIC SWELLING TEST
Abstract: International audience; Sperm vitality testing is a basic semen examination that has been described in the World Health Organization (WHO) Laboratory Manual for the Examination and Processing of Human Semen from its primary edition, 40 years ago. Several methods can be used to test sperm vitality, such as the eosin-nigrosin (E-N) stain or the hypoosmotic swelling (HOS) test. In the 6th (2021) edition of the WHO Laboratory Manual, sperm vitality assessment is mainly recommended if the total motility is less than 40%. Hence, a motile spermatozoon is considered alive, however, in certain conditions an immotile spermatozoon can also be alive. Therefore, the differentiation between asthenozoospermia (pathological decrease in sperm motility) and necrozoospermia (pathological decrease in sperm vitality) is important in directing further investigation and management of infertile patients. The causes leading to necrozoospermia are diverse and can either be local or general, testicular or extra-testicular. The andrological management of necrozoospermia depends on its etiology. However, there is no standardized treatment available presently and practice varies among clinicians. In this study, we report the results of a global survey to understand current practices regarding the physician order of sperm vitality tests as well as the management practices for necrozoospermia. Laboratory and clinical scenarios are presented to guide the reader in the management of necrozoospermia with the overall objective of establishing a benchmark ranging from the diagnosis of necrozoospermia by sperm vitality testing to its clinical management.
Published: 2021
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36. Making spatial-temporal marine ecosystem modelling better - A perspective

Author: Kim de Mutsert, Marta Coll, Elizabeth A. Fulton, Joe Buszowski, Jeroen Steenbeek, Natalia Serpetti, Chiara Piroddi, Villy Christensen, Maria Grazia Pennino, Vanessa Stelzenmüller, Michael Spence, Antonios D. Mazaris, Yunne-Jai Shin, Diego Macías, David Chagaris, Giovanni Romagnoni, Kristy A. Lewis, Stelios Katsanevakis, Greig Oldford, Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España), European Commission, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España), Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France), Università Politecnica delle Marche [Ancona] (UNIVPM), Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia (UBC), Department of Marine Sciences [Aegean], University of the Aegean, MARine Biodiversity Exploitation and Conservation (UMR MARBEC), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), European Commission - Joint Research Centre [Ispra] (JRC), Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS), University of Cape Town, Ecopath International Initiative Research Association, University of Florida [Gainesville] (UF), Instituto de Ciencias del Mar de Barcelona (ICM), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research (CSIRO-MAR), Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation [Canberra] (CSIRO), Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies and Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania [Hobart, Australia] (UTAS), University of Central Florida [Orlando] (UCF), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Institute of Marine Sciences of Andalusia (ICMAN), Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, University of Southern Mississippi (USM), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centro Oceanográfico de Vigo, Instituto Espagňol de Oceanografia (IEO), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC)-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT), COISPA TORRE A MARE ITA, Partenaires IRSTEA, Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA), Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science [Lowestoft] (CEFAS), and Thünen-Institute of Sea Fisheries
Subjects: 0106 biological sciences, Opinion, Environmental Engineering, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Systematic skill assessments, Systematic model calibration, Computer science, [SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes, Capacity building, 01 natural sciences, modelling, [SDV.EE.ECO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology, environment/Ecosystems, Centro Oceanográfico de Vigo, Credibility, Marine ecosystem, Ecosystem, Pesquerías, 14. Life underwater, Environmental planning, [SDU.STU.OC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Oceanography, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Sustainable development, 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology, Ecological Modeling, Perspective (graphical), Spatial-temporal marine ecosystem modelling, 13. Climate action, Software deployment, Sustainability, Position Paper, [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology, Software
Abstract: 11 pages, 7 figures, Marine Ecosystem Models (MEMs) provide a deeper understanding of marine ecosystem dynamics. The United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development has highlighted the need to deploy these complex mechanistic spatial-temporal models to engage policy makers and society into dialogues towards sustainably managed oceans. From our shared perspective, MEMs remain underutilized because they still lack formal validation, calibration, and uncertainty quantifications that undermines their credibility and uptake in policy arenas. We explore why these shortcomings exist and how to enable the global modelling community to increase MEMs’ usefulness. We identify a clear gap between proposed solutions to assess model skills, uncertainty, and confidence and their actual systematic deployment. We attribute this gap to an underlying factor that the ecosystem modelling literature largely ignores: technical issues. We conclude by proposing a conceptual solution that is cost-effective, scalable and simple, because complex spatial-temporal marine ecosystem modelling is already complicated enough, MC and JS acknowledge funding from the EuroMarine 2018 call for Foresight Workshops and Working Groups proposals. JS, MC and MGP acknowledge the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation grant agreement N° PID2020-118097RB-I00 (ProOceans). JS, MC and YJS acknowledge the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreements N° 869300 (FutureMARES) and N° 817578 (TRIATLAS). ADM acknowledges the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreements N° 869300 (FutureMARES). MC acknowledges the ‘Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence’ accreditation (CEX2019-000928-S) to the Institute of Marine Science. GR acknowledges the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF, Humboldt Tipping project 01LC1823D). VC acknowledges support through NSERC Discovery Grant RGPIN-2019-04901. VC and GO acknowledge funding through the NSERC Mitacs Accelerate Fellowship (IT09266), IOF Ocean Leaders Fellowship, and DFO. YJS acknowledges funding support from the Biodiversa and Belmont Forum project SOMBEE (BiodivScen ERA-Net COFUND programme, ANR contract n°ANR-18-EBI4-0003-01), and the Pew marine fellows programme
Published: 2021
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37. Relevance of leukocytospermia and semen culture and its true place in diagnosing and treating male infertility

Author: Sajal Gupta, Damayanthi Durairajanayagam, Florence Boitrelle, Ralf Henkel, Rupin Shah, Pallav Sengupta, Kelton Tremellen, Marco G. Alves, Marlon Martinez, Mesut Altan, Renata Finelli, Lucia Rocco, Marjan Sabbaghian, Parviz Kavoussi, Juan G. Alvarez, Rakesh Sharma, Christina Anagnostopoulou, Sava Micic, Haitham Elbardisi, Marcelo Rodríguez Peña, Osvaldo Rajmil, Hyun Jun Park, Ashok Agarwal, Taymour Mostafa, Sunil Jindal, Rafael F. Ambar, Gian Maria Busetto, Giovanni M. Colpi, Mohamed Arafa, Nicholas N. Tadros, Kareim Khalafalla, Edmund Y. Ko, Jonathan Ramsay, Hassan N. Sallam, Armand Zini, Sheena E.M. Lewis, Paraskevi Vogiatzi, Neel Parekh, Jaime Gosálvez, Israel Maldonado Rosas, Sijo Parekattil, Mara Simopoulou, Ayad Palani, Ramadan A Saleh, Hussein Kandil, Sami Alsaid, Sharma, R., Gupta, S., Agarwal, A., Henkel, R., Finelli, R., Parekh, N., Saleh, R., Arafa, M., Ko, E., Zini, A., Tadros, N., Shah, R., Ambar, R. F., Elbardisi, H., Sengupta, P., Martinez, M., Boitrelle, F., Simopoulou, M., Vogiatzi, P., Gosalvez, J., Kavoussi, P., Kandil, H., Palani, A., Pena, M. R., Rajmil, O., Busetto, G. M., Anagnostopoulou, C., Micic, S., Alves, M. G., Rocco, L., Mostafa, T., Alvarez, J. G., Jindal, S., Sallam, H. N., Rosas, I. M., Lewis, S. E. M., Alsaid, S., Altan, M., Park, H. J., Ramsay, J., Parekattil, S., Sabbaghian, M., Tremellen, K., Khalafalla, K., Durairajanayagam, D., Colpi, G. M., Cleveland Clinic, Imperial College London, University of the Western Cape, Sohag University, Weill Cornell Medicine [Qatar], Loma Linda University, McGill University = Université McGill [Montréal, Canada], Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Lilavati Hospital and Research Centre, UNIVERSITY OF SANTO TOMAS MANILA PHL, Partenaires IRSTEA, Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA), Biologie de la Reproduction, Environnement, Epigénétique & Développement (BREED), Université Paris-Saclay-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-École nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort (ENVA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), CHI Poissy-Saint-Germain, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (UAM), Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas de Abel Salazar (ICBAS), Universidade do Porto, Università degli studi della Campania 'Luigi Vanvitelli', Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine, Harvard Medical School [Boston] (HMS), Alexandria University [Alexandrie], Ankara University School of Medicine [Turkey], Pusan National University, Hammersmith Hospital NHS Imperial College Healthcare, University of Central Florida [Orlando] (UCF), Academic Center for Education, Culture and Research (ACECR), Flinders University [Adelaide, Australia], Hamad Medical Corporation [Doha, Qatar], Universiti Teknologi MARA [Shah Alam] (UiTM ), and Procrea Institute
Subjects: Aging, Culture, 030232 urology & nephrology, medicine.disease_cause, urologic and male genital diseases, Male infertility, 0302 clinical medicine, Leukocytes, Pharmacology (medical), Andrology, OXIDATIVE STRESS, 030219 obstetrics & reproductive medicine, biology, medicine.diagnostic_test, Health Policy, UREAPLASMA-UREALYTICUM, Urology & Nephrology, Spermatozoa, 3. Good health, Psychiatry and Mental health, Epididymitis, GRANULOCYTE ELASTASE, Infection, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Urology, Semen, Mycoplasma hominis, Semen analysis, Infections, WHITE BLOOD-CELLS, 03 medical and health sciences, Endocrinology & Metabolism, medicine, Inflammation, Science & Technology, business.industry, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, [SDV.BDLR]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Reproductive Biology, CHLAMYDIA-TRACHOMATIS INFECTION, Leukocyte, biology.organism_classification, medicine.disease, SPERM DNA FRAGMENTATION, Health Care Sciences & Services, ACCESSORY-GLAND INFECTION, GENITAL-TRACT INFECTION, Reproductive Medicine, Immunology, Endtz, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, MONOCLONAL-ANTIBODIES, Chlamydia trachomatis, business, IN-VITRO FERTILIZATION, Ureaplasma urealyticum
Abstract: International audience; The current WHO 2010 manual for human semen analysis defines leukocytospermia as the presence of peroxidase-positive leukocytes at a concentration >1×106/mL of semen. Granular leukocytes when activated are capable of generating high levels of reactive oxygen species in semen resulting in oxidative stress. Oxidative stress has been correlated with poor sperm quality, increased level of sperm DNA fragmentation and low fertility potential. The presence of leukocytes and pathogens in the semen may be a sign of infection and/or localized inflammatory response in the male genital tract and the accessory glands. Common uro-pathogens including Chlamydia trachomatis, Ureaplasma urealyticum, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Mycoplasma hominis, and Escherichia coli can cause epididymitis, epididymo-orchitis, or prostatitis. The relationship between leukocytospermia and infection is unclear. Therefore, we describe the pathogens responsible for male genital tract infections and their association with leukocytospermia. The review also examines the diagnostic tests available to identify seminal leukocytes. The role of leukocytospermia in male infertility and its management is also discussed.
Published: 2021
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38. Tuning the Reactivity of Ultralow Power Heterojunction Sensors toward H2 and VOCs through Noble Metal Nanoparticle Functionalization

Author: Lupan, Oleg, Ababii, Nicolai, Santos-Carballal, David, Terasa, Maik-Ivo, Magariu, Nicolae, Zappa, Dario, Comini, Elisabetta, Pauporté, Thierry, Siebert, Leonard, Faupel, Franz, Vahl, Alexander, Hansen, Sandra, de Leeuw, Nora, Adelung, Rainer, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU), Technical University of Moldova, Institut de Recherche de Chimie Paris (IRCP), Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris - Chimie ParisTech-PSL (ENSCP), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Ministère de la Culture (MC), University of Central Florida [Orlando] (UCF), University of Leeds, and Utrecht University [Utrecht]
Subjects: gas sensing, heterojunctions, semiconductor oxides, low-energy, Nanolayered materials, ultralow power, [CHIM.MATE]Chemical Sciences/Material chemistry
Abstract: International audience; Heterojunctions are used in solar cells and optoelectronics applications owing to their excellent electrical and structural properties. Recently, these energy-efficient systems have also been employed as sensors to distinguish between individual gases within mixtures. Through a simple and versatile functionalization approach using noble metal nanoparticles, the sensing properties of heterojunctions can be controlled at the nanoscopic scale. This work reports the nanoparticle surface functionalization of TiO2/CuO/Cu2O mixed oxide heterostructures, where the gas sensing selectivity of the material is tuned to achieve versatile sensors with ultra-low power consumption. Functionalization with Ag or AgPt-nanoclusters (5–15 nm diameter), changed the selectivity from ethanol to butanol vapour, whereas Pd-nanocluster functionalization shifts the selectivity from the alcohols to hydrogen. The fabricated sensors show excellent low power consumption below 1 nW. To gain insight into the selectivity mechanism, density functional theory (DFT) calculations have been carried out to simulate the adsorption of H2, C2H5OH and n-C4H9OH at the noble metal nanoparticle decorated ternary heterostructure interface. These calculations also show a decrease in the work function by ~2.6 eV with respect to the pristine ternary heterojunctions. This work lays the foundation for the production of a highly versatile array of sensors of ultra-low power consumption with applications for the detection of individual gases in a mixture.
Published: 2021
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39. Myofiber strain in healthy humans using DENSE and cDTI

Author: Luigi E. Perotti, Ilya A. Verzhbinsky, Daniel B. Ennis, Kevin Moulin, Magalie Viallon, Pierre Croisille, Stanford University, Centre de Recherche en Acquisition et Traitement de l'Image pour la Santé (CREATIS), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (INSA Lyon), Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL)-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Saint-Etienne (CHU de Saint-Etienne), University of California [San Diego] (UC San Diego), University of California (UC), University of Central Florida [Orlando] (UCF), and GAUTHERON, Arthur
Subjects: [SDV.IB.IMA]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Bioengineering/Imaging, Population, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cine, Article, 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging, Contractility, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, In vivo, myofiber strain, Circumferential strain, Myocyte, Humans, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging, Myocytes, Cardiac, DENSE, education, Physics, education.field_of_study, Strain (chemistry), Phantoms, Imaging, Healthy Volunteers, [SDV.IB.IMA] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Bioengineering/Imaging, Potential biomarkers, Acquisition time, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Biomedical engineering, cDTI
Abstract: Purpose: Myofiber strain, Eff , is a mechanistically relevant metric of cardiac cell shortening and is expected to be spatially uniform in healthy populations, making it a prime candidate for the evaluation of local cardiomyocyte contractility. In this study, a new, efficient pipeline was proposed to combine microstructural cDTI and functional DENSE data in order to estimate Eff in vivo.Methods: Thirty healthy volunteers were scanned with three long-axis (LA) and three short-axis (SA) DENSE slices using 2D displacement encoding and one SA slice of cDTI. The total acquisition time was 11 minutes ± 3 minutes across volunteers. The pipeline first generates 3D SA displacements from all DENSE slices which are then combined with cDTI data to generate a cine of myofiber orientations and compute Eff . The precision of the post-processing pipeline was assessed using a computational phantom study. Transmural myofiber strain was compared to circumferential strain, Ecc , in healthy volunteers using a Wilcoxon sign rank test.Results: In vivo, computed Eff was found uniform transmurally compared to Ecc (-0.14[-0.15, -0.12] vs -0.18 [-0.20, -0.16], P < .001, -0.14 [-0.16, -0.12] vs -0.16 [-0.17, -0.13], P < .001 and -0.14 [-0.16, -0.12] vs Ecc_C = -0.14 [-0.15, -0.11], P = .002, Eff_C vs Ecc_C in the endo, mid, and epi layers, respectively).Conclusion: We demonstrate that it is possible to measure in vivo myofiber strain in a healthy human population in 10 minutes per subject. Myofiber strain was observed to be spatially uniform in healthy volunteers making it a potential biomarker for the evaluation of local cardiomyocyte contractility in assessing cardiovascular dysfunction.
Published: 2021
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40. Exploring non-linear transition pathways in social-ecological systems

Author: Jean-Denis Mathias, John M. Anderies, Jacopo Baggio, Jennifer Hodbod, Sylvie Huet, Marco A. Janssen, Manjana Milkoreit, Michael Schoon, Laboratoire d'ingénierie pour les systèmes complexes (UR LISC), Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Arizona State University [Tempe] (ASU), University of Central Florida [Orlando] (UCF), and Walton Sustainability Solutions Initiatives - Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability
Subjects: Sustainability, lcsh:R, lcsh:Medicine, lcsh:Q, [MATH]Mathematics [math], lcsh:Science, Psychology and behaviour, Article
Abstract: International audience; Tipping point dynamics are fundamental drivers for sustainable transition pathways of social-ecological systems (SES). Current research predominantly analyzes how crossing tipping points causes regime shifts, however, the analysis of potential transition pathways from these social and ecological tipping points is often overlooked. In this paper, we analyze transition pathways and the potential outcomes that these may lead to via a stylized model of a system composed of interacting agents exploiting resources and, by extension, the overall ecosystem. Interactions between the social and the ecological system are based on a perception-exploitation framework. We show that the presence of tipping points in SES may yield counter-intuitive social-ecological transition pathways. For example, the high perception of an alarming ecological state among agents can provide short-term ecological benefits, but can be less effective in the long term, compared to a low-perception condition. This work also highlights how understanding non-linear interactions is critical for defining suitable transition pathways of any SES.
Published: 2020
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41. The history of rainfall data time-resolution in a wide variety of geographical areas

Author: Gianni Bellocchi, Sven Goenster-Jordan, Claudia Sangüesa-Pool, Tymvios Filippos, Marcelo Sepulveda Manzor, Hayley J. Fowler, Marina Georgiana Vilcea, Ancuta Manea, Stuart Hinson, Carlos Gastón Catalini, Alba Llabrés-Brustenga, Enrica Caporali, Miina Krabbi, Georgios Zittis, José L. J. Ledesma, Piotr Baranowski, A. F. M. Kamal Chowdhury, Raúl Rodríguez-Solà, Tie Liu, Francesco Fusto, Kanak Kanti Kar, Alina Orzan, Alessia Flammini, Tommaso Caloiero, Rahman Atiqur, Leoncio García-Barrón, Jacopo Dari, Carla Saltalippi, J. Estévez, Matteo Pampaloni, Domenico Caracciolo, Chulsang Yoo, Brett M. Bennett, Byambaa Oyunmunkh, Renato Morbidelli, Noah Newman, Jeffrey Custò, J. L. Ayuso-Muñoz, Abdullah Al Mamun, Mohamed Chettih, Arturo Sousa, Nolan J. Doesken, M. Carmen Casas-Castillo, Luca Brocca, Alexandru Dumitrescu, Antonio Puentes Torres, P. V. Timbadiya, Nazzareno Diodato, Francesca Viterbo, Rezaul Chowdhury, Roberto Pizarro-Tapia, Marco Lompi, Corrado Corradini, Mohamed Bachir Taouti, Marcelo Zeri, Giuseppe Mascaro, Wiesława Kasperska-Wołowicz, Ewa Kanecka-Geszke, Loredana Marsico, Krzysztof Siwek, Jaromir Krzyszczak, Mamunur Rashid, A. P. García-Marín, Gabriele Freni, Brunella Bonaccorso, Tommaso Moramarco, Dept. of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Perugia, University of Córdoba [Córdoba], International Islamic University Malaysia [Kuala Lumpur], Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Chittagong, Chittagong 4331, Bangladesh, Université Amar Telidji - Laghouat, Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), Unité Mixte de Recherche sur l'Ecosystème Prairial - UMR (UREP), VetAgro Sup - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur et de recherche en alimentation, santé animale, sciences agronomiques et de l'environnement (VAS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Universidad de Talca, Western Sydney University, University of Bonn, University of Messina, Research Institute for Geo-hydrological Protection [Perugia] (IRPI), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis of the National Research Council (IMAA), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche [Roma] (CNR), Università degli Studi di Firenze = University of Florence [Firenze] (UNIFI), Regional Environmental Protection Agency of Sardinia (REPAS), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya [Barcelona] (UPC), Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), University of Southern Queensland (USQ), University of Malta [Malta], Met European Research Observatory (MetEROBS), Colorado State University [Fort Collins] (CSU), National Meteorological Administration [Bucharest] (NMA), Newcastle University [Newcastle], Università degli Studi di Enna ' KORE ', Regional Environmental Protection Agency of Calabria, Universidad de Sevilla, University of Kassel, NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Institute of Technology and Life Science : Kuyavian-Pomeranian Research Centre, Hydroclimatology Research Group, Institute of Technology and Life Sciences, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Research Centre, Estonian Environmental Research Center, Tallinn, Estonia, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography [Urumqi] (XIEG), Chinese Academy of Sciences [Beijing] (CAS), Arizona State University [Tempe] (ASU), Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), University of Central Florida [Orlando] (UCF), Universidad de Chile = University of Chile [Santiago] (UCHILE), Maria Curie-Sklodowska University (UMCS), Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology [Surat], Cyprus International Institute for the Environment and Public Health, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL), Korea University [Seoul], Centro Nacional de Monitoramento e Alertas de Desastres Naturais (CEMADEN), 12630-000 Cachoeira Paulista, Brazil, and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Física
Subjects: 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Hidrologia, [SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes, Hydrology history, Rainfall data measurements, Rainfall time resolution, 0207 environmental engineering, Hydrology history, Rainfall data measurements, Rainfall time resolution, 02 engineering and technology, 01 natural sciences, Effects of global warming, Rain and rainfall--Measurement, Precipitation (Meteorology), 020701 environmental engineering, Short duration, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Water Science and Technology, Enginyeria civil::Geologia::Hidrologia [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC], Física [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC], Rain gauge, Precipitacions (Meteorologia), Time resolution, Pluja, Rain and rainfall, 13. Climate action, Environmental science, Physical geography, Hydrology
Abstract: Collected rainfall records by gauges lead to key forcings in most hydrological studies. Depending on sensor type and recording systems, such data are characterized by different time-resolutions (or temporal aggregations), ta. We present an historical analysis of the time-evolution of ta based on a large database of rain gauge networks operative in many study areas. Globally, ta data were collected for 25,423 rain gauge stations across 32 geographic areas, with larger contributions from Australia, USA, Italy and Spain. For very old networks early recordings were manual with coarse time-resolution, typically daily or sometimes monthly. With a few exceptions, mechanical recordings on paper rolls began in the first half of the 20th century, typically with ta of 1 h or 30 min. Digital registrations started only during the last three decades of the 20th century. This short period limits investigations that require long time-series of sub-daily rainfall data, e.g, analyses of the effects of climate change on short-duration (sub-hourly) heavy rainfall. In addition, in the areas with rainfall data characterized for many years by coarse time-resolutions, annual maximum rainfall depths of short duration can be potentially underestimated and their use would produce errors in the results of successive applications. Currently, only 50% of the stations provide useful data at any time-resolution, that practically means ta = 1 min. However, a significant reduction of these issues can be obtained through the information content of the present database. Finally, we suggest an integration of the database by including additional rain gauge networks to enhance its usefulness particularly in a comparative analysis of the effects of climate change on extreme rainfalls of short duration available in different locations.
Published: 2020
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42. Flat epitaxial quasi-1D phosphorene chains

Author: Azzedine Bendounan, Gérald Dujardin, Alex Smogunov, Abdelkader Kara, Andrew J. Mayne, Hanna Enriquez, Yannick J. Dappe, Hamid Oughaddou, Wei Zhang, Yongfeng Tong, Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d'Orsay (ISMO), Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Synchrotron SOLEIL (SSOLEIL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Service de physique de l'état condensé (SPEC - UMR3680), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Groupe Modélisation et Théorie (GMT), Institut Rayonnement Matière de Saclay (IRAMIS), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Service de physique de l'état condensé (SPEC - UMR3680), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Central Florida [Orlando] (UCF), CY Cergy Paris Université (CY), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Rayonnement Matière de Saclay (IRAMIS), and Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay
Subjects: Materials science, Photoemission spectroscopy, Band gap, Science, General Physics and Astronomy, 02 engineering and technology, Substrate (electronics), Epitaxy, 01 natural sciences, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Article, law.invention, chemistry.chemical_compound, law, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.COND]Physics [physics]/Condensed Matter [cond-mat], 010306 general physics, Multidisciplinary, Condensed matter physics, Graphene, Synthesis and processing, General Chemistry, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, Surface chemistry, Phosphorene, chemistry, Scanning tunneling microscope, 0210 nano-technology, Molecular beam epitaxy
Abstract: The emergence of peculiar phenomena in 1D phosphorene chains (P chains) has been proposed in theoretical studies, notably the Stark and Seebeck effects, room temperature magnetism, and topological phase transitions. Attempts so far to fabricate P chains, using the top-down approach starting from a few layers of bulk black phosphorus, have failed to produce reliably precise control of P chains. We show that molecular beam epitaxy gives a controllable bottom-up approach to grow atomically thin, crystalline 1D flat P chains on a Ag(111) substrate. Scanning tunneling microscopy, angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, and density functional theory calculations reveal that the armchair-shaped chains are semiconducting with an intrinsic 1.80 ± 0.20 eV band gap. This could make these P chains an ideal material for opto-electronic devices., Similarly to graphene, attempts to fabricate phosphorene by epitaxy or starting from a few layers of bulk black phosphorus have failed so far. Here, the authors present a controllable bottom-up approach to grow atomically thin, crystalline 1D flat phosphorus chains on a Ag(111) substrate.
Published: 2020
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43. Highly multimodal structure of high topological charge extreme ultraviolet vortex beams

Author: F. Sanson, O. Guilbaud, Fabrice Harms, Martin Richardson, Wensong Li, Ph. Balcou, David Ros, Eric G. Johnson, Moana Pittman, J. Demailly, O. Neveu, Guillaume Dovillaire, A. K. Pandey, Irene Papagiannouli, Elsa Baynard, Sophie Kazamias, Bruno Lucas, Physical Research Laboratory [Ahmedabad] (PRL), Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Imagine Optic, AFOP, Centre Laser de l'Université Paris Sud (CLUPS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Laboratoire de physique des gaz et des plasmas (LPGP), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'interaction du rayonnement X avec la matière (LIXAM), Laboratoire des collisions atomiques et moléculaires (LCAM), LASERIX, Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers (CREOL), University of Central Florida [Orlando] (UCF), CFD Lab [Montréal], Department of Mechanical Engineering [Montréal], McGill University = Université McGill [Montréal, Canada]-McGill University = Université McGill [Montréal, Canada], Centre d'Etudes Lasers Intenses et Applications (CELIA), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Bordeaux (UB), and Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], Angular momentum, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-OPTICS]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Optics [physics.optics], business.industry, 02 engineering and technology, Wavefront sensor, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, 01 natural sciences, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Deformable mirror, Vortex, 010309 optics, Optics, 13. Climate action, Extreme ultraviolet, 0103 physical sciences, Physics::Accelerator Physics, Light beam, Physics::Atomic Physics, 0210 nano-technology, business, Topological quantum number, Beam (structure)
Abstract: International audience; Optische Strahlen mit Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) sind ein sehr aktives Forschungsfeld für ihre prospektiven Anwendungen, insbesondere bei kurzen Wellenlängen. Wir betrachten hier solche Strahlen, die durch hochharmonische Erzeugung (HHG) in einem seltenen Gas erzeugt werden, und analysieren die Charakterisierung ihrer Hochladungs-Wirbelstruktur durch einen EUV (Extreme UltraViolet) Hartmann-Wellenfrontsensor. Wir zeigen, dass solche HHG-Strahlen in der Regel aus einer Reihe von zahlreichen Vortex-Modi bestehen. Die Empfindlichkeit der Intensität und Phase des HHG-Strahls auf die infraroten (IR) Laseraberrationen wird mit einem deformierbaren Spiegel untersucht.; Optical beams carrying Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) are a very active field of research for their prospective applications, especially at short wavelengths. We consider here such beams produced through high-harmonic generation (HHG) in a rare gas and analyze the characterization of their high charge vortex structure by an EUV (Extreme UltraViolet) Hartmann wavefront sensor. We show that such HHG beams are generally composed of a set of numerous vortex modes. The sensitivity of the intensity and phase of the HHG beam to the infrared (IR) laser aberrations is investigated using a deformable mirror.; Les faisceaux optiques portant un Moment Angulaire Orbital (OAM) font l'objet de recherches très actives,en raison de l'intérêt de leurs applications potentielles, particulièrement à courtes longueurs d'onde. Nous nous intéressons ici à des faisceaux produits par Génération d'Harmoniques d'Ordre Elevé (HOE) dans un gaz rare, et analysons la structure du vortex de haute charge grâce à la caractérisation complète obtenue par un capteur de front d'onde de type Hartmann dans l'Extrême UltraViolet (EUV). Nous montrons que ces faisceaux HOE sont généralement constitués d'un ensemble de nombreux modes de vortex. Un miroir déformable nous permet d'étudier la sensibilité de l'éclairement et de la phase du faisceau HOE vis à vis des aberrations du laser infrarouge (IR).
Published: 2020
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44. Assessment of Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Practices and Preterm Newborn Gut Microbiota and 2-Year Neurodevelopmental Outcomes

Author: Marie-José Butel, Pierre-Yves Ancel, Josef Neu, Julio Aires, Karine Le Roux, Jean-Christophe Rozé, Clotilde Rousseau, Emmanuel Montassier, Matthieu Resche-Rigon, Céline Monot, Patricia Lepage, Marine Butin, Laetitia Marchand-Martin, Physiopathologie des Adaptations Nutritionnelles (PhAN), Université de Nantes - UFR de Médecine et des Techniques Médicales (UFR MEDECINE), Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), Equipe 1 : EPOPé - Épidémiologie Obstétricale, Périnatale et Pédiatrique (CRESS - U1153), Centre de Recherche Épidémiologie et Statistique Sorbonne Paris Cité (CRESS (U1153 / UMR_A_1125 / UMR_S_1153)), Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers [CNAM] (CNAM)-Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (USPC)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Paris (UP)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers [CNAM] (CNAM)-Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (USPC)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Paris (UP)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Hopital Saint-Louis [AP-HP] (AP-HP), Physiopathologie et Pharmacotoxicologie Placentaire Humaine (U1139), Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Centre hospitalier universitaire de Nantes (CHU Nantes), MICrobiologie de l'ALImentation au Service de la Santé (MICALIS), AgroParisTech-Université Paris-Saclay-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL), PremUp Foundation, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-CHI Créteil-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Paris-Saclay-Université de Paris (UP), University of Central Florida [Orlando] (UCF), ANR-12-BSV3-0025,EPIFLORE,Ecosystème intestinal du grand et très grand prématuré: analyse du microbiote, implications cliniques à court et long term(2012), Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers [CNAM] (CNAM), HESAM Université - Communauté d'universités et d'établissements Hautes écoles Sorbonne Arts et métiers université (HESAM)-HESAM Université - Communauté d'universités et d'établissements Hautes écoles Sorbonne Arts et métiers université (HESAM)-Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (USPC)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers [CNAM] (CNAM), HESAM Université - Communauté d'universités et d'établissements Hautes écoles Sorbonne Arts et métiers université (HESAM)-HESAM Université - Communauté d'universités et d'établissements Hautes écoles Sorbonne Arts et métiers université (HESAM)-Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (USPC)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), and Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-CHI Créteil-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Université Paris-Saclay-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)
Subjects: Male, Pediatrics, medicine.medical_specialty, Neonatal intensive care unit, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], Population, INFANTS, Infant, Premature, Diseases, 03 medical and health sciences, NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS, 0302 clinical medicine, Intensive Care Units, Neonatal, Intensive care, Humans, Medicine, Prospective Studies, education, Original Investigation, 030304 developmental biology, 0303 health sciences, education.field_of_study, business.industry, Research, Confounding, Infant, Newborn, Infant, Gestational age, General Medicine, Odds ratio, Gastrointestinal Microbiome, 3. Good health, Online Only, Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Child, Preschool, Infant, Extremely Premature, Infant Care, Cohort, Dysbiosis, Female, business, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Cohort study
Abstract: Key Points Question What are the long-term outcomes associated with dysbiosis of gut microbiota in very preterm newborns? Findings In this cohort study of 577 very preterm newborns across 24 neonatal intensive care units from a French nationwide cohort, gut microbiota at week 4 after birth showed 6 bacterial patterns that varied according to gestational age, perinatal characteristics, individual treatments, and neonatal intensive care unit strategies. Three clusters were associated with 2-year outcomes after adjustment for these confounders. Meaning Modifying strategies associated with alterations in microbiota, such as promoting enteral nutrition, reducing sedation use, promoting early extubation, or skin-to-skin practice, may be correlated with outcomes in preterm newborns., Importance In very preterm newborns, gut microbiota is highly variable with major dysbiosis. Its association with short-term health is widely studied, but the association with long-term outcomes remains unknown. Objective To investigate in preterm newborns the associations among practice strategies in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs), gut microbiota, and outcomes at 2 years. Design, Setting, and Participants EPIFLORE is a prospective observational cohort study that includes a stool sample collection during the fourth week after birth. Preterm newborns of less than 32 weeks of gestational age (GA) born in 2011 were included from 24 NICUs as part of the French nationwide population-based cohort, EPIPAGE 2. Data were collected from May 2011 to December 2011 and analyzed from September 2016 to December 2018. Exposures Eight NICU strategies concerning sedation, ventilation, skin-to-skin practice, antibiotherapy, ductus arteriosus, and breastfeeding were assessed. A NICU was considered favorable to a practice if the percentage of that practice in the NICU was more than the expected percentage. Main Outcomes and Measures Gut microbiota was analyzed by 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequencing and characterized by a clustering-based method. The 2-year outcome was defined by death or neurodevelopmental delay using a Global Ages and Stages questionnaire score. Results Of 577 newborns included in the study, the mean (SD) GA was 28.3 (2.0) weeks, and 303 (52.5%) were male. Collected gut microbiota was grouped into 5 discrete clusters. A sixth cluster included nonamplifiable samples owing to low bacterial load. Cluster 4 (driven by Enterococcus [n = 63]), cluster 5 (driven by Staphylococcus [n = 52]), and cluster 6 (n = 93) were significantly associated with lower mean (SD) GA (26.7 [1.8] weeks and 26.8 [1.9] weeks, respectively) and cluster 3 (driven by Escherichia/Shigella [n = 61]) with higher mean (SD) GA (29.4 [1.6] weeks; P = .001). Cluster 3 was considered the reference. After adjustment for confounders, no assisted ventilation at day 1 was associated with a decreased risk of belonging to cluster 5 or cluster 6 (adjusted odds ratio [AOR], 0.21 [95% CI, 0.06-0.78] and 0.19 [95% CI, 0.06-0.62], respectively) when sedation (AOR, 10.55 [95% CI, 2.28-48.87] and 4.62 [1.32-16.18], respectively) and low volume of enteral nutrition (AOR, 10.48 [95% CI, 2.48-44.29] and 7.28 [95% CI, 2.03-26.18], respectively) was associated with an increased risk. Skin-to-skin practice was associated with a decreased risk of being in cluster 5 (AOR, 0.14 [95% CI, 0.04-0.48]). Moreover, clusters 4, 5, 6 were significantly associated with 2-year nonoptimal outcome (AOR, 6.17 [95% CI, 1.46-26.0]; AOR, 4.53 [95% CI, 1.02-20.1]; and AOR, 5.42 [95% CI, 1.36-21.6], respectively). Conclusions and Relevance Gut microbiota of very preterm newborns at week 4 is associated with NICU practices and 2-year outcomes. Microbiota could be a noninvasive biomarker of immaturity., This cohort study of 577 very preterm newborns across 24 neonatal intensive care units from a French nationwide cohort investigates associations among practice strategies, gut microbiota, and outcomes at 2 years.
Published: 2020
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45. Highly multimodal structure of high topological charge extreme ultraviolet vortex beams

Author: SANSON, F., PANDEY, A., PAPAGIANNOULI, I., HARMS, F., DOVILLAIRE, G., BAYNARD, E., DEMAILLY, J., GUILBAUD, O., LUCAS, B., NEVEU, O., PITTMAN, M., ROS, D., RICHARDSON, M., JOHNSON, E., LI, W., BALCOU, P., KAZAMIAS, S., Physical Research Laboratory [Ahmedabad] (PRL), Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Imagine Optic, AFOP, Centre Laser de l'Université Paris Sud (CLUPS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Laboratoire de physique des gaz et des plasmas (LPGP), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'interaction du rayonnement X avec la matière (LIXAM), Laboratoire des collisions atomiques et moléculaires (LCAM), LASERIX, Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers (CREOL), University of Central Florida [Orlando] (UCF), CFD Lab [Montréal], Department of Mechanical Engineering [Montréal], McGill University = Université McGill [Montréal, Canada]-McGill University = Université McGill [Montréal, Canada], Centre d'Etudes Lasers Intenses et Applications (CELIA), and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Bordeaux (UB)
Subjects: [PHYS]Physics [physics], [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-OPTICS]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Optics [physics.optics]
Abstract: International audience; Optische Strahlen mit Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) sind ein sehr aktives Forschungsfeld für ihre prospektiven Anwendungen, insbesondere bei kurzen Wellenlängen. Wir betrachten hier solche Strahlen, die durch hochharmonische Erzeugung (HHG) in einem seltenen Gas erzeugt werden, und analysieren die Charakterisierung ihrer Hochladungs-Wirbelstruktur durch einen EUV (Extreme UltraViolet) Hartmann-Wellenfrontsensor. Wir zeigen, dass solche HHG-Strahlen in der Regel aus einer Reihe von zahlreichen Vortex-Modi bestehen. Die Empfindlichkeit der Intensität und Phase des HHG-Strahls auf die infraroten (IR) Laseraberrationen wird mit einem deformierbaren Spiegel untersucht.; Optical beams carrying Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) are a very active field of research for their prospective applications, especially at short wavelengths. We consider here such beams produced through high-harmonic generation (HHG) in a rare gas and analyze the characterization of their high charge vortex structure by an EUV (Extreme UltraViolet) Hartmann wavefront sensor. We show that such HHG beams are generally composed of a set of numerous vortex modes. The sensitivity of the intensity and phase of the HHG beam to the infrared (IR) laser aberrations is investigated using a deformable mirror.; Les faisceaux optiques portant un Moment Angulaire Orbital (OAM) font l'objet de recherches très actives,en raison de l'intérêt de leurs applications potentielles, particulièrement à courtes longueurs d'onde. Nous nous intéressons ici à des faisceaux produits par Génération d'Harmoniques d'Ordre Elevé (HOE) dans un gaz rare, et analysons la structure du vortex de haute charge grâce à la caractérisation complète obtenue par un capteur de front d'onde de type Hartmann dans l'Extrême UltraViolet (EUV). Nous montrons que ces faisceaux HOE sont généralement constitués d'un ensemble de nombreux modes de vortex. Un miroir déformable nous permet d'étudier la sensibilité de l'éclairement et de la phase du faisceau HOE vis à vis des aberrations du laser infrarouge (IR).
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46. Low Water Outgassing from (24) Themis and (65) Cybele: 3.1 μ m Near-IR Spectral Implications

Author: T. G. Müller, Michael Küppers, D. Teyssier, I. Valtchanov, N. Biver, Hideaki Fujiwara, T. L. Lim, Sonia Fornasier, Dominique Bockelée-Morvan, Laurence O'Rourke, Humberto Campins, Sunao Hasegawa, Agence Spatiale Européenne (ESA), European Space Agency (ESA), Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik (MPE), Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA (UMR_8109)), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency [Sagamihara] (JAXA), European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC), University of Central Florida [Orlando] (UCF), Faculty of Science and Technology [Tokyo], Seikei University, Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), AUTRES, and Dept. of Physics
Subjects: 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Thermal inertia, Main belt asteroids, Main-belt comets, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, symbols.namesake, Far infrared, Bond albedo, 0103 physical sciences, Comets, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astronomy data modeling, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Physics, [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Spectrometer, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Small solar system bodies, Space observatory, Asteroids, Outgassing, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Asteroid, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], symbols, Water vapor
Abstract: International audience; Asteroids (24) Themis and (65) Cybele have an absorption feature at 3.1 μm reported to be directly linked to surface water ice. We searched for water vapor escaping from these asteroids with the Herschel Space Observatory Heterodyne Instrument for the Far Infrared. While no H 2 O line emission was detected, we obtain sensitive 3σ water production rate upper limits of Q(H 2 O)
Published: 2020
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47. The effect of the sodium content on the structure and the optical properties of thermally poled sodium and niobium borophosphate glasses

Author: Lara Karam, Thierry Cardinal, Vincent Rodriguez, Kathleen Richardson, Frédéric Adamietz, Flavie Bondu, Evelyne Fargin, Antoine Lepicard, Marc Dussauze, Institut des Sciences Moléculaires (ISM), Université Montesquieu - Bordeaux 4-Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie et de Physique de Bordeaux (ENSCPB)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Bordeaux (ICMCB), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut Polytechnique de Bordeaux-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers (CREOL), University of Central Florida [Orlando] (UCF)-School of Optics, The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support of IdEx Bordeaux (Cluster of Excellence LAPHIA and the allocated grant referred to as ANR-10-IDEX-03-03), the IdEx Bordeaux Visiting Scholar program, and the CNRS project EMERGENCE @INC2019. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 823941 (FUNGLASS). This work was partially supported by the French RENATECH network. The authors would like to thank Mikhail Klimov at the Material Characterization Facility (MCF) at UCF for conducting the SIMS measurements as well as Michel Lahaye at the Placamat Facilities at the University of Bordeaux for the EDS measurements. The authors also want to acknowledge the LAAS-CNRS Laboratory in Toulouse for the fabrication of the electrodes., ANR-10-IDEX-0003,IDEX BORDEAUX,Initiative d'excellence de l'Université de Bordeaux(2010), European Project: 664440,H2020,H2020-WIDESPREAD-2014-1,FunGLASS(2015), and Université Montesquieu - Bordeaux 4-Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 (UB)-École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie et de Physique de Bordeaux (ENSCPB)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: 010302 applied physics, Materials science, Sodium, Poling, Niobium, Analytical chemistry, General Physics and Astronomy, chemistry.chemical_element, Second-harmonic generation, 02 engineering and technology, [CHIM.MATE]Chemical Sciences/Material chemistry, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, Alkali metal, 01 natural sciences, symbols.namesake, chemistry, 0103 physical sciences, Microscopy, symbols, 0210 nano-technology, Raman spectroscopy, Refractive index
Abstract: Six niobium rich glasses presenting different sodium contents were synthetized. On the basis of complementary infrared and Raman analysis, the influence of the sodium content and its role on the structure of the glasses prior to and following poling was examined. Correlative second harmonic generation (SHG)/Raman microscopy on the poled glasses cross section has shown a co-localization of the SHG signal and the structural variations. It also evidenced similar structural rearrangements whether sodium is removed through poling (230–300 °C) or through the alkali content defined by the starting glass compositions (melted at 1300–1500 °C). The effect of the sodium content on the optical properties, prior to and after thermal poling, is also discussed. It was found that refractive index variations induced by poling (ranging between 10−3 and 3 × 10−2) are mainly the result of a density decrease in the poled region rather than compositional and structural changes. The electro-optic origin of the poling-induced second order nonlinear response is confirmed by the Maker Fringe SHG analysis, and the evolution of χ(2) (2–2.5 pm/V) with the sodium content is discussed based on a selection of parameters influencing either the third order susceptibility [χ(3)] or the internal electric field strength of the poled layer.
Published: 2020
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48. Localized and delocalized bound states of the main isotopologue 48 O 3 and of 18 O-enriched 50 O 3 isotopomers of the ozone molecule near the dissociation threshold

Author: Alexander Alijah, Viatcheslav Kokoouline, David Lapierre, Vladimir G. Tyuterev, Department of Physics [Orlando] (UCF | Physics), University of Central Florida [Orlando] (UCF), Groupe de spectrométrie moléculaire et atmosphérique (GSMA), Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), QUAMER laboratory , Tomsk State University, and Tomsk State University [Tomsk]
Subjects: Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], 010304 chemical physics, General Physics and Astronomy, Rotational–vibrational spectroscopy, 010402 general chemistry, 01 natural sciences, Molecular physics, Spectral line, 0104 chemical sciences, Isotopomers, Delocalized electron, Excited state, 0103 physical sciences, Potential energy surface, Bound state, [CHIM]Chemical Sciences, Isotopologue, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
Abstract: Knowledge of highly excited rovibrational states of ozone isotopologues is of key importance for modelling the dynamics of exchange reactions, for understanding longstanding problems related to isotopic anomalies of the ozone formation, and for analyses of extra-sensitive laser spectral experiments currently in progress. This work is devoted to new theoretical study of high-energy states for the main isotopologue 48O3 = 16O16O16O and for the family of 18O-enriched isotopomers 50O3 = {16O16O18O, 16O18O16O, 18O16O16O} of the ozone molecule considered using a full-symmetry approach. Energies and wave functions of bound states near the dissociation threshold are computed in hyperspherical coordinates accounting for the permutation symmetry of three identical nuclei in 48O3 and of two identical nuclei in 50O3, using the most accurate potential energy surface available now. The obtained vibrational band centers agree with observed ones with the root-mean-squares deviation of about 1 cm-1, making the results appropriate for assignments and analyses of future experimental spectra. The levels delocalized between the three potential wells of ozone isomers are computed and analyzed. The states situated deep in the three (for 48O3) or two (for 50O3) equivalent potential wells have similar energies with negligible splitting. However, the states situated just below the potential barriers separating the wells, are split due to the tunneling between the wells resulting in the splitting of rovibrational sub-bands. We evaluate the amplitudes of the corresponding effects and consider possible perturbations in vibration-rotation bands due to interactions between three potential wells. Theoretical predictions for the splitting of observable band centers are provided for the first time.
Published: 2020
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49. RNA-dependent sterol aspartylation in fungi

Author: Yakobov, Nathaniel, Fischer, Frédéric, Mahmoudi, Nassira, Saga, Yusuke, Grube, Christopher, Roy, Hervé, Senger, Bruno, Grob, Guillaume, Tatematsu, Shunsuke, Yokokawa, Daisuke, Mouyna, Isabelle, Latgé, Jean-Paul, Nakajima, Harushi, Kushiro, Tetsuo, Becker, Hubert, Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA), Génétique moléculaire, génomique, microbiologie (GMGM), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Meiji University [Tokyo], University of Central Florida [Orlando] (UCF), Aspergillus, Institut Pasteur [Paris], This work was supported by the Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale (FRM), to H.D.B. (Grant DBF20160635713), by ‘‘MitoCross’’ Laboratory of Excellence (Grant ANR-10-IDEX-0002-02 to H.D.B.), by the University of Strasbourg (to H.D.B.), by an IDEX from the University of Strasbourg (W17RAT81, to F.F.), the National Center for Scientific Research (H.D.B, B.S., F.F., and N.Y.), and the Meiji University (T.K., Y.S., S.T., D.Y., and H.N.). N.Y. was supported by a fellowship from the French Ministère de l’Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche, and N.M. was supported by a postdoctoral fellowship from the FRM (Grant DBF20160635713). H.R. and C.D.G. were supported by NIH Grant 1R21AI144481-01., ANR-10-IDEX-0002,UNISTRA,Par-delà les frontières, l'Université de Strasbourg(2010), and Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP)
Subjects: Aspartic Acid, ergosterol, Aspergillus fumigatus, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], RNA, Fungal, RNA, Transfer, Amino Acyl, Biological Sciences, Biochemistry, Sterols, [SDE]Environmental Sciences, lipid aminoacylation, Aminoacylation, fungi, aminoacyl-tRNA, DUF2156, [SDV.MP.MYC]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Mycology, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
Abstract: Significance Bacteria are known to add amino acids (aa) to membrane lipids to resist antimicrobials and escape immune responses. This surface lipid aminoacylation process requires diverting aminoacyl-tRNAs from protein synthesis. While widespread in bacteria, no analogous lipid remodeling system had thus far been evidenced in eukaryotes. We uncovered that most fungi tRNA-dependently add aspartate onto ergosterol (ergosteryl-3β-O-l-aspartate [Erg-Asp]), the major sterol found in fungal membranes. Asp addition is catalyzed by an ergosteryl-3β-O-l-aspartate synthase (ErdS) and its removal by a dedicated hydrolase (ErdH). This pathway is conserved across “higher” fungi, including pathogens. Given the central roles of sterols and derivatives in fungi, we propose that the Erg-Asp homeostasis system might impact membrane remodeling, trafficking, antimicrobial resistance, or pathogenicity., Diverting aminoacyl-transfer RNAs (tRNAs) from protein synthesis is a well-known process used by a wide range of bacteria to aminoacylate membrane constituents. By tRNA-dependently adding amino acids to glycerolipids, bacteria change their cell surface properties, which intensifies antimicrobial drug resistance, pathogenicity, and virulence. No equivalent aminoacylated lipids have been uncovered in any eukaryotic species thus far, suggesting that tRNA-dependent lipid remodeling is a process restricted to prokaryotes. We report here the discovery of ergosteryl-3β-O-l-aspartate (Erg-Asp), a conjugated sterol that is produced by the tRNA-dependent addition of aspartate to the 3β-OH group of ergosterol, the major sterol found in fungal membranes. In fact, Erg-Asp exists in the majority of “higher” fungi, including species of biotechnological interest, and, more importantly, in human pathogens like Aspergillus fumigatus. We show that a bifunctional enzyme, ergosteryl-3β-O-l-aspartate synthase (ErdS), is responsible for Erg-Asp synthesis. ErdS corresponds to a unique fusion of an aspartyl-tRNA synthetase—that produces aspartyl-tRNAAsp (Asp-tRNAAsp)—and of a Domain of Unknown Function 2156, which actually transfers aspartate from Asp-tRNAAsp onto ergosterol. We also uncovered that removal of the Asp modifier from Erg-Asp is catalyzed by a second enzyme, ErdH, that is a genuine Erg-Asp hydrolase participating in the turnover of the conjugated sterol in vivo. Phylogenomics highlights that the entire Erg-Asp synthesis/degradation pathway is conserved across “higher” fungi. Given the central roles of sterols and conjugated sterols in fungi, we propose that this tRNA-dependent ergosterol modification and homeostasis system might have broader implications in membrane remodeling, trafficking, antimicrobial resistance, or pathogenicity.
Published: 2020
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50. Integrative technology hubs for urban food- energy-water nexuses and cost-benefit-risk tradeoffs (II): Design strategies for urban sustainability View supplementary material

Author: Chang, Ni-Bin, Hossain, Uzzal, Valencia, Andrea, Qiu, Jiangxiao, Zheng, Qipeng, Gu, Lixing, Chen, Mengnan, Lu, Jia-Wei, Pires, Ana, Kaandorp, Chelsea, Abraham, Edo, ten Veldhuis, Marie-Claire, Van De Giesen, Nick, Molle, Bruno, Tomas, Séverine, Ait-Mouheb, Nassim, Dotta, Deborah, Declercq, Rémi, Perrin, Martin, Conradi, Léon, Mollé, Geoffrey, University of Central Florida [Orlando] (UCF), University of South Florida [Tampa] (USF), University of Florida [Gainesville] (UF), South China Institute of Environmental Sciences (SCIES), South China Agr Univ, Coll Resources & Environm, Guangzhou 510642, Guangdong, Peoples R China, Department of Civil Engineering and Geosciences [Delft], Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Gestion de l'Eau, Acteurs, Usages (UMR G-EAU), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-AgroParisTech-Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro), Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), ECOFILAE MONTPELLIER FRA, Partenaires IRSTEA, Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA), and ECOSEC MONTPELLIER FRA
Subjects: [SPI]Engineering Sciences [physics], [SDE]Environmental Sciences, Technology hubs integration, Cost-benefit-risk tradeoff, Food-Energy-Water nexus
Published: 2020
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