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Giovanni Dietler, Hilal Lashuel, Annalisa Ansaloni, Jae Sun Jeong, Raffaele Mezzenga

The formation of amyloid β (Aβ) fibrils is crucial in initiating the cascade of pathological events that culminates in Alzheimer's disease. In this study, we investigated the mechanism of Aβ fibril formation from hydrodynamically well defined species under ...

Academic Press Ltd- Elsevier Science Ltd2013

Exclusion of root competition increases competitive abilities of subordinate plant species through root-shoot interactions

Alexandre Buttler, Pierre Rémi Mariotte, Charlotte Vandenberghe, Aurélie Thébault

Questions What is the importance of root competition in the competitive abilities of dominant and subordinate species? Location Pair-wise greenhouse experiment based on field data from a semi-natural grassland community in the Swiss Jura Mountains (Col du ...

Opulus Press2012

Effects of Subordinate Plant Species in Plant and Soil Community Structure and Ecosystem Functioning

Pierre Rémi Mariotte

The relevance of biodiversity to human health is an increasing international political issue as it causes concern for ethical and aesthetic reasons, but also has a strong impact on ecosystem properties and ecological goods and services utilised by humanity ...

EPFL2012

Identification of Scarabaeus micans Drury and taxonomic notes on Dicronorhina Hope, with description of a new species (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Cetoniinae)

Michele De Palma

The complex of Dicronorhina Hope taxa without cretaceous marks on head and body (“micans group”) is here diagnosed, discussed and revised. The type species of the genus, Scarabaeus micans Drury, 1773, is identified and re-described. D. johnstoni Waterhouse ...

2011

Deciphering surface enhanced Raman scattering activity of gold nanoworms through optical correlations

Vasiliki Tileli

Surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) "hot spots" are the regions where the electromagnetic field is significantly enhanced, resulting in much greater SERS activity than other areas. Therefore, the engineering and characterization of "hot spots" have at ...

2011

Taxonomic Revision of Megalorhina Westwood and subgeneric classification of Mecynorhina Hope (Coleoptera: Cetoniinae)

Michele De Palma

Megalorhina Westwood (type species: Ceratorhina (Megalorhina) harrisii Westwood, 1847) was synonymysed previously with Amaurodes Westwood (type species: Ceratorhina (Amaurodes) passerinii Westwood, 1844), and Amaurodes ranked as a subgenus of Mecynorhina H ...

Natura Edizioni Scientifiche2010

Charge storage at the Pt/YSZ interface

Christos Comninellis, György Foti, Cyril Falgairette, Arnaud Jaccoud

The electrochemical behavior of Pt/YSZ electrodes in oxygen containing atmosphere at 450 A degrees C has been investigated by double-step chronoamperometry and programmed linear sweep cyclic voltammetry. The response of the O-2(g),Pt/YSZ system in these ex ...

Springer US2009

Coumarin-based luminescent ligand that forms helicates with dicationic metal ions

The potentially hexadentate ligand L, which contains two terminal coumarin fluorophores, forms dinuclear double-stranded helicates with dicationic metal ions, giving species of the generic form M2L2. In solution the free ligand was fluorescent with e ...

2009

Almost half of the human genome is derived from exogenous genetic invaders, most of them related to retroviruses. This is the consequence of longstanding interactions between retroelements and higher organisms, governed by a delicate equilibrium between vi ...

Swiss Medical Publishers Ltd / EMH Swiss Medical Publishers2009

Assessing functional diversity in the field -methodology matters!

Aurélie Thébault

Interpreting the functional diversity of vegetation is important in unravelling the relationship between environmental change, community composition and ecosystem processes. Functional diversity is the range and distribution of functional trait values i ...

2008

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