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Open AccessThe Challenging Nature of Volcanic Heritage: The Fogo Island (Cabo Verde, W Africa)
Many volcanic landscapes reflect the essence of volcanism and are particularly attractive to different kinds of visitors, featuring the concept of volcanic geoheritage. The expressiveness of volcanic processes...
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Open AccessGenetic determinants of micronucleus formation in vivo
Genomic instability arising from defective responses to DNA damage1 or mitotic chromosomal imbalances2 can lead to the sequestration of DNA in aberrant extranuclear structures called micronuclei (MN). Although MN...
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A local rigidity theorem for minimal two-spheres in charged time-symmetric initial data set
The purpose of this article is to prove that, under suitable constraints on time-symmetric initial data set for the Einstein–Maxwell equation M, if ...
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Open AccessReconstruction of interactions in the ProtoDUNE-SP detector with Pandora
The Pandora Software Development Kit and algorithm libraries provide pattern-recognition logic essential to the reconstruction of particle interactions in liquid argon time projection chamber detectors. Pandor...
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Open AccessSeparation of track- and shower-like energy deposits in ProtoDUNE-SP using a convolutional neural network
Liquid argon time projection chamber detector technology provides high spatial and calorimetric resolutions on the charged particles traversing liquid argon. As a result, the technology has been used in a numb...
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Open AccessScintillation light detection in the 6-m drift-length ProtoDUNE Dual Phase liquid argon TPC
DUNE is a dual-site experiment for long-baseline neutrino oscillation studies, neutrino astrophysics and nucleon decay searches. ProtoDUNE Dual Phase (DP) is a 6
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Free Boundary Hypersurfaces with Non-positive Yamabe Invariant in Mean Convex Manifolds
We obtain some estimates on the area of the boundary and on the volume of a certain free boundary hypersurface \(\Sigma \) Σ with non-positive Yamabe invariant in a Riemannian n-manifold with bounds for the s...
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On static manifolds and related critical spaces with zero radial Weyl curvature
The aim of this paper is to study compact Riemannian manifolds \((M,\,g)\)(M,g) that admit a non-constant solution to the system of equations $$\begin{aligned} -\Delta f\, g+Hess f-fRic=\mu Ric+\lambda g, \end{al...
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Effect of extraction method and solvent system on the phenolic content and antioxidant activity of selected macro- and microalgae extracts
The interest in using marine organisms as a source of novel bioactive compounds has increased recently, reinforcing the need to find efficient and cost-effective methods to extract these biocompounds. Thus, th...
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Open AccessHeterotrophy as a tool to overcome the long and costly autotrophic scale-up process for large scale production of microalgae
Industrial scale-up of microalgal cultures is often a protracted step prone to culture collapse and the occurrence of unwanted contaminants. To solve this problem, a two-stage scale-up process was developed – ...
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Characterization of CCDC103 expression profiles: further insights in primary ciliary dyskinesia and in human reproduction
To study CCDC103 expression profiles and understand how pathogenic variants in CCDC103 affect its expression profile at mRNA and protein level.
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Correction to: The Cancer, Educate to Prevent Model—the Potential of School Environment for Primary Prevention of Cancer
The affiliation address of Dr. Helena Santos should be Faculty of Economics, University of Porto, Portugal and Dr. Luís Moreira’s should be Research Unit in Education and Community Intervention – RECI & Health...
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On locally conformally flat critical metrics for quadratic functionals
The aim of this note is to present some results about critical metrics for quadratic functional \({\mathcal {F}}_{t,s}\) ...
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The Cancer, Educate to Prevent Model—the Potential of School Environment for Primary Prevention of Cancer
Cancer represents one of the main causes of death worldwide; consequently, preventive interventions are of utmost importance in public health education. The leading model of cancer prevention campaigns is base...
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Bach-Flat Critical Metrics of the Volume Functional on 4-Dimensional Manifolds with Boundary
The purpose of this article is to investigate Bach-flat critical metrics of the volume functional on a compact manifold \(M\) ...
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The Case for Workflow-Aware Storage:An Opportunity Study
This article evaluates the potential gains a workflow-aware storage system can bring. Two observations make us believe such storage system is crucial to efficiently support workflow-based applications: First, ...
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Compact almost Ricci solitons with constant scalar curvature are gradient
The aim of this note is to prove that any compact non-trivial almost Ricci soliton \(\big (M^n,\,g,\,X,\,\lambda \big )\) ...
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Open AccessPReS-FINAL-2008: Juvenile dermatomyositis: a report of 22 cases
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Erratum to: Some Applications of the Hodge-de Rham Decomposition to Ricci solitons
The aim of this note is to clarify a minor mistake in the article: Some Applications of the Hodge-de Rham Decomposition to Ricci solitons.
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Rotational linear Weingarten surfaces into the Euclidean sphere
The aim of this paper is to present a complete description of all rotational linear Weingarten surfaces in the Euclidean sphere $$\mat...
