The morphology and density of black carbon (BC) cores in internally mixed BC (In-BC) particles affect their mixing state and absorption enhancement. In this work, we developed a new method to measure the morphology and effective density of the BC cores of ambient In-BC particles using a single-particle soot photometer (SP2) and a volatility tandem differential mobility analyzer (VTDMA) during t...

Previous studies have shown that after being trained on A-B and A-C match-to-sample tasks, adults match not only same-class Band C stimuli (equivalence) but also BC compounds with sameclass elements and with different-class elements (BC-BC) . The assumption was that the BC-BC performances are based on matching equivalence and nonequivalence relations (equivalenceequivalence) . The present study...

N. Fichtner, E. L. MacMillan, B. Mädler, A. Curt, D. K. Li, M. F. Dvorak, and A. L. MacKay Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Dept. of Clinical Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Philips Healthcare, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Dept. of Neurology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, International Collaboration on Repai...

Protein Tyrosin Kinase 7 (PTK7) is upregulated in several human cancers; however, its clinical implication in breast cancer (BC) and lymph node (LN) is still unclear. In order to investigate the function of PTK7 in mediating BC cell motility and invasivity, PTK7 expression in BC cell lines was determined. PTK7 signaling in highly invasive breast cancer cells was inhibited by a dominant-negative...

The two heavy quarks in a baryon which contains two heavy quarks and a light one, can constitute a scalar or axial vector diquark. We study electromagnetic radiations of such baryons, (i) Ξ(bc)1 → Ξ(bc)0 + γ, (ii) Ξ∗(bc)1 → Ξ(bc)0 + γ, (iii) Ξ ∗∗ (bc)0 (1/2, l = 1) → Ξ(bc)0 + γ, (iv) Ξ∗∗ (bc)0(3/2, l = 1) → Ξ(bc)0 + γ and (v) Ξ ∗∗ (bc)0 (3/2, l = 2) → Ξ(bc)0 + γ, where Ξ(bc)0(1) ,Ξ ∗ (bc)1 are ...

The black carbon (BC) burden of the upper troposphere and lowermost stratosphere (UTLS) is investigated with the general circulation model (GCM) ECHAM4. The special focus is the contribution of aircraft emissions to the UTLS BC loading. Previous studies on the role of aircraft emissions in the global BC cycle either neglect BC sources located at the Earth’s surface or simplify the BC cycle by a...

We investigated the associations between single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the testis-specific Y-encoded-like protein 6 (TSPYL6) gene and breast cancer (BC) susceptibility in the Han Chinese population. A total of 183 BC patients and 195 healthy women were included in the study. Six SNPs in TSPYL6 were genotyped and the association with BC risk analyzed. Odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confid...