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Revised middle Triassic stratigraphy of the Swiss Prealps based on conodonts and correlation to the Briançonnais (Western Alps)

The Triassic in the “Médianes rigides” Nappe of the Swiss Prealps, belonging to the Briançonnais realm of the Western Alps, consists of a several hundred meters thick carbonate succession. At the localities Wiriehorn and Rothorn, 650 m above sequence base, the Costatoria goldfussi limestone, a remarkable coquina and widespread transgressive marker bed, yields the key conodont Sephardiella truempyi

Engineered nanomaterials in in vivo and in vitro models

Nanotechnology and engineered nanomaterials (ENM) empower existing technologies. One of the great examples are III-V semiconductor nanowires (NW), which have a broad application range. The occupational safety and hazard organizations draw attention to ENM, as their physical and chemical characteristics differ from the ones of bulk materials. Additionally, the NW high aspect ratio geometry is of gr

Junction Engineering in Nanostructured Optoelectronic Devices

Semiconductor nanowires have proven to be promising building blocks for next-generation optoelectronic devices. The nanometric dimensions of nanowires provides strain relaxation capability, thus enabling the heteroepitaxy of III-V materials on silicon, as well as providing the possibility of realizing optoelectronic devices with lattice-mismatched material combinations. The subwavelength dimension

Structural changes in the rat tympanic membrane following repeated pressure loads

Healthy adult laboratory rats were exposed to alternating negative pressure and atmospheric pressure to replicate the clinical situation found in patients with chronic sniffing habits and chronic middle ear disease. The rats were placed in a box in which the pressure changed at intervals of 30 s between atmospheric pressure and a negative pressure of -3 kPa. This was repeated continuously or perio

Self-Stigma, Bad Faith and the Experiential Self

The concept of self-stigmatization is guided by a representational account of selfhood that fails to accommodate for resilience against, and recovery from, stigma. Mainstream research on self-stigma has portrayed it only as a reified self, that is, as collectively shared stereotypes representing individuals’ identity. Self-stigma viewed phenomenologically, however, elucidates what facilitates a st

Introduction : Trans-Europe: Interlocking and clashing relations across Europe, Asia, and the middle east

This chapter provides an overview of a vast space labelled Trans-Europe-spanning beyond Europe, over to Russia, parts of North Africa, the Middle East, and East Asia. The concept of Trans-Europe allows capturing a number of nodes, regional pivots, as well as numerous interconnections, differences, and gaps. The authors present the challenge of this book: to explore how different regions around Eur

Self-organization of porous anodic alumina films studied in situ by grazing-incidence transmission small-angle X-ray scattering

Self-ordered porous anodic alumina (PAA) films are studied extensively due to a large number of possible applications in nanotechnology and low cost of production. Whereas empirical relationships between growth conditions and produced oxides have been established, fundamental aspects regarding pore formation and self-organization are still under debate. We present in situ structural studies of PAA

Poor Little Rich Kids? The Role of Nature versus Nurture in Wealth and Other Economic Outcomes and Behaviors

Wealth is highly correlated between parents and their children; however, little is known about the extent to which these relationships are genetic or determined by environmental factors. We use administrative data on the net wealth of a large sample of Swedish adoptees merged with similar information for their biological and adoptive parents. Comparing the relationship between the wealth of adopte

Binding of Cu2+, Zn2+, and Cd2+ to inositol tri-, tetra-, penta-, and hexaphosphates

myo-Inositol hexaphosphate, the salt of myo-inositol hexaphosphoric acid (IP6), is a common constituent of many plant foods, such as cereals and legumes. IP6 interacts with mineral elements, influencing their bioavailability. Processed foods contain a mixture of different inositol phosphates, i.e., IP6 and its degradation products with five or less phosphate groups (IP5-IP1). The interaction of th