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Uncooled Infrared Microbolometer Arrays and their Characterisation Techniques
In: Defence science journal: DSJ, Volume 59, Issue 6, p. 580-589
ISSN: 0011-748X
Uncooled Infrared Microbolometer Arrays and their Characterisation Techniques (Review Paper)
Recently, a lot of attention has been paid to infrared imaging using uncooled microbolometer detectors, primarily because of their low cost, and wide military and civilian applications. This paper reviews the basic principles of these detectors and some of the important works done internationally in this field. This paper presents some of the research work on titanium microbolometer carried out at Solid State Physics Laboratory, Delhi.Defence Science Journal, 2009, 59(6), pp.580-589, DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.14429/dsj.59.1562
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Review Paper Un-cooled Infrared Microbolometer Arrays and their Characterisation Techniques
In: Defence science journal: a journal devotet to science & technology in defence, Volume 59, Issue 6, p. 580-590
ISSN: 0011-748X
Genetic determinants of daytime napping and effects on cardiometabolic health
This is the final version. Available from Nature Research via the DOI in this record. ; Summary GWAS statistics are publicly available at The Sleep Disorder Knowledge Portal webpage: http://sleepdisordergenetics.org/. ; Daytime napping is a common, heritable behavior, but its genetic basis and causal relationship with cardiometabolic health remain unclear. Here, we perform a genome-wide association study of self-reported daytime napping in the UK Biobank (n = 452,633) and identify 123 loci of which 61 replicate in the 23andMe research cohort (n = 541,333). Findings include missense variants in established drug targets for sleep disorders (HCRTR1, HCRTR2), genes with roles in arousal (TRPC6, PNOC), and genes suggesting an obesity-hypersomnolence pathway (PNOC, PATJ). Association signals are concordant with accelerometer-measured daytime inactivity duration and 33 loci colocalize with loci for other sleep phenotypes. Cluster analysis identifies three distinct clusters of nap-promoting mechanisms with heterogeneous associations with cardiometabolic outcomes. Mendelian randomization shows potential causal links between more frequent daytime napping and higher blood pressure and waist circumference. ; National Institute of Health ; National Institute of Health ; National Institute of Health ; National Institute of Health ; National Institute of Health ; MGH Research Scholar Fund, Academy of Finland ; Medical Research Council ; Spanish Government of Investigation, Development and Innovation ; Seneca Foundation ; NIDDK ; Instrumentarium Science Foundation ; Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation
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Sex-dimorphic genetic effects and novel loci for fasting glucose and insulin variability
This is the final version. Available on open access from Nature Research via the DOI in this record. ; Data availability: GWAS summary statistics for FG/FI analyses presented in this manuscript are deposited on https://www.magicinvestigators.org/downloads/ and will be also be available through the NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog https://www.ebi.ac.uk/gwas/downloads/summary-statistics. Raw files for RNA-seq mRNA expression in islet donors have been deposited in NCBI GEO database with the accession code GSE50398. Summary-level GWAS results for genetic correlation analysis with glycemic traits were downloaded from the LDHub database (http://ldsc.broadinstitute.org/ldhub/). Islets from 89 cadaver donors were provided by the Nordic Islet Transplantation Programme (http://www.medscinet.com/nordicislets/). The dexseq_count python script for RNA sequencing analysis in human pancreatic islets was downloaded from http://www-huber.embl.de/pub/DEXSeq/analysis/scripts/. Raw files for RNA-seq mRNA expression in islet donors have been deposited in NCBI GEO database with the accession code GSE50398. ; Differences between sexes contribute to variation in the levels of fasting glucose and insulin. Epidemiological studies established a higher prevalence of impaired fasting glucose in men and impaired glucose tolerance in women, however, the genetic component underlying this phenomenon is not established. We assess sex-dimorphic (73,089/50,404 women and 67,506/47,806 men) and sex-combined (151,188/105,056 individuals) fasting glucose/fasting insulin genetic effects via genome-wide association study meta-analyses in individuals of European descent without diabetes. Here we report sex dimorphism in allelic effects on fasting insulin at IRS1 and ZNF12 loci, the latter showing higher RNA expression in whole blood in women compared to men. We also observe sex-homogeneous effects on fasting glucose at seven novel loci. Fasting insulin in women shows stronger genetic correlations than in men with waist-to-hip ratio and anorexia nervosa. Furthermore, waist-to-hip ratio is causally related to insulin resistance in women, but not in men. These results position dissection of metabolic and glycemic health sex dimorphism as a steppingstone for understanding differences in genetic effects between women and men in related phenotypes. ; Academy of Finland ; ADA ; Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) ; BHF ; Clinical Translational Science Institute ; Croatian Ministry of Science ; Directorate C - Public Health and Risk Assessment, Health & Consumer Protection ; Dutch Kidney Foundation ; Estonian Research Council ; European Research Council (ERC) ; European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) ; European Union Horizon 2020 ; Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Germany ; Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation ; German Research Foundation ; Greek General Secretary of Research and Technology ; Icelandic National Bioethics Committee ; IFB Adiposity Diseases ; IngaBritt och Arne Lundberg's Research Foundation ; Italian Ministry of Health ; Knut & Alice Wallenberg foundation ; Kuopio University Hospital from Ministry of Health and Social Affairs ; Affymetrix, Inc ; Lundberg Foundation ; Medical Research Council (MRC) ; Mid-Atlantic Nutrition Obesity Research Center ; Ministry of Education and Culture of Finland ; MRC-GSK pilot programme ; NHLBI ; NIA ; NIH ; Nordic Centre of Excellence on Systems biology in controlled dietary interventions and cohort studies, SYSDIET ; Novo Nordisk Foundation ; NWO/ZonMW ; Spinozapremie ; Rutgers University Cell and DNA Repository ; Stockholm County Council ; Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research ; Swedish Heart-Lung Foundation ; Swedish Research Council ; Swiss National Science Foundation ; TEKES ; Torsten och Ragnar Söderbergs Stiftelser ; Wellcome Trust ; Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation ; Note that the full list of funders and grant numbers is available in the online article and in the PDF in this record
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Search for high-mass diphoton resonances in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV and combination with 8 TeV search
Individuals have received support from the Marie-Curie program and the European Research Council and EPLANET (European Union); the Leventis Foundation; the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office; the Fonds pour la Formation à la Recherche dans l'Industrie et dans l'Agriculture (FRIA-Belgium); the Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie (IWT-Belgium); the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) of the Czech Republic; the Council of Science and Industrial Research, India; the HOMING PLUS program of the Foundation for Polish Science, cofinanced from European Union, Regional Development Fund, the Mobility Plus program of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the National Science Center (Poland), contracts Harmonia 2014/14/M/ST2/00428, Opus 2013/11/B/ST2/04202, 2014/13/B/ST2/02543 and 2014/15/B/ST2/03998, Sonata-bis 2012/07/E/ST2/01406; the Thalis and Aristeia programs cofinanced by EU-ESF and the Greek NSRF; the National Priorities Research Program by Qatar National Research Fund; the Programa Clarín-COFUND del Principado de Asturias; the Rachadapisek Sompot Fund for Postdoctoral Fellowship, Chulalongkorn University and the Chulalongkorn Academic into Its 2nd Century Project Advancement Project (Thailand); and the Welch Foundation, contract C-1845.
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Constraints on anomalous Higgs boson couplings using production and decay information in the four-lepton final state
BMWFW (Austria) ; FWF (Austria) ; FNRS (Belgium) ; FWO (Belgium) ; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) ; Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) ; Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ) ; Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) ; MES (Bulgaria) ; CERN ; CAS (China) ; MOST (China) ; NSFC (China) ; COLCIENCIAS (Colombia) ; MSES (Croatia) ; CSF (Croatia) ; RPF (Cyprus) ; SENESCYT (Ecuador) ; MoER (Estonia) ; ERC (Estonia) ; IUT (Estonia) ; ERDF (Estonia) ; Academy of Finland (Finland) ; MEC (Finland) ; HIP (Finland) ; CEA (France) ; CNRS/ IN2P3 (France) ; BMBF (Germany) ; DFG (Germany) ; HGF (Germany) ; GSRT (Greece) ; OTKA (Hungary) ; NIH (Hungary) ; DAE (India) ; DST (India) ; IPM (Iran) ; SFI (Ireland) ; INFN (Italy) ; MSIP (Republic of Korea) ; NRF (Republic of Korea) ; LAS (Lithuania) ; MOE (Malaysia) ; UM (Malaysia) ; BUAP (Mexico) ; CINVESTAV (Mexico) ; CONACYT (Mexico) ; LNS (Mexico) ; SEP (Mexico) ; UASLP-FAI (Mexico) ; MBIE (New Zealand) ; PAEC (Pakistan) ; MSHE (Poland) ; NSC (Poland) ; FCT (Portugal) ; JINR (Dubna) ; MON (Russia) ; RosAtom (Russia) ; RAS (Russia) ; RFBR (Russia) ; RAEP (Russia) ; MESTD (Serbia) ; SEIDI (Spain) ; CPAN (Spain) ; PCTI (Spain) ; FEDER (Spain) ; Swiss Funding Agencies (Switzerland) ; MST (Taipei) ; ThEPCenter (Thailand) ; IPST (Thailand) ; STAR (Thailand) ; NSTDA (Thailand) ; TUBITAK (Turkey) ; TAEK (Turkey) ; NASU (Ukraine) ; SFFR (Ukraine) ; STFC (United Kingdom) ; DOE (USA) ; NSF (USA) ; Marie-Curie program (European Union) ; Leventis Foundation ; A. P. Sloan Foundation ; Alexander von Humboldt Foundation ; Belgian Federal Science Policy Office ; Fonds pour la Formation a la Recherche dans l'Industrie et dans l'Agriculture (FRIA-Belgium) ; Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie (IWT-Belgium) ; Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) of the Czech Republic ; Council of Science and Industrial Research, India ; HOMING PLUS program of the Foundation for Polish Science ; European Union, Regional Development Fund ; Mobility Plus program of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education ; National Science Center (Poland) ; National Priorities Research Program by Qatar National Research Fund ; Programa Clarin-COFUND del Principado de Asturias ; Thalis program - EU-ESF ; Aristeia program - EU-ESF ; Greek NSRF ; Rachadapisek Sompot Fund for Postdoctoral Fellowship, Chulalongkorn University (Thailand) ; Chulalongkorn Academic into Its 2nd Century Project Advancement Project (Thailand) ; Welch Foundation ; European Research Council (European Union) ; Horizon Grant (European Union) ; National Science Center (Poland): Harmonia 2014/14/M/ST2/00428 ; National Science Center (Poland): Opus 2014/13/B/ST2/02543 ; National Science Center (Poland): 2014/15/B/ST2/03998 ; National Science Center (Poland): 2015/19/B/ST2/02861 ; National Science Center (Poland): Sonata-bis 2012/07/E/ST2/01406 ; Welch Foundation: C-1845 ; Horizon Grant (European Union): 675440 ; A search is performed for anomalous interactions of the recently discovered Higgs boson using matrix element techniques with the information from its decay to four leptons and from associated Higgs boson production with two quark jets in either vector boson fusion or associated production with a vector boson. The data were recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 38.6 fb(-1). They are combined with the data collected at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV, corresponding to integrated luminosities of 5.1 and 19.7 fb(-1), respectively. All observations are consistent with the expectations for the standard model Higgs boson. (C) 2017 The Author. Published by Elsevier B.V.
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Measurement of the ratio B(B-s(0) -> J/psi f(0)(980))/B(B-s(0) -> J/psi phi(1020)) in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV
BMWFW (Austria) ; FWF (Austria) ; Fonds De La Recherche Scientifique - FNRS (Belgium) ; Fonds De La Recherche Scientifique - FWO (Belgium) ; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) ; Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) ; Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ) ; Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) ; MES (Bulgaria) ; CERN ; CAS (China) ; MoST (China) ; NSFC (China) ; COLCIENCIAS (Colombia) ; MSES (Croatia) ; CSF (Croatia) ; RPF (Cyprus) ; MoER (Estonia) ; ERC IUT (Estonia) ; ERDF (Estonia) ; Academy of Finland (Finland) ; MEC (Finland) ; HIP (Finland) ; CEA (France) ; CNRS/IN2P3 (France) ; BMBF (Germany) ; DFG (Germany) ; HGF (Germany) ; GSRT (Greece) ; OTKA (Hungary) ; NIH (Hungary) ; DAE (India) ; DST (India) ; IPM (Iran) ; SFI (Ireland) ; INFN (Italy) ; MSIP (Republic of Korea) ; NRF (Republic of Korea) ; LAS (Lithuania) ; MOE (Malaysia) ; UM (Malaysia) ; CINVESTAV (Mexico) ; CONACYT (Mexico) ; SEP (Mexico) ; UASLP-FAI (Mexico) ; MBIE (New Zealand) ; PAEC (Pakistan) ; MSHE (Poland) ; NSC (Poland) ; FCT (Portugal) ; JINR (Dubna) ; MON (Russia) ; RosAtom (Russia) ; RAS (Russia) ; RFBR (Russia) ; MESTD (Serbia) ; SEIDI (Spain) ; CPAN (Spain) ; Swiss Funding Agencies (Switzerland) ; MST (Taipei) ; ThEPCenter (Thailand) ; IPST (Thailand) ; STAR (Thailand) ; NSTDA (Thailand) ; TUBITAK (Turkey) ; TAEK (Turkey) ; NASU (Ukraine) ; SFFR (Ukraine) ; STFC (United Kingdom) ; DOE (USA) ; NSF (USA) ; Marie-Curie programme (European Union) ; European Research Council (European Union) ; EPLANET (European Union) ; Leventis Foundation ; A.P. Sloan Foundation ; Alexander von Humboldt Foundation ; Belgian Federal Science Policy Office ; Fonds pour la Formation a la Recherche dans l'Industrie et dans l'Agriculture (FRIA-Belgium) ; Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie (IWT-Belgium) ; Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) of the Czech Republic ; Council of Science and Industrial Research, India ; HOMING PLUS programme of Foundation for Polish Science ; European Union, Regional Development Fund ; Compagnia di San Paolo (Torino) ; Consorzio per la Fisica (Trieste) ; MIUR project (Italy) ; Thalis programme - EU-ESF ; Aristeia programme - EU-ESF ; Greek NSRF ; National Priorities Research Program by Qatar National Research Fund ; Science and Technology Facilities Council ; MIUR project (Italy): 20108T4XTM ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/H000925/2 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/N001273/1 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: GRIDPP ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/K003542/1 GRID PP ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: CMS ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: PP/E002803/1 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/K001531/1 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/M004775/1 GRIDPP ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/J005479/1 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/L005603/1 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/J004871/1 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/K001639/1 CMS Upgrades ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/M004775/1 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/N000250/1 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/I000305/1 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/K001256/1 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/H000925/1 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/K001639/1 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/K003224/1 CMS Upgrades ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/I003622/1 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/K003542/1 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/K003542/1 GRIDPP ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: PP/E000479/1 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/I003622/1 GRIDPP ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/M002020/1 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/N000242/1 ; A measurement of the ratio of the branching fractions of the B-s(0) meson to J/psi f(0)(980) and to J/psi phi(1020) is presented. The J/psi, f(0)(980), and phi(1020) are observed through their decays to mu(+)mu(-), pi(+)pi(-), and K+K-, respectively. The f(0) and the phi are identified by requiring |M-pi+(pi)- - 974 MeV| J/psi f(0)) B(f(0) ->pi(+)pi(-))/B(B-s(0) -> J/psi phi) B(phi -> K+K-)= 0.140 +/- 0.008 (stat) +/- 0.023 (syst), where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second is systematic. (C) 2016 CERN for the benefit of the CMS Collaboration. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license.
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Measurement and interpretation of differential cross sections for Higgs boson production at root s=13 TeV
FWF ; FNRS ; FWO (Belgium) ; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) ; Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) ; Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ) ; FAPERGS ; Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) ; MES (Bulgaria) ; MOST ; NSFC (China) ; COLCIENCIAS (Colombia) ; CSF (Croatia) ; SENESCYT (Ecuador) ; MoER ; ERDF (Estonia) ; Academy of Finland ; MEC ; CEA ; CNRS/IN2P3 (France) ; BMBF ; DFG ; HGF (Germany) ; GSRT (Greece) ; NKFIA (Hungary) ; DAE ; DST ; IPM ; SFI (Ireland) ; INFN (Italy) ; NRF (Republic of Korea) ; MES (Latvia) ; MOE and UM (Malaysia) ; BUAP ; CONACYT ; (UASLP-FAI Mexico) ; MBIE (New Zealand) ; PAEC (Pakistan) ; MSHE ; FCT (Portugal) ; JINR (Dubna) ; RFBR ; MESTD (Serbia) ; SEIDI ; FEDER (Spain) ; Swiss Funding Agencies (Switzerland) ; NSTDA ; TUBITAK ; TAEK ; NASU ; DOE ; NSF ; Marie-Curie programme ; European Research Council ; Horizon 2020 Grant ; A. G. Leventis Foundation ; Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ; Alexander von Humboldt Foundation ; Belgian Federal Science Policy Office ; Fonds pour la Formation a la Recherche dans l'Industrie et dans l'Agriculture (FRIA-Belgium) ; Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie (IWT-Belgium) ; FWO (Belgium) under the Excellence of Science - EOS ; Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) of the Czech Republic ; Janos Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences ; Council of Science and Industrial Research, India ; HOMING PLUS programme of the Foundation for Polish Science ; European Union, Regional Development Fund ; National Science Centre(Poland) ; Sonata-bis ; National Priorities Research Program by Qatar National Research Fund ; Programa Estatal de Fomento de la Investigacion Cientifica y Tecnica de Excelencia Maria de Maeztu ; Programa Severo Ochoa del Principado de Asturias ; Thalis ; EU-ESF ; Greek NSRF ; Rachadapisek Sompot Fund for Postdoctoral Fellowship, Chulalongkorn University ; Welch Foundation ; Weston Havens Foundation (USA) ; Horizon 2020 Grant: 675440 ; FWO (Belgium) under the Excellence of Science - EOS: 30820817 ; Janos Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences: 123842 ; Janos Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences: 123959 ; Janos Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences: 124845 ; Janos Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences: 124850 ; Janos Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences: 125105 ; National Science Centre(Poland): Harmonia 2014/14/M/ST2/00428 ; National Science Centre(Poland): 2014/13/B/ST2/02543 ; National Science Centre(Poland): 2014/15/B/ST2/03998 ; National Science Centre(Poland): 2015/19/B/ST2/02861 ; Sonata-bis: 2012/07/E/ST2/01406 ; Programa Estatal de Fomento de la Investigacion Cientifica y Tecnica de Excelencia Maria de Maeztu: MDM-2015-0509 ; Welch Foundation: C-1845 ; Differential Higgs boson (H) production cross sections are sensitive probes for physics beyond the standard model. New physics may contribute in the gluon-gluon fusion loop, the dominant Higgs boson production mechanism at the LHC, and manifest itself through deviations from the distributions predicted by the standard model. Combined spectra for the H -> gamma gamma, H -> ZZ, and H -> b (b) over bar decay channels and the inclusive Higgs boson production cross section are presented, based on proton-proton collision data recorded with the CMS detector at root s = 13 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb(-1). The transverse momentum spectrum is used to place limits on the Higgs boson couplings to the top, bottom, and charm quarks, as well as its direct coupling to the gluon field. No significant deviations from the standard model are observed in any differential distribution. The measured total cross section is 61.1 +/- 6.0 (stat) +/- 3.7 (syst) pb, and the precision of the measurement of the differential cross section of the Higgs boson transverse momentum is improved by about 15% with respect to the H -> gamma gamma channel alone. (C) 2019 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V.
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