---
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abstract:
- lang: eng
text: We prove that in Thomas–Fermi–Dirac–von Weizsäcker theory, a nucleus of charge
Z > 0 can bind at most Z + C electrons, where C is a universal constant. This
result is obtained through a comparison with Thomas-Fermi theory which, as a by-product,
gives bounds on the screened nuclear potential and the radius of the minimizer.
A key ingredient of the proof is a novel technique to control the particles in
the exterior region, which also applies to the liquid drop model with a nuclear
background potential.
acknowledgement: "We thank the referee for helpful suggestions that improved the presentation
of the paper. We also acknowledge partial support by National Science Foundation
Grant DMS-1363432 (R.L.F.), Austrian Science Fund (FWF) Project Nr. P 27533-N27
(P.T.N.), CONICYT (Chile) through CONICYT–PCHA/ Doctorado Nacional/2014, and Iniciativa
Científica Milenio (Chile) through Millenium Nucleus RC–120002 “Física Matemática”
(H.V.D.B.).\r\n"
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- first_name: Rupert
full_name: Frank, Rupert
last_name: Frank
- first_name: Nam
full_name: Phan Thanh, Nam
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last_name: Phan Thanh
- first_name: Hanne
full_name: Van Den Bosch, Hanne
last_name: Van Den Bosch
citation:
ama: Frank R, Nam P, Van Den Bosch H. The ionization conjecture in Thomas–Fermi–Dirac–von
Weizsäcker theory. Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics. 2018;71(3):577-614.
doi:10.1002/cpa.21717
apa: Frank, R., Nam, P., & Van Den Bosch, H. (2018). The ionization conjecture
in Thomas–Fermi–Dirac–von Weizsäcker theory. Communications on Pure and Applied
Mathematics. Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpa.21717
chicago: Frank, Rupert, Phan Nam, and Hanne Van Den Bosch. “The Ionization Conjecture
in Thomas–Fermi–Dirac–von Weizsäcker Theory.” Communications on Pure and Applied
Mathematics. Wiley-Blackwell, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpa.21717.
ieee: R. Frank, P. Nam, and H. Van Den Bosch, “The ionization conjecture in Thomas–Fermi–Dirac–von
Weizsäcker theory,” Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, vol.
71, no. 3. Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 577–614, 2018.
ista: Frank R, Nam P, Van Den Bosch H. 2018. The ionization conjecture in Thomas–Fermi–Dirac–von
Weizsäcker theory. Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics. 71(3), 577–614.
mla: Frank, Rupert, et al. “The Ionization Conjecture in Thomas–Fermi–Dirac–von
Weizsäcker Theory.” Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, vol.
71, no. 3, Wiley-Blackwell, 2018, pp. 577–614, doi:10.1002/cpa.21717.
short: R. Frank, P. Nam, H. Van Den Bosch, Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics
71 (2018) 577–614.
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:46:31Z
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date_updated: 2023-09-19T10:09:40Z
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title: The ionization conjecture in Thomas–Fermi–Dirac–von Weizsäcker theory
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_id: '430'
abstract:
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text: In this issue of GENETICS, a new method for detecting natural selection on
polygenic traits is developed and applied to sev- eral human examples ( Racimo
et al. 2018 ). By de fi nition, many loci contribute to variation in polygenic
traits, and a challenge for evolutionary ge neticists has been that these traits
can evolve by small, nearly undetectable shifts in allele frequencies across each
of many, typically unknown, loci. Recently, a helpful remedy has arisen. Genome-wide
associ- ation studies (GWAS) have been illuminating sets of loci that can be interrogated
jointly for c hanges in allele frequencies. By aggregating small signal s of change
across many such loci, directional natural selection is now in principle detect-
able using genetic data, even for highly polygenic traits. This is an exciting
arena of progress – with these methods, tests can be made for selection associated
with traits, and we can now study selection in what may be its most prevalent
mode. The continuing fast pace of GWAS publications suggest there will be many
more polygenic tests of selection in the near future, as every new GWAS is an
opportunity for an accom- panying test of polygenic selection. However, it is
important to be aware of complications th at arise in interpretation, especially
given that these studies may easily be misinter- preted both in and outside the
evolutionary genetics commu- nity. Here, we provide context for understanding
polygenic tests and urge caution regarding how these results are inter- preted
and reported upon more broadly.
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author:
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full_name: Novembre, John
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- first_name: Nicholas H
full_name: Barton, Nicholas H
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last_name: Barton
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citation:
ama: Novembre J, Barton NH. Tread lightly interpreting polygenic tests of selection.
Genetics. 2018;208(4):1351-1355. doi:10.1534/genetics.118.300786
apa: Novembre, J., & Barton, N. H. (2018). Tread lightly interpreting polygenic
tests of selection. Genetics. Genetics Society of America. https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.118.300786
chicago: Novembre, John, and Nicholas H Barton. “Tread Lightly Interpreting Polygenic
Tests of Selection.” Genetics. Genetics Society of America, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.118.300786.
ieee: J. Novembre and N. H. Barton, “Tread lightly interpreting polygenic tests
of selection,” Genetics, vol. 208, no. 4. Genetics Society of America,
pp. 1351–1355, 2018.
ista: Novembre J, Barton NH. 2018. Tread lightly interpreting polygenic tests of
selection. Genetics. 208(4), 1351–1355.
mla: Novembre, John, and Nicholas H. Barton. “Tread Lightly Interpreting Polygenic
Tests of Selection.” Genetics, vol. 208, no. 4, Genetics Society of America,
2018, pp. 1351–55, doi:10.1534/genetics.118.300786.
short: J. Novembre, N.H. Barton, Genetics 208 (2018) 1351–1355.
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:46:26Z
date_published: 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2023-09-19T10:17:30Z
day: '01'
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doi: 10.1534/genetics.118.300786
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---
_id: '199'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: Sex-biased genes are central to the study of sexual selection, sexual antagonism,
and sex chromosome evolution. We describe a comprehensive de novo assembled transcriptome
in the common frog Rana temporaria based on five developmental stages and three
adult tissues from both sexes, obtained from a population with karyotypically
homomorphic but genetically differentiated sex chromosomes. This allows the study
of sex-biased gene expression throughout development, and its effect on the rate
of gene evolution while accounting for pleiotropic expression, which is known
to negatively correlate with the evolutionary rate. Overall, sex-biased genes
had little overlap among developmental stages and adult tissues. Late developmental
stages and gonad tissues had the highest numbers of stage-or tissue-specific genes.
We find that pleiotropic gene expression is a better predictor than sex bias for
the evolutionary rate of genes, though it often interacts with sex bias. Although
genetically differentiated, the sex chromosomes were not enriched in sex-biased
genes, possibly due to a very recent arrest of XY recombination. These results
extend our understanding of the developmental dynamics, tissue specificity, and
genomic localization of sex-biased genes.
article_number: '294'
article_processing_charge: No
author:
- first_name: Wen
full_name: Ma, Wen
last_name: Ma
- first_name: Paris
full_name: Veltsos, Paris
last_name: Veltsos
- first_name: Melissa A
full_name: Toups, Melissa A
id: 4E099E4E-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Toups
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- first_name: Nicolas
full_name: Rodrigues, Nicolas
last_name: Rodrigues
- first_name: Roberto
full_name: Sermier, Roberto
last_name: Sermier
- first_name: Daniel
full_name: Jeffries, Daniel
last_name: Jeffries
- first_name: Nicolas
full_name: Perrin, Nicolas
last_name: Perrin
citation:
ama: Ma W, Veltsos P, Toups MA, et al. Tissue specificity and dynamics of sex biased
gene expression in a common frog population with differentiated, yet homomorphic,
sex chromosomes. Genes. 2018;9(6). doi:10.3390/genes9060294
apa: Ma, W., Veltsos, P., Toups, M. A., Rodrigues, N., Sermier, R., Jeffries, D.,
& Perrin, N. (2018). Tissue specificity and dynamics of sex biased gene expression
in a common frog population with differentiated, yet homomorphic, sex chromosomes.
Genes. MDPI AG. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes9060294
chicago: Ma, Wen, Paris Veltsos, Melissa A Toups, Nicolas Rodrigues, Roberto Sermier,
Daniel Jeffries, and Nicolas Perrin. “Tissue Specificity and Dynamics of Sex Biased
Gene Expression in a Common Frog Population with Differentiated, yet Homomorphic,
Sex Chromosomes.” Genes. MDPI AG, 2018. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes9060294.
ieee: W. Ma et al., “Tissue specificity and dynamics of sex biased gene expression
in a common frog population with differentiated, yet homomorphic, sex chromosomes,”
Genes, vol. 9, no. 6. MDPI AG, 2018.
ista: Ma W, Veltsos P, Toups MA, Rodrigues N, Sermier R, Jeffries D, Perrin N. 2018.
Tissue specificity and dynamics of sex biased gene expression in a common frog
population with differentiated, yet homomorphic, sex chromosomes. Genes. 9(6),
294.
mla: Ma, Wen, et al. “Tissue Specificity and Dynamics of Sex Biased Gene Expression
in a Common Frog Population with Differentiated, yet Homomorphic, Sex Chromosomes.”
Genes, vol. 9, no. 6, 294, MDPI AG, 2018, doi:10.3390/genes9060294.
short: W. Ma, P. Veltsos, M.A. Toups, N. Rodrigues, R. Sermier, D. Jeffries, N.
Perrin, Genes 9 (2018).
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:45:09Z
date_published: 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2023-09-19T10:15:31Z
day: '12'
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- '570'
department:
- _id: BeVi
doi: 10.3390/genes9060294
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date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:45:22Z
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title: Tissue specificity and dynamics of sex biased gene expression in a common frog
population with differentiated, yet homomorphic, sex chromosomes
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year: '2018'
...
---
_id: '543'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: A central goal in theoretical neuroscience is to predict the response properties
of sensory neurons from first principles. To this end, “efficient coding” posits
that sensory neurons encode maximal information about their inputs given internal
constraints. There exist, however, many variants of efficient coding (e.g., redundancy
reduction, different formulations of predictive coding, robust coding, sparse
coding, etc.), differing in their regimes of applicability, in the relevance of
signals to be encoded, and in the choice of constraints. It is unclear how these
types of efficient coding relate or what is expected when different coding objectives
are combined. Here we present a unified framework that encompasses previously
proposed efficient coding models and extends to unique regimes. We show that optimizing
neural responses to encode predictive information can lead them to either correlate
or decorrelate their inputs, depending on the stimulus statistics; in contrast,
at low noise, efficiently encoding the past always predicts decorrelation. Later,
we investigate coding of naturalistic movies and show that qualitatively different
types of visual motion tuning and levels of response sparsity are predicted, depending
on whether the objective is to recover the past or predict the future. Our approach
promises a way to explain the observed diversity of sensory neural responses,
as due to multiple functional goals and constraints fulfilled by different cell
types and/or circuits.
article_processing_charge: No
author:
- first_name: Matthew J
full_name: Chalk, Matthew J
id: 2BAAC544-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Chalk
orcid: 0000-0001-7782-4436
- first_name: Olivier
full_name: Marre, Olivier
last_name: Marre
- first_name: Gasper
full_name: Tkacik, Gasper
id: 3D494DCA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Tkacik
orcid: 0000-0002-6699-1455
citation:
ama: Chalk MJ, Marre O, Tkačik G. Toward a unified theory of efficient, predictive,
and sparse coding. PNAS. 2018;115(1):186-191. doi:10.1073/pnas.1711114115
apa: Chalk, M. J., Marre, O., & Tkačik, G. (2018). Toward a unified theory of
efficient, predictive, and sparse coding. PNAS. National Academy of Sciences.
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1711114115
chicago: Chalk, Matthew J, Olivier Marre, and Gašper Tkačik. “Toward a Unified Theory
of Efficient, Predictive, and Sparse Coding.” PNAS. National Academy of
Sciences, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1711114115.
ieee: M. J. Chalk, O. Marre, and G. Tkačik, “Toward a unified theory of efficient,
predictive, and sparse coding,” PNAS, vol. 115, no. 1. National Academy
of Sciences, pp. 186–191, 2018.
ista: Chalk MJ, Marre O, Tkačik G. 2018. Toward a unified theory of efficient, predictive,
and sparse coding. PNAS. 115(1), 186–191.
mla: Chalk, Matthew J., et al. “Toward a Unified Theory of Efficient, Predictive,
and Sparse Coding.” PNAS, vol. 115, no. 1, National Academy of Sciences,
2018, pp. 186–91, doi:10.1073/pnas.1711114115.
short: M.J. Chalk, O. Marre, G. Tkačik, PNAS 115 (2018) 186–191.
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:47:04Z
date_published: 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2023-09-19T10:16:35Z
day: '02'
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- _id: GaTk
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1711114115
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page: 186 - 191
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call_identifier: FWF
grant_number: P 25651-N26
name: Sensitivity to higher-order statistics in natural scenes
publication: PNAS
publication_status: published
publisher: National Academy of Sciences
publist_id: '7273'
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title: Toward a unified theory of efficient, predictive, and sparse coding
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...
---
_id: '421'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: Cell shape is determined by a balance of intrinsic properties of the cell
as well as its mechanochemical environment. Inhomogeneous shape changes underlie
many morphogenetic events and involve spatial gradients in active cellular forces
induced by complex chemical signaling. Here, we introduce a mechanochemical model
based on the notion that cell shape changes may be induced by external diffusible
biomolecules that influence cellular contractility (or equivalently, adhesions)
in a concentration-dependent manner—and whose spatial profile in turn is affected
by cell shape. We map out theoretically the possible interplay between chemical
concentration and cellular structure. Besides providing a direct route to spatial
gradients in cell shape profiles in tissues, we show that the dependence on cell
shape helps create robust mechanochemical gradients.
article_processing_charge: No
author:
- first_name: Kinjal
full_name: Dasbiswas, Kinjal
last_name: Dasbiswas
- first_name: Claude-Edouard B
full_name: Hannezo, Claude-Edouard B
id: 3A9DB764-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Hannezo
orcid: 0000-0001-6005-1561
- first_name: Nir
full_name: Gov, Nir
last_name: Gov
citation:
ama: Dasbiswas K, Hannezo EB, Gov N. Theory of eppithelial cell shape transitions
induced by mechanoactive chemical gradients. Biophysical Journal. 2018;114(4):968-977.
doi:10.1016/j.bpj.2017.12.022
apa: Dasbiswas, K., Hannezo, E. B., & Gov, N. (2018). Theory of eppithelial
cell shape transitions induced by mechanoactive chemical gradients. Biophysical
Journal. Biophysical Society. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2017.12.022
chicago: Dasbiswas, Kinjal, Edouard B Hannezo, and Nir Gov. “Theory of Eppithelial
Cell Shape Transitions Induced by Mechanoactive Chemical Gradients.” Biophysical
Journal. Biophysical Society, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2017.12.022.
ieee: K. Dasbiswas, E. B. Hannezo, and N. Gov, “Theory of eppithelial cell shape
transitions induced by mechanoactive chemical gradients,” Biophysical Journal,
vol. 114, no. 4. Biophysical Society, pp. 968–977, 2018.
ista: Dasbiswas K, Hannezo EB, Gov N. 2018. Theory of eppithelial cell shape transitions
induced by mechanoactive chemical gradients. Biophysical Journal. 114(4), 968–977.
mla: Dasbiswas, Kinjal, et al. “Theory of Eppithelial Cell Shape Transitions Induced
by Mechanoactive Chemical Gradients.” Biophysical Journal, vol. 114, no.
4, Biophysical Society, 2018, pp. 968–77, doi:10.1016/j.bpj.2017.12.022.
short: K. Dasbiswas, E.B. Hannezo, N. Gov, Biophysical Journal 114 (2018) 968–977.
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:46:23Z
date_published: 2018-02-27T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2023-09-19T10:13:55Z
day: '27'
department:
- _id: EdHa
doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2017.12.022
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- '1709.01486'
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- iso: eng
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publication: Biophysical Journal
publication_status: published
publisher: Biophysical Society
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title: Theory of eppithelial cell shape transitions induced by mechanoactive chemical
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year: '2018'
...