Publications by authors named "B L HUTCHINGS"
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- - Detection dogs are trained to identify specific scents, such as drugs or explosives, but variations in the scent can occur due to factors like production methods or mixing with other smells.
- - Generalisation, the ability of dogs to recognize similar but different scents, is vital for effective detection work, but it’s harder to predict in smells compared to sounds or sights.
- - This review examines recent findings on generalisation in detection dogs, discusses training methods, points out risks in current practices, and highlights gaps in research that need more attention.
Distinct microbial communities in an ascidian-crustacean symbiosis.
Environ Microbiol Rep
February 2024
Ascidians are marine invertebrates known to occasionally host symbiotic crustaceans. Although the microbiomes of both ascidians and free-living crustaceans have been characterized, there is no documentation of microbial communities in an ascidian-crustacean symbiosis. Samples of the solitary ascidian Ascidia sydneiensis and ambient seawater were collected in Belize.
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- Porous Liquids (PLs) are innovative materials that combine fluidity with permanent porosity, allowing for advanced applications like continuous flow separation.
- The study identifies Noria, a rigid cyclic oligomer, as a new and more stable host for creating robust Type II PLs, while revealing that previous assumptions about bulk Noria's composition were incorrect.
- The research demonstrates that a derivative of Noria, called Noria-OEt, can dissolve in a solvent to form a new Type II PL with enhanced methane uptake, supporting the existence of empty pores in the liquid.
Feedback Kinetics in Mechanochemistry: The Importance of Cohesive States.
Angew Chem Int Ed Engl
November 2017
Although mechanochemical synthesis is becoming more widely applied and even commercialised, greater basic understanding is needed if the field is to progress on less of a trial-and-error basis. We report that a mechanochemical reaction in a ball mill exhibits unusual sigmoidal feedback kinetics that differ dramatically from the simple first-order kinetics for the same reaction in solution. An induction period is followed by a rapid increase in reaction rate before the rate decreases again as the reaction goes to completion.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSNAP-25B is a neuronal protein required for neurotransmitter (NT) release and is the target of Botulinum Toxins A and E. It has two SNARE domains that form a four-helix bundle when combined with syntaxin 1A and synaptobrevin. Formation of the three-protein complex requires both SNARE domains of SNAP-25B to align parallel, stretching out a central linker.
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