bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Transcriptomic analysis suggests a key role for SQUAMOSA PROMOTER BINDING PROTEIN LIKE,NAC and YUCCA genes in the heteroblastic development of the temperate rainforest tree Gevuina avellana (Proteaceae)
Authors: Ostria‐Gallardo Enrique , Ranjan Aashish , Chitwood Daniel H. , Kumar Ravi , Townsley Brad T. , Ichihashi Yasunori , Corcuera Luis J. , Sinha Neelima R. 
Published: December 2015

Summary

Heteroblasty, the temporal development of the meristem, can produce diverse leaf shapes within a plant. Gevuina avellana, a tree from the South American temperate rainforest shows strong heteroblasty affecting leaf shape, transitioning from juvenile simple leaves to highly pinnate adult leaves. Light availability within the forest canopy also modulates its leaf size and complexity. Here we studied how the interaction between the light environment and the heteroblastic progression of leaves is coordinated in this species.

We used RNA‐seq on the Illumina platform to compare the range of transcriptional responses in leaf primordia of G. avellana at different heteroblastic stages and growing under different light environments.

We found a steady up‐regulation of SQUAMOSA PROMOTER BINDING PROTEIN LIKE (SPL), NAC, YUCCA and AGAMOUS‐LIKE genes associated with increases in age, leaf complexity, and light availability. In contrast, expression of TCP, TPR and KNOTTED1 homeobox genes showed a sustained down‐regulation. Additionally, genes involved in auxin synthesis/transport and jasmonate activity were differentially expressed, indicating an active regulation of processes controlled by these hormones.

Our large‐scale transcriptional analysis of the leaf primordia of G. avellana sheds light on the integration of internal and external cues during heteroblastic development in this species.
Palliative care case conferences in long‐term care: views of family members
Authors: Parker Deborah , Clifton Karen , Tuckett Anthony , Walker Helen , Reymond Elizabeth , Prior Teresa , McAnelly Kristien , Jenkin Peter , Israel Fiona , Greeve Kim , Glaetzer Karen 
Published: December 2015

Aims and objectivesThis paper examines the use of structured Palliative Care Case Conferences in long‐term care. The issues families bring to the Palliative Care Case Conference, their level of distress prior to the conference, the extent to which these issues are addressed by staff and family satisfaction with this process are described.BackgroundIn most developed countries, up to 30% of older people die in long‐term care. A palliative approach generally refers to the resident and family as the ‘unit of care’. Interventions, which include family in palliative care, are required in this setting.DesignDescriptive and thematic results from the intervention arm of a pre–post, sequential mixed method study.MethodsExamination of documents of 32 resident/family dyads participating in a Palliative Care Case Conference, and interviews with the residents’ family postintervention.ResultsMain concerns raised by family members prior to a Palliative Care Case Conference were physical and medical needs, pain, end‐of‐life care planning and nutrition and hydration. Families rated a high level of concern, 7.5 on a 10‐point rating scale, prior to the Palliative Care Case Conference. A formalised Palliative Care Case Conference process ensured issues relating to end‐of‐life care planning, pastoral care, pain and comfort and physical and medical needs were well documented by staff. Issues relating to care processes and the family role in care were less well documented. All families, interviewed postintervention, recommended Palliative Care Case Conferences; and over 90% of families felt their issues were addressed to their satisfaction. Families also reported an increased understanding of the resident's current and future care.ConclusionsThe Palliative Care Case Conference in long‐term care provides an important platform for family to voice concerns. Palliative Care Case Conference documentation indicates that staff are attending to these issues, although more reference to concerns relating to care processes and the family role could be made.Implications for practiceIncreased communication between staff and family, in the form of a Palliative Care Case Conference, may reduce stress, anxiety and unwanted hospitalisations during the palliative phase.
Strengthening Community Capacity for Environmental Health Promotion through Photovoice
Authors: Postma Julie , Ramon Cristian 
Published: December 2015

AbstractObjective(s)The study aims were to: (1) Identify health promoters'; perceptions of housing issues faced by farmworker families in an agricultural community, and (2) Strengthen community capacity to promote healthy and affordable housing.Design and SamplePhotovoice was used to identify participants'; perceptions about farmworker housing. Thematic analysis was used to analyze participant interviews. Freudenberg's “Community Capacity for Environmental Health Promotion” framework was used to organize activities that contributed to strengthening community capacity. Purposive sampling was used to recruit six bilingual health promoters into the study.MeasuresA demographic questionnaire was administered to characterize participants. An interview guide was used to inquire about housing conditions and the research process. A tracking tool was used to document capacity‐building activities 2 years post data collection.ResultsHousing issues faced by farmworker families included housing availability, poor conditions, and invisibility. All dimensions of community capacity were represented. Most occurred on an individual level.ConclusionsHealth promoters identified housing issues and built community capacity to support farmworker housing. Nurses can support housing initiatives by assessing housing status, using data to support healthy housing, supporting health promoter programs in new service delivery models, and leading coalitions to address housing as a social determinant of health.
A consortium of rhizobacterial strains and biochemical growth elicitors improve cold and drought stress tolerance in rice (Oryza sativa L.)
Authors: Kakar K. U. , Ren X.‐l. , Nawaz Z. , Cui Z.‐Q. , Li B. , Xie G.‐L. , Hassan M. A. , Ali E. , Sun G.‐C. 
Published: December 2015

AbstractIn the present study, a consortium of two rhizobacteria Bacillus amyloliquefaciens Bk7 and Brevibacillus laterosporus B4, termed ‘BB’, biochemical elicitors salicylic acid and β‐aminobutyric acid (SB) and their mixture (BBSB) were investigated for cold and drought stress tolerance in rice plants. After withholding water for 16 days, rice plants treated with BBSB showed 100% survival, improved seedling height (35.4 cm), shoot number (6.12), and showed minimum symptoms of chlorosis (19%), wilting (4%), necrosis (6%) and rolling of leaves. Similarly, BB inoculation enhanced plant growth and reduced overall symptoms in rice seedlings subjected to 0 ± 5 °C for 24 h. Our results imply several mechanisms underlying BB‐ and BBSB‐elicited stress tolerance. In contrast to the control, both treatments significantly decreased leaf monodehydroascorbate (MDA) content and electrolyte leakage, and increased leaf proline and cholorophyll content. Moreover, activities of antioxidant enzymes, superoxide dismutase (SOD) and catalase (CAT) increased 3.0‐ and 3.6‐fold, respectively. Moreover, expression of OsMYB3R‐2, OsDIL, OsDREB1A and OsCDPK13 genes was significantly up‐regulated, suggesting that these genes play important roles in abiotic stress tolerance of rice. In addition, bacterial strains Bk7 and B4 were able to produce high amounts of IAA and siderophores, and colonise the plant roots, while only strain Bk7 exhibited the capability to form biofilms and solubilise inorganic phosphate. This study indicates that the BB and BBSB bio‐formulations can be used to confer induced systematic tolerance and improve the health of rice plants subject to chilling and drought stress.
Early caregiving stress exposure moderates the relation between respiratory sinus arrhythmia reactivity at 1 month and biobehavioral outcomes at age 3
Authors: Conradt Elisabeth , Beauchaine Theodore , Abar Beau , Lagasse Linda , Shankaran Seetha , Bada Henrietta , Bauer Charles , Whitaker Toni , Hammond Jane , Lester Barry 
Published: December 2015

AbstractThere is a growing scientific interest in the psychophysiological functioning of children living in low‐socioeconomic status (SES) contexts, though this research is complicated by knowledge that physiology–behavior relations often operate differently in these environments among adults. Importantly, such research is made more difficult because SES may be a proxy for a wide range of risk factors including poor caregiving and exposure to parental substance use. We used factor analysis to organize risk‐exposure data collected from 827 children—many of whom were raised in low‐SES contexts and exposed to substances prenatally—into dissociable components including economic stress, caregiving stress (e.g., stress the caregiver may experience, including parental psychopathology), and postnatal substance exposure. These factors, along with respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) reactivity at age 1 month, were used to predict behavior dysregulation and resting RSA at age 3 years. A significant RSA Reactivity × Caregiving Stress interaction indicated that infants who exhibited high RSA reactivity at 1 month experienced the greatest behavior dysregulation at 3 years, but only when they were exposed to high levels of caregiving stress. Among African Americans, the highest resting RSA at 3 years was found in infants with less RSA reactivity, but only if they also experienced less caregiving stress. Our work is consistent with biological sensitivity to context, adaptive calibration, and allostatic load models, and highlights the importance of studying Physiology × Environment interactions in low‐SES contexts for predicting behavior and resting RSA.
Tokens vs. Copies: Displacement Revisited
Authors: Krivochen Diego Gabriel 
Published: December 2015

AbstractIn this paper we will analyze the conceptual and computational motivations of the property ofdisplacementin natural languages from a revisited perspective. We will account fordisplacementphenomena proposing our own version ofdisplacement‐as‐external token Merge, as opposed to the traditionaldisplacement‐as‐literal movementor, more recently,displacement‐as‐copy and Merge(Chomsky; Kitahara; Nunes). As far as empirical data is concerned, we will provide a brief analysis of parasitic gaps and their derivation, comparing our proposal with previous accounts making particular stress on the idea that operations are not feature‐driven in a highly constrained syntactic component, but interface‐driven, syntax being free and unbounded.
Comparison of immune responses to a killed bivalent whole cell oral cholera vaccine between endemic and less endemic settings
Authors: Desai Sachin N. , Akalu Zenebe , Teferi Mekonnen , Manna Byomkesh , Teshome Samuel , Park Ju Yeon , Yang Jae Seung , Kim Deok Ryun , Kanungo Suman , Digilio Laura 
Published: December 2015

SummaryStudies on safety, immunogenicity and efficacy of the killed, bivalent whole cell oral cholera vaccine (Shanchol) have been conducted in historically endemic settings of Asia. Recent cholera vaccination campaigns in Haiti and Guinea have also demonstrated favourable immunogenicity and effectiveness in nonendemic outbreak settings. We performed a secondary analysis, comparing immune responses of Shanchol from two randomised controlled trials performed in an endemic and a less endemic area (Addis Ababa) during a nonoutbreak setting. While Shanchol may offer some degree of immediate protection in primed populations living in cholera endemic areas, as well as being highly immunogenic in less endemic settings, understanding the characteristics of immune responses in each of these areas is vital in determining ideal dosing strategies that offer the greatest public health impact to populations from areas with varying degrees of cholera endemicity.
Paediatrician and Caregiver Awareness of Cryptosporidiosis and Giardiasis in Children: US Survey Responses
Authors: Munoz F. M. , Attias E. , Czinn S. J. , Black J. ,   the Persistent Diarrhea Working Group
Published: December 2015

SummaryThere appears to be no published information concerning the awareness and knowledge about diarrhoea caused by Cryptosporidium spp. or Giardia lamblia among US paediatricians and caregivers of young children. Two concurrent, separate surveys were conducted among paediatricians and caregivers (~1000 respondents in each survey) of children ages 1–12 years concerning their knowledge, perceptions and attitudes in the diagnosis and treatment of parasitic diarrhoea. Awareness of parasite‐induced diarrhoea was low for specific aspects among both paediatricians and caregivers. Educational efforts to improve awareness on the appropriate clinical presentation, management and treatment of cryptosporidiosis and giardiasis in children with persistent diarrhoea should be undertaken.
Complete Genome Sequence of Mayaro Virus (
Togaviridae, Alphavirus
) Strain BeAr 20290 from Brazil
Authors: Espósito Danillo Lucas Alves , da Fonseca Benedito Antônio Lopes 
Published: December 2015

ABSTRACT

We report here the complete genome sequence of Mayaro virus strain BeAr 20290 isolated from
Haemagogus
mosquitoes in 1960. The sequence presented here includes all nonstructural and structural proteins and the 5′- and 3′-untranslated (UTR) regions.
Draft Genome Sequences of Edwardsiella ictaluri Strains LADL11-100 and LADL11-194 Isolated from Zebrafish Danio rerio
Authors: Wang Rui , Tekedar Hasan C. , Lawrence Mark L. , Chouljenko Vladimir N. , Kim Joohyun , Kim Nayong , Kousoulas Konstantin G. , Hawke John P. 
Published: December 2015

ABSTRACT

Here, we report the draft genome sequences of
Edwardsiella ictaluri
strains LADL11-100 and LADL11-194, two isolates from natural outbreaks of edwardsiellosis in the zebrafish
Danio rerio
, as well as the sequences of the plasmids carried by the zebrafish strain of
E. ictaluri.
Complete Genome Sequence of Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris Strain 17 from Taiwan
Authors: Liu Yi-Chung , Wang Shiuh-Chaun , Yu Yu-Jen , Fung Kit-Man , Yang Ming-Te , Tseng Yi-Hsiung , Tsai Shih-Feng , Sun H. Sunny , Lyu Ping-Chiang , Chou Shan-Ho 
Published: December 2015

ABSTRACT

Xanthomonas campestris
pv. campestris 17 is a Gram-negative bacterium that is phytopathogenic to cruciferous plants in Taiwan. The 4,994,426-bp-long genome consists of 24 contigs with 4,050 protein-coding genes, 1 noncoding RNA (ncRNA) gene, 6 rRNA genes, and 55 tRNA genes.
Genome Sequences of Oblitimonas alkaliphila gen. nov. sp. nov. (Proposed), a Novel Bacterium of the
Pseudomonadaceae
Family
Authors: Lauer Ana C. , Nicholson Ainsley C. , Humrighouse Ben W. , Emery Brian , Drobish Adam , Juieng Phalasy , Loparev Vladimir , McQuiston John R. 
Published: December 2015

ABSTRACT

Results obtained through 16S rRNA gene sequencing and phenotypic testing of eight related, but unidentified, isolates located in a historical collection at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggested that these isolates belong to a novel genera of bacteria. The genomes of the bacteria, to be named
Oblitimonas alkaphilia
gen. nov. sp. nov., were sequenced using Illumina technology. Closed genomes were produced for all eight isolates.
Genome Sequence of Acinetobacter baumannii Strain D36, an Antibiotic-Resistant Isolate from Lineage 2 of Global Clone 1
Authors: Hamidian Mohammad , Hawkey Jane , Holt Kathryn E. , Hall Ruth M. 
Published: December 2015

ABSTRACT

Multiply antibiotic-resistant
Acinetobacter baumannii
isolate D36 was recovered in Australia in 2008 and belongs to a distinct lineage of global clone 1 (GC1). Here, we present the complete 4.13 Mbp genome sequence (chromosome plus 4 plasmids), generated via long read sequencing (PacBio).
De Novo
Genome Sequence of “
Candidatus
Liberibacter solanacearum” from a Single Potato Psyllid in California
Authors: Wu F. , Deng X. , Liang G. , Wallis C. , Trumble J. T. , Prager S. , Chen J. 
Published: December 2015

ABSTRACT

The draft genome sequence of “
Candidatus
Liberibacter solanacearum” strain RSTM from a potato psyllid (
Bactericera cockerelli
) in California is reported here. The RSTM strain has a genome size of 1,286,787 bp, a G+C content of 35.1%, 1,211 predicted open reading frames (ORFs), and 43 RNA genes.
Particle-number conservation in quasiparticle representation in the isovector neutron–proton pairing case
Authors: Fellah M. , Allal N. H. , Hammache Faiza , Oudih M. R. 
Published: December 2015

Until now, the Sharp-Bardeen–Cooper–Schrieffer (SBCS) particle-number projection method, in the isovector neutron–proton pairing case, has been developed in the particle representation. However, this formalism is sometimes complicated and cumbersome. In this work, the formalism is developed in the quasiparticle representation. An expression of the projected ground state wave function is proposed. Expressions of the energy as well as the expectation values of the total particle-number operator and its square are deduced. It is shown that these expressions are formally similar to their homologues in the pairing between like-particles case. They are easier to handle than the ones obtained using the particle representation and are more adapted to numerical calculations. The method is then numerically tested within the schematic one-level model, which allows comparisons with exact results, as well as in the case of even–even nuclei within the Woods–Saxon model. In each case, it is shown that the particle-number fluctuations that are inherent to the BCS method are completely eliminated by the projection. In the framework of the one-level model, the values of the projected energy are clearly closer to the exact values than the BCS ones. In realistic cases, the relative discrepancies between projected and unprojected values of the energy are small. However, the absolute deviations may reach several MeV.
Production and Perception of the /i/-/I/ Vowel Contrast: The Case of L2-Dominant Early Learners of English
Authors: Casillas Joseph 
Published: December 2015

AbstractThe present study explored the production and perception of the /i/-/I/ vowel contrast in second language (L2)-dominant early learners of American English who no longer fluently speak their first language (L1, Spanish). The production task analyzed the extent to which the early learner group differed from controls (native English speakers and L1-Spanish late-onset learners of English) with regard to duration and spectral centroids. The perception experiment examined how these early learners classified resynthesized stimuli drawn from the /i/-/I/ contrast using distinct acoustic cues - spectral and temporal - in a 2-alternative forced choice identification task. The first experiment revealed that the early learners produced the contrast in a native-like manner in terms of the spectral envelope and duration use. The second experiment found that early learners differed from both control groups in how they categorized the /i/-/I/ continua based on spectrum and duration, and the extent to which they rely on these two cues. The effects of linguistic experience on L2 phonetic behavior are discussed.
Telenovela e Política: perspectivas e modos de abordagem
Authors: Marques Angela Cristina Salgueiro 
Published: December 2015

<p>O artigo pretende apresentar, de maneira não exaustiva, quatro perspectivas teórico-metodológicas para o estudo das relações entre telenovela e política, ressaltando situações em que a narrativa ficcional: a) é utilizada como constituidora do Cenário de Representação da Política; b) é utilizada para dar forma a escândalos políticos; c) traz temas polêmicos e acontecimentos da política cotidiana e institucional, gerando um debate público ampliado; d) oferece valores e padrões de conduta moral que permitem aos telespectadores posicionar seus dramas pessoais cotidianos em termos que fazem sentido coletivamente. Ao final propõe-se avaliar como a narrativa ficcional da telenovela apresenta-se, sobretudo, como universo imagético e argumentativo com potência política de promover desidentificação e revelar cenas polêmicas de enunciação.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>
Angiotensinogen Exerts Effects Independent of Angiotensin II
Authors: Lu Hong , Wu Congqing , Howatt Deborah A. , Balakrishnan Anju , Moorleghen Jessica J. , Chen Xiaofeng , Zhao Mingming , Graham Mark J. , Mullick Adam E. , Crooke Rosanne M. , Feldman David L. , Cassis Lisa A. , Vander Kooi Craig W. , Daugherty Alan 
Published: December 2015

Objective—
This study determined whether angiotensinogen (AGT) has angiotensin II–independent effects using multiple genetic and pharmacological manipulations.

Approach and Results—
All study mice were in low-density lipoprotein receptor −/− background and fed a saturated fat–enriched diet. In mice with floxed alleles and a neomycin cassette in intron 2 of the AGT gene (hypoAGT mice), plasma AGT concentrations were >90% lower compared with their wild-type littermates. HypoAGT mice had lower systolic blood pressure, less atherosclerosis, and diminished body weight gain and liver steatosis. Low plasma AGT concentrations and all phenotypes were recapitulated in mice with hepatocyte-specific deficiency of AGT or pharmacological inhibition of AGT by antisense oligonucleotide administration. In contrast, inhibition of AGT cleavage by a renin inhibitor, aliskiren, failed to alter body weight gain and liver steatosis in low-density lipoprotein receptor −/− mice. In mice with established adiposity, administration of AGT antisense oligonucleotide versus aliskiren led to equivalent reductions of systolic blood pressure and atherosclerosis. AGT antisense oligonucleotide administration ceased body weight gain and further reduced body weight, whereas aliskiren did not affect body weight gain during continuous saturated fat–enriched diet feeding. Structural comparisons of AGT proteins in zebrafish, mouse, rat, and human revealed 4 highly conserved sequences within the des(angiotensin I)AGT domain. des(angiotensin I)AGT, through adeno-associated viral infection in hepatocyte-specific AGT-deficient mice, increased body weight gain and liver steatosis, but did not affect atherosclerosis.

Conclusions—
AGT contributes to body weight gain and liver steatosis through functions of the des(angiotensin I)AGT domain, which are independent of angiotensin II production.