cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Natural Methods of Controlling Algae Growth in Outdoor Swimming Pools
Creators: name: Daneshgar, Samad
name: Taghizadeh, Mohammad Mehdi
Publisher: name: EQA - International Journal of Environmental Quality
Year: 2017
Subjects: Swimming pool, Algae, Phytoremediation, nitrate, phosphor, Sea lettuce, Lemna, water lily

description: Outdoor swimming pools are among the places prone to algae growth thanks to having nutrients including nitrate and phosphate, as well as having exposed to enough light. Also, the algae existing in the swimming pools may engender likely troubles such as smell, color, or bad scenery, whence making the algae treatment a must. Reducing the nutrients by growing aquatic plants is amongst effective methods to control algae in the swimming pools.

    In this research, a pilot test sample was fabricated via simultaneous planting of three aquatic plants- water lily, lemna, and sea lettuce- in the separated section of the main area so that the pool water is used, to study the effects of the plants on the number of algae, on concentration of nitrate, phosphate, and water turbidity. The results showed that the concentration of nitrate, phosphate, and water turbidity in the pilot was getting low by a large amount compared with the control sample. This was evidence that the three plants water lily, lemna, and sea lettuce were conducive to algae decline. Therefore, one could hold in check the algae growth in swimming pools through developing the research results without using chemical materials.
description: EQA - International Journal of Environmental Quality, Vol 26 (2017)
Building a database of plant protecting agents for aquaponic systems - basic concepts
Creators: name: Bittsanszky, Andras
name: Junge, Ranka
name: Maucieri, Carmelo
name: Komives, Tamas
Publisher: name: EQA - International Journal of Environmental Quality
Year: 2017
Subjects: aquaponics, fish toxicity, pesticides, plant protection

description: The paper gives an overview on the progress of the construction of a database of the pesticides that pose minimum risk when applied in an aquaponic system. Aquaponics is a developing food production system that integrates recirculating aquaculture (raising fish and other aquatic animals in closed systems) and hydroponics (plant production in water culture without soil) by using the fish waste as plant nutrient. Fish are highly sensitive to their environment, especially toxic chemicals: pesticides and other pest-controlling agents causing minimum perturb­ation in aquaponic systems have to be selected with an ecotoxicological approach.
description: EQA - International Journal of Environmental Quality, Vol 26 (2017)
Anxiety sensitivity as a transdiagnostic risk factor for trajectories of adverse posttraumatic neuropsychiatric sequelae in the AURORA study
Creators: name: Bruce, Steven E
name: Sergot, Paulina
name: Musey, Paul I
name: Kessler, Ronald C
name: McLean, Samuel A
name: Barch, Deanna M
name: Clifford, Gari D
name: Harte, Steven E
name: Pearson, Claire
name: Pascual, Jose L
name: Linnstaedt, Sarah D
name: Short, Nicole A
name: Punches, Brittany E
name: Neylan, Thomas C
name: Haran, John P
name: Rathlev, Niels K
name: Hendry, Phyllis L
name: Datner, Elizabeth M
name: Koenen, Karestan C
name: Beaudoin, Francesca L
name: Hudak, Lauren A
name: Pizzagalli, Diego A
name: O'Neil, Brian J
name: Lewandowski, Christopher
name: Pietrzak, Robert H
name: House, Stacey L
name: Swor, Robert A
name: Germine, Laura T
name: Elliott, James M
name: Murty, Vishnu P
name: An, Xinming
name: Peak, David A
name: Rauch, Scott L
name: Jones, Christopher W
name: van Rooij, Sanne J H
name: Zeng, Donglin
name: Stevens, Jennifer S
name: Sheikh, Sophia
name: Smoller, Jordan W
name: Seamon, Mark J
name: Sanchez, Leon D
name: Bollen, Kenneth A
name: Sheridan, John F
name: Domeier, Robert M
name: Joormann, Jutta
name: McGrath, Meghan E
name: Merchant, Roland C
name: Jovanovic, Tanja
name: Ji, Yinyao
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2022

description: Anxiety sensitivity, or fear of anxious arousal, is cross-sectionally associated with a wide array of adverse posttraumatic neuropsychiatric sequelae, including symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety, sleep disturbance, pain, and somatization. The current study utilizes a large-scale, multi-site, prospective study of trauma survivors presenting to emergency departments. Hypotheses tested whether elevated anxiety sensitivity in the immediate posttrauma period is associated with more severe and persistent trajectories of common adverse posttraumatic neuropsychiatric sequelae in the eight weeks posttrauma. Participants from the AURORA study (n = 2,269 recruited from 23 emergency departments) completed self-report assessments over eight weeks posttrauma. Associations between heightened anxiety sensitivity and more severe and/or persistent trajectories of trauma-related symptoms identified by growth mixture modeling were analyzed. Anxiety sensitivity assessed two weeks posttrauma was associated with severe and/or persistent posttraumatic stress, depression, anxiety, sleep disturbance, pain, and somatic symptoms in the eight weeks posttrauma. Effect sizes were in the small to medium range in multivariate models accounting for various demographic, trauma-related, pre-trauma mental health-related, and personality-related factors. Anxiety sensitivity may be a useful transdiagnostic risk factor in the immediate posttraumatic period identifying individuals at risk for the development of adverse posttraumatic neuropsychiatric sequelae. Further, considering anxiety sensitivity is malleable via brief intervention, it could be a useful secondary prevention target. Future research should continue to evaluate associations between anxiety sensitivity and trauma-related pathology.
THE GEOLOGICAL FIELD APPROACH TO THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE YARD
Creators: name: Cremonini, Stefano
Publisher: name: EQA - International Journal of Environmental Quality
Year: 2017
Subjects: field geology; geoarchaeology; geomorphology; sedimentology; pedology; postdepositional process; micro-stratigraphy

description: The main duties of the geologist’s contribution to the field work in the archaeological excavation sites are briefly recalled. The need for a preliminary conceptual and pragmatic approach for a correct understanding of the local context of each field campaign is stressed. Furthermore, as an example of the importance of the stratigraphic understanding in “delayed” field-microenvironment, a microstratigraphic sequence is proposed concerning the sedimentation that can occur in some ancient grave-coffin in an open alluvial environment and the problems related to the processes involved in such a restricted environment. Finally some peculiar, unusual study-settings are shown that may bring about mistakes or misunderstanding of the stratigraphic themes and therefore can be of interest for both the soil scientists and archaeologists as well as for geologists.
description: EQA - International Journal of Environmental Quality, Vol 24 (2017): Paleosols, Pedoarchaeology
Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Britain and West Germany and Their Pursuit of Industrial Competitiveness, c.1949-c.1979
Creators: name: Paulson, David William
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Mittelstand
family business
SME
banking
Meister
foreman
management
succession
manufacturing
Jensen
Recaro
West Midlands
Black Country
small business
Keiper
Chandler
growth
decline
Hausbank
Sparkasse
shareholder
engineering degree
Stuttgart
Reutlingen
West Bromwich
Birmingham University
Technische Hochschule
apprentice
training
skills
Porsche

description: This thesis examines the culture and conduct of small and medium-sized, family-owned or -controlled enterprises (SMEs) in the West Midlands of England and the Stuttgart region of Baden-Württemberg in West Germany in the period between 1949 and 1979, examining the histories of six companies in depth. The German companies studied formed part of the Mittelstand, the sector which is unique to German-speaking countries. Mittelstand companies are said to operate according to well-defined principles, including the emotional attachment of their owning family, which seeks generational continuity to ensure the company remains in family hands; an identification with and attachment to the surrounding region; a patriarchal culture, which seeks to respect individuals within the business and offer them long-term employment within a ‘family’ atmosphere; an independent mindset; and the development of high-quality, niche products that achieve market-winning positions at home and abroad as part of a focused, long-term strategy. The British SMEs are examined to understand whether, in contrast to Mittelstand companies in similar industries, they were short-term in their outlook and sought profit over sustainability. We will also consider whether the British firms operated within a less supportive external operating environment than that experienced by their German peers. Given their apparently different philosophical underpinnings, some consideration is given to the way in which each type of business accords with their respective identification within the Liberal Market Economies and Coordinated Market Economies definitions of the Varieties of Capitalism literature. The work is organised in this way: in Chapter 1, the Introduction considers the treatment of the Mittelstand in literature and reviews the definitions which help us to identify it and understand its principles. It also considers scholarship on the Varieties of Capitalism. Chapter 2 examines the Contexts within which SMEs in the UK and West Germany operated in this period. It focuses on the training and qualifications of technical staffs, companies’ respective value systems, and on banking arrangements. Chapters 3, 4 and 5 each deal with a pair of companies, linked by common industry or business interest, one from each country. Chapter 6 provides some concluding thoughts, and asserts the value of the Mittelstand business model not only as demonstrated in these historical case studies, but also as a template for twenty-first century business success.
Perinatal Factors and Emotional, Cognitive, and Behavioral Dysregulation in Childhood and Adolescence
Creators: name: Fichorova, Raina N.
name: Brennan, Patricia A.
name: Msall, Michael E.
name: Bennett, Deborah H.
name: Joseph, Robert M.
name: Schweitzer, Julie B.
name: O'Shea, T. Michael
name: Lai, Jin-Shei
name: Boles, Richard E.
name: Kuban, Karl C.K.
name: Kim, Sohye
name: Fry, Rebecca C.
name: Posner, Jonathan
name: Kong, Xiangrong
name: Hooper, Stephen R.
name: Zvara, Bharathi J.
name: Jalnapurkar, Isha
name: Hertz-Picciotto, Irva
name: Daniels, Julie L.
name: Cochran, David M.
name: Singh, Rachana
name: Program collaborators for Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes
name: Frazier, Jean A.
name: Li, Xiuhong
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2023

description: OBJECTIVE: This cohort study assessed perinatal factors known to be related to maternal and neonatal inflammation and hypothesized that several would be associated with emotional, cognitive, and behavioral dysregulation in youth. METHOD: The Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) is a research consortium of 69 pediatric longitudinal cohorts. A subset of 18 cohorts that had both Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) data on children (6-18 years) and information on perinatal exposures including maternal prenatal infections was used. Children were classified as having the CBCL-Dysregulation Profile (CBCL-DP) if the sum of their T scores for 3 CBCL subscales (attention, anxious/depressed, and aggression) wasÂ â‰¥180. Primary exposures were perinatal factors associated with maternal and/or neonatal inflammation, and associations between these and outcome were assessed. RESULTS: Approximately 13.4% of 4,595 youth met criteria for CBCL-DP. Boys were affected more than girls (15.1% vs 11.5%). More youth with CBCL-DP (35%) were born to mothers with prenatal infections compared with 28% of youth without CBCL-DP. Adjusted odds ratios indicated the following were significantly associated with dysregulation: having a first-degree relative with a psychiatric disorder; being born to a mother with lower educational attainment, who was obese, had any prenatal infection, and/or who smoked tobacco during pregnancy. CONCLUSION: In this large study, a few modifiable maternal risk factors with established roles in inflammation (maternal lower education, obesity, prenatal infections, and smoking) were strongly associated with CBCL-DP and could be targets for interventions to improve behavioral outcomes of offspring. DIVERSITY & INCLUSION STATEMENT: We worked to ensure race, ethnic, and/or other types of diversity in the recruitment of human participants. One or more of the authors of this paper self-identifies as a member of one or more historically underrepresented sexual and/or gender groups in science. We actively worked to promote sex and gender balance in our author group. The author list of this paper includes contributors from the location and/or community where the research was conducted who participated in the data collection, design, analysis, and/or interpretation of the work.
Apostolepis mariae Borges-Nojosa 2017
Creators: name: Nogueira, Cristiano C.
name: Argôlo, Antonio J. S.
name: Arzamendia, Vanesa
name: Azevedo, Josué A.
name: Barbo, Fausto E.
name: Bérnils, Renato S.
name: Bolochio, Bruna E.
name: Borges-Martins, Marcio
name: Brasil-Godinho, Marcela
name: Braz, Henrique
name: Buononato, Marcus A.
name: Cisneros-Heredia, Diego F.
name: Colli, Guarino R.
name: Costa, Henrique C.
name: Franco, Francisco L.
name: Giraudo, Alejandro
name: Gonzalez, Rodrigo C.
name: Guedes, Thaís
name: Hoogmoed, Marinus S.
name: Marques, Otavio A. V.
name: Montingelli, Giovanna G.
name: Passos, Paulo
name: Prudente, Ana L. C.
name: Rivas, Gilson A.
name: Sanchez, Paola M.
name: Serrano, Filipe C.
name: Silva Jr., Nelson J.
name: Strüssmann, Christine
name: Vieira-Alencar, João Paulo S.
name: Zaher, Hussam
name: Sawaya, Ricardo J.
name: Martins, Marcio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Colubridae
Apostolepis
Apostolepis mariae

description: Apostolepis mariae Borges-Nojosa et al., 2017
Type locality. Sítio Olho d’Água dos Tangarás, MaciÇo de Baturité, Pacotí, state of Ceará, Brazil.
Distribution. Endemic to Brazil (Plt. 246A), known only from a restricted upland area in the northern portion of the Caatinga (Plt. 246A) at intermediate to high elevations (Plt. 246B). Observed in the field in upland forest (Borges-Nojosa et al., 2017).
description: Published as part of Nogueira, Cristiano C., Argôlo, Antonio J. S., Arzamendia, Vanesa, Azevedo, Josué A., Barbo, Fausto E., Bérnils, Renato S., Bolochio, Bruna E., Borges-Martins, Marcio, Brasil-Godinho, Marcela, Braz, Henrique, Buononato, Marcus A., Cisneros-Heredia, Diego F., Colli, Guarino R., Costa, Henrique C., Franco, Francisco L., Giraudo, Alejandro, Gonzalez, Rodrigo C., Guedes, Thaís, Hoogmoed, Marinus S., Marques, Otavio A. V., Montingelli, Giovanna G., Passos, Paulo, Prudente, Ana L. C., Rivas, Gilson A., Sanchez, Paola M., Serrano, Filipe C., Silva Jr., Nelson J., Strüssmann, Christine, Vieira-Alencar, João Paulo S., Zaher, Hussam, Sawaya, Ricardo J. & Martins, Marcio, 2019, Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna, pp. 1-274 in South American Journal of Herpetology 14 (s 1) on page 30, DOI: 10.2994/SAJH-D-19-00120.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10061686
Soils and plants in an anthropogenic dump of the Kokdzhon phosphorite mine (Kazakhstan)
Creators: name: Toktar, Murat
name: Lo Papa, Giuseppe
name: Kozybayeva, Farida E.
name: Dazzi, Carmelo
Publisher: name: EQA - International Journal of Environmental Quality
Year: 2017
Subjects: mine soils; soil development; natural vegetation; plant biomass

description: Soil development is a crucial aspect in the process of mine spoil restoration and is also critical for the establishment of the vegetation. In this short paper, we present the features of mine proto-soils (i.e. soils at the early stage of development) and the natural vegetation species colonizing mine sites in a dry arid environment of Kazakhstan characterized by surface disturbance due to mine activity to access phosphorite deposit.

These disturbed soils showed morphological features very different from each other (particularly horizons depth and sequence), even if the main chemical features were quite homogeneous. This is reasonably linked to the features of the Human Transported Material derived from mine operation that was scattered around the mine area. The most abundant natural plants found in the study area belong to the Poacee, Asteraceae and Fabacee families (with 4 species each). Biomass contribution for all species is very low; the root biomass was greater than above ground biomass, contributing to a modest soil development.
description: EQA - International Journal of Environmental Quality, Vol 26 (2017)
PRELIMINARY EVIDENCES OF A PALEOSOL IN THE LIVING LANDSCAPE OF CIVITA DI BAGNOREGIO (ITALY)
Creators: name: Marinari, Sara
name: Moscatelli, Maria Cristina
name: Fiordelmondo, Flavia
name: Marabottini, Rosita
name: Di Buduo, Giovanni Maria
name: Vianello, Gilmo
Publisher: name: EQA - International Journal of Environmental Quality
Year: 2017

description: A paleosol has been identified in an area of great natural interest for its geomorphologic and naturalistic aspects between the municipalities of Bagnoregio and Castiglione in Teverina (Viterbo, Italy). This investigation represents the preliminary steps of a study aimed to know the specific environmental features and  dynamics prior to the eruptions of the "nenfri" of the Paleovulsini complex. The physico-chemical characteristics and some horizons morphological details such as the presence of roots fingerprint, the polyhedric angular and columnar structure  suggest incipient weathering and paedogenesis. Moreover, the presence of nodules and the high salinity of deep horizons suggest the incorporation of pyroclastic material into a hydromorphic environment at the time of the eruptions, putting forward the hypothesis of a paleo-marsh under an arid paleoclimate.
description: EQA - International Journal of Environmental Quality, Vol 24 (2017): Paleosols, Pedoarchaeology
Activation of hypothalamic-enhanced adult-born neurons restores cognitive and affective function in Alzheimer's disease
Creators: name: Xie, Ling
name: Luo, Yan-Jia
name: Zhang, Libo
name: Coleman, Leon G
name: Tart, Dalton S
name: Sheehy, Ryan N
name: Song, Juan
name: Li, Ya-Dong
name: Chen, Xian
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2023

description: Patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) exhibit progressive memory loss, depression, and anxiety, accompanied by impaired adult hippocampal neurogenesis (AHN). Whether AHN can be enhanced in impaired AD brain to restore cognitive and affective function remains elusive. Here, we report that patterned optogenetic stimulation of the hypothalamic supramammillary nucleus (SuM) enhances AHN in two distinct AD mouse models, 5×FAD and 3×Tg-AD. Strikingly, the chemogenetic activation of SuM-enhanced adult-born neurons (ABNs) rescues memory and emotion deficits in these AD mice. By contrast, SuM stimulation alone or activation of ABNs without SuM modification fails to restore behavioral deficits. Furthermore, quantitative phosphoproteomics analyses reveal activation of the canonical pathways related to synaptic plasticity and microglia phagocytosis of plaques following acute chemogenetic activation of SuM-enhanced (vs. control) ABNs. Our study establishes the activity-dependent contribution of SuM-enhanced ABNs in modulating AD-related deficits and informs signaling mechanisms mediated by the activation of SuM-enhanced ABNs
Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project - Volume 18
Creators: name: Kulm, L.D.
name: von Huene, R.
name: The Leg 18 Science Party
Publisher: name: U.S. Government Printing Office
Year: 1973
Subjects: Deep Sea Drilling Project
Glomar Challenger
DSDP
Leg 18
Site 172
Site 173
Site 174
Site 175
Site 176
Site 177
Site 178
Site 179
Site 180
Site 181
Site 182
Northeast Pacific Ocean
Murray fracture zone
Molaki fracture zone
Cape Mendocino
British Columbia margin
Oregon margin
Gulf of Alaska
Gorda Ridge
Juan de Fuca Ridge
Explorer Ridge
Upper Delgada Fan
Paul Revere Ridge

description: This volume covers Leg 18 of the cruises of the Drilling Vessel Glomar Challenger. Leg 18 originated in Honolulu, Hawaii, on 29 May, 1971, and terminated in Kodiak, Alaska, on 20 July. Along the route, 15 holes were drilled at 11 sites, recovering a total of 1215 meters of sedimentary and volcanic rock cores. Drilling was conducted in three geographical regions in the northeast Pacific Ocean, viz., the region between the Murray and Molaki fracture zones, Cape Mendocino off northern California, Oregon, and British Columbia margins, and in the Gulf of Alaska off Kodiak Island. Some objectives were outlined by the Pacific Advisory Panel for Leg 18 in the northeastern Pacific Ocean. The primary scientific goal was to study the presumed subduction zones on both sides of the actively spreading Gorda, Juan de Fuca, and Explorer ridges. This could be done by comparing sediment samples of continental margin off Oregon and Kodiak Island with samples of the adjacent trench and abyssal plain to see if oceanic material is incorporated into these continental margins. Other objectives were to determine the provenance and nature of lithologies in upper Delgada Fan so that provenance might be related to the lateral displacement along the San Andreas Fault, and, to determine the nature of the underlying acoustic basement which is postulated to be Franciscan in character. Because of unforeseen geology we failed to drill Delgada Fan, but the hole established a well-documented biostratigraphic column for the northeastern Pacific Ocean, particularly in the middle- and high-latitude regions which was another objective. Finally, the panel suggested a site to determine the nature of the sediments and acoustic basement of Paul Revere Ridge, which is situated at the triple junction of the Juan de Fuca, American, and Pacific plates.
Aeromycoflora of  Jizan , Saudi Arabia .
Creators: name: Manzelat, Syeda Fatima
Publisher: name: EQA - International Journal of Environmental Quality
Year: 2017
Subjects: Aeromycoflora, , Jizan , Saudi Arabia

description: This is the first study to isolate and identify the  aeromycoflora of Jizan province . The study was carried out to estimate  quantitatively and qualitatively the mycoflora present in the air of different sampling sites of the province. Open petri plate method with Potato Dextrose agar media  was used  with an exposure time of 2 mins at each of the seven sampling sites. Total number of eight genera were isolated from the seven indoor and outdoor sampling sites of the province represented by   Aspergillus niger, Aspergillus sp. , Chaetomium ,Cladosporium, Nigrospora,Penicillium , Rhodotorula , Scedosporium and Ulocladium.  Seventy two  fungal isolates were obtained from the eight  represented genera . Aspergillus was the predominant genera.The Colony forming unit  (CFU)3  was calculated for all of the sampling sites under study to know the level of contamination .The high wind speed  and the busy hours of business were the major factors  responsible for large number of fungal counts during this study from the province.
description: EQA - International Journal of Environmental Quality, Vol 26 (2017)
Linking Brain Age Gap to Mental and Physical Health in the Berlin Aging Study II
Creators: name: Jawinski, Philippe
name: Markett, Sebastian
name: Drewelies, Johanna
name: Düzel, Sandra
name: Demuth, Ilja
name: Steinhagen-Thiessen, Elisabeh
name: Wagner, Gert G.
name: Gerstorf, Denis
name: Lindenberger, Ulman
name: Gaser, Christian
name: Kühn, Simone
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: aging
subject: brain age gap
subject: cognition
subject: mental health
subject: Berlin Aging Study II (BASE-II)
subject: 610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: From a biological perspective, humans differ in the speed they age, and this may manifest in both mental and physical health disparities. The discrepancy between an individual’s biological and chronological age of the brain (“brain age gap”) can be assessed by applying machine learning techniques to Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) data. Here, we examined the links between brain age gap and a broad range of cognitive, affective, socioeconomic, lifestyle, and physical health variables in up to 335 adults of the Berlin Aging Study II. Brain age gap was assessed using a validated prediction model that we previously trained on MRI scans of 32,634 UK Biobank individuals. Our statistical analyses revealed overall stronger evidence for a link between higher brain age gap and less favorable health characteristics than expected under the null hypothesis of no effect, with 80% of the tested associations showing hypothesis-consistent effect directions and 23% reaching nominal significance. The most compelling support was observed for a cluster covering both cognitive performance variables (episodic memory, working memory, fluid intelligence, digit symbol substitution test) and socioeconomic variables (years of education and household income). Furthermore, we observed higher brain age gap to be associated with heavy episodic drinking, higher blood pressure, and higher blood glucose. In sum, our results point toward multifaceted links between brain age gap and human health. Understanding differences in biological brain aging may therefore have broad implications for future informed interventions to preserve mental and physical health in old age.
Sex-specific expression of distinct serotonin receptors mediates stress vulnerability of adult hippocampal neural stem cells in mice
Creators: name: Li, Ya-Dong
name: Crowther, Andrew
name: Bao, Hechen
name: Luo, Yan-Jia
name: Chen, Ze-Ka
name: Song, Juan
name: Tart, Dalton S
name: Asrican, Brent
name: Zhang, Libo
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2024

description: Women are more vulnerable to stress and have a higher likelihood of developing mood disorders. The serotonin (5HT) system has been highly implicated in stress response and mood regulation. However, sex-dependent mechanisms underlying serotonergic regulation of stress vulnerability remain poorly understood. Here, we report that adult hippocampal neural stem cells (NSCs) of the Ascl1 lineage (Ascl1-NSCs) in female mice express functional 5HT1A receptors (5HT1ARs), and selective deletion of 5HT1ARs in Ascl1-NSCs decreases the Ascl1-NSC pool only in females. Mechanistically, 5HT1AR deletion in Ascl1-NSCs of females leads to 5HT-induced depolarization mediated by upregulation of 5HT7Rs. Furthermore, repeated restraint stress (RRS) impairs Ascl1-NSC maintenance through a 5HT1AR-mediated mechanism. By contrast, Ascl1-NSCs in males express 5HT7R receptors (5HT7Rs) that are downregulated by RRS, thus maintaining the Ascl1-NSC pool. These findings suggest that sex-specific expression of distinct 5HTRs and their differential interactions with stress may underlie sex differences in stress vulnerability.
Intrapartum exposure to synthetic oxytocin, maternal BMI, and neurodevelopmental outcomes in children within the ECHO consortium
Creators: name: Palanisamy, Arvind
name: Hsu, Ting-ju
name: Dabelea, Dana
name: Churchill, Marie L.
name: Dunlop, Anne L.
name: O'Shea, T. Michael
name: Croen, Lisa
name: McGrath, Monica
name: Burd, Irina
name: Wilkening, Greta
name: Weinberger, Daniel
name: Kurth, Lisa
name: Ehrhardt, Stephan
name: Grados, Marco
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2024

description: Background

Synthetic oxytocin (sOT) is frequently administered during parturition. Studies have raised concerns that fetal exposure to sOT may be associated with altered brain development and risk of neurodevelopmental disorders. In a large and diverse sample of children with data about intrapartum sOT exposure and subsequent diagnoses of two prevalent neurodevelopmental disorders, i.e., attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD), we tested the following hypotheses: (1) Intrapartum sOT exposure is associated with increased odds of child ADHD or ASD; (2) associations differ across sex; (3) associations between intrapartum sOT exposure and ADHD or ASD are accentuated in offspring of mothers with pre-pregnancy obesity.
Methods

The study sample comprised 12,503 participants from 44 cohort sites included in the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) consortium. Mixed-effects logistic regression analyses were used to estimate the association between intrapartum sOT exposure and offspring ADHD or ASD (in separate models). Maternal obesity (pre-pregnancy BMI ≥ 30 kg/m2) and child sex were evaluated for effect modification.
Results

Intrapartum sOT exposure was present in 48% of participants. sOT exposure was not associated with increased odds of ASD (adjusted odds ratio [aOR] 0.86; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.71–1.03) or ADHD (aOR 0.89; 95% CI, 0.76–1.04). Associations did not differ by child sex. Among mothers with pre-pregnancy obesity, sOT exposure was associated with lower odds of offspring ADHD (aOR 0.72; 95% CI, 0.55–0.96). No association was found among mothers without obesity (aOR 0.97; 95% CI, 0.80–1.18).
Conclusions

In a large, diverse sample, we found no evidence of an association between intrapartum exposure to sOT and odds of ADHD or ASD in either male or female offspring. Contrary to our hypothesis, among mothers with pre-pregnancy obesity, sOT exposure was associated with lower odds of child ADHD diagnosis.
Apostolepis nelsonjorgei Lema and Renner 2004
Creators: name: Nogueira, Cristiano C.
name: Argôlo, Antonio J. S.
name: Arzamendia, Vanesa
name: Azevedo, Josué A.
name: Barbo, Fausto E.
name: Bérnils, Renato S.
name: Bolochio, Bruna E.
name: Borges-Martins, Marcio
name: Brasil-Godinho, Marcela
name: Braz, Henrique
name: Buononato, Marcus A.
name: Cisneros-Heredia, Diego F.
name: Colli, Guarino R.
name: Costa, Henrique C.
name: Franco, Francisco L.
name: Giraudo, Alejandro
name: Gonzalez, Rodrigo C.
name: Guedes, Thaís
name: Hoogmoed, Marinus S.
name: Marques, Otavio A. V.
name: Montingelli, Giovanna G.
name: Passos, Paulo
name: Prudente, Ana L. C.
name: Rivas, Gilson A.
name: Sanchez, Paola M.
name: Serrano, Filipe C.
name: Silva Jr., Nelson J.
name: Strüssmann, Christine
name: Vieira-Alencar, João Paulo S.
name: Zaher, Hussam
name: Sawaya, Ricardo J.
name: Martins, Marcio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Colubridae
Apostolepis
Apostolepis nelsonjorgei

description: Apostolepis nelsonjorgei Lema and Renner, 2004
Type locality. Serra da Mesa hydroelectric power plant, MinaÇu, state of Goiás, Brazil.
Distribution. Endemic to Brazil (Plt. 247A). Restricted to the northeastern portion of the Cerrado (Plt. 247A) at low to intermediate elevations (Plt. 247B). Previous maps and taxonomy in Curcio et al. (2011). Observed in the field in savanna grassland on sandy soil (Recoder et al., 2011).
description: Published as part of Nogueira, Cristiano C., Argôlo, Antonio J. S., Arzamendia, Vanesa, Azevedo, Josué A., Barbo, Fausto E., Bérnils, Renato S., Bolochio, Bruna E., Borges-Martins, Marcio, Brasil-Godinho, Marcela, Braz, Henrique, Buononato, Marcus A., Cisneros-Heredia, Diego F., Colli, Guarino R., Costa, Henrique C., Franco, Francisco L., Giraudo, Alejandro, Gonzalez, Rodrigo C., Guedes, Thaís, Hoogmoed, Marinus S., Marques, Otavio A. V., Montingelli, Giovanna G., Passos, Paulo, Prudente, Ana L. C., Rivas, Gilson A., Sanchez, Paola M., Serrano, Filipe C., Silva Jr., Nelson J., Strüssmann, Christine, Vieira-Alencar, João Paulo S., Zaher, Hussam, Sawaya, Ricardo J. & Martins, Marcio, 2019, Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna, pp. 1-274 in South American Journal of Herpetology 14 (s 1) on page 30, DOI: 10.2994/SAJH-D-19-00120.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10061686
BET on Independence
Creators: name: Zhang, Kai
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019

description: We study the problem of nonparametric dependence detection. Many existing methods may suffer severe power loss due to nonuniform consistency, which we illustrate with a paradox. To avoid such power loss, we approach the nonparametric test of independence through the new framework of binary expansion statistics (BEStat) and binary expansion testing (BET), which examine dependence through a novel binary expansion filtration approximation of the copula. Through a Hadamard transform, we find that the symmetry statistics in the filtration are complete sufficient statistics for dependence. These statistics are also uncorrelated under the null. By using symmetry statistics, the BET avoids the problem of nonuniform consistency and improves upon a wide class of commonly used methods (a) by achieving the minimax rate in sample size requirement for reliable power and (b) by providing clear interpretations of global relationships upon rejection of independence. The binary expansion approach also connects the symmetry statistics with the current computing system to facilitate efficient bitwise implementation. We illustrate the BET with a study of the distribution of stars in the night sky and with an exploratory data analysis of the TCGA breast cancer data. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.
Race-specific spirometry equations may overestimate asthma control in Black children and adolescents
Creators: name: Phipatanakul, Wanda
name: Mills, Katherine
name: Burbank, Allison J.
name: Loughlin, Ceila E.
name: Hernandez, Michelle L.
name: Espaillat, Andre E.
name: Atkinson, Claire E.
name: Schworer, Stephen A.
name: Rooney, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2023

description: Background

A growing body of evidence suggests that use of race terms in spirometry reference equations underestimates disease burden in Black populations, which may lead to disparities in pulmonary disease outcomes. Data on asthma-specific health consequences of using race-adjusted spirometry are lacking.
Methods

We performed a secondary analysis of 163 children from two observational asthma studies to determine the frequencies of participants with ppFEV1 < 80% (consistent with uncontrolled asthma) or ppFEV1 ≥ 80% using race-specific (GLI-African American or Caucasian) vs. race-neutral (GLI-Global) spirometry and their alignment with indicators of asthma control (Asthma Control Test™, ACT). Comparisons of mean ppFEV1 values were conducted using Wilcoxon matched-pairs signed-rank tests. Two group comparisons were conducted using Wilcoxon rank-sum tests.
Results

Data from 163 children (100 Black, 63 White) were analyzed. Mean ppFEV1 was 95.4% (SD 15.8) using race-specific spirometry and 90.4% (16.3) using race-neutral spirometry (p < 0.0001). Among 54 Black children with uncontrolled asthma (ACT ≤ 19), 20% had ppFEV1 < 80% using race-specific spirometry compared to 40% using race-neutral spirometry. In Black children with controlled asthma (ACT > 19), 87% had ppFEV1 ≥ 80% using race-specific compared to 67% using race-neutral spirometry. Children whose ppFEV1 changed to ≤ 80% with race-neutral spirometry had lower FEV1/FVC compared to those whose ppFEV1 remained ≥ 80% [0.83 (0.07) vs. 0.77 (0.05), respectively; p = 0.04], suggesting greater airway obstruction. Minimal changes in alignment of ppFEV1 with ACT score were observed for White children.
Conclusions

Use of race-specific reference equations in Black children may increase the risk of inappropriately labeling asthma as controlled.
Evaluation of pediatric epigenetic clocks across multiple tissues
Creators: name: Ruden, Douglas M.
name: Breton, Carrie V.
name: Marsit, Carmen J.
name: Karagas, Margaret R.
name: Goodrich, Jaclyn M.
name: Dabelea, Dana M.
name: Page, Grier P.
name: Fry, Rebecca C.
name: O'Connor, George
name: Bush, Nicole R.
name: Aung, Max T.
name: Ladd-Acosta, Christine
name: Smith, Alicia K.
name: Aris, Izzuddin M.
name: Everson, Todd M.
name: Zhou, Linran
name: Trasande, Leonardo
name: Cardenas, Andres
name: Camargo, Carlos A.
name: Fang, Fang
name: Dunlop, Anne L.
name: Ober, Carole
name: Oken, Emily
name: Knight, Anna K.
name: Herbstman, Julie B.
name: Hivert, Marie-France
name: Perng, Wei
name: Gaylord, Abigail
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2023

description: BackgroundEpigenetic clocks are promising tools for assessing biological age. We assessed the accuracy of pediatric epigenetic clocks in gestational and chronological age determination.ResultsOur study used data from seven tissue types on three DNA methylation profiling microarrays and found that the Knight and Bohlin clocks performed similarly for blood cells, while the Lee clock was superior for placental samples. The pediatric-buccal-epigenetic clock performed the best for pediatric buccal samples, while the Horvath clock is recommended for children's blood cell samples. The NeoAge clock stands out for its unique ability to predict post-menstrual age with high correlation with the observed age in infant buccal cell samples.ConclusionsOur findings provide valuable guidance for future research and development of epigenetic clocks in pediatric samples, enabling more accurate assessments of biological age.
LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION AND GLOBAL SOIL CHANGE IN ALPINE VALLEYS:  IMPACT OF ANTHROPEDOGENESIS ON TERRACED SOILS (BELLUNO, NORTHERN ITALY)
Creators: name: Bini, Claudio
name: Ferrarini, Andrea
name: Spiandorello, Massimo
name: Wahsha, Mohammad
name: Zilioli, Diana Maria
Publisher: name: EQA - International Journal of Environmental Quality
Year: 2017
Subjects: anthropedogenesis; terraced landscape; Alpine soils

description: During the last decades, increasing human influence on the environment has determined strong impacts on soils. Although the effects of global soil change are currently quantified, to study and understand how and at which intensity soils are modified by human activity is of capital importance in order to effectively manage the changing ecosystems. One of the most important man-induced land transformations since many centuries is the terraced landform, an agricultural technique that characterizes many agro-ecosystems all over the world. In this study, our objectives were: i) to assess and compare the morphology and the physical-chemical-biological soil parameters of 'natural' and terraced soils; ii) to identify new forms and processes of anthropedogenesis in relation to chronological scales of human action operating within the natural pedogenesis time scales; iii) to use the existing taxonomic models for the classification of the terraced soils investigate
description: EQA - International Journal of Environmental Quality, Vol 25 (2017): Cultural Landscapes
Diffusion geometry approach to efficiently remove electrical stimulation artifacts in intracranial electroencephalography
Creators: name: Wu, Hau-tieng
name: Shin, Hae Won
name: Fröhlich, Flavio
name: Alagapan, Sankaraleengam
Publisher: name: IOP Publishing
Year: 2019

description: OBJECTIVE: Cortical oscillations, electrophysiological activity patterns, associated with cognitive functions and impaired in many psychiatric disorders can be observed in intracranial electroencephalography (iEEG). Direct cortical stimulation (DCS) may directly target these oscillations and may serve as therapeutic approaches to restore functional impairments. However, the presence of electrical stimulation artifacts in neurophysiological data limits the analysis of the effects of stimulation. Currently available methods suffer in performance in the presence of nonstationarity inherent in biological data. APPROACH: Our algorithm, shape adaptive nonlocal artifact removal (SANAR) is based on unsupervised manifold learning. By estimating the Euclidean median of k-nearest neighbors of each artifact in a nonlocal fashion, we obtain a faithful representation of the artifact which is then subtracted. This approach overcomes the challenges presented by nonstationarity. MAIN RESULTS: SANAR is effective in removing stimulation artifacts in the time domain while preserving the spectral content of the endogenous neurophysiological signal. We demonstrate the performance in a simulated dataset as well as in human iEEG data. Using two quantitative measures, that capture how much of information from endogenous activity is retained, we demonstrate that SANAR's performance exceeds that of one of the widely used approaches, independent component analysis, in the time domain as well as the frequency domain. SIGNIFICANCE: This approach allows for the analysis of iEEG data, single channel or multiple channels, during DCS, a crucial step in advancing our understanding of the effects of periodic stimulation and developing new therapies.
Apostolepis nigrolineata
Creators: name: Nogueira, Cristiano C.
name: Argôlo, Antonio J. S.
name: Arzamendia, Vanesa
name: Azevedo, Josué A.
name: Barbo, Fausto E.
name: Bérnils, Renato S.
name: Bolochio, Bruna E.
name: Borges-Martins, Marcio
name: Brasil-Godinho, Marcela
name: Braz, Henrique
name: Buononato, Marcus A.
name: Cisneros-Heredia, Diego F.
name: Colli, Guarino R.
name: Costa, Henrique C.
name: Franco, Francisco L.
name: Giraudo, Alejandro
name: Gonzalez, Rodrigo C.
name: Guedes, Thaís
name: Hoogmoed, Marinus S.
name: Marques, Otavio A. V.
name: Montingelli, Giovanna G.
name: Passos, Paulo
name: Prudente, Ana L. C.
name: Rivas, Gilson A.
name: Sanchez, Paola M.
name: Serrano, Filipe C.
name: Silva Jr., Nelson J.
name: Strüssmann, Christine
name: Vieira-Alencar, João Paulo S.
name: Zaher, Hussam
name: Sawaya, Ricardo J.
name: Martins, Marcio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Colubridae
Apostolepis
Apostolepis nigrolineata

description: Apostolepis nigrolineata (Peters, 1869)
Type locality. Brazil.
Distribution. Endemic to Brazil (Plt. 248A). Recorded in eastern and southern Amazonia (Plt. 248A), at low elevations (Plt. 248B). Taxonomy in Curcio et al. (2011). Observed in the field in primary and secondary forest (Santos-Costa et al., 2015).
description: Published as part of Nogueira, Cristiano C., Argôlo, Antonio J. S., Arzamendia, Vanesa, Azevedo, Josué A., Barbo, Fausto E., Bérnils, Renato S., Bolochio, Bruna E., Borges-Martins, Marcio, Brasil-Godinho, Marcela, Braz, Henrique, Buononato, Marcus A., Cisneros-Heredia, Diego F., Colli, Guarino R., Costa, Henrique C., Franco, Francisco L., Giraudo, Alejandro, Gonzalez, Rodrigo C., Guedes, Thaís, Hoogmoed, Marinus S., Marques, Otavio A. V., Montingelli, Giovanna G., Passos, Paulo, Prudente, Ana L. C., Rivas, Gilson A., Sanchez, Paola M., Serrano, Filipe C., Silva Jr., Nelson J., Strüssmann, Christine, Vieira-Alencar, João Paulo S., Zaher, Hussam, Sawaya, Ricardo J. & Martins, Marcio, 2019, Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna, pp. 1-274 in South American Journal of Herpetology 14 (s 1) on pages 30-31, DOI: 10.2994/SAJH-D-19-00120.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10061686
THE ENVIROMENTAL PROBLEMS OF THE PIANA DEL SIGNORE (GELA, SICILY) FOR A CORRECT AGRONOMIC, CULTURAL AND LANDSCAPE UPGRADING AND ENHANCEMENT OF THE AREA
Creators: name: Puccio, Davide
name: Raimondi, Salvatore
Publisher: name: EQA - International Journal of Environmental Quality
Year: 2017
Subjects: Gela; saline soils; aridity; pollution; upgrading

description: In Sicily it is witnessing an environmental degradation that can be conducted to the human activity and the already known process of desertification. The present study had as object the c/da Piana del Signore in plain of Gela being an area characterized by an extreme aridity and salinity. Through consultation and study of the various researches realized on the area, the various environmental and territorial characteristics outlined, highlighting the issues and possible improvements. The objective was to outline the damages caused by man proposing possible routes for a correct requalification of the area in order to enhance a landscape of great agronomic and naturalistic interest. In fact to enhance that area  it is necessary to restore it and, in this case, it is to undertake an activity of depollution, given that today in the area are deposited waste of any natura therefore highly polluting.
description: EQA - International Journal of Environmental Quality, Vol 25 (2017): Cultural Landscapes
Assessing the lightweight potential of additively manufactured metals by density-specific Woehler and Shiozawa diagrams
Creators: name: Merghany, Mohamed
name: Teschke, Mirko
name: Stern, Felix
name: Tenkamp, Jochen
name: Walther, Frank
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Laser powder bed fusion (PBF-LB)
subject: Electron beam powder bed fusion (PBF-EB)
subject: AlSi10Mg
subject: 316L
subject: TiAl
subject: Fatigue behavior
subject: Fatigue damage tolerance
subject: 660
subject: Selektives Laserschmelzen
subject: Materialermüdung

description: Additive manufacturing (AM) using the powder bed fusion (PBF) process is building up the components layer by layer, which enables the fabrication of complex 3D structures with unprecedented degrees of freedom. Due to the high cooling rates of the AM process, fine microstructures are generated. This leads to an improvement in quasistatic properties such as tensile strength, whereas the fatigue strength is comparable to that of conventionally manufactured metal or even reduced. This is due to the presence of process-induced defects formulated during the manufacturing process in combination with the increased notch stress sensitivity of high-strength metals. In this work, the fatigue damage assessment using different approaches like those of Murakami and Shiozawa for three AM alloys (AlSi10Mg, 316L, and TNM-B1) containing defects is studied for better understanding of capability and mechanisms. Moreover, the effect of the lightweight potential is investigated, and how the specific material density can be considered when the fatigue damage tolerance is characterized.
description: Front. Mech. Eng.;8
Comments on "A Gibbs Sampler for a Class of Random Convex Polytopes"
Creators: name: Hoffman, Kentaro
name: Zhang, Kai
name: Hannig, Jan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021

description: In this comment we discuss relative strengths and weaknesses of simplex and Dirichlet Dempster-Shafer inference as applied to multi-resolution tests of independence.
title: 3D Rocks, 3D Outcrops, and Virtual Field Trips
Creators: name:  Carena ,  Sara
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2021

description: Geoscience teaching has not kept up with technology. The ability to visualize objects in 3D is fundamental in geology, and yet we have hardly integrated any 3D tools in our courses, even though such tools have been available for years. Apart from occasional tests carried out by individuals, there has been no widespread effort to use the latest technology in the classroom and the field. Covid restrictions on travel thus simply accelerated a project we were already working on: the creation of a collection of 3D models of rocks and outcrops to be used as a training aid in the classroom. We expanded the original concept to include also a full 3D virtual environment for students to carry out field exercises. We have created 3D models of hand samples from our rock collection, and 3D models of key outcrops at several field locations that we normally use in both Spain and Germany, using both hand held cameras and a small drone. Image processing to produce scaled and georeferenced models was done with Metashape Pro. We then used 3DVista Pro to produce immersive virtual field trips. This software allows linking our 3D models, which are stored on public platforms, with videos, photos, maps, text, and realistic sounds for each field scene. A training module in the form of quizzes and game-like features can be incorporated too. The reception from students has been positive, and we plan to keep using these tools extensively even after the covid crisis is over.