cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Rhinolophus guineensis Eisentraut 1960
Creators: name: Decher, Jan
name: Hoffmann, Anke
name: Schaer, Juliane
name: N Orris, Ryan W.
name: Kadjo, Blaise
name: Astrin, Jonas
name: Monadjem, Ara
name: Hutterer, Rainer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Rhinolophidae
Rhinolophus
Rhinolophus guineensis

description: Rhinolophus guineensis Eisentraut, 1960
New material
ZFMK 2008.0281, ♀, PF, 17 March 2008; ZFMK 2009.0020, ♀, PF, 9 December 2008; ZFMK 2009.0022, ♂ and ZFMK 2009.0023, ♀, WSV, 12 December 2008.
The two individuals at PF were caught at the western edge of a small patch of submontane forest among large boulders, which probably served as roosting places for this species. Three specimens at WSV were caught flying over the creek. The 2002 RAP documented R. guineensis from both high elevation W2 and lowland BK, and the 2003 RAP encountered it at Déré and Mt. Béro Forest Reserves (Fahr and Ebigbo, 2004; Fahr et al., 2006). Brosset (1984) reported two torpid specimens between 1,450 and 1,600 m at Mount Nimba, and it was the most abundant Rhinolophus captured above 1,400 m on Guinean Mount Nimba (Denys et al., 2013). It has been recorded from several localities in the Fouta Djallon, most of them associated with caves (Eisentraut and Knorr, 1957; Konstantinov et al., 2000; Weber and Fahr, 2007 b; Fahr, 2013 f). Rhinolophus guineensis was described by Eisentraut (1960) as a large subspecies (FA = 46 mm) of R. landeri, but Böhme and Hutterer (1978) showed that the two morphologically distinct subspecies R. l. guineensis and R. l. landeri should be treated as separate species. Two females caught at PF and WSV in December carried embryos of 6 and 10 mm crown-rump length, respectively. Konstantinov et al. (2000) reported a female with a small embryo in March in a cave near Kindia, Guinea. In Senegal the species was found twice roosting in hollow trees (Böhme and Hutterer, 1978).
Conservation status
Vulnerable. IUCN Justification: “because its area of occupancy is probably less than 2,000 km ² (roosting caves), its distribution is severely fragmented, there is continuing decline in the extent and quality of its forest and cave habitats.” Population trend is unknown (IUCN, 2015).
description: Published as part of Decher, Jan, Hoffmann, Anke, Schaer, Juliane, N Orris, Ryan W., Kadjo, Blaise, Astrin, Jonas, Monadjem, Ara & Hutterer, Rainer, 2015, Bat diversity in the Simandou Mountain Range of Guinea, with the description of a new white-winged vespertilionid, pp. 255-282 in Acta Chiropterologica 17 (2) on page 264, DOI: 10.3161/15081109ACC2015.17.2.003, http://zenodo.org/record/3943621
Regional hyperthermia for soft tissue sarcoma – a survey on current practice, controversies and consensus among 12 European centers
Creators: name: Roohani, Siyer
name: Ehret, Felix
name: Beck, Marcus
name: Veltsista, Danai P.
name: Nadobny, Jacek
name: Zschaeck, Sebastian
name: Abdel-Rahman, Sultan
name: Eckert, Franziska
name: Flörcken, Anne
name: Issels, Rolf D.
name: Klöck, Stephan
name: Krempien, Robert
name: Lindner, Lars H.
name: Notter, Markus
name: Ott, Oliver J.
name: Pink, Daniel
name: Potkrajcic, Vlatko
name: Reichardt, Peter
name: Riesterer, Oliver
name: Spałek, Mateusz Jacek
name: Stutz, Emanuel
name: Wessalowski, Rüdiger
name: Zilli, Thomas
name: Zips, Daniel
name: Ghadjar, Pirus
name: Kaul, David
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Science Policy

description: To analyze the current practice of regional hyperthermia (RHT) for soft tissue sarcoma (STS) at 12 European centers to provide an overview, find consensuses and identify controversies necessary for future guidelines and clinical trials. In this cross-sectional survey study, a 27-item questionnaire assessing clinical subjects and procedural details on RHT for STS was distributed to 12 European cancer centers for RHT. We have identified seven controversies and five consensus points. Of 12 centers, 6 offer both, RHT with chemotherapy (CTX) or with radiotherapy (RT). Two centers only offer RHT with CTX and four centers only offer RHT with RT. All 12 centers apply RHT for localized, high-risk STS of the extremities, trunk wall and retroperitoneum. However, eight centers also use RHT in metastatic STS, five in palliative STS, eight for superficial STS and six for low-grade STS. Pretherapeutic imaging for RHT treatment planning is used by 10 centers, 9 centers set 40–43 °C as the intratumoral target temperature, and all centers use skin detectors or probes in body orifices for thermometry. There is disagreement regarding the integration of RHT in contemporary interdisciplinary care of STS patients. Many clinical controversies exist that require a standardized consensus guideline and innovative study ideas. At the same time, our data has shown that existing guidelines and decades of experience with the technique of RHT have mostly standardized procedural aspects. The provided results may serve as a basis for future guidelines and inform future clinical trials for RHT in STS patients.
RSECon24 - Sponsor Lightning Talks
Creators: name: RSECon24 Committee
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: rse

description: Slides from the RSECon24 sponsor lightning talks. Each of the conference's sponsors in attendance was given a lightning talk to advertise themselves and encourage attendees to visit their stall.A recording of this session is available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/UjDLB4m5w-U
Baryscapus bruchidii
Creators: name: Pérez-Benavides, A. Lucía
name: Hernández-Baz, Fernando
name: González, Jorge M.
name: Riverón, Alejandro Zaldívar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eulophidae
Baryscapus
Baryscapus bruchidii

description: Baryscapus bruchidii (Erdös, 1951)
Hosts. Bruchidius cinerascens (Gyllenhal) (Erdös 1951; Bouček 1961); Bruchidius peregii Hajoss on Glycyrrhiza echinata L. (Erdös 1971); Bruchidius unicolor Olivier (Györfi 1962).
Distribution. PALEARCTIC: Hungary, Moldova, Russia, Turkey.
description: Published as part of Pérez-Benavides, A. Lucía, Hernández-Baz, Fernando, González, Jorge M. & Riverón, Alejandro Zaldívar, 2019, Updated taxonomic checklist of Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) associated with Bruchinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), pp. 301-343 in Zootaxa 4638 (3) on page 304, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4638.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3338806
Volumetric hyperthermia delivery using the ExAblate Body MR-guided focused ultrasound system
Creators: name: Kim, Kisoo
name: Gupta, Pragya
name: Narsinh, Kazim
name: Diederich, Chris J.
name: Ozhinsky, Eugene
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: To investigate image-guided volumetric hyperthermia strategies using the ExAblate Body MR-guided focused ultrasound ablation system, involving mechanical transducer movement and sector-vortex beamforming. Acoustic and thermal simulations were performed to investigate volumetric hyperthermia using mechanical transducer movement combined with sector-vortex beamforming, specifically for the ExAblate Body transducer. The system control in the ExAblate Body system was modified to achieve fast transducer movement and MR thermometry-based hyperthermia control, mechanical transducer movements and electronic sector-vortex beamforming were combined to optimize hyperthermia delivery. The experimental validation was performed using a tissue-mimicking phantom. The developed simulation framework allowed for a parametric study with varying numbers of heating spots, sonication durations, and transducer movement times to evaluate the hyperthermia characteristics for mechanical transducer movement and sector-vortex beamforming. Hyperthermic patterns involving 2-4 sequential focal spots were analyzed. To demonstrate the feasibility of volumetric hyperthermia in the system, a tissue-mimicking phantom was sonicated with two distinct spots through mechanical transducer movement and sector-vortex beamforming. During hyperthermia, the average values of Tmax, T10, Tavg, T90, and Tmin over 200 s were measured within a circular ROI with a diameter of 10 pixels. These values were found to be 8.6, 7.9, 6.6, 5.2, and 4.5 °C, respectively, compared to the baseline temperature. This study demonstrated the volumetric hyperthermia capabilities of the ExAblate Body system. The simulation framework developed in this study allowed for the evaluation of hyperthermia characteristics that could be implemented with the ExAblate MRgFUS system.
Hypsugo crassulus
Creators: name: Decher, Jan
name: Hoffmann, Anke
name: Schaer, Juliane
name: N Orris, Ryan W.
name: Kadjo, Blaise
name: Astrin, Jonas
name: Monadjem, Ara
name: Hutterer, Rainer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Hypsugo
Hypsugo crassulus

description: Hypsugo crassulus (Thomas, 1904)
New material
ZFMK 2008.0299, ♀, FC, 8 March 2008; ZFMK 2008.0030, ♂, WSV, 12 December 2008.
Five specimens of this tiny vespertilionid were captured at Simandou, two at FC and three at WSV. One female from FC carried an embryo of 14 mm crown-rump length. In the consensus topology (Fig. 3) our specimens grouped with sequences labelled H. c. bellieri from Mount Nimba, Liberia, and H. eisentrauti from Côte d’Ivoire in Monadjem et al. (2013 b) but are now labelled H. crassulus (see Appendix for cross reference). Simmons (2005) considers bellieri to be a synonym of crassulus and she limits eisentrauti to the Cameroon highlands eastwards to Somalia, Kenya and Rwanda. Fahr (2013 d) discusses the species as Pipistrellus crassulus with specimens from seven localities in Guinea, Liberia and Côte d’Ivoire as belonging to the subspecies P. c. bellieri. We tentatively consider the entire Hypsugo clade shown in Fig. 3 as H. crassulus.
Conservation status
Least Concern (as Pipistrellus crassulus). Considered “widespread and not rare” but the population trend is unknown (IUCN, 2015).
description: Published as part of Decher, Jan, Hoffmann, Anke, Schaer, Juliane, N Orris, Ryan W., Kadjo, Blaise, Astrin, Jonas, Monadjem, Ara & Hutterer, Rainer, 2015, Bat diversity in the Simandou Mountain Range of Guinea, with the description of a new white-winged vespertilionid, pp. 255-282 in Acta Chiropterologica 17 (2) on page 266, DOI: 10.3161/15081109ACC2015.17.2.003, http://zenodo.org/record/3943621
Neutralizing monoclonal antibodies for the prevention of severe COVID-19: a retrospective study during Omicron BA.1 variant surge
Creators: name: Bartalucci, Claudia
name: Limongelli, Alessandro
name: Nicolini, Laura Ambra
name: Ponzano, Marta
name: Tigano, Stefania
name: Farinella, Sara Tita
name: Carrega, Giuliana
name: Malerba, Gemma
name: Magnè, Federica
name: Balletto, Elisa
name: Giacobbe, Daniele Roberto
name: Riccio, Giovanni
name: Cenderello, Giovanni
name: Taramasso, Lucia
name: Bruzzone, Bianca
name: Vena, Antonio
name: Di Biagio, Antonio
name: Mikulska, Malgorzata
name: De Maria, Andrea
name: Dentone, Chiara
name: Bassetti, Matteo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Among treatment options for Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) showed to be effective in preventing disease progression, but real-world data during the Omicron variant surge are still lacking. Multicentre retrospective study evaluating the effectiveness of sotrovimab and casirivimab-imdevimab in fragile patients with mild SARS-CoV-2 infection between November 2021 and March 2022. Unfavourable outcome was defined as increased need for oxygen supplementation and/or death. Of 268 study-participants, 12 (4.48%) previously needed supplemental oxygen, while 6 (2.24%) had active solid neoplasia (2.24%); 186 (69%) have previously received SARS-CoV-2 vaccination. Overall, 22 (8%) had unfavourable outcomes (42% versus 6% of patients with and without previous oxygen need and 50% versus 7% of patients with and without active solid neoplasia). Both supplemental oxygen therapy before SARS-CoV-2 infection and solid malignant tumour have shown to be risk factors for treatment failure. Log-rank test did not identify differences between sotrovimab and casirivimab-imdevimab treatment. Despite diffusion of Omicron variant, the rate of unfavourable outcome was higher than expected. The presence of underlying risk factors, including solid cancer and previous oxygen therapy are independently associated with risk of COVID-19 progression, suggesting the need for antiviral treatments not limited to mAbs and implementation of vaccine campaign.
Caprellidira Leach 1814
Creators: name: Momtazi, Farzaneh
name: Maghsoudlou, Abdolvahab
name: Just, Jean
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Caprellidira

description: Parvorder Caprellidira Leach, 1814 (Lowry & Myers, 2013)
Superfamily Photoidea Boeck, 1871 (Myers & Lowry, 2003)
description: Published as part of Momtazi, Farzaneh, Maghsoudlou, Abdolvahab & Just, Jean, 2018, A new species of Cephaloecetes (Bubocorophiina) from the Iranian coasts of the Gulf of Oman and the Hormuz Strait (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Siphonoecetini), pp. 128-134 in Zootaxa 4504 (1) on page 129, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4504.1.7, http://zenodo.org/record/2606218
Protocolo estandarizado para el Mejoramiento y Certificación de Semillas de Guáimaro
Creators: name: Rocio Baez Lizarazo, Mabel
name: Adolfo Arias Silva, Gustavo
name: Oñate, Katiana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 319999
subject: Other biological sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Este protocolo muestras lo pasos basicos para el mejoramiento de las semillas de guaimaro.
Mimetillus moloneyi
Creators: name: Decher, Jan
name: Hoffmann, Anke
name: Schaer, Juliane
name: N Orris, Ryan W.
name: Kadjo, Blaise
name: Astrin, Jonas
name: Monadjem, Ara
name: Hutterer, Rainer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Mimetillus
Mimetillus moloneyi

description: Mimetillus moloneyi (Thomas, 1891)
New material
ZFMK 2008.0303, ♂, FC, 7 March 2008.
Fifteen individuals of this vespertilionid were captured in lowland closed evergreen forest at FC in the canopy net over a creek. This species was not captured during the 2002 RAP (Fahr and Ebigbo, 2004), but the 2003 RAP reported it from “gallery forest of the Kpogo River” at Mount Béro (Fahr et al., 2006: 172), and these authors also mentioned unpublished museum records from Ziéla, Mount Nimba, and one specimen from Sérédou, Ziama as being the first records from Guinea. Monadjem and Fahr (2007) also mention three specimens in the Smithsonian Institution (USNM) from Gola Forest in Liberia. Most West African records appear to be from the closed evergreen forest with some records along the semi-evergreen forest as far north as Sakpa (8°52’N, 2°21’W) in Ghana (Schmidt et al., 2008). This species is known to roost in crevices under tree bark as well as in roofs of houses (Fahr, 2013 c). Our 15 captures from FC point to a substantial roost somewhere upstream towards the Foko Ridge. According to Fahr (2013 c) these specimens belong to the subspecies M. m. moloneyi.
Conservation status
Least Concern. Considered widespread and not rare but the population trend is unknown (IUCN, 2015).
description: Published as part of Decher, Jan, Hoffmann, Anke, Schaer, Juliane, N Orris, Ryan W., Kadjo, Blaise, Astrin, Jonas, Monadjem, Ara & Hutterer, Rainer, 2015, Bat diversity in the Simandou Mountain Range of Guinea, with the description of a new white-winged vespertilionid, pp. 255-282 in Acta Chiropterologica 17 (2) on pages 266-267, DOI: 10.3161/15081109ACC2015.17.2.003, http://zenodo.org/record/3943621
Surgical resection versus thermal ablation after intra-arterial conversion therapy for unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma: a multicenter retrospective one as per the STROBE guidelines
Creators: name: Du, Yusen
name: An, Chao
name: Liu, Wendao
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Intra-arterial conversion therapy (ICT) is a promising option for patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (uHCC). However, the selection of sequential therapeutic modalities is still controversial. This study compared the efficacy and safety of surgical resection (SR) versus thermal ablation (TA) after patients with uHCC received ICT. From May 2008 to November 2021, 3553 consecutive patients were reviewed and 791 patients were downstaged to receive TA or SR. Among them, 340 patients received SR, and 451 received TA after ICTs. The propensity score matching (PSM) method was applied to reduce selection bias between groups. Cumulative overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) were compared using the Kaplan–Meier method with the log-rank test. The occurrence of complications and adverse events (AEs) were compared using chi-square test. After PSM 1:1 (n = 185 in both groups), the 10-year OS and PFS rates for patients who underwent SR were comparable to those of patients who underwent TA (OS: 45.2% vs. 36.1%; p = 0.190; PFS: 19.3% vs. 15.9%; p = 0.533). A total of 237 (29.9%) patients (203 males; mean age:57.1 ± 11.0 years) received downstaging therapy, and long-term OS and PFS remained comparable between the two groups (p = 0.718, 0.636, respectively). However, the cumulative OS and PFS rates in the downstaged cohort were significantly higher than those in the nondownstaged cohort (both ps < 0.001). Additionally, there was no difference in major complications between the two groups (SR: 6.3% vs. TA: 8.6%; p = 0.320). TA might be an acceptable first-line alternative to SR after patients with uHCC receive ICT, especially patients unsuitable for SR. Better long-term survival was observed among patients in the downstaged cohort compared to those who failed to downstage.
Baryscapus bruchivorus
Creators: name: Pérez-Benavides, A. Lucía
name: Hernández-Baz, Fernando
name: González, Jorge M.
name: Riverón, Alejandro Zaldívar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eulophidae
Baryscapus
Baryscapus bruchivorus

description: Baryscapus bruchivorus (Gahan, 1942)
Hosts. Bruchidius sp. (Herting 1973); Bruchidius villosus (Fabricius) (Domenichini 1965; Graham 1991); Bruchus brachialis (Fahraeus) (Domenichini 1965; Burks 1979; Graham 1991; LaSalle 1994) from seeds of Pisum sativum L. (Leong & Dickason 1975); Bruchus lentis Frölich (Domenichini 1965); Bruchus rufipes Herbst (Herting 1973); Bruchus ulicis Mulsant & Rey (Domenichini 1965; Graham 1991).
Distribution. NEARCTIC: United States of America. PALEARCTIC: France, Italy, Spain, Turkey.
description: Published as part of Pérez-Benavides, A. Lucía, Hernández-Baz, Fernando, González, Jorge M. & Riverón, Alejandro Zaldívar, 2019, Updated taxonomic checklist of Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) associated with Bruchinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), pp. 301-343 in Zootaxa 4638 (3) on page 304, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4638.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3338806
Predictive nomograms of repeat intrahepatic recurrence and overall survival after radiofrequency ablation of recurrent colorectal liver metastases
Creators: name: Wang, Ji-Chen
name: Jiang, Bin-Bin
name: Zhang, Zhong-Yi
name: Liu, Yu-Hui
name: Shao, Li-Jin
name: Wang, Song
name: Yang, Wei
name: Wu, Wei
name: Yan, Kun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: This study was conducted to develop nomograms for predicting repeat intrahepatic recurrence (rIHR) and overall survival (OS), after radiofrequency ablation (RFA), treatment in patients with recurrent colorectal liver metastases (CLMs) after hepatectomy based on clinicopathologic features. A total of 160 consecutive patients with recurrent CLMs after hepatectomy who were treated with ultrasound-guided percutaneous RFA from 2012 to 2022 were retrospectively included. Patients were randomly divided into a training cohort and a validation cohort, with a ratio of 8:2. Potential prognostic factors associated with rIHR and OS, after RFA, were identified by using the competing-risks and Cox proportional hazard models, respectively, and were used to construct the nomogram. The nomogram was evaluated by Harrell’s C-index and a calibration curve. The 1-, 2-, and 3-year rIHR rates after RFA were 58.8%, 70.2%, and 74.2%, respectively. The 1-, 3- and 5-year OS rates were 96.3%, 60.4%, and 38.5%, respectively. In the multivariate analysis, mutant RAS, interval from hepatectomy to intrahepatic recurrence ≤ 12 months, CEA level >5 ng/ml, and ablation margin <5 mm were the independent predictive factors for rIHR. Mutant RAS, largest CLM at hepatectomy >3 cm, CEA level >5 ng/ml, and extrahepatic disease were independent predictors of poor OS. Two nomograms for rIHR and OS were constructed using the respective significant variables. In both cohorts, the nomogram demonstrated good discrimination and calibration. The established nomograms can predict individual risk of rIHR and OS after RFA for recurrent CLMs and contribute to improving individualized management.
Theoretical evaluation of the impact of diverse treatment conditions by calculation of the tumor control probability (TCP) of simulated cervical cancer Hyperthermia-Radiotherapy (HT-RT) treatments in-silico
Creators: name: Barba, Sergio Mingo
name: Ademaj, Adela
name: Marder, Dietmar
name: Riesterer, Oliver
name: Lattuada, Marco
name: Füchslin, Rudolf M.
name: Petri-Fink, Alke
name: Scheidegger, Stephan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Neuroscience
Pharmacology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer

description: Hyperthermia (HT) induces various cellular biological processes, such as repair impairment and direct HT cell killing. In this context, in-silico biophysical models that translate deviations in the treatment conditions into clinical outcome variations may be used to study the extent of such processes and their influence on combined hyperthermia plus radiotherapy (HT + RT) treatments under varying conditions. An extended linear-quadratic model calibrated for SiHa and HeLa cell lines (cervical cancer) was used to theoretically study the impact of varying HT treatment conditions on radiosensitization and direct HT cell killing effect. Simulated patients were generated to compute the Tumor Control Probability (TCP) under different HT conditions (number of HT sessions, temperature and time interval), which were randomly selected within margins based on reported patient data. Under the studied conditions, model-based simulations suggested a treatment improvement with a total CEM43 thermal dose of approximately 10 min. Additionally, for a given thermal dose, TCP increased with the number of HT sessions. Furthermore, in the simulations, we showed that the TCP dependence on the temperature/time interval is more correlated with the mean value than with the minimum/maximum value and that comparing the treatment outcome with the mean temperature can be an excellent strategy for studying the time interval effect. The use of thermoradiobiological models allows us to theoretically study the impact of varying thermal conditions on HT + RT treatment outcomes. This approach can be used to optimize HT treatments, design clinical trials, and interpret patient data.
Comparaison de methodes d'extraction de l'ADN de lapin à partir du sang: Fiabilité et coût
Creators: name: NOUAIRIA, Ghada
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 300199
subject: Agricultural biotechnology not elsewhere classified

description: Le premier maillon de la génétique moléculaire et celui dont dépend la réussite de plusieurs applications ultérieures, est l'extraction de l'Acide ribonucléique (ADN). Outre les méthodes classiques, des méthodes d'extraction commercialisées sous forme de kits prêts à l'utilisation ont surgit récemment et ne cessent de prendre ampleur malgré leur coût élevé. L'étude de la fiabilité de ces méthodes a été l'objectif de ce travail. Différents extractions ont été effectuées en utilisant quatre de ces méthodes: deux protocoles d'extraction classique; la méthode saline et la méthode Phénol Choloroforme, et deux protocoles utilisant des kits commercialisés; le kit Promega et le kit Invitrogen. L'ADN obtenu a révélé de différence significative entre les méthodes utilisées en termes de concentration et de pureté de l'ADN. La qualité et la quantité de l'ADN obtenu peuvent donc justifier l'utilisation des kits. Par contre, au niveau des coûts, on remarque une importante différence. Les kits utilisés coûtent 2,5 voire 5 fois plus cher que les méthodes classiques. D'autres paramètres comme la durée de l'extraction, le volume initial de sang requis peuvent expliquer le recours à l'utilisation d'un procéédé ou de l'autre.
Chrysocharis pentheus
Creators: name: Pérez-Benavides, A. Lucía
name: Hernández-Baz, Fernando
name: González, Jorge M.
name: Riverón, Alejandro Zaldívar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eulophidae
Chrysocharis
Chrysocharis pentheus

description: Chrysocharis pentheus (Walker, 1839)
Host. Bruchus rufipes Herbst. (De Gaulle 1908).
Distribution. INDO-AUSTRALIAN: Malaysia. NEARCTIC: Canada, United States of America. ORIENTAL: Taiwan. PALEARCTIC: Austria, Bulgaria, Channel Islands (British Is), Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Korea, Norway, Poland, Peoples’ Republic of China, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain (Canary Islands), Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, USSR, Yugoslavia.
description: Published as part of Pérez-Benavides, A. Lucía, Hernández-Baz, Fernando, González, Jorge M. & Riverón, Alejandro Zaldívar, 2019, Updated taxonomic checklist of Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) associated with Bruchinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), pp. 301-343 in Zootaxa 4638 (3) on page 304, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4638.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3338806
Entedon albiziarum Rasplus 1990
Creators: name: Pérez-Benavides, A. Lucía
name: Hernández-Baz, Fernando
name: González, Jorge M.
name: Riverón, Alejandro Zaldívar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eulophidae
Entedon
Entedon albiziarum

description: Entedon albiziarum Rasplus, 1990
Host. Bruchidius albizziarum Decelle on Albizia adianthifolia (Schum.) W.Wight, Albizia ferruginea (Guill. & Perr.) Benth., and Albizia zygia (DC.) J. F.Macbr. (Rasplus 1990).
Distribution. AFROTROPICAL: Ivory Coast.
description: Published as part of Pérez-Benavides, A. Lucía, Hernández-Baz, Fernando, González, Jorge M. & Riverón, Alejandro Zaldívar, 2019, Updated taxonomic checklist of Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) associated with Bruchinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), pp. 301-343 in Zootaxa 4638 (3) on page 305, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4638.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3338806
Gobipteryx minuta Elzanowski 1974
Creators: name: CHIAPPE, LUIS M.
name: NORELL, MARK
name: CLARK, JAMES
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2001
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Alexornithiformes
Alexornithidae
Gobipteryx
Gobipteryx minuta

description: Gobipteryx minuta Elzanowski, 1974
HOLOTYPE: ZPAL­MgR­I/12, fragmentary and distorted skull and mandible (Elzanowski, 1974); the rostral portion of the snout, the quadrate, and the mandible are the only portions providing reliable information. REFERRED SPECIMENS: ZPAL­MgR­I/32 (Elzanowski, 1976, 1977), poorly preserved preorbital portions of the skull and mandible, with portions of palatal bones; PIN­4492 (Kurochkin, 1996), partial skeleton preserving the rostral portion of the snout and mandible, and the two pterygoids in articulation with the parasphenoid rostrum [this specimen was used as the holotype of Nanantius valifanovi (Kurochkin, 1996); the synonymy of this name and the referral of this specimen is discussed below]; IGM­100 /1011, nearly complete preorbital region of the skull, scleral ossicles, and portions of the mandibular rami.
LOCALITY AND HORIZON: The Barun Goyot Formation localities of Khulsan (ZPAL­ MgR­I/12, ZPAL­MgR­I/32) and Khermeen Tsav (PIN­4492), and the Djadokhta Formation locality of Ukhaa Tolgod (IGM­100/ 1011). These localities are within the Nemegt Valley in southern Mongolia; the Barun Goyot and Djadokhta are regarded as Campanian age formations (Jerzykiewicz and Russell, 1991; Gao and Norell, 2000).
DIAGNOSIS: Toothless enantiornithine bird, with the derived presence of upturned rostrum, premaxilla with a large, horseshoeshaped palatal chamber, a diamond­shaped maxillary facet on its ventrocaudal corner, and longitudinal grooves on each side of the midline of its dorsal surface.
description: Published as part of CHIAPPE, LUIS M., NORELL, MARK & CLARK, JAMES, 2001, A New Skull of Gobipteryx minuta (Aves: Enantiornithes) from the Cretaceous of the Gobi Desert, pp. 1-16 in American Museum Novitates 3346 on page 2, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2001)346<0001:ANSOGM>2.0.CO;2, http://zenodo.org/record/4712110
Trivialia Malloch 1923
Creators: name: Gaimari, Stephen D.
name: Soares, Matheus M. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Lauxaniidae
Trivialia

description: TRIVIALIA Malloch
Trivialia Malloch, 1923: 53 (as subgenus of Deceia Malloch, 1923).
Type species. Deceia fuscocapitata Malloch, 1923: 53 (original designation).
Diagnosis. This genus can be differentiated from other lauxaniids by the following combination of characteristics. On the head, the frons is broader than long, bare of setulae, with the fronto-orbital setae reclinate and strong, with the posterior seta stronger. The ocellar setae are short and divergent, shorter than the postocellar setae. The eyes are almost round and are not narrowed below. The face is flat and dull (not glossy). The antennal first flagellomere is black, and the arista is short plumose with the basal-most dorsal rays usually the longest, and with shorter rays below. The scutum has 2 pairs of postsutural dorsocentral setae (and no presutural dorsocentral setae), with the anterior seta at about the midpoint between the posterior seta and the transverse suture. The postsutural intra-alar seta is absent (i.e., this genus is not in the Minettia group of genera). The anterior scutellar setae are parallel to slightly convergent, while the posterior scutellar setae are divergent. On the pleuron, the anepimeron is bare and there is 1 strong katepisternal seta (sometimes with an additional weaker seta anteriorly). On the wing, the costal setulae end well before the apex of R 4+5 (as is typical in Lauxaniinae), and the R veins are bare.
Immatures. Unknown for the genus.
Distribution. North America (USA [eastern, Virginia south to Florida]), West Indies (St. Vincent), Central America (Costa Rica, Panama), South America (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru [new record]).
Remarks. Stuckenberg (1971) and Shewell (1987) considered this an endemic Nearctic genus. Besides being included in the key to Nearctic genera, Shewell (1987) provided a figure of the lateral head of the type species, Trivialia fuscocapitata Malloch, 1923, which was also included in Gaimari & Silva (2010a). Photographs (lateral and dorsal habitus and oblique head) of the lectotype of one of the included species, Trivialia venusta (Williston, 1896), was also provided by Gaimari & Silva (2020).
description: Published as part of Gaimari, Stephen D. & Soares, Matheus M. M., 2022, Unusual sexually dimorphic head morphology in Lauxaniidae (Diptera: Lauxanioidea) - a new species of the genus Trivialia Malloch from Peru, pp. 391-401 in Zootaxa 5120 (3) on pages 392-393, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5120.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/6389529
Chromaphyosemion melanogaster Legros 2005
Creators: name: Rainer Sonnenberg
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Cyprinodontiformes
Nothobranchiidae
Chromaphyosemion
Chromaphyosemion melanogaster

description: Chromaphyosemion melanogaster Legros et al. 2005.
The description of C. melanogaster was published in the same paper as that of the previous species (Legros et al. 2005) and the authors are in my opinion correct in their hypothesis that this is a valid species. Unfortunately their diagnosis contains some characters which are not unique for C. melanogaster. As one of the main diagnostic characters they use the presence of the lower lateral stripe in dominant fish in combination with the absence of the upper one. The lower stripes of both sides are then completely black and fuse ventrally. This is not restricted to C. melanogaster, it can also be observed at least in C. punctulatum (pers. obser.), C. cf. splendopleure (pers. obser.; H. Kullmann, pers. comm.) and in several Chromaphyosemion populations from Equatorial Guinea and Bioko (Pohlmann 2006a) including C. malumbresi. As these are, according to the mitochondrial DNA data, only in part closely related to C. melanogaster, this character has lost its diagnostic significance even as a character for a species group. Chromaphyosemion melanogaster (Fig. 30) is distinguished from its closest relatives, C. malumbresi from Equatorial Guinea, and C. kouamense from Gabon by its mainly greenish body and fin coloration versus bluish or reddish to orange body color and orange, blue or greenish coloration in males unpaired fins. Chromaphyosemion melanogaster can be distinguished from species with similar greenish body color by the combination of the previous listed characters versus unpaired fins light green and center of anal and dorsal fins with orange in combination with yellow to orange from ventral half of opercle to start of anal (C koungueense and C. punctulatum). Most populations of the group composed of C. malumbresi, C. melanogaster, C. kouamense and some forms currently not included in C. malumbresi from Equatorial Guinea (Legros & Zentz 2007) show many reddish or dark red dots on unpaired fins, a character not unique to this group as shown in C. punctulatum (Figs. 24, 27-29). They also show nearly regular rows of red dots on sides, which can also be found in some C. loennbergii populations.
description: Published as part of Rainer Sonnenberg, 2007, Description of three new species of the genus Chromaphyosemion Radda, 1971 (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae) from the coastal plains of Cameroon with a preliminary review of the Chromaphyosemion splendopleure complex., pp. 1-38 in Zootaxa 1591 on page 31
RSECon24 - Poster Lightning Talks
Creators: name: RSECon24 Committee
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: rse

description: Slides from the RSECon24 Poster lightning talks. Each of the 14 poster presenters was given 2 minutes to advertise their poster prior to the poster session.The posters can be found here: https://zenodo.org/communities/rsecon24/records?q=&f=resource_type%3Aposter&l=list&p=1&s=10&sort=newestA recording of this session is available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/MjhhCI0GOU8
Percutaneous microwave ablation versus sclerotherapy for large hepatic hemangioma: a multi-center cohort study
Creators: name: Cai, Qian
name: Qian, Tong-Gang
name: Zhao, Qi-Yu
name: Feng, Shun-You
name: Yang, Qiao
name: Luo, Yan-Chun
name: Dai, Yu-Qing
name: Liang, Ping
name: Yu, Xiao-ling
name: Liu, Fang-Yi
name: Han, Zhi-Yu
name: Du, Qiao-Wei
name: Li, Xin
name: Yu, Jie
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: The study aimed to compare the effectiveness and safety of ultrasound-guided microwave ablation (MWA) and percutaneous sclerotherapy (PS) for the treatment of large hepatic hemangioma (LHH). This retrospective study included 96 patients who underwent MWA (n = 54) and PS (n = 42) as first-line treatment for LHH in three tertiary hospitals from January 2016 to December 2021. Primary outcomes were technique efficacy rate (volume reduction rate [VRR] > 50% at 12 months), symptom relief rate at 12 months and local tumor progression (LTP). Secondary outcomes included procedure time, major complications, treatment sessions, cost and one-, two-, three-year VRR. During a median follow-up of 36 months, the MWA group showed a higher technique efficacy rate (100% vs. 90.4%, p = .018) and symptom relief rate (100% vs. 80%, p = .123) than the PS group. The MWA group had fewer treatment sessions, higher one-, two- and three-year VRR, lower LTP rate (all p < .05), longer procedure time and higher treatment costs than the PS group (both p < .001). MWA shared a comparable major complications rate (1.8% vs. 2.4%, p = .432) with PS. After multivariate analysis, the lesion’s heterogeneity and maximum diameter >8.1 cm were independent risk factors for LTP (all p < .05). In the PS group, lesions with a cumulative dose of bleomycin > 0.115 mg/cm3 had a lower risk of LTP (p = .006). Both MWA and PS treatments for large hepatic hemangioma are safe and effective, with MWA being superior in terms of efficacy.
Entedon erythrinae Gumovsky & Ramadan 2011
Creators: name: Pérez-Benavides, A. Lucía
name: Hernández-Baz, Fernando
name: González, Jorge M.
name: Riverón, Alejandro Zaldívar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eulophidae
Entedon
Entedon erythrinae

description: Entedon erythrinae Gumovsky & Ramadan, 2011
Hosts. Specularius erythrinae Bridwell on Erythrina spp.; Specularius impressithorax (Pic) on Erythrina sp., Erythrina variegata L., Erythrina humeana Spreng., Erythrina lysistemon Hutch., Erythrina sacleuxii Hua, Erythrina abyssinica DC., Erythrina caffra Thunb., and Erythrina crista-galli L. (Gumovsky & Ramadan 2011).
Distribution. AFROTROPICAL: South Africa, Tanzania, Mozambique. INDO-AUSTRALIAN: United States of America (Hawaii)
description: Published as part of Pérez-Benavides, A. Lucía, Hernández-Baz, Fernando, González, Jorge M. & Riverón, Alejandro Zaldívar, 2019, Updated taxonomic checklist of Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) associated with Bruchinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), pp. 301-343 in Zootaxa 4638 (3) on page 305, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4638.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3338806
Effects of feed nutrients on growth, development and the deposition of protein and fat in Tenebrio molitor larvae
Creators: name: Tamim, B.
name: Salter, A.
name: Parr, T.
name: Brameld, J.
Publisher: name: Brill Online
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 309999
subject: Other agricultural, veterinary and food sciences not elsewhere classified

description: An understanding of the impact of dietary nutritional composition on growth, development and composition of Tenebrio molitor larvae (mealworms) could help optimise production systems. Replicate containers of mealworms fed for 24 days on synthetic cellulose-based feeds containing different combinations of protein (casein, Cas), lipid (wheat germ oil, WGO), carbohydrate (glucose) and a mineral/vitamin premix (MV) were compared to a control diet of wheat bran (WB). Mealworms fed only cellulose (C) ceased to grow after 10 days, and did not pupate. Addition of casein alone did not restore growth but did induce pupation (much slower than in WB-fed worms). Mealworms fed C+Cas-based diets showed a marked increase in the relative proportion of body protein to fat, compared to those fed wheat bran. The addition of MV to the C+Cas diet restored growth and pupation, though not to the same level as WB. MV-fed worms maintained a significantly increased protein/fat composition. The further inclusion of WGO or WGO + glucose further increased growth, whilst WGO + glucose, reduced pupation. Overall, the highest yield of protein (per container) was seen in the C+Cas+MV+WGO-fed mealworms, which was 50% higher than in the WB group (largely due to the decreased pupation rate). Furthermore, the lipid yield was 50% lower than in WB-fed mealworms. By contrast, the addition of glucose to this diet maintained a high protein yield but increased the lipid yield to similar levels as seen in WB-fed mealworms, with an associated significant increase in the relative proportion of the polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA), linoleic and a-linolenic acids. The results indicate that sources of protein, lipid, minerals and multivitamins are all required to maximize protein whilst decreasing lipid deposition in mealworms. However, the addition of glucose (and presumably other digestible carbohydrates) increased lipid deposition and specifically the PUFA content.
Chromaphyosemion kouamense Legros 1999
Creators: name: Rainer Sonnenberg
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Cyprinodontiformes
Nothobranchiidae
Chromaphyosemion
Chromaphyosemion kouamense

description: Chromaphyosemion kouamense (Legros 1999).
Legros (1999) compares this species with C. bitaeniatum as both species should show a coloration of the anal fin which differs from that of the caudal fin. This seems to be based on a misinterpretation of the color patterns. The anal fin in C. kouamense in greenish, identical to the central part of the caudal fin. The central part of the caudal fin is bordered by an orange area parallel to the dorsal and ventral parts of the fin along the submarginal red band border. In C. bitaeniatum the coloration of the anal and caudal fins is quite variable, the anal fin color ranges from greenish with a broad orange region to nearly completely blue or orange, the center of the caudal fin is bluish to greenish, and similar to for example C. punctulatum and C. kouamense, it has a broad orange area bordering the central part of the fin. In some populations of C. kouamense (e.g., Mvang Ayong, Gabon, Fig. 31) the caudal fin has mainly red dots between fin rays rather than streaks as described for the specimens from the type locality.
description: Published as part of Rainer Sonnenberg, 2007, Description of three new species of the genus Chromaphyosemion Radda, 1971 (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae) from the coastal plains of Cameroon with a preliminary review of the Chromaphyosemion splendopleure complex., pp. 1-38 in Zootaxa 1591 on page 32
Ramaricium yunnanense C. L. Zhao 2022, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Gu, Jin-Ying
name: Zhao, Chang-Lin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Basidiomycota
Agaricomycetes
Gomphales
Gomphaceae
Ramaricium
Ramaricium yunnanense

description: Ramaricium yunnanense C.L. Zhao, sp. nov. Figs. 2, 3
MycoBank no.: MB 841259
Holotype:— CHINA. Yunnan Province, Puer, Jingdong County, Wuliangshan National Nature Reserve, E 100°32′, N 24°36′, alt. 1600 m, on the angiosperm trunk, 5 October 2017, CLZhao 4179 (SWFC!), GenBank No. (ITS ON054914; nLSU MZ 881949).
Etymology:— yunnanense (Lat.): the epithet refers to the Province in China “ Yunnan ” where the type species was collected.
Description:— Basidiomata annual, resupinate, cottony, without odor or taste when fresh, becoming flocculent on drying, up to 7 cm × 4 cm (length × breadth), up to 300 µm thick. Hymenial surface smooth, white when fresh and drying. Margin sterile, fimbriate, white, up to 1.5 mm wide.
Hyphal system monomitic, generative hyphae colorless, thin - walled, bearing clamp connections, IKI–, CB–; tissues unchanged in KOH.
Subiculum generative hyphae colorless, more or less interwoven, thin - walled, rarely branched, presence of encrusted hyphae, 2.5–5 µm in diameter.
Hymenium cystidia and cystidioles absent; basidia pleural, clavate, with four sterigmata, and a basal clamp, slightly constricted in the middle to somewhat sinuous, 14–23 × 6–8µm; basidioles dominant, in shape similar to basidia, but slightly smaller.
Basidiospores ellipsoid to subglobose, colorless, thin - walled, ornamented, IKI–, cyanophilous, (3.8)4 – 5(– 5.4) × 3 – 4.5(4.7) µm, L = 4.53 µm, W = 3.70 µm, Q = 1.22 (n = 30 / 1).
Additional specimen (paratype) examined:— CHINA. Yunnan Province, Puer, Jingdong County, Wuliangshan National Nature Reserve, E 100°32′, N 24°36′, alt. 1600 m, on the angiosperm trunk, 5 October 2017, CLZhao 4158 (SWFC!), GenBank No. (ITS MZ 746097; nLSU MZ 881948).
description: Published as part of Gu, Jin-Ying & Zhao, Chang-Lin, 2022, Ramaricium yunnanense sp. nov. (Gomphaceae, Gomphales) from China, pp. 123-130 in Phytotaxa 573 (1) on page 126, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.573.1.8, http://zenodo.org/record/7329573
RSECon24 - Celebrations and Awards
Creators: name: RSECon24 Committee
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: RSE

description: The RSECon24 committee is continuing to recognise outstanding RSE colleagues with an awards ceremony at this year’s conference. There will be the Outstanding Contribution to the RSE Community award, organised by the Society’s trustees, plus the re-named Claire Wyatt Community Awards, recognising the incredible contribution Claire made to the Society over the past decade.More information: https://rsecon24.society-rse.org/programme/community-awards/A recording of this session is available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ElUWBJhs4i0
Investigating the optimal maximum diameter of benign thyroid nodules for thermal ablation on the basis of complete disappearance rate
Creators: name: Cao, Shi-Liang
name: Shi, Wan-Ying
name: Zhao, Zhen-Long
name: Wei, Ying
name: Yu, Na
name: Wu, Jie
name: Peng, Li-Li
name: Li, Yan
name: Yu, Ming-An
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Thermal ablation (TA) is a safe and effective treatment for benign thyroid nodules (BTNs). However, there has been no consensus on the optimal maximum diameter (MD) of BTNs for TA. This study aimed to identify the optimal MD of BTNs for TA based on complete disappearance rate after TA. This retrospective study included 639 BTNs treated with TA from June 2014 to January 2022. The complete disappearance rate of BTNs after TA was summarized, related influencing factors were explored, and the optimal MD of BTNs for TA was identified. At the final follow-up (median: 40 months, range: 24–95 months), the overall volume reduction rate was 95.4 ± 9.0%, and 50.5% of the BTNs (323/639) completely disappeared. The MD was significantly negatively correlated with complete disappearance (odds ratio 0.89, 95% confidence interval 0.87–0.92; p < 0.001). Calcification, comet-tail artifacts, multilocular cysts, and composition of BTNs, as well as diabetes were negatively correlated with complete disappearance. Restricted cubic spline indicated that an MD of 25.0 mm was the optimal threshold of BTNs for TA, which was confirmed by subgroup logistic regression analysis. Compared with BTNs with MD ≤ 25.0 mm, those with MD > 25.0 mm had a greater complication rate (6.5% vs. 2.4%, p = 0.012). The MD of BTNs was negatively correlated with complete disappearance after TA; an MD > 25.0 mm indicated a reduced likelihood of complete disappearance compared with an MD ≤ 25.0 mm. An MD of 25.0 mm is an appropriate threshold of BTNs for TA on the basis of complete disappearance rate.