cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Rapid evaporative ionisation mass spectrometry for breast tissue characterisation towards intraoperative margin assessment in breast surgery
Creators: name: St John, Edward
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2017

description: Background: A fifth of patients undergoing breast conserving surgery (BCS) require re-operative intervention for positive margins. Re-operation is costly, negatively affects cosmesis and increases morbidity. Rapid Evaporative Ionisation Mass Spectrometry (REIMS) uses chemical analysis of lipid profiles from electrosurgical aerosol to classify breast tissues in real-time. Methods: Electrosurgical aerosol derived from breast tissues was aspirated into a mass spectrometer (MS). Spectral databases were built from malignant and non-malignant breast tissues with classification models generated using statistical methods. Significantly different peak intensities between tissue classes were identified using univariate statistics and tandem MS aided identification of lipid species. REIMS was performed during breast surgery and classification models were used for identification of cancer at the margin. Results: REIMS was optimised for analysis of heterogeneous breast tissue. An ex-vivo classification model built from n=359 fresh ex-vivo samples allowed for recognition of n=260 new breast tissue samples, achieving 90.9% sensitivity and 98.8% specificity. 112 possible glycerophospholipids were identified following univariate analysis and tandem MS of significant peaks. A combined ex-vivo model of fresh and frozen, cut and coag samples (n=369 tumour, n=467 normal) provided good diagnostic accuracy [sensitivity=94.9% and specificity=94.4%] from which intraoperative recognition models were built. Intraoperatively, continuous high intensity spectra were obtained (n=85 patients, 511 margins) with rapid onscreen results (1.57 seconds, SD +/-0.26), and invasive tumour margins were identified [sensitivity=77.7% (7/9), specificity=92.9% (460/495)]. Conclusions: REIMS has been optimised for analysis of heterogeneous breast tissues based on alterations in lipid metabolism. Multivariate statistical recognition models accurately classify ex-vivo breast tissue. REIMS has potential to be further developed as an intelligent knife (iKnife), capable of rapid data collection and analysis. Pilot data suggests the system shows promise as an intraoperative, real-time, margin assessment tool for breast cancer surgery. A multicentre clinical trial [REI-EXCISE, CRUK/16/021] of REIMS during BCS will provide further validation.
Pepsis ruficornis
Creators: name: Kurczewski, Frank E.
name: West, Rick C.
name: Waichert, Cecilia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Pepsis
Pepsis ruficornis

description: Pepsis ruficornis (Fabricius)
 PUERTO RICO: Ponce; 20 June 2016; J. A. Torres. Host: Caribena laeta (C. L. Koch) (Theraphosidae), immature. The wasp straddled the paralyzed tarantula, venter to dorsum, as it laid on the leaf-littered ground (Torres 2016).
 Caribena laeta is a new host genus and species for Pepsis ruficornis (Kurczewski et al. 2020, 2022b). This tarantula is arboreal and the wasp probably flushed it from its retreat in vegetation. The spider fell to the ground to escape but the wasp followed and captured it.
description: Published as part of Kurczewski, Frank E., West, Rick C. & Waichert, Cecilia, 2024, New host records for Nearctic and Neotropical spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae), pp. 1-32 in Insecta Mundi 2024 (34) on page 11, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10793331
Near-IR and MRI probes towards multi-modal imaging and ion sensing
Creators: name: Coakley, Emma
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2018

description: Associated with the development of all types of diabetes is the loss of pancreatic β-cell mass. It is known that Zn2+ ions are concentrated within β-cells of the pancreas and that Zn2+ is co-released with insulin from the β-cells in response to high glucose levels. Thus, determination of Zn2+ concentrations in the insulin granules allows β-cell mass quantification, and has potential for monitoring the onset and status of diabetes. However, there are few chemical probes that are capable of this function. Medical imaging has become universal in the diagnosis and monitoring of disease, and many imaging modalities are available for this purpose. However, any imaging technique, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and optical imaging are not without their own inherent limitations. The principle of dual-modal imaging is that by combining two or more of these techniques, by the means of a single contrast agent with two functionalities, the limitations associated with each technique can be synergistically overcome. For this reason, this thesis aims to develop a dual-modal MR/near-infrared (NIR) imaging agent that selectively binds to Zn2+ ions within the pancreas, to ultimately achieve a more profound understanding of the role that zinc plays in diabetes. This thesis firstly describes the synthesis and properties of functionalisable NIR fluorophores which offer several advantages over conventional visible fluorophores, such as better tissue depth penetration and reduced damage to biological samples. These fluorophores were then successfully conjugated to different Zn2+ ion sensing moieties and their ability to detect cellular Zn2+ concentrations by optical imaging determined. Next these probes were conjugated to gadolinium chelates to generate novel dual-modal MR/NIR optical zinc sensors whose efficacy were proven through fluorescence titrations or in vitro. Finally, MRI chelates were conjugated with targeting peptides with one of the probes demonstrating excellent enhancement of the signal within the pancreas.
Geological map of the Tellaro River Valley (Hyblean Foreland, southeastern Sicily, Italy)
Creators: name: Romagnoli, Gino
name: Catalano, Stefano
name: Pavano, Francesco
name: Tortorici, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 20199 Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Computational Biology

description: The Geological map of the Tellaro River Valley, at the 1:25.000 scale, portrays the main stratigraphic and structural features that developed in a 300 km2 wide area of the African foreland in southeastern Sicily (Hyblean Foreland). The NW-SE-oriented Tellaro River Valley marks the transition between the eastern (Siracusa Plateau) and western (Ragusa Plateau) domains of the foreland, where a post-Tortonian structural depression, here designated as Tellaro Basin, originated. The map pictures the geometry and kinematics of the border faults and the structure affecting the basin infilling. The mapped structural pattern denounces a poliphase tectonic evolution of the region, suggesting the occurrence of a major NW-SE-oriented crustal discontinuity that, being active during the different periods of the post-Tortonian evolution of the area, could play a primary role also in the present seismotectonic picture.
Biomarker research in thromboembolic stroke
Creators: name: Qureshi, Mahim Irfan
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2017

description: Introduction Stroke is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide. Approximately one quarter of all strokes are secondary to carotid atherosclerosis. There is a clinical need to improve risk stratification of carotid atherosclerosis, to better target surgical or interventional therapy and prevent stroke. This study aimed to determine diagnostic biomarkers of high-risk carotid atherosclerosis, and ensure the validity of such markers in the presence of alternative phenotypes of atherosclerotic disease. Methods 150 patients were recruited according to the following criteria: Group 1: Symptomatic >50% carotid stenosis Group 2: Non-carotid stroke/TIA Group 3: Asymptomatic >50% carotid stenosis Group 4: Asymptomatic controls with <50% carotid stenosis Group 5: Abdominal aortic aneurysm Group 6: Intermittent claudication Disease groups were matched for age, gender, cardiovascular risk factors, haematological parameters, renal function and lipid status. Blood and urine was collected from all patients and analysed through global metabolic profiling (1H-NMR Spectroscopy, HILIC-Mass Spectrometry and Lipid Profiling-Mass Spectrometry). Acquired spectra were compared across groups using computational multivariate data analysis to determine markers of high-risk carotid atherosclerosis. Results Statistical models derived from urinary spectra proved stronger than serum datasets, in particular with HILIC-Mass Spectrometry (positive ionisation mode). Application of computational OPLS DA resulted in discrimination of symptomatic carotid atherosclerosis from asymptomatic disease, aneurysmal disease, and intermittent claudication. Differentiating metabolites span a vast array of compounds including lipid derivatives, amino acid derivatives and nucleotide derivatives. Conclusion This is the first study to identify urinary metabolic biomarkers of high-risk carotid atherosclerosis, differentiating symptomatic carotid atherosclerosis from asymptomatic disease, and aneurysmal and peripheral arterial disease. Targeted temporal studies are now required for clinical validation and to determine the variation of acute biomarkers with time.
Pepsis aciculata Taschenberg 1869
Creators: name: Kurczewski, Frank E.
name: West, Rick C.
name: Waichert, Cecilia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Pepsis
Pepsis aciculata

description: Pepsis aciculata Taschenberg
 ARGENTINA: Córdoba Province, San Javier; 18 February 2021; P. Scazzina. Host: Plesiopelma longisternale (Schiapelli and Gerschman) (Theraphosidae), adult or subadult female. The wasp examined the paralyzed tarantula as it laid on its left side on the ground. She then dragged the paralyzed tarantula backwards across a dirt road, grasping the base of its right foreleg with her mandibles (Scazzina 2022).
 Pepsis aciculata has been reported previously with Plesiopelma longisternale and Grammostola vachoni Schiapelli and Gerschman in Argentina (Copperi et al. 2011).
description: Published as part of Kurczewski, Frank E., West, Rick C. & Waichert, Cecilia, 2024, New host records for Nearctic and Neotropical spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae), pp. 1-32 in Insecta Mundi 2024 (34) on page 11, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10793331
A new phenalenone derivative from the soil fungus Penicillium herquei PSU-RSPG93
Creators: name: Chittreeya Tansakul
name: Vatcharin Rukachaisirikul
name: Atip Maha
name: Thippaya Kongprapan
name: Souwalak Phongpaichit
name: Nongporn Hutadilok-Towatana
name: Kawitsara Borwornwiriyapan
name: Jariya Sakayaroj
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biochemistry

description: One new phenalenone derivative, peniciherqueinone (1), together with five known phenalenone derivatives (2–6), one known anthraquinone (7) and two known acetophenones (8 and 9) were isolated from the soil fungus Penicillium herquei PSU-RSPG93. Their structures were established by spectroscopic evidence. The absolute configuration of 1 was determined by anisotropic effect and electronic circular dichroism spectroscopy. Compound 2 exhibited mild antioxidant activity and is noncytotoxic to Vero (African green monkey kidney fibroblasts) cell lines.
Model-based optimisation of the operation of integrated natural gas production, processing & supply networks
Creators: name: Aluma, Daniel Elaigwu
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2018

description: Gathering significant volumes of natural gas involves connecting to wells in different oil and/or gas fields that are usually spread across large geographical areas. Supplying processed gas and associated liquids, such as liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and natural gas liquids (NGL) to the consumers often requires an extensive network of degassing stations, compressor stations, pipelines and gas processing plants, as well as storage and shipping facilities for the liquids. The operation of such natural gas networks involves many degrees of freedom impacting profitability, efficiency and environmental performance, which creates significant scope for optimisation. This work presents novel methodologies making use of detailed models for optimizing integrated production, processing and supply chain operations of natural gas networks. Despite the underlying complexity of the system, the application of rigorous mathematical optimisation to detailed models of an entire gas network is now computationally tractable and can ensure that the solution obtained meets all constraints. Using the vast natural gas network of Basrah Gas Company (a Shell Joint-venture in Iraq) as a case study, optimisation approaches to find optima to profitability, production and flexibility problems of natural gas networks have been developed. The magnitudes of the resulting improvements in optimised operations are significant. A Gradient Ranking method has been developed and tested for determining the significance of the decision variables to the objective function and thereby reducing problem complexity. Methods have also been developed to assess the relative economic impact of the different products (dry gas, propane, butane and natural gasoline) in relation to optimal profitability with varying market prices. Finally, a multiperiod optimisation (MPO) approach has also been developed to maximise the overall profit for multiple periods by varying, in each period, the process operating variables, sales rates and inventory levels. The results show that the MPO approach results in significantly improved profitability compared with that achieved via the sequential single-period optimisation approach.
A new chitinase-producer strain Streptomyces glauciniger WICC-A03: isolation and identification as a biocontrol agent for plants phytopathogenic fungi
Creators: name: Awad, Hassan Mohamed
name: El-Enshasy, Hesham Ali
name: Siti Zulaiha Hanapi
name: Hamed, Eman Ramadan
name: Bustanur Rosidi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Biochemistry

description: This study discusses the isolation and identification of a new Streptomycetes highly active chitinase producer. Fifteen strains were isolated from Malaysian soil samples. The isolate WICC-A03 was found to be the most active chitinase producer. Its antifungal activity was evaluated against many phytopathogens. The identification of WICC-A03 using phenotypic and genotypic methods strongly indicated that strain WICC-A03 belonged to the genus Streptomyces and displayed similarity (91%) with Streptomyces glauciniger. Thus, it was given the suggested name S. glauciniger WICC-A03 with accession number: JX139754. WICC-A03 produces extracellular chitinase in a medium containing 1.5% colloidal chitin in submerged culture on 144 h. The produced enzyme was partially characterised and its molecular weight of 50 kDa was determined by using SDS-PAGE. This study indicates that WICC-A03 is a potential chitinase producer for biocontrol of plant pathogens. Further experiments are being carried out to optimise medium composition and cultivation conditions under lab and bioreactor scale.
title: 03_0385
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
The axial behaviour of displacement piles in chalk
Creators: name: Buckley, Roisin
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2018

description: Current axial capacity design methods for piles driven in chalk are known to be unreliable, in particular where low-medium density material is encountered. The primary complexities associated with using driven pre-formed displacement piles to withstand predominantly axial loading include (i) determining their installation resistance (ii) assessing pile static load behaviour after allowing for set-up and (iii) the effects of axial cyclic loading on the behaviour. The development of improved design methods has been impeded by a lack of both instrumented pile test data and the understanding they can bring regarding the fundamental underlying effective stress mechanisms. The work described in this thesis was motivated by an Innovate-UK joint industry project related to the Wikinger offshore windfarm in the German Baltic Sea. The Author’s investigations included analysis of full-scale offshore static and dynamic pile tests on open-ended steel tubular piles founded in glacial till and chalk at Wikinger. The tests were supplemented by further experiments on reduced-scale open-ended driven piles and heavily instrumented closed-ended Imperial College Piles at an analogous onshore test site, in Kent, UK. The onshore test site facilitated a systematic investigation of how ageing and cyclic loading affects driven piles over an eight-month period. Shaft capacity was shown to increase significantly with time and the cyclic tests indicated that one-way axial cyclic loading is not as detrimental to aged capacity as previously feared. The understanding drawn from the Author’s work was used to map out a route towards better rules for predicting the axial capacity of open and closed-ended displacement piles in chalk. A new effective stress-based approach to predict radial effective stresses is proposed, based on the key phenomena identified, namely (i) the use of CPT cone resistance to allow for local variations in properties (ii) the marked effect of the relative distance from the pile tip below any given chalk horizon (iii) the interface effective stress shear failure characteristics and (iv) addressing the significant capacity gains which occur with time. The new approach is shown to lead to far better predictions of both soil resistance to driving and long-term capacity than the current industry design methods.
Molecular characterization and evolutionary insights into potential sex-determination genes in the western orchard predatory mite Metaseiulus occidentalis (Chelicerata: Arachnida: Acari: Phytoseiidae)
Creators: name: Pomerantz, Aaron F.
name: Hoy, Marjorie A.
name: Kawahara, Akito Y.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Molecular Biology

description: Little is known about the process of sex determination at the molecular level in species belonging to the subclass Acari, a taxon of arachnids that contains mites and ticks. The recent sequencing of the transcriptome and genome of the western orchard predatory mite Metaseiulus occidentalis allows investigation of molecular mechanisms underlying the biological processes of sex determination in this predator of phytophagous pest mites. We identified four doublesex-and-mab-3-related transcription factor (dmrt) genes, one transformer-2 gene, one intersex gene, and two fruitless-like genes in M. occidentalis. Phylogenetic analyses were conducted to infer the molecular relationships to sequences from species of arthropods, including insects, crustaceans, acarines, and a centipede, using available genomic data. Comparative analyses revealed high sequence identity within functional domains and confirmed that the architecture for certain sex-determination genes is conserved in arthropods. This study provides a framework for identifying potential target genes that could be implicated in the process of sex determination in M. occidentalis and provides insight into the conservation and change of the molecular components of sex determination in arthropods.
PyGemini: platform-agnostic MPI Fortran ionosphere simulation from Python
Creators: name: Hirsch, Michael
name: Zettergren, Matthew
name: Klenzing, Jeffrey
name: Semeter, Joshua
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: PyGemini
ionosphere

description: Describes the use of CMake with Python to provide a platform agnostic local and HPC ionosphere simulation framework
Hemipepsis toussainti
Creators: name: Kurczewski, Frank E.
name: West, Rick C.
name: Waichert, Cecilia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Hemipepsis
Hemipepsis toussainti

description: Hemipepsis toussainti (Banks)
 MEXICO: Veracruz, Huatusco; 27 June 2020, 1143 CDT; G. U. Tejada Sartorius. Host: Cupiennius salei Keyserling (Trechaleidae), adult or subadult male. The wasp pursued the potential host spider on the ground through dense undergrowth (Tejada Sartorius 2020).
 Five of six host records for H. toussainti from Costa Rica and Mexico are for species of Ctenidae or Trechaleidae, including Cupiennius (Kurczewski et al. 2020). There is one other record of Cupiennius salei from Pueblo, Mexico (Kurczewski et al. 2020).
description: Published as part of Kurczewski, Frank E., West, Rick C. & Waichert, Cecilia, 2024, New host records for Nearctic and Neotropical spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae), pp. 1-32 in Insecta Mundi 2024 (34) on page 12, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10793331
Symmetry-breaking pattern formation in thin films with application to foaming in viscous fluids
Creators: name: Shen, Li
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2018

description: Foaming is a multi-disciplinary and multi-phase process. The understanding of the formation and collapse process of foams is of significant interest in engineering research and development. In this work, we look at foam, bubbles and thin films in three different ways; the physical chemistry effects at close distances, the surface phenomena using capillary waves on liquid interfaces and the onset of fluid dynamical instability triggered near rupture. Examining the experimental links between surface (shear) viscosity and the stability of a foam or emulsion theoretically, we consider the small-amplitude capillary waves in the presence of a surfactant solution of dilute concentrations. The associated Marangoni and surface viscosity effects are modelled via the Boussinesq-Scriven formulation and the resulting integro-differential initial value problem is solved analytically and surface viscosity is found to contribute an overall damping effect on the amplitude of the capillary wave with varying degrees depending on the lengthscale of the system. Numerically, we find the critical damping wavelength to increase for increasing surface concentration but the rate of increase remains different for both the surface viscosity and the Marangoni effect. Near rupture, patterns can be observed experimentally on the surface of a soap bub- ble. These quasi-stable transient structures are associated with the instabilities of the complex Marangoni flow on the curved thin film in the presence of a surfactant solution. We report a generalised Cahn-Hilliard-Swift-Hohenberg model derived using asymptotic theory which describes the quasi-elastic wrinkling pattern formation and the consequent coarsening dynamics in a curved surfactant-laden thin film. By testing the theory against experiments on soap bubbles, we find quantitative agreement with the analytical predic- tions of the nucleation and the early coarsening phases. Furthermore, the theory can be extended to arbitrarily curved surfactant-laden films nearing a critical thickness and is a first step in understanding bubble rupture.
Priocnessus prominens Banks 1945
Creators: name: Kurczewski, Frank E.
name: West, Rick C.
name: Waichert, Cecilia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Priocnessus
Priocnessus prominens

description: Priocnessus prominens Banks
COLOMBIA: Magdalena State, Sana Marta County; 14 August 2023, 1130 AM; R. D. Wilcox. Host: Undescribed genus and species (Corinnidae) [det. R. C. West], adult or subadult female. The wasp grasped the immobilized spider by the base of its right chelicera with her mandibles and walked forward across the ground (Wilcox 2023).
 Corinnidae is a new host family for Priocnessus prominens. Corinnid diversity is high in Colombia and most species remain undescribed (R. C. West, pers. obs.). There are two previous host records of Priocnessus prominens from Colombia with unidentified species of Ctenidae (Kurczewski et al. 2020).
description: Published as part of Kurczewski, Frank E., West, Rick C. & Waichert, Cecilia, 2024, New host records for Nearctic and Neotropical spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae), pp. 1-32 in Insecta Mundi 2024 (34) on page 13, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10793331
Cognitive functioning and psychological wellbeing in caregivers of people with dementia
Creators: name: Adams, Jennifer Louise
Publisher: name: The University of Edinburgh
Year: 2020
Subjects: caregivers
dementia nursing
systematic review

description: Background: It has been demonstrated informal caregivers of people with dementia (PWD) experience negative health outcomes. The current research explored caregivers’ cognitive and emotional well-being, in the hope of advancing understanding of how caregivers can best be supported. Objective: A systematic review was conducted to examine the relationship between caregiving for a PWD and cognitive functioning. An empirical study was conducted to examine the relationship between caregiving for a PWD and the experience of depressive symptoms. The empirical research aimed to understand how perceived suffering, intrusive thoughts and compassion contributed to caregivers depressive symptoms. Methods: Systematic review: A search of electronic databases was conducted. The research papers were systematically reviewed using an adapted version of the Effective Public Health Practice Project quality assessment tool. Empirical: A cross-sectional, within-subjects design was used. Participants completed six standardised self-report questionnaires online. Mediation and moderated mediation analysis was conducted using the PROCESS macro for SPPSS. Results: Systematic review: Fourteen papers were identified. There was evidence to suggest that caregivers of PWD had reduced complex attention when compared to controls. Empirical: Perceived suffering of a loved one and the occurrence of intrusive thoughts were significantly related to caregivers’ depressive symptoms. Compassion was not found to moderate the relationship between perceived suffering and intrusive thoughts. Conclusions: Systematic review: The findings suggested that caregivers found it more difficult to complete tasks involving complex attention when compared to non caregivers. There was not enough evidence to drawn conclusions about other areas of cognitive functioning. Empirical: Intrusive thoughts were found to be a potential pathway to depressive symptoms in caregivers’ of PWD. Research findings support the development and implementation of interventions targeted at intrusive thoughts. Research findings did not support concerns related to trait compassion.
Geological map of the Tellaro River Valley (Hyblean Foreland, southeastern Sicily, Italy)
Creators: name: Romagnoli, Gino
name: Catalano, Stefano
name: Pavano, Francesco
name: Tortorici, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology

description: The Geological map of the Tellaro River Valley, at the 1:25.000 scale, portrays the main stratigraphic and structural features that developed in a 300 km2 wide area of the African foreland in southeastern Sicily (Hyblean Foreland). The NW-SE-oriented Tellaro River Valley marks the transition between the eastern (Siracusa Plateau) and western (Ragusa Plateau) domains of the foreland, where a post-Tortonian structural depression, here designated as Tellaro Basin, originated. The map pictures the geometry and kinematics of the border faults and the structure affecting the basin infilling. The mapped structural pattern denounces a poliphase tectonic evolution of the region, suggesting the occurrence of a major NW-SE-oriented crustal discontinuity that, being active during the different periods of the post-Tortonian evolution of the area, could play a primary role also in the present seismotectonic picture.
Geological map of the Tellaro River Valley (Hyblean Foreland, southeastern Sicily, Italy)
Creators: name: Romagnoli, Gino
name: Catalano, Stefano
name: Pavano, Francesco
name: Tortorici, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology

description: The Geological map of the Tellaro River Valley, at the 1:25.000 scale, portrays the main stratigraphic and structural features that developed in a 300 km2 wide area of the African foreland in southeastern Sicily (Hyblean Foreland). The NW-SE-oriented Tellaro River Valley marks the transition between the eastern (Siracusa Plateau) and western (Ragusa Plateau) domains of the foreland, where a post-Tortonian structural depression, here designated as Tellaro Basin, originated. The map pictures the geometry and kinematics of the border faults and the structure affecting the basin infilling. The mapped structural pattern denounces a poliphase tectonic evolution of the region, suggesting the occurrence of a major NW-SE-oriented crustal discontinuity that, being active during the different periods of the post-Tortonian evolution of the area, could play a primary role also in the present seismotectonic picture.
Entypus unifasciatus subsp. californicus
Creators: name: Kurczewski, Frank E.
name: West, Rick C.
name: Waichert, Cecilia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Entypus
Entypus unifasciatus
Entypus unifasciatus californicus (townes)

description: Entypus unifasciatus californicus (Townes)
 MEXICO: Baja California Sur State, La Paz; 17 September 2022, 0925 MDT; C. Lim. Host: Olios giganteus Keyserling (Sparassidae), adult or subadult female. A series of photographs shows the wasp (1) atop the dorsal side upward giant crab spider in a stinging posture; (2) examining the immobilized spider with her antennae as it lies, dorsal side upward, on the ground surface; and (3) dragging the spider, dorsal side upward, backwards across the ground, grasping its right chelicera with her mandibles (Lim 2022).
 This is only the second record of an Entypus unifasciatus californicus - Olios giganteus host association from the Baja California Peninsula, Mexico. Sparassidae is a rare host family (3.1%) for Entypus unifasciatus (Kurczewski et al. 2022a).
description: Published as part of Kurczewski, Frank E., West, Rick C. & Waichert, Cecilia, 2024, New host records for Nearctic and Neotropical spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae), pp. 1-32 in Insecta Mundi 2024 (34) on page 13, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10793331
Quantum thermodynamics in the strong coupling regime
Creators: name: Newman, David
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2018

description: Quantum thermodynamics seeks to address the emergence of thermodynamic laws, which govern how energy is exchanged between physical systems, from a quantum mechanical description of light and matter. As such, the workhorse model for an underlying description of such energy exchange processes is the open quantum system: a quantum system which may interact with an external environment. Open quantum systems are well-understood in regimes where the interaction between the system and the environment is weak enough that perturbative methods may be employed to arrive at dynamical equations of motion for the evolution of the system. How to tackle the strong coupling regime is an open question and much research is still being devoted in this area. In this project we employ a technique developed for studying an open quantum system in regimes of strong reservoir coupling in problems in thermodynamics which have so far been restricted to the weak coupling regime. We spend some time developing our strong coupling framework and then use it to analyse a quantum heat engine to find that strong coupling leads to a particular set of operational costs which are not present in more well-understood weak coupling versions. We also identify effects purely quantum in nature, present in the engine cycle only at strong coupling, which lead to a degradation in the engine's performance. Finally we address the issue of quantum coherence more generally in archetypal open quantum system models beyond weak coupling, and identify a thermodynamic cost to its erasure.
A facile synthesis of silver nanoparticle with SERS and antimicrobial activity using Bacillus subtilis exopolysaccharides
Creators: name: R. Selvakumar
name: Yekkuni L. Balachandran
name: S. Aravindh
name: Ashok, Anuradha M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In this study, we report a facile synthesis of silver nanoparticle having SERS and antimicrobial activity using bacterial exopolysaccharide (EPS). Bacillus subtilis (MTCC 2422) was grown in nutrient broth and the extracellular EPS secreted by the organism was extracted and purified. The purified EPS was used for the synthesis of silver nanoparticles. The kinetics of silver nanoparticle synthesis was deduced by varying the exposure time and the concentration of EPS. The rate constant (k) for the synthesis of silver nanoparticle was calculated from the slope of ln(A∞ − At) versus time plot. The k value was found to be 3.49 × 10−3, 5.81 × 10−3 and 5.03 × 10−3 per min for particle synthesis using 2, 5 and 10 mg/mL EPS, respectively. The nanoparticles synthesised had an average particle size of 5.18 ± 1.49 nm, 1.96 ± 0.77 nm and 2.08 ± 0.88 nm for 2, 5 and 10 mg/mL EPS, respectively. The synthesised particles were characterised using UV-Vis absorbance spectroscopy, high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) attached to EDS (energy dispersive spectroscopy), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) and zeta potential analyser. To our knowledge, this is the first study to report SERS activity of microbial Bacillus subtilis EPS-based synthesis of silver nanoparticle. HRTEM images showed silver nanoparticle entrapped in polysaccharide nanocages. Silver nanoparticle showed higher adherence towards the bacterial surface, with good bactericidal activity against Pseudomonas aeroginosa and Staphylococcus aureus.
Entypus velutinus
Creators: name: Kurczewski, Frank E.
name: West, Rick C.
name: Waichert, Cecilia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Entypus
Entypus velutinus

description: Entypus velutinus (Taschenberg)
 BRAZIL: Minas Gerais State, Lagoa Formosa; 1 July 2014, 1615 PM; L. Rabelo de Almeida. Host: Phoneutria nigriventer (Keyserling) (Ctenidae), adult or subadult female. The wasp stood beside and examined the immobilized Brazilian wandering spider with her antennae as it laid, dorsal side upward, on the ground (Rabelo de Almeida 2014).
 BRAZIL: Minas Gerais State, Lagoa Formosa; 29 November 2017, 1745 PM; L. Rabelo de Almeida. Host: Phoneutria nigriventer, adult or subadult female. The wasp stood next to and examined the immobilized Brazilian wandering spider with her antennae and mouthparts as it laid, dorsal side upward, on the ground and dragged it backwards, dorsal side upward, grasping its right chelicera with her mandibles (Rabelo de Almeida 2017).
 Phoneutria nigriventer (Ctenidae) is the first host record and new host family, genus, and species for Entypus velutinus.
description: Published as part of Kurczewski, Frank E., West, Rick C. & Waichert, Cecilia, 2024, New host records for Nearctic and Neotropical spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae), pp. 1-32 in Insecta Mundi 2024 (34) on page 14, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10793331
Iterative synthesis for precision manufacture of high value polymers
Creators: name: Liu, Ruiyi
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2018

description: The precise chemical synthesis of monodisperse and sequence-defined polymers has been studied intensively by synthetic chemists. Monodisperse sequence-defined synthetic polymers have a wide range of applications in healthcare and nanotechnology, due to their unique structural complexity. In addition, controlling monomer sequence can also affect polymer functionality and properties. Currently, the industrial fabrication of synthetic macromolecules is generally poorly controlled and difficult to scale up. In this thesis, a universal strategy for iterative synthesis with organic solvent nanofiltration (ItSyN) is proposed for fabricating monodisperse and sequence-defined PEG polymers with different side chains. This technology combines iterative monomer couplings and selective membrane separations in a fully liquid environment. It offers advantages for optimising reaction kinetics, online monitoring and the potential to scale up. Polymers were assembled on a soluble three-armed support to triple the production and maximise efficiency during membrane purification. For ItSyN, polybenzimidazole (PBI) organic solvent nanofiltration (OSN) membranes with surface modifications were fabricated and characterised. The surface modified membranes showed good tolerance towards different organic solvents and extreme pH conditions in chemical synthesis processes. A series of chemical kinetic studies of building block coupling were undertaken. Optimisation of the reaction conditions guaranteed up to 99.6% three-arm completion and impurities were minimised. The excellent coupling efficiency aided membrane purification and the preparation of precise monodisperse PEG oligomers. Using the same strategy, two sequence-defined PEG polymers with different orders of the side-arms were synthesized with a purity of 99%. They were characterised with respect to the diversity of their polymer structures and physical properties using ultraviolet–visible spectroscopy (UV-VIS) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). ItSyN offers a versatile platform to synthesize a wide diversity of sequence-defined polymers with good purities and yields. It also unlocks the potential of sequence-defined polymers for real-life applications in nanotechnology, healthcare and information storage.
Plan for evaluation and users' engagement
Creators: name: Carreras, Anna
name: Erhart, Jacqueline
name: Pagle, Katia
name: Papamichail, Ioannis
name: Papanikolaou, Evdokia
name: Porcuna, David
name: Quesada, David
name: Rudigier, Martin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: methodology
Plan evaluation
users engagement
dynamic lane assignment,
construction site
roadworks zones
bottlenecks
scenarios

description: This deliverable includes the methodology and plan for evaluation as well as the process for engaging users. The methodology defines the research questions, tools to be used, test set-up, procedure to be followed, sample sizes, data to be collected, indicators to be calculated and ways of analysis. Three scenarios will be studied: i) dynamic lane assignment, ii) construction site / roadworks zones, iii) bottlenecks (on-ramps, lane drops, tunnels, bridges, sags). This document also defines the process that will be followed for engaging users, whose appreciation in INFRAMIX developments will be later assessed in task 5.2. The feedback by the users, individual and corporate ones (e.g. transport operators) will be collected using online tools and forms, and in greater depth via dedicated workshops at the test sites.
A facile synthesis of silver nanoparticle with SERS and antimicrobial activity using Bacillus subtilis exopolysaccharides
Creators: name: R. Selvakumar
name: Yekkuni L. Balachandran
name: S. Aravindh
name: Ashok, Anuradha M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: In this study, we report a facile synthesis of silver nanoparticle having SERS and antimicrobial activity using bacterial exopolysaccharide (EPS). Bacillus subtilis (MTCC 2422) was grown in nutrient broth and the extracellular EPS secreted by the organism was extracted and purified. The purified EPS was used for the synthesis of silver nanoparticles. The kinetics of silver nanoparticle synthesis was deduced by varying the exposure time and the concentration of EPS. The rate constant (k) for the synthesis of silver nanoparticle was calculated from the slope of ln(A∞ − At) versus time plot. The k value was found to be 3.49 × 10−3, 5.81 × 10−3 and 5.03 × 10−3 per min for particle synthesis using 2, 5 and 10 mg/mL EPS, respectively. The nanoparticles synthesised had an average particle size of 5.18 ± 1.49 nm, 1.96 ± 0.77 nm and 2.08 ± 0.88 nm for 2, 5 and 10 mg/mL EPS, respectively. The synthesised particles were characterised using UV-Vis absorbance spectroscopy, high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) attached to EDS (energy dispersive spectroscopy), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) and zeta potential analyser. To our knowledge, this is the first study to report SERS activity of microbial Bacillus subtilis EPS-based synthesis of silver nanoparticle. HRTEM images showed silver nanoparticle entrapped in polysaccharide nanocages. Silver nanoparticle showed higher adherence towards the bacterial surface, with good bactericidal activity against Pseudomonas aeroginosa and Staphylococcus aureus.
MPEC 2024-E108 : 2024 EJ2
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 EJ2

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Auplopus comparatus
Creators: name: Kurczewski, Frank E.
name: West, Rick C.
name: Waichert, Cecilia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Auplopus
Auplopus comparatus

description: Auplopus comparatus (Smith)
 FRENCH GUIANA: Cayenne State, Matoury County; 30 July 2023, 1303 PM; C. Marty. Host: Macrinus sp. (Sparassidae), sex undetermined due to detached pedipalps. The wasp straddled the huntsman spider dorsal side upward, grasped its right chelicera with her mandibles, and proceeded forwarded across the ground (Fig. 4; Marty 2023).
 This is the first host record and new family and genus for Auplopus comparatus. Prey transport in Auplopus Spinola species is always forward and nearly always ventral side upward, the female grasping the spider’s spinnerets with her mandibles (Evans and Yoshimoto 1962; Kurczewski et al. 2020, 2022b). Neotropical Auplopus diversity is large enough that divergent prey transport behavior is expected in some of the species, as in this observation of A. comparatus.
description: Published as part of Kurczewski, Frank E., West, Rick C. & Waichert, Cecilia, 2024, New host records for Nearctic and Neotropical spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae), pp. 1-32 in Insecta Mundi 2024 (34) on page 15, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10793331
Ageniella (Ameragenia) sanguinolenta
Creators: name: Kurczewski, Frank E.
name: West, Rick C.
name: Waichert, Cecilia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Ageniella
Ageniella sanguinolenta

description: Ageniella (Ameragenia) sanguinolenta (Smith)
COLOMBIA: Valle del Cauca Department, Cartago County; 17 July 2023, 1319 PM; J. D. Arango. Host: Undescribed species (Trechaleidae), immature. The wasp held the immobilized banana spider, dorsal side upward, grasping its left chelicera with her mandibles as she walked forward across dried leaves (Arango 2023e).
COLOMBIA: Valle del Cauca Department, Cartago County; 3 August 2023, 1456 PM; J. D. Arango. Host: Undescribed species (Trechaleidae), adult or subadult female. The wasp straddled the immobilized banana spider, ventral side upward, and grasped its spinnerets with her mandibles as she walked up the vertical substrate (Arango 2023f).
 These are the first two host records and new host family, genus, and species for Ageniella (Ameragenia) sanguinolenta .
description: Published as part of Kurczewski, Frank E., West, Rick C. & Waichert, Cecilia, 2024, New host records for Nearctic and Neotropical spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae), pp. 1-32 in Insecta Mundi 2024 (34) on page 16, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10793331