cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Inferring the evolutionary model of community-structuring traits with convolutional kitchen sinks: Code and data
Creators: name: Kruger, Avery
name: Shankar, Vaishaal
name: Davies, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: angiosperm evolution
Freeze tolerance
Machine-learning
convolutional neural networks

description: When communities are assembled through processes such as filtering or limiting similarity acting on phylogenetically conserved traits, the evolutionary signature of those traits may be reflected in patterns of community membership. We show how the model of trait evolution underlying community-structuring traits can be inferred from community membership data using both a variation of a traditional eco-phylogenetic metric--the mean pairwise distance (MPD) between taxa--and a recent machine learning tool, Convolutional Kitchen Sinks (CKS). Both methods perform well across a range of phylogenetically informative evolutionary models, but CKS outperforms MPD as tree size increases. We demonstrate CKS by inferring the evolutionary history of freeze tolerance in angiosperms. Our analysis is consistent with a late burst model of freeze tolerance, suggesting it evolved recently. We suggest that data ordered on phylogenies such as trait values, species interactions, or community presence/absence are good candidates for CKS modeling because the generative models produce structured differences between neighboring points that CKS is well-suited for. We introduce the R package kitchen to perform CKS for generic application of the technique.
description: Data were simulated, processed, and analyzed in R. These analyses were performed to investigate the ability of two methods, a machine learning technique termed Convolutional Kitchen Sinks (CKS) and models trained on series of Mean Pairwise Distance (MPD) metrics, also termed MPD curve, to recover the evolutionary model of traits that communities are assembled on. Communities were simulated on both simulated and empirical phylogenies by evolving traits on the phylogenies according to an Early Burst transformation governed by a normally distributed evolutionary parameter. Data were separated into training and test data. The evolutionary parameters used in simulation were then modeled as a function of the observed simulated communities in the training data, using both the CKS method and MPD method. The models were then tested by examining the relationship between the predicted and known parameters of the test data. Finally, predictions using trained models were made on the known community of freeze-tolerant dicots.
Additional file 2: Figure S2. of Sexual conflict explains the extraordinary diversity of mechanisms regulating mitochondrial inheritance
Creators: name: Arunas Radzvilavicius
name: Lane, Nick
name: Pomiankowski, Andrew
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Polymorphism under maternal control of mitochondrial inheritance, where the alleles code for two distinct values of paternal leakage π 1 and π 2. In the yellow regions, the invader allele coding for paternal leakage π 2 invades and replaces the resident, and in the black regions, the invader allele coding for π 2 cannot invade (see Fig. 2). In the coloured regions, the invader allele for paternal leakage π 2 invades and reaches a protected polymorphism with π 1. Arrows indicate the direction of evolutionary change in resident trait values, via recurrent invasions of a third mutant π 3 when there is a protected polymorphism. Given that π 1  π 2, until the population reaches an evolutionarily stable polymorphism of coexisting π 1 = 0 and π 2 = 1 (filled circles). (a) The polymorphic states lie away from the main diagonal (except in the close vicinity of the repulsive singular point (green circle). (b) Increasing mutation rates favour an evolutionarily stable endpoint with higher frequency of π 1 = 0, which under weak epistasis can completely displace the biparental allele. (c, d) Increasing the degree of negative epistasis (higher ξ) increases the short-term benefit of mixing mitochondria and reduces the frequency of the strictly uniparental π 1 = 0 at the dimorphic ESS. (DOCX 1842 kb)
Ecological difference and the ecology of subjectivization in sixteenth century non-fiction travel narrative to the Caribbean
Creators: name: Ferrer-Medina, Patricia
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: This study seeks to identify and analyze the representation of Amerindian ecology or relationship to nature found in sixteenth century nonfiction travel narratives to the Caribbean. The purpose of the study is first, to explore the textual representation of Amerindian ecology as a type of cultural difference, and second, to uncover the link between said representation and the textual construction of the European traveler writer as a modern subject.  The main argument is that the colonial discourse of the sixteenth century travel narrative to the Caribbean features an ecological difference that is constitutive of European modern subjectivity within the text.  Ecological difference is seen as the textual representation and production of cultural difference articulated in ecological terms or those that refer to the human/nature relation.  Following Jean Joseph Goux's critique of the Freudian-Lacanian model for the process of the construction of modern subjectivity, subjectivization is shown to occur textually and to imply a specific ecology befitting the colonial and capitalist context of the 1500's.  The term ecology of subjectivization emerges as a useful term pointing to the significance of the human to nature relation in the process of the textual construction of the subject.  Methodologically, the study hinges on the identification and analysis of the travel narrative's colonial discourse relating to ecology and the imperial subject.  The texts studied are various nonfiction travel narratives from the 1500's, but discussion centers on Cabeza de Vaca's Naufragios (1542), Walter Ralegh's Discoverie  (1596), Jean de Léry's Histoire (1578), and Ramón Pané's Relación (1498). Chapters offer close readings of the depictions of indigenous ecological philosophies and practices, images of nakedness and cannibalism, and instances of conscious manipulations of the representation of the self. Throughout the discussion of these images, the textual construction of the traveler as subject and the other and his environment as object is fleshed out.  Moreover, since these travel narratives were written with the express purpose of attaining improved legal or political status within the colonial system, the technology of writing is revealed as the best means to control not only the nature but also the body of the Caribbean other.
Yunnanilus longidorsalis Li, Tao & Lu 2000
Creators: name: Ye, Enqi
name: Xing, Yingchun
name: Zhang, Chunguang
name: Zhao, Yahui
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Cypriniformes
Nemacheilidae
Yunnanilus
Yunnanilus longidorsalis

description: Yunnanilus longidorsalis Li, Tao & Lu, 2000 (Fig. 62)
Paratype. 73118 (9411003), Nanpanjiang River basin: Longtan, Agang Town, Luoping County, Yunnan Province, P. R. China, Nov., 1994.
description: Published as part of Ye, Enqi, Xing, Yingchun, Zhang, Chunguang & Zhao, Yahui, 2015, Catalogue of the type specimens in the fish collection of the National Zoological Museum, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, pp. 10-113 in Zootaxa 3962 (1) on page 71, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3962.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/233837
The study of open source CMSs
Creators: name: Jain, Chetan
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: In this thesis, we evaluate different Open Source Content Management Systems (CMSs) and determine their appropriateness for scientific research laboratories' website content management. We describe different CMSs and evaluate them based on the following criteria: ease of installation, usability, maintenance and updates, scalability, community strength and support, user roles and workflow, security, and Web 2.0 features. We then choose one of these systems, Drupal, and demonstrate its effectiveness for two different scientific websites, Bio-1 and Vizlab. Drupal allows integrating new features using community contributed modules and easy future up-gradation. Successful implementation of both projects using Drupal highlights the importance of Open Source CMSs.
Patients' perception of family involvement and its relationship to medication adherence for persons with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorders
Creators: name: Edelman, Elaine M.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: It has been a consistent finding in the literature on patients with schizophrenia that poor medication adherence precipitates relapse of psychiatric symptoms.  One of the most consistent findings in the research is that patients diagnosed with schizophrenic disorders who have close ties to family members that are critical of them tend to have much higher rates of relapse.  The question of how affectionate and/or supportive family relationships impact psychiatric stability remains. This dissertation examined the connection between perception of family relationships and medication adherence among patients with schizophrenia. Utilizing the Rutgers Hospital and Community Survey, this study looked at the follow up surveys of 182 patients who were on oral anti-psychotic medications and who reported at least one family relationship. Data were analyzed using the patients' responses to questions about how they perceive their family relationships as well as their responses about their medication adherence in the previous two weeks and the previous three months. Chi-square and logistic regression were performed, while controlling for age, race, education, gender, Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale scores, Global Assessment Scale scores, side effects, substance abuse, therapeutic alliance, housing status, and objective family involvement scores (which measured the family's involvement behaviors while the patient had been hospitalized). The main hypothesis, that patients who perceive their families to be affectionate and/or high in instrumental support would have higher rates of adherence, was not supported. An objective measure of family involvement (which measured family behaviors such as visitation and participation in treatment when the patient was in the hospital) also did not correlate with medication adherence. This analysis did find that having a substance abuse diagnosis was a predictor of poor medication adherence and that a positive therapeutic alliance, when measured at the three month follow up, was a predictor of medication adherence. Limitations of this follow up treatment study include questionable validity and reliability of self report on both family relationships and medication adherence, loss of statistical power as variables were added into the regression, and possible memory problems related to the diagnosis of schizophrenia since both the illness and possibly the medication regimen may impact memory. However, it is possible, since the objective family involvement score also did not yield a relationship to medication adherence, that positive family relationships do not translate into medication taking behavior.
MOESM1 of Tracking the PM2.5 inventories embodied in the trade among China, Japan and Korea
Creators: name: Yiyi Ju
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 1. Integration of sectors from date source GAINS and WIOD.
Transnational connections of first generation immigrants from Kenya in the United States
Creators: name: Kioko, Maria Mwikali
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: This study analyzed why and how first generation immigrants from Kenya maintain transnational ties. It explored the characteristics of these ties, how they are sustained, whether they vary by gender, age, education or length of stay, and how ties affect immigrants' experiences. Ethnographic interviews with 38 participants living in Paterson, NJ showed no overarching immigrant experience. All participants regardless of age, gender, length of stay and education maintained transnational ties with family and friends. Ties took the form of phone calls, internet communication, mail, material exchanges, home visits and cultural activities and occurred mostly with people from their local ethnic villages. Frequency of ties by length of stay assumed a U-shaped curve with more ties initially, followed by a decline after some years in the U.S. and an increase thereafter. Participants mentioned three factors necessary for successful immigration experience: legal status in the U.S., a good education and a strong support network. None of them believed aspiring to a middle class American life or assimilation indicated success. Rather success meant assisting people in Kenya and co-ethnics validated the importance of transnational practices. Despite the absence of a visible Kenyan ethnic enclave in Paterson, there was a close-knit community connected through social networks.  Women received assistance from kin and non-kin to migrate, while men were assisted mostly by family. Women's friendship ties transcended family ties but were not in competition with them; they used their friendship ties to advance family livelihoods. Men's immigration experiences were confounded by gender expectations based on their responsibilities as breadwinners and heads of households. Women's immigration decisions were interwoven in their daily struggles to support their families. Immigration was a never-ending process, as women and men perpetuated the experience through assisting the immigration of their children and friends and helping newly arrived immigrants.  Future research using a longitudinal approach would enable an understanding of successive immigrant generations and if they reproduced the patterns of their elders' transnational ties. Longitudinal study would also allow us to discern if the U-shaped pattern of ties found here represented a cross-sectional perspective or instead overtime ties ebbed and flowed.
Additional file 1: of Safety of tubal ligation by minilaparotomy provided by clinical officers versus assistant medical officers: study protocol for a noninferiority randomized controlled trial in Tanzanian women
Creators: name: Barone, Mark
name: Zuhura Mbuguni
name: Japhet Achola
name: Cordero, Carmela
name: Kanama, Joseph
name: Projestine Muganyizi
name: Jamilla Mwanga
name: Shannon, Caitlin
name: Tibyehabwa, Leopold
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Standard Protocol Items: Recommendations for Interventional Trials (SPIRIT) checklist. (DOC 124Â kb)
Apenesia itoiela Alencar & Azevedo 2020, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Alencar, Isabel D. C. C.
name: Azevedo, Celso O.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Bethylidae
Apenesia
Apenesia itoiela

description: Apenesia itoiela Alencar & Azevedo, sp. nov.
(Figs 4B, 6H, 8I, 11H, 14C, 20 G–I)
Description. Holotype. Male. Length 3.9 mm. LFW 3.8 mm.
Colors. Body dark castaneous; mandible yellowish; legs castaneous and yellowish; wings hyaline, veins castaneous.
Head. Head wider than long, trapezoidal. Frons coriaceous, sparsely puncticulate; frontal line absent. Vertex slightly convex. Clypeus broad with median lobe subtrapezoidal, median tooth small, apical margin crenulate, median carina short in profile. Mandible with four apical teeth, teeth with different size, upper tooth mesad, three upper teeth equally sized. Eye weakly bulging. Ocelli large, triangle with distal edges.
Mesosoma. Dorsal pronotal area very short. Notaulus present, complete, strongly converging posterad. Parapsidal signum weakly impressed. Mesoscutellum longer than large, posterior margin almost straight; mesoscutummesoscutellar sulcus almost straight, narrow, shallow, without fovea on side edge. Axilla subtrapezoidal, deep, large. Metanotal trough mostly imbricate, with few foveae, metanotal fovea drop-shaped; median region wide, narrow, with posterior margin straight. Metapectal-propodeal complex long, posterior margin almost straight; metapostnotal median carina present, metapostnotum rugulose, and polished. Metapectal-propodeal complex polished. Paraspicular sulcus irregularly foveolate; lateral carina of metapectal-propodeal carina absent; lateral surface of propodeum imbricate, inferior region foveolate. Propodeal declivity foveolate.
Metasoma. Petiole short. Hypopygium with plate long, posterior margin almost straight, flap absent. Genitalia: paramere straight. Basivolsella apical inner margin projected mesad, large, and convex. Basiparamere with apical dorsal projection large, apex convex. Cuspis with apical margin with two apical calli, ventral larger than other, dorsal end short. Aedeagus with two apical lobes, ventral lobe large; dorsal lobe long; subapical membrane absent; aedeagal dorsal cover wide.
Female. Unknown.
Material examined. Holotype ♂, MALAYSIA, Pasoh Forest Res. Negri S., X.14.78, sec. for., P. & M. Becker (AEIC).
Comments. This species is similar to A. beliella by having the notaulus complete and the metapostnotum rugulose. However, A. beliella has the mandible with five teeth; the mesoscutum-mesoscutellar suture strongly arched and deep; the hypopygium with flap and posterior margin concave, whereas A. itoiela has the mandible with four teeth; the mesoscutum-mesoscutellar suture straight and shallow; the hypopygium without flap and posterior margin almost straight.
Distribution. Oriental (Malaysia).
description: Published as part of Alencar, Isabel D. C. C. & Azevedo, Celso O., 2020, Revision of the world Apenesia Westwood (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae), pp. 1-72 in Zootaxa 4724 (1) on pages 25-26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4724.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3612936
The darling strangers and English appetites
Creators: name: Lyon, Elva Kathleen
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: The English had the opportunity to serve an apprenticeship for technologies they desired in the early modern period on both sides of the Atlantic. In places such as London or Norwich highly mobile stranger artisans from northern continental Europe created the items for which the English had an appetite, whether sugar or clothes, saw mills or city docks. In the colonies the "darlings" who possessed the skills that the English envied were principally in New Netherland, records showing that they were from the same cultural group of northern continental Europeans who resided as guild strangers in English cities. Family reconstitution revealed the mobility of these skilled artisans in the Atlantic World. North American colonial documents provide a window through which to view when, how, or if, the English managed to acquire the skilled knowledge of cultural outsiders to produce what they coveted. Every examined case of an English appetite for a product or its means of production proved to possess features unique to the circumstances of the interaction between the English and those of another European culture practicing the skill. In most cases deep cultural differences limited the colonial English to hiring foreign experts, buying their products, or finding culturally acceptable sources of information such as the Scots.  Occasionally artisans were hired directly from the continent of Europe using colonial middlemen.  English citizenship was easier to obtain in the colonies than in England, offering a colonial back door to foreign craft practice that could re-cross the Atlantic to an English town or city. The problems that made England's apprenticeship so difficult became apparent when examining Atlantic World technology transfer and its barriers. There were distinct, deep cultural differences between the English and the northern continental Europeans in mobility, kinship systems, naming practices, family, language, inheritance patterns, views of women, craft practice and values, attitudes toward machines, and concepts of urban life. These acted as barriers to the transfer of technologies including higher craft skills, saw mills, and city building.
Toward an understanding of the epistemic values of biological scientists as expressed in scholarly publication
Creators: name: Dunn, Kathel
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: This dissertation develops a deeper understanding of the epistemic values of scientists, specifically exploring the proposed values of community, collaboration, connectivity and credit as part of the scholarly communication system. These values are the essence of scientists actively engaged in conducting science and in communicating their work to others. In studying the epistemic values of scientists, this dissertation identifies the research problem within the literature: the lack of an understanding of what the epistemic values of scientists are; and in answering that question, does so informed by the literature that community, collaboration, connectivity and credit are probable values (Latour &  Woolgar, 1987; Polanyi, 1962; Cohen, 1995).   Using a qualitative approach incorporating the concept of emerging theory (Strauss & Corbin, 1998) and the critical incident technique (Flanagan, 1954), the dissertation:  1. Explores the extent to which community, collaboration, connectivity and credit are dimensions of values. 2. Examines the inter-relationship, if any, of the values. 3. Explores the possibility of additional dimensions of values. The methodology uses semi-structured interviews to conduct one-on-one, face-to-face interviews with life scientists who are currently engaged in research and were writing or had recently written a peer-reviewed paper. Data are analyzed using a constant comparative process (Glaser & Strauss, 1967; Berg, 2001), with each interview informing the subsequent interview. The data are first open coded without regard to the literature-identified values of community, collaboration, connectivity and credit; then a second coding occurs, identifying themes from the first set of codes and viewing the data through the framework of the literature-identified epistemic values. Through a constant comparative process, data are coded and re-examined until a story line and themes emerge from the data. The epistemic values of community, collaboration and credit were all identified and interpreted from the data. The epistemic value of connectivity was not identified from the interview data, which may be due to a limitation of the use of a single method. Other epistemic values, not previously identified in the literature, were identified in the data: contribution and competition.   Deepening an understanding of scientists' epistemic values within scholarly communication is critical to librarians and others engaged in collecting and managing scientific knowledge because the epistemic values shape and motivate the scholarly communication process.
Modelling the interrelationship between vessel and truck traffic at marine container terminals
Creators: name: Moini, Nadereh
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: This dissertation established a relation between truck gate activities and wharf operations at a marine container terminal using analytical and simulation approaches. This objective was maintained by observing the marine yard, which acts as a buffer link between the wharf and gates since containers stay in the yard for some period before they are transferred to the gates or the wharf. As a result, the container dwell time (CDT) was a major factor in developing this link. The study identified factors that affect CDT (CDT determinants). The dissertation presented an analytical approach to model CDT based on factors influencing CDT. The study provided comprehensive reviews of data mining procedures to reveal the suitable techniques in estimating CDT based on its determinant factors. Three Data Mining (DM) procedures were employed to estimate and predict the CDT and the results were compared with the observed data to find the robust model in maintaining this objective. The result of the selective model was applied to measure how changes in the CDT determinants could impact the CDT, yard capacity, and terminal revenues. The dissertation related the gate and the apron activities using the CDT and discerned the patterns for departure and arrival of containers at truck gates an hourly and daily basis. These distributions were employed to develop alternative scenarios estimating truck gate volumes based on the escalated apron's container volume and the CDT changes. Finally, the research validated the outcomes of the analytical and modeling phases on a virtual environment using a simulation technique. The dissertation also proposed an appointment system at truck gates and at the truck interchange to ease the congestion at terminal gates.   The dissertation provides port policy makers with valuable information that can facilitate their future decision making in operational, tactical and strategic levels. The analytical approach of this dissertation is designed to depict the value of information collected by terminal operators on a daily basis. The dissertation utilized this data to develop a model, define patterns, and provide findings which can be utilized in tactical and strategic levels; while the simulation approach proposed operational scenarios to ease the congestion at the terminal gates.
Yunnanilus macrolepis Li, Tao & Mao 2000
Creators: name: Ye, Enqi
name: Xing, Yingchun
name: Zhang, Chunguang
name: Zhao, Yahui
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Cypriniformes
Nemacheilidae
Yunnanilus
Yunnanilus macrolepis

description: Yunnanilus macrolepis Li, Tao & Mao, 2000 (Fig. 63)
= Yunnanilus paludosus Kottelat & Chu, 1988
Paratype. 73117 (9307003), Nanpanjiang River basin: Longtan, Xuetian Town, Luoping County, Yunnan Province, P. R. China, Jul., 1993.
description: Published as part of Ye, Enqi, Xing, Yingchun, Zhang, Chunguang & Zhao, Yahui, 2015, Catalogue of the type specimens in the fish collection of the National Zoological Museum, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, pp. 10-113 in Zootaxa 3962 (1) on page 72, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3962.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/233837
Modeling the spatial risk of malaria through probability distribution of Anopheles maculipennis s.l. and imported cases
Creators: name: Taheri, Shirin
name: González, Mikel Alexander
name: Ruiz-López, María José
name: Magallanes, Sergio
name: Delacour-Estrella, Sarah
name: Lucientes, Javier
name: Bueno-Marí, Rubén
name: la Puente, Josué Martínez-de
name: Bravo-Barriga, Daniel
name: Frontera, Eva
name: Polina, Alejandro
name: Martinez-Barciela, Yasmina
name: Pereira, José Manuel
name: Garrido, Josefina
name: Aranda, Carles
name: Marzal, Alfonso
name: Ruiz-Arrondo, Ignacio
name: Oteo, José Antonio
name: Ferraguti, Martina
name: Gutíerrez-López, Rafael
name: Estrada, Rosa
name: Miranda, Miguel Ángel
name: Barceló, Carlos
name: Morchón, Rodrigo
name: Montalvo, Tomas
name: Gangoso, Laura
name: Goiri, Fátima
name: García-Pérez, Ana L.
name: Ruiz, Santiago
name: Fernandez-Martinez, Beatriz
name: Gómez-Barroso, Diana
name: Figuerola, Jordi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Malaria remains one of the most important infectious diseases globally due to its high incidence and mortality rates. The influx of infected cases from endemic to non-endemic malaria regions like Europe has resulted in a public health concern over sporadic local outbreaks. This is facilitated by the continued presence of competent Anopheles vectors in non-endemic countries. We modeled the potential distribution of the main malaria vector across Spain using the ensemble of eight modeling techniques based on environmental parameters and the Anopheles maculipennis s.l. presence/absence data collected from 2000 to 2020. We then combined this map with the number of imported malaria cases in each municipality to detect the geographic hot spots with a higher risk of local malaria transmission. The malaria vector occurred preferentially in irrigated lands characterized by warm climate conditions and moderate annual precipitation. Some areas surrounding irrigated lands in northern Spain (e.g., Zaragoza, Logroño), mainland areas (e.g., Madrid, Toledo) and in the South (e.g., Huelva), presented a significant likelihood of A. maculipennis s.l. occurrence, with a large overlap with the presence of imported cases of malaria. While the risk of malaria re-emergence in Spain is low, it is not evenly distributed throughout the country. The four recorded local cases of mosquito-borne transmission occurred in areas with a high overlap of imported cases and mosquito presence. Integrating mosquito distribution with human incidence cases provides an effective tool for the quantification of large-scale geographic variation in transmission risk and pinpointing priority areas for targeted surveillance and prevention.
An event-related potential (ERP) study of attention allocation in the processing of a fear appeal and its relation to HPV vaccine acceptance
Creators: name: Venkatesan, Aarathi
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: The present study had two general aims. The primary purpose was to test whether varying the level of threat content in a fear appeal affects attention allocation to the communication. It was predicted that a high threat fear appeal would capture and sustain more attention than a low threat fear appeal and that this increase would facilitate deeper message processing. The second objective was to examine the effect of dispositional and personal relevance factors on the decision to obtain a vaccine that protects against strains of the Human Papillomavirus (HPV). To test these hypotheses, a sample of college women (n = 72) were randomly assigned to listen to either a high threat or low threat fear communication about HPV. A dual-task paradigm was used to measure attention allocation in real-time wherein participants listened to the fear appeal while completing an unrelated visual stimulus discrimination task. Measures of P300, an event-related potential (ERP) component believed to reflect resource allocation, were obtained during message exposure. A follow-up interview was conducted 6-weeks after the experimental session to assess vaccine uptake, information seeking behavior, and knowledge retention about HPV.  Women who expressed intentions to obtain the HPV vaccine were more likely to have made plans to get the vaccine or were already vaccinated at the time of follow-up (OR = 29.18, CI = 1.53 to 557.53, p < .05). The high threat fear appeal was associated with more knowledge retention about HPV at the time of follow-up than the low threat communication, β = .38, p < .05. The results also suggest that attention allocation during message exposure was positively associated with HPV knowledge retention (β = .23, p < .05) and the likelihood of having obtained or made plans to obtain the vaccine (OR = 1.02, CI = 1.004 to 1.04, p < .05). In the high threat condition, number of sexual partners was positively associated with intentions to consult a doctor about HPV (β = .33, p < .05) and to talk to friends about the vaccine (β = .32, p < .05). However, lack of sexual activity, parental disapproval, and concerns over vaccine safety were the most cited reasons for not wanting or being unsure about the vaccine. The present study has made a significant methodological contribution by incorporating a dual-task paradigm and a real-time measure of attention allocation to assess message processing.
MOESM3 of Homeostatic modulation on unconscious hedonic responses to food
Creators: name: Sato, Wataru
name: Sawada, Reiko
name: Kubota, Yasutaka
name: Motomi Toichi
name: Fushiki, Tohru
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Table S1. Mean (ÂąÂ standard error) scores and the correlation coefficients.
Activation of the rat luteinizing hormone following substitution of treonine-413 with selective residues
Creators: name: Arnold, Nicole
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: The glycoprotein hormones lutropin (LH), follitropin (FSH) and thyrotropin (TSH) control the many functions of the ovaries, testes and thyroid (27).  Humans have two lutropins, (hLH) and chorionic gonadotropin (hCG).  hLH is secreted from the pituitary gland while hCG is a placental protein (27).  It has been known since 1989 that the receptor for these lutropins is a G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR), which constitute the largest most-conserved superfamily of signaling molecules (42).  High affinity hormone binding results from interactions between residues in the curved portion of the extracellular domain of the receptor and the groove in the hormone formed by the apposition of the second α-subunit loop and the first and third β-subunit loops. Most of the remainder of the hormone is found in the large space between the arms of the extracellular domain and makes few, if any, additional specific contacts with the receptor needed for high affinity binding. Signal transduction is caused by steric or other influences of the hormone on the distance between the arms of the extracellular domain, an effect augmented by the oligosaccharides. Because the extracellular domain is coupled at multiple sites to the transmembrane domain, the change in conformation of the extracellular domain is relayed to the transmembrane domain and subsequently to the cytoplasmic surface of the plasma membrane.    Here I will discuss several mutations made of the LHR amino acid Threonine 413 (T413).  These six mutations were analyzed by hCG binding and cAMP assays. Since hCG is capable of stimulating steriodogenesis and cyclic AMP formation in the rat testicular tissues (28), it was important that we looked at not only the ability of the mutants created to bind hCG but also their effects on cAMP activation.  It is important to study this particular amino acid because it is highly conserved over many species and the unique nature of this residue has not been investigated to our knowledge.
Literary ludics in 20th century Latin American fiction
Creators: name: Ashbaugh, Kael
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: The thought that an array of 20th Century Latin American narrative could be characterized as playful is not an altogether new proposition.  The language of play holds sway not only over discussions of works in which authors expressly invoke games, but also over writers and texts that are more loosely playful in their use of humor and fantasy.  However, despite the currency of the play concept, the question of what is at stake in how we understand play relative to the fiction of this era is rarely examined. One point of concern arises when we consider the extent to which play theories impose a predominantly serious understanding of the ludic enterprise.  I argue that in a series of works by Jorge Luis Borges, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, and Julio Cortázar we face a range of playful practices that exceeds the theoretical determination of play as seriousness.  As such, all three authors at some point come to appeal to another set of experiences of play than that reflected in the concept of serious play.    Taken as a whole, the dissertation offers both a broad critique of the impact of seriousness on play theory, followed by three studies that examine alternatives to that way of framing play. In this regard, the studies themselves highlight a range of ways for thinking about the use of folly. Considerable contrasts emerge between all three writers' use of play. Ultimately, the dissertation argues that the study of folly advances our understanding of these three writers and the strategies they employ, but that it also facilitates our ability to consider how playfulness draws on a wider horizon of experiences.  In studying such follies, we learn something both about the moment of innovation in which they occur, and about how play theory can and should ultimately strive to encompass otherwise marginalized expressions of play.
Introduction of Dengue Virus Serotype 3 in the Afar Region, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Mekonnen, Feleke
name: Khan, Bilal A.
name: Nibret, Endalkachew
name: Munshea, Abaineh
name: Tsega, Daniel
name: Endalamaw, Demeke
name: Tadesse, Senait
name: Yismaw, Gizachew
name: Lankir, Damtie
name: Ali, Jemal
name: Ulinici, Mariana
name: Orsini, Emanuele
name: Susnjar, Ursa
name: Carletti, Tea
name: Licastro, Danilo
name: Bitew, Molalegne
name: Giovanetti, Marta
name: Marcello, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: The genetic analysis of the Dengue virus circulating in Ethiopia's Afar region, in 2023, identified three distinct introductions with spatiotemporal clustering linked to genomes from Asia and Italy. These findings are crucial for enhancing prevention and control strategies, reinforcing the necessity to provide sustainable tools for genomic epidemiology in Africa.
Simulation, modeling and characterization of SiC devices
Creators: name: Yu, Liangchun
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: With superior material properties, Silicon carbide (SiC) power devices show great potential for high-power density, high temperature switching applications. Among all the power device structures, SiC MOSFET attracts the most attention because of its high gate input impedance, simple gate control and fast switching speed. However, low inversion channel mobility, high near-interface state density close to the conduction band edge, questionable oxide reliability as well as theoretical limit on the device figure-of-merit still remain to be significant challenges to the development of SiC power MOSFETs. In this dissertation, all of the above challenges are addressed from various approaches. First, simulations on the super-junction structure show that the unipolar theoretical limit of SiC can be broken even with the state-of-the-art processing technologies. An easy-to-implement analytical model is developed for calculations of the blocking voltage, specific on-resistance and charge imbalance effects of 4H-SiC super-junction devices. This model is validated by extensive numerical simulations with a large variety of device parameters. Device design and optimization using this model are also presented. Second, a wafer-level Hall mobility measurement technique is developed to measure channel mobility more accurately, more efficiently and more cost-effectively. Device characterization and development are much more convenient by using this technique. With this method, further explorations of interactions between interface traps and channel carriers as well as device degradation mechanisms become possible. Third, reliability of SiO2 on 4H-SiC is characterized with time dependent dielectric breakdown (TDDB) measurements at various temperatures and electric fields. Lifetime prediction to normal operation conditions suggests that the oxide on SiC has a characteristic lifetime of 10 years at 375° C if the oxide electric field is kept below 4.6 MV/cm. The observed excellent reliability data contradict the widespread belief that the oxide on SiC is intrinsically limited by its physical properties. Detailed discussions are provided to re-examine the arguments leading to the misconception.
Additional file 2: Figure S2. of Sexual conflict explains the extraordinary diversity of mechanisms regulating mitochondrial inheritance
Creators: name: Arunas Radzvilavicius
name: Lane, Nick
name: Pomiankowski, Andrew
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Polymorphism under maternal control of mitochondrial inheritance, where the alleles code for two distinct values of paternal leakage π 1 and π 2. In the yellow regions, the invader allele coding for paternal leakage π 2 invades and replaces the resident, and in the black regions, the invader allele coding for π 2 cannot invade (see Fig. 2). In the coloured regions, the invader allele for paternal leakage π 2 invades and reaches a protected polymorphism with π 1. Arrows indicate the direction of evolutionary change in resident trait values, via recurrent invasions of a third mutant π 3 when there is a protected polymorphism. Given that π 1  π 2, until the population reaches an evolutionarily stable polymorphism of coexisting π 1 = 0 and π 2 = 1 (filled circles). (a) The polymorphic states lie away from the main diagonal (except in the close vicinity of the repulsive singular point (green circle). (b) Increasing mutation rates favour an evolutionarily stable endpoint with higher frequency of π 1 = 0, which under weak epistasis can completely displace the biparental allele. (c, d) Increasing the degree of negative epistasis (higher ξ) increases the short-term benefit of mixing mitochondria and reduces the frequency of the strictly uniparental π 1 = 0 at the dimorphic ESS. (DOCX 1842 kb)
Yunnanilus nanpanjiangensis Li, Mao & Lu 1994
Creators: name: Ye, Enqi
name: Xing, Yingchun
name: Zhang, Chunguang
name: Zhao, Yahui
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Cypriniformes
Nemacheilidae
Yunnanilus
Yunnanilus nanpanjiangensis

description: Yunnanilus nanpanjiangensis Li, Mao & Lu, 1994 (Fig. 64)
Allotype: 78386 ♀ (9191104), Nanpanjiang River basin: outlet of underground water, Agang Village, Luoping County, Yunnan Province, P. R. China, Sept. 1, 1991.
Paratypes. 78387-78389 (9191125, 9191135, 9191156), collected with allotype.
description: Published as part of Ye, Enqi, Xing, Yingchun, Zhang, Chunguang & Zhao, Yahui, 2015, Catalogue of the type specimens in the fish collection of the National Zoological Museum, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, pp. 10-113 in Zootaxa 3962 (1) on page 73, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3962.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/233837
On large families of automorphic L-functions on GL2
Creators: name: Djanković, Goran
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: The goal of this dissertation is analytical investigation of large families of automorphic  L-functions on GL2. With a view towards potential applications in Analytic Number  Theory, we investigate families of holomorphic modular forms, but additionally averaged  over the nebentypus - characters and over the levels. We establish orthogonality in such  a family in the limited range in the form of large sieve type inequality. Further we  investigate non-vanishing at the central point of the corresponding L-functions and give  a bound for the sixth moment for ¡1(q)-family, consistent with Lindelöf hypothesis on  average.
Leiocassis hainanensis Tchang 1935
Creators: name: Ye, Enqi
name: Xing, Yingchun
name: Zhang, Chunguang
name: Zhao, Yahui
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Siluriformes
Bagridae
Leiocassis
Leiocassis hainanensis

description: Leiocassis hainanensis Tchang, 1935 (Fig. 65)
= Hemibagrus hainanensis (Tchang, 1935)
Holotype. 19805 (12904), Lingshui County, Hainan Island, P. R. China, Jun. 16, 1934.
description: Published as part of Ye, Enqi, Xing, Yingchun, Zhang, Chunguang & Zhao, Yahui, 2015, Catalogue of the type specimens in the fish collection of the National Zoological Museum, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, pp. 10-113 in Zootaxa 3962 (1) on page 74, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3962.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/233837
Behavior of geodesic rays in spaces with geometric group actions
Creators: name: Staley, Daniel
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: This dissertation studies certain groups by studying spaces on which they act geometrically.  These spaces are studied by examining the behavior of geodesic rays in these spaces, which gives geometric data about the space that can translate into algebraic data about the group.  First, we investigate the amenability of Thompson's group F by studying the geometry of its Cayley graph.  We apply the uniformly  finite homology of Block and Weinberger to subsets of this graph.  Many large subsets of the Cayley graph are shown to be nonamenable by exhibiting certain arrangements of geodesic rays which we call "tree-like quasi-covers".  We then examine CAT(0) boundaries. If a group acts geometrically on two CAT(0) spaces X and Y , then one obtains a G-equivariant quasi-isometry from X to Y. One may look at the image of a geodesic ray in X, and look at its closure in the boundary of Y . We show that this "boundary image" can have the homeomorphism type of any compact, connected subset of Euclidean space.
Quinqueloculina
Creators: name: Mamo, Briony L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Quinqueloculina sp. cf. Q. victoriensis Collins 1974 (Fig. 10:16, 17)
Remarks. These specimens were tentatively assigned to Quinqueloculina victoriensis Collins 1974 due to their quinueloculine chamber arrangement, test being approximately twice as long as wide with strongly rounded peripheries and numerous distinct longitudinal costae that wrap around the slightly oblique, depressed sutures. The dentition consists of a single tooth within a Lachlanella -shaped aperture. Specimens collected from the CG were not numerous and were always damaged. As a result, and because of the reported intraspecific variation displayed by Q. victoriensis (Collins 1974; Parker 2009; Debenay 2012), a more specific identification was not possible.
Distribution within study area. Quinqueloculina sp. cf. Q. victoriensis was collected from all reefs of the CG, except for Heron Reef flat. At each site, only a single specimen was collected, except for site 20 in Wistari Lagoon which yielded two specimens. Single live specimens of this species were collected from site 8 at Sykes Reef and site 7 in Wistari Lagoon.
description: Published as part of Mamo, Briony L., 2016, Benthic Foraminifera from the Capricorn Group, Great Barrier Reef, Australia, pp. 1-123 in Zootaxa 4215 (1) on page 48, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4215.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/272923