cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Protocols for isolation, purification and structural identification of egg peptides
Creators: name: Emmer, Åsa
name: Karlahag, Felicia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: In deliverable D2.2, different procedures and protocols for isolation, purification, and structural identification of hen egg peptides are described. For the separation, isolation , and purification of peptides, solid phase extraction, high performance liquid chromatography and sodium dodecyl sulphate acrylamide gel electrophoresis have been used. For structural identification of peptides, mass spectrometry (MS) has been used. Two different ionisation sources are available, matrix assisted laser desorption/ionisation, and electrospray ionisation. The former is coupled to a time of flight mass analyzer, and the latter to an ion trap mass analyzer. Both MS systems can be operated in MS mode and tandem MS (MS MS) mode, which enables the determination of the amino acid sequence of a peptide.
Hydrodynamics of a quark droplet
Creators: name: Bjerrum-Bohr, Johan J.
name: Mishustin, Igor N.
name: Døssing, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a simple model of a multi-quark droplet evolution based on the hydrodynamical description. This model includes collective expansion of the droplet, effects of the vacuum pressure and surface tension. The hadron emission from the droplet is described following Weisskopf's statistical model. We have considered evolution of baryon-free droplets which have different initial temperatures and expansion rates. As a typical trend we observe an oscillating behavior of the droplet radius superimposed with a gradual shrinkage due to the hadron emission. The characteristic life time of droplets with radii 1.5-2 fm are about 9-16 fm/c.
description: 22 pages, 12 figures
Citrogramma pendleburyi
Creators: name: Mengual, Ximo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Syrphidae
Citrogramma
Citrogramma pendleburyi

description: CITROGRAMMA PENDLEBURYI (CURRAN, 1928) Syrphus pendleburyi Curran, 1928: 206. Holotype: ♂, BMNH, by original designation. Type locality: Malaysia: Gunong Tahan. Curran, 1928: 199, 206, 1931a: 313. Citrogramma pendleburyi of Knutson et al., 1975: 311; Wyatt, 1991: 155, 157. Geographical distribution: Malay Peninsula (Pahang). Differential diagnosis: Species very similar to C. marissa, with black facial vitta and costal cell bare. Citrogramma pendleburyi differs in having wing much more microtrichose basally (only cell CuP bare on anterior margin) (Fig. 131; see Fig. 132) and a slightly broader eye angle (about 110°). Citrogramma marissa is only known from southern India and it is smaller than C. pendleburyi. Other morphological differences are the shape of yellow maculae on tergum 2 and the size of dark scutellar macula, much broader and more rounded in C. marissa (see Figs 119, 121). Remarks: Species only known from the holotype male (Fig. 121). Holotype male deposited in The Natural History Museum, formerly British Museum (Natural History) (London, UK) and labelled: ‘MALAY PENIN:/Pahang, F.M.S./ Gunong Tahan / Seat Point 5460′ / Dec: 21 st 192 2 / H.M. Pendlebury’ ‘EX COLL:/F.M.S./Museum.’ [back of the label] ‘Pres by/Fed. Maly States/Museum/B.M. 1934–74’ ‘TYPE/ Syrphus / pendleburyi /No. Curran ’ [red, handwritten by Curran] ‘Holo–/type’ [red, round] ‘ HOLOTYPE / Citrogramma / pendleburyi (Curran) /det. X. Mengual 20 09 ’. Type locality: Malaysia: Pahang State, Taman Negara National Park, Mount Tahan, 1664 m, 4°37′N, 102°14′E. Material examined: Type material. Holotype, as above.
description: Published as part of Mengual, Ximo, 2012, The flower fly genus Citrogramma Vockeroth (Diptera: Syrphidae): illustrated revision with descriptions of new species, pp. 99-172 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 164 (1) on page 154, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00750.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5406153
description: {"references": ["Curran CH. 1928. The Syrphidae of the Malay Peninsula. Journal of the Federal Malay States Museums 14: 141 - 324.", "Knutson LV, Thompson FC, Vockeroth JR. 1975. Family Syrphidae. In: Delfinado MD, Hardy DE, eds. A catalog of the Diptera of the Oriental Region, volume II, suborder Brachycera through division Aschiza, suborder Cyclorrhapha. Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii, 307 - 374.", "Wyatt NP. 1991. Notes on Citrogramma Vockeroth (Diptera: Syrphidae) with descriptions of five new species. Oriental Insects 25: 155 - 169."]}
Reference through demonstration: singular terms, propositional attitudes and fiction
Creators: name: Celestino Fernández, Gemma
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: This thesis defends original accounts of the semantics and metaphysics of propositional attitudes, their reports and fiction in general. These accounts are unified by being parts of a general view on language, according to which demonstrations play a crucial role in explaining a wide range of phenomena. The basic ideas of the view defended here about propositional attitudes and their reports can be summarized as follows: first, propositional attitudes are binary relations between individuals and structured propositions, which are constituted by individuals and properties, but also possibly by representations of those individuals and properties. Secondly, like utterances of sentences containing singular terms in general, propositional attitude reports containing singular terms express both a descriptive proposition and a singular structured proposition, which are the objects of propositional attitudes. Thirdly, a standard Gricean pragmatic explanation is offered to account for those cases in which reports seem to ascribe an attitude towards a less fine-grained proposition than the ones to which the theory appeals. The proposal on fiction defended here is also derived from more general views on language and metaphysics. The basic idea is that the meaningfulness of fictional discourse, which involves many empty singular terms, is mostly due to the descriptive proposition that any utterance of a sentence expresses in addition to expressing the other, more widely accepted proposition. This is also due, however, to the occurrence of implicit prefixes such as ‘the fictional character’, ‘fictionally’, or ‘a fictional persona’, in addition to the ones that are already discussed in the literature. According to the view defended here, fiction does not represent real possibilities –nor is it intended to. Fictional worlds, while having the same nature as possible worlds, do not represent possibilities for the actual world. Both proposals are based on a semantic view of singular terms presented and defended at the outset, which is a Fregean metalinguistic token-reflexive view.
title: Baltic food web model as a tool for holistic exploration of Baltic Sea system dynamics and integrated assessment
Creators: name: Tomczak, T. M.
name: Hjerne, O.
name: Niiranen, S.
name: Bleckner, T.
Publisher: name: ASC 2009 - Theme session G
Year: 2024
Subjects: Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.The aim of developing the Baltic Sea food web model was to create a tool to evaluate management and policy from an ecosystem perspective. Further objectives were to describe the interactions within the system, and to study the sudden changes that have occurred during last decades, as well as the effects of external forcing (top-down and bottom-up) on food-web structure and dynamic
A Case of Severe Myoclonus due to Carbon Dioxide Retention in the Setting of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Exacerbation
Creators: name: Onder, Halil
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Myoclonus
subject: Lungs--Diseases, Obstructive
subject: Physiology, Pathological
subject: Hypercapnia
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: A-70-year-old male patient with a history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) over the previous 10 years was referred from Physical Therapy Department for etiological investigations on his inability to walk. His medical history revealed that he had been discharged from pulmonology 3 weeks ago after the administration of medications for COPD exacerbation. He was hospitalized for 2 weeks and received antibiotherapy of ceftriaxone (2 g intravenous daily for 1 week) for pneumonia, medication for COPD, as well as bilevel positive airway pressure (BIPAP) therapy.
Citrogramma sedlacekorum VOCKEROTH 1969
Creators: name: Mengual, Ximo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Syrphidae
Citrogramma
Citrogramma sedlacekorum

description: CITROGRAMMA SEDLACEKORUM VOCKEROTH, 1969 Citrogramma sedlacekorum Vockeroth, 1969: 99. Holotype: ♂, BPBM, by original designation. Type locality: Papua New Guinea: Wau. Vockeroth, 1969: 99, fig. 94; Thompson & Vockeroth, 1989: 442; Wyatt, 1991: 155, 156. Geographical distribution: New Guinea. Diagnosis: Species similar to C. bicornutum and C. asombrosum, with black facial vitta and costal cell microtrichose. Citrogramma sedlacekorum differs from the others two species by male frontal triangle with a medial triangular dark macula, lunule black (Figs 12, 13), scutellum yellow with a medial dark macula reaching anterior margin (Figs 11, 14) and anal lobe bare basally. Citrogramma sedlacekorum also has enlarged male genitalia, very singular, with sternum 8 presenting three subcylindrical processes (Fig. 154). Holotype male deposited in the Bernice P. Bishop Museum (Honolulu, Hawaii, USA) and labelled: ‘NEW GUINEA: (NE)/Wau, Morobe Distr./ 1400 m, 20.XII.1961 ’ ‘J. &J.H. Sedlacek/Collector/BISHOP’ ‘ HOLOTYPE / Citrogramma / sedlacekorum / Vockeroth ’ [red, handwritten except first line]. Type locality: Papua New Guinea: Morobe Province, Bulolo District, Wau, 70°20′S, 146°42′E. Material examined: Type material. Holotype, as above. Paratype. PAPUA NEW GUINEA: (NE) Morobe, Wau, 1200 m, 5.x.1962, J. & J.H. Sedlacek [1♀, BPBM]. Nontype material. PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Wau, 1200 m, 20.iii.1968, M. Sedlacek [1♀, BPBM].
description: Published as part of Mengual, Ximo, 2012, The flower fly genus Citrogramma Vockeroth (Diptera: Syrphidae): illustrated revision with descriptions of new species, pp. 99-172 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 164 (1) on page 163, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00750.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5406153
description: {"references": ["Vockeroth JR. 1969. A revision of the genera of the Syrphini (Diptera: Syrphidae). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada, Vol. 62.", "Thompson FC, Vockeroth JR. 1989. Family Syrphidae. In: Evenhuis NL, ed. Catalog of the Diptera of the Australasian and Oceanian Regions. Vol. 86, Hawaii: Bishop Museum Special Publication, 437 - 458.", "Wyatt NP. 1991. Notes on Citrogramma Vockeroth (Diptera: Syrphidae) with descriptions of five new species. Oriental Insects 25: 155 - 169."]}
The Number of Pulses Needed to Measure Corticospinal Excitability by Navigated Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: Eyes Open vs. Close Condition
Creators: name: Bashir, Shahid
name: Yoo, Woo-Kyoung
name: Kim, Hyoung Seop
name: Lim, Hyun-Sun
name: Rotenberg, Alexander
name: Jamea, Abdullah Abu
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Evoked potentials (Electrophysiology)
subject: Electromyography
subject: Magnetic brain stimulation
subject: Muscles
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Objective: Motor evoked potentials (MEPs) obtained by transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) enable measures of the corticospinal excitability (CSE). However the reliability of TMS-derived CSE measures is suboptimal due to appreciable pulse-topulse MEP amplitude variability. We thus calculated how many TMS–derived MEPs will be needed to obtain a reliable CSE measure in awake adult subjects, in the eyes open (EO) and eyes closed (EC) conditions. Methods: Twenty healthy adults (70% male) received 40 consecutive navigated TMS pulses (120% resting motor threshold, RMT) in the EO or EC conditions on two separate days in randomized order. Results: For either the EO or EC condition, the probability that the 95% confidence interval (CI) derived from consecutive MEP amplitude measured included the true CSE, increased when the number of consecutive stimuli increased (EO: p = 0.05; EC: p = 0.001). No significant effect of RMT, Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) score, or gender on the CSE estimates was identified. At least 34 consecutive stimuli were required to obtain a most reliable CSE estimate in the EO condition and 31 in the EC condition. Conclusion: Our findings indicate that >30 consecutive MEPs may be necessary in order to obtain a CSE measure in healthy adults.
iPROLEPSIS Newsletter No 3
Creators: name: Leipuviene, Kristina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Welcome to the third edition of the iPROLEPSIS project newsletter series. In this issue, we present the latest updates and progress of the project activities, collaborations, and upcoming and past events. 
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Citrogramma vockerothi Wyatt 1991
Creators: name: Mengual, Ximo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Syrphidae
Citrogramma
Citrogramma vockerothi

description: CITROGRAMMA VOCKEROTHI WYATT, 1991 Citrogramma vockerothi Wyatt, 1991: 160. Holotype: ♂, BMNH, by original designation. Type locality: Malaysia: Mount Dulit. Wyatt, 1991: 157, 161, figs 2, 10, 12. Geographical distribution: Malay Peninsula (Pahang), Borneo, Java. Diagnosis: Species with yellow face with a medial black vitta (Fig. 32), wing entirely microtrichose, scutellum with a triangular black macula (Fig. 30), pro- and mesofemur yellow, and anterior anepimeron black (Fig. 32). Citrogramma vockerothi is quite distinct from other species by having a pleuron pattern much darker: katepisternum black with a dorsal small yellow macula not reaching yellow area of katepimeron; proepimeron mostly black with small yellow macula; and anterior anepisternum black (Fig. 32). Holotype male deposited in The Natural History Museum, formerly British Museum (Natural History) (London, UK) and labelled: ‘ SARAWAK:/Mt Dulit./ 4000 ft. /moss forest/ 19.x.1932.’ ‘Oxford Univ. Exp./ B.M. Hobby &/A.W. Moore./B.M. 1933–254’ ‘HOLO–/ TYPE’ [red, round] ‘ HOLOTYPE / Citrogramma / vockerothi /det. X. Mengual 20 09 ’ [red, second and third lines handwritten]. Type locality: Malaysia: Sarawak State (Borneo Island), Kapit Division, Belaga District, Mount Dulit (= Banjaran Dulit), 1219 m, 3°13′N, 114°16′E. Material examined: Type material. Holotype, as above. Paratypes. MALAYSIA: Sarawak, Mt Dulit, 4000 ft, 13.x.1932, B.M. Hobby & A.W. Moore [1♂, BMNH]; INDONESIA: West Java, Tjibodas, 4000 ft, i.1936, L.E. Cheesman [1♂, BMNH]. Nontype material. Malaysia: Pahang, Fraser’s Hill, x.1948, N.L.H. Krauss [1♂, USNM]; British N. Borneo (= Sabah), W Coast Residency, Kundasan, 1240 m, 15.x.1958 [3♂, BPBM].
description: Published as part of Mengual, Ximo, 2012, The flower fly genus Citrogramma Vockeroth (Diptera: Syrphidae): illustrated revision with descriptions of new species, pp. 99-172 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 164 (1) on page 167, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00750.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5406153
description: {"references": ["Wyatt NP. 1991. Notes on Citrogramma Vockeroth (Diptera: Syrphidae) with descriptions of five new species. Oriental Insects 25: 155 - 169."]}
Allobates trilineatus
Creators: name: Llanqui, Irbin B.
name: Y. Salas, Cinthya
name: Oblitas, Melissa P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Anura
Aromobatidae
Allobates
Allobates trilineatus

description: Allobates trilineatus (Boulenger, 1884) Material examined. MUSA 4933; Transect TN18, 25. IX.2013. MUSA 4934–5 (13°25′20″S, 069°36′36″W), 22. IX.2013. Identification. A small frog, SVL 11.4–17.7 mm in males and 14.2–19.3 mm in females. It can be identified by having dorsum tan to dark brown with dorsolateral and ventrolateral cream stripes bordering a broad blackish brown lateral band extending from the snout to the groin. Venter creamy white, usually with the throat gray in males. Finger I> II. The digital discs are expanded and have 2 dorsal scutes. Similar Allobates “ Colostethus ” species in near localities are: A. alessandroi, which has a ventrolateral stripe extending onto the venter; A. conspicuus, which has an immaculate throat and finger III not swollen in males (Morales 2000, Grant and Rodríguez 2001, Duellman 2005). Distribution. Allobates trilineatus is distributed in Amazonia of Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru, at low elevation forests up to 900 m a.s.l. (Grant and Rodríguez 2001, Frost 2019). Remarks. Allobates trilineatus is also similar to A. marchesianus, but the presence of the latter in Peru is unproven (Grant and Rodríguez 2001, Caldwell et al. 2002).
description: Published as part of Llanqui, Irbin B., Y. Salas, Cinthya & Oblitas, Melissa P., 2019, A preliminary checklist of amphibians and reptiles from the vicinity of La Nube Biological Station, Bahuaja-Sonene National Park, Peru, pp. 773-796 in Check List 15 (5) on page 778, DOI: 10.15560/15.5.773
description: {"references": ["Morales VR (2000) Sistematica y biogeografia del grupo trilineatus (Amphibia, Anura, Dendrobatidae, Colostethus), con descripcion de once nuevas especies. Publicaciones de la Asociacion de Amigos de Donana 13: 53.", "Grant T, Rodriguez LO (2001) Two new species of frogs of the genus Colostethus (Dendrobatidae) from peru and a redescription of C. trilineatus (Boulenger, 1883). American Museum Novitates 3355: 1 - 24. https: // doi. org / 10.1206 / 0003 - 0082 (2001) 355 <0001: tnsofo> 2.0. co; 2", "Duellman WE (2005) Cusco Amazonico. The lives of amphibians and reptiles in an Amazonian Rianforest. Comstock Publishing, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, 433 pp.", "Frost DR (2019) Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. http: // research. amnh. org / herpetology / amphibia / index. html. Accessed on: 2019 - 05 - 01", "Caldwell JP, Lima AP, Keller C (2002) Redescription of Colostethus marchesianus (Melin, 1941) from its type locality. Copeia 2002 (1): 157 - 165. https: // doi. org / 10.1643 / 0045 - 8511 (2002) 002 [0157: rocm mf] 2.0. co; 2"]}
Packets Found on an Internet
Creators: name: Bellovin, Steven Michael
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1993
Subjects: Computer science

description: As part of our security measures, we spend a fair amount of time and effort looking for things that might otherwise be ignored. Apart from assorted attempted penetrations, we have also discovered many examples of anomalous behavior. These range from excessive ICMP messages to nominally-local broadcast packets that have reached us from around the world.
title: Environmental variability on the distribution, abundances and growth rates of the larvae of bullet tuna
Creators: name: Pérez-Torres, A.
name: Alemany, F.
name: Reglero, P.
Publisher: name: ASC 2009 - Theme session G
Year: 2024
Subjects: Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Small tunas, as bullet tuna (Auxis rochei) play a key role in coastal marine ecosystems since they can have a major impact in small pelagic fish stocks. At their larval stages they can interact, as competitors or prey/predators, with other tuna larvae, as those of Thunnus thynnus or T. alalunga. It is a well known fact that environmentally driven variations in larval survivorship rates, potentially induced by climate changes, can result in large fluctuations in population abundances. Therefore, studies providing information on the ecology of small tuna species larvae are useful to assess both the impact of climate changes on the dynamics of small pelagic fishes and other tuna stocks. Here we provide a review on the information available up to now of this species overall ICES areas, focusing on the distribution, abundances and growth rates of the larvae of bullet tuna. Since water temperature may be of crucial importance in larval stage dynamics we assess/explore the relationship between temperature and distribution patterns and growth of bullet tuna larvae using data obtained within the framework of ichthyoplankton surveys directed to tuna larvae sampling carried out during the last decade off the Balearic islands, recognized as one of the main spawning grounds of tuna species in the Mediterranean. These relationships are compared to other tuna species and other ICES areas where information is available. Our findings highlight the role that temperature plays at these early stages of development and the impact that increasing temperature may have on the distribution and growth of these species, and hence in recruitment success.
Organizational Structure and Collective Action: Lineage Networks, Semi-autonomous Civic Associations, and Collective Resistance in Rural China
Creators: name: Lu, Yao
name: Tao, Ran
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Associations, institutions, etc.
subject: Social groups
subject: Political participation
subject: Community organization--Citizen participation
subject: Government, Resistance to
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Existing research on the relationship between organizations and social movements typically focuses on organizations’ internal structure and explains the emergence and outcome of movements in separate frameworks. The literature also highlights a lack of organizational basis for collective action in non-democratic regimes. To bridge these gaps, the present study examines the distinct roles played by different organizations (embedded in distinct external structures reflecting state-society relations) in different stages of collective action (occurrence and success) in rural China. Using both quantitative and qualitative data, we study two types of organizations—first, informal lineage groups and second, semi-autonomous civic associations, exemplified by seniors associations. The results demonstrate that lineage groups serve as important mobilizing structures for collective resistance, but face limited success given their informal status and weak vertical linkages with the state. By contrast, seniors associations, which maintain close relations with authorities while conserving a high degree of autonomy, act as a genuine intermediary between government and aggrieved citizens, thus largely suppressing the occurrence of collective resistance. When collective action emerges, however, the associations can build on their legitimacy and vertical linkages to facilitate effective action. The findings provide a more nuanced understanding of the dynamics of contention in a non-democratic setting and the disparate roles different social organizations play in the process.
The behavioral consequences of terrorism: a meta-analysis
Creators: name: DiMaggio, Charles J.
name: Galea, Sandro
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2006
Subjects: Public health

description: Terrorism is an ongoing concern throughout the world. The United States Department of State documented 228 acts of worldwide terrorism between 1961 and 2003. Of these 197 were in the developing world. In the US, attention has turned to the threat of terrorism with the September 11, 2001 terrorist bombings, the largest single-day loss of human-life in US history since the Civil War. Subsequent terrorist attacks such as the October 12, 2002 Bali nightclub bombings, the March 11, 2004 Madrid train bombings, and the July 7, 2005 London bombings, have further brought the threat of terrorism to the forefront of national and international discourse. Several large-scale reviews of the consequences of disasters have been published. These reviews have documented the prevalence and correlates of specific psychiatric disorders and behaviors after mass events. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) emerges from this work as the best studied, and likely most common, psychopathology after disasters. One theme to arise from these reviews is that disasters that are caused by human-intent (such as terrorism) may be associated with a particularly high risk of psychopathology in their aftermath. As such, explicit study of the mental health consequences of terrorism may be warranted. To illuminate this issue, we undertook a review and synthesis of quantitative studies of the behavioral health effects of terrorist incidents focusing primarily on the prevalence and correlates of PTSD.
title: Galician and Porcupine Nephrops fishery systems: a comparative from a climate induced changes perspective
Creators: name: Herraiz, González
name: Fariña
name: Sampedro
name: Torres
name: Cañás
Publisher: name: ASC 2009 - Theme session G
Year: 2024
Subjects: Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Nephrops CPUEs of the Spanish fleets in both Porcupine and Galicia areas have been deacreasing in the last three decades.
Statistical Mapping Analysis of Brain Metabolism in Patients with Subcortical Aphasia after Intracerebral Hemorrhage: A Pilot Study of F-18 FDG PET Images
Creators: name: Kim, Yong Wook
name: Kim, Hyoung Seop
name: An, Young-Sil
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Aphasic persons
Brain--Metabolism
Tomography, Emission
Brain mapping

description: Purpose: This study was aimed to evaluate the brain metabolism in patients with subcortical aphasia after intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) and the relationship between the severity of aphasia and regional brain metabolism, by using statistical mapping analysis of F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (F- 18 FDG PET) images. Materials and Methods: Sixteen right-handed Korean speaking patients with subcortical aphasia following ICH were enrolled. All patients underwent Korean version of the Western Aphasia Battery and the brain F-18 FDG PET study. Using statistical parametric mapping analysis, we compared the brain metabolisms shown on F-18 FDG PET from 16 patients with subcortical aphasia and 16 normal controls. In addition, we investigated the relationship between regional brain metabolism and the severity of aphasia using covariance model. Results: Compared to the normal controls, subcortical aphasia after ICH showed diffuse hypometabolism in the ipsilateral cerebrum (frontal, parietal, temporal, occipital, putamen, thalamus) and in the contralateral cerebellum (P corrected<0.001), and showed diffuse hypermetabolism in the contralateral cerebrum (frontal, parietal, temporal) and in the ipsilateral cerebellum (P FDR corrected<0.001). In the covariance analysis, the increase of aphasia quotient was significantly correlated with increased brain metabolism in both orbitofrontal cortices, the right hippocampal and the right parahippocampal cortices (P uncorrected<0.01). Conclusion: Our findings suggest that frontal, parietal, and temporal cortices, which are parts of neural network for cognition, may have a supportive role for language performance in patients with subcortical aphasia after ICH.
Strengthened Chernoff-type variance bounds
Creators: name: Afendras, G.
name: Papadatos, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Let $X$ be an absolutely continuous random variable from the integrated Pearson family and assume that $X$ has finite moments of any order. Using some properties of the associated orthonormal polynomial system, we provide a class of strengthened Chernoff-type variance bounds.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.3150/12-BEJ484 the Bernoulli (http://isi.cbs.nl/bernoulli/) by the International Statistical Institute/Bernoulli Society (http://isi.cbs.nl/BS/bshome.htm)
The Correlation Between Electrodiagnostic Results and Ultrasonographic Findings in the Severity of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome in Females
Creators: name: Ha, Da Sol
name: Kim, Hyoung Seop
name: Kim, Jong Moon
name: Lee, Kun Hee
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Carpal tunnel syndrome
Electrodiagnosis
Ultrasonic imaging
Median nerve
Medical rehabilitation

description: Objective: To determine which ultrasonographic measurement can be used as an indicator reflecting the severity of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), by comparing electrodiagnostic results with ultrasonographic measurements in females. Many previous studies have tried to reveal that the ultrasonography (US) can possibility be used for diagnosis and severity of CTS. However, the criteria are different by gender. Thus far, there have been many efforts towards providing patients with a CTS diagnosis and severity prediction using US, but studies’ results are still unclear due to lack of data on gender differences. Methods: We collected data from 54 female patients. We classified the severity of CTS according to electrodiagnostic results. Ultrasonographic measurements included proximal and distal cross-sectional areas of the median nerve and carpal tunnel. Results: The severity by electrodiagnostic results statistically correlated to the proximal cross-sectional area (CSA) of the median nerve and carpal tunnel. However, there was no relationship between the proximal and distal nerve/tunnel indexes and the severity by electrodiagnostic results. Conclusion: In female patients with CTS, the proximal CSAs of the median nerve and carpal tunnel increase. They correlate with the severity by electrodiagnostic findings. The CSA of the proximal median nerve could be particularly used as a predictor of the severity of CTS in female patients. However, the nerve/tunnel index is constant, irrespective of the severity of CTS.
Prinstimantis ventrimarmoratus
Creators: name: Llanqui, Irbin B.
name: Y. Salas, Cinthya
name: Oblitas, Melissa P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Anura
Craugastoridae
Prinstimantis
Prinstimantis ventrimarmoratus

description: Prinstimantis ventrimarmoratus (Boulenger, 1912) Material examined. MUSA 4838; Transect TN2, 28. IX.2013. MUSA 4839; Transect TN5, 27.IX.2013. Identification. A member of Pristimantis unistrigatus species group according to Lynch and Duellman (1997), Hedges et al. (2008) and, Duellman and Lehr (2009), but unassigned to any species group by Padial et al. (2014). A moderate-sized Pristimantis species, SVL 17.8–26 mm in males and 33–44 mm in females. It can be identified by having the skin on dorsum shagreen; venter coarsely areolate; discoidal fold prominent; dorsolateral folds absent. Upper eyelids lack tubercles. Finger I <II, discs on fingers expanded. Dorsum tan with irregular brown mottling and distinct diagonal bars on the limbs. Venter white with bold black mottling. Conspicuous brown labial bars are present. Surface of the thighs cream with dark brown diagonal bars. Similar species in neighboring localities are: P. altamazonicus, which has a cream venter, and posterior surface of thighs black with red mottling; P. imitatrix which has tubercles on the upper eyelids (Duellman and Lehr 2009). Distribution. Pristimantis ventrimarmoratus is distributed in the Amazon Basin and cloud forest of Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru below 1800 m a.s.l. (Duellman and Lehr 2009, Frost 2019).
description: Published as part of Llanqui, Irbin B., Y. Salas, Cinthya & Oblitas, Melissa P., 2019, A preliminary checklist of amphibians and reptiles from the vicinity of La Nube Biological Station, Bahuaja-Sonene National Park, Peru, pp. 773-796 in Check List 15 (5) on pages 781-782, DOI: 10.15560/15.5.773
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Emergency Department Visits for Behavioral and Mental Health Care after a Terrorist Attack
Creators: name: DiMaggio, Charles J.
name: Galea, Sandro
name: Richardson, Lynne D.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Public health

description: To assess emergency department utilization by a population whose health care encounters can be tracked and quantified for behavioral and mental health conditions in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. We assessed presentations to emergency departments using Medicaid analytic extract files for adult New York State residents for 2000 and 2001.  We created four mutually exclusive geographic areas that were progressively more distant from the World Trade Center and divided data into 4 time periods. All persons in the files were categorized by their zip code of residence.  We coded primary emergency department diagnoses for post traumatic stress disorder, substance abuse, psychogenic illness, severe psychiatric illness, depression, sleep disorders, eating disorders, stress-related disorders, and adjustment disorders. There was a 10.1% relative temporal increase in the rate of emergency department behavioral and mental health diagnoses following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks for adult Medicaid enrollees residing within a 3-mile radius of the World Trade Center site.  Other geographic areas experienced relative declines.  In population-based comparisons, Medicaid recipients, who lived within 3 miles of the World Trade Center following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks had a 20% increased risk of an emergency department mental health diagnosis (Prevalence Density Ratio 1.2, 95% CI 1.1, 1.3) compared to those who were non-New York City residents. The complex role that emergency departments may play in responding to terrorism and disasters is becoming increasingly apparent.   To the best of our knowledge this is the first report of a quantifiable increase in emergency department utilization for mental health services by persons exposed to a terrorist attack in the United States.
The RhoA/Rho kinase pathway in diabetic cardiomyopathy
Creators: name: Soliman, Hesham
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: Diabetes mellitus leads to a unique pathological entity termed diabetic cardiomyopathy, the mechanisms of which have not been fully defined. In diabetic rat hearts, RhoA expression is increased and the RhoA/ROCK pathway is activated, while ROCK inhibition acutely improves contractile function of diabetic hearts. The mechanisms underlying this improvement and those responsible for the detrimental activation of RhoA/ROCK were investigated here. Nitric oxide (NO) has been reported to upregulate RhoA expression in smooth muscle, and previous reports showed that iNOS expression is increased in diabetic rat hearts. In the first part of this thesis, the hypothesis that in diabetic cardiomyopathy, iNOS induction is responsible for increased RhoA expression was investigated. The results demonstrate that increased NO production from iNOS induction leads to RhoA upregulation in the diabetic heart and in isolated cardiomyocytes, contributing to the RhoA/ROCK mediated contractile dysfunction by increasing the total pool of RhoA available for activation. In diabetic rat hearts, PKCβ₂ activation induces iNOS expression, leading to increased nitrosative/oxidative stress. This suggests that PKCβ2 might positively regulate RhoA expression, although in preliminary experiments inhibition of ROCK itself reduced RhoA expression. Therefore, in the second part, the hypothesis that PKCβ₂/iNOS and RhoA/ROCK interact together to form a positive feedback loop was tested. The results show that RhoA/ROCK overactivation is sustained by a positive feedback loop that involves PKCβ₂ activation and iNOS induction. This feedback loop requires an intact actin cytoskeleton and plays a key role in elevating superoxide production in diabetic rat hearts. In the third part, the hypothesis that ROCK inhibition augments contraction by improving Ca²⁺ signaling was tested. Inhibition of ROCK improved contractile function and abolished the diabetes-induced delayed aftercontractions in isolated cardiomyocytes, in association with an improvement in Ca²⁺ transients. Overall, the results show that in diabetic cardiomyopathy, overactivation of RhoA/ROCK contributes to contractile dysfunction by sustaining PKCβ2 activation, iNOS induction and superoxide production via a positive feedback loop that leads to impaired intracellular Ca²⁺ homeostasis. Inhibition of ROCK disrupts the loop, resulting in decreased oxidative stress, and improved Ca²⁺ handling and cardiomyocyte contraction, suggesting that ROCK inhibition might be a novel approach in treating diabetic cardiomyopathy.
Boana lanciformis
Creators: name: Llanqui, Irbin B.
name: Y. Salas, Cinthya
name: Oblitas, Melissa P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Anura
Hylidae
Boana
Boana lanciformis

description: Boana lanciformis (Cope, 1871) Material examined. Field observations; (13°25′20″S, 069°36′36″W), 27–28.IX.2013. Identification. A large tree-frog, SVL 61.5–80 mm in males and 83–94 mm in females. It can be identified by a pointed snout with a white labial line. Dorsal skin smooth and light brown; venter light cream with distinctive large darker cream blotches. There are no similar tree frog species in the neighboring localities (Duellman 1978, Rodriguez and Duellman 1994). Distribution. Boana lanciformis is widely distributed in the Amazonian forests in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, and Venezuela (Duellman 1978, de la Riva et al. 2000, Frost 2019).
description: Published as part of Llanqui, Irbin B., Y. Salas, Cinthya & Oblitas, Melissa P., 2019, A preliminary checklist of amphibians and reptiles from the vicinity of La Nube Biological Station, Bahuaja-Sonene National Park, Peru, pp. 773-796 in Check List 15 (5) on page 782, DOI: 10.15560/15.5.773
description: {"references": ["Duellman WE (1978) The biology of an equatorial herpetofauna in amazonian Ecuador. Miscellaneous Publications. Museum of Natural History University of Kansas 65: 352.", "Rodriguez LO, Duellman WE (1994) Guide to the frogs of the Iquitos Region, Amazonian Peru. The University of Kansas Natural History Museum, Special Publication 22: 1 - 80. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 7937", "Riva I de la, Kohler J, Lotters S, Reichle S (2000) Ten years of research on Bolivian amphibians: updated checklist, distribution, taxonomic problems, literature and iconography. Revista Espanola de Herpetologia 14: 19 - 164.", "Frost DR (2019) Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. http: // research. amnh. org / herpetology / amphibia / index. html. Accessed on: 2019 - 05 - 01"]}
Observing Dark Stars with JWST
Creators: name: Ilie, Cosmin
name: Freese, Katherine
name: Valluri, Monica
name: Iliev, Ilian T.
name: Shapiro, Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the capability of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to detect Supermassive Dark Stars (SMDS). If the first stars are powered by dark matter heating in triaxial dark matter haloes, they may grow to be very large and very bright, visible in deep imaging with JWST and even Hubble Space Telescope (HST). We use HST surveys to place bounds on the numbers of SMDSs that may be detected in future JWST imaging surveys. We showed that SMDS in the mass range $10^6-10^7 M_\odot$ are bright enough to be detected in all the wavelength bands of the NIRCam on JWST . If SMDSs exist at z ~10, 12, and 14, they will be detectable as J-band, H-band, or K-band dropouts, respectively. With a total survey area of 150 arcmin^2 (assuming a multi-year deep parallel survey with JWST), we find that typically the number of $10^6 M_\odot$ SMDSs found as H or K-band dropouts is ~10^5\fsmds, where the fraction of early DM haloes hosting DS is likely to be small, \fsmds<<1. If the SDMS survive down to z=10 where HST bounds apply, then the observable number of SMDSs as H or K-band dropouts with JWST is ~1-30. While individual SMDS are bright enough to be detected by JWST, standard PopIII stars are not, and would only be detected in first galaxies with total stellar masses of ~$10^6-10^8 M_\odot$. Differentiating first galaxies at z>10 from SMDSs would be possible with spectroscopy: the SMDS (which are too cool produce significant nebular emission) will have only absorption lines while the galaxies are likely to produce emission lines as well. Of particular interest would be the 1640 HeII emission line as well as Hα lines which would be signatures of early galaxies rather than SMDSs. The detection of SMDSs would not only provide alternative evidence for WIMPs but would also provide possible seeds for the formation of supermassive black holes that power QSOs at z~6.
description: Corrected a minor bibliographical error in v2
The Mental Health Consequences of Terrorism: Implications for Emergency Medicine Practitioners
Creators: name: DiMaggio, Charles J.
name: Madrid, Paula
name: Loo, George T.
name: Galea, Sandro
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2006
Subjects: Public health
Terrorism
Mental health
Post-traumatic stress disorder

description: Emergency physicians are likely to be first-line responders in any local or regional terrorist event. In addition to preparing for the potential physical conditions and injuries that are associated with terrorism, they should be aware of the behavioral and mental health implications as well. It is helpful to be familiar with the characteristics that predict who may be at increased risk for mental illness after such events and how they may be identified in an Emergency Department setting. Although most people in the general population with behavioral conditions stemming from a terrorist event can be expected to recover spontaneously within several months, other individuals are at increased risk of developing more debilitating mental health conditions that have been associated with post-terrorist and disaster environments. Screening tools are available to help emergency practitioners identify them and refer patients for more formal psychiatric evaluation and potential interventions to facilitate and speed the recovery process.
title: Linking Climate and Fisheries Variability in the Mid-Atlantic Bight: A Case Study on the Atlantic Mackerel Fishery
Creators: name: Kowalske, David
Publisher: name: ASC 2009 - Theme session G
Year: 2024
Subjects: Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Atlantic mackerel inhabit the North Atlantic Ocean and are common from North Carolina to Labrador, Canada. Over this range there is a northern and southern spawning component. The southern group spawns in the Mid-Atlantic Bight sometime between April and May. Following spawning, these fish migrate north into the Gulf of Maine. Mackerel are targeted in the MidAtlantic region by midwater trawl vessels between January and May
Correlation between ambulatory function and clinical factors in hemiplegic patients with intact single lateral corticospinal tract: A pilot study
Creators: name: Hong, Ji Seong
name: Kim, Jong Moon
name: Kim, Hyoung Seop
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Pyramidal tract
Hemiplegics
Diffusion tensor imaging
Medicine
Cerebrovascular disease

description: To define the relationship between the complete destruction of 1 lateral corticospinal tract (CST), as demonstrated by diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) tractography, and ambulatory function 6 months following stroke.

Twenty-six adults (17 male, 9 female) with poststroke hemiplegia who were transferred to the physical medicine and rehabilitation department. Participants underwent DTI tractography, which showed that 1 lateral CST had been clearly destroyed.

Functional ambulation classification (FAC) scores at admission, discharge, and 6 months after discharge were used to evaluate the patients’ ability to walk. The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) and the Korean version of the modified Barthel index (K-MBI) at admission, discharge, and 6 months after discharge were used to evaluate the degree of functional recovery.

Of the 26 patients, 18 were nonambulatory (FAC level 1–3), and 8 were able to walk without support (FAC level 4–6). The type of stroke (infarction or hemorrhage), site of the lesion, spasticity of lower extremities, cranioplasty, and the time taken from onset to MRI were not statistically significantly correlated with the ability to walk. However, statistically significant correlations were found in relation to age, K-MBI scores, and initial NIHSS scores.

Despite the complete damage to the lesion site and the preservation of 1 unilateral CST, as shown by DTI, good outcomes can be predicted on the basis of younger age, low NIHSS scores, and high MBI scores at onset.
Ernährungssouveränität. Eine interdisziplinäre Perspektive
Creators: name: ZEILNER FRANZ
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Ernährungssouveränität, Weltgesellschaft, Landwirtschafts- und Ernährungspolitik, Menschenrechte, Gesundheit, Volksinitiative, La Via Campesina,

description: Ernährungssouveränität ist ein Konzept, welches die weltweite Kleinbäuerinnen und Kleinbauern Bewegung Via Campesina und viele andere lokale, nationale und transnationale Initiativen seit dem Jahre 1996 vorantreibt und weiterentwickelt Ernährungssouveränität ist ein Begriff der nach dem Verständnis ihrer Befürworter das Recht aller Völker, Länder und Ländergruppen, ihre Landwirtschafts- und Ernährungs- politik selbst zu bestimmen, definiert bzw. umfasst. Mit der globalen Bewegung für Ernährungssouveränität ist auch ein Prozess der kontinuierlichen Ausarbeitung und Weiterentwicklung des Konzepts verbunden. Das Lebensmittelsystem soll auf einer partizipativen Basis neu gedacht und gestaltet werden. Es ist aber kein fertiges Modell für die Welt oder einer in Zukunft (vielleicht) vorhandenen Weltgesellschaft. Wesentlich ist es bzw. wäre es, dass alle Menschen mit ihren Möglichkeiten sich daran beteiligen und Werte, besonders unwiederbringliche, schätzen lernen. Das betrifft den Lebens- raum von Menschen und von Mitgeschöpfen, der für ein gesundes langes Leben wesentlich ist. Die gegenständliche Arbeit untersucht das Thema Ernährungssouveränität aus dem Blickwinkel interdisziplinärer Perspektiven.