cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Spiders as indicators of microhabitat changes after a grass invasion in salt-marshes: synthetic results from a case study in the Mont-Saint-Michel Bay
Creators: name: PÉTILLON, Julien
name: CANARD, Alain
name: YSNEL, Frédéric
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2006

description: Salt marshes are simple ecosystems characterized by extreme conditions; two abiotic factors appear to structure
 habitats: regular submergence and the resulting soil salinity. These ecosystems support highly specialized species that have
 a high conservation value. In the last ten years, invasion by Elymus athericus (Poaceae) has led to a major change in vege-
 tation cover (including changes in micro-habitats architecture) in salt marshes of the Mont-Saint-Michel Bay (France). In
 this study, we tried to determine whether ecological structure and high conservation value of invaded salt marshes had been
 preserved using spiders as indicators. The functional groups, abundances and flood resistance abilities of spider
 communities were compared between initial and invaded stations during 2002 and 2003. Invasion by E. athericus had both
 positive and negative consequences for spider communities, in particular for the dominant halophilic species. Pardosa
 purbeckensis populations clearly declined in habitats invaded by E. athericus, whereas Arctosa fulvolineata seemed to ben-
 efit greatly from the invasion. Functional groups were strongly affected by the plant invasion. Relation between the habi-
 tat change (vegetal invasion) and changes in the spider communities (both in terms of functional groups and halophilic
 species) confirms the high value of this taxon as bioindicators. Lastly, we suggest using abundances of P. purbeckensis as
 a parameter likely to help monitoring further salt marsh evolutions (such as management).
SUR LA RÉGULATION OSMOTIQUE ET IONIQUE DU MILIEU INTÉRIEUR DE QUELQUES NÉRÉIDIENS (ANNÉLIDES POLYCHÈTES)
Creators: name: LEERSNYDER, De Monique
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1973

description: Osmotic and ionic regulation of the coelomic fluid is studied in Nereis pelagica and Perinereis cultrifera. N. pelagica and P. cultrifera behave as poikilosmotic forms when placed in waters of different salinities. Except for K+ ion, ionic regulation of the coelomic fluid is less effective among these species than with Nereis diversicolor. N. pelagica is more permeable to Mg ++ ion than P. cultrifera and N. diversicolor.
Stochastic Efficiency: Five Case Studies
Creators: name: Proesmans, Karel
name: Broeck, Christian Van den
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Stochastic efficiency is evaluated in five case studies: driven Brownian motion, effusion with a thermo-chemical and thermo-velocity gradient, a quantum dot and a model for information to work conversion. The salient features of stochastic efficiency, including the maximum of the large deviation function at the reversible efficiency, are reproduced. The approach to and extrapolation into the asymptotic time regime are documented.
The Role of Infant Temperament in Stability and Change in Coparenting Across the First Year of Life
Creators: name: Davis, Evan F.
name: Schoppe-Sullivan, Sarah J.
name: Brown, Geoffrey L.
name: Mangelsdorf, Sarah C.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: The current study investigated the role of infant temperament in stability and change in coparenting behavior across the infant’s first year. Specifically, bidirectional relations between infant temperament and coparenting were examined and temperament was further considered as a moderator of longitudinal stability in coparenting behavior.
Additional file 1 of Maternal nutritional risk factors for pre-eclampsia incidence: findings from a narrative scoping review
Creators: name: Kinshella, Mai-Lei Woo
name: Omar, Shazmeen
name: Scherbinsky, Kerri
name: Vidler, Marianne
name: Magee, Laura A.
name: von Dadelszen, Peter
name: Moore, Sophie E.
name: Elango, Rajavel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR) Checklist.
Independent and Interactive Contributions of Parenting Behaviors and Beliefs in the Prediction of Early Childhood Behavior Problems
Creators: name: Deng, Min
name: Shanahan, Lilly
name: Haskett, Mary E.
name: Barnett, Melissa A.
name: Cox, Martha J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: This study examined interactions between parenting beliefs and parenting behaviors in the prediction of early childhood externalizing and internalizing symptoms
Additional file 2 of Maternal nutritional risk factors for pre-eclampsia incidence: findings from a narrative scoping review
Creators: name: Kinshella, Mai-Lei Woo
name: Omar, Shazmeen
name: Scherbinsky, Kerri
name: Vidler, Marianne
name: Magee, Laura A.
name: von Dadelszen, Peter
name: Moore, Sophie E.
name: Elango, Rajavel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Search terms.
The Impact of Physical Channel on Performance of Subspace-Based Channel Estimation in Massive MIMO Systems
Creators: name: Teeti, Mohammed
name: Sun, Jun
name: Gesbert, David
name: Liu, Yingzhuang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A subspace method for channel estimation has been recently proposed [1] for tackling the pilot contamination effect, which is regarded by some researchers as a bottleneck in massive MIMO systems. It was shown in [1] that if the power ratio between the desired signal and interference is kept above a certain value, the received signal spectrum splits into signal and interference eigenvalues, namely, the "pilot contamination" effect can be completely eliminated. However, [1] assumes an independently distributed (i.d.) channel, which is actually not much the case in practice. Considering this, a more sensible finite-dimensional physical channel model (i.e., a finite scattering environment, where signals impinge on the base station (BS) from a finite number of angles of arrival (AoA)) is employed in this paper. Via asymptotic spectral analysis, it is demonstrated that, compared with the i.d. channel, the physical channel imposes a penalty in the form of an increased power ratio between the useful signal and the interference. Furthermore, we demonstrate an interesting "antenna saturation" effect, i.e., when the number of the BS antennas approaches infinity, the performance under the physical channel with P AoAs is limited by and nearly the same as the performance under the i.d. channel with P receive antennas.
description: 29 pages, 11 figures
VARIATIONS ANNUELLES QUANTITATIVES DE DEUX ESPÈCES DOMINANTES DE COPÉPODES PLANCTONIQUES CENTROPAGES TYPICUS ET TEMORA STYLIFERA DE LA RÉGION DE BANYULS : CYCLES BIOLOGIQUES ET ESTIMATIONS DE LA PRODUCTION.  I.  MÉTHODOLOGIE ET MISE EN ÉVIDENCE DE L'IMPORTANCE QUANTITATIVE DE CES DEUX ESPÈCES PAR RAPPORT A L'ENSEMBLE DES COPÉPODES
Creators: name: RAZOULS, Claude
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1973

description: The qualitative and quantitative variations of the main planktonic groups (phytoplankton and zooplankton) have been follow d from may 1965 to January 1969, by a team of searchers, in the S.W. part of the neritic region in the Golf of Lion (Banyuls-sur-Mer). For each group has been given a separate publication.
The planktonic Copepods, which represent one of the essential element of the secondary production, are the topic of the present study.
Two main species, for a whole year, have been particula ly studied : Centropages typicus and Temora stylifera. In this first part, the p rin cip les on w h ich are
based the study of the production and the validity of the numeric data, resulting of the methodologic choice, especially by testing on the conclusiveness of the Harvey hypothesis, are considered as well as the relative importance of the two species comparatively with the whole Copepods.
Connections between chiral Lagrangians and QCD sum-rules
Creators: name: Fariborz, Amir H.
name: Pokraka, A.
name: Steele, T. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown how a chiral Lagrangian framework can be used to derive relationships connecting quark-level QCD correlation functions to mesonic-level two-point functions. Crucial ingredients of this connection are scale factor matrices relating each distinct quark-level substructure (e.g., quark-antiquark, four-quark) to its mesonic counterpart. The scale factors and mixing angles are combined into a projection matrix to obtain the physical (hadronic) projection of the QCD correlation function matrix. Such relationships provide a powerful bridge between chiral Lagrangians and QCD sum-rules that are particularly effective in studies of the substructure of light scalar mesons with multiple complicated resonance shapes and substantial underlying mixings. The validity of these connections is demonstrated for the example of the isotriplet $a_0(980)$-$a_0(1450)$ system, resulting in an unambiguous determination of the scale factors from the combined inputs of QCD sum-rules and chiral Lagrangians. These scale factors lead to a remarkable agreement between the quark condensates in QCD and the mesonic vacuum expectation values that induce spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in chiral Lagrangians. This concrete example shows a clear sensitivity to the underlying $a_0$-system mixing angle, illustrating the value of this methodology in extensions to more complicated mesonic systems.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure
Lewy body dementia: The caregiver experience of clinical care
Creators: name: Kaufer, Daniel I.
name: Zarit, Steven H.
name: Lippa, Carol F.
name: Taylor, Angela
name: Duda, John E.
name: Galvin, James E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Lewy body dementia (LBD) is the second most common cause of dementia, however, little is known about how the clinical diagnosis of LBD is obtained in the community or the caregiver experience while seeking the diagnosis.
Histidine ligated Iron-Sulfur Proteins and Peptides
Creators: name: Valer, Luca
Publisher: name: Università degli studi di Trento
Year: 2022

description: Iron-sulfur clusters play a fundamental role in biology and are believed to be ancient cofactors that could have played a role in early protometabolic systems. Thus far, redox active, prebiotically plausible iron-sulfur clusters have always been obtained through cysteine coordination to the iron ions. However, extant iron-sulfur proteins can be found to exploit other modes of binding, including ligation by histidine residues, as seen with [2Fe-2S] Rieske and MitoNEET proteins. In this thesis, we investigated the ability of cysteine- and histidine-containing proteins and peptides to coordinate mononuclear [1Fe-0S] centers and a [2Fe-2S] clusters. The iron-sulfur peptides were characterized by UV-vis, circular dichroism, and paramagnetic NMR spectroscopies and cyclic voltammetry. Small (≤ 6 amino acids) peptides can coordinate [2Fe-2S] clusters through a combination of cysteine and histidine residues with similar reduction potentials as their corresponding proteins. Such complexes may have been important for early cell-like systems.
Cardiopulmonary toxicity of peat wildfire particulate matter and the predictive utility of precision cut lung slices
Creators: name: Kovalcik, Kasey
name: Gilmour, M. I.
name: Tong, Haiyan
name: Dye, Janice A.
name: Daniels, Mary
name: Boykin, Elizabeth
name: Kim, Yong H.
name: Hays, Michael
name: McGee, John
name: Krantz, Q. T.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: BackgroundEmissions from a large peat fire in North Carolina in 2008 were associated with increased hospital admissions for asthma and the rate of heart failure in the exposed population. Peat fires often produce larger amounts of smoke and last longer than forest fires, however few studies have reported on their toxicity. Moreover, reliable alternatives to traditional animal toxicity testing are needed to reduce the number of animals required for hazard identification and risk assessments.MethodsSize-fractionated particulate matter (PM; ultrafine, fine, and coarse) were obtained from the peat fire while smoldering (ENCF-1) or when nearly extinguished (ENCF-4). Extracted samples were analyzed for chemical constituents and endotoxin content. Female CD-1 mice were exposed via oropharyngeal aspiration to 100μg/mouse, and assessed for relative changes in lung and systemic markers of injury and inflammation. At 24h post-exposure, hearts were removed for ex vivo functional assessments and ischemic challenge. Lastly, 8mm diameter lung slices from CD-1 mice were exposed (11μg) ± co-treatment of PM with polymyxin B (PMB), an endotoxin-binding compound.ResultsOn an equi-mass basis, coarse ENCF-1PM had the highest endotoxin content and elicited the greatest pro-inflammatory responses in the mice including: increases in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid protein, cytokines (IL-6, TNF-α, and MIP-2), neutrophils and intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) production. Exposure to fine or ultrafine particles from either period failed to elicit significant lung or systemic effects. In contrast, mice exposed to ENCF-1 ultrafine PM developed significantly decreased cardiac function and greater post-ischemia-associated myocardial infarction. Finally, similar exposures to mouse lung slices induced comparable patterns of cytokine production; and these responses were significantly attenuated by PMB.ConclusionsThe findings suggest that exposure to coarse PM collected during a peat fire causes greater lung inflammation in association with endotoxin and ROS, whereas the ultrafine PM preferentially affected cardiac responses. In addition, lung tissue slices were shown to be a predictive, alternative assay to assess pro-inflammatory effects of PM of differing size and composition. Importantly, these toxicological findings were consistent with the cardiopulmonary health effects noted in epidemiologic reports from exposed populations.
Supplementary tables from Hospital-based zoonotic disease surveillance in Bangladesh: design, field data and difficulties.
Creators: name: Pritimoy Das
name: Sazzad, Hossain M.S.
name: Aleem, Mohammad Abdul
name: M. Ziaur Rahman
name: Sturm-Ramirez, Katharine
name: Mahmudur Rahman
name: Anthony, Simon J.
name: W. Ian Lipkin
name: Gurley, Emily S.
name: Luby, Stephen P.
name: Openshaw, John J.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Health Care
subject: Diseases
subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary tables referenced in the text
Droplet penetration method as a wettability test for pharmaceutical powders
Creators: name: Han, Yu
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2017

description: A droplet penetration method (DPM) was developed to characterize the wettability of pharmaceutical powders. Sessile droplets of two different liquids, used as test and reference liquids, were deposited on a slightly compressed powder bed and their penetration processes was recorded. Two simplifying assumptions are considered. First, the capillary pressure inside the porous powder is the only dominant driving force for the imbibition of drops. Second, the contact area between the penetrating drop and the powder bed is constant. Then, the penetration process in non-dimensional variables is independent of any dimensionless number. Hence, a reference liquid can be used to decouple the properties of the powder bed from the assessment of contact angle of the test liquid. In this thesis, the effect of particle size distribution on the wetting behavior of pharmaceutical powders was investigated by the droplet penetration method. Two powder materials, an excipient and an active pharmaceutical ingredient (API), are used. The excipient is lactose monohydrate powder sieved to obtain particles in the following size ranges: 38-45, 45-53, 53-63, 63-75, 75-90, 90-106 m. The API used is caffeine anhydrous powder with particle size distribution characterized by d50 = 15, 19 and 30 m. In all cases, the test liquid is deionized water and the reference liquid used was silicone oil. It was found that lactose powders with a particle size smaller than 75 m have approximately the same contact angle. However, there is a significant decrease in the calculated contact angle when particles are larger than 75 m. In the case of caffeine, it was found that larger particles yield smaller contact angle.
Influence of natural and anthropic perturbations on the distribution of salt marsh breeding birds in the Mont Saint-Michel bay
Creators: name: GESLIN, Thomas
name: EYBERT, Marie-Christine
name: RADUREAU, Null
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2006

description: Anthropogenic pressures as sheep grazing and the spread of the grass Elymus athericus are two of the most
 significant changes affecting European salt marshes. The habitat value for breeding birds is likely to be modified by such
 factors. In this context, we investigated the bird community breeding in the salt marsh of the Mont Saint-Michel bay
 (France). Habitat characteristics and bird relative abundance were measured at each of 133 sampling points. Using a hie-
 rarchical cluster analysis of all habitat variables, five habitat types were defined from the middle to high marsh. Values of
 species richness, abundance and diversity index regularly increased from grazed stations to those dominated by Elymus
 athericus. Bird community observed in Atriplex portulacoides habitat showed intermediate values. The grazed habitat was
 the only one avoided by all bird species. This study underlined the contrasted influence of natural and anthropic perturba-
 tions on two bird species (Skylark, European Quail) with unfavorable conservation status in Europe.
SUR LA RÉGULATION OSMOTIQUE ET IONIQUE DE QUELQUES NEPHTHYIDÉS
Creators: name: LEERSNYDER, De Monique
name: GLAÇON, René
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1973

description: N. hombergii and N. caeca behave as euryhaline and poikilosmotic forms when placed in waters of different salinities. Ionic regulation is effective for K+ ion in the two species, for Ca++ and Mg++ ions with N. caeca.
Magnetic monopoles and dyons revisited: A useful contribution to the study of classical mechanics
Creators: name: Santos, Renato P dos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: J.2
subject: 78A35, 70S05, 70H06

description: Graduate level physics curricula in many countries around the world, as well as senior-level undergraduate ones in some major institutions, include Classical Mechanics courses, mostly based on Goldstein's textbook masterpiece. During the discussion of central force motion, however, the Kepler problem is virtually the only serious application presented. In this paper, we present another problem that is also soluble, namely the interaction of Schwinger's dual-charged (dyon) particles. While the electromagnetic interaction of magnetic monopoles and electric charges was studied in detail some 40 years ago, we consider that a pedagogical discussion of it from an essentially classical mechanics point of view is a useful contribution for students. Following a path that generalizes Kepler's problem and Rutherford scattering, we show that they exhibit remarkable properties such as stable non-planar orbits, as well as rainbow and glory scattering, which are not present in the ordinary scattering of two singly charged particles. Moreover, it can be extended further to the relativistic case and to a semi-classical quantization, which can also be included in the class discussion.
description: 23 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication on European Journal of Physics, 2015
Inhibition of microphytobenthic photosynthesis by the herbicides atrazine and diuron
Creators: name: LEGRAND, Hélène
name: HERLORY, Olivier
name: GUARINI, Jean-Marc
name: BLANCHARD, Gérard F.
name: RICHARD, Pierre
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2006

description: Atrazine and diuron are two herbicides present in sediments of the intertidal mudflats in the Pertuis Charentais
 (Atlantic coast, France). They may negatively affect photosynthesis processes in microphytobenthos, the most productive
 primary producer in these environments. The impact of these herbicides on benthic diatoms was investigated using PAM
 fluorimetry on natural microalgal communities, once extracted from sediment, by following the variations of the effective
 quantum yield of PSII (ΦPSII) during exposure to atrazine and diuron concentrations in a range 0.1 µg L-1 - 10 mg L-1. No
 significant effect was noticed for 0.1 µg L-1 concentrations, but progressive reduction in photosynthetic efficiency, always
 occurring within 15 min, was associated with increasing herbicide concentration. Diuron appeared to be more toxic than
 atrazine as shown by the complete inhibition of the photosynthetic processes at concentrations of 100 µg L-1 of diuron, and
 10 mg L-1 of atrazine. A synergistic effect between these two herbicides was noticed only for the lowest concentrations tested.
Additional file 3 of Maternal nutritional risk factors for pre-eclampsia incidence: findings from a narrative scoping review
Creators: name: Kinshella, Mai-Lei Woo
name: Omar, Shazmeen
name: Scherbinsky, Kerri
name: Vidler, Marianne
name: Magee, Laura A.
name: von Dadelszen, Peter
name: Moore, Sophie E.
name: Elango, Rajavel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3. PRISMA flow diagram.
An equatorial ultra iron-poor star identified in BOSS
Creators: name: Prieto, C. Allende
name: Fernandez-Alvar, E.
name: Aguado, D. S.
name: Hernandez, J. I. Gonzalez
name: Rebolo, R.
name: Lee, Y. S.
name: Beers, T. C.
name: Rockosi, C. M.
name: Ge, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the discovery of SDSS J131326.89-001941.4, an ultra iron-poor red giant star ([Fe/H] ~ -4.3) with a very high carbon abundance ([C/Fe]~ +2.5). This object is the fifth star in this rare class, and the combination of a fairly low effective temperature (Teff ~ 5300 K), which enhances line absorption, with its brightness (g=16.9), makes it possible to measure the abundances of calcium, carbon and iron using a low-resolution spectrum from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We examine the carbon and iron abundance ratios in this star and other similar objects in the light of predicted yields from metal-free massive stars, and conclude that they are consistent. By way of comparison, stars with similarly low iron abundances but lower carbon-to-iron ratios deviate from the theoretical predictions.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Prevalence of Rickettsiales in ticks removed from the skin of outdoor workers in North Carolina
Creators: name: Kakumanu, Madhavi L.
name: Meshnick, Steven R.
name: Vaughn, Meagan
name: Apperson, Charles S.
name: Funkhouser, Sheana
name: Thornton, Haley
name: Ponnusamy, Loganathan
name: Lee, Sangmi
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: BackgroundTick-transmitted rickettsial diseases, such as ehrlichiosis and spotted fever rickettsiosis, are significant sources of morbidity and mortality in the southern United States. Because of their exposure in tick-infested woodlands, outdoor workers experience an increased risk of infection with tick-borne pathogens. As part of a double blind randomized-controlled field trial of the effectiveness of permethrin-treated clothing in preventing tick bites, we identified tick species removed from the skin of outdoor workers in North Carolina and tested the ticks for Rickettsiales pathogens.MethodsTicks submitted by study participants from April-September 2011 and 2012 were identified to species and life stage, and preliminarily screened for the genus Rickettsia by nested PCR targeting the 17-kDa protein gene. Rickettsia were further identified to species by PCR amplification of 23S-5S intergenic spacer (IGS) fragments combined with reverse line blot hybridization with species-specific probes and through cloning and nucleotide sequence analysis of 23S-5S amplicons. Ticks were examined for Ehrlichia and Anaplasma by nested PCR directed at the gltA, antigen-expressing gene containing a variable number of tandem repeats, 16S rRNA, and groESL genes.ResultsThe lone star tick (Amblyomma americanum) accounted for 95.0 and 92.9% of ticks submitted in 2011 (n = 423) and 2012 (n = 451), respectively. Specimens of American dog tick (Dermacentor variabilis), Gulf Coast tick (Amblyomma maculatum) and black-legged tick (Ixodes scapularis) were also identified. In both years of our study, 60.9% of ticks tested positive for 17-kDa. “Candidatus Rickettsia amblyommii”, identified in all four tick species, accounted for 90.2% (416/461) of the 23S-5S-positive samples and 52.9% (416/787) of all samples tested. Nucleotide sequence analysis of Rickettsia-specific 23S-5S IGS, ompA and gltA gene fragments indicated that ticks, principally A. americanum, contained novel species of Rickettsia. Other Rickettsiales, including Ehrlichia ewingii, E. chaffeensis, Ehrlichia sp. (Panola Mountain), and Anaplasma phagocytophilum, were infrequently identified, principally in A. americanum.ConclusionsWe conclude that in North Carolina, the most common rickettsial exposure is to R. amblyommii carried by A. americanum. Other Rickettsiales bacteria, including novel species of Rickettsia, were less frequently detected in A. americanum but are relevant to public health nevertheless.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13071-014-0607-2) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
One-loop quantum electrodynamic correction to the gravitational potentials on de Sitter spacetime
Creators: name: Wang, C. L.
name: Woodard, R. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the one-loop photon contribution to the graviton self-energy on a de Sitter background and use it to solve the linearized Einstein equation for a point mass. Our results show that a comoving observer sees a logarithmic spatial running Newton's constant. Equivalently, a static observer reports a secular suppression of the Newtonian potential.
description: Version 3 corrects an error pointed out to us by Frob and Verdaguer in our treatment of the local contribution. We gratefully acknowledge their assistance
Additional file 1 of Pathways and approaches for scaling-up of community-based management of acute malnutrition programs through the lens of complex adaptive systems in South Sudan
Creators: name: Renzaho, Andre M. N.
name: Dachi, Gilbert
name: Ategbo, Eric
name: Chitekwe, Stanley
name: Doh, Daniel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Appendix 1.
MISE EN ÉVIDENCE D'UNE EXCRÉTION DE PTÉRINES PAR UNE POPULATION NATURELLE DE COPÉPODES PLANCTONIQUES MARINS
Creators: name: MOMZIKOFF, André
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1973

description: Several pterins (isoxanthopterin, isodrosopterin, erythropterin) have been found among the metabolites released by a plankton sample of marine copepods. These pterins are only the 10-4th part of the total amount of the nitrogen excretedbytheseanimals.
Questotrentino, 2 novembre 1984, p. 23. Articolo: "E scava, scava, scava..."
Creators: name: Doliana, Claudio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Primo - e unico - articolo giornalistico sull'impianto di depurazione della fabbrica di concentrati minerali (in particolare fluoruro di calcio - CaF2) presso la miniera di Prestavèl in provincia di Trento. L'articolo era uscito otto mesi e mezzo prima del disastro di Tésero-Val di Stava (19 luglio 1985) [lavoro in collaborazione].
Advances in Anticancer Protein Delivery using Micro-/Nanoparticles
Creators: name: Gu, Zhen
name: Lu, Yue
name: Sun, Wujin
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Proteins exhibiting anticancer activities, especially those capable of discriminately killing cancer cells, have attracted increasing interest in developing protein-based anticancer therapeutics. This progress report surveys recent advances in delivering anticancer proteins directly to tumor tissue for inducing apoptosis/necrosis or indirectly to antigen presenting cells for provoking immune responses. Protein delivery carriers such as inorganic particles, lipid particles, polymeric particles, DNA/protein based biomacromolecular particles as well as cell based carriers are reviewed with comments on their advantages and limitations. Future challenges and opportunities are also discussed.
Supplementary tables from Hospital-based zoonotic disease surveillance in Bangladesh: design, field data and difficulties
Creators: name: Pritimoy Das
name: Sazzad, Hossain M.S.
name: Aleem, Mohammad Abdul
name: M. Ziaur Rahman
name: Sturm-Ramirez, Katharine
name: Mahmudur Rahman
name: Anthony, Simon J.
name: W. Ian Lipkin
name: Gurley, Emily S.
name: Luby, Stephen P.
name: Openshaw, John J.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Health Care
subject: Diseases
subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary tables referenced in the text
Additional file 1 of Influences of decision preferences and health literacy on temporomandibular disorder treatment outcome
Creators: name: Kang, Jeong-Hyun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. The differences of psychological evaluation in accordance with level of perceived decision-making.
TLR2 and TLR4 mediate the TNFα response to Vibrio vulnificus biotype 1
Creators: name: Drapp, Rebecca L.
name: Stamm, Lola V.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Vibrio vulnificus (Vv) is a pathogenic bacterium that can cause life-threatening infections in humans. Most fatal cases are due to septic shock that results from dysregulation of cytokines, particularly TNFα, which plays a critical role in the outcome of Vv infection. The goal of this study was to investigate the Toll-like receptor (TLR)-mediated TNFα response to four Vv biotype 1 strains using mice deficient for TLR2, TLR4 and TLR2/TLR4. Ex vivo assays were performed with blood, splenocytes, and Kupffer cells (KC) from wild type (WT) and TLR knockout (KO) mice using formalin-inactivated Vv (f-Vv) as stimulant. All f-Vv biotype 1 strains elicited strong TNFα production by WT mouse blood and cells, which was TLR2- and TLR4-dependent. OxPAPC, an inhibitor of TLR2 and TLR4 signaling, effectively blunted the TLR-mediated TNFα response to f-Vv. Furthermore, TLR2 KO and TLR2/TLR4 KO mice were more resistant to lethal infection with Vv ATCC 27562 than WT mice, perhaps due to attenuation of the TNFα response. These data suggest that it may be possible to devise strategies to specifically target the harmful TLR-mediated TNFα response as an adjunct to antibiotic treatment of severe Vv infection.
Bordetella filamentous hemagglutinin and fimbriae: critical adhesins with unrealized vaccine potential
Creators: name: Scheller, Erich V.
name: Cotter, Peggy A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Pertussis, or whooping cough, is a highly contagious respiratory disease that is caused by the Gram-negative bacterium Bordetella pertussis, which is transmitted exclusively from human to human. While vaccination against B. pertussis has been successful, replacement of the whole cell vaccine with an acellular component vaccine has correlated with reemergence of the disease, especially in adolescents and infants. Based on their presumed importance in mediating adherence to host tissues, filamentous hemagglutinin (FHA) and fimbria (FIM) were selected as components of most acellular pertussis vaccines. In this review, we describe the biogenesis of FHA and FIM, recent data that show that these factors do, in fact, play critical roles in adherence to respiratory epithelium, and evidence that they also contribute to persistence in the lower respiratory tract by modulating the host immune response. We also discuss shortcomings of whole cell and acellular pertussis vaccines and the possibility that FHA and FIM could serve as effective protective antigens in next-generation vaccines.
Factors associated with medication hassles experienced by family caregivers of older adults
Creators: name: Bernard, Marie A.
name: Dmochowski, Jacek
name: Kao, Hsueh Fen S.
name: McAuley, William J.
name: Greene, Ruth
name: Travis, Shirley S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: We wished to identify potential factors associated with medication administration hassles, daily irritants, among informal caregivers who provide long-term medication assistance to persons aged 55 or older.
FREELIVING MARINE NEMATODES FROM STRANGFORD LOUGH, NORTHERN IRELAND
Creators: name: PLATT, Howard M.
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1973

description: Nine new species of freeliving marine nematodes are described from Strang- ford Lough, Northern Ireland. They are Leptolaimus septempapillatiis, Theristus longus, Theristus invagiferous, Microlaimus cuanensis, Nudora bipapillata, Prochro- madorella septemp apillata, Chromadorelia duopapillata, Pomponema sedecima and Chaetonema riemanni. A new name, Theristus riemanni, is proposed for Theristus a if. curvatus Riemann 1966. A key to the genus Chaetonema is given. Axono- laimus helgolandicus Lorenzen 1971 and Odontophora rectángula Lorenzen 1971 are also described.
How would the loss of production due to an herbicide have repercussions in the food web of an intertidal mudflat? Sensitivity analysis of an inverse model for Brouage mudflat, Marennes-Oléron Bay, France
Creators: name: NIQUIL, Nathalie
name: KERLEGUER, Gaëlle
name: LEGUERRIER, Delphine
name: RICHARD, Pierre
name: LEGRAND, Hélène
name: DUPUY, Christine
name: PASCAL, Pierre-Yves
name: BACHER, Cédric
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2006

description: The presence of herbicides in the run-off water coming over Brouage mudflat (Marennes-Oléron Bay, France)
 is suspected to cause a loss of primary production by benthic diatom biofilm. Microphytobenthos being the main primary
 producer of this ecosystem, it was questioned about what could be the effect of such a modification of primary production
 on the entire food web that depends on it. The probable impacts were investigated through a sensitivity analysis conducted
 on the steady-state model of the Brouage mudflat, coupling two seasons and trophic-hydrodynamic flows. The loss of
 benthic primary production had an effect on compartments at a low trophic level, but was buffered at higher levels because
 of the compensation of herbivory by other pathways and especially detritivory. The consequences seemed more important
 on physical flows through resuspension and export by advection, but this should be apprehended through dynamic
 modeling coupling physics and biology.
Additional file 1 of A recurring error in evaluating the effects of different pesticides, pollutants and fertilizers with a zero level
Creators: name: Moreau, Gaétan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. Review of the frequency of use of the Quenouille-Addelman solution in the literature.
Frontier Fields Clusters: Chandra and JVLA View of the Pre-Merging Cluster MACS J0416.1-2403
Creators: name: Ogrean, G.
name: van Weeren, R.
name: Jones, C.
name: Clarke, T. E.
name: Sayers, J.
name: Mroczkowski, T.
name: Nulsen, P. E. J.
name: Forman, W.
name: Murray, S. S.
name: Pandey-Pommier, M.
name: Randall, S.
name: Churazov, E.
name: Bonafede, A.
name: Kraft, R.
name: David, L.
name: Andrade-Santos, F.
name: Merten, J.
name: Zitrin, A.
name: Umetsu, K.
name: Goulding, A.
name: Roediger, E.
name: Bagchi, J.
name: Bulbul, E.
name: Donahue, M.
name: Ebeling, H.
name: Johnston-Hollitt, M.
name: Mason, B.
name: Rosati, P.
name: Vikhlinin, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Merging galaxy clusters leave long-lasting signatures on the baryonic and non-baryonic cluster constituents, including shock fronts, cold fronts, X-ray substructure, radio halos, and offsets between the dark matter and the gas components. Using observations from Chandra, the Jansky Very Large Array, the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope, and the Hubble Space Telescope, we present a multiwavelength analysis of the merging Frontier Fields cluster MACS J0416.1-2403 (z=0.396), which consists of a NE and a SW subclusters whose cores are separated on the sky by ~250 kpc. We find that the NE subcluster has a compact core and hosts an X-ray cavity, yet it is not a cool core. Approximately 450 kpc south-south west of the SW subcluster, we detect a density discontinuity that corresponds to a compression factor of ~1.5. The discontinuity was most likely caused by the interaction of the SW subcluster with a less massive structure detected in the lensing maps SW of the subcluster's center. For both the NE and the SW subclusters, the dark matter and the gas components are well-aligned, suggesting that MACS J0416.1-2403 is a pre-merging system. The cluster also hosts a radio halo, which is unusual for a pre-merging system. The halo has a 1.4 GHz power of (1.06 +/- 0.09) x 10^{24} W Hz^{-1}, which is somewhat lower than expected based on the X-ray luminosity of the cluster. We suggest that we are either witnessing the birth of a radio halo, or have discovered a rare ultra-steep spectrum halo.
description: Submitted to ApJ. Comments are welcome
Bolstering confidence in obesity prevention and treatment counseling for resident and community pediatricians
Creators: name: Perrin, Eliana M.
name: Lazorick, Suzanne
name: Wegner, Steven E.
name: Benjamin, John T.
name: Flower, Kori
name: Teplin, Sari
name: Ammerman, Alice
name: Vann, Julie C.Jacobson
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: To assess whether equipping resident pediatricians and community pediatricians with both training and practical tools improves their perceived confidence, ease, and frequency of obesity-related counseling to patients.
Supplementary Material from A one-dimensional individual-based mechanical model of cell movement in heterogeneous tissues and its coarse-grained approximation.
Creators: name: R. J. Murphy
name: P. R. Buenzli
name: R. E. Baker
name: M. J. Simpson
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Mechanics
subject: 10299 Applied Mathematics not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Mechanical heterogeneity in biological tissues, in particular stiffness, can be used to distinguish between healthy and diseased states. However, it is often difficult to explore relationships between cellular-level properties and tissue-level outcomes when biological experiments are performed at a single scale only. To overcome this difficulty, we develop a multi-scale mathematical model which provides a clear framework to explore these connections across biological scales. Starting with an individual-based mechanical model of cell movement, we subsequently derive a novel coarse-grained system of partial differential equations governing the evolution of the cell density due to heterogeneous cellular properties. We demonstrate that solutions of the individual-based model converge to numerical solutions of the coarse-grained model, for both slowly-varying-in-space and rapidly-varying-in-space cellular properties. We discuss applications of the model, such as determining relative cellular-level properties and an interpretation of data from a breast cancer detection experiment.
Impact of vegetation structure dynamics and usage on the nursery function of West European tidal salt-marshes
Creators: name: PARLIER, Emmanuel P.
name: ALBERT, François
name: CUZANGE, Paul-Alexis
name: DON, Jérémy
name: FEUNTEUN, Eric
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2006

description: An analysis of the fish community of Aiguillon bay (France) and Mont Saint-Michel bay was performed in order
 to identify the fish settler guild structure. Some species settled in salt marshes only in their first years when they were
 young-of-the-year or juveniles ("yoy salt marsh settlers" and "juvenile salt marsh settlers"). Other fish species were
 "resident salt marsh settlers" like gobies (Pomatoschistus spp.) that conduct all their life cycle in this ecosystem. Another
 settler guild is composed of species that show opportunistic settler behaviour. These species forage in the salt marsh at
 either young or adult stages ("opportunistic salt marsh settlers"). Management for bird conservation leads to modifications
 in vegetation structure. The halophytic community is mowed every year during spring and autumn to create favourable
 habitats for Anatidae and wader conservation. This management seems to have adverse effects on the nursery role for fish
 populations such as Seabass. A comparison between the nursery role of Aiguillon bay and Mont Saint-Michel Bay showed
 significant differences. This latter bay sustains preferentially young-of-the-year of pelagic species. The Aiguillon bay
 sustains many YoY species (Seabass, European anchovy and Clupeidae YoY). The key nursery role often described seems
 to be disturbed in Mont Saint-Michel bay. Low juvenile abundances were observed. Sheep grazing impact and invasion by
 the grass Elytrigia spp. seems to have modified the initial nursery function of these coastal zones.
Additional file 1 of Understanding how facilitators adapt to needs of STEM faculty in online learning communities: a case study
Creators: name: Martin, Makenna M.
name: Goldberg, Fred
name: McKean, Michael
name: Price, Edward
name: Turpen, Chandra
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Facilitation suggestions.
Variations in meanings of the personal core value “Health”
Creators: name: Campbell, Marci
name: Sandelowski, Margarete
name: DeVellis, Brenda
name: Allicock, Marlyn
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: Preventive health behavior patterns and practices are influenced by many factors. Knowledge about a person’s core values may improve the ability to predict decisions related to behaviors such as healthy eating.
Using skewness and the first-digit phenomenon to identify dynamical transitions in cardiac models
Creators: name: Seenivasan, Pavithraa
name: Easwaran, Soumya
name: Sridhar, S.
name: Sinha, Sitabhra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Tissues and Organs (q-bio.TO)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Disruptions in the normal rhythmic functioning of the heart, termed as arrhythmia, often result from qualitative changes in the excitation dynamics of the organ. The transitions between different types of arrhythmia are accompanied by alterations in the spatiotemporal pattern of electrical activity that can be measured by observing the time-intervals between successive excitations of different regions of the cardiac tissue. Using biophysically detailed models of cardiac activity we show that the distribution of these time-intervals exhibit a systematic change in their skewness during such dynamical transitions. Further, the leading digits of the normalized intervals appear to fit Benford's law better at these transition points. This raises the possibility of using these observations to design a clinical indicator for identifying changes in the nature of arrhythmia. More importantly, our results reveal an intriguing relation between the changing skewness of a distribution and its agreement with Benford's law, both of which have been independently proposed earlier as indicators of regime shift in dynamical systems.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures; incorporating changes as in the published version
Supplementary Material from A one-dimensional individual-based mechanical model of cell movement in heterogeneous tissues and its coarse-grained approximation
Creators: name: R. J. Murphy
name: P. R. Buenzli
name: R. E. Baker
name: M. J. Simpson
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Mechanics
subject: 10299 Applied Mathematics not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Mechanical heterogeneity in biological tissues, in particular stiffness, can be used to distinguish between healthy and diseased states. However, it is often difficult to explore relationships between cellular-level properties and tissue-level outcomes when biological experiments are performed at a single scale only. To overcome this difficulty, we develop a multi-scale mathematical model which provides a clear framework to explore these connections across biological scales. Starting with an individual-based mechanical model of cell movement, we subsequently derive a novel coarse-grained system of partial differential equations governing the evolution of the cell density due to heterogeneous cellular properties. We demonstrate that solutions of the individual-based model converge to numerical solutions of the coarse-grained model, for both slowly-varying-in-space and rapidly-varying-in-space cellular properties. We discuss applications of the model, such as determining relative cellular-level properties and an interpretation of data from a breast cancer detection experiment.