cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Collaborative UC Teleophthalmology Initiative for Diabetic Retinopathy Screening
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is the leading cause of blindness in adults, and early detection and treatment are critical to prevent vision loss. Yet, fewer than 50% of the 3.2 million Californians with diabetes undergo recommended annual eye screening, with disproportionate impact on vulnerable populations. Teleophthalmology using retinal cameras deployed in primary care settings can increase adherence to retinopathy screening and expand eye care access in California. Recently, implementation of a remote, point-of-care retinal imaging program at UC Davis during the COVID19 pandemic improved eye screening from below national median (46%) to the top quartile of the Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA) benchmarks (>65%). A UCSD study also found that 23% of patients who underwent remote DR screening showed ocular pathology beyond diabetic retinopathy alone. However, widespread and sustained adoption of telehealth programs has been limited by technical, logistical, and financial barriers that vary between UC systems. We propose to establish a Collaborative UC Teleophthalmology Initiative (CUTI) between four UC health campuses (UCD, UCLA, UCSD, and UCSF) to 1) identify barriers to tele-ophthalmology utilization, 2) develop implementation packages to provide long-term, effective solutions to expand eye care access, and 3) develop a centralized repository of retinal images from UC sites for future research correlating retinal pathology to health data using artificial intelligence (AI). Our interdisciplinary collaboration includes experts in public health, diabetes care, clinical informatics, implementation science, and ophthalmic imaging to address obstacles in clinical workflow, technology integration, financial sustainability, and quality reporting. Our program provides training opportunities for medical and research trainees to utilize implementation science to address a public health problem, study health disparities, collaborate in health services research, and develop system-level solutions for long-term sustainability of teleophthalmology programs. Our primary mission is to achieve a 65% benchmark for diabetic eye screening across all 4 UC sites, with secondary goals of reducing healthcare disparities in eye care access in California and developing infrastructure for AI-based health research.
UC Collaborative for AI-enabled Materials Exploration and Optimization (UC-CAMEO)
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: While machine learning is gaining traction across disciplines, the access to, and awareness of data science/artificial intelligence (AI) tools have progressed unevenly across different domains of research. Domain scientists often lack the necessary expertise to fully utilize the libraries of experimental data they generate. Equally, data scientists may not be aware of the research challenges from other disciplines that can motivate new data-science/AI-enabled solutions to important problems relevant to society. There is a critical need to address societal challenges through AI-enabled research and to equip next-generation scientists and engineers with the skills to understand, utilize, and innovate data-science enabled techniques that will lead to optimized processes and reduce the cost (and time) of experiments, eventually enabling more sustainable manufacturing.

 This pilot project will establish a new collaboration of an interdisciplinary team of leaders and junior scholars from four UC campuses, to advance innovations in processes for useful chemicals and materials. The technologies being addressed are highly relevant and timely, such as efficient polymer degradation, renewable energy storage, and cost-efficient pharmaceutical development. Although effort has already been invested into these critical issues, significant challenges remain, as the chemical input space has very large dimensionality, and the experiments populating this space are sparse. Our mission is to integrate human and machine intelligence to achieve the necessary synergies that will allow advances that cannot be achieved solely within an individual discipline. In particular, we will develop probabilistic models to estimate correlations in the databases we create, coupled with existing ones, for predicting optimal processes and conditions of candidate materials, and to quantify the uncertainty in predictions that will motivate new simulations and experiments. We will construct high-fidelity surrogate models to accelerate simulations, and to sequentially reinforce predictions by experiments.

 The outcomes of this Collaborative will augment databases, automate experimental protocols, and advance software packages across research domains. The proposed platform will greatly accelerate digitization in chemical and materials research, and impact standardization and increase productivity.
Graphosoma semipunctatum
Creators: name: Laterza, Ilaria
name: Tamburini, Giovanni
name: Panzarino, Onofrio
name: Loverre, Pamela
name: Mastronardi, Maria Grazia
name: Dioli, Paride
name: Lillo, Enrico De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pentatomidae
Graphosoma
Graphosoma semipunctatum

description: Graphosoma semipunctatum (Fabricius, 1775)
Material examined (n=111): loc. BQ 24.VII.2020; loc. BR 02.VI.2020, 24.VI.2020, 24.VII.2020, 04.IX.2020, 02.X.2020, 31.X.2020; loc. BS 03.VI.2020, 30.VI.2020, 25.VII.2020, 31.VIII.2020, 06.X.2020, 03.XI.2020; loc. CM 25.08.201 6 leg. OP, 03.IX.2020, 01.X.2020; loc. AN 26.06.201 7 leg. PL; loc. 03.VI.2020, 25.VI.2020, 25.VII.2020, 06.X.2020; loc. MC 29.VI.2020, 27.VII.2020, 01.IX.2020, 30.IX.2020; loc. MS 04.VI.2020, 01.X.2020, 02.XI.2020; loc. PM 23.VI.2020, 29.VII.2020, 03.IX.2020, 01.X.2020; loc. PG 03. V.2017 leg. MM, 28.VII.2020; loc. RG 23.IX.2016 leg. OP, 28.VII.2020, 02.IX.2020, 29.IX.2020; loc. S1 02.VI.2020, 24.VII.2020, 04.IX.2020; loc. S2 29.VI.2020, 01.IX.2020.
Distribution: Widespread in Southern and Central Europe, North Africa (Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia) and Asia (Afghanistan?, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey (Asian part), Turkmenistan).
description: Published as part of Laterza, Ilaria, Tamburini, Giovanni, Panzarino, Onofrio, Loverre, Pamela, Mastronardi, Maria Grazia, Dioli, Paride & Lillo, Enrico De, 2022, The first annotated checklist of Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) fauna of Alta Murgia National Park (Apulia region, Southern Italy), pp. 401-420 in Zootaxa 5219 (5) on page 414, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5219.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7431348
Tholagmus flavolineatus
Creators: name: Laterza, Ilaria
name: Tamburini, Giovanni
name: Panzarino, Onofrio
name: Loverre, Pamela
name: Mastronardi, Maria Grazia
name: Dioli, Paride
name: Lillo, Enrico De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pentatomidae
Tholagmus
Tholagmus flavolineatus

description: Tholagmus flavolineatus (Fabricius, 1798) (Fig. 5)
Material examined (n=1): loc. S2 29. V.2021.
Distribution: Widespread in Europe, North Africa (Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia) and Asia. Extralimital records in Pakistan.
description: Published as part of Laterza, Ilaria, Tamburini, Giovanni, Panzarino, Onofrio, Loverre, Pamela, Mastronardi, Maria Grazia, Dioli, Paride & Lillo, Enrico De, 2022, The first annotated checklist of Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) fauna of Alta Murgia National Park (Apulia region, Southern Italy), pp. 401-420 in Zootaxa 5219 (5) on page 414, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5219.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7431348
Routes of Enslavement in the Americas
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Launched online in 2018, the Intra-American Slave Trade Database, created by Alex Borucki (UCI) and Gregory O’Malley (UCSC), documents more than 27,000 trafficking voyages from one part of the Americas to another from 1550 to 1860. This MRPI will expand this collaboration to a network of scholars and students to strengthen the study of this traffic at the UC and to increase the database’s coverage. With Sabrina Smith (UCM), they will target three core areas: 1) interregional movements of African and African-descended captives within colonial Mexico (including California), 2) investigation of the Black Pacific by tracking coastal trafficking routes involving ports from California to Chile, and 3) further research on Caribbean migrations (coerced and free) of African-descended people between islands and with the mainland Americas. Borucki, O’Malley, and Smith will coordinate with other UC faculty, postdoctoral fellows, graduate, and undergraduate students, as well as with other scholars from the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Year 1, led by O’Malley, examines Caribbean maritime spaces and the trafficking of enslaved people between French, Spanish, Dutch, Danish, and British colonies. Since this is a core region of coverage for the existing database, the focus here will be on expanded collaboration and new research strategies to address gaps. This year will also focus on outreach to new collaborators to plan for new research directions of years two and three. It will also involve the creation of an undergraduate internship program at UCSC to facilitate student research on the project. Year 2, led by Borucki, highlights the Black Pacific by systematizing regional databases and examining primary sources on the traffic of captives between ports of the Pacific Americas such as Acapulco, Lima, and Valparaiso. Year 3, led by Smith, focuses on creating a database to examine the movement of enslaved people within the colony of New Spain (today’s Mexico and parts of the United States and Central America). The creation of this database will bring together research on regional archival records across Mexico from scholars in the United States and Mexico. Both in year 2 and year 3, teacher workshops will be organized at UCI and UCM, which will connect California’s past with the broader histories of the slave trade in the United States and Latin America.
Stephanotrypeta Hendel 1931
Creators: name: El-Hawagry, Magdi S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tephritidae
Stephanotrypeta

description: Genus STEPHANOTRYPETA Hendel
Stephanotrypeta Hendel, 1931b: 8. Type species: Stephanotrypeta brevicosta Hendel 1931, monotypy. Terpnodesma Munro, 1956: 469. Type species: Terellia taeniaptera Bezzi, original designation.
description: Published as part of El-Hawagry, Magdi S., 2017, Catalogue of Egyptian Tephritoidea (Diptera: Schizophora: Acalyptratae), pp. 151-190 in Zootaxa 4299 (2) on page 168, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4299.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/843233
Anti-Asian Violence: Origins and Trajectories
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Violent attacks against Asian Americans have risen exponentially since the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nearly 40 percent of incidents reported nationwide have occurred in California. Our transdisciplinary research team will undertake an in-depth examination of the multi-faceted conditions of this violence, and of possible responses.

 One predominant narrative of anti-Asian violence posits a unitary historical figure subject to exclusion, drawing a direct line between the historical legal context and the violence of today. A predominant response is to assume that this violence will end through more surveillance, policing, and the designation of cases of anti-Asian violence as hate crimes. Our research team has found that these dominant narratives put too much weight on the concept of hate, rendering anti-Asian violence the effect of individual prejudice, leading to limited responses. We will examine several historical trajectories of anti-Asian violence across multiple scales, in relation to causes that are local, national, and transnational. In addition, we will examine differences of gender, class, nationality, sexuality, and ethnicity elided in the idea of a unitary “Asian American” victim of violence. We will critically examine how the Asian/American body is mobilized in relation to the carceral state and will work to envision diverse modes of sustaining livable communities and forging multiracial alliances.

 Drawing from expertise in the fields of Asian American Studies, Law, Gender Studies, Art, Performance, Social Welfare and American Studies, our research will tackle this problem with multiple approaches. We plan a working group to research historical trajectories of and existing responses to anti-Asian violence and will generate a white paper with our findings. We will edit a special issue of a journal devoted to new approaches to anti-Asian violence. We will co-teach an undergraduate course drawing from our expertise on this issue, and will organize a graduate student workshop that will lead to peer reviewed publication. Finally, we will curate a creative production and mini-exhibition to showcase the role of the arts in responding to anti-Asian violence. These activities will enable the University of California to emerge as the thought leader on the urgent issue of how to understand and address anti-Asian violence.
THS Chemistry: Exposure assessment, quantification metrics, and remediation
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Chemical processes determine the persistence, partitioning and transformations of tobacco-related contaminants in the indoor environment. Policy and technical decisions are informed by our understanding of how non-smokers are exposed to those toxic compounds. In previous funding cycles, our group has contributed to the Thirdhand Smoke (THS) Consortium by describing the chemical composition and transformations of THS, describing exposure routes, quantifying intake, assessing the efficacy of remediation approaches, and developing sampling and analytical methods. In this new phase of the Consortium, we propose to:

 • Characterize emissions, indoor fate and chemical transformations of carcinogens from cannabis and cannabis/tobacco co-use, assessing exposure via inhalation, dermal uptake and ingestion. A bench-scale chamber will be built to smoke cannabis and tobacco cigarettes, sampling and analyzing compounds in air and adsorbed onto model indoor materials. Non-additive interactions between tobacco and cannabis emissions will be investigated.

 • Analyze toxic trace metals in tobacco and cannabis THS aerosols, contaminated surface materials and house dust. We will quantify trace elements, including rare earths, using state-of-the-art instrumentation with very low limit of quantification. This information will enable estimating exposure doses, their contribution to health effects, and evaluating their possible uses as THS environmental tracers.

 • Develop, validate and promote the adoption and implementation of a methodology to quantify THS contamination using a scale of reference levels, to better inform prevention, treatment and policy. These metrics will serve as a tool to design middlegame/endgame strategies, e.g., by supporting smoke-free and tobacco-free policies.

 • Identify effective remediation strategies targeting deep THS reservoirs in porous indoor materials. We will assess the efficiency of paints and coatings in reducing pollutant emissions from THS-contaminated gypsum wallboard. We will also investigate the efficiency of ozonation in the abatement of THS contamination from mattresses, upholstery and wallboard. In addition to quantifying the elimination of THS, we will also follow the formation of oxidized byproducts of potential concern, to fully capture the benefits and limitations of ozonation.
D4.13 Common semantic framework (interim)
Creators: name: Degl'Innocenti, Emiliano
name: Spadi, Alessia
name: Coradeschi, Francesco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: WP4 is focused on developing interoperability between available resources both at a physical level, creating the H2IOSC National Cloud Infrastructure and at a semantic level, by translating the state of knowledge with respect to the resources offered by each RI into a common semantic interdisciplinary and interoperable representation (i.e.: the H2IOSC reference ontology). WP4 will focus on the alignment (i.e.: collection, cleaning, mapping, and modeling) of resources gathered by the 4 participating RIs. To facilitate the alignment, a common mapping schema will be deployed to support the data transformation process: from the original format(s) towards the H2IOSC reference ontology. The actual H2IOSC-RO (Reference Ontology) development is meant to create a level of interoperability between resources gathered by RIs, by providing a shared Conceptual Reference Model to represent information coming from heterogeneous sources using a common vision. The development workflow involves: i) analyzing the state of the art and focusing on common problems related to the management of information provided by the RIs; ii) providing a pipeline of validated actions and guidelines on the assessment and semantization of data; iii) offering practical methods for heterogeneous data integration, including transformation and validation, fostering resources exploitation and reuse.
Stephanotrypeta brevicosta Hendel 1931
Creators: name: El-Hawagry, Magdi S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tephritidae
Stephanotrypeta
Stephanotrypeta brevicosta

description: Stephanotrypeta brevicosta Hendel, 1931
Stephanotrypeta brevicosta Hendel, 1931b: 9. Egypt (Gebel [Jabal] Elba: Wadi Edeib). (7 syntypes in ESEC). Distribution. AF: Egypt [Gebel Elba], Kenya.
Egyptian localities. Coastal Strip: Dekheila. Eastern Desert: Ghoubbet El-Bous. Gebel Elba: Wadi Edeib. Host plants. Lantana (Lantana sp.). Source: Freidberg (1979a). Dates of collection. January to June.
description: Published as part of El-Hawagry, Magdi S., 2017, Catalogue of Egyptian Tephritoidea (Diptera: Schizophora: Acalyptratae), pp. 151-190 in Zootaxa 4299 (2) on page 168, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4299.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/843233
Early oral immunotherapy in peanut-allergic preschool children is safe and highly effective
Creators: name: Berglund, Jelena P.
name: Fine, Jason P.
name: Wright, Benjamin L.
name: Kim, Edwin H.
name: Vickery, Brian P.
name: Burk, Caitlin M.
name: Burks, A. Wesley
name: Ye, Ping
name: Wood, Robert A.
name: Kulis, Michael
name: Guo, Rishu
name: Steele, Pamela H.
name: Keet, Corinne A.
name: Orgel, Kelly G.
name: Virkud, Yamini V.
name: Kim, Jung In
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2016

description:
BACKGROUND: Oral immunotherapy (OIT) is an effective experimental food allergy treatment that is limited by treatment withdrawal and the frequent reversibility of desensitization if interrupted. Newly diagnosed preschool children may have clinical and immunological characteristics more amenable to treatment. OBJECTIVE: We sought to test the safety, effectiveness, and feasibility of early OIT (E-OIT) in the treatment of peanut allergy. METHODS: We enrolled 40 children aged 9 to 36 months with suspected or known peanut allergy. Qualifying subjects reacted to peanut during an entry food challenge and were block-randomized 1:1 to receive E-OIT at goal maintenance doses of 300 or 3000 mg/d in a double-blinded fashion. The primary end point, sustained unresponsiveness at 4 weeks after stopping early intervention oral immunotherapy (4-SU), was assessed by double-blinded, placebo-controlled food challenge either upon achieving 4 prespecified criteria, or after 3 maintenance years. Peanut-specific immune responses were serially analyzed. Outcomes were compared with 154 matched standard-care controls. RESULTS: Of 40 consented subjects, 3 (7.5%) did not qualify. Overall, 29 of 37 (78%) in the intent-to-treat analysis achieved 4-SU (300-mg arm, 17 of 20 [85%]; 3000 mg, 12 of 17 [71%], P = .43) over a median of 29 months. Per-protocol, the overall proportion achieving 4-SU was 29 of 32 (91%). Peanut-specific IgE levels significantly declined in E-OIT-treated children, who were 19 times more likely to successfully consume dietary peanut than matched standard-care controls, in whom peanut-specific IgE levels significantly increased (relative risk, 19.42; 95% CI, 8.7-43.7; P < .001). Allergic side effects during E-OIT were common but all were mild to moderate. CONCLUSIONS: At both doses tested, E-OIT had an acceptable safety profile and was highly successful in rapidly suppressing allergic immune responses and achieving safe dietary reintroduction.
Strengthening Policy and Translational Research to Advance Health Equity in California
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Strategies to bridge the gap between research evidence and policy can help to address health inequities in California. This MRPI will catalyze a new multicampus collaboration across four UC campuses (UC Irvine, UC Berkeley, UC Merced, UC Riverside) to strengthen and expand health equity and policy research capacity. Our specific aims are to:
 1. build health equity and policy research capacity and infrastructure across three Minority Serving Institutions in the UC system (UC Irvine, UC Merced, UC Riverside);
 2. conduct formative research to inform the development and implementation of translational research products; and
 3. collaborate with policy and community stakeholders in Merced and Riverside Counties to conduct translational research-to-policy projects that address local health equity needs.

 This three-year initiative will have short-term and intermediate impacts by producing policy-relevant products and scientific articles to advance the translation of research evidence into policy. The California Initiative for Health Equity and Action (Cal-IHEA), a UC faculty-led effort housed at UC Berkeley to promote health equity through state policy change, will serve as the lead organization. In 2023, Cal-IHEA’s leadership and administration will transition to UC Irvine, a Hispanic Serving Institution with growing health policy expertise. This project leverages this leadership transition and would launch a distinct focus on local evidence-based policymaking with new collaborators at UC Merced and UC Riverside.

 Project activities include research and analytical training, mentoring, and financial support for graduate and undergraduate students at three UC campuses. First, we will examine how research evidence is used and integrated into state and local policy and identify the extent to which health equity values and concerns are reflected. Next, we will collaborate with two equity-focused community partners in Merced and Riverside Counties to carry out community-engaged research projects to promote local policy change and improve regional health. These projects can serve as models of how to conduct multidisciplinary health research aligned with local needs. Results will be used to develop grant proposals for extramural funding from policy-focused foundations, federal research agencies, and state government agencies.
Ventocoris falcatus
Creators: name: Laterza, Ilaria
name: Tamburini, Giovanni
name: Panzarino, Onofrio
name: Loverre, Pamela
name: Mastronardi, Maria Grazia
name: Dioli, Paride
name: Lillo, Enrico De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pentatomidae
Ventocoris
Ventocoris falcatus

description: Ventocoris falcatus (Cyrillus, 1791) (Fig. 6)
Material examined (n=2): loc. RG 04.VI.2020, 28.VII.2020.
Distribution: Widespread in Southern Europe (France, Italy, Malta, Spain) and North Africa (Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia).
description: Published as part of Laterza, Ilaria, Tamburini, Giovanni, Panzarino, Onofrio, Loverre, Pamela, Mastronardi, Maria Grazia, Dioli, Paride & Lillo, Enrico De, 2022, The first annotated checklist of Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) fauna of Alta Murgia National Park (Apulia region, Southern Italy), pp. 401-420 in Zootaxa 5219 (5) on page 414, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5219.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7431348
UC-Dust: Addressing Future Changes in California Dust Storms
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Dust storms are a common occurrence in many parts of California and are associated with a multitude of negative human health, economic, and environmental impacts. A growing body of evidence suggests that as the planet warms the frequency and severity of dust storms will increase, and thus it is likely that dust storms will play an increasing role in the economy, health, and environment of California. Despite this, little is known about many aspects of current dust storm activity, including the conditions in which dust storms typically occur, its connection to recent drought, the communities most affected, the spectrum of health impacts, and the costs to the state’s economy. Even less is understood about future changes in dust storms and those impacts.

 The main goal of UC-Dust is to address the state’s looming dust storm crisis. The first steps towards achieving this goal include assessing the current level of understanding, identifying critical areas where new knowledge is needed, compiling realistic mitigation and adaptation strategies, and communicating the issues with community partners and policymakers. UC-Dust brings together scholars who possess expertise in the nature and consequences of dust storms and are particularly well-suited to assess the impact of current and future dust in California. UC-Dust proposes the following activities: 1) Quantify current dust storm activity in California and impacts on human health, the environment, environmental justice, and the economy. 2) Identify likely future dust scenarios, impacts, and mitigation and adaptation strategies. 3) Ascertain key areas where lack of knowledge inhibits our ability to characterize current or future dust storm activity and consequences. 4) Generate a detailed report communicating main findings and a scientific summary brief for policy makers, and communicate findings to policymakers and community groups representing affected people.

 One expected impact of this project is to improve the level of scientific understanding of dust storms and their consequences within the state and build the capacity to address the outstanding scientific questions. Another is to foster better informed communities, community groups, and policymakers, who will in-turn have more agency to demand action and direct state resources towards addressing gaps in understanding and mitigation and adaptation efforts.
Acanthiophilus Becker 1908
Creators: name: El-Hawagry, Magdi S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tephritidae
Acanthiophilus

description: Genus ACANTHIOPHILUS Becker
Acanthiophilus Becker, 1908: 136.Type species: Tetanocera walkeri Wollaston, 1858, original designation.
description: Published as part of El-Hawagry, Magdi S., 2017, Catalogue of Egyptian Tephritoidea (Diptera: Schizophora: Acalyptratae), pp. 151-190 in Zootaxa 4299 (2) on page 168, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4299.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/843233
CIRQIT - Collaborative Interdisciplinary Research in Quantum Information Topics
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Overview - The goal of Collaborative Interdisciplinary Research in Quantum Information Topics (CIRQIT) initiative is to create an interdisciplinary alliance of Northern California UC campuses to explore quantum phenomena that transcend experimental platforms. Our team combines experts in quantum nanophotonics (UC Davis, Radulaski), quantum nanoelectronics (UC Berkeley, Siddiqi), solid state quantum computing and quantum optics (UC Merced, Tian), ab initio studies (UC Santa Cruz, Ping), and correlated quantum matter (UC Davis, Scalettar), that span career stages, experimental and theoretical research. We plan to work with LBNL’s Advance Quantum Testbed - AQT (headed by Co-PI Siddiqi) through the established user program and at no additional cost to the project. Our plan is focused on 1) the CIRQIT community creation with inclusive training of graduate students and 2) the pursuit of interdisciplinary research goals in quantum information systems.

 Community – We plan to leverage the broad expertise of our team and the diversity of students represented on our campuses to meaningfully engage students in education and hands on research in quantum information. Three of our campuses (UCM, UCD, UCSC) are minority serving institutions that train a number of Hispanic, Asian American, and Pacific Islander students, as well as first-generation college students. We will follow our institutions’ proven diversity, equity, and inclusion practices in engaging the community. Bringing on board different perspectives in this academically and economically growing field will benefit both the quantum information research and the communities that engage in it.

 Research – Our team has identified interdisciplinary research goals in quantum electrodynamics (QED) to pursue over the two-year duration of the pilot program. Here we start from the parallels between the cavity QED and the circuit QED, which both study light and matter interaction but at energy levels, optical and microwave, that are five orders of magnitude apart. We find that the emerging phenomena in cavity QED unique to the development of quantum internet and distributed quantum computing over the next decade, can already be explored in circuit QED and used to drive research in quantum communications, simulation and computing forward at a much faster pace.
Ventocoris rusticus
Creators: name: Laterza, Ilaria
name: Tamburini, Giovanni
name: Panzarino, Onofrio
name: Loverre, Pamela
name: Mastronardi, Maria Grazia
name: Dioli, Paride
name: Lillo, Enrico De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pentatomidae
Ventocoris
Ventocoris rusticus

description: Ventocoris rusticus (Fabricius, 1781)
Material examined (n=32): loc. BR 24.VI.2020, 24.VII.2020; loc. BS 03.VI.2020, 30.VI.2020; loc. CM 23. VI.2020; loc. LG 03. VI.2020; loc. RG 04.VI.2020, 01.VII.2020; loc. S1 25.VI.2020, 24.VII.2020, 02.X.2020; loc. S2 07. VI.2020.
Distribution: Widespread in Europe (Albania, Bosnia Herzegovina, Croatia, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Malta, Macedonia Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia) and Asia (Turkey (Asian part)).
description: Published as part of Laterza, Ilaria, Tamburini, Giovanni, Panzarino, Onofrio, Loverre, Pamela, Mastronardi, Maria Grazia, Dioli, Paride & Lillo, Enrico De, 2022, The first annotated checklist of Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) fauna of Alta Murgia National Park (Apulia region, Southern Italy), pp. 401-420 in Zootaxa 5219 (5) on page 415, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5219.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7431348
The California Interfacial Science Institute (CISI)
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: The world around us is governed by constant exchange of energy and particles at interfaces. Understanding interfacial chemistry at a molecular level is therefore of striking importance for a wide array of current challenges, such as clean water production, carbon dioxide capture, removal of plastics from water, clean energy production by photocatalysis, and energy storage in next-generation solid-state batteries. Despite this central importance of interfacial chemistry, relatively little is known about interfacial electronic and molecular structures, the electronic and atomistic dynamics, and how structure and dynamics lead to observed macroscopic properties.

 The overarching goal of the California Interfacial Science Institute (CISI) is to coordinate and consolidate theoretical and experimental efforts across the University of California and to leverage the combined expertise towards the creation of a world-leading center for interfacial science. In this program, building on important results and unique method developments from the pilot phase of this program, we propose to expand the research to complex chemical phenomena in liquid water and hydrophobic liquid interfaces relevant to carbon dioxide capture, electric field induced surface catalysis relevant to the environment and green chemistry, in operando ion-charge dynamics at solid-solid interfaces relevant to energy conversion and storage, and the local electric field and dielectric effects in solutions and at interfaces relevant to all interfacial chemistry.

 CISI involves leading experts in condensed phase and interfacial linear and nonlinear spectroscopy experiments (UCB, UCM, UCLA, LBNL), transport design (UCB, LLNL), and theory and computation (UCSC, UCM, LLNL, UCSD, UCSB, UCLA). Our multidisciplinary research team will jointly develop advanced experimental techniques that enable studying complex interfaces, and models to simulate and interpret interfacial structure and dynamics. The molecular level understanding obtained in the proposed studies will lead to new technological developments for addressing critical contemporary challenges. CISI includes a broad training component for both graduate and undergraduate students for developing the next generation of interdisciplinary researchers in interfacial science. CISI also will engage with the public through an expansive outreach program.
Acanthiophilus helianthi
Creators: name: El-Hawagry, Magdi S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tephritidae
Acanthiophilus
Acanthiophilus helianthi

description: Acanthiophilus helianthi (Rossi, 1790)
Musca helianthi Rossi, 1794: 73. Syntypes. Italy (Etruria) (ZMHB).
Trypeta eluta Meigen, 1826: 344. Syntypes. France; Portugal; Germany (MNHNP).
Distribution. AF: Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan. OR: India, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand. PA: Afghanistan, Andorra, Canary Is., Central Asia, China (Xinjiang, Beijing), Egypt, Europe, Israel, Iran, Kazakhstan, Madeira Is., Mongolia, Russia, Tunisia.
Egyptian localities. Common throughout the country, particularly in: Coastal Strip: Alexandria, El-Burg, Mariout, Mersa Matrouh, Nuzha. Gebel Elba. Eastern Desert: Port Said, Suez Road, Suez Road, Wadi Abu Nossour, Wadi Digla, Wadi Garawi, Wadi Hoff, Wadi Rashid, Wadi Rishrash, Wadi Um Biar (Near Qussair), Wadi Um Elek. Lower Nile Valley and Delta: Abu Rawash, Birqash, Cairo, Ezbet El-Nakhl, Faraskour, Helwan, Kafr Hakim, Kerdassa. Sinai: Ain Gedeirat, Wadi Tih. Western Desert: Kharga Oasis, Siwa. Upper Nile Valley: Aswan, Komombo.
Host plants. Brown knapweed (Centaurea jacea L.), cornflower (Centaurea cyanus L.), Egyptian starthistle (Centaurea aegyptiaca L.), jersey knapweed (Centaurea paniculata L.), knapweed (Centaurea pallescens Delile), illyrian thistle (Onopordum illyricum L.), milk thistle [Silybum marianum (L.) Gaertn.], safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) aan stemless star-thistle (Centaurea acaulis L.). Sources: Efflatoun (1924a); Kugler & Freidberg (1976); Freidberg & Kugler (1989).
Dates of collection. Throughout the year.
description: Published as part of El-Hawagry, Magdi S., 2017, Catalogue of Egyptian Tephritoidea (Diptera: Schizophora: Acalyptratae), pp. 151-190 in Zootaxa 4299 (2) on page 168, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4299.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/843233
Vilpianus galii
Creators: name: Laterza, Ilaria
name: Tamburini, Giovanni
name: Panzarino, Onofrio
name: Loverre, Pamela
name: Mastronardi, Maria Grazia
name: Dioli, Paride
name: Lillo, Enrico De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pentatomidae
Vilpianus
Vilpianus galii

description: Vilpianus galii (Wolff, 1802)
Material examined (n=9): loc. PM 29.VII.2020; loc. PG 27.V.2020, 01.VII.2020, 28.VII.2020, 02.IX.2020, 29.IX.2020; loc. RG 29.IX.2020; loc. S2 27.VII.2020.
Distribution: Widespread in Europe, North Africa (Algeria) and Western Asia (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kirgizia, Syria, Turkey (Asian part), Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan).
description: Published as part of Laterza, Ilaria, Tamburini, Giovanni, Panzarino, Onofrio, Loverre, Pamela, Mastronardi, Maria Grazia, Dioli, Paride & Lillo, Enrico De, 2022, The first annotated checklist of Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) fauna of Alta Murgia National Park (Apulia region, Southern Italy), pp. 401-420 in Zootaxa 5219 (5) on page 415, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5219.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7431348
Ferroelectric oxide membranes for low-energy next-generation electronics
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Despite ever-improving computing efficiency, information technology represents the fastest growing energy consumer and will have significant implications for U.S. energy consumption in the near-term future. This impending challenge threatens the nation’s ability to solve important problems across science, technology, and energy. Without improvements in computing efficiency, the explosion of the Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence applications will exponentially increase energy use. A complete rethinking of how computing is performed is needed to develop the next generation of microelectronics. One pathway to highly efficient computing is to introduce novel materials that can be operated at voltages (powers) much lower than those in use today. In this project, we propose to investigate a family of ferroelectric oxide materials which hold promise for enabling energy-efficient electronics. Ferroelectrics are materials that exhibit a spontaneous electrical polarization that can be reversed by the application of an electric field. The two directions of the polarization in a ferroelectric encode two states (0 and 1), which can be harnessed for use in logic and memory devices. Typically, scientists create ferroelectric oxides in bulk or thin-film form (where thin layers of the ferroelectric are grown on top of another material). We will investigate ferroelectric oxides realized in a novel form introduced in just the past few years: freestanding membranes. Ferroelectric-oxide membranes may hold several advantages for device applications, including low-energy operation, ultrafast polarization switching speeds, and ready integration with existing silicon-based platforms. However, these properties of oxide membranes remain almost completely unexplored. This program will combine experimental synthesis, characterization, and quantum mechanical computer simulations of ferroelectric-oxide membranes with the goal of understanding and optimizing their properties for energy-efficient computing. We will investigate how mechanical stretching of the membranes tunes the energy landscape and facilitates low-energy and ultrafast polarization control, thus enabling low-power applications. The expected outcome will be a proof of concept of ferroelectric-oxide membrane functionality, which we will further develop by applying for external funding opportunities.
The UC Glycosciences Consortium for Women’s Health
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Our goal is to advance areas of women’s health research that are understudied relative to their impact on quality of life, health outcomes, and participation in the California workforce. To do this, our consortium (in the planning stage) will cross-fertilize women’s health with another unique strength of the UC system – Glycoscience.

 All cells display and secrete a complex molecular code of carbohydrate chains (glycans). Glycans establish cellular identity and function and are directly implicated in many common human diseases. Likewise, glycans are also commonly used as pharmacologic agents that promote or disrupt biologic processes. Our goals are to maintain the University of California’s position as a world leader in the separate fields of glycoscience and women’s health, while building cohesion and capacity for pioneering research at their interface.

 This 2-year planning grant aims to establish the UC Glycosciences Consortium for Women’s Health. The consortium will be led by investigators at UCSD (PI: Lewis), UCSF (Co-PI: Fisher), and UCD (Co-PI: Lebrilla). As a planning grant, the goals are threefold. First, we aim to attract women’s health researchers into the glycosciences by providing seed support for glycan analysis for new collaborative projects. We have selected five pilot projects for initial support in diverse areas impacting women, such as the vaginal microbiome, maternal immunity, pregnancy complications, and birth injury. Analysis of project samples, most of which are already available, will occur in the GlycoAnalytics core facility at UCSD and the Lebrilla Medical Glycomics Mass Spec Lab at UC Davis. Second, we hope to foster cohesion and world-class research in the Glycoscience of Women’s Health by hosting two events: 1) a research symposium that cultivates innovative UC research collaborations, mentorship, and career development, and 2) GlycoBootcamp, a hands-on research training workshop in glycan analysis. We will enhance training opportunities and encourage diverse trainee participation by awarding scholarships to attend these events. It is our intent that these activities will 1) attract and retain diverse talent to the Glycosciences, 2) drive new discoveries that value the health of women, and 3) build a framework that will ultimately establish UC as the premier global leader in the glycoscience of women’s health.
Solenosthedium bilunatum
Creators: name: Laterza, Ilaria
name: Tamburini, Giovanni
name: Panzarino, Onofrio
name: Loverre, Pamela
name: Mastronardi, Maria Grazia
name: Dioli, Paride
name: Lillo, Enrico De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Scutelleridae
Solenosthedium
Solenosthedium bilunatum

description: Solenosthedium bilunatum (Lefebvre, 1827) (Fig. 7)
Material examined (n=2): loc. OL1 (41°12′ N, 16°36′ E) 21.X.2020 leg. ED; loc. OL2 (41°07′31″ N 16°52′00″ E) 26.X.2020 leg. UP.
Distribution: Widespread in Southern Europe (Albania, Croatia, France- Corsica, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Spain), North Africa (Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia) and Western Asia (Cyprus, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey (Asian part)).
Remarks: The two specimens were collected in urban area on Schinus molle L. and Citrus reticulata Blanco, which are new host plants. Usually, this species lives on Anacardiaceae species. First record in Apulia region (Southern Italy).
description: Published as part of Laterza, Ilaria, Tamburini, Giovanni, Panzarino, Onofrio, Loverre, Pamela, Mastronardi, Maria Grazia, Dioli, Paride & Lillo, Enrico De, 2022, The first annotated checklist of Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) fauna of Alta Murgia National Park (Apulia region, Southern Italy), pp. 401-420 in Zootaxa 5219 (5) on page 415, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5219.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7431348
An interdisciplinary approach to the study of Spanish-English bilingualism in California
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: This collaborative initiative will enhance the research capacity and leadership of the UC system to address the linguistic issues of language contact, language shift, and language maintenance in the Spanish-speaking population of California by developing a robust and linguistically rich corpus of bilingual Spanish-English speech samples (Multilingual Hispanic Speech in California; MuHSiC) culled from sociolinguistic interviews and naturalistic conversations among speakers of diverse social profiles and regional origins throughout California. The audio recordings will be made available on an open website where researchers, teachers, students, and the public will be able to access a linguistic map of California Spanish-English bilingual speech. This research has two main outcomes: (i) the creation of an open-source oral corpus of Spanish-English bilingual speech in California, and (ii) the inauguration of a conference on bilingualism and speech in California to disseminate the results and encourage cross-campus collaborations. The project will design a targeted research strategy for UC by involving graduate students, engaging underrepresented undergraduate students in field research experience, and engaging with multiple cities and counties in our state, ultimately establishing UC as an international leader in bilingualism research.