cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Untranslatability of the Holy Quran: Analytical Perspective with Reference to Four English Translations
Creators: name: Elmenfi, Fadil
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 200323 Translation and Interpretation Studies
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: The central demand elevated in this article is: Is it possible to translate the ‘genre’ of Quran? This article tried to involve some syntactic, semantic, cultural as well as stylistic difficulties and supports the argument with samples of verses from the Quran along with exegesis. However, evaluation and examination of data were based on the following four translations of the Holy Quran: The Koran Interpreted, by A. J. Arberry, The Koran by N. J. Dawood, Interpretation of the Meanings of the Noble Quran by Al-Hilali and Khan, and The Meaning of the Holy Quran by Ali. Approximately reliable Quranic exegeses are referring to in addition to some well-known and significant dictionaries to discover the translator’s necessity to depend upon such explanations when translating the Holy Quran. One leading conclusion made in this investigation is that the job of translating the meaning of Quran cannot be correctly carried out by translators on single basis; reasonably, it must be institutionalized. The study concluded that the Quran translators, associated to other literary genres, face lots of complications in decoding the Quranic source text message. The translations of the Holy Quran were unsuccessful to its originality and the connotative shades of meanings of the unique expression.
Supplementary_material_2 – Supplemental material for Cross-cultural adaptation of children’s environmental health questionnaires for nursing students in England
Creators: name: Álvarez-García, Cristina
name: Álvarez-Nieto, Carmen
name: Carter, Rachel
name: Kelsey, Janet
name: Sanz-Martos, Sebastián
name: López-Medina, Isabel M
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: Education

description: Supplemental material, Supplementary_material_2 for Cross-cultural adaptation of children’s environmental health questionnaires for nursing students in England by Cristina Álvarez-García, Carmen Álvarez-Nieto, Rachel Carter, Janet Kelsey, Sebastián Sanz-Martos and Isabel M López-Medina in Health Education Journal
Advancing Climate Resilience through Youth-led Action Research in Oakland, CA
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: 2025

description: The proposed project aims to provide opportunities for youth to lead community-wide, climate-related action research and education efforts in one of Oakland’s most climate vulnerable communities. The project will utilize a modified version of a proven effective climate justice and community science research curriculum developed through a collaboration between Frontline Catalysts and UC Berkeley’s East Bay Academy for Young Scientists. The curriculum will be adapted and implemented to effectively address climate resiliency and California’s climate education priorities. Youth participants will be enrolled in middle and high schools located in Oakland’s Interstate 880 corridor; an area identified by CalEPA as a disadvantaged community with a high pollution burden. Approximately 400 trained youth will serve as community researchers that identify and promote actions to improve climate resilience. Undergraduate interns with the California College Corps at CSU East Bay, UC Berkeley and San Francisco State University will support project facilitation and evaluation efforts alongside community partner staff. Youth action research will evaluate the resiliency of existing community infrastructure, such as schools and homes. Through this community assessment, youth will identify opportunities and areas to implement energy, HVAC, and landscape improvements (e.g., drought-tolerant species that reduce urban heat and particulate matter), as well as infrastructural changes that will reduce pollution burdens and increase climate resiliency. Youth also will devise strategies for monitoring indicators of climate-related environmental degradation. Youth will share their results and ideas with residents, local governmental representatives, and education agencies at public events. They also will provide information about existing state and federal programs that subsidize energy efficiency and landscape improvements at these events. PIs and community partners will use qualitative and quantitative assessment instruments to evaluate the impact of the project’s climate training and youth-led research activities on participant self-identification as climate leaders. PIs also will lead undergraduate interns in efforts to evaluate whether youth-led climate research advances the adoption of climate solutions by community stakeholders.
sj-pdf-1-jba-10.1177_0885328220920457 - Supplemental material for Surface modification of titanium manufactured through selective laser melting inhibited osteoclast differentiation through mitogen-activated protein kinase signaling pathway
Creators: name: Yang, Jiamin
name: Yu, Xiaolin
name: Zhang, Zhengchuan
name: Xu, Ruogu
name: Wu, Fan
name: Wang, Tianlu
name: Liu, Yun
name: Ouyang, Jianglin
name: Deng, Feilong
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: Materials Engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-jba-10.1177_0885328220920457 for Surface modification of titanium manufactured through selective laser melting inhibited osteoclast differentiation through mitogen-activated protein kinase signaling pathway by Jiamin Yang, Xiaolin Yu, Zhengchuan Zhang, Ruogu Xu, Fan Wu, Tianlu Wang, Yun Liu, Jianglin Ouyang and Feilong Deng in Journal of Biomaterials Applications
Fig_S1 – Supplemental material for Prophylaxis of Radiation-Induced Dermatitis in Patients With Breast Cancer Using Herbal Creams: A Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial
Creators: name: Saengrawee Thanthong
name: Rattanaporn Nanthong
name: Sirikorn Kongwattanakul
name: Kanyanee Laebua
name: Pornwaree Trirussapanich
name: Supaporn Pitiporn
name: Danupon Nantajit
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110306 Endocrinology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111299 Oncology and Carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified
subject: 111702 Aged Health Care

description: Supplemental material, Fig_S1 for Prophylaxis of Radiation-Induced Dermatitis in Patients With Breast Cancer Using Herbal Creams: A Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial by Saengrawee Thanthong, Rattanaporn Nanthong, Sirikorn Kongwattanakul, Kanyanee Laebua, Pornwaree Trirussapanich, Supaporn Pitiporn and Danupon Nantajit in Integrative Cancer Therapies
Sustainable Land Initiative
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: 2025

description: The Drawdown Project ranks climate-smart agriculture (CSA) among the top climate strategies because it is a solution for both mitigation (by reducing emissions and sequestering carbon) and adaptation (by reducing water consumption and restoring soil health) and Bending the Curve lists CSA among their “10 Scalable Solutions”. Approximately 26 million acres of California is farmland and CSA can sequester 25-60 tons of carbon per acre, so the rapid adoption of these practices is crucial for the state to meet its aggressive targets for natural sequestration (AB 1757). The agricultural community has always been at the mercy of the elements, and is now on the front lines facing climate impacts. However, in addition to climate benefits, CSA typically increases productivity and has been shown to increase economic yield by up to 78%. Thus, for an agricultural center like the Central Coast of California, CSA provides a bulwark for economic resilience in addition to climate resilience. The Sustainable Land Initiative (SLI) is a program of the US-LT RCD in partnership with Cal Poly, to (a) help local farmers overcome impediments to the adoption of CSA practices aimed at sequestering carbon, reducing water consumption, decreasing fertilizer use/runoff, increasing economic yield, and making farms more resilient to climate change, and (b) implement precise quantitative monitoring of the effectiveness of these practices. Practices include application of biochar, cover crops, compost and use of no-till drills, keyline plows, and waterjet stingers. Impediments to be overcome include lack of strategy, funds, expertise, equipment, and labor. There is broad consensus that CSA supports climate objectives, but also that quantification of benefits varies widely across biomes, crops, and climate zones; accurate data are crucial and in short supply. Hence, the SLI includes a monitoring phase to generate precise data on the efficacy of CSA on local agriculture and provide an economic argument for adoption. This proposal seeks funding to launch the SLI, support regional SLI activity, and scale via other RCDs and campuses statewide. Fundamental strategy: leverage the human capital of universities and the established community relations of the RCD to accelerate delivery of CSA-based climate solutions at scale, through a structure that respects the administrative structures of both.
sj-pdf-1-eae-10.1177_0958305X20919413 - Supplemental material for Analysis on new types of electric power businesses using a morphological box
Creators: name: Chankook Park
name: Daeyoun Lee
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: Geography

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-eae-10.1177_0958305X20919413 for Analysis on new types of electric power businesses using a morphological box by Chankook Park and Daeyoun Lee in Energy & Environment
Establishing drought resilient grassland restoration networks 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: 2025

description: Grasslands support ecosystem services like carbon and water storage, flood mitigation, ecotourism and forage production. These biodiverse habitats span 25% of California (CA) and serve as the foundation for the ranching economy. CA grasslands are a biodiversity hotspot and globally unique, but climate change will make it unsuitable for endemic species; so we must innovate restoration that focuses on climate resilience. Yet a key issue remains of how to optimize trade-offs in achieving immediate outcomes vs. restoring climate resilient, species-rich communities. Most restoration practices favor common and easily cultivated species, which can risk biotic homogenization; one response could be to use climate-adapted sourcing from wider areas to bolster success. We propose integrating social, field and greenhouse methods to create a Climate-smart Restoration Toolbox to assist in drought resilient plant selection and site assessment. Our project will increase access to the best available science for restoring coastal CA grassland, inform nature-based solutions, strengthen climate resiliency, and leverage existing resources from Point Blue Conservation Science, Bureau of Land Management, and multiple grassland restoration agencies. Our objectives across three projects are: 1. Promote biodiverse restoration by initiating a CA Grassland Restoration Network for resource and seed sharing 2. Expand trait-based restoration by creating a toolbox for climate-smart grassland restoration, including protocols for site assessment and plant selection informed by site characterizations, greenhouse studies and practitioner surveys 3. Explore trade-offs in plant development with greenhouse drought studies using common and “uncharacterized” CA plants important for the Wiyot tribe. End-products will be manuscripts, student training, MS theses, a toolbox for climate-smart grassland restoration and a restoration network to promote collaborations and resource sharing to foster climate resilient grasslands. Our work will culminate in an Extension Field Day to share the toolbox and restoration network. The proposal addresses priorities from the CA Climate Adaptation Strategy, 30x30 Pathways and Climate Solutions while supporting the research of two new CSU faculty, their students, and local stewards. Co-PIs will use these seed funds to leverage external proposals for NSF and USDA.
sj-pdf-2-epb-10.1177_2399808320924437 - Supplemental material for An urban informatics approach to understanding residential mobility in Metro Chicago
Creators: name: Pan, Haozhi
name: Chen, Si
name: Gao, Yizhao
name: Deal, Brian
name: Liu, Jinfang
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: Geography
Urban and Regional Planning not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-2-epb-10.1177_2399808320924437 for An urban informatics approach to understanding residential mobility in Metro Chicago by Haozhi Pan, Si Chen, Yizhao Gao, Brian Deal and Jinfang Liu in EPB: Urban Analytics and City Science
Improving climate change resilience by increasing capacity for Northern California Tribal fisheries
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: 2025

description: For coastal California Native American Tribes, certain marine species are a vital part of their cultural heritage and family traditions, and central to their food security. Climate change threatens California’s marine resources through sea level rise, ocean acidification, extreme weather events, ocean warming, and other effects. Despite the vulnerability of these resources and their importance to local communities and California as a whole (through tourism, fishing opportunities and the general benefits of a healthy marine system) fisheries of the far North Coast are patchily monitored due to lack of funding and the area’s isolated nature. Development of fisheries research and monitoring capability will provide crucial information on fish species and communities, which will lead to better-informed management of Tribal and State natural resources in the face of climate change. To improve the climate-resilience of far northern California fisheries, we propose to develop a working group of Tribal, university, state, and federal personnel to carry out fisheries research on species designated as priorities by the Tribes, based on the species’ cultural, ecological, and/or economic importance. These are generally high-use and/or low-information/data-limited fisheries species that inhabit oceanic coasts, estuaries and bays in Humboldt and Del Norte counties. Data will be collected analyzed to better understand topics that include population metrics (age, growth), how species use their habitats, urchin predation on kelp, and harvest impact on mussel beds. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife, California Sea Grant, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Southwest Fisheries Science Center will provide guidance. Staff and interns from the Wiyot Tribe, Blue Lake Rancheria, Cher-Ae Heights Indian Community of the Trinidad Rancheria, Resighini Rancheria, and Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation, funded by this project, will conduct specific research and monitoring projects on their lands, with the support of a Cal Poly Humboldt graduate student (one per Tribe), who will conduct their own specific project. Fish community biodiversity will also be assessed in each Tribal area using environmental DNA metabarcoding techniques. The knowledge gained will be shared among the partners, science community and general public following data sharing agreements.
Juiparus lasiocerus
Creators: name: Martins, Ubirajara R.
name: Galileo, Maria Helena M.
name: Limeira-de-Oliveira, Francisco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Juiparus
Juiparus lasiocerus

description: 16. Juiparus lasiocerus (Gahan, 1892)
 Hammaticherus lasiocerus Gahan, 1892: 22.
 Material examinado: Mirador (Parque Estadual Mirador, Base da Geraldina), macho, 20-24. XII.2006, R.O. Souza & J.C. Silva col., armadilha luminosa.
description: Published as part of Martins, Ubirajara R., Galileo, Maria Helena M. & Limeira-de-Oliveira, Francisco, 2009, Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) do estado do Maranhão, Brasil, pp. 229-247 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 49 (19) on page 234, DOI: 10.1590/S0031-10492009001900001, http://zenodo.org/record/13313584
Collaborative of Native Nations for Climate Transformation & Stewardship (CNNCTS)
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: 2025

description: The suppression of indigenous landscape stewardship and fire practices since colonization have been identified as a root cause of many of the present-day issues associated with ecological health, climate resilience, and community fire risk in California. To address this, we propose a community-based, kincentric approach, leveraging local networks and practices that have demonstrated successes to create a transferable, innovative, and effective model of Indigenous-led land stewardship. Reflecting both the cultural and biological diversity of southern California, the Collaborative of Native Nations for Climate Transformation and Stewardship (CNNCTS) project will build capacity and support tribal communities and provide CSU/UC students with high-impact learning and training opportunities that leverage and transform university preserves into learning laboratories and landscapes. Aligned with and addressing California climate priorities, such as California Climate Adaptation Strategy priorities, 30x30, and the California Climate Dashboard, CNNCTS will also serve to advance applied climate science. CNNCTS partners four universities and six Tribal partners, along with the Climate Science Alliance’s Tribal Working Group, a network of representatives from 20+ Tribal governments and organizations in southern California. CNNCTS represents a paradigm shift in how climate action is visioned, led, and implemented. Our collaborative model embodies equal valuation of Indigenous and academic knowledge, advances Indigenous management practices and stewardship, and innovates shared learning opportunities for CSU/UC students and community members. The project will directly improve California’s most impacted communities, strengthening climate resilience and community health. The project will also directly link CSU/UC academic research and teaching with community-led climate action and provide students with real-world climate action training. The community-based model of CNNCTS will serve as a template for university-community partnerships for actionable climate adaptation and action across the U.S.
sj-pdf-2-std-10.1177_0956462420915395 - Supplemental material for Partner notification and treatment outcomes among South African adolescents and young adults diagnosed with a sexually transmitted infection via laboratory-based screening
Creators: name: Chitneni, Pooja
name: Beksinska, Mags
name: Dietrich, Janan J
name: Jaggernath, Manjeetha
name: Closson, Kalysha
name: Smith, Patricia
name: Lewis, David A
name: Matthews, Lynn T
name: Smit, Jenni
name: Ndung’u, Thumbi
name: Brockman, Mark
name: Gray, Glenda
name: Kaida, Angela
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-2-std-10.1177_0956462420915395 for Partner notification and treatment outcomes among South African adolescents and young adults diagnosed with a sexually transmitted infection via laboratory-based screening by Pooja Chitneni, Mags Beksinska, Janan J Dietrich, Manjeetha Jaggernath, Kalysha Closson, Patricia Smith, David A Lewis, Lynn T Matthews, Jenni Smit, Thumbi Ndung’u, Mark Brockman, Glenda Gray, Angela Kaida and on behalf of the AYAZAZI Research Team in International Journal of STD & AIDS
California Soil Carbon Accrual Project and Workforce Training Program
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: 2025

description: Soil erosion, degradation, and diminished water availability are critical issues facing California Agriculture. These issues are rooted in historic land management practices that negatively impact soil health, diminish soil carbon stores, contribute to poor air quality, and allow chemicals to leach into waterways and groundwater tables. These impacts weaken farm resiliency to the impacts of climate change and negatively affect farmworker and community health, safety and well-being. Alternately, research suggests that regenerative farming practices can reduce soil disturbance, increase soil organic matter, improve water-holding capacity, reduce petrochemical crop inputs, enhance soil biological function and microbial diversity, and support soil carbon accrual. The proposed multi-sector, multi-disciplinary project addresses these issues through applied on-farm research, remote sensing modeling technologies, and professional workforce development. Three activities are proposed: 1) The Soil Carbon Accrual Project is designed to holistically compare carbon cycling associated with the standard or conventional farming system (full tillage; herbicide; fertilizers; pesticides; no cover) to a regenerative farming system (cover crops; no-till or conservation till; crop rotations) using Eddy Covariance tower technology and soil microbiological DNA probes to quantify the impacts on soil carbon accrual, soil microbial diversity, water use efficiency, nutrient density, and economic return. 2) The California Resiliency Index uses sustainability factors (e.g., water resources; soil quality; water use; erodibility factors; groundwater recharge value; existing land uses; wildlife habitat potential; endangered species habitat) to predict long-term resiliency for agricultural regions and suitability for diversified farming systems within the State. The model is being collaboratively developed with the Chico State Geographical Information Center. 3) The online Technical Assistance Provider Training and Professional Certificate Program in Climate Smart/Regenerative Agriculture Practices & Implementation is designed to increase the availability of technical assistance to support rapid transition of California farms and ranches to climate-smart agricultural practices. New courses will include Carbon Farm Planning, Pollinator Habitat, and Traditional Ecological Knowledge.
Real-Time Population Mental Health Tracking During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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: 2025

description: The goal of this project is to discover the mental health problems facing Americans and Californians following the COVID-19 pandemic. Experts predict that the pandemic will trigger widespread increases in mental health problems, but little data is available to test these predictions. To fill this gap, we turn to tracking internet searches on Google, where the content of a query reflects a mental health problem and their volume reflects the community prevalence. We previously found that internet searches for severe acute anxiety (“panic attack”) reached new all-time highs following the outbreak. That study was lauded for being the first to empirically assess how population mental health was potentially impacted by COVID-19 and discuss severe acute anxiety, an outcome overlooked in many opinion pieces on COVID-19’s mental health impacts. Extending that work, we will compile thousands of unique queries indicative of mental health problems, mine these trends to (Aim 1) discover the subset with the largest post-outbreak increases, thereby identifying and prioritizing the potential mental health problems impacted by COVID-19; and (Aim 2) discover the subset of queries that mirror past survey-based population prevalence of severe psychological distress (SPD) and use those queries to forecast the prevalence of SPD post COVID-19 when survey data are unavailable. Both aims represent the state-of-the-art in using searches for data driven insights (as in Aim 1) and using searches as a proxy for traditional survey-based trends (as in Aim 2). Our study will be the first application of either to mental health outcomes. To make these results actionable, we will compile the product of both aims into a website that runs live on Google search data, allowing investigators, clinicians, and policy makers to monitor population mental health in real-time and strategize resource allocation, develop policy, and provide interventions.
COVID-19 Impacts on Cancer Care Management, Patient Experience and Care Costs
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: 2025

description: Due to COVID-19, breast and colorectal cancer screening have dropped by 95%, and 85% respectively, in April 2020, compared to prior years. Public opinion and patient surveys report that nearly one-third of respondents prefer not going to a medical facility and/or experience delay in care. An NCI model estimated that approximately 10,000 excess deaths from breast and colorectal cancer may occur nationally in 2020-2030 due to COVID-related delays in screening and diagnosis. Using real-world data, the goals of this project are to understand COVID-19’s impact on (1) cancer care management, including detection, diagnosis and treatment of cancer, (2) patient-reported experience, and (3) costs of cancer care. Data sources are from electronic health records and patient surveys from Sutter Health, a large healthcare system serving a racially/ethnically diverse patient population in Northern California. For Aim 1, we will examine the patterns of care (telemedicine use and care disruption/recovery) over time following California’s shelter-in-place order and the subphases in the ongoing COVID period. For Aim 2, we will compare whether patient experience (quality of care, access to care, care coordination, and provider communication) differ across patient groups: (a) between pre-COVID and ongoing COVID periods, and (b) between in-person visits and telemedicine visits, both in the ongoing COVID period. For Aim 3, we will examine, with potential delay in care, whether more late-stage cancer cases are diagnosed in the ongoing COVID period, compared to that of the pre-COVID period. We will compare subsequent costs of care between the two periods. In all three Aims, we will examine whether these patterns and impacts of COVID-19 are different by patient characteristics, specifically across race/ethnicity and age. This proposed project will address the impacts of COVID-19 on vulnerable subpopulations: cancer patients who are at high risk and minority patients who are likely to be culturally different and/or socioeconomically disadvantaged, resulting suboptimal health outcomes and economic burden. Our project will provide value to patients, clinicians, and policymakers, and empirical evidence to inform actionable interventions targeting specific patient groups to improve cancer care, experience, and outcomes.
social_needs_and_health_confidence_screening_questionnaire_appendix_1 – Supplemental material for Associations Between Patients’ Unmet Social Needs and Self-Reported Health Confidence at One Primary Care Clinic
Creators: name: Bleacher, Heather
name: English, Aimee
name: Leblanc, William
name: L. Miriam Dickinson
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, social_needs_and_health_confidence_screening_questionnaire_appendix_1 for Associations Between Patients’ Unmet Social Needs and Self-Reported Health Confidence at One Primary Care Clinic by Heather Bleacher, Aimee English, William Leblanc and L. Miriam Dickinson in Journal of Primary Care & Community Health
Smoking and COVID-19 onset and severity in a US integrated healthcare delivery system
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: 2025

description: The US is currently responding to the spread of a respiratory illness caused by a novel coronavirus (COVID-19). COVID-19 affects the respiratory tract and can lead to pneumonia, respiratory failure, and death. An emerging body of literature suggests that individuals who smoke or vape may be at increased risk for COVID-19 and its more serious complications. Further, risk for COVID-19 onset and severity associated with smoking or vaping could be higher among vulnerable subsets of patients disproportionately impacted by COVID-19, including racial/ethnic minorities, those with lower socio-economic status, and those with chronic health conditions. However, studies to date have been limited and research is needed to better understand the potential impact of cigarette smoking and nicotine vaping on COVID-19 risk overall and among vulnerable populations. This study uses data from >2.2 million adults from January 1, 2020 to June 30, 2021 who received care in Kaiser Permanente Northern California (KPNC)’s large, integrated healthcare delivery system to test the hypotheses that: 1) current and former smokers and vapers have increased risk of COVID-19 onset and worse disease progression relative to never-smokers, and 2) increased risk associated with smoking or vaping is greater among health disparity populations and those with smoking-related chronic health conditions. The study will yield sorely needed, highly generalizable data to increase understanding of whether smoking and vaping are associated with increased risk of COVID-19 onset and progression. Further, by conducting hypothesis-driven analyses to identify sub-groups of smokers or vapers who may be greatest risk for COVID-19 onset and greater disease severity, results will have immediate public health and clinical implications, providing urgently needed data to inform the design of clinical interventions and aid decision making to blunt the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic among vulnerable populations.
Supplementary_materials – Supplemental material for Long-term outcomes of monascin – a novel dual peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ/nuclear factor-erythroid 2 related factor-2 agonist in experimental intracerebral hemorrhage
Creators: name: Pengcheng Fu
name: Jiachen Liu
name: Qinqin Bai
name: Xingang Sun
name: Zhenjia Yao
name: Lirong Liu
name: Cuimei Wu
name: Gaiqing Wang
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, Supplementary_materials for Long-term outcomes of monascin – a novel dual peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ/nuclear factor-erythroid 2 related factor-2 agonist in experimental intracerebral hemorrhage by Pengcheng Fu, Jiachen Liu, Qinqin Bai, Xingang Sun, Zhenjia Yao, Lirong Liu, Cuimei Wu and Gaiqing Wang in Therapeutic Advances in Neurological Disorders
Critical Mission Studies at California's Crossroads
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: 2025

description: Critical Mission Studies represents an opportunity for a new engagement with our state’s history through the lens of the Spanish-Indian missions, vastly mythologized and profoundly understudied. Through reconsideration of the missions as both physical sites and foci of interpretation, we pursue new research that surfaces both Native and Mexican/Mexican-American voices in the history of California and the U.S. Reflecting trends in public history over the last decade, our research will foster more complex, multidimensional public engagements with difficult histories. The controversy over the 2015 canonization of Father Junípero Serra simultaneously united and surfaced tensions between the Native and Mexican-American communities in California. Our research seeks to bridge the disciplinary divide between Native American Studies and Chicano/a Studies, and between California Studies and Mexican Studies, fomenting new narratives of California history in which everyone has a place. Because the missions represent a shared history between California and Mexico, our project will open up new avenues of collaboration with scholars, museum professionals, and preservationists in Mexico. We aim to activate the missions in concept and space -- on multiple registers at once -- for truth telling, for the exploration of their impact as cultural and religious centers for settler and immigrant communities, historically and today. We seek to produce new knowledge, in consultation with a California Indian advisory board, by assembling interdisciplinary, collaborative humanities labs, gathering three times a year, and by funding faculty, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, undergraduates and community partner research projects. Each humanities lab is composed of 20 UC faculty researchers, graduate students, undergraduates, national and international experts, and community partners. Labs will engage in research in the field, in archives, in the missions, and surrounding communities. California’s 21 missions are an imperfect, partial, yet essential lens to access California’s various histories and engage in nuanced and frank encounters with the past, with UC scholars at the helm, producing data-driven studies.
Next Generation Noninvasive Magnetic Neuroimaging
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: 2025

description: We propose to develop next-generation Magnetoenceptahalography (MEG) magnetic imaging instrumentation for the human brain. MEG is a non-invasive neural imaging technique that directly measures the magnetic signal due to neuronal activation with high temporal resolution and spatial localization accuracy. MEG has been routinely used in localizing seizure foci in patients with epilepsy and for pre-surgical localization of brain functions. Recently, members of our team have showed that MEG can potentially be a powerful research and diagnostic tool for autism, traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder. The magnetic field sensors used for commercial MEG systems are based on Superconducting QUantum Interference Devices (SQUID). SQUID-based sensors have the highest combination of sensitivity and bandwidth of any sensor known, but require costly and cumbersome refrigeration for cooling to cryogenic temperatures (4.2 K). The design and materials for these sensors have not changed in nearly three decades and there has been little progress in MEG hardware. The high cost has hindered widespread use of MEG at the clinical level and there are only about 30 of these systems in the United States (two are in the UC system at UCSD and UCSF). We propose to reinvent SQUID MEG, to make it affordable, and easier to use while at the same time improving the sensitivity and resolution. Our approach uses technologies that were not available 30 years ago when SQUID development stalled. A recent breakthrough was made by members of our team in developing a new type of high temperature superconductor (HTS) SQUID by modifying the ceramic material on the nanoscale using a finely focused beam of helium ions. This results in sensors with very low magnetic flux noise. Furthermore, unlike prior HTS technologies our new technique is relatively simple, inexpensive, high yield, and scalable to wafers for large scale sensor production. The goal of our proposed development will be to optimize the sensors and to construct prototype biomedical imaging instruments. The sensors in our instruments can be placed much closer to the scalp for greater spatial resolution and sensitivity because they function at higher temperature. Additionally we will improve the ease of use and significantly reduce the costs associated with acquisition and maintenance. While our main thrust will be the brain, biomagnetic imaging of other organs such as the heart and liver will also be investigated.
The Development of a UC-wide Clinical Genomics Database
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: 2025

description: We propose a pilot program for the development of a UC-wide Genomic Clinical Database as a resource for the analysis of personalized medicine across the UC medical system. Modern treatment of many cancers, genetic diseases, and other conditions utilize knowledge of the genetic alterations of the patient to choose pharmaceutical agents that best treat that patient: “Personalized Medicine”. Hundreds of treatments have been developed. In order to improve these treatments, researchers compare the results of different treatments for similar genetic alterations with the length of time patients remain disease free. The UC system maintains the UC Clinical Data Warehouse with over 5 million UC patients which provides the disease free period following treatment. However the genomic and genetic data is deficient. This is because treating physicians provides genetic testing results in a form that cannot be retrieved by researchers or they only provide partial information like the name of one or more altered genes and not the DNA sequence change. This is in part because companies that do the genetic and genomic testing do not provide reports in a computer-searchable format. In our project we will ask all major genetic testing companies used by UC physicians to provide the entire genetic testing results of all patients they have ever tested for UCI, UCSD, and UCLA. This information is to be provided in a “searchable” form. This information will be added to the UC Clinical Data Warehouse entries for the corresponding patients. Administrators and researchers with IRB approval of the UC system will then be able to determine compare treatments with the patients’ survival data for thousands of patients, will be able to determine whether results vary by campus, which treatment is best and answer many other questions. In our pilot program we will also apply test searches to the updated database to provide a proof of principal. If this project is successful, it will be extended to the other 3 UC medical centers, UCD, UCR, and UCSF. The UC system is also developing the California Initiative for the Advancement of Precision Medicine. This is a large multi-investigator group that is forming public-private partnerships to bring the most modern software to medical problems. Genetic information is a common subject of analysis. The enhanced UC Data Warehouse will rectify the current defect and greatly extend the utility of the UC Clinical Data Warehouse.
PlaceMakers: UC Place-based Art + Design
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: 2025

description: How do we reimagine our campuses and their neighborhoods as potential sites for new knowledge and the renewal of our commons? How are citizens and their cultural and educational institutions reinvesting in their local neighborhoods imaginatively and effectively through public research and creative place-making? Over the past decade, place-making has emerged as a community revitalization strategy that employs the inherent creativity of citizens and institutions in the shaping of place through arts engagement, cultural preservation, urban design, and workforce development. Concepts of locality and neighborhood, civic inclusion and stakeholder participation are integral to this process. Further, place-making recognizes a distinct, catalytic role of the arts and cultural sectors within a creative economy, one that do not exacerbate the social and economic inequalities of gentrification, but leverage and stabilize civic investments and local leadership of individuals and institutions who remain anchored in place over time. Considerable work on place-based, campus community partnerships has been documented within a national context, however, a gap remains in a comprehensive collection of innovative arts-based models across California and the UC system. Our proposed project is designed to identify and amplify relevant place-based research that is reimagining the spaces of higher education as innovative and publicly-accessible. Galvanized by current national conversation and institutional synergies, notably arts and 'creative place-making' focus of the 2017 Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) and the publication of 'The Integration of the Humanities and Arts with Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in Higher Education' (National Academy of Sciences, 2018), lead faculty from 5 UC's have initiated plans for the coordination of research initiatives, capacity-building, and exchange across multiple campuses, establishing a core methodology to identify relevant arts + design + media research/practices, new pedagogies and programmatic that comprise the distinct UC arts research portfolio. Support is requested for a 2-year planning/pilot phase. Year 1 will manifest a current inventory of system-wide artists, research programs, and centers that exist across academic sectors that partner with communities, foundations and private/civic affiliates. Year 2 will pilot those arts initiatives and infrastructures that could be scaled systemwide.
Additional file 1 of Identification and gene expression profiling of human gonadotrophic pituitary adenoma stem cells
Creators: name: Yuan, Linhao
name: Li, Peiliang
name: Li, Jiang
name: Peng, Jiayi
name: Zhouwen, Jianlong
name: Ma, Shunchang
name: Jia, Guijun
name: Jia, Wang
name: Kang, Peng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Table S1. Clinical demographics of gonadotrophic pituitary adenoma patients in hPASC culture and sequencing; Table S2. Clinical demographics of invasive and non-invasive gonadotrophic pituitary adenoma patients for Real-time PCR quantification; Table S3. PCR primers for verification of 9 candidate genes in invasive and non-invasive gonadotrophic pituitary adenoma.
Additional file 4 of Genomic signatures of local adaptation in recent invasive Aedes aegypti populations in California
Creators: name: Soudi, Shaghayegh
name: Crepeau, Marc
name: Collier, Travis C.
name: Lee, Yoosook
name: Cornel, Anthony J.
name: Lanzaro, Gregory C.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4: Supplementary Figure 1. Cross validation error plot showing the selection of K = 3 is the most well-presented population structure for this dataset.
Intercampus Consortium on Health Psychology
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: 2025

description: Most individuals will experience major adversity during their lives, from early life difficulties (growing up poor, experiencing parental neglect, or abuse), to significant events during adolescence and adulthood (exposure to natural or man-made disasters, diagnosis of chronic illness, interpersonal loss). Such adversities can have long-lasting mental and physical health impacts, but many people can maintain considerable resilience and thrive in the face of adversity. Numerous UC researchers in Health Psychology, which studies how psychosocial factors influence physical health (and vice versa), are actively studying the health impact of adversity, and the psychosocial and cultural factors that contribute to resilience. The first UC Intercampus Consortium on Health Psychology meeting took place in 1983, followed by several meetings over 30 years (the last in 2003), sponsored by UC system, departmental, extramural, and individual funding. The conferences provided around 75 faculty and graduate students opportunities to network and forge new collaborations. This proposal aims to revive the Consortium after a decade-long dormancy, with the broad goal of making UC the world leader in research on understanding, predicting, and cultivating resilience in the face of adversity. To accomplish that goal we propose three activities and associated outcomes: 1) Facilitating cross-campus faculty collaborations. MRPI funding would support seed funding for multi-campus projects that translate basic research on thriving in the face of adversity into interventions that promote resilience. Outcomes would include scholarly products (books, new measures and interventions), and extramural research funding applications. Most projects would involve collaborations outside psychology (e.g., biomedical research, sociology, public health). 2) Creating shared resources for graduate student training and research. MRPI funding would support: Annual workshops to learn emerging research methodologies and data analytic techniques; Developing shared teaching resources across campuses (e.g., a digital video lecture library); and pilot funding for cross-campus student collaborations. 3) Reviving yearly intercampus conferences as a central organizing event. The conference would focus on small-group faculty/student discussions of collaborative projects, and planning new or ongoing cross-campus collaborations. MRPI funding would cover graduate student registration, housing, and travel.