cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Plant Radiocarbon as an Indicator for Urban Decarbonization
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: Fossil fuel-derived carbon dioxide (FFCO2) emissions constitute 65% of all GHG emissions that force global warming with cities being the dominant contributor (~70%). The expansion of electric vehicle promises significant urban FFCO2 reductions, a big step towards decarbonization and climate change mitigation that demands verification. However, while FFCO2 emissions are well-constrained at the national to global scales, uncertainty is much higher at smaller, policy-relevant scales (i.e. the sub-city level). Advanced remote sensing and in situ networks are monitoring atmospheric CO2 to ensure climate policies are effective. However, it is challenging to infer FFCO2 emissions from its mixing ratio alone because it is smaller than the natural and variable carbon cycle fluxes (i.e. biosphere and ocean exchange).
 In the proposed collaboration between UC Irvine and LANL, we aim to assess and enhance the use of plants as passive FFCO2-biomonitors by coupling plant isotopic analysis with new remote sensing and in situ measurements of atmospheric CO2. The radiocarbon (14C, an isotope of carbon with a 5700-year half-life) signature of plant tissue will be used to map fine-scale spatial patterns in FFCO2. Plants growing near FFCO2 emissions are depleted in 14C since fossil fuels characteristically are devoid of 14C. Preliminary analyses showed that annual plant 14C is sensitive enough to detect reduced FFCO2 emissions in California during the COVID-19 pandemic and thus may be a useful tool for monitoring urban decarbonization as climate mitigation policies take effect.
 We will determine the extent to which plant 14C can contribute to a better understanding of urban emission sources and evaluate their spatiotemporal sensitivity alongside seasonal measurements of CO2 along an urban-rural gradient. The analysis will elucidate the relationships between land- and atmosphere-based FFCO2 monitoring metrics, and quantify uncertainties regarding the plant 14C approach. Citizen scientists will be recruited to sample plants for 14C analysis in two urban areas: the Los Angeles megacity and the Santiago Metropolitan area in Chile. This project will validate and reveal fine-scale variations in spatial patterns of FFCO2 emissions in urban domes, advance our ability to track emission reductions and support the success of climate change mitigation efforts.
Investigation of Productive Binding Sites on Cellulose Towards Improving Biofuel Production
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: Lignocellulosic biomass exists as an underused and renewable source of sugars that can be fermented into clean, carbon-neutral biofuels. These non-edible plant residues primarily consist of cellulose, a polymer of glucose, which exists within plant cell walls as crystalline fibrils. Efficient conversion of cellulose into biofuels requires not only cellulases, specialized enzymes that degrade cellulose, but also favorable interfacial interactions that facilitate cellulase binding. Recently, cellulose hydrolysis rates were found to be limited by the availability and depletion of productive cellulase binding sites at the fibril surface. For cellobiohydrolase, an industrially-relevant cellulase, these productive binding sites are solvent-accessible cellulose molecules that the enzyme can thread into its active site to perform enzymatic hydrolysis. Biochemical assays of different celluloses over the course of hydrolysis demonstrate that these productive cellulase binding sites deplete as hydrolysis proceeds despite excess cellulose remaining, suggesting that productive binding sites rather than just cellulose are essential for cellulose hydrolysis. Therefore, this work will investigate how to mitigate and prevent productive cellulase binding site depletion on cellulose. Productive binding site depletion depends on both changes to the fibril structure and interfacial properties at the surface of cellulose during hydrolysis, thus nanoscale interrogation of surface properties about binding sites will elucidate both the structure of productive binding sites and their mode of depletion. Preliminary work from our lab with accessory enzyme-treated cellulose demonstrate that changes to fibril surface chemistry increases enzyme accessibility and facilitates cellulose deconstruction. Leveraging complementary imaging capabilities and expanding on existing collaborations between the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and UC Davis will allow for extensive study of the cellulose surface properties impacting productive cellulase binding and hydrolysis. This research will bridge the understanding between cellulose-cellulase interactions at the nanoscale with mechanistic knowledge of enzyme-driven hydrolysis, establishing the foundation for new pretreatments and protein engineering strategies for efficient biomass conversion processes.
title: Tomate de Cáscara :
title: Directrices para la ejecución del examen de la distinción, la homogeneidad y la estabilidad.
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: International Union For The Protection Of New Varieties Of Plants,
Publisher: name: International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants,
Year: 0
Subjects: Plants
New Varieties of Plants
Husk Tomato

description: La finalidad de estas directrices (“directrices de examen”) es elaborar los principios que figuran en la Introducción General (documento TG/1/3) y sus documentos TGP conexos, con objeto de que sirvan de orientación práctica y detallada para el examen armonizado de la distinción, homogeneidad y estabilidad (DHE) y en particular, para identificar los caracteres apropiados para el examen DHE y producir descripciones armonizadas de variedades.
The Consortium for Food Allergy Research (CoFAR): The first generation
Creators: name: Burks, A Wesley
name: Sicherer, Scott H
name: Plaut, Marshall
name: Wood, Robert A
name: Lindblad, Robert
name: Jones, Stacie
name: Berin, M Cecilia
name: Sampson, Hugh A
name: Leung, Donald Y M
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2018

description:
The Consortium for Food Allergy Research (CoFAR) was established by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in 2005 as a collaborative research program bringing together centers focused on the study of food allergy. CoFAR was charged with developing studies to better understand the pathogenesis and natural history of food allergy, as well as potential approaches to the treatment of food allergy. In its first iteration an observational study of infants with milk and egg allergy was established, and studies of oral immunotherapy for egg allergy and sublingual immunotherapy for peanut allergy were initiated, as was a phase 1 study of a recombinant peanut protein vaccine. CoFAR was renewed in 2010 for an additional 5-year period during which the initial observational study was continued, a study of eosinophilic esophagitis was initiated, and new therapeutic trials were established to study epicutaneous immunotherapy for peanut allergy and to compare the safety and efficacy of egg oral immunotherapy to the ingestion of baked egg for the treatment of egg allergy. The results of these efforts will be reviewed in this rostrum, with a brief look to the future of CoFAR.
Andrena (Truncandrena) caneae Strand 1915
Creators: name: Wood, Thomas J.
name: Ismael, Halgurd R.
name: Baiocchi, Daniele
name: Hamad, Mudhafar I.
name: Bapir, Tahseen T.
name: Selis, Marco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Andrena
Andrena caneae

description: 13.Andrena(Truncandrena)caneaeStrand, 1915 *
Material examined.
Iraq: Duhok, Mt. Gara [S of Sarsing], 37.0158 ° N, 43.3506 ° E, 1912 m, 11. v. 2023, 1 ♂, leg. D. Baiocchi, MSVI / TJWC.
Distribution.
Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Syria, Iraq * (Gusenleitner and Schwarz 2002).
description: Published as part of Wood, Thomas J., Ismael, Halgurd R., Baiocchi, Daniele, Hamad, Mudhafar I., Bapir, Tahseen T. & Selis, Marco, 2024, A first revision of the Andrena of Iraq (Hymenoptera, Andrenidae), with the description of two new species from Iraqi Kurdistan and additional records from surrounding countries, pp. 267-298 in ZooKeys 1205 on pages 267-298, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1205.120033
MPEC 2024-J286 : 2024 JF15
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 JF15

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Desmodium adscendens DC., Prodr.
Creators: name: Silva, Lucas
name: Thomaz, Luciana Dias
name: Dutra, Valquíria Ferreira
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Fabales
Fabaceae
Desmodium
Desmodium adscendens

description: 3.15 Desmodium adscendens (Sw.) DC., Prodr. 2: 332.182 6.
(Fig. 3O)
Ervas; até 20 cm alt., ramos tomentosos a puberulentos, inermes. Estípulas ca. 4-5 × 1,5 mm, triangulares, livres, persistentes. Folhas imparipinadas, 3-folioladas; pecíolos ca. 14 mm compr., pubescentes; raque foliar 5- 1 mm compr., pubescente a puberulenta; folíolos 28-34 × 13-18 mm, elípticos, lanceolados ou orbiculares, base obtusa ou arredondada, ápice arredondado ou agudo, margem inteira, face adaxial glabra, puberulenta nas bordas, face abaxial puberulenta, principalmente nas nervuras. Inflorescências pseudoracemosas, 13-20-floras, terminais. Flores papilionadas, pentâmeras, não ressupinadas; cálice gamossépalo, 2-3,3 × 2 mm, campanulado, puberulento, verde; corola dialipétala, rosa, vexilo 4-7 × 3,7-5 mm, alas 4,3-6 × 1-2 mm, carenas 4-7,5 × 1-2 mm, não espiraladas; estames 10, diadelfos, ca. 2,3-5 mm compr., heterodínamos; anteras uniformes, ca. 0,25 mm compr., rimosas; ovário ca. 3,7 mm compr., séssil, piloso; estilete ca. 3,7 mm. Lomentos 3-5 articulados, 1,2-2 × 0,3 cm, puberulentos, indeiscentes. Sementes 1 por artículo, reniformes, 2,6 × 1,8 mm, castanhas.
Espécie ocorrente na África, Ásia tropical, América Central e América do Sul (Lima et al. 2014). No Brasil ocorre nas regiões Norte (AC, AM, AP, PA, RR, TO), Nordeste (AL, BA, CE, MA, PB, PE, PI, RN, SE), Centro-Oeste (GO), Sudeste (ES, MG, RJ, SP) e Sul (PR, RS, SC). Ocorre nos Domínios Fitogeográficos Amazônia, Caatinga, Cerrado, Mata Atlântica e Pampa (BFG 2015, material suplementar). No PNMJ ocorre em Área Antropizada e Mata Degradada, sendo abundante nos bordos de mata, principalmente nas margens da rodovia que corta o Parque. Coletada com flores em março e novembro e com frutos em março, maio e novembro.
São características diagnósticas do gênero e que distingue a espécie das demais encontradas no PNMJ: o fruto lomento, a flor papilionácea lilás e o hábito herbáceo.
Material examinado: BRASIL, ESPÍRITO SANTO, Vila Velha, Parque Natural Municipal de Jacarenema, 20.IV.2011, L.A. Silva 008 (VIES); 17.IX.2010, 13.XI.2010, B.Z. Rohor 09 (VIES). 05.XI.2011, L.A. Silva & K.S. Ribeiro 76 (VIES); 05.XI.2011, L.A. Silva & K.S. Ribeiro 78 (VIES); 18.III.2012, L.A. Silva 131 (VIES).
description: Published as part of Silva, Lucas, Thomaz, Luciana Dias & Dutra, Valquíria Ferreira, 2018, Leguminosae no Parque Natural Municipal de Jacarenema, Vila Velha, Espírito Santo, Brasil, pp. 261-289 in Iheringia, Série Botânica 73 (3) on pages 281-282, DOI: 10.21826/2446-8231201873305, http://zenodo.org/record/10950818
Improving pandemic preparedness and health equity through wastewater-based epidemiology
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: Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE), the tracking of pathogens and biomarkers in sewage to inform public health, has rapidly become widespread during the COVID-19 pandemic. While clinical testing is biased toward symptomatic individuals with access to health care, wastewater testing provides a comprehensive picture of disease prevalence in geographically constrained regions. Both the difficulties of conducting wastewater testing and the benefits of WBE encountered during the COVID-19 pandemic highlight the need to hone this tool in preparation for future pandemics. Here we propose to conduct 1) a comprehensive analysis of COVID-19 data that integrates wastewater testing, 2) rigorous methods development and benchmarking for variant- and strain-level identification and quantification of respiratory viruses in sewage, and 3) application of these methods to collect new data on the epidemiological patterns of respiratory viruses in Northern California. The field of WBE is highly interdisciplinary, involving environmental engineers, microbiologists, epidemiologists, and public health researchers. Hence, our effort will include interdisciplinary training of students and postdoctoral scholars within a collaborative team from U.C. Berkeley, U.C. Davis, U.C. San Francisco, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). LLNL has recently developed techniques that have the potential to advance the field of WBE, including assays of virus viability from environmental samples, protein-based detection of mutations for samples lacking intact nucleic acids, and software to design custom DNA sequencing panels targeting novel strains of pathogens. Students and early-career scientists will have the opportunity to learn these techniques, adapting them for WBE.
 Potential impacts of WBE research on pandemic preparedness are many. In particular, improved wastewater testing could provide early warning of new viral strains or variants before they appear in clinical settings. Finally, because wastewater captures populations that may be difficult to reach by clinical testing, WBE has the potential to address critical questions of health equity, improving pandemic response for all.
Motile Matter: Reconstituting Cell Motility using Osmotic Robots
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: Cell motility is pervasive and fundamental aspect of biology. Cells move by positioning their membrane channels to become polar, spending ATP to remodel the cytoskeleton that provides traction for the motion. Cancer cells rely on less traditional pathway to migrate, coupling cell polarity with osmotic energy dissipation. Can we recapitulate cellular motility in synthetic systems? The ability to integrate such energy dissipative, non-equilibrium thermodynamics of living cells in cell-like entities should yield important design principles that pave for entirely new class of self-evolving materials that exhibit life-like characteristics of which cell motility is the earliest step. I plan to reconstitute osmotically driven cell motility in synthetic cell-like, chemo-mechanical robots called giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs). I hypothesize that GUVs containing asymmetrically distributed membrane water channels like carbon nanotube porins (CNTPs)–developed extensively in Dr. Noy’s laboratories at LLNL–when subjected to varying osmolarity, generate directional water fluxes that fuel their vectorial propulsion. Certain amphiphilic lipids mixtures that form the GUVs, separate into coexisting phases. With CNTPs preferentially partitioning within one of the phases, the goal of creating cell-like polar GUVs can be realized. I have organized the project into three aims:1) Prepare and characterize CNTP-containing GUVs that exhibit polarity; 2) demonstrate and quantify directional motions of GUVs in response to local osmotic changes; and 3) explore collective migratory behavior of closely spaced populations of GUVs, which interact via hydrodynamic changes. After identifying lipidic compositions for GUVs that generate polarity, I will employ combination of quantitative characterization tools, like confocal fluorescence microscopy, fluorescence recovery after photobleaching, and time-resolved imaging (all available at UC Davis). Tools like super-resolution microscopy and electron microscopy at LLNL will prove crucial for this project. I will also use innovative microfluidic designs to engineer “tracks” for osmotic motility. Apart from being the first step towards a class of material that communicates with their environment, the project brings together fields, like soft matter, biophysics, and bio-inspired materials that can help in better understanding the “rules of life.”
A functional analysis of liver‐ and intestinal fatty acid binding proteins in the intestinal enterocyte
Creators: name: Gajda, Angela Marie
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: The fatty acid binding protein (FABP) family consists of 14-15 kD cytoplasmic proteins, which are abundantly expressed in various mammalian tissues.  In the enterocyte, two FABPs are present: Liver-type FABP (LFABP; FABP1), and Intestinal FABP (IFABP; FABP2).  Previous studies in chow-fed mice did not reveal marked differences between IFABP or LFABP null mice, thus we hypothesized that feeding high-fat diets would provide a lipid overload to the intestine, perhaps revealing phenotypic differences that would provide insight into the individual functions of LFABP and IFABP.  We directly compared IFABP−/−, LFABP−/−, and WT mice fed low or high fat diets.  Changes in mucosal lipid metabolism were observed, with a decrease in FA incorporation into triacylglycerol (TG) relative to phospholipid (PL) in IFABP−/− mice, and reduced monoacylglycerol incorporation in TG relative to PL and reduced FA oxidation in LFABP−/− mice.  Striking changes in whole body phenotypes were found: LFABP−/− mice fed a high-fat diet had greater weight gain and fat mass relative to WT, while IFABP−/− mice remained lean.  Respiratory exchange ratios suggest that high-fat fed LFABP−/− mice preferentially oxidize lipids, while IFABP−/− mice preferentially metabolize carbohydrate as a fuel source.  IFABP-/- mice are healthy with a lean phenotype, whereas LFABP-/- mice are obese but are otherwise metabolically normal.  To further elucidate the individual and overlapping functions of enterocyte FABPs, we generated a novel strain of mice that were null for both IFABP and LFABP (DKO).  The phenotype of DKO mice fed a high-fat diet was integrated between LFABP-/- and IFABP-/- mice, with body weights and composition in between the single knockout mice. DKO mice fed a high-fat diet were similar to IFABP-/- mice in primarily using carbohydrate for energy. It was also observed that DKO mice were less active relative to WT mice.  Importantly, there were no differences between groups in fecal lipids, suggesting that LFABP and IFABP are not involved with bulk FA uptake into the intestine.  Overall, the results of these studies strongly suggest that IFABP and LFABP have different functions in intestinal lipid metabolism, which result in downstream alterations in whole body energy metabolism.
Unique functional diversity during early Cenozoic mammal radiation of North America
Creators: name: Wagner, Peter
name: Smith, Felisa
name: Lyons, Sara
name: Shupinski, Alexandria
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: North America
functional diversity
Mammals
Community ecology
Paleoecology

description: Mammals influence nearly all aspects of energy flow and habitat structure in modern terrestrial ecosystems. However, anthropogenic effects likely have altered mammalian community structure, raising the question of how past perturbations have done so. We use functional diversity to describe how the structure of North American mammal communities changes over the past 66 Ma, an interval spanning the rebound radiation following the K/Pg and several subsequent environmental disruptions including the PETM, the expansion of grassland, and the onset of Pleistocene glaciation. For 264 fossil communities, we examine three aspects of ecological function: functional evenness, functional richness, and functional divergence. Shifts in functional diversity are significantly related to major ecological and environmental transitions. All three measures of functional diversity increase immediately following the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs, suggesting that high degrees of ecological disturbance can lead to synchronous responses both locally and continentally. Otherwise, the components of functional diversity respond differently to environmental changes and are decoupled for the last ~56 million years.
description: Funding provided by: National Science FoundationCrossref Funder Registry ID: https://ror.org/021nxhr62Award Number: DEB 1257625
Funding provided by: National Science FoundationCrossref Funder Registry ID: https://ror.org/021nxhr62Award Number: DEB 2051255
Funding provided by: National Science FoundationCrossref Funder Registry ID: https://ror.org/021nxhr62Award Number: DEB 1257625
description: Mammal occurrences were collected using the primary literature and paleobiology database. Mammal trait data was gathered from primary literature and various online databases including the paleobiology database and NOW database. All traits and occurrrences have a citation. All locality data information is available in a csv file. Dates were refined using the primary literature and all citations are provided in the document. I have the database attached as a csv file.
Single-Cell HIV Reservoir Dynamics Following Gene Modified Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation
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 use of gene modified cells to reduce reservoir size and delay HIV recrudescence is on the forefront of HIV curative science. However, current approaches may have limited impact in people with HIV (PWH) and only provide a single layer of protection against infection. As a result, the AMC #097 study, “A Phase I Study of Stem Cell Gene Therapy for HIV Mediated by Lentivector Transduced, Pre-Selected CD34+ Cells: A Trial of the AIDS Malignancy Consortium,” was implemented to use multiple anti-HIV gene modified cells to block HIV infection at different states of the viral life cycle. We hypothesize that the combined gene modification approach in the AMC097 study will lead to reductions in the overall burden of HIV infection and lead to post-treatment control during analytical treatment interruption (ATI). Furthermore, we have developed a novel assay to determine if HIV infects gene modified cells. Our aims are to determine in the long-term impact of autologous SCT with gene modified stem cells simultaneously targeting different stages of the HIV replication cycle on the burden of HIV infection and determine if gene modified cells become infected prior to and following cessation of ART in the AMC097 trial.
PARTICIPATORY MANAGEMENT AND ITS EFFECT ON CUSTOMER LOYALTY IN HOTELS: A STUDY IN DELTA STATE
Creators: name: Chinweoke Amarachi, Nwosu
Publisher: name: continental
Year: 2025
Subjects: Participatory Management, Consultative Management, customer patronage

description: The study examined the influence of participatory management on patronage in hotels in Asaba, Delta state. The specific objectives include to; to determine the influence of consultative management on patronage in selected hotel operations in Asaba, Delta State. To achieve the objectives of the study, survey design method was used. The researcher adopted primary source of data through the use of well-structured questionnaire. Data were analyzed using simple regression analysis. The findings revealed that (i) there is a significance relationship between consultative management and patronage in hotel operations in the study area,(ii) there is no positive association between quality circle and patronage in hotel operations in the study area, the study recommends that consultative management, quality circles are important participatory management practices and indeed affect patronage in hotel operations. The study also recommends that a framework that will successfully link patronage with joint decision making and attitude surveys should also be incorporated.
Exostyles venusta Schott. Syst. Veg.
Creators: name: Silva, Lucas
name: Thomaz, Luciana Dias
name: Dutra, Valquíria Ferreira
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Fabales
Fabaceae
Exostyles
Exostyles venusta

description: 3.16 Exostyles venusta Schott. Syst. Veg. 4(2, Cur. Post.): 406. 1827.
Arbustos, ca. 3 m alt.; ramos pubescentes, inermes. Estípulas 1,9-3,2 × 0,5-1,2 mm, sublunadas, livres decíduas. Folhas imparipinadas, 5-9 folioladas; pecíolos 4,5-10 mm compr., pubescentes; raque foliar 29-45 mm compr., pubescente, folíolos 53 × 23 mm, elípticos, base acuneada, ápice acuminado, margem denteada, faces abaxial e adaxial glabras; nectários foliares ausentes; Inflorescências e flores não observadas. Legumes 14-11 × 2,4 cm, glabros, indeiscentes. Sementes ca. 7, elípticas, ca. 10 × 0,6 mm, laranjas a marrom-claras.
Espécie com distribuíção do sul dos Estados Unidos à América do Sul e oeste da África (Carvalho 1997). No Brasil ocorre nas regiões Nordeste (BA) e Sudeste (ES, RJ, SP), em Mata Atlântica (BFG 2015, material suplementar). No PNMJ ocorre na formação Arbustiva Fechada Não Inundável. Coletada com frutos em agosto.
A espécie possui como características: a margem da folha denteada, ramos com epiderme descamante e um agrupamento de estípulas no ápice do ramo. Estas características não são encontradas em nenhuma outra espécie de Leguminosae do PNMJ. Este é o primeiro registro de ocorrência desta espécie para o PNMJ.
Material examinado: BRASIL, ESPÍRITO SANTO, Vila Velha, Parque Natural Municipal de Jacarenema, 20.VIII.2008, H. C. de Lima 7005 (VIES, RB).
Material adicional examinado: BRASIL, ESPÍRITO SANTO, Vila Velha, Interlagos, 28.VIII.1995, O. Zambom 97 (VIES).
description: Published as part of Silva, Lucas, Thomaz, Luciana Dias & Dutra, Valquíria Ferreira, 2018, Leguminosae no Parque Natural Municipal de Jacarenema, Vila Velha, Espírito Santo, Brasil, pp. 261-289 in Iheringia, Série Botânica 73 (3) on page 282, DOI: 10.21826/2446-8231201873305, http://zenodo.org/record/10950818
Risking everything for that touch
Creators: name: Genter, Alix
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: Risking Everything for That Touch examines lesbian culture in New York City from the end of World War II in 1945 to the emergence of the women’s liberation movement in the late-1960s and early-19&0s. Analyzing gendered subjectivities, erotics, self-fashioning, cultural rituals, and the production and distribution of sexual knowledge, it demonstrates the pervasiveness of butch-femme – a gendered style of lesbianism that encompasses dress and appearance, behaviors and mannerisms, courtship, relationships, and sex. But it also expands and complicates prevailing notions of this prominent erotic dyad. Rather than the uniformity implied by historical depictions of stark visual contrast and firm sexual standards, this dissertation explores the ways that varied groups of lesbians interpreted butch-femme identities and roles, demonstrating that they showed remarkable creativity and ingenuity in negotiating a hostile dominant culture while remaining fiercely committed to queer sexual and gendered explorations. Women played with queer legibility according to personal preference and the level of risk they encountered, and explored their sexuality both within and beyond the gendered framework of their culture. Moreover, lesbians maintained a complicated connection to postwar norms, displaying a sexual fortitude that flouted dominant ideologies of womanhood while remaining entangled with normative ideologies of gender and romance. Drawing on sources rooted in the voices and experiences of postwar femmes and butches, such as oral histories and memoirs, I take an ethnographic approach to this historical moment, recreating the sights, sounds, and emotions of postwar lesbian life. This dissertation offers a window into their world, their culture, their understandings of themselves, and the meanings that they created under difficult circumstances. In the process, it demonstrates the flexibility and ingenuity of that powerful and enduring style of queer erotics – butch-femme.
Code for Nature Comms. Env. "Sea ice loss in association with Arctic cyclones"
Creators: name: Cavallo, Steven
name: Bitz, Cecilia
name: Frank, Maddie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Scripts needed to reproduce the data and plots from "Sea ice loss in association with Arctic cyclones" in Nature Communications Earth & Environment by S. M. Cavallo, Madeline M. Frank, and Cecilia M. Bitz.
title: Funde archäologischer Ausgrabungen von Konfliktorten und Unrechtskontexten und ihre emotionalen und politischen Wege
Creators: name: Hähn, Cathrin
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Kriegsgefangenschaft
subject: human remains
subject: Erkennungsmarke
subject: Identifikation
subject: Umbettungen
subject: 060 Allgemeine Organisationen und Museumswissenschaft

description: Im Mittelpunkt meines Beitrags stehen bereits zurückgelegte und zukünftige Reisen von Objekten und menschlichen Überresten aus der archäologischen Ausgrabung (2021/22) eines ehemaligen Kriegsgefangenenfriedhofs in Bremen- Oslebshausen und Bremen-Häfen – sie stehen gemeinsam für eine historische ‚Person‘ des jeweiligen Kriegsgefangenen und NS-Opfers. Ausgrabung und Auswertung erfolgen durch die Landesarchäologie Bremen und nach dem im Bremer Denkmalschutzgesetz verankerten Verursacherprinzip und werden im Rahmen dieses Gesetzes finanziert. Über diese Grundlage hinaus soll die Identifizierung der Opfer durch die Beteiligung verschiedener Forschungsdisziplinen und in Zusammenarbeit mit anderen Institutionen ermöglicht werden: Die menschlichen Überreste werden osteoanthropologisch untersucht, die Grabungsbefunde ausgewertet und die Erkennungsmarken restauriert. Auf Ebene der Politik plant die Senatskanzlei Bremens gemeinsam mit dem Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge die Ausgestaltung der Wiederbestattung. Die Landesarchäologie Bremen übernimmt gemeinsam mit der Stiftung Niedersächsische Gedenkstätten, dem Büro für Kriegsgräberfürsorge der Russischen Föderation in Berlin und dem Nationalen Museum für die Geschichte des Zweiten Weltkriegs in Kiyv die Identifikation der ausgegrabenen Hinweise auf Personen, die hier bestattet wurden. Dabei sind die Erkennungsmarken die zentralen Objekte für die Identifizierung, haben aber auch eine mehrdeutige Rolle für die Würdigung der einzelnen Opfer. Der Beitrag gibt einen Einblick in die Überlegungen zu den laufenden Forschungsarbeiten und ist als Werkstattbericht zu verstehen.
Andrena (Micrandrena) cedricola Wood 2020
Creators: name: Wood, Thomas J.
name: Ismael, Halgurd R.
name: Baiocchi, Daniele
name: Hamad, Mudhafar I.
name: Bapir, Tahseen T.
name: Selis, Marco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Andrena
Andrena cedricola

description: 14.Andrena(Micrandrena)cedricolaWood, 2020 *
Material examined.
Iraq: Duhok, Mt. Gara [S of Sarsing], 37.0158 ° N, 43.3506 ° E, 1912 m, 11. v. 2023, 2 ♂, leg. D. Baiocchi, MSVI / TJWC.
Distribution.
Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Iraq * (Pisanty et al. 2022 a).
description: Published as part of Wood, Thomas J., Ismael, Halgurd R., Baiocchi, Daniele, Hamad, Mudhafar I., Bapir, Tahseen T. & Selis, Marco, 2024, A first revision of the Andrena of Iraq (Hymenoptera, Andrenidae), with the description of two new species from Iraqi Kurdistan and additional records from surrounding countries, pp. 267-298 in ZooKeys 1205 on pages 267-298, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1205.120033
The displays, silences, and aesthetic possibilities of museum fashion's gendered geopolitics
Creators: name: Gutiérrez López, Daniela Alejandra
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: This thesis studies how the “museumification” of fashion ―the collection and display of decommodified objects— may affectively (re)produce normative gender, class, ethnic, and geopolitical hierarchies narrated and embodied in the garments and exhibitions. Re-locating “personal” fashion items within institutional walls molds the (art) museum as a site for social control —surveillance, inclusion, exclusion— of subaltern groups, specifically of women, subcultures and ethnic minorities: respectively, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Impressionism, Fashion and Modernity and Punk: Chaos to Couture; and the Museum of Chinese in America’s Shanghai Glamour: New Women 1910s-40s and Front Row: Chinese American Designers serve as case studies.    This argument is developed through a contrastive study of the exhibits, which deploys a multi-method approach. In order to contextualize museum practices and the fashion exhibitions, and address geopolitical relationships among those exhibited, I consider historical investigations and previous museum studies scholarship. Moreover, feminist fashion, affect, and post-colonial theories help navigate some of the different but complementary standpoints that shape the museum fashion experience. Informed by repeated visits to the exhibitions, I perform discourse analysis of the spatial (visual and physical) organization of the artworks in the displays; and of the visual and written texts provided at the museum —the descriptions of the galleries and the captions that accompany the garments, accessories, photographs, videos, music or paintings. Finally, throughout I analyze a contemporary prosthetic to the museum’s social body that aids the proliferation of the hegemonic discourses circulating within the museum: mass media related to the exhibits —television, press articles, and the museums’ websites.         However, by focusing on the artificiality and construction of these discourses, the thesis ultimately considers the possibilities for destabilizing and subverting the aforementioned hierarchies. Rethinking collective aesthetic experiences and practices —such that audiences might consciously engage with and perform the meaning-making processes that art and fashion both allow— could alter museum publics’ degrees of participation with the fashion spectacles and within society at large.
Direct Production of Renewable Fuels and Chemicals from Captured CO2
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: Electrochemical approaches enable conversion of renewably-derived electricity into chemicals and fuels, and can be used to recycle CO2 and advance decarbonization technologies. This center will pursue fundamental discoveries in reaction chemistry and catalysis that will open access to useful chemical and fuel products that were previously inaccessible using CO2 as substrate. Reactive capture of CO2 will directly combine the capture of CO2 with conversion of captured CO2 into value-added products; and significantly improve the cost and overall efficiency relative to current standard multi-step processes. Reactive capture of CO2 offers the ability not only to clean up underutilized or dirty CO2 from waste streams, but also provides a mechanism to tune the reactivity of CO2 as substrate by variation of the capture reagent. This center bridges fundamental and applied work by combining the development of new molecular and heterogeneous electrocatalyst systems with reactor design and engineering that will enable prototyping electrocatalytic reactive capture of CO2 beyond the proof-of concept stage. We will also establish a record of collaborations between UC, LLNL and LBNL that facilitates finding extramural funding.

 We will address the ambitious goals with a synergistic center approach that leverages the strengths of UC, LLNL, and LBNL PIs, by combining experimental and theoretical expertise in thermal catalysis and molecular and heterogeneous electrocatalysis with reactor design and reactor modelling for scale-up. Experiments and theory will both contribute to the design new catalysts, model active sites, mechanisms and pathways for molecular and heterogeneous electrocatalysts from first principles; including the experimental conditions, such as solvent, and applied potential. Advanced manufacturing expertise at LLNL, led by Drs. Eric Duoss and Christopher Hahn, will enable rapid prototyping of components and reactors to integrate fundamental electrochemical processes for reactive CO2 capture into sub-scale systems where reactive CO2 capture is paired with a useful, established oxidation process to maximize efficiency. Expertise at LBNL, led by Dr. Adam Weber, will enable design and optimization of the CO2 reactive capture cell through multiphysics modeling of the phenomena within the cell.
Development and validation of a purge & trap- thermal desorption-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry method for the determination of propylene chlorohydrins (PCH) in hydroxpropyl starch and/or propylene oxide fumigated food products
Creators: name: Ji, Yue
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: Propylene oxide has been widely used in food industry to modify food functionality and to sterilize food products. Examples include hydroxypropylation of starch and cellulose to modify cold water solubility and sterilization of nutmeat like almonds. In this process, some undesirable side chemicals such as PCH are produced. PCH are mutagens and potential carcinogens. The level of PCH permissible in modified starch is regulated internationally. Food Chemical Codex, Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) and European Commission on food additives have set the limit of PCH in hydroxypropyl starch, which is less than 1mg/kg. However, because few toxicology guideline studies are available on PCH, the hazardous effects have not been fully understood and the allowable residue content of PCH in many food products has not been specified by regulations.  Recent independent studies conducted in the US and Europe have suggested that the certified international method for PCH quantification in modified starch may underestimate the amount of residual PCH. The objective of this research is to develop an alternate method for PCH quantification and to independently evaluate the results of a newly proposed solvent extraction GC-MS analytical method (AVEBE unpublished study).  The P&T-TD-GC-MS method includes four steps: solvent extraction with water or MEOH, Purge & Trap concentration, thermal desorption and GC-MS analysis. It incorporates 3-chloro-1-propanol (a PCH structural isomer) as a matrix-spiked internal standard. The method is approximately 100 times more sensitive than the proposed European solvent extraction-GC-MS method, allowing for full-scan mass confirmation in contrast to the European method that uses selected ion monitoring. The P&T-TD-GC-MS method also eliminated the requirement of a highly specific GC injector (Programmed Thermal Volatilizer or PTV) which is mandated by the European method and not commonly available to most labs.   With this P&T-TD-GC-MS method, the LOD of both PCH1 and PCH2 is 0.025mg/kg and their LOQ is 0.1 mg/kg. A series of method validation tests, including precision, system suitability and recovery were conducted to determine the accuracy and sensitivity of the P&T-TD-GC-MS method in this study.
title: Von Pfeffer, Hut, Stab, Becher und Handschuhen. Die symbolischen Gaben der Pfundzollbefreiung im Spätmittelalter und in der Frühen Neuzeit
Creators: name: Beutler, Naomi Carla
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Pfundzollbefreiung
subject: Ritualgeschichte
subject: Symbolik
subject: Gaben
subject: 060 Allgemeine Organisationen und Museumswissenschaft

description: Die Befreiung vom Pfundzoll wurde in vielen Städten des Deutschen Reiches ab dem 13. Jahrhundert nicht nur durch schriftliche Privilegien bestätigt, sondern ebenso durch eine Zeremonie. Neben der musikalischen Einrahmung sowie der verbindlichen Abläufe stand im Zentrum der Befreiung die Darbietung von Gaben, darunter ein Pfund Pfeffer, ein Biberhut, ein Paar Handschuhe sowie ein Becher und ein Stab. Diese Gaben wurden einmal jährlich den städtischen Institutionen von Gesandten zur Aufrechterhaltung der Befreiung ausgehändigt. Die Objekte legten somit in den Händen der Gesandten einen geographischen, räumlich sichtbaren Weg zurück. Daneben existierte jedoch auch ein unsichtbarer Weg. Dabei handelte es sich um die symbolische Aufladung besagter Objekte, denen im Rahmen dieser Zeremonie unterschiedliche Deutungen zukommen konnten. In meinem Beitrag stelle ich diese beiden Wege unter Berücksichtigung der neueren Ritualgeschichte ins Zentrum der Betrachtung. Dabei wird nach der Ausgestaltung der beiden Wege gefragt sowie nach deren Auswirkungen für das Ereignis der Pfundzollbefreiung. Das Forschungsprojekt, das aus einer Masterarbeit hervorgegangen ist, setzt sich zum Ziel, die rituellen Elemente der Pfundzollbefreiung von deren erster Erwähnung 1264 bis zur letzten durchgeführten Befreiung 1802 zu untersuchen, um die Deutungsweisen des Rituals zu unterschiedlichen Zeiten in verschiedenen Städten erschließen zu können. Dabei lege ich einerseits dar, dass die vor dem Hintergrund des Rituals statisch wirkende Pfundzollbefreiung, welche über 500 Jahre hinweg durchgeführt wurde, eine große Dynamik aufwies. Andererseits möchte ich mit dem Projekt dazu beizutragen, Rituale nicht nur als Bestandteil des höfischen Geschehens und der Jurisdiktion, sondern vielmehr auch als Teil des städtischen Lebens sowie der Wirtschaft im Spätmittelalter und der Frühen Neuzeit zu verstehen.
Leptolobium tenuifolium Vogel, Linnaea
Creators: name: Silva, Lucas
name: Thomaz, Luciana Dias
name: Dutra, Valquíria Ferreira
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Fabales
Fabaceae
Leptolobium
Leptolobium tenuifolium

description: 3.17 Leptolobium tenuifolium Vogel, Linnaea 11: 391. 1837.
(Fig. 5K)
Arbustos, ca. 3,5 m alt.; ramos glabros, inermes. Estípulas não observadas, decíduas. Folhas imparipinadas, 3-7-folioladas; pecíolos ca. 25 mm compr., glabros; raque foliar 40-45 mm compr., glabra; folíolos 60 × 26-37 mm, elípticos, base acuminada, ápice acuminado, margem inteira, faces abaxial e adaxial glabras; nectários foliares ausentes. Flores não observadas. Legumes samaroides 3 × 1,4 cm, glabros, indeiscentes. Sementes 1, elípticas, ca. 8 × 5,5 mm, vermelhas a marrons.
Espécie endêmica do Brasil, ocorrendo nas regiões Nordeste (BA) e Sudeste (ES, RJ), em Mata Atlântica (BFG 2015, material suplementar). No PNMJ ocorre na formação Arbustiva aberta. Coletada com frutos em maio.
Os caracteres diagnósticos para a espécie são os frutos do tipo legume samaroide de formato elíptico. Este é o primeiro registro de ocorrência desta espécie para o PNMJ.
Material examinado: BRASIL, ESPÍRITO SANTO, Vila Velha, Parque Natural Municipal de Jacarenema, 03. V.2011, L. A. Silva 11 (VIES).
description: Published as part of Silva, Lucas, Thomaz, Luciana Dias & Dutra, Valquíria Ferreira, 2018, Leguminosae no Parque Natural Municipal de Jacarenema, Vila Velha, Espírito Santo, Brasil, pp. 261-289 in Iheringia, Série Botânica 73 (3) on page 282, DOI: 10.21826/2446-8231201873305, http://zenodo.org/record/10950818
Tissue Resident Memory T-cells to HIV mRNA vaccine and IFN modulation with TLR7 agonist
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: An HIV-1 vaccine is our best hope to stop the spreading AIDS epidemic. An effective HIV-1 vaccine requires to simulate not only antibodies but also killer T cells that can eliminate infected cells. Also, we need to recognize that the majority of new HIV-1 infections are acquired through sexual transmission, and that HIV-1 enters the body predominantly through the mucosa lining the genital and gastrointestinal tract. Accordingly, a successful HIV-1 vaccine needs to be able to stimulate protection at the mucosa.
 The current SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has brought messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines to the forefront of public and scientific thought. As cells use mRNA to make proteins, an mRNA vaccine that carries the instruction to make a pathogen-specific protein is delivered to our body. After a few days, mRNA is degraded and disappears. However, once our immune system sees this pathogen-specific protein as a threat, it will react by generate antibodies and killer T cells, a process that takes at least two weeks. Importantly, our immune system will develop memory to remember this particular protein. When we encounter the real pathogen, not only do we already have antibodies to defend but also our immune memory, which results in a rapid response. mRNA vaccines are easier to produce than other traditional vaccines and can be repetitively used to boost the immunity. For pathogens, such as HIV-1 and influenza A virus, that constantly change to avoid the elimination by our immune system, making new versions of mRNA vaccines can be very fast.
 Much of the focus of mRNA vaccines for infectious diseases is on the induction of high levels of antibodies. However, less is known whether the ability of mRNA vaccines to generate effective killer T cells. Our body has a sophisticated system to recognize pathogens and trigger the immune defense. A critical component of vaccines is to trick the body’s pathogen recognition system to see a part of the pathogen protein as a threat. Our proposed study is to develop strategies to safely manipulate this recognition system after mRNA vaccination and improve the generation of killer T cells at the mucosa.
 The potential impact of the study will be major, as an effective HIV vaccine vector eliciting strong protective immunity will control transmission of HIV and prevent millions of new HIV infections each year.
Andrena (Chlorandrena) cinereophila Warncke 1965
Creators: name: Wood, Thomas J.
name: Ismael, Halgurd R.
name: Baiocchi, Daniele
name: Hamad, Mudhafar I.
name: Bapir, Tahseen T.
name: Selis, Marco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Andrena
Andrena cinereophila

description: 15.Andrena(Chlorandrena)cinereophilaWarncke, 1965 *
Material examined.
Iraq: Duhok, Mt. Gara [S of Sarsing], 37.0158 ° N, 43.3506 ° E, 1912 m, 11. v. 2023, 1 ♂, leg. D. Baiocchi, MSVI; Lebanon: Balbek-Hermel, Sefri, Haouch Snaid, AUB farm, 33.9244 ° N, 36.0754 ° E, 1000 m, 6. iv. 2023, 11 ♀, leg. T. J. Wood, TJWC; Beqaa, Anjar, 1 km E, Armenian Cemetary, 33.7372 ° N, 35.9503 ° E, 900 m, 7. iv. 2023, 1 ♀, leg. T. J. Wood, TJWC; Beqaa, Beqaa valley, Mansourah, Aammiq wetland preserve, 33.7321 ° N, 35.7853 ° E, 850 m, 3. iv. 2023, 1 ♂, leg. T. J. Wood, TJWC; Beqaa, Beqaa valley, Qaraoun dam, 33.5483 ° N, 35.6851 ° E, 850 m, 6. iv. 2023, 3 ♂, leg. T. J. Wood, TJWC.
Distribution.
East Mediterranean to Central Asia, including Lebanon * and Iraq * (Gusenleitner and Schwarz 2002; Osytshnjuk et al. 2005; Wood and Monfared 2022).
description: Published as part of Wood, Thomas J., Ismael, Halgurd R., Baiocchi, Daniele, Hamad, Mudhafar I., Bapir, Tahseen T. & Selis, Marco, 2024, A first revision of the Andrena of Iraq (Hymenoptera, Andrenidae), with the description of two new species from Iraqi Kurdistan and additional records from surrounding countries, pp. 267-298 in ZooKeys 1205 on pages 267-298, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1205.120033