cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Tobacco-related cancer prevention by Vitamin A derivatives
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: In spite of recent advances in surgical, radiation, and chemotherapeutic treatment of cancer, lung cancer continues to be biggest cancer killer (27%) in California. About 18,000 new cases and 14,315 deaths from lung cancer are predicted for 1997. Both prostate cancer and breast cancer are slightly more common, but lung cancer kills about four times as many victims as prostate cancer and three times as many as breast cancer. Tobacco use and exposure is the main cause of lung cancer, and more women and young people are smoking cigarettes and thus are at increased risk. Therefore, there is an urgent need for more effective methods to prevent and treat lung cancer.

 1. Carcinogens in tobacco smoke cause mutations in genes that regulate the cell cycle, with a resulting loss of the controls that allow normal cell repair or apoptosis (i.e., cell death as part of the normal life cycle). These abnormal (transformed) cells then grow uncontrollably. Drugs that can reinforce control points to stop the growth of transformed cells may allow these cells to be repaired or destroyed rather than to continue their uncontrolled growth.

 Although laboratory studies show that several retinoids (derivatives of vitamin A) inhibit cancer cell growth, clinical trials found that two of the most promising retinoids only delayed the appearance of new tumors in lung cancer and breast cancer patients, even at doses high enough to warrant discontinuance because of side effects. Clearly, new anticancer agents must be both more effective and less toxic.

 Recent studies indicate that induction of apoptosis may enhance cancer prevention. We found that one retinoid, 6-[3-(1-adamantyl)-4-hydro-xyphenyl)]-2-naphthale-necarboxylic acid (abbreviated AHPN), inhibits lung cancer cell growth and induces lung cancer cell apoptosis. Our studies indicate that AHPN exerts its anticancer activity without interacting with the retinoid receptors, an advantage because toxic effects are less likely to cause side effects. Furthermore, AHPN is far more effective (20- to 100-fold) than other retinoids, including the natural retinoid trans-retinoic acid, in inhibiting growth of lung cancer cells in culture.

 We will design and synthesize variants of AHPN that cause lung cancer cell apoptosis but do not activate cellular responses associated with side effects. Our preliminary studies with SR11389, our AHPN analog, indicate that this objective is reasonable. New compounds will first be evaluated for their ability to inhibit lung cancer cell growth compared to normal lung cell growth. Effective analogs will then be evaluated for their ability to induce cancer cell apoptosis without initiating side effects, then for their ability to lower the amount of an apoptosis inhibitor. These studies will identify the most promising analog for further development.
OT-Help User Manual
Creators: name: Becker, Michael
name: Pater, Joe
Publisher: name: GLSA, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2007

description: OT-Help (Becker, Pater & Potts 2007) is a free open-source Java-based program that aids research in Optimality Theory (OT, Prince and Smolensky 1993/2004) and its cousin, Harmonic Grammar (HG, Smolensky and Legendre 2006). OT-Help will find a constraint ranking or weighting consistent with the data provided by the user, if one exists. The solution can be displayed either in a standard tableau format, or as a comparative tableau (Prince 2002a). OT-Help will also find the set of possible languages in both OT and HG, given the user's set of constraints. Typology can also be explored interactively by selecting different sets of optima.OT-Help is available athttp://web.linguist.umass.edu/~OTHelp/
Endonura paracentaurea Smolis, Shayanmehr, Kuznetsova & Lafooraki 2017
Creators: name: Mayvan, Mahmood Mehrafrooz
name: Greenslade, Penelope
name: Sadeghi-Namaghi, Hussein
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Collembola
Poduromorpha
Neanuridae
Endonura
Endonura paracentaurea

description: Endonura paracentaurea Smolis, Shayanmehr, Kuznetsova & Lafooraki, 2017
– Endonura paracentaurea Smolis et al. 2017: 141.
MAZ: Smolis et al. 2017; Smolis & Skarżyński 2020; GI: Smolis & Skarżyński 2020.
Ecology and habitat in Iran: this species was found in rotten wood, tree hole, humus, large trees in marsh and sifting.
General distribution: species possibly endemic to Iran (Smolis et al. 2017).
description: Published as part of Mayvan, Mahmood Mehrafrooz, Greenslade, Penelope & Sadeghi-Namaghi, Hussein, 2023, An annotated checklist of the Collembola (Hexapoda) from Iran, pp. 1-101 in Zootaxa 5275 (1) on page 29, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5275.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7898948
Proarna invaria
Creators: name: Sanborn, Allen F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadidae
Proarna
Proarna invaria

description: Proarna invaria (Walker, 1850)
Cicada grisea Germar 1830: 40. (South America).
Cicada invaria Walker 1850: 151. (South America)
Cicada dexithea Walker 1850: 158. (Unknown collection locality)
Cicada fulvoviridis Walker 1858a: 23. (Villa Nova)
Cicada ovatipennis Walker 1858b: 13. (Colombia)
Proarna germari Distant 1905a nom. nov. pro Cicada grisea Germar, 1830 nec Tettigonia grisea Fabricius, 1775: 140. (Colombia).
Proarna invaria Sanborn 2013: 197.
Remarks. Sanborn (2018) reviewed the synonymies and the status of the species. The species was mistakenly listed as being part of the cicada fauna of Trinidad & Tobago in Sanborn (2013) during compilation of the catalogue.
Diagnosis. This is the other small species of Proarna from the Lesser Antilles with body lengths of 17.5–19.6 mm and fore wing lengths of 23.8–27.6 mm. Proarna olivieri and Proarna squamigera can be distinguished by their larger body and fore wing lengths. Proarna hilaris can be distinguished by the fore wing costal margin that is straight to the node rather than curving, the mesonotum width greather than 6.5 mm the male timbal cover that is curved on the apex, male opercula that are separated medially by abdominal sternite I, and there is a transverse section on the posterior female abdominal sternite VII between the notch and posterolateral curvature in this species not found in Proarna invaria.
Distribution. The species has been recorded from the Antilles, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, French Antilles, French Guiana, Guyana, Honduras, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela (Metcalf 1963a; Duffels & van der Laan 1985; Boulard 2001; Sanborn 2011a; 2013; 2014; 2018; 2020a, b; 2023a). The reference to St. Vincent is Boulard (2001) is considered Proarna squamigera and is not included in the distribution. Similarly, the reference to Trinidad has been shown to be erroneous (Sanborn 2020a).
As outlined above, the reference by Boulard (2001) to the species found in the French Antilles appears to be erroneous. He states Proarna invaria originates from St. Vincent and Proarna squamigera was collected in Guadeloupe and Martinique. It appears he mixed-up the two species so that Proarna invaria was meant to have been recorded from Guadeloupe and Martinique while Proarana squamigera originated in St. Vincent (where all other published reports and observed specimens originated). Unfortunately, there were no examples of the species available from the islands so that the distribution could not be verified. As this is the only reference to the species in the Lesser Antilles, the species is tentatively retained as part of the fauna but may represent a misidentification.
description: Published as part of Sanborn, Allen F., 2024, The cicada (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) fauna of the Lesser Antilles sensu lato with the description of two new species, two new combinations, and a key to species, pp. 33-69 in Zootaxa 5497 (1) on pages 43-44, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5497.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13617972
Additional file 5: of An intrinsically disordered linker controlling the formation and the stability of the bacterial flagellar hook
Creators: name: Barker, Clive
name: Meshcheryakova, Irina
name: Kostyukova, Alla
name: Freddolino, Peter
name: Samatey, Fadel
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Flagellar phenotypes for S. enterica producing FlgE ID-Rod-Stretch mutant proteins. (DOCX 41 kb)
What constraint connectives should be permitted in OT?
Creators: name: Wolf, Matthew
Publisher: name: GLSA, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2007

description: Local Conjunction (LC: Smolensky 1993, 1995, 1997) been the subject of a great deal of theoretical discussion, but much less attention has been paid to the possibility that OT might include connectives other than LC for creating new constraints from pre-existing ones. Is there any reason to suspect that LC could be the only connective available to natural-language OT grammars? I argue that there is: of the fifteen possible two-place connectives besides LC, all are either analytically inert or can be ruled out by typologically-motivated criteria.
Beraba odettae Martins & Galileo 2008
Creators: name: Groll, Elisa Von
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Beraba
Beraba odettae

description: Beraba odettae Martins & Galileo, 2008
Martins & Galileo, 2008b:56, fig. 2.
Paratype ♀, FRENCH GUIANA, Guyane: Kaw (km 43), 17. VII.1991, J. A. Cerda col., armadilha luminosa (MCNZ 236.019).
description: Published as part of Groll, Elisa Von, 2017, Catalogue of Coleoptera type specimens housed in the collection of the Museu de Ciências Naturais, Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, pp. 439-473 in Zootaxa 4318 (3) on page 441, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4318.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/887750
Endonura persica Smolis, Kahrarian, Piwnik & Skarzynski 2016
Creators: name: Mayvan, Mahmood Mehrafrooz
name: Greenslade, Penelope
name: Sadeghi-Namaghi, Hussein
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Collembola
Poduromorpha
Neanuridae
Endonura
Endonura persica

description: Endonura persica Smolis, Kahrarian, Piwnik & Skarżyński, 2016
– Endonura persica Smolis et al. 2016a: 62.
KS: Smolis et al. 2016a.
Ecology and habitat in Iran: litter in willow shrubs and oak forest.
General distribution: species possibly endemic to Iran (Smolis et al. 2016a).
description: Published as part of Mayvan, Mahmood Mehrafrooz, Greenslade, Penelope & Sadeghi-Namaghi, Hussein, 2023, An annotated checklist of the Collembola (Hexapoda) from Iran, pp. 1-101 in Zootaxa 5275 (1) on page 30, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5275.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7898948
La facilitation des échanges, facteur d'accroissement de l'assiette des recettes douanières : évidence empirique au Togo
Creators: name: ADJANDE, Ali Awountchou
name: DONKO, Bileyo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Facilitation des échanges ; Modèle de gravité ; Recettes douanières ; Assiette des recettes.

description: Dans sa feuille de route gouvernementale 2020-2025, l’amélioration de la mobilisation des ressources publiques est inscrite comme une réforme importante. Cet article s’inscrit dans cette logique et vise à déterminer les effets de la facilitation des échanges sur l’assiette des recettes douanières au Togo. L’approche économétrique s’appuie sur le modèle de gravité. Les données utilisées couvrent la période de 2015 à 2022 et concernent le Togo et ses 41 premiers partenaires commerciaux. Les résultats économétriques montrent que la facilitation des échanges contribue à élargir l’assiette des recettes douanières au Togo. Comme implication, la poursuite des réformes pour faciliter les échanges permettrait au Togo d’accroitre l’assiette des recettes douanières et d’améliorer la mobilisation des recettes publiques sans augmenter la charge fiscale des entreprises.
Smokeless tobacco cessation among lumber mill employees
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: More than 300 studies have identified the side effects and risks of smokeless tobacco use, including nicotine addiction. Smokeless tobacco is commonly used where smoking is a fire hazard, such as farming, mining, milling, and forestry. The lumber industry is a major, traditional, market for smokeless tobacco sales. The high rate of long-term use among lumber mill employees places them at a substantial risk for the harmful consequences from tobacco use.

 Studies using smokers indicate twice the quit rates with the use of a nicotine patch over behavior modification strategies alone. It is believed that addition of the patch is effective because it reduces withdrawal symptoms, while allowing patients to develop and practice ways to cope without tobacco. Although nicotine patches have been shown to be successful in helping smokers quit, no studies have looked at their effectiveness with smokeless tobacco users.

 The main objective of the present study is to provide a test of the effectiveness of tobacco quitting program which uses: (1) a company-wide promotion for program enrollment, (2) a multiple session, behavior modification program, and (3) an active versus drug-free nicotine patch.

 We hypothesize that the addition of an "active" nicotine patch to a behavioral modification program will double the quit rate of participating employees, compared to those using a drug-free patch. The current study fills a need for the usefulness of nicotine patches for smokeless tobacco users.
Proarna olivieri Metcalf 1963
Creators: name: Sanborn, Allen F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadidae
Proarna
Proarna olivieri

description: Proarna olivieri Metcalf, 1963a
Cicada albida Olivier 1790: 755 (Cape of Good Hope, Suriname).
Proarna olivieri Metcalf 1963a nom. nov. pro Cicada albida Olivier, 1790 nec Cicada albida Gmelin, 1789: 380.
Diagnosis. This is one of the larger Proarna species in the Lesser Antilles with with body lengths of 22.9–24.2 mm and fore wing lengths of 30.0– 33.3 mm. Proarna hilaris and Proarna invaria can be quickly separated based on their smaller body and fore wing lengths. The costal margin is strongly curved at the base and there is infuscation on the veins separating the apical cells in this species both of which are absent in Proarna squamigera.
Distribution. The species has been reported from Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Jamaica, Mexico, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago, and Venezuela (Metcalf 1963a; Duffels & van der Laan 1985; Sanborn 2011a; 2013; 2014; 2020a; 2023a). Distant (1881a), Jacobi (1907), Cullen (1974) and Sanborn (2007a, b; 2010) reported the species from Trinidad without specific locality data with Sanborn (2020a) providing the first specific locality information for the species in the Lesser Antilles.
Material examined. “ Petit Valley / TRINIDAD / Station No. 1 / 10 June 1970 // T. E. Rogers / Coll.” one female (FSCA); “ Petit Valley / TRINIDAD / Station No. 1 / 8 Aug 1973 // T. E. Rogers / Coll.” one male (AFSC) “ Petit Valley / TRINIDAD / Station No. 1 / 7 Aug 1972 // T. E. Rogers / Coll.” one male (AFSC).
description: Published as part of Sanborn, Allen F., 2024, The cicada (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) fauna of the Lesser Antilles sensu lato with the description of two new species, two new combinations, and a key to species, pp. 33-69 in Zootaxa 5497 (1) on page 44, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5497.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13617972
Cupanoscelis serrana Martins & Galileo 1999
Creators: name: Groll, Elisa Von
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Cupanoscelis
Cupanoscelis serrana

description: Cupanoscelis serrana Martins & Galileo, 1999
Martins & Galileo, 1999:808, fig. 2.
Holotype ♂, BRAZIL, Goiás: Minaçú (Serra da Mesa), 19–30.VII.1996, L. Moura col. (MCNZ 235.047).
description: Published as part of Groll, Elisa Von, 2017, Catalogue of Coleoptera type specimens housed in the collection of the Museu de Ciências Naturais, Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, pp. 439-473 in Zootaxa 4318 (3) on page 441, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4318.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/887750
Molecular phylogenetics of tribe Epidendreae with emphasis on subtribe Laeliinae (Orchidaceae)
Creators: name: van den Berg, Cassio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Orchidaceae
subject: Orchidaceae/classification
subject: Orchidaceae/genetics
subject: phylogenetics
subject: molecular systematics
subject: Laeliinae
subject: Epidendreae

description: In this project, the phylogenetic relationships of tribe Epidendreae, especiallysubtribe Laeliinae were assessed by using DNA sequence data. At the tribal level, Iused data from three DNA regions, namely internal transcribed spacers of nuclearribosomal DNA (ITS), and plastid matK (gene and spacers) and trnL-F (intron, exonand spacer). After individual and combined phylogenetic analysis using parsimony, itwas possible to delimit Epidendreae as an exclusively Neotropical tribe (composedof subtribes Laeliinae, Pleurothallidinae, Ponerinae, Bletiinae and Chysinae). It isstill unclear whether Coeliinae and Calypsoeae should be also included inEpidendreae. All Old World subtribes placed in Epidendreae in Dressler’s (1993)system belong to different tribes of subfamily Epidendroideae. The revised subtribeBletiinae is composed only of Bletia, Hexalectris and Basiphyllaea. All Old Worldgenera previously placed in Bletiinae belong also to Old World groups. Arpophyllum(previously Arpophyllinae) and Meiracyllium (previously Meiracyllinae) should beincluded in Laeliinae. Neocogniauxia and Dilomilis belong to a clade sister toPleurothallidinae. Ponera, Isochilus and Helleriella (previously in the Scaphyglottisalliance within Laeliinae) belong to a recircumscribed version of Ponerinae, which issister to Bletiinae. Two other datasets were collected to investigate in more detailphylogenetic relationships within Laeliinae. The first dataset used 295 ITS sequencesto assess generic delimitation and species phylogenies. Because the levels ofvariation were low, there was little resolution along the spine of the tree, and fewgeneric groups achieved strong internal support. However, most species groupsobtained were coincident with previous taxonomic groups at the infrageneric level,but several genera were found to be polyphyletic, including Cattleya, Laelia,Encyclia, and Schomburgkia. A second analysis of Laeliinae used the same threegene regions as in the Epidendreae study. This analysis found increased support forgeneric groups, confirmed polyphyly of several genera, and clarified unusualrelationships in the ITS study. It also confirmed the suspicion that some ITSsequences were paralogous copies, although the underlying cause of the paralogyremains uncertain. Comparison of the three studies emphasise the importance of bothtaxon and character sampling in phylogenetic reconstruction.
School tobacco program and policy trial
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: Cigarette smoking among California youth continues to rise despite required school prevention programs and no-use policies for students. A major question is what strategies can be used to enhance the potential of school policy to effectively prevent and decrease student use. The proposed project aims to develop and evaluate an intervention comprised of six components to enhance the effects of school policy (review of student policy and enforcement, review of staff policy, staff education about modeling influences and quitting resources, parent education about school policy, addition of policy awareness and cueing, social norms and consequences lessons to each school's prevention program, staged policy dissemination) on middle school student tobacco use. The components are designed to be readily adopted by schools if the intervention is effective. The study addresses at least two of the TRDRP research priorities: prevention programs/interventions and reduced use/addiction intervention.

 The major hypothesis is that the proposed intervention, compared to a program and policy as usual control group, will increase support. enforcement, and compliance with policy and subsequently reduce student smoking in 16 California middle schools representing a mix of Latino, Asian, and White students. The subjects are 2400 7th grade students who are measured two years to evaluate effects of intervention. The impact of existing school district/community policies and youth access to tobacco in stores near schools will also be assessed. Results should be generalizable to most schools in California. The intervention, designed as a low cost adjunct to existing prevention programs and policy, should be a cost-effective way for schools to increase the potential of school policy to produce changes in adolescent tobacco use behavior. Materials developed as part of the intervention will be produced as an easy-to-follow manual that all California schools can use in their program and policy planning.
Additional file 1: of Gestational exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals in relation to infant birth weight: a Bayesian analysis of the HOME Study
Creators: name: Woods, Meghan
name: Lanphear, Bruce
name: Braun, Joseph
name: McCandless, Lawrence
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional data visualizations including DAG, correlation heat map, and LASSO and Elastic Net figures and tables for secondary sex-stratified analysis. (DOCX 331 kb)
Eburodacrys apua Martins & Galileo 2005
Creators: name: Groll, Elisa Von
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Eburodacrys
Eburodacrys apua

description: Eburodacrys apua Martins & Galileo, 2005
Martins & Galileo, 2005e:769, fig. 7.
Paratypes: 2♂, BOLIVIA, Santa Cruz: Buena Vista, 17–20.X.2000, Wappes & Morris col. (MCNZ 234.713, 234.714).
description: Published as part of Groll, Elisa Von, 2017, Catalogue of Coleoptera type specimens housed in the collection of the Museu de Ciências Naturais, Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, pp. 439-473 in Zootaxa 4318 (3) on page 441, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4318.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/887750
Motivation-enhanced teenage tobacco use cessation
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: No known published research has docu-mented reasonably effective quit-tobacco clinics among adolescents in general, and high risk youth, in particular. Quit rates among adolescents in clinic programs average about half that of adults (about 13%). Almost no research exists regarding quitting tobacco use among youth in higher risk settings. Subjects in the present project will consist of students from schools specializing in the education of high risk youth, known as "continuation" high schools in California. By developing a workable quit program for this school-based population, we hope to overcome some of the limitations of current adolescent quit-tobacco approaches.

 The overall objectives of the proposed research are to (a) improve knowledge about the quitting process by developing a motivation strategy repertoire to encourage adolescents to stop using tobacco now rather than waiting until the future (an intrapersonal approach), (b) develop a clinic program which incorporates the intrapersonal motivational component, (c) develop a school-as-community component which applies directly to quitting tobacco use, as an interpersonal motivation approach, and (d) do a field experiment which contrasts motivation-enhanced clinic-only and motivation-enhanced clinic plus school-as-community programs in a continuation high school context involving 20 continuation high schools. General prevalence of tobacco use will be assessed at these 20 continuation high schools, and at 18 other continuation high schools engaged in another ongoing project, to calculate the level of self-initiated quitting.
Endonura schwendingeri Smolis & Skarzynski 2020
Creators: name: Mayvan, Mahmood Mehrafrooz
name: Greenslade, Penelope
name: Sadeghi-Namaghi, Hussein
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Collembola
Poduromorpha
Neanuridae
Endonura
Endonura schwendingeri

description: Endonura schwendingeri Smolis & Skarżyński, 2020
– Endonura schwendingeri Smolis & Skarżyński, 2020: 115.
GI: Smolis & Skarżyński 2020.
Ecology and habitat in Iran: this species was collected from tree trunk, leaves and sifting.
General distribution: species posibly endemic to Iran (Smolis & Skarżyński 2020).
Genus Neanura MacGillivray, 1893
description: Published as part of Mayvan, Mahmood Mehrafrooz, Greenslade, Penelope & Sadeghi-Namaghi, Hussein, 2023, An annotated checklist of the Collembola (Hexapoda) from Iran, pp. 1-101 in Zootaxa 5275 (1) on page 30, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5275.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7898948
Eburodacrys gaucha Galileo & Martins 1992
Creators: name: Groll, Elisa Von
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Eburodacrys
Eburodacrys gaucha

description: Eburodacrys gaucha Galileo & Martins, 1992
Galileo & Martins, 1992:4, fig. 2.
Paratype ♀, BRAZIL, Rio Grande do Sul: Guaíba, 06.III.1980, H. A. Gastal, col. (MCNZ 29.475).
description: Published as part of Groll, Elisa Von, 2017, Catalogue of Coleoptera type specimens housed in the collection of the Museu de Ciências Naturais, Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, pp. 439-473 in Zootaxa 4318 (3) on page 441, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4318.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/887750
Elaborating and performing optimization approaches for web-based 3D spatial analysis of 3D city models
Creators: name: Akin, Alper Tunga
name: Usta, Ziya
name: Cömert, Çetin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Three-dimensional (3D) geographic information systems (GIS) are vital for urban planning and architectural design, enabling detailed visualization and analysis of urban landscapes. However, the growing size of 3D city data and the transition to web environments cause performance challenges for real-time applications. This study addresses the need for optimizing 3D spatial analyses for the web using Quadtree data structures and multiprocessing tools. Optimization scenarios based on data size and hardware configurations are evaluated, and the best hosting plans for GIS applications on cloud services are also considered.
Lung volume reduction surgery in an emphysema model
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: Emphysema is a severe and debilitating lung disease that results from smoking cigarettes. Patients with emphysema suffer from destruction of the lung tissue with symptoms of severe shortness of breath. The symptoms can progress to complete debilitation and death. Medical treatment of emphysema has little affect on disease symptoms. Recently, new surgical techniques have been described to improve breathing function and symptoms in patients with severe emphysema. This surgery is called lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS). Animal studies are needed in order to improve LVRS surgery as well as to facilitate determining which patients should be treated with this procedure. We have developed an animal model of emphysema that is very similar to human emphysema. We have also developed LVRS surgical techniques and lung function measurement methods. We plan to study the ways of improving LVRS using this animal model.

 LVRS improves lung function by reducing the size of over-inflated lungs that result from emphysema. The exact effects of the volume reduction surgery on lung function are not known, nor is it known how to determine the optimal amount of lung tissue to remove during surgery. We will try to answer the following questions in this study: 1) Is long -term improvement best if both sides are operated upon simultaneously, or would it be better to operate on one side, then operate on the other side at a later time when symptoms recur? 2) Is it better to perform a single incision in the middle of the chest, or is it better to use small videoscopes and make small cuts on both sides? 3) What type of lung disease is associated with the best response to treatment? 4) Is it better to use staples alone to reduce the size of the lung, or should staples and lasers be used together, 5) How much tissue should be removed at the time of surgery?

 We will attempt to answer these questions by performing lung volume reduction surgery on rabbits with severe emphysema. We will measure their lung function before and after the surgery using the different techniques described. The findings from this study should help improve surgical treatment up for patients with severe emphysema. In addition, some patients with severe emphysema and lung cancer cannot be operated on to cure their cancers because their lung function is too poor. By improving lung function with LVRS, many of these patients could then undergo surgery to cure their lung cancer.
Neanura deharvengi Smolis, Shayanmehr & Yoosefi-Lafooraki 2018
Creators: name: Mayvan, Mahmood Mehrafrooz
name: Greenslade, Penelope
name: Sadeghi-Namaghi, Hussein
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Collembola
Poduromorpha
Neanuridae
Neanura
Neanura deharvengi

description: Neanura deharvengi Smolis, Shayanmehr & Yoosefi-Lafooraki, 2018
– Neanura deharvengi Smolis et al. 2018: 5.
MAZ: Smolis et al. 2018; Smolis & Skarżyński 2020; GI: Smolis & Skarżyński 2020.
Ecology and habitat in Iran: forest soil and leaf litter.
General distribution: species possibly endemic to Iran (Smolis et al. 2018).
description: Published as part of Mayvan, Mahmood Mehrafrooz, Greenslade, Penelope & Sadeghi-Namaghi, Hussein, 2023, An annotated checklist of the Collembola (Hexapoda) from Iran, pp. 1-101 in Zootaxa 5275 (1) on page 30, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5275.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7898948
Aggression and Nicotine
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: Nearly 90% of all smokers begin smoking during adolescence and an estimated 3,000 adolescents start smoking every day. Because cigarette smoking is the single most preventable cause of death and illness in the United States and results in an estimated 400,000 deaths annually, it would be useful to understand factors that may lead boys and girls to smoke cigarettes. People report that they smoke to reduce stress, improve attention, relax, or to lose weight. It is now known that smokers are dependent on nicotine and that they smoke cigarettes to experience nicotine's various effects. Nicotine is a powerful drug that acts in the body and the brain. Nicotine also affects chemicals in the brain that influence mood, thoughts, behaviors, and organ function, including the heart. All of these effects of nicotine may influence why smokers continue to smoke, even though they are aware of the health consequences of smoking. Unfortunately, the effects of nicotine in adolescents and young adults are not well understood. Further, little is known about why adolescents start to or continue to smoke cigarettes.

 One reason some adults may smoke is to help control anger and feelings of hostility. Research has shown that people who experience a lot of hostility and anger are at a greater risk for developing heart disease. In addition, it has been shown that hostility and anger are related to cigarette smoking. A major purpose of the present project is to examine the role of nicotine in influencing anger regulation and aggression in adolescents and young adults. This purpose is related to the TRDRP's goal to fund research that will help us understand factors that may influence why adolescents and young adults begin to smoke, continue to smoke, and start to smoke again after quitting. This study will investigate the effects of nicotine administration (through a nicotine patch and smoking) on various aspects of hostility and anger in young adults and adolescents. These aspects include mood (e.g., happiness, sadness, anxiety), heart function (e.g., heart rate), and behaviors (e.g., aggressive, impulse). This work examines the role that nicotine might play in making cigarette smoking rewarding for adolescent boys and girls. Specifically, the anger-reducing aspects of nicotine will be investigated in a controlled, experimental setting and in a natural setting. Study 1 will examine the effects of the nicotine patch (versus a no-drug patch) in a laboratory setting on mood, heart function, and behaviors in young (ages 18-25) men and women who differ their levels of hostility. Results from the this study will help identify factors that may play a role in why adolescents start to smoke, continue to smoke, and, consequently, how to help them quit.
Eburodacrys inaequalis Galileo & Martins 2009
Creators: name: Groll, Elisa Von
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Eburodacrys
Eburodacrys inaequalis

description: Eburodacrys inaequalis Galileo & Martins, 2009
Galileo & Martins, 2009b:164, fig. 5.
Paratype ♀, BOLIVIA, Santa Cruz, Reserva Natural Potrerillo del Guenda (17°40,26’S 63°27,43’W), 21.X.2006, Nearns, Wappes & Eya col. (MCNZ 237.036).
description: Published as part of Groll, Elisa Von, 2017, Catalogue of Coleoptera type specimens housed in the collection of the Museu de Ciências Naturais, Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, pp. 439-473 in Zootaxa 4318 (3) on page 441, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4318.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/887750
Neanura muscorum
Creators: name: Mayvan, Mahmood Mehrafrooz
name: Greenslade, Penelope
name: Sadeghi-Namaghi, Hussein
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Collembola
Poduromorpha
Neanuridae
Neanura
Neanura muscorum

description: Neanura muscorum (Templeton, 1836)
– Achorutes muscorum Templeton, 1836 in: Templeton & Westwood 1836: 97.
MAZ: Yahyapour 2012; Yoosefi Lafooraki & Shayanmehr 2015a; GI, ZA: Cox 1982; Smolis & Skarżyński 2020; NK: Mehrafrooz Mayvan et al. 2022b.
Ecology and habitat in Iran: forest soil and leaf litter.
General distribution: cosmopolitan (questionably) (Babenko et al. 2019).
description: Published as part of Mayvan, Mahmood Mehrafrooz, Greenslade, Penelope & Sadeghi-Namaghi, Hussein, 2023, An annotated checklist of the Collembola (Hexapoda) from Iran, pp. 1-101 in Zootaxa 5275 (1) on page 30, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5275.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7898948
Ariasa Distant 1905
Creators: name: Sanborn, Allen F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadidae
Ariasa

description: Genus Ariasa Distant, 1905a
Ariasa Distant 1905a: 314.
Type species. Tympanoterpes colombiae Distant 1892a: 60 (Manaure and Bogota, Colombia and Venezuela).
Diagnosis. The genus Ariasa can be distinguished from the other Guyalnina genera in the Lesser Antilles by the eyes not being stylate and extended anteriorly, the head is wider than mesonotum with eyes projecting beyond the anterior angles of the pronotum, the angled radial crossvein, the triangular male opercula, the lateral sides of the abdomen expand from the base, the timbal covers have a curved anterior apex, and the posteriorly extending median uncus lobes (Sanborn 2016a).
description: Published as part of Sanborn, Allen F., 2024, The cicada (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) fauna of the Lesser Antilles sensu lato with the description of two new species, two new combinations, and a key to species, pp. 33-69 in Zootaxa 5497 (1) on page 45, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5497.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13617972
Eburodacrys xirica Martins & Galileo 2005
Creators: name: Groll, Elisa Von
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Eburodacrys
Eburodacrys xirica

description: Eburodacrys xirica Martins & Galileo, 2005
Martins & Galileo, 2005e:769, fig. 8.
Paratype ♀, BOLIVIA, Santa Cruz: Buena Vista, 15–22.XI.2001, B. K. Dozier col., “transition forest, blacklight trap ” (MCNZ 234.715).
description: Published as part of Groll, Elisa Von, 2017, Catalogue of Coleoptera type specimens housed in the collection of the Museu de Ciências Naturais, Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, pp. 439-473 in Zootaxa 4318 (3) on page 441, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4318.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/887750
Additional file 1: Figure S1. of Maternal eating disorders affect offspring cord blood DNA methylation: a prospective study
Creators: name: Kazmi, Nabila
name: Gaunt, Tom
name: Relton, Caroline
name: Micali, Nadia
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Whole-genome cord blood methylation in offspring of active ED, past ED, and control women. Figure S2. QQ and Manhattan plots: association between ED and offspring cord blood DNA methylation1. Figure S3. Methylation levels of cg21146184 with p value
Ariasa albimaculosa Sanborn 2016
Creators: name: Sanborn, Allen F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadidae
Ariasa
Ariasa albimaculosa

description: Ariasa albimaculosa Sanborn, 2016a
Ariasa albimaculosa Sanborn 2016a: 504. (Bonda, Colombia).
Diagnosis. A castaneous species marked with piceous and tawny named for the conspicuous white spots on the lateral mesothorax. This is the only cicada species reported for the Leeward Antilles.
Distribution. The species was first recorded from Colombia (Sanborn 2016a) with the recent range extension to Bonaire (Sanborn 2020a). The range extension suggests the species will be found in Venezuela in the future.
Material examined. “ Bonaire, Neth /Antilles / Fall1986 / J.J. Schall // MGCL Accession / # 2017- 10 P. Hanson” two females (FSCA), one female (AFSC).
description: Published as part of Sanborn, Allen F., 2024, The cicada (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) fauna of the Lesser Antilles sensu lato with the description of two new species, two new combinations, and a key to species, pp. 33-69 in Zootaxa 5497 (1) on page 45, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5497.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13617972
Gene therapy for emphysema
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: Gene therapy offers great promise as a new class of drugs; i.e., a treatment that can correct hereditary or environmentally-caused diseases in humans. A therapeutic gene can be delivered into a cell by viral and non-viral methods, and this gene will direct the cell to produce its own specific type of medicine. Viral methods can efficiently deliver genes to cells in animals, however, associated safety issues have dampened the initial enthusiasm for using viruses in the treatment of humans. Cationic liposomes, the most efficient non-viral gene delivery vector, are microscopic lipid (fat-based) vesicles which bind to DNA and facilitate cellular uptake.

 We are developing liposome molecules to carry genes into cells of the lung to help combat diseases such as emphysema, which is the consequence of low levels of the protein alpha-1-antitrypsin (AT). Our objective is to understand how these fat-based molecules mediate gene delivery to the lungs of experimental animals. We will deliver the tagged liposome-DNA complexes to mice either by administration into the lung or by intravenous injection, and study the fate of each component, the liposome and DNA, in the lung over a time course. We will also deliver complex mixtures marked with red (liposome) and green (DNA) tags, and visually identify the cell type in the lung with the attached tag, and then follow the fate of both liposomes and DNA within the cell under the microscope. We will then correlate these results with the levels of human AT protein produced in the mouse. We will also alter the properties of the liposome-DNA complex by co-adding agents which rapidly free DNA from the complex. In addition, we can add different molecules to the liposome-DNA complex which cause them to bind to specific cell types in the lung, or cause enhanced cellular uptake of the liposome-DNA complex. These studies will potentially lead to the development of a new class of drugs which can be used to treat tobacco-related diseases such as emphysema.
Neanura persica Arbea, Yahyapour & Shayanmehr 2022
Creators: name: Mayvan, Mahmood Mehrafrooz
name: Greenslade, Penelope
name: Sadeghi-Namaghi, Hussein
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Collembola
Poduromorpha
Neanuridae
Neanura
Neanura persica

description: Neanura persica Arbea, Yahyapour & Shayanmehr, 2022
– Neanura persica Arbea, Yahyapour & Shayanmehr, in: Yahyapour et al. 2022: 266.
MAZ: Yahyapour et al. 2022.
Ecology and habitat in Iran: forest soil and leaf litter.
General distribution: species possibly endemic to Iran (Yahyapour et al. 2022).
Genus Paravietnura Smolis & Kuznetsova, 2018
description: Published as part of Mayvan, Mahmood Mehrafrooz, Greenslade, Penelope & Sadeghi-Namaghi, Hussein, 2023, An annotated checklist of the Collembola (Hexapoda) from Iran, pp. 1-101 in Zootaxa 5275 (1) on page 30, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5275.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7898948
Additional file 2: Figure S1. of Transposable elements generate population-specific insertional patterns and allelic variation in genes of wild emmer wheat (Triticum turgidum ssp. dicoccoides)
Creators: name: Domb, Katherine
name: Keidar, Danielle
name: Beery Yaakov
name: Khasdan, Vadim
name: Kashkush, Khalil
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Quantification of DNA elements in accessions of 5 wild emmer wheat population. Figure S2. Relative quantities of long TEs in 5 wild emmer wheat populations. Figure S3. Phylogenetic tree generated by hierarchical agglomerative clustering based on 99 TD bands of Aison. Figure S4. Phylogenetic tree generated by hierarchical agglomerative clustering on 70 TD bands of Fortuna. Figure S5. Phylogenetic tree generated by hierarchical agglomerative clustering based on 92 TD bands of Oleus. Figure S6. Phylogenetic tree generated by hierarchical agglomerative clustering based on 116 TD bands of Tantalos. Figure S7. Phylogenetic tree generated by hierarchical agglomerative clustering based on 92 TD bands of Eos. Figure S8. Site-specific PCR with TE-flanking primer. Figure S9. A qPCR standard curve produced using primers for Traes_1BL_DD7D021A7 gene. Figure S10. Genome size (pg) of wild emmer wheat from 4 populations. (PDF 1237Â kb)
Dorisiana Metcalf 1952
Creators: name: Sanborn, Allen F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadidae
Dorisiana

description: Genus Dorisiana Metcalf, 1952
Dorisia Delétang 1919: 83.
Dorisiana Metcalf 1952 nom. nov. pro Dorisia Delétang, 1919 nec Dorisia Möschler, 1883: 351.
Type species. Cicada semilata Walker 1850: 122 (St. Lucia, Antilles and Cayenne, French Guiana).
Remarks. There has been significant confusion as to the morphological characters that define the genus Dorisiana because of a lack of a full generic description as it was introduced in a taxonomic key (Delétang 1919). Delétang (1919) listed only a cruciform elevation notched in the form of a more or less open semicircle when the genus was introduced. Boulard & Martinelli (1996) added a tapered, triangular timbal cover as characteristic of Dorisiana species in their key. The genus is in need of a complete revision.
Diagnosis. Within the Guyalnina found in the Lesser Antilles, species of Dorisiana are distinguished by having a combination of parallel radial and radiomedial crossveins, a head as wide as or slightly wider than the mesonotum, a head lacking prominent stylate and anteriorly extended eyes, eyes that slightly projecting laterally beyond the anterior edges of the pronotum, triangular timbal covers, timbal covers with a ventral margin that is angled dorsally with respect to the long body axis, and male opercula that generally form a right triangle.
Species of Dorisiana are similar in general appearance to species of Guyalna but can be distinguished by the eyes not extending beyond the lateral edges of the pronotum, the triangular timbal covers, the timbal cover ventral margin is angled dorsally to the long body axis rather than being parallel to the long body axis as it is in species of Guyalna, and the lateral lobe of the uncus does not extend as far as in speices of Guyalna (Sanborn 2016b).
description: Published as part of Sanborn, Allen F., 2024, The cicada (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) fauna of the Lesser Antilles sensu lato with the description of two new species, two new combinations, and a key to species, pp. 33-69 in Zootaxa 5497 (1) on page 45, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5497.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13617972