cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Nicotine regulation of the noradrenergic system
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: It has been understood for some time now that mothers who smoke during pregnancy are placing there unborn child at risk for a number of cognitive and behavioral deficits, including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Animal models have indicated that nicotine is the primary ingredient in tobacco which can affect the brain. Experiments using these models have found that long-term treatment with nicotine causes a number of alterations at the level of the brain cell (neurons) and the overall morphology of the brain. Among these changes is dysregulation of the noradrenergic system, one of the neurotransmitter systems which allows neurons to communicate with one another and send signals throughout the brain. The cerebellum is one area of the brain which receives input from the noradrenergic system and is the region of focus for our studies. The aim of the proposed experiments is to determine the effects of nicotine on the noradrenergic system in the cerebellum. Is nicotine able to alter development of the cerebellum through the noradrenergic system, and if so, how? Using animal models treated with acute and prenatal/early postnatal chronic nicotine, we will address this question by examining alterations in nicotine-stimulated noradrenaline release in the cerebellum and subsequent disruptions in the migration of neurons during development. The proposed studies will provide a better understanding of the specific mechanisms by which behavioral and cognitive disorders are produced by early exposure to nicotine and will further emphasize the health risks of prenatal nicotine exposure as a consequence of maternal tobacco use.
Are the Lyman alpha forest "clouds" expanding pancakes?
Creators: name: Haehnelt, Martin G
Publisher: name: Springer Netherlands
Year: 1996
Subjects: astro-ph

description: The large sizes of Lyman alpha ``clouds'' inferred from coincident absorption in the spectrum of close quasar pairs suggests that these are transient flattened structures of small overdensity. It is argued that the observed absorbers should be preferentially located in underdense regions of the universe and should typically expand faster than the Hubble flow.
Place making versus place marketing
Creators: name: Chang, Hsiu-Tzu
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: Renewed attention to neighborhood commercial revitalization in the United States represents a holistic approach to neighborhood revitalization and therecognition of small business in the local economy. As tourism and real estate development become central elements in the new urban economy, theseneighborhood shopping districts also carry potential utilitarian value as "sense of place" becomes an important amenity to attract visitors and potential residents. Using the Baltimore Main Streets program as a case study, this dissertation explores the increasing attention from the local government in organizingcommercial revitalization activities using the "Main Street Approach". Through a mixed-method approach, this study situates the popularity of the program in theneoliberal context and examines the program implementation and potential impact. The popularity of this program in cities is built upon its four targeted areas of change—design, promotion, organization and economic restructuring— by engaging the third sector in economic development at the very local level,primarily through historic preservation and event promotion. The program responds to the neoliberal market-oriented context where competition and self-helpare essential to achieve institutional and economic efficiency. As a city-wide program, Baltimore Main Streets provides opportunities to incorporate smallbusinesses into city’s economic development agenda. By developing a Main Street typology, my research reveals the capacity to achieve full programimplementation is highly shaped by the socio-economic conditions of the neighborhoods. Yet with an emphasis on historic preservation, special events, and volunteer participation, this particular approach to commercial revitalization has the potential to promote growth and “open up” neighborhoods to middle class residents and potential investors. By examining property appreciation, I found that program activities may signal that an area is ready to change and therefore boost the desirability of the neighborhood on the real estate market. To make Main Street a true place-making strategy beyond place promotion, it requires the recognition of neighborhood structural difference and allocates resource accordingly to revitalize the districts in all dimensions.
Pseudophichthys Roule 1915
Creators: name: Ebersole, Jun A.
name: Cicimurri, David J.
name: Stringer, Gary L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Anguilliformes
Congridae
Pseudophichthys

description: Genus Pseudophichthys Roule, 1915
Type species
Pseudophichthys latedorsalis Roule, 1915, Recent.
description: Published as part of Ebersole, Jun A., Cicimurri, David J. & Stringer, Gary L., 2019, Taxonomy and biostratigraphy of the elasmobranchs and bony fishes (Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes) of the lower-to-middle Eocene (Ypresian to Bartonian) Claiborne Group in Alabama, USA, including an analysis of otoliths, pp. 1-274 in European Journal of Taxonomy 585 on page 191, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.585, http://zenodo.org/record/3660259
Relationships between smoking, homocysteine & folate
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 relationship between cigarette smoking and increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) has been well established. Studying the biological link between smoking and CVD needs further investigation.

 Increased blood levels of homocysteine may increase risks of heart disease. Homocysteine is an amino acid, and consuming a diet high in meat and dairy products has been shown to increase blood homocysteine levels.

 Studies have suggested that smokers have higher blood levels of homocysteine than non-smokers and the levels of homocysteine increase with the number of cigarettes smoked. Homocysteine levels can be lowered by consuming three vitamins: folate (mostly found in fruits and vegetables), vitamin B-12 and vitamin B-6. Folate, in particular, has been shown to substantially reduce homocysteine levels. Some studies that have reported on the link between cigarette smoking and homocysteine have not examined folate levels in smokers and non-smokers, which could alter the results. Also most studies use folate from vitamin supplements rather than from fruit and vegetables to lower homocysteine levels, and therefore the effects of consuming a high vegetable diet on homocysteine concentrations have not been widely investigated.

 We would like to examine blood homocysteine and folate levels in a group of female smokers participating in a randomized clinical trial. The randomized trial is investigating the effects of consuming a diet low in fat and high in vegetable, fruit and fiber on breast cancer recurrence. We will examine homocysteine and folate levels upon entry into the study and one-year after randomization into either the intensive diet group (high vegetable and fruit diet) or the control group (usual diet). We expect that the smokers in the intensive diet group will have lower homocysteine concentrations than the control group at one-year post-randomization, which will show that a high vegetable diet may be protective for smokers by reducing homocysteine. Also, we will be able to compare homocysteine levels in smokers and non-smokers at entry into the study and one-year post-randomization. If smokers have higher amounts of homocysteine concentrations than non-smokers, regardless of their folate levels, then we could hypothesize on a possible mechanism for higher CVD rates in smokers. Thus, reducing homocysteine levels in smokers and investigating possible explanations for higher rates of heart disease in this population may provide future avenues of preventing or curbing the risk for CVD in smokers.
Direct inference of location-related context from wireless signal strength
Creators: name: Chandrasekaran, Gayathri
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: In this dissertation we derive location-related context likemobility-states, co-mobility, speed and decelerations directly from the wireless signal strength information. The key insight is that the time-series of signal strength is robust to environmental factors that typically negatively affect the RSS-based localization systems. Therefore, inferring these physical properties directly from the time-series of wireless signal strength is more accurate than deriving them from location estimates. We apply correlation and time warping algorithms to the time series of wireless signalsto infer these properties. Our trace-driven experimental approach shows that our inference techniques can work with minimal infrastructure, are computationally efficient, requires no explicit user participation and can produce higher accuracies than location-based systems. We have also experimentally identified the factors that limit the accuracy of indoor localization andhave proved the existing assumptions behind theoretical lower bounds of indoor localizationincorrect. Our results will enable new context aware applications, because accurate estimates of comobilityand speed offer a richer set of primitives available to applications. Such applications can derive user mobility states like walking, running, driving or social states, such as if a user is in a meeting or alone.
Dysoxylum pallens Hiern
Creators: name: Holzmeyer, Laura
name: Hauenschild, Frank
name: Mabberley, David J.
name: Muellner-Riehl, Alexandra N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Sapindales
Meliaceae
Dysoxylum
Dysoxylum pallens

description: 16. Dysoxylum pallens Hiern in Hooker, Fl. Brit. India 1: 548. 1875
– Type: not designated [possible candidate for lectotype: India, Meghalaya, Khasi Hills, Griffith 1052 (K barcode K000657041!)].
Distribution. – Bhutan and India to S China and Thailand.Closely related toDysoxylum cyrtobotryum. This taxon and its typification need further analysis.
Note. – See also Peng & Mabberley (2008: 127).
description: Published as part of Holzmeyer, Laura, Hauenschild, Frank, Mabberley, David J. & Muellner-Riehl, Alexandra N., 2021, Confirmed polyphyly, generic recircumscription and typification of Dysoxylum (Meliaceae), with revised disposition of currently accepted species, pp. 1248-1272 in TAXON 70 (6) on page 1263, DOI: 10.1002/tax.12591, http://zenodo.org/record/14047415
Rhynchoconger Jordan & Hubbs 1925
Creators: name: Ebersole, Jun A.
name: Cicimurri, David J.
name: Stringer, Gary L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Anguilliformes
Congridae
Rhynchoconger

description: Genus Rhynchoconger Jordan & Hubbs, 1925
Type species
Leptocephalus ectenurus Jordan & Richardson, 1909, Recent.
description: Published as part of Ebersole, Jun A., Cicimurri, David J. & Stringer, Gary L., 2019, Taxonomy and biostratigraphy of the elasmobranchs and bony fishes (Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes) of the lower-to-middle Eocene (Ypresian to Bartonian) Claiborne Group in Alabama, USA, including an analysis of otoliths, pp. 1-274 in European Journal of Taxonomy 585 on page 192, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.585, http://zenodo.org/record/3660259
Multicomponent targeted proapoptotic anticancer drug delivery system
Creators: name: Chandna, Pooja
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: Cancer is one of the leading causes of death in United States. The current approaches for the treatment of solid tumor available are the surgery for the removal of primary tumor followed by chemotherapy and /or radiation. The efficacy of chemotherapy is limited by the following factors; (1) adverse side-effects on healthy organs, (2) development of cellular resistance and (3) low solubility of many anticancer drugs. The primary objective of this dissertation is to overcome all the above stated limitations. The methods employed in this dissertation includes designing, synthesizing and evaluating a novel drug delivery system comprising of 1) multiple copies of an anticancer drug, Camptothecin (CPT) ; 2) a polymeric carrier, Polyethylene glycol (PEG); 3) multiple copies of a targeting moiety to cancer cells, Luteinizing hormone releasing hormone (LHRH) peptide; 4) multiple copies of a suppressor of antiapoptotic cellular defense, BH3 peptide both in vitro and in vivo on A2780 human ovarian carcinoma cells and malignant ascites and animal models respectively. Conjugates of CPT, LHRH and CPT, LHRH, BH3 were evaluated for cytotoxicity, cancer specificity and antitumor activity. The multicomponent anticancer delivery system will significantly enhance the efficacy of an anticancer drug in the treatment of all the stages of cancer when compared with free drug, non-targeted delivery systems or the system consisting of one copy of each active component.
Dysoxylum quadrangulatum Culmsee
Creators: name: Holzmeyer, Laura
name: Hauenschild, Frank
name: Mabberley, David J.
name: Muellner-Riehl, Alexandra N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Sapindales
Meliaceae
Dysoxylum
Dysoxylum quadrangulatum

description: 19. Dysoxylum quadrangulatum Culmsee in Blumea 53: 602. 2008
– Holotype: Indonesia, Sulawesi, Lore Lindu National Park, Pono valley (Toro), Culmsee 606 (L barcode L 0821015!).
Distribution. – Sulawesi.
Note. – This taxon and the whole Dysoxylum cyrtobotryumcomplex need further analysis.
description: Published as part of Holzmeyer, Laura, Hauenschild, Frank, Mabberley, David J. & Muellner-Riehl, Alexandra N., 2021, Confirmed polyphyly, generic recircumscription and typification of Dysoxylum (Meliaceae), with revised disposition of currently accepted species, pp. 1248-1272 in TAXON 70 (6) on page 1264, DOI: 10.1002/tax.12591, http://zenodo.org/record/14047415
On the interaction of thermal buckling and debonding of patched structures
Creators: name: Carabetta, Pamela Marie
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: The widespread use of patched assemblies in engineering structures creates the need for better fundamental understanding of the failure phenomena of such structures to ensure their safe and effective usage. A structure possessing two substructures, the“patch” and “baseplate”, with mismatched coefficients of thermal expansion is studied under thermal loading for two extreme edge conditions. The composite structure is taken as initially flawed, such that partial separation exists at the edges of the patch between thetwo substructures. Two relevant failure mechanisms are sling-shot buckling and edge debonding (separation). Sling-shot buckling, first observed for perfectly intact structures under thermal loads, occurs when the structure dynamically slings from one equilibrium configuration to another in an opposite sense of deflection at a critical load. It is desiredto be able to predict and characterize buckling of the structure, and its coupling with debonding. The geometrically nonlinear problem is formulated via a variational formulation, which allows the boundaries of the domains of the structure to vary in addition to the displacements. The vanishing of the first variation of the potential energy yields governing equilibrium equations, boundary/matching conditions, and transversalityconditions. The transversality condition yields a Griffith type delamination criterion. A closed-form solution is obtained after recasting the problem in a mixed formulation. A stability analysis is performed using the second variation of the potential energy functional. The partially debonded structure is seen to possess a “dual nature”, where it is structurally different depending on the deflection, due to the existence of the initialflaw. It experiences sling-shot buckling, which, coupled with the structure’s duality leads to what we refer to as “Buckle Trapping.” It is suggested that, for certain criticaltemperature fields, the structure oscillates dynamically between unstable equilibrium configurations. In addition, examination of the energy release rate against the bond size reveals a variety of possible behaviors, dependent on flaw size, temperature difference,and bond strength. It is observed how and when separation leads to thermal buckling, and vice versa. Through this analysis, the onset, extent, and stability of debonding, as well as the relationship with buckling, are diagnosed and characterized.
The law and practice of municipal land assembly
Creators: name: Cander, Alan Drew
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: Urban redevelopment involves the renovation of deteriorating city areas through the rehabilitation or replacement of dilapidated buildings and underutilized parcels with new land uses to meet specific economic goals. Municipalities may invoke eminent domain to facilitate land acquisition for redevelopment. However, eminent domain is only one land assembly tool among other processes and strategies - including blight investigation and designation - that municipalities use to assemble land for redevelopment. This dissertation addresses large scale processes and broader issues that impact how municipalities make land available for redevelopment through formal and informal land assembly processes. It is based on larger questions centering on what land assembly and blight determination strategies municipalities use in their redevelopment efforts, how eminent domain factors into such processes, and how regulations and case law influence municipal redevelopment processes. Using a three-pronged qualitative methodology based on semi-structured interviews, archival analysis, and site visits, I conducted case studies of four urban redevelopment projects (two in one neighborhood) in Newark, New Jersey spanning a fifty-year period and revealing several overarching themes. I found that land assembly processes and strategies have been aimed at maintaining municipal control over the redevelopment process. City officials have considered Newark a city for sale in which land is a transferrable, deliverable commodity. The need to chase funding streams has heavily influenced redevelopment efforts. Private sector involvement in Newark’s earlier urban renewal efforts challenges the conventional view that privatization did not emerge in redevelopment until the neoliberalism of the 1970s. After devolution, as private sector initiatives became increasingly important to Newark’s redevelopment efforts, the focus of blight designation shifted from deteriorated outlying neighborhoods to potentially blighted areas downtown where private investment was less risky. Site targeting and land delivery have often preceded blight designation by many months: blight declaration has tended to be a formality. Grass roots opposition has profoundly impacted redevelopment efforts. Finally, much Newark’s land assembly process has centered on formal and informal meetings and agreements between public and private actors who target specific sites, suggesting that the public and the media have overemphasized the role of eminent domain in redevelopment efforts.
Identification and ranking of critical assets within an electrical grid under threat of cyber attack
Creators: name: Boyer, Blake R.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: This paper examines the ranking of critical assets within an electrical grid under threat of cyber attack.1 Critical to this analysis is the assumption of zero hour exploits namely, the threat of an immediate attack as soon as a vulnerability is discovered. Modeling shows that over time load fluctuations as well as other system variations will change the importance of each asset in the delivery of bulk power. As opposed to classic stability studies where risk can be shown to be greatest during high load periods, the zero hour exploit-cyber-risk assumes that vulnerabilities will be attacked as soon as they are discovered. The probability of attacks is made uniform over time to include any and all possible attacks. Examining the impact of an attack and how the grid reacts immediately following an attack will identify and determine the criticality of each asset. This work endeavors to fulfill the NERC Critical Infrastructure Protection Requirements CIP-001-1 through CIP-009-2, cyber security requirements for the reliable supply of bulk power to customers throughout North America.
Rhynchoconger Jordan & Hubbs 1925
Creators: name: Ebersole, Jun A.
name: Cicimurri, David J.
name: Stringer, Gary L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Anguilliformes
Congridae
Rhynchoconger

description: Rhynchoconger sp.
Fig. 69 M–N
Hildebrandia sp. – Stringer 1992: 36, fig. 2a. — Müller 1999: 80, pl. 20, figs 28–30.
Rhynchoconger sp. – Nolf & Stringer 2003: 4, pl. 1, figs 12a–b.
Material examined
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA – Alabama • 1 otolith; MSC 37059.6.
Description
Sagitta with elliptical outline; somewhat elongate with a height/length ratio of 48%. Shape noticeably angular, with greatest height slightly anterior to mid-point on dorsal margin. Margins smooth. Anterior tapered but with rounded shape. Posterior also tapered but more pointed. Inner face slightly convex, with distinct undivided sulcus. Sulcus slants slightly in posteroventral direction, covers approximately 60% of inner face. Width of sulcus fairly consistent. Small ostial channel connects ostial portion of sulcus to anterodorsal margin. Ostial channel situated away from anterior margin of sulcus. Well-defined rectangular depressed area above sulcus. No indication of ventral furrow. Outer face slightly convex.
Remarks
Only one specimen, an ablated juvenile sagitta, was attributed to Rhynchoconger. However, features of the sulcus and the presence of a depressed area above the cauda are indicative of Rhynchoconger. Unfortunately, specific determination was not possible.
Stratigraphic and geographic range in Alabama
The one specimen of Rhynchoconger sp. was recovered from the “upper” Lisbon Formation at site ACh- 7. Bartonian, zones NP16 and NP17.
description: Published as part of Ebersole, Jun A., Cicimurri, David J. & Stringer, Gary L., 2019, Taxonomy and biostratigraphy of the elasmobranchs and bony fishes (Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes) of the lower-to-middle Eocene (Ypresian to Bartonian) Claiborne Group in Alabama, USA, including an analysis of otoliths, pp. 1-274 in European Journal of Taxonomy 585 on page 192, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.585, http://zenodo.org/record/3660259
Evaluation of office ETS exposure in relation to AB13
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 overall goal of this research is to investigate the effectiveness of smoking rooms in preventing exposures of occupants in areas adjoining these rooms to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). The objectives of LBNL’s proposed work are to evaluate the effects of smoking room design features and mode of operation on the leakage of air and ETS from the smoking room to the surrounding interior space. This research will result in information that can be used to improve the design and operation of smoking rooms.

 A series of laboratory experiments will be performed in a simulated smoking room to quantify the rates of ETS leakage to a non-smoking area as a function of the physical characteristics and operation of the smoking room. A mathematical model of ETS leakage will also be developed, and modeled and measured ETS leakage rates will be compared. The performance of the model will also be compared to data collected in field studies performed in buildings within California.

 The progress to date includes constructing the simulated smoking room in LBNL’s building 63 research chamber. Also, various equipment required for the research, such as the smoking machine and automatic door opener, have been designed and partially fabricated.

 Experiments were also performed to choose the best real-time instrument to measure ETS during the study. Three instruments were used simultaneously to measure ETS while other sources of particles were in the sample. The data from all instruments were compared and based upon these comparisons, the best instrument for this study will be selected.

 This research project is a collaboration between LBNL and the Public Health Institute (PHI). Leon Alevantis is the Principle Investigator of the portions of this project undertaken by PHI.
Evaluation of office ETS exposure in relation to AB 13
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 1994, California passed a bill (AB 13) prohibiting most employers from exposing non-smoking workers to secondhand smoke. This bill restricts smoking in the workplace to specially designated rooms that: (a) exhaust air from the smoking room to the outside; and (b) do not recirculate air from the smoking room to other parts of the building where smoking is prohibited. Since AB 13 was passed, there has been no information on how smoking rooms are being designed and operated in California, or how effective these rooms are in preventing exposure of non-smokers to secondhand smoke.

 The proposed study will survey Californians via telephone in order to establish the proportion of workers who are employed in buildings with designated indoor smoking areas and who are potentially exposed to ETS leaking from these areas. In addition, the study will evaluate the effects of various factors on smoking room performance under controlled chamber settings. The results of the proposed study will assist policy makers to provide additional guidance on design and operation of smoking rooms. The study will also provide information on those conditions under which an otherwise well-designed room may fail in containing and exhausting secondhand smoke, and subsequently expose non-smokers to secondhand smoke.
Dysoxylum papillosum King
Creators: name: Holzmeyer, Laura
name: Hauenschild, Frank
name: Mabberley, David J.
name: Muellner-Riehl, Alexandra N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Sapindales
Meliaceae
Dysoxylum
Dysoxylum papillosum

description: 17. Dysoxylum papillosum King in J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 64: 50. 1895
– Holotype: Malaysia, Perak, King’ s Collector 10755 (CAL barcode CAL0000006851 [image!]).
Distribution. – Peninsular Thailand and Malaysia, Borneo. Material described by Mabberley (2013a: 218) does not have the characteristic stiletto-like leaf-buds of the genus.
description: Published as part of Holzmeyer, Laura, Hauenschild, Frank, Mabberley, David J. & Muellner-Riehl, Alexandra N., 2021, Confirmed polyphyly, generic recircumscription and typification of Dysoxylum (Meliaceae), with revised disposition of currently accepted species, pp. 1248-1272 in TAXON 70 (6) on page 1264, DOI: 10.1002/tax.12591, http://zenodo.org/record/14047415
Dysoxylum pumilum Mabb.
Creators: name: Holzmeyer, Laura
name: Hauenschild, Frank
name: Mabberley, David J.
name: Muellner-Riehl, Alexandra N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Sapindales
Meliaceae
Dysoxylum
Dysoxylum pumilum

description: 18. Dysoxylum pumilum Mabb. in Telopea 10: 727. 2004 –
Holotype: Australia, Queensland, Gosschalk L.A., Hyland 8792 (CNS barcode QRS21283!).
Distribution. – NE Australia.
Note. – See also Mabberley (2013b: 32).
description: Published as part of Holzmeyer, Laura, Hauenschild, Frank, Mabberley, David J. & Muellner-Riehl, Alexandra N., 2021, Confirmed polyphyly, generic recircumscription and typification of Dysoxylum (Meliaceae), with revised disposition of currently accepted species, pp. 1248-1272 in TAXON 70 (6) on page 1264, DOI: 10.1002/tax.12591, http://zenodo.org/record/14047415
Aspirin - Rediscovering the Potency of an Age-Old Medication (update 2024)
Creators: name: Diamandis, Carolina
name: Barsfeld, Ari
name: Asgari, Ali
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 429999
subject: Other health sciences not elsewhere classified

description: We present a case involving a middle-aged male patient undergoing treatment for Oshtoran Syndrome, a rare and complex condition characterized by an array of over 85 symptoms. Initially, the very ill patient was administered a high-dose regimen of Prednisolone, demonstrating significant efficacy in controlling key symptoms. However, prolonged use led to the development of Cushing’s syndrome, necessitating a drastic reduction of Prednisolone by 95%. This reduction significantly compromised our primary strategy for managing the condition’s symptoms.
A Brief History of Scientometrics(Posters)
Creators: name: Li, Jie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: 来源文献:  李杰. 科学计量学导论[M].北京:首都经济贸易大学出版社. 2025.

Source:  Li Jie. Introduction to Scientometrics [M]. Beijing: Capital University of Economics and Business Press. 2025.
Gnathophis Kaup 1859
Creators: name: Ebersole, Jun A.
name: Cicimurri, David J.
name: Stringer, Gary L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Anguilliformes
Congridae
Gnathophis

description: Genus Gnathophis Kaup, 1859
Type species
Myrophis heterognathos Bleeker, 1858, Recent.
description: Published as part of Ebersole, Jun A., Cicimurri, David J. & Stringer, Gary L., 2019, Taxonomy and biostratigraphy of the elasmobranchs and bony fishes (Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes) of the lower-to-middle Eocene (Ypresian to Bartonian) Claiborne Group in Alabama, USA, including an analysis of otoliths, pp. 1-274 in European Journal of Taxonomy 585 on page 192, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.585, http://zenodo.org/record/3660259
Map of Scientometrics
Creators: name: Li, Jie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: 来源文献:  李杰. 科学计量学导论[M].北京:首都经济贸易大学出版社. 2025.

Source:  Li Jie. Introduction to Scientometrics [M]. Beijing: Capital University of Economics and Business Press. 2025.
Apolipoprotein E: remnant metabolism and atherogenesis
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 is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease. In smokers, the incidence of cardiovascular disease is more than twofold higher than in nonsmokers, and in smokers with high cholesterol the risk is sixfold higher. One of the major effects of cigarette smoking is to raise the level of cholesterol in the blood. High cholesterol is unquestionably a risk factor for the development of heart disease. Two of the major cholesterol transporting components in human blood—called low-density lipoproteins and remnant lipoproteins—promote the development of heart disease and both are increased in smokers.

 Remnant lipoproteins are complexes of fat and proteins. One of the proteins, called apolipoprotein (apo) E, is a major component of remnant lipoproteins. By interacting with liver cells, apoE promotes removal of these dangerous lipoproteins from the blood.

 An initial step of remnant lipoprotein removal by the liver involves the interaction of apoE with a group of sticky molecules on the cell surface, referred to by acronym HSPG. A major goal of the proposed study is to establish the importance of the HSPG pathway in apoE-mediated removal of remnant lipoproteins. To accomplish this, we will overexpress HSPG in rat liver cells in culture and in transgenic mice and study its effect on remnant lipoproteins. Another major goal of the project is to establish several transgenic mouse lines expressing apoE into which mutations have been introduced that might affect remnant lipoprotein removal. Analysis of remnant lipoproteins and their ability to cause heart disease in these transgenic mice will improve our understanding of the role of apoE in remnant lipoprotein removal and in the development of heart disease. The understanding derived from the proposed studies holds the potential for leading to new therapies for human heart disease.
Dysoxylum ramosii Merr.
Creators: name: Holzmeyer, Laura
name: Hauenschild, Frank
name: Mabberley, David J.
name: Muellner-Riehl, Alexandra N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Sapindales
Meliaceae
Dysoxylum
Dysoxylum ramosii

description: 20. Dysoxylum ramosii Merr. in Philipp. J. Sci., C 9: 539. 1914
– Holotype: Philippines, Luzon, Laguna Prov., San Antonio, Ramos 20512 (A lost; isotype: US barcode 00108221!).
Distribution. – Philippines.
Note. – Closely allied to Dysoxylum cyrtobotryum (seeMabberley, 1995b: 122, 123, 133).
description: Published as part of Holzmeyer, Laura, Hauenschild, Frank, Mabberley, David J. & Muellner-Riehl, Alexandra N., 2021, Confirmed polyphyly, generic recircumscription and typification of Dysoxylum (Meliaceae), with revised disposition of currently accepted species, pp. 1248-1272 in TAXON 70 (6) on page 1264, DOI: 10.1002/tax.12591, http://zenodo.org/record/14047415
Complex-time singularity and locality estimates for quantum lattice systems
Creators: name: Bouch, Gabriel D.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: In a very general class of one-dimensional quantum spin systems, the infinite volume limit of the complex-time evolution of a local observable is an entire analytic function of the time variable and obeys a locality principle. This result has recently been used to prove a number of important results in statistical mechanics. In dimensions greater than one, although it has not been expected that the infinite volume limit of the complex-time evolution of a general local observable will be entire analytic, nothing rigorous has been established concerning the breakdown of analyticity or the nature of the singularities, if they exist. In this work we begin by presenting a possible approach to proving locality bounds for the complex-time dynamics of a general class of quantum spin systems in any dimension. Then we specifically apply this approach to the one-dimensional case, and establish entire analyticity of the dynamics as a corollary. In dimensions greater than one, ideas related to the much studied Eden growth process suggest that a similar locality result will also hold. In particular, we establish an upper bound on the expected perimeter of lattice animals grown according to an Eden growth process, and note that a similar upper bound on a closely related average perimeter would lead to a localityresult in the plane. Finally, and perhaps unexpectedly, we demonstrate through a specific construction that such a locality result does not hold in general and that the infinite volume limit of the complex-time dynamics can blow up a finite distance along the imaginary-time axis.
Artistic identity set in stone
Creators: name: Boffa, David Frank
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: This dissertation examines some 300 signatures and inscriptions from sculptors working in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance in Italy. The project discusses the signatures broadly in order to provide a context with which to study individual cases in detail. To that end, my analysis begins with a short breakdown of the signatures’ basic information: geographic distribution, date, artist, material. In separate chapters I then devoteconsiderable attention to issues of textual content; placement and location; lettering style; audience and reception; and fundamental social factors, such as the status of sculptors and their works. Ultimately I bring together the information on signatures and relatedsources to describe some of the notable trends in signing practices during the Middle Ages and Renaissance and what the implications and significance of those trends may be. In particular, I discuss how the increasing standardization and simplicity of many sculptors’ signatures—especially in central Italy—illustrates a sense of collective and communal identity that counters some of the usual assumptions about Medieval collectivism versus Renaissance individualism. For sculptors of fifteenth-century Tuscany, for example, the common motif of signing with “opus + name” (“the workof…”) gave artists the ability to reference both antiquity—as this form of signature survived on the classical Dioscuri statues in Rome—as well as their fellow craftsmen, creating for them a group identity that complemented their status as individual artists.Later, toward the end of the fifteenth century and into the sixteenth, the popularity of signing with the imperfect verb faciebat (“was making”), as Michelangelo did on his St Peter’s Pietà, offered similar possibilities for artists wishing to express their links to bothclassical antiquity and the best artists of their own time. Through my analysis of individual cases situated within a large body of data—presented in the dissertation’sappendix—I illustrate how Medieval and Renaissance sculptors conveyed identity via a range of signature types. My findings and data thus lay a foundation for future research into artists’ inscriptions.
Smoking, breast cancer and tobacco metabolizing genes
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: Does smoking increase the risk for breast cancer? This simple question has yet to be conclusively answered. One of the reasons why this is such a controversial issue, is that the effect of smoking on the breast tissue is influenced by a woman's own 'household' genes. This helps explain why a particular person will smoke and develop lung cancer for instance, whereas another person who smokes as much, may never develop cancer. To date, a definitive answer regarding the relationship between smoking and female breast cancer has not been universally accepted.

 The major goal of this study is to help resolve the existing controversies regarding the association between smoking and breast cancer risk in women. We think that smoking does play a role in he development of breast cancer but mainly in women who have certain genetic variants that facilitate the metabolism of tobacco smoke, and render them more susceptible to the cancer-inducing effects of tobacco smoke. Therefore, we want to compare the frequencies of he tobacco-metabolizing genes among women with breast cancer who smoke, to the frequencies of the same genes in women with breast cancer who are non-smokers.

 If we are correct in our hypothesis, we would expect to find a higher number of those variants of the tobacco metabolizing genes among the women with breast cancer who smoked compared to the frequencies of these genes among women with breast cancer who are not smokers. If this were to be the case, it would suggest that smoking is a risk factor for developing breast cancer in this population. If so, then this would be an extremely important public health issue since breast cancer among these women would then become more preventable by implementing smoking cessation strategies.

 Last but not least, this exploratory study is very cost-effective, since it builds on a funded study by the State of California Breast Cancer Research Program to investigate the effect of oral contraceptive use on the risk of breast cancer in young women.
Supplement to tobacco disease in twins
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: Observations on twin subjects can often provide the most exacting and conclusive measures of the health impact of personal choice as opposed to constitution or societal influence. Insufficient twin research in America has been brought to bear on the subject of tobacco use, because there are no convenient means of identifying representative twin subjects in quantity. We propose to complete the establishment of a roster of potential subjects who are simultaneously native Californians, twins, and current residents of California, and to characterize such individuals and pairs with respect to family history, medical history, and lifestyle, including the history of tobacco use for purposes of concurrent and subsequent study.

 To date, about 20,000 individuals have been so characterized. We expect a complete registry to be comprised of well in excess of 65,000 well-documented individuals. When complete, this large and representative resource will be able to provide rosters of specifically chosen unique and compliant subjects for the study of all aspects of tobacco-related and other disease. Within the period of this grant we expect to begin a large comparison of the morbidity and mortality of twin smokers to their non-smoking twins. Other uses of the registry, separately proposed for support, address the personal reasons for initiating and quitting tobacco use, the genetic determinants of differences in phenotypic nicotine metabolism, the search for molecular and immunochemical measures of the residue of cumulative smoking, and the degree to which persons who take up smoking, in the presence of a family history of asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (both important tobacco-related diseases) place themselves by doing so at particularly high risk. Once established, researchers of various disciplines will be able to recruit subjects for many other analytic studies, including a wide variety of studies of tobacco-related conditions.

 In addition, we will link the roster of known twins with the California Twin Registry and the California mortality files. This will allow us to identify pairs in which one death or one cancer case has occurred in order to quantify the strength of the relation between ever smoking and death/cancer when inheritance and early environment are held constant.
Congridae Ebersole, Cicimurri & Stringer, 2019, indet
Creators: name: Ebersole, Jun A.
name: Cicimurri, David J.
name: Stringer, Gary L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Congridae indet.
Material examined
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA – Alabama • 1 otolith; GLS otolith comparative collection (1 specimen).
Description
Singular specimen possesses characteristics of Congridae, including fairly prominent, undivided sulcus, and ostial channel. Depressed area above sulcus.
Remarks
The specimen could represent one of the congrids known from the Claiborne Group of Alabama, or it could represent an undescribed congrid. Unfortunately, the poor preservation limits any further study. The Lisbon Formation in Alabama preserves numerous other congrid species.
Stratigraphic and geographic range in Alabama
The specimen of Congridae indet. was found in the “upper” Lisbon Formation at site ACh-7. Bartonian, zones NP16 and NP17.
description: Published as part of Ebersole, Jun A., Cicimurri, David J. & Stringer, Gary L., 2019, Taxonomy and biostratigraphy of the elasmobranchs and bony fishes (Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes) of the lower-to-middle Eocene (Ypresian to Bartonian) Claiborne Group in Alabama, USA, including an analysis of otoliths, pp. 1-274 in European Journal of Taxonomy 585 on page 193, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.585, http://zenodo.org/record/3660259
These people deprived of this country
Creators: name: Booth, Chelsea L.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: This dissertation explores the way 'language,‘ like other forms of social designations—e.g. race, ethnicity, or caste—gains meaning through social, legal, and linguistic practices and ideologies. Indians of Nepali descent have lived and worked in the Darjeeling hills for more than 150 years yet are, throughout India, often labeled as 'foreigners,‘ 'tribals,‘ and 'squatters.‘ They also speak Nepali, a major factor that contributes to such perceptions despite their Indian citizenship. To counteract these labels and those discriminatory policies and practices they have incited, the Indian Nepali community in Darjeeling founded an organization in 1972 whose goal was the constitutional recognition of Nepali a national language of India. This recognition would, they argued, lead to an acceptance of their language and, more importantly, the recognition of their Indian citizenship. Although the Nepali language was finally included in the constitution in 1992, the anticipated social, political, and legal acceptance of the community was not forthcoming. Continuing discrimination, along with economic and political shifts in the region, has led to significant changes in the linguistic practices and language ideologies among Indians of Nepali descent in Darjeeling—most notably the increasing, and conflicted, use of English that was only visible when both ethnographic and linguistic methods (matched-guise test) were utilized.
Dysoxylum ficiforme Gamble, Fl. Madras
Creators: name: Holzmeyer, Laura
name: Hauenschild, Frank
name: Mabberley, David J.
name: Muellner-Riehl, Alexandra N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Sapindales
Meliaceae
Dysoxylum
Dysoxylum ficiforme

description: 24. Dysoxylum ficiforme (Wight) Gamble, Fl. Madras 1: 178. 1915
≡ Amoora ficiformis Wight, Ill. Ind. Bot. 1: 147. 1839 – Lectotype (designated by Mabberley in Dassanayake & al., Rev. Handb. Fl. Ceylon 9: 246. 1995, as “ holotype ”): India, Tamil Nadu, Salem Dist., Shevaroy Hills near Courtallum, Wight 412 (K barcode K000657038!).
Distribution. – S India and Sri Lanka.
Note. – See also Mabberley (1995a: 246) and Noltie (2005: 350).
description: Published as part of Holzmeyer, Laura, Hauenschild, Frank, Mabberley, David J. & Muellner-Riehl, Alexandra N., 2021, Confirmed polyphyly, generic recircumscription and typification of Dysoxylum (Meliaceae), with revised disposition of currently accepted species, pp. 1248-1272 in TAXON 70 (6) on page 1264, DOI: 10.1002/tax.12591, http://zenodo.org/record/14047415
Dysoxylum randianum Merr. & L. M. Perry
Creators: name: Holzmeyer, Laura
name: Hauenschild, Frank
name: Mabberley, David J.
name: Muellner-Riehl, Alexandra N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Sapindales
Meliaceae
Dysoxylum
Dysoxylum randianum

description: 21. Dysoxylum randianum Merr. & L.M.Perry in J. Arnold Arbor. 21: 306. 1940
– Holotype: Indonesia, Irian Jaya, Idenburg [= Taritatu] River, 4 km SW Bernhard Camp, Brass & Versteegh 13113 (A barcode 00044798!).
Distribution. – New Guinea.
Note. – See also Mabberley (1995b: 115).
description: Published as part of Holzmeyer, Laura, Hauenschild, Frank, Mabberley, David J. & Muellner-Riehl, Alexandra N., 2021, Confirmed polyphyly, generic recircumscription and typification of Dysoxylum (Meliaceae), with revised disposition of currently accepted species, pp. 1248-1272 in TAXON 70 (6) on page 1264, DOI: 10.1002/tax.12591, http://zenodo.org/record/14047415