cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Haptic emulation of hard surfaces with applications to orthopaedic surgery
Creators: name: Hungr, Nikolai Anthony
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: A generally accepted goal in orthopaedic surgery today is to maximize conservation of tissue and reduce tissue damage. Bone-conserving implants have bone-mating surfaces that reproduce the natural curvature of bone structures, requiring less bone removal. No small, reliable, inexpensive and universal bone sculpting technique currently exists, however, that can both create and accurately align such complex surfaces. The goal of this thesis was to develop a haptic hard surface emulation mechanism that could be applied to curvilinear bone sculpting using a surgical robot. A novel dynamic physical constraint concept was developed that is able to emulate realistic hard constraints, smooth surface following, and realistic surface rigidity, while allowing complete freedom of motion away from the constraints. The concept was verified through the construction of a two-link manipulator prototype. Tests were run on nine users that involved each user tracing out five different virtual surfaces on a drawing surface using the prototype. The primary purposes of prototype testing were to obtain subjective data on how effectively the dynamic physical constraint concept simulates simple surfaces, to assess how it reacts to typical user interactions and to identify any unexpected behaviour. Users were 100% satisfied with the prototype’s ability to emulate realistic and stiff hard surfaces and with its ease of manipulation. The amount of incursion into each of the virtual surfaces by all the users was measured to assess the precision of the system with the goal of deciding whether this new haptic concept should be further developed specifically for precision applications such as surgery. For curvilinear surfaces, 90% of the cumulative distribution of the measured data was less than 2mm, while for linear surfaces it was less than 6mm. Four behavioural effects were noticed: lateral deflection, reverse ‘stickiness’, hysteresis and instability in certain areas. These effects were studied in detail to determine how to either eliminate them or to minimize them through system design optimization. A computer simulation was also used to model the behaviour of the prototype and to gain further understanding of these effects. These analyses showed that the concept can be successfully used in curvilinear bone sculpting.
Additional file 3: of Benchmarking of de novo assembly algorithms for Nanopore data reveals optimal performance of OLC approaches
Creators: name: Yesesri Cherukuri
name: Sarath Chandra Janga
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Space Science
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: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Overview of the running times for various assemblers. (PDF 236Â kb)
Additional file 3: of Non-technical skills evaluation in the critical care air ambulance environment: introduction of an adapted rating instrument - an observational study
Creators: name: Myers, Julia
name: Powell, David
name: Psirides, Alex
name: Hathaway, Karyn
name: Aldington, Sarah
name: Haney, Michael
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Aeromedical non-technical skills assessment form and rating scale. (PDF 266 kb)
Additional file 7: Figure S7. of Two maternal duplications involving the CDKN1C gene are associated with contrasting growth phenotypes
Creators: name: Boonen, Susanne
name: Freschi, Andrea
name: Christensen, Rikke
name: Valente, Federica
name: Lildballe, Dorte
name: Perone, Lucia
name: Palumbo, Orazio
name: Carella, Massimo
name: Uldbjerg, Niels
name: Sparago, Angela
name: Riccio, Andrea
name: Cerrato, Flavia
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Note that the haplotype associated with the duplication segregates from I-1 to II-2 and III-1 and that only the D11S4088 marker shows allelic imbalances in II-2 and III-1. (PDF 141Â kb)
Additional file 5: Figure S4. of Gene expression and metabolism preceding soft scald, a chilling injury of ‘Honeycrisp’ apple fruit
Creators: name: Leisso, Rachel
name: Gapper, Nigel
name: Mattheis, James
name: Sullivan, Nathanael
name: Watkins, Christopher
name: Giovannoni, James
name: Schaffer, Robert
name: Johnston, Jason
name: Hanrahan, Ines
name: Hertog, Maarten
name: Nicolaï, Bart
name: Rudell, David
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Subtractive (high risk – low risk) correlation network of highly correlated expressed genes and metabolites. Expressed genes are indicated by green circles while metabolites are indicated by blue squares. A subnetwork containing both highly correlated gene expression and metabolite levels. (DOCX 288 kb)
Using motes for high resolution hydrological measurement
Creators: name: Trubilowicz, Joel William
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: Low cost, low power wireless sensors (motes) promise to revolutionize environmental data collection, but are they currently refined enough for widespread use by hydrologists? Their viability as a replacement for traditional data collection techniques was investigated in a 7 ha forested watershed in south-western British Columbia. The watershed included 41 instrument clusters measuring air and soil temperature, humidity, throughfall, soil moisture content, overland flow and groundwater head. The foundation of each cluster was a data box containing a MDA300 data acquisition board and a MICA2 processor board from Crossbow Technologies, Inc.™ that allowed for short range wireless data collection. The 41 motes each recorded data every 15 minutes from July, 2006, to April, 2007. In addition to reporting on the reliability of the motes and sensors during the 10 months deployment, the high spatial and temporal resolution data collected by this study gave the opportunity for many analyses of catchment processes. As soil moisture and throughfall are two influential processes in the exchange of water between the earth and the atmosphere, these were the focus of the data analysis. The first analysis was a resampling experiment on seven different events selected from the full data set. Comparing 100 different subsamples each of 5, 10 and 20 points for throughfall and soil moisture showed if increasing the sample size eventually produced diminishing returns in the ability to reproduce the true catchment mean. With significant differences in prediction ability for both soil moisture and throughfall at times of differing hydrologic activity, this analysis provides further support for the theories of changing moisture states of soil moisture and threshold values for throughfall. The second analysis described how the organization of soil moisture and throughfall changed during a range of weather conditions and timescales. Spatial representation of normalized values and Pearson correlation coefficients showed that there were distinct differences between wet and dry periods for soil moisture and between long and short analysis periods for throughfall.
Additional file 1: of Improving knowledge and behaviours related to the cause, transmission and prevention of Tuberculosis and early case detection: a descriptive study of community led Tuberculosis program in Flores, Indonesia
Creators: name: Dewi, Christa
name: Barclay, Lesley
name: Passey, Megan
name: Wilson, Shawn
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Interview guide. (DOCX 81Â kb)
Gravitational waves from a string cusp in Einstein-aether theory
Creators: name: Lalancette, Marc
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: The motivation of this thesis is to look for a signature of Lorentz violation, hopefully observable, in the gravitational waves emitted by cosmic strings. Aspects of cosmic strings are reviewed, in particular how focused bursts of gravitational radiation are emitted when a cusp forms on the string. The same phenomenon is then studied in an effective field theory with Lorentz violation called Einstein-aether theory. This is a simple theory with a dynamic preferred frame, but it retains rotational and diffeomorphism invariance. The linearized version of the theory produces five wave modes. We study the usual transverse traceless modes which now have a wave speed that can be lower or greater than the speed of light. This altered speed produces distinctive features in the waves. They depend on two free parameters: roughly the wave speed and the acceleration of the string cusp. The profile of the wave is analyzed in detail for different values of the parameters and explained by close comparison with the string motion.
In silico approaches to investigating mechanisms of gene regulation
Creators: name: Ho Sui, Shannan Janelle
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: Identification and characterization of regions influencing the precise spatial and temporal expression of genes is critical to our understanding of gene regulatory networks. Connecting transcription factors to the cis-regulatory elements that they bind and regulate remains a challenging problem in computational biology. The rapid accumulation of whole genome sequences and genome-wide expression data, and advances in alignment algorithms and motif-finding methods, provide opportunities to tackle the important task of dissecting how genes are regulated. Genes exhibiting similar expression profiles are often regulated by common transcription factors. We developed a method for identifying statistically over-represented regulatory motifs in the promoters of co-expressed genes using weight matrix models representing the specificity of known factors. Application of our methods to yeast fermenting in grape must revealed elements that play important roles in utilizing carbon sources. Extension of the method to metazoan genomes via incorporation of comparative sequence analysis facilitated identification of functionally relevant binding sites for sets of tissue-specific genes, and for genes showing similar expression in large-scale expression profiling studies. Further extensions address alternative promoters for human genes and coordinated binding of multiple transcription factors to cis-regulatory modules. Sequence conservation reveals segments of genes of potential interest, but the degree of sequence divergence among human genes and their orthologous sequences varies widely. Genes with a small number of well-distinguished, highly conserved non-coding elements proximal to the transcription start site may be well-suited for targeted laboratory promoter characterization studies. We developed a “regulatory resolution” score to prioritize lists of genes for laboratory gene regulation studies based on the conservation profile of their promoters. Additionally, genome-wide comparisons of vertebrate genomes have revealed surprisingly large numbers of highly conserved non-coding elements (HCNEs) that cluster nearby to genes associated with transcription and development. To further our understanding of the genomic organization of regulatory regions, we developed methods to identify HCNEs in insects. We find that HCNEs in insects have similar function and organization as their vertebrate counterparts. Our data suggests that microsynteny in insects has been retained to keep large arrays of HCNEs intact, forming genomic regulatory blocks that surround the key developmental genes they regulate.
Applying the Talent Portfolio Theory: A Cross- National Historical Comparison of Japan and Korea
Creators: name: Kim, Sang Woo (William)
Publisher: name: Stanford Digital Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Talent Portfolio Theory
subject: Korea
subject: Japan
subject: Brain Gain
subject: Brain Linkage
subject: Brain Circulation
subject: Brain Train
subject: Germany
subject: Singapore
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: This paper situates itself in the broader discussion of talent flows at the national level and fulfills two objectives. The first objective is to apply Shin & Gordon’s (2024) novel Talent Portfolio Theory to outline Japan and Korea’s economic development – from their respective “miracle” periods to the modern day – through their talent policies. Surveying scholarship on the high- skilled human resource policies of Japan and Korea, I argue that, contrary to conventional wisdom, the two countries employed divergent human resource strategies and that their modern talent portfolios have converged in the face of demographic decline. The second objective is to provide policy recommendations for Japan and Korea’s talent portfolios. Adhering to the TPT framework, I argue Japan should learn from Germany’s internationalization of higher education institutions while Korea can draw lessons from Singapore’s SkillsFuture initiative.
Language socialization in Canadian Hispanic communities : ideologies and practices
Creators: name: Guardado, José Martín
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: Recent scholarship has highlighted the importance of supporting home languages for linguistic-minority families in multilingual settings, as the family language is the means through which they can more successfully socialize their children into the beliefs, values, ideologies and practices surrounding their languages and cultures. Although there has been some research examining issues of Spanish acquisition, maintenance and loss in Canada, the language socialization ideologies and practices of Hispanic families have not yet been examined in this context. This ethnographic study investigated language socialization in immigrant families from ten Spanish-speaking countries residing in Greater Vancouver. Thirty-four families participated, three of which were selected for intensive case study in their homes and in three grassroots community groups. More specifically, the study examined the families’ desires and goals with respect to Spanish maintenance, the meanings they assigned to Spanish, and the processes through which they attempted to valorize Spanish with their children. The study found that many families formed support groups in order to transmit language and culture to their children. A cross-case analysis revealed that the families further exerted their agency by strategically turning these spaces into “safe houses” to resist assimilation and into venues for the Spanish socialization of their children, which enabled them to also transmit cultural values, such as familism. The families conceptualized Spanish maintenance as an emotional connection to the parents’ selves and as a bridge between the parents’ past and the children’s future. It was also constructed as a key that opened doors, as a bridge for learning other languages, and as a passport to a cosmopolitan worldview. Detailed discourse analyses revealed how the families utilized explicit and implicit directives, recasts, and lectures to socialize children into Spanish language ideologies. These analyses also showed how children at times resisted the parents’ socialization practices, but other times displayed their nascent understanding of their parents’ language ideologies in their own use of cross-code self-repair. The study offers unique insights into the complexity of L1 maintenance and the dynamics of language socialization in the lives of linguistic minorities and concludes with implications for policy, pedagogy and research.
Hemilophini Thomson 1868
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae

description: Tribe Hemilophini
The tribe Hemilophini Thomson, 1868 currently includes 128 genera and 553 species, Adesmus Lepeletier & Audinet-Serville, 1825 is the largest genus of Hemilophini, encompassing 65 species distributed from Mexico to Argentina (Monné, 2017). Here we describe a new species of Adesmus.
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2017, New species and new records of Cerambycidae (Insecta, Coleoptera) from RPPN Sanctuary of Caraça, Minas Gerais, Brazil, pp. 201-262 in Zootaxa 4319 (2) on page 203, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4319.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/889107
Achryson surinamum
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Achryson
Achryson surinamum

description: 1. Achryson surinamum (Linnaeus, 1767)
Cerambyx surinamus Linnaeus, 1767: 632.
Achryson surinamum; White, 1855: 298.
Cerambyx longicollis Degeer, 1775: 117.
Stenocorus circunflexus Fabricius, 1787: 144.
Stenocorus pallens Fabricius, 1793: 297.
Distribution. United States of America, Mexico, Central America, West Indies, South America (widely distributed to southern Brazil and southern Argentina, Neuquén).
Specimen examined. BRAZIL, Minas Gerais: Mun. Catas Altas, RPPN Serra do Caraça, 1350 m, male, 17.XII.1974, M.A. Monné.
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2017, New species and new records of Cerambycidae (Insecta, Coleoptera) from RPPN Sanctuary of Caraça, Minas Gerais, Brazil, pp. 201-262 in Zootaxa 4319 (2) on page 205, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4319.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/889107
Dynamic Bayesian models for modelling environmental space-time fields
Creators: name: Dou, Yiping
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: This thesis addresses spatial interpolation and temporal prediction using air pollution data by several space-time modelling approaches. Firstly, we implement the dynamic linear modelling (DLM) approach in spatial interpolation and find various potential problems with that approach. We develop software to implement our approach. Secondly, we implement a Bayesian spatial prediction (BSP) approach to model spatio-temporal ground-level ozone fields and compare the accuracy of that approach with that of the DLM. Thirdly, we develop a Bayesian version empirical orthogonal function (EOF) method to incorporate the uncertainties due to temporally varying spatial process, and the spatial variations at broad- and fine- scale. Finally, we extend the BSP into the DLM framework to develop a unified Bayesian spatio-temporal model for univariate and multivariate responses. The result generalizes a number of current approaches in this field.
Parental monitoring and substance use among Pacific youth
Creators: name: White, Joanna
name: Newcombe, Rhiannon
Publisher: name: Health New Zealand
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 420603
subject: Health promotion
classificationCode: 4516
subject: Pacific Peoples health and wellbeing

description: Parents have a significant influence on the societal norms, values and behaviour learned by their children. Permissive parental rule setting and monitoring has been shown to relate to a greater likelihood of children engaging in health-compromising behaviours such as smoking tobacco and drinking alcohol. Tobacco smoking and alcohol consumption are of particular concern for Pacific youth - although smoking rates have been declining over time, they are still twice as likely to be regular smokers as their non-Pacific, non-Māori peers, and more likely to report drinking five or more alcoholic drinks in one session. To deter Pacific youth from taking up smoking or engaging in excessive alcohol consumption and, therefore, reduce health inequalities arising from such substance use, it is important to understand the relationships with protective factors such as parental monitoring.HPA’s Youth Insights Survey (YIS) is a key source of New Zealand data on adolescent substance use. The YIS monitors Year 10 students’ behaviours, attitudes and knowledge on health-related topics, including tobacco smoking, alcohol consumption, and protective factors such as parental monitoring.
Chlorida costata Audinet-Serville 1834
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Chlorida
Chlorida costata

description: 2. Chlorida costata Audinet-Serville, 1834
Chlorida costata Audinet-Serville, 1834b: 32.
Distribution. Brazil (Bahia, Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paraná, Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul), Paraguay, Argentina (widely distributed), Uruguay.
Specimens examined. BRAZIL, Minas Gerais: Mun. Catas Altas, RPPN Serra do Caraça, 1350 m, female, 27– 31.X.2013, M.L. Monné & J.P. Botero; female, XI–XII.2013; female, IX–X.2014; 2 males, II.2015, Padre Lauro Palú; female, IX.2016, Padre Paulo Palú.
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2017, New species and new records of Cerambycidae (Insecta, Coleoptera) from RPPN Sanctuary of Caraça, Minas Gerais, Brazil, pp. 201-262 in Zootaxa 4319 (2) on page 205, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4319.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/889107
Additional file 1: Figure S1. of “Phylogenetic and evolutionary analysis of functional divergence among Gamma glutamyl transpeptidase (GGT) subfamilies”
Creators: name: Ved Verma
name: Gupta, Rani
name: Goel, Manisha
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Proposed GGT mechanism: Figure represents the schematic flow diagram for catalysis of γ-glutamyl tripeptide (glutathione) cleavage by GGT. In first step, N-terminal Thr residue of small subunit attacks on γ-glutamyl peptide bond of glutathione (GSH). Second step leads to formation of transition state. In third step, ‘Cys-Gly’ is released from the glutathione and forms a γ-glutamyl-GGT complex. Forth step involves the transfer of its γ-glutamyl moiety to water molecule or short peptide or amino acids and gives either hydrolysis or transpeptidation reaction. (DOC 214 kb)
FAIR Strategies and technologies for early wins
Creators: name: Wilkinson, Mark
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Data science
subject: Big data
subject: fair data
subject: interoperability
subject: Data mining
subject: Data exchange

description: Keynote Presentation to the United Nations 8th International Conference on Big Data and Data Science.

Discussion of FAIR technologies and approaches to achieve "FAIRness", and discussion of notable failures.
Additional file 8 of Benchmarking of de novo assembly algorithms for Nanopore data reveals optimal performance of OLC approaches
Creators: name: Yesesri Cherukuri
name: Sarath Chandra Janga
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Each pair of plots show the accuracy of the assembly generated by various assembler algorithms for nanopore sequenced complement reads from E.coli (Panels A and C) and Yeast (Panels B and D) datasets. A&B: Line graphs plotted between % of complement reads and the % of genome covered, showing the extent of genome assembled by each assembler algorithm. C&D: Line graphs between the % of complement reads and % of alignment showing the confidence level of the contigs being assembled by various assembler algorithms. (PDF 798Â kb)
Additional file 1: of Community health workersâ   knowledge and practice in relation to pre-eclampsia in Ogun State, Nigeria: an essential bridge to maternal survival
Creators: name: J. Sotunsa
name: M. Vidler
name: D. Akeju
name: M. Osiberu
name: E. Orenuga
name: O. Oladapo
name: R. Qureshi
name: D. Sawchuck
name: O. Adetoro
name: P. Von Dadelszen
name: O. Dada
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Reviewer reports. (PDF 359Â kb)
Minimizing uncertainty in cure modeling for composites manufacturing
Creators: name: Dykeman, Donna
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: The degree of cure and temperature are consistent variables used in models to describe the state of material behaviour development for a thermoset during cure. Therefore, the validity of a cure kinetics model is an underlying concern when combining several material models to describe a part forming process, as is the case for process modeling. The goals of this work are to identify sources of uncertainty in the decision-making process from cure measurement by differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) to cure kinetics modeling, and to recommend practices for reducing uncertainty. Variability of cure kinetics model predictions based on DSC measurements are investigated in this work by a study on the carbon-fiber-reinforced-plastic (CFRP) T800H/3900-2, an interlaboratory Round Robin comparison of cure studies on T800H/3900-2, and a literature review of cure models for Hexcel 8552. It is shown that variability between model predictions can be as large as 50% for some process conditions when uncertainty goes unchecked for decisions of instrument quality, material consistency, measurement quality, data reduction and modeling practices. The variability decreases to 10% when all of the above decisions are identical except for the data reduction and modeling practices. In this work, recommendations are offered for the following practices: baseline selection, balancing heats of reaction, comparing data over an extensive temperature range (300 K), choosing appropriate models to describe a wide range of behaviour, testing model reliability, and visualization techniques for cure cycle selection. Specific insight is offered to the data reduction and analysis of thermoplastic-toughened systems which undergo phase separation during cure, as is the case for T800H/3900-2. The evidence of phase separation is a history-dependent Tg-α relationship. In the absence of a concise outline of best practices for cure measurement by DSC and modeling of complex materials, a list of guidelines based on the literature and the studies herein is proposed.
Chlorida festiva
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Chlorida
Chlorida festiva

description: 3. Chlorida festiva (Linnaeus, 1758)
Cerambyx festivus Linnaeus, 1758: 389.
Stenocorus festivus; Fabricius, 1775: 179.
Chlorida festiva; Audinet-Serville, 1834b: 32.
Distribution. United States of America (Florida) to southern Brazil and Argentina, West Indies (Antigua, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Hispaniola, Marie Galante, Martinique, Montserrat, St. Croix, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Cayman Islands, St. Kitts), Cuba.
Specimens examined. BRAZIL, Minas Gerais: Mun. Catas Altas, RPPN Serra do Caraça, 1350 m, male, IX.2015, Padre Lauro Palú; female, X.2015, Padre Lauro Palú.
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2017, New species and new records of Cerambycidae (Insecta, Coleoptera) from RPPN Sanctuary of Caraça, Minas Gerais, Brazil, pp. 201-262 in Zootaxa 4319 (2) on page 205, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4319.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/889107
Additional file 2: Table S1. of The quality of reporting in cluster randomised crossover trials: proposal for reporting items and an assessment of reporting quality
Creators: name: Arnup, Sarah
name: Forbes, Andrew
name: Kahan, Brennan
name: Morgan, Katy
name: McKenzie, Joanne
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Country where the trial was conducted. Table containing additional demographic data of the included trials in the review. (DOCX 12 kb)
Additional file 1: of Unappreciated diversification of stem archosaurs during the Middle Triassic predated the dominance of dinosaurs
Creators: name: Foth, Christian
name: MartĂ­N Ezcurra
name: Sookias, Roland
name: Brusatte, Stephen
name: Butler, Richard
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional information on taxon sampling, landmark positions, phylogeny, discussion points, tables and figures. (PDF 494 kb)
Additional file 1 of Co-occurring symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in a population-based sample of adolescents screened for depression
Creators: name: Lundervold, Astri
name: Hinshaw, Stephen
name: SĂ¸Rensen, Lin
name: Maj-Britt Posserud
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Tables. (PDF 12 kb)
Additional file 1: Tables S1 and S2. of Morphometric analysis of inflammation in bronchial biopsies following exposure to inhaled diesel exhaust and allergen challenge in atopic subjects
Creators: name: Hosseini, Ali
name: Hirota, Jeremy
name: Hackett, Tillie
name: McNagny, Kelly
name: Wilson, Susan
name: Carlsten, Chris
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Pearson correlation coefficients matrix for inflammatory biomarkersâ   expression in the lung submucosa after single or co-exposure to diesel exhaust and allergen. (PDF 213Â kb)
Additional file 2: of The tandemly repeated NTPase (NTPDase) from Neospora caninum is a canonical dense granule protein whose RNA expression, protein secretion and phosphorylation coincides with the tachyzoite egress
Creators: name: Pastor-Fernández, Iván
name: Regidor-Cerrillo, Javier
name: Álvarez-García, Gema
name: Marugán-Hernández, Virginia
name: García-Lunar, Paula
name: Hemphill, Andrew
name: Ortega-Mora, Luis
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Clustal alignment of the up-stream regions of the NcNTPase 1, 2 and 3. Cis-acting elements (yellow) and the ORF of the NcNTPase genes (light blue) are displayed on the figure. Specific primers were designed to amplify the up-stream sequences of the NcNTPase 1, 2 and 3 as indicated in the table below. Forward primers were specific for the NcNTPase 1, 2 and 3 sequences, whilst reverse primer was common for all the copies. PCR amplification yielded a single fragment with the expected molecular weight (see figure below). (DOCX 53 kb)
Additional file 1: of The quality of reporting in cluster randomised crossover trials: proposal for reporting items and an assessment of reporting quality
Creators: name: Arnup, Sarah
name: Forbes, Andrew
name: Kahan, Brennan
name: Morgan, Katy
name: McKenzie, Joanne
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Search strategies. Appendix containing the search strategies to identify CRXO trials. (DOCX 12 kb)
Additional file 2: Figure S1. of Morphometric analysis of inflammation in bronchial biopsies following exposure to inhaled diesel exhaust and allergen challenge in atopic subjects
Creators: name: Hosseini, Ali
name: Hirota, Jeremy
name: Hackett, Tillie
name: McNagny, Kelly
name: Wilson, Susan
name: Carlsten, Chris
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Immunohistochemical staining of positive and negative controls. A) Representative 40X image of positive staining using mAb AA1 for tryptase in human tonsil tissue; B) Representative 40X image of positive staining using mAb EG2 for ECP in human tonsil tissue; C) Representative 40X image of positive staining using mAb NP57 for neutrophil elastase in human tonsil tissue; D) Representative 40X image of positive staining using mAb B-A38 for CD138 in human lung tissue; E) Representative 40X image of positive staining using mAb 4B12 for CD4 in human tonsil tissue; F) Representative 40X image of positive staining using mAb 4D9 for IL-4 in human tonsil tissue; G) Representative 40X image of isotype control using mAb mouse IgG1 (0.07 μg.mL−1) in human lung tissue; H) Representative 40X image of isotype control staining using mAb mouse IgG1 (20.0 μg.mL−1) in human lung tissue. (PDF 482 kb)
Additional file 5: of Revisiting chromatin binding of the Arabidopsis UV-B photoreceptor UVR8
Creators: name: Binkert, Melanie
name: Crocco, Carlos
name: Babatunde Ekundayo
name: Lau, Kelvin
name: Raffelberg, Sarah
name: Tilbrook, Kimberley
name: Ruohe Yin
name: Chappuis, Richard
name: Schalch, Thomas
name: Ulm, Roman
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology

description: List of primers used for ChIP-qPCR in this work. (PDF 104 kb)
Additional file 1: Appendix A. of The Dutch public are positive about the colorectal cancer-screening programme, but is this a well-informed opinion?
Creators: name: Douma, Linda
name: Uiters, Ellen
name: Timmermans, Danielle
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Specific multiple-choice knowledge questions. Appendix B.Overview of mean ranking scores regarding the ranking support question. (DOCX 16 kb)
Additional file 1: of The tandemly repeated NTPase (NTPDase) from Neospora caninum is a canonical dense granule protein whose RNA expression, protein secretion and phosphorylation coincides with the tachyzoite egress
Creators: name: Pastor-Fernández, Iván
name: Regidor-Cerrillo, Javier
name: Álvarez-García, Gema
name: Marugán-Hernández, Virginia
name: García-Lunar, Paula
name: Hemphill, Andrew
name: Ortega-Mora, Luis
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Clustal alignment of the genome NcNTPase and allele sequences from GeneBank database and this study. Primers for sequencing clones 1, 2, and 3 are displayed in the table below. (DOCX 46 kb)
Additional file 3: of Revisiting chromatin binding of the Arabidopsis UV-B photoreceptor UVR8
Creators: name: Binkert, Melanie
name: Crocco, Carlos
name: Babatunde Ekundayo
name: Lau, Kelvin
name: Raffelberg, Sarah
name: Tilbrook, Kimberley
name: Ruohe Yin
name: Chappuis, Richard
name: Schalch, Thomas
name: Ulm, Roman
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biochemistry
Medicine
Molecular Biology
Developmental Biology
Computational Biology

description: UVR8 and HY5 do not interact in yeast. (PDF 143 kb)
On site measurements of kraft pulp pump system efficiency
Creators: name: Kuhn, Reinaldo
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: With increasing energy costs and competitive pressures, interest has increased in surveying installed pumps for potential energy savings. Field pump efficiency tests are required to assess pumping performance and help to identify improvement opportunities. This work concerns the on-site measurements of pulp-suspension pumping efficiency. This involves the measurement of pump head, flow rate and power consumption. Provided that consistent flow measurements are available, it is possible to reliably and non-invasively measure actual pump system efficiencies in pulp suspension flow, with a minimum process disturbance. As part of a most appropriate measurement-procedure study, four portable nonintrusive flow meters were evaluated on site for pulp suspension flow. The Fast Fourier Transform Doppler was found to be the most suitable for a pulp mill pump survey. Efficiency measurements were performed on six pump systems with motors between 100 and 700 HP. It is shown that as-installed pump efficiency can be used to help predict the degradation of the pump and also its effect on the pumping system’s operation. A system approach analysis was performed in each case, which can be effective in assessing system performance and finding potential enhancements. The use of variable speed drives allows the operating point to move along the system curve, requiring less energy to drive the pump. VSD of larger motors are expensive and their profitability compared to other modification alternatives should always be carefully checked by calculations based on accurate on site measurements and life cycle costs. Finally, in this survey of six pump systems, significant potential savings of around 30% of present power consumption were found.
Additional file 1: of Age-dependent neuroinflammation and cognitive decline in a novel Ala152Thr-Tau transgenic mouse model of PSP and AD
Creators: name: Sydow, Astrid
name: HochgrĂ¤Fe, Katja
name: KĂśnen, Stefanie
name: Cadinu, Daniela
name: Matenia, Dorthe
name: Petrova, Olga
name: Joseph, Maria
name: Dennissen, Frank
name: Eva-Maria Mandelkow
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Supplemental material and results. (PDF 5946Â kb)
Additional file 3: Table S2. of The quality of reporting in cluster randomised crossover trials: proposal for reporting items and an assessment of reporting quality
Creators: name: Arnup, Sarah
name: Forbes, Andrew
name: Kahan, Brennan
name: Morgan, Katy
name: McKenzie, Joanne
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Type of randomised cluster. Table containing additional demographic data of the included trials in the review. (DOCX 12 kb)
Additional file 3: of The Dutch public are positive about the colorectal cancer-screening programme, but is this a well-informed opinion?
Creators: name: Douma, Linda
name: Uiters, Ellen
name: Timmermans, Danielle
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Correlations key components_spss output. (DOCX 58 kb)
Policies for inclusive labour markets (UNTANGLED Policy Brief)
Creators: name: Pompei Fabrizio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: In this policy brief we discuss ways to promote the employability of individuals who risk social exclusion; address various issues in strained sectors; and reduce certain types of gender discrimination. We do so by combining UNTANGLED research findings with descriptive evidence of labour market policies and indicators that measure implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR).

To improve the employability of individuals at risk of social exclusion, particularly older female workers and low-skilled prime-age male workers who have been dismissed after the implementation of automation technologies, it is crucial to rebalance active and passive labour market policies in favour of the former. Public employment and social services in Belgium (Flanders), the Netherlands, Finland and France take holistic approaches to incentivise such people to remain in the labour force, which deserveattention. Second, to solve simultaneously the problems of job quality, integration of migrants and labour shortages in strained sectors such as healthcare, lessons should be learnt from Concerted Action on Care (Konzertierte Aktion Pflege, KAP), implemented in Germany. This is a set of holistic measures to attract labour, where improvements in remuneration have gone hand in hand with training, personnel management, innovative care approaches, and targeted recruitment and training outside the EU, accompanied by recognition of foreign qualifications and support for language training. Third, difficulties at the country and company levels in implementing the EU’s work-life balance and pay transparency directives to reduce gender discrimination suggest that mechanisms for social conditionality in allocating financial resources in the EU should be seriously considered. Finally, the tax-benefit systems in Belgium and Finland, with their balanced redistribution systems encompassing two groups of vulnerable individuals at risk of poverty (low-income and non-rich pensioner households) deserve more attention from policymakers.
Recent HIV seroconversion at time of first positive test : a comparison before and after HIV reportability
Creators: name: Taylor, Darlene Lois
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: Background: HIV was added to the British Columbia list of reportable diseases on 1 May 2003 which included enhanced contact tracing by public health. A sensitive/less-sensitive (S/LS) algorithm using a modified EIA anti-HIV assay was employed to evaluate enhanced partner notification by comparing the proportion of newly diagnosed cases of HIV presenting within 6 months of becoming infected before and after HIV Reporting. Methods: Banked HIV positive samples, collected between 1 Jan 2000– 30 Apr 2003 (pre-reporting group) and 1 May 2003 – 23 Aug 2006 (post-reporting group) were re-tested using the bioMérieux Vironostika HIV-1-S/LS tests. Samples were classified by the S/LS EIA (detuned test) as a recent seroconversion (RSC) (infected for <170 days) or established infection (>170 days). Data was linked to the BC HIV Surveillance and AIDS databases. The proportion of RSC in the pre-reporting group was compared to the proportion of RSC in the post-reporting group using a 2-sided z-test of independent proportions. Similarly, the proportion of new cases of HIV presenting with AIDS was compared between groups. A Kappa statistic was calculated to determine the level of agreement between clinical assessment of HIV staging was compared and the detuned test results. Finally, characteristics of RSC were examined. Results: Serum was available for 1111 newly positive HIV cases in the pre-reporting group and 470 in the post-reporting group. RSC in the pre and post reporting group were 311 (28%; CI: 25.36%, 30.73%) and 136 (29%; CI: 24.87%, 33.27%) respectively (p= 0.70). There was no significant difference in the proportion of cases presenting with AIDS between groups (pre-reporting: 6.7% [CI: 5.4%, 8.1%]; post-reporting: 7.6% [CI: 6.3%, 9.1%]) (p=0.31). Sex work is independently associated with being RSC (AOR 1.78 [CI:1.09, 2.91]). There is an inverse association between being 41-60 yrs old, Asian and/or mixed ethnicity and RSC. Conclusions: The bioMérieux Vironostika HIV-1-S/LS test is an effective tool to objectively evaluate public health interventions and in identifying sub-populations likely to be RSC. This underpowered study demonstrated a slight increase in RSC post reporting which was not statistically significant. Similarly there was no difference in the proportion of cases presenting with AIDS.
Additional file 1: Figure S1. of Effects of the pulsed electromagnetic field PSTÂŽ on human tendon stem cells: a controlled laboratory study
Creators: name: Randelli, Pietro
name: Menon, Alessandra
name: Ragone, Vincenza
name: Creo, Pasquale
name: Montrasio, Umberto Alfieri
name: Orfei, Carlotta Perucca
name: Banfi, Giuseppe
name: Cabitza, Paolo
name: Tettamanti, Guido
name: Anastasia, Luigi
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Phenotypic characterization of human dermal fibroblasts (hDFs) and human tendon stem cells (hTSCs) by flow cytometry. (PDF 339Â kb)