cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Keiser et al - Supplemental Materials - Biology Letters from Social spider webs harbour largely consistent bacterial communities across broad spatial scales.
Creators: name: Keiser, Carl N.
name: Hammer, Tobin J.
name: Pruitt, Jonathan N.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Health Care
subject: Diseases
subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 90301 Biomaterials
subject: FOS: Medical engineering

description: This file contains supplementary methods and results, including Sampling site selection, Additional information on DNA extraction protocol, PCR cycling information, Sequence data processing and analysis, Identities of prey items, and Culture-based bacterial isolation.
Solar prominences: 'double, double ... boil and bubble'
Creators: name: Keppens, Rony
name: Xia, Chun
name: Porth, Oliver
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Observations revealed rich dynamics within prominences, the cool 10,000 K, macroscopic (sizes of order 100 Mm) "clouds" in the million degree solar corona. Even quiescent prominences are continuously perturbed by hot, rising bubbles. Since prominence matter is hundredfold denser than coronal plasma, this bubbling is related to Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities. Here we report on true macroscopic simulations well into this bubbling phase, adopting a magnetohydrodynamic description from chromospheric layers up to 30 Mm height. Our virtual prominences rapidly establish fully non-linear (magneto)convective motions where hot bubbles interplay with falling pillars, with dynamical details including upwelling pillars forming within bubbles. Our simulations show impacting Rayleigh-Taylor fingers reflecting on transition region plasma, ensuring that cool, dense chromospheric material gets mixed with prominence matter up to very large heights. This offers an explanation for the return mass cycle mystery for prominence material. Synthetic views at extreme ultraviolet wavelengths show remarkable agreement with observations, with clear indications of shear-flow induced fragmentations.
description: 18 pages, 5 figures
Validating the Measurement of Social Capital in Bangladesh: A Cognitive Approach
Creators: name: Ahasan, S.M. Monirul
name: Ali, Nabeel A.
name: Taleb, Fahmida
name: Story, William T.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Despite the growing evidence linking social capital to improvements in health and health behaviors, reliable measures of social capital are lacking in low-income countries. To accurately measure social capital in new contexts, there is a need to validate social capital survey questions in each new cultural setting. In this article we examine the content validity of the measurement of social capital in Bangladesh using qualitative methods. In December 2012, we conducted four focus group discussions and 32 cognitive interviews in one rural subdistrict (Durgapur) and one urban slum (Mirpur). We used the findings from the focus groups and cognitive interviews to create a new social capital survey instrument that can be used by health and development organizations in Bangladesh. Furthermore, in this article we provide insight into social capital survey research in general, including suggestions for the measurement of group membership, social support, collective action, and social trust.
Description of Saccocirrus goodrichi sp. nov. (Annelida: Polychaeta: Saccocirridae), a new Mediterranean species and new data on the chaetae of S. papillocercus and S. major
Creators: name: JOUIN-TOULMOND, Claude
name: GAMBI, Maria Cristina
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2007

description: A new species, Saccocirrus goodrichi, is described from Amphioxus sands of the Gulf of Naples. The species
 lives in sediments together with S. papillocercus and, for a long time, there has been a confusion between the two species.
 By the morphology of the chaetae, the presence of a pharyngeal bulb and the unilateral location of the ovaries, the new
 species belongs to the Indo-Pacific "krusadensis group", different from the "papillocercus group" that has a world wide
 distribution. On the other hand, scanning electron micrographs are given for the first time on the chaetae of S. papillocercus
 and S. major, two common Mediterranean species.
Three-Dimensional Fluorescence Microscopy Image Synthesis and Analysis Using Machine Learning
Creators: name: Wu, Liming
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: Electrical engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Recent advances in fluorescence microscopy enable deeper cellular imaging in living tissues with near-infrared excitation light. High quality fluorescence microscopy images provide useful information for analyzing biological structures and diagnosing diseases. Nuclei detection and segmentation are two fundamental steps for quantitative analysis of microscopy images. However, existing machine learning-based approaches are hampered by three main challenges: (1) Hand annotated ground truth is difficult to obtain especially for 3D volumes, (2) Most of the object detection methods work only on 2D images and are difficult to extend to 3D volumes, (3) Segmentation-based approaches typically cannot distinguish different object instances without proper post-processing steps. In this thesis, we propose various new methods for microscopy image analysis including nuclei synthesis, detection, and segmentation. Due to the limitation of manually annotated ground truth masks, we first describe how we generate 2D/3D synthetic microscopy images using SpCycleGAN and use them as a data augmentation technique for our detection and segmentation networks. For nuclei detection, we describe our RCNN-SliceNet for nuclei counting and centroid detection using slice-and-cluster strategy. Then we introduce our 3D CentroidNet for nuclei centroid estimation using vector flow voting mechanism which does not require any post-processing steps. For nuclei segmentation, we first describe our EMR-CNN for nuclei instance segmentation using ensemble learning and slice fusion strategy. Then we present the 3D Nuclei Instance Segmentation Network (NISNet3D) for nuclei instance segmentation using gradient vector field array. Extensive experiments have been conducted on a variety of challenging microscopy volumes to demonstrate that our approach can accurately detect and segment the cell nuclei and outperforms other compared methods. Finally, we describe the Distributed and Networked Analysis of Volumetric Image Data (DINAVID) system we developed for biologists to remotely analyze large microscopy volumes using machine learning.
Keiser et al - Supplemental Materials - Biology Letters from Social spider webs harbour largely consistent bacterial communities across broad spatial scales
Creators: name: Keiser, Carl N.
name: Hammer, Tobin J.
name: Pruitt, Jonathan N.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Health Care
subject: Diseases
subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 90301 Biomaterials
subject: FOS: Medical engineering

description: This file contains supplementary methods and results, including Sampling site selection, Additional information on DNA extraction protocol, PCR cycling information, Sequence data processing and analysis, Identities of prey items, and Culture-based bacterial isolation.
Triplet pair amplitude in a trapped $s$-wave superfluid Fermi gas with broken spin rotation symmetry
Creators: name: Endo, Yuki
name: Inotani, Daisuke
name: Hanai, Ryo
name: Ohashi, Yoji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the possibility that the broken spatial inversion symmetry by a trap potential induces a spin-triplet Cooper-pair amplitude in an $s$-wave superfluid Fermi gas. Being based on symmetry considerations, we clarify that this phenomenon may occur, when a spin rotation symmetry of the system is also broken. We also numerically confirm that a triplet pair amplitude is really induced under this condition, using a simple model. Our results imply that this phenomenon is already present in a trapped $s$-wave superfluid Fermi gas with spin imbalance. As an interesting application of this phenomenon, we point out that one may produce a $p$-wave superfluid Fermi gas, by suddenly changing the $s$-wave pairing interaction to a $p$-wave one by using the Feshbach resonance technique. Since a Cooper pair is usually classified into the spin-singlet (and even-parity) state and the spin-triplet (and odd-parity) state, our results would be useful in considering how to mix them with each other in a superfluid Fermi gas. Such admixture has recently attracted much attention in the field of non-centrosymmetric superconductivity, so that our results would also contribute to the further development of this research field, on the viewpoint of cold Fermi gas physics.
description: 26 pages, 8 figures
The Impact of Children's Social Adjustment on Academic Outcomes
Creators: name: Lloyd, Stacey W.
name: DeRosier, Melissa E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: This study tested whether social adjustment added to the prediction of academic outcomes above and beyond prior academic functioning. School records and peer-, teacher-, and self-report measures were collected for 1,255 third grade children in the fall and spring of the school year. Social acceptance by and aggression with peers were included as measures of social adjustment. Academic outcomes included math and reading GPA, classroom behavior, academic self-esteem, and absenteeism. As expected, support for the causal model was found where both forms of social adjustment contributed independently to the prediction of each area of academic adjustment. Gender differences in the patterns of results were present, particularly for the impact of aggression on academic adjustment. Discussion focuses on the implications for social-emotional literacy programs to prevent negative academic outcomes.
Magnetohydrodynamic shocks in and above post-flare loops: two-dimensional simulation and a simplified model
Creators: name: Takasao, Shinsuke
name: Matsumoto, Takuma
name: Nakamura, Naoki
name: Shibata, Kazunari
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Solar flares are an explosive phenomenon, where super-sonic flows and shocks are expected in and above the post-flare loops. To understand the dynamics of post-flare loops, a two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (2D MHD) simulation of a solar flare has been carried out. We found new shock structures in and above the post-flare loops, which were not resolved in the previous work by Yokoyama and Shibata 2001. To study the dynamics of flows along the reconnected magnetic field, kinematics and energetics of the plasma are investigated along selected field lines. It is found that shocks are crucial to determine the thermal and flow structures in the post-flare loops. On the basis of the 2D MHD simulation, we have developed a new post-flare loop model which we call the pseudo-2D MHD model. The model is based on the 1D MHD equations, where all the variables depend on one space dimension and all the three components of the magnetic and velocity fields are considered. Our pseudo-2D model includes many features of the multi-dimensional MHD processes related to magnetic reconnection (particularly MHD shocks), which the previous 1D hydrodynamic models are not able to include. We compare the shock formation and energetics of a specific field line in the 2D calculation with those in our pseudo-2D MHD model, and we found that they give similar results. This model will allow us to study the evolution of the post-flare loops in a wide parameter space without expensive computational cost and without neglecting important physics associated with magnetic reconnection.
description: 51 pages, 22 figures. Accepted by ApJ
Characteristics of General Education Reading Interventions Implemented in Elementary Schools for Students With Reading Difficulties
Creators: name: Wanzek, Jeanne
name: Cavanaugh, Christie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: The implementation of response to intervention requires interventions for struggling students be provided through general education prior to referral for special education. We surveyed elementary teachers (K-3) in one state to examine the characteristics of the supplemental reading interventions that their students receive through general education. Findings reveal differences between grade levels in the amount of time interventions are provided to students, the providers of the intervention, and the material selection for the interventions. No differences between grade levels were noted in the frequency of intervention or instructional group sizes. Three-quarters of the teachers reported providing the supplemental interventions to students in their class. The findings provide insight into the resources utilized by schools to implement supplemental interventions.
2 NEW SPECIES OF THE FAMILY MICROLAIMIDAE (NEMATODA, ORDER CHROMADORIDA) FROM SOUTH-AFRICA
Creators: name: Furstenberg, J. P.
name: Vincx, M.
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1992

description: Microlaimus africanensis n. sp. is described from harbour sand taken just inside the Dom Pedro Breakwater, Port Elizabeth. Molgolaimus typicus n. sp. is recorded from brown algae sampled subtidally from a rocky shore off Port Elizabeth. Microlaimus africanensis n. sp. is characterised by its length and thinness. Molgolaimus typicus n. sp. resembles M. minutus, but can be differentiated by the presence of a prominent ventral gland and ventral pore, as well as the absence of a gubemaculum.
Supplementary Material from Autistic traits in synaesthesia: atypical sensory sensitivity and enhanced perception of details.
Creators: name: Leeuwen, Tessa M. Van
name: Petersen, Eline Van
name: Burghoorn, Floor
name: Dingemanse, Mark
name: Lier, Rob Van
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 170299 Cognitive Science not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Figures, Tables, Methods, and Results
Supplementary document for Ultrafast line-illumination Raman microscopy with multislit detection - 6224906.pdf
Creators: name: Mochizuki, Kentaro
name: Kumamoto, Yasuaki
name: Maeda, Shunsuke
name: Tanuma, Masato
name: Kasai, Atsushi
name: takemura, masashi
name: Harada, Yoshinori
name: Hashimoto, Hitoshi
name: Tanaka, Hideo
name: Smith, Nicholas
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
OCHLIK HOLATINING ORGANIZMGA TA'SIRI VA YASHOVCHANLIK CHEGARASI
Creators: name: Boykuziyev, Xayitboy
name: Okbayev, Mexrilla
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Ochlik – bu fiziologik jarayon bo'lib, organizmga oziq moddalar va suvning umuman yoki yetarlicha miqdorda tushmasligidir. Bunday holatga ozuqa tarkibining keskin kamayishi yoki ozuqaning o'zlashtirish jarayonining buzilishi ham kiritish mumkin (BME, 1977).
BV Master Action for Heterotic and Type II String Field Theories
Creators: name: Sen, Ashoke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct the quantum BV master action for heterotic and type II string field theories.
description: LaTeX file, 21 pages; v2: expanded discussion on the sector containing free fields and its decoupling, added references and acknowledgements; v3: some clarifications added
DISTRIBUTION OF 3 INTERTIDAL CIROLANID ISOPODS (FLABELLIFERA, CIROLANIDAE) ON A SOUTH-AFRICAN SANDY BEACH
Creators: name: Deruyck, A. M. C.
name: Donn, T. E.
name: McLachlan, A.
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1992

description: The vertical zonation pattern of Eurydice longicornis, Pontogeloides latipes and Excirolana natalensis, cirolanid isopods co-existing on Sundays River Beach, was studied, and differed from Dahl's. Salvat's and Trevallion et al.'s schemes. In view of the apparent differences in zonation both in the present study and the literature, the use of cirolanid isopods as indicators of zones is questionable. Environmental factors are suspected to be more important than biological interactions as cause for the observed zonation patterns of the three species, This study suggests longshore distributional differences in the cirolanid isopod populations both on a large scale along a log-spiral bay and on a small scale along a mega-cusp system. Seasonal changes in distribution seem to occur in all three species as well as semilunar zonation changes in E. natalensis. The flexible zonation patterns exhibited by the cirolanid isopods at Sundays River Beach may be an adaptation for survival in the dynamic, unstable conditions of a high energy, microtidal beach.
REDESCRIPTION AND TAXONOMIC RELATIONSHIPS OF VASCONIELLA-JEFFREYSIANA (FISCHER,P 1873) (MOLLUSCA, BIVALVIA, LEPTONACEA)
Creators: name: Bonnin, J.
name: Cornet, M.
name: Babio, C. R.
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1992

description: Data collected on Vasconiella jeffreysiana form the basis for a historical reconstruction of previous descriptions of its two valves and a review of the geographical distribution of the species. Based upon a biometric study, the shell is thoroughly redescribed with an emphasis on its remarkably inequivalve condition. Conchyological and anatomical features of V. jeffreysiana are compared to those of related species of Leptonacea in order to clarify the taxonomic relationships of this little known commensal bivalve.
A REVIEW OF LEPTANTHURA SARS, 1899, WITH DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES FROM THE TIOMAN ARCHIPELAGO, MALAYSIA (CRUSTACEA, ISOPODA, PARANTHURIDAE)
Creators: name: Muller, H. G.
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1992

description: The 34 nominal species assigned up to now to the paranthurid genus Leptanthura Sars, 1899 (Isopoda) are reviewed. Leptanthura coralliophila n.sp. from a fringing reef at Pulau Babi Besar, Tioman Archipelago (Malaysia) is described, with discussion of its supposed affinities. The distinguishing features of Leptanthura-related genera are pointed out. The information regarding the distribution, depth range and habitat of Leptanthura-species is summarized. The genus is predominantly distributed in the southern hemisphere, with most species known from the Indo-West Pacific. Leptanthura appears to be absent from the Central and East Pacific, also from the westcoast of North America south to the Caribbean. Most species live in deepwater often with a wide bathymetrical range. Only 16 are known from depths less than 100 m. The inhabited substrate is known for few species and seems to be rather diverse.The new species from Malaysia is described in detail with discussion of its supposed phenetic relationships. It was found on a fringing reef at the northwest coast of Pulau Babi Besar, about 15 km off Mersing, Malaysia. It inhabits dead coral substratum (Acropora sp., Pocillopora damicornis) and was collected on the reef flat as well as on the reef margin and upper coral slope from the intertidal zone to 2 m.
Cyclic Regulation of T-Bet and GATA-3 in Human Endometrium
Creators: name: Young, Steven
name: Lininger, Ruth
name: Schust, Danny
name: Kawana, Kei
name: Inman, Danielle
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: Endometrial cytokine expression is poorly understood. T-Bet and GATA-3 regulate cytokine expression in T-lymphocytes. Previous work has demonstrated expression of T-Bet in human endometrium. Changes in human endometrial T-Bet and GATA-3 mRNA and protein expression during the normal menstrual cycle were characterized. Human endometrium from each phase of the menstrual cycle underwent real-time reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction and immunohistochemistry to examine expression and localization. T-Bet and GATA-3 mRNA were increased in the late secretory phase. Progesterone receptor (PR) mRNA was increased during the proliferative and early secretory phases. T-Bet and GATA-3 proteins localized cytoplasmically in the late secretory phase. PR protein displayed nuclear localization and maximal immunostaining during the early secretory phase. T-Bet and GATA-3 are expressed in endometrial epithelium cyclically during the menstrual cycle. T-Bet and GATA-3 are both upregulated during the late secretory phase and in the same cell types. The expression patterns of T-Bet and GATA-3 oppose PR, suggesting antagonistic function and/or regulation between PR and T-Bet/GATA-3.
Supplementary Material from Autistic traits in synaesthesia: atypical sensory sensitivity and enhanced perception of details
Creators: name: Leeuwen, Tessa M. Van
name: Petersen, Eline Van
name: Burghoorn, Floor
name: Dingemanse, Mark
name: Lier, Rob Van
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 170299 Cognitive Science not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Figures, Tables, Methods, and Results
Robert Rozema - Waiting for Autistic Superman: The Problematic Past and Possible Future of Autistic Superheroes
Creators: name: Rozema, Robert
Publisher: name: University of the Arts London
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 199999 Studies in the Creative Arts and Writing not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: Over the past 30 years, representations of autistic characters in superhero comics have been very rare and mostly wrong, even as autistic presence has increased dramatically in film, television, popular fiction, and other media. This paper constructs a provisional taxonomy of autistic representation in superhero comics, suggesting they appear in named, coded, claimed, and allegorical iterations. This essay focuses on illustrative examples of autistic superheroes from each category of representation. More specifically, I examine the first named autistic superhero to appear, Dehman Doosha, as well as the most famous named autistic superhero, Reed Richard/Mr. Fantastic. I also discuss two additional superheroes who appear alongside Reed and Dehman—the coded autistic character Michael Crawley, and the allegorical autistic character the Thing.  I consider these characters from the theoretical perspective of disability studies, arguing that these comics have pathologized autism, promoted the institutionalization of neurodiverse individuals, or allegorized neurodevelopmental differences in ways that fail to advance Thunberg’s notion of autism as a “superpower.” Most critically, I argue that superhero comics are influential cultural narratives that shape social perceptions about autism. Accordingly, I conclude by imagining a possible future for autistic superheroes, calling for neurodivergent and neurotypical artists alike to develop narratives that counter previous, pathologizing depictions of autism by showing the lived experiences of authentic autistic characters.
Proteomic Analysis of the Luteal Endometrial Secretome
Creators: name: Young, Steven L.
name: Fritz, Marc A.
name: Mocanu, Mihaela
name: Lessey, Bruce A.
name: Scotchie, Jessica G.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: Endometrium attains a secretory architecture in preparation for embryo implantation, but the identity of most endometrial secretory products remains unknown. Our objective was to characterize the endometrial secretome and compare protein expression between prereceptive (luteinizing hormone [LH]+4) receptive (LH+9) and phase endometrium. Endometrial lavage was performed in 11 participants and analyzed by difference gel electrophoresis (DIGE). LH+4 and LH+9 specimens were labeled with cyanine fluorescent dyes Cy3 and Cy5 tags, respectively, and combined. Proteins were separated using 2-dimensional gel electrophoresis, isolated, trypsin-digested, and subjected to mass spectrometry. In all, 152 proteins were identified; 82 were differentially expressed. Most proteins with increased expression on LH+9 functioned in host defense, while proteins with decreased expression had many functions. A total of 14 proteins had changes suggesting altered posttranslational modification. This article describes the first application of proteomic analysis to endometrial secretions, allowing identification of novel endometrial proteins as well as those differentially secreted in prereceptive and receptive phases.
ON SOME SPECIES OF THE FAMILY LICHENOPORIDAE SMITT, 1866 (BRYOZOA, CYCLOSTOMIDA) IN THE ATLANTO-MEDITERRANEAN REGION .1. GENUS DISPORELLA GRAY, 1848
Creators: name: Alvarez, J. A.
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1992

description: On some species of the family Lichenoporidae Smitt, 1866 (Bryozoa, Cyclostomida) in the Atlanto-Mediterranean region. Part I : genus Disporella Gray, 1848. Six species of the genus Disporella Gray, four of them new to science, are fully described : Disporella hispida (Fleming) (a neotype is designated for it), D. piramidata sp. n., D. robusta sp. n., D. zurigneae sp. n., D. smitti (Calvet) and D. alboranensis sp. n. Other specimens from other regions in the world are briefly comented. The valoration of the features with a taxonomic interest allow us to say that the more important are : the disposition and anatomy of the peristomes and alveoli, the situation and form of the pustules of calcification and spine-shaped processes, and the extension of the brood chamber, as well as the location of the ooeciostome on it. Lastly, a key for the identification of the species on the European coasts is provided.
AMG 479, a Novel IGF-1-R Antibody, Inhibits Endometrial Cancer Cell Proliferation Through Disruption of the PI3K/Akt and MAPK Pathways
Creators: name: Mendivil, Albert
name: Cantrell, Leigh A.
name: Malloy, Kim M.
name: Blok, Leen J.
name: Zhou, Chunxiao
name: Gehrig, Paola A.
name: Burger, Curt W.
name: Bae-Jump, Victoria L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Our goal was to evaluate the therapeutic potential of a novel antibody to the insulin growth factor-1 receptor (IGF-1-R; AMG 479) in endometrial cancer cells. The endometrial cancer cell lines, ECC-1/PRAB72 and RL-95-2, were used. Treatment with AMG 479 (0.02-200 nmol/L) resulted in inhibition of cell proliferation at 72 to 120 hours. Insulin growth factor-1 (0.15-7.5 nmol/L) stimulated growth in both cell lines (range of 15%-42%, P = .0025-.0445), which could be blocked by pretreatment with AMG 479 (mean of 29% for ECC-1/PRAB72, P = .006-.007; mean of 36% for RL-95-2, P = .0002-.0045). AMG 479 suppressed IGF-1-R kinase activity in a dose-dependent manner. Cells treated with AMG 479 underwent either G1 (ECC-1/PRAB72) or G2 (RL-95-2) arrest. AMG 479 decreased human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT) mRNA expression in both endometrial cancer cell lines. Treatment with AMG 479 rapidly blocked IGF-1-induced phosphorylation of IFG-1-R, Akt, and p44/42. Thus, manipulation of the IGF-1-R pathway may serve as a promising therapeutic strategy for the treatment of endometrial cancer.
G Protein-Coupled Estrogen Receptor (GPER) Expression in Normal and Abnormal Endometrium
Creators: name: Fritz, Marc A.
name: Lessey, Bruce A.
name: Scotchie, Jessica
name: Plante, Beth J.
name: Yuan, Lingwen
name: Young, Steven L.
name: Taylor, Robert N.
name: Bagchi, Milan K.
name: Wang, Wei
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Rapid estrogen effects are mediated by membrane receptors, and evidence suggests a role for both a membrane-associated form of estrogen receptor alpha (ESR1; ERα) and G-protein coupled receptor 30 (GPER; GPR30). Considering estrogen’s importance in endometrial physiology and endometriosis pathophysiology, we hypothesized that GPER could be involved in both cyclic changes in endometrial estrogen action and that aberrant expression might be seen in the eutopic endometrium of women with endometriosis. Using real-time reverse transcriptase–polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and immunohistochemical analysis of normal endometrium, endometrial samples demonstrated cycle-regulated expression of GPER, with maximal expression in the proliferative phase. Eutopic and ectopic endometrium from women with endometriosis overexpressed GPER as compared to eutopic endometrium of normal participants. Ishikawa cells, an adenocarcinoma cell line, expressed GPER, with increased expression upon treatment with estrogen or an ESR1 agonist, but not with a GPER-specific agonist. Decreased expression was seen in Ishikawa cells stably transfected with progesterone receptor A. Together, these data suggest that normal endometrial GPER expression is cyclic and regulated by nuclear estrogen and progesterone receptors, while expression is dysregulated in endometriosis.
Allocating labourers to occupational (sub-)sectors using regression techniques
Creators: name: Keibek, Sebastiaan
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2017

description: British historical sources on occupational information such as censuses, parish registers, and probate records describe many men with the unhelpfully vague term of ‘labourer’. This paper introduces a new method to allocate these labourers to occupational (sub-)sectors, a prerequisite for creating comprehensive and accurate historical occupational structures. The new method leads to a significant correction on the allocation shares used in the national accounts literature. Its results at national level are largely in agreement with another new approach, developed by Osamu Saito and Leigh ShawTaylor. But it has an important advantage over that approach: it is capable of allocating labourers at all geographic levels, and can thus generate local and regional occupational estimates, rather than only national ones.
Preprocessing Among the Infalling Galaxy Population of EDisCS Clusters
Creators: name: Just, Dennis W.
name: Kirby, Matthew
name: Zaritsky, Dennis
name: Rudnick, Gregory
name: Desjardins, Tyler
name: Cool, Richard
name: Moustakas, John
name: Clowe, Douglas
name: De Lucia, Gabriella
name: Aragon-Salamanca, Alfonso
name: Desai, Vandana
name: Finn, Rose
name: Halliday, Claire
name: Jablonka, Pascale
name: Mann, Justin
name: Poggianti, Bianca
name: Bian, Fu-Yan
name: Liebst, Kelley
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results from a low-resolution spectroscopic survey for 21 galaxy clusters at $0.4 < z < 0.8$ selected from the ESO Distant Cluster Survey. We measured spectra using the low-dispersion prism in IMACS on the Magellan Baade telescope and calculate redshifts with an accuracy of $σ_z = 0.007$. We find 1763 galaxies that are brighter than $R = 22.9$ in the large-scale cluster environs. We identify the galaxies expected to be accreted by the clusters as they evolve to $z = 0$ using spherical infall models and find that $\sim30\%$ to $\sim70\%$ of the $z = 0$ cluster population lies outside the virial radius at $z \sim 0.6$. For analogous clusters at $z = 0$, we calculate that the ratio of galaxies that have fallen into the clusters since $z \sim 0.6$ to those that were already in the core at that redshift is typically between $\sim0.3$ and $1.5$. This wide range of ratios is due to intrinsic scatter and is not a function of velocity dispersion, so a variety of infall histories is to be expected for clusters with current velocity dispersions of $300 \lesssimσ\lesssim 1200$ km s$^{-1}$. Within the infall regions of $z \sim 0.6$ clusters, we find a larger red fraction of galaxies than in the field and greater clustering among red galaxies than blue. We interpret these findings as evidence of "preprocessing", where galaxies in denser local environments have their star formation rates affected prior to their aggregation into massive clusters, although the possibility of backsplash galaxies complicates the interpretation.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ
Urinary Follicle-Stimulating Hormone as a Measure of Natural Fertility in a Community Cohort
Creators: name: Long, D. Leann
name: Meadows, Juliana W.
name: Kesner, James S.
name: Steiner, Anne Z.
name: Herring, Amy H.
name: Baird, Donna D.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: High serum follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) levels have been associated with diminished ovarian reserve; however, the association between high urinary FSH and reduced natural fertility has yet to be established. We sought to characterize the relationship between a single or multiple measurements of early follicular phase urinary FSH and fertility. Women (n = 209), 30 to 44 years old with no history of infertility, who had been trying to conceive for less than 3 months, provided early follicular phase urine. Participants subsequently kept a diary to record bleeding and intercourse and conducted standardized pregnancy testing for up to 6 months. A subset of women (N = 95) collected urine on cycle day 3 for up to 6 cycles. Urine was analyzed for FSH and creatinine (cr) corrected. Proportional hazard models were used to calculate fecundability ratios (FRs). Urinary FSH levels across cycles from the same woman were highly correlated (adjusted intraclass correlation = .77); within-woman variance was 3-fold lower than variance among women. Women with an initial urinary FSH level <7 mIU/mg cr exhibited a nonsignificant reduction in the probability of pregnancy (adjusted FR 0.71, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.45-1.13), as did women with elevated urinary FSH (≥12 mIU/mg cr; adjusted FR 0.78, 95% CI: 0.46-1.32). Using the most recent or maximum urinary FSH value did not strengthen the association. In the general population, urinary FSH levels appear to be nonlinearly associated with fertility; however, broad CIs indicate a lack of statistical significance. Repetitive testing appears to be of little benefit.
title:  Tra mutatio ed emendatio libelli: per una diversa interpretazione dell’art. 183, c.p.c.
Creators: name: Cea, Costanzo M.
Publisher: name: Roma TrE-Press
Year: 2016

description: L'autore esamina il problema del divieto di nuove domande alla luce dalla nuova e diversa interpretazione dell'art. 183, 5° comma, c.p.c. fornita dalle S.U. con la sentenza 12310/2015, condividendone, con alcune precisazioni, le conclusioni.

description: Scritti dedicati a Maurizio Converso
Cigarette Smoke-Induced Placental Adrenomedullin Expression and Trophoblast Cell Invasion
Creators: name: Feng, Liping
name: Caron, Kathleen M.
name: Murtha, Amy P.
name: Heine, R. Phillips
name: Brown, Haywood L.
name: Kraus, Daniel M.
name: Grotegut, Chad A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Smoking in pregnancy reduces preeclampsia risk, but the mechanism of this effect is unknown. Prior studies have demonstrated that women with preeclampsia have lower placental adrenomedullin (AM) expression, and cigarette smoke extract (CSE) treatment of placental trophoblast cells in culture increases AM cellular production. We hypothesized that CSE alters trophoblast invasion through an AM-mediated mechanism, and that placental AM expression is greater among smokers. HTR-8/SVneo trophoblast cells were incubated for 24 hours in Matrigel-invasion chambers with 6 treatment groups: nonstimulated (NS), AM, AM inhibitor (AM22-52), 1% CSE, AM + AM22-52, and 1% CSE + AM22-52. Cells that penetrated the lower surface of the chambers were quantified, invasion indices were calculated, and compared using a 1-way analysis of variance with Bonferroni corrections for multiple comparisons. Trophoblast cells treated with both AM and 1% CSE demonstrated increased cellular invasion compared to NS controls (1.5-fold [P < .01] and 1.45-fold [P < .01], respectively). Cotreatment with the AM inhibitor significantly attenuated the increased invasion seen with both AM and CSE alone. Next, the placental tissue was obtained from 11 smokers and 11 nonsmokers at term and processed for immunohistochemistry (IHC) and real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for AM. Placentas from smokers demonstrated more intense AM staining and increased AM gene (ADM) expression compared to placentas from nonsmokers (P = .004 for IHC, P = .022 for PCR). The CSE increases trophoblast cell invasion through an AM-mediated process, and placental AM expression is increased among term smokers compared to nonsmokers. These findings provide evidence that the AM pathway may play a role in the protection from preeclampsia seen in smokers.
GROWTH AND BIOCHEMICAL-COMPOSITION OF THE MARINE MICROALGA TETRASELMIS-SUECICA IN MIXOTROPHIC CULTURES WITH DIFFERENT SUGARS AND AMINO-ACIDS
Creators: name: Cid, A.
name: Abalde, J.
name: Herrero, C.
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1992

description: Growth and biochemical composition of the marine microalga Tetraselmis suecica in mixotrophic cultures with different sugars and amino acids. Three sugars (fructose, sucrose and mannose) and three amino acids (alanine, lysine, and methionine) have been tested as potential growth factors for the marine microalgae Tetraselmis suecica, in axenic cultures, at 850 lux light intensity. The organic compounds assayed affected the growth and biochemical composition of T. suecica. Growth stimulation was achieved only in cultures added with fructose, whereas growth was not affected in the cultures with the remaining sugars and alanine. Growth was inhibited in the cultures added with lysine and methionine. Biochemical cellular composition was affected by the nature of the organic compound added, but not by the concentration used. Proteins were the main cellular constituent in the cultures carried out with sugars, while in those with amino acids the main cellular fraction was lipids.
Resveratrol and Endometrium: A Closer Look at an Active Ingredient of Red Wine Using In Vivo and In Vitro Models
Creators: name: Lessey, B. A.
name: Amaya, S. C.
name: Hestermann, E.
name: Wise, J. D.
name: Young, S. L.
name: Savaris, R. F.
name: Filipovic, C. J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Resveratrol is a natural phytoestrogen with antiproliferative properties present in red wine, grapes, and berries. Published reports on the effects of resveratrol in human endometrial function are limited. The objective of this study was to investigate the expression of estrogen receptor α (ESR1), Ki-67 (a proliferative marker), aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR), and members of the cytochrome P450 superfamily of enzymes (CYP1A1 and CYP1B1) in an in vitro and vivo assay. Alkaline phosphatase assay of estrogenicity was used to compare estrogen activity of different concentrations of resveratrol to estradiol (E2) and diethylstilbestrol (DES), using Ishikawa cell culture. Immunohistochemical expression of ESR1 and Ki67, and reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction of AhR, CYP1A1, and CYP1B1 were analyzed from xenograft implants of human endometrial tissue in ovariectomized immunodeficient RAG-2-γ(c) mice, after 30 days of treatment with subcutaneous pellets of E2, E2 plus progesterone (P4), or E2 plus resveratrol (6, 30, or 60 mg) for 30 days. Compared to E2, resveratrol acted as an agonist and antagonist of estrogen in low and high concentrations, respectively, when combined with E2. Xenografts of human endometrial tissues in RAG-2 mice exhibited reduced expression of ESR1 and proliferative activity (Ki67) with 60 mg of resveratrol. This study suggests that resveratrol, at high doses, has the potential benefit to reduce proliferation of human endometrium through ESR1.
SCIENTIFIC REPORT ON BELGIAN EXPEDITION TO GREAT BARRIER REEF IN 1967 - NEMATODES III - FURTHER STUDY OF DESMOSCOLEX-SPECIES (NEMATODA-DESMOSCOLECIDA) FROM YONGE REEF, LIZARD ISLAND AND NYMPHE ISLAND
Creators: name: Decraemer, W.
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1975

Abstract
Endocannabinoid Regulation in Human Endometrium Across the Menstrual Cycle
Creators: name: Savaris, Ricardo F.
name: Young, Steven L.
name: Martin, Caitlin E.
name: Scotchie, Jessica G.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Humans produce endogenous cannabinoids (endocannabinoids), a group of molecules that activate the same receptors as tetrahydrocannabinol. Endocannabinoids play important roles in reproduction in multiple species, but data in human endometrium are limited. Because endocannabinoids such as anandamide (AEA) and 2-arachidonoyl glycerol (2-AG) often act within tissues as paracrine factors, their effects can be modulated by changes in expression of locally produced synthetic and degradative/oxidative enzymes. The objective of this study was to localize and quantify expression of these key synthetic and degradative/oxidative enzymes for AEA and 2-AG in human endometrium throughout the menstrual cycle. Key synthetic enzymes include N-arachidonyl-phosphatidylethanolamine phospholipase-D (NAPE-PLD), diacylglycerol-lipase a (DAGL-α, and DAGL-β. Key degradative enzymes include fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH) and monoacylglycerol lipase (MAGL); cyclooxygenase 2 (COX2) is an oxidative enzyme. Endometrial samples were collected in 49 regularly cycling, normal women. Protein localization and expression were achieved by immunohistochemistry and messenger RNA (mRNA) expression by real-time reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction. No significant cycle-dependent mRNA expression was observed except that of COX2 (P = .002), which demonstrated maximum expression in the proliferative phase. During the secretory phase, NAPE-PLD protein had increased expression in luminal (P = .001), stromal (P = .007), and glandular (P = .04) epithelia, while FAAH had increased glandular (P = .009) and luminal (P = .01) expression. Increased expression in glandular epithelia was identified for MAGL (P = .03). The COX2 had increased luminal expression during the early secretory phase (P < .0001). In conclusion, maximal expression of degradatory/oxidative enzymes in the secretory phase may foster decreased endocannabinoid tone during implantation.
Bursting dynamics in a population of oscillatory and excitable Josephson junction
Creators: name: Hens, Chittaranjan
name: Pal, Pinaki
name: Dana, Syamal K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report parabolic bursting in a globally coupled network of mixed population of oscillatory and excitable Josephson junctions. The resistive-capacitive shunted junction (RCSJ) model of the superconducitng device is used for this study. We focus on the parameter regime of the junction where its dynamics is governed by the saddle-node on invariant circle (SNIC) bifurcation. In this SNIC regime, the bursting appears in a broad paramater space of the ensemble of mixed junctions. For a coupling value above a threshold, the network splits into two synchronized clusters when a reductionism approach is applied to reproduce the bursting behavior of the large network. The excitable junctions effectively induces a slow dynamics in the network to generate bursting. This bursting is a generic property of a globally coupled network with a mixed population of dynamical nodes where each node posseses the SNIC property.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Supplementary information: Evidence for individual discrimination and numerical assessment in collective antipredator behaviour in wild jackdaws (Corvus monedula). Coomes JR, McIvor GE, Thornton A. from Evidence for individual discrimination and numerical assessment in collective antipredator behaviour in wild jackdaws (Corvus monedula).
Creators: name: Coomes, Jenny R.
name: Guillam E. McIvor
name: Thornton, Alex
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 170299 Cognitive Science not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The supplementary information provides extra details of methods used to record scold calls, create playback tracks and carry out playback experiments. It also includes extra information on the results (including the MCMCglmm analyses), a link to a video file illustrating a response to a playback with five individuals calling and extra information for the discussion. In addition, there are extra tables and plots to further aid understanding of the statistical analysis.
Digital halftoning and gamut mapping for an inkjet nail printer and digital halftoning and descreening with deep learning
Creators: name: Choi, Baekdu
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: Image processing

description: In this dissertation, we propose four novel digital image processing algorithms. First, we discuss a novel digital halftoning algorithm that efficiently removes halftone artifacts commonly associated with error diffusion while adding only an insignificant computational cost. Second, we propose a novel gamut mapping algorithm that utilizes the entire printer gamut resulting in more saturated print results. Third, we propose two digital halftoning algorithms using deep neural networks that generate halftones with quality comparable to those generated with the direct binary search (DBS) algorithm. Lastly, we propose a descreening algorithm based on generative adversarial networks (GAN) framework that generates images with realistic texture.
Supplementary information: Evidence for individual discrimination and numerical assessment in collective antipredator behaviour in wild jackdaws (Corvus monedula). Coomes JR, McIvor GE, Thornton A. from Evidence for individual discrimination and numerical assessment in collective antipredator behaviour in wild jackdaws (Corvus monedula)
Creators: name: Coomes, Jenny R.
name: Guillam E. McIvor
name: Thornton, Alex
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 170299 Cognitive Science not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The supplementary information provides extra details of methods used to record scold calls, create playback tracks and carry out playback experiments. It also includes extra information on the results (including the MCMCglmm analyses), a link to a video file illustrating a response to a playback with five individuals calling and extra information for the discussion. In addition, there are extra tables and plots to further aid understanding of the statistical analysis.