cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
PET amyloid imaging: state of the art and technical considerations
Creators: name: Arminio, Antonietta
name: Prioreschi, Tommaso
Publisher: name: Journal of Biomedical Practitioners
Year: 2022

description: INTRODUCTION The development of PET radiopharmaceuticals suitable for the identification and in vivo quantification of β Amyloid plaques has been the focus of intense research, representing a useful means for the non-invasive detection of β Amyloid plaques in subjects affected by the Alzheimer's disease (AD). The purpose of this article is to provide a general overview of the application of PET radiopharmaceuticals currently available for in vivo imaging of β amyloid plaques. The aim is therefore to describe the chemical and synthetic characteristics of the main radiopharmaceuticals currently used in in vivo amyloid imaging and to provide a technical description of the acquisition protocols, always keeping the patient at the center of each step. MATERIALS AND METHODS Radiopharmaceuticals for PET imaging of amyloid β include two broad classes: planar hetero aromatic compounds and alkenes analogs. Among the former are 11C PiB and 18F Flutemetmol. While among the analogues of alkenes, the most used are the following two radiolabelled compounds: [18F] Florbetaben; [18F] AV-45, Florpyramine, [18F] Florbetapir. A suitable and standardized protocol depending on the radiopharmaceutical used together with technical precautions and good communication with the client, contribute to the good quality of the service offered, both in terms of efficacy and safety of the treatments. It is important to have a professional attitude aimed at active listening, to formulate short, precise sentences, composed of simple and clear words, to speak slowly and to give time to respond. The patient with demented syndrome needs a relaxed and non-judgmental environment. Current PET / CT on the market are equipped with tools such as automatic exposure control and iterative algorithms, useful for reducing and optimizing the radiation exposure, the scan parameters may vary depending on the type of scanner. In clinical practice it is commonly used to use 120 KV and 60-100 mA, to obtain a suitable attenuation map and morphological localization. The PET scan is reconstructed using a 256 × 256 matrix using an iterative algorithm with a Gaussian low-pass filter. Both PET and CT data are constructed with a 25-30cm FOV. CONCLUSIONS The radiopharmaceuticals currently available must be known for their respective specifications by the technologist, in order to guarantee the correct acquisition and compliance with the exam timing. An adequate implementation of technical skills and soft communication skills makes an appropriate context for the delicate balance of AD patients, having the patients and their specific needs at the center of health care.
description: Journal of Biomedical Practitioners, V. 6 N. 1 (2022)
Glaucoma Patient Expression of Medication Problems and Nonadherence
Creators: name: Hartnett, Mary Elizabeth
name: Blalock, Susan J.
name: Robin, Alan L.
name: Sleath, Betsy
name: Muir, Kelly W.
name: Slota, Catherine
name: Carpenter, Delesha M.
name: Vitko, Michelle
name: Sayner, Robyn
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: The purpose of this study was to examine if patient demographic factors influenced self-reporting of medication side effects, difficulty with drop instillation and nonadherence to glaucoma therapy.
Subcubic edge chromatic critical graphs have many edges
Creators: name: Cranston, Daniel W.
name: Rabern, Landon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C15, 05C35

description: We consider graphs $G$ with $Δ=3$ such that $χ'(G)=4$ and $χ'(G-e)=3$ for every edge $e$, so-called \emph{critical} graphs. Jakobsen noted that the Petersen graph with a vertex deleted, $P^*$, is such a graph and has average degree only $\frac83$. He showed that every critical graph has average degree at least $\frac83$, and asked if $P^*$ is the only graph where equality holds. A result of Cariolaro and Cariolaro shows that this is true. We strengthen this average degree bound further. Our main result is that if $G$ is a subcubic critical graph other than $P^*$, then $G$ has average degree at least $\frac{46}{17}\approx2.706$. This bound is best possible, as shown by the Hajos join of two copies of $P^*$.
description: 16 pages, 10 figures; version 2 incorporates referee feedback, which led to improved exposition and a slightly stronger bound
Enamel defects and salivary methylmalonate in methylmalonic acidemia
Creators: name: Venditti, C. P.
name: Bassim, C. W.
name: Wright, J. T.
name: Muralidharan, R.
name: Hart, T. C.
name: Domingo, D. L.
name: Guadagnini, J. P.
name: Sloan, J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: To characterize enamel defects in patients with methylmalonic acidemia (MMA) and cobalamin metabolic disorders and to examine salivary methylmalonate levels in MMA.
(400339) Euphemia Davidson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Prionos gen. nov. from the Meiofauna of a Malaysian Mangrove Forest and the Status of Psammis borealis (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Paranannopidae)
Creators: name: HUYS, Rony
name: GEE, J. Michael
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1996

description: A new genus and species, Prionos ornata, is described from a Malaysian mangrove forest, representing the first member of the Paranannopidae recorded from the mangrove habitat. On the basis of female antennulary segmentation patterns Prionos gen. nov. is tentatively assigned to a clade grouping Psammis, Danielssenia and Mucrosenia, yet a full assessment of the phylogenetic relationships will have to await the discovery of the male. The type material of Psammis borealis, formerly placed species incertae sedis in the Paranannopidae, is re-examined. The unique sexual dimorphism has provided supporting evidence for its removal to a new genus Anapophysia together with a second closely related species A. segonzaci sp. nov. described from the deep sea off La Réunion. The detailed armature of the antennary endopod is used to place Bathypsammis, Anapophysia and Fladenia in a lineage leading to the deepwater genera Paranannopus and Cylindronannopus. The possible sistergroup relationship between Bathypsammis and Anapophysia is discussed.
L’imaging dell’amiloide in PET: stato dell’arte e considerazioni tecniche
Creators: name: Arminio, Antonietta
name: Prioreschi, Tommaso
Publisher: name: Journal of Biomedical Practitioners
Year: 2022

description: INTRODUZIONE Lo sviluppo di radiofarmaci PET adatti all’identificazione e alla quantificazione in vivo delle placche di β Amiloide è stato al centro di intensi sforzi di ricerca, rappresentando un utile mezzo per il loro rilevamento non invasivo nei soggetti affetti da malattia di Alzheimer. Lo scopo di questo articolo è quello di fornire una panoramica generale sull’applicazione dei radiofarmaci PET oggi disponibili per l’imaging in vivo delle placche di β amiloide. L’obiettivo quindi, è quello di illustrare le caratteristiche chimiche e di sintesi di tali e fornire una descrizione tecnica dei protocolli di acquisizione, mantenendo sempre il paziente al centro di ogni passaggio. MATERIALI E METODI I radiofarmaci per l’imaging PET della β amiloide si dividono in due grandi classi: i composti planari etero aromatici e gli analoghi degli alcheni. Trai i primi si annoverano il 11C PiB e il 18F Flutemetamol, mentre tra i secondi i più utilizzati sono i seguenti: [18F] Florbetaben; [18F] AV-45, Florpiramina, [18F] Florbetapir. Un protocollo idoneo e standardizzato a seconda del radiofarmaco utilizzato unitamente ad accortezze tecniche e a una buona comunicazione con l’assistito, contribuiscono alla buona qualità della prestazione offerta, sia in termini di efficacia che di sicurezza delle cure. Nei confronti dell’utente è importante avere un atteggiamento professionale volto all’ascolto attivo, formulare frasi brevi, precise, composte da parole semplici e chiare, parlare lentamente e dare tempo per rispondere e risolvere eventuali dubbi. Il paziente affetto da demenza necessita di un ambiente rilassato e non giudicante. Le attuali PET/TC in commercio sono dotate di strumenti quali il controllo automatico dell’esposizione a radiazioni ionizzanti e algoritmi iterativi, utili a ridurre e ottimizzare l’esposizione; inoltre i parametri di scansione possono variare in funzione del tipo di scanner. Nella pratica clinica è di uso comune utilizzare 120 KV e 60-100 mA, per ottenere una buona mappa di correzione dell’attenuazione e localizzazione morfologica. La scansione PET viene ricostruita su una matrice 256×256 utilizzando un algoritmo iterativo con filtro passa-basso gaussiano. Entrambi i dati PET e TC sono costruiti con un FOV di 25-30 cm. CONCLUSIONI I radiofarmaci oggigiorno disponibili devono essere conosciuti per le rispettive specifiche dal TSRM, al fine di garantirne la corretta acquisizione e rispetto delle tempistiche. Una adeguata implementazione delle competenze tecniche e delle soft skills comunicative crea un contesto adeguato al delicato equilibrio dei pazienti affetti da AD, ponendo la persona e le sue specifiche necessità al centro dell’attività sanitaria.
description: Journal of Biomedical Practitioners, V. 6 N. 1 (2022)
Tables S1 - S2 and Appendix S1 from The population density of an urban scavenging raptor is inextricably tied to human cultural practices
Creators: name: Nishant Kumar
name: Gupta, Urvi
name: Harsha Malhotra
name: Yadvendradev V. JHALA
name: Qureshi, Qamar
name: Gosler, Andrew G.
name: Sergio, Fabrizio
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Table S1: Landscape and human variables used to characterize each study plot in which we surveyed the population density of Black kite breeding pairs within the city of Delhi (India). Variables were chosen on the basis of our knowledge of kite ecology and of previous analyses of the factors that affect habitat preferences, breeding success and behavioural performance by Delhi kites (Kumar et al. 2018a,b, 2019). These variables characterized each plot in terms of its landscape structure, food availability (local availability of organic garbage, access to Muslim ritual-subsidies, local density of humans walking in the streets), and nest-site availability. See the Study Area section for background details on the rationale underlying the choice of indicators of human refuse and ritual subsidies.; Table S2: Information on the population density of Black kites and its predictor variables; Appendix S1: Spatial analysis of Black kite density
Phylogenetic relationships of the Antarctic euphausiids inhabiting the Ross Sea and the adjacent regions of Southern Ocean
Creators: name: GIORDANO, Daniela
name: RINELLI, Paola
name: RUSSO, Aniello
name: SALA, Antonello
name: AZZALI, Massimo
name: LA SPADA, Gina
name: GIULIANO, Laura
name: CRISAFI, Ermanno
name: DE DOMENICO, Elena
name: YAKIMOV, Michail
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2011

description: Ross Sea supports a large concentration of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba Dana, 1850) and Ice krill (Euphausia crystallorophias Holt & Tattersal, 1906) that have a great ecological significance (Azzali & Kalinowski, 1999; Sala et al., 2002). The aim of this study was to further our understanding of the distribution and phylogeny of krill species that were collected in the Ross Sea during the XIX PNRA expedition. Krill from 33 net samples were examined by sequencing parts of two mitochondrial genes; 530 bp of the gene 16S from a total of 20 specimens and 983 bp of NADH from 200 specimens. BIO-ENV analysis showed that the distribution of these species correlated best with water temperature than bottom depth and the ice presence. AMOVA analysis, conducted using the NADH data among geographic populations, revealed no significant differences of nucleotide diversity within the two Euphausia species: E. superba (n = 100, h = 0.97533 ± 0.0472, pi = 0.53433 ± 0.17212), E. crystallorophias (n = 100, h = 0.81762 ± 0.07431, pi = 0.48578 ± 0.46825). Most of the variability is associated with individuals and may depend on the high polymorphism of the species. AMOVA analysis between net samples showed no significant differences in all species.
(400338) Robert Davidson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Détection immunohistochimique chez des planaires marines (Plathelminthes Tricladida) de la 5-hydroxytryptamine et de neuropeptides apparentés à ceux des vertébrés
Creators: name: TEKAYA, Saïda
name: DHAINAUT-COURTOIS, Nicole
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1996

description: Antibodies raised against vertebrate peptides have been used in the study of invertebrates since more than 20 years. This has made it possible to develop the molecular phylogeny concept, with all the carefulness required to avoid wrong interpretations due to unspecific cross-reactions. It is now clearly established that some families of molecules appeared very early in the course of evolution, in primitive metazoan such as the cnidarians, whereas others were only detected in invertebrates occupying higher positions in the phylogenetical tree. Among worms, many groups have been investigated. However, most studies have been focused on the description of the nervous system, in addition, reports concerning marine planarians are still rare. In order to contribute to a more complete knowledge of the relationships between flatworms and other invertebrates, we studied two marine planarians Procerodes lobata and, to a lesser extent, Sabussowia dioica, which are of interest because of their primitive phylogenetic position. Several antibodies raised against leu- and met- enkephalin, oc-neo-endorphin, B-endorphin, dynorphin 1-17, somatostatin, GRF, substance P, CCK-8s, FMRF-amide, and 5- hydroxytryptamine were tested on whole body worm sections. The results given by immunoreactions (IR) were compared with those obtained with histochemical technics used for neurosecretory products, and with the results reported by other authors for a diversity of species.
The gas transfer system in alvinellids (Annelida Polychaeta, Terebellida). Anatomy and ultrastructure of the anterior circulatory system and characterization of a coelomic, intracellular, haemoglobin
Creators: name: JOUIN-TOULMOND, Claude
name: AUGUSTIN, David
name: DESBRUYÈRES, Daniel
name: TOULMOND, André
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1996

description: In Alvinella pompejana, A. caudata and P. grasslei, the vascular blood which contains an extracellular haemoglobin is propelled through the anterior gills by a branchial heart, in which a rod-like heart-body increases the pumping efficiency of the heart. Behind the heart, the dorsal vessel runs back to the major part of the body and contains an intravasal haematopoietic heart-body. Coelomic erythrocytes, not previously known in alvinellids, contain an intracellular haemoglobin. These erythrocytes are clustered together with granulocytes in a perioesophageal pouch which encloses also a well developed plexus of thin blood capillaries. In the pouch, the diffusion distance between the extracellular and the intracellular haemoglobins is short (0.5 µm) and the association of blood capillaries and erythrocytes represents in alvinellids a complex respiratory gas transfer system previously unknown in polychaetes. Histological observations of dark granules in the blood vessels' wall also suggest that, in P. grasslei, sulfide enters the body by diffusion across the branchial surface area, is transported by the blood and immobilized mainly in the coelomic epithelium lining the blood vessels. It is suggested that the respiratory gas transfer system of the perioesophageal pouch should also participate in sulfide detoxification and that it could have been selected in these species in relation with the varying physico-chemical conditions of the deep hydrothermal environment.
Design and statistical analysis of oral medicine studies: common pitfalls
Creators: name: Theriaque, D. W.
name: Tomar, S. L.
name: Schoenbach, V. J.
name: Cheng, J.
name: Baccaglini, L.
name: Poole, C.
name: Shuster, J. J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: A growing number of articles are emerging in the medical and statistics literature that describe epidemiological and statistical flaws of research studies. Many examples of these deficiencies are encountered in the oral, craniofacial and dental literature. However, only a handful of methodological articles have been published in the oral literature warning investigators of potential errors that may arise early in the study and that can irreparably bias the final results.
Breaking down the entire W boson spin observables from its decay
Creators: name: Aguilar-Saavedra, J. A.
name: Bernabeu, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the eight independent spin observables for the $W$ boson in terms of its vector and tensor polarizations and identify the angular distributions and asymmetries able to separate them in collider experiments. The results are applied to the study of polarized top quark decays and diboson resonances. These novel observables are of great value for disentangling new physics mechanisms in $W$ boson production.
description: RevTeX 5 pages. v2: Fixed a figure and added a reference. v3: final version to appear in PRD
Natural stocks of the scallop Argopecten circularis, and relationships with the galateid crab Pleuroncodes planipes in the Pacific coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico
Creators: name: LEIJA-TRISTAN, Antonio
name: SOLIS-MARIN, Francisco A.
name: AURIOLES-GAMBOA, David
name: AMADOR-SILVA, Edgar S.
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1996

description: New data have been obtained concerning the transportation and probable dispersion of the mollusc Argopecten circularis, by the pelagic red "crab" Pleuroncodes planipes. The relation of this Anomuran crab with natural beds of A. circularis implanted in Magdalena Bay and over the continental shelf of Baja California Sur, and its seasonal abundance, were studied on the basis of material collected with fishing nets of different lengths. The most significative variation in the abundance of P. planipes was observed in the range of 0-50 m depth, which corresponds to the migration cycle of the species during the reproductive period. 82 % of P. planipes were observed with juveniles of A. circularis over the chelipeds. The average size of P. planipes and A. circularis were 52.1 mm and 3.5 mm (largest diameter), respectively, with the size of the mollusc ranging from 8.5 mm to 1.0 mm. Biomass of A. circularis oscillated from 10.6 kg.ha-1 (15 m deep) and 0.9 kg. ha-l (29 m deep). Both populations were collected over muddy-sand bottoms mixed with crushed shell, at temperatures between 14.0 to 15.8° C and salinity around 35 %c. The establishment of exploitable banks of A. circularis in Magdalena Bay is linked undoubtedly to the recruitment period of this species which coincides with the migratory cyle of P. planipes, induced by the presence of cold waters from the California current.
Technical Appendix from Quantifying the seasonal drivers of transmission for Lassa fever in Nigeria.
Creators: name: Akhmetzhanov, Andrei R.
name: Asai, Yusuke
name: Nishiura, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Environmental Science
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Health Care
subject: Diseases
subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Lassa fever (LF) is a zoonotic disease that is widespread in West Africa and involves animal-to-human and human-to-human transmission. Animal-to-human transmission occurs upon exposure to rodent excreta and secretions, i.e. urine and saliva, and human-to-human transmission occurs via the bodily fluids of an infected person. To elucidate the seasonal drivers of LF epidemics, we employed a mathematical model to analyse the datasets of human infection, rodent population dynamics and climatological variations and capture the underlying transmission dynamics. The surveillance-based incidence data of human cases in Nigeria were explored, and moreover, a mathematical model was used for describing the transmission dynamics of LF in rodent populations. While quantifying the case fatality risk and the rate of exposure from animal to human, we explicitly estimated the corresponding contact rate of humans to infected rodents, accounting for the seasonal population dynamics of rodents. Our findings reveal that seasonal migratory dynamics of rodents play a key role in regulating the cyclical pattern of LF epidemics. The estimated timing of high exposure from animal to human coincides with the time shortly after the start of the dry season and can be associated with the breeding season of rodents in Nigeria.This article is part of the theme issue ‘Detection, forecasting and control of infectious disease epidemics: modelling outbreaks in humans, animals and plants Part 1’.
The Evolution of Interacting Spiral Galaxy NGC 5194
Creators: name: Kang, Xiaoyu
name: Chang, Ruixiang
name: Zhang, Fenghui
name: Cheng, Liantao
name: Wang, Lang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: NGC 5194 (M51a) is a grand-design spiral galaxy and undergoing interactions with its companion. Here we focus on investigating main properties of its star-formation history (SFH) by constructing a simple evolution model, which assumes that the disc builds up gradually by cold gas infall and the gas infall rate can be parameterizedly described by a Gaussian form. By comparing model predictions with the observed data, we discuss the probable range for free parameter in the model and then know more about the main properties of the evolution and SFH of M51a. We find that the model predictions are very sensitive to the free parameter and the model adopting a constant infall-peak time $t_{\rm p}\,=\,7.0{\rm Gyr}$ can reproduce most of the observed constraints of M51a. Although our model does not assume the gas infall time-scale of the inner disc is shorter than that of the outer disc, our model predictions still show that the disc of M51a forms inside-out. We find that the mean stellar age of M51a is younger than that of the Milky Way, but older than that of the gas-rich disc galaxy UGC 8802. In this paper, we also introduce a 'toy' model to allow an additional cold gas infall occurred recently to imitate the influence of the interaction between M51a and its companion. Our results show that the current molecular gas surface density, the SFR and the UV-band surface brightness are important quantities to trace the effects of recent interaction on galactic SF process.
description: accepted for publication in MNRAS
Technical Appendix from Quantifying the seasonal drivers of transmission for Lassa fever in Nigeria
Creators: name: Akhmetzhanov, Andrei R.
name: Asai, Yusuke
name: Nishiura, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Environmental Science
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Health Care
subject: Diseases
subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Lassa fever (LF) is a zoonotic disease that is widespread in West Africa and involves animal-to-human and human-to-human transmission. Animal-to-human transmission occurs upon exposure to rodent excreta and secretions, i.e. urine and saliva, and human-to-human transmission occurs via the bodily fluids of an infected person. To elucidate the seasonal drivers of LF epidemics, we employed a mathematical model to analyse the datasets of human infection, rodent population dynamics and climatological variations and capture the underlying transmission dynamics. The surveillance-based incidence data of human cases in Nigeria were explored, and moreover, a mathematical model was used for describing the transmission dynamics of LF in rodent populations. While quantifying the case fatality risk and the rate of exposure from animal to human, we explicitly estimated the corresponding contact rate of humans to infected rodents, accounting for the seasonal population dynamics of rodents. Our findings reveal that seasonal migratory dynamics of rodents play a key role in regulating the cyclical pattern of LF epidemics. The estimated timing of high exposure from animal to human coincides with the time shortly after the start of the dry season and can be associated with the breeding season of rodents in Nigeria.This article is part of the theme issue ‘Detection, forecasting and control of infectious disease epidemics: modelling outbreaks in humans, animals and plants Part 1’.
An exploration of the introduction of an outcomes-based science syllabus on planning and pedagogy
Creators: name: Zipf, Reyna
Publisher: name: CQUniversity
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 130399 Specialist Studies in Education not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: This report sets out to examine and critique the nature of effective science teaching in the lower secondary school area. In particular, the research focuses on how science teachers go about the business of interpreting, planning and implementing the new Queensland Science Syllabus: Years 1 to 10 (Queensland Schools Curriculum Council, 1999) and the constraints they encounter. Teacher effectiveness is arguably a critical part of quality science education, and is considered by many as the most important determinant in the success of science education reform. Thus, a better understanding of teacher beliefs and practices, the nature of teacher effectiveness, and ways of supporting teachers in the business of teaching and learning is essential for reform changes to be realized.
Presence of Abyssoanthus sp. (Anthozoa: Zoantharia) in the Mediterranean Sea: an indication of non-dependence of Abyssoanthus to chemosynthetic-based ecosystems?
Creators: name: SINNIGER, Frederic
name: ZELNIO, Kevin A.
name: TAVIANI, Marco
name: REIMER, James Davis
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2010

description: Zoanthids are present in most marine environments, especially where there are hard substrates available. A new species, genus and family (Abyssoanthus nankainensis Reimer and Fujiwara 2007, family Abyssoanthidae) have been recently described from a cold seep setting at a depth > 3000 m in the Nankai Trench, Pacific Ocean off Japan. A molecularly and morphologically similar zoanthid was also found in the Japan Trench and morphologically similar zoanthids were found associated with cold seep environments in the Gulf of Mexico (Atlantic Ocean). Some minute zoanthid polyps and tissues fragments were collected in 2004 in the bathyal plain of the western Mediterranean Sea, in an environment not known to be chemosynthetically active. Their minute size (< 2 mm in diameter) and sand coating made it impossible to identify these specimens morphologically so they were submitted to biomolecular analyses. DNA was extracted and the large mitochondrial ribosomal subunit gene (mt 16S rDNA) was amplified and sequenced. Surprisingly, the sequences obtained showed clear similarities between the deep Mediterranean sea zoanthid and the putative cold-seep zoanthid A. nankaiensis. Beside documenting an almost cosmopolitan distribution of Abyssoanthus these results could indicate (1) the previously uncharted presence of a bathyal cold seep site in the western Mediterranean Sea or (2) alternatively that this genus is not strictly dependent upon chemosynthetic environments. We favour the second hypothesis because the possibility of a cold seep setting at this specific Mediterranean site does not seem substantiated by any morphological, physical or biological evidence.
State of knowledge about the community of mollusks on both sides of the Baja California peninsula, Mexico: a comparative analysis
Creators: name: ZAMORANO, Pablo
name: HENDRICKX, Michel E.
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2011

description: A bibliographic search, a compilation of collection data and recent sampling of deep-water mollusks (from 200 to 4200 m) in the Gulf of California (Talud IV-IX cruises, 2000-2005) yield a total of 685 records on both sides of the Baja California Peninsula, Mexico. Records were split into Gulf of California (GC) and the slope of Baja California in the influence zone of the California Current (Mexico only) records (CC) and a comparative analysis of ß diversity for both
 fauna was made using depth and latitude records. Five commonly used similarity indices (Jaccard, Sørensen, Sokal and Sneath, Braun-Blanquet, and Ochiai-Barkman) were calculated for each cell of the latitude by depth matrix. A total of 281 species and 201 genera were recognized. Number of records and species richness were usually higher in the GC, but diversity profiles obtained on both sides of the Peninsula were similar. Using the Sørensen index, highest similarity between GC and CC fauna was observed at 23°N (species: 13%, genera: 23%) and at 200-699 m (species: 20%, genera: 33%). Based on data available and our present knowledge, the effect of the Baja California Peninsula and of the local currents pattern results in a low similarity between GC and CC fauna (86% of the species and 75% of the genera are distinct).
Halacarid mites (Acari) from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. New records
Creators: name: BARTSCH, Ilse
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1996

description: Among the invertebrates taken at the hydrothermal vent areas Lucky Strike, Menez Gwen and 38°20'N zone on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, four species of halacarid mites were found, i.e. Agaue plutonius sp. nov., Halacarus prolongatus sp. nov., Halacarellus alvinus Bartsch, and Copidognathus alvinus Bartsch. A. plutonius and H. prolongatus are described and the description of H. alvinus is extended.
title: Äthinyloge Säureamide und Urethane
Creators: name: Hafner, Klaus
name: Neuenschwander, M.
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2023

description: Vinyloge Säureamide bewährten sich als Ausgangsverbindungen für die Darstellung polycyclisch konjugierter, nichtbenzoider π-Elektronensysteme [¹].
A randomized phase II efficacy and correlative studies of cetuximab with or without sorafenib in recurrent and/or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma
Creators: name: Tanvetyanon, Tawee
name: Bishop, Justin
name: Haigentz, Missak
name: Sidransky, David
name: Ravi, Rajani
name: Gilbert, Jill
name: Schell, Michael J.
name: Leon, Marino E.
name: Chung, Christine H.
name: Nieva, Jorge
name: Murphy, Barbara
name: Zhao, Xiuhua
name: Bedi, Atul
name: Saba, Nabil
name: Hayes, D. Neil
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: A combination of cetuximab and sorafenib in patients with recurrent and/or metastatic (R/M) head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) were assessed for potential benefit.
Work and reversibility in quantum thermodynamics
Creators: name: Alhambra, Álvaro M.
name: Wehner, Stephanie
name: Wilde, Mark M.
name: Woods, Mischa P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is a central question in quantum thermodynamics to determine how irreversible is a process that transforms an initial state $ρ$ to a final state $σ$, and whether such irreversibility can be thought of as a useful resource. For example, we might ask how much work can be obtained by thermalizing $ρ$ to a thermal state $σ$ at temperature $T$ of an ambient heat bath. Here, we show that, for different sets of resource-theoretic thermodynamic operations, the amount of entropy produced along a transition is characterized by how reversible the process is. More specifically, this entropy production depends on how well we can return the state $σ$ to its original form $ρ$ without investing any work. At the same time, the entropy production can be linked to the work that can be extracted along a given transition, and we explore the consequences that this fact has for our results. We also exhibit an explicit reversal operation in terms of the Petz recovery channel coming from quantum information theory. Our result establishes a quantitative link between the reversibility of thermodynamical processes and the corresponding work gain.
description: 14 pages
A rare mediterranean cumacean, Fontainella mediterranea (Crustacea), at the threshold of the Atlantic Ocean
Creators: name: LÓPEZ-GONZÁLEZ, Pablo J.
name: BANDERA, M. Eugenia
name: ALFONSO, M. Isabel
name: GARCÍA-GÓMEZ, J. Carlos
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1996

description: During a study of the cumacean fauna from the coast of the Strait of Gibraltar and nearby areas some specimens of a rare cumacean, Fontainella mediterranea, were collected in coarse sand at 15-25 metres depth. This is the first record since its original description from the Libyan coast of El Hania. A careful examination of these cumaceans revealed some differences with the original description, mainly the structure and armature of oral appendages, maxillipeds in the female and pereopods in the male. In addition, the structure of the first maxilla is shown for the first time in this genus. The present paper provides a redescription of Fontainella mediterranea and new biological and zoogeographical data on this species.
Details on the simulation model preparation from MS2 bacteriophage capsid studied using all-atom molecular dynamics.
Creators: name: Farafonov, Vladimir S.
name: Nerukh, Dmitry
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 30699 Physical Chemistry not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Reconstruction of the capsid model and preparation of the simulation box
Species richness, sampling bias and phylogenetics in deep-sea mussels
Creators: name: LORION, Julien
name: SAMADI, Sarah
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2010

description: Mussels have been thoroughly studied to understand the evolutionary history of symbiont-bearing organisms living in deep-sea reducing environments. However, most conclusions regarding habitat use and evolution of symbiosis have been drawn from datasets that have recently proved strongly biased toward vent and seeps species. We address herein, from available molecular data, the species diversity of deep-sea mussels across environments and localities. The results confirm the need to analyse more species from organic falls. Various sampling strategies and their possible impacts on
 phylogenetic patterns are discussed.
Completely contractive projections on operator algebras
Creators: name: Blecher, David P.
name: Neal, Matthew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Primary 46L05, 46L07, 47L07, 47L30, Secondary 46B40, 46H10, 46L30

description: The main goal of this paper is to find operator algebra variants of certain deep results of Stormer, Friedman and Russo, Choi and Effros, Effros and Stormer, Robertson and Youngson, Youngson, and others, concerning projections on C*-algebras and their ranges. (See papers of these authors referenced in the bibliography.) In particular we investigate the `bicontractive projection problem' and related questions in the category of operator algebras. To do this, we will add the ingredient of `real positivity' from recent papers of the first author with Read.
description: To appear Pacific J Math; several corrections and small improvements. Keywords Operator algebra, completely contractive map, projection, conditional expectation, bicontractive projection, real positive, noncommutative Banach-Stone theorem
(400337) Ann Davidson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Antidepressants cheer up hepatic B1 B cells: Hope for the treatment of autoimmune liver diseases?
Creators: name: Amendt, Timm
name: Tybulewicz, Victor LJ
Publisher: name: The Francis Crick Institute
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Model organisms
subject: Signalling & Oncogenes
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Human Biology & Physiology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: No description supplied
Tunneling decay rate in quantum cosmology
Creators: name: Mithani, Audrey T.
name: Vilenkin, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In canonical quantum cosmology, the wave function of the universe lacks explicit time dependence. However, time evolution may be present implicitly through the semiclassical superspace variables, which themselves depend on time in classical dynamics. In this paper, we apply this approach to an oscillating universe model recently introduced by Graham et al. By extending the model to include a massless, minimally coupled scalar field $ϕ$ which has little effect on the dynamics but can play the role of a "clock", we determine the decay rate of the oscillating universe.
description: 17 pages, 1 figure
Accuracy of measurements of mandibular anatomy in cone beam computed tomography images
Creators: name: Ludlow, John B.
name: See, Meit
name: Laster, William Stewart
name: Hershey, H. Garland
name: Bailey, L. Tanya J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: Cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) images of ideally positioned and systematically mispositioned dry skulls were measured using two-dimensional and three-dimensional software measurement techniques. Image measurements were compared with caliper measurements of the skulls.
Details on the simulation model preparation from MS2 bacteriophage capsid studied using all-atom molecular dynamics
Creators: name: Farafonov, Vladimir S.
name: Nerukh, Dmitry
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 30699 Physical Chemistry not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Reconstruction of the capsid model and preparation of the simulation box
Observer Reliability of Three-Dimensional Cephalometric Landmark Identification on Cone-Beam CT
Creators: name: Phillips, Ceib
name: Cevidanes, Lucia Helena S.
name: Burke, Brandon
name: Motta, Alexandre
name: Tyndall, Donald
name: de Oliveira, Ana Emilia F.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: To evaluate reliability in 3D landmark identification using Cone-Beam CT.
3D Quantification of Mandibular Asymmetry through Cone Beam Computed Tomography
Creators: name: Paniagua, Beatriz
name: Alhadidi, Abeer
name: Turvey, Timothy
name: Styner, Martin
name: Ludlow, John
name: Cevidanes, Lucia H.S.
name: Mol, Andre
name: Rossouw, Paul Emile
name: Proffit, William R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: To determine if 3D shape analysis precisely diagnoses right and left differences in asymmetry patients
Road to the stars, promoting the ESO Chile fellowships
Creators: name: Corral-Santana, Jesus M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: ESO
Fellowship
VLT
ALMA

description: The European Southern Observatory (ESO) invites applications for the ESO-Chile Fellowship Programme every year around mid-October. The Programme provides a unique opportunity for young scientists to develop their independent research programs and successfully reach the next step of their scientific careers. With this contribution, we aim at promoting the ESO-Chile fellowship among the Spanish and Italian community.
 ESO Fellowships in Chile are granted for 4 years. During the first three years, the Fellows are assigned to one of the Science Operation groups of Paranal or ALMA, where they contribute at a level of 80 nights per year, corresponding to 50% of the working time. ESO Chile Fellows may choose to spend the fourth year at any astronomy/astrophysics institute in an ESO member, Chile or ESO's strategic partner, Australia, with 100% of their time devoted to scientific research.
 ESO Chile Fellows will benefit from developing their scientific profiles and becoming mature and independent researchers in a rich, collaborative and structured environment. In summary, this unique mix of technical knowledge and their close contact with the science carried out at the Observatories, ESO Chile Fellows can build a solid research programme that can boost their future career.
Ecology and distribution of the Diurodrilidae (Polychaeta), with redescription of Diurodrilus benazzii
Creators: name: VILLORA-MORENO, Santiago
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1996

description: The ecology and distribution of Diurodrilus species have been studied after a bibliographic review. The species of this genus are often restricted to the upper moist sand substratum (medium water level, D. subterraneus, D. ankeli, and D. benazzii), or to the lower midlittoral and upper sublittoral (D. minimus, and D. dohrni). In natural environments a single species occurs at each horizontal level. The distribution pattern between upper and lower levels may be controlled by physical factors. Interspecific competition between congeneric species of Diurodrilus may be considered as a possible cause controlling populations within each horizontal sandy beach level. It is possible to identify morphological differences between species inhabiting each horizontal level of a sandy beach. In the lower level, always scoured by the waves, Diurodrilus minimus and D. dohrni have well developed toes, reacting with adhesion to increased water currents, while in the more stable upper level, D. benazzii and D. subterraneus display reduced adhesive toes, both in size and number. Diurodrilus benazzii was collected from the midlittoral phreatic system in a sandy beach at the Gulf of Valencia (W. Mediterranean). Since no information is available on taxonomical characters of D. benazzii, e.g., the sensorial pattern, ciliophores, or ventral ciliation, this paper provides a redescription of the species, comparing the taxonomically relevant characters of all known Diurodrilus species.
(400336) Mary [McLaren] Davidson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Discovery and description of a new species of Abyssoanthus (Zoantharia: Hexacorallia) at the Japan Trench: the world's deepest known zoanthid
Creators: name: REIMER, James D.
name: SINNIGER, Frederic
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2010

description: Until recently, very little was known about zoanthids (Cnidaria: Hexacorallia) from deep-sea environments, with all known specimens assigned to the family Epizoanthidae. However, in June 2005 a small number of unusual samples of a zoanthid-like species were sampled during deep-sea submersible dives (Shinkai 6500 dive # 884) at a methane cold seep at 3259 m in the Nankai Trench off Muroto, Japan (32°34.945'N-134°41.545'E). Specimens were highly divergent in
 ecology, morphology and molecular phylogeny from all known families of zoanthids, and were thus classified as the new species Abyssoanthus nankaiensis Reimer & Fujiwara, 2007 belonging to the new family Abyssoanthidae. A. nankaiensis is distinguished by its unitary polyps, presence at methane cold seeps at extreme depths, and divergent phylogenetic status from other zoanthids. Unfortunately, due to difficulties in histology and the very small number of specimens, many
 questions remain on the ecology and morphology of A. nankaiensis. From images taken during Shinkai 6500 dive # 959 it was hypothesized that there were other potential Abyssoanthidae populations at a non-methane seep site at the Japan Trench (39°06.50'N-143°53.4'E). In October 2007, JAMSTEC cruise YK07-15 and the Shinkai 6500 dove to a depth of 5347-5360
 m (dives # 1038 & 1041) at this site to confirm the presence of zoanthids. Our molecular (mitochondrial 16S ribosomal DNA) and morphological (dimensions, cnidome) findings show a large population of a new species, Abyssoanthus convallis, living on mudstone in an "ecological hotspot" characterized by large amounts of marine snowfall. Specimen polyps in situ were approximately 15-25 mm in height, 5-15 mm in diametre, and had 20-30 tentacles. This species of
 zoanthids represents the deepest recorded zoanthid population, and further investigations at other hadal sites will increase our knowledge of these understudied benthic cnidarians.