cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Paravietnura rostrata Smolis & Skarzynski 2020
Creators: name: Mayvan, Mahmood Mehrafrooz
name: Greenslade, Penelope
name: Sadeghi-Namaghi, Hussein
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Collembola
Poduromorpha
Neanuridae
Paravietnura
Paravietnura rostrata

description: Paravietnura rostrata Smolis & Skarżyński, 2020
– Paravietnura rostrata Smolis & Skarżyński, 2020: 129.
GI: Smolis & Skarżyński 2020.
Ecology and habitat in Iran: this species was collected from tree hole, leaves and sifting.
General distribution: species known only from the type locality (Smolis & Skarżyński 2020).
Genus Persanura Mehrafrooz Mayvan, Shayanmehr, Smolis & Skarżyński, 2015 (2015b)
description: Published as part of Mayvan, Mahmood Mehrafrooz, Greenslade, Penelope & Sadeghi-Namaghi, Hussein, 2023, An annotated checklist of the Collembola (Hexapoda) from Iran, pp. 1-101 in Zootaxa 5275 (1) on pages 30-31, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5275.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7898948
Spanish tobacco-related disease self-management: evaluation
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: As our population ages, chronic disease has become the number one cause of death and disability. Today, approximately 70 cents of each health care dollar is spent on chronic conditions such as tobacco-related heart disease and lung diseases. This problem is especially acute in the Hispanic population, which has more chronic disease related disability and less access to care than the general population.

 Because chronic diseases usually last a lifetime, they must be managed not only by the health care system but also by the person with the disease. The individual is responsible for day to day management of all aspects of the condition, from taking medication and exercising, to continuing to work, to manage negative emotions such as depression and frustration. To be a successful chronic disease self-manager takes practice and skill.

 The purpose of this project is to develop and evaluate a community based chronic disease self-management program for Spanish speaking patients with tobacco-related heart disease or lung disease. Patients in 4 San Francisco Bay area counties will be randomly assigned to take a 7 week Chronic Disease Self Management Program right away at a community site near their home or to wait for 4 months before taking the program. All patients taking the program will be followed for 1 year. Questionnaires by mail and telephone at the beginning of the program and 4 and 12 months later will ask about health behaviors such as exercise and smoking, and will also measure how much chronic disease interferes with what patients want and need to do. Finally, we will measure how people use doctors, emergency rooms and hospitals.

 In past studies with English speakers, we have demonstrated that patients taking a Management Program increased their healthful behaviors, had improved health status, and had fewer days in the hospital, compared to those who did not take the program. The savings were approximately $10 for every $1.00 spent on the program. Similar findings from this proposed study for Spanish-speakers would result in better quality of life for the participants and substantial cost savings for the health care system. Once shown to be effective, the program can be used by state and local health departments, community agencies, and those who deliver health care, such as community clinics and HMOs.
Additional file 2: Table S1. of Maternal eating disorders affect offspring cord blood DNA methylation: a prospective study
Creators: name: Kazmi, Nabila
name: Gaunt, Tom
name: Relton, Caroline
name: Micali, Nadia
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Comparison of  top CpG sites (p-value < 10−4) found in EWAS of active ED versus controls with results from ALSPAC study of maternal pre-pregnancy BMI. Table S2. Comparison of  top CpG sites (p-value < 10−4) found in EWAS of past ED versus controls with results from ALSPAC study of maternal pre-pregnancy BMI. Table S3. Comparison of  top CpG sites (p-value < 10−4) found in EWAS of active ED versus controls with results of sustained maternal smoking in pregnancy. Table S4. Comparison of top CpG sites (p-value < 10−4) found in EWAS of past ED versus controls with results of sustained maternal smoking in pregnancy. (DOCX 49.2 kb)
The role of nicotine receptors in nicotine dependence
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: It is well known that nicotine is the active component that produces both the pleasurable sensations and cognitive enhancement associated with tobacco use, as well as the unpleasant physical effects of withdrawal when the user is deprived of this addictive substance. It is presently unknown, however, how long-term nicotine exposure (via extensive tobacco use) affects the various regions of the brain to turn a pleasurable behavior into a potentially life-threatening addiction. Recently, specific receptors for nicotine, which normally bind the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, have been discovered in brain regions that are involved in reward and emotion and in areas associated with learning and memory.

 The goal of the proposed project is to determine how long-term exposure to nicotine may change the number, type, and functioning of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in the hippocampus. The hippocampus is a brain region associated with the formation of memories that also connects directly to the cortex (which controls higher cognitive functioning) and the mesolimbic system (which is involved in emotion and reward). Therefore, the hippocampus is a key candidate for the site where nicotine may exert its cognitive enhancing and addiction-forming effects.

 We propose to chronically expose rats to nicotine and examine the hippocampus using biochemical, electrophysiological, and pharmaco-logical tests to determine exactly how nicotine modifies the normal functioning of the receptor present there. Results of experiments using 1) unexposed, 2) nicotine-exposed, and 3) nicotine-withdrawn animals will be compared to determine the extent of receptors modification before, during, and after exposure to nicotine.

 Understanding the mechanism of nicotine-induced changes in a critical brain area such as the hippocampus is crucial to the development of behavioral and pharmacological strategies to block the addictive properties of nicotine thereby reducing the development of dependence and also to reduce the unpleasant side-effects of nicotine withdrawal experienced following the cessation of tobacco use.
Pantomallus piruatinga Martins 1997
Creators: name: Groll, Elisa Von
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Pantomallus
Pantomallus piruatinga

description: Pantomallus piruatinga Martins, 1997
Martins, 1997:76, fig. 1.
Paratype ♀, BRAZIL, Pará: Santarém (MCNZ 234.018).
description: Published as part of Groll, Elisa Von, 2017, Catalogue of Coleoptera type specimens housed in the collection of the Museu de Ciências Naturais, Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, pp. 439-473 in Zootaxa 4318 (3) on page 442, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4318.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/887750
Additional file 1: of Efficient preparation of Arabidopsis pollen tubes for ultrastructural analysis using chemical and cryo-fixation
Creators: name: Tohnyui Ndinyanka Fabrice
name: Kaech, Andres
name: Barmettler, Gery
name: Eichenberger, Christof
name: J. Paul Knox
name: Grossniklaus, Ueli
name: Ringli, Christoph
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional Methods. Detailed step-by-step procedure and list of material needed for growth of PTs and fixation, embedding, and sectioning of the specimen. (DOCX 56Â kb)
Nicotine pharmacogenetics: influence of ethnicity
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Although a great deal is known about how nicotine is broken down in the body by a process called metabolism, the identification of the enzyme(s) in the body involved in the metabolism of nicotine to its major metabolite, cotinine, still remains incompletely understood. Various lines of evidence suggest that one of the enzymes in the body, which goes by the name of CYP2A6, is the major enzyme involved in the metabolism of nicotine. Not only does it appear that the gene responsible for this enzyme can be different in different individuals, but also that the genetic differences are partly based on the ethnicity of the individual. The finding of ethnic differences in nicotine metabolism would have both basic research and clinical implications in relation to both health and disease. For example, subjects who metabolize nicotine faster might be more likely to be addicted to the drug, whereas those who metabolize nicotine more slowly might be more susceptible to heart disease or certain types of cancer. For the proposed study, people from different ethnic groups will be tested to determine how they metabolize nicotine.
Persanura hyrcanica Mehrafrooz Mayvan, Shayanmehr, Smolis & Skarzynski 2015
Creators: name: Mayvan, Mahmood Mehrafrooz
name: Greenslade, Penelope
name: Sadeghi-Namaghi, Hussein
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Collembola
Poduromorpha
Neanuridae
Persanura
Persanura hyrcanica

description: Persanura hyrcanica Mehrafrooz Mayvan, Shayanmehr, Smolis & Skarżyński, 2015
– Persanura hyrcanica Mehrafrooz Mayvan, Shayanmehr, Smolis & Skarżyński, 2015b: 553.
MAZ: Mehrafrooz Mayvan et al. 2015b.
Ecology and habitat: soil and litter of oak and hornbeam forest.
General distribution in Iran: species known only from type locality.
Genus Protanura Börner, 1906
description: Published as part of Mayvan, Mahmood Mehrafrooz, Greenslade, Penelope & Sadeghi-Namaghi, Hussein, 2023, An annotated checklist of the Collembola (Hexapoda) from Iran, pp. 1-101 in Zootaxa 5275 (1) on page 31, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5275.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7898948
Best Practice tips for Buddying a New Colleague
Creators: name: Rush, Adeline
Publisher: name: National Teaching Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 390303
subject: Higher education
classificationCode: 420505
subject: Nursing workforce

description: The School of Nursing: Impact & Innovation. A Compendium of Effective Practice

Article Eight : Best Practice tips for Buddying a New Colleague
In this article I intend to share ten top tips for you to consider when supporting a new staff member as a buddy.

Innovation & Impact:To access other articles in the Collection visit: https://doi.org/10.25416/NTR.c.7227298
Compendium: DOI: 10.25416/NTR.25795573
Guyalna Boulard & Martinelli 1996
Creators: name: Sanborn, Allen F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadidae
Guyalna

description: Genus Guyalna Boulard & Martinelli, 1996
Guyalna Boulard & Martinelli 1996: 20.
Type species. Fidicina bonaerensis Berg 1879: 140 (Argentina).
Remarks. This is another genus that was introduced in a taxonomic key providing limited information on the diagnostic characteristics of the genus (Boulard & Martinelli 1996). The genus was revised and a full generic description was provided by Sanborn (2016b).
Diagnosis. Within the Guyalnina found in the Lesser Antilles, species of Guylana are distinguished by having a combination of parallel radial and radiomedial crossveins, a head as wide as or slightly wider than the mesonotum, a head without prominent stylate and anteriorly extended eyes, eyes that slightly projecting laterally beyond the pronotum anterior edges, triangular or curved timbal covers absent, timbal covers with a rounded anterior margin and ventral margin that is parallel to the long body axis, and male opercula that generally form a right triangle.
Dorisiana is the most similar genus to Guyalna but species of Guyalna can be distinguished by eyes extending beyond the lateral edges of the pronotum, curved timbal covers, the ventral timbal cover margin is parallel to the long body axis rather than angled dorsally, and lateral uncus lobe extends farther in species of Guyalna than it does in the species of Dorisiana (Sanborn 2016a).
description: Published as part of Sanborn, Allen F., 2024, The cicada (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) fauna of the Lesser Antilles sensu lato with the description of two new species, two new combinations, and a key to species, pp. 33-69 in Zootaxa 5497 (1) on page 46, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5497.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13617972
Additional file 1: Figure S1. of Road traffic noise and registry based use of sleep medication
Creators: name: Evandt, Jorunn
name: Oftedal, Bente
name: Norun Krog
name: Skurtveit, Svetlana
name: Nafstad, Per
name: Schwarze, Per
name: Skovlund, Eva
name: Houthuijs, Danny
name: Aasvang, Gunn
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Simplified directed acyclic graph for the association between road traffic noise and sleep medication use. Some variables have been grouped for legibility. a Includes the variables age, sex, and having children â ¤ 5 years b Includes the variables education and household income c Includes the variables smoking status, alcohol use, caffeine use, physical activity, and night shift work. (DOCX 64 kb)
Inducing functionally grounded constraints
Creators: name: Kathryn, Flack
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2007

description: Phonological grammars are clearly grounded in phonetics. Within OT, many individual constraints appear to be motivated by particular phonetic facts. The precise connection between such a constraint and its phonetic motivation, however, is not well understood. This paper offers a proposal for how learners might consistently induce perceptually grounded constraints from their acoustic and perceptual experience. The empirical focus of the paper is the constraint *#P 'No word-initial unaspirated p', which is shown to be active in languages including Cajonos Zapotec and Ibibio. Experimental data shows that initial P is uniquely difficult to perceive as a result of its acoustic similarity to initial B. The paper describes a computational model in which virtual learners induce *#P from precisely these phonetic facts. This model achieves realistic perception of acoustically realistic segments; the learner's knowledge of these segments' relative perceptibility then forms the basis for constraint induction.
Lissoeme maculata Martins & Galileo 1998
Creators: name: Groll, Elisa Von
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Lissoeme
Lissoeme maculata

description: Lissoeme maculata Martins & Galileo, 1998
Martins & Galileo, 1998a: 48, fig. 2.
Paratype ♂, BRAZIL, Bahia: Encruzilhada (Motel da Divisa, 960 m, Estrada Rio—Bahia km 965), XI-1971, Seabra & Roppa col. (MCNZ 234.012).
description: Published as part of Groll, Elisa Von, 2017, Catalogue of Coleoptera type specimens housed in the collection of the Museu de Ciências Naturais, Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, pp. 439-473 in Zootaxa 4318 (3) on page 442, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4318.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/887750
Compensatory Lengthening via Mora Preservation in OT-CC: Theory and Predictions
Creators: name: Shaw, Jason
Publisher: name: GLSA, University of Massachusetts
Year: 2008

description: Unlike 'classic' OT (Prince and Smolensky 1993/2004), Optimality Theory with Candidate Chains (OT-CC) (McCarthy 2007) allows an account of compensatory lengthening via mora preservation, as in Hayes (1989). The OT-CC constraint ranking that permits compenstory lengthening makes a novel prediction about the rime structure of languages that exhibit these alternations. The OT-CC analysis presented here predicts both that VC rimes will be bi-moraic, as in Hayes (1989), and that the second mora of these rimes will be shared between the syllable nucelus and the syllable coda, a novel prediction of OT-CC. If shared moras distribute phonetic duration across segments (as argued by Broselow et. al. 1997), this prediction links the formal analysis of compensatory lengthening in OT-CC to the typologically rare phenomenon of closed syllable lengthening.
Impacts of Thirdhand Smoke on Public Health
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Thirdhand tobacco smoke (THS) refers to tobacco smoke residues in indoor environments that remain, react and/or re-emit from materials and/or re-suspend from surfaces (dust). THS is a new concept in the field of tobacco control and an advance in the field of toxicology. The concept of THS as a distinct entity that poses health risks for children and adults has emerged over the last decade. The long-term goals of the California Consortium on Thirdhand Smoke are to identify the health effects of exposure to THS, to develop environmental indicators and biomarkers of exposure to THS, and to devise and disseminate evidence-based policies to prevent and remediate such exposures. The California Consortium on Thirdhand Smoke includes researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the University of California’s campuses in San Francisco and Riverside, San Diego State University and the University of Southern California, all of whom have developed strong collaborative links since working together from the first phase of the Consortium in 2010.

 The specific aims and objectives of the proposed research are to:

 1. Chemically characterize THS in order to identify potentially hazardous or toxic constituents that may be present in THS.

 2. Characterize relevant and specific biomarkers that could serve as diagnostic indicators of exposure and demonstrate quantitation of human exposure levels to THS.

 3. Provide scientific evidence either for or against clear and significant health risks to humans as a result of exposure to THS.

 4. Design an evidence-based approach to THS exposure risk policies, policy implications and issues.

 5. Disseminate any evidence related to the health risks of THS to the California tobacco control stakeholders as well as to the general public, including any recommendations on potential approaches to risk elimination.
Additional file 2: of Efficient preparation of Arabidopsis pollen tubes for ultrastructural analysis using chemical and cryo-fixation
Creators: name: Tohnyui Ndinyanka Fabrice
name: Kaech, Andres
name: Barmettler, Gery
name: Eichenberger, Christof
name: J. Paul Knox
name: Grossniklaus, Ueli
name: Ringli, Christoph
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Loss of the primary cell wall in PF. PTs fixed by PF frequently showed loss of the primary (outer) cell wall layer, leaving the callose layer. This was not observed with the other fixation methods. Scale bar: 500Â nm. (DOCX 250Â kb)
Russian prefixes and prepositions in Stratal OT
Creators: name: Gribanova, Vera
Publisher: name: Cascadilla Proceedings Project
Year: 2008

description: Since the work of Zubritskaya (1995) and Matushansky (2002), it has been known that prefixes and prepositions instantiate a synchronically unified and unique class in Russian phonology. A less discussed point is that Russian prefixes and prepositions cannot be unified on the basis of their morphosyntactic characteristics. An existing analysis (Rubach 2000) addresses only the phonological facts, implicitly assuming that the two categories are identical morphosyntactically. To resolve the apparent contradiction between the phonological identity and the morphosyntactic nonidentity of prefixes and prepositions, I propose a Stratal OT (Kiparsky 2000) approach to the jer vocalization and palatalization patterns within the complex containing the prefix/preposition and its host. The account takes as its foundation the work of Blumenfeld (2003), and posits that prefixes and prepositions are processed at distinct strata (word and postlexical, respectively). The paper also provides tentative evidence, based on jer realization patterns, to support the claim that there is a phonological, not just morphosyntactic, reason to associate the composition of prefixes and prepositions with different strata.
Morpheme-Specific Phonology: Constraint Indexation and Inconsistency Resolution
Creators: name: Pater, Joe
Publisher: name: Equinox Publishing Ltd.
Year: 2009

description: This paper argues that exceptions and other instances of morpheme-specific phonology are best analyzed in Optimality Theory (OT) in terms of lexically indexed markedness and faithfulness constraints. This approach is shown to capture locality restrictions, distinctions between exceptional and truly impossible patterns, distinctions between blocking and triggering, and distinctions between variation and exceptionality. It is contrasted with other OT analyses of exceptions, in particular those that disallow lexically indexed markedness constraints and those that invoke lexically specified rankings (that is, cophonologies). The data discussed are from Assamese, Finnish and Yine (formerly Piro). A learnability account of the genesis of lexically indexed constraints is also provided, in which indexation is used to resolve inconsistency detected by Tesar and Smolensky's (1998, 2000) Recursive Constraint Demotion algorithm.
Early Diagnosis/Pathogenesis of Tobacco-Related Lung Disease
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), often a cigarette smoking-induced severe and progressive lung disease, affects millions of people and is the third leading cause of death in US. Despite its importance, there is no direct cure for COPD, and the mechanisms by which cigarette smoking triggers the disease remain largely unknown. Recently, an exciting new connection was found between COPD and the cigarette-induced dysfunction of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR), a protein that when mutated causes the common inherited genetic disease called cystic fibrosis (CF). Similar to people with COPD, CF patients suffer from persistent airway infection and inflammation, mucus hypersecretion, and mucus plugging of the airway do to misfolding. In this study, we will now explore the possibility that COPD is in fact a cigarette smoking-induced form of folding mismanagement. We will provide in depth insights into the mechanisms that link cigarette smoking to CFTR dysfunction through analysis of the lung cell response to CS and loss of CFTR function using genomic and proteomic technologies. We will test if a group of chemical compounds that we have found to improve the folding activity of mutant CFTR, essentially restoring lung function, can also treat the cigarette smoke-induced CFTR dysfunction, and potentially COPD. Our study will open up a new direction for clinical approaches and hopefully identify new drug targets to discover protein folding therapeutics to treat the devastating effects of cigarette smoking induced COPD.
Surface water supply of New Jersey to September 30, 1928
Creators: name: Hartwell, O.W.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1929

description: The purpose of this report is to present in one volume the results of stream-flow measurements which have been made by various organizations. A part of the data presented in this report has been published previously in Federal, State or municipal reports.Prior to 1921 the United States Geological Survey carried on some stream-gaging work in New Jersey mostly during the period from 1903 to 190& when the work was curtailed because of lack of funds. In 1919 the Department of Conservation and Development and the North Jersey District Water Supply Commission established a few stream-gaging station.In 1921 the Department of Conservation and Development entered in to a co-operative agreement with the United States Geological Survey, under which the survey resumed stream gaging in co-operation with the department. As the new work expanded other Federal and State departments, municipalities, power companies, industrial companies, and other private parties have rendered valuable assistance in connection with the work.
Anelaphus colombianus Martins & Galileo 2003
Creators: name: Groll, Elisa Von
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Anelaphus
Anelaphus colombianus

description: Anelaphus colombianus Martins & Galileo, 2003
Martins & Galileo, 2003b:178, fig. 2.
Paratype ♀, COLOMBIA, Magdalena: Parque Nacional Natural Tayrona (11°20’N, 74°02’W, 225 m), 22– 31.I.2001, R. Henriquez col. (MCNZ 234.009).
description: Published as part of Groll, Elisa Von, 2017, Catalogue of Coleoptera type specimens housed in the collection of the Museu de Ciências Naturais, Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, pp. 439-473 in Zootaxa 4318 (3) on page 442, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4318.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/887750
Best Practice tips for Buddying a New Colleague
Creators: name: Rush, Adeline
Publisher: name: National Teaching Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 390303
subject: Higher education
classificationCode: 420505
subject: Nursing workforce

description: The School of Nursing: Impact & Innovation. A Compendium of Effective Practice

Article Five: Best Practice tips for Buddying a New Colleague

In this article I intend to share ten top tips for you to consider when supporting a new staff member as a buddy.

Innovation & Impact:To access other articles in the Collection visit: https://doi.org/10.25416/NTR.c.7227298

Compendium: DOI: 10.25416/NTR.25795573
Biological Impact of E-Cigarettes on Lung Carcinogenesis
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: There is an urgent need to quickly identify new tobacco products that pose a serious health risk to consumers. We have focused on electronic cigarettes (ECIGs) due to their rapidly growing popularity despite the absence of data on whether or not they cause cancer. The ECIG is a battery-powered electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS) designed to deliver nicotine without combusting tobacco. Since nicotine is not generally viewed to cause cancer, ECIGs have been advertised to be a safer alternative to tobacco cigarettes (TCIGs). While the tobacco industry has intensified the development and marketing of these products, the FDA has not been able to regulate ECIGs due to the lack of information on the long-term health effects of ECIGs. Lung cancer researchers must test whether ECIGs cause cancer to inform the FDA as it makes several key decisions: Are ECIGs (1) a safe alternative to TCIGs, (2) a less harmful version of TCIGs, (3) a useful stop-smoking tool, or (4) a new product just as harmful as TCIGs that may encourage more people to start smoking.

 The main goal of this research is to determine whether normal lung epithelial cells exposed to ECIGs turn into cancer cells. Our novel findings suggest that exposure to ECIGs with high nicotine content contributes to the aggressive behavior of lung epithelial cells that have mutations in P53 and KRAS, which are commonly observed in the airways of former and current smokers. Our preliminary data indicate that in one human cell line exposure to ECIGs with high nicotine content enhances the tumor-initiating capacity of P53/KRAS-mutated lung epithelial cells. This ECIG exposure also induces gene expression patterns similar to those resulting from TCIG exposure. These finding suggest exposure to ECIGs may be as harmful as TCIGs in promoting cancer in the lung epithelial cells.

 The specific aims of this study are: (1) to further assess the effect of ECIG exposure on tumor formation and motility in multiple human epithelial cell lines to determine if our initial observations are consistent across subjects; (2) to identify the genetic changes caused in lung epithelial cells exposed to ECIGs; (3) to determine if the genetic changes caused by ECIG exposure are sufficient to turn normal lung epithelial cells into cancer cells. By doing this work, we expect to be the first group to determine if ECIGs have the potential to cause cancer and to identify which smokers will have negative health responses to ECIGs. Our findings have the potential to impact the number of people who develop lung cancer in the US and worldwide, therefore our studies are directly related to cancer prevention.
Anelaphus sparsus Martins & Galileo 2003
Creators: name: Groll, Elisa Von
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Anelaphus
Anelaphus sparsus

description: Anelaphus sparsus Martins & Galileo, 2003
Martins & Galileo, 2003b:178, fig. 3.
Paratype ♀, COLOMBIA, Magdalena: Parque Nacional Natural Tayrona (Palangana 11°20’N, 74°02’W, 30 m), 21.II–05.III.2001, R. Henriquez col. (MCNZ 234.010).
description: Published as part of Groll, Elisa Von, 2017, Catalogue of Coleoptera type specimens housed in the collection of the Museu de Ciências Naturais, Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, pp. 439-473 in Zootaxa 4318 (3) on page 442, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4318.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/887750
Majeorona Distant 1905
Creators: name: Sanborn, Allen F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadidae
Majeorona

description: Genus Majeorona Distant, 1905a
Majeorona Distant 1905a: 318.
Type species. Fidicina aper Walker 1850: 87 (Cayenne, French Guiana).
Diagnosis. Species of Majeorona are distinguished by the prominent, stylate and anteriorly extended eyes, a head that is wider than the mesonotum, a pronotum that is shorter than the mesonotum, and timbal covers that are not concave dorsally.
description: Published as part of Sanborn, Allen F., 2024, The cicada (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) fauna of the Lesser Antilles sensu lato with the description of two new species, two new combinations, and a key to species, pp. 33-69 in Zootaxa 5497 (1) on page 47, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5497.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13617972
Ground water supplies in the vicinity of Asbury Park
Creators: name: Thompson, David G.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1930

description: Observations on ground water conditions in the vicinity of Asbury Park have been made by the writer since September, 1924. The study has involved principally the formation which supplies the wells of the Avon-by-the-Sea Water Department, but some information has been obtained in regard to other water-bearing formations in the region.In collecting the field data the writer has enjoyed the cooperation of officials and employees of the water departments of Asbury Park, the Ocean Grove Association, Avon-by-the-Sea, and Belmar, of the Monmouth County Water Company, of Mr. Addison H. Riggs and the Casino Ice Company, owners of private wells, and of the Layne-New York Company which installed wells for the Borough of Avon and Monmouth County Water Company.
Protanura papillata Cassagnau & Delamare Deboutteville 1955
Creators: name: Mayvan, Mahmood Mehrafrooz
name: Greenslade, Penelope
name: Sadeghi-Namaghi, Hussein
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Collembola
Poduromorpha
Neanuridae
Protanura
Protanura papillata

description: Protanura papillata Cassagnau & Delamare Deboutteville, 1955
– Protanura papillata Cassagnau & Delamare Deboutteville, 1955: 374.
KS: Kahrarian 2015; Smolis et al. 2016b; Smolis & Skarżyński 2020.
Ecology and habitat in Iran: litter in willow shrubs and oak forest.
General distribution: Lebanon, Israel and Iran (Smolis et al. 2016b).
Genus Thaumanura Börner, 1932
description: Published as part of Mayvan, Mahmood Mehrafrooz, Greenslade, Penelope & Sadeghi-Namaghi, Hussein, 2023, An annotated checklist of the Collembola (Hexapoda) from Iran, pp. 1-101 in Zootaxa 5275 (1) on page 31, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5275.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7898948
Additional file 1: Figure S1. of Road traffic noise and registry based use of sleep medication
Creators: name: Evandt, Jorunn
name: Oftedal, Bente
name: Norun Krog
name: Skurtveit, Svetlana
name: Nafstad, Per
name: Schwarze, Per
name: Skovlund, Eva
name: Houthuijs, Danny
name: Aasvang, Gunn
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Mental Health

description: Simplified directed acyclic graph for the association between road traffic noise and sleep medication use. Some variables have been grouped for legibility. a Includes the variables age, sex, and having children â ¤ 5 years b Includes the variables education and household income c Includes the variables smoking status, alcohol use, caffeine use, physical activity, and night shift work. (DOCX 64 kb)
Appula diamantinensis Franceschini 2002
Creators: name: Groll, Elisa Von
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Appula
Appula diamantinensis

description: Appula diamantinensis Franceschini, 2002
Franceschini, 2002:22, figs 117–125, 132.
Paratypes: ♂, BRAZIL, Mato Grosso: Diamantino (alto rio Arinos), X-1983, B. Silva col. (MCNZ 234.751); ♂, Pará: Santarém, 1882–1884, H. H. Smith col. (MCNZ 234.752).
description: Published as part of Groll, Elisa Von, 2017, Catalogue of Coleoptera type specimens housed in the collection of the Museu de Ciências Naturais, Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, pp. 439-473 in Zootaxa 4318 (3) on page 442, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4318.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/887750
Additional file 2: Table S1. of Road traffic noise and registry based use of sleep medication
Creators: name: Evandt, Jorunn
name: Oftedal, Bente
name: Norun Krog
name: Skurtveit, Svetlana
name: Nafstad, Per
name: Schwarze, Per
name: Skovlund, Eva
name: Houthuijs, Danny
name: Aasvang, Gunn
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: ORs and 95 % CIs for the association between nighttime road traffic noise (Lnight) and sleep medication use by 5 dB increase in noise level. (DOCX 24 kb)
Appula eduardae Franceschini 2002
Creators: name: Groll, Elisa Von
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Appula
Appula eduardae

description: Appula eduardae Franceschini, 2002
Franceschini, 2002:21, figs 108–116,130.
Paratype ♂, BRAZIL, Goiás: Rio Verde (MCNZ 234.753).
description: Published as part of Groll, Elisa Von, 2017, Catalogue of Coleoptera type specimens housed in the collection of the Museu de Ciências Naturais, Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, pp. 439-473 in Zootaxa 4318 (3) on page 442, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4318.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/887750
Ground water supplies of Passaic River Valley near Chatham, New Jersey
Creators: name: Thompson, David G.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1932

description: In 192& an average of about 10,000,000 gallons of water a day was pumped from several groups of wells situated in the Passaic River in northern New Jersey. About 53 per cent of the water was pumped by the Commonwealth Water Co. from a group of wells designated as the Canoe Brookfield, 3& per cent from two well fields of the East Orange Water Department known as Dickinson and White Oak Ridge fields, and the remainder from smaller fields. Judging from past records of consumption by 195& the total water requirements in the communities served from the well fields under consideration may be expected to be about 2&,000,000 gallons a day. The greater part of this increase may be expected in the requirements of the Commonwealth Water Co. The purpose of this report is to consider to what extent future increases in consumption can be met by the development of additional supplies of ground water.
Majeorona aper
Creators: name: Sanborn, Allen F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadidae
Majeorona
Majeorona aper

description: Majeorona aper (Walker, 1850)
Fidicina aper Walker 1850: 87 (Cayenne, French Guiana).
Remarks. The range of the species was recently expanded beyond continental South America to include Grenada and Trinidad in the Lesser Antilles (Sanborn 2020a).
Diagnosis. This is one of the largest cicada species of the Lesser Antilles with body lengths of about 48 mm and wing spans of more than 120 mm. The prominent, stylate eyes that are as wide as the pronotum and wider than the mesonotum, the flattened anterior postclypeus, the almost parallel lateral pronotal margins, lateral pronotal collar about as wide as the dorsal pronotal collar, timbal covers concealing the ventral timbal, contrasting proximal wing venation, infuscation on the base of the wings, and infuscation on the fore wing medial and mediocubital crossveins easily distinguish it from Quesada gigas (Olivier, 1790). Fidicinoides descampsi can be distinguished by the infuscation along the ambient vein, distal apical cell veins, and connecting across all crossveins of the fore wings.
Distribution. The species has been reported previously from Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Nicaragua, Panama, and Peru (Metcalf 1963a; Sanborn 2011a; 2013; 2018; 2020d; 2023a; Maes et al. 2012; Sanborn & Maes 2012; Sanborn 2020b). The first records for the Lesser Antilles were provided by Sanborn (2020a) for the islands of Grenada and Trinidad.
Material examined. “ WEST INDIES: Grenada / Grand Etang Forest Res. / 23 June 1998 / coll: L.P. Burgess ” one male (UMRM), one female (AFSC); “Bush Bush Is. / Trinidad / VII.29.63 / at light / Dr. Brooks / Worth” one female (AFSC).
description: Published as part of Sanborn, Allen F., 2024, The cicada (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) fauna of the Lesser Antilles sensu lato with the description of two new species, two new combinations, and a key to species, pp. 33-69 in Zootaxa 5497 (1) on page 48, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5497.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13617972
Thaumanura echinata
Creators: name: Mayvan, Mahmood Mehrafrooz
name: Greenslade, Penelope
name: Sadeghi-Namaghi, Hussein
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Collembola
Poduromorpha
Neanuridae
Thaumanura
Thaumanura echinata

description: Thaumanura echinata (Kos, 1940)
‒ Achorutes echinatus Kos, 1940: 140.
CE: Cox 1982.
Ecology and habitat in Iran: leaf litter and soil.
Remarks: Cox 1982, Daghighi et al. 2013 a and Falahati et al. 2013a mentioned this species as Neanura echinata (Kos, 1940) but in the last generic combination it is considered as Thaumanura echinata.
General distribution: Slovenia (Kos 1940) and Iran.
Genus Vitronura Yosii, 1969
description: Published as part of Mayvan, Mahmood Mehrafrooz, Greenslade, Penelope & Sadeghi-Namaghi, Hussein, 2023, An annotated checklist of the Collembola (Hexapoda) from Iran, pp. 1-101 in Zootaxa 5275 (1) on page 31, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5275.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7898948
Evaluation of the UC tobacco-free policy implementation
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Tobacco smoke exposure can lead to premature morbidity and mortality. Young adults smoke at rates higher than any other age group, and virtually all adult daily smokers began before age 26. As marketing to individuals under age 18 continues to become more difficult for the tobacco companies, they have increased their marketing to young adults. Although young adult smoking prevalence decreased for many years, that progress recently stalled. The United States Department of Health and Human Services announced a new initiative supporting tobacco-free campuses in September 2012. The University of California system went tobacco-free on January 1, 2014. Policy implementation, (actions taken to fulfill the policy directives), is an important but often overlooked part of the policy process, and necessary to achieve optimal outcomes. Results of several studies indicated that compliance with these policies is a major issue. The objectives of this study are to: (1) document and describe the variations in University of California campus comprehensive tobacco-free policy implementation; (2) measure compliance with these policies and determine the implementation strategies that are associated with high policy compliance. The sample for this study will be the 10 UC campuses. The first aim will be addressed through an analysis of the written record (e.g., the policy and preliminary drafts, meeting minutes, and enforcement plans) and public discussion of the policy (e.g., student newspaper articles). This will be followed by campus visits to conduct 15-20 key informant interviews with policy stakeholders. To address the second aim, cigarette butts and smokers will be counted at 10 spots on campus. The effectiveness of the implementation strategies used by each campus will be compared based on the result of this compliance monitoring in order to objectively assess effectiveness of implementation strategies.
Targeting phospho-MARCKS in smoke-mediated lung cancer
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer mortality worldwide and approximately 85% of lung cancers result from smoking. Tobacco-smoke has been reported to confer not only airway epithelial cell malignancy but also lung cancer progression. Although many carcinogenesis-associated pathways have been identified, how tobacco-smoke triggers these pathways in lung cancer initiation and progression remains poorly understood. Recently, we have reported myristoylated alanine-rich C kinase substrates (MARCKS), predominantly MARCKS phosphorylation (phospho-MARCKS), as one of the risk factors associated with lung cancer invasiveness and metastasis. MARCKS is a substrate of protein kinase C (PKC) and also a membrane-associated protein. Upon phosphorylation at Ser159 and Ser163, phosphorylated MARCKS is detached from membrane and is able to regulate various cellular processes including cell migration and airway mucus granule secretion. However, there is limited information regarding the trigger of MARCKS activation.

 In our preliminary work, an elevation of MARCKS phosphorylation was found in smoker’s airway epithelium and lung cancer tissues. Therefore, I hypothesize that smoke-activated MARCKS phosphorylation may contribute to malignant changes of bronchial epithelium and lung cancer. It is important to see if a persistent elevation of MARCKS phosphorylation caused by tobacco-smoke is a key player in promoting cell malignancy of airway epithelium and lung cancer. To test this hypothesis, three specific goals are proposed. My first goal is to determine whether tobacco-smoke induces MARCKS activation in airway epithelium and lung cancer. The second goal is to characterize the functional role of MARCK phosphorylation in smoke-mediated lung carcinogenesis and cancer metastasis. Finally, the focus is to confirm whether suppression of MARCKS signaling reverses malignant changes in smoke-exposed bronchial epithelial cells and lung cancer cells.

 Achievement of these specific goals will define the significance of MARCKS phosphorylation in smoke-mediated lung carcinogenesis and metastasis. In addition, it will likely provide a novel biomarker for diagnosis and prognosis of smoke-related lung cancer. The long-term objective is to develop the therapeutic strategies targeting lung cancer development and progression caused by tobacco-smoke.
Additional file 3: of Efficient preparation of Arabidopsis pollen tubes for ultrastructural analysis using chemical and cryo-fixation
Creators: name: Tohnyui Ndinyanka Fabrice
name: Kaech, Andres
name: Barmettler, Gery
name: Eichenberger, Christof
name: J. Paul Knox
name: Grossniklaus, Ueli
name: Ringli, Christoph
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Comparison of the ChF, PF, and HPF ultrastructural details of PTs within the pistil. The intracellular ultrastructural details of PTs within the TT achieved by HPF (A), PF (B) and ChF (C). Except for the lipid droplets which are best resolved by ChF, the resolution of most intracellular features is highest in HPF, followed by PF and then ChF sections. Ld = Lipid bodies, g = Golgi, er = endoplasmic reticulum, v = vacuole, m = mitochondria Scale bar: 500 nm. (DOCX 531 kb)
Additional file 2: Table S1. of Maternal eating disorders affect offspring cord blood DNA methylation: a prospective study
Creators: name: Kazmi, Nabila
name: Gaunt, Tom
name: Relton, Caroline
name: Micali, Nadia
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Comparison of  top CpG sites (p-value < 10−4) found in EWAS of active ED versus controls with results from ALSPAC study of maternal pre-pregnancy BMI. Table S2. Comparison of  top CpG sites (p-value < 10−4) found in EWAS of past ED versus controls with results from ALSPAC study of maternal pre-pregnancy BMI. Table S3. Comparison of  top CpG sites (p-value < 10−4) found in EWAS of active ED versus controls with results of sustained maternal smoking in pregnancy. Table S4. Comparison of top CpG sites (p-value < 10−4) found in EWAS of past ED versus controls with results of sustained maternal smoking in pregnancy. (DOCX 49.2 kb)