cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Ellipsocoris kalashiani Carapezza 2009
Creators: name: Laterza, Ilaria
name: Tamburini, Giovanni
name: Panzarino, Onofrio
name: Loverre, Pamela
name: Mastronardi, Maria Grazia
name: Dioli, Paride
name: Lillo, Enrico De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Scutelleridae
Ellipsocoris
Ellipsocoris kalashiani

description: Ellipsocoris kalashiani Carapezza, 2009
Material examined (n=5): loc. PG 01.VII.2020, 28.VII.2020; loc. FM 29. VI.2020.
Distribution: Italy, Armenia, Turkey (Asian part).
Remarks: Records were recently reported for Apulia (Southern Italy) by Laterza & Dioli (2020) as new for Europe.
description: Published as part of Laterza, Ilaria, Tamburini, Giovanni, Panzarino, Onofrio, Loverre, Pamela, Mastronardi, Maria Grazia, Dioli, Paride & Lillo, Enrico De, 2022, The first annotated checklist of Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) fauna of Alta Murgia National Park (Apulia region, Southern Italy), pp. 401-420 in Zootaxa 5219 (5) on page 406, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5219.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7431348
Exploring participation and engagement in clinical trials in cystic fibrosis (EXPECT)
Creators: name: Dobra, Rebecca Anne
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2022

description: Patient-centred clinical trial design has been shown to improve recruitment and retention, increase participant satisfaction, better meet participants’ psychosocial needs and enable a more diverse cohort of patients to enter trials. This results in optimised time and cost efficiency of research, reduced trial failure rates and ensures research cohorts are maximally representative of the actual clinical population, ultimately allowing safe and effective treatments to reach clinic more quickly. To make trials more patient-centred, the views of invested stakeholders must be sought and incorporated into trial design and delivery. Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a multisystem genetic disease. Despite substantial shifts in treatment paradigms secondary to novel drugs, so called modulators, CF still carries a significantly reduced life-expectancy. Clinical trials are needed to improve prognosis and quality of life for everyone with this disease. In my thesis, I present three projects. The first is a systematic literature review which maps the factors influencing participation and engagement in trials in any disease. The review aimed to develop a framework to guide researchers towards themes to consider when conducting trials, and to provide the foundation for later steps of my PhD. The second, a Delphi study, aimed to identify which of the factors identified through the literature review are most relevant to people with CF. The third is a discrete choice experiment, which I used to quantify preferences of people with CF for specific clinical trial features. In the final chapter, I amalgamate the findings to propose key ‘Do’s and Don’ts’ to guide the rational design of patient-centred trials in CF. Incorporating these suggestions into practice and continuing to seek out patient views as the landscape evolves should help to optimise patient-centred trials. This will continue to support the successful design and delivery of CF trials to improve outcomes for this life-limiting disease.
Hypothesis testing of bio-equivalence
Creators: name: Ma, Min
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: This thesis considers two statistics problems in bio-equivalence. The first problem concerns 2-stage testing  for bio-equivalence of parameters emanating from two populations. The first stage of the procedure can be thought of  as a pilot sample which is used to determine the feasibility of taking an additional sample that would lead to  inferring bio-equivalence. If a second sample is taken, the combined sample can then be used for inference purposes  regarding bio-equivalence. Many models, including normal, Poisson, binomial, matched pairs, testing means and variances  or both simultaneously are considered.    The second part of the thesis is concerned with multiple testing of bio-equivalence. Here an actual data set  concerned with analyzing different types of iron content with different instruments is studied for various bio-equivalent  outcomes among pairs. To perform the statistical analysis, two standard statistical methods are used along with  a new method. Both equivalence testing and simultaneous interval estimates are offered.
Psacasta exanthematica subsp. exanthematica
Creators: name: Laterza, Ilaria
name: Tamburini, Giovanni
name: Panzarino, Onofrio
name: Loverre, Pamela
name: Mastronardi, Maria Grazia
name: Dioli, Paride
name: Lillo, Enrico De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Scutelleridae
Psacasta
Psacasta exanthematica
Psacasta exanthematica exanthematica (scopoli, 1763)

description: Psacasta exanthematica exanthematica (Scopoli, 1763)
Material examined (n=1): loc. RG 02.VI.2021
Distribution: Widespread in Europe, North Africa (Egypt, Morocco) and Asia (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Turkey (Asian part)).
description: Published as part of Laterza, Ilaria, Tamburini, Giovanni, Panzarino, Onofrio, Loverre, Pamela, Mastronardi, Maria Grazia, Dioli, Paride & Lillo, Enrico De, 2022, The first annotated checklist of Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) fauna of Alta Murgia National Park (Apulia region, Southern Italy), pp. 401-420 in Zootaxa 5219 (5) on page 407, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5219.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7431348
Development of novel zein-cellulose nanocomposite films
Creators: name: Lakshmana Rao, Seema
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: Zein is a hydrophobic biopolymer, which naturally forms biodegradable films. These films are rigid, brittle, and lack good mechanical and barrier properties for packaging applications. This study aims at improving the mechanical and barrier properties of zein films by the development of zein-cellulose nanocomposites. A ‘nanocomposite’ is a mixture of polymer matrix, which forms the continuous phase and the filler (having at least one dimension less than 100nm), which forms the dispersed phase.     Zein-cellulose nanocomposites have zein as the matrix and cellulose as the filler. Nano-sized cellulose was prepared using wet-media milling machine and mass ratios of 1%, 3%, 5% and 10% of both, naked (not stabilized) nano-cellulose and GA - stabilized nano-cellulose were used in the film formulation. Tributyl citrate (TBC) was used as the plasticizer. The films were prepared using solvent-cast technique and characterized to test their mechanical and barrier properties. The controls were pure zein films and films with only plasticizer.    Texture Analysis showed that filler loading of 5% was most effective in increasing the elongation-at-break to about 16 to 20 times of the controls. However, the tensile strength did not change. Water vapor permeability of the nanocomposites was minimum at 1% by wt. of naked cellulose (~4 times less than control) or at 5% by wt. of stabilized cellulose (~6 times less than control). Water absorption results showed that the rate of water uptake decreased as the filler loading increased. DSC and FTIR suggested that there is no interaction between the zein and the nano-cellulose in the films. The AFM results showed that the films’ surface is flat, but the thickness of the films increased with filler loading.    Therefore, incorporation of nano-cellulose improved the flexibility and water barrier properties of the films. Gum Arabic, which was used as a stabilizer for nano-cellulose, seemed to have aided the even distribution of cellulose in the zein matrix. Thus, these films can be a good starting point to further study the arrangement of cellulose within the zein matrix and test its potential applications on food systems and as edible films.
Piophila Fallen 1810
Creators: name: El-Hawagry, Magdi S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Lauxaniidae
Piophila

description: Genus PIOPHILA Fallén
Piophila Fallén, 1810: 20. Type species: Musca casei Linnaeus, 1758, monotypy.
Tyrophaga Kirby & Spence, 1826: 78. Type species: Musca casei Linnaeus, 1758, monotypy.
Piophila casei (Linnaeus, 1758)
Musca casei Linnaeus, 1758: 597. Unspecified type. Europe (LSL). Musca atrata Fabricius, 1781: 333. Unspecified type. Germany (ZMUC). Piophila pusilla Meigen, 1838: 360. Type unknown. Germany (Aachen area). Piophila petasionis Dufour, 1844: 369. Type unknown. France (Saint Sever). Piophila melanocera Rondani, 1874: 249. Type unknown. Italy (Parma). Piophila smithii Hutton, 1901: 89. New Zealand (?AMNZ).
Piophila meridionalis Hendel, 1933: 219. Syntype. Paraguay (Santa Trinidad) (SDEI). Distribution. Cosmopolitan.
Egyptian localities. Common everywhere.
Dates of collection. Throughout the year.
description: Published as part of El-Hawagry, Magdi S., 2017, Catalogue of Egyptian Tephritoidea (Diptera: Schizophora: Acalyptratae), pp. 151-190 in Zootaxa 4299 (2) on page 157, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4299.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/843233
Contextual and temporal modulation of auditory responses in thesongbird forebrain
Creators: name: Lu, Kai
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: The traditional approach in studies of sensory coding in neurophysiology is to look for correlations between the firing properties of neurons and physical properties of stimuli. However, the current work shows that auditory responses in the auditory forebrain of awake animals in the passive hearing state was dynamically modulated by preceding acoustic experience at varying time scales: 1) Auditory responses to sequences of acoustic events were modulated by the order of events at a time scale of ten to hundreds of milliseconds. 2) Once a stimulus has been presented at a certain inter-stimulus interval (ISI) for several trials, a few seconds delay in the ISI changed the amplitude of the response. 3) Auditory responses were enhanced when a sound was presented along with context sounds from a different category, reflecting categorical prediction of upcoming sounds derived from recent acoustic history over a time scale from seconds to minutes. 4) Familiarity of contextual sounds, lasting for minutes to hours, changed the strength of responses of other sounds and enhanced the responses to novel sounds in a familiar acoustic context. These results may shed light on three mechanisms that are essential for auditory object perception: 1) temporal integration of acoustic sequences, 2) categorical processing of salient stimuli with a continuum of features, e.g. vocalizations, and 3) segregation of auditory objects from natural acoustic scenes.
Evaluation of assays for epoxides in oxidized lipids
Creators: name: Liao, Chen-Hsiang
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: Epoxides have long been recognized as lipid oxidation products, and there is recent evidence that epoxides may be as or more important than hydroperoxides under many conditions. Nevertheless, epoxides are seldom analyzed when monitoring oxidative degradation, at least in part because there are few established analytical procedures. The goal of this thesis research, therefore, was to evaluate four available epoxide assays for accuracy, sensitivity, stoichiometry, reproducibility, and handling requirements, and from the results provide analytical protocols and practical guidelines for selection and application of assays for lipid epoxides.   AOCS standard HBr titration of epoxides, nitrobenzylpyridine (NBP) reaction with colorimetric endpoint, diethyl dithiocarbamate (DETC) complexation with high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) separation and quantitation of adducts, and 1H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) analysis of epoxides were evaluated using epoxybutane, epoxyhexene, and epoxydecene as standards.   The HBr assay is too insensitive (detects 0.00&5-0.1M) for following lipid epoxides in foods and biological materials. In addition, the reaction must be run under inert atmosphere to prevent non-specific oxidation of the Br, and HBr degrades so rapidly that frequent restandardization is necessary.   Nitrobenzylpyridine assay is more sensitive, detecting 0.5 mM epoxides. However, the NBP reaction response varied considerably with time and temperature of reaction and with epoxide structure (increased with epoxide chain length). Hence, a different standard must be used for each epoxide analyzed, and selection of an appropriate standard for epoxides of unknown structure is problematic.   For the DETC assay, reaction response was linear from 1M to 1 mM for all three epoxide standards (R2 > 0.99) and oxidized methyl linoleate (R2 > 0.94), and increased with epoxide chain length. HPLC analysis of adducts allows differentiation and quantitation of individual epoxides, so can provide important information about oxidation chemistry as well as quantitation.   NMR offers the advantage of direct analysis of oils and extracts, detects micromolar epoxides, and clearly distinguishes epoxides from other oxidation products in lipids. Response curves were linear with concentration of epoxide standards, oxidized corn oil, and oxidized methyl linoleate (R2> 0.98).   The DETC-HPLC and NMR assays hold the greatest promise for routine analysis of epoxides in oxidized lipids.
Towards biopolymer platforms via small molecule crosslinking, organocatalytic ring-opening polymerization, and electrospinning
Creators: name: Li, Ji
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: The main objective of this research is to fabricate biopolymer platforms for nutraceutical delivery. Comprehensive physical and chemical tools have been utilized, and the engineered biopolymer platforms are promising to fulfill the demand of nutraceutical human transportation. However, single platform is not able to maintain the performance through varying administration routes. Under such circumstance, this work is driven by the premise to satisfy the multiple administrations of nutraceuticals. The work in this dissertation puts emphasis on the development and characterization of biopolymer-based platforms that enable food scientists better the design nutraceutical ingredients.    Multiple approaches, small molecule crosslinking, organocatalytic ring-opening polymerization, polymer blending and electrospinning are leveraged to target chitosan-tripolyphosphate nanoparticle, mPEG-b-PVL star polymer, zein/F12& blend film, and zein electrospun fiber mat.  The characterization of engineered platforms shed light on the following aspects: (i) molecular self-assembly at nano scale; and (ii) property and functionality at macro scale. And the structure-property relationship is established based on those two aspects. With controllable performance, biopolymer platforms are convenient to be integrated into product matrix as novel ingredients. Through investigation, it is demonstrated that controllable properties such as particulate gel’s tightness, particle aggregation, solid composite’s flexibility, and fibril organization are achieved by manipulating the nanostructures of biopolymers. The proposed platforms are conventionally extended to a rich variety of disciplines based on the fact that numerous applications in novel food ingredient, medical synthesis, tissue engineering, and product scaling up require the various biopolymer platforms.
title: Role of Preprints in Rapid Knowledge Dissemination
Creators: name: Sevryugina, Yulia
Publisher: name: University of Michigan
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: preprint; chemistry; Open Access
subject: Information and Library Science
subject: Social Sciences

description: The authors would love to hear from you if you use these slides--please drop them a note at yulias@umich.edu
description: These slides represent library instructions on preprints for STEM researchers, with a specific focus on Chemistry discipline. These instructions were provided by Chemistry Librarian in the upper-level undergraduate/graduate class in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in Fall 2021. Instructions included: information about preprints, their evolution during the COVID-19 pandemic, overview of various preprint repositories, recommendations, and resources.
A study of the impact of organizational communication networks and personal communication technology uses on Korean immigrants’ intercultural development
Creators: name: Lee, Sun Kyong
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: Based on the assumption that communication networks constitute culture, a study was conducted on the impact of organizational communication networks and personal communication technologies (PCTs) use on Korean immigrants’ intercultural development. The research has found that Korean immigrants’ structural positions within their ethnic church communication networks and diversity of their social network have significant influences on their intercultural development, of which the process is facilitated by PCT usage with distinctive ties. A theoretical model of immigrant intercultural development was suggested based on the existing theories of cross-cultural adaptation (Kim, 2001), cultural convergence (Barnett & Kincaid, 1983), and intercultural communication networks (Smith, 1999; Yum, 1988) with a communication-centered view on social networks. The current study first examined the structural composition of Korean immigrants’ communication networks in their ethnic church community, which became the main sources of their social capital, and then measured the effect of their network characteristics (i.e., size, diversity, and centrality) on individuals’ ethnorelative and ethnocentric development (for RQ1 and its related six hypotheses). An organizational member survey of a sample Korean immigrant church was used to construct the whole network of the organization and to analyze the relationships between major constructs (i.e., social capital, PCTs use, and intercultural development). Further, how those network characteristics are related to Korean immigrants’ PCTs use for contacting distinctive social ties (i.e., coethnic vs. host, strong vs. weak ties) were examined (for RQ2 and its four subsidiary questions). Last, this study examined how Korean immigrants’ social capital embedded in their communication networks and PCT usage affect their intercultural development together (i.e., RQ3) via hierarchical multiple regression modeling. As a result of data analyses, two path models for the process of intercultural development were proposed; PCTs use for coethnic strong ties appears to increase Korean immigrant’s network centrality within the ethnic religious community, which leads to ethnocentric development. By contrast, PCTs use for host ties (both strong and weak) seems to increase network diversity, which leads to ethnorelative development.
Drug response signatures and the identification of potential responder populations across diseases
Creators: name: Badi, Yusef Eamon
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2022

description: Background: Diseases with unmet treatment needs may benefit from repurposing of drugs successfully used to treat related diseases. Severe refractory asthma has unmet treatment needs. Exploring related chronic inflammatory diseases like atopic dermatitis (AD) and psoriasis (PS) and their clinically effective drugs may indicate potential asthma responder populations. Objective: To study and establish shared pathological features across diseases (AD, PS and asthma) to establish relation. To molecularly characterise clinical response to treatment from biologic and small molecule inhibitors in diseases related to asthma. To identify potential responders in asthma. Methods: Through collaborating with world leading AD clinical researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (New York City, New York, USA) I derived AD disease signatures and several drug response signatures from clinically responding patients for dupilumab (anti-IL-4/anti-IL-13), a novel anti-IL-22 drug (fezakinumab) and a novel JAK/STAT and SYK drug (gusacitinib). Public data was also used to generate psoriasis disease and anti-IL-17RA (brodalumab), anti-IL-12/anti-IL-23 (ustekinumab), anti-IL-23 (guselkumab) and anti-JAK/STAT (tofacitinib) drug signatures. Bioinformatics approaches were used to probe U-BIOPRED and ADEPT asthma data with these signatures to identify and characterise potential responders. Results: I successfully derived disease and drug-response signatures for both biologic and small molecule drugs and utilised these to characterise asthma patients with shared immunopathological features with AD and PS and stratify asthma patients into predicted responder and non-responder populations. Clinical and omics analyses led to the successful phenotyping of these patients. Conclusions: I have demonstrated a novel method of identifying patients which may respond to interventions already established in related diseases. Validation in animal models and clinical trials is required. My novel approach methodology and findings may aid in the development of better patient pre-selection approaches for clinical trials and may be extended to other diseases.
Psacasta tuberculata
Creators: name: Laterza, Ilaria
name: Tamburini, Giovanni
name: Panzarino, Onofrio
name: Loverre, Pamela
name: Mastronardi, Maria Grazia
name: Dioli, Paride
name: Lillo, Enrico De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Scutelleridae
Psacasta
Psacasta tuberculata

description: Psacasta tuberculata (Fabricius, 1781)
Material examined (n=2): loc. RG 01.VII.2020.
Distribution: Widespread in Southern Europe, North Africa (Algeria, Egypt, Morocco) and Western Asia (Cyprus, Israel, Turkey (Asian part)).
description: Published as part of Laterza, Ilaria, Tamburini, Giovanni, Panzarino, Onofrio, Loverre, Pamela, Mastronardi, Maria Grazia, Dioli, Paride & Lillo, Enrico De, 2022, The first annotated checklist of Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) fauna of Alta Murgia National Park (Apulia region, Southern Italy), pp. 401-420 in Zootaxa 5219 (5) on page 407, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5219.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7431348
Activation of Aryl C-H and C-X bonds by a pincer-ligated 'PCP' iridium complex
Creators: name: Laviska, David Alan
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: The activation of carbon-hydrogen (C-H) bonds mediated by transition metal complexes is a fundamental step in a vast array of chemical transformations and industrial processes.  As such, research into the understanding of the factors governing both efficiency and selectivity of these reactions has been intense.  The work presented in this thesis comprises results of experiments designed to evaluate the ability of a pincer-ligated iridium complex to activate the C-H bonds of several classes of aryl substrates.   The pincer-ligated iridium fragment (PCP)Ir (PCP = {κ3-2,6-bis[(di-tert-butylphosphino)methyl]phenyl}) rapidly and reversibly adds the C-H bond of benzene, giving a kinetically labile addition product.  The kinetics and thermodynamics of C-H activation of a series of halogen-, alkyl-, and trifluoromethyl-substituted arenes were studied with a particular focus on determining whether “directing” effects play a significant role.  In regard to electronic effects, it was observed that electron withdrawing aryl substituents favor C-H activation.  Products of C-H activation ortho to weakly or non-coordinating substituents (e.g., Cl, Br, CF3) are kinetically more stable than those of the meta- and para-substituted analogs, due to steric crowding in the transition state for addition and elimination.  However, there is no thermodynamic preference for the ortho-substituted complexes.  In addition to C-H activation, (PCP)Ir also activates C-X bonds (X = Cl, Br) under certain conditions, yielding product mixtures through a mechanism that remains unclear.   Several series of polycyclic aromatic substrates (naphthalenes, biphenyls, bipyridines, and associated tricyclic analogs) were also studied, giving insight into the utility of aryl C-H activation and preferred binding modes of the (PCP)Ir fragment.  Not surprisingly, steric effects play a significant role in the regioselectivity of polycyclic aromatic C-H bond activation by (PCP)Ir.  Cyclometalation reactions resulting from single or double C-H activation processes yield particularly stable products.  Additional results included an unexpected C-C activation, and several products stabilized by heteroatom (N, O) coordination to iridium.  Activation of large polycycles like terpyridine yielded stable, κ2 chelates that may be of value in research on organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs).  Finally, several congested (PCP)Ir dimers were synthesized by taking advantage of the remarkable stability of the products from cyclometalation to the (PCP)Ir complex.
Parapiophila McAlpine
Creators: name: El-Hawagry, Magdi S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Piophilidae
Parapiophila

description: Genus PARAPIOPHILA McAlpine
Parapiophila McAlpine, 1977: 48. Type species: Piophila vulgaris Fallén, 1820, original designation.
Parapiophila vulgaris (Fallén, 1820)
Piophila vulgaris Fallén, 1820b: 9. Holotype and paratypes. Sweden (?USNM). Piophila hortulana Seguy, 1934: 77. Nomen nudum.
Piophila anomala Malloch, 1923: 219. USA (Alaska: Pribilof Is.) (?USNM). Piophila oriens Melander & Spuler, 1917: 63. Lectotype. USA (New York: Ithaca) (USNM). Piophila setosa Melander & Spuler, 1917: 64. Lectotype. USA (Alaska: Douglas) (USNM). Piophila pygmaea Zetterstedt, 1838: 772. Unspecified type. Sweden (Lapponia Umensi: Fredrica) (ZIL). Distribution. NE: Alaska to Quebec, s. to New York & Massachusetts. PA: Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine.
Egyptian localities. Unknown.
Dates of collection. Unknown.
Remark. This species was listed by Steyskal and El-Bialy (1967) as recorded from Egypt, however it is not represented in the Egyptian insect collections.
description: Published as part of El-Hawagry, Magdi S., 2017, Catalogue of Egyptian Tephritoidea (Diptera: Schizophora: Acalyptratae), pp. 151-190 in Zootaxa 4299 (2) on page 158, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4299.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/843233
Automatic modulation recognition using the discrete wavelet transform
Creators: name: Kuber, Tejashri
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: An Automatic Modulation Recognition (AMR) process using the Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) is presented in this work.  The AMR algorithm involves the use of wavelet domain signal templates derived from digitally modulated signals that are used to transmit binary data. The signal templates, locally stored in a receiver, are cross-correlated with the incoming noisy, received signal after it has been transformed into the wavelet domain. The signal template that yields the largest cross-correlation value determines the type of digital modulation that had been employed at the transmitter.    The specific binary-valued digital modulation schemes considered in this work include BASK, BFSK and BPSK. The discrete wavelet used for the creation of the signal templates is the Haar, or Daubechies 1, wavelet.  Extensive computer simulations have been performed to evaluate the modulation recognition performance of the AMR algorithm as a function of channel SNR.  It has been determined that the rate of correct classification for BASK signals is 68% for an SNR = 5 dB and 90% for an SNR = 10 dB SNR.  The rate of correct classification for BFSK signals is &1% for an SNR = 5 dB and 92% for an SNR = 10 dB.  Correct classification of BPSK signals is &1% for an SNR = 5 dB and 92% for an SNR = 10 dB. In comparison to alternative AMR methods reported in the literature, the AMR algorithm developed in this study produces reliable results even at relatively low values of SNR which are characteristic of realistic communications channels.
Odontotarsus purpureolineatus
Creators: name: Laterza, Ilaria
name: Tamburini, Giovanni
name: Panzarino, Onofrio
name: Loverre, Pamela
name: Mastronardi, Maria Grazia
name: Dioli, Paride
name: Lillo, Enrico De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Scutelleridae
Odontotarsus
Odontotarsus purpureolineatus

description: Odontotarsus purpureolineatus (Rossi, 1790)
Material examined (n=68): loc. BS 03.VI.2020, 25.VI.2020; loc. CM 28. V.2020; loc. LG 25.VII.2020; loc. MS 04.VI.2020, 29.VII.2020; loc. PM 28. V.2020; loc. PG 01.VII.2020, 28.VII.2020; loc. RG. 04. VI.2020, 28. VII.2020; loc. S2 07.VI.2020, 29.VI.2020, 27.VII.2020.
Distribution: Widespread in Europe, North Africa (Egypt) and Asia
description: Published as part of Laterza, Ilaria, Tamburini, Giovanni, Panzarino, Onofrio, Loverre, Pamela, Mastronardi, Maria Grazia, Dioli, Paride & Lillo, Enrico De, 2022, The first annotated checklist of Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) fauna of Alta Murgia National Park (Apulia region, Southern Italy), pp. 401-420 in Zootaxa 5219 (5) on page 407, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5219.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7431348
Estrogen metabolizing genes, soy and breast cancer in Asians
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 exists indisputable evidence showing a positive association between increasing total lifetime exposure to estrogens and increasing breast cancer risk. The identification of modifiable lifestyle factors that could reduce lifetime estrogen exposure and thus the risk of breast cancer is a research priority. Preliminary analysis of a study funded by the BCRP in 1995 ("A Case-Control Study of Breast Cancer in Asian-Americans") showed very promising results that high intake of soy foods is associated with a 30% reduction in risk of breast cancer. There is compelling reason to expand this study, in order to address the relationship of soy in breast cancer development in a comprehensive manner that includes the investigation of estrogen metabolizing genes suspected of influencing breast cancer risk, and possible gene-diet interactions in disease risk. A sufficiently large study is critical if one hopes to sort out the complex and interrelated lifestyle/environmental and genetic factors in breast cancer development.

 This project is aimed at expanding the ongoing case-control study to include candidate estrogen metabolizing genes that may interact with soy in affecting breast cancer development. This added goal of investigating soy-gene interaction in breast cancer necessitates interviewing and collecting blood specimens from an additional 780 Asian women with breast cancer and an equal number of population controls. This combined sample size of 1300 cases and an equal number of controls (520 breast cancer cases and 520 controls will have been interviewed by the end of the current BCRP grants, will allow us to determine if risk of breast cancer is increased: 1) in the presence of the high activity A2 allele of the CYP17 gene, and 2) in the presence of the low activity Met allele of the COMT gene. We also will determine if there is gene (CYP17)-gene (COMT) interaction as a risk factor for breast cancer, and if there is gene (CYP17 and/or COMT)-diet (soy) interaction in the causation of female breast cancer.
Development and application of covariate based reliability models
Creators: name: Kosaka, Robert
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: In this research, a difficult yet practical problem of modeling failures as functions of stress profiles was addressed. Failures, both system and component based, can in many cases be explained in terms of the stresses experienced. These stresses are crucial in understanding the reliability of the component or system. If the underlying stresses can be determined, it becomes possible to create reliability models that incorporate them. In many cases reliability models can be made independent of stresses or in terms of a single stress. In this scenario the process of building the respective reliability model is not complex. These simple scenarios that have a limited number of stresses do not necessarily demand a rigid algorithm. When creating a reliability model for a single, or perhaps a system that experiences two stresses, trial-and-error is sufficient. Problems arise however when a system undergoes an excessive number of different stresses. These stresses all impact the system differently, and thus they must be modeled accordingly. Such a trial-and-error method would not be practical or appropriate. The primary goal of this research is to develop algorithms that can systemically approach these situations. In the case of the research, the system under study experiences a variable load profile. This algorithm aims to create an approach that can accurately capture the system reliability, while factoring in the system stresses.      US Navy NAVAIR, in recent time, has had an increased interest in studying system and component reliability. This is in part due to the large amount of resources that corrective actions and preventative maintenance require. These failures however, are based on the current system stress profile. Currently, the Navy has plans for a changing stress profile, as there will be a change in air wing composition. This changing stress profile is predicted to negatively impact system reliability. It is possible however, to create predictive models using the current and past failure data. This modeling approach utilizes a two parameter Weibull distribution to account for a changing stress profile. Inputs into this model are the anticipated composition of the naval air wing.
Odontotarsus robustus Jakovlev 1884
Creators: name: Laterza, Ilaria
name: Tamburini, Giovanni
name: Panzarino, Onofrio
name: Loverre, Pamela
name: Mastronardi, Maria Grazia
name: Dioli, Paride
name: Lillo, Enrico De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Scutelleridae
Odontotarsus
Odontotarsus robustus

description: Odontotarsus robustus Jakovlev, 1884
Material examined (n=159): loc. BQ 01. VI.2020; loc. BR 02.VI.2020, 24.VI.2020, 24.VI.2020; loc. BS 03. VI.2020; loc. CM 28.V.2020, 29.VII.2020, 03.IX.2020; loc. LG 03.VI.2020, 25.VI.2020; loc. MC 07.VI.2020, 29.VI.2020, 27.VII.2020, 01.IX.2020 1; loc. MS 04.VI.2020, 30.VI.2020, 29.VI.2020, 03.IX.2020; loc. PM 28.V.2020, 01.X.2020; loc. PG 27.V.2020, 01.VII.2020, 28.VII.2020, 02.IX.2020; loc. RG 04.VI.2020, 01.VII.2020, 28.VII.2020, 02.IX.2020, 29.IX.2020; loc. S1 02.VI.2020, 23.VI.2020, 29.VII.2020, 04.IX.2020, 02.X.2020; loc. S2 07.VII.2020, 29.VI.2020, 27.VI.2020, 01.IX.2020, 30.IX.2020.
Distribution: Widespread in Southern Europe, North Africa (Egypt) and Western Asia (Azerbaijan, Armenia, Cyprus, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey (Asian part), Turkmenistan).
description: Published as part of Laterza, Ilaria, Tamburini, Giovanni, Panzarino, Onofrio, Loverre, Pamela, Mastronardi, Maria Grazia, Dioli, Paride & Lillo, Enrico De, 2022, The first annotated checklist of Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) fauna of Alta Murgia National Park (Apulia region, Southern Italy), pp. 401-420 in Zootaxa 5219 (5) on page 407, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5219.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7431348
Catalytic adsorptive elimination of deleterious contaminant in a pilot fluidised-bed reactor by granulated Fe3O4/Cu-MOF/cellulose nanocomposites: RSM optimisation and CFD approach
Creators: name: Farshchi, Mahdi Ebrahimi
name: Aghdasinia, Hassan
name: Rostamnia, Sadegh
name: Sillanpää, Mika
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: A novel catalyst was synthesised in a way that it could be applied in simultaneous adsorption and heterogeneous Fenton processes. The granulated Fe3O4/CuBDC/Cellulose nanocomposites were synthesised with a novel in-situ granulation method in a rotary autoclave reactor, and they were efficient in the removal of a detrimental trisazo dye, direct blue 71 (DB71). The catalysts were characterised by various analyses. In order to fulfill the expectation from the catalysts traits, many parameters were evaluated meticulously such as the effect of modification of Fe3O4 nanoparticles, the ratio of Fe3O4 to CuBDC in the nanocomposite, the stability of the catalyst, and diverse catalyst characterisations (SEM, EDX, FTIR, XRD, BET, XPS). The rotating speed of the autoclave was optimised by carrying out computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations; 60 rpm rotating speed was selected among the other ones to achieve catalysts that were more homogeneous. Moreover, the dye elimination process was conducted in a pilot fluidised bed reactor. The impacts of three diverse parameters on the removal efficiency were assessed by response surface method (RSM) to optimise them, 96.85% dye removal was achieved in a 30-min process (the initial DB71 concentration = 10 mg/L, the H2O2 concentration = 8.55 mM, and the catalyst dosage = 7.12 g/L). The study of the dye elimination mechanism and thermodynamics of the process indicated endothermic, spontaneous, favourable, and physical adsorption of DB71 on the catalysts. Reutilisation of granulated catalysts at least for ten treatment cycles without regeneration process incorporating high and stable degradation efficiency (11% performance reduction), exhibited the exceeding performance of the highly durable well-designed catalysts in the simultaneous adsorption and heterogeneous Fenton processes.
MOESM7 of Functional dissection of Drosophila melanogaster SUUR protein influence on H3K27me3 profile
Creators: name: Posukh, Olga
name: Maksimov, Daniil
name: Laktionov, Petr
name: Koryakov, Dmitry
name: Belyakin, Stepan
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 7: Figure S4. SuUR mutation has no effect of the expression levels of histone genes. Expression of the histone genes was measured using qPCR in SuUR mutant salivary glands and in wildÂ type control. No significant difference was detected using t test.
Emotional awareness
Creators: name: Kranzler, Amy
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: Emotional awareness is consistently conceptualized as the first step in the process of emotion regulation and has been associated with a range of child and adolescent disorders. However, because most of this research has been cross-sectional, it has remained unclear whether low emotional awareness is a risk factor or corollary of youth psychopathology. Furthermore, most studies of emotional-awareness have been disorder-specific, and it remains unclear whether low emotional awareness represents a transdiagnostic factor for a range of poor mental health outcomes. The current study used longitudinal data to examine the predictive role of emotional awareness in the development of depressive and anxiety symptoms over the course of one year. Participants were 204 youth, ages & to 16, who completed assessments every 3 months for a year. Results from hierarchical mixed effects modeling indicated that poor emotional awareness predicted both depressive and anxiety symptoms for up to one year follow-up, after controlling for child age, gender, baseline symptomatology and stress. These findings suggest that emotional awareness may constitute a transdiagnostic factor in the development and/or maintenance of symptoms of depression and anxiety, which has important implications for youth treatment and prevention programs.
The effects of type I interferons (IFN-Is) on immune cell metabolism
Creators: name: Tapeng, Lunnathaya
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2023

description: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic autoimmune disease characterised by the formation of immune complexes that, when deposited in tissues, can cause damage. Type I interferons (IFN-Is) are thought to be a major driver of SLE pathogenesis, but the underlying mechanism(s) remains elusive. Emerging literature has shown that PBMCs and CD4+ T cells from SLE patients display an abnormal metabolic status that can lead to aberrant T cell activation and impaired cell death pathways, causing further immune dysregulation. However, the link between the metabolic changes observed in the immune cells of SLE patients and the IFN-I signature remains unclear. Preliminary findings from my host laboratory using RNA-sequencing analysis of CD8+ T cells from SLE patients showed a potential link between the IFN-I signature and an abnormal CD8+ T cell metabolism. These preliminary data and the knowledge gap in the literature inspired me to investigate the effects of chronic IFN-I exposure on mitochondrial metabolism and functions of CD8+ T cells and macrophages, two key immune cells in lupus pathogenesis. To achieve this, I treated PBMCs, CD8+ T cells and macrophages from healthy donors with IFN-α for several days and performed transcriptomic, metabolic and functional analyses. Using these experimental conditions, I found that in CD8+ T cells only the combination of IFN-α and TCR stimulation triggered the same abnormal mitochondrial features (e.g increased mitochondrial mass and activity and reduced spare respiratory capacity) seen in SLE patients with a high IFN-I signature. Further functional analyses also revealed that the combination of chronic IFN-I exposure and TCR activation led to an increased cell death upon antigen rechallenge. On the other hand, in macrophages chronic IFN-I exposure induced a striking metabolic reprogramming characterised by increased NAD consumption and activation of tryptophan pathways. Furthermore, chronic IFN-I exposure promoted a unique pro-inflammatory phenotype with increased CD38, CD80 and IL-6 expression and induced cell death in response to TLR4 stimulation but no to other TLR triggers. These IFN-I-induced changes in macrophages were mediated by CD38, a NAD-consuming enzyme, possibly via activation of the tryptophan pathway. Inhibition of CD38 or deficiency of tryptophan was able to rectify the IFN-I-mediated pro-inflammatory phenotype and the LPS-induced cell death. Taken together, the data suggest that chronic IFN-α exposure affects the mitochondrial metabolism in CD8+ T cells and macrophages differently, leading to abnormal immune functions.
Nondestructive repair and rehabilitation of structural elements using high strength inorganic polymer composites
Creators: name: Klein, Matthew J.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: Results reported in this dissertation focus on the development of an inorganic polymer composite for rapid, nondestructive repair and rehabilitation of physical infrastructure. The composite consisting of an alkali-aluminosilicate made of nano/micro size particles and high strength fibers was evaluated for repair and strengthening of concrete structural elements. In the area of repairs, the focus was to repair small width voids such as delaminations and cracks developed due to restrained shrinkage and long-term distress in concrete bridge decks and other similar structural elements. A strengthening study was done to increase the capacity of reinforced concrete beams with carbon fibers. Uniqueness of the strengthening system with inorganic matrix is its fire resistance.  For the repair system, the matrix composition was evaluated for flowability using plexiglass models and concrete slabs, bond strength using slant shear and bending specimens, and durability studies using wet/dry and freeze/thaw conditions. Delivery of the composite to cracks and delaminations was also investigated using equipment that is currently used with organic polymers. The temperature resistant repair system with carbon fibers was evaluated using strengthened concrete beams heated to over 1,000°F at the maximum bending moment location.   The following are all the major findings of the investigation: The inorganic nano/micro composite flows well into cracks – even cracks that are between 0.03 and 0.04 inches wide. Commercially available equipment can be used for the inorganic matrix. The hardened matrix bonds well with concrete and provides a structurally integral repair. Strength tests showed that the strength at the repaired locations is higher than the strength of the parent material. In addition, since the modulus of elasticity of the inorganic system is comparable to concrete, the repaired structural components regain full structural integrity as compared to mere cosmetic repairs provided by organic polymers. The system is durable under wetting/drying and freezing/thawing conditions. For both, strength and durability increases with the nano-size material content and improves performance. The heat tests showed that the repaired beams can be heated up to 1,385°F repeatedly with minimum loss of strength.
A homogeneous liquid–liquid microextraction based on temperature-controlled ionic liquid for the accurate and selective determination at low levels of zineb residues in foodstuff by using experimental design
Creators: name: Altunay, Nail
name: Tuzen, Mustafa
name: Lanjwani, Muhammad Farooque
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: A simple and homogeneous green liquid–liquid microextraction based on temperature-controlled ionic liquid (IL) process was developed for the selective extraction and spectrophotometric analysis of zinc (II) ethylenebis (dithiocarbamate) (zineb) from different foodstuff samples including rice, wheat, corn, oat, cabbage, potato, tomato and grain. The effect of various parameters like pH, IL dose, temperature, ultrasound time and foreign ions were studied. The proposed method exhibited good precision and accuracy for extraction recovery of zineb. The samples were spiked with 50 and 150 µg of zineb and checked its effects on the recovery of zineb. The LOD 9.1 ng mL−1, LOQ 30 ng mL−1, linear range 30–600 ng mL−1, enhancement factor 152 and RSD % values were found 3.2%. The multivariate statistical analysis was also carried out to interpret the data. The factorial design was used to examine the impacts of variables on extraction recovery of zineb from foodstuff.
Toward a feminist mathematics pedagogy
Creators: name: Kennedy, Megan Rose
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: Popular research on mathematics performance differences often lead researchers to  produce student-focused, social, and biological based theories that attempt to address  these differences. This paper analyzes the contributions of classroom atmospheres to the  "gender problem" in mathematics and proposes potential approaches to addressing this  matter in mathematics education. The study begins with a discussion of crucial related  issues, such as the extent and impact of the mathematics-science overlap and the roots of  mathematical inquiry. This is followed by the introduction of a new, flexible, inclusive  mathematics, which integrates these critical issues with the paper's guiding questions and  calls upon the pedagogical theories of Paulo Freire, feminist standpoint theory, and  poststructuralist approaches. Next, specific ideas and methods for the implementation of  the proposed pedagogy are provided, as well as a discussion of potential  counterarguments and resistance to its implementation in classrooms. Finally, the paper  concludes with the implications of this shift, which include, but are not limited to, the  possibility of breaking down entrenched gender stereotypes and boundaries.