cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Plusiocampa (Dydimocampa) alhamae Conde & Sendra 1989
Creators: name: Sendra, Alberto
name: Antić, Dragan
name: Barranco, Pablo
name: Borko, Špela
name: Christian, Erhard
name: Delić, Teo
name: Fadrique, Floren
name: Faille, Arnaud
name: Galli, Loris
name: Gasparo, Fulvio
name: Georgiev, Dilian
name: Giachino, Pier Mauro
name: Kovac, L'ubomír
name: Lukić, Marko
name: Marcia, Paolo
name: Miculinić, Kazimir
name: Nicolosi, Giuseppe
name: Palero, Ferran
name: Paragamian, Kaloust
name: Pérez, Toni
name: Polak, Slavko
name: Prieto, Carlos E.
name: Turbanov, Ilya
name: Vailati, Dante
name: Reboleira, Ana Sofia P. S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Entognatha
Diplura
Campodeidae
Plusiocampa
Plusiocampa alhamae

description: Plusiocampa (Dydimocampa) alhamae Condé & Sendra, 1989
Plusiocampa alhamae Condé & Sendra, 1989: 612, figs 1–3, tables 1–3.
Diagnosis (Condé & Sendra 1989)
Troglomorphic species. Antennae with 35–40 antennomeres; up to 17 digitiform complex olfactory chemoreceptors on cupuliform organ; slightly protruding frontal process with tubercular setae. Pronotum with 1+1 ma, 3+3 la, 2+2 lp macrosetae; mesonotum with 1+1 ma, 2+2 la, 2+2 lp, 1+1 mp macrosetae; metanotum with 1+1 ma, 1+1 la, 2+2 lp, 1+1 mp macrosetae; long, barbed notal macrosetae with thin barbs; sparse long, barbed notal clothing setae. Two to four ventral tibial macrosetae, femur/tibia ratio 0.69; subequal, elbow-like claws with large lateral crests, posterior claw with a small backward overhang; long lateral process. Urotergites I–II with 1+1 post macrosetae; urotergite III with 0+0–1+1 la, 1+1 post macrosetae; urotergite IV with 1+1 la, 2+2–4+4 post macrosetae; urotergite V with 1+1 la, 4+4–5+5 post macrosetae; urotergites VI–VII with 1+1 la, 5+5 post macrosetae; urotergite VIII with 6+6 post macrosetae; abdominal segment IX with up to 8+8 macrosetae; urosternite I with 7+7, urosternites II–VII with 5+5, urosternite VIII with 2+2 macrosetae. Male with an area of glandular g 1 setae, subcylindrical appendages with glandular a 1 setae; female appendages like male appendages. Spermatozoid fascicle wheels with 1½ turns of 100–140 µm long and 2 µm wide filament.
Habitat and distribution
Troglomorphic species found in four caves around the Sub-Baetic Interior Mountain Range, from Antequera (Málaga) to Sierra María (Almería), southern Iberian Peninsula.
description: Published as part of Sendra, Alberto, Antić, Dragan, Barranco, Pablo, Borko, Špela, Christian, Erhard, Delić, Teo, Fadrique, Floren, Faille, Arnaud, Galli, Loris, Gasparo, Fulvio, Georgiev, Dilian, Giachino, Pier Mauro, Kovac, L'ubomír, Lukić, Marko, Marcia, Paolo, Miculinić, Kazimir, Nicolosi, Giuseppe, Palero, Ferran, Paragamian, Kaloust, Pérez, Toni, Polak, Slavko, Prieto, Carlos E., Turbanov, Ilya, Vailati, Dante & Reboleira, Ana Sofia P. S., 2020, Flourishing in subterranean ecosystems: Euro-Mediterranean Plusiocampinae and tachycampoids (Diplura, Campodeidae), pp. 1-138 in European Journal of Taxonomy 591 on page 21, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.591, http://zenodo.org/record/3659823
Geology and sedimentary facies of the Pliocene succession of the Baronia Mountains (Ariano Basin, southern Italy)
Creators: name: Celma, Claudio Di
name: Rustichelli, Andrea
name: Tondi, Emanuele
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences

description: An up to 1500 m-thick clastic succession, the late Zanclean Baronia Synthem, has been analysed in detail in the Ariano wedge-top Basin (southern Apennine, Italy). In the Baronia Mountains the studied sediments are well exposed and laterally mappable due to young uplift and exhumation and rest unconformably on a complexly deformed pre-Pliocene substratum formed by Triassic to Miocene allochthonous units. The Baronia Synthem has been resolved into seven facies associations that are representative of distinct fluvial, deltaic, nearshore and offshore depositional environments and can be grouped into lowstand, transgressive, and highstand systems tracts. Using an integrated approach comprising original geological field mapping at 1:10,000 scale, conventional sedimentary facies analysis and a sequence stratigraphic approach, this paper provides a detailed description and interpretation of facies associations and new insights on the stratigraphic architecture and the geological history of this portion of the basin fill.
Assessment of Chromatographic Lipophilicity of Some Anhydro-D-Aldose Derivatives on Different Stationary Phases by QSRR Approach
Creators: name: Strahinja Z. Kovačević
name: Kuzmanović, Sanja O. Podunavac
name: Jevrić, Lidija R.
name: Lončar, Eva S.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Science Policy
Biological Sciences
Chemistry
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Biotechnology
Engineering

description: This study is based on the analysis of the retention behavior of some anhydro-D-aldose derivatives in reversed-phase thin-layer chromatography (RP-TLC). Chromatographic separations were achieved applying a methanol/water mobile phase and three different stationary phases: C18-bonded silica gel, silica gel impregnated with paraffin oil, and silica gel impregnated with squalane. Retention behavior of the analyzed molecules was defined by constant and correlated with in silico molecular descriptors. According to the statistical validation parameters, obtained results showed that the established multiple-linear quantitative structure-retention relationship models (MLR-QSRR) can successfully predict the chromatographic lipophilicity of structurally similar compounds. In the present study the influence of some functional groups on the total lipophilicity of studied derivatives was determined as well. Principal component analysis (PCA) was applied in order to obtain an overview of similarity or dissimilarity among the analyzed compounds and hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA) was applied in order to compare separation characteristics of the applied stationary phases.
A new isoquinoline alkaloid with anti-microbial properties from Berberis jaeschkeana Schneid. var. jaeschkeana
Creators: name: Alamzeb, Muhammad
name: M. Rafiullah Khan
name: Mamoon-Ur-Rashid
name: Ali, Saqib
name: Khan, Ashfaq Ahmad
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Genetics
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biochemistry

description: One new isoquinoline alkaloid named berberidione (1) along with four new source alkaloids berberine (2), palmatine (3), jatrorrhizine (4) and chondrofoline (5) and three new source non-alkaloids syringic acid (6), β-sitosterol (7) and stigmasterol (8) was isolated and characterised from different fractions of Berberis jaeschkeana Schneid var. jaeschkeana. All the structures were determined from 1D and 2D spectroscopic data. Crude extract, sub-fractions and isolated compounds showed excellent anti-microbial properties. The toxicity level for the alkaloids was found to be very low on THP-1 cells.
Metabolomics identifies novel blood biomarkers of pulmonary function and copd in the general population
Creators: name: Suhre, K.
name: Gieger, C.
name: Kastenmüller, G.
name: Schulz, H.
name: Boerwinkle, E.
name: London, S.J.
name: Wyss, A.
name: Karrasch, S.
name: McGarrah, R.W., III
name: Peters, A.
name: Morrison, A.C.
name: Mohney, R.P.
name: North, K.E.
name: Flexeder, C.
name: Michelotti, G.A.
name: Wagner, G.R.
name: Yu, B.
Publisher: name: MDPI AG
Year: 2019

description: Determination of metabolomic signatures of pulmonary function and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in the general population could aid in identification and understanding of early disease processes. Metabolome measurements were performed on serum from 4742 individuals (2354 African-Americans and 1529 European-Americans from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study and 859 Europeans from the Cooperative Health Research in the Region of Augsburg study). We examined 368 metabolites in relation to cross-sectional measures of forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1), forced vital capacity (FVC), their ratio (FEV1/FVC) and COPD using multivariable regression followed by meta-analysis. At a false discovery rate of 0.05, 95 metabolites were associated with FEV1 and 100 with FVC (73 overlapping), including inverse associations with branched-chain amino acids and positive associations with glutamine. Ten metabolites were associated with FEV1/FVC and seventeen with COPD (393 cases). Enriched pathways of amino acid metabolism were identified. Associations with FEV1 and FVC were not driven by individuals with COPD. We identified novel metabolic signatures of pulmonary function and COPD in African and European ancestry populations. These may allow development of biomarkers in the general population of early disease pathogenesis, before pulmonary function has decreased to levels diagnostic for COPD.
title: Voix à distance : Faire sens de la vocalité en sciences humaines
Publisher: name: EHESS
Year: 2016

description:                    Des   performances vocales sont souvent au cœur de situations exceptionnelles   ou rituelles censées incarner des valeurs sociales et produire des   actions ou des effets très spécifiques. Les usages des techniques   vocales spécialisées (comme ceux dans le théâtre de la tragédie grecque,   du chant diphonique dans un contexte rituel ou thérapeutique ou de la   polyphonie dans la musique sacrée occidentale), l’essor d’une vocalité   virtuose résultant d’une manipulation ou d’une mutilation du corps des   chanteurs (comme dans le cas des castrats dans l’opéra européen depuis   le XVIe siècle), mais aussi les hallucinations acoustiques (les voix   prophétiques ou « apparitions » des voix) ou la glossolalie, le « parler   en langues », sont autant de phénomènes qui mettent au défi les   disciplines et savoirs de l’anthropo
La 'Fairisation' des enquêtes sur les minorités ethniques et migrantes à travers le EMM Survey Registry
Creators: name: Winn, Meredith
name: Saji, Ami
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: EMM Survey Registry
metadata
survey research
migrant minorities
ethnic minorities
Open Science
FAIR principles
social sciences
Europe
France
ETHMIGSURVEYDATA
SSHOC
FAIRETHMIGQUANT

description: On 10 December 2020, the Plateforme Universitaires de Données (PUD) de Poitiers et de Toulouse hosted an online session, DIVERSITÉ DES APPROCHES ET DONNÉES ATOUR DES MIGRATIONS, to discuss different approaches and data for studying migration. At this session, Meredith Winn (FAIRETHMIGQUANT) and Ami Saji (SSHOC) presented the EMM Survey Registry, to showcase how this tool improves visibility of and access to quantitative migration survey data, as well as how this tool can effectively be leveraged for new research and policy-oriented work. -- The EMM Survey Registry is jointly being produced by SSHOC’s Task 9.2 (Ethnic Migration Studies) team of Work Package 9 (Data Communities), in close collaboration with COST Action 16111 – ETHMIGSURVEYDATA (an international network of more than 200 researchers active in the ethnic and migration studies field) and FAIRETHMIGQUANT (a French Agence Nationale de la Recherche funded Open Science project).
Purification and characterisation of α-amylase produced by mutant strain of Aspergillus oryzae EMS-18
Creators: name: Roheena Abdullah
name: Ikram-Ul-Haq
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Chemistry
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: Physics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: α-Amylase produced by a mutant strain of Aspergillus oryzae EMS-18 has been purified to homogeneity as judged by sodium dodecyle sulphate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE). The enzyme was purified by using 70% ammonium sulphate precipitation followed by anion exchange chromatography on DEAE-Sephadex column and gel filtration on Sephadex G-100. An enzyme purification factor of 9.5-fold was achieved with a final specific activity of 1987.7 U/mg protein and overall yield of 23.8%. The molecular weight of purified α-amylase was estimated to be 48 kDa by SDS-PAGE. The purified enzyme revealed an optimum assay temperature and pH 40°C and 5.0, respectively. Except Ca++ all other metal ions such as Mg, Mn, Na, Zn, Ni, Fe, Cu, Co and Ba were found to be inhibitory to enzyme activity.
A streamlined AlexNet with 1-bit weights, 2-bit activations
Creators: name: Umuroglu, Yaman
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017

description: This is an AlexNet on ImageNet model with (mostly) bipolar weights and 2-bit activations, trained using HWGQ [Cai et al] and simplified using the QNN streamlining algorithm presented in [Umuroglu and Jahre, arXiv: 1709.04060] The following Jupyter notebook demonstrates how to use this model: https://github.com/maltanar/qnn-inference-examples/blob/master/4-convolutional-mixed-imagenet.ipynb
Genome-wide analysis of dental caries and periodontitis combining clinical and self-reported data
Creators: name: Yu, Y.-H.
name: Offenbacher, S.
name: Laitala, M.-L.
name: Magnusson, P.K.E.
name: Hirata, J.
name: Sudo, T.
name: Franks, P.W.
name: Anttonen, V.
name: Kubo, M.
name: Sakaue, S.
name: Furuichi, Y.
name: Haworth, S.
name: Ingelsson, E.
name: Shungin, D.
name: Giulianini, F.
name: Ridker, P.M.
name: Okada, Y.
name: Keun Lee, M.
name: Kamatani, Y.
name: Pesonen, P.
name: Holtfreter, B.
name: Agler, C.S.
name: Divaris, K.
name: North, K.E.
name: Völker, U.
name: Kocher, T.
name: Orho-Melander, M.
name: Sofer, T.
name: Grinde, K.
name: Timpson, N.J.
name: Vieira, A.
name: Teumer, A.
name: Chasman, D.I.
name: Hindy, G.
name: Alaraudanjoki, V.
name: Johansson, I.
name: Shaffer, J.R.
name: Marazita, M.L.
Publisher: name: Nature Publishing Group
Year: 2019

description: Dental caries and periodontitis account for a vast burden of morbidity and healthcare spending, yet their genetic basis remains largely uncharacterized. Here, we identify self-reported dental disease proxies which have similar underlying genetic contributions to clinical disease measures and then combine these in a genome-wide association study meta-analysis, identifying 47 novel and conditionally-independent risk loci for dental caries. We show that the heritability of dental caries is enriched for conserved genomic regions and partially overlapping with a range of complex traits including smoking, education, personality traits and metabolic measures. Using cardio-metabolic traits as an example in Mendelian randomization analysis, we estimate causal relationships and provide evidence suggesting that the processes contributing to dental caries may have undesirable downstream effects on health.
Associations between SLC16A11 variants and diabetes in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL)
Creators: name: Arnett, D.K.
name: Avilés-Santa, M.L.
name: Qi, Q.
name: Rotter, J.I.
name: Chen, Y.-D.I.
name: Hidalgo, B.A.
name: Boerwinkle, E.
name: Cai, J.
name: North, K.E.
name: Szpiro, A.
name: Stilp, A.M.
name: Kaplan, R.C.
name: Schneiderman, N.
name: Sofer, T.
name: Laurie, C.C.
name: Yu, B.
name: Papanicolaou, G.
Publisher: name: Nature Publishing Group
Year: 2019

description: Five sequence variants in SLC16A11 (rs117767867, rs13342692, rs13342232, rs75418188, and rs75493593), which occur in two non-reference haplotypes, were recently shown to be associated with diabetes in Mexicans from the SIGMA consortium. We aimed to determine whether these previous findings would replicate in the HCHS/SOL Mexican origin group and whether genotypic effects were similar in other HCHS/SOL groups. We analyzed these five variants in 2492 diabetes cases and 5236 controls from the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL), which includes U.S. participants from six diverse background groups (Mainland groups: Mexican, Central American, and South American; and Caribbean groups: Puerto Rican, Cuban, and Dominican). We estimated the SNP-diabetes association in the six groups and in the combined sample. We found that the risk alleles occur in two non-reference haplotypes in HCHS/SOL, as in the SIGMA Mexicans. The haplotype frequencies were very similar between SIGMA Mexicans and the HCHS/SOL Mainland groups, but different in the Caribbean groups. The SLC16A11 sequence variants were significantly associated with risk for diabetes in the Mexican origin group (P = 0.025), replicating the SIGMA findings. However, these variants were not significantly associated with diabetes in a combined analysis of all groups, although the power to detect such effects was 85% (assuming homogeneity of effects among the groups). Additional analyses performed separately in each of the five non-Mexican origin groups were not significant. We also analyzed (1) exclusion of young controls and, (2) SNP by BMI interactions, but neither was significant in the HCHS/SOL data. The previously reported effects of SLC16A11 variants on diabetes in Mexican samples was replicated in a large Mexican-American sample, but these effects were not significant in five non-Mexican Hispanic/Latino groups sampled from U.S. populations. Lack of replication in the HCHS/SOL non-Mexicans, and in the entire HCHS/SOL sample combined may represent underlying genetic heterogeneity. These results indicate a need for future genetic research to consider heterogeneity of the Hispanic/Latino population in the assessment of disease risk, but add to the evidence suggesting SLC16A11 as a potential therapeutic target for type 2 diabetes.
Genetic predisposition to obesity is associated with asthma in US Hispanics/Latinos: Results from the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos
Creators: name: Davis, S.
name: Kaplan, R.
name: Nyenhuis, S.M.
name: Rastogi, D.
name: Laurie, C.C.
name: Moon, J.-Y.
name: Qi, Q.
name: North, K.E.
name: Guo, Y.
name: Sanchez-Johnsen, L.A.P.
name: Yu, B.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Obesity and asthma are two significant public health issues worldwide. Accumulating evidence has related high body mass index (BMI) and obesity with asthma, although a causal role of obesity in the development of asthma remains uncertain. A recent study reported a significant association between genetic predisposition to obesity, estimated by a genetic risk score (GRS) based on 32 BMI-associated variants, and increased risk of childhood asthma in 4,835 European children, supporting a potential causal relationship between obesity and asthma. However, it remains unknown whether genetic predisposition to obesity is associated with later-onset asthma which is different from childhood-onset asthma. Data is also limited in other ethnic groups, especially in US Hispanics/Latinos who have both high prevalence of obesity and asthma. Therefore, we aimed to examine whether genetic predisposition to obesity is associated with asthma and explore potential differences by sex and age of asthma onset in U.S. Hispanics/Latinos.
Being ‘Dissed’ and Abused: African American adolescent males’ ideas of unhealthy or harmful dating dynamics
Creators: name: Johnson, Timothy
name: Bankole, Caesar
name: Howard, Donna
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2020
Subjects: Behavioral and Community Health
SPHL
Johnson, Bankole, and Howard
Unhealthy dating relationships
Adolescent African Americans
Teen Dating Violence

description: While the prevalence of teen dating violence (TDV) is among the highest for African Americans (AA), the research and narrative surrounding this issue has been historically one-sided. This qualitative study was conducted to further explore the candid perspectives of adolescent AA males regarding healthy and unhealthy dating relationship dynamics. Convenience sampling and snowball sampling were utilized to recruit 19 AA males from schools and community youth groups around the greater Washington DC area. Semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted. Analysis consisted of open coding, sorting, aggregation and synthesis of responses to the guiding question question: “How would you describe a dating relationship that was unhealthy or harmful?” Narratives provided multi-layered, descriptive characterizations of healthy and unhealthy dating dynamics. Through an iterative process, emergent themes and sub-themes were generated. The five emergent themes were: Amiss or Dissed Communication; Distrust, Dishonesty, Disloyalty; Fighting and Poor Conflict Resolution; and, Abuse. Adolescent AA males displayed a strong awareness of what constitutes unhealthy dating relationship characteristics, especially concerning conflict and abusive behaviors. Characterizations that addressed Communication and Distrust, Dishonesty, and Disloyalty may present areas that should be focused on in future prevention efforts. Prevention and intervention programs aimed at decreasing TDV within the African American community will benefit tremendously from these authentic perspectives. By building off of the knowledge and values already expressed among adolescent AA males, rather than perpetuated stereotypes, programs will more effectively connect with, educate, and empower them to build healthy dating relationship dynamics.
Un outil pour rendre 'FAIR' les enquêtes sur les minorités ethniques et migrantes (EMMs): Approche, méthodologie et enjeux de la creation du EMM Survey Registry
Creators: name: Winn, Meredith
name: Morales, Laura
name: Saji, Ami
name: Vincent-Mory Claire
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: survey research
ethnic minorities
migrant minorities
EMM Survey Registry
Open Science
metadata
France
ETHMIGSURVEYDATA
FAIR principles
social sciences
FAIRETHMIGQUANT

description: The Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) hosted the 11th International Francophone Conference on Surveys on 6-8 October 2021. The purpose of this conference was to exchange knowledge about survey and sampling methodology. At this conference, Meredith Winn, a junior researcher supporting FAIRETHMIGQUANT, highlighted how the EMM Survey Registry can be leveraged to discover and learn about surveys undertaken with EMM (sub)populations in France and across Europe. -- The EMM Survey Registry is jointly being produced by SSHOC’s Task 9.2 (Ethnic Migration Studies) team of Work Package 9 (Data Communities), in close collaboration with COST Action 16111 – ETHMIGSURVEYDATA (an international network of more than 200 researchers active in the ethnic and migration studies field) and FAIRETHMIGQUANT (a French Agence Nationale de la Recherche funded Open Science project).
The perils of standardizing infant weight to assess weight change differences across exposure groups
Creators: name: Tao, R.
name: North, K.E.
name: Von Holle, A.
name: Gahagan, S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Purpose: When conducting analyses of child weight growth trajectories, researchers commonly use Z-scores from a standard instead of the observed weights. However, these Z-scores, calculated from cross-sectional data, may introduce methodological limitations when used in the context of longitudinal analyses. We assessed analytic limitations when analyzing infant growth data with three anthropometric measures: weight and the corresponding Z-scores and percentiles from a standard. Methods: We undertook a series of Monte Carlo simulations and compared tests of differences in postnatal weight change across time (growth velocity) between two exposure groups. Models with the observed weight outcome were compared to the corresponding weight World Health Organization (WHO) Z-score or weight percentile outcomes. We calculated power, type I error, and median product term coefficient estimates to assess differences between the models. Results: There was lower power to detect velocity differences across exposure groups for WHO Z-scores and percentiles as outcomes compared to the use of observed weight values. We also noted instances in which velocity differences between exposed and unexposed groups were in the opposite direction in analyses with WHO Z-score outcomes. Conclusions: In our simulations of infant weight velocity differences across exposure groups, we observed lower power and effect inconsistencies when applying a standard-derived Z-score transformation. These results emphasize the need for careful consideration of the appropriate scale when assessing infant growth trajectories across categorical groups.
The volume of Ottoman lexical influence on Romanian
Creators: name: Stachowski, Kamil
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: The paper examines the influx and the current stock of Ottoman loanwords in Romanian, using the methodology of quantitative linguistics and enriching it with a historical perspective.
Genome-wide association study of serum fructosamine and glycated albumin in adults without diagnosed diabetes: Results from the atherosclerosis risk in communities study
Creators: name: Carson, A.P.
name: Rasmussen-Torvik, L.J.
name: Duggal, P.
name: Mei, H.
name: Loomis, S.J.
name: Boerwinkle, E.
name: Coresh, J.
name: Köttgen, A.
name: Li, M.
name: Baldridge, A.S.
name: Scharpf, R.
name: Morrison, A.
name: Selvin, E.
name: Maruthur, N.M.
name: North, K.E.
name: Pankow, J.S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Fructosamine and glycated albumin are potentially useful alternatives to hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) as diabetes biomarkers. The genetic determinants of fructosamine and glycated albumin, however, are unknown. We performed genome-wide association studies of fructosamine and glycated albumin among 2,104 black and 7,647 white participants without diabetes in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study and replicated findings in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study. Among whites, rs34459162, a novel missense single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in RCN3, was associated with fructosamine (P = 5.3 3 1029) and rs1260236, a known diabetes-related missense mutation in GCKR, was associated with percent glycated albumin (P = 5.9 3 1029) and replicated in CARDIA. We also found two novel associations among blacks: an intergenic SNP, rs2438321, associated with fructosamine (P = 6.2 3 1029), and an intronic variant in PRKCA, rs59443763, associated with percent glycated albumin (P = 4.1 3 1029), but these results did not replicate. Few established fasting glucose or HbA1c SNPs were also associated with fructosamine or glycated albumin. Overall, we found genetic variants associated with the glycemic information captured by fructosamine and glycated albumin as well as with their nonglycemic component. This highlights the importance of examining the genetics of hyperglycemia biomarkers to understand the information they capture, including potential glucose-independent factors.
Natural product extracts of the Canadian prairie plant, Thermopsis rhombifolia, have anti-cancer activity in phenotypic cell-based assays
Creators: name: Kernéis, Sophie
name: Swift, Lucy H.
name: Lewis, Cody W.
name: Bruyère, Céline
name: Nassima Oumata
name: Colas, Pierre
name: Ruchaud, Sandrine
name: Bain, John
name: Golsteyn, Roy M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biochemistry

description: Many plant species within the terrestrial ecological zones of Canada have not yet been investigated for anti-cancer activity. We examined the scientific literature describing the endemic flora from the prairie ecological zone and selected the species, Thermopsis rhombifolia, locally known as the buffalo bean, for investigation of its anti-cancer potential. We tested it in cell-based assays using phenotypic screens that feature some of the hallmarks of cancer. An ethanolic extract prepared from T. rhombifolia was cytotoxic to HT-29 (colon) and SH-SY5Y (brain) cancer cell lines, and showed little cytotoxicity to a normal human cell line (WI-38). In phenotypic assays, we identified activities in the extracts that target cell death, cell cycle and cell adhesion. These data highlight the anti-cancer potential of previously untested plants found in northern ecological zones and the feasibility of using pertinent phenotypic assays to examine the anti-cancer potential of natural product extracts.
COVID-19 Collection Infosheet (Spanish)
Creators: name: Morales, Laura
name: Pamies, Carles
name: Saji, Ami
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: COVID-19
EMM Survey Registry
ETHMIGSURVEYDATA
SSHOC
Social Sciences and Humanities Open Cloud
Europe
survey research
migrant minorities
ethnic minorities
social sciences
Open Science

description: This document is an infosheet informing data producers of COVID-19 surveys with EMM (ethnic and migrant minority) respondents about the EMM Survey Registry and its COVID-19 collection, as well as encouraging them to contribute metadata about their survey to the COVID-19 collection. -- The EMM Survey Registry has been jointly produced by SSHOC’s Task 9.2 (Ethnic Migration Studies) team of Work Package 9 (Data Communities), in close collaboration with COST Action 16111 – ETHMIGSURVEYDATA (an international network of more than 200 researchers active in the ethnic and migration studies field) and FAIRETHMIGQUANT (a French Agence Nationale de la Recherche funded Open Science project).
COVID-19 Collection Infosheet (English)
Creators: name: Saji, Ami
name: Morales, Laura
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: COVID-19
EMM Survey Registry
ETHMIGSURVEYDATA
SSHOC
Social Sciences and Humanities Open Cloud
Europe
survey research
migrant minorities
ethnic minorities
social sciences
Open Science

description: This document is an infosheet informing data producers of COVID-19 surveys with EMM (ethnic and migrant minority) respondents about the EMM Survey Registry and its COVID-19 collection, as well as encouraging them to contribute metadata about their survey to the COVID-19 collection. -- The EMM Survey Registry has been jointly produced by SSHOC’s Task 9.2 (Ethnic Migration Studies) team of Work Package 9 (Data Communities), in close collaboration with COST Action 16111 – ETHMIGSURVEYDATA (an international network of more than 200 researchers active in the ethnic and migration studies field) and FAIRETHMIGQUANT (a French Agence Nationale de la Recherche funded Open Science project).
Melanocortin 4 Receptor Pathway Dysfunction in Obesity: Patient Stratification Aimed at MC4R Agonist Treatment
Creators: name: Chittenden, T.W.
name: Van Der Ploeg, L.H.T.
name: Du, L.
name: Roy, S.
name: Yang, P.
name: Chen, R.
name: Fiedorek, F.
name: Garfield, A.S.
name: North, K.E.
name: White, J.A.
name: Cohen, S.
name: Ayers, K.L.
name: Li, S.D.
name: Longerich, S.
name: Schadt, E.E.
name: Glicksberg, B.S.
name: Gottesdiener, K.
name: Gulcher, J.R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Context The hypothalamic melanocortin 4 receptor (MC4R) pathway serves a critical role in regulating body weight. Loss of function (LoF) mutations in the MC4R pathway, including mutations in the pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC), prohormone convertase 1 (PCSK1), leptin receptor (LEPR), or MC4R genes, have been shown to cause early-onset severe obesity. Methods Through a comprehensive epidemiological analysis of known and predicted LoF variants in the POMC, PCSK1, and LEPR genes, we sought to estimate the number of US individuals with biallelic MC4R pathway LoF variants. Results We predict ∼650 α-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (MSH)/POMC, 8500 PCSK1, and 3600 LEPR homozygous and compound heterozygous individuals in the United States, cumulatively enumerating >12,800 MC4R pathway-deficient obese patients. Few of these variants have been genetically diagnosed to date. These estimates increase when we include a small subset of less rare variants: β-MSH/POMC,PCSK1 N221D, and a PCSK1 LoF variant (T640A). To further define the MC4R pathway and its potential impact on obesity, we tested associations between body mass index (BMI) and LoF mutation burden in the POMC, PCSK1, and LEPR genes in various populations. We show that the cumulative allele burden in individuals with two or more LoF alleles in one or more genes in the MC4R pathway are predisposed to a higher BMI than noncarriers or heterozygous LoF carriers with a defect in only one gene. Conclusions Our analysis represents a genetically rationalized study of the hypothalamic MC4R pathway aimed at genetic patient stratification to determine which obese subpopulations should be studied to elucidate MC4R agonist (e.g., setmelanotide) treatment responsiveness.
Haematopoiesis radioprotection in Balb/c mice by an aqueous mycelium extract from the Basidiomycete Pleurotus ostreatus mushroom
Creators: name: G. Llauradó
name: H.J. Morris
name: V. Tamayo
name: Y. Lebeque
name: Y. Beltrán
name: J. Marcos
name: S. Moukha
name: E.E. Creppy
name: R.C. Bermúdez
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biochemistry

description: The study examined the radioprotective activity of an aqueous extract from Pleurotus ostreatus mycelium administered to Balb/c mice. Male mice were whole-body irradiated on day 0 (60Co, at 0.43 Gy/min) and divided into two groups. The extract was administered intraperitoneally to one group (100 mg/kg) on days − 10 to − 6 and − 2 to +1 with respect to the irradiation. The irradiated-control group was injected with saline solution; non-irradiated mice were used as negative controls. The radioprotective effect was evident by increases in bone marrow cellularity (5.1 × 106/femur vs. 1.1 × 106/femur in saline-control mice, p 9/L vs. 4.5 × 109/L, p 7/spleen vs. 6.2 × 107/spleen, p p
Le EMM Survey Registry à long-terme
Creators: name: Saji, Ami
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: EMM Survey Registry
ETHMIGSURVEYDATA
SSHOC
Social Sciences and Humanities Open Cloud
France
Europe
survey research
COVID-19
migrant minorities
ethnic minorities
FAIR principles
social sciences

description: On 24 June 2021, COST Action 16111 – ETHMIGSURVEYDATA, FAIRETHMIGQUANT (a French Agence Nationale de la Recherche funded Open Science project based at Sciences Po, CEE), and MiDi - Migration et Diversité (Sciences Po), in partnership with Ined et l'IC Migrations, hosted a webinar in French to showcase the EMM (Ethnic and Migrant Minority) Survey Registry and the French surveys it captures to a French-speaking audience. During this webinar, Ami Saji, a junior researcher supporting Task 9.2 of SSHOC, gave a presentation about how the EMM Survey Registry, particularly its back-end platform, has been designed and set up to facilitate long-term sustainability. She also showcased how ETHMIGSURVEYDATA, SSHOC, and FAIRETHMIGQUANT are jointly working to engage new users and expand the metadata collection of the EMM Survey Registry, most notably through the recently launched special COVID-19 collection. -- The EMM Survey Registry is jointly being produced by SSHOC’s Task 9.2 (Ethnic Migration Studies) team of Work Package 9 (Data Communities), in close collaboration with COST Action 16111 – ETHMIGSURVEYDATA (an international network of more than 200 researchers active in the ethnic and migration studies field) and FAIRETHMIGQUANT (a French Agence Nationale de la Recherche funded Open Science project).
COVID-19 Collection Infosheet (French)
Creators: name: Saji, Ami
name: Morales, Laura
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: COVID-19
EMM Survey Registry
ETHMIGSURVEYDATA
SSHOC
Social Sciences and Humanities Open Cloud
FAIRETHMIGQUANT
Europe
survey research
migrant minorities
ethnic minorities
social sciences
Open Science

description: This document is an infosheet informing data producers of COVID-19 surveys with EMM (ethnic and migrant minority) respondents about the EMM Survey Registry and its COVID-19 collection, as well as encouraging them to contribute metadata about their survey to the COVID-19 collection. -- The EMM Survey Registry has been jointly produced by SSHOC’s Task 9.2 (Ethnic Migration Studies) team of Work Package 9 (Data Communities), in close collaboration with COST Action 16111 – ETHMIGSURVEYDATA (an international network of more than 200 researchers active in the ethnic and migration studies field) and FAIRETHMIGQUANT (a French Agence Nationale de la Recherche funded Open Science project).
Applications of thin-layer chromatography in extraction and characterisation of ajoene from garlic bulbs
Creators: name: Vadekeetil, Anitha
name: Kaur, Gurpreet
name: Chhibber, Sanjay
name: Harjai, Kusum
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biochemistry

description: Novel and inexpensive methods of thin-layer chromatography (TLC) were employed for the extraction, characterisation and mechanism of quorum sensing inhibition by ajoene, a component from toluene garlic bulb (Allium sativum L.) extract (TGE). TLC profiling of TGE was carried out using ethyl acetate as solvent. Out of total spots extracted from TLC, four spots exhibited quorum sensing inhibitory (QSI) potential. Among those, spot 5 was identified as Z-ajoene by TLC and confirmed by NMR and MS. HPLC analysis indicated 97.7% purity for purified ajoene. TLC densitometric analysis quantified 221.08 μmol/g of ajoene in TGE and indicated that ajoene is stable at 4°C and at acidic pH. HPTLC profiling showed that ajoene exhibits QSI effect by inhibiting the production of both long-chain acyl homoserine lactones and Pseudomonas quinolone signal (PQS) by P. aeruginosa and also by inactivating PQS molecules.
El Registro de Encuestas a Minorías Étnicas e Inmigrantes como herramienta para fomentar el conocimiento de las minorías en España
Creators: name: Morales, Laura
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: EMM Survey Registry
ETHMIGSURVEYDATA
survey research
Europe
Spain
FAIR principles
ethnic minorities
migrant minorities

description: The Spanish delegation of Cost Action 16111 - ETHMIGSURVEYDATA organized a webinar in Spanish to present the EMM (Ethnic and Migrant Minority) Survey Registry to a Spanish-speaking audience. This webinar took place on 1 June 2021 and was titled “Presentación del Registro de Encuestas a Minorías Étnicas e Inmigrantes en España." During this webinar, Laura Morales, the Chair of ETHMIGSURVEYDATA and the leader of Task 9.2 (Ethnic and Migration Studies) of SSHOC, gave a presentation highlighting how the EMM Survey Registry allows a wide range of users to discover and learn about existing quantitative surveys undertaken with EMM (sub)populations in Spain and across Europe. -- The EMM Survey Registry is jointly being produced by SSHOC’s Task 9.2 (Ethnic Migration Studies) team of Work Package 9 (Data Communities), in close collaboration with COST Action 16111 – ETHMIGSURVEYDATA (an international network of more than 200 researchers active in the ethnic and migration studies field) and FAIRETHMIGQUANT (a French Agence Nationale de la Recherche funded Open Science project).
Targeting epigenetic mechanisms in periodontal diseases
Creators: name: Offenbacher, S.
name: North, K.
name: Barros, S.P.
name: Hefni, E.
name: Nepomuceno, R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Epigenetic factors are heritable genome modifications that potentially impact gene transcription, contributing to disease states. Epigenetic marks play an important role in chronic inflammatory conditions, as observed in periodontal diseases, by allowing microbial persistence or by permitting microbial insult to play a role in the so-called ‘hit-and-run’ infectious mechanism, leading to lasting pathogen interference with the host genome. Epigenetics also affects the health sciences by providing a dynamic mechanistic framework to explain the way in which environmental and behavioral factors interact with the genome to alter disease risk. In this article we review current knowledge of epigenome regulation in light of the multifactorial nature of periodontal diseases. We discuss epigenetic tagging in identified genes, and consider the potential implications of epigenetic changes on host–microbiome dynamics in chronic inflammatory states and in response to environmental stressors. The most recent advances in genomic technologies have placed us in a position to analyze interaction effects (eg, between periodontal disease and type 2 diabetes mellitus), which can be investigated through epigenome-wide association analysis. Finally, because of the individualized traits of epigenetic biomarkers, pharmacoepigenomic perspectives are also considered as potentially novel therapeutic approaches for improving periodontal disease status.
SURVEYS METADATA TEMPLATE GUIDELINES DOCUMENT: Gathering information on migrant and ethnic minorities surveys
Creators: name: Morales, Laura
name: Méndez Lago, Mónica
name: Bernat, Anikó
name: Bergh, Johannes
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: ETHMIGSURVEYDATA
survey research
EMM Survey Registry
ethnic minorities
migrant minorities
Europe
social sciences
metadata

description: This is the guidelines document used by each of the COST Action CA16111 - ETHMIGSURVEYDATA participating countries to: search for surveys to be included in the Ethnic and Migrant Minority (EMM) Survey Registry (https://ethmigsurveydatahub.eu/emmregistry/) and compile metadata for these identified surveys using an Excel-based template.
description: This guidelines document was initially produced in November 2018. This version was last updated on 12 May 2021 to reflect new branding guidelines provided by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology).
La 'Fairisation' des enquêtes sur les minorités ethniques et migrantes à travers l'EMM Survey Registry
Creators: name: Saji, Ami
name: Morales, Laura
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: SSHOC
Social Sciences and Humanities Open Cloud
EOSC
European Open Science Cloud
survey research
ETHMIGSURVEYDATA
FAIR principles
EMM Survey Registry
ethnic minorities
migrant minorities
Europe
social sciences

description: The Open Science Group of DRIS (Direction des ressources et de l’information scientifique) Sciences Po (Paris, France) brings together Open Science experts from the Sciences Po community. This group holds regular seminars to exchange ideas on how to help research outputs from the Sciences Po community align as much as possible with the Open Science agenda. On 09 April 2021, COST Action 16111 - ETHMIGSURVEYDATA, the H2020 project SSHOC (via task 9.2, the ethnic and migration studies data community), and the ANR project FAIRETHMIGQUANT co-presented their EMM (Ethnic and Migrant Minority) Survey Registry tool during a seminar hosted by the Open Science Group of DRIS Sciences Po. The aim of this presentation was to showcase how the EMM Survey Registry was conceptualized and designed in line with the FAIR principles, as well as to provide a live demo of the front and back-ends of this tool. -- The EMM Survey Registry is jointly being produced by SSHOC’s Task 9.2 (Ethnic Migration Studies) team of Work Package 9 (Data Communities), in close collaboration with COST Action 16111 – ETHMIGSURVEYDATA (an international network of more than 200 researchers active in the ethnic and migration studies field) and FAIRETHMIGQUANT (a French Agence Nationale de la Recherche funded Open Science project).
History of English language
Creators: name: Pamungkas, Muhammad Agus
name: Syuhra, Marsha Aqillah Putri
name: Ningrum, Eka Cahyati
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Having emerged from the dialects and vocabulary of Germanic peoples—Angles, Saxons, and Jutes—who settled in Britain in the 5th century CE, English today is a constantly changing language that has been influenced by a plethora of different cultures and languages, such as Latin, French, Dutch, and Afrikaans.
Australian Leishmania lifecycle investigation
Creators: name: Dougall, Annette
Publisher: name: Charles Darwin University
Year: 2010

description: In 2003 an unknown Leishmania species was isolated as the cause of cutaneous lesions in red kangaroos (Macropus rufus) located in the Northern Territory. This was the first identification of natural Leishmania infection in Australia and the parasite was characterised as a unique species. The lifecycle of Leishmania typically involves a mammalian host and transmitting phlebotomine sand fly vector. This study aimed to investigate the lifecycle of Australian Leishmania by incriminating both a vector and reservoir of the parasite. Traditional methods for Leishmania diagnosis were utilized in the investigation including in vitro culture, cytology, histology, and serology, as well as the development of a new specific Australian Leishmania real-time PCR. Native marsupials commonly found in the Darwin rural area were opportunistically sampled and screened for Leishmania. Serology and real-time PCR assisted in determining the parasite's geographic range and its natural mammalian hosts. New clinical cases of cutaneous leishmaniasis were identified and characterised in northern wallaroos (M robustus woodwardii), a black wallaroo (M bernardus) and agile wallabies (M agilis). Overall, antilopine wallaroos (M antilopinus) and agile wallabies presented with high exposure and tolerance to the parasite, implicating them as reservoirs. To incriminate a vector, phlebotomine sand fly trapping was undertaken in two hot spot areas of known transmission and were subsequently screened for Leishmania. No association between Leishmania and sand flies was found. Subsequently, alternative vectors present in the Darwin rural area were investigated for infection giving startling results. For the first time, evidence linking the day-feeding midge, genus Forcipomyia, subgenus Lasiohelea as the biological vector of Leishmania is presented. This finding will have massive implications in the understanding of the Leishmania lifecycle worldwide. Elucidating the complete lifecycle of Leishmania in Australia is vital to predicting the effects of an exotic introduction or an endemic expansion of the parasite. This knowledge is fundamental for ongoing disease surveillance and Australian biosecurity.
Assessing Life History Parameters of Trissolcus japonicus and Anastatus reduvii, Parasitoids of the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug
Creators: name: Thomas, Namitha
name: Dabek, Elizabeth Z.
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2020
Subjects: Entomology
CMNS
Thomas
parasitoids
H. Halys
biological control

description: Halyomorpha halys, or the Brown marmorated stink bug, was accidentally introduced to the United States in the 1990s. H. halys quickly became an invasive native pest, causing severe damage to local crops and agriculture. Since chemical and pesticide control was not effective, methods of natural biological control were investigated. Trissolcus japonicus and Anastatus reduvii egg parasitoids were strong candidates for biological control of H. halys. The goal of this study was to obtain a better understanding of T. japonicus and A. reduvii effectiveness as biological control agents of H. Halys by analyzing their life history parameters. Several factors regarding their longevity and reproduction potential were investigated. Specific features measured: 1) fecundity and progeny emergence, 2) mean lifespan of progeny, and 3) male/female sex ratio of progeny.