cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Racial/ethnic variations in acute stroke
Creators: name: Gezmu, Tefera
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: The burden of stroke is well understood for whites, blacks and Hispanics in the United States, yet its nature, outcome, and medical care profiles have not been examined for other immigrant groups, including South Asians.  Previous studies on gender differences document higher stroke incidence rates for men but worse outcomes for women.  Factors related to stroke hospitalization have been shown to include failure to identify symptoms of stoke onset, delay in emergency department arrival or extended waiting time, and lack of insurance coverage.  This dissertation asks whether these results can be further understood by examining stroke data among a multiracial/multiethnic cohort.  Specifically it asks:  (1) whether racial/ethnic-specific risk factors allow the prediction of subtypes of stroke; that is, large versus small vessel stroke, (2) whether total cholesterol and triglyceride levels can be used as predictors of risk for stroke between genders of the different races/ethnicities, and (3) whether access to emergency care and other health services for stroke differ by race/ethnicity and by stroke type.  Stroke registry data were obtained from the New Jersey Neuroscience Institute, John F. Kennedy Medical Center.  Data on 3,290 subjects who met the inclusion criteria were examined for socio-demographic, stroke risk, clinical and health profile variables.  Results showed that South Asians were younger than whites at the time of admission for acute stroke.  Gender comparisons revealed that South Asian and Hispanic men had higher proportions of patients with ischemic stroke than women, while the inverse was true for whites and African Americans. Twice as many young patients (18-44 years) suffered hemorrhagic stroke compared to ischemic stroke. Important predictive factors for stroke outcome included insurance status and use of emergency medical services as a mode of transport to hospitals following stroke symptom recognition.   Variations in stroke incidence and outcomes may be partially explained by dietary and life style choices; however consideration must be given to competing morbidity, failure to recognize warning signs for stroke, and failure to use emergency services due to lack of knowledge, language barriers, or lack of insurance.  These factors need to be more clearly examined in future studies.
Taking the white gloves off
Creators: name: Estepa, Andrea
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Year: 2012

description: This study revises the standard narrative of 1960s political and social history by arguing that Women Strike for Peace, an organization that used maternalist rhetoric to protest nuclear weapons testing and the arms race with the Soviet Union, was an integral part of the New Left, challenging the chilling effect of McCarthyism on free speech and political protest and playing a significant role in the movements for racial equality and economic justice and against the Vietnam War. Demographically, WSPers had much in common with the frustrated housewives of Betty Friedan‘s Feminine Mystique. Politically, however, the challenges they posed to Cold War politics as usual as well as their commitment to direct action protest aligned them with Students for a Democratic Society, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley. Like their younger counterparts, WSPers developed non-hierarchical structures and a consensus-based approach to decision-making while designing grassroots organizing campaigns. This study also explores the sometimes competing, sometimes overlapping claims of maternalist and feminist rationales for women‘s social movement activism before, during, and after the heyday of the women‘s liberation movement by focusing on changing uses of and attitudes towards motherhood as a source of political legitimacy and authority. Unlike earlier scholars who have portrayed WSP as being distinct from and even in opposition to the women‘s movement of the 1960s and 70s, I argue that the two were intertwined and mutually influential, not at odds. Both groups believed in the power of sisterhood and the special benefits and pleasures of working in a single-sex context, while also insisting women‘s voices had to be part of broader political and policy debates. Finally, I argue that their efforts to forge new activist identities for American women while juggling the demands of public and private life and trying to achieve personal fulfillment, was the first salvo in a contentious and continuing debate over the significance of motherhood as a political identity, the relationship of motherhood and feminism, and the role women who are mothers can and should play in politics and public life.
MOCVD growth of MGxZN1-xO films and nanostructures for photovoltaics
Creators: name: Duan, Ziqing
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Year: 2012

description: MGxZN1-xO, which is formed by alloying ZnO with MgO, has been developed as a promising window layer in chalcopyrite thin film solar cells and hybrid polymer solar cells for enhanced open-circuit voltage and solar conversion efficiency because of its bandgap tunability. The surface morphology of MgxZn1-xO layers in those photovoltaic applications plays important roles on the performances of solar cells. Two-dimensional (2-D) dense and smooth film is preferred in the inorganic p-n junction solar cells while one-dimensional (1-D) nanostructures are favorable for the hybrid polymer solar cells. In this dissertation, metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) is used to grow both of MgxZn1-xO polycrystalline 2-D films and single crystalline 1-D nanostructures for solar cells. A low-temperature (~250oC) ZnO buffer layer, followed by the high-temperature (~500oC) growth of MgxZn1-xO, is found to be beneficial for the formation of a 2-D dense and smooth film. On the other hand, a high-temperature (~520oC) ZnO buffer layer followed by a high temperature (530oC-560oC) growth of MgxZn1-xO is needed to grow the 1-D MgxZn1-xO (0≤x≤0.15) nanostructures on Si. For the first time, 1-D MgxZn1-xO nanostructures (0≤x≤0.1) are sequentially grown on a Ga-doped ZnO (GZO) 2-D film to form the 3-D photoelectrode, which is used to fabricate the P3HT-MgxZn1-xO hybride solar cells. The preliminary testing results of solar cells show that MgxZn1-xO is promising to be used in hybrid polymer solar cells for the enhancement of open circuit voltage (VOC). MgxZn1-xO (0≤x≤0.1) polycrystalline films are used in Cu2O-MgxZn1-xO heterojunction solar cells. The current density-voltage (J-V) measurements of solar cells under illumination show that VOC, shunt resistance Rsh and the solar conversion efficiency η are improved with increasing of Mg% until 10%. A relatively high solar conversion efficiency, ηAM1.5 = 0.71 % with a short circuit current JSC = 3.0 mA/cm2 and VOC = 575 mV, is obtained on the Mg0.1Zn0.9O sample. The band alignment between Cu2O and MgxZn1-xO is analyzed by using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) measurements.
Trachyleucophenga Hendel
Creators: name: Tidon, Rosana
name: Almeida, Jonathan Mendes De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Drosophilidae
Trachyleucophenga

description: Genus Trachyleucophenga Hendel
Trachyleucophenga Hendel, 1917: 44. Type species, Trachyleucophenga flavocostata Hendel, OD.
description: Published as part of Tidon, Rosana & Almeida, Jonathan Mendes De, 2016, FAMILY DROSOPHILIDAE, pp. 719-751 in Zootaxa 4122 (1) on page 739, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4122.1.63, http://zenodo.org/record/263272
Do scavengers influence dermo disease (Perkinsus marinus) transmission?
Creators: name: Diamond, Elizabeth Anne
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Year: 2012

description: Perkinsus marinus is the protozoan endoparasite of the Eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) responsible for Dermo disease.  While not harmful to humans, Dermo disease causes extensive oyster mortality, increasing annual natural mortality from 10 to 35% or more in Delaware Bay annually.  The disease spreads through the water as parasites are shed from infected and moribund hosts.  One prior study has indicated that scavengers may spread the parasite to new hosts, but little information exists as to how such trophic interactions affect host-parasite dynamics.      From July 2010 to September 2011, uninfected, or specific-pathogen free (SPF) oyster hosts were exposed in the laboratory to four different species of scavengers feeding on infected or uninfected oyster tissue.  In each experiment, the accumulation of P. marinus in oyster hosts was compared after 1-2 months as a measure of parasite transmission.  Results indicated that scavengers, regardless of species, increase the rate of parasite transmission to new hosts when compared to passive shedding of parasites from infected tissue alone.  These laboratory studies demonstrate that non-host organisms for the parasite have their own sets of interactions that can influence disease dynamics, and such interactions should be taken into consideration in future studies where transmission dynamics come into play.
Trachyleucophenga flavocostata Hendel 1917
Creators: name: Tidon, Rosana
name: Almeida, Jonathan Mendes De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Drosophilidae
Trachyleucophenga
Trachyleucophenga flavocostata

description: flavocostata Hendel, 1917: 44. Type locality: Colombia, Magdalena, Aracataca. ST A (NMW). NT Distr.: Colombia, Florida?. Refs.: Duda, 1927: 32.
description: Published as part of Tidon, Rosana & Almeida, Jonathan Mendes De, 2016, FAMILY DROSOPHILIDAE, pp. 719-751 in Zootaxa 4122 (1) on page 739, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4122.1.63, http://zenodo.org/record/263272
Meta-analysis of predictors of dental school performance
Creators: name: DeCastro, Jeanette E.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: Accurate prediction of which candidates show the most promise of success in dental school is imperative for the candidates, the profession, and the public. Several studies suggested that predental GPAs and the Dental Admissions Test (DAT) produce a range of correlations with dental school performance measures. While there have been similarities, such as the finding by Bergman et. al., 2006 and DeBall, et. al., 2002 that the DAT’s Reading Comprehension (RC) section was a significant predictor for portions of the National Board Dental Examinations Part 1 (NBDEI), correlations were disparate.    A narrative review conducted by Ranney et. al., (2005) did not apply quantitative methods and changes in the DAT and NBDE over time suggest prediction has changed as well. Ranney et. al., (2005) found extensive variation in correlations. Dental school admissions officers perceive distinctions among the GPAs of their “feeder schools,” and know that grade inflation is a greater issue at some schools than others. The DAT measures students on a common rubric. Yet, correlations of the DAT with dental school performance span from low to high. The literature is unclear as to how well and how consistently the DAT and grades predict future performance for various groups (Kramer, 1999). Improved understanding of prediction may enhance its implementation. That is what this paper attempts to do.            A literature search found nine articles with data that could be used toward this purpose. This dissertation then applied two different methods of meta-analysis, one more streamlined, espoused by Rosenthal (1991), simply combined results, calculated confidence intervals and tested for heterogeneity of results. A second analysis followed the direction of Hunter & Schmidt (2004). After combining results, through a series of corrections, it produced correlations without the effects of range restriction and unreliability of measures.    Across both meta-analyses methods, standardized tests were more closely associated with performance measured soon thereafter. Associations between grades and criterion increased over time. Extrapolation of results to other populations is not endorsed due to shortcomings associated with available data and methodology.
Customer behavior in online shopping
Creators: name: Kumar, Atul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Customer behavior in online shopping

description: Technology allows us to experience online shopping and it will be continuing for many years because it provides convenience to the customers. Online shopping is doing so well that now a day’s people don’t like to go to the market and to buy the products from stores. However, in some cases, customers want to buy the product after touching and seeing its quality and after that, they want to buy the product in that case, they have to go to the market to feel the product by using senses. Online shopping provides products full information their colors, features and they are offering exchange policy also which makes their work successful and on the other hand they have started a healthy competition among all the sellers so that customer is now getting more benefit just because of this facility.
Apacrochaeta columbiensis Duda 1927
Creators: name: Tidon, Rosana
name: Almeida, Jonathan Mendes De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Drosophilidae
Apacrochaeta
Apacrochaeta columbiensis

description: columbiensis Duda, 1927: 106. Type locality: Colombia. Ujhelyi, Sierra S. Lorenzo. HT M (HNHM). NT Distr.: Colombia.
description: Published as part of Tidon, Rosana & Almeida, Jonathan Mendes De, 2016, FAMILY DROSOPHILIDAE, pp. 719-751 in Zootaxa 4122 (1) on page 739, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4122.1.63, http://zenodo.org/record/263272
FARG'ONA-TOSHKENT MAQOM YO'LLARI VA SEGOH MAQOMI
Creators: name: Tojidinova, Shahnoza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Ushbu maqolada Farg’ona-Toshkent   maqom yo’llari haqida va uning o’ziga hos jihatlari, o’ziga hosliklarini yoritib berishga harakat qilingan. Farg’ona-Toshkent maqom yo’llariga kiruvchi Segoh maqomi haqida ham gap boradi.
The tenso and Dante
Creators: name: De Simone, Vito A.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: Ever since the publication of “Las Leys D’Amors” in the 14th Century, which  provided  the first definitions of Provençal forms of poetry, critics have tried to define the Tenso (Tenzone) as a “genre,” and less as an entity of its own. The tenso’s content, its propensity to represent more realistic, personal and historic concerns of medieval life more than any other form of poetry, makes an impelling reason to revisit it, and to define what constitutes a tenso, which is, at best, still confusing. The aim of this study, therefore, is to find out “what constitutes a tenso” by studying what was the poet’s “intention”  when writing this sort of poem; and what was the tenso’s historic “evolution” in time and place. It becomes also essential to answer the question: When writing  tensos, were the troubadours simply sending missives written in verses, often identified as “ Correspondence Sonnets (sonetti di corrispondenza), ” or were they interested in “debating,” in verse form, the concerns of the day  regarding, for example,  the nature of poetry itself, of love, or other cultural or even political events of significance?  To discover the use and the importance of the tenso during this time, we analyze the tenso production, beginning with those written in Provence and those written in Italy in the Provençal dialect. We further analyze the Italian tensos of the Sicilian School of Poetry and those of the Siculo-Tuscan periods, up to the Stilnovisti and Dante.  The first two chapters will bring forth themes, ideologies, local settings and events that molded the Tensos. In the third, we will examine the early experience Dante had with the Tenso, and to what extent he made used of this experience in writing his Divine Comedy. In the fourth chapter we will attempt a more accurate definition of  the Italian tenso.  As a conclusion, we will demonstrate that during the 12th and 13th centuries, the tenso form was very much in vogue in Italy, that the Italian tenso underwent important and radical changes to merit a distincitve definition of its own, and that its poetic production was much more extensive than today it is believed to have been.
Negotiation of norms of private information sharing by parents and young adult children
Creators: name: Das, Shuktara Sen
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: This study reflects an effort to obtain insights into the social interaction processes involved in normative influence. Two related research questions are addressed. The first question is about motivations to communicate about norms while the second one is about how people communicate, that is, what people say, think and feel when communicating about norms. Three assumptions underline the study: (1) tension between social and personal norm is central to communication about norms; (2) communication about norms is purposive; and (3) such communication can be fruitfully studied through the lens of negotiation for the purpose of reaching a shared agreement or hiding or excusing transgressions. The scope of the research was limited to the parent-child relational context, norms of private information sharing and the immigrant Indian population. Within a qualitative research design framework, individual in-depth interviews were used to obtain accounts of norm negotiation from unrelated parents and children (above 18 years of age). The major findings are that (1) people talk about norms of private information sharing in terms of behaviors and empirical and normative expectations (Bicchieri & Erte, 2007) about such behaviors (2) negotiation is triggered when parents’ monitoring behaviors clash with children’s need to retain ownership over private information (3) negotiation involves managing primary goal(s) (Dillard, 2004) related to the behaviors and expectations in question and secondary goals related to the relationship as well as other behavioral norms constituting private information (4) negotiation can be direct or involve deception (5) the factors which influence choice between direct negotiation and deception, are relational power, communication history and conviction about norms (6) direct negotiation involves a variety of strategies including assuring, bargaining, critiquing, using an ally, veiled negotiation, veiled threat, emphasizing trust, facilitating and justifying, by children and parents. These strategies are used to negotiate behavioral expectations and the rationale for such expectations. The key contribution of this study is a description of interpersonal communication about behavioral expectations arising from norms.
Molecular Staging of Breast Cancer Progression
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: The chances for breast cancer survival would be improved if an early and accurate diagnosis could be performed. Biomedical researchers are working to develop a set of "molecular signatures" for breast cancer that can help us to predict the outcome of clinical course. The development of this new technology will require progress in three areas: 1) increasing our ability to detect genes that are only turned on in a small specific region of breast cancer; 2) developing a standard methodology to identify the genes that are turned on differentially in various cell types; and 3) identifying molecular markers that strongly correlate with clinical outcome. If we are not able to detect genetic changes in a small number of cells, we will not be able to maximize the potential to identify clinically relevant markers. In this proposal a team of basic and clinical scientists will focus on developing a technology that will be able to resolve genetic alterations down to a single cell.

 Previous methods are not sensitive enough to generate a complete genetic picture (cDNA library) from a single cancer cell. As a result, many previous results are based on the use of cancer cell lines or tissues have been problematic since they often contain a mixture of normal tissue and different stages of cancer. Here we propose to develop a fast, simple and specific method to analyze genes from a very small number of normal mammary gland epithelial cells and abnormal breast cancer epithelial cells. The technique, named single-cell cDNA library amplification (SCLA), provides a fast, accurate and efficient method for generating a complete full-length cDNA library a single cell in a cancer specimen isolated from pathological sections or aspirates. Libraries generated from different stages of cancer progression can then be compared and a stage-specific diagnostic set established for clinical testing. We hope to increase the resolution of current technology and increase the precision of the prediction value of cancer signatures.
Leucophenga neovaria Wheeler 1960
Creators: name: Tidon, Rosana
name: Almeida, Jonathan Mendes De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Drosophilidae
Leucophenga
Leucophenga neovaria

description: neovaria Wheeler, 1960: 89. Type locality: Puerto Rico, Mayaguez. HT M (USNM). NE NT Distr.: Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Venezuela; Florida.
description: Published as part of Tidon, Rosana & Almeida, Jonathan Mendes De, 2016, FAMILY DROSOPHILIDAE, pp. 719-751 in Zootaxa 4122 (1) on page 739, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4122.1.63, http://zenodo.org/record/263272
Stegana acutangula Hendel 1913
Creators: name: Tidon, Rosana
name: Almeida, Jonathan Mendes De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Drosophilidae
Stegana
Stegana acutangula

description: acutangula (Hendel), 1913b: 632 (Orthostegana). Type locality: Bolivia, La Paz, Mapiri, Sarampioni, 700 m. ST F (SMT) NT Distr.: Nicaragua to Bolivia. Refs.: Wheeler & Takada, 1971: 229.
description: Published as part of Tidon, Rosana & Almeida, Jonathan Mendes De, 2016, FAMILY DROSOPHILIDAE, pp. 719-751 in Zootaxa 4122 (1) on page 739, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4122.1.63, http://zenodo.org/record/263272
Ontogenic landscapes
Creators: name: Danza, Daniel J.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: Recent environmental, ecological, and economic concerns have interwoven in an increasingly complex manner with movements often coalescing around both particular practices and regions.  Of great contemporary interest in the wider New York metro area is the growing public controversy over the practice of hydraulic fracturing, otherwise known as “fracking.”  An unconventional extraction process conducted over a massive underground shale gas formation known as the Marcellus Shale, fracking asks residents to pick between the industry’s promise of economic stability and the potential of a radically altered landscape.  In part, this thesis is a response to the paucity of work on fracking which fully engages important questions of perception of and one’s position in landscape as well as the attendant dynamics of subject formation.  Additionally, the social conflicts inherent to large-scale energy extraction in this region present notable insights into community, environmental identity, and questions of scale.  Drawing on participatory qualitative research, particularly among environmental activists, this thesis seeks to illuminate a processual and non-representational theory of nature, landscape, and environmental politics while demonstrating the fecundity of an emergent and rapidly growing environmental activism that is simultaneously “rooted” in notions of locality while dependent upon a fundamental mobility.
Effect of high hydrostatic pressure processing (HHPP) on salmonella enterica in peanut butter
Creators: name: D'souza, Tanya
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: American consumers eat more than 700 million pounds of peanut butter each year, accounting for approximately half the edible use of peanuts in the United States. Salmonella is a unique microorganism that can survive in peanut butter as demonstrated by two large outbreaks in 2007 and 2008, creating the need for methods to augment and improve the current peanut butter manufacturing processes to make them even safer. High Hydrostatic Pressure Processing (HHPP) is a popular processing method used to process foods such as guacamole, meats, oysters, jellies and juices to ensure microbiological safety while retaining quality and organoleptic properties. The application of HHPP as an alternative processing method to inactivate Salmonella in peanut butter was the focus of this research.     The objective of this research was to optimize the pressure and time conditions of HHPP for maximum inactivation of Salmonella inoculated in creamy peanut butter. It was found that at varying combinations of pressures between 400 and 600 MPa and hold times between 4 and 18 min, the reductions in Salmonella concentration in peanut butter, from an initial level of 106- 107 CFU/g, were only between 1.6 and 1.9 log CFU/g. This led to further exploration of the effect of (i) pressure cycling during HHPP, (ii) varying water activity of peanut butter, and (iii) added nisin in combination with HHPP. The maximum log reduction achieved in all cases was 2 log CFU/g. Salmonella was inactivated to below detection limit only when the water activity of peanut butter was increased to an extreme value of 0.96, rendering it unrecognizable as peanut butter.    It can be concluded that HHPP is not a suitable processing method for significantly improving the microbiological safety of Salmonella contaminated peanut butter. However, the intriguing results from this research will sow the seeds for future research on the molecular mechanism associated with Salmonella survival in low water activity foods like peanut butter during HHPP.
Lestes regina Theobald 1937
Creators: name: Jattiot, Romain
name: Latutrie, Benjamin
name: Nel, André
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Odonata
Lestidae
Lestes
Lestes regina

description: Lestes regina Théobald, 1937
(Figs 1–2)
Material. Specimen UBGD 32320 (imprint, a nearly complete damselfly with all legs and wings preserved, sex unknown), stored at the Université de Bourgogne, Géologie, Dijon, France; counterimprint in Coll. Benjamin Latutrie.
Description. Body black, wings hyaline with pterostigma dark brown. Head deformed as in all fossil Lestidae, with mouthparts anteriorly projected, 2.6 mm long, and 3.5 mm wide. Thorax 6.0 mm long, and 3.4 mm wide. Fore- and hindwing nearly identical, in particular discoidal cells of same shapes and widths; fore wing 19.9 mm long, 4.5 mm wide, ratio L/ W 4.4, width at nodus level 3.2 mm; pterostigma 2.3 mm long, and 0.5 mm wide; distance from base to arculus 3.7 mm, from arculus to nodus 3.7 mm, from nodus to pterostigma 9.8 mm, and from subnodus to base of RP2 2.8 mm; oblique vein ‘O’ two cells distal of base of RP2; a supplementary row of 5–6 cells between MP and CuA. Abdomen 27.9 mm long, 1.3 mm wide; cerci present but poorly preserved.
description: Published as part of Jattiot, Romain, Latutrie, Benjamin & Nel, André, 2020, The first damselfly (Odonata, Lestidae) from the upper Eocene of Monteils (Gard, France), pp. 432-436 in Zootaxa 4750 (3) on pages 433-434, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4750.3.9, http://zenodo.org/record/3707550
Exploring a mechanism for viral host range evolution
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: Viruses vary greatly in host range, from specialization on subpopulations within a species to infecting across diverse species. Understanding what governs viral host range is key to solving a number of problems, including controlling disease emergence, understanding the assembly rules for microbiomes, and developing synthetic viral therapies. Despite this, little is known about the mechanisms that control viral host range and the conditions that foster host range expansions. PI Meyer and Co-I Petrie have put forward a novel hypothesis for the genetic and physical changes that allow viruses to expand their range. They recently found that bacteriophage lambda evolved a broader host range through destabilizing mutations in the host-recognition protein that cause bistability in the protein folding process. The bistability causes multiple particles to form, some adept at the original host, and others able to exploit a new host. This discovery provides a novel mechanism for host-range evolution and predicts a trade-off between host-range breadth and stability that could help explain why viruses vary widely in their host-range. If generalizable, this trade-off could be an important Achilles heel for emerging diseases, as this instability would be vulnerable to extrinsic perturbations. We propose to test the generality of this mechanism through three interrelated and collaborative projects. First, PI Meyer’s team will develop a mathematical model to determine the conditions where viral proteins are likely to evolve expanded host ranges through protein bistability. The goal of the model will be to translate Meyer’s findings made in the laboratory into predictions for natural pathogens. Co-I Moberg-Parker has developed a course-based undergraduate research program for students at UCLA to study phages from human skin microbiomes. Moberg-Parker’s team will design a new curricular module in collaboration with Co-I Petrie to test the bistability hypothesis on a much larger set of phages than any single laboratory could study. Co-I Koskella will then test these predictions in natural microbial communities by leveraging her large collection of phages from the plant phyllosphere. Her preliminary data show hugely variable host ranges among phages from this natural environment, and provide an ideal testbed for examining the link between viral host range and stability. This work will have far-reaching benefits, from enhancing teaching to cutting-edge translatable research.
A Narrative Review: Risk Factors Involving Bipolar Disorder
Creators: name: Rakhi Biswas, Diviya Anish, Sangeetha S
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Patients with bipolar disorder, a severe to chronic illness, exhibit polarized behaviour throughout prolonged manic and depressed episodes, ranked sixth in the world, is a major source of disability. The outcome is mental, cognitive, and functional impairment. Numerous risk factors for bipolar patients are displayed in this review paper. where 1% of people on the planet are impacted. Furthermore, the essay highlights the complex nature of bipolar disease and the risk factors for severe depression and suicide that interfere with the patient's chances. And most likely the contributing factors, such as a developing cause, coexisting medical conditions (such cardiovascular disease), child maltreatment, drug addiction, and the interplay of psychosocial stressors with both inherited and environmental triggers. According to statistics, 37% of bipolar patients have attempted suicide at some time in their lives. Moreover, 15%–20% of suicide attempts succeed. Monitoring the patient with the condition is crucial; the primary objective is to distinguish it from other mental illnesses. An early diagnosis of the disorder is necessary for treatment, to improve the patient's quality of life, and to enable them to lead a normal life free from recurrent manic and depressive episodes.
Intranasal cadmium exposure induces olfactory pathophysiology and sensory deficits
Creators: name: Czarnecki, Lindsey Ann
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: Intranasal exposure to cadmium has been related to olfactory dysfunction in humans and to nasal epithelial damage and altered odorant-guided behavior in rodent models. The pathophysiology underlying these deficits has not been fully elucidated.  Here we use optical imaging techniques to visualize odorant-evoked neurotransmitter release from the olfactory nerve into the brain’s olfactory bulbs in vivo in mice.  Intranasal cadmium chloride instillations reduced this sensory activity by up to 91% in a dose-dependent manner.  In the olfactory bulbs, afferents from the olfactory epithelium could be quantified by their expression of a genetically-encoded fluorescent marker for olfactory marker protein.  At the highest dose tested, cadmium exposure reduced the density of these projections by 20%.  In a behavioral psychophysical task, mice were trained to sample from an odor port and make a response when they detected an odorant against a background of room air.  After intranasal cadmium exposure, mice were unable to detect the target odor.  These experiments serve as proof of concept for a new approach to the study of the neural effects of inhaled toxicants.  The use of in vivo functional imaging of the neuronal populations exposed to the toxicant permits the direct observation of primary pathophysiology.  In this study optical imaging revealed significant reductions in odorant-evoked release from the olfactory nerve at a cadmium chloride dose two orders of magnitude less than that required to induce morphological changes in the nerve in the same animals, demonstrating that it is a more sensitive technique for assessing the consequences of intranasal neurotoxicant exposure. This approach is potentially useful in exploring the effects of any putative neurotoxicant that can be delivered intranasally.
The anchor baby
Creators: name: Cato, Genevieve
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: Political rhetoric delivered through sound bites on cable news networks can be easy to dismiss, because there is relatively little nuance in the coverage of political issues. The anchor baby debate from the midterm elections in 2010 is a perfect example. These discursive strands impact our conceptions of ourselves, our relation to society, and our voting behavior. Media-communicated narratives construct subjectivities. These subjects are then made manifest through policy decisions. To address the implications of the coverage of the anchor baby in the midterm elections in 2010 in the United States, I conducted a critical discourse analysis of news segments from Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC. A consistent picture of the undocumented immigrant parent of the anchor baby became clear. The discourse reinforces the demonized undocumented immigrant subject, and reaffirms the responsibility of the immigrant mother in passing social ills on to the next generation through birth. The discourse also normalizes the dehumanization of undocumented immigrants in the United States. In order to address the existing injustices experienced by undocumented communities, we must critically engage with the media’s role in constructing and normalizing the criminal undocumented immigrant.
TA'LIM  JARAYONIDA  O'QUVCHILARNING EKOLOGIK MA'NAVIYATI VA  MADANIYATINI  SHAKLLANTIRISH.
Creators: name: Ergasheva, Gulchexra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Hozirgi zamon global ekologik muammolar va ularga qarshi kurashish masalalari o’ta dolzarbdir.Har bir soha mutaxassisi ekologik bilimlardan xabardor bo’lishi,ish faoliyatida unga Amal qilishi, ekologik tadbirlarni amalga oshirishda o’z hissasini qo’shishi lozim. Maqolada ekologik ta’lim-tarbiyanining uzviyligi va uzluksizligini ta’minlash maqsadi yo’lida fizika fanini o’qitish jarayonida ekologik ma’naviyatni va madaniyatni shakllantirish, ekologiyaga bog’liq bo’lgan mavzular haqida bayon etilgan.
Cultural landscape preservation in United States national parks
Creators: name: Caravanos, Eleni M.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: Scholars and officials generally define cultural landscapes as “combined works of nature and man. ” The National Park Service (NPS), established in 1916, is the United States’ governing organization on the preservation and protection of cultural landscapes, and manages all U.S. National Parks. The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is another major association that also provides protection to cultural landscapes on a global scale. While several U.S. National Parks are identified as “Natural Sites” on the World Heritage List, these sites are eligible for re-designation as “Cultural Landscapes”. The purpose of this thesis is to explore and compare the definitions and criteria for nomination of cultural landscapes according to UNESCO and the NPS. I will evaluate five U.S. National Parks, Yellowstone, Grand Canyon, Glacier Bay, Yosemite and Hawaii Volcanoes, in terms of the specific characteristics, preservation, visitation, and infrastructure of the potential cultural landscapes. General Management Plans pertaining to each park will be analyzed, and the current preservation strategies designed by the NPS and implemented by each park will be discussed. In addition I will consider the benefits of World Heritage Listing. This thesis will conclude with a set of recommendations focusing on steps these parks can take to further protect their cultural landscapes under UNESCO.
Araeodontia isabellae Wolcott 1910
Creators: name: Burke, Alan F.
name: Leavengood, John M.
name: Zolnerowich, Gregory
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Araeodontia
Araeodontia isabellae

description: Araeodontia isabellae (Wolcott, 1910)
Original combination: Cymatodera isabellae Wolcott, 1910.
Distribution: USA: AZ, CA, NV, TX, UT.
References: Schenkling 1910; Wolcott 1910a, 1947; Barr 1950a, 1975; Corporaal 1950; Papp 1960; Burke and Zolnerowich 2014c.
description: Published as part of Burke, Alan F., Leavengood, John M. & Zolnerowich, Gregory, 2015, A checklist of the New World species of Tillinae (Coleoptera: Cleridae), with an illustrated key to genera and new country records, pp. 1-39 in Zootaxa 4059 (1) on pages 4-5, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4059.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/234970
Araeodontia marginalis Barr 1952
Creators: name: Burke, Alan F.
name: Leavengood, John M.
name: Zolnerowich, Gregory
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Araeodontia
Araeodontia marginalis

description: Araeodontia marginalis Barr, 1952
Distribution: USA: TX; MEX: CHIH, COAH, SON.
References: Barr 1952a, 1975; Vaurie 1952b; Papp 1960; Burke and Zolnerowich 2014c.
description: Published as part of Burke, Alan F., Leavengood, John M. & Zolnerowich, Gregory, 2015, A checklist of the New World species of Tillinae (Coleoptera: Cleridae), with an illustrated key to genera and new country records, pp. 1-39 in Zootaxa 4059 (1) on page 5, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4059.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/234970
title: The Social Context as a Determinant of Weight-Related Behaviors: Focus on Social Norms
Creators: name: Pbert, Lori
name: Lemon, Stephenie C.
Publisher: name: eScholarship@UMMS
Year: 2011

description: Most research addressing social context as a determinant of weight-related behaviors has focused on social support and social networks, with limited research assessing social norms. Social norms for obesity are an important variable to understand given the pervasiveness of this condition in our society and the multiple life situations in which individuals are exposed to obesity-related behaviors. This presentation discusses a study that developed a measurement approach to assessing weight loss, dietary and physical activity social norms in the worksite and assessed the associations of these norms with behaviors.
In silico examination of the structure of closed naked DNA and protein/DNA complexes
Creators: name: Britton, Lauren Adrian
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: The focus of this thesis is to study the overall global shape of DNA and its dependence on various intrinsic parameters both when naked and bound to proteins. We developed a definition of the twist of DNA base-pair steps, TwSC, that can be related to the overall folding of the DNA molecule and is a new contribution to the field of DNA topology. We developed a software package, titled 3DNATwSC, to calculate TwSC. We established, by studying seven simplified ideal structures, the value of TwSC as an effective gauge for the topological landscape of DNA due to its sensitivity to changes in chirality.   We constructed a web-based user-friendly database, named TwiDDL, to show the impact of protein binding on TwSC. TwiDDL makes it easy to look for unusual values of TwSC in biologically relevant structures. We identified a number of highly unusual over- and under-twisted molecules by comparing TwSC to the twist of ideal B-DNA. We developed 2D and 3D-plots to highlight patterns and unusual deformations in TwSC in a variety of structures. We examined the twisting of DNA in representative A, B, and Z-DNA structures as well as in a collection of 45 nucleosomes. We also studied the effects of shearing on TwSC. When shearing was removed from both a nucleosome and an HU-DNA structure, the value of TwSC approaches that of TwSP, the rigid-body step parameter twist.   We created a user-friendly application, called 3DNAdesigner, that allows a user to construct minimum-energy configurations of open linear and spatially confined DNA molecules. We presented the software design, described its features, and gave three detailed examples. The software was used to create minimum-energy configurations of DNA mini-circles and DNA/protein complexes. The changes in Lk and energy introduced by binding protein to a mini-circle might be of interest to a lab performing in vitro studies. We also found numerous minimum-energy configurations of the Lac operon bound to the Lac repressor in the absence or presence the HU protein.
Messiaen’s Debussy
Creators: name: Cochran, Timothy Benjamin
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: Messiaen devoted Tome VI of his posthumous Traité de rythme, de couleur, etd’ornithologie to analyses of Claude Debussy’s music. Though Debussy’s influence haslong been a cliché of Messiaen’s biography, the significance of Tome VI lies not in itsability to elucidate the mechanisms of influence, but rather in the way it disclosesinterpretive lenses that Messiaen employed to engage with his predecessor’s work. Based on the assumption that analysis is a fundamentally hermeneutic activity, I examine the tools that Messiaen uses to conceptualize Debussy’s music, and I demonstrate how these modes of interpretation are often bound up with broader conceptions of musical structure and meaning essential to Messiaen’s own music. The dissertation addresses three types of interpretation found in Tome VI: technicalapproaches to musical structure, extramusical approaches to water imagery, and thefrequent interpolation of poetic quotations within analysis. First, I explore howMessiaen’s personal theories of compositional technique shape his interpretation ofaltered dominant harmonies, rhythmic variation, and “the rhythm of dynamics” in TomeVI. Next, I examine Messiaen’s references to water imagery in Debussy’s music, noting a combination of a priori, programmatic, topical, and metaphoric modes of interpretation.Of all his water descriptions, Messiaen’s metaphor for shocking rhythmic contrast—“thestone in the water”—reflects a compositional perspective most directly, as strikingdurational oppositions play analogous expressive roles in his birdsong settings anddepictions of divine breakthrough. In the final section, I speculate on the interpretive roleof quotations from poetry throughout the volume, for which I infer three hermeneuticfunctions: the intertexts elevate the perceived significance of the music, ground musicaldetails within preexistent narratives, and provide imagery through which the reader canassess musical details described in adjacent passages. My reading of the poems asinterpretive tools provides a model for interpreting Messiaen’s own music through thelens of scripture quotations that precede many of his works. By reconstructing thesediverse modes of interpretation, the dissertation forms a picture of Messiaen as a dynamicinterpreter who engages with Debussy’s music through many of the same hermeneutic perspectives that inform his compositional approach.
It feels (w)ri(gh)t(e) to me
Creators: name: Coan, Casely Emma
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: This project examines the struggles many feminists encounter with traditional forms of academic writing and attempts to understand the work of Audre Lorde as offering a potential alternative mode of writing. The difficulties experienced include disciplinary conventions and expectations and the violent nature of argument as it is currently taught. Freedom of voice and the significance and role of audience also figure into this discussion. By focusing my close reading of Lorde’s work on “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power” and “Poetry is Not a Luxury,” I examine her use of the erotic as a mode of writing which allows us to connect to ourselves and to one another. These connections enable us to eliminate difference, hatred and discrimination within the text, thus further enabling any feminist thesis or project within it. Finally, by way of offering some sort of a conclusion, I propose the following three tools as crucial to enacting an erotic mode of writing: multiple subjectivity, embodied knowledge and a rhizomatic understanding of knowledge production. While each feminist subject must inhabit hir writing in hir own way, by honoring each difference in the process and writing through love, we allow feminist work to not only articulate but also embody the fight to end all oppressions.
Understanding Breast Cancer Screening in Filipino Women
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: A recent case control study suggests that the risk of breast cancer among Asian women (including Filipino women) may be as high as or even higher than that of White women (Ziegler, Hoover, Pike et al., 1993). Asian women frequently have been excluded from breast cancer research, and the few studies that have included Asian-American women show that they have the lowest screening rates among all ethnic groups. These considerations, coupled with the fact that Asians are the fastest growing ethnic group in California, create an urgent need for interventions to increase screening. However, at the present time, any intervention efforts will certainly be hampered by a woefully inadequate understanding of breast cancer screening behaviors among Asian-American women. The proposed study attempts to provide this information for women of Filipino descent as a first step in the design of an effective, culturally appropriate intervention program.

 The purpose of this proposal is to gather detailed information on factors that affect breast cancer screening in Filipino women 50 years of age and older residing in Los Angeles County. Information will be obtained from focus groups and face-to-face interviews with women of this target group. This study will: 1) conduct semi-structured interviews with key informants in Asian American communities in Los Angeles County regarding breast cancer screening among women of Filipino descent; 2) conduct focus groups with Filipino women to explore attitudes and beliefs regarding breast cancer screening, barriers to screening and how to successfully overcome these barriers; 3) develop, translate and pilot test a survey to collect detailed information on breast cancer screening and correlates in Filipino women; and 4) administer the survey to 200 women 50 years of age and older residing in Los Angeles County.

 Results of this study will be used to formulate recommendations for strategies to increase breast cancer screening among Filipino women 50 years of age and older.