cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Race, Smoking, and Prostate Cancer Outcomes in California Veterans
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: Despite multiple studies suggesting tobacco smoking is linked with prostate cancer (PC) death, PC is not formally considered a smoking-related cancer. Thus, we are missing research opportunities and a public health message that could reduce risk of death from the second most lethal cancer in men. This is especially relevant among Veterans given higher smoking prevalence and Black men specifically, given their higher PC mortality.

 In 2014, we reviewed many studies that tracked men for years with each reporting whether smoking was linked with PC death or not. Combining all the studies, we found current cigarette smoking was associated with a 24% increased risk of dying from PC. Moreover, for each additional pack per day smoked, the risk of PC death went up 20%. We estimated smoking could explain 6.7% of all PC deaths in the US, corresponding to thousands of deaths per year. Likewise, another study in 2018 performed a meta-analysis of patients with PC undergoing surgery and found similarly higher death rates.

 While these findings strongly argue PC death is a smoking-related disease, they may have actually underestimated the true association between smoking and PC death, as none of these studies accounted for higher non-PC death rates among smokers, who may not live long enough to die from PC. Importantly, no study has assessed whether results vary by race.

 To address this, we will perform a large-scale data analysis of the largest integrated health system in the country: the Veterans Affairs (VA). Within this dataset, we identified 858,545 California veterans with smoking data of which 28% are current smokers and 17% are Black. Using data from these men we will determine whether smoking is linked with PC screening, detection, and outcomes in Veterans and whether results differ by race. We will then test whether results are unique to California using a dataset of ~10 million veterans outside California. This will be the largest and most detailed study to date looking at smoking and PC outcomes. These findings will have far-reaching implications, especially among those most affected by a potential smoking-PC link: Black male Veteran smokers.
Immunologic response to CCL21-dendritic cell vaccine in non-small cell lung cancer
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the world, and 85% of these cases are represented by non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The treatment of NSCLC has dramatically improved with the use of immunotherapy, which acts to unleash a patient’s own immune system to attack cancer. Unfortunately, many patients with NSCLC do not benefit from current immunotherapies. Our lab has previously developed a cancer vaccine with the goal of overcoming immunotherapy resistance. Prior research has shown that the immune system is able to target cancer cells by honing onto mutations that are unique to the cancer. These mutations are commonly found in NSCLC, particularly in patients with significant tobacco exposure. Our vaccine involves the injection of dendritic cells (DCs) that can display tumor mutations and attract tumor-killing T cells. The combination of this DC vaccine and the immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab is currently being studied in an ongoing clinical trial, and it is being given to patients who did not respond to standard immunotherapy.

 We do not yet fully understand how the DC vaccine affects the immune system or which factors determine patient responses to this treatment. We therefore plan to use both mouse models and samples obtained from patients on the DC vaccine trial in order to thoroughly study the effects of the vaccine. The mouse models will allow us to identify the mutations targeted by immune cells and evaluate whether any pattern of tumor mutations is associated with resistance or response. These findings can then be applied to clinical samples, which will reveal the changes in the immune system that occur after treatment. The results of our project will provide a more complete picture of how the DC vaccine improves anticancer immune activity and how tumor cells might evade this process. This project can thus help design future cancer vaccines that may further improve the effectiveness of immunotherapy in NSCLC.
Stagonomus bipunctatus
Creators: name: Laterza, Ilaria
name: Tamburini, Giovanni
name: Panzarino, Onofrio
name: Loverre, Pamela
name: Mastronardi, Maria Grazia
name: Dioli, Paride
name: Lillo, Enrico De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pentatomidae
Stagonomus
Stagonomus bipunctatus

description: Stagonomus bipunctatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Material examined (n=6): loc. BQ 01.VI.2020, 24.VI.2020; loc. BR 24. VI.2020; loc. MC 27.VII.2020, 30.IX.2020; loc. S2 07. VI.2020.
Distribution: Widespread in Europe, North Africa (Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia) and Western Asia
description: Published as part of Laterza, Ilaria, Tamburini, Giovanni, Panzarino, Onofrio, Loverre, Pamela, Mastronardi, Maria Grazia, Dioli, Paride & Lillo, Enrico De, 2022, The first annotated checklist of Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) fauna of Alta Murgia National Park (Apulia region, Southern Italy), pp. 401-420 in Zootaxa 5219 (5) on page 410, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5219.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7431348
Investigating a novel axis regulating repair of vascular barrier function after inflammatory insult
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: Each year, 1.9 million people die from tobacco-associated cardiovascular disease (CVD). The most common cause of these diseases is smoke inhalation leading to inflammation and development of a disease called atherosclerosis. Late-stage atherosclerosis is associated with hardening and blockage of blood vessels. However, the early stages are characterized by blood vessel leak caused by holes forming between the cells lining the inside of blood vessels, vascular endothelial cells (ECs). Better understanding the process of vascular repair after inflammation may enable discovery of drugs to prevent tobacco-associated CVDs.

 The holes formed between inflamed ECs result from an inflammatory signal which makes ECs pull away from each other. Repair of these holes is critical since vascular leak is the ultimate cause of CVD. However, our understanding of how ECs turn off the “pulling” signals to repair holes between the cells is limited. To study these processes, our group uses “organ-on-chip” technologies, which are miniaturized three-dimensional human tissues, such as blood vessels, that can be assembled outside the body and used for experimentation. By combining these models with genetically modified ECs, we study cellular behaviors and inflammatory responses at a level of detail that may be missed by studying only animal models.

 In the proposed work we will identify the unknown function of a protein that is a genetic risk factor for coronary artery disease, a type of CVD often developed by chronic tobacco smokers. Our group has recently found that this uncharacterized protein controls some of the processes causing vascular leak after inflammation, enabling repair of holes between ECs. I will use organ on a chip models of blood vessels to study how genetic deletion of this protein impacts repair of vascular leak after inflammation. I will also use biochemical tools to study how this protein senses inflammation and turns off the cellular response to fix the leaky blood vessels. Finally, I will validate my findings by engineering a mouse which has this gene genetically erased and will test how the mice respond to inflammation caused by tobacco smoke. There are currently no drugs available to fix vascular leak, so knowledge of this uncharacterized protein's function in blood vessels may inform the development of therapeutics to treat tobacco-associated CVD.
Myrmisaraka brevis Bolton & Fisher, sp. n.
Creators: name: Bolton, Barry
name: Fisher, Brian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Myrmisaraka
Myrmisaraka brevis

description: Myrmisaraka brevis Bolton & Fisher sp. n.
(Figs 30-32, Map 132)
WORKER (holotype in parentheses). TL 4.6-5.1 (5.0), HL 1.00-1.10 (1.02), HW 0.79-0.92 (0.83), CI 79-85 (81), SL 0.80-0.96 (0.88), SI 99-111 (106), PW 0.58-0.68 (0.62), WL 1.30-1.42 (1.34), MfL 1.02-1.18 (1.10) (20 measured).
Very similar to, and mostly matching the description of, producta (below), but with an obviously 3-segmented antennal club, in which funiculus segment 8 is only 1.00-1.25 times longer than broad, and funiculus segment 9 is relatively elongated, 1.70-2.00 x longer than funiculus segment 8. The antennal scape is relatively shorter in brevis, SI 99-111, than in producta, SI 115-129. In addition, the head capsule of producta averages relatively slightly narrower, CI 75-80, as opposed to CI 79-85 in brevis.
QUEEN (gyne) and MALE: unknown.
Holotype worker (top specimen of three on pin), Madagascar: Prov. Antsiranana, P.N. Marojejy, 27.6 km. 35° NE Andapa, 775 m., 14°26.1'S, 49°45.6'E, 15-18.xi.2003, ex dead twig above ground, rainforest, BLF 9049, CASENT0494587 (Fisher et al.) (CASC).
Paratypes. 2 workers on same pin as holotype; 3 workers with same data as holotype but CASENT0494588; 3 workers with same data as holotype but CASENT0494589 (CASC).
This species appears to nest in dead twigs on the surface of the ground in rainforest. It has also been retrieved from leaf litter samples and has been discovered foraging on low vegetation.
Non-paratypic material examined. Madagascar: four series with exactly the same locality data as type-series, but collections BLF 8872, 9031, 9044, 9047.
description: Published as part of Bolton, Barry & Fisher, Brian, 2014, The Madagascan endemic myrmicine ants related to Eutetramorium (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): taxonomy of the genera Eutetramorium Emery, Malagidris nom. n., Myrmisaraka gen. n., Royidris gen. n., and Vitsika gen. n .., pp. 1-99 in Zootaxa 3791 (1) on pages 35-37, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3791.1.1
Oedaspis Loew
Creators: name: El-Hawagry, Magdi S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tephritidae
Oedaspis

description: Genus OEDASPIS Loew
Oedaspis Loew, 1862b: 46. Type species: Trypeta multifasciata Loew 1850, by subsequent designation (Rondani 1870a: 9).
Dichoedaspis Hendel, 1927a: 83 (proposed as a subgenus). Type species: Oedaspis villeneuvei Bezzi, 1913, by subsequent designation (Foote&Freidberg 1981: 31).
Melanoedaspis Hendel, 1927a: 83 (proposed as a subgenus). Type species: Oedaspis trotteriana Bezzi, 1913, by subsequent designation (Foote & Freidberg 1981: 31).
Oedaspoides Hendel, 1927b: 63 (proposed as a subgenus). Type species: Oedaspoides acuticornis Hendel, 1927, monotypy.
Tylaspis Munro, 1935a: 31 (proposed as a subgenus). Type species: Oedaspis maraisi Munro, 1935, original designation.
Chrysotrypanea Malloch, 1939: 457. Type species: Chrysotrypanea trifasciata Malloch, 1939, original designation.
Munroedaspis Hering, 1940: 6 (proposed as a subgenus). Type species: Oedaspis trapezoidalis Munro, 1938, original designation.
Embaspis Munro, 1952: 219. Type species: Embaspis pauliani Munro, 1952.
Aedaspis Rondani, 1870b: 9. Misspelling of Oedaspis Loew.
Oediaspis Thompson, 1907: 71. Misspelling of Oedaspis Loew.
description: Published as part of El-Hawagry, Magdi S., 2017, Catalogue of Egyptian Tephritoidea (Diptera: Schizophora: Acalyptratae), pp. 151-190 in Zootaxa 4299 (2) on page 163, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4299.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/843233
Acrosternum heegeri Fieber 1861
Creators: name: Laterza, Ilaria
name: Tamburini, Giovanni
name: Panzarino, Onofrio
name: Loverre, Pamela
name: Mastronardi, Maria Grazia
name: Dioli, Paride
name: Lillo, Enrico De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pentatomidae
Acrosternum
Acrosternum heegeri

description: Acrosternum heegeri Fieber, 1861
Material examined (n= 49): loc. BQ 31.X.2020, 14.XII.2020; loc. BR 31.XI.16 leg. MM, 31.X.2020, 14.XII.2020; loc. BS 03. VI.2020; loc. CM 03.XI.2017 leg. PL, 02.XI.2020, 15.XII.2020; loc. LAG 04.I.17 leg. MM; loc. MC 25.X.16 leg. PL; loc. MS 04.XI.16 leg. MM, 02.XI.2020, 15.XII.2020; loc. PM 15.XII.2020; loc. RG 07.VII.2016 leg. RA, 05.VIII.2016 leg. OP, 04.XI.2020, 17.XII.2020; loc. S1 02.X.2020, 14.XII.2020; loc. S2 14.XII.2020.
Distribution: Widespread in Southern Europe (Albania, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Italy, Macedonia, Montenegro, Portugal, Russia (South European Territory), Spain, Slovenia, Ukraine), North Africa (Algeria, Canary Isles, Egypt, Libya, Madeira, Morocco, Tunisia) and Western Asia (Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Turkey (Asian part), Yemen). Extralimital records in tropical Africa.
description: Published as part of Laterza, Ilaria, Tamburini, Giovanni, Panzarino, Onofrio, Loverre, Pamela, Mastronardi, Maria Grazia, Dioli, Paride & Lillo, Enrico De, 2022, The first annotated checklist of Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) fauna of Alta Murgia National Park (Apulia region, Southern Italy), pp. 401-420 in Zootaxa 5219 (5) on page 410, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5219.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7431348
Oedaspis trotteriana Bezzi 1913
Creators: name: El-Hawagry, Magdi S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tephritidae
Oedaspis
Oedaspis trotteriana

description: Oedaspis trotteriana Bezzi, 1913
Oedaspis trotteriana Bezzi, 1913: 151. Syntypes. Libya (Sidi Abd el Kerim: near Tagiura); & Algeria (Tebessa) (ETHZ, other syntypes possibly in MCSNM).
Oedaspis soluta Bezzi, 1913: 153. Syntypes. Libya (Tripoli countryside: Sidi Abd el Kerim, near Tagiura) (MCSNM?).
Oedaspis simplex Bezzi, 1913: 154. Syntypes. Libya (Tripoli countryside: Sidi Abd el Kerim, near Tagiura) (MCSNM?).
Distribution. PA: Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Libya, Morocco.
Egyptian localities. Coastal Strip: Burg, Mex. Eastern Deseret: Suez Road. Lower Nile Valley and Delta: Ezbet El-
Nakhl.
Host plants. Absinthe (Artemisia monosperma Delile). Source: Freidberg & Kugler (1989).
Dates of collection. March to September.
description: Published as part of El-Hawagry, Magdi S., 2017, Catalogue of Egyptian Tephritoidea (Diptera: Schizophora: Acalyptratae), pp. 151-190 in Zootaxa 4299 (2) on page 164, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4299.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/843233
Interrupting Initiation of Smokeless Tobacco Use among Rural California Firefighters
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 overarching aim of this pilot proposal is to uncover factors that can be used to interrupt initiation of smokeless tobacco (SLT) and nicotine pouch (NP) use among new cohorts of rural California firefighters, using policy and social norm change strategies in fire training contexts (volunteer, career, and wildland). The California Health Collaborative (Community Partner; co-PI Katie Moose) and PIRE California (Academic/Research Partner; co-PI Carol Cunradi) propose to build partnerships with fire training programs and to conduct preliminary research in Northern California including the rural counties of Amador, Calaveras, Tuolumne, and Shasta. Preliminary research will generate tailored smokeless tobacco use prevention education and policy interventions for fire training programs. Smokeless tobacco rates among firefighters in the U.S. are high and growing. Moreover, nicotine pouch use is increasingly popular among firefighters. Rural populations in California also have higher smokeless tobacco use rates than the general population and are a priority for California’s Endgame goals. Firefighters are role models and bedrocks of rural communities. Focusing on the firefighter training and recruitment stage may provide a window of opportunity to disrupt smokeless tobacco and nicotine pouch use initiation; previous research has found a significant proportion of U.S. firefighters initiate smokeless tobacco use after joining the fire service. The proposed project will uncover pivotal points along a fire student’s training path in which effective policy and programing could change social norms and prevent fire students from initiating smokeless tobacco use. An underlying hypothesis is that a new firefighter is particularly vulnerable to smokeless tobacco and nicotine pouch initiation at the beginning of their career when their identity as a firefighter is forming. Therefore, if a new firefighter can abstain from using smokeless tobacco and nicotine pouches for the first year or two of service, they will be able to continue their career as a firefighter with a much smaller risk of initiating use of these products. If successful, these partnerships and this pilot work will lay the groundwork for a full CPPRA application, which will expand to test several interventions informed by the rural firefighter participation in this proposed pilot.
title: Mexikanische Blasenkirsche, Tomatillo :
title: Richtlinien für die Durchführung der Prüfung auf Unterscheidbarkeit, Homogenität und Beständigkeit.
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: International Union For The Protection Of New Varieties Of Plants,
Publisher: name: International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants,
Year: 0
Subjects: Plants
Husk Tomato
New Varieties of Plants

description: Zweck dieser Richtlinien („Prüfungsrichtlinien“) ist es, die in der Allgemeinen Einführung (Dokument TG/1/3) und deren verbundenen TGP-Dokumenten enthaltenen Grundsätze in detaillierte praktische Anleitung für die harmonisierte Prüfung der Unterscheidbarkeit, der Homogenität und der Beständigkeit (DUS) umzusetzen und insbesondere geeignete Merkmale für die DUS-Prüfung und die Erstellung harmonisierter Sortenbeschreibungen auszuweisen.
Oedaspis villeneuvei Bezzi 1913
Creators: name: El-Hawagry, Magdi S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tephritidae
Oedaspis
Oedaspis villeneuvei

description: Oedaspis villeneuvei Bezzi, 1913
Oedaspis villeneuvei Bezzi, 1913: 148. Syntypes. Algeria (Batna; & Tebessa) (ETHZ). Distribution. PA: Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Libya. Egyptian localities. Unknown.
Host plants. Unknown.
Dates of collection. Unknown.
description: Published as part of El-Hawagry, Magdi S., 2017, Catalogue of Egyptian Tephritoidea (Diptera: Schizophora: Acalyptratae), pp. 151-190 in Zootaxa 4299 (2) on page 164, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4299.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/843233
FAIR Samples: exploring research and sample data management best practices in place-based research (Project Proposal)
Creators: name: Plankytė, Vaida
name: Macneil, Rory
name: Chodacki, John
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: RSpace
Research Data Lifecycle
Vertical Interoperability
Research Data Management
FAIR
Samples
Interoperability
Metadata

description: A summary of CDL UC3's and RSpace's joint EAGER grant #2433320, focused on end-to-end sample workflow facilitation through integration of tools that are used across the sample research lifecycle. This document was part of the original 2-year project proposal and outlines the motivation for the project, its work package components, deliverables, and broader impacts.
Interrupting tobacco-related disparities among housing insecure youth: A strengths-based approach
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: Youth experiencing homelessness or housing instability (YEH) smoke, use other tobacco products, and co-consume tobacco and cannabis more than their peers with stable housing—particularly in California. There is evidence, however, that YEH are interested in quitting or reducing their tobacco use and service providers are interested in helping them achieve that goal. In the scope of 2-years, we propose to use multiple sources of data and consistent youth-engagement and feedback to develop a strengths-based intervention that leads to reductions in tobacco use by promoting healthy coping behavior, resource access and utilization, community and peer support, and overall resilience among YEH. We believe a strengths-based approach is necessary to support the unique needs of this community of young people. The pilot project will be carried out by a collaborative team of investigators from a long-standing community-based organization serving YEH in the San Diego region: San Diego Youth Services (SDYS; community partner) and San Diego State University (academic partner). We will recruit 5 youth co-researchers to join our collaborative research team as equitable members and contributors. Overall, we aim to co-produce a sustainable, strengths-based intervention for SDYS that can be implemented in other community-based organizational settings to address the persistent public health problem of tobacco use among YEH.
Myopites Blot 1827
Creators: name: El-Hawagry, Magdi S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tephritidae
Myopites

description: Genus MYOPITES Blot
Myopites Blot, 1827: 102. Type species: Myopites inulaedyssentericae Blot, 1827, monotypic.
Rhyncheterus Rondani, 1863: 37. Type species: Rhyncheterus damascenus Rondani, 1863 (= Myopites inulaedyssentericae Blot, 1827), monotypy.
Myiopites Bezzi, 1908: 140. Misspelling of Myopites.
Rhynchetenus Foote, 1984: 99. Misspelling of Rhyncheterus.
Myipites Foote, 1984: 99. Misspelling of Myopites Blot, attributed to “authors”.
description: Published as part of El-Hawagry, Magdi S., 2017, Catalogue of Egyptian Tephritoidea (Diptera: Schizophora: Acalyptratae), pp. 151-190 in Zootaxa 4299 (2) on page 164, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4299.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/843233
Defining the role of APOE secreted from senescent fibroblasts in lung adenocarcinoma
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Lung cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths in the United States. Tobacco smoking accounts for 90% of lung cancer deaths. Mutated KRAS is the predominant driver mutation in tobacco-related non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), which is not susceptible to the numerous tyrosine kinase inhibitors that target EGFR and other mutations commonly found in never smokers. A prominent feature of KRAS-induced NSCLC is the extensive remodeling of the tumor microenvironment (TME) that can drive tumor progression. Given that only a small fraction of lung cancer patients responds to therapies targeting oncogenic mutation and checkpoint blockade, tumor microenvironment can be a potential target to improve therapeutic efficacy. Stromal cells interact with cancer cells and other microenvironments in a dynamic manner. Studies show that cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) have diverse functions based on phenotypic markers and gene expressions. Due to the heterogeneity of CAFs, it is important to identify and target specific subset of CAFs which contributes to progression and relapse of cancer. Cigarette smoke, the predominant cause of lung cancer, can also induce senescence in lung fibroblasts. Studies suggest that senescent fibroblasts may support cancer cell’s proliferation. However, it is unclear how the senescent fibroblasts affect cancer cell’s properties. Our research goal is to define the role of senescent fibroblasts in lung cancer development. Our lab has recently established a mouse model which can trace senescent cells. Our preliminary data shows that senescent CAFs are present in the tumor stroma of lung cancer. We also found that APOE, a secreted lipid binding protein, is highly expressed in senescent CAFs. Furthermore, our preliminary data show that APOE secreted by senescent CAFs can alter tumor lipid metabolism and promote tumor growth. This suggests that senescent CAF-derived APOE supports tumor progression by rewiring lipid metabolism in lung cancer. Our proposal aims to define how APOE alters tumor metabolic properties to promote growth, and how to target this pathway as a potential therapeutic target in lung cancer.
Myopites variofasciatus Becker 1903
Creators: name: El-Hawagry, Magdi S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tephritidae
Myopites
Myopites variofasciatus

description: Myopites variofasciatus Becker, 1903
Myopites variofasciata Becker, 1903: 132. Syntypes. Egypt (Alexandria) (ZMHB). Distribution. PA: Egypt, Israel.
Egyptian localities. Coastal Strip: Alexandria, Cleopatra. Lower Nile Valley and Delta: Faraskour, Gezeira, Shoubra.
Host plants. The golden samphire (Limbarda crithmoides (L.) Dumort.). Source: Freidberg (1979b). Dates of collection. May to November.
description: Published as part of El-Hawagry, Magdi S., 2017, Catalogue of Egyptian Tephritoidea (Diptera: Schizophora: Acalyptratae), pp. 151-190 in Zootaxa 4299 (2) on page 164, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4299.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/843233
removed
Creators: name: removed
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: L’insécurité économique devient de plus en plus un fléau en République Démocratique du Congo en général, et en particulier dans des ménages ruraux de la commune rurale de KALO, dans le territoire d’Idiofa, province du Kwilu, en République Démocratique du Congo où les familles éprouvent sérieusement des difficultés surtout pour scolariser les enfants à cause des maigres revenus.

La dépendance aux seuls petits revenus des hommes chefs de ménages expose les familles à être vulnérable à la pauvreté absolue.

Ainsi, l’entrepreneuriat féminin par la fabrication et commercialisation des pains constituent entre autre un moyen de lutte pour les femmes de la commune rurale de Kalo contre l’insécurité économique.
Characterizing the Lung Deposition of Electronic Cigarette Aerosols Using an Artificial Lung System
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: To understand the potential adverse health effects of vaping, it is important to study how inhaled electronic cigarette (e-cig) aerosols deposit in human lungs. Currently, such information is usually obtained from experimental and modeling studies, typically by measuring e-cig particle size distributions in experimental chambers and then utilizing lung deposition models to estimate the doses based on the measured size distributions. However, these studies often ignore the dynamic breathing and the unique warm and humid environment of human lungs. In addition, e-cig devices and e-liquid formulations have been continuously evolving. The new generation of e-cigs (also called 4th generation e-cigs) featuring small, low-power pods and nicotine salt have gained increasing popularity among young users. However, the possible health effects of emerging e-cig products remain unclear, partially due to the incomplete knowledge of e-cig aerosol exposures associated with lung deposition. To better study the lung deposition of e-cig aerosols, we have developed an artificial lung system that can continuously breathe and control the temperature and humidity independently to approximate the real human lungs. This artificial lung system has a 3D-printed human respiratory tract structure from the mouth to the bronchioles. It allows us to systematically study the e-cig aerosol deposition in different human lung regions by changing various factors affecting lung deposition one at a time. The overarching goal of this project is to identify major factors (related to lung physiology and particle emissions) that affect the lung deposition of e-cig aerosols. We will use the developed artificial lung to measure the lung deposition of e-cig aerosol under different temperatures, humidity, and breathing patterns (i.e., respiratory rate and tidal volume). We will also study the lung deposition of aerosols emitted from different e-cig devices using a series of customized e-liquid formulations. This study is expected to advance our understanding of the lung deposition of e-cig aerosols and identify key driving factors related to the risk assessment of vaping.
Acrosternum millierei
Creators: name: Laterza, Ilaria
name: Tamburini, Giovanni
name: Panzarino, Onofrio
name: Loverre, Pamela
name: Mastronardi, Maria Grazia
name: Dioli, Paride
name: Lillo, Enrico De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pentatomidae
Acrosternum
Acrosternum millierei

description: Acrosternum millierei (Mulsant & Rey, 1866)
Material examined (n=44): loc. BQ 24.VII.2020, 02.X.2020, 31.X.2020; loc. CM 30.IX.16 leg. PL, 03.IX.2020, 02.XI.2020, 15.XII.2020; loc. LG 03.VI.2020, 31.VIII.2020, 06.X.2020, 15.XII.2020; loc. PG 27. V.2020, 02.IX.2020, 29.IX.2020; loc. RG 02.IX.2020, 29.IX.2020; loc. S1 15.XII.2020; loc. S2 27.VII.2020, 01.IX.2020, 30.IX.2020, 29.X.2020, 14.XII.2020.
Distribution: Widespread in Southern Europe (Albania, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Greece, Italy, Malta, Montenegro, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey (European part)), North Africa (Algeria, Canary Isles, Egypt, Libya, Madeira, Morocco, Tunisia) and Asia (Afghanistan, Cyprus, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Sinai, Syria, Turkey (Asian part), Yemen). Extralimital records in tropical Africa.
Remarks: The specimens were collected in seminatural area on Rhamnus sp. First record in Apulia region (Southern Italy).
description: Published as part of Laterza, Ilaria, Tamburini, Giovanni, Panzarino, Onofrio, Loverre, Pamela, Mastronardi, Maria Grazia, Dioli, Paride & Lillo, Enrico De, 2022, The first annotated checklist of Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) fauna of Alta Murgia National Park (Apulia region, Southern Italy), pp. 401-420 in Zootaxa 5219 (5) on pages 410-411, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5219.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7431348
Urophora Robineau-Desvoidy 1830
Creators: name: El-Hawagry, Magdi S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tephritidae
Urophora

description: Genus UROPHORA Robineau-Desvoidy
Urophora Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 769. Type species: Musca cardui Linnaeus, 1758, by subsequent designation (Westwood 1840: 149).
Euribia Meigen, 1800: 36. Type species: Musca cardui Linnaeus,1758, by subsequent designation (Hendel 1927a: 37). (Suppressed by I.C.Z.N. 1963: 339, opinion 687).
Carpomya Rondani, 1856:111. Type species: Musca arctii De Geer, 1776 (= Musca solstitialis Linnaeus, 1758), original designation. (Preoccupied by Costa 1854).
Euibia Foote, 1984: 140. Misspelling of Euribia Meigen, attributed to “authors”.
description: Published as part of El-Hawagry, Magdi S., 2017, Catalogue of Egyptian Tephritoidea (Diptera: Schizophora: Acalyptratae), pp. 151-190 in Zootaxa 4299 (2) on page 164, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4299.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/843233
Inferring gene expression from cell-free DNA for predicting response to immunotherapy in lung cancer
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: One of the most effective ways to defend our body from unwanted attacks by unspecified enemies, such as viruses, is our immune system. The immune system has at least one million genetically encoded blueprints for weapons, so we can create weapons that can counter any infectious agent. Once a defense against the enemy is established, memory cells remain, allowing the body to rapidly produce weapons when the same enemy re-invades. The immune system can even deal with cancer, an enemy that develops inside the body. Therefore, boosting the immune system’s ability to defend against cancer may be a better treatment than other anti-cancer drugs given the versatility of immune system and long-term efficacy by remaining memory cells. A treatment that uses the immune system to fight cancer is called immunotherapy, and it has become standard of care in recent years, advancing the lung cancer treatment landscape.

 Lung cancer is one of the most frequently diagnosed cancers and the leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide. About 85% of lung cancers are caused by tobacco smoking. Immunotherapy can lead to long term remissions in lung cancer patients, especially in those with a history of smoking. However, only a limited percentage of patients respond to immunotherapy, and it remains elusive which factors determine the response to immunotherapy. Thus, there is intense interest in developing assays for predicting and monitoring the response to immunotherapy in lung cancer patients that can minimize costs and maximize the efficacy of treatment.

 Factors that determine the response to immunotherapy include tumor characteristics such as mutations or expression of immunosuppressive molecules. Another factor is characteristics of a patient’s immune system. This can be determined by examining the types of immune cells that migrate to the tumor and the number of immune cells that can fight tumor cells. However, currently analyzing these factors requires tumor tissue, which cannot be easily repeatedly sampled. It would be preferable if we could analyze these factors through a simple blood draw. To this end, I propose to develop an assay that can measure both genetic features of cancer cells and gene expression profiles of tumor and immune cells from the same blood draw. I will investigate if this approach can predict which lung cancer patients will respond to immunotherapy.
Urophora (Urophora) affinis subsp. calcitrapae White & Korneyev 1989
Creators: name: El-Hawagry, Magdi S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tephritidae
Urophora
Urophora affinis
Urophora (urophora) affinis ssp. calcitrapae white & korneyev, 1989

description: Urophora (Urophora) affinis ssp. calcitrapae White & Korneyev, 1989
Urophora affinis ssp. calcitrapae White & Korneyev, 1989: 342. Holotype. Israel (Mt. Hermon, 1600 m.) (BMNH). Distribution. PA: Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Turkey.
Egyptian localities. Unknown.
Host plants. Centaurea spp.
Urophora (Urophora) mauritanica Macquart, 1851
Urophora mauritanica Macquart, 1851: 259. Unspecified type. Algeria (UMO).
Trypeta macrura Loew, 1855: 40. Syntypes. Greece (ZMHB). Urophora lejura Rondani, 1870b: 19. Syntypes. Italy (Apennine Mts. near Parma; & Sardinia) (MZLS).
Urophora sejuncta Becker, 1907: 390. Syntypes. Tunisia (Tunis) (ZMHB).
Urophora algira Macquart, 1843: 378. Syntypes. Algeria (MHNLi). Has priority over mauritanica, but synonymy uncertain (White & Korneyev 1989: 353).
Distribution. PA: Throughout Europe from Spain to Russia except Scandinavian countries, Iran, Israel,
Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Uzbekistan, North Africa (Korneyev & White, 1999).
Egyptian localities. Lower Nile Valley and Delta: Ezbet El-Nakhl, Shoubra.
Host plants. The distaff thistles (Carthamus spp.). Source: Freidberg & Kugler (1989).
Dates of collection. March to May.
description: Published as part of El-Hawagry, Magdi S., 2017, Catalogue of Egyptian Tephritoidea (Diptera: Schizophora: Acalyptratae), pp. 151-190 in Zootaxa 4299 (2) on pages 164-165, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4299.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/843233
Nezara viridula
Creators: name: Laterza, Ilaria
name: Tamburini, Giovanni
name: Panzarino, Onofrio
name: Loverre, Pamela
name: Mastronardi, Maria Grazia
name: Dioli, Paride
name: Lillo, Enrico De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pentatomidae
Nezara
Nezara viridula

description: Nezara viridula (Linnaeus, 1758)
Material examined (n=73): loc. BQ 31.X.2020; loc. BR 05.12.16 leg. MM, 31.X.2020; loc. BS 30. VI.2020; loc. CM 03.IX.2020; loc. LG 15.XII.2020; loc. MC 14.XII.2020; loc. MS 03.IX.2020, 02.XI.2020; loc. PG 29.IX.2020, 04.XI.2020, 17.XII.2020; loc. RG 29.IX.2020, 04.XI.2020, 17.XII.2020; loc. S2 29.X.2020.
Distribution: Widespread in Europe, North Africa (Algeria, Azores, Canary Isles, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia) and Asia. Cosmopolitan in tropical and subtropical countries. Common everywhere.
description: Published as part of Laterza, Ilaria, Tamburini, Giovanni, Panzarino, Onofrio, Loverre, Pamela, Mastronardi, Maria Grazia, Dioli, Paride & Lillo, Enrico De, 2022, The first annotated checklist of Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) fauna of Alta Murgia National Park (Apulia region, Southern Italy), pp. 401-420 in Zootaxa 5219 (5) on page 411, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5219.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7431348
Functional multimaterial hydrogels via dual-wavelength projection microstereolithography
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: Biological systems often incorporate hierarchically ordered structures of soft and hard domains that give tissues toughness and strain hardening response. While novel resins for light-based additive manufacturing (AM) have been extensively researched, the ability to pattern multimaterial objects remains a challenge. The goal of this project is to 3D print multimaterial, functional hydrogels which are critical to engineering biomimetic structures with regions of varying compliance and functionality. An example of this is the osteochondral interface, where stiffness gradients and robust interfaces between harder and softer domains are vital for load transfer with minimal damage over a lifetime of cycles. The main deliverables for this research are (1) to design a resin for dual wavelength, multimaterial 3D printing of hierarchical hydrogel structures and (2) to selectively pattern bioactive cues through active ester chemistry and peptide functionalization. This work will be enabled by combining the additive manufacturing (AM) systems and resin formulation expertise in Dr. Maxim Shusteff’s group at LLNL with the polymer chemistry and photopolymerization expertise in the laboratories of Dr. Rachel Segalman and Dr. Craig Hawker at UC Santa Barbara. The Hawker lab has developed orthogonal photopolymerization resins to pattern multimaterial objects with chemically distinct domains and strong interconnected interfaces. The Segalman lab has developed a synthetic platform to fabricate functional hydrogel networks that can be substituted with libraries of ligands to selectively tailor the network’s chemical functionality. The advanced manufacturing group at LLNL led by Maxim Shusteff has a cutting-edge, modular projection microstereolithography (PµSL) platform which has been adapted for dual wavelength patterning. By merging the core expertise at both institutions, this project seeks to 3DP dual wavelength, multimaterial hydrogels with versatile chemical functionality, varying mechanical properties, and high resolution control, to be demonstrated through a bioinspired osteochondral model. Success in this project will open the door to investigations of hierarchical multimaterial models for geometrically complex, bioengineered tissues and elucidate structure-property relationships towards the design of mechanically enhanced 3DP materials.
Rhaphigaster nebulosa
Creators: name: Laterza, Ilaria
name: Tamburini, Giovanni
name: Panzarino, Onofrio
name: Loverre, Pamela
name: Mastronardi, Maria Grazia
name: Dioli, Paride
name: Lillo, Enrico De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pentatomidae
Rhaphigaster
Rhaphigaster nebulosa

description: Rhaphigaster nebulosa (Poda, 1761)
Material examined (n=86): loc. BQ 04.IX.2020, 14.XII.2020; loc. BS 20.XI.2016 leg. PL, 06.X.2020, 15.XII.2020; loc. LAG 23.VIII.2016 leg. MM, 06.XII.2016 leg. PL, 04.I.2017 leg. OP, 30.I.2017 leg. MM, 01.II.2017 leg. PL; loc. LG 06.XII.2016 leg. PO, 06.X.2020, 15.XII.2020; loc. MC 24.VIII.2016, leg. OP; loc. PM 15.XII.2020, loc. RG 04.I.2017 leg. MM.
Distribution: Widespread in Europe, North Africa (Algeria and Morocco) and Asia (Armenia, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Syria, Turkey (Asian part), Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan). Extralimital record in Pakistan.
description: Published as part of Laterza, Ilaria, Tamburini, Giovanni, Panzarino, Onofrio, Loverre, Pamela, Mastronardi, Maria Grazia, Dioli, Paride & Lillo, Enrico De, 2022, The first annotated checklist of Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) fauna of Alta Murgia National Park (Apulia region, Southern Italy), pp. 401-420 in Zootaxa 5219 (5) on page 411, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5219.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7431348
Ultra High Temperature Material Synthesis and Degradation Mechanisms in Hypersonic Flight
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: When traveling at hypersonic speeds in Earth’s atmosphere, materials are required to operate under extreme conditions. The leading edge of a hypersonic vehicle must withstand temperatures up to 2727 ˚C at Mach 8, in addition to reactive oxygen environments. Material candidates are selected based on performance in arc-jet experiments, where materials are exposed to a high temperature plasma plume. While this technique is effective at testing bulk materials and examining them postmortem, it is difficult to couple with in-situ material-specific diagnostics. Lockheed Martin has quoted “material behavior, characterization and response is critically important to developing reliable, predictable and cost-effective flight systems.” Thus, complementary in-situ materials diagnostics are required to decouple fundamental material phenomena to better understand core degradation mechanisms to improve hypersonic performance. There are two key techniques that can be used to complement arc-jet experiments: (i) The McCormack lab’s environmentally controlled conical nozzle levitator system equipped with dual heating lasers is able to levitate spherical samples in a compositionally controlled gas-stream and achieve temperatures of up to ~4000K. This technique can be coupled with in-situ X-ray powder diffraction to observe temperature effects (thermal expansion, melting, evaporation etc.) as well as chemical reactions in air, while being container-less, which prevents unwanted container reactions. (ii) LLNL is constructing a materials diagnostic wind tunnel that will be operational in 2022, that can achieve hypersonic speeds up to Mach 5 and uses resistive and laser heating to achieve temperatures up to ~4000˚C. In-situ laser-based speckle interferometry and ultrasound testing are incorporated to observe material response, such as thickness, porosity and topology changes. These two systems will be able to decouple material degradation mechanisms for hypersonic candidate materials such as ZrC and HfC in addition to the highest predicted melting point materials, (Hf0.8,Ta0.2)C, Hf-C-N. This study will determine material operation limits, as well as inform the design of next generation barrier coatings and composite systems to further push these materials beyond their current capabilities.
Urophora (Urophora) quadrifasciata
Creators: name: El-Hawagry, Magdi S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tephritidae
Urophora
Urophora quadrifasciata

description: Urophora (Urophora) quadrifasciata (Meigen, 1826)
Trypeta quadrifasciata Meigen, 1826: 412. Syntypes. Germany (Muhlheim am Rhein); & unstated European locality. (MNHNP), attributed to Wiedemann; type data (White & Korneyev 1989: 357).
Urophora dejeanii Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 772. Unspecified type. France (DJN).
Trypeta quadrifaciata Meigen, 1826: 331. incorrect original spelling of quadrifasciata Meigen (Hardy & Foote,1989: 526).
Distribution. AU: Australia. NE: introduced North America. PA: Europe & Kazakstan S to North Africa & Iran.
Egyptian localities. Eastern Desert: Wadi Hoff, Wadi Rishrash. Lower Nile Valley and Delta: Abu Rawash,
Barrage, Birqash, Cairo, Helwan, Kafr Hakim, Kerdassa, Marg, Mansouriya, Shubra, Tisfa, Toukh.
Host plants. Starthistles (Centaurea spp. Sources: Efflatoun (1924a); Freidberg & Kugler (1989); Korneyev &
White (1992); Freidberg & Norrbom (2000).
Dates of collection. March to June.
description: Published as part of El-Hawagry, Magdi S., 2017, Catalogue of Egyptian Tephritoidea (Diptera: Schizophora: Acalyptratae), pp. 151-190 in Zootaxa 4299 (2) on page 165, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4299.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/843233
Urophora (Urophora) repeteki
Creators: name: El-Hawagry, Magdi S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tephritidae
Urophora
Urophora repeteki

description: Urophora (Urophora) repeteki (Munro, 1934)
Euribia repeteki Munro 1934: 265. Lectotype. Turkmenistan (Bucharia: Repetek) (SDEI). Lectotype designated by Korneyev & White 1992: 698.
Euribia angustifascia Hering 1956: 83. Holotype. Iran (Baluchestan: Iranshar) (SMNS).
Euribia ligulipalpis Hering 1961: 320. Holotype. Afghanistan (Aqtchah) (ZIL).
Euribia phaeocera Hering 1961: 319. Holotype. Israel (TAU).
Distribution. PA: Israel. Egypt, Turkey & Kazakstan to Israel, Iran & Afghanistan.
Egyptian localities. Sinai: Sinai Mt. Source: Kugler & Freidberg (1976).
Host plants. Cousinia hermonis Boiss. Source: Freidberg & Kugler (1989).
Dates of collection. June to August.
description: Published as part of El-Hawagry, Magdi S., 2017, Catalogue of Egyptian Tephritoidea (Diptera: Schizophora: Acalyptratae), pp. 151-190 in Zootaxa 4299 (2) on page 165, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4299.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/843233