cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Dog Park Health
Creators: name: Samuels, Sirrika
name: Koo, Michelle
name: Levitt, Dale
name: Fagan, Julie M.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: Promoting health and fitness through social communities in dog parks
description: Obesity is a significant issue in both the human and animal populations.  There are numerous factors that contribute to its prevalence, including improper diet, environment, genetics, and various metabolic diseases.  The best way to measure the amount of fat cover on an animal is through Body Condition Scoring.  This gives a point of comparison between animals, and indicates how far away from optimum fat coverage an animal is.  Many of the health issues that occur as a result of obesity in animals can be extremely costly and prevented through proper diet and exercise.  Examples of these conditions include diabetes, osteoarthritis, and coronary heart disease.  One of the best options for getting proper exercise is by going to dog parks.  This setting creates a unique social community where people communicate their ideas and are able to talk with individuals who may be able to motivate others to exercise. In order to address this issue, we set up an event at a dog park where our group members spoke about the issues involved with obesity, and tried showing them the fun that their dogs would have at the dog park.  The psychological phenomenon that occurs when people communicate with one another at dog parks is explored in this paper, and explains how this is no different that the forms of social media like Facebook or Twitter.  This will hopefully foster the proper health and fitness attitude, and help it spread through the community.
Axina fasciata Kirsch 1874
Creators: name: Opitz, Weston
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Axina
Axina fasciata

description: Axina fasciata Kirsch, 1874
Figures 46, 70, 95.
Axina fasciata Kirsch, 1874: 398. Holotype. Gender not known. Type locality: Peru (SMTD). Dos Santos and Filho 1982: 43. Corporaal 1950: 98.
Diagnosis. The prothoracic femur is unicolorous in the members of this species. This characteristic will distinguish the members of this species from superficially similar specimens of A. megaspina, which differ by showing a bicolorous prothoracic femur.
Redescription. Size. Length 8.0 mm; width 2.0 mm. Form. As in Fig. 95. Color. Cranium dark castaneous; antenna testaceous; prothorax bicolorous, mostly testaceous, with a broad brown band across pronotum proximal to pronotal arch; mesothorax testaceous; metathorax castaneous; elytra bicolorous, mostly testaceous, with two transverse brown bands, one band at middle, second band in front of elytral apex; legs testaceous except metafemur brown; abdomen flavotestaceous. Head. Cranium finely punctate, frons about as wide as length of antennal pedicel; EW/FW 40/10. Thorax. Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 tumescences, concave at middle; PW/ PL 80/110; elytra, asetiferous punctures substriate, punctures extend to elytral ½, interstitial spaces wide; EL/EW 340/60. Abdomen. Aedeagus (Fig. 46), phallobasic lobes very long, curvate distally; phallic plates minutely serrate; phallobasic apodeme abbreviated.
Variation. Size. Length 5.0–8.0 mm; width 1.2–1.8 mm. The narrow dark transverse marking across the pronotum proper, may expand to a large black marking that extends anteriorly onto the pronotal arch. The pronotal marking may be faintly visible or completely absent.
Natural history. Specimens were collected in Bolivia during November and December, one at 430 m. Other specimens were collected from Brazil during October.
Distribution (for map see Fig. 70). In addition to the holotype, I examined 25 specimens from: Bolivia: Departamento de Santa Cruz, Buena Vista, vicinity Hotel Flora & Fauna, 5-15-XI- 2001, 430 m, blacklight trap, M. C. Thomas; idem, 22-31-X-2003, Wappes & Morris; Potrerillos del Guenda, 22-XI-2005, B. K. Dozier. Peru: Provincia San Martin, Moyobamba,?-?-1888, M. de Mathan. Brazil: Estado do Amazonas, Amazon, collection date not noted, Bates. Estado do Mato Grosso, Diamantino, Fazenda Rio Arinos,?- X-1983, Eurides Furtado. Specimens are deposited in: ACMT, AMNH, BMNH, CASC, CMNH, CUIC, FMNH, FSCA, MCNZ, RFMC, SDEI, and WOPC.
description: Published as part of Opitz, Weston, 2020, Taxonomic revision of the Western Hemisphere checkered beetle genus Axina Kirby (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae), pp. 1-70 in Insecta Mundi 2020 (793) on pages 23-24, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4564947
Wildlife Habitats
Creators: name: Pee, Dorothy
name: Marquis, Matthew
name: Kupershteyn, Rita
name: Fagan, Julie M.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: Their effect on animals and plants and what can be done to help
description: An endangered species is a plant or animal that is in danger of becoming extinct due to its existence in low numbers. Reasons that a species can become endangered include habitat destruction, commercial exploitation, and introduction of exotic species, disease, pollution, and limited distribution. Many laws have been passed over the years to try to minimize and prevent the demise of certain species, including the Endangered Species Act. These animals are affected mainly by their habitats being destroyed, but their numbers are also greatly affected by poaching, pesticides, and other factors that are mostly due to human involvement. A way to try to help animal and plant species is by certifying towns as National Wildlife Habitats through the National Wildlife Federation. Even though there are many animals that cannot be saved because they have already gone extinct, small steps such as these help to protect native species in America and other countries.
Uncinocythere ambophora Hart 1962, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Williams, Bronwyn W.
name: Weaver, Patricia G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Ostracoda
Podocopida
Entocytheridae
Uncinocythere
Uncinocythere ambophora

description: Uncinocythere ambophora (Walton & Hobbs, 1959) Hart, 1962
1959 Entocythere ambophora sp. nov. —Walton & Hobbs: 114, 115–118, 119, 120, Figs. 1 –6 (D, H, K, R, T).
1961a E. ambophora Walton and Hobbs. —Hart & Hobbs: 173, 174, 181 (C, E, K, R).
1962 Uncinocythere ambophora (Walton and Hobbs) new combination.—Hart: 123 [as E. ambophora Walton and Hobbs], 136 (C, D, T).
1963b U. ambophora (Walton and Hobbs, 1959: 115).—Hobbs & Walton: 457 (R).
1968 U. ambophora (Walton and Hobbs, 1959).—Ferguson: 502 (C, D).
1969b Uncinocythere ambophora Walton and Hobbs, 1959: 115.—Hart & Hart: 157, erroneous authority format (T).
1971 Uncinocythere ambophora (Walton and Hobbs, 1959:115).—Hobbs Jr.: 20, 21, 52, 55 (D, K).
1974 Uncinocythere ambophora (Walton and Hobbs, 1959).—Hart & Hart: 9, 15 [and as E. ambophora], 122, 123, 141, 210, 231, Pl. XXXIV Figs. 9–11, Pl. LV (C, D, H, K, T).
1975 Uncinocythere ambophora (Walton & Hobbs, 1959).—Hart & Hart: 45–46 (C, D, H).
1975 Un. ambophora (Walton and Hobbs, 1959).—Hobbs: 282 (C, D).
1977 Uncinocythere ambophora (Walton and Hobbs, 1959:115).—Hobbs, Hobbs & Daniel: 151, 177, 183 (D, H).
1991 Uncinocythere ambophora (Hobbs & Walton, 1959).—Hobbs & Franz: 62, lapsus calami (switched authority order) (A, D, H).
1994 Uncinocythere ambophora (Walton and Hobbs).—Franz, Bauer & Morris: 37 (D, H).
2014a Uncinocythere ambophora (Walton & Hobbs, 1959).—Mestre, Monrós & Mesquita-Joanes: 950 (C).
description: Published as part of Williams, Bronwyn W. & Weaver, Patricia G., 2018, A historical review of the taxonomy and classification of Entocytheridae (Crustacea: Ostracoda: Podocopida), pp. 1-129 in Zootaxa 4448 (1) on page 85, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4448.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1444492
Oral delivery of self-replicating RNA with hepE viral capsid
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: We propose a collaborative studies on structure-directed vaccine development, which at this stage does not involve any human subjects. With the support from UCDG, we will better evaluate the efficacy of mucosal oral vaccine delivery system in collaboration with a California-based industrial partner Novartis Vaccine&Diagnosis, Emeryville. established animal model. Two major advantages of our oral delivery system are proposed in this study that would be boosted by UCDG to further develop industrial collaboration: 1) an oral vaccine would be ideal based on the fact of earlier immunization with 2.2 billion doses of oral polio vaccine delivered in the year of 2003 alone. 2) It would be ideal for an immune response to be present right at the site of infection (i.e., at / in the mucosa), rather than at the sites of later infection points after the pathogen invades the body with chance to multiply. Thus, it is important to investigate how an orally administered vaccine, particularly a non-live vaccine could be effective against diseases, can go against infections via other routes (e.g., influenza flu) by encapsulated RNA as proposed, or in a different mucosal location (e.g., HIV AIDS). The strategy of using the water route of a viral capsid to simultaneously deliver orally the RNA epitope vaccine is novel in contrast to the existing system used to carry one type of antigen. This UCDG support will immediately provide the opportunity for combining the novel platform technology of a oral delivery system () with the strengthen of the industrial partner to be tested in their established animal models. For a generic platform technology to produce novel oral vaccines in the battle against infectious diseases, this work will be conducted under the collaboration between structural biochemists and immunologists, coordinated with Novartis Vaccine&Diagnosis Inc. Ultimately, what we will achieve from this grant period is an effective oral vaccine delivered by drinks that reduces the severity of infectious diseases. As a platform technology, the result of our investigation will open new avenues in vaccine design to induce cellular immune responses in both the T-helper cells and the viral infections, MHC-I restricted cytotoxic T lymphocytes.
Renewable Energy and Sustainability at Rutgers
Creators: name: Lane, Briana
name: Lane, Michael
name: Patel, Nilesh
name: Fagan, Julie M.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: Informing the Rutgers Community about its energy conservation efforts through a freshman seminar
description: Rutgers has been considered well ahead of the curve in relation to its energy conservation and sustainability efforts as compared to other universities around the nation. The problem is that not enough of Rutgers students are conscious of the great strides that its school is making in these areas. Whether it is the 1.4 megawatt solar farm on Livingston campus, the projected geothermal building projects, or the $5 million lighting retrofit project, within the past few years, Rutgers has put in an immense amount of time and money to get us ahead of this curve. We have made it our goal as a group to reach out to Rutgers students and expose them to the universities goals to make Rutgers one of the leading sustainable campuses in the nation. After consulting with Rutgers Energy Conservation Manager/Sustainability Coordinator, Michael Kornitas, and the Associate Director of Environmental Service, David DeHart, we decided to focus our service project on developing a FIGS Seminar dedicated to teaching freshman students about renewable energy and sustainability. The 10 week course will explore sustainability issues (in energy, food, water, etc.) as well as give students the opportunity to see some Rutgers projects first hand through on-site field trips around campus.
Rapid identification of new citrus virus & viroid pathogens
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 most effective approach for the protection of the citrus industry is the quarantine-disease testing and budwood certification programs for the introduction and distribution of citrus propagative materials. In California, this service is provided by the California Citrus Clonal Protection Program (CCPP) at UC-Riverside for the past 54 years. However, many of the graft transmissible diseases have uncharacterized causal agents and research efforts in the past 30 years have made little progress. As a result, no laboratory technique is available for the rapid diagnosis of these diseases and the citrus quarantine/certification programs have to rely on biological indexing as the sole mean, which is time consuming, laborious, costly, and not always reliable. We have recently developed a new approach for rapid identification of new viruses, viral satellites and viroids. This approach involves sequencing of the fraction of small RNAs produced in an infected host in a single lane of Illumina Analyzer, followed by simple bioinformatic analyses. Use of this approach led to the identification of five new RNA viruses from insects by us and two new DNA viruses from sweet potato independently by another group. We propose to process isolates of citrus diseases of unknown etiology available in CCPP’s disease collection in UC-Riverside using our new method of virus/viroid discovery. These include citrus vein enation, concave gum, cristacortis, fatal yellows, and yellow vein. We also plan to identify the nuclear type of the citrus leprosis virus (CiLV-N) using samples provided by Dr. Juliana Freitas-Astua (Brazil). In addition, we will determine if viruses or viroids play a role in several California diseases including “Fukumoto decline on trifoliate or trifoliate hybrid rootstocks”, “Wood pocket syndrome of the Persian lime”, and “Blood orange decline in San Joaquin Valley”. Identification of the causal agents for these uncharacterized graft transmissible citrus diseases will improve the effectiveness of the current quarantine protocols and identify potential shortfalls in the CCPP disease testing and therapy procedures.
Axina heveli Opitz 2020, new species
Creators: name: Opitz, Weston
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Axina
Axina heveli

description: Axina heveli Opitz, new species
Figures 70, 96.
Type material. Holotype. Male. Type locality: PANAMA, Canal Zone, 24-VI-1973, Gary Hevel (USNM). Paratypes. 2 specimens. Panama: Provincia de Panama, 30 km E Cañita, 28-V-1990, at light, F. Hovore (WOPC); Altos, Isla de Majé, 28-IV-1984, H. P. Stockwell (AMNH).
Diagnosis. From superficially similar specimens of Axina nigrifrons, A. heveli beetles differ by showing few asetiferous punctures on the elytral disc.
Description. Size. Length 13.0 mm; width 3.0 mm. Form. As in Fig. 96. Color. Cranium bicolorous, frons black, remainder flavotestaceous; antenna testaceous; thorax and abdomen flavotestaceous, except metasternum infuscated; elytra bicolorous, basal 1/3 and apical ¼ black, remainder flavotestaceous; legs bicolorous, prothoracic femora flavotestaceous, apical region of mesothoracic and metathoracic femora black, remainder of femora flavotestaceous; tibiae black; tarsi brown. Head: Cranium finely punctate, frons wider than length of antennal pedicel; EW/ FW 60/20. Thorax:Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 tumescences, concave at middle; PW/PL 150/180; elytra, asetiferous punctures not striate, punctures extend to elytron middle, width of interstitial spaces variable; elytral apex subacuminate; EL/EW 510/100. Abdomen: Aedeagus, phallobase tapered distally; phallobasic lobes very short and nearly contiguous; phallic plates serrate; phallobasic apodeme abbreviated.
Natural history. The holotype was collected from Panama during April–June.
Distribution (For a map see Fig. 70). This species is known from Panama.
Etymology. The specific epithet, heveli, is a patronymic that honors Gary Hevel, among the most knowledgeable Entomologists known to me.
description: Published as part of Opitz, Weston, 2020, Taxonomic revision of the Western Hemisphere checkered beetle genus Axina Kirby (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae), pp. 1-70 in Insecta Mundi 2020 (793) on page 24, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4564947
Edible School Garden in India
Creators: name: Patel, Arpita
name: Fagan, Julie M.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: To educate students about proper nutrition intake by growing vegetables in a school garden
description: Malnutrition is the condition, which occurs when your body does not get enough nutrients. Nutrition is the supply of material food which is necessary for organisms to stay alive. Malnutrition occurs in people who are either undernourished or overnourished. India is second after Bangladesh where children suffering from the malnutrition. There are 90 % undernourished children are living in the developing country and the India is one of them. For normal growth and development vitamins and minerals are important. To overcome from this problem, Malnutrition may develop from even lacking of a single vitamin in diet. Eating well and balanced diet is vital for healthy life but in the developing countries people do not eat healthy due to lack of education regarding nutrition. To provide education on nutrition, school is the best place to start. The edible garden in the school, provide education and nutrition to children who suffer in India.
Uncinocythere cassiensis Hart 1965, new species
Creators: name: Williams, Bronwyn W.
name: Weaver, Patricia G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Ostracoda
Podocopida
Entocytheridae
Uncinocythere
Uncinocythere cassiensis

description: Uncinocythere cassiensis Hart, 1965
1965b Uncinocythere cassiensis new species.—Hart: 190, 191–192, 194, 195. Figs. 1 –5 (D, H, R, T).
1968 U. cassiensis Hart, 1965.—Ferguson: 502 (C, D).
1968 U. cassiensis Hart, 1965.—Hobbs & Walton; 251 (R).
1969a U. cassiensis Hart, 1965.—Hart & Hart: 183 (D, T).
1969b U. cassiensis Hart, 1965.—Hart & Hart: 154 (T).
1971 Uncinocythere cassiensis Hart, 1965:191.—Hobbs Jr.: 20, 21, 52, 55 (D, K).
1974 Uncinocythere cassiensis Hart, 1965.—Hart & Hart: 3, 122, 124–125, 130, 139, 210, 231, Pl. XXXIV Figs. 16–19, Pl. LV (D, H, K, R, T).
1975 Uncinocythere cassiensis Hart, 1965.—Hart & Hart: 46 (C, D, H).
1985 C. cassiensis Hart, 1965.—Hart et al.: 3, lapsus calami (K).
2014a Uncinocythere cassiensis Hart, 1965.—Mestre, Monrós & Mesquita-Joanes: 950 (C).
2016 Uncinocythere cassiensis.—Larson & Williams: 435 (D, H).
2017 Uncinocythere cassiensis Hart, 1965.—Weaver & Williams: 576 (D).
description: Published as part of Williams, Bronwyn W. & Weaver, Patricia G., 2018, A historical review of the taxonomy and classification of Entocytheridae (Crustacea: Ostracoda: Podocopida), pp. 1-129 in Zootaxa 4448 (1) on page 86, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4448.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1444492
Using LiDAR to inform the evaluation of FIRETEC-HIGRAD
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: Proposal: To populate FIRETEC-HIGRAD with LiDAR-derived fuels of various resolutions and compare the model's prediction of 1) fire spread and 2) intensity for portions of the Las Conchas Fire (Summer, 2011) to observed results and to FARSITE, a leading empirical model. Hypothesis: LiDAR-derived fuels data will have a high correlation with the ground-truthed data. Using these data, FIRETEC-HIGRAD will be able to better predict the heterogeneity of fire behavior and fuel consumption patterns than with fuels data developed by extrapolation of local data or homogenized fuels. With LiDAR-derived fuels FIRETEC-HIGRAD will also better predict fuel consumption and fire spread (closer to that observed on the ground) than the empirical model, FARSITE.
Reversal of cancer-therapy-induced mucositis by human gingiva-derived mesenchymal stem cells
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: Mucositis of the alimentary tract (AT) is a debilitating effect of cancer therapies in most patients receiving chemotherapy, bone marrow transplantation, and high-dose radiation to the head and neck. This common oral complication bears a high impact on health, quality of life and overall economic outcome. Relatively little is known of the complex pathophysiology of mucositis and current therapeutic interventions are ineffective. Recently, it was discovered that mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are capable of profound immunosuppressive and anti-inflammatory effects, protecting against autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. We have isolated a new population of mesen- chymal stem cells from human gingiva(GMSC), which exhibit multipotent differentiation and self-renewal capacities, and also possess distinct immunomodulatory functions. Cell-based therapy with GMSCs significantly ameliorated clinical and histopathological severity of experimental murine colitis with a significant reversal of chemotherapy-induced AT mucositis and recovery of body weight in nearly 100% of mice. Treatment with GMSC was capable of resolving mucosal ulceration, promoting proliferation of mucosal epithelial cells and the regeneration of damaged crypts at the histological level. Based on these observations, we propose to explore the feasibility of GMSC-based therapy to prevent and treat AT mucositis induced by chemo- and radiotherapy. We hypothesize that GMSCs dual functions as (1) an immunomodulator to suppress inflammation related tissue injury and (2) a regenerative role to restore epithelial lining, provide a capability for reversing AT mucositis. Our objective will be carried out using the following specific aim: To determine whether GMSC-based therapy can prevent and cure mucositis. We will conduct a controlled and randomized study of GMSC-based therapy in wild type C57BL/6 mice as both preventive and therapeutic intervention for cancer therapy-induced mucositis. First, we will utilize the chemotherapy induced AT mucositis to study the safety and efficacy of cell-based therapy to further define the cell number per body weight and administration route to fit the physiological range and treatment protocol reported in rodents and humans.. Using this physiological dose and route, we will carry out prevention and treatment experiments. Mucositis will be evaluated using novel non-invasive in vivo imaging as well as standard clinical and histological criteria. This study will substantially extend current knowledge of the immunomodulat
Training Unadoptable Shelter Dogs
Creators: name: Cella, Sarina
name: Cannon, Chelsea
name: Fagan, Julie M.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: How training programs can benefit shelters and increase adoption rates.
description: Each year millions of animals die in shelters, about half of which are put down simply because the shelters are overcrowded and no one adopted them in time.  Many others end up being euthanized due to aggressive behaviors which are inevitable under the stressful conditions these dogs have to live under.  Many dogs go un-adopted because of bad behavior.  Most pet owners do not want to or know how to deal with misbehaved dogs.  Some dogs even end up being returned to shelters for the same reason.  Training programs could benefit shelters because the adoption rate for dogs will not only increase, but the chances of each dog staying permanently in its new home will increase as well.  Since shelters are typically understaffed and overcrowded, the desperately need the help of volunteers.  Our service project focused on educating college students on the issue and getting them to go out and volunteer at a local shelter.  With the help of volunteers, training and socializing programs can be a success in animal shelters.
Uncinocythere caudata Hart 1962
Creators: name: Williams, Bronwyn W.
name: Weaver, Patricia G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Ostracoda
Podocopida
Entocytheridae
Uncinocythere
Uncinocythere caudata

description: Uncinocythere caudata (Kozloff, 1955) Hart, 1962.
1955 Entocythere caudata sp nov.—Kozloff: 156–158, 161, Figs. 1 –12 (D, E, H, R, T).
1955 E. caudata Kozloff (1955).—Hobbs: 330 (R).
1958 E. caudata Kozloff 1955.—Ferguson: 198 (C).
1959 E. caudata Kozloff (1955).—Crawford: 167 (C).
1959 E. caudata Kozloff. —Westervelt & Kozloff: 239, 243 (C, H, R).
1961a E. caudata Kozloff (1955:156).—Hart & Hobbs: 182 (R).
1962 Uncinocythere caudata (Kozloff) new combination.—Hart: 122 [as E. caudata], 136 (C, D, T).
1965b Uncinocythere caudata (Kozloff, 1955).—Hart: 190, 191, 193, 194, 195 (D, R).
1966 U. caudata (Kozloff, 1955).—Hobbs & Walton: 10, 11 (R).
1967 U. caudata.—Hobbs, Holt & Walton: 6 [and as E. caudata], 7 (C, E).
1968 Uncinocythere caudata (Kozloff, 1955).—Hobbs & Walton: 251 (R).
1969a U. candata (Kozloff, 1955).—Hart: 183, erroneous spelling (D, T).
1969b Uncinocythere caudata Kozloff, 1955.—Hart & Hart: 154 (T).
1971 Uncinocythere caudata (Kozloff, 1955:156).—Hobbs Jr.: 20, 21, 52, 55 (D, K).
1974 Uncinocythere caudata (Kozloff, 1955).—Hart & Hart: 3, 15 [and as E. caudata], 122, 124, 125, 135, 139, 211, 231, Pl. XXXV Figs. 1 –2, Pl. LV (D, H, K, R, T).
1975 Uncinocythere caudata (Kozloff, 1955).—Hart & Hart: 47 (C, D, H).
1982 Uncinocythere caudata (Kozloff).—Eng & Daniels: 210 (C, H).
2014a Uncinocythere caudata (Kozloff, 1955).—Mestre, Monrós & Mesquita-Joanes: 950 (C).
2016 U. caudata.—Larson & Williams: 435 (D, H).
2017 Uncinocythere caudata (Kozloff, 1955).—Weaver & Williams: 576 (D).
description: Published as part of Williams, Bronwyn W. & Weaver, Patricia G., 2018, A historical review of the taxonomy and classification of Entocytheridae (Crustacea: Ostracoda: Podocopida), pp. 1-129 in Zootaxa 4448 (1) on pages 86-87, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4448.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1444492
Identifying genetic mechanisms promoting second malignant neoplasms
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: Individuals surviving an initial malignancy are at high risk for developing subsequent new cancers, and a significant fraction of these second malignancies are therapy-related second malignant neoplasms (SMNs). Importantly, SMNs result from the interaction between the germline background and genotoxins such as radiation, and studying SMNs may generate insights into how basal cancer susceptibility can lead to malignancies over time. The overall goal of this proposal is to understand how cancer therapies promote SMNs in genetically-susceptible backgrounds in order to identify biomarkers of cancer risk and to develop genetically-personalized strategies for cancer prevention. Using novel mouse models of second cancers developed in our laboratory we 1) employ state-of-the-art whole exome sequencing to identify mutations promoting second cancers, and 2) validate genetic alterations enriched in tumors generated from our mouse model, yielding mechanistic insights. Preliminary genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphism genotyping of tumors from our mouse models reveal that SMN originating in Nf1 mutant mice show defined patterns of genomic loss: loss of the wildtype Nf1 allele and Trp53 on chromosome 11, and shared losses on additional chromosomes suggesting a common genetic mechanism in diverse tumor histologies. We hypothesize that cancer susceptible (Nf1 mutant) and cancer-resistant (wildtype) backgrounds require signature genetic lesions, which might serve as clinical biomarkers. The specific aims are: 1) Identify genetic alterations associated with radiation-induced tumorigenesis in Nf1 mutant and wildtype backgrounds, 2) Validate the functional significance of genetic alterations identified in Nf1 mutant and wildtype tumors. The findings from these studies will identify novel genetic and biochemical mechanisms tumorigenesis after genotoxin exposure, and long term will lead to future in vivo, pre-clinical studies testing mechanisms of increased cancer susceptibility and potential chemoprevention approaches.
Axina klisis Opitz 2020, new species
Creators: name: Opitz, Weston
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Axina
Axina klisis

description: Axina klisis Opitz, new species
Figures 27, 70, 97.
Type material. Holotype. Male. Type locality: Brasil, Pará, Serra Norte, Refeitorio, 17-XI-1983. A second label reads: Brasil, Pará, M. F. Torres (FSCA). Paratype. One specimen. Brazil: Estado do Pará, Serra Norte, Canga, 4-XI-1983, collector not noted (MCNZ).
Diagnosis. The elytral asetiferous punctures are scattered on the elytral disc. This characteristic will distinguish specimens of this species from superficially similar specimens of A. trinalis, which differ by showing a substriate arrangement of the elytral asetiferous punctures.
Description. Size. Length 10.0 mm; width 2.3 mm. Form. As in Fig. 97. Color. Cranium, thorax, and legs dark castaneous; antenna testaceous; elytra bicolorous, disc mostly flavotestaceous, epipleural margin widely dark brown, brown marking extends mesally at middle of elytral disc and just in front of elytral apex where brown marking is contiguous with sutural margin; abdomen brown. Head. Cranium finely punctate, frons about as wide as length of antennal pedicel; EW/FW 50/15. Thorax. Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 paralateral spheroid tumescences, disc narrowly concave near middle; PW/PL 110/150; elytra, asetiferous punctures scattered, punctures extend posteriorly to elytral 3/4, interstitial spaces very wide; EL/EW 440/80. Abdomen. Aedeagus (Fig. 27), phallobasic lobes very short, contiguous, phallic plates not serrate; phallobasic apodeme abbreviated.
Distribution (for map see Fig. 70). This species is known from Brazil.
Etymology. The specific epithet, klisis, is a Latin derivative of clino (= bend). I refer to the bent character of the phallobasic lobes.
description: Published as part of Opitz, Weston, 2020, Taxonomic revision of the Western Hemisphere checkered beetle genus Axina Kirby (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae), pp. 1-70 in Insecta Mundi 2020 (793) on pages 24-25, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4564947
Aulogymnus albipes Askew
Creators: name: Yefremova, Zoya A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: 1. Aulogymnus albipes (Askew)
Material examined. 1 ♀, 2 ♂, Israel, Qiryat Tiv’on, reared from Cynipidae galls of Quercus ithaburensis, 7.iii.1955 (M. Sternlicht); 1 ♀, Qiryat Tiv’on, reared from Cynipidae galls of Quercus ithaburensis, 24.i.1955 (M. Sternlicht); 1 ♀, 3 ♂, Qiryat Tiv’on, reared from Cynipidae galls of Quercus ithaburensis, 15.ii.1956 (M. Sternlicht).
Hosts. Ectoparasitoid of Cynipidae (Hymenoptera) on Quercus ithaburensis Decne (Askew 1959). Distribution. Israel (Askew 1959); probably endemic to the Levant.
description: Published as part of Yefremova, Zoya A., 2015, An annotated checklist of the Eulophidae (excl. Tetrastichinae) (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) of Israel, pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 3957 (1) on page 3, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3957.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/288546
Landscape resource management for sustainable crop intensification
Creators: name: Anantha, KH
name: Garg, KK
name: Singh, R
name: Akuraju, V
name: Dev, I
name: Petrie, CA
name: Whitbread, AM
name: Dixit, S
Publisher: name: IOP Publishing
Year: 2022
Subjects: water balance component
groundwater recharge
system productivity
rural livelihood
semi-arid tropics

description: Abstract Crop intensification is required to meet the food demands of an increasing population. This paper presents data from three paired scaling-up initiatives to compare the benefits of landscape-based interventions over individual plot-level interventions using evidence generated in the Indian semi-arid tropics. A range of soil and water conservation interventions were implemented in a decentralized manner following the landscape-based approach. The plot-level approach focused only on balanced fertilizer application and improved crop cultivars while the landscape-based interventions primarily addressed moisture availability, which was the key to reducing risks of crop failure besides aiding productivity gain and enhanced land and water-use efficiency. These interventions have additionally harvested 50–150 mm of surface runoff and facilitated groundwater recharge in 550–800 mm rainfall zones. Individual plot-level interventions also improved the crop yield significantly over the control plots. However, crop intensification was not achieved due to limited moisture availability. Landscape-based interventions produced 100%–300% higher crop production per year, greater income generation (>100%), and improved water productivity. Landscape-based interventions were also found to be beneficial in terms of reducing soil loss by 75%–90% and improving base flow availability additionally by 20–75 d in a year compared to untreated watersheds. With increased moisture availability, fallow lands in respective watersheds have been utilized for cultivation, thereby enhancing crop intensification. The findings of the study provide critical insights into the design of approaches suitable for scaling-up projects in order to both create impact and target the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Body Mass Index in Diagnosing Obesity in Athletes Vs. General Population
Creators: name: Larrow, Michael O.
name: Maqsood, Sobia
name: Fagan, Julie M.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: A study to determine the accuracy of BMI as a measure of % fat in athletes and general population
description: Body mass index (BMI) is used as a substitute for percent fat (% fat) in classifying obesity among athletes and general population. However, there is no specific criterion for percent fat, and some of studies have examined the accuracy of Body mass index as a measure of % fat. By default, BMI is used to label athletes and young adults as obese. Consequently, it is very hard to understand the accuracy of BMI in athletes and general population, which includes children and teens. In United States the obesity rates are heavily based on calculations of BMI. Body Mass Index is the general formula that has been used since years to get the obesity rates in the country. Thus it is very important to determine the accuracy of the BMI. A high BMI for athletes and children does not mean that they are obese. In many studies it has been stated that BMI does not predict the body fat content accurately and it is not directly relevant to the issue of diagnosis of obesity. When diagnosing or defining obesity, we do not need to estimate body fat content precisely, rather we simply need to set up with confident that any athletes defined as obese has a high body fat content relative to their peer.
Axina lateralis Pic 1936
Creators: name: Opitz, Weston
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Axina
Axina lateralis

description: Axina lateralis Pic, 1936
Figures 51, 70, 98.
Axina lateralis Pic, 1936: 15. Holotype. Gender not known. Type locality: Brésil (MNHN). Corporaal 1950: 98.
Diagnosis. In A. lateralis specimens the distal limits of the metatibia are testaceous, these limits are dark in superficially similar specimens of A. villa.
Redescription. Size. Length 9.5 mm; width 2.2 mm. Form. As in Fig. 98. Color. Cranium dark castaneous; antenna testaceous; prothorax bicolorous, venter, lower sides of pronotum, pterothorax, and legs black, pronotal disc castaneous; elytra bicolorous, mostly testaceous, epipleural margin and region in front of apex brown. Head. Cranium finely punctate, frons about as wide as length of antennal pedicel; EW/FW 45/8. Thorax. Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 tumescences, concave at middle; PW/PL 95/125; elytra, asetiferous punctures scattered, punctures extend posteriorly to elytral 3/4, interstitial spaces very wide; EL/EW 410/60. Abdomen. Aedeagus (Fig. 51), phallobasic lobes short, flattened laterally; phallic plates serrate near phallic apex; phallobasic apodeme abbreviated.
Variation. Size. Length 9.5–13.0 mm; width 2.2–3.0 mm. Except for body size, the available specimens are quite homogeneous.
Natural history. Specimens were collected in Bolivia during October, in a transitional forest at 350– 400 m. Others were collected from Brazil from November and December, at altitudes that range from 300– 500 m.
Distribution (for map see Fig. 70). In addition to the holotype, I examined 33 specimens from: Bolivia: Departamento de Santa Cruz, Potrerillos del Guenda, Snake Farm, 21-24-X-2011, 350– 400 m, Wappes & Skillman; 3.7 km SSE Buena Vista, Hotel Flora & Fauna, 5-15-X-2001, tropical transitional forest. M. C. Thomas, & B. K. Dozier; 4-6 km SSE Buena Vista, Hotel Flora & Fauna, 19-22-X-2004, Wappes & Morris; idem, 9-19-X-2004, J. Eger. Brazil: Estado do Mato Grosso;?-?- 1886, P. Germain; Estado do Bahia, Itapetinga,?- XI-1969, F. M. Oliveira; Estado do Minas Gerais, Passa Quatrom,?- II-1960, B. Silva; Estado do Santa Catarina, Nova Teutonia,?- XII-1965, 300- 500 m, Fritz Plaumann; idem,?- XI-1965, 300- 500 m, Fritz Plaumann. Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Guanabara,?- III-1964, M. Alvarenga; idem,?- XII-1972, M. Alvarenga; idem, Represa Rio Grande,?- I-1972, F. M. Oliveira. Specimens are deposited in: ACMT, AMNH, BMNH, CMNC, CMNH, CNCI, CSCA, CSUC, CUIC, FMNH, FSCA, KSUC, MCNZ, MNHN, OXUM, RFMC, SMTD, WFBM, USNM, WOPC, and ZMHB.
Notes. I examined the holotype, but the description is based on a homotype specimen.
description: Published as part of Opitz, Weston, 2020, Taxonomic revision of the Western Hemisphere checkered beetle genus Axina Kirby (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae), pp. 1-70 in Insecta Mundi 2020 (793) on page 25, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4564947
Aulogymnus euedoreschus Walker
Creators: name: Yefremova, Zoya A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: 2. Aulogymnus euedoreschus (Walker)
Material examined. 4 ♀, 2 ♂, Israel, Qiryat Tiv’on, reared from Andricus sp. (Cynipidae) of Quercus ithaburensis, 25.i.2015 (Z. Yefremova).
Hosts. Ectoparasitoid of Andricus sp. on Quercus ithaburensis (Askew et al. 2013). Distribution. Israel *; Palearctic (Askew et al. 2013)
description: Published as part of Yefremova, Zoya A., 2015, An annotated checklist of the Eulophidae (excl. Tetrastichinae) (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) of Israel, pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 3957 (1) on page 3, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3957.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/288546
Connective tissue growth factor (CTGF/CCN2) in mammary gland formation and function
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: Connective tissue growth factor (CCN2/CTGF) is a matricellular protein best known as a major mediator of fibrosis. CCN2 has been implicated in breast cancer progression and metastasis, but its mechanisms of action in mammary tumors are unknown, in large part because its role in normal breast tissue is unknown. We found that CCN2 is highly expressed in developing mammary glands and that its ablation in myoepithelial cells leads to defective ductal elongation, terminal end bud formation, lobuloalveolar differentiation, and lactogenesis. This is the first time CCN2 has been shown to be essential in an epithelial tissue, and one of the few ECM components for which there is in vivo evidence of an essential function in the mammary gland. Moreover, the mammary phenotype is unique. These findings, along with previous studies of CCN2 function in other cell types lead us to hypothesize that: CCN2 is required in myoepithelial cells for deposition of fibronectin, which in turn is required for the formation of the mammary basement membrane, a structure that is required to stabilize mammary ducts, enable branching morphogenesis, and provide a niche for mammary progenitor cells. We propose to test this hypothesis by pursuing the following objectives: 1. Define the cell types that express CCN2 at various stages of ductal development and involution. This will be accomplished using CCN2-GFP mice, which express GFP under the control of the CCN2 promoter. Cell types will be identified by immunostaining for established markers of myoepithelial, luminal, cap, and stromal cells. This information will be used to achieve the second objective. 2. Characterize the phenotype of mice lacking CCN2 in myoepithelial cells and of mice over- expressing CCN2. This will be achieved through analysis of Ccn2fx/fx;KRT14-Cre mice, which we have generated and partially characterized. We will cross an inducible CCN2 transgenic strain that we have generated to KRT14-Cre mice in order to overexpress CCN2 in myoepithelial cells. We will examine levels of fibronectin and basement membrane formation in these models. We will employ in vitro studies to test whether CCN2 induces fibronectin expression in mammary epithelial cells, and whether this is integrin-dependent. Consequences of CCN2 loss or overexpression on angiogenesis and VEGF expression will also be determined, as these events are fibronectin dependent. We anticipate that these studies will provide insights into the mechanisms by which CCN2 regulates myoepithelial cell f
Uncinocythere clemsonella (Crawford, 1961) Hart 1962, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Williams, Bronwyn W.
name: Weaver, Patricia G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Ostracoda
Podocopida
Entocytheridae
Uncinocythere
Uncinocythere clemsonella

description: Uncinocythere clemsonella (Crawford, 1961) Hart, 1962.
1961 Entocythere clemsonella sp. nov. —Crawford: 236–238, 239, Figs. 1 –8 (A, D, H, R, T).
1962 Uncinocythere clemsonella (Crawford) new combination.—Hart: 123 [as E. clemsonella], 136 (C, D, T).
1968 U. clemsonella (Crawford, 1961).—Ferguson: 502 (C, D).
1971 Uncinocythere clemsonella (Crawford).—Hart, D.G. & Hart: 111 (A).
1971 Uncinocythere clemsonella (Crawford, 1961:236).—Hobbs Jr.: 20 (D, K).
1974 Uncinocythere clemsonella (Crawford, 1961).—Hart & Hart: 122, 125–126, 211, 231, Pl. XXXV Figs. 3–7, Pl. LV (D, H, K, T).
1975 Uncinocythere clemsonella (Crawford, 1961).—Hart & Hart: 47 (C, D, H).
1981 Uncinocythere clemsonella (Crawford, 1961:236). — Hobbs: 501, 540, 549 (D, H).
2014a Uncinocythere clemsonella (Crawford, 1961).—Mestre, Monrós & Mesquita-Joanes: 950 (C).
description: Published as part of Williams, Bronwyn W. & Weaver, Patricia G., 2018, A historical review of the taxonomy and classification of Entocytheridae (Crustacea: Ostracoda: Podocopida), pp. 1-129 in Zootaxa 4448 (1) on page 87, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4448.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1444492
Wankel Rotary Piston Engine Design Project
Creators: name: ELMAS, Emin Taner.
Publisher: name: gjrpublication
Year: 2024

description: This study explains the “WANKEL ROTARY PISTON ENGINE DESIGN PROJECT” realized by the students who study at Automotive Technology Department at Iğdır University, Turkey.

Asst. Prof.Dr. Emin Taner ELMAS, who is the Department Head of Division of Motor Vehicles and Transportation Technologies, Department of Automotive Technology, at Vocational School of Higher Education for Technical Sciences of Iğdır University, Turkey, gives information about the WANKEL ROTARY PISTON ENGINE DESIGN PROJECT that the 2nd year students of the Automotive Technology Program were working on during 2021-2022 Academic Year Spring Semester.
Crosstalk between MAP kinase and hedgehog signaling in 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: Background and Significance. There is emerging evidence that crosstalk between the Hedgehog pathway and mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling pathways may be relevant to several types of cancer, including basal cell carcinoma, melanoma, medulloblastoma, gastric cancer, and pancreatic cancer. For example, in pancreatic cancer, mutations in KRAS (leading to activation of the Ras/MAPK pathway) and activation of the Hedgehog pathway are both frequent occurrences. In many such tumors, Hedgehog pathway activation cannot be explained by a within-pathway, canonical activation mechanism. Instead, Hedgehog pathway activation may be occurring via crosstalk from the Ras/MAPK pathway. This has important clinical implications, e.g. with regard to which combination of drugs should be chosen for therapy. The molecular mechanism of Hedgehog-MAPK crosstalk, however, is unknown. Preliminary Studies. We recently used a novel computational algorithm to search the human genome and predict new MAPK substrates. Among the novel substrates predicted were the human Gli1 and Gli3 transcription factors, which are transcriptional effectors of the Hedgehog pathway. We then showed using rigorous biochemical assays that both ERK and JNK-family MAPKs bind to Gli1/3 via a predicted docking site and phosphorylate multiple nearby target residues. Our work is thus the first to provide evidence that MAPKs bind to and directly phosphorylate Gli proteins. Objectives. We propose to test the following 3 hypotheses: (1) are Gli proteins in vivo substrates of MAP kinases?; (2) what is the effect of Gli phosphorylation on Gli activity?; (3) is MAPK-mediated phosphorylation of Gli1 responsible for MAPK-Hedgehog crosstalk observed in cell-based models? Methods. We will use mass spectrometry to identify in vitro and in vivo target residues in Gli proteins, and site-directed mutagenesis combined with in vitro and cell-based kinase assays to verify. We will make non-phosphorylatable and phosphomimetic mutations in Gli proteins and assess activation of Gli-dependent reporter genes in cell-based assays. We will use biochemical approaches to ask if Gli phosphorylation affects the binding of Gli proteins to the important transcriptional repressor Sufu. We will make phosphosite-specific antibodies to MAPK target sites in Gli1 and use these reagents to probe Gli phosphorylation in cells and in tumor samples.
Double Jeopardy and its Law
Creators: name: Laryea, Edmond
name: Jefferson, Lequan
name: Fagan, Julie M.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: Let’s change wording of the 5th amendment so that clearly guilty individuals do not get away with murder-literally.
description: Individuals found not guilty of a crime cannot be retried even if new evidence is submitted that would likely convict them. According to the 5th amendment of the US constitution  No person shall be subject for the same offense to be put in jeopardy twice of life or lime. Several social media sites were contacted which requested that people write to their legislators to demand that the wording of the 5th amendment be changed so that clearly guilty individuals do not get away with murder-literally.