cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Nicotine Metabolism in Families
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: A recent report in the scientific literature indicates that certain differences in the DNA (gene) that controls the speed at which nicotine is disposed of in the human body may help to determine whether individuals become smokers. This finding, if confirmed, could have an important effect on the prevention and treatment of nicotine addiction. To date, however, there are no independent confirmations of this finding. Moreover, the authors of this report did not provide evidence that the variations in the gene were, in fact, related to differences in nicotine metabolism.

 The proposed investigation seeks to further examine the issue of whether genetic differences lead to susceptibility to become a smoker through: (1) the administration of an oral dose of cotinine, a chemical related to nicotine, to members of 250 families; (2) collection of urine over 8 hours and saliva over 60 hours following cotinine administration; and (3) assays for cotinine and metabolites using advanced laboratory methods. We will then determine if the genetic differences are related to smoking behavior and how people metabolize cotinine, and if specific genes are related to cigarette consumption, level of nicotine dependence, and other factors.

 We will use state-of-the-art methodology to define cotinine metabolism. The successful completion of this study will provide an exciting opportunity to examine the relationship between this advanced biological index of nicotine addiction and other, less precise, measures of nicotine addiction.
Mapping of Genetic Loci for Nicotine Dependence
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: People who smoke probably do so because environmental influences and inherited biological factors interact in complex ways. Genetic epidemiology studies in families and in twins have attempted to clarify some of these interactions. Environmental influences, such as parental smoking, largely determine whether an individual ever tries tobacco at all. In contrast, genetic factors probably influence how pleasant or unpleasant that first experience is. Environmental effects, such as social support for smoking, play an important role in maintaining early tobacco use. Persistent smoking signals nicotine addiction in which biological factors, including genetic susceptibility, are important. Over the past 40 years, public policy changes, such as publicizing the harmful effects of smoking, imposing cigarette taxes, and restricting access to tobacco by minors, have been implemented in the United States, and the proportion of the population that smokes has dropped dramatically.

 It is encouraging that altering environmental factors can decrease smoking. However, tobacco use remains an important public health problem despite such efforts, suggesting that biologically based interventions might be necessary to realize further decreases in smoking and its negative health consequences. Human genetic analysis, which compares the similarities and differences in DNA segments between family members who do or do not have a particular illness, has allowed disease-causing genes to be identified for many conditions. We propose to compare this information against similarities and differences in DNA sequences to identify genes that influence persistent tobacco use. Identifying such genes could improve our understanding of the biological causes of smoking, eventually leading to biologically based therapies for nicotine addiction.
Additional file 2: of Long-term Effects of high-doSe pitavaStatin on Diabetogenicity in comparison with atorvastatin in patients with Metabolic syndrome (LESS-DM): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Jun-Bean Park
name: Jung, Ji-Hyun
name: Yeonyee Yoon
name: Hack-Lyong Kim
name: Seung-Pyo Lee
name: Hyung-Kwan Kim
name: Kim, Yong-Jin
name: Goo-Yeong Cho
name: Sohn, Dae-Won
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Supplementary methods for details of imaging protocols. (DOCX 26Â kb)
Pseudoliomera granosimana
Creators: name: Devi, S. Suvarna
name: Mendoza, Jose C. E.
name: Ravinesh, R.
name: Idress Babu, K. K.
name: Kumar, A. Biju
name: Ng, Peter K. L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Xanthidae
Pseudoliomera
Pseudoliomera granosimana

description: Pseudoliomera granosimana (A. Milne-Edwards, 1865) *
(Fig. 4C)
Material examined. 1 female (17.2 x 10.9 mm) (DABFUK), Minicoy, 3 December 2013.
Remarks. The present specimen represents the first record of Pseudoliomera granosimana from Lakshadweep. A specimen was also seen in Agatti but not collected. This species has been recorded from many localities in the Indo-West Pacific (Serène 1984), including the Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Dev Roy & Nandi 2012).
description: Published as part of Devi, S. Suvarna, Mendoza, Jose C. E., Ravinesh, R., Idress Babu, K. K., Kumar, A. Biju & Ng, Peter K. L., 2019, On a collection of brachyuran crabs from Lakshadweep, Indian Ocean (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura), pp. 477-501 in Zootaxa 4613 (3) on page 486, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4613.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/3239869
Anurida ellipsoides Stach 1949
Creators: name: Mayvan, Mahmood Mehrafrooz
name: Greenslade, Penelope
name: Sadeghi-Namaghi, Hussein
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Collembola
Poduromorpha
Neanuridae
Anurida
Anurida ellipsoides

description: Anurida ellipsoides Stach, 1949
– Anurida ellipsoides Stach, 1949b: 34.
EA, WA, GI: Cox 1982.
Ecology and habitat in Iran: soil.
General distribution: Palaearctic (Fjellberg 1998).
description: Published as part of Mayvan, Mahmood Mehrafrooz, Greenslade, Penelope & Sadeghi-Namaghi, Hussein, 2023, An annotated checklist of the Collembola (Hexapoda) from Iran, pp. 1-101 in Zootaxa 5275 (1) on page 25, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5275.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7898948
MOESM4 of A spatial agent-based model of Anopheles vagus for malaria epidemiology: examining the impact of vector control interventions
Creators: name: Md. Alam
name: S. Niaz Arifin
name: Al-Amin, Hasan
name: Alam, Mohammad
name: M. Rahman
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 4. Sample weather data input file (in CSV format) for the ABMvagus.
Gradual Learning and Faithfulness: Consequences of Ranked vs. Weighted Constraints
Creators: name: Jesney, Karen
name: Tessier, Anne-Michelle
Publisher: name: GLSA, University of Massachusetts
Year: 2008

description: This paper investigates a class of stages in L1 phonological acquisition where children faithfully produce marked structures only in privileged positions. We present one such stage, referred here to here as an Intermediate Faith (IF) stage, using data from the acquisition of Hebrew reported by Bat-El (2007). The privileged domain in this case is defined morphologically (noun vs. non-noun). We then show how a gradual, on-line learner using weighted constraints as in Harmonic Grammar naturally passes through IF stages, which we model as gang effects between general and specific Faithfulness constraints. Finally, we compare the performance of a ranked constraint learner to that of the HG system developed here.
Phymaturus zapalensis Cei & Castro 1973
Creators: name: Pincheira-Donoso, Daniel
name: Scolaro, J. Alejandro
name: Sura, Piotr
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Liolaemidae
Phymaturus
Phymaturus zapalensis

description: Phymaturus zapalensis Cei & Castro
Phymaturus patagonicus zapalensis Cei & Castro 1973: 243 (type locality: Laguna Teru, 1200 m, 40 km W Zapala, Neuquén Province, Argentina); Cei 1973c: 1; Vanzolini 1986: 20.
Centrura patagonica zapalensis Cei 1986: 187.
Phymaturus zapalensis Etheridge 1995: 32; Etheridge & Espinoza 2000: 10; Chebez et al. 2005: 37; Sura 2005: 430; Scolaro 2006: 61.
description: Published as part of Pincheira-Donoso, Daniel, Scolaro, J. Alejandro & Sura, Piotr, 2008, A monographic catalogue on the systematics and phylogeny of the South American iguanian lizard family Liolaemidae (Squamata, Iguania), pp. 1-85 in Zootaxa 1800 on page 59, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6789337
Segregation Analysis of Tobacco Use in Families
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 proposed study will examine the extent to which hereditary factors operate alone or in combination with environmental factors to determine whether adolescents are likely to experiment with tobacco or become regular smokers. The data to be used in this study derive from 763 adolescents, their parents, and their siblings. As part of the “SMOFAM” study being conducted by the Oregon Research Institute (ORI), these study participants have provided information about their substance use, including tobacco, at 12 assessments over the past 14 years. In addition, they provided information about the many psychological and environmental factors that are known or hypothesized to be related to smoking.

 In Study 1 of this Integrated Research Proposal, we will combine existing data from ORI with in-depth measures of nicotine dependence (collected by the Statistical Core), cotinine clearance data (Study 3), and genetic data (Study 2) to (1) determine and combine descriptions of nicotine addiction in young smokers and their families; (2) analyze family data to determine whether nicotine addiction as defined in 1 above have parent-offspring patterns suggestive of genetic influence; (3) use the Transmission Disequilibrium Test (a recent approach to determining genetic associations) to determine the presence of genotype-nicotine addiction associations in ever-smoking children; (4) use a variation of the TDT to examine the data for evidence of gene-environment interactions in determining susceptibility to tobacco use; 5) identify independent and joint genetic and environmental factors that predict the speed with which young people transition from experimentation with tobacco to regular use; 6) identify subgroups of young people based on unique combinations of genetic and environmental risk factor profiles and who differ with respect to the age at which they experimented with tobacco and then began to smoke on a regular basis. The successful completion of this analysis will provide evidence on: 1) both the limits and extent of genetic involvement in the susceptibility to become a regular smoker in young adults, and 2) the extent to which genetic and environmental risk factors operate independently or jointly to determine the susceptibility to becoming a regular smoker, the speed with which young people become regular smokers, and the age at which they become regular smokers.
Interim Technical Report
Creators: name: Boodhoo, Kamelia
name: Russo Abegão, Fernando
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: The overall aim of BioSPRINT is to develop, test and validate process intensification (PI) methods (up to TRL 4-5) for sustainable and cost-effective purification and conversion of sugars from the hemicellulose (HMC) fraction of lignocellulosic biomass to obtain biorenewable furan-based resins for novel polymeric applications. Deliverable D8.2 describes the significant technical progress made up to M25 of this 4-year project.
Additional file 4: Table S1. of Comparing microbiotas in the upper aerodigestive and lower respiratory tracts of lambs
Creators: name: Glendinning, Laura
name: Collie, David
name: Wright, Steven
name: Rutherford, Kenny
name: McLachlan, Gerry
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology

description: OTUs responsible for partitioning of lamb oropharyngeal swabs into two groups (using Laplace value). (DOCX 16Â kb)
Quantitative Genetic Analysis
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 Core Component, located at the Center for Health Sciences at SRI International, will serve as a centralized repository of data, will advise each Study Center regarding the biostatistical assays, and will conduct statistical analyses. The core will serve as a consulting center regarding study design, sample size calculations, data collection and management, and statistical analysis.

 The core also will integrate the data from the Study Centers and Oregon Research Institute (ORI) and will monitor the progress of the overall project, overseeing the processing of data collection and ensuring data quality. Existing questionnaire data from ORI will be transferred to the Core to be reorganized into a family database for segregation analysis and the study of phenotypes in Study 1. The Core staff also will coordinate the transfer of blood, urine, and saliva specimens between ORI and UCSF and will track the specimens through the computer database. The laboratory results from Studies 2 and 3 will first be transferred to the Core to verify data quality, such as by performing a paternity check for marker genotypes and detection of outliers for cotinine clearance level. Communication between the Study Centers, ORI, and the Core will be facilitated by monthly conference calls and semi-annual meetings, to be held at SRI International.

 The Center for Health Sciences at SRI International has past experience as the data coordinating center of the multi-center NHLBI Twin Study (Dorit Carmelli, Ph.D., Principal Investigator) that involved collection and analysis of data collected in Boston, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, and Northern California.
Cyclodius granulosus De Man 1888
Creators: name: Devi, S. Suvarna
name: Mendoza, Jose C. E.
name: Ravinesh, R.
name: Idress Babu, K. K.
name: Kumar, A. Biju
name: Ng, Peter K. L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Xanthidae
Cyclodius
Cyclodius granulosus

description: Cyclodius granulosus De Man, 1888 *
Material examined. 1 female (12.3 x 8.6 mm) (DABFUK), Minicoy, 13 August 2013, 1 female (15.3 x 10.1 mm) (DABFUK), Kavaratti, 4 January 2014.
Remarks. Cyclodius granulosus has previously been listed from Tamil Nadu by Jeyabaskaran et al. (2000) and Dev Roy & Nandi (2005); the present specimen is the first record from Lakshadweep.
description: Published as part of Devi, S. Suvarna, Mendoza, Jose C. E., Ravinesh, R., Idress Babu, K. K., Kumar, A. Biju & Ng, Peter K. L., 2019, On a collection of brachyuran crabs from Lakshadweep, Indian Ocean (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura), pp. 477-501 in Zootaxa 4613 (3) on page 486, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4613.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/3239869
An economic analysis of factors influencing teen smoking
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: It is well known that nearly all smokers take up the habit as adolescents. Becoming a smoker is not an abrupt one-time decision, but occurs over time. If teens continue through the experimentation phase and go on to become smokers, nicotine addiction makes quitting extremely difficult. Therefore, the most promising public health strategies for reducing smoking in the population involve interrupting the process of smoking uptake and preventing experimentation with smoking among teens.

 The federal and state governments have several policy tools they can use to discourage teen smoking. Among these are increased cigarette excise taxes, limits on cigarette advertising and restrictions on the availability of cigarettes and on public smoking. While there is some evidence that each of these strategies may help to deter teen smoking, their influence and efficacy are not well understood. For example, research has shown that when cigarette prices increase, fewer teens smoke. However, other studies have shown that the price of cigarettes does not influence whether teens smoke. Similarly, several studies have established a link between cigarette advertising and promotions and increased teen smoking, but this relationship remains controversial. Moreover, little work has been done to compare the relative importance of cigarette prices, cigarette advertising and promotions and public policies on teen smoking.

 This research project will employ three distinct research methods and several data sets to examine the influences of cigarette prices, tobacco industry advertising and promotional activities and state-level tobacco control policies on teen smoking. Three types of analyses are necessary because the appropriate data do not exist to address these questions directly with a single methodology. In fact, this lack of appropriate data can explain why, after over 15 years of economic analyses, controversy persists about how and whether these factors influence teen smoking.
Additional file 2: of Long-term Effects of high-doSe pitavaStatin on Diabetogenicity in comparison with atorvastatin in patients with Metabolic syndrome (LESS-DM): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Jun-Bean Park
name: Jung, Ji-Hyun
name: Yeonyee Yoon
name: Hack-Lyong Kim
name: Seung-Pyo Lee
name: Hyung-Kwan Kim
name: Kim, Yong-Jin
name: Goo-Yeong Cho
name: Sohn, Dae-Won
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Virology

description: Supplementary methods for details of imaging protocols. (DOCX 26Â kb)
Anurida thalassophila
Creators: name: Mayvan, Mahmood Mehrafrooz
name: Greenslade, Penelope
name: Sadeghi-Namaghi, Hussein
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Collembola
Poduromorpha
Neanuridae
Anurida
Anurida thalassophila

description: Anurida thalassophila (Bagnall, 1939)
– Aphoromma thalassophila Bagnall, 1939b: 193.
EA, WA, GI: Cox 1982.
Ecology and habitat in Iran: soil.
General distribution: Palaearctic (Fjellberg 1998).
Genus Israelimeria Weiner & Kaprus’, 2005
description: Published as part of Mayvan, Mahmood Mehrafrooz, Greenslade, Penelope & Sadeghi-Namaghi, Hussein, 2023, An annotated checklist of the Collembola (Hexapoda) from Iran, pp. 1-101 in Zootaxa 5275 (1) on page 25, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5275.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7898948
Mutation and learnability in Optimality Theory
Creators: name: Wolf, Matthew
Publisher: name: GLSA, University of Massachusetts
Year: 2008

description: Learners face potential superset traps when presented with a target language which allows some marked phonological structure only when that structure occurs as the outcome of a morphological mutation process. For example, the vowel-tensing ablaut which marks elatives in Javanese can create tense vowels in closed syllables, even though such vowels are otherwise not allowed in the language. In this paper, I show that restrictive final grammars will be learned in these situations, under the assumptions that mutation processes result from special faithfulness to floating-feature affixes (Zoll 1996) and that learners have a Specific-F >> General-F bias (Smith 2000). I also show that such languages create a paradox for a purely declarative account of affixation: end-state restrictiveness in Javanese requires morpheme-realization constraints to be biased towards a ranking above IO-Faith, in tension with arguments by Adam & Bat-El (to appear) that data from child Hebrew require the opposite bias. I also show that the tension between the Javanese and Hebrew facts disappears under an item-based theory of morphology, where all affixation (including of the mutation variety) results from faithfulness to underlying structures.
Phonological Variation and Lexical Frequency
Creators: name: Coetzee, Andries W.
Publisher: name: GLSA, University of Massachusetts
Year: 2008

description: Lexical usage frequency is known to influence the application rate of some variable processes. Specifically, variable lenition processes typically affect frequent lexical items more often than infrequent lexical items. For instance, variable t/d-deletion in English is more likely to apply to a frequent word (just) than to an infrequent word (bust). Existing grammatical models of phonological variation do well at accounting for the influence of grammatical factors on variation, but these models cannot account for the contribution of non-grammatical factors such as lexical frequency. In this paper, I propose a model of phonological variation that can simultaneously account for the influence of both these factors on variation. I assume an Optimality Theoretic grammar with lexically indexed faithfulness constraints. Variation arises as a result of variable lexical indexation -- a single lexical item can be assigned to different lexical classes on different evaluation occasions, and will hence not always be evaluated by the same faithfulness constraints. Each lexical item is associated with a probabilistic distribution function that determines the likelihood of it being assigned to each of the lexical classes. The shape of a lexical item's distribution function is determined by its usage frequency, so that frequency influences the likelihood of the lexical item being assigned to specific lexical classes, and hence the likelihood of it being evaluated by specific faithfulness constraints. I apply the proposed model to variable t/d-deletion in English, and show that it succeeds in accounting for the way in which usage frequency influences this process.In two appendices, I show how the model can be implemented by interpreting the lexical distribution functions as instantiations of the beta distribution (Evans et al. 2000). This implementation of the model is then used to determine the expected t/d-deletion rates in a corpus of American English. I also use this implementation to model the acquisition path of a variable process, showing that the model predicts more variation during earlier acquisitional stages.
Global determinants of tobacco use onset in diverse youth
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 goal of this study is to identify smoking-related factors (e.g., attitudes and peer influences) as well as other more general factors (e.g., sense of future, parenting styles) related to tobacco use onset and continued use of tobacco in middle school aged youth, and to determine how these factors may differ across important sub-groups.

 To accomplish these goals, a model of potential factors related to smoking will be tested to examine which factors predict tobacco use onset and continued use of tobacco in middle school youth. The model will also provide data regarding which factors are most important in understanding why students begin and continue to use tobacco at this age. The model will include smoking-related factors, such as students' perceived ability to resist tobacco use (self efficacy), students' attitudes regarding smoking, social norms (e.g., friends' and families' views regarding smoking), and environmental barriers related to cigarette smoking (e.g., access, resources, availability of places to smoke). Additionally, the model will include other potentially important general factors that have not been routinely tested in the past. These include: sense of future, depression, coping ability and connectedness to parents and others. These more general factors are currently believed to be important predictors of adolescent risk behavior, but more research is needed to understand their relationships to smoking behavior, particularly among young adolescents.

 One of the important aspects of this study will involve examining how these factors differ across important sub-groups, such as males and females, members of different ethnic/racial groups, students who have differing levels of acculturation, students who are at different levels of tobacco use onset (e.g., experimenters vs. daily users) and students who report other health risk behaviors. This type of information is essential to help improve and tailor prevention programs for specific populations.

 The study will involve collecting survey data three times over a two-year period from a group of 3,000 middle school students (in grades 6 and ave parental permission to participate in the project. The students will be drawn from urban schools in northern California. The study will also involve collecting data on one occasion from 1,500 8th grade students.

 Currently, there is little research showing the relationships between important smoking-related factors and more general factors in adolescent tobacco use. The results of this study could be invaluable to practitioners and researchers developing comprehensive tobacco use prevention programs by providing guidance on which factors appear to be most likely to lead to sustained reductions in tobacco use among young adolescents.
Democratic Party Platform of 1892
Creators: name: Cleveland, Grover
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1892

description: Grover Cleveland's personal copy of the official National Democratic Party's platform of 1892. Presented to Grover Cleveland in June 1892. String-bound booklet with white leather cover. Gold lettering on cover reads "Democratic Platform 1892."  Inside cover is soft and felt-like.
Pilodius areolatus
Creators: name: Devi, S. Suvarna
name: Mendoza, Jose C. E.
name: Ravinesh, R.
name: Idress Babu, K. K.
name: Kumar, A. Biju
name: Ng, Peter K. L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Xanthidae
Pilodius
Pilodius areolatus

description: Pilodius areolatus (H. Milne Edwards, 1834)
Material examined. 1 female (12.1 x 8.4 mm) (DABFUK), Kavaratti, 7 January 2013; 1 male (23.3 x 15.2 mm), (DABFUK) 19 August 2013; 2 females (13.8 x 9.5 mm, 20.1 x 13.2 mm) (DABFUK), Androth, 10 November 2013; 1 ovigerous female (13.5 x 9.8 mm) (DABFUK), Agatti, 9 January 2014; 2 females (10.2 x 7.2 mm, 15.6 x 10.7 mm) (DABFUK), Bitra, 6 May 2015; 1 female (14.0 x 10.5mm) (DABFUK), Kilton, 18 May 2015; 2 males (13.9 x 9.7 mm, 18.7 x 12.8 mm) (DABFUK), Chetlat, 7 November 2015.
Remarks. Previously recorded from Lakshadweep by Dev Roy & Nandi (2005) and Suvarna Devi et al. (2014). The species was also observed from Kalpeni, Amini and Minicoy but specimens were not collected.
description: Published as part of Devi, S. Suvarna, Mendoza, Jose C. E., Ravinesh, R., Idress Babu, K. K., Kumar, A. Biju & Ng, Peter K. L., 2019, On a collection of brachyuran crabs from Lakshadweep, Indian Ocean (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura), pp. 477-501 in Zootaxa 4613 (3) on page 486, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4613.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/3239869
Israelimeria persica Alijani, Shayanmehr, Skarzynski, Piwnik & Smolis 2015
Creators: name: Mayvan, Mahmood Mehrafrooz
name: Greenslade, Penelope
name: Sadeghi-Namaghi, Hussein
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Collembola
Poduromorpha
Neanuridae
Israelimeria
Israelimeria persica

description: Israelimeria persica Alijani, Shayanmehr, Skarżyński, Piwnik & Smolis, 2015
– Israelimeria persica Alijani, Shayanmehr, Skarżyński, Piwnik & Smolis, 2015: 269.
GO: Alijani et al. 2015.
Ecology and habitat in Iran: soil in citrus orchard.
General distribution: species known only from type locality (Alijani et al. 2015).
Genus Micranurida Börner, 1901 (1901b)
description: Published as part of Mayvan, Mahmood Mehrafrooz, Greenslade, Penelope & Sadeghi-Namaghi, Hussein, 2023, An annotated checklist of the Collembola (Hexapoda) from Iran, pp. 1-101 in Zootaxa 5275 (1) on page 25, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5275.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7898948
Brain metabolic changes with cigarette craving
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: Smoking cigarettes substantially increases the risk of heart attack, stroke, and other severe medical conditions. Craving for cigarettes in smokers attempting to quit has repeatedly been associated with a relapse into usage. Current medications to treat dependence on cigarettes, such as the antidepressant bupropion (Zyban) and the nicotine patch or gum, are better than a sugar pill in reducing cigarette craving and relapse in the short term. However, only about 22% of smokers remain cigarette free after a year or two even with these treatments. Thus, there is a substantial need for better medications to treat addiction to cigarettes.

 The goal of the study proposed here is to determine which areas of the brain become more active and which areas become less active when a smoker is craving cigarettes. We will also determine whether or not the whole brain becomes more or less active with cigarette craving. To do this, heavy smokers will be treated with either the antidepressant bupropion or a sugar pill. Subjects will then have brain scans while watching a nature video and also in a state of craving brought on by a brief period of abstinence from smoking and by seeing a video that reminds them of smoking. Clinical studies (including those done by our group at UCLA) have demonstrated that 3 to 5 hours of abstinence paired with seeing this video will reliably induce craving in smokers.

 Recently, similar studies to the one proposed here have been done to examine which brain areas are activated in cocaine addicts during cocaine craving. In these studies, brain areas associated arousal and emotionality have been found to become more active when cocaine abusers are actively craving the drug. Examination of brain activity during cigarette craving has not yet been reported, and we will explore the idea that cigarette craving will activate brain regions similar to those activated by craving; for cocaine. We will also determine whether or not craving and brain changes are lessened in smokers treated with the medication bupropion when compared with smokers treated with a sugar pill Additionally, other aspects of cigarette withdrawal, such as anxiety, depression, and vital signs, will be measured to see if brain changes correlate with these factors.

 In conjunction with other areas of research, brain imaging findings from this study may offer promising leads to develop better treatments for cigarette craving.
Predictors of adolescent smoking initiation and cessation
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: After 30 years of warnings about the health consequences of tobacco use, adults (even young adults) show very low rates of smoking initiation while adolescents continue to take up smoking in significant numbers. Between 1985 and 1989, there was an increase in the rate of initiation of cigarette smoking among adolescents while the rate among young adults declined and overall prevalence of smoking among adults decreased steadily. More recently, between 1993 and 1996, daily smoking among high school seniors has increased from around 18 percent to over 22 percent. An important consequence of the increased rate of initiation among adolescents will be the increased future burden of tobacco-related diseases. The World Health Organization now estimates that, of, adolescents who continue smoking throughout their lives, approximately half will be killed by tobacco and that we can expect 200 million to 300 million children and adolescents under 20 (world-wide) currently alive to eventually be killed by tobacco. These considerations have focused public health efforts on preventing school-age youth from starting to smoke. Furthermore, these trends have caused public health professionals to call attention to the role of tobacco marketing in stimulating primary demand, in bringing new smokers into the marketplace. This research project will investigate the predictors of adolescent smoking initiation and cessation. This study addresses directly the program goals and research priorities of the Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program, which include the primary prevention of tobacco use, with an emphasis on youth and young adults. The benefits of the potential findings from this research project can be important in preventing youths from smoking. Furthermore, the findings related to adolescent cessation can be incorporated into programs to assist adolescent smokers to quit.
Decoding Late Iron Age tomb reuse patterns in Sharqiyyah North, Oman
Creators: name: Mauro, Fausto
name: Döpper, Stephanie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Archaeology
subject: Oman
subject: Samad
subject: Iron Age
subject: Archaeological Survey
subject: Tombs
subject: Arabia

description: Poster presented at the 57th Seminar for Arabian Studies.

The practice of reusing tombs is a prevalent phenomenon observed throughout the Bronze Age, Iron Age, and even into the Sasanian period in south-eastern Arabia. Reuse, particularly during the Late Iron Age, has been documented across various excavated tombs all over the region, revealing artefacts dating to the late 1st millennium BCE and early 1st millennium CE. Similarly, evidence of tomb reutilization during the LIA period is widespread and conspicuous in central Oman.

This poster presents findings from two survey projects: the Al-Mudhaybi Regional Survey (2018-2022) and the ongoing Jebel Madar Survey (since 2024) in the Sharqiyyah North (central Oman). In addition to providing a comprehensive analysis of evidence, the poster aims to explore the mechanisms ("the how"), the agents involved ("the who"), and the underlying reasons ("the why") behind this widespread phenomenon in the region. Thus, the goal is to foster a deeper comprehension of the societal dynamics and cultural practices surrounding tomb reuse in south-eastern Arabia during the Late Iron Age, shedding new light on the region's archaeological landscape.
Micranurida sensillata
Creators: name: Mayvan, Mahmood Mehrafrooz
name: Greenslade, Penelope
name: Sadeghi-Namaghi, Hussein
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Collembola
Poduromorpha
Neanuridae
Micranurida
Micranurida sensillata

description: Micranurida sensillata (Gisin, 1953)
– Anurida sensillata Gisin, 1953: 56.
EA, WA, GI: Cox 1982.
Ecology and habitat in Iran: soil.
Remarks: Cox (1982), Daghighi et al. (2013a), Falahati et al. (2013a) and Shayanmehr et al. (2013) mentioned this species as Anurida sensillata but in the last generic combination it is considered as Micranurida sensillata.
General distribution: Palaearctic (Fjellberg 1998).
Genus Pseudachorutes Tullberg, 1871
description: Published as part of Mayvan, Mahmood Mehrafrooz, Greenslade, Penelope & Sadeghi-Namaghi, Hussein, 2023, An annotated checklist of the Collembola (Hexapoda) from Iran, pp. 1-101 in Zootaxa 5275 (1) on pages 25-26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5275.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7898948
Additional file 1: of Cost-effectiveness of ceftolozane/tazobactam plus metronidazole versus piperacillin/tazobactam as initial empiric therapy for the treatment of complicated intra-abdominal infections based on pathogen distributions drawn from national surveillance data in the United States
Creators: name: Vimalanand Prabhu
name: Solomkin, Joseph
name: Medic, Goran
name: Foo, Jason
name: Borse, Rebekah
name: Kauf, Teresa
name: Miller, Benjamin
name: Shuvayu Sen
name: Anirban Basu
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Susceptibility inputs - Program to Assess Ceftolozane/Tazobactam Susceptibility (PACTS) dataset. (DOCX 25 kb)
Euxanthus rugosus Miers 1884
Creators: name: Devi, S. Suvarna
name: Mendoza, Jose C. E.
name: Ravinesh, R.
name: Idress Babu, K. K.
name: Kumar, A. Biju
name: Ng, Peter K. L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Xanthidae
Euxanthus
Euxanthus rugosus

description: Euxanthus rugosus Miers, 1884 *
(Fig. 2D)
Material examined. 1 juvenile male (10.3 x 6.8 mm) (DABFUK), Kavaratti, 7 January 2013.
Remarks. A new record for Lakshadweep. The present specimen of E. rugosus is a juvenile, but it already has the rugosities on the areolae of the dorsal surface of the carapace and the prominent outwardly directed projection on the carpus of the cheliped, a character typical for the species (cf. Guinot-Dumortier 1960; Serene 1984). The only other Indian record of E. rugosus is that of Dev Roy & Nandi (2012) from the Nicobar and Andaman Islands. Given the similarity of the present species with E. exsculptus (Herbst, 1790), previous records of E. exsculptus by Rao et al. (1989) and Bakus (1994) will need to be verified.
description: Published as part of Devi, S. Suvarna, Mendoza, Jose C. E., Ravinesh, R., Idress Babu, K. K., Kumar, A. Biju & Ng, Peter K. L., 2019, On a collection of brachyuran crabs from Lakshadweep, Indian Ocean (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura), pp. 477-501 in Zootaxa 4613 (3) on page 486, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4613.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/3239869
Additional file 1: of Cost-effectiveness of ceftolozane/tazobactam plus metronidazole versus piperacillin/tazobactam as initial empiric therapy for the treatment of complicated intra-abdominal infections based on pathogen distributions drawn from national surveillance data in the United States
Creators: name: Vimalanand Prabhu
name: Solomkin, Joseph
name: Medic, Goran
name: Foo, Jason
name: Borse, Rebekah
name: Kauf, Teresa
name: Miller, Benjamin
name: Shuvayu Sen
name: Anirban Basu
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Susceptibility inputs - Program to Assess Ceftolozane/Tazobactam Susceptibility (PACTS) dataset. (DOCX 25 kb)
Pseudachorutes corticicolus
Creators: name: Mayvan, Mahmood Mehrafrooz
name: Greenslade, Penelope
name: Sadeghi-Namaghi, Hussein
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Collembola
Poduromorpha
Neanuridae
Pseudachorutes
Pseudachorutes corticicolus

description: Pseudachorutes corticicolus (Schäffer, 1896)
– Schoettella corticola Schäffer, 1896: 176.
MAZ: Ghasemi Cherati 2017; Ghasemi Cherati et al. 2022; KU: Ahmadi et al. 2023.
Ecology and habitat in Iran: forest soil and leaf litter.
General distribution: potentially Holarctic but more investigation is needed (Babenko et al. 2019).
description: Published as part of Mayvan, Mahmood Mehrafrooz, Greenslade, Penelope & Sadeghi-Namaghi, Hussein, 2023, An annotated checklist of the Collembola (Hexapoda) from Iran, pp. 1-101 in Zootaxa 5275 (1) on page 26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5275.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7898948
How does cardiac fuel metabolism influence heart disease?
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: Cigarette smoking is well established as a risk factor in atherosclerotic coronary artery disease and myocardial infarction, as well as for two common results of myocardial infarction, sudden cardiac death and congestive heart failure. More cigarette smokers die from coronary heart disease than from lung diseases, and the morbidity and treatment costs for coronary heart disease are extremely high. It has been widely assumed that lipoproteins (fat-transporting proteins in blood) are secreted only by the intestine and liver. We recently demonstrated that the heart is a lipoprotein secreting organ. The reason why the heart makes and secretes lipoproteins is unknown, but I have hypothesized that the heart may make and export lipoproteins to unload surplus cellular fats (or lipids), particularly triglycerides, that are not immediately required for fuel. I believe that lipoprotein secretion by the heart represents a highly significant, provocative, and novel research topic, both for cardiac fuel metabolism (i.e., the utilization of fat as an energy source for heart muscle) and for coronary heart disease. I plan to further investigate lipoprotein secretion by the heart using a wide range of experimental techniques. The size and density of secreted lipoproteins, which may relate to how they are utilized and their roles in heart disease, will also be assessed using both heart tissue ex vivo and primary cultures of mouse neonatal cardiac muscle cells.

 I will also test the hypothesis that the secretion of apo B (another plasma protein) by the heart might play an important role in exporting excess lipids, particularly triglycerides, from specific heart muscle cell types (cardiac myocytes). First, I will utilize mice that lack lipoprotein synthesis in the heart and then determine whether the absence of lipoprotein secretion by the heart causes the cardiac myocytes to accumulate increased amounts of fat within the cells. Second, the possibility that excessive production of human apo B in the hearts of transgenic mice leads to diminished stores of fats within cardiac muscle cells will be examined. I will determine whether overexpression of lipoproteins in the heart reduces myocardial triglyceride accumulation under various experimental conditions. For example, does cigarette smoke and/or nicotine raise plasma levels of free fatty acids, and do elevated levels of plasma fatty acids increase intracellular stores of triglycerides in cardiac muscle? I will determine whether overexpression of apo B in the heart limits the amount of triglyceride accumulation in the setting of various experimental interventions that increase plasma fatty acid levels and promote fat accumulation in heart muscle. Results of these studies will provide insight into possible pathways by which cardiac fuel metabolism influences human susceptibility to coronary heart disease.
ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK (ANN) PREDICTIVE CAPABILITIES: TRANSFORMING SOCSO'S RETURN-TO-WORK (RTW) INITIATIVES
Creators: name: MOHD ZAKI AWANG CHEK
name: ISMA LIANA ISMAIL
name: MUHAMMAD SYAKIR ASRULSANI
name: HASLIFAH HASIM
name: AHMAD FUAD MANSOR
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Return to Work (RTW), Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), Predictive Analytics, SOCSO, Employment Injury, Invalidity Pension, Work Reintegration, Machine Learning,

description: Abstract

The Return-to-Work (RTW) initiatives by the Social Security Organization of Malaysia (SOCSO) play a crucial role in facilitating the reintegration of employees who have suffered injuries or illnesses into the workforce. However, the complexity and variability of individual recovery trajectories pose challenges in effectively predicting RTW outcomes. This study introduces the use of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) to enhance the predictive capabilities of these RTW initiatives, offering a transformative approach to managing and forecasting rehabilitation outcomes. Leveraging a dataset comprising 1,552 RTW program participants, we developed an ANN model that integrates multiple demographic and employment-related variables such as age, gender, sector of employment, and salary. The ANN model was trained and validated to identify key predictors and their nonlinear interactions, aiming to forecast successful workforce reintegration accurately. Our findings indicate that the ANN model significantly outperforms traditional predictive methods, achieving high accuracy and providing deep insights into the factors influencing successful RTW outcomes. This paper demonstrates the potential of ANN in revolutionizing RTW initiatives, not only by enhancing prediction accuracy but also by facilitating more personalized rehabilitation plans. Such advancements could lead to improved efficiency in resource allocation and better support for injured or ill employees, ultimately contributing to a more resilient and adaptive workforce management system.
Additional fileÂ 1: of Prevalence, impact and care of foot problems in people with rheumatoid arthritis: results from a United Kingdom based cross-sectional survey
Creators: name: Wilson, Oonagh
name: Hewlett, Sarah
name: Woodburn, James
name: Pollock, Jon
name: Kirwan, John
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Characteristics AFC versus NAFC. (DOCX 13 kb)
Pseudachorutes dubius Krausbauer 1898
Creators: name: Mayvan, Mahmood Mehrafrooz
name: Greenslade, Penelope
name: Sadeghi-Namaghi, Hussein
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Collembola
Poduromorpha
Neanuridae
Pseudachorutes
Pseudachorutes dubius

description: Pseudachorutes dubius Krausbauer, 1898
– Pseudachorutes dubius Krausbauer, 1898: 504.
CE, GI: Cox 1982; TE: Qazi & Shayanmehr 2016b; MAZ: Mohammadi Nodeheki et al. 2018a; Vahedi Moghadam et al. 2022.
Ecology and habitat in Iran: soil, leaf litter and chicken manure.
General distribution: Palaearctic (Fjellberg 1998).
description: Published as part of Mayvan, Mahmood Mehrafrooz, Greenslade, Penelope & Sadeghi-Namaghi, Hussein, 2023, An annotated checklist of the Collembola (Hexapoda) from Iran, pp. 1-101 in Zootaxa 5275 (1) on page 26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5275.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7898948