cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Plesiotrochus fallax
Creators: name: Thivaiou, Danae
name: Harzhauser, Mathias
name: Koskeridou, Efterpi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Plesiotrochidae
Plesiotrochus
Plesiotrochus fallax

description: Plesiotrochus fallax (Grateloup, 1832)
(Fig. 3 E1, E2)
Cerithium fallax Grateloup, 1832: nos 263, 265. — d’Orbigny 1852: nos 1478, 1480.
Hemicerithium fallax – Cossmann & Peyrot 1922: no. 579, figs 78- 83, 89.
Plesiotrochus fallax – Lozouet et al. 2001: 21, pl. 10, figs 1-3.
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Sample F10: AMPG (IV) 1602-1604 (three specimens); sample F11: AMPG (IV) 1605, 1606 (two specimens).
DIMENSIONS. — Maximum height: 2.15 mm (incomplete).
DISTRIBUTION. — Early Miocene. NE Atlantic: France (Aquitaine Basin) (Grateloup 1832; Cossmann & Peyrot 1922; Lozouet et al. 2001); Proto-Mediterranean Sea: Greece (this paper).
REMARKS
Until now, Plesiotrochus fallax had only been recordedin the Aquitanian of the Aquitaine Basin in France, where is somewhat variable (as shown by Lozouet et al. (2001)). The present specimens are mostly similar to figures 3a and 3b of Lozouet et al. (2001), since the spiral sculpture is inconspicuous, the shell is almost smooth, and the axial varices are relatively rounded. The aperture is broken in all available specimens.
The family Plesiotrochidae was transferred to the superfamily Campaniloidea by Healy (1993) based on recent species.
Modern representatives of the family feed on algae and live in coarse sediments, on reef slopes, sometimes between coral patches and sand with seagrasses (Janssen et al. 2011)
Superfamily CERTITHIOIDEA J. Fleming, 1822 Family CERITHIIDAE Fleming, 1822
description: Published as part of Thivaiou, Danae, Harzhauser, Mathias & Koskeridou, Efterpi, 2019, Early Miocene Gastropods from the Felli Section (Proto-Mediterranean Sea NW Greece), pp. 323-366 in Geodiversitas 41 (8) on pages 330-331, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2019v41a8, http://zenodo.org/record/3700008
Mosquito control pesticide use in New Jersey - 1999-2000
Creators: name: Brown, Curt
Publisher: name: Not given
Year: 2002

description: The specific purpose of this project was to identify what chemicals and what quantities of each were used in 1999 and 2000 for mosquito control. The survey was to supplement data gathered from previous pesticide use surveys for addressing the impact of pesticide use statewide.
Bittium Gray 1847
Creators: name: Thivaiou, Danae
name: Harzhauser, Mathias
name: Koskeridou, Efterpi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Cerithiidae
Bittium

description: Genus Bittium Gray, 1847
TYPE SPECIES. — Strombiformis reticulatum da Costa, 1778 (= Bittium reticulatum (da Costa, 1778)), subsequent designation by Gray (1847). Recent, Europe.
description: Published as part of Thivaiou, Danae, Harzhauser, Mathias & Koskeridou, Efterpi, 2019, Early Miocene Gastropods from the Felli Section (Proto-Mediterranean Sea NW Greece), pp. 323-366 in Geodiversitas 41 (8) on page 331, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2019v41a8, http://zenodo.org/record/3700008
Right-of-way pesticide use in New Jersey: 1992 survey
Creators: name: Brown, Curt
Publisher: name: Not given
Year: 2002

description: The specific purpose of this project was to identify what chemicals and how much of each were used in 1992 for right-of-way pest control. A more general purpose of the survey was to supplement data gathered from previous pesticide use surveys for addressing the impact of pesticide use statewide.
Right-of-way pesticide use in New Jersey: 2000 survey
Creators: name: Brown, Curt
Publisher: name: Not given
Year: 2002

description: The specific purpose of this project was to identify what chemicals and how much of each were used in 2000 for right-of-way pest control. A more general purpose of the survey was to supplement data gathered form previous pesticide use surveys for addressing the impact of pesticide use statewide.
Right-of-way pesticide use in New Jersey: 2003 survey
Creators: name: Brown, Curt
Publisher: name: Not given
Year: 2007

description: The specific purpose of this project was to identify what chemicals and how much of each were used in 2003 for right-of-way pest control. A more general purpose of the survey was to supplement data gathered from previous pesticide use surveys for addressing the impact of pesticide use statewide.
Right-of-way pesticide use in New Jersey: 2006 survey
Creators: name: Brown, Curt
Publisher: name: Not given
Year: 2008

description: the specific purpose of this project was to identify what chemicals and how much of each were used in 2006 for right-of-way pest control. A more general purpose of the survey was to supplement data gathered from previous pesticide use survey for addressing the impact of pesticide use statewide.
7:30 subchapter 12 - Agricultural worker protection
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Not given
Year: 2008

description: Contains information regarding general duties, prohibited actions, standard for workers, restrictions associated with pesticide applications, worker entry restrictions, notice of applications to workers, providing specific information about applications, notice of application to handler employers, worker pesticide safety training, posted pesticide safety information, decontamination, emergency assistance, standard for pesticide handlers, restrictions during applications, providing specific information about applications, notice of applications to agricultural employers, pesticide safety training for handlers, knowledge of labeling and other site specific information, safe operation of equipment, posted pesticide safety information, handler personal protective equipment, handler decontamination, and emergency assistance.
Phoenicococcidae Stickney 1934
Creators: name: Hodgson, Chris
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Phoenicococcidae

description: PHOENICOCOCCIDAE Stickney 1934
Type species: Phoenicococcus marlatti Cockerell by monotypy and original designation.
Introduction. This small family includes just the single species, Phoenicococcus marlatti Cockerell which feeds on date palms. Its relationships are uncertain but it is currently generally accepted that it is either close to the Diaspididae, as found by Vea and Grimaldi (2016), or actually a member of this family. The adult males were studied by Stickney (1934) and are apterous (Fig. 57).
description: Published as part of Hodgson, Chris, 2020, A review of neococcid scale insects (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccomorpha) based on the morphology of the adult males, pp. 1-264 in Zootaxa 4765 (1) on page 141, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4765.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3774174
Novel Algorithms CIPFP for Mining Frequent Patterns using Counting Inference from Probabilistic Databases and Future Possibilities
Creators: name: Bhargava, Niket
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 460502
subject: Data mining and knowledge discovery

description: We consider the problem of discovering frequent item sets and association rules between items in a large database of transactional databases acquired under uncertainty. A probabilistic database considered here is one in which with each transaction associated is a probability, represents the confidence that the transaction will occur with given associated certainty. In this paper, we address the problem of the efficiency of the main phase of most data mining applications: The frequent pattern extraction. This problem is mainly related to the number of operations required for counting pattern supports in the database and we propose a new method, called counting inference probabilistic frequent pattern miner in probabilistic databases, this algorithm allows to perform as few support counts as possible. It is optimized to reduce the number of database scan as well as the number of patterns for which explicit support count is required. Using this method, the support of a pattern is determined without accessing the database whenever possible, using the supports of some of its sub-patterns called key patterns. This method was implemented in the CIPFP, counting inference based probabilistic frequent pattern mining algorithm that is an optimization of the simple and efficient Apriori algorithm. The goal is to transform all key patterns into non-key patterns as early as possible as for non-key-patterns database scan is not required at all.
Halimococcidae Brown & McKenzie 1962
Creators: name: Hodgson, Chris
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Halimococcidae

description: HALIMOCOCCIDAE Brown & McKenzie 1962
Type species: Halimococcus lampas Cockerell by monotypy.
Introduction. This small family includes 21 species in 5 genera all of which feed on palms. It is generally considered that halimococcine scales are closely related to the Phoenicococcidae and Diaspididae (and are sometimes included in the latter) although no molecular studies have yet included them. The adult males of Halimococcus lampas Cockerell (Fig. 58) were studied by Stickney (1934) who included them in the Phoenicococcidae. On the basis that the secondinstar nymph has a distinct operculum, Brown and McKenzie (1962) introduced the family Halimococcidae. The adult males are all apterous (Fig. 58).
description: Published as part of Hodgson, Chris, 2020, A review of neococcid scale insects (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccomorpha) based on the morphology of the adult males, pp. 1-264 in Zootaxa 4765 (1) on page 141, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4765.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3774174
title: Musicians, Chariot Bearers, and Ghost Characters: The Spectrality of Black Slavery in Early Modern Mediterranean Drama
Creators: name: Schülting, Sabine
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: slavery
subject: Blackness
subject: spectrality
classificationCode: 792
subject: Bühnenkunst

description: The article discusses early modern English plays from the 1590s to the 1610s, set in or referring to the Mediterranean, which feature Black African characters in marginal roles. These characters are ‘spectral’ in that they have no speaking part but appear briefly as attendants, servants, musicians, or indeed slaves. The article argues that their spectrality evokes the presence of Black African slaves in the Mediterranean, which has often been ignored in Early Modern Studies. However, through these characters Black slavery is turned into a mere spectacle, performed for the gaze of the theatre audience in early modern London.
Gibborissoia Sacco 1895
Creators: name: Thivaiou, Danae
name: Harzhauser, Mathias
name: Koskeridou, Efterpi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Neotaenioglossa
Litiopidae
Gibborissoia

description: Genus Gibborissoia Sacco, 1895
TYPE SPECIES. — Bulimus costellatus Grateloup, 1828 (younger subjective synonym of Gibborissoia prevostina (Basterot, 1825)), by original designation. Early Miocene, France.
Gibborissoia varicosa (Basterot, 1825) (Fig. 4 C1-C3)
Rissoa varicosa de Basterot, 1825: 37, pl. 1, fig. 2.
Gibborissoia varicosa – Landau et al. 2013: 49, pl. 4, fig. 9 (cum syn.).
Gibborissoia varicosa – Harzhauser et al. 2018: 155, fig. 10/N.
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Sample F11: AMPG (IV) 2239-2250 (12 specimens); sample F12: AMPG (IV) 2251-2268 (18 specimens).
DIMENSIONS. — Maximum height: 1.40 mm.
DISTRIBUTION. — Early Miocene. NE Atlantic: France (Cossmann & Peyrot 1917; Cossmann 1921; Lozouet et al. 2001); Proto-Mediterranean Sea: Italy (Sacco 1895b) (Burdigalian).
Middle Miocene. Proto-Mediterranean Sea: Turkey (Landau et al. 2013); Paratethys: Austria (Hörnes 1856), Bulgaria (Zilch 1934), Hungary (Strausz 1966), Poland (Bałuk 1975).
REMARKS
Gibborissoia varicosa displays a large morphological variability, which has led to the description of several varieties. It can range from smooth to varicated and from moderately to strongly elongate with a large last whorl. In the Greek material, the shells are all smooth and elongated, often with a larger last whorl. They are more similar in shape to Serravallian representatives of the species from Turkey (Landau et al. 2013) than with the specimens from the Aquitanian stratotype as illustrated in Lozouet et al. (2001). The Paratethyan subspecies Alaba costellata anomala (Eichwald, 1850), as illustrated in Bałuk (1975), is based on minor morphological features that do not suffice for such a separation, therefore was placed in synonymy with G. varicosa by Landau et al. (2013).
description: Published as part of Thivaiou, Danae, Harzhauser, Mathias & Koskeridou, Efterpi, 2019, Early Miocene Gastropods from the Felli Section (Proto-Mediterranean Sea NW Greece), pp. 323-366 in Geodiversitas 41 (8) on page 332, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2019v41a8, http://zenodo.org/record/3700008
Dithiocarbamates fact sheet
Creators: name: NJ Department Of Environmental Protection, Pesticide Control Program
Publisher: name: Not given
Year: 2000

description: Provides information on chemical and common names, symptoms of poisoning, short-term health hazards, long-term health hazards, personal protective equipment and practices, re-entry times, emergency assistance, crops typically receiving dithiocarbamate applications, and contacts for additional help or information.
1914 Bar Mitzvah Invitation
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1914

description: Invitation to a Bar Mitzvah held on February 28, 1914. Because Temple Sholom did not yet have a building, the service was held at the New Street Synagogue. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dreier, parents of the Bar Mitzvah boy, were founding members of Temple Sholom the previous year.
Additional file 4: Figure S3. of Genome content analysis yields new insights into the relationship between the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum and its anopheline vectors
Creators: name: Oppenheim, Sara
name: Rosenfeld, Jeffrey
name: DeSalle, Rob
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: The distribution of HSP/Hit coverage percents obtained in BLASTP searches with two different query sets: All anopheline proteins except for the gain/loss set versus only the protein families in the gain/loss set. (PDF 41Â kb)
Thermosensitive splicing of a clock gene and seasonal adaptation
Creators: name: Low, Kwang Huei
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: Prior work showed that the thermosensitive splicing of an intron found in the 3’ untranslated region (UTR) of the Drosophila melanogaster period (per) gene, termed dmpi8 (Drosophila melanogaster per intron 8), is critical for temperature-induced adjustments in the distribution of daily activity.  Using a simplified cell culture system, we showed that an intricate balance between multiple suboptimal splicing signals is the underlying molecular basis for the thermosensitive splicing of dmpi8.  We confirmed the physiological significance of this model in transgenic Drosophila by altering the splice site strengths of dmpi8.  Presumably, at higher temperatures, the interaction between the spliceosome and the sub-optimal splicing signals is weaker and hence results in less efficient splicing.   Further studies of Drosophila species from different geographical regions strongly suggest that the thermal regulation in the splicing efficiency of the D. melanogaster per 3’-terminal intron is an important mechanism for seasonal adaptation in this species.  Temperature dependent splicing of dmpi8 contributed to the ability of cosmopolitan D. melanogaster to adapt to temperate regions by providing a mechanism that can extent midday siesta during the long warm days typical of temperate climates. However, Drosophila species indigenous to Afro-equatorial regions, wherein temperature undergoes little seasonal variation, do not exhibit thermal adjustments in their daily activity patterns.  Intriguingly, 3’-terminal introns were also found in their per genes, but these introns have strong splice sites and are not spliced in a thermosensitive manner.  Thus, the strengths of key splicing signals underlies species-specific differences in the thermosensitivities of per 3’-terminal intron removal that correlate with the ability to adjust daily activity patterns in a temperature dependent manner. In related work we identified natural polymorphisms in non-intronic regions of the per 3’-UTR that modulate dmpi8 splicing.  Preliminary analysis suggests that the effects of some of these polymorphisms might be mediated by SR proteins. Finally, we also identified a novel role for the per 3’-terminal intron on sleep homeostasis.  In summary, this thesis utilized a multi-faceted strategy, including simplified mechanistic studies and comparative analysis, which led to new ecological and evolutionary perspectives on the role of circadian clock function on thermal and seasonal adaptation.
Opioid receptor like-1 receptor deficient mice show dysregulation of the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis following acute immunologic challenge with staphylococcal enterotoxin A
Creators: name: Mallimo, Elyse M.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: Opioid receptor like-1 receptor (ORL1) shares considerable sequence identity with the classical µ, δ, and κ opioid receptors yet shows no affinity to the classical opioid ligands.  Rather, ORL1 is selective for its endogenous ligand, orphaninFQ/Nociceptin (OFQ/N).  The nociceptin system is integral to many physiological processes (e.g., nociception) and plays a prominent role in regulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, the stress response, and anxiety.  Since immunologic stimuli exert stressor-like effects, the neuroendocrine and behavioral effects of the T-cell superantigen staphylococcal enterotoxin A (SEA) were tested in 129S6, ORL1 wildtype (ORL1+/+) and knockout (ORL1-/-) mice.  Within 2 h of SEA challenge both genotypes showed elevated levels of plasma corticosterone, but only wildtypes remained elevated after 4 h.  The effects of SEA on corticosterone levels were determined to be associated with changes in corticotropin releasing hormone (CRH), CRH receptor 1 (CRH-R1) and CRH-R2 mRNA expression in the hypothalamus.  Moreover, SEA-induced changes in CRH and CRH-R1 were dependent on the presence of the ORL1 gene and suggest that activation of the ORL1 receptor may modulate positive and negative feedback control of CRH activity in the hypothalamus.  These findings are consistent with the idea that ORL1 activation prolongs stress-induced levels of corticosterone, possibly through ORL1 dependent modulation of the CRH system.  Furthermore, gustatory neophobia due to SEA challenge was augmented in ORL1-/- mice and is consistent with the anxiolytic role for the nociceptin system.  In summary, these results suggest that the ORL1 gene may be necessary for normal HPA axis activity and may confer resistance to novelty-induced anorexia following acute SEA challenge in 129S6 mice.
Melanopsis Ferussac 1807
Creators: name: Thivaiou, Danae
name: Harzhauser, Mathias
name: Koskeridou, Efterpi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Melanopsidae
Melanopsis

description: Genus Melanopsis Férussac, 1807
TYPE SPECIES. — Melania costata Olivier, 1804, subsequent designation by Gray (1847). Recent, Europe.
description: Published as part of Thivaiou, Danae, Harzhauser, Mathias & Koskeridou, Efterpi, 2019, Early Miocene Gastropods from the Felli Section (Proto-Mediterranean Sea NW Greece), pp. 323-366 in Geodiversitas 41 (8) on page 332, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2019v41a8, http://zenodo.org/record/3700008
Additional file 1: of Rigorous evaluation of a pregnancy prevention program for American Indian youth and adolescents: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Tingey, Lauren
name: Chambers, Rachel
name: Novalene Goklish
name: Francene Larzelere
name: Lee, Angelita
name: Suttle, Rosemarie
name: Rosenstock, Summer
name: Lake, Kristin
name: Barlow, Allison
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: SPIRIT Checklist. (DOC 123 kb)
Additional file 2: Figures S2. of Effects of sarcosine and N, N-dimethylglycine on NMDA receptor-mediated excitatory field potentials
Creators: name: Lee, Mei-Yi
name: Yi-Ruu Lin
name: Tu, Yi-Shu
name: Yufeng Tseng
name: Ming-Huan Chan
name: Hwei-Hsien Chen
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Effects of sarcosine or DMG combined with NMDA and NMDA plus glycine on excitatory field potentials. The effects of glutamate (100 μM) plus glycine (10 μM) and NMDA (30 μM) plus glycine (10 μM) was compared first and blockade by MK-801. The experimental protocol (A) and the representative EFPs recordings (B) were shown as application of sarcosine (100 μM) or DMG (100 μM) combined with NMDA or NMDA plus glycine. Sarcosine and DMG produced the same effects when glutamate was replaced by NMDA. (PDF 251 kb)
Melanopsis Ferussac 1807
Creators: name: Thivaiou, Danae
name: Harzhauser, Mathias
name: Koskeridou, Efterpi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Melanopsidae
Melanopsis

description: Melanopsis sp.
(Fig. 3 F1-F3)
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Sample F2: AMPG (IV) 2269-2275 (seven specimens); sample F7: AMPG (IV) 2276-2279 (four specimens); sample F10: AMPG (IV) 2280 (one specimen).
DIMENSIONS. — Maximum height: 18.0 mm (incomplete).
DISTRIBUTION. — Early Miocene. Proto-Mediterranean Sea: Greece (this paper).
DESCRIPTION
Elongated fusiform shell with acute apical angle and completely flat whorls. Indistinct sutures; shoulder may be present in some specimens. Aperture ovate elongated with slightly elongated siphonal canal; outer lip not preserved; distinct callus. Very weak sculpture consisting of thin sigmoidal growth lines. Residual colour pattern poorly preserved consisting of thin sigmoidal axial lines of approximately equal width.
REMARKS
A single species of Melanopsis was found in Felli, including a broken juvenile specimen. The specimens seem to represent an undescribed species, but the available material is not sufficient to formally describe it. All specimens are broken and the apical part is always missing. This species might already have been discussed from other Oligocene and lower Miocene sections in the Mesohellenic Basin as Melanopsis impressa Kraus, 1852 by Harzhauser (2004) and Harzhauser & Kowalke (2001). Due to the poor preservation of these specimens a comparison with the specimens from Felli remains difficult. In any case, it is unlikely that the Greek records represent Melanopsis impressa, which is a species from the early Miocene of southern Germany (see also discussion in Harzhauser et al. 2016) on Melanopsis hantkeni Hofmann, 1870). A separation of the species from Felli from Melanopsis hantkeni as described by Harzhauser et al. (2016) from the Rupelian of the Thrace Basin is based on its colour pattern of blotches forming a vague zig-zag pattern.
Oligocene and early Miocene Melanopsis species are frequently found in brackish deposits but are assumed to have favoured freshwater envieronments (Neubauer et al. 2016). In the Serravallian of Turkey, it is still found in brackish deposits (Landau et al. 2013). In the Pliocene and the Lower Pleistocene of Greece, it is found in brackish deposits with freshwater input (Georgiades-Dikaioulia et al. 2002; Moissette et al. 2016). Here, the presence of Melanopsis is considered to be an indicator of freshwater influx, which is in agreement with the preservation of the specimens.
description: Published as part of Thivaiou, Danae, Harzhauser, Mathias & Koskeridou, Efterpi, 2019, Early Miocene Gastropods from the Felli Section (Proto-Mediterranean Sea NW Greece), pp. 323-366 in Geodiversitas 41 (8) on pages 332-334, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2019v41a8, http://zenodo.org/record/3700008
title: Increased methane production associated with community shifts towards Methanocella in paddy soils with the presence of nanoplastics
Creators: name: He, Zhibin
name: Hou, Yarong
name: Li, Ying
name: Bei, Qicheng
name: Li, Xin
name: Zhu, Yong-Guan
name: Liesack, Werner
name: Rillig, Matthias C.
name: Peng, Jingjing
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Plastics
subject: Carbon flow
subject: Methane
subject: Fatty acids
subject: FT-ICR-MS, MAGs
subject: Metatranscriptomics
classificationCode: 570
subject: Biowissenschaften; Biologie

description: Background Planetary plastic pollution poses a major threat to ecosystems and human health in the Anthropocene, yet its impact on biogeochemical cycling remains poorly understood. Waterlogged rice paddies are globally important sources of CH4. Given the widespread use of plastic mulching in soils, it is urgent to unravel whether low-density polyethylene (LDPE) will affect the methanogenic community in flooded paddy soils. Here, we employed a combination of process measurements, short-chain and long-chain fatty acid (SCFAs and LCFAs) profiling, Fourier-transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry, quantitative PCR, metagenomics, and mRNA profiling to investigate the impact of LDPE nanoplastics (NPs) on dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and CH4 production in both black and red paddy soils under anoxic incubation over a 160-day period. Results Despite significant differences in microbiome composition between the two soil types, both exhibited similar results to NPs exposure. NPs induced a change in DOC content and CH4 production up to 1.8-fold and 10.1-fold, respectively. The proportion of labile dissolved organic matter decreased, while its recalcitrance increased. Genes associated with the degradation of complex carbohydrates and aromatic carbon were significantly enriched. The elevated CH4 production was significantly correlated to increases in both the PCR-quantified mcrA gene copy numbers and the metagenomic methanogen-to-bacteria abundance ratio. Notably, the latter was linked to an enrichment of the hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis pathway. Among 391 metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs), the abundance of several Syntrophomonas and Methanocella MAGs increased concomitantly, suggesting that the NPs treatments stimulated the syntrophic oxidation of fatty acids. mRNA profiling further identified Methanosarcinaceae and Methanocellaceae to be the key players in the NPs-induced CH4 production. Conclusions The specific enrichment of Syntrophomonas and Methanocella indicates that LDPE NPs stimulate the syntrophic oxidation of LCFAs and SCFAs, with Methanocella acting as the hydrogenotrophic methanogen partner. Our findings enhance the understanding of how LDPE NPs affect the methanogenic community in waterlogged paddy soils. Given the importance of this ecosystem, our results are crucial for elucidating the mechanisms that govern carbon fluxes, which are highly relevant to global climate change.
Additional file 5: of Conserved patterns of integrated developmental plasticity in a group of polyphenic tropical butterflies
Creators: name: Bergen, Erik Van
name: Osbaldeston, Dave
name: Ullasa Kodandaramaiah
name: BrattstrĂśm, Oskar
name: Kwaku Aduse-Poku
name: Brakefield, Paul
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Summary table of the plastic responses to developmental temperature in mycalesine butterflies. (PDF 29Â kb)
SOCIAL NETWORKS AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REFORM IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: A Look at Primary, Secondary and Vocational Education
Creators: name: David Ciza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Social Networks, Reform, Public Administration.

description: Summary: E-government applications are instruments in the search for solutions to the real problem of state reform and strengthening the efficiency and capacities of the administration.

The latter can testify to a working instrument at the service of a management carried out with evolutionary, efficient, transparent and participatory rigor. For this reason, the Congolese authorities should seriously consider social networks as a means of modernizing the Congolese public administration is one of the instruments to get the country out of the chronic and pathological territorial under-administration, which has characterized it for several years.

Despite the problems (hacking, indiscretion) that they generate and the challenges they face, this practice should be encouraged.
Skill-based acquaintance : a non-causal account of reference
Creators: name: Gové, Jean
Publisher: name: The University of St Andrews
Year: 2024
Subjects: Reference
Acquaintance
Singular thought
Gareth Evans
Abstract objects

description: This thesis provides an account of acquaintance with abstract objects. The notion of acquaintance is integral to theorising on reference and singular thought, since it is generally taken to be the relation that must exist between a subject and an object, in order for the subject to refer to, and entertain singular thoughts about the object. The most common way of understanding acquaintance is as a form of causal connection. However, this implies a problem. We seem to be able to refer and have singular thoughts about abstract objects. But given that abstract objects are causally inert, this would mean that we are unable to become acquainted with them. This problem shall be the focus of this thesis. I first argue that these traditional causal interpretations of acquaintance are lacking. Instead, I show that acquaintance is dependent to some degree on factors internal to the subject, namely the skills that they possess. From doctors to sommeliers to mathematicians (and possibly even philosophers!) – these subjects seem to succeed in becoming acquainted with certain objects precisely in virtue of their respective skills. Thus, building off from Evans’ The Varieties of Reference, I present a novel account of acquaintance, which I term as Skill-based Acquaintance (SBA). On SBA, a subject is said to be acquainted with an object when they possess discriminating knowledge of that object, gained through the use of their capacities and skills. The SBA account is applied to virtual (Ch.3), fictional (Ch.4), and mathematical objects (Ch.5), as well as God (Ch.6). SBA is successful in explaining how subjects can indeed become acquainted with these problematic categories of objects - some of which are abstract – thus being able to refer and entertain singular thoughts about them. Overall, then, SBA is shown to have greater explanatory power than competing accounts and should thus be preferred.
A Benchmark Dataset for Meteorological Downscaling
Creators: name: Langguth, Michael
name: Patnala, Ankit
name: Lehner, Sebastian
name: Dabernig, Markus
name: Mayer, Konrad
name: Schicker, Irene
name: Harder, Paula
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2024

description: International Conference on Learning Representations, ICLR 2024, Vienna, Austria, 7 May 2024 - 11 May 2024
description: High spatial resolution in atmospheric representations is crucial across Earth science domains, but global reanalysis datasets like ERA5 often lack the detail to capture local phenomena due to their coarse resolution. Recent efforts have leveraged deep neural networks from computer vision to enhance the spatial resolution of meteorological data, showing promise for statistical downscaling. However, methodological diversity and insufficient comparisons with traditional downscaling techniques challenge these advancements. Our study introduces a benchmark dataset for statistical downscaling, utilizing ERA5 and the finer-resolution COSMO-REA6, to facilitate direct comparisons of downscaling methods for 2m temperature, global (solar) irradiance and 100m wind fields. Accompanying U-Net, GAN, and transformer models with a suite of evaluation metrics aim to standardize assessments and promote transparency and confidence in applying deep learning to meteorological downscaling.
Mesohalina Wittibschlager 1983
Creators: name: Thivaiou, Danae
name: Harzhauser, Mathias
name: Koskeridou, Efterpi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Neotaenioglossa
Potamididae
Mesohalina

description: Genus Mesohalina Wittibschlager, 1983
TYPE SPECIES. — Murex margaritaceus Brocchi, 1814; by original designation. Late Rupelian, Germany.
description: Published as part of Thivaiou, Danae, Harzhauser, Mathias & Koskeridou, Efterpi, 2019, Early Miocene Gastropods from the Felli Section (Proto-Mediterranean Sea NW Greece), pp. 323-366 in Geodiversitas 41 (8) on page 334, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2019v41a8, http://zenodo.org/record/3700008
Additional file 9: of The Echinococcus canadensis (G7) genome: a key knowledge of parasitic platyhelminth human diseases
Creators: name: Maldonado, Lucas
name: Assis, Juliana
name: Araújo, Flávio
name: Salim, Anna
name: Macchiaroli, Natalia
name: Cucher, Marcela
name: Camicia, Federico
name: Fox, Adolfo
name: Rosenzvit, Mara
name: Oliveira, Guilherme
name: Kamenetzky, Laura
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Single nucleotide polymorphisms in Echinococcus. (A) Number and localization of SNPs in genomic regions defined on the basis of gene architecture between the three Echinococcus species. (B) Type of substitution caused by SNPs in coding regions between the three Echinococcus species. (C) Distribution of missense mutation per each 100 residues of amino acid. (D) Statistical analyses of missense substitution each 100 amino acid residues among the pairs of Echinococcus species. The significance of the differences observed in missense SNPs was evaluated using the anova test with a confidence level of 95%. P-values belong to Anova test significance. (E) SNPs distribution in KEGGs pathways. Measure of SNP density by calculated as the number of SNPs divided the number of genes associated with the 5 main pathways. (i) Cellular processes. (ii) Environmental Information Processing. (iii) Organismal Systems. (iv) Metabolism. (v) Genetic Information Processing. (PDF 2885 kb)
title: Modeling the interstellar dust detections by DESTINY+ I: Instrumental constraints and detectability of organic compounds
Creators: name: Krüger, Harald
name: Strub, Peter
name: Sommer, Maximilian
name: Moragas-Klostermeyer, Georg
name: Sterken, Veerle J.
name: Khawaja, Nozair
name: Trieloff, Mario
name: Kimura, Hiroshi
name: Hirai, Takayuki
name: Hillier, Jon
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Interstellar dust
subject: DESTINY+
subject: DDA
subject: DESTINY+ dust analyzer
subject: (3200) Phaethon
classificationCode: 520
subject: Astronomie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften

description: The DESTINY+ spacecraft will be launched to the active asteroid (3200) Phaethon in 2025. The spacecraft will be equipped with the DESTINY+ Dust Analyzer (DDA) which will be a time-of-flight impact ionization mass spectrometer. In addition to the composition of impacting dust particles, the instrument will measure the particle mass, velocity vector, and surface charge. Here, we study the detection conditions of DDA for interstellar dust during the DESTINY+ mission. We use the interstellar dust module of the Interplanetary Meteoroid environment for EXploration model (IMEX Sterken et al., 2013; Strub et al., 2019) to simulate the flow of interstellar dust through the Solar System. Extending earlier work by Kr & uuml;ger et al. (2019b) we consider the entire DESTINY+ mission, i.e. the Earth-orbiting phase of the spacecraft during the initial approximately 1.5 years after launch, the nominal interplanetary mission phase up to the Phaethon flyby, and a four-years mission extension beyond the Phaethon flyby. The latter may include additional asteroid flybys. For predicting dust fluxes and fluences we take into account a technical constraint for DDA not to point closer than 90 degrees towards the Sun direction for health and safety reasons of the instrument and in order to avoid electrical noise generated by photoelectrons. For the Earth orbiting phase after launch of DESTINY+ our simulations predict that up to 28 interstellar particles will be detectable with DDA in 2026. In the following years the interplanetary magnetic field changes to a focussing configuration for small (less than or similar to 0.1 mu m) interstellar dust particles. This increases the total number of detectable particles to 50 during the interplanetary mission of DESTINY+ in 2027. In 2028 and 2029/30 approximately 160 and 190 particles will be detectable, respectively, followed by about 500 in 2030/31. We also make predictions for the detectability of organic compounds contained in the interstellar particles which is a strong function of the particle impact speed onto the detector. While organic compounds will be measurable only in a negligible number of particles during the Earth orbiting and the nominal interplanetary mission phases, a few 10s of interstellar particle detections with measurable organic compounds are predicted for the extended mission from 2028 to 2031.
Additional file 1: Figure S1. of Effects of sarcosine and N, N-dimethylglycine on NMDA receptor-mediated excitatory field potentials
Creators: name: Lee, Mei-Yi
name: Yi-Ruu Lin
name: Tu, Yi-Shu
name: Yufeng Tseng
name: Ming-Huan Chan
name: Hwei-Hsien Chen
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Characterization of DMG as a NMDA receptor glycine binding site partial agonist. The experimental protocol (AC) and the representative field potential recordings (BD) were shown. Increased concentration of glycine from 10 to 100 μM could surmount the inhibitory effect of DMG (100 μM). Elevated DMG concentration from 100 to 300 μM could attenuate the inhibitory effect of glycine binding site antagonist 7-CK (1 μM). (PDF 282 kb)
Terebralia Swainson 1840
Creators: name: Thivaiou, Danae
name: Harzhauser, Mathias
name: Koskeridou, Efterpi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Potamididae
Terebralia

description: Genus Terebralia Swainson, 1840
TYPE SPECIES. — Strombus palustris Linnaeus, 1758; subsequent designation by Sacco (1895b). Recent, Indo-West Pacific.
description: Published as part of Thivaiou, Danae, Harzhauser, Mathias & Koskeridou, Efterpi, 2019, Early Miocene Gastropods from the Felli Section (Proto-Mediterranean Sea NW Greece), pp. 323-366 in Geodiversitas 41 (8) on page 334, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2019v41a8, http://zenodo.org/record/3700008
Building information-theoretic confidentiality and traffic privacy into wireless networks
Creators: name: Mathur, Suhas
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: This dissertation studies how information-theoretically secure mechanisms for confidentiality and data-traffic privacy can be incorporated into existing and emerging wireless systems. The dissertation consists of three parts. In the first two parts, we study how certain properties of wireless channels can be employed to enhance confidentiality services that have traditionally been the responsibility of higher layers. We first explore the use of the wireless medium for the extraction of secret keys at the two ends of a wireless link, wherein the transceivers at either end are separated by a rich multipath scattering environment. We build a low complexity algorithm that allows two wireless devices to extract a common sequence of random secret bits, by repeatedly probing and estimating a time-varying channel between themselves. Further, we report on an implementation and evaluation of our algorithm on a modified 802.11a system. Next, we study the problem of securely pairing wireless devices in proximity of one another by establishing a shared secret key using a public source of RF transmissions. We employ measurement data to characterize the rate at which bits can be extracted and explore the simultaneous use of multiple transmitters to increase rate. Finally, we study the case when the public transmitter itself is under the arbitrary control of an adversary and we demonstrate a method that can allow successful key-extraction even with such an active adversary. In the final part of this dissertation, we introduce the problem of an unintended information-leakage channel in data traffic consisting of varying packet sizes. Packet sizes convey semantic information that can be related to their con- tent, which can be used as a fingerprint for classification. We formally study the packet-size side channel and explore obfuscation approaches to prevent infor- mation leakage, while considering padded dummy traffic and delay as bounded resources. We show that randomized algorithms for obfuscation can be studied as well known information-theoretic constructs, such as discrete channels with and without memory, and often lead to efficiently solvable constrained optimization problems.
MOESM1 of Increased risk of metabolic disorders in healthy young adults with family history of diabetes: from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Survey
Creators: name: Moon, Joon
name: Roh, Eun
name: Oh, Tae
name: Kim, Kyoung
name: Moon, Jae
name: Lim, Soo
name: Jang, Hak
name: Choi, Sung
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Baseline characteristics and family history of study subjects by glycemic status. Table S2. Metabolic healthy status by family history of diabetes. Table S3. Subgroup analysis according to BMI. Table S4. Clinical characteristics of non-diabetic subjects according to family history of T2DM in first-degree relatives. Table S5. Number of family members with diabetes and the risk of abnormal glucose tolerance and metabolic syndrome. Table S6. Exercise and dietary pattern by family history of diabetes.
The experimental realism of William Dean Howells
Creators: name: McGrath, Brian Seto
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: The “experimental” in my title refers to Howells’s self-conscious development of a literary form that could give the most complete, deepest account of a reality characterized by the ordinary and even the banal.  For the middle class, Howells’s perennial subject, the norm is to aspire to transcend, and the ordinary can appear elusive, even nonexistent.  Of course, in political terms, a middle class culture considers everyone basically the same, this resemblance defining the ordinary.  It is assumed that everyone shares the same economic goals, and the same desire for familial and individual success.  Being ordinary is therefore a moral quality.  This means, paradoxically, that ordinariness can only prove itself in exceptional individuals.  To strive is virtuous, to fail is shameful; either way one’s ordinariness is subsumed to a greater drama.  The drama at the center of middle class art is the plight of the exceptional individual demonstrating a Platonic ordinariness. It is hard to think of characters in novels who are not exceptional financially or morally.  In Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady and The Wings of the Dove finance and morality go together.  The novels of Eliot, Dickens, even those of the French realists unfold stories in which ordinary characters, by some exceptional moral quality, try to transcend their economic and historical situations. Howells called this story romantic and insisted on writing about the most mundane aspects of ordinary life. His novels were not about the exceptional who rise above the crowd but about ordinary people who do not transcend but stay on the ground. Howells described this divide between moral ideals and actual economic circumstance as “the infernal juggle of the mind. ”  This contradiction at the heart of everyday life was what he wanted to depict. His design of characters and plots, even his sentences, develop continuously into further complexity as they discover the tensions and self-betrayal inherent in middle class optimism.  “Discover” is the key term: Howells wrote in order to find out the truth about ordinary life, and the more he discovered the more his novels tended toward disjunction.  In resisting the urge to reaffirm middle class morals, he was having not only a political argument with the dominant ideology of late-nineteenth century America but a formal argument with the conventional novel. Down the critical years, Howells’s trust in the novel form to do its own work has been difficult to see because his way of demonstrating it was so unusual. To the extent that his form was un-transcendent, descriptive rather than theoretical, it has been unapparent.  My dissertation is an attempt to make evident and describe the working of Howells’s unapparent form. I have used a method of analysis congruent with his practice. I proceed as he wrote, historically, by following the unfolding events of his style and form.