cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Role of Plant Estrogens in Reducing Breast Cancer Risk
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: This study will address two questions: 1) whether estrogens found in plant foods can reduce breast cancer risk, and 2) whether obesity increases breast cancer risk only when a woman's diet does not contain a sufficient amount of these plant estrogens.

 The estrogens found in a number of plants are similar to the drug tamoxifen. Women with breast cancer who take tamoxifen are less likely to develop cancer in the other breast and tamoxifen is currently being tested as a way to prevent the development of breast cancer in high risk women. Eating plant foods, such as beans and whole grains, which contain a substantial amount of weak estrogens, may be a natural and cost effective alternative way to reduce breast cancer risk. Among postmenopausal women, those who are overweight have higher estrogen levels and are at greater risk of developing breast cancer. We will test the hypothesis that overweight women who eat a lot of foods which are rich in plant estrogens may lower their increased risk of breast cancer since the weak plant estrogens they are consuming block their own body's strong estrogens from binding with estrogen receptors, thus preventing breast cancer cells from growing. The lower breast cancer rates in Latina women despite their greater obesity may be partly due to their higher intake of plant estrogens from bean sources. If confirmed, this hypothesis could have important implications for reducing breast cancer risk through diet, particularly in White, African American, and Latina women among whom postmenopausal obesity is an important health concern. Our study will include White, African American, and Latina women, age 50-79, residing in two Bay Area counties. 325 women with breast cancer will be identified through the State's cancer database and compared to randomly chosen women without breast cancer. Women will be interviewed in their homes in either English or Spanish about their diet and other breast cancer risk factors; body measurements, including weight and height, will be taken.

 The results of this study will provide additional understanding of the role that diet plays in the development of breast cancer and may have important implications for breast cancer prevention.
Neural Speech Translation: From Neural Machine Translation to Direct Speech Translation
Creators: name: Di Gangi, Mattia Antonino
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Trento
Year: 2020

description: Sequence-to-sequence learning led to significant improvements to machine translation (MT) and automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. These advancements were first reflected in spoken language translation (SLT) when using a cascade of (at least) ASR and MT with the new "neural" models, then by using sequence-to-sequence learning to directly translate the input audio speech into text in the target language. In this thesis we cover both approaches to the SLT task. First, we show the limits of NMT in terms of robustness to input errors when compared to the previous phrase-based state of the art. We then focus on the NMT component to achieve better translation quality with higher computational efficiency by using a network based on weakly-recurrent units. Our last work involving a cascade explores the effects on the NMT robustness when adding automatic transcripts to the training data. In order to move to the direct speech-to-text approach, we introduce MuST-C, the largest multilingual SLT corpus for training direct translation systems. MuST-C increases significantly the size of publicly available data for this task as well as their language coverage. With such availability of data, we adapted the Transformer architecture to the SLT task for its computational efficiency . Our adaptation, which we call S-Transformer, is meant to better model the audio input, and with it we set a new state of the art for MuST-C. Building on these positive results, we finally use S-Transformer with different data applications: i) one-to-many multilingual translation by training it on MuST-C; ii participation to the IWSLT 19 shared task with data augmentation; and iii) instance-based adaptation for using the training data at test time. The results in this thesis show a steady quality improvement in direct SLT. Our hope is that the presented resources and technological solutions will increase its adoption in the near future, so to make multilingual information access easier in a globalized world.
Acetylcholine in the hippocampus modulates associative learning with corresponding changes in adult neurogenesis and endogenous theta rhythm activity
Creators: name: Anderson, Megan L.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: Decades ago, acetylcholine was considered intrinsic to processes related to learning and memory. However, in the last decade or so, this relationship has been questioned and with good reason. That said, only a few studies have addressed the involvement of acetylcholine in tasks that require an animal to associate stimuli separated in time, such as trace eyeblink conditioning. Trace eyeblink conditioning is associated with hippocampal theta rhythmic activity and dependent on adult neurogenesis in the hippocampus, both of which are thought to be mediated by cholinergic activity. In the present study, 192 IgG-Saporin (SAP) was infused into the medial septum diagonal band (MSDB) complex of Sprague-Dawley rats to selectively kill cholinergic neurons and produce bilateral and unilateral lesions. Animals with bilateral, unilateral, or sham lesions were trained with trace eyeblink conditioning at least 14 days after the SAP infusion. Animals with a sham lesion made more conditioned responses over all conditioning trials compared to animals with bilateral and unilateral lesions. However, conditioned responses increased over time in all groups. Taken together, bilateral and unilateral lesions both retard but do not drastically impair learning. In two separate experiments, the effect of bilateral and unilateral lesions on adult neurogenesis and theta rhythms was assessed. Animals were injected with 5-bromo-2’-deoxyuridine (BrdU) to label dividing cells at least 14 days after the SAP infusion. Seven days later, the number of BrdU-positive cells in the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus of animals with bilateral and unilateral lesions was reduced by ~40% in both hemispheres. Hippocampal local field potentials were recorded from another group of animals. Seven days following the SAP infusion, relative theta power was reduced in the bilateral but not unilateral group to a similar extent in both hemispheres. However, relative theta power was similar in all three groups by Day 14. This data suggests that a reduction in the number of new neurons in the hippocampus may be a contributing factor to a trace learning deficit as a result of a MSDB lesion. Moreover, even incomplete lesions that disrupt septohippocampal cholinergic activity are sufficient to reduce hippocampal adult neurogenesis and retard learning.
Berthellina Gardiner 1936
Creators: name: Tibiriçá, Yara
name: Pola, Marta
name: Cervera, Juan Lucas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Pleurobranchomorpha
Pleurobranchidae
Berthellina

description: Berthellina sp.
(Figure 2 E)
Material examined. Ten specimens. MHN-YT282, ZRP, 21 Feb. 2012, 2m, 22mm; MB28-005 0 93, ZRP, 21 Feb. 2012, 2m, 25mm; MB28-005094, ZRP, 21 Feb. 2012, 2m, 40mm; MB28-005095, ZRP, 21 Feb. 2012, 2m, 32mm; MB28-005066, ZRP, 25 May 2013, 1m, 22mm; MB28-005067, 2spcs., ZRP, 0 3 Feb. 2014, 1m, 6 and 22mm; MB28-005068, ZRP, 15 Feb. 2014, 0.5m, 45mm; MB28-0 0 5069, NKA, 10 Jun. 2014, 4m, 32mm; MB28-005070, MIF, 11 Jun. 2014, 3m, 42mm. MB28-005016, ZRP, 0 3 Aug. 2015, 0.5m, 18mm.
Habitats. Subtropical tidal reefs and tropical coral reefs, bommies and seagrass, active at night and under rocks during the day, always in shallow waters.
Occurrences. Zavora and Nuarro.
Geographic distribution. Western Indian Ocean (Gosliner et al. 2015) and likely India (Bhave & Apte 2011). Madagascar (Gosliner et al. 2008), South Africa (Gosliner 1987; Gosliner et al. 2008) and Mozambique.
Remarks. This species is similar to the one listed in Gosliner et al. (2015) as Berthellina sp. (p. 107, right bottom photo) from the western Indian Ocean. Externally, it differs from B. delicata reviewed by Moustafa et al. (2016) by the dense white spots on the dorsum.
description: Published as part of Tibiriçá, Yara, Pola, Marta & Cervera, Juan Lucas, 2017, Astonishing diversity revealed: an annotated and illustrated inventory of Nudipleura (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) from Mozambique, pp. 1-133 in Zootaxa 4359 (1) on page 10, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4359.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1069168
Effects of age and acute submaximal exercise on inflammatory cytokines, cortisol, insulin, heat shock proteins and skeletal muscle mediators of energy homeostasis in horses
Creators: name: Avenatti, Ryan Charles
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: There is a well documented decline in exercise capacity, immune function, insulin sensitivity and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis function in aged horses. Aerobic training can partially reverse age-related declines in performance measures, endocrine and immune function, and insulin sensitivity in horses. The mechanisms behind the adaptive response to exercise in horses require further research. Based on the comparative literature, several mediators of energy homeostasis and adaptation to exercise were identified for investigation in whole blood and skeletal muscle of horses.   Young and aged unconditioned Standardbred mares underwent an acute submaximal exercise test. Plasma cortisol, insulin and glucose concentrations were determined pre- and post-exercise. Whole blood and gluteus medius biopsies were analyzed for gene expression of inflammatory cytokines, HSP&0 and HSP90 pre- and post-exercise. Skeletal muscle was also analyzed for protein content of HSP&0, HSP90, AMPK, Akt and AS160 pre- and post-exercise.  Exercise increased plasma cortisol concentration in both young and aged mares, with the duration of the post-exercise rise in cortisol altered in aged horses. Although the magnitude of the insulin response to exercise was not different between young and aged horses, plasma insulin was elevated sooner and declined earlier in aged mares. Subsequently, aged mares had a shorter duration of elevated plasma glucose concentration post-exercise than young mares. Exercise increased IL-β expression in whole blood of young and aged mares, with young mares having greater exercise-induced expression of IL-β. Cytokine expression was not altered in skeletal muscle, regardless of age or exercise.  Young and aged horses had increased HSP&0 expression in whole blood following exercise, with young horses exhibiting greater exercise-induced HSP&0 expression. HSP90 expression in whole blood following exercise was increased only in young horses. HSP&0 and HSP90 expression in skeletal muscle was increased following exercise in both young and aged horses, with age altering the timing of HSP&0 expression. There were no changes in skeletal muscle protein content of HSP&0 and HSP90; or in activation or total protein concentration of AMPK, Akt and AS160, due to exercise or age.   In conclusion, mediators of energy homeostasis and the adaptive response to exercise are altered with age in horses.
Additional file 2: of Are identities oral? Understanding ethnobotanical knowledge after Irish independence (1937–1939)
Creators: name: Shannon, Fiona
name: Sasse, Astrid
name: Sheridan, Helen
name: Heinrich, Michael
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Most highly cited plant species from combined sources. It is a table that includes the most highly cited plant species overall, vernacular name, number of citations, diseases treated and species origin. (DOCX 19 kb)
Metagenomics-based discovery of unknown bacteriophages In the human microbiome
Creators: name: Zolfo, Moreno
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Trento
Year: 2020

description: Viruses, and particularly bacteriophages, are key players in many microbial ecosystems and can profoundly influence the human microbiome and its impact on human health. While the bacterial and archaeal fraction of the human microbiome can now be profiled at an unprecedented resolution via cultivation-free metagenomics, viral metagenomics is still extremely challenging. The lack of universal viral genetic markers limits the de-novo discovery of viral entities, and the low number of available viral reference genomes from cultivation studies does not cover well the phage diversity in human microbiome samples.
Viral-like particle (VLP) purification has been proposed as a set of experimental tools to concentrate viruses in samples prior to sequencing, but it remains unclear how efficient and reproducible such tools are in practice. In this thesis we aim to address some of these challenges and better exploit the potential of viral metagenomics in the context of the human microbiome. First, we performed and studied the performance of VLP procedures on freshwater and sediment samples. We found that bacteria can still be abundant at the end of the filtration process, thus lowering the efficiency of the enrichment. Analyzing samples with a low enrichment may lead to inconsistent conclusions, as the residual bacterial contamination might misdirect the computational analysis. To better quantify the extent of non-viral contamination in VLP sequencing, we designed ViromeQC, a novel open-source tool able to assess and rank viromes by their viral purity directly from the raw reads. In ViromeQC, rRNA genes and bacterial single-copy proteins are used as a proxy to estimate non-viral contamination. With the ViromeQC, we conducted the largest meta-analysis on the degree of enrichment of thousands of viral metagenomes, and concluded that the vast majority of them are three-fold less enriched than a standard metagenome. ViromeQC was then used to select the human gut viromes that had the highest enrichment as a starting point for a novel reference-free pipeline for the discovery of previously uncharacterized viral entities. The approach included metagenomic assembly of the enriched viromes as well as extensive mining of many thousands of assembled metagenomes, and led to a catalog of 162,876 sequences of highly-trusted viral origin. Most of these predicted viral sequences had no match against any known virus in RefSeq even though some of them showed a prevalence in gut metagenomes of up to 70%. Our analyses and publicly available tools and resources are helping to uncover the still hidden virome diversity and improve the support for current and future investigations of the human virome.
Alternative Methods of Controlling Wildlife Populations
Creators: name: Aspin, Lindsay
name: McDowell, Chantel
name: Rocha, Rebecca
name: Fagan, Julie M.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: Assisting bear smart legislation and creating awareness about a non-violent program of black bear control in New Jersey
description: The NJ Bear Hunt is an unethical and distasteful way to manage the black bear population in New Jersey.  Many people have signified support for a non-violent program of bear control, and recently legislation, bill S2369, has been introduced in order to alter human-bear interactions and reduce the number of bears killed during the hunt each year.
Dispelling the Myth Surrounding Bats
Creators: name: Carvello, Marco
name: Dziamba, Patrick
name: Britton, Alyssa
name: Fagan, Julie M.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: Saving bats from the emergence of white-nose syndrome
description: Bats are incredibly misunderstood and shrouded in mystery. Our goal is to dispel the undeserved myths surrounding bats as being nothing but blood-sucking, disease-carrying monsters. The fact of the matter is that bats provide many, many services in promoting healthy, balanced ecosystems across the globe. It may sound as surprise, but without bats, our lives would be very different and quite uncompromising. Bats are our friends, and they now need our help more than ever. We thought this was an important issue, so we set out to enthusiastically teach the youth about the environmentally important roles of bats, the hardships bats are currently facing, and what they can do to help. We taught an after-school science program named Nurture through Nature as part of our service project. The goal is to raise awareness of a globally important environmental issue that affects us all, but is hardly understood.
Pleurobranchaea brockii Bergh 1897
Creators: name: Tibiriçá, Yara
name: Pola, Marta
name: Cervera, Juan Lucas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Pleurobranchomorpha
Pleurobranchaeidae
Pleurobranchaea
Pleurobranchaea brockii

description: Pleurobranchaea brockii Bergh, 1897
(Figure 2 F)
Material examined. Photographic record only (not collected), BL, 25 Jan. 2013, 3m, approx. 150mm, photo by Juan Vega.
Habitats. Seagrass in the subtropics.
Occurrences. Barra.
Geographic distribution. Indo-west Pacific. Japan, Australia, Maldives, Mauritius (Debelius 1996), Indonesia, South Africa (Gosliner et al. 2008) and Mozambique.
description: Published as part of Tibiriçá, Yara, Pola, Marta & Cervera, Juan Lucas, 2017, Astonishing diversity revealed: an annotated and illustrated inventory of Nudipleura (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) from Mozambique, pp. 1-133 in Zootaxa 4359 (1) on page 10, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4359.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1069168
Compsibidion derivativum Martins 1971
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
name: Almeida, Lucia M.
name: Oliveira, Marcio L.
name: Viana, Jéssica Herzog
name: Monné, Marcela L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Compsibidion
Compsibidion derivativum

description: 15. Compsibidion derivativum Martins, 1971: 1454 (Figure 5) Holotype, male
Type locality. Brazil, Mato Grosso: Cáceres, 19.X.1961, F.M.Oliveira
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., Almeida, Lucia M., Oliveira, Marcio L., Viana, Jéssica Herzog & Monné, Marcela L., 2017, Checklist of Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) primary types of the Coleção Entomológica Pe. Jesus Santiago Moure, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil, and of the Museu Paraense, pp. 341-365 in Zootaxa 4221 (3) on page 344, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.250291
Pleurobranchus albiguttatus
Creators: name: Tibiriçá, Yara
name: Pola, Marta
name: Cervera, Juan Lucas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Pleurobranchomorpha
Pleurobranchidae
Pleurobranchus
Pleurobranchus albiguttatus

description: Pleurobranchus albiguttatus (Bergh, 1905)
(Figure 2 G)
Material examined. Three specimens. MB28-004603, ZA51, 13 Jul. 2012, 14m, 22mm; MHN-YT1030, VILV, 12 Dec. 2013, 4m, 30mm; ZMBN105112, VIAIR, 16 May 2015, 3m, 19mm, collected by Y. Tibiriçá & M. Malaquias. Occurences: Zavora and Vamizi Island.
Habitats. Subtropical rocky reefs and tropical coral reefs.
Geographic distribution. Indo-west, central Pacific. Hawaii, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, Australia, Philippines, Indonesia, Red Sea, Comoros Islands, Réunion Island, Tanzania, Madagascar (Gosliner et al. 2008; Goodheart et al. 2015) and Mozambique.
description: Published as part of Tibiriçá, Yara, Pola, Marta & Cervera, Juan Lucas, 2017, Astonishing diversity revealed: an annotated and illustrated inventory of Nudipleura (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) from Mozambique, pp. 1-133 in Zootaxa 4359 (1) on page 12, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4359.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1069168
L'Edda a fumetti: Odin di Nicolas Jarry e Erwan Seure-Le Bihan
Creators: name: Ferrari, Fulvio
Publisher: name: Universit� di Trento
Year: 2019

description: L?articolo prende in esame il graphic novel Odin, trasposizione a fumetti della mitologia nordica i cui testi sono stati scritti da Nicolas Jarry, mentre le tavole sono disegnate da Erwan Seure-Le Bihan. Scopo del contributo � mostrare come, non solo la fabula del racconto eddico venga modificata dalla riscrittura di Jarry, ma anche come la interazione tra due codici semiotici (verbale e visuale) contribuisca alla determinazione del senso complessivo della riscrittura a fumetti.
Can High Protein Diets Cause Kidney Damage?
Creators: name: Spitzer, Jennifer
name: Neidich, Danielle
name: Saltarelli, Stephanie
name: Fagan, Julie M.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: Design of a study to determine the relationship between a high protein diet and kidney disease
description: There is a general understanding among certain populations that high protein diets are beneficial. Body builders may utilize a high protein diet to increase lean muscle mass, while someone trying to lose weight may eat more protein to feel fuller, thus eating less. Despite the hype, most people fail to realize that Americans generally get twice as much protein as recommended. Little information is available about the long term side effects of a high protein diet, so we have designed a research experiment to investigate the potential long term effects of a high protein diet on kidney function.
Political Conflict and Stability in Dynamic Networks
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: At the heart of international politics are the cooperative and conflictual relations between states and rebel and terrorist groups. Challenges and opportunities for bilateral ties are posed by their being embedded in a larger setting. The proverb “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” captures this dynamic in which links between pairs of actors are affected by the relationships of each with others. This has huge consequences for interstate and intra-state relations and for critical security questions such as the impact of foreign intervention, or the reverberating impact of a change in international alignment. These relationships constitute a network whose instabilities and dynamics are not well understood. We propose applying to such political relationships a sociological theory (structural balance) developed for networks of interpersonal relationships. The theory requires both analytic development and empirical assessment. The theory originally dichotomized relationships into positive and negative, but we will incorporate the consequences of degrees of cooperation and conflict. The theory stipulates conditions of balance and equilibrium, but does not delineate the specific relationships that will change to bring any set of unbalanced relationships into balance. This will be an analytic extension developed in the project. The empirical assessment of the behavioral dynamics of structural balance will make use of a database of political events, that includes both states and rebel groups, and that codes cooperation and conflict. In addition, surveys and survey experiments will be used to assess the issues and attitudes that underlie structural balance in conflict and post-conflict settings. The project addresses key security concerns, among them being the foreign policy implications of regime change, the reverberating consequences of an outbreak of a civil war or conversely of a peace agreement, and the consequence of an external intervention into a domestic dispute. More broadly, the general model developed of networks of cooperative and conflictual ties will have broader implications for studying political and social relationships. The proposal brings together political scientists who have focused on international and civil conflict with sociologists and applied mathematicians who have worked to develop, assess, and apply networks.
Anaerobic Digestion of Food Waste Prevents Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Produces Energy
Creators: name: Thomas, Jeffrey
name: Pirovich, David
name: McGovern, Rachel
name: Fagan, Julie M.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: A Perfect Solution for Municipalities across the US
description: Tremendous amounts of organic waste end up in US landfills every year. Processing the organic waste into electricity or compressed natural gas for transportation fuel by anaerobic digestion would prolong the useful life of landfills and provide valuable energy. We provide justification for the installation of an anaerobic digester at the local wastewater treatment facility.
Protecting the Rights of Service Animals
Creators: name: Bordenabe, Makenzie
name: Termyna, Megan
name: Fagan, Julie M.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: The consequences to using fake service animals, and possible solutions to preventing further abuse of disability laws
description: People without disabilities are bringing their pets with them by taking advantage of the Americans with Disabilities Act law allowing people with service animals to enter businesses where pets are not allowed almost unchallenged, causing problems for people with legitimate service dogs, mainly with being denied access to public places. Dog owners buy fake service dog vests and I.D.s to pass their untrained, pet dogs off as service dogs. Dogs who should not be out in public (poor behavior, aggressive) are being passed off as service dogs and creating added discrimination for people with real service dogs. In order to help prevent this problem from spreading, along with revising ADA laws, we propose that the government set up a service dog registration and qualification program which would allow trained service dogs to be issued a government recognized ID which can be presented to a business owner who doubts that the dog is a service animal.
Development of a Damage Indicator Based on Detection of High-Frequency Transients Monitored in Bridge Piers During Earthquake Ground Shaking
Creators: name: Zhelyazkov, Aleksandar
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Trento
Year: 2020

description: Real-time structural health monitoring is a well established tool for post-earthquake damage estimation. A key component in the monitoring campaign is the approach used for processing the data from the structural health monitoring system. There is a large body of literature on signal processing approaches aimed at identifying ground-motion induced damage in civil engineering structures. This dissertation expands on a specific subgroup of processing approaches dealing with the identification of damage induced high-frequency transients in the monitoring data. The underlying intuition guiding the current research can be formulated in the following hypothesis - the time difference between the occurrence of a high-frequency transient and the closest deformation extremum forward in time is proportional to the degree of damage. A mathematical deduction is provided in support of the above hypothesis followed by a set of shaking table tests. For the purposes of this research two shaking table tests of reinforced concrete bridge piers were performed. Data from a shaking table test performed by another research group was also analyzed. The cases in which the proposed procedure could find a practical application are examined along with the present limitations.
Pleurobranchus forskalii Ruppel & Leuckart 1828
Creators: name: Tibiriçá, Yara
name: Pola, Marta
name: Cervera, Juan Lucas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Pleurobranchomorpha
Pleurobranchidae
Pleurobranchus
Pleurobranchus forskalii

description: Pleurobranchus forskalii Rüppel & Leuckart, 1828
(Figure 2 H–I)
Material examined. Four specimens. MB28-004434, ZRP, 10 Dec. 2011, 1m, 35mm; MHN-YT596, BL, 12 Oct. 2012, 2m, 120mm; MB28-004904, MIF, 11 Jun. 2016, 3m, 88mm; MHN-YT1655, NHR, 23 Oct. 2016, 8m, 200mm (crawling on sand).
Habitats. Subtropical tidal reefs, rocky reefs and seagrass and tropical coral bommies and seagrass.
Occurrences. Zavora, Barra, Mozambique Island and Nuarro.
Geographic distribution. Indo-west Pacific. Japan, Papua New Guinea, Australia, Fiji, Indonesia, Philippines (Gosliner et al. 2008; Goodheart et al. 2015), Gulf of Oman (Fatemi & Attaran-Fariman 2015), Thailand (Mehrota & Scott 2015), Red Sea, Tanzania (Gosliner et al. 2008; Goodheart et al. 2015) and Mozambique.
Remarks. Goodheart et al. (2015) reviewed the genus Pleurobranchus based on molecular and morphology and observed that colour variation in this species is related to the ontogeny, where juveniles are lighter in colour than adults. Small specimens from Mozambique show complex colouration with several hues of brown mixed with small amounts of grey and white. The large and small tubercles often have a reddish dot at the top. A dark brown ring subtended by a whitish semi ring surrounds each large compound tubercle (Fig. 2 G). The base of the foot is translucent light-brown spotted with dark-brown, irregular marks. The larger specimen had a dark-purple mantle with partly open white rings surrounding each cluster of tubercles (Fig. 2 H). In this morphotype, the base of the foot is the same colour as the rest of the mantle.
description: Published as part of Tibiriçá, Yara, Pola, Marta & Cervera, Juan Lucas, 2017, Astonishing diversity revealed: an annotated and illustrated inventory of Nudipleura (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) from Mozambique, pp. 1-133 in Zootaxa 4359 (1) on page 12, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4359.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1069168
Restructuring the Collection of Biomass
Creators: name: Downs, Pat
name: Nelson, Ryan
name: Maniscalco, Chris
name: Fagan, Julie M.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: The installation of a modern anaerobic digester to Middlesex County Municipal Waste water treatment facility
description: The current infrastructure in waste water treatment plants that is set in place to collect biomass and turn it into reusable energy is inefficient. In order to go about changing this infrastructure, it is necessary to update the treatment plants in a way that makes a difference. Anaerobic digestion is a viable option for sustainable energy and can produce biogases that can be used for combined heat and power that is far more efficient that current methods in the United States. If Middlesex County Municipal Waste incorporates a new system that includes biomass collection along with anaerobic digestion at it’s waste water treatment plants, it will be creating an efficient and sustainable source of heat and power that is better for the environment and will aid in keeping food biomass out of landfills.
The effectiveness for hippotherapy for children with autism-spectrum disorders
Creators: name: Aaron, Taylor
name: Cubelo, Sharon
name: Simpson, Merrill
name: Fagan, Julie M.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: Comparative study of the treatment effects of hippotherapy: ATEC Survey of parents and instructors
description: There is little research regarding the type of equine assisted therapy (EAT) known as hippotherapy for children who have been diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).  Our research involves surveying parents and therapists of children with ASD that are participating in a hippotherapy regimen. We are using the Autism Treatment Evaluation Checklist (ATEC) survey that is a vetted survey used to evaluate patients with Autism on their speech/language/communication capabilities, sociability, sensory/cognitive awareness, and health/physical/behavioral state. We asked parents and therapists to complete the ATEC survey twice, thinking retrospectively to the patient’s state before participating in hippotherapy sessions and to the present day. All patients were still presently participating in hippotherapy treatments. We are assessing progress based on parents and therapists answers pre and post-treatment and comparing the ATEC score. A decrease in ATEC score indicates efficacy of therapy method(s). We personally handed out surveys at a barn in Long Valley, NJ and e-mailed surveys to a therapist in Cranbury, NJ.
Compsibidion novalimae Martins & Galileo 2012
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
name: Almeida, Lucia M.
name: Oliveira, Marcio L.
name: Viana, Jéssica Herzog
name: Monné, Marcela L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Compsibidion
Compsibidion novalimae

description: 16. Compsibidion novalimae Martins & Galileo, 2012: 204, fig. 8 Holotype, female
Type locality. Brazil, Minas Gerais: Nova Lima, 21.X.1985, V.O. Becker
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., Almeida, Lucia M., Oliveira, Marcio L., Viana, Jéssica Herzog & Monné, Marcela L., 2017, Checklist of Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) primary types of the Coleção Entomológica Pe. Jesus Santiago Moure, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil, and of the Museu Paraense, pp. 341-365 in Zootaxa 4221 (3) on page 344, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.250291
Utilization of the international classification of diseases as a means to reduce drug resistance and drug dispensing error
Creators: name: Palazzola, Joseph
name: Benjamin, Jonelle
name: McGee, Michael
name: Fagan, Julie M.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: Resistance to antibiotics is due in part to the over prescription and misuse of antibiotics.  Currently there are limited regulatory practices that would limit the over prescription of antibiotics.  We discuss how the International Classification of Disease codes could be implemented that would to allow for drugs to be double-checked by a pharmacist, or doctor of medicine, before being dispensed to a patient. This critical double check step would likely reduce inappropriate prescribing of antibiotics (and other drugs).  A letter outlining the health issue and possible solution was submitted to state level government officials as well as sent to the Board of Drug Safety and Regulatory affairs at the FDA
Healthy foods on a budget
Creators: name: Chen, Pauline
name: Gupta, Sonia
name: Mendez, Erika
name: Fagan, Julie M.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: A grocery list of low cost foods to have on hand for every day and in emergencies
description: Identifying healthy affordable food may seem out of reach for those of lower income that are concerned with being able to feed everyone in their family on a limited budget. Many think that being healthy requires a great amount of money, especially in our society today where the word “organic” has been linked to the words “healthy” and “expensive”. Information on what foods to avoid,what foods to buy more of, and what nutritional content to look for is provided. A comprehensive grocery list that will enable a family to eat healthy and inexpensively is presented for a whole month. Additionally, this list will also be helpful in identifying foods that can be purchased and used in times of emergency.
Odontocera solangeae Magno 2001
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
name: Almeida, Lucia M.
name: Oliveira, Marcio L.
name: Viana, Jéssica Herzog
name: Monné, Marcela L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Odontocera
Odontocera solangeae

description: 17. Odontocera solangeae Magno, 2001: 1, fig. 1
Holotype, male: Brazil, Espírito Santo: Santa Teresa, 11.XII.1964, C. Elias
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., Almeida, Lucia M., Oliveira, Marcio L., Viana, Jéssica Herzog & Monné, Marcela L., 2017, Checklist of Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) primary types of the Coleção Entomológica Pe. Jesus Santiago Moure, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil, and of the Museu Paraense, pp. 341-365 in Zootaxa 4221 (3) on page 344, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.250291
Characterization and Determination of Liberation Size of Maitumbi Gold Ore
Creators: name: Nigerian Journal of Engineering Science Research (NIJESR).
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The samples of gold ore used in this study were collected from Maitumbi, Chanchaga local government area, Niger state. 500g of the finely milled sample was sieved in a sieve set from 355µm to 63µm within an automatic sieve shaker. Samples from various sieve sizes were further pulverized to below 125µm and then subjected to x-ray analysis. The commercial mesh of grind of the sieve test was found to be 125 µm, 180 µm and 250 µm having retained 20.3%, 17.12% and 18.05% weight percent of the entire sample respectively.   Upon x-ray analysis, gold was observed in trace amount having assayed 0.0251 %, 0.1083 %, 0.1212 % and 0.0882 %, with manganese, iron and copper being dominant. The liberated free gold was at -125 + 90 μm having 6.55g which is the highest degree of liberation for commercial viability.
Pleurobranchus grandis Pease 1868
Creators: name: Tibiriçá, Yara
name: Pola, Marta
name: Cervera, Juan Lucas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Pleurobranchomorpha
Pleurobranchidae
Pleurobranchus
Pleurobranchus grandis

description: Pleurobranchus grandis Pease, 1868
(Figure 2 J)
Material examined. Photographic record only (not collected), ZRP, 19 Nov. 2010, 0.5m, 100mm.
Habitats. Subtropical tidal reefs.
Occurrences. Zavora.
Geographic distribution. Indo-west Pacific. French Polynesia, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Philippines (Gosliner et al. 2008; Goodheart et al. 2015), New Caledonia, Australia, Indonesia (Goodheart et al. 2015), Red Sea (De Loose 2001), Réunion Island (Flodrops 2008) and Mozambique.
description: Published as part of Tibiriçá, Yara, Pola, Marta & Cervera, Juan Lucas, 2017, Astonishing diversity revealed: an annotated and illustrated inventory of Nudipleura (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) from Mozambique, pp. 1-133 in Zootaxa 4359 (1) on page 12, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4359.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1069168
ADHD medication and exercise
Creators: name: Lavell, Ryan
name: Majekodunmi, Mabel
name: Morrison, Christen
name: Fagan, Julie M.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: The Combination’s Implications on Sport Safety
description: Various medications are used to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) Side effects, specifically on the cardiovascular system are examined. A growing number of tragic physiological occurrences have been observed when underlying heart conditions are exacerbated with the stresses of exercise and sports. We sought to determine whether there was a link between the cardiovascular events and possible overlaps with the use of ADHD medication.
Pyrpotyra capixaba Santos-Silva, Martins 2010
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
name: Almeida, Lucia M.
name: Oliveira, Marcio L.
name: Viana, Jéssica Herzog
name: Monné, Marcela L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Pyrpotyra
Pyrpotyra capixaba

description: 18. Pyrpotyra capixaba Santos-Silva, Martins, & Clarke, 2010: 617, fig. 21 Holotype, female
Type locality. Brazil, Espírito Santo: Linhares, 22-31.X.1973, C.T. & C. Elias
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., Almeida, Lucia M., Oliveira, Marcio L., Viana, Jéssica Herzog & Monné, Marcela L., 2017, Checklist of Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) primary types of the Coleção Entomológica Pe. Jesus Santiago Moure, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil, and of the Museu Paraense, pp. 341-365 in Zootaxa 4221 (3) on page 344, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.250291
Additional file 3: of Threats to patient safety in primary care reported by older people with multimorbidity: baseline findings from a longitudinal qualitative study and implications for intervention
Creators: name: Hays, Rebecca
name: Daker-White, Gavin
name: Aneez Esmail
name: Barlow, Wendy
name: Minor, Brian
name: Brown, Benjamin
name: Blakeman, Thomas
name: Sanders, Caroline
name: Bower, Peter
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Data coding tree (DOCX 22 kb)
Stultutragus clarkei Santos-Silva & Martins 2013
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
name: Almeida, Lucia M.
name: Oliveira, Marcio L.
name: Viana, Jéssica Herzog
name: Monné, Marcela L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Stultutragus
Stultutragus clarkei

description: 19. Stultutragus clarkei Santos-Silva & Martins, 2013: 22, figs. 1 – 3 Holotype, female
Type locality. Brazil, Santa Catarina: São Bento do Sul (Rio Vermelho), 02.III.1984, I. Rank
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., Almeida, Lucia M., Oliveira, Marcio L., Viana, Jéssica Herzog & Monné, Marcela L., 2017, Checklist of Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) primary types of the Coleção Entomológica Pe. Jesus Santiago Moure, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil, and of the Museu Paraense, pp. 341-365 in Zootaxa 4221 (3) on page 344, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.250291
Canines as Co-Therapists
Creators: name: Wuu, Mark
name: Ho, Katherine
name: Fagan, Julie M.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: Certified therapists should consider using therapy dogs to enhance their counseling sessions.
description: The use of canines as “co-therapists” may be of a significant assistance to counselors in counseling reserved and non-communicative clients. Several counseling/therapy organizations were contacted to introduce the idea of including canines in therapy sessions.
Dog Breed Discrimination by Insurance Companies
Creators: name: Fecso, Emily
name: Diamantoni, Kathyrn
name: Fagan, Julie M.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: An Unfair Practice not Supported by Data that Negatively Impacts the Homeowner
description: Dog attacks and fatalities often result in the formation of breed specific legislation. Breed specific regulation seeks to regulate a certain dog breed to prevent future attacks and fatalities. Studies have proven that breed specific legislation is not an effective measure in preventing dog attacks.  Insurance companies also discriminate against clients that own a certain dog breed. We will determine which insurance companies do not discriminate against dog breeds and write a letter to Geico Insurance Company stating the reasons that discrimination of breeds is ineffective. The information gathered could be used by dog owners in the future who are looking to start or change their insurance policy.
Pleurobranchus peronii Cuvier 1804
Creators: name: Tibiriçá, Yara
name: Pola, Marta
name: Cervera, Juan Lucas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Pleurobranchomorpha
Pleurobranchidae
Pleurobranchus
Pleurobranchus peronii

description: Pleurobranchus peronii Cuvier, 1804
(Figure 2 K–L)
Material examined. Three specimens. MHN-YT276, ZRP, 21 Feb. 2014, 2m, 12mm; MB28-0 0 4753, ZRS, 24m, 22mm; MB28-005042, 20 Aug. 2016,8m, 15mm.
Habitats. Subtropical tidal reefs and rocky reefs.
Occurrences. Zavora.
Geographic distribution. Indo-west Pacific. Hawaii (Gosliner et al. 2008; Goodheart et al. 2015), Japan, Korea, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Malaysia (Gosliner et al. 2008), Philippines (Goodheart et al. 2015), India (Apte 2009), Madagascar, Tanzania, South Africa (Gosliner et al. 2008; Goodheart et al. 2015) and Mozambique (Macnae 1962).
Remarks. Found active at night, one specimen in association with the commensal cleaner shrimp Hyppolyte sp.
description: Published as part of Tibiriçá, Yara, Pola, Marta & Cervera, Juan Lucas, 2017, Astonishing diversity revealed: an annotated and illustrated inventory of Nudipleura (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) from Mozambique, pp. 1-133 in Zootaxa 4359 (1) on pages 12-13, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4359.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1069168
Modeling Startegies for Computational Systems Biology
Creators: name: Simoni, Giulia
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Trento
Year: 2020

description: Mathematical models and their associated computer simulations are nowadays widely used in several research fields, such as natural sciences, engineering, as well as social sciences. In the context of systems biology, they provide a rigorous way to investigate how complex regulatory pathways are connected and how the disruption of these processes may contribute to the develop- ment of a disease, ultimately investigating the suitability of specific molecules as novel therapeutic targets. In the last decade, the launching of the precision medicine initiative has motivated the necessity to define innovative computational techniques that could be used for customizing therapies. In this context, the combination of mathematical models and computer strategies is an essential tool for biologists, which can analyze complex system pathways, as well as for the pharmaceutical industry, which is involved in promoting programs for drug discovery.
In this dissertation, we explore different modeling techniques that are used for the simulation and the analysis of complex biological systems. We analyze the state of the art for simulation algorithms both in the stochastic and in the deterministic frameworks. The same dichotomy has been studied in the context of sensitivity analysis, identifying the main pros and cons of the two approaches. Moreover, we studied the quantitative system pharmacology (QSP) modeling approach that elucidates the mechanism of action of a drug on the biological processes underlying a disease. Specifically, we present the definition, calibration and validation of a QSP model describing Gaucher disease type 1 (GD1), one of the most common lysosome storage rare disorders. All of these techniques are finally combined to define a novel computational pipeline for patient stratification. Our approach uses modeling techniques, such as model simulations, sensitivity analysis and QSP modeling, in combination with experimental data to identify the key mechanisms responsible for the stratification. The pipeline has been applied to three test cases in different biological contexts: a whole-body model of dyslipidemia, the QSP model of GD1 and a QSP model of cardiac electrophysiology. In these test cases, the pipeline proved to be accurate and robust, allowing the interpretation of the mechanistic differences underlying the phenotype classification.