cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Optimizing Patient Recruitment in Global Clinical Trials using Nature-Inspired Metaheuristics
Creators: name: Schepps, Mitchell Aaron
name: Wong, Weng Kee
name: Austin, Matt
name: Anisimov, Volodymyr
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: A common problem seen in the ineffective execution of global multicenter trials is the frequent inability to recruit a sufficient number of patients. A myriad of barriers to recruiting enough patients timely exist and may include practical limits on the number of recruiting sites imposed by the various countries, as well as administrative, cost and unanticipated issues. The Poisson-gamma recruitment model is a widely accepted statistical tool used to predict and track recruitment at different levels of a trial and make inference. An optimal recruitment plan can be designed using mathematical optimization, however, the search is complicated with multiple non-linear objectives and constraints that arise from regulatory and budgetary considerations. We review nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithms which are powerful, flexible, general purpose optimization tools and demonstrate their capability and utility in optimizing complex recruitment designs for global clinical trials using the Poisson-gamma model as an exemplary model. This research opens up new avenues for improving the efficiency and effectiveness of patient recruitment in clinical trials, thereby potentially accelerating the development of new medical treatments.
Polycaena minor Forster 1951, new status
Creators: name: Huang, Hao
name: Li, Yu-Fei
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Lycaenidae
Polycaena
Polycaena minor

description: Polycaena minor Forster, 1951, new status
(Figs. 23–24, 49, 54, 63, 72, 79, 87)
Polycaena lua minor Forster, 1951: 63, pl. 4, fig. 3 for ♂ holotype, TL: Batang.
? Polycaena matuta shii Huang, 2014: 154, figs. 31–32 for ♀♀, TL: E of Mila, Linzhi, SE Tibet.
Material. CHINA: Sichuan province: 1♂, on road from Batang to Litang, Haizi-shan, 4680 m, 10.VII.2012, H.-L. Shi & Y. Liu leg.; Qinghai province: 1♂, Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Jiegu, 3700 m, 16.VII.2011, K. Song leg.
Identification. The photos of the holotype were published in the original description (Forester, 1951). The male specimen collected from the type locality (Fig. 23) has all details of wing-pattern in common with the holotype. The male specimen from Yushu, Qinghai possesses the same genital characters as the one from Batang.
Wing-pattern. This species has its wing-pattern generally similar to that of P. l u a, but differs from the latter in having an additional spot at anal half in the discocellular cell of hindwing underside.
Male genitalia. Uncus in dorsal view has no branch. Fenestrula is not present at middle. Valva is elongate, and has no ventral branch found in P. l a m a. Ampulla of valva is slightly overlapped by harpe. Harpe of valva has no inner process rising from sacculus. Posterior branches of central plate are more slender than in all other species in dorsal view, and are depressed in lateral view. Juxta has dorsal part extending both anteriorly and posteriorly in lateral view. Phallus in lateral view has a dorsal corner. Coecum penis in dorsal view is not expanded laterally.
Remarks. This taxon is no doubt an independent species from P. l u a, with significant differences from the latter in male genitalic morphology. Since it is allopatric with P. l ua and has never been collected from NE Qinghai, the type locality of P. lua, there is no confusion in identification of these two species yet.
The holotype and the sole paratype of P. matuta shii Huang, 2014 may represent the females of P. minor, and in that case P. matuta shii should be treated as a junior synonym of P. minor. P. minor has been known only on the male specimens whilst P. matuta shii has been known only on the female specimens; both taxa are very similar to each other in the wing-patterns on the underside.
Distribution. Extreme west of Sichuan and SE Qinghai.
description: Published as part of Huang, Hao & Li, Yu-Fei, 2016, Notes on the genus Polycaena Staudinger (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae) with descriptions of two new species from China, pp. 575-590 in Zootaxa 4105 (6) on pages 585-586, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4105.6.4, http://zenodo.org/record/258394
title: The Effect of Prior Cooperation and Competition on Approaches to a Decomposed Social Dilemma
Creators: name: Rettig, Keith M.
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04zjtrb98
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 1993

description: The effect of cooperation and competition in a primer task upon subject's later choice of strategy in a social dilemma was examined. The effect of explicit and implicit instructions and cooperative and competitive milieu on subjects' behavior, individually and as a team, during both the primer task and the social dilemma was also examined. Male and female subjects participated in a naval simulation task under Implicit-Cooperative, Explicit-Cooperative, Implicit-Competitive, and Explicit-Competitive instructions and later participated in a prisoner's dilemma game. Simmons, Wehner, Tucker, and King's (1987) Cooperative / Competitive Strategy Scale was used as a covariate. A significant effect of instructions was found for the primer task but not for the strategy used in the social dilemma. No transfer of cooperation or competition was found from the constrained primer task to the unrestrained experimental task. There was partial support for the effects of milieu on the subject's behavior.
Treiber und Barrieren für Suffizienz in der niedersächsischen Klimapolitik in den Bereichen Verkehr und Gebäude
Creators: name: Groß, Julius
Publisher: name: Medien- und Informationszentrum, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Suffizienz
subject: Politik
subject: Klimaschutz
subject: Klimapolitik
subject: Verkehrspolitik
subject: Wohnungspolitik
subject: Baupolitik
subject: Niedersachsen
classificationCode: 330
subject: 330 Wirtschaft

description: Um das Wohlergehen aller Menschen bei gleichzeitiger Einhaltung planetarer Belastungsgrenzen zu sichern, muss die globale Inanspruchnahme natürlicher Ressourcen und Schadstoffsenken deutlich reduziert werden. Dazu ist unter anderem auch Suffizienz, also das Reduzieren oder Unterlassen umweltschädlicher Güter, Dienstleistungen und Aktivitäten, notwendig. Suffizienzansätze werden in der Politik jedoch deutlich vernachlässigt. Als Erklärung werden in der Literatur zahlreiche Barrieren für Suffizienzpolitik genannt, welche die Umsetzung von Suffizienzpolitik erschweren. Gleichzeitig werden Treiber angeführt, welche die Umsetzung von Suffizienzpolitik befördern. Im Zentrum dieser qualitativen Untersuchung steht die Frage, welche Treiber und Barrieren für Suffizienzpolitik in der niedersächsischen Klimapolitik wirken. Nach einer Kategorisierung der in der Literatur genannten Treiber und Barrieren folgt eine Analyse der Rolle von Suffizienz im Niedersächsischen Klimagesetz und der Niedersächsischen Klimaschutzstrategie in den Sektoren Verkehr und Gebäude. Suffizienz wird in beiden Dokumenten meist nur als Zielsetzung ohne konkrete Maßnahmen erwähnt. Dabei wird Suffizienz im Verkehrssektor deutlich häufiger und konkreter genannt als im Gebäudesektor. Anschließend habe ich leitfadengestützte Interviews mit für Klimapolitik zuständigen Akteur:innen aus der niedersächsischen Politik und Verwaltung geführt, um Treiber und Barrieren für Suffizienzpolitik in Niedersachsen zu identifizieren. Ich konnte zahlreiche der Faktoren aus der Literatur bestätigen sowie einige neue ergänzen. Die Ergebnisse der Arbeit können helfen zu verstehen, warum Akteur:innen in Politik und Verwaltung sich für oder gegen die Umsetzung von Suffizienzpolitik entscheiden. Dieses Wissen kann beispielsweise von Politiker:innen, Politikberatungen, NGOs oder sozialen Bewegungen genutzt werden, um Barrieren für Suffizienzpolitik gezielt zu überwinden und/oder Treiber zu stärken.
Isotonic Phase I cancer clinical trial design utilizing patient-reported outcomes
Creators: name: Wages, Nolan A.
name: Lin, Ruitao
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy

description: This article considers the concept of designing Phase I clinical trials using both clinician- and patient-reported outcomes to adaptively allocate study participants to tolerable doses and determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) at the study conclusion. We describe a new isotonic patient-reported outcome (PRO-ISO) Phase I design with the flexibility of allocating patients to lower, more tolerable regimens if a large number of PRO-DLT events are seen at higher doses. We conduct simulation studies of the operating characteristics of the design and compared them to the patient-reported outcomes continual reassessment method (PRO-CRM). We illustrate that the PRO-ISO makes appropriate dose assignments during the study to give investigators and reviewers an idea of how the method behaves. In simulation studies, the PRO-ISO demonstrates comparable performance to the PRO-CRM in terms of recommending target doses and allocating patients to these doses. It also performs well relative to a nonparametric optimal benchmark applied to the PRO setting. Finally, we extend our methodology to account for the problem of late-onset toxicities.
Adjusting for Time-Varying Treatment Switches in Randomized Clinical Trials: The Danger of Extrapolation and How to Address It
Creators: name: Michiels, Hege
name: Vandebosch, An
name: Vansteelandt, Stijn
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: When choosing estimands and estimators in randomized clinical trials, caution is warranted, as intercurrent events, such as, due to patients who switch treatment after disease progression, are often strongly associated with patients’ time-varying prognostic factors. Consequently, for patients who did experience intercurrent events, there are typically no comparable patients who did not. Statistical analyses may then easily lure one into making large implicit extrapolations, which often go unnoticed. We will illustrate this problem of implicit extrapolations using a real oncology case study, with a right-censored time-to-event endpoint, in which patients can cross over from the control to the experimental treatment after disease progression, for ethical reasons. We address this by developing an estimator for the survival risk ratio contrasting the survival probabilities at each time t if all patients would take experimental treatment with the survival probabilities at those times t if all patients would take control treatment up to time t, using randomization as an instrumental variable to avoid reliance on no unmeasured confounders assumptions. This doubly robust estimator can handle time-varying treatment switches and right-censored survival times. Insight into the rationale behind the estimator is provided and the approach is demonstrated by reanalyzing the oncology trial.
Investigating Cancer Inequalities in Urbanizing Texas with Plausible Reasoning
Creators: name: Donegan, Connor
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: This article contributes to geographical methodology by presenting an epistemology of plausible reasoning (PR) as a complement to realist and reflexive frameworks for science. I introduce PR’s theory of evidence, after Harold Jeffreys and George Pólya, and then extrapolate principles for nonexperimental study designs. This article leverages these principles to structure an investigation into the causes of a racial disparity in the colorectal cancer (CRC) burden in the Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan areas. Centered on a series of empirical questions pertaining to racial ghettoization, contemporary urbanization, and cancer inequalities, the study uncovers important geographic and social changes in the CRC burden in the study areas between 1999 and 2019. These include the emergence of a substantial class-related inequality in CRC incidence, the rise of aggregate racial disparities in CRC incidence outside of historically ghettoized areas, and an overall intensification of spatial CRC inequality. Drawing on fundamental cause theory and critical urban studies, I propose that these changes are a product of the uneven spread of new preventive technologies (screening colonoscopy) amid extensive and polarizing urbanization processes that are reshaping these regions. The study highlights the value of incorporating concern for dynamic macrostructures and political economy into analyses of spatial health data, and illustrates how PR can contribute to such work.
Coleophora trichopterella Baldizzone 1985
Creators: name: Tabell, Jukka
name: Mutanen, Marko
name: Sihvonen, Pasi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Coleophoridae
Coleophora
Coleophora trichopterella

description: Coleophora trichopterella Baldizzone, 1985
Figs. 6, 8, 9, 24–25, Table 1
Material examined. 3 ♂ (GP 5197 J. Tabell, DNA sample 23547 Lepid Phyl), 3 ♀ (GP 5241 J. Tabell) Spain, Granada, Cüllar 5.5 km N, 870 m, Suaeda sp. 12.IV.2014, e[x].l[arva]. IX.2014, J. Tabell leg.
Abdominal structures. Latero-posterior bar indistinct. Transverse bar narrow, both edges distinctly sclerotized. Tergal sclerite narrow, 6x longer than wide, covered with 30 conical spines (on T3).
Female genitalia. Papillae anales oval, covered with long bristles. Anterior apophyses as long as sterigma, posterior apophyses twice longer than anterior ones. Sterigma trapezoid, membranous, sclerotized only in two elongate lateral club-shaped patches; proximal margin membranous, indistinct; caudal margin rounded, edged with bristles. T8 sclerotized, subrectangular, with deep emargination, proximal margin concave. Ostium bursae and colliculum membranous. Posterior section of ductus bursae narrow, with a medial sclerotized band; section around ductus seminalis posteriorly slightly swollen, transparent, anteriorly winding, densely covered with small spinacles; anterior section slightly sclerotized, expanded. Corpus bursae oval, small. Signum leaf-like; spine curved, with two shallow ridges.
Biology. The larva feeds on the leaves of Suaeda sp. (Amaranthaceae) in the spring. The composite leaf case, 10.5–11.5 mm in length, is constructed of several hollowed pieces of the host plant. The case is gently curved, thin, brownish grey, smooth or longitudinally gently wrinkled, trivalved, mouth opening at 80–85°. The adults emerge in September-October after a summer diapause.
Remarks. The description of C. trichopterella is based on four male specimens collected in southern Spain (Baldizzone 1985). The biology and female adult have remained unknown until now. Three male and three female adults emerged from cases found on Suaeda sp., and this enables to describe the female genitalia and illustrate the larval case.
description: Published as part of Tabell, Jukka, Mutanen, Marko & Sihvonen, Pasi, 2018, Descriptions of five morphologically and genetically confirmed new species of the Coleophora poecilella Walsingham, 1907 species group (Lepidoptera, Coleophoridae) from the Palearctic Region, pp. 331-347 in Zootaxa 4429 (2) on pages 343-346, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4429.2.8, http://zenodo.org/record/1283817
Coleophora hypomona
Creators: name: Tabell, Jukka
name: Mutanen, Marko
name: Sihvonen, Pasi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Coleophoridae
Coleophora
Coleophora hypomona

description: Coleophora hypomona (Falkovitsh, 1979)
Figs. 9, 31–33, Table 1
Material examined. 2 ♂ (GP 5153 J. Tabell, DNA sample 21964 Lepid Phyl) SW Kazakhstan, 43°07´12´´N 54°11´27´´E, Akkuduk vill[age]. 20 km N, 80 m, Karynzharyk sands, Tynyshtyk, 14.IV.2013, K. Nupponen leg.
Additions to original description.
Abdominal structures. Latero-posterior bar half as long as of latero-anterior one. Transverse bar straight, proximal edge sclerotized only medially, distal edge thick, medially strongly constricted. Tergal sclerite 5x longer than wide, covered with 20–25 conical spines (on T3).
Male genitalia. Gnathos knob transversely oval. Tegumen conical, pedunculus short. Transtilla wedge-shaped. Cucullus conical, stubby, broad, apically and dorsally sclerotized. Costa slightly concave, not bulged. Valvula narrow, 2x higher than wide, covered with bristles, outer margin medially concave, ventral margin distinctly delineated. Sacculus narrow, not extended beyond apex of cucullus; ventral margin curved, slightly concave, terminating in elongate blunt protuberance, apex with few small nodules; dorsal margin slightly concave, horizontal. Phallotheca conical, well sclerotized tube. Vesica partly well sclerotized, about five cornuti grouped into a thorn-like bundle.
Remarks. Coleophora hypomona was described from Uzbekistan and the description is based exclusively on female specimens (Falkovitsh 1979). The male adult has been unknown until now. The identification of male specimens in this study is based on forewing coloration (white with indistinct stripes), which is unique in the C. poecilella species group.
description: Published as part of Tabell, Jukka, Mutanen, Marko & Sihvonen, Pasi, 2018, Descriptions of five morphologically and genetically confirmed new species of the Coleophora poecilella Walsingham, 1907 species group (Lepidoptera, Coleophoridae) from the Palearctic Region, pp. 331-347 in Zootaxa 4429 (2) on pages 346-347, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4429.2.8, http://zenodo.org/record/1283817
Pardosa roscai
Creators: name: Al-Yacoub, G. A. A.
name: Najim, S. A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Lycosidae
Pardosa
Pardosa roscai

description: Pardosa roscai (Roewer, 1951)
(fig. 5, A–C)
Bayram, Efil & Deltshev, 2009: 465, f. 1–5 (♂, ♀); Zamani & Mozaffarian, 2017: 13, f. 5 (♀); Lecigne, 2021: 32, f. 44 a–c (♀).
Material examined. 1 ♀: Iraq: Thi Qar Province, Ur District, agricultural land, [31°01'42.5" N 46°18'07.1" E], 7.05.2022 (G. A. A. Al-Yacoub) (BNHM).
Distribution. Bulgaria, Romania, Cyprus, Turkey, Iran.
Comment. The material examined represents a new record for Iraq.
description: Published as part of Al-Yacoub, G. A. A. & Najim, S. A., 2023, A New Record And А Taxonomic Review With Checklist Of Wolf Spiders (Araneae, Lycosidae) From Iraq, pp. 383-390 in Zoodiversity 57 (5) on page 386, DOI: 10.15407/zoo2023.05.383, http://zenodo.org/record/10830919
Philanthinus de Beaumont 1949
Creators: name: Malash, Alyaa A.
name: Edmardash, Yusuf A.
name: Gadallah, Neveen S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Crabronidae
Philanthinus

description: Genus Philanthinus de Beaumont, 1949
Philanthinus de Beaumont, 1949: 194 (as subgenus of Philanthus).
Type species: Philanthus integer de Beaumont, 1949, by original designation and monotypy.
The genus Philanthinus is represented in Egypt by a single species, P. integer de Beaumont.
description: Published as part of Malash, Alyaa A., Edmardash, Yusuf A. & Gadallah, Neveen S., 2023, The genera Philanthus Fabricius, 1790 and Philanthinus de Beaumont, 1949 (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae: Philanthinae) in Egypt, with a new record and the description of a new species, pp. 151-189 in Zootaxa 5249 (2) on page 159, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5249.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7687292
Unveiling the Neighborhood Effect Averaging Problem: The Role of Daily Mobility in Shaping Built-Environment Quality Exposure
Creators: name: Wang, Linsen
name: Zhou, Suhong
name: Zheng, Zhong
name: Song, Jiangyu
name: Lu, Junwen
name: Kwan, Mei-Po
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Equal exposure to quality-built environments fosters livable, inclusive cities. The neighborhood effect averaging problem (NEAP) suggests that daily mobility plays a crucial role in shaping environmental exposure. This study aims to unveil the NEAP in built-environment quality exposure. Street-view image data and mobile phone signaling data are coupled to measure built-environment quality in people’s residential space and activity space. Subsequently, a conditional process analysis model is employed to investigate how daily mobility, income, and built-environment quality in residential space influence built-environment quality in activity space. The results indicate that (1) there is a significant disparity in built-environment quality exposure, although the disparity in activity space is smaller than that in residence; (2) income exerts a dual influence on built-environment quality in activity space through direct and indirect pathways, and the pathways could be moderated by high mobility; and (3) neighborhood effect averaging is evident at the individual level and manifests as a derived phenomenon associated with income groups. The findings provide insights for better serving environmental equality.
Bracon (Pigeria) piger Wesmael 1838
Creators: name: Ameri, Ali
name: Talebi, Ali Asghar
name: Beyarslan, Ahmet
name: Kamali, Karim
name: Rakhshani, Ehsan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Bracon
Bracon piger

description: Bracon (Pigeria) piger Wesmael, 1838 (Figs 19 A–C)
Material Examined: Iran, Hormozgan province, Geno (27° 28′ 53.23″ N, 56° 18′ 27.03″ E, 680 m a.s.l.), 12-03- 1391, 1♀, Leg. A. Ameri.
Diagnosis: Head dark brown to black, lateral lower head yellowish brown (Fig. 19 B), polished and hairy, 1.8 X as broad as long in dorsal view, length of malar space 0.22 X times as longitudinal eye diameter, antenna 32- segmented, oral cavity 1.2 X as long as its distance to eye; mesonotum polished, propleuron in lateral view concave, propodeum smooth and polished; fore wing marginal cell medium sized, terminating pre-apically, second submarginal cell moderately elongate, 3-SR vein 1.5 X as long as 2-SR vein. r-m vein equal to r vein (Fig. 19 C); length of first metasomal tergite at most slightly longer than its apical width; body entirely dark brown, first and second tergites light brown (Fig. 19 A).
General distribution: Eastern Palaearctic (Japan, Mongolia, Russia), Nearctic (USA), Western Palaearctic (Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Canary Islands, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Montenegro, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine (Yu et al. 2012).
description: Published as part of Ameri, Ali, Talebi, Ali Asghar, Beyarslan, Ahmet, Kamali, Karim & Rakhshani, Ehsan, 2014, Study of the genus Bracon Fabricius, 1804 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) of Southern Iran with description of a new species, pp. 353-380 in Zootaxa 3754 (4) on page 376, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3754.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/285429
Wadicosa fidelis
Creators: name: Al-Yacoub, G. A. A.
name: Najim, S. A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Lycosidae
Wadicosa
Wadicosa fidelis

description: Wadicosa fidelis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)
(fig. 6)
Hepner & Paulus, 2009: 343, f. 20–22 (♂, ♀); Kronestedt & Zyuzin, 2009: 818, f. 1–20 (♂, ♀); Lu et al., 2016: 137, f. 9A–H, 10A–D, 11A–D, 12E–F (♂, ♀).
Material examined. 5 ♂, 3 ♀: 1 ♀: Iraq: Thi Qar Province, Ur District, agricultural land, [31°01'42.5" N 46°18'07.1" E], 7.05.2022 (G. A. A. Al-Yacoub) (BNHM); 2 ♂: Iraq: Basrah Province:, Al Khait, Qarmat Ali, agricultural land, [30°36'24.3"N 47°42'58.9"E], 30.04.2022 (S. A. Najim) (BNHM).
Distribution. Macaronesia, North Africa, Southern Europe, Caucasus, Middle East, Central Asia, China, Japan, Pakistan, India, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Philippines, Indonesia (Sumatra).
Comment. In Iraq, this species was previously reported from Salahaddin Province (Reimoser, 1913), Baghdad, Karbala (Baker & Ali, 2020) and Basrah (Najim & Al-Hadlag 2022).
description: Published as part of Al-Yacoub, G. A. A. & Najim, S. A., 2023, A New Record And А Taxonomic Review With Checklist Of Wolf Spiders (Araneae, Lycosidae) From Iraq, pp. 383-390 in Zoodiversity 57 (5) on pages 386-387, DOI: 10.15407/zoo2023.05.383, http://zenodo.org/record/10830919
Unio durieui Deshayes 1847
Creators: name: Araujo, Rafael
name: Buckley, David
name: Nagel, Karl-Otto
name: García-Jiménez, Ricardo
name: Machordom, Annie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Bivalvia
Unionoida
Unionidae
Unio
Unio durieui

description: The U. durieui + U. gibbus lineage
This clade grouped the samples from the morphospecies U. durieui and U. gibbus as sister lineages (Fig. 1). The U. durieui lineage only included samples from Tunisia and consisted of five different haplotypes among the specimens from the three rivers sampled. Distinct haplotypes were present in each river, but the most frequent haplotype was shared among specimens from the Ziatine and El Maaden rivers (Supporting Information, Fig. S1).
Morphologically, U. durieui specimens were elongated with an intermediate shape between U. mancus and U. pictorum, and probably impossible to distinguish in the absence of geographical information. There were also rounded morphotypes similar to U. gibbus, as in the case of El Maaden (Khalloufi et al., 2011: fig. 5). This species was not found in Morocco but is present in Tunisia and Algeria to the east of the Moulouya River (Fig. 2).
For the morphospecies U. gibbus, we obtained two clearly separated groups (genetic distance of 2.03%, Table 1): one representing haplotypes from the Iberian Peninsula (Barbate River) and Morocco, and another consisting of Tunisian haplotypes (Fig. 2; Supporting Information, Fig. S2). These two subclades were consistently recovered as distinct species in the bGMYC and M-PTP analyses. From 16 to 22 substitutions separated the Spanish-Moroccan haplotypes from the Tunisian ones. Although the eastern haplotypes were more similar, none of the Spanish, Moroccan and Tunisian specimens shared haplotypes among the 10 detected.
This species had a rounded shape similar to Potomida, but clear diagnostic characters such as the lateral teeth, the umbonal sculpture and shell thickness differentiate the two taxa (Araujo et al., 2009a: fig. 2).
description: Published as part of Araujo, Rafael, Buckley, David, Nagel, Karl-Otto, García-Jiménez, Ricardo & Machordom, Annie, 2018, Species boundaries, geographic distribution and evolutionary history of the Western Palaearctic freshwater mussels Unio (Bivalvia: Unionidae), pp. 275-299 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 182 (2) on page 280, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx039, http://zenodo.org/record/5713987
Ανάπτυξη και επικύρωση αναλυτικής μεθόδου ταυτόχρονου προσδιορισμού των κύριων φαινολικών και τριτερπενικών ενώσεων σε επιτραπέζιες ελιές με RP-UPLC-DAD
Creators: name: Ζαβράκογλου, Βασίλειος Αθανασίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2024
Subjects: Τριτερπενικές ενώσεις
Ταυτόχρονος προσδιορισμός
Φαινολικές ενώσεις
Triterpenic compounds
Phenolic compounds
Simultaneous determination

description: Οι επιτραπέζιες ελιές, ένα πολύ διαδεδομένο προϊόν της Μεσογειακής διατροφής, που σήμερα παράγονται και καταναλώνονται σχεδόν σε όλο τον πλανήτη, αποτελούν σημαντική πηγή πολύτιμων συστατικών όπως οι φαινολικές (υδροξυτυροσόλη, τυροσόλη, ελαιοευρωπαΐνη) και τριτερπενικές ενώσεις (μασλινικό και ολεανολικό οξύ. Μέχρι σήμερα, αυτές οι δύο κατηγορίες ενώσεων προσδιορίζονταν με διαφορετικές μεθόδους ξεχωριστά, εξαιτίας της μεγάλης διαφοράς που εμφανίζουν στην πολικότητα. Στην παρούσα μελέτη, μία νέα μέθοδος υγρής χρωματογραφίας υπερυψηλής απόδοσης αντίστροφης φάσης σε συνδυασμό με ανιχνευτή παράταξης φωτοδιόδων (RP-UPLC-DAD) αναπτύχθηκε για τον ταυτόχρονο προσδιορισμό των κύριων φαινολικών και τριτερπενικών ενώσεων σε τρεις ελληνικές ποικιλίες επιτραπέζιας ελιάς (πράσινες Χαλκιδικής, Καλαμών και θρούμπες Θάσου). Η στήλη που χρησιμοποιήθηκε η Accucore ODS2-C18 (100 mm x 4,6 mm, 2,6 μm) της ThermoFischer Scientific ενώ η κινητή φάση αποτελούταν από A: ακετονιτρίλιο και Β: υδατικό διάλυμα φωσφορικού οξέος ρυθμισμένο σε pH=2. Το σύστημα βαθμωτής έκλουσης είχε διάρκεια 25 λεπτών, με ροή 0,8 mL/min και όγκο έγχυσης 1 μL. H επικύρωση της μεθόδου πραγματοποιήθηκε με την μελέτη των ορίων ανίχνευσης και ποσοτικοποίησης, της πιστότητας και της ορθότητας. Η επίδραση του υποστρώματος αξιολογήθηκε με σύγκριση των κλίσεων των καμπυλών διαλύτη και υποστρώματος για κάθε περίπτωση. Τέλος, η μέθοδος εφαρμόστηκε με επιτυχία για τον ταυτόχρονο προσδιορισμό αυτών ενώσεων στα τρία εν λόγω υποστρώματα.
description: A novel Reversed Phase Ultra Performance Liquid Chromatography with a Diode Array detector (RP-UPLC-DAD) method has been developed for the simultaneous determination of the main phenolic (hydroxytyrosol, tyrosol, oleuropein) and triterpenic (maslinic acid, oleanolic acid) compounds in three Greek table olives substrates( green Halkidikis, Kalamon, throumba Thassou). The compounds were separated by an Accucore ODS2 C18 column, a 25 min gradient elution system with a mobile phase consisting of acetonitrile and phosphoric acid in water (pH=2). The proposed method was validated in terms of detection and quantification limits, linear ranges and accuracy. To evaluate the matrix effect, a comparison of the slopes of the standard regression curves with those of the matrix matched calibration curves was carried out. Finally, the method was successfully applied to the simultaneous analysis of the phenolic and triterpenic compounds in the table olives substrates.
Penthimiini Kirschbaum 1868
Creators: name: Shobharani, M.
name: Viraktamath, C. A.
name: Webb, M. D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae

description: Key to Penthimiini genera of the Indian subcontinent
1 Scutellum broader than long, apex not spinelike (Figs 1, 256, 259, 260)........................................... 2
- Scutellum longer than broad, apex acute, spinelike (Fig. 254)...................................... Haranga Distant
2 Ocelli on crown near anterior margin (Fig. 79, 81, 256–258).................................................... 3
- Ocelli on anterior margin of crown (Fig. 255)................................................. Neodartus Melichar
3 Head in profile angled to apex near eye (Fig. 257)............................................................ 4
- Head in profile evenly rounded (Fig. 81)..................................................... Penthimia Germar
4 Crown longer than median length of pronotum (Fig. 260)......................................... Malichus Distant
- Crown distinctly shorter than median length of pronotum (Figs 256, 259)......................................... 5
5 Lateral frontal sutures not reaching ocelli (Fig. 256– 257)......................................... Uzelina Melichar
- Lateral frontal sutures reaching ocelli (Figs 258–259)......................................................... 6
6 Robust species measuring more than 5.0 mm long, body not parallel sided............................ Tambila Distant
- Slender, delicate species measuring 3–4 mm long, body parallel sided............................. Vulturnus Kirkaldy
description: Published as part of Shobharani, M., Viraktamath, C. A. & Webb, M. D., 2018, Review of the leafhopper genus Penthimia Germar (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) from the Indian subcontinent with description of seven new species, pp. 1-45 in Zootaxa 4369 (1) on page 3, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4369.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1135478
Dorypetalum bosniense Verhoeff 1897
Creators: name: Stoev, Pavel
name: Enghoff, Henrik
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Diplopoda
Callipodida
Dorypetalidae
Dorypetalum
Dorypetalum bosniense

description: Dorypetalum bosniense (Verhoeff, 1897)
Lysiopetalum degenerans bosniense Verhoeff, 1897 a, p. 152, fig. 8 Figs 15–16
Material examined
slides of male gonopods, first and sixth leg­pairs, holotype [Lysiopetalum degenerans bosniense, Bosna, Apfelbeck leg.] prep. No. 819–820, Inv. No. 12933a,b (ZMB); slide of male 1–7 legs, non type [Jaice], prep. No. 821 (ZMB).
PLATE 3. Dorypetalum helenae sp. n., holotype: Figs 13–14: gonopod, lateral and mesal views, respectively. Dorypetalum bosniense, holotype (ZMB, prep. No. 819–820): Figs 15–16: gonopod, lateral and mesal views, respectively. Abbreviations, see text. Scale bars: 1 mm.
Remarks
Initially Verhoeff (1897a) described bosniense as a subspecies of degenerans, Strasser (1974) raised it to full species rank. Originally described from Bosna­Quelle (Vrelo Bosne) near Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina, subsequently Verhoeff (1897b, 1899) recorded it also from Jaice and Plivathal. Much later, Attems (1929) added new records from near Banja Luka, Vrbastal, Ramatal and Plasa, all being within the boundaries of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The original slide of gonopods preserved in the Museum für Naturkunde, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (ZMB) were studied and new illustrations are here provided for better delimitation of the species. It is worth mentioning also that the apical part of the gonocoxa of the holotype is not well visible in the slide. Therefore, the purported lack in bosniense of the typical tuft of stout setae may actually be an artefact due to clumsy slide preparation. If this is the case, then these setae should be lying at the anterior end of gonocoxa similarly to those of trispiculigerum. However, this question can be resolved only with investigation of topotypical material of bosniense.
description: Published as part of Stoev, Pavel & Enghoff, Henrik, 2006, A review of the millipede genus Dorypetalum Verhoeff, 1900 (Diplopoda: Callipodida: Dorypetalidae), pp. 29-43 in Zootaxa 1254 on pages 34-35, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.173059
An Instrumental Variable Approach to Learning the Causal Exposure–Response Relationship in a Randomized Dose Comparison Trial
Creators: name: Zhang, Zhiwei
name: Wang, Jixian
name: Xi, Dong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: We consider the problem of estimating the causal effect of drug exposure on clinical response in a randomized dose comparison trial where each group receives a different dose. Because exposure is not randomized, the exposure–response relationship is subject to confounding in this setting. Conventional statistical methods for confounding adjustment with a continuous exposure typically assume that there are no unmeasured confounders. This article provides an instrumental variable approach that does not require the assumption of no unmeasured confounders. Specifically, we use randomized dose assignment as an instrumental variable and characterize the causal exposure–response relationship using a control variable under a mild monotonicity assumption on individual dose–exposure profiles. Based on this characterization, we derive partial identification bounds for the causal exposure–response relationship, which are model-free but may be too wide to be useful in practice. For practicality, we further develop a simple estimation method based on a regression model for the mean response conditional on exposure and the control variable. Simulation results show that, in the presence of unmeasured confounding, the model-based estimation method reduces estimation bias effectively at the expense of increased variability, as compared to existing methods. The method is illustrated with real data from a study of chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy for treating chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
Unio tumidus Retzius 1788
Creators: name: Araujo, Rafael
name: Buckley, David
name: Nagel, Karl-Otto
name: García-Jiménez, Ricardo
name: Machordom, Annie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Bivalvia
Unionoida
Unionidae
Unio
Unio tumidus

description: The U. tumidus lineage
The U.tumidus lineage included samples from European rivers (namely, the Seine, Danube, Rhine, Thames and Weser), a Swedish lake, the Izorka and Kovash rivers in Russia and the Dnieper River in Ukraine (Fig. 2). This species is absent from the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa. Samples from the Rhine and Thames rivers and Bjornsjon Lake (Sweden) shared the same haplotype (Supporting Information, Fig. S3).
The species had an elongated shell with an anterior umbo, but a characteristic cuneiform posterior end with a descending dorsal posterior margin, which clearly distinguishes this taxon from the other species. Nevertheless, there were specimens with short shells that were very difficult to identify (Fig. 3). We did not have access to the Ukrainian and Russian shells.
description: Published as part of Araujo, Rafael, Buckley, David, Nagel, Karl-Otto, García-Jiménez, Ricardo & Machordom, Annie, 2018, Species boundaries, geographic distribution and evolutionary history of the Western Palaearctic freshwater mussels Unio (Bivalvia: Unionidae), pp. 275-299 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 182 (2) on page 280, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx039, http://zenodo.org/record/5713987
Philanthinus integer
Creators: name: Malash, Alyaa A.
name: Edmardash, Yusuf A.
name: Gadallah, Neveen S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Crabronidae
Philanthinus
Philanthinus integer

description: Philanthinus integer (de Beaumont, 1949)
Fig. 3A–D
Philanthus integer de Beaumont, 1949: 194, ♀, ♁.
Diagnosis. Body length: 7.0 mm (female).
Body generally black, with the following parts pale yellow: clypeus (except ferruginous spot centrally that does not extend to apex), mandible medially, scape beneath, F1–3 beneath, pronotum, two thin median longitudinal lines, lateral sides of mesoscutum, tegula, upper mesopleuron, two large subquadrate markings on scutellum and smaller lateral spots, posterior margin of scutellum and all postscutellum; T 1 almost ferruginous, remaining terga and sterna with broad pale yellow bands; legs tricolored, with black (especially on femora), yellow and ferruginous; wings hyaline, with veins pale brown to yellowish (Fig. 3A–D). Head in frontal view (Fig. 3C) with inner eye margins slightly concave, margins slightly convergent above, face with dense, short erect pale brown to yellow pilosity extending to middle ocellus; clypeus broad, densely punctate, with arcuate lamella at apex, concave medially, bearing small tooth; propodeum finely reticulate throughout (Fig. 3A, D); mesepimeron smooth and shiny, rest of mesopleuron as well as lateral surface of propodeum densely setose (Fig. 3B).
Male: Not available.
Material examined: A photograph from CAS: 1♀, Ain El Sokhna road (29–43 km E Maadi), 13.vii.1991, C.G. Roche collector, det. W. Pulawski, 2009.
Previous Egyptian Records: No specific locality (de Beaumont 1961; Bohart & Menke 1976; Dollfuss 2017), Ain El Sokhna road (present study).
Extralimital distribution: Algeria, Israel, Morocco, Spain, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates.
Remarks. The characters of the Egyptian specimen agree with de Beaumont’s description (1949: 194).
description: Published as part of Malash, Alyaa A., Edmardash, Yusuf A. & Gadallah, Neveen S., 2023, The genera Philanthus Fabricius, 1790 and Philanthinus de Beaumont, 1949 (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae: Philanthinae) in Egypt, with a new record and the description of a new species, pp. 151-189 in Zootaxa 5249 (2) on pages 159-160, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5249.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7687292
Biodiversity and human Health
Creators: name: Policy Labs, Frontiers
Publisher: name: Frontiers
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Research, Science and Technology Policy
subject: Conservation and Biodiversity
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description:  
As the recent repeated climate-related tragedies in several countries (hurricanes Helene and Milton, flood in Valencia) demonstrate, we are now observing what was predicted many years ago on the basis of scientific models. As William Ripple and colleagues, among others, have stressed,  “We are on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster. This is a global emergency beyond any doubt. Much of the very fabric of life on Earth is imperiled. We are stepping into a critical and unpredictable new phase of the climate crisis. (…) For half a century, global warming has been correctly predicted even before it was observed—and not only by independent academic scientists but also by fossil fuel companies. (…) Despite six IPCC reports, 28 COP meetings, hundreds of other reports, and tens of thousands of scientific papers, the world has made only very minor headway on climate change, in part because of stiff resistance from those benefiting financially from the current fossil-fuel based system” (1). Others have introduced the term of “polycrisis” to describe the occurrence and interaction of multiple threats to the planet (2). Though the effects of climate change are now easily visible, we may be underestimating other key aspects of the polycrisis. Primary prevention has failed for climate change so far, and might fail also for other components of the planetary boundaries, namely the loss of biodiversity. Here I will particularly focus on the impacts of biodiversity loss on health.  

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Depression Among Older Adults in China: Effects of Urbanicity Across the Life Course
Creators: name: Pan, Zhuolin
name: Liu, Ye
name: Pearce, Jamie R.
name: Zheng, Chunyu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: The global prevalence of depression among older adults continues to increase alongside rapid urban development. Scant attention has been paid, however, to how exposure to urbanicity over the life course affects older adults’ depressive symptoms, particularly in China, which has undergone substantial recent urbanization. Using data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) with its Life History Survey, this study adopts a life-course approach to examine the accumulative and sequenced effects of exposure to urbanicity from 1992 to 2018 on depressive symptoms among older adults, alongside the mediating roles of social relationships. Multilevel regression analysis, clustered at the city level, reveals that higher cumulative exposure to urbanicity is associated with reduced depressive symptoms, particularly with constant or increased exposure to higher levels of urbanicity during middle and older adulthood. This protective effect remains robust against the potential influence of health-selective migration but varies by sex and socioeconomic status. Relationships with friends and neighbors mediate the urbanicity–depression association, whereas cumulative urbanicity exposure is negatively associated with satisfaction with the parent–child relationship and aggregates depressive symptoms. These findings underscore the importance of employing the life-course approach to understand the interplay between health and place across the life span.
Philanthus Fabricius 1790
Creators: name: Malash, Alyaa A.
name: Edmardash, Yusuf A.
name: Gadallah, Neveen S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Crabronidae
Philanthus

description: Genus Philanthus Fabricius, 1790
Philanthus Fabricius, 1790: 224.
Type species: Philanthus coronatus Fabricius, 1790 [= Sphex coronatus Thunberg, 1784], designated by Shuckard, 1837: 246.
description: Published as part of Malash, Alyaa A., Edmardash, Yusuf A. & Gadallah, Neveen S., 2023, The genera Philanthus Fabricius, 1790 and Philanthinus de Beaumont, 1949 (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae: Philanthinae) in Egypt, with a new record and the description of a new species, pp. 151-189 in Zootaxa 5249 (2) on page 160, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5249.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7687292
Microtrombicula Ewing 1950
Creators: name: Stekolnikov, Alexandr A.
name: González-Acuña, Daniel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Prostigmata
Trombiculidae
Microtrombicula

description: Genus Microtrombicula Ewing, 1950
Eutrombicula (Microtrombicula) Ewing, 1950: 297.
Microtrombicula, Vercammen-Grandjean 1960: table; 1965b: 84; Hoffmann 1990: 87. Type species: Microthrombidium minutissimum Oudemans, 1910, by original designation.
description: Published as part of Stekolnikov, Alexandr A. & González-Acuña, Daniel, 2015, A review of Chilean chiggers (Acari: Trombiculidae), with the description of a new genus and ten new species, pp. 1-43 in Zootaxa 3964 (1) on page 12, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3964.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/288680
Simoderini
Creators: name: Rentz, Dcf
name: Su, You Ning
name: Ueshima, Norihiro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae

description: Key for the identification of Australian Simoderini
1. Pronotum with lateral margins spiniform (Fig. 10A); ovipositor minutely serrate dorsally (Fig. 10H). Known only from females. Distribution (Map 3)..................... Tallebugeroptera spininota Rentz, Su, Ueshima, gen. et sp. nov., p. 24 Combination of pronotum and ovipositor not as described above................................................ 2 2(1) Antennae thickened (Fig. 11, 12A, B); pronotum with lateral armature with sharp points (Fig. 12B); legs usually reddish brown, southern temperate distribution (Map 4)........................................... Narea Walker (in part) 3 Antennae not thickened (Figs. 16B, 18A); pronotum with lateral armature less distinct, often tubercle-like (Figs. 15B, 19A); northern subtropical and tropical distribution............................................................... 4
description: Published as part of Rentz, Dcf, Su, You Ning & Ueshima, Norihiro, 2015, Studies in Australian Katydids: A Review of the Australian Snub-nosed Sylvan katydids (Tettigoniidae; Pseudophyllinae; Simoderini), pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 3946 (1) on page 5, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3946.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/288290