cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Mercury stable isotope approaches to the study of monomethylmercury in the environment
Creators: name: Janssen, Sarah Elizabeth
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Mercury stable isotopes provide additional insights into the biogeochemical cycling of mercury, but the isotopic composition of MeHg in the environment is understudied. The overall objective of this work was to examine the mercury isotopic composition of MeHg in the microorganisms (anaerobic bacteria) and environmental matrices (anoxic sediment) in which it is formed, in order to understand what controls the isotopic composition of MeHg in aquatic systems.          A system for the quantitative separation of MeHg for isotope analysis that did not cause fractionation of mercury isotopes was built and tested (Chapter 2). Methylmercury from estuarine sediments had 202Hg values that varied from −0.41 to +0.41‰ and were generally higher, and spatially and temporally more variable, than those for total Hg (−0.21 to −0.48‰). This work provided a reproducible and precise method for measuring MeHg isotopes in complex matrices and also represents the first high precision isotope measurement of MeHg in sediments.    The mercury isotopic composition of MeHg was estimated in fish tissue and compared to sediment MeHg measurements in order to gain insight about feeding locality of white perch and killifish species (Chapter 3). Localized estuarine fish showed similarities between the isotopic composition of MeHg in their tissue and sediment from their capture location. Migratory species were isotopically heavier than sediment MeHg, indicating different feeding areas or mercury sources.  This study provides mercury stable isotope data on estuarine species and an improved estimation for isotopic composition of MeHg in fish tissue to aid in source tracking applications.    Mercury isotope fractionation factors during microbial mercury methylation were determined in pure cultures of a sulfate-reducing and an iron-reducing bacterium (Chapter 4). Both bacteria had similar fractionation factors despite differences in methylation rates. The mercury stable isotope composition (202Hg) of MeHg produced by these organisms eventually exceeded that of the initial Hg(II) provided, indicating that the organisms accessed an intra- or extracellular pool of Hg that was enriched in 202Hg. This study is the first to establish both a fractionation factor for methylation in an iron-reducing bacterium and observe an isotopically-enriched pool of bioavailable Hg(II).
Hypsibius dujardini Doyere 1840
Creators: name: Guil, Noemí
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Tardigrada
Eutardigrada
Parachela
Hypsibiidae
Hypsibius
Hypsibius dujardini

description: Hypsibius dujardini (Doyère 1840)
The specimens from this species differ from Hypsibius convergens by showing a large septulum. Cuticle bars between the double-claws of the fourth pair of legs were observed, as in Guidetti & Bertolani (2001), in the 67% of total collected specimens. A total of 521 specimens were isolated from all types of habitats studied (MR, LR, MT, LT and LF). Body size range was 264 to 880 μm, mean 495 μm (SD 95). The species is considered cosmopolitan (McInnes 1994). In the Iberian Peninsula, it has been recorded for Spain (Rodríguez Roda 1949; Mihelčič 1954; Maucci & Durante Pasa 1984; McInnes 1991). Hypsibius dujardini appeared at 40 sampling points (Table 3).
description: Published as part of Guil, Noemí, 2008, New records and within-species variability of Iberian tardigrades (Tardigrada), with comments on the species from the Echiniscus blumi-canadensis series, pp. 1-30 in Zootaxa 1757 on page 16, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.181845
Additional file 1: Table S1. of The impact of N-acetylcysteine and ascorbic acid in contrast-induced nephropathy in critical care patients: an open-label randomized controlled study
Creators: name: Palli, Eleni
name: Demosthenes Makris
name: Papanikolaou, John
name: Garoufalis, Grigorios
name: Tsilioni, Irini
name: Zygoulis, Paris
name: Epaminondas Zakynthinos
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Classification of participants renal function according to RIFLE criteria at the entry study. Table S2. Medications with potential impact on renal function received by participants according to treatment group. Table S3. Univariate analysis of characteristics of survivors and non survivors. Table S4. CIN based on serum creatinine or cystatin-C changes or RIFLE score (between the day of radiocontrast material infusion and the day of CIN diagnosis). Table S5. Medications with potential impact on renal function received by participants according to the presence of CIN or not. Table S6. Fluid balance of patients included in the study according to the presence of CIN or not. (DOC 110 kb)
Transformative consciousness of African American racial oppression and white racial privilege
Creators: name: Jemal, Alexis Diane
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Oppression has been identified as a fundamental cause of disease. Critical consciousness has been identified as an antidote to oppression. Although critical consciousness theory has been used to address inequality, very few scholars have attempted to operationalize and measure the construct. For the dissertation, the author developed and tested a scale of a new theoretical construct grounded in the critical consciousness literature. In response to the conceptual inconsistencies noted in the literature, the author developed a conceptual model of Transformative Consciousness, hypothesizing three dimensions: Awareness, Behavioral-Response, and Consequence. The author then developed a scale following the steps outlined in DeVellis (2003). To examine the psychometric qualities of the scale, the author conducted a content validity study in which experts evaluated the scale for representativeness, clarity, and factor structure. The author pilot tested the scale on small groups to identify wording issues and to receive suggestions for improving the scale. After the final revision of the scale, the author recruited a convenience sample of 348 respondents primarily through email solicitation. Because the conceptual model of Transformative Consciousness is theoretically based, the author used Confirmatory Factor Analysis to analyze the data and found the hypothesized three models to be a good fit to the data. The author also found evidence of construct validity and reliability.
Goniochenia (Baranosa) honorata Sekerka 2016, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Sekerka, Lukáš
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Goniochenia
Goniochenia honorata

description: Goniochenia (Baranosa) honorata (Baly, 1869) comb. nov.
Mesomphalia honorata Baly, 1869: 85 (original description).
Type locality. ‘Bolivia’.
Type material examined. HOLOTYPE: ♂, pinned, ‘ Bolivia [w, hw by Baly, cb] || Type [w, p, s, c, rf] || Bolivia [hw] | Baly Coll. | 1905—54. [w, p, cb] || Mesomphalia | honorata | Baly | Bolivia [g, hw by Baly, cb] || Type [hw by Baly on underside of preceding label]’ (BMNH).
Remarks. The species was unknown to subsequent authors and was listed only in catalogues. SPAETH (1914) transferred Mesomphalia honorata to Pseudomesomphalia (= Stolas) and BOROWIEC (1999a) to Cyrtonota Chevrolat, 1836. I had the opportunity to examine its type and found that in fact this species belongs to Goniochenia Weise, 1896 as it has three basal shiny and nearly glabrous antennomeres while species of Mesomphaliini have four or more.
The species belongs to the subgenus Baranosa Weise, 1899 as it does not have large spots formed by dense pubescence on elytra and it is most similar to G. discors (Spaeth, 1928) and G. peruviana Hincks, 1956 from Peru, all sharing quite high postscutellar gibbosity. Goniochenia honorata has lateral profile of elytra distinctly concave behind the postscutellar gibbosity and the latter is also distinctly higher than in G. discors, which has the profile behind gibbosity nearly straight. Goniochenia discors has dorsum mostly black with several yellow specks scattered over elytral disc with only a few reaching to explanate margin while G. honorata has a large oval spot in the middle of explanate margin of each elytron connected by narrow band across elytra and the pattern is reminiscent to that of Stolas zona (Spaeth, 1902). However, other species of Baranosa display large variability in dorsal patterns and it is likely both species will be found to possess additional colour forms. So far, each species is known only from the holotype. According to the original description (HINCKS 1956), Goniochenia peruviana has similarly convex elytra and quite similar pattern and possibly is conspecific with G. honorata. However, I have not examined its type and thus do not propose the synonymy. The remaining species of Baranosa have much less convex elytra, see key published by SPAETH (1928).
BOROWIEC (1999a) synonymized Cyrtonota tutelata (Spaeth, 1932) with G. honorata based on notes in unpublished manuscript of F. Spaeth but this synonymy is incorrect, see remarks under Cyrtonota delicosa (Baly, 1872) for additional information.
Distribution. Bolivia (BALY 1869).
description: Published as part of Sekerka, Lukáš, 2016, Taxonomic and nomenclatural changes in Cassidinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), pp. 275-344 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 56 (1) on pages 306-307, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5305725
Isohypsibius marcellinoi Binda & Pilato 1971
Creators: name: Guil, Noemí
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Tardigrada
Eutardigrada
Parachela
Hypsibiidae
Isohypsibius
Isohypsibius marcellinoi

description: Isohypsibius marcellinoi Binda & Pilato 1971
All six specimens showed 2 rod-shaped macroplacoids within the pharyngeal bulb. Body size ranged from 374 to 627 μm, mean 512 μm (SD 83). The species has been cited for Europe, Asia and America. In the Iberian Peninsula, it has been recorded for Spain (Guil 2002). Isohypsibius marcellinoi was collected from LF samples in 3 sampling points (Table 3).
description: Published as part of Guil, Noemí, 2008, New records and within-species variability of Iberian tardigrades (Tardigrada), with comments on the species from the Echiniscus blumi-canadensis series, pp. 1-30 in Zootaxa 1757 on page 17, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.181845
Additional file 1: Table S1. of Genetic basis of the very short life cycle of â  Apogeeâ   wheat
Creators: name: Genqiao Li
name: Rungravee Boontung
name: Powers, Carol
name: Belamkar, Vikas
name: Tianrong Huang
name: Miao, Fang
name: P. Baenziger
name: Liuling Yan
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Primers used in PCR reactions for identification of allelic variation at vrn-A1, VRN-B1, vrn-D3, and PPD-D1. (DOCX 18Â kb)
Zeugonota quadrinodosa
Creators: name: Sekerka, Lukáš
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Zeugonota
Zeugonota quadrinodosa

description: Zeugonota quadrinodosa (Boheman, 1857)
Desmonota quadrinodosa Boheman, 1857: 25 (original description).
Desmonota plicicollis Boheman, 1862: 64 (original description), syn. nov.
Type localities. Desmonota plicicollis: ‘Brasilia (S:t Paul)’; D. quadrinodosa: not given.
Type material examined. Desmonota plicicollis: SYNTYPE: pinned: ‘ St Paul [g, hw, s] || Type [w, p, s, c, rf] || Ex coll. [hw] | Deyrolle [hw] | Baly Coll. | 1905—54. [w, p, cb] || Desmonota | plicicollis | Boh: | Brazil: merid: [w, hw by Baly, cb] || Type | Boh | Col: Deyrolle [hw by Baly on underside of preceding label]’ (BMNH).
Remarks. Desmonota plicicollis was listed only in catalogues since its description (see BOROWIEC 1999a) and subsequent authors have not studied its type material. BOHEMAN (1862) described this taxon from the collection of Deyrolle. Most, if not all, taxa of Cassidinae described in the same publication from the Deyrolle’s collection were purchased by J. S. Baly and are nowadays deposited in BMNH. There is a single specimen of D. plicicollis in the latter collection agreeing with the primary description and undoubtedly represents the type. I consider it as a syntype as Boheman did not specifically mention how many specimens he had at his disposal and Deyrolle was a famous insect trader thus additional specimens might exist elsewhere. It is conspecific with Zeugonota quadrinodosa as I am unable to find any morphological differences I synonymize it with the latter species.
Distribution. Brazil: Goias, Minas Gerais, Paraná, São Paulo (SPAETH 1914, VIANA 1964b).
description: Published as part of Sekerka, Lukáš, 2016, Taxonomic and nomenclatural changes in Cassidinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), pp. 275-344 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 56 (1) on page 307, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5305725
Additional file 1: Table S1. of Implementation of sepsis bundles in public hospitals in Brazil: a prospective study with heterogeneous results
Creators: name: Machado, Flavia
name: Ferreira, Elaine
name: Schippers, Pierre
name: Ilusca De Paula
name: LetĂ­Cia Saes
name: Oliveira, Francisco De
name: Tuma, Paula
name: Filho, Wilson Nogueira
name: Piza, Felipe
name: Guare, Sandra
name: ClĂĄudia Mangini
name: Guth, Gustavo
name: Azevedo, Luciano
name: Freitas, Flavio
name: Amaral, Jose Do
name: Nacime Mansur
name: SalomĂŁo, Reinaldo
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Definition of compliance with each 6-h bundle item. Table S2. Mortality rates throughout the intervention in each of the participating sites according to the location at presentation. Table S3. Factors associated with mortality in the whole population, including compliance with antibiotics and fluids/vasopressors. Table S4. Factors associated with mortality in the whole population and according to the success of the institutions: multivariate analysis sensitivity analysis without sites 8 and 9. Table S5. Global characteristics of the population and risk factors associated with hospital mortality: univariate analysis. Table S6. Mortality assessment per site considering the interaction with quarter in the intervention: logistic regression model. Table S7. Baseline characteristics of the patients according to the type of institution. Figure S1. Hospital mortality rates per quarter of intervention. a All sites. b Only sites 1 and 5. (DOCX 133 kb)
Flammability limits of lithium-ion battery thermal runaway vent gas in air and the inerting effects of Halon 1301
Creators: name: Karp, Matthew Eugene
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Lithium-ion (rechargeable) and lithium-metal (non-rechargeable) battery cells put aircraft at risk of igniting and fueling fires. Lithium batteries can be packed in bulk and shipped in the cargo holds of freighter aircraft; currently lithium batteries are banned from bulk shipment on passenger aircraft [1].  The federally regulated Class C cargo compartment extinguishing system’s utilization of a 5 %vol Halon 1301 knockdown concentration and a sustained 3 %vol Halon 1301 may not be sufficient at inerting lithium-ion battery vent gas and air mixtures [2]. At 5 %vol Halon 1301 the flammability limits of lithium-ion premixed battery vent gas (Li-Ion pBVG) in air range from 13.80 %vol to 26.07 %vol Li-Ion pBVG. Testing suggests that 8.59 %vol Halon 1301 is required to render all ratios of the Li-Ion pBVG in air inert.  The lower flammability limit (LFL) and upper flammability limit (UFL) of hydrogen and air mixtures are 4.95 %vol and 76.52 %vol hydrogen respectively. With the addition of 10 %vol and 20 %vol Halon 1301 the LFL is 9.02 %vol and 11.55 %vol hydrogen respectively and the UFL is 45.70 %vol and 28.39 %vol hydrogen respectively. The minimum inerting concentration (MIC) of Halon 1301 in hydrogen and air mixtures is 26.72 %vol Halon 1301 at 16.2 %vol hydrogen.  The LFL and UFL of Li-Ion pBVG and air mixtures are 7.88 %vol and 37.14 %vol Li-Ion pBVG respectively. With the addition of 5 %vol, 7 %vol, and 8 %vol Halon 1301 the LFL is 13.80 %vol, 16.15 %vol, and 17.62 % vol Li-Ion pBVG respectively and the UFL is 26.07 %vol, 23.31 %vol, and 21.84 %vol Li-Ion pBVG respectively. The MIC of Halon 1301 in Li-Ion pBVG and air mixtures is 8.59 %vol Halon 1301 at 19.52 %vol Li-Ion pBVG.  Le Chatelier’s mixing rule has been shown to be an effective measure for estimating the flammability limits of Li-Ion pBVGes. The LFL has a 1.79 % difference while the UFL has a 4.53 % difference. The state of charge (SOC) affects the flammability limits in an apparent parabolic manner, where the widest flammability limits are at or near 100 % SOC.
Hypsibius pallidus Thulin 1911
Creators: name: Guil, Noemí
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Tardigrada
Eutardigrada
Parachela
Hypsibiidae
Hypsibius
Hypsibius pallidus

description: Hypsibius pallidus Thulin 1911
Hypsibius pallidus shows quadrangular or granular-shaped macroplacoids, as a difference from Hypsibius convergens and H. dujardini, which have rod-shaped macroplacoids. In addition, this species has doubleclaws similar to those present in Ramazzottius oberhaeuseri. Mean body size, among the 14 individuals collected, was 534 μm (SD 147), range 308 to 803 μm. The species is considered cosmopolitan (McInnes 1994). In the Iberian Peninsula, it has been recorded for Spain (Rodríguez Roda 1946, 1952; Maucci & Durante Pasa 1984; Lewin Osorio 1984) and Portugal (Da Cunha 1941, 1944a, 1947b; Fontoura 1981). This is the first time it is recorded for Madrid Province (Table 2). Hypsibius pallidus was found at 7 sampling points (Table 3) from LF and MR samples.
description: Published as part of Guil, Noemí, 2008, New records and within-species variability of Iberian tardigrades (Tardigrada), with comments on the species from the Echiniscus blumi-canadensis series, pp. 1-30 in Zootaxa 1757 on page 16, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.181845
Effects of different drying and processing methods on vitamin C, color, phenolics, antioxidant activity, and mogroside V of Luo Han Guo (Siraitia grosvenorii) drink
Creators: name: Ji, Lin
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Luo Han Guo fruit (LHG), native to Guangxi province of China, is rich in mogrosides, polyphenols, vitamins, and many other nutrients. Drying and processing methods are known to impact the final quality of food product.  In this study, traditional hot-air dried Luo Han Guo (HAD-LHG) and low temperature-vacuum dried Luo Han Guo (LTVD-LHG) fruit samples were used to make Luo Han Guo aqueous drink that was subjected to high hydrostatic pressure processing (HHPP) and thermal pasteurization. Unpasteurized LHG drinks were used as controls. Color, vitamin C, total phenolic content, mogroside V content, and cellular antioxidant activity in HepG2 cells were measured and analyzed for the LHG drinks.    Results showed that pH values of original LHG aqueous drink were highly affected by the drying methods of LHG fruit.  HAD-LHG drink had pH values of 4.4 - 4.8, while pH values of LTVD-LHG were around 5.8 - 6.1.  No significant differences of color parameters (L*, a*, b*, C*, hue, browning index) of LHG drink were found after treated by HHPP or thermal pasteurization. Whereas color indices were greatly affected by drying methods of LHG. The color of HAD-LHG drink was dark brown, and the color of LTVD-LHG drink was light yellow. The browning index of HAD-LHG drink (199 ± 8) was much higher than that of LTVD-LHG drink (21 ± 5).     Drying methods of LHG fruit largely affected their vitamin C content, total phenolic content, and mogroside V content.  LTVD-LHG had much higher vitamin C content and mogroside V content than HAD-LHG, but HAD-LHG drink exhibited significantly higher total phenolic content (499 ± 114 mg GAE/100 g dried LHG) than LTVD-LHG drink (136 ± 40 mg GAE/100 g dried LHG). Drink processing methods showed no significant effects on total phenolic content and mogroside V content of each LHG drink.  The cellular antioxidant activity (CAA) values of HAD-LHG drink was not significantly affected by drink processing methods. But CAA values of LTVD-LHG drink would be decreased after thermal pasteurization when comparing to high pressure processing and unpasteurized control groups.
Additional file 1: Table S1. of Genetic basis of the very short life cycle of â  Apogeeâ   wheat
Creators: name: Genqiao Li
name: Rungravee Boontung
name: Powers, Carol
name: Belamkar, Vikas
name: Tianrong Huang
name: Miao, Fang
name: P. Baenziger
name: Liuling Yan
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Primers used in PCR reactions for identification of allelic variation at vrn-A1, VRN-B1, vrn-D3, and PPD-D1. (DOCX 18Â kb)
Additional file 1: of Association between serum 25-hidroxyvitamin D concentrations and ultraviolet index in Portuguese older adults: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Cardoso, Sofia
name: Santos, Alejandro
name: Guerra, Rita
name: Sousa, Ana
name: Padrão, Patrícia
name: Moreira, Pedro
name: Afonso, Cláudia
name: Amaral, Teresa
name: Borges, Nuno
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Portuguese questionnaire applied to participants. File containing the full questionnaire that was applied to all participants. (PDF 346 kb)
Isohypsibius prosostomus Thulin 1928
Creators: name: Guil, Noemí
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Tardigrada
Eutardigrada
Parachela
Hypsibiidae
Isohypsibius
Isohypsibius prosostomus

description: Isohypsibius prosostomus (Thulin 1928)
I have found 92 specimens of this species in LF, MR and LR samples. Usually, they showed smooth cuticle, but all specimens from one LF population had weak granulation over the body surface. Three roundshaped macroplacoids and microplacoid were present within the pharyngeal bulb. Embryonated eggs (buccalpharyngeal apparatus visible) were found within an old cuticle in one of the LF samples. Body size ranged from 330 to 704 μm, mean 510 μm (SD 88). The species has been cited for Europe and Asia. In the Iberian Peninsula, it has been recorded for Spain (Maucci & Durante Pasa 1984; Maucci 1991) and Portugal (Da Cunha 1948; Fontoura 1982; Maucci & Durante Pasa 1984, 1985). Isohypsibius prosostomus appeared at 17 sampling points (Table 3).
description: Published as part of Guil, Noemí, 2008, New records and within-species variability of Iberian tardigrades (Tardigrada), with comments on the species from the Echiniscus blumi-canadensis series, pp. 1-30 in Zootaxa 1757 on page 17, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.181845
Isohypsibius tetradactyloides Richters 1907
Creators: name: Guil, Noemí
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Tardigrada
Eutardigrada
Parachela
Hypsibiidae
Isohypsibius
Isohypsibius tetradactyloides

description: Isohypsibius tetradactyloides Richters 1907
Three round-shaped macroplacoids were within the pharyngeal bulb. Isohypsibius- type double-claws with no lunules. No ocular spots were found in the only specimen collected (Table 3). Body size of this specimen, found in a LF sample, was 352 μm in length. The species has been cited for Asia, Europe, America and Africa. It is the first record for the Iberian Peninsula (Table 2).
description: Published as part of Guil, Noemí, 2008, New records and within-species variability of Iberian tardigrades (Tardigrada), with comments on the species from the Echiniscus blumi-canadensis series, pp. 1-30 in Zootaxa 1757 on page 17, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.181845
Horizontal transfer of extended-spectrum β-lactamase- and carbapenemase-encoding gene in Klebsiella pneumoniae in raw foods
Creators: name: Jung, Yang Jin
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Klebsiella pneumoniae is ubiquitous in nature as a commensal bacterium, but can also cause nosocomial infections as an opportunistic pathogen. Extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)- or carbapenemase-producing bacteria or ESBL- or carbapenemase-encoding genes in raw foods have been more prevalent in recent years; however, limited studies have been conducted on the transfer of ESBL- or carbapenemase-encoding genes in raw foods. Therefore, the goal of this research was to elucidate the transfer of ESBL- or carbapenemase-encoding genes in K. pneumoniae under actual food-related conditions.  ESBL-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae ATCC 700603 served as a donor and three recipients (KP342∆KM, KP4∆KM, KP8∆KM) isolated from seed sprouts were used for the mating experiments in TSB, pasteurized milk, unpasteurized milk, alfalfa sprouts, and chopped lettuce at 4◦C, 15◦C, 24◦C, and 37◦C. An investigation on the potential transfer of carbapenemase-encoding gene (blaKPC) in Klebsiella pneumoniae to Salmonella and E. coli O157:H7 was also performed in TSB and alfalfa sprouts.  In mating experiments to identify ESBL-encoding gene (blaSHV18) transfer, no transconjugants were detected at 4◦C in liquid media and chopped lettuce, but detected in all media at 15◦C, 24◦C, and 37◦C. At 24◦C, the transfer of the blaSHV18 gene occurred more frequently in alfalfa sprouts (5.15E-04 transconjugants per recipient) than in liquid media (1.08E-05) (p<0.05). On chopped lettuce, no transconjugant was detected at day 1 post-mating at 15◦C, but it was observed on day 2 (1.43E-05). Transconjugants carried the blaSHV18 gene transferred from the donor and virulence gene harbored by the recipient. Moreover, a class 1 integrase gene and resistance to tetracycline, trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole were co-transferred during the mating. No transfer of blaKPC from Klebsiella pneumoniae to Salmonella and E. coli O157:H7 was confirmed under the conditions evaluated.  These quantitative results suggest that the transfer of this antibiotic resistance gene under laboratory conditions underestimates its transfer frequency in fresh produce. Importantly, fresh produce exposed to temperature abuse may serve as vehicles for the spread of antibiotic resistance having a potentially negative impact on human health.  While we could not confirm the transfer of blaKPC both in TSB and alfalfa sprouts, more studies aimed at determining favorable conditions for the transfer of carbapenemase-encoding gene in foods should be conducted.
Cantor minimal systems from a descriptive perspective
Creators: name: Kaya, Burak
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: In recent years, the study of the Borel complexity of naturally occurring classification problems has been a major focus in descriptive set theory. This thesis is a contribution to the project of analyzing the Borel complexity of the topological conjugacy relation on various Cantor minimal systems.    We prove that the topological conjugacy relation on pointed Cantor minimal systems is Borel bireducible with the Borel equivalence relation $Delta_{mathbb{R}}^+$. As a byproduct of our analysis, we also show that $Delta_{mathbb{R}}^+$ is a lower bound for the Borel complexity of the topological conjugacy relation on Cantor minimal systems.    The other main result of this thesis concerns the topological conjugacy relation on Toeplitz subshifts. We prove that the topological conjugacy relation on Toeplitz subshifts with separated holes is a hyperfinite Borel equivalence relation. This result provides a partial affirmative answer to a question asked by Sabok and Tsankov.    As pointed Cantor minimal systems are represented by properly ordered Bratteli diagrams, we also establish that the Borel complexity of equivalence of properly ordered Bratteli diagrams is $Delta_{mathbb{R}}^+$.
Improving statistical mechanical solvation models for biomolecular applications
Creators: name: Johnson, Jesse A.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: 1 Introduction    Chapter 1 contains a basic introduction to solvation models. Special attention is given to the Ornstein-Zernike and RISM statistical mechanical solvation models used throughout this work.    2 Correction of 3D-RISM Solvation Thermodynamics for Small Molecules    Implicit solvent models offer a fast way to estimate the effects of solvation on solute without the complications of explicit simulations. One common test of model accuracy is to compute the transfer energy from gas to liquid for a variety of small molecules, since many of these values have been experimentally measured. Studies of the temperature dependence of these values can provide additional insights into the performance of implicit solvent models. In this work the temperature derivatives of solvation energies for the 3D-RISM integral equation approach are computed. Results for 1123 small drug-like molecules (both neutral and charged) in water are compared to results from molecular dynamics simulations and experiment. The uncorrected results are rather poor, but it is known that errors are strongly correlated with the partial molar volumes of the solutes. Several linear solvation energy corrections are examined and extended to deal with solvation enthalpies and entropies. A new temperature-dependent linear correction is introduced.    3 Crystal Structure Refinement with Periodic 3D-RISM    X-ray scattering measurements from macromolecular crystals can provide valuable information about the solvent environment around biomolecules, but conventional refinement techniques use only very simplified solvation models. In this work solvent distributions for six protein structures are computed using molecular dynamics or integral equation (3D-RISM) solvation models. Bragg intensities for both models are in better agreement with experiment at all resolution ranges than those computed using the default “flat” solvent model in the refmac5 refinement program, with the greatest improvement in the 1.5 to 2.5 Å range. Results from MD simulation are generally closer to experiment than those from 3D-RISM, but the differences are small and should be balanced against the much larger computational resources required for MD simulations. The 3D-RISM solvent distributions can be derived in seconds (for unit cells with 50 Å sides), and could be updated regularly during the course of crystallographic refinement.
Spaethiella rugosa
Creators: name: Sekerka, Lukáš
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Spaethiella
Spaethiella rugosa

description: Spaethiella rugosa (Boheman, 1850)
Porphyraspis rugosa Boheman, 1850: 96 (original description).
Porphyraspis picina Boheman, 1862: 40 (original description), syn. nov.
Type localities. Porphyraspis picina: ‘Bahia’; D. rugosa: ‘Brasilia’.
Type material examined. Porphyraspis picina: SYNTYPE: pinned: ‘ Bahia [w, p, cb] || Sommer [w, p, s] || Type. [w, p, s] || NHRS-JLKB | 000022626 [w, p, cb]’ (NHRS).
Porphyraspis rugosa: HOLOTYPE: pinned, ‘64. | Brasil | 74 | rugosum | Boh [additionally written in pencil] Pty [w, hw, cb, green frame]’ (ZSMC).
Remarks. BOHEMAN (1862) described Porphyraspis picina and differentiated it from P. rugosa by the darker colour of elytra. I have compared types of both taxa and in my opinion they are conspecific as they have identical formation of elytral costae, punctation, and shape of pronotum. Porphyraspis rugosa was based on a teneral, partially sclerotized and coloured specimen, resulting in a paler colouration than fully sclerotized P. picina. For these reasons I synonymize the latter taxon with P. rugosa.
Distribution. Brazil: Bahia (BOHEMAN 1862).
description: Published as part of Sekerka, Lukáš, 2016, Taxonomic and nomenclatural changes in Cassidinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), pp. 275-344 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 56 (1) on page 307, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5305725
Exploring the role of multimedia in enhancing social presence in an asynchronous online course
Creators: name: Khurana, Chesta
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: The demand for online education is growing and with it there is a growing concern about the quality of online education. One of the major shortcomings of online education is the experienced social isolation. To minimize this feeling of isolation, research in the past recommends focusing on strategies that enhance social presence in an online course. However, there are many challenges to creating an online learning experience where learners experience a high degree of social presence. This is may be because the nature of the social presence construct is ambiguous and most of the research in past has measured social presence through self-report surveys.  The purpose of this study was to examine the growth of social presence in a multimodal discussion forum, and understand how multimedia supports the development of social presence in an asynchronous online course. Additionally, the aim was to know the views of students and the instructor about using multimedia in an online course for various purposes. Through mixed method exploratory case study method, this study explored the role of multimedia in enhancing social presence in an online course. The study made use of three different frameworks i.e. Social constructivism, Community of Inquiry, and Social Network Analysis to understand the use of multimedia and the pattern of development of social presence.  The study demonstrated various ways in which multimedia could enhance social presence in an online learning community. The findings indicated the even though some multimodal tools like VoiceThread increased the amount of interaction but it did not result in the increase of social presence. Additionally, the study revealed the inability of the social presence coding protocol developed by Rourke et al. (2001) to capture certain social presence indicators in a multimodal discussion forum. Several conjectures were developed in this study to understand the popularity of a student within a learning network.
MOESM1 of miR-422a inhibits cell proliferation in colorectal cancer by targeting AKT1 and MAPK1
Creators: name: Wei, Wen-Ting
name: Nian, Xin-Xin
name: Shu-Yang Wang
name: Jiao, Hong-Li
name: Wang, Yong-Xia
name: Xiao, Zhi-Yuan
name: Run-Wei Yang
name: Ding, Yan-Qing
name: Ye, Ya-Ping
name: Liao, Wen-Ting
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Primer sequences used for amplification and plasmid construction (5â ˛ to 3â ˛).
The research paper in the digital age
Creators: name: Kim, GoUn
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: The academic research paper as a mini-research article has had tremendous benefits in teaching students how to prepare work in a model that met the standards of scholars and the requirements for business. The research paper has long roots and an established history going back over a century as a mechanism to summarize knowledge, similar to the journal article that it emulated.   Today’s journal literature has a growing graphic and digital presence. Some medical journals now exist solely in video format. It is possible that student work may follow a similar trajectory. That research paper is now in the process of undergoing major changes as the text-based world rapidly transforms into a digital landscape.   The primary goal of the proposed study is to map past and current practices with likely futures moving from traditional research papers to digital products. This exploratory study used an online survey and personal interviews in a study involving three groups of individuals—professors, librarians, and teaching assistants—from four academic subject areas—humanities, social sciences, sciences, and professional schools. The survey sample included 148 participants and the in-depth interview sample consisted of 16 volunteers. The sample included professors who had published in peer-reviewed video journals.  Analyses of responses have revealed that position, academic area, age, and technology use of respondents are indicators of acceptance of new digital multimedia formats and how these might define an educated person in today’s society. Models include all cases followed by analyses of the sub-groups. This study used a mixture of exploratory quantitative and qualitative data analyses to suggest hypotheses for later investigations.   This project is significant because it looks at the changes to research papers in academia and what it means to be an educated person in a multimedia digital environment. Such an understanding would assist in educating library and information professionals and in serving undergraduate students as the definition of an educated person continues to evolve. It is hoped that ‘educated’ students will have a beneficial impact on society through communication of knowledge as it progress toward a dynamic multimedia digital environment.
Ramazzottius oberhaeuseri Doyere 1840
Creators: name: Guil, Noemí
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Tardigrada
Eutardigrada
Parachela
Hypsibiidae
Ramazzottius
Ramazzottius oberhaeuseri

description: Ramazzottius oberhaeuseri (Doyère 1840)
I have isolated 1,476 specimens and seven eggs from the five habitats studied. Large variation was detected in presence or absence of cuticle sculpturing. A mix of specimens with and without sculpturing appeared in the same sample, and samples with only sculptured or unsculptured specimens have been detected as well. A total of 64% of spring and 33% of autumn samples contained only unsculptured specimens. However, 65% autumn and 4% spring samples had only sculptured specimens. I was able to distinguish different degrees of sculpturing, although no spatial or temporal trends were detected. Specimens with a sculptured cuticle often lacked sculpturing in the cephalic region although it was always denser in the caudal zone. Ocular spots were present in 22 specimens, while 1,299 specimens (88%) had no ocular spots (in 155 specimens it was not possible to determine presence or absence of the ocular spots). Mean body size was 521 μm (SD 106), range 197 to 1012 μm. The species is considered cosmopolitan (McInnes 1994). In the Iberian Peninsula, it has been recorded for Spain (Rodríguez Roda 1952; Mihelčič 1955; Maucci & Durante Pasa 1984; McInnes 1991; Maucci 1991) and Portugal (Da Cunha 1941; Fontoura 1981, 1982; Maucci & Durante Pasa 1984, 1985). Ramazzottius oberhaeuseri was collected from 47 sampling points (Table 3).
description: Published as part of Guil, Noemí, 2008, New records and within-species variability of Iberian tardigrades (Tardigrada), with comments on the species from the Echiniscus blumi-canadensis series, pp. 1-30 in Zootaxa 1757 on page 17, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.181845
Additional file 1: of Association between serum 25-hidroxyvitamin D concentrations and ultraviolet index in Portuguese older adults: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Cardoso, Sofia
name: Santos, Alejandro
name: Guerra, Rita
name: Sousa, Ana
name: Padrão, Patrícia
name: Moreira, Pedro
name: Afonso, Cláudia
name: Amaral, Teresa
name: Borges, Nuno
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Portuguese questionnaire applied to participants. File containing the full questionnaire that was applied to all participants. (PDF 346 kb)
MOESM1 of miR-422a inhibits cell proliferation in colorectal cancer by targeting AKT1 and MAPK1
Creators: name: Wei, Wen-Ting
name: Nian, Xin-Xin
name: Shu-Yang Wang
name: Jiao, Hong-Li
name: Wang, Yong-Xia
name: Xiao, Zhi-Yuan
name: Run-Wei Yang
name: Ding, Yan-Qing
name: Ye, Ya-Ping
name: Liao, Wen-Ting
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Primer sequences used for amplification and plasmid construction (5â ˛ to 3â ˛).
Probabilistic and polynomial methods in additive combinatorics and coding theory
Creators: name: Kim, John
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: We present various applications of the probabilistic method and polynomial method in additive combinatorics and coding theory.  We first study the effect of addition on the Hamming weight of a positive integer.  Consider the first 2n positive integers, and fix an alpha among them. We show that if the binary representation of alpha consists of Theta(n) blocks of zeros and ones, then addition by alpha causes a constant fraction of low Hamming weight integers to become high Hamming weight integers. Our result implies that powering by alpha composed of many blocks requires exponential-size, bounded-depth arithmetic circuits over F_2.  We also prove a version of the Cauchy-Davenport theorem for general linear maps.  For subsets A, B of the finite field F_p, the classical Cauchy-Davenport theorem gives a lower bound for the size of the sumset A + B in terms of the sizes of the sets A and B.  Our theorem considers a general linear map L: F_p^n to F_p^n, and subsets A_1, ..., A_n of F_p, and gives a lower bound on the size of L(A_1 X A_2 X ... X A_n) in terms of the sizes of the sets A_1, ..., A_n. Our proof uses Alon's Combinatorial Nullstellensatz and a variation of the polynomial method.  Lastly, we give a polynomial time algorithm to decode multivariate polynomial codes of degree d up to half their minimum distance, when the evaluation points are an arbitrary product set S^m, for every d < |S|. Previously known algorithms can achieve this only if the set S has some very special algebraic structure, or if the degree d is significantly smaller than |S|. We also give a near-linear time algorithm, which is based on tools from list-decoding, to decode these codes from nearly half their minimum distance, provided d < (1 - epsilon)|S| for constant epsilon > 0.
NaMn1.5+dNi0.5-dO4 spinel as a high-voltage positive electrode for sodium-ion batteries
Creators: name: Kim, Joshua Ryan
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2016

description: Sodium-ion batteries are an emerging technology aiming to significantly reduce the associated barriers of high performance batteries (high cost, and raw material abundance) in order to enable wide scale utilization of electrochemical energy storage devices. While being similar monovalent ions, Na+ and Li+ demonstrate considerably different characteristics when considering reversible ion-insertion materials, and it is of primary interest to ascertain whether or not analogous sodium chemistries can be derived from the well established lithium-ion compositions reported in literature.   A number of high-voltage cathode materials have been identified for Li-ion battery applications, and due to the intrinsic difference in standard redox potentials between Na/Na+ and Li/Li+ (ca. 0.3V), it is desirable to consider high-voltage sodium chemistries to overcome the inevitable lower voltages associated with sodium compositions. LiMn1.5+δNi0.5-δO4 spinel has been previously investigated for application in high performance Li-ion batteries, operating on a reversible redox reaction at ca. 4.7V vs. Li/Li+. Here, the spinel crystal structure provides a 3D-interconnected network of diffusional pathways, promoting facile Li+ diffusion; and is considered for study in an analogous Na-ion battery as the combination of facile diffusional pathways and a high-voltage redox reaction (theoretically at ca. 4.4V vs. Na/Na+) would act as a significant improvement in sodium energy storage cathodes.  Herein, LiMn1.5+δNi0.5-δO4 spinel is utilized to form the λ-Mn1-xNixO2 (λ-MNO) structure by electrochemical delithiation. The resulting materials are then investigated as a positive electrode for sodium-ion batteries, as the spinel framework enables facile 3D-interdiffusion via vacant crystallographic sites. Three profound conclusions may be derived from this work: (1) Na+ insertion into the λ-MNO structure is possible, with Na+ demonstrating almost exclusive occupancy of the 8a tetrahedral sites. (2) The Na+ insertion reaction occurs at ca. 3.6V (vs. Na/Na+), enabling direct replacement of existing commercial Li-ion cells. (3) Na+ can be reversibly inserted / deinserted from the spinel host structure, with the possibility of further optimization.