cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Inhalable extracellular vesicle delivery of IL-12 mRNA to treat lung cancer and promote systemic immunity
Creators: name: Popowski, Kristen D.
name: Yan, Na
name: Liu, Mengrui
name: Cheng, Ke
name: Hu, Shiqi
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2024

description:
Lung carcinoma is one of the most common cancers and has one of the lowest survival rates in the world. Cytokines such as interleukin-12 (IL-12) have demonstrated considerable potential as robust tumour suppressors. However, their applications are limited due to off-target toxicity. Here we report on a strategy involving the inhalation of IL-12 messenger RNA, encapsulated within extracellular vesicles. Inhalation and preferential uptake by cancer cells results in targeted delivery and fewer systemic side effects. The IL-12 messenger RNA generates interferon-γ production in both innate and adaptive immune-cell populations. This activation consequently incites an intense activation state in the tumour microenvironment and augments its immunogenicity. The increased immune response results in the expansion of tumour cytotoxic immune effector cells, the formation of immune memory, improved antigen presentation and tumour-specific T cell priming. The strategy is demonstrated against primary neoplastic lesions and provides profound protection against subsequent tumour rechallenge. This shows the potential for locally delivered cytokine-based immunotherapies to address orthotopic and metastatic lung tumours.
Pair-density-wave and chiral superconductivity in twisted bilayer transition-metal-dichalcogenides
Creators: name: Wu, Yi-Ming
name: Wu, Zhengzhi
name: Yao, Hong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically explore possible unconventional superconductivity induced by weak repulsive interactions in twisted bilayer TMD (e.g. WSe$_2$) in the presence of an out-of-plane electric field. Using renormalization group (RG) analysis, we show that topological chiral superconducting states with Chern number $\mathcal{N}=1,2,4$ (namely $p+ip$, $d+id$, $g+ig$) appear over a large parameter region with moire filling factor around $n=1$. At some special values of applied electric field and in the presence of a weak out-of-plane Zeeman field, spin-polarized pair density wave (PDW) superconductivity can emerge. This spin-polarized PDW state can be probed by experiments such as spin-polarized STM measuring spin-resolved pairing gap and quasi-particle interference. Moreover, the spin-polarized PDW could lead to spin-polarized superconducting diode effect.
description: 5 pages and 4 figs with supplementary material
Peptide ligands for the universal purification of exosomes by affinity chromatography
Creators: name: Cheng, Ke
name: Moore, Brandyn D.
name: Menegatti, Stefano
name: Elhanafi, Driss
name: Goletz, Steffen
name: Simpson, Aryssa
name: Petersen, Heidi
name: Mohammadifar, Mohammad
name: Barbieri, Eduardo
name: Kilgore, Ryan E.
name: Daniele, Michael A.
name: Brown, Ashley
name: Hu, Shiqi
name: Lavoie, Joseph
name: Shastry, Shriarjun
name: Tian, Weihua
name: Sripada, Sobhana A.
name: Chu, Wenning
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2024

description:
Exosomes are gaining prominence as vectors for drug delivery, vaccination, and regenerative medicine. Owing to their surface biochemistry, which reflects the parent cell membrane, these nanoscale biologics feature low immunogenicity, tunable tissue tropism, and the ability to carry a variety of payloads across biological barriers. The heterogeneity of exosomes' size and composition, however, makes their purification challenging. Traditional techniques, like ultracentrifugation and filtration, afford low product yield and purity, and jeopardizes particle integrity. Affinity chromatography represents an excellent avenue for exosome purification. Yet, current affinity media rely on antibody ligands whose selectivity grants high product purity, but mandates the customization of adsorbents for exosomes with different surface biochemistry while their binding strength imposes elution conditions that may harm product's activity. Addressing these issues, this study introduces the first peptide affinity ligands for the universal purification of exosomes from recombinant feedstocks. The peptides were designed to (1) possess promiscuous biorecognition of exosome markers, without binding process-related contaminants and (2) elute the product under conditions that safeguard product stability. Selected ligands SNGFKKHI and TAHFKKKH demonstrated the ability to capture of exosomes secreted by 14 cell sources and purified exosomes derived from HEK293, PC3, MM1, U87, and COLO1 cells with yields of up to 80% and up-to 50-fold reduction of host cell proteins (HCPs) upon eluting with pH gradient from 7.4 to 10.5, recommended for exosome stability. SNGFKKHI-Toyopearl resin was finally employed in a two-step purification process to isolate exosomes from HEK293 cell fluids, affording a yield of 68% and reducing the titer of HCPs to 68 ng/mL. The biomolecular and morphological features of the isolated exosomes were confirmed by analytical chromatography, Western blot analysis, transmission electron microscopy, nanoparticle tracking analysis.
Automated tools for systematic review screening methods: an application of machine learning for sexual orientation and gender identity measurement in health research
Creators: name: Cawley, Michelle
name: Baldwin-SoRelle, Carrie
name: McGorray, Emma
name: Poteat, Tonia
name: Phillips, Gregory
name: Grigg, Karen
name: Rich, Ashleigh
name: Beach, Lauren B.
Publisher: name: University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
Year: 2025

description:
Objective: Sexual and gender minority (SGM) populations experience health disparities compared to heterosexual and cisgender populations. The development of accurate, comprehensive sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) measures is fundamental to quantify and address SGM disparities, which first requires identifying SOGI-related research. As part of a larger project reviewing and synthesizing how SOGI has been assessed within the health literature, we provide an example of the application of automated tools for systematic reviews to the area of SOGI measurement. Methods: In collaboration with research librarians, a three-phase approach was used to prioritize screening for a set of 11,441 SOGI measurement studies published since 2012. In Phase 1, search results were stratified into two groups (title with vs. without measurement-related terms); titles with measurement-related terms were manually screened. In Phase 2, supervised clustering using DoCTER software was used to sort the remaining studies based on relevance. In Phase 3, supervised machine learning using DoCTER was used to further identify which studies deemed low relevance in Phase 2 should be prioritized for manual screening. Results: 1,607 studies were identified in Phase 1. Across Phases 2 and 3, the research team excluded 5,056 of the remaining 9,834 studies using DoCTER. In manual review, the percentage of relevant studies in results screened manually was low, ranging from 0.1 to 7.8 percent. Conclusions: Automated tools used in collaboration with research librarians have the potential to save hundreds of hours of human labor in large-scale systematic reviews of SGM health research.
Notiobia Perty 1830
Creators: name: Serrano, Artur R. M.
name: Capela, Rúben A.
name: Santos, Carmen Van-Dúnem Neto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Notiobia

description: Notiobia Perty, 1830
There is only one species reported for Angola within this genus (Ferreira 1965, Anichtchenko 2016, Insectoid.info 2017) which was sampled during our entomological trips also.
description: Published as part of Serrano, Artur R. M., Capela, Rúben A. & Santos, Carmen Van-Dúnem Neto, 2017, Biodiversity and notes on carabid beetles from Angola with description of new taxa (Coleoptera: Carabidae), pp. 201-256 in Zootaxa 4353 (2) on page 217, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4353.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1065124
Karenia
Creators: name: Pham, Hong-Thai
name: Constant, Jerome
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadidae
Karenia

description: Key to males of the genus Karenia
1 Median cleft on posterior part of cruciform elevation very deep and reaching to half length of cruciform elevation.. K. sulcata
- Median cleft on posterior part of cruciform elevation shallow and reaching to one third of length of cruciform elevation or less.................................................................................................... 2
2 Operculum short, somewhat rectangular; uncal lobes separated from each other by deep median slit.................... 4
- Operculum elongate, not rectangular; uncal lobes separated from each other by shallow median slit, or connected medially.. 3
3 Operculum with distal margin broadly rounded; uncal lobe with stout lateral spine........................... K. ravida
- Operculum with distal margin angularly rounded; uncal lobe with very narrow lateral spine.................. K. caelatata
4 Operculum reaching to posterior marginal abdomen segment 3, apex convex........................ K. tibetensis sp.nov.
- Operculum reaching to two thirds length of abdominal sternite 3, apex rounded, median margin slightly convex........... 5
5 Surface of operculum flat to very weakly convex; basal pygofer lobe not prominent.......................... K. chama
- Surface of perculum slightly prominently convex; basal pygofer lobe with apical part distinctly prominent.. K. hoanglienensis
description: Published as part of Pham, Hong-Thai & Constant, Jerome, 2014, The cicada genus Karenia Distant, 1888 (Hemiptera: Cicadidae), with description of a new species, pp. 579-584 in Zootaxa 3852 (5) on pages 582-583, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3852.5.6, http://zenodo.org/record/227687
Trichacis procera Arias-Penna & Masner, new species
Creators: name: Arias-Penna, Tania Milena
name: Masner, Lubomir
name: Delsinne, Thibaut
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Platygastridae
Trichacis
Trichacis procera

description: Trichacis procera Arias-Penna & Masner, new species
Figures 15 C–15F
Female. Body length: 2.40 mm (holotype).
Black shining; A1–A5 yellow, A6–A10 brown; mandible brown with apex dark brown; leg yellow; fore wing infuscate.
Head, in dorsal view, 2.4 times as wide as long; EH  LOL; antennal clava 4-segmented; A1 not reaching vertex dorsal margin; A2–A4, A7, A10 longer than wide; A5, A6, A8, A9 wider than long; base of mandible smooth; frons above interantennal process and torulus with three well-marked transverse striae; interantennal process smooth, curving down and surpassing ventral border of torulus; clypeus hidden by interantennal process; clypeal margin truncate; gena smooth; lateral region of vertex between posterior ocellus and hyperoccipital carina weakly coriaceous; temple projection absent; hyperoccipital carina complete; distance between posterior ocellus and hyperoccipital carina shorter than posterior ocellus diameter.
Mesosoma slightly arched; antero-admedian line present; notaulus anteriorly incomplete; mesoscutum smooth; posteromedial region of inter-notaular area convex; parapsidal line present; central pronotal area smooth; specialized area of mesoscutellum heart-shaped; median projection of specialized area of mesoscutellum triangular and with a broad tuft of hairs; mesopleural carina complete; fore wing slightly surpassing apex of metasoma.
Metasoma elongate; combined length of T3–T6 <T2; T1, T3–T4, T6 longer than wide; T2, T5 shorter than wide; anteromedial area of T2 smooth and concave; T3 smooth along its anterior margin and densely covered by shallow punctuation; T4–T6 densely covered by deep punctuation; T6 subtriangular.
Male. Unknown.
Etymology. The name of the species refers to its long interantennal process.
Diagnosis. Trichacis procera and T. dianae have a complete mesopleural carina but T. procera has OOL> LOL; lateral region of its vertex is weakly coriaceous between posterior ocellus and hyperoccipital carina.
Material examined. Holotype: 1 Ƥ, MEXICO, Monte Bello, Chiapas, July 15–31 1969, MT, W. Mason (CNCI).
Holotype is deposited in CNCI.
description: Published as part of Arias-Penna, Tania Milena, Masner, Lubomir & Delsinne, Thibaut, 2012, Revision of the Neotropical species of Trichacis Foerster (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Platygastridae), with description of 24 new species, pp. 1-56 in Zootaxa 3337 on pages 32-34, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.281325
Notiobia (Diatypus) picina
Creators: name: Serrano, Artur R. M.
name: Capela, Rúben A.
name: Santos, Carmen Van-Dúnem Neto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Notiobia
Notiobia picina

description: Notiobia (Diatypus) picina (Chaudoir, 1878)
Distribution in Angola (Provinces): 1) Huambo, Cunene.
Material examined. Alto Hama (12° 13´20´´ S, 15° 32´57´´ E, 1512 m alt., 232) (HUAMBO), 31.X.‒ 2. XI.2015, 1 ♀, DO, A. Serrano & R. Capela leg., ASC; Cachimbamba (12° 28´11´´ S, 15° 40´56´´ E, 1560 m alt., 232) (HUAMBO), 3. XI.2015, 1 ♀, DO, A. Serrano & R. Capela leg., ASC.
Remarks. A common species widespread throughout Africa south of Sahara (Ferreira 1965, Anichtchenko 2016), but also present in South America (Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay) (Insectoid.info 2017) where was introduced probably by means of the nautical slave trade held between Africa (e.g. Luanda) and Brazil (e.g. Salvador) during the XVI‒XVII centuries. Adults were found on ground during night near public lights (first locality) together with some other ground beetles [e.g. S. guineense, C. intermedius, C. rikatlensis, C. cupreocinctus, C.. tenuicollis, Progonochaetus planicollis (Putzeys, 1880), Platymetopus pseudocrenulatus Facchini, 2016, Agonidium natalense (Boheman, 1848), Agonidium alacre (Boheman, 1848), E. peringuey, E. intermedius] or on soil beneath litter (second locality).
description: Published as part of Serrano, Artur R. M., Capela, Rúben A. & Santos, Carmen Van-Dúnem Neto, 2017, Biodiversity and notes on carabid beetles from Angola with description of new taxa (Coleoptera: Carabidae), pp. 201-256 in Zootaxa 4353 (2) on page 217, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4353.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1065124
Protopolybia chanchamayensis Bequaert 1944
Creators: name: Dos Santos Junior, José N. A.
name: Silveira, Orlando T.
name: Carpenter, James M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Vespidae
Protopolybia
Protopolybia chanchamayensis

description: Protopolybia chanchamayensis Bequaert, 1944
Protopolybia chanchamayensis Weyrauch 1943: 7, nom. nudum.
Protopolybia chanchamayensis Bequaert 1944a: 101 (holotype: ♀ Peru, Junin, San Ramon, Vale Chanchamayo (MCZ), not examined; paratype: ♀ Peru, San Ramon,Valle Chanchamayo, 800 m, 1939 (Weyrauch) (AMNH), examined). Protopolybia chanchamayensis: Richards 1978: 137, 140.
Protopolybia chanchamayensis: Carpenter & Wenzel 1989: 179.
Diagnosis. Length of fore wing 4.5 mm; clypeus (HClp=0.5; MxWClp =0.63; TeW=0.44; MiWClp = 0.56 mm) with ventral margin broadly curved; metanotum short with rounded apex; propodeum with posterior face projecting symmetrically to either side of median groove, forming two moderately high protuberances; T1 as long as wide; ground color yellow with testaceous marks.
Material examined. PERU, Junin, 1♀, Iurac, 67mi. E. of Tingo Maria, 850m, 11.xii.1954 (E. Schlinger & E.S. Ross) (INBPY). BRAZIL: Acre, 1 ♀, Rio Branco, 25.x-8.xi.1991, Arm. Susp. 20m (F. Ramos, A. Henriques, I. Gorayeb, N. Bittencourt) (MPEG).
Distribution. Peru: Junín, * Brazil: AC.
Remarks. Protopolybia chanchamayensis was only known from the type locality (Peru: Junin) (Richards 1978). We now provide the first occurrence for Brazil.
description: Published as part of Dos Santos Junior, José N. A., Silveira, Orlando T. & Carpenter, James M., 2015, Phylogeny of Protopolybia Ducke, 1905 and taxonomic revision of the Protopolybia exigua species-group (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Polistinae), with description of four new species, pp. 151-182 in Zootaxa 3956 (2) on page 167, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3956.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/237836
Progonochaetus G. Muller 1938
Creators: name: Serrano, Artur R. M.
name: Capela, Rúben A.
name: Santos, Carmen Van-Dúnem Neto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Progonochaetus

description: Progonochaetus G. Müller, 1938
A genus with five species known to Angola (Ferreira 1965, Anichtchenko 2016, Insectoid.info 2017), of which were sampled two species.
description: Published as part of Serrano, Artur R. M., Capela, Rúben A. & Santos, Carmen Van-Dúnem Neto, 2017, Biodiversity and notes on carabid beetles from Angola with description of new taxa (Coleoptera: Carabidae), pp. 201-256 in Zootaxa 4353 (2) on page 217, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4353.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1065124
A deep learning feature importance test framework for integrating informative high-dimensional biomarkers to improve disease outcome prediction
Creators: name: Xiao, Meisheng
name: Wu, Di
name: Divaris, Kimon
name: Xenakis, James G
name: Zou, Baiming
name: Ribeiro, Apoena
name: Zou, Fei
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Year: 2024

description:
Many human diseases result from a complex interplay of behavioral, clinical, and molecular factors. Integrating low-dimensional behavioral and clinical features with high-dimensional molecular profiles can significantly improve disease outcome prediction and diagnosis. However, while some biomarkers are crucial, many lack informative value. To enhance prediction accuracy and understand disease mechanisms, it is essential to integrate relevant features and identify key biomarkers, separating meaningful data from noise and modeling complex associations. To address these challenges, we introduce the High-dimensional Feature Importance Test (HdFIT) framework for machine learning models. HdFIT includes a feature screening step for dimension reduction and leverages machine learning to model complex associations between biomarkers and disease outcomes. It robustly evaluates each feature's impact. Extensive Monte Carlo experiments and a real microbiome study demonstrate HdFIT's efficacy, especially when integrated with advanced models like deep neural networks. Our framework shows significant improvements in identifying crucial features and enhancing prediction accuracy, even in high-dimensional settings.
Feigin-Semikhatov conjecture and related topics
Creators: name: Nakatsuka, Shigenori
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Feigin-Semikhatov conjecture, now established, states algebraic isomorphisms between the cosets of the subregular $\mathcal{W}$-algebras and the principal $\mathcal{W}$-superalgebras of type A by their full Heisenberg subalgebras. It can be seen as a variant of Feigin-Frenkel duality between the $\mathcal{W}_n$-algebras and also as a generalization of the connection between the $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal algebra and the affine algebra $\hat{\mathfrak{sl}}_{2,k}$.We review the recent developments on the correspondence of the subregular W-algebras and the principal W-superalgebras of type A at the level of algebras, modules and intertwining operators, including fusion rules.
description: This is a review paper for Int. J. Mod. Phys. A. 25 pages. Comments welcome
Progonochaetus incrassatus
Creators: name: Serrano, Artur R. M.
name: Capela, Rúben A.
name: Santos, Carmen Van-Dúnem Neto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Progonochaetus
Progonochaetus incrassatus

description: Progonochaetus incrassatus (Boheman, 1848)
Distribution in Angola (Provinces): 1) Lunda Norte, Benguela, Huambo, Huíla, Cunene, Cuando Cubango.
Material examined. Bembua-Camenhe (12° 16´53´´ S, 15° 27´01´´ E, 1686 m alt., 231) (HUAMBO), 1.XI.2015, 1♂, DO, A. Serrano & R. Capela leg., ASC; Caála (12° 51´11´´ S, 15° 33´07´´ E, 1758 m alt., 256) (HUAMBO), 3.XI.2015, 2♂, 4.XI.2015, 1♂, DO, A. Serrano & R. Capela leg., ASC.
Remarks. A species widespread throughout central and southern Africa (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania) (Basilewsky 1950a, Anichtchenko 2016, Insectoid.info 2017). In Angola the species presents a wide distribution throughout the country. Adults were found on soil beneath litter (first locality, see S. lucidus strigiceps remarks) or on ground and walls during night near public lights (second locality) together with several other ground beetles [e.g. S. guineense, C. rikatlensis, C. cupreocinctus, C. tenuicollis, P. planicollis (Putzeys, 1880), A. natalense, A. alacre, E. peringuey, E. intermedius].
description: Published as part of Serrano, Artur R. M., Capela, Rúben A. & Santos, Carmen Van-Dúnem Neto, 2017, Biodiversity and notes on carabid beetles from Angola with description of new taxa (Coleoptera: Carabidae), pp. 201-256 in Zootaxa 4353 (2) on page 217, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4353.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1065124
Use of large language model (LLM) to enhance content and structure of a school of dentistry LibGuide
Creators: name: Jones, Emily P.
Publisher: name: University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
Year: 2025

description:
A librarian used a large language model (LLM) to revise a dentistry subject LibGuide. Prompts were used to identify methods for optimizing navigational structure for usability, highlight library-specific information students need additional help with, and write summaries of page content. Post-revision, LibGuide access increased, and students provided anecdotal feedback that they perceive the changes positively. LLMs may enhance LibGuide discoverability and usability without adding significant time and resource burdens for librarians.
Progonochaetus planicollis
Creators: name: Serrano, Artur R. M.
name: Capela, Rúben A.
name: Santos, Carmen Van-Dúnem Neto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Progonochaetus
Progonochaetus planicollis

description: Progonochaetus planicollis (Putzeys, 1880)
Distribution in Angola (Provinces): 1) Lunda Norte, Malanje; 2) Huambo.
Material examined. Alto Hama (12° 13´20´´ S, 15° 32´57´´ E, 1512 m alt., 232) (HUAMBO), 31.X.‒ 2. XI.2015, 1 ♂, DO, A. Serrano & R. Capela leg., ASC; Caála (12° 51´11´´ S, 15° 33´07´´ E, 1758 m alt., 256) (HUAMBO), 3. XI.2015, 1 ♂, 1♀, 4. XI.2015, 2 ♂, 6♀, DO, A. Serrano & R. Capela leg., ASC.
Remarks. A species originally described from Angola (Putzeys 1880), but with a wide distribution throughout Africa south of Sahara (Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, Chad, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Ghana, Central African Republic, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo, D. R. of the Congo, Angola, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Botswana, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenia, Tanzania, Mozambique) (Serrano 1999b, Anichtchenko 2016, Insectoid.info 2017). Adults were collected in activity during night on ground and walls near public lights together with other ground beetles (see N. picina and P. incrassatus remarks). It is a new record for the Huambo Province.
description: Published as part of Serrano, Artur R. M., Capela, Rúben A. & Santos, Carmen Van-Dúnem Neto, 2017, Biodiversity and notes on carabid beetles from Angola with description of new taxa (Coleoptera: Carabidae), pp. 201-256 in Zootaxa 4353 (2) on page 218, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4353.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1065124
Cryptic coral diversity is associated with symbioses, physiology, and response to thermal challenge
Creators: name: Stanizzi, Darren
name: Castillo, Karl D
name: Davies, Sarah W
name: Gomez-Campo, Kelly
name: Nieves, Olivia C
name: Gondola, Plinio
name: Pereslete, Alyssa M
name: Martinez-Rugerio, M Isabel
name: Kriefall, Nicola G
name: Fifer, James E
name: Aichelman, Hannah E
name: Hughes, Annabel M
name: Baumann, Justin H
name: Bove, Colleen B
name: Benson, Brooke E
name: Rippe, John P
name: Tsang, Laura
Publisher: name: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Year: 2025

description:
Coral persistence in the Anthropocene depends on interactions among holobiont partners (coral animals and microbial symbionts) and their environment. Cryptic coral lineages-genetically distinct yet morphologically similar groups-are critically important as they often exhibit functional diversity relevant to thermal tolerance. In addition, environmental parameters such as thermal variability may promote tolerance, but how variability interacts with holobiont partners to shape responses to thermal challenge remains unclear. Here, we identified three cryptic lineages of Siderastrea siderea in Bocas del Toro, Panamá that differ in distributions across inshore and offshore reefs, microbial associations, phenotypic traits of holobiont partners (i.e., phenomes), and skeleton morphologies. A thermal variability experiment failed to increase thermal tolerance, but subsequent thermal challenge and recovery revealed that one lineage maintained elevated energetic reserves, photochemical efficiency, and growth. Last, coral cores highlighted that this lineage also exhibited greater growth historically. Functional variation among cryptic lineages highlights their importance in predicting coral reef responses to climate change.
Leptochiton Gray 1847
Creators: name: Schwabe, Enrico
name: Försterra, Günter
name: Häussermann, Verena
name: Melzer, Roland R.
name: Schrödl, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Polyplacophora
Lepidopleurida
Leptochitonidae
Leptochiton

description: Leptochiton Gray, 1847
Type species: Chiton cinereus; Montagu, 1803 (non Linnaeus, 1767), by subsequent designation Gray (1847: 168) = Leptochiton asellus (Gmelin, 1791).
description: Published as part of Schwabe, Enrico, Försterra, Günter, Häussermann, Verena, Melzer, Roland R. & Schrödl, Michael, 2006, Chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) from the southern Chilean Comau Fjord, with reinstatement of Tonicia calbucensis Plate, 1897, pp. 1-27 in Zootaxa 1341 on page 5, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.174408
Utilisation of a national database to characterise renal function in patients with COVID19 infection
Creators: name: Nelson, Nicholas R.
name: Rhoney, Denise H.
name: N3C Consortium
name: Farina, Nicholas
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2025

description:
Rationale The incidence of renal function alterations among patients with COVID19 is unknown. Objective To determine the incidence of acute kidney injury (AKI) or augmented renal clearance (ARC) in patients hospitalised with COVID19 and identify risk factors for patients who may exhibit each renal alteration. Methods Retrospective, observational cohort analysis of hospitalise, adult patients within the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) database with laboratory confirmed COVID19 and available data to calculate creatinine clearance using the Cockcroft–Gault equation from 1 January 2020 through 9 April 2022. Measurements Incidence of AKI or ARC and patient demographics. Main results 15 608 patients were included for renal function characterisation where 20.9% experienced AKI and 34.8% exhibited ARC. ARC lasted longer than AKI; however, AKI was associated with increased hospital length of stay and mortality. 11 274 patients were included in logistic regression analysis. Height and White race were the only variables associated with decreased risk of AKI while male sex and diabetes were associated with increased risk. Male sex, Black race and hypertension were associated with decreased risk of ARC. Age was associated with decreased risk of both AKI and ARC while weight and Hispanic ethnicity were associated with increased risk in both renal alterations. Conclusions A significant proportion of patients exhibit renal alterations during their hospitalisation for COVID19. These results provide initial evidence of identifying patients at risk of AKI or ARC, but more research is needed, especially with respect to use of biomarkers for renal alteration risk stratification.
Algal blooms intensify in global large lakes over the past two decades
Creators: name: Zhao, Dan
name: Zheng, Chunmiao
name: Zheng, Yi
name: Paerl, Hans W
name: Yan, Haoran
name: Wang, Ying
name: Feng, Lian
name: Woolway, R Iestyn
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Year: 2025

description:
The recent increase in algal blooms in lakes, potentially exacerbated by climate warming, is of global concern. However, a spatially and temporally detailed characterization of algal bloom trends at a global scale has been lacking, posing challenges to definitively attribute warming as a primary driver. Here, we used daily MODIS satellite observations from 2003 to 2022 to analyze algal bloom trends in 1,956 large freshwater lakes worldwide. Among these lakes, 620 have experienced algal bloom events in over half of the years during the past two decades, with an upward trend in bloom frequency observed in 504 lakes. This trend is particularly prominent in subtropical regions and has become most pronounced after 2015. The global median annual bloom frequency has significantly increased at a rate of +1.8%/yr over the past two decades, showing a significant correlation with air temperatures (r2=0.43, P<0.05). Furthermore, in 44.8% of the bloom-affected lakes, we observed a strong correlation between air temperature and bloom frequency. Our study helps clarify the factors contributing to the global expansion of algal blooms and emphasizes the urgent need to recognize and address this growing environmental challenge within the context of climate warming.
Artificial Intelligence–Guided Lung Ultrasound by Nonexperts
Creators: name: Parajuli, Nripesh
name: Stolz, Lori
name: Gargani, Luna
name: Agarwala, Ravi
name: Wellman, Tyler
name: Gottlieb, Michael
name: Cheema, Baljash
name: Eke, Onyinyechi
name: Baloescu, Cristiana
name: Jankowski, Madeline
name: Alkan, Eren
name: Patel, Daven
name: Nomura, Jason
name: Schraft, Evelyn
name: Moore, Christopher L.
name: Thomas, Yngvil
name: Liu, Rachel
name: Bailitz, John
name: Marra, Andrew
name: O’Brien, James
Publisher: name: American Medical Association (AMA)
Year: 2025

description:
Importance: Lung ultrasound (LUS) aids in the diagnosis of patients with dyspnea, including those with cardiogenic pulmonary edema, but requires technical proficiency for image acquisition. Previous research has demonstrated the effectiveness of artificial intelligence (AI) in guiding novice users to acquire high-quality cardiac ultrasound images, suggesting its potential for broader use in LUS. Objective: To evaluate the ability of AI to guide acquisition of diagnostic-quality LUS images by trained health care professionals (THCPs). Design, Setting, and Participants: In this multicenter diagnostic validation study conducted between July 2023 and December 2023, participants aged 21 years or older with shortness of breath recruited from 4 clinical sites underwent 2 ultrasound examinations: 1 examination by a THCP operator using Lung Guidance AI and the other by a trained LUS expert without AI. The THCPs (including medical assistants, respiratory therapists, and nurses) underwent standardized AI training for LUS acquisition before participation. Interventions: Lung Guidance AI software uses deep learning algorithms guiding LUS image acquisition and B-line annotation. Using an 8-zone LUS protocol, the AI software automatically captures images of diagnostic quality. Main Outcomes and Measures: The primary end point was the proportion of THCP-acquired examinations of diagnostic quality according to a panel of 5 masked expert LUS readers, who provided remote review and ground truth validation. Results: The intention-to-treat analysis included 176 participants (81 female participants [46.0%]; mean [SD] age, 63 [14] years; mean [SD] body mass index, 31 [8]). Overall, 98.3% (95% CI, 95.1%-99.4%) of THCP-acquired studies were of diagnostic quality, with no statistically significant difference in quality compared to LUS expert-acquired studies (difference, 1.7%; 95% CI, -1.6% to 5.0%). Conclusions and Relevance: In this multicenter validation study, THCPs with AI assistance achieved LUS images meeting diagnostic standards compared with LUS experts without AI. This technology could extend access to LUS to underserved areas lacking expert personnel. Trial Registration: ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT05992324.
Stenolophus Dejean 1821
Creators: name: Serrano, Artur R. M.
name: Capela, Rúben A.
name: Santos, Carmen Van-Dúnem Neto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Stenolophus

description: Stenolophus Dejean, 1821
A speciose genus with eleven species and two subspecies known to Angola, belonging to sg. Egadroma Motschulsky, 1855 (Ferreira 1965, Anichtchenko 2016, Insectoid.info 2017, Facchini, 2016a), of which were sampled three species, two of them new records to this country.
description: Published as part of Serrano, Artur R. M., Capela, Rúben A. & Santos, Carmen Van-Dúnem Neto, 2017, Biodiversity and notes on carabid beetles from Angola with description of new taxa (Coleoptera: Carabidae), pp. 201-256 in Zootaxa 4353 (2) on page 218, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4353.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1065124
Trichacis punctata Arias-Penna & Masner, new species
Creators: name: Arias-Penna, Tania Milena
name: Masner, Lubomir
name: Delsinne, Thibaut
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Platygastridae
Trichacis
Trichacis punctata

description: Trichacis punctata Arias-Penna & Masner, new species
Figures 16 F; 17A–17E
Female. Body length: 2.30 mm (holotype).
Black; mandible yellow with apex brown; A1 yellow; A2–A10 brown; fore and mid legs yellow; hind leg with tarsi and apices of femur and tibia brown, otherwise yellow; hind coxa dark brown; fore wing infuscate in posterior 2/3, with darker and lighter patterns in basal 1/3.
Head, in dorsal view, 2.2 times as wide as long; EH  LOL; antennal clava 4-segmented; A1 not reaching vertex dorsal margin; A2–A4, A6, A10 longer than wide; A5, A7–A9 as long as wide; base of mandible smooth; frons above torulus with transverse striae; interantennal process reaching, but not surpassing, ventral border of torulus; clypeus exposed; clypeal margin truncate; gena striate; vertex with scattered punctures laterally; temple projection absent; hyperoccipital carina absent; length between posterior ocellus and occipital carina line> OOL.
Mesosoma arched; antero-admedian line present; notaulus anteriorly incomplete; lateral notaular area smooth; inter-notaular area with anterior 1/3 coriaceous; posteromedial region of inter-notaular area convex; parapsidal line present; central pronotal area smooth; specialized area of mesoscutellum heart-shaped; median projection of specialized area of mesoscutellum rectangular; mesopleural carina incomplete (length of mesopleural carina/length of mesopleuron = 0.50); fore wing distinctly surpassing apex of metasoma.
Metasoma elongate; combined length of T3–T6 <T2; T1 shorter than wide; anteromedial area of T2 smooth and flattened; T2 longer than wide; T3–T5 densely covered by deep punctuation; T6 densely covered by deep punctuation along its anterior border.
Male: Unknown.
Etymology. The name refers to the punctures present on vertex.
Diagnosis. Trichacis punctata and T. acarinata are characterized by the absence of hyperoccipital carina. T. punctata can be distinguished by the combination of the following characters: combined length of T3–T6 <T2; posteromedial region of inter-notaular area convex; fore wing distinctly surpassing apex of metasoma. Material examined. Holotype: 1 Ƥ, BRAZIL, S. Bocaina, S. José Barre S.P., 1650 m, November 1968, M. Alvarenga (CNCI).
Holotype is deposited in CNCI.
description: Published as part of Arias-Penna, Tania Milena, Masner, Lubomir & Delsinne, Thibaut, 2012, Revision of the Neotropical species of Trichacis Foerster (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Platygastridae), with description of 24 new species, pp. 1-56 in Zootaxa 3337 on pages 34-37, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.281325
Protopolybia scutellaris Bequaert 1944
Creators: name: Dos Santos Junior, José N. A.
name: Silveira, Orlando T.
name: Carpenter, James M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Vespidae
Protopolybia
Protopolybia scutellaris

description: Protopolybia scutellaris Bequaert, 1944
(Figs 75, 82, 89)
Protopolybia scutellaris Bequaert 1944a: 111, Fig. 1 H-K. (holotype: ♀ Costa Rica, Suretka, Limon (CUIC), not examined; paratype: ♀ Costa Rica, Limon, 31.v.1924 (J.C. Dudley) (AMNH), examined). Protopolybia scutellaris: Richards 1978: 137, 141.
Protopolybia scutellaris: Carpenter & Wenzel 1989: 179, 180.
Diagnosis. Length of fore wing 4.3 mm; clypeus narrow (HClp=0.56; MxWClp =0.59; TeW=0.47; MiWClp = 0.53 mm), with ventral margin narrowly subtruncated; pronotal prominence almost collinear with fovea and pronotal carina; metanotum short with apex pointed; T1 longer than wide, with short basal petiole armed with paired winglike processes; ground color black, scutellum and metanotum entirely yellow; nest without envelope.
Genitalia. Basal and apical angles of paramere widened (Fig. 75); digitus with anterior margin broadly round, almost without bristles (Fig. 82); basal process pointed; cuspis with few bristles; ventral process of aedeagus angular, not laterally produced in dorsal view, very sclerotized and laterally serrated (Fig. 89); pre-apical region of aedeagus not angular.
Material examined. PANAMA: Prov. Panamá, 2 ♀, 2 ♂, El Llano-Carti Road, 09°17’07’’N 78°57’30’’W, 27.iii. 1996, 374 m (Carpenter & Davidson) (AMNH).
Distribution. Costa Rica, * Panama, Colombia: Nariño, Valle.
description: Published as part of Dos Santos Junior, José N. A., Silveira, Orlando T. & Carpenter, James M., 2015, Phylogeny of Protopolybia Ducke, 1905 and taxonomic revision of the Protopolybia exigua species-group (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Polistinae), with description of four new species, pp. 151-182 in Zootaxa 3956 (2) on page 166, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3956.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/237836
Stenolophus (Egadroma) barbarae Facchini 2012
Creators: name: Serrano, Artur R. M.
name: Capela, Rúben A.
name: Santos, Carmen Van-Dúnem Neto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Stenolophus
Stenolophus barbarae

description: * Stenolophus (Egadroma) barbarae Facchini, 2012
Distribution in Angola (Provinces): 2) Malanje.
Material examined. Kibundi (15 km N Nambua) (8° 56´15´´ S, 16° 03´52´´ E, 1164 m alt., 95) (MALANJE), 19.XI.2015, 1♂, DO, A. Serrano & R. Capela leg., ASC.
Remarks. A species known from Central African Republic, Cameroon, Burundi, Zambia and Malawi (Facchini 2012b). The single male fits well the original description, including the aedeagus features. It is a new species record for Angola.
description: Published as part of Serrano, Artur R. M., Capela, Rúben A. & Santos, Carmen Van-Dúnem Neto, 2017, Biodiversity and notes on carabid beetles from Angola with description of new taxa (Coleoptera: Carabidae), pp. 201-256 in Zootaxa 4353 (2) on page 218, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4353.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1065124
Semi-supervised Human Pose Estimation in Art-historical Images
Creators: name: Springstein, Matthias
name: Schneider, Stefanie
name: Althaus, Christian
name: Ewerth, Ralph
Publisher: name: New York, NY : Association for Computing Machinery
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: art history
subject: human pose estimation
subject: semi-supervised learning
subject: style transfer
subject: Konferenzschrift
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::000 | Allgemeines, Wissenschaft::000 | Informatik, Wissen, Systeme::004 | Informatik

description: Gesture as language of non-verbal communication has been theoretically established since the 17th century. However, its relevance for the visual arts has been expressed only sporadically. This may be primarily due to the sheer overwhelming amount of data that traditionally had to be processed by hand. With the steady progress of digitization, though, a growing number of historical artifacts have been indexed and made available to the public, creating a need for automatic retrieval of art-historical motifs with similar body constellations or poses. Since the domain of art differs significantly from existing real-world data sets for human pose estimation due to its style variance, this presents new challenges. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to estimate human poses in art-historical images. In contrast to previous work that attempts to bridge the domain gap with pre-trained models or through style transfer, we suggest semi-supervised learning for both object and keypoint detection. Furthermore, we introduce a novel domain-specific art data set that includes both bounding box and keypoint annotations of human figures. Our approach achieves significantly better results than methods that use pre-trained models or style transfer.
The Hausdorff dimension of escaping sets of meromorphic functions in the Speiser class
Creators: name: Bergweiler, Walter
name: Cui, Weiwei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37F10, 30D05

description: Bergweiler and Kotus gave sharp upper bounds for the Hausdorff dimension of the escaping set of a meromorphic function in the Eremenko-Lyubich class, in terms of the order of the function and the maximal multiplicity of the poles. We show that these bounds are also sharp in the Speiser class. We apply this method also to construct meromorphic functions in the Speiser class with preassigned dimensions of the Julia set and the escaping set.
description: 26 pages; minor revision of v1
Stenolophus (Egadroma) humeralis
Creators: name: Serrano, Artur R. M.
name: Capela, Rúben A.
name: Santos, Carmen Van-Dúnem Neto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Stenolophus
Stenolophus humeralis

description: * Stenolophus (Egadroma) humeralis (Dejean, 1831)
Distribution in Angola (Provinces): 2) Kwanza Sul.
Material examined. Alto Ventura (Faz. Monte Café) (Calulo) (9° 59´15´´ S, 14° 50´12´´ E, 1086 m alt., 128) (KWANZA SUL), 5.XII.2015, 1♂, DO, A. Serrano & R. Capela leg., ASC.
Remarks. A species widespread throughout western Africa (Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Gabon, Mali, D. R. of the Congo) (Serrano 1999b, Anichtchenko 2016, Insectoid.info 2017). The single adult fits well the description and aedeagus of this species and was collected beneath litter together with adults of some tiger and ground beetles [e.g. Dromica (Foveodromica) sp., A. distinctus, A. optimus, D. tarsalis, C. magnicollis discrepans, G. procera capelai ssp.n.]. It is a new species record for Angola.
description: Published as part of Serrano, Artur R. M., Capela, Rúben A. & Santos, Carmen Van-Dúnem Neto, 2017, Biodiversity and notes on carabid beetles from Angola with description of new taxa (Coleoptera: Carabidae), pp. 201-256 in Zootaxa 4353 (2) on page 218, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4353.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1065124
title: Scale-Invariant Random Graphs: a multiscale approach to network modeling
Creators: name: Lalli, Margherita
Publisher: name: IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/035gh3a49
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: In the last decades, consistent efforts have been spent to capture specific shades of real systems through the development of random graph models, which have been studied extensively either for their practical value as statistical benchmarks and their theoretical appeal, as abstract tools capable of generating synthetic graphs with realistic properties. In particular, establishing a robust representation of a graph at multiple scales of observation would enable considerable progress in the description, modeling, and control of realworld complex systems. Here, by building on the principles of renormalization group theory from statistical mechanics, we derive a random graph model precisely conceived to provide a statistically consistent description of a network for different resolutions of its units and in an exact manner. We explore two interesting facets of the proposed model, which interlace with different branches of network science. On the one hand, it allows complying with empirical networks to provide up-scaled and down-scaled reconstructions according to a chosen hierarchy of partitions of the original nodes. In this sense, the model constitutes solid support for harboring a coarse-graining scheme of real systems without relying on any arbitrary introduction of a metric space. Secondly, this scale-invariant random graph itself turns out to generate networks with topological properties that are widespread among real-world systems and thus its mathematical sifting has its own theoretical interest.
What Does DALL-E 2 Know About Radiology?
Creators: name: Adams, Lisa C.
name: Busch, Felix
name: Truhn, Daniel
name: Makowski, Marcus R.
name: Aerts, Hugo JWL.
name: Bressem, Keno K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Generative models such as DALL-E 2 could represent a promising future tool for image generation, augmentation, and manipulation for artificial intelligence research in radiology provided that these models have sufficient medical domain knowledge. Here we show that DALL-E 2 has learned relevant representations of X-ray images with promising capabilities in terms of zero-shot text-to-image generation of new images, continuation of an image beyond its original boundaries, or removal of elements, while pathology generation or CT, MRI, and ultrasound images are still limited. The use of generative models for augmenting and generating radiological data thus seems feasible, even if further fine-tuning and adaptation of these models to the respective domain is required beforehand.
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