cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Evolutionary innovations in Antarctic brittle stars linked to glacial refugia
Creators: name: Lau, SCY
name: Strugnell, Jan
name: Sands, CJ
name: Silva, CNS
name: Wilson, NG
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 3103
subject: Ecology
classificationCode: 3104
subject: Evolutionary biology
classificationCode: 3105
subject: Genetics
classificationCode: 4102
subject: Ecological applications

description: The drivers behind evolutionary innovations such as contrasting life histories and morphological change are central questions of evolutionary biology. However, the environmental and ecological contexts linked to evolutionary innovations are generally unclear. During the Pleistocene glacial cycles, grounded ice sheets expanded across the Southern Ocean continental shelf. Limited ice-free areas remained, and fauna were isolated from other refugial populations. Survival in Southern Ocean refugia could present opportunities for ecological adaptation and evolutionary innovation. Here, we reconstructed the phylogeographic patterns of circum-Antarctic brittle stars Ophionotus victoriae and O. hexactis with contrasting life histories (broadcasting vs brooding) and morphology (5 vs 6 arms). We examined the evolutionary relationship between the two species using cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) data. COI data suggested that O. victoriae is a single species (rather than a species complex) and is closely related to O. hexactis (a separate species). Since their recent divergence in the mid-Pleistocene, O. victoriae and O. hexactis likely persisted differently throughout glacial maxima, in deep-sea and Antarctic island refugia, respectively. Genetic connectivity, within and between the Antarctic continental shelf and islands, was also observed and could be linked to the Antarctic Circumpolar Current and local oceanographic regimes. Signatures of a probable seascape corridor linking connectivity between the Scotia Sea and Prydz Bay are also highlighted. We suggest that survival in Antarctic island refugia was associated with increase in arm number and a switch from broadcast spawning to brooding in O. hexactis, and propose that it could be linked to environmental changes (such as salinity) associated with intensified interglacial-glacial cycles.
WhisperFuzz Vulnerability Artifact
Creators: name: Borkar, Pallavi
name: Chen, Chen
name: Rostami, Mohamadreza
name: Singh, Nikhilesh
name: Kande, Rahul
name: Sadeghi, Ahmad-Reza
name: Rebeiro, Chester
name: Rajendran, Jeyavijayan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: WhisperFuzz Vulnerability Artifact - README

 

WhisperFuzz is a RISC-V processor fuzzing framework that detects and localizes timing vulnerabilities caused by data-dependent instructions. For more details, please see our Usenix Security 2024 paper .

 

This artifact helps revalidate the vulnerabilities detected by WhisperFuzz in CVA6 when executing compressed RISC-V instructions, i.e., C.ADD, C.ADDW, C.SUB, C.SUBW, C.AND, C.OR, C.XOR, C.MV, and MV.
I Think I Am a Behaviorist; Therefore I Am
Creators: name: Catania, A. Charles
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015

description: John Staddon is Professor of Psychology at Duke University and was co-editor, with Werner K. Honig, of the Handbook of Operant Behavior (Prentice-Hall, 1977). A. Charles Catania is Professor of Psychology at the University of Maryland Baltimore County and the author of Learning (4th ed., Prentice-Hall, 1998).
The Bio+Mine Project
Creators: name: Promentilla, Michael Angelo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Mines deliver essential metals for the energy transition to arrest climate change, yet they impact the resilience of both ecosystems and stakeholder communities. Bio+Mine focuses on the Sto. Niño copper mine (Philippines) where a negative legacy exists and we assess the current legacy issues, and with the local community, co-devise a programme of intervention that mitigates the problems, recovers valuable metals for renewables whilst neutralising problematic components. This site-specific system underpinned by local community’s knowledge and practices will be a model for wider implementation to other legacy and active mines worldwide (https://bioplusmine.earth/)
The watershed years of 1958-1962 in the Harvard Pigeon Lab
Creators: name: Catania, A. Charles
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2013
Subjects: Animals
Columbidae
Universities
History, 20th Century
Massachusetts
United States
Psychology, Experimental
Reinforcement Schedule
Laboratories

description: During the years 1958-1962, the final years of support by the National Science Foundation for B. F. Skinner's Pigeon Lab in Memorial Hall at Harvard University, 20 or so pigeon experiments (plus some with other organisms) ran concurrently 7 days a week. The research style emphasized experimental analyses, exploratory procedures, and the parametric exploration of variables. This reminiscence describes some features of the laboratory, the context within which it operated, and the activities of some of those who participated in it.
Switching and stability properties of conewise linear systems
Creators: name: Shen, Jinglai
name: Han, Lanshan
name: Pang, Jong-Shi
Publisher: name: EDP Sciences
Year: 2009

description: Being a unique phenomenon in hybrid systems, mode switch is of fundamental importance in dynamic and control analysis. In this paper, we focus on global long-time switching and stability properties of conewise linear systems (CLSs), which are a class of linear hybrid systems subject to state-triggered switchings recently introduced for modeling piecewise linear systems. By exploiting the conic subdivision structure, the “simple switching behavior” of the CLSs is proved. The infinite-time mode switching behavior of the CLSs is shown to be critically dependent on two attracting cones associated with each mode; fundamental properties of such cones are investigated. Verifiable necessary and sufficient conditions are derived for the CLSs with infinite mode switches. Switch-free CLSs are also characterized by exploring the polyhedral structure and the global dynamical properties. The equivalence of asymptotic and exponential stability of the CLSs is established via the uniform asymptotic stability of the CLSs that in turn is proved by the continuous solution dependence on initial conditions. Finally, necessary and sufficient stability conditions are obtained for switch-free CLSs.
The Evolution of Urban Australian Meat-Eating Practices
Creators: name: Khara, T
name: Riedy, C
name: Ruby, Matthew
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 470299
subject: Cultural studies not elsewhere classified

description: This qualitative study used social practice theory to explore how meat-eating practices are changing in contemporary urban Australia, drawing on a sample of Sydney residents aged 23–45 years. The research used an iterative study design and an inductive analysis approach. Semi-structured face-to-face in-depth interviews were the main mode of data collection, supplemented by observations in places such as markets and local neighborhoods. Research participants explained that the role of meat in their diet has changed in response to shifting conventions and social infrastructures. They have reduced consumption of red meat in favor of meats considered healthier or more ethical. Key factors driving the change include exposure to alternative eating practices brought about through changes in political policy and the advent of globalization. Changing discourses of masculinity and the move toward embracing more fluid representations of gender have, in turn, changed meanings in relation to the meat-eating man and a meat-heavy diet. Rising environmental and health consciousness, and concerns for animal welfare have also contributed to dietary changes. While several participants claimed to have increased their consumption of plant-based foods, meat still continues to maintain a significant presence within their diets. Many participants expressed interest in cutting back further on meat consumption and adopting more plant-based foods but they also identified several challenges—e.g., limited access to plant-based ingredients and recipes, negative meanings associated with vegetarian and vegan diets, and a lack of competence in relation to preparing and consuming appetizing meals using plant-based foods.
Macroinvertebrate-hosted sclerobiont assemblage from the Upper Miocene Clypeaster-rich beds of the Djebel Murdjadjo (Oran, northwestern Algeria)
Creators: name: Naimi, Mohammed Nadir
name: Vinn, Olev
name: Zeghari, Ahmed
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Sclerobiont communities from Messinian Clypeaster-rich beds at Terziza (Djebel Murdjadjo, NW Algeria) are described. Endobionts are exclusively composed of domichnial structures of polychaete annelids (Caulostrepsis isp. Maeandropolydora isp. and Trypanites isp.), clionid sponges (Entobia geometrica, E. retiformis and Entobia isp.), and endolithic bivalves (Gastrochaenolites torpedo and Gastrochaenolites isp.). Among sclerozoans, epibionts are represented by barnacles, bryozoans, juvenile oysters, serpulids, and vermetid gastropods (with attachment scar Santichnus mayorali). Host organisms include Ostrea lamellosa, Clypeaster, and Pecten. The studied assemblage is ascribed to the Trypanites ichnofacies, indicating nearshore, high-energy deposition influenced by storm events, and post-mortem bioerosion. Clypeaster-rich beds mark the initial Mediterranean marine transgression on the southern flank of the Murdjadjo horst, characterised by three distinct phases. The bioerosion pattern parallels that of the Tafna basin, suggesting uniform environmental evolution during the Early Messinian.
Additional file 4 of Development of a nomogram for the prediction of complicated appendicitis during pregnancy
Creators: name: Zheng, Xiaosong
name: He, Xiaojun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional File 4: Logistic regression model of the association between variables and complicated
Nanoscale characterization of drug-induced microtubule filament dysfunction using super-resolution microscopy
Creators: name: Rozario, Ashley
name: Duwé, S
name: Elliott, C
name: Hargreaves, RB
name: Moseley, GW
name: Dedecker, P
name: Whelan, Donna
name: Bell, TDM
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Background: The integrity of microtubule filament networks is essential for the roles in diverse cellular functions, and disruption of its structure or dynamics has been explored as a therapeutic approach to tackle diseases such as cancer. Microtubule-interacting drugs, sometimes referred to as antimitotics, are used in cancer therapy to target and disrupt microtubules. However, due to associated side effects on healthy cells, there is a need to develop safer drug regimens that still retain clinical efficacy. Currently, many questions remain open regarding the extent of effects on cellular physiology of microtubule-interacting drugs at clinically relevant and low doses. Here, we use super-resolution microscopies (single-molecule localization and optical fluctuation based) to reveal the initial microtubule dysfunctions caused by nanomolar concentrations of colcemid. Results: We identify previously undetected microtubule (MT) damage caused by clinically relevant doses of colcemid. Short exposure to 30–80 nM colcemid results in aberrant microtubule curvature, with a trend of increased curvature associated to increased doses, and curvatures greater than 2 rad/μm, a value associated with MT breakage. Microtubule fragmentation was detected upon treatment with ≥ 100 nM colcemid. Remarkably, lower doses (< 20 nM after 5 h) led to subtle but significant microtubule architecture remodelling characterized by increased curvature and suppression of microtubule dynamics. Conclusions: Our results support the emerging hypothesis that microtubule-interacting drugs induce non-mitotic effects in cells, and establish a multi-modal imaging assay for detecting and measuring nanoscale microtubule dysfunction. The sub-diffraction visualization of these less severe precursor perturbations compared to the established antimitotic effects of microtubule-interacting drugs offers potential for improved understanding and design of anticancer agents.
B. F. Skinner's Science and Human Behavior: its antecedents and its consequences
Creators: name: Catania, A. Charles
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2013
Subjects: Behavioral Sciences
Behavior Therapy
Textbooks as Topic
History, 20th Century
Humans
Phylogeny
United States
Animals

description: Skinner's Science and Human Behavior marked a transition from a treatment of behavior that took physics as its reference science to one that emphasized behavior as a fundamental part of the subject matter of biology. The book includes what may be Skinner's earliest statement about the similarity of operant selection to Darwinian natural selection in phylogeny. Other major topics discussed in the book included multiple causation, private events, the self, and social contingencies. Among the important antecedents were Skinner's own Behavior of Organisms and Keller & Schoenfeld's Pincinples of Psychology. Current developments in education, behavioral economics, and some behavior therapies can be attributed at least in part to Skinner's seminal work. The effective behavioral analysis of governmental and religious systems will probably depend on elaborations of our understanding of verbal behavior.
Additional file 1 of Comprehensive chemical profiling of two Dendrobium species and identification of anti-hepatoma active constituents from Dendrobium chrysotoxum by network pharmacology
Creators: name: Jie, Xia
name: Feng, Yin
name: Jiahao, Fang
name: Ganggui, Lou
name: Jiani, Yu
name: Zhongyu, Xu
name: Yuan, Yuan
name: Tinggang, Zhang
name: Xiaodan, Zhang
name: Zongsuo, Liang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified

description: Supplementary Material 1
A new species of Xingxiulong (Dinosauria, Sauropodomorpha) from the lower Jurassic Lufeng formation of Yunnan Province, China
Creators: name: Chen, Xiang-Yuan
name: Wang, Ya-Ming
name: Zhang, Qian-Nan
name: Wang, Tao
name: You, Hai-Lu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: The Lufeng Formation of Lufeng City, Yunnan Province, China, is one of the most important sedimentary units for understanding the evolution of the Early Jurassic sauropodomorph dinosaurs. Here, a new species of the early-diverging sauropodomorph Xingxiulong from the Lower Jurassic Lufeng Formation is erected on the basis of a postcranial skeleton. Xingxiulong yueorum, sp. nov. is distinguished from Xingxiulong chengi by possessing a pendant-shaped fourth trochanter with distal termination, an astragalus with almost straight dorsal margin of the posterior surface, and pedal digit V with two phalanges. A phylogenetic analysis supports the monophyly of genus Xingxiulong. Both the two species of Xingxiulong have four sacral vertebrae, which are typically associated with the late-diverging sauropodiforms and sauropods, suggesting a complex early evolution within the sauropodomorphs. This discovery adds to the diversity of the sauropodomorphs from the Lufeng Formation and contributes to our understanding of the intricate patterns characterising the early evolution of sauropodomorphs in Asia.
The comparison of estimation methods on the parameter estimates and fit indices in SEM model under 7-point Likert scale
Creators: name: Tarka, Piotr
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2017

description: In this article, the author discusses the issues and problems associated with the influence of different estimation methods on the level of obtained parameters and goodness-of-fit of a Structural Equation Model (SEM) in the context of data measured on a 7-point Likert scale. Thus, the objective of the conducted analysis was to compare the selected methods of estimation such as maximum likelihood (ML), maximum likelihood mean adjusted (MLM), maximum likelihood mean-variance adjusted (MLMV), weighted least squares (WLS), weighted least squares mean adjusted (WLSM) and weighted least squares mean-variance adjusted (WLSMV) on the basis of respective parameter statistics, for which the quality of the SEM model fit was assessed. Eventually, among the presented methods, the best estimation procedure was selected. The area of empirical study and the subject of investigation refers to the opinion of consumers about the unethical behavior of companies in the area of marketing.
Nanoscale characterization of drug-induced microtubule filament dysfunction using super-resolution microscopy
Creators: name: Rozario, AM
name: Duwé, S
name: Elliott, C
name: Hargreaves, RB
name: Moseley, GW
name: Dedecker, P
name: Whelan, Donna
name: Bell, TDM
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022

description: Background: The integrity of microtubule filament networks is essential for the roles in diverse cellular functions, and disruption of its structure or dynamics has been explored as a therapeutic approach to tackle diseases such as cancer. Microtubule-interacting drugs, sometimes referred to as antimitotics, are used in cancer therapy to target and disrupt microtubules. However, due to associated side effects on healthy cells, there is a need to develop safer drug regimens that still retain clinical efficacy. Currently, many questions remain open regarding the extent of effects on cellular physiology of microtubule-interacting drugs at clinically relevant and low doses. Here, we use super-resolution microscopies (single-molecule localization and optical fluctuation based) to reveal the initial microtubule dysfunctions caused by nanomolar concentrations of colcemid. Results: We identify previously undetected microtubule (MT) damage caused by clinically relevant doses of colcemid. Short exposure to 30–80 nM colcemid results in aberrant microtubule curvature, with a trend of increased curvature associated to increased doses, and curvatures greater than 2 rad/μm, a value associated with MT breakage. Microtubule fragmentation was detected upon treatment with ≥ 100 nM colcemid. Remarkably, lower doses (< 20 nM after 5 h) led to subtle but significant microtubule architecture remodelling characterized by increased curvature and suppression of microtubule dynamics. Conclusions: Our results support the emerging hypothesis that microtubule-interacting drugs induce non-mitotic effects in cells, and establish a multi-modal imaging assay for detecting and measuring nanoscale microtubule dysfunction. The sub-diffraction visualization of these less severe precursor perturbations compared to the established antimitotic effects of microtubule-interacting drugs offers potential for improved understanding and design of anticancer agents.
Η ύπαρξη διαταραχής χρήσης ουσιών σε ενήλικες με ΔΕΠΥ
Creators: name: Τυμπανίδου Μαρίνα Bασιλείου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2023
Subjects: ΔΕΠΥ
Διαταραχή χρήσης ουσιών
νευροαναπτυξιακή διαταραχή
ADHD
Substance use disorder
Neurodevelopmental disorders

description: Η διαταραχή ελλειμματικής προσοχής υπερκινητικότητας (ADHD), σύμφωνα με την Αμερικανική Ψυχιατρική Εταιρεία (Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. 5th edn, 2013), είναι μια νευροαναπτυξιακή διαταραχή που χαρακτηρίζεται από ένα συνεχές μοτίβο απροσεξίας ή/και υπερκινητικότητας-παρορμητικότητας. Η ΔΕΠ-Υ αρχίζει να είναι μια από τις πιο επικρατούσες διαταραχές τόσο στα παιδιά όσο και στους εφήβους παγκοσμίως (Merikangas et al., 2011). Στην πραγματικότητα, με βάση μια ανασκόπηση που έγινε από τους Polanczyk et al. (2007), η ΔΕΠΥ φαίνεται να επηρεάζει το 5% των ενηλίκων και το 6 έως 9% των παιδιών σε παγκόσμια κλίμακα. Μετά από παρόμοιο υψηλό επιπολασμό, η διαταραχή κατάχρησης ουσιών (SUD) υπολογίζεται ότι εμφανίζεται στο 9% των ενηλίκων από τους οποίους το 6% από αυτούς θεωρείται ότι πληρούν τα κριτήρια για τη διαταραχή κατάχρησης αλκοόλ (Merikangas et al., 2010). Αυτές οι δύο διαταραχές, αν και φαινομενικά άσχετες, έχουν αρχίσει να συσχετίζονται όλο και περισσότερο με βάση επιστημονικές παρατηρήσεις που έγιναν τα τελευταία χρόνια. Σύμφωνα με τους King et al. (1999), τα άτομα με ΔΕΠΥ αποδεικνύεται ότι είναι δύο φορές πιο επιρρεπή να αναπτύξουν διαταραχή κατάχρησης ουσιών καθώς και νωρίτερα εμφάνιση χρόνιου πόνου σε σύγκριση με ενήλικες που δεν έχουν διαγνωστεί με ΔΕΠΥ. Επειδή πρόκειται για ένα αυξανόμενο πιεστικό ζήτημα, αυτή η μελέτη θα προσπαθήσει να εξετάσει τη συσχέτιση μεταξύ της ΔΕΠΥ και του SUD μέσω μιας βιβλιογραφικής ανασκόπησης και περαιτέρω το εύρος αυτού του θέματος
description: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to the American Psychiatric Association (Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. 5th edn, 2013), is a neurodevelopmental disorder that is characterized by a continual pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity. ADHD is starting to be one of the most prevailing disorders in both children and adolescents worldwide (Merikangas et al., 2011). In fact, based on a review done by Polanczyk et al. (2007), ADHD is seen to be affecting 5% of adults and 6 to 9% of children in global scale. Following a similar high prevalence, substance abuse disorder (SUD) is approximated to be presented in 9% of adults from which 6% of them is seen to meet the criteria for alcohol abuse disorder (Merikangas et al., 2010). These two disorders, although seemingly unrelated, have been starting to be correlated more and more based on scientific observations done in recent years. According to King et al. (1999), people with ADHD are shown to be twice as prone to develop a substance abuse disorder as well as earlier onset of chronic pain compared to adults not diagnosed with ADHD. This being a rising pressing issue, this study will try to examine the correlation between ADHD, and SUD through a bibliographic review and further the scope of this matter
Remembering Nat Schoenfeld
Creators: name: Catania, A. Charles
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2017

description: William Nathan Schoenfeld was born in New York City on December 6, 1915, and died in Sun City West, Arizona, on August 3, 1996. He was an undergraduate at the College of the City of New York, where he received a BS degree in 1937. He received his PhD from Columbia University in 1942 and then continued there as a faculty member, advancing from lecturer to full professor. In 1966 he moved to Queens College of the City University of New York, where he remained until his retirement in 1983. During his nyears at Queens, he also took on visiting appointments in Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela. In retirement, he spent roughly a decade in Israel, where he occasionally taught as a visiting professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He returned to the United States for his final years. He is survived by his wife, Melanie, their three children, Rivka, Joshua and Naomi, and a son, Mark, from a previous marriage.
INFORMATION, COGNITION AND BEHAVIOR: TELLING WHAT THEY WANT TO HEAR Book Review of Giere on Scientific Cognition
Creators: name: Catania, A. Charles
Publisher: name: Psycoloquy
Year: 1994

description: My review of Giere's Cognitive Models of Science (1992) is written from the standpoint of contemporary behavior analysis. Science is an activity, so what we know about behavior should be relevant to it. Yet cognitive approaches do not take facts about behavior into account. The themes I consider include the limitations of language, the ambiguity of knowledge structures, and some implications of information processing. For example, cognitive theories of information processing fail to deal with the finding that organisms do not work to produce information per se; they only work to produce information correlated with reinforcing events. Cognitive models of science have little to say about those major scientific innovations, obvious in retrospect, that were slow to be accepted because their content was not what people wanted to hear.
Molar crown morphometrics in Paucituberculata (Mammalia: Marsupialia)
Creators: name: Scarlino, Jazmin
name: Toledo, Néstor
name: Abello, María Alejandra
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: The Paucituberculata are a group of marsupials endemic to South America, recorded from the Early Eocene to the present. In terms of taxonomy and qualitative morphology, paucituberculatans are a quite diverse and disparate group, especially considering their extinct representatives. This study aimed to investigate the variability in the quantitative morphology of paucituberculatans in the context of the largest morphometric study of the group performed to date. Due to the fragmentary fossil record, this work focused on lower dental morphology which allowed us to compare around 95% of paucituberculatan species through the measurement and analysis of almost 1500 specimens. Dental measurements of 27 variables were analysed by Principal Component Analysis and Partial Least Squares correlation as exploratory methods. As a result, it is shown that the continuous variability is expressed not only in size differences among species but also in morphological variability of individual teeth, and differences in size and proportions along the molar row. We conclude that paucituberculatans are a group of important morphological diversity regarding quantitative morphology. Many of the quantitative taxonomic features discussed in the literature were corroborated in this study. In addition, we discussed potential evolutionary and palaeoecological implications of this study, highlighting prospects for future studies.
Delineating the Relationships Between Motor, Cognitive-Executive and Psychiatric Symptoms in Female FMR1 Premutation Carriers
Creators: name: Hocking, Darren
name: Loesch-Mdzewska, Danuta
name: Stimpson, P
name: Tassone, F
name: Atkinson, Anna
name: Storey, E
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences
classificationCode: 3202
subject: Clinical sciences

description: Introduction: Premutation expansions (55–200 CGG repeats) of the Fragile X Mental Retardation 1 (FMR1) gene on the X chromosome are associated with a range of clinical features. Apart from the most severe - Fragile X-Associated Tremor/Ataxia Syndrome (FXTAS) - where the most typical white matter changes affect cerebellar peduncles, more subtle changes may include impairment of executive functioning, affective disorders and/or subtle motor changes. Here we aimed to examine whether performance in selected components of executive functioning is associated with subclinical psychiatric symptoms in non-FXTAS, adult females carrying the FMR1 premutation. Methods and Sample: A total of 47 female premutation carriers (sub-symptomatic for FXTAS) of wide age range (26–77 years; M = 50.3; SD = 10.9) were assessed using standard neuropsychological tests, three motor rating scales and self-reported measures of psychiatric symptoms using the Symptom Checklist-90-Revised (SCL-90-R). Results: After adjusting for age and educational level where appropriate, both non-verbal reasoning and response inhibition as assessed on the Stroop task (i.e., the ability to resolve cognitive interference) were associated with a range of primary psychiatric symptom dimensions, and response inhibition uniquely predicted some primary symptoms and global psychiatric features. Importantly, lower scores (worse performance) in response inhibition were also strongly correlated with higher (worse) scores on standard motor rating scales for tremor-ataxia and for parkinsonism. Conclusion: These results provide evidence for the importance of response inhibition in the manifestation of psychiatric symptoms and subtle tremor-ataxia motor features, suggestive of the presence of early cerebellar changes in female premutation carriers.
A new species of Nabidae (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Cimicomorpha) from Dominican amber
Creators: name: Ma, Yannan
name: Du, Sile
name: Ren, Dong
name: Yao, Yunzhi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: A new species Arachnocoris furtivinabis Ma, Du et Yao sp. nov. is described and illustrated, which represents the first fossil record of Arachnocoris, also the first record in the family Nabidae from Cenozoic Dominican amber. Based on the distinctive morphological characters in this new species, including antennomere II much shorter than twice of antennomere I, labial segment III slightly longer than segment II, and parameres round, it is differentiated from other species within Arachnocoris. Compared with the spider-webdwelling taxa of the extant and extinct species in Heteroptera, the evolution of predation strategies for this special group during the Miocene was discussed.
Three Types of Selection and Three Centuries
Creators: name: Catania, A. Charles
Publisher: name: International Journal of Psychology and Psychological Therapy
Year: 2001

description: This presentation considers the concept of natural selection as it applies to the behavioral and biological sciences in three centuries. The nineteenth century provided Darwin’s application of natural selection to the evolution of species. The twentieth century saw the extension of this principle to behavior within the lifetime of the individual organism in ontogenic selection, as in Skinner’s analysis of operant behavior. It follows from ontogenic selection that a third level of selection must operate whenever behavior can be passed on from one individual to another. This occurs to some extent in imitation and observational learning, but its most obvious development is in human language. This level of selection has been called cultural selection, and its implications and applications are ripe for analysis. Accounts in terms of the other varieties of selection have met resistance in their centuries and continue to meet resistance today. A reasonable prediction is that the significance of ontogenic selection will at last be fully recognized and the scope and implications of cultural selection will begin to be tested in the twenty-first century.
FROM BEHAVIOR TO BRAIN AND BACK AGAIN Book Review of Orbach on Lashley-Hebb
Creators: name: Catania, A. Charles
Publisher: name: American Psychological Association
Year: 2000

description: Orbach's examination of the work of Lashley and Hebb is of great historical interest, but it illustrates a vast gap, both past and present, between research on the nervous system and research on behavior. Grand strides in the neurosciences have taken place with insufficient attention to the behavior of the organisms that are the hosts of nervous systems. In the final analysis, nervous systems are selected by evolutionary contingencies on the basis of the behavior that they engender. If we fail to understand the behavior, we will probably also fail to understand how the brain serves it. As we move away from the Decade of the Brain into the Decade of Behavior, those unfamiliar with the properties of behavior will be at a disadvantage when they seek its sources in the brain, because they will not know what they should be looking for. Lashley was on the right track when he used the properties of serial order in behavior to make inferences about the nervous system, but too often both Lashley and Hebb speculated about the nervous system without firm grounding in what was even then known about learning and behavior. We now know much more, and neuroscience and the science of behavior have each reached a point at which a modern synthesis holds great promise.
Assessment of plant diversity and foliar chemistry on the Sri Lankan ultramafics reveals inconsistencies in the metal hyperaccumulator trait
Creators: name: Fernando, Denise
name: van der Ent, A
name: Weerasinghe, AS
name: Wijesundara, DSA
name: Fernando, GWAR
name: Fernando, AE
name: Iqbal, MCM
name: Miranda, CH
name: Gosse, JM
name: Samithri, S
name: Rajakaruna, N
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 310899
subject: Plant biology not elsewhere classified

description: Some of the largest expanses of ultramafic soils occur in South Asia, but knowledge of the plant diversity and biogeochemistry of these systems in Sri Lanka is very limited. This study aimed to assess the plant diversity and bedrock and foliar chemistry of all known Sri Lankan ultramafic outcrops. The field survey yielded a total of 132 plant taxa from 44 families. The enigmatic nickel hyperaccumulator Rinorea bengalensis (Violaceae), first reported in Sri Lanka over four decades ago, was rediscovered at a newly surveyed ultramafic site, however, it did not hyperaccumulate nickel. No new metal hyperaccumulator plants were identified, suggesting that R. bengalensis is a facultative nickel hyperaccumulator. This study is the first to highlight the floristic diversity of all known Sri Lankan ultramafic outcrops while revealing the facultative nature of nickel and copper hyperaccumulation among some of Sri Lanka's ultramafic plants.
Strongly Regular Differential Variational Systems
Creators: name: Pang, Jong-Shi
name: Shen, Jinglai
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Complementarity systems
subject: Differential equations
subject: differential variational inequalities (DVIs)
subject: hybrid systems
subject: Mathematical model
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: observability
subject: Observability
subject: Page description languages
subject: Sufficient conditions
subject: Surges
subject: Switches
subject: Systems engineering and theory
subject: Zeno behavior

description: A differential variational system is defined by an ordinary differential equation (ODE) parameterized by an algebraic variable that is required to be a solution of a finite-dimensional variational inequality containing the state variable of the system. This paper addresses two system-theoretic topics for such a nontraditional nonsmooth dynamical system; namely, (non-)Zenoness and local observability of a given state satisfying a blanket strong regularity condition. For the former topic, which is of contemporary interest in the study of hybrid systems, we extend the results in our previous paper, where we have studied Zeno states and switching times in a linear complementarity system (LCS). As a special case of the differential variational inequality (DVI), the LCS consists of a linear, time-invariant ODE and a linear complementarity problem. The extension to a nonlinear complementarity system (NCS) with analytic inputs turns out to be non-trivial as we need to use the Lie derivatives of analytic functions in order to arrive at an expansion of the solution trajectory near a given state. Further extension to a differential variational inequality is obtained via its equivalent Karush-Kuhn-Tucker formulation. For the second topic, which is classical in system theory, we use the non-Zenoness result and the recent results in a previous paper pertaining to the B-differentiability of the solution operator of a nonsmooth ODE to obtain a sufficient condition for the short-time local observability of a given strongly regular state of an NCS. Refined sufficient conditions and necessary conditions for local observability of the LCS satisfying the P-property are obtained
Additional file 1 of Genomic and transcriptional characterization of early esophageal squamous cell carcinoma
Creators: name: Zhao, Jingjing
name: Jia, Xiya
name: Li, Qiaojuan
name: Zhang, Hena
name: Wang, Jianjun
name: Huang, Shenglin
name: Hu, Zhixiang
name: Li, Caiping
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. The 8p11.23 amplification impacted the transcriptome.
Metabolic potential of epichloë endophytes for host grass fungal disease resistance
Creators: name: Fernando, K
name: Reddy, Priyanka
name: Spangenberg, German
name: Rochfort, Simone
name: Guthridge, KM
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 310799
subject: Microbiology not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 310899
subject: Plant biology not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 300499
subject: Crop and pasture production not elsewhere classified

description: Asexual species of the genus Epichloë (Clavicipitaceae, Ascomycota) form endosymbiotic associations with Pooidae grasses. This association is important both ecologically and to the pasture and turf industries, as the endophytic fungi confer a multitude of benefits to their host plant that improve competitive ability and performance such as growth promotion, abiotic stress tolerance, pest deterrence and increased host disease resistance. Biotic stress tolerance conferred by the production of bioprotective metabolites has a critical role in an industry context. While the known antimammalian and insecticidal toxins are well characterized due to their impact on livestock welfare, antimicrobial metabolites are less studied. Both pasture and turf grasses are challenged by many phytopathogenic diseases that result in significant economic losses and impact livestock health. Further investigations of Epichloë endophytes as natural biocontrol agents can be conducted on strains that are safe for animals. With the additional benefits of possessing host disease resistance, these strains would increase their commercial importance. Field reports have indicated that pasture grasses associated with Epichloë endophytes are superior in resisting fungal pathogens. However, only a few antifungal compounds have been identified and chemically characterized, and these from sexual (pathogenic) Epichloë species, rather than those utilized to enhance performance in turf and pasture industries. This review provides insight into the various strategies reported in identifying antifungal activity from Epichloë endophytes and, where described, the associated antifungal metabolites responsible for the activity.
Conewise Linear Systems: Non?Zenoness and Observability
Creators: name: Camlibel, M. Kanat
name: Pang, Jong?Shi
name: Shen, Jinglai
Publisher: name: SIAM
Year: 2006

description: A linear complementarity system (LCS) is a hybrid dynamical system defined by a linear time-invariant ordinary differential equation coupled with a finite-dimensional linear complementarity problem (LCP). The present paper is the first of several papers whose goal is to study some fundamental issues associated with an LCS. Specifically, this paper addresses the issue of Zeno states and the related issue of finite number of mode switches in such a system. The cornerstone of our study is an expansion of a solution trajectory to the LCS near a given state in terms of an observability degree of the state. On the basis of this expansion and an inductive argument, we establish that an LCS satisfying the P-property has no strongly Zeno states. We next extend the analysis for such an LCS to a broader class of problems and provide sufficient conditions for a given state to be weakly non-Zeno. While related mode-switch results have been proved by Brunovsky and Sussmann for more general hybrid systems, our analysis exploits the special structure of the LCS and yields new results for the latter that are of independent interest and complement those by these two and other authors.
Effects of symbiotic and vitamin E supplementation on blood pressure, nitric oxide and inflammatory factors in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Creators: name: Ekhlasi, Golnaz
name: Zarrati, Mitra
name: Agah, Shahram
name: Hosseini, Agha Fatemeh
name: Hosseini, Sharieh
name: Shidfar, Shahrzad
name: Soltani Aarbshahi, Seyed Soroush
name: Razmpoosh, Elham
name: Shidfar, Farzad
Publisher: name: IfADo - Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund
Year: 2017
Subjects: symbiotic
alpha-tocopherol
blood pressure
nitric oxide
NAFLD

description: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has been suggested to be well correlated with altered blood pressure. This study was conducted to determine the effects of symbiotic and vitamin E supplementation on blood pressure and inflammatory indices of patients with NAFLD. This randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial was performed among 60 NAFLD patients aged 25 to 64 years old. Participants were randomly divided into four groups to receive a 400 IU alpha-tocopherol and 2 × 108 CFU/g symbiotic supplement for 8 weeks. The anthropometric parameters, systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP), serum malondialdehyde (MDA), nitric oxide (NO) and tumor necrosis factor α (TNFα) were assessed at baseline and after 8 weeks of intervention. After 8 weeks of intervention, combined symbiotic and alpha-tocopherol, symbiotic and alpha-tocopherol alone administration, compared with the placebo, resulted in significant decreases in SBP (-17.07±2.1, -16.07±3.56, -1.73±2.25 and -1.55±3.01 mmHg, P=0.01), serum MDA (-1.19±0.5, -0.12±0.65, 0.14 ± 0.64 and 0.16±0.34 nmol/mL, P
description: EXCLI Journal; 16:Doc278; ISSN 1611-2156
Additional file 2 of Nanopore adaptive sampling for targeted mitochondrial genome sequencing and bloodmeal identification in hematophagous insects
Creators: name: Kipp, Evan J.
name: Lindsey, Laramie L.
name: Milstein, Marissa S.
name: Blanco, Cristina M.
name: Baker, Julia P.
name: Faulk, Christopher
name: Oliver, Jonathan D.
name: Larsen, Peter A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Zoology

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Genbank accession numbers that were included in the reference FASTA file used during NAS sequencing runs. Experiment A included the only publically available representative of the genus Chrysops (C. silvifacies), a species that is not native to the study region of North America; various potential vertebrate hosts and a whole genome assembly for the bacterial pathogen Francisella tularensis were also included as enrichment references. Experiment B contained related mosquito species, an assortment of possible bird and mammal blood meals and possible pathogen targets of interest. Experiment E contained closely related vector species and possible bird, mammal, reptile and amphibian blood meals. Experiment C is not included in this table as we used the NCBI RefSeq download for the entire mitochondrial genome database provided by NCBI ( https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/refseq/release/mitochondrion/ ; accessed 16 Sept 2021).
Verbal Governance, Verbal Shaping, and Attention to Verbal Stimuli
Creators: name: Catania, A. Charles
Publisher: name: Springer
Year: 2003

description: Whence comes the power of words? Citizens of purportedly civilized nations have come under the sway of the rhetoric of demagogues. Soldiers have killed and been killed following the orders of military superiors. Leaders of some religious sects have put people to death for utterances labeled blasphemous or heretical. Leaders of others have taken their own and their followers’ lives with words of salvation on their lips. Yet were my next words to promise you immortality in good health and prosperity in a world of intellectual challenge, amusement, and good fellowship, asking nothing more in return than a portion of your current worldly goods, I doubt you would take up my offer. Some in our culture, however, do give things over to or do things for those who say they guarantee eternal bliss in exchange. Why are so many so susceptible to such verbal behavior?
Resilient Stabilization of Switched Linear Control Systems Against Adversarial Switching
Creators: name: Hu, Jianghai
name: Shen, Jinglai
name: Lee, Donghwan
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2017
Subjects: Linear systems
Measurement
Networked control systems
Optimal control
Resilient systems
robustness
Robustness
stabilization
switched control systems
Switches

description: This paper studies the problem of stabilizing discrete-time switched linear control systems (SLCSs) using continuous input by a user against adversarial switching by an adversary. It is assumed that at each time the adversary knows the user's decision on the continuous input but not vice versa. A quantitative metric of stabilizability is proposed. Systems at the margin of stabilizability are further classified and studied via the notions of defectiveness and reducibility. Analytical bounds on the stabilizability metric are derived using (semi)norms, with tight bounds provided by extremal norms. Numerical algorithms are also developed for computing this metric. An application example in networked control systems is presented.
Enhancement of Social Communication Behaviors in Young Children With Autism Affects Maternal Stress
Creators: name: Laister, D
name: Vivanti, Giacomo
name: Marschik, PB
name: Fellinger, J
name: Holzinger, D
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences
classificationCode: 3202
subject: Clinical sciences

description: Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) show difficulties in social communication behaviors, emotion regulation and daily living skills, and they frequently present with challenging behaviors. In parents of children with ASD, higher rates of stress and mental health problems have been reported than in parents of either typically developing children or children with other conditions. In this study, we tested whether maternal well-being changes with improved social communicative behaviors of children with ASD receiving early intervention. We examined developmental changes in 72 pre-schoolers and stress levels in their mothers (measured by the Parental Stress Inventory) before and after a 12-month community-based intervention program based on the Early Start Denver Model, a naturalistic developmental behavioral intervention targeting social communication. Multiple regression analyses showed that maternal child-related stress was predicted by changes in children's social communication behaviors (measured with the Pervasive Developmental Disorder Behavior Inventory). Gains in the early social communication behavior domain were the strongest predictor of post-intervention child-related maternal stress, surpassing adaptive behavior, language and non-verbal cognitive gains, and reduction in challenging behavior. These findings support the hypothesis that, in children with ASD, the acquisition of social communication behaviors contribute to improvements in maternal well-being.