cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Epinephelus costae
Creators: name: Bariche, Michel
name: Fricke, Ronald
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Serranidae
Epinephelus
Epinephelus costae

description: Epinephelus costae (Steindachner 1878) —Goldblotch grouper
Taxonomy. First record from Lebanon as Epinephelus alexandrinus, C.V. by Gruvel (1931: 100); subsequently recorded as Epinephelus alexandrinus (Valenciennes 1828) by George et al. (1964: 17); as Epinephelus alexandrinus (Valenciennes) by Mouneimné (1977: 62); as Epinephelus alexandrinus (Valenciennes 1828) by Mouneimné (2002: 132); recently recorded as Epinephelus costae by Harmelin-Vivien et al. (2005: 629). Material in collection: AUBM, BMNH and USNM (as E. alexandrinus).
Distribution. Mediterranean Sea, eastern Atlantic: Galicia (Spain) south to Angola, including Canary and Cape Verde Islands.
Conservation. IUCN: Global (DD: 17 November 2016); Med. (DD: 1 January 2008). Capture and threats: FIT, Unknown. Occurrence: Common. Significant decline in the last two decades. High priority for conservation action.
description: Published as part of Bariche, Michel & Fricke, Ronald, 2020, The marine ichthyofauna of Lebanon: an annotated checklist, history, biogeography, and conservation status, pp. 1-157 in Zootaxa 4775 (1) on page 87, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4775.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3983887
Magnetic-Properties of Metaperidotitic Rocks as a Function of Metamorphic Grade: Implications for Crustal Magnetic-Anomalies, The
Creators: name: Shive, P. N.
name: Frost, B. R.
name: Peretti, A.
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming. Libraries
Year: 1988
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Seventeen samples from the Malenco serpentinite in the Swiss Alps, representing systematic prograde metamorphic conditions from prehnite-pumpellyite to upper amphibolite, are moderately to strongly magnetic (average susceptibility of 6.61 × 10−2 SI units) due predominantly to the presence of a magnetite-rich spinel. Some greenschist facies samples contain the metal alloy awaruite (Ni3Fe); these contain in addition much greater amounts of magnetite. Small amounts of pyrrhotite in about half the samples complete the contributions to the total magnetization. Susceptibilities generally decrease with increasing metamorphic grade because of the production of increasing amounts of chromerich spinel which dilutes the magnetite component. These results indicate that significant magnetic anomalies should be generated in suture zones containing metamorphosed serpentinite and in areas where serpentinite is being actively subducted. Meeting abstract of "Microbial Fuel Cell Study of the Role of OMCA and MTRC in Electron Transfer from Shewanella Oneidensis to Oxide Electrodes," 2010, Earth, Energy, and the Environment.
Sounds like a fight: listeners can infer behavioural contexts from spontaneous nonverbal vocalisations
Creators: name: Kamiloğlu, Roza G.
name: Sauter, Disa A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: When we hear another person laugh or scream, can we tell the kind of situation they are in – for example, whether they are playing or fighting? Nonverbal expressions are theorised to vary systematically across behavioural contexts. Perceivers might be sensitive to these putative systematic mappings and thereby correctly infer contexts from others’ vocalisations. Here, in two pre-registered experiments, we test the prediction that listeners can accurately deduce production contexts (e.g. being tickled, discovering threat) from spontaneous nonverbal vocalisations, like sighs and grunts. In Experiment 1, listeners (total n = 3120) matched 200 nonverbal vocalisations to one of 10 contexts using yes/no response options. Using signal detection analysis, we show that listeners were accurate at matching vocalisations to nine of the contexts. In Experiment 2, listeners (n = 337) categorised the production contexts by selecting from 10 response options in a forced-choice task. By analysing unbiased hit rates, we show that participants categorised all 10 contexts at better-than-chance levels. Together, these results demonstrate that perceivers can infer contexts from nonverbal vocalisations at rates that exceed that of random selection, suggesting that listeners are sensitive to systematic mappings between acoustic structures in vocalisations and behavioural contexts.
The interpersonal effects of emotional expressions with both and single valences on work-related satisfaction: an examination of emotions and perceived openness as mediators
Creators: name: Tsai, Ming-Hong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Work-related satisfaction has critical benefits. To predict work-related satisfaction, we investigated how a counterpart’s expressions of emotional complexity (both positive and negative emotions), positive emotions, and negative emotions influenced a perceiver’s work-related satisfaction during discussions over different work-relevant ideas. We conducted a three-wave coworker survey (N = 529) and an experiment with a confederate as a task partner (N = 378). The results consistently showed significant positive impacts of a counterpart’s emotional complexity and positive emotion expressions on a perceiver’s work-related satisfaction by enhancing the perceiver’s positive emotions and evaluation of the counterpart’s openness. Conversely, a counterpart’s negative emotion expression significantly decreased a perceiver’s work-related satisfaction by reducing perceived counterpart openness. We also did not find a perceiver’s negative emotion as a significant mediator of the associations between the three emotional expressions and work-related satisfaction. Therefore, our investigation highlights similar positive effects of emotional complexity and positive emotion expressions and suggests that an expression of both positive and negative emotions promotes satisfaction by enhancing positive emotions and openness perception.
Broad attention does not buffer the impact of emotionally salient stimuli on performance
Creators: name: Goodhew, Stephanie C.
name: Edwards, Mark
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: It has been claimed that a broad attentional breadth buffers the impact of negative stimuli on human perception and cognition. Here we identify issues with the research on which this claim is based, and then rigorously test the claim. To induce narrow versus broad attentional breadth participants attended to the local versus global elements of Navon stimuli, and to investigate the impact of emotionally salient stimuli on performance we measured the effect of task-irrelevant stimuli of varying emotional salience (negative, neutral, or positive) on task performance. Across a series of experiments, we found that the Navon stimuli were effective in inducing different attentional breadths, and that both negative and positive task-irrelevant stimuli slowed responses relative to neutral stimuli, but that the magnitude of this emotion-induced slowing was invariant to whether attentional breadth was broad or narrow. This indicates that a broad attentional breadth did not buffer against the effect of either negative or positive emotionally salient stimuli. These results challenge the claim the broadening attentional breadth protects against the impact of emotionally salient stimuli.
Electrophysiological representations of multivariate human emotion experience
Creators: name: Liu, Jin
name: Hu, Xin
name: Shen, Xinke
name: Song, Sen
name: Zhang, Dan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: Neuroscience
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy
Mental Health

description: Despite the fact that human daily emotions are co-occurring by nature, most neuroscience studies have primarily adopted a univariate approach to identify the neural representation of emotion (emotion experience within a single emotion category) without adequate consideration of the co-occurrence of different emotions (emotion experience across different emotion categories simultaneously). To investigate the neural representations of multivariate emotion experience, this study employed the inter-situation representational similarity analysis (RSA) method. Researchers used an EEG dataset of 78 participants who watched 28 video clips and rated their experience on eight emotion categories. The EEG-based electrophysiological representation was extracted as the power spectral density (PSD) feature per channel in the five frequency bands. The inter-situation RSA method revealed significant correlations between the multivariate emotion experience ratings and PSD features in the Alpha and Beta bands, primarily over the frontal and parietal-occipital brain regions. The study found the identified EEG representations to be reliable with sufficient situations and participants. Moreover, through a series of ablation analyses, the inter-situation RSA further demonstrated the stability and specificity of the EEG representations for multivariate emotion experience. These findings highlight the importance of adopting a multivariate perspective for a comprehensive understanding of the neural representation of human emotion experience.
What is it about your face that tells me what you want from me? Emotional appeals are associated with specific mental images
Creators: name: Hess, Ursula
name: Hareli, Shlomo
name: Scarantino, Andrea
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Emotional facial expressions have a communicative function. Besides information about the internal states (emotions) and the intentions of the expresser (action tendencies), they also communicate what the expresser wants the observer to do (appeals). Yet, there is very little research on the association of appeals with specific emotions. The present study has the aim to study the mental association of appeals and expressions through reverse correlation. Using reverse correlation, we estimated the observer-specific internal representations of expressions associated with four different appeals. A second group of participants rated the resulting expressions. As predicted, we found that the appeal to celebrate was uniquely associated with a happy expression and the appeal to empathize with a sad expression. A pleading appeal to stop was more strongly associated with sadness than with anger, whereas a command to stop was comparatively more strongly associated with anger. The results show that observers internally represent appeals as specific emotional expressions.
Safety and efficiency for high-dimensional robots: integrating learning, planning and control
Creators: name: Tangirala, Sumanth
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2024

description: In this thesis, I tackle two pivotal challenges in robotics: enhancing safety control via regions of attraction (RoA) estimation and boosting the computational efficiency of motion planning for robots with complex dynamics. The first segment of my work contributes to a novel approach named MORALS (Morse graph-aided discovery of Regions of Attraction in a learned Latent Space). By employing autoencoding neural networks in tandem with Morse Graphs, MORALS adeptly maps the dynamics of controlled systems into a learned latent space. This allows for the efficient and effective estimation of attractors and their RoAs, markedly improving data efficiency in estimating RoAs for complex systems without relying on analytical models. My contribution to MORALS centered on developing and training a data-driven controller for a 67-dimensional humanoid robot, integrating a novel contrastive loss component. This addition crucially underscored the importance—or lack thereof—of labeled data in our approach. The thesis's second portion is a collaboration focused on refining the computational efficiency of motion planning through a novel, decoupled strategy that marries system-specific learned controllers with an innovative data structure termed the "Roadmap with Gaps." My role involved training offline controllers for quadrotors using the Soft Actor-Critic (SAC) algorithm enhanced with Hindsight Experience Replay (HER) and devising comparison strategies leveraging Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL). This hybrid structure facilitates efficient planning by connecting local regions through the application of learned control policies, while a tree sampling-based motion planner dynamically adjusts to gaps and obstacles. Tested across various benchmarks, including physics-based vehicular models and quadrotors, this approach demonstrated marked improvements in planning efficiency and enhanced robustness in the face of environmental uncertainties. Collectively, this thesis contributes to the field of robotics by providing methodologies that enhance both the safety of control systems through data-efficient RoA estimation and the efficiency of motion planning in environments with complex dynamics. Integrating Morse Graphs with learned latent spaces and the innovative use of learned controllers within a motion planning framework represent significant steps in developing autonomous robotic systems capable of navigating and operating safely and efficiently in high-dimensional and dynamically challenging environments.
Epinephelus aeneus
Creators: name: Bariche, Michel
name: Fricke, Ronald
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Serranidae
Epinephelus
Epinephelus aeneus

description: Epinephelus aeneus (Geoffroy St. Hilaire 1817) —White grouper
Taxonomy. First record from Lebanon as Epinephelus oeneus, C.V. by Gruvel (1931: 100); subsequently recorded as Epinephelus aeneus (Geoffroy St. Hilaire 1809) by George et al. (1964: 17); as Epinephelus aeneus (Geoffroy St Hil.) by Mouneimné (1977: 62); as Epinephelus aeneus (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1817) by Mouneimné (2002: 131–132); recently recorded as Epinephelus aeneus by Harmelin-Vivien et al. (2005: 629). Material in collection: AUBM, AMNH, BMNH and USNM.
Distribution. Mediterranean Sea, Sea of Marmara, eastern Atlantic: Portugal and Morocco south to Angola, including Cape Verde Islands and islands of the Gulf of Guinea.
Conservation. IUCN: Global (NT:A2bd, 18 November 2016); Med. (NT: 1 January 2008). Capture and threats: FIT, Unknown. Occurrence: Rare. Significant decline in the last two decades. High priority for conservation action.
description: Published as part of Bariche, Michel & Fricke, Ronald, 2020, The marine ichthyofauna of Lebanon: an annotated checklist, history, biogeography, and conservation status, pp. 1-157 in Zootaxa 4775 (1) on page 87, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4775.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3983887
A Bayesian model of the jumping-to-conclusions bias and its relationship to psychopathology
Creators: name: Tan, Nicole
name: Shou, Yiyun
name: Chen, Junwen
name: Christensen, Bruce K.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: The mechanisms by which delusion and anxiety affect the tendency to make hasty decisions (Jumping-to-Conclusions bias) remain unclear. This paper proposes a Bayesian computational model that explores the assignment of evidence weights as a potential explanation of the Jumping-to-Conclusions bias using the Beads Task. We also investigate the Beads Task as a repeated measure by varying the key aspects of the paradigm. The Bayesian model estimations from two online studies showed that higher delusional ideation promoted reduced belief updating but the impact of general and social anxiety on evidence weighting was inconsistent. The altered evidence weighting as a result of a psychopathological trait appeared insufficient in contributing to the Jumping-to-Conclusions bias. Variations in Beads Task aspects significantly affected subjective certainty at the point of decisions but not the number of draws to decisions. Repetitions of the Beads Task are feasible if one assesses the Jumping-to-Conclusions bias using number of draws to decisions.
Mycteroperca rubra
Creators: name: Bariche, Michel
name: Fricke, Ronald
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Serranidae
Mycteroperca
Mycteroperca rubra

description: Mycteroperca rubra (Bloch 1793) —Mottled grouper
Taxonomy. First record from Lebanon as Mycteroperca rubra (Bloch 1793) by George et al. (1964: 17); subsequently recorded as Mycteroperca rubra (Bloch) by Mouneimné (1977: 62); as Mycteroperca rubra (Bloch 1793) by Mouneimné (2002: 134–135); recently recorded as Mycteroperca rubra by Harmelin-Vivien et al. (2005: 629); as Mycteroperca rubra by Fanelli et al. (2015: 2169); and Aguillar et al. (2018: 82). Material in collection: ANSP, AUBM, BMNH and USNM.
Distribution. Mediterranean Sea, eastern Atlantic: Portugal to southern Angola.
Conservation. IUCN: Global (LC: 22 November 2016); Med. (LC: 1 January 2008). Capture and threats: FIT, Unknown. Occurrence: Common. Significant decline in the last two decades. Medium priority for conservation action.
description: Published as part of Bariche, Michel & Fricke, Ronald, 2020, The marine ichthyofauna of Lebanon: an annotated checklist, history, biogeography, and conservation status, pp. 1-157 in Zootaxa 4775 (1) on page 88, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4775.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3983887
Age-related disgust responses to signs of disease
Creators: name: Walters, Jared
name: Occhipinti, Stefano
name: Duffy, Amanda L.
name: Scrafton, Sharon
name: Tapp, Caley
name: Oaten, Megan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Previous studies found similarities in adults’ disgust responses to benign (e.g. obesity) and actual disease signs (e.g. influenza). However, limited research has compared visual (i.e. benign and actual) to cognitive (i.e. disease label) disease cues in different age groups. The current study investigated disgust responses across middle childhood (7–9 years), late childhood (10–12 years), adolescence (13–17 years), and adulthood (18+ years). Participants viewed individuals representing a benign visual disease (obese), sick-looking (staphylococcus), sick-label (cold/flu), and healthy condition. Disgust-related outcomes were: (1) avoidance, or contact level with apparel the individual was said to have worn, (2) disgust facial reactions, and (3) a combination of (1) and (2). Avoidance was greater for the sick-looking and sick-label than the healthy and obese conditions. For facial reaction and combination outcomes, middle childhood participants responded with greater disgust to the sick-looking than the healthy condition, while late childhood participants expressed stronger disgust towards the sick-looking and obese conditions than the healthy condition. Adolescents and adults exhibited stronger disgust towards sick-label and sick-looking than obese and healthy conditions. Results suggest visual cues are central to children’s disgust responses whereas adolescents and adult responses considered cognitive cues.
title: Feedback Matters
title: a Study of the Learning of Practicing Principals Regarding Formative Feedback for Instructional Improvement
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Perez, Pete
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2022

description: Positive learning experiences and achievement for students are significantly skewed to the knowledge, level of skill, and disposition of the classroom teacher (e.g., Darling-Hammond, 2000; Rockoff, 2004). Ensuring teachers have professional learning experiences that develop their knowledge, skills, and dispositions is critical. This research project aims to bring to light the learning and practice of principals who engage in formative feedback for teacher instructional practice improvement. Additionally, deepening the understanding of how principals navigate obstacles in providing formative feedback. The data for this qualitative project was collected through 13 semi-structured interviews and 3 follow-up interviews with principals identified as highly skilled in formative feedback practices. The purposive sample was selected by experienced principal supervisors in the three participating school districts.
description: Findings include insights into principals’ learning through interconnectivity with practicing principals and principals’ learning through job-imbedded experiences. Additional findings include a description of the methods these principals implement to overcome challenges to providing formative feedback. This description includes insights into fostering a sense of community, prioritizing their time to be in classrooms, intentionally disconnecting formative feedback practices from the formal evaluation process, and increasing opportunities for teachers to be in a state of “Flow”. Other themes include how principals’ increase teacher receptivity to formative feedback for instructional improvement by focusing on and considering the needs of staff, creating a thorough line of goals from the teacher to the building to the district and finally a shared understanding of instructional expectations.
description: Policies and practices that impact principal preparation programs, teacher evaluation systems, and support for practicing principals by state associations and school districts can be influenced and improved through consideration of the findings in this study. There is limited research on formative feedback practices. Most research does not differentiate between evaluative feedback and formative feedback. There is a need for research that focuses on teacher growth through a principal’s instructional leadership work with formative feedback. This study contributes to that. Additionally, a replicated version of the current study is recommended with sample participants being novice principals, perhaps those in their first 3 years of the principalship.
title: Incorporating Spawning Origins Of Pelagic Juvenile Cod And Environmental Variation In The Stock-Recruitment Relationship
Creators: name: Begg, G.A.
name: Marteinsdottir, G.
Publisher: name: ASC 2000 - N - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Recent studies modeling back-calculated birth date distributions of pelagic juvenile (0-group) cod (Gadus morhua) have indicated differential regional spawning components in waters off the west, north and east coasts of Iceland, in contrast to traditional paradigms of stock structure. The relative proportions of pelagic juvenile cod that were estimated to originate from these regional spawning components were hypothesized to vary in response to the inflow of Atlantic water from the main spawning grounds in the south to the North Icelandic shelf. We examine this hypothesis by analyzing annual (1970-1998) coastal current data in relation to the proportions of pelagic juvenile cod that were estimated to originate from the main spawning component off the southwest coast of Iceland. Additional variation in environmental and stock conditions were also examined in relation to the estimated abundance, mean lengths, and spawning origins of pelagic juvenile cod to enable a detailed analysis of the stock-recruitment relationship. Results from our study were placed in the context of spawning stock structure and recruitment prediction, and provided an understanding of the effects of environmental and stock conditions on variable recruitment levels in the Icelandic cod stock.
Serranus cabrilla
Creators: name: Bariche, Michel
name: Fricke, Ronald
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Serranidae
Serranus
Serranus cabrilla

description: Serranus cabrilla (Linnaeus 1758) —Comber
Taxonomy. First record from Lebanon as Serranus cabrilla (Linnaeus 1758) by George et al. (1964: 17); subsequently recorded as Serranus cabrilla (Linnaeus) by Mouneimné (1977: 62); as Serranus cabrilla (Linnaeus 1758) by Mouneimné (2002: 127); recently recorded as Serranus cabrilla by Harmelin-Vivien et al. (2005: 629); as Serranus cabrilla by Fanelli et al. (2015: 2169); and Aguillar et al. (2018: 82). Material in collection: AMNH, AUBM, BMNH, FMNH and USNM.
Distribution. Mediterranean Sea, Sea of Marmara, Black Sea, eastern Atlantic: English Channel south to Angola, including Madeira and Cape Verde Islands; recorded as NIS from the Red Sea.
Conservation. IUCN: Global (LC: 10 May 2013); Med. (LC: 14 November 2007). Capture and threats: FIT, Unknown. Occurrence: Common. Low priority for conservation action.
description: Published as part of Bariche, Michel & Fricke, Ronald, 2020, The marine ichthyofauna of Lebanon: an annotated checklist, history, biogeography, and conservation status, pp. 1-157 in Zootaxa 4775 (1) on page 88, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4775.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3983887
title: Cortisol During Pregnancy
title: a Link Between Prenatal Worry and Infant Temperament
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Campagna, Allegra
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2023

description: Maternal prenatal anxiety is linked with offspring outcomes across the lifespan. A mechanism of this association between maternal anxiety and child development may be elevated cortisol exposure in utero. Cortisol analyses of maternal worry regarding the transition to parenthood and infant temperament factors have not been considered. The current study aimed to address this gap by examining whether maternal hair cortisol concentrations during pregnancy mediate the relationship between worry about the transition to parenthood and infant temperament outcomes. It was hypothesized that maternal worry related to the transition to parenthood would positively correlate with chronic cortisol levels during pregnancy. It was also hypothesized that maternal chronic cortisol levels in pregnancy would positively correlate with infant negative emotionality and negatively associated with positive affect and regulation. It was expected that higher prenatal worry about the postpartum period (i.e., higher Baby-PAWS total score and factors) and higher cortisol levels would uniquely predict higher infant negative affectivity and lower positive affect and regulation in regression models, controlling for critical covariates. It was also predicted that maternal cortisol would mediate the relationship between prenatal worry and infant temperament. Specifically, higher Baby-PAWS total score and factors would indirectly relate to higher infant negative affectivity and lower positive affect and regulation via higher maternal cortisol levels. Secondary data analyses were performed with existing data (N = 28). During their third trimester of pregnancy, participants completed a questionnaire regarding worry about the transition to parenthood, Baby-PAWS. A hair cortisol sample of the participants was collected at 36-weeks of gestation. Participants answered follow-up questions about their infant’s temperament at approximately two months postpartum. Results did not support any hypothesized relationships between Baby-PAWS, infant temperament at two months, and chronic cortisol concentrations.
Semi-Automatic Measurement of Fetal Cardiac Axis in Fetuses with Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) with Fetal Intelligent Navigation Echocardiography (FINE)
Creators: name: Weichert, Alexander
name: Gembicki, Michael
name: Weichert, Jan
name: Weber, Sven Christian
name: Koenigbauer, Josefine
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: fetal cardiac axis
subject: FINE
subject: fetal intelligent navigation echocardiography
subject: CHD
subject: congenital heart disease
subject: AI
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Congenital heart disease (CHD) is one of the most common organ-specific birth defects and a major cause of infant morbidity and mortality. Despite ultrasound screening guidelines, the detection rate of CHD is limited. Fetal intelligent navigation echocardiography (FINE) has been introduced to extract reference planes and cardiac axis from cardiac spatiotemporal image correlation (STIC) volume datasets. This study analyses the cardiac axis in fetuses affected by CHD/thoracic masses (n = 545) compared to healthy fetuses (n = 1543) generated by FINE. After marking seven anatomical structures, the FINE software generated semi-automatically nine echocardiography standard planes and calculated the cardiac axis. Our study reveals that depending on the type of CHD, the cardiac axis varies. In approximately 86% (471 of 542 volumes) of our pathological cases, an abnormal cardiac axis (normal median = 40-45(degrees)) was detectable. Significant differences between the fetal axis of the normal heart versus CHD were detected in HLHS, pulmonary atresia, TOF (p-value < 0.0001), RAA, situs ambiguus (p-value = 0.0001-0.001) and absent pulmonary valve syndrome, DORV, thoracic masses (p-value = 0.001-0.01). This analysis confirms that in fetuses with CHD, the cardiac axis can significantly deviate from the normal range. FINE appears to be a valuable tool to identify cardiac defects.
Serranus hepatus
Creators: name: Bariche, Michel
name: Fricke, Ronald
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Serranidae
Serranus
Serranus hepatus

description: Serranus hepatus (Linnaeus 1758) —Brown comber
Taxonomy. First record from Lebanon as Serranus hepatus, L. by Gruvel (1931: 102); subsequently recorded as Serranus hepatus (Linnaeus 1758) by George et al. (1964: 17); as Serranus hepatus (Linnaeus) by Mouneimné (1977: 62); as Serranus hepatus (Linnaeus, 1758) by Mouneimné (2002: 127–128); recently recorded as Serranus hepatus by Bariche et al. (2007: 111) and Aguillar et al. (2018: 82). Recent unpublished records from Beirut (24 April 2004) and Tripoli (22 March 2016). Material in collection: ANSP and USNM material.
Distribution. Mediterranean Sea, Sea of Marmara, Black Sea, eastern Atlantic: Portugal and Canary Islands south to Senegal.
Conservation. IUCN: Global (LC: 10 May 2013); Med. (LC: 14 November 2007). Capture and threats: FIB, Unknown. Occurrence: Rare. Low priority for conservation action.
description: Published as part of Bariche, Michel & Fricke, Ronald, 2020, The marine ichthyofauna of Lebanon: an annotated checklist, history, biogeography, and conservation status, pp. 1-157 in Zootaxa 4775 (1) on pages 88-89, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4775.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3983887
How to Estimate the Probability of Tolerance Long-Term in Liver Transplant Recipients
Creators: name: Eurich, Dennis
name: Schlickeiser, Stephan
name: Ossami Saidy, Ramin Raul
name: Uluk, Deniz
name: Rossner, Florian
name: Postel, Maximilian
name: Schoening, Wenzel
name: Oellinger, Robert
name: Lurje, Georg
name: Pratschke, Johann
name: Reinke, Petra
name: Gruen, Natalie
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: liver transplantation
subject: operational tolerance
subject: graft loss
subject: immunosuppression
subject: graft rejection
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background: Operational tolerance as the ability to accept the liver transplant without pharmacological immunosuppression is a common phenomenon in the long-term course. However, it is currently underutilized due to a lack of simple diagnostic support and fear of rejection despite its recognized benefits. In the present work, we present a simple score based on clinical parameters to estimate the probability of tolerance. Patients and methods: In order to estimate the probability of tolerance, clinical parameters from 82 patients after LT who underwent weaning from the IS for various reasons at our transplant center were extracted from a prospectively organized database and analyzed retrospectively. Univariate testing as well as multivariable logistic regression analysis were performed to assess the association of clinical variables with tolerance in the real-world setting. Results: The most important factors associated with tolerance after multivariable logistic regression were IS monotherapy, male sex, history of hepatocellular carcinoma pretransplant, time since LT, and lack of rejection. These five predictors were retained in an approximate model that could be presented as a simple scoring system to estimate the clinical probability of tolerance or IS dispensability with good predictive performance (AUC = 0.89). Conclusion: In parallel with the existence of a tremendous need for further research on tolerance mechanisms, the presented score, after validation in a larger collective preferably in a multicenter setting, could be easily and safely applied in the real world and already now address all three levels of prevention in LT patients over the long-term course.
title: Nursery Grounds For The West Nordic Greenland Halibut Stock - Where Are They?
Creators: name: Boje, Jesper
Publisher: name: ASC 2000 - N - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Greenland halibut in the Northwest Atlantic is composed of two management units reflecting the stock entities, namely the Canada-Greenland stock complex and the East Greenland/Iceland/Faroe Island stock (West Nordic stock). Major juvenile concentrations (nursery grounds) of the Canada-Greenland stock are located at the slope of Store Hellefisk Bank but similar concentrations of the West Nordic stock have not been located. Nursery grounds are traditionally believed to be located off East Greenland, since 0-group surveys show that eggs and larvae drift from spawning grounds west of Iceland towards East Greenland. An analysis of the combined data bases of Greenland halibut by-catch in research shrimp surveys from 1988 to 1999 in Icelandic and Greenland waters (4190 hauls, 637 thousand length records) was done in order to determine possible locations of nursery grounds for the West Nordic stock. At West Greenland, most catches are comprised of fish below 40 cm (juveniles) while at East Greenland and Iceland lengths ranges between 30 cm and 60 cm (immature adults). Length modes corresponding to age 1-3 years old, which dominates in West Greenland waters are virtually absent in East Greenland and Icelandic waters. The catch rates of juveniles in West Greenland are more than one order of magnitude higher than in East Greenland and Icelandic water. The analysis of Greenland halibut by-catches in shrimp surveys suggest that main nursery grounds for the West Nordic stock must be located outside East Greenland or Icelandic waters.
Serranus scriba
Creators: name: Bariche, Michel
name: Fricke, Ronald
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Serranidae
Serranus
Serranus scriba

description: Serranus scriba (Linnaeus 1758) —Painted comber
Taxonomy. First record from Lebanon as Serranus scriba, L. by Gruvel (1931: 101); subsequently recorded as Serranus scriba (Linnaeus 1758) by George et al. (1964: 17); as Serranus scriba (Linnaeus) by Mouneimné (1977: 62); as Serranus scriba (Linnaeus 1758) by Mouneimné (2002: 128); recently recorded as Serranus scriba by Harmelin- Vivien et al. (2005: 629); as Serranus scriba by Fanelli et al. (2015: 2170); and Aguillar et al. (2018: 82). Material in collection: AUBM and USNM.
Distribution. Mediterranean Sea, Sea of Marmara, Black Sea, eastern Atlantic: English Channel south to Senegal; southwestern Indian Ocean: South Africa north to KwaZulu-Natal Rare.
Conservation. IUCN: Global (LC: 10 May 2013); Med. (LC: 14 November 2007). Capture and threats: FIT, Unknown. Occurrence: Common. Significant decline in the last two decades. High priority for conservation action.
description: Published as part of Bariche, Michel & Fricke, Ronald, 2020, The marine ichthyofauna of Lebanon: an annotated checklist, history, biogeography, and conservation status, pp. 1-157 in Zootaxa 4775 (1) on page 89, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4775.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3983887
title: Long Distance Dispersal Versus Local Retention As A Means Of Replenishing Caribbean Marine Fish Populations
Creators: name: Cowen, Robert K.
name: Paris, C. B.
name: Lwiza, Kamadma M. M.
name: Olson., D. B.
Publisher: name: ASC 2000 - N - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.The implications of these results are twofold. First they serve as further validation of our transport model since we are accounting for the inter-annual variability observed in cohort success, which may lead to a more thorough understanding of the processes underlying recruitment variability in reef fish populations. Moreover, these results indicate that the scale at which larval retention occurs is at the spatial scale of the island nearfield (the island radius was estimated as 15 km from the 100m isobath). With the potential of biophysicaf mechanisms of larval retention operating on such small scales, the scale of population connectivity may be smaller than often considered in the design of management strategies, particularly those involving Marine Protected Areas (MPAs).
Serum Selenium-Binding Protein 1 (SELENBP1) in Burn Injury: A Potential Biomarker of Disease Severity and Clinical Course
Creators: name: Turan, Tabael L.
name: Klein, Holger J.
name: Hackler, Julian
name: Hoerner, Livia
name: Rijntjes, Eddy
name: Graf, Theresia Reding
name: Plock, Jan A.
name: Schomburg, Lutz
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: selenium
subject: trace element
subject: critical disease
subject: pneumonia
subject: prognosis
subject: critical care
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Oxidative stress, systemic inflammation, and metabolic derangements are hallmarks of burn pathophysiology. Severely burned patients are highly susceptible to infectious complications. Selenium-binding protein 1 (SELENBP1) modulates intracellular redox homeostasis, and elevated serum concentrations have been associated with adverse clinical outcomes in trauma patients. We hypothesized that serum SELENBP1 at hospital admission and during hospitalization may constitute a meaningful biomarker of disease severity and the clinical course in burn injury, with pulmonary infection as primary endpoint. To this end, we conducted a prospective cohort study that included 90 adult patients admitted to the Burn Center of the University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland. Patients were treated according to the local standard of care, with high-dose selenium supplementation during the first week. Serum SELENBP1 was determined at nine time-points up to six months postburn and the data were correlated to clinical parameters. SELENBP1 was initially elevated and rapidly declined within the first day. Baseline SELENBP1 levels correlated positively with the Abbreviated Burn Severity Index (ABSI) (R = 0.408; p < 0.0001). In multiple logistic regression, a higher ABSI was significantly associated with increased pulmonary infection risk (OR, 14.4; 95% CI, 3.2-88.8; p = 0.001). Similarly, baseline SELENBP1 levels constituted a novel but less accurate predictor of pulmonary infection risk (OR, 2.5; 95% CI, 0.7-8.9; p = 0.164). Further studies are needed to explore the additional value of serum SELENBP1 when stratifying patients with respect to the clinical course following major burns and, potentially, for monitoring therapeutic measures aimed at reducing tissue damage and oxidative stress.
Embedding deliberation: guiding the use of deliberative mini-publics in climate policy-making
Creators: name: Ainscough, Jacob
name: Willis, Rebecca
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: The use of deliberative mini-publics (DMPs), such as citizens’ assemblies, is becoming more common in climate policy-making across many countries. The upsurge of these methods reflects an acknowledgement of the need to engage the publics in policy choices that significantly impact their lives. Many DMPs to date have focused on the general challenge of decarbonization, across a range of policy areas. In this article, we first situate DMPs within the wider field of public engagement methods. We then draw from deliberative democratic theory and practice to argue that the next step for climate DMPs is to focus them on specific climate policy challenges and to embed and routinize their use in existing policy-making institutions. We present a case study of the targeted use of a climate DMP, which we designed and ran in partnership with the UK Climate Change Committee, focused on home energy decarbonization. We use this case study to explore barriers and challenges to embedding such an approach in climate policy-making institutions. Finally, we suggest ways that such challenges can be overcome and identify a number of tensions that must be navigated as DMPs become embedded in climate policy-making. Deliberative mini-publics (DMPs) can facilitate two-way dialogue between the publics and policy-makers, overcoming weaknesses in existing forms of communication between these two groups of actors. The decision to use DMPs in climate policy and the design of such DMPs, should be informed by an analysis of the type of policy challenge being faced. Existing climate policy institutions, such as advisory bodies, provide potential venues where the use of DMPs can become routinized as a way of gathering insights on public policy preferences. Future targeted climate DMPs will need to find ways to overcome limitations to participants’ familiarity with different technologies and capacities, in order to better predict the impacts of different policy options. Tensions exist between the use of DMPs as a research tool within policy contexts and as a tool for opening political possibilities for more thoroughgoing reform.
Phasing out carbon not coal? Identifying coal lock-in sources in Japan’s power utilities
Creators: name: Trencher, Gregory
name: Okubo, Yuri
name: Mori, Akihisa
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Lock-in to existing assets and business practices is a major obstacle to the global objective of phasing out coal-fired power to accelerate decarbonization towards Paris Agreement goals. Japan has attracted attention in previous literature, with several studies demonstrating how market and political conditions have propelled investments in new coal-fired power plants while raising barriers to achieving a phase-out. But in addition to market-level conditions, firm-level characteristics – including assets, commitments, investment behaviour and future-oriented innovation activities – are also critical determinants of lock-in vulnerability. To deepen understanding of how such firm-level dynamics might affect the power industry, this empirical study takes the case of ten incumbent utilities in Japan to identify and compare potential sources of coal lock-in. We leverage diverse quantitative and qualitative data to assess the state of: (1) management, assets and operational factors; and (2) the development and deployment of next-generation coal technologies. Through this two-fold approach, we demonstrate how current conditions and future-oriented activities are likely to reinforce tendencies to continue using coal in coming decades, thereby hampering the emergence of phase-out ambitions. These findings harbour important implications for climate policy and the urgent need to end coal burning in the power sector. Japan’s major power utilities all intend to maintain coal in power mixes while transitioning to net-zero by 2050, aiming to eliminate carbon emissions rather than coal-fired power per se. Ambitions to reduce dependence on coal are weakened by a multitude of potential lock-in sources across individual utilities. All utilities are attempting to commercialize next-generation technologies such as co-firing with ammonia and biomass, carbon capture and coal gasification. Phasing out coal in Japan thus requires climate policies that incentivize the development and diffusion of non-emitting power sources that offer faster emissions reduction than expensive and unproven technologies.
Boops boops boops (Linnaeus 1758
Creators: name: Bariche, Michel
name: Fricke, Ronald
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Sparidae
Boops
Boops boops

description: Boops boops (Linnaeus 1758) —Bogue
Taxonomy. First record from Lebanon as Box vulgaris, C.V. = Box boops, L. by Gruvel (1931: 92); subsequently recorded as Boops boops (Linnaeus 1758) by George et al. (1964: 18); as Boops boops (Linnaeus) by Mouneimné (1977: 63); as Boops boops (Linnaeus 1758) by Mouneimné (2002: 165–166); recently recorded as Boops boops by Harmelin-Vivien et al. (2005: 629); as Boops boops by Bariche et al. (2007: 112); as Boops boops by Fanelli et al. (2015: 2169). Material in collection: ANSP, AUBM, BMNH, MCZ, UF, USNM and YPM.
Distribution. Western Baltic Sea, North Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Sea of Marmara, Black Sea, eastern Atlantic: Norway south to Angola, including Madeira and Canary Islands.
Conservation. IUCN: Global (LC: 14 August 2009); Med. (LC: 11 December 2007). Capture and threats: FIT, Unknown. Occurrence: Very common. Low priority for conservation action.
description: Published as part of Bariche, Michel & Fricke, Ronald, 2020, The marine ichthyofauna of Lebanon: an annotated checklist, history, biogeography, and conservation status, pp. 1-157 in Zootaxa 4775 (1) on page 89, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4775.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3983887
Dentex macrophthalmus
Creators: name: Bariche, Michel
name: Fricke, Ronald
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Sparidae
Dentex
Dentex macrophthalmus

description: Dentex macrophthalmus (Bloch 1791) —Large-eye dentex
Taxonomy. First record from Lebanon as Dentex macrophtalamus (Bloch 1791) by George et al. (1964: 17); subsequently recorded as Dentex macrophthalmus (Bloch) by Mouneimné (1977: 63); as Dentex macrophthalmus (Bloch 1791) by Mouneimné (2002: 168); recently recorded as Dentex macrophtalmus by Aguillar et al. (2018: 81). Material in collection: AUBM and USNM.
Distribution. Mediterranean Sea, Sea of Marmara, eastern Atlantic: Portugal south to Namibia
Conservation. IUCN: Global (LC: 18 August 2009); Med. (DD: 13 November 2007). Capture and threats: FIT, Unknown. Occurrence: Very common. Low priority for conservation action.
description: Published as part of Bariche, Michel & Fricke, Ronald, 2020, The marine ichthyofauna of Lebanon: an annotated checklist, history, biogeography, and conservation status, pp. 1-157 in Zootaxa 4775 (1) on page 89, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4775.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3983887