cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Concept of Pediatric Feeding Problems From the Parent Perspective
Creators: name: McComish, Cara
name: Park, Jinhee
name: Knafl, Kathleen
name: Estrem, Hayley Henrikson
name: Thoyre, Suzanne
name: Pados, Britt Frisk
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Feeding difficulties in early childhood are common, affecting approximately 25% of typically developing children and up to 80% of children with developmental disabilities. There is no interdisciplinary consensus on the definition of a feeding problem and there is no input from families in the conceptualization. Lack of common language is a barrier to effective communication between clinicians, researchers, and caregivers, and inhibits collaboration. The purpose of this study was to examine the conceptualization of pediatric feeding problems by family caregivers (parents). This study reports an empirical phase of a concept analysis. Data from interviews with 12 parents of children with feeding problems were coded for related concepts, attributes, antecedents, and consequences of feeding problems, and then analyzed for themes within conceptual categories. Conceptual elements across interviews are presented with an emphasis on shared perspectives. Parents related pediatric feeding problems to be a process or journey on which they found themselves for an unknown duration. Common themes of attributes were problematic feeding behaviors of the child, restrictive or selective intake, and child weight or growth concerns. Parents conceptualize feeding problems as a condition with symptoms experienced by the child and family that need to be incorporated into family life. In contrast, prior literature coming from providers' point of view presents this problem to be of the child. Nurses can improve care of families with children who have feeding problems by coordinating interdisciplinary, family-centered care.
Investigation of the molecular pathogenesis of the multi-host bacterial pathogen Staphylococcus aureus
Creators: name: Sargison, Fiona Anne
Publisher: name: The University of Edinburgh
Year: 2023
Subjects: Staphylococcus aureus
multi-host bacterial pathogen
polymeric triglycerides
phagocytic killing mechanism
lipase-deficient isogenic mutant
Type VII secretion system

description: Staphylococcus aureus is a major human and animal bacterial pathogen that causes an array of diseases. The main aim of this thesis is to investigate the key host-pathogen interactions that underpin S. aureus infection. S. aureus abundantly secretes two isoforms of the enzyme lipase into the extracellular milieu, where they scavenge upon polymeric triglycerides. It has previously been suggested that these lipases may interfere with the function of innate immune cells, such as macrophages and neutrophils, but the impact of lipases on phagocytic killing mechanisms remains unknown. We showed that there were no differences in the survival of S. aureus USA300 LAC wild type and its lipase-deficient isogenic mutant after incubation with human whole blood or neutrophils. Furthermore, there was no detectable lipase-dependent effect on phagocytosis, intracellular survival, or escape from both human primary and immortalised cell line macrophages, even upon supplementation with exogenous recombinant lipases. Therefore, we showed that S. aureus lipases do not inhibit bacterial killing mechanisms of human macrophages, neutrophils, or whole blood. Furthermore, the capacity of S. aureus to adapt to distinct host-species ecologies is a major public health and economic concern. Approximately 60 years ago, a human-to-poultry host jump and adaptation of S. aureus belonging to the widespread CC5 clade, led to the avian-adaptation and global expansion of S. aureus in broiler poultry. Our research aims to combine transposon (Tn) mutagenesis of S. aureus with experimental models of infections to identify the immune cell repertoire and bacterial genes involved in avian host-adaptation. To determine the avian immune cell tropism for S. aureus, mCherry-integrated clones from common avian (CC385, CC5) and human (CC8) S. aureus clonal lineages were screened in blood extracted from the transgenic chicken line Runx1-eGFP. We demonstrate that monocytes and heterophils generate the first-line response to S. aureus infection, with avian strains exhibiting differential uptake by heterophils compared to a human strain. Furthermore, our analysis demonstrated that avian S. aureus strains may have adapted to the avian host through the inhibition of degranulation of heterophils as a novel survival mechanism. TraDIS analysis of genes involved in the fitness of S. aureus during infection of peripheral blood leukocytes demonstrated that regulators of the Type VII secretion system and Spl-proteases were required for survival of S. aureus in the face of the innate immune response of PBLs. Taken together, these studies provide new insights into the evolution of S. aureus and the key host-pathogen interactions underpinning S. aureus infections.
Pentatoma longiceps Heer 1853
Creators: name: Grazia, Jocélia
name: Campos, Luiz A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pentatomidae
Pentatoma
Pentatoma longiceps

description: Pentatoma longiceps. Unpublished name = Tibraca limbativentris Stål, 1860. Material examined. Two males in good condition. Green label: “ Pentatoma longiceps – m., D. Parreyss, Kordofan”. Remarks. Although the original label indicates the Ethiopic Region, T. limbativentris is in fact a Neotropical species. Box 15 (15-16).
description: Published as part of Grazia, Jocélia & Campos, Luiz A., 2010, Neotropical Pentatomidae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of the collection of Massimiliano Spinola preserved in the " Museo Regionale de Scienze Naturali " ̡ Turin ̡ Italy, pp. 413-424 in Zoologia 27 (3) on page 420, DOI: 10.1590/S1984-46702010000300014, http://zenodo.org/record/3968672
Development of Feeding Cues During Infancy and Toddlerhood
Creators: name: Bentley, Margaret E.
name: Hodges, Eric A.
name: Wasser, Heather M.
name: Colgan, Brook K.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: To enhance responsive feeding, this study aimed to characterize the development of feeding cues during infancy and toddlerhood.
High-Performance Electro-Discharge Drilling with a Novel Type of Oxidized Tool Electrode
Creators: name: Uhlmann, Eckart
name: Polte, Julian
name: Streckenbach, Jan
name: Dinh, Ngoc Chuong
name: Yabroudi, Sami
name: Polte, Mitchel
name: Börnstein, Julian
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 620 Ingenieurwissenschaften und zugeordnete Tätigkeiten
subject: electrical discharge machining
subject: surface treatment
subject: oxidation

description: Electro-discharge drilling is a key technology for manufacturing sophisticated nozzles in a broad range of automotive and aerospace applications. The formation of debris in the working gap leads to arcs and short circuits on the lateral surface when state-of-the-art tool electrodes are used. As a result, limited drilling depth, increased linear tool wear, and the conicity of boreholes are still challenges. In this work, a new approach for the passivation of the lateral surface of copper tool electrodes by oxidation is shown. The comparison with state-of-the-art tool electrodes showed a reduction in the erosion duration by 48% for machining hardened steel. Promising improvements could be achieved by the thermal oxidation of the tool electrodes with the aim of increasing the electrical resistivity of the lateral surface of the tool electrode. However, due to the loss of strength, the high oxide layer thickness, and the partial delamination of the oxide layer, further comprehensive investigations on the influence of the oxidation temperature need to be conducted. Future adjustments with lower oxidation temperatures will be carried out.
Implementing Co-Regulated Feeding with Mothers of Preterm Infants
Creators: name: Pridham, Karen
name: McKechnie, Anne
name: Hubbard, Carol
name: Thoyre, Suzanne M.
name: Park, Jinhee
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: The purpose of this study is to describe implementation of the Co-Regulated Feeding Intervention (CoReg), when provided by mothers and guided by intervention nurses trained in methods of guided participation (GP). CoReg aims to prevent stress during feeding and ease the challenge very preterm (VP) infants experience coordinating breathing and swallowing during the early months. Guided participation is a participatory learning method to guide the complex learning required of mothers.
Pentatoma longigena
Creators: name: Grazia, Jocélia
name: Campos, Luiz A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pentatomidae
Pentatoma
Pentatoma longigena

description: Pentatoma longigena. Unpublished name = Euschistus Dallas, 1851. Material examined. One female in poor condition. White label: “ Pentatoma longigena, m. n. sp., (Mormidea, A. S – Euschistus, Dallas) – La peut antica emargination, D. Dupont, Mexico ”. Box 16 (16-17).
description: Published as part of Grazia, Jocélia & Campos, Luiz A., 2010, Neotropical Pentatomidae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of the collection of Massimiliano Spinola preserved in the " Museo Regionale de Scienze Naturali " ̡ Turin ̡ Italy, pp. 413-424 in Zoologia 27 (3) on page 420, DOI: 10.1590/S1984-46702010000300014, http://zenodo.org/record/3968672
description: {"references": ["DALLAS, W. S. 1851. List of the specimens of hemipterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part 1. London, Trustees of the British Museum, 368 p."]}
Frictional Energy Dissipation in Partial Slip Contacts of Axisymmetric Power-Law Graded Elastic Solids under Oscillating Tangential Loads: Effect of the Geometry and the In-Depth Grading
Creators: name: Wilhayn, Josefine
name: Heß, Markus
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 530 Physik
subject: structural damping
subject: fretting
subject: frictional energy dissipation
subject: tangential contact
subject: functionally graded materials
subject: Abel transform
subject: Winkler foundation
subject: hysteresis loops

description: Due to the rapid development of additive manufacturing, a growing number of components in mechanical engineering are made of functionally graded materials. Compared to conventional materials, they exhibit improved properties in terms of strength, thermal, wear or corrosion resistance. However, because of the varying material properties, especially the type of in-depth grading of Young’s modulus, the solution of contact problems including the frequently encountered tangential fretting becomes significantly more difficult. The present work is intended to contribute to this context. The partial-slip contact of axisymmetric, power-law graded elastic solids under classical loading by a constant normal force and an oscillating tangential force is investigated both numerically and analytically. For this purpose, a fictitious equivalent contact model in the mathematical space of the Abel transform is used since it simplifies the solution procedure considerably without being an approximation. For different axisymmetric shaped solids and various elastic inhomogeneities (types of in-depth grading), the hysteresis loops are numerically generated and the corresponding dissipated frictional energies per cycle are determined. Moreover, a closed-form analytical solution for the dissipated energy is derived, which is applicable for a breadth class of axisymmetric shapes and elastic inhomogeneities. The famous solution of Mindlin et al. emerges as a special case.
Saturation of the Turbulent Dynamo
Creators: name: Schober, Jennifer
name: Schleicher, Dominik R. G.
name: Federrath, Christoph
name: Bovino, Stefano
name: Klessen, Ralf S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The origin of strong magnetic fields in the Universe can be explained by amplifying weak seed fields via turbulent motions on small spatial scales and subsequently transporting the magnetic energy to larger scales. This process is known as the turbulent dynamo and depends on the properties of turbulence, i.e. on the hydrodynamical Reynolds number and the compressibility of the gas, and on the magnetic diffusivity. While we know the growth rate the magnetic energy in the linear regime, the saturation level, i.e. the ratio of magnetic energy to turbulent kinetic energy that can be reached, is not known from analytical calculations. In this paper we present the first scale-dependent saturation model based on an effective turbulent resistivity which is determined by the turnover timescale of turbulent eddies and the magnetic energy density. The magnetic resistivity increases compared to the Spitzer value and the effective scale on which the magnetic energy spectrum is at its maximum moves to larger spatial scales. This process ends when the peak reaches a characteristic wavenumber k* which is determined by the critical magnetic Reynolds number. The saturation level of the dynamo also depends on the type of turbulence and differs for the limits of large and small magnetic Prandtl numbers Pm. With our model we find saturation levels between 43.8% and 1.3% for Pm>>1 and between 2.43% and 0.135% for Pm<<1, where the higher values refer to incompressible turbulence and the lower ones to highly compressible turbulence.
description: 13 pages, 6 figures
Pentatoma oblitum
Creators: name: Grazia, Jocélia
name: Campos, Luiz A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pentatomidae
Pentatoma
Pentatoma oblitum

description: Pentatoma oblitum. Unpublished name = see Remarks. Material examined. One female in fairly good condition. Green label: “ Pentatoma oblitum, m. ~ n. sp.?, D. Jekel, 1850, Cayenna”. Remarks. The specimen belongs to an unidentified species of the group of Hypatropis Bergroth, 1891. Box 15 (15-16).
description: Published as part of Grazia, Jocélia & Campos, Luiz A., 2010, Neotropical Pentatomidae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of the collection of Massimiliano Spinola preserved in the " Museo Regionale de Scienze Naturali " ̡ Turin ̡ Italy, pp. 413-424 in Zoologia 27 (3) on page 421, DOI: 10.1590/S1984-46702010000300014, http://zenodo.org/record/3968672
The diurnal advertisement and response call of Pulchrana glandulosa (Anura: Ranidae) (Boulenger, 1882), from Langkawi Island, Kedah, Peninsular Malaysia
Creators: name: Ong, Dasi
name: Shahrudin, Shahriza
Publisher: name: Brill Online
Year: 2022
Subjects: Ecology not elsewhere classified

description: Most of Malaysian's anuran species are nocturnally active, including Pulchrana glandulosa. However, all the studies on the description of this species' call were done during nocturnal surveys in Sarawak, Borneo. Here we report the diurnal call of this frog from Langkawi Island, Kedah, Peninsular Malaysia. This male frog exhibits two types of calls: repetitive one-note advertisement calls and multiple-note response calls. Anuran bioacoustics can use to monitor the well-being of the environment they occupy. This information is very informative for the conservation management authority and decision-making for conservation purposes. The diurnal call of this frog is a rare discovery and was not yet described in previous records. This research shows us that this frog calls diurnally and nocturnally because its skin secretion has a high toxicity level. Besides that, this frog is well known for its loud “WAHK” call at night. However, the diurnal call is not as rare as one thinks; we need to know the specific spot at a specific time of occurrence. Furthermore, these surveys also need to be done diurnally to minimise the undetected species behaviour as in this study, which is essential for our scientific community.
Modeling the variations of Dose Rate measured by RAD during the first MSL Martian year: 2012-2014
Creators: name: Guo, Jingnan
name: Zeitlin, Cary
name: Wimmer-Schweingruber, Robert F.
name: Rafkin, Scot
name: Hassler, Donald M.
name: Posner, Arik
name: Heber, Bernd
name: Koehler, Jan
name: Ehresmann, Bent
name: Appel, Jan K.
name: Boehm, Eckart
name: Boettcher, Stephan
name: Burmeister, Soenke
name: Brinza, David E.
name: Lohf, Henning
name: Martin, Cesar
name: Kahanpaeae, H.
name: Reitz, Guenther
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD), on board Mars Science Laboratory's (MSL) rover Curiosity, measures the {energy spectra} of both energetic charged and neutral particles along with the radiation dose rate at the surface of Mars. With these first-ever measurements on the Martian surface, RAD observed several effects influencing the galactic cosmic ray (GCR) induced surface radiation dose concurrently: [a] short-term diurnal variations of the Martian atmospheric pressure caused by daily thermal tides, [b] long-term seasonal pressure changes in the Martian atmosphere, and [c] the modulation of the primary GCR flux by the heliospheric magnetic field, which correlates with long-term solar activity and the rotation of the Sun. The RAD surface dose measurements, along with the surface pressure data and the solar modulation factor, are analysed and fitted to empirical models which quantitatively demonstrate} how the long-term influences ([b] and [c]) are related to the measured dose rates. {Correspondingly we can estimate dose rate and dose equivalents under different solar modulations and different atmospheric conditions, thus allowing empirical predictions of the Martian surface radiation environment.
Milk Flow Rates from bottle nipples used after hospital discharge
Creators: name: Estrem, Hayley
name: Pados, Britt Frisk
name: Thoyre, Suzanne M.
name: Nix, W. Brant
name: Park, Jinhee
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: To test the milk flow rates and variability in flow rates of bottle nipples used after hospital discharge.
Novel Distance-Measures-Based Extended TOPSIS Method under Linguistic Linear Diophantine Fuzzy Information
Creators: name: Kamacı, Hüseyin
name: Marinkovic, Dragan
name: Petchimuthu, Subramanian
name: Riaz, Muhammad
name: Ashraf, Shahzaib
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 620 Ingenieurwissenschaften und zugeordnete Tätigkeiten
subject: fuzzy modeling
subject: linear Diophantine fuzzy set
subject: linguistic linear Diophantine fuzzy set
subject: symmetry
subject: TOPSIS
subject: MCDM

description: The advantages of the intuitionistic fuzzy set, Pythagorean fuzzy set, and q-rung orthopair fuzzy set are all carried over into the linear Diophantine fuzzy set by extending the restrictions on the grades. Linear Diophantine fuzzy sets offer a wide range of practical applications because the reference parameters allow evaluation andto express their judgments about membership and nonmembership degrees in a variety of ways. Linguistic-valued information cannot be described by linear Diophantine fuzzy numbers since precise numbers are used in linear Diophantine fuzzy systems. In this paper, we first present the novel idea of a linguistic linear Diophantine fuzzy set, which is the hybrid structure of the linear Diophantine fuzzy set and the linguistic term set. Furthermore, some basic operational rules with novel distance measures, namely, Hamming, Euclidean, and Chebyshev distance measures, are established. Based on the newly defined concept of distance measure, an extended TOPSIS technique is presented to tackle the linguistic uncertainty in real-world decision support problems. A numerical example is illustrated to support the applicability of the proposed methodology and to analyze symmetry of the optimal decision. A comparison analysis is constructed to show the symmetry, validity, and effectiveness of the proposed method over the existing decision support techniques.
Pentatoma quadrigutticolis
Creators: name: Grazia, Jocélia
name: Campos, Luiz A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pentatomidae
Pentatoma
Pentatoma quadrigutticolis

description: Pentatoma quadrigutticolis. Unpublished name = see Remarks. Material examined. One female in good condition. Green label: “ Pentatoma quadrigutticolis, m. – n. sp. – G. Mormidea A. S. et Dall., D. Ghiliani, 1866, Para ”. Remarks. The specimen belongs to Mormidea Amyot & Serville, 1843, probably Mormidea (Mormidea) maculata Dallas, 1851. Box 16 (16-17).
description: Published as part of Grazia, Jocélia & Campos, Luiz A., 2010, Neotropical Pentatomidae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of the collection of Massimiliano Spinola preserved in the " Museo Regionale de Scienze Naturali " ̡ Turin ̡ Italy, pp. 413-424 in Zoologia 27 (3) on page 421, DOI: 10.1590/S1984-46702010000300014, http://zenodo.org/record/3968672
description: {"references": ["AMYOT, J. B. & A. SERVILLE. 1843. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Hemipteres. Paris, Librairie Encyclopedique de Roret, 681 p.", "DALLAS, W. S. 1851. List of the specimens of hemipterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part 1. London, Trustees of the British Museum, 368 p."]}
Clustering and flocking of repulsive chiral active particles with non-reciprocal couplings
Creators: name: Kreienkamp, Kim L.
name: Klapp, Sabine H. L.
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 530 Physik
subject: non-reciprocity
subject: chiral active particles
subject: motility-induced phase separation
subject: flocking
subject: hydrodynamic field equations

description: Recently, non-reciprocal systems have become a focus of growing interest. Examples occur in soft and active matter, but also in engineered quantum materials and neural (brain) networks. Here, we investigate the impact of non-reciprocity on the collective behavior of a system of (dry) chiral active matter. Specifically, we consider a mixture of ‘circle swimmers’ with steric interactions and non-reciprocal alignment couplings. Based on hydrodynamic equations which we derive from a set of Langevin equations, we explore the interplay of non-reciprocity, finite size, and chirality. We first consider, as a reference, one-species systems with reciprocal couplings. Based on a linear stability analysis and numerical simulations, we here observe three different types of collective behavior, that is, flocking, motility-induced phase separation, and a combination of both. Turning then to a non-reciprocal system, we find that non-reciprocity can turn otherwise stationary instabilities into oscillatory ones, affect the relative orientation of flocks, and, crucially, change the general type of instability. This illustrates the drastic impact of non-reciprocity on the emergent collective dynamics of chiral active matter systems, with potentially far-reaching biological implications.
Nuclear Level Density: Shell Model vs Mean Field
Creators: name: Sen'kov, Roman
name: Zelevinsky, Vladimir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The knowledge of the nuclear level density is necessary for understanding various reactions including those in the stellar environment. Usually the combinatorics of Fermi-gas plus pairing is used for finding the level density. Recently a practical algorithm avoiding diagonalization of huge matrices was developed for calculating the density of many-body nuclear energy levels with certain quantum numbers for a full shell-model Hamiltonian. The underlying physics is that of quantum chaos and intrinsic thermalization in a closed system of interacting particles. We briefly explain this algorithm and, when possible, demonstrate the agreement of the results with those derived from exact diagonalization. The resulting level density is much smoother than that coming from the conventional mean-field combinatorics. We study the role of various components of residual interactions in the process of thermalization, stressing the influence of incoherent collision-like processes. The shell-model results for the traditionally used parameters are also compared with standard phenomenological approaches.
description: 17 pages, 20 figures
Reimagining Urban Morphology for Equitable Mobility: Adapting to Collective Multipurpose Autonomous Vehicle Systems for Accessible and Inclusive Transportation Systems
Creators: name: Zhou, Yi
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Urban Analysis and Development

description: An autonomous car represents the fusion of artificial intelligence and human-car interaction, wherein humans monitor and control the vehicles' decisions instead of physically driving them. Technological advancements in autonomous vehicles (AVs) prioritize accuracy and efficiency in their upgrades. However, current research primarily focuses on urban contexts, catering to commuters and shared ride services. Challenges related to suburban areas, such as social issues involving urban consequncest and accessiblity to moblity, remain unresolved. Additionally, a gap exists between AV implementation and existing infrastructure, as the integration of this new technology requires consideration of social concerns and preferences regarding autonomous vehicles. This research aims to explore the relationship between existing public infrastructure and AV systems within Allegheny County, proposing adaptations to enhance the equity of urban transportation. The study investigates transit accessibility and inequity, with a specific focus on addressing the needs of populations with limited mobility. The site selected for the AV plugin experiment is Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar. A 'mobility hub' design toolbox is developed based on five city patterns, including narrow residential streets, triangle intersections on steep slopes, neighborhood street intersections with blocked sidewalks, dilapidated houses and vacant lots, and mixed social patterns of mobility, social gathering, and recreation. Network analysis in ArcGIS Pro is conducted to quantify the results of interconnected AV mobility hubs, assessing the expansion of reachable areas, the increase in facility numbers, and the improvement of walkability and accessibility for populations with high mobility needs. The design matrix serves as a valuable toolset for urban planners and designers to evaluate the cost-benefit of shared AV services and customized AV services in Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar.
Plasma, cancer, immunity
Creators: name: Bekeschus, Sander
name: Clemen, Ramona
Publisher: name: Bristol : IOP Publ.
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: cold physical plasma
subject: immunity
subject: oncology
subject: reactive oxygen species
subject: redox biology
subject: T-cells
subject: 530

description: Albeit heavily investigated for several decades already, the importance of the immune system in targeting cancer has received wide clinical attention only in recent years. This is partly because of long-standing rather traditional concepts on tumor biology on the one hand and the complexity of the immune system and its processes on the other. The viewpoint of evaluating existing and emerging approaches in oncology based on toxicity to tumors and the ability to engage antitumor-immunity is gaining ground across several disciplines. Along those lines, cold physical plasma was suggested as potential anticancer tool more than a decade ago, but solid evidence of the immune system playing a role in plasma cancer treatment only emerged in recent years. Moreover, plasma may support cancer immunotherapies in the future. Cancer immunotherapies are systemic treatments with biologicals that were reported to synergize with existing local physical modalities before, such as radiotherapy and photodynamic therapy. This review outlines key concepts in oncology, immunology, and tumor therapy, links them to plasma research, and discusses immuno-oncological consequences. Finally, promising future clinical applications are summarized. Synoptically, first scientific evidence supports an immuno-oncological dimension of plasma cancer treatment in selected instances, but robust clinical evidence is still lacking. More basic and clinical research is needed to determine the immuno-molecular mechanisms and detailed plasma application modalities to facilitate real patient benefit in the long term.
Local behavior of fractional $p$-minimizers
Creators: name: Di Castro, Agnese
name: Kuusi, Tuomo
name: Palatucci, Giampiero
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We extend the De Giorgi-Nash-Moser theory to nonlocal, possibly degenerate integro-differential operators.
description: 26 pages. To appear in Ann. Inst. H. Poincare Anal. Non Lineaire. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1405.7842
Mothersʼ Psychological Distress and Feeding of Their Preterm Infants
Creators: name: Estrem, Hayley
name: Pados, Britt F.
name: Park, Jinhee
name: Knafl, George J.
name: Brandon, Debra
name: Thoyre, Suzanne
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: To examine the change in psychological distress of mothers of preterm infants and its association with maternal feeding behaviors as the infant transitions to full oral feeding.
In ovo model in cancer research and tumor immunology
Creators: name: Miebach, Lea
name: Berner, Julia
name: Bekeschus, Sander
Publisher: name: Lausanne : Frontiers Media
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: CAM
subject: cancer immunity
subject: macrophages
subject: oncology
subject: patient-derived xenografts
subject: 610

description: Considering cancer not only as malignant cells on their own but as a complex disease in which tumor cells interact and communicate with their microenvironment has motivated the establishment of clinically relevant 3D models in past years. Technological advances gave rise to novel bioengineered models, improved organoid systems, and microfabrication approaches, increasing scientific importance in preclinical research. Notwithstanding, mammalian in vivo models remain closest to mimic the patient’s situation but are limited by cost, time, and ethical constraints. Herein, the in ovo model bridges the gap as an advanced model for basic and translational cancer research without the need for ethical approval. With the avian embryo being a naturally immunodeficient host, tumor cells and primary tissues can be engrafted on the vascularized chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) with high efficiencies regardless of species-specific restrictions. The extraembryonic membranes are connected to the embryo through a continuous circulatory system, readily accessible for manipulation or longitudinal monitoring of tumor growth, metastasis, angiogenesis, and matrix remodeling. However, its applicability in immunoncological research is largely underexplored. Dual engrafting of malignant and immune cells could provide a platform to study tumor-immune cell interactions in a complex, heterogenic and dynamic microenvironment with high reproducibility. With some caveats to keep in mind, versatile methods for in and ex ovo monitoring of cellular and molecular dynamics already established in ovo are applicable alike. In this view, the present review aims to emphasize and discuss opportunities and limitations of the chicken embryo model for pre-clinical research in cancer and cancer immunology.
Pentatoma spectabilis
Creators: name: Grazia, Jocélia
name: Campos, Luiz A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pentatomidae
Pentatoma
Pentatoma spectabilis

description: Pentatoma spectabilis. Unpublished name = Pharypia Stål, 1861. Material examined. One male in poor condition. White label: “ Pentatoma spectabilis, (Cimex) Klug ♂, D. Klug, Mexico ”. One female in good condition. Green label: “ Pentatoma spectabilis ♀, G. Nezara, Aet S., D. Klug, Mexico ”. Box 18 (18).
description: Published as part of Grazia, Jocélia & Campos, Luiz A., 2010, Neotropical Pentatomidae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of the collection of Massimiliano Spinola preserved in the " Museo Regionale de Scienze Naturali " ̡ Turin ̡ Italy, pp. 413-424 in Zoologia 27 (3) on page 421, DOI: 10.1590/S1984-46702010000300014, http://zenodo.org/record/3968672
Theory-based metrological traceability in education: A reading measurement network
Creators: name: Stenner, A. Jackson
name: Fisher, William P.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Huge resources are invested in metrology and standards in the natural sciences, engineering, and across a wide range of commercial technologies. Significant positive returns of human, social, environmental, and economic value on these investments have been sustained for decades. Proven methods for calibrating test and survey instruments in linear units are readily available, as are data- and theory-based methods for equating those instruments to a shared unit. Using these methods, metrological traceability is obtained in a variety of commercially available elementary and secondary English and Spanish language reading education programs in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Australia. Given established historical patterns, widespread routine reproduction of predicted text-based and instructional effects expressed in a common language and shared frame of reference may lead to significant developments in theory and practice. Opportunities for systematic implementations of teacher-driven lean thinking and continuous quality improvement methods may be of particular interest and value.
A Formula for the Reliability of a $d$-dimensional Consecutive-$k$-out-of-$n$:F System
Creators: name: Cowell, Simon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We derive a formula for the reliability of a $d$-dimensional consecutive-$k$-out-of-$n$:F system. That is, a formula for the probability that an $n_1 \times \ldots \times n_d$ array whose entries are (independently of each other) $0$ with probability $p$ and $1$ with probability $q = 1 - p$ does not include a contiguous $s_1 \times \ldots \times s_d$ subarray whose every entry is $1$.
description: Final published version replaced by a version without the journal's advertisement page. Note that the final published version is more recent than this version
Does cytomegalovirus infection contribute to socioeconomic disparities in all-cause mortality?
Creators: name: Pawelec, Graham
name: Stebbins, Rebecca C
name: Simanek, Amanda M.
name: Douglas, Christian E
name: Aiello, Allison E
name: Feinstein, Lydia
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: The social patterning of cytomegalovirus (CMV) and its implication in aging suggest that the virus may partially contribute to socioeconomic disparities in mortality. We used Cox regression and inverse odds ratio weighting to quantify the proportion of the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and all-cause mortality that was attributable to mediation by CMV seropositivity. Data were from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) III (1988–1994), with mortality follow-up through December 2011. SES was assessed as household income (income-to-poverty ratio ≤1.30; >1.30 to ≤1.85; >1.85 to ≤3.50; >3.50) and education (high school). We found strong associations between low SES and increased mortality: hazard ratio (HR) 1.80; 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.57, 2.06 comparing the lowest versus highest income groups and HR 1.29; 95% CI: 1.13, 1.48 comparing high school education. 65% of individuals were CMV seropositive, accounting for 6–15% of the SES-mortality associations. Age modified the associations between SES, CMV, and mortality, with CMV more strongly associated with mortality in older individuals. Our findings suggest that cytomegalovirus may partially contribute to persistent socioeconomic disparities in mortality, particularly among older individuals.
Pentatoma unidentatum Spinola
Creators: name: Grazia, Jocélia
name: Campos, Luiz A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pentatomidae
Pentatoma
Pentatoma unidentatum

description: Pentatoma unidentatum Spinola ̡ 1852: 134 = Oenopiella unidentata (Spinola, 1852); STÅL, 1867: 529 (as Oenopia unidentata). Figures 1 (3 rd row, 7 th to 9 th specimens, from left to right) and 2. Material examined. One male and two females, each one with a small green label “1943”. Green label: “ Pentatoma unidentatum m. ♂ et ♀ – n. sp., D. Gay, Chili ”. Remarks. The male is here designated LECTOTYPE, considering there are three specimens under the same green label and to assign a single specimen of this species as the namebearer. Box 15 (15-16).
description: Published as part of Grazia, Jocélia & Campos, Luiz A., 2010, Neotropical Pentatomidae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of the collection of Massimiliano Spinola preserved in the " Museo Regionale de Scienze Naturali " ̡ Turin ̡ Italy, pp. 413-424 in Zoologia 27 (3) on page 421, DOI: 10.1590/S1984-46702010000300014, http://zenodo.org/record/3968672
description: {"references": ["SPINOLA, M. 1852. Hemipteros, p. 113 - 320. In: C. GAY (Ed.). Historia fisica y politica de Chile. Zoologia. Paris, Maulde y Renou, vol. 7.", "STAL, C. 1867. Bidrag till hemipterernas systematik. Ofversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Forhandlingar 24 (7): 491 - 560."]}
C^1-umbilics with arbitrarily high indices
Creators: name: Ando, Naoya
name: Fujiyama, Toshifumi
name: Umehara, Masaaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, the existence of C^1-umbilics with arbitrarily high indices is shown. This implies that more than C^1-regularity is required to prove Loewner's conjecture.
Breast MRI in the Diagnostic and Preoperative Workup Among Medicare Beneficiaries With Breast Cancer
Creators: name: Virnig, Beth A.
name: Kerlikowske, Karla
name: Buist, Diana S.M.
name: Goodrich, Martha E.
name: Onega, Tracy
name: Tosteson, Anna N.A.
name: Henderson, Louise M.
name: Hubbard, Rebecca A.
name: O'Donoghue, Cristina
name: Bennette, Caroline S.
name: Demartini, Wendy B.
name: Weiss, Julia E.
name: Wernli, Karen J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: We compared the frequency and sequence of breast imaging and biopsy use for the diagnostic and preoperative workup of breast cancer according to breast MRI use among older women.
Pentatoma vau
Creators: name: Grazia, Jocélia
name: Campos, Luiz A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pentatomidae
Pentatoma
Pentatoma vau

description: Pentatoma vau. Unpublished name = Mormidea Amyot & Serville, 1843. Material examined. Three females in fairly good condition. Green label: “ Pentatoma vau m. n. sp., D. Jekel 1852, Amazonia”. Box 15 (15-16).
description: Published as part of Grazia, Jocélia & Campos, Luiz A., 2010, Neotropical Pentatomidae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of the collection of Massimiliano Spinola preserved in the " Museo Regionale de Scienze Naturali " ̡ Turin ̡ Italy, pp. 413-424 in Zoologia 27 (3) on page 421, DOI: 10.1590/S1984-46702010000300014, http://zenodo.org/record/3968672
description: {"references": ["AMYOT, J. B. & A. SERVILLE. 1843. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Hemipteres. Paris, Librairie Encyclopedique de Roret, 681 p."]}
Self-Elongation with Sequential Folding of a Filament of Bacterial Cells
Creators: name: Honda, Ryojiro
name: Wakita, Jun-ichi
name: Katori, Makoto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Under hard-agar and nutrient-rich conditions, a cell of $Bacillus$ $subtilis$ grows as a single filament owing to the failure of cell separation after each growth and division cycle. The self-elongating filament of cells shows sequential folding processes, and multifold structures extend over an agar plate. We report that the growth process from the exponential phase to the stationary phase is well described by the time evolution of fractal dimensions of the filament configuration. We propose a method of characterizing filament configurations using a set of lengths of multifold parts of a filament. Systems of differential equations are introduced to describe the folding processes that create multifold structures in the early stage of the growth process. We show that the fitting of experimental data to the solutions of equations is excellent, and the parameters involved in our model systems are determined.,
description: v2: LaTeX2e, 18 pages, 8 figures, revised version for publication in J. Phys. Soc. Jpn
The “echo effect” of the pandemic in dreaming experience: a mixed-method study on contents, structure, and functions
Creators: name: Margherita, Giorgia
name: Caffieri, Alessia
name: Lenzo, Vittorio
name: Quattropani, Maria Catena
name: De Maio, Nadia
name: Franceschini, Christian
name: Musetti, Alessandro
Publisher: name: International Journal of Dream Research
Year: 2023

description: Recent research has shown several changes in sleeping patterns and dreaming during the COVID-19 pandemic. Research typically focused on dream phenomena changes, such as nightmare frequency and dream recall across the different waves of the pandemic. The current study aimed to explore the dreamers’ experience of their dreaming during the lockdown (T1) and the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic (T2), through a mixed-method. In particular, it provides a picture on dream narrative features, in terms of dream structure, content, and functions during these two phases of the COVID-19 pandemic. Out of a total of 815 participants, 60 people who narrated a dream both at T1 and T2 were included in the analysis. The Speech Graph analysis was used to assess the structure of dreams, whereas the T-Lab software was used to assess the contents and functions of dreams. Psychological distress and dreaming phenomena indexes were also integrated into the analysis. Wilcoxon matched-pairs signed rank test showed no difference in structural features of dreams from the lockdown to the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. From the analysis of the elementary context, four thematic clusters emerged: Reaching for the sun, but it was just a dream, Caring, Suffering over a loss, and A very vivid dream life with many nightmares. The factorial mapping also organized 3 vectors of meaning, representative of different dreaming modalities: From the inside to the outside, From life to death scenarios, and Affective systems. Findings showed a kind of “echo effect” of the pandemic on dreaming, considered as an index of psychic functioning on an individual and collective level. Psychological distress was positively associated not only with nightmares but also with ‘sweet dreams’ where an incoherent state of mind is experienced between waking and dream life.
description: International Journal of Dream Research, Vol 16, No 2 (October 2023)
Comparison of SEER Treatment Data With Medicare Claims
Creators: name: Lund, Jennifer L.
name: Cronin, Kathleen
name: McNeel, Timothy
name: Noone, Anne-Michelle
name: Mariotto, Angela
name: Deapen, Dennis
name: Warren, Joan L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: The population-based Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) registries collect information on first-course treatment, including surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and hormone therapy. However, the SEER program does not release data on chemotherapy or hormone therapy due to uncertainties regarding data completeness. Activities are ongoing to investigate the opportunity to supplement SEER treatment data with other data sources.
Langsdorffia moritziana Klotzsch & H. Karsten
Creators: name: Cardoso, Leandro Jorge Telles
name: Braga, João Marcelo Alvarenga
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Santalales
Balanophoraceae
Langsdorffia
Langsdorffia moritziana

description: Langsdorffia moritziana Klotzsch & H.Karsten in Klotzsch (1847: 461)
 Type (lectotype, designated here):— VENEZUELA. Colonia Tovar, 1865, J. W. K. Moritz 1619 (K barcode K000640418!, isolectotypes BM barcode BM000993486!, E barcode E00313895 [digital photo!]; image of the lectotype is available at http://apps.kew.org/ herbcat/getImage.do?imageBarcode= K000640418).
 Nomenclatural notes:—In the protologue, Klotzsch & H. Karsten in Klotzsch (1847) quoted: “In palmetis Colonia Tovar Columbiae, Moritz n. 1619. Karsten (Coll. II.) n. 22”. Referring to the type of L. moritziana, Hansen (1980) wrote: Type. Syntypes: Moritz 1619, Venezuela, Colonia Tovar 1865 (K, BM); Karsten 22, ibid. (P). After analyzing all syntypes, we herein designate the specimen Moritz 1619 (K barcode K 000640418) as the lectotype of L. moritziana, since it is the most representative of the morphological features described in the protologue
 Taxonomic notes:— Langsdorffia moritziana is a heterotypic synonym of L. hypogaea Mart.
description: Published as part of Cardoso, Leandro Jorge Telles & Braga, João Marcelo Alvarenga, 2018, Typifications and nomenclatural notes on Neotropical Balanophoraceae, pp. 263-270 in Phytotaxa 340 (3) on page 264, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.340.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/13720353
Pentatoma ypsilon
Creators: name: Grazia, Jocélia
name: Campos, Luiz A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pentatomidae
Pentatoma
Pentatoma ypsilon

description: Pentatoma ypsilon (Linnaeus̡ 1758) = Mormidea (Mormidea) v-luteum (Lichtenstein, 1796) in part. Material examined. One female in good condition with a white label “crosseipes H. Sch.”. Green label: “ Pentatoma ypsilon, var., D. Buquet, Bresil ”.
description: Published as part of Grazia, Jocélia & Campos, Luiz A., 2010, Neotropical Pentatomidae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of the collection of Massimiliano Spinola preserved in the " Museo Regionale de Scienze Naturali " ̡ Turin ̡ Italy, pp. 413-424 in Zoologia 27 (3) on page 421, DOI: 10.1590/S1984-46702010000300014, http://zenodo.org/record/3968672
Early Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Uptake of Long-acting Reversible Contraceptive Methods
Creators: name: Keating, Nancy L.
name: Dusetzina, Stacie B.
name: Pace, Lydia E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: The Affordable Care Act (ACA) required most private insurance plans to cover contraceptive services without patient cost-sharing as of January 2013 for most plans. Whether the ACA’s mandate has impacted long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARC) use is unknown.