cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
POSTIVE CONSEQUENCES OF ILLNESS
Creators: name: SODERGREN, SAMANTHA CLAIRE
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2002

description: This thesis identifies systematically the domains of positive consequences of illness and details the development of a measure of the positive consequences of illness- the Silver Lining Questionnaire (SLQ). Further aims of the thesis include the use of the SLQ as a predictor of health outcome and an investigation of the prevalence and correlates of positivity in illness. The first study questioned 55 people about their positive experiences of illness and uncovered 17 themes. In the second study a pilot questionnaire based on these themes was administered to the participants of the first study and an additional sample of cancer and chronic respiratory patients. Refinements to the questionnaire resulted in a 38-item measure of positivity. In study 3, the SLQ's properties of reliability and responsiveness to change were confirmed in a sample of chronic respiratory and cardiac patients in a rehabilitation setting. This study also found that positivity increased following rehabilitation. In study 4, the SLQ was used to predict the health outcome of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome. Finally, study 5, investigated the prevalence of positivity amongst respiratory patients varying in illness severity and found no significant difference between patient groups in the expression of positivity. This study identified extraversion and a sense of spirituality and religiosity as correlates of positivity. This thesis thus addresses a previously neglected field of research and presents a more comprehensive measure of positivity than existing measures. This thesis also addresses previously unanswered questions regarding the prevalence and correlates of positivity and also the potential for increasing positivity. Finally, the implications of positivity in illness for health management are highlighted.
The influence of migratory distance on Atlantic salmon Salmo salar population responses to interannual variation in sea surface temperature.
Creators: name: Cook, Joshua
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Salmon
subject: SST
subject: Migration distance
subject: 1SW
subject: 2SW
subject: ResM

description: As a species, the Atlantic salmon Salmo salar is undergoing a range wide population decline. In the last 40 years alone, wild stocks have specifically declined due to continuing human pressures and global climate change. During the marine life stages, North Atlantic Sea surface temperatures (SST) have specifically impacted stocks, inducing range wide declines in abundance and morphometrics as temperature rises. Recent studies have indicated that SST’s effects on S. salar are more severe at the southernmost ranges, however we lack an explanation for why this may be the case. Acknowledging this trend, we hypothesise that while declines in returning abundance and size are explained by SST rise, the population’s response is moderated by their migration distance. Following, this thesis aims to investigate this hypothesis by examining whether the distance that S. salar migrates during their marine inhabitancy influences their population responses to changes in SST. To address this aim, this thesis includes two critical areas of research vital to the understanding of how migratory distance could influence a populations response to SST rise. 1st a literature review section comprised of two review chapters to outline SST influence on S. salar responses and possible marine migratory routes, and 2nd a quantitative analysis of the impact of migratory distance on population responses. In conclusion, the results document considerable declines and variations between populations across the southern and northern European species range.
OTLARDA OYOQ PAYLARI SURUNKALI ASEPTIK YALLIG'LANISHINI DAVOLASH
Creators: name: Tashtemirov R.M. – professor Haydarova S.A. – ilmiy rahbar v.f.f.d. Pardayev E – magistr
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Maqolada otlarda oyoq paylari surunkali aseptik yallig‘lanishinidavolashda ishlab chiqilgan maxsus davolash sxemasini qo‘llash tajribalari hamdadavolash davrida klinik ko‘rsatkichlar holati, qonining morfologik va biokimyoviyo‘zgarishlarini o‘rganish natijalari keltirilgan.
Melochia spicata Fryxell
Creators: name: Jarvis, Charlie
Publisher: name: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Malvales
Malvaceae
Melochia
Melochia spicata

description: Malva spicata Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, ed. 10, 2: 1146. 1759.
RCN: 5037.
 Lectotype (Borssum Waalkes in Blumea 14: 154. 1966): [icon] " Althaea spicata, betonicae folio villosissimo " in Sloane, Voy. Jamaica 1: 218, t. 138, f. 1. 1707. - Typotype: Herb. Sloane 5: 55 (BM-SL).
 Current name:  Melochia spicata  (L.) Fryxell (Sterculiaceae).
 Note: Bates (in Rhodora 84: 196. 1982) treated material in Herb. Sloane (apparently in vol. 5: 56, BM-SL), identifiable as Malvastrum americanum (L.) Torrey, as the lectotype, but it was never seen by Linnaeus and is not original material for the name. Krapovickas & Cristóbal (in Bonplandia 9: 257-258. 1997) argued that the type is 870.1 (LINN), another specimen of the same species, into the synonymy of which Malva spicata would then fall. However, the competing Sloane illustration is clearly an original element for the name and was formally chosen as the type by Borssum Waalkes in 1966. Later authors have not provided grounds for rejecting this choice. Sloane’s plant is of the species formerly known as Melochia villosa (Mill.) Fawc. & Rendle, for which the new combination Melochia spicata (L.) Fryxell was made in 1988.
description: Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part M), pp. 651-689 in Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London :Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum on page 654, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971
Additional file 1 of Neuronal Panx1 drives peripheral sensitization in experimental plantar inflammatory pain
Creators: name: Xing, Qu
name: Cibelli, Antonio
name: Yang, Greta Luyuan
name: Dohare, Preeti
name: Li, Qing-Hua
name: Scemes, Eliana
name: Guan, Fang-Xia
name: Spray, David C.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1 Primer pairs for qRT-PCR. Fig. S1 Detailed pain threshold analysis in WT, global Panx1 KO, NFH-Cre, and GFAP-Cre Panx1 KO mice after CFA inflammation. Fig. S2 Pain threshold baseline studies on all genotypes before CFA injection. Fig. S3 Neural differentiation studies on Panx1 gene-modified Neuro2a cells. Fig. S4 Detailed Sholl analysis on DRGNs from Panx1-deleted genotypes. Fig. S5 β-gal staining in DRG and TG tissue sections.
Assessing the efficacy of a novel galactooligosaccharide to promote fish health and robustness
Creators: name: Sykes, Lucy May
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: aquaculture
subject: feed additives
subject: prebiotics
subject: salmon
subject: trout
subject: tilapia
subject: GOS
subject: PhD

description: Aquaculture has been steadily increasing global production; however, there remains a progressively greater demand for sustainable sources of protein, whilst the prevalence of disease represents a major constraint to industry growth. Feed additives are gaining traction as useful tools to help combat disease and promote health, and previous research has documented benefits to the mucosal surfaces and microbial communities within a range of teleost species. Three experimental in vivo feeding trials were undertaken using a range of in-depth analyses, such as growth performance, haematology, immunology, intestinal histology, intestinal gene expression and intestinal bacterial 16S rRNA sequence libraries. Studies were conducted on three important aquaculture species: rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus). All three experiments revealed that dietary B-GOS® applications modulated the intestinal bacterial communities and intestinal gene expression. Some of these modulations may have potential benefits at the localised level for the hosts. However, no significant improvements of growth performance metrics were observed at the whole organism level, where FCR, SGR, survival, weight gain, condition factor and body composition remained unaffected by treatment. Despite the lack of statistical significance, numerical improvements indicated that GOS at the inclusion rate of 4g kg¯¹ was the optimal concentration. Results from the experimental in vivo trials conducted during this research have provided evidence that a novel GOS tested in three commercially important teleost species had scope to improve localised intestinal health but offered little benefit to growth performance of fish reared with highly nutritious diets and excellent rearing conditions. Further research should prioritise the 4g kg¯¹ B-GOS® inclusion level for further investigation in these fish species whilst under pathogenic or environmental challenge, as this concentration presented the most potential to improve fish health and growth performance.
DEVELOPMENTAL CHANGES IN THE DISTRIBUTION AND DIET OF NUCELLA LAPILLUS (L.) ^FROM A MUSSEL DOMINATED SHORE
Creators: name: Harris, Jean
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 1988

description: Aspects of the developmental biology of an intertidal predatory gastropod, Nucella lapillus were investigated for a population located on a mussel dominated shore at ^^ihitsand Bay, Cornwall. A field sampling programme revealed that the centre of abundance of. small Nucella {<3.4mm) occurred at lower shore levels than that of a ll larger individuals and the egg capsules. Laboratory studies danonstrated that hatchlings are both negatively geotactic and phototactic, directing than upshore and into crevices. The relative profitabilities of four different sized mussels to four developmental stages of Nucella v/ere investigated using both ability to promote grov/th and energy gain per unit handling time (E/Tj^) as measures of prey value. The response curves were similar m that proportionately large and small prey were less profitable than medium sized prey with the optimal prey size increasing with predator size. However the most profitable size according to the E/T^^ model was larger than in the grovrtli rate model because large meals appeared to be less efficiently utilized. An ontogenetic- shift in prey size selection was danonstrated in laboratory and field, the results of which were more accurately predicted by the grcwth rate model of prey value. Predatory events in the field were investigated using borehole dimension as an index of predator size. The feeding and growth of Nucella were investigated at differing periods of tidal atiersion. Growth rates were substantially reduced at anersion periods of above 30%, but these could not be wholly attributable to reduced feeding rates. Field growth trials danonstrated that a matiore size could be reached in 19-21 months, that growth does not cease at maturity, and that jxiveniles grow throughout the year. A strong correlation existed between growth rate and environmental temperature. Growth rates in the field were about 75% those in the laboratory, suggesting few constraints on foraging in the field.
Mops plicatus
Creators: name: Thu, Aye Myat
name: Lwin, Ye Htet
name: Quan, Rui-Chang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Molossidae
Mops
Mops plicatus

description: 211. Mops plicatus (Buchanan, 1800)
Common name: Wrinkle-lipped Free-tailed Bat
Myanmar name:
Distribution: Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam and Myanmar (widely distributed).
Remarks: This species was previously listed in the genus Chaerephon.
description: Published as part of Thu, Aye Myat, Lwin, Ye Htet & Quan, Rui-Chang, 2024, Mammals of Myanmar: an annotated checklist, pp. 147-197 in Mammalia (Warsaw, Poland) (Warsaw, Poland) 88 (3) on page 173, DOI: 10.1515/mammalia-2023-0098, http://zenodo.org/record/13913939
Ecosystem Services Assessment in the six NewLife4Drylands case study areas
Creators: name: Ungaro, Fabrizio
name: Carabassa, Vicenç
name: Domingo Marimon, Cristina
name: Montero, Pau
name: Antaloudaki, Eleftheria
name: Baxevani, Kalliopi
name: Probonas, Michalis
name: Georgiadis, Christos
name: Tarantino, Cristina
name: Vicario, Saverio
name: Labadessa, Rocco
name: Cambria, Vito Emanuele
name: Vitale, Marcello
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The deliverable reports the ecosystem services assessment in the 6 NL4DL case study areas. The document describes the methodology for estimating the potential ecosystem services provision in the six NL4DL case study areas. The choice of how to estimate and map ecosystem service indicators depends on several factors, among which the overall purpose of the ecosystem service assessment, the data availability, the type of measurement needed to quantify the indicators, and the availability of human and financial resources. The purpose of the assessment is to integrate ground data and existing thematic data layers with remote sensing observations to account for temporal variations in ecosystem services supply with reference to a baseline. The proposed approach is tailored to tackle situations with limited or no availability of measured ground data and relies on the use of existing GIS data from freely accessible web resources and remote sensing indices (RSI) retrieved via Google Earth Engine The indicators of ecosystem services provision and degradation process estimated and mapped in each case study area have been selected in agreement with project partners. The proposed methodology has allowed to assess and map the values of the selected ES indicator along with their relative changes with respect to the baseline years. Integrating of time-dependent predictors from remote sensing in a spatially explicit digital mapping workflow has allowed to visualize where the changes occur and their relative magnitudes. The methodology proved to be sensitive enough to depict negative changes in ES supply stemming from land degradation processes due to different drivers acting at various scales, such as wildfires and drought, but also positive changes due to ecosystem recovery. The results presented in the report detect yearly changes, but the approach can be easily tailored to finer temporal scales.
Additional file 1 of Exosome-mediated secretion of miR-127-3p regulated by RAB27A accelerates metastasis in renal cell carcinoma
Creators: name: Song, Dae Hyun
name: Lee, Jong Sil
name: Lee, Jeong-Hee
name: Kim, Dong Chul
name: Yang, Jung Wook
name: Kim, Min Hye
name: Na, Ji Min
name: Cho, Hyun-kyung
name: Yoo, Jiyun
name: An, Hyo Jung
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1. Additional figures.
title: Understanding diversity shifts by characterising the community
Creators: name: Fredricson, Jonatan
name: Payne, Mark R.
Publisher: name: ASC 2015 - Theme session D
Year: 2024
Subjects: Technologies and data
Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Increases in the species richness of the entire North Sea have been reported in the literature, and are commonly attributed to the rapid warming of this region. However, the North Sea is an extremely heterogeneous environment, with significant differences between the south and the north, and between seasons. In this paper we show how fine-scale analysis of regional-scale diversity trends can reveal a substantially different picture of change and its drivers. We use catch data from the International Bottom Trawl Survey (IBTS) to investigate biodiversity and community changes around the North Sea at the scale of ICES statistical rectangles (~50km). During the winter quarter, significant species richness increases were widespread, sea bottom temperatures (SBT) were better predictors of lusitanian change rates and boreal changes were better linked to surface temperatures (SST). In the summer quarter, boreal species numbers had mainly declined or remained stable, while southern species richness increased mostly in the north. Evidence suggest that warming is partly responsible for the shift towards a lusitanian dominated community.
title: Biodiversity hot spots and gradients on a summer transect across the North Sea
Creators: name: Hufnagl, Marc
Publisher: name: ASC 2015 - Theme session D
Year: 2024
Subjects: Technologies and data
Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.In July 2014 we deployed the remotely operated towed vehicle (ROTV) Triaxus on a transect across the North Sea ranging from Helgoland (German Bight) to Stonehaven (Scotland). Physical properties, chlo-rophyll a, zooplankton, fish, bird and marine mammal diversity and abundance were monitored. High abundance, size- and biodiversity were determined at topographic features like the outer rim of the Doggerbank. Generally higher particle densities, size diversity fish and bird abundance were ob-served closer to the coast and in the German Bight. Zooplankton diversity obtained from Bongo samples analyzed with a Zooscan correlated diversity determined by visual plankton counts. Particle size diver-sity was related to zooplankton diversity but not to higher trophic level diversity.
Additional file 1 of Bone-derived PDGF-BB enhances hippocampal non-specific transcytosis through microglia-endothelial crosstalk in HFD-induced metabolic syndrome
Creators: name: Liu, Guanqiao
name: Shu, Wen
name: Chen, Yingqi
name: Fu, Yong
name: Fang, Shuai
name: Zheng, Haonan
name: Cheng, Weike
name: Lin, Qingrong
name: Hu, Yanjun
name: Jiang, Nan
name: Yu, Bin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Hematology
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1
Tadarida teniotis
Creators: name: Thu, Aye Myat
name: Lwin, Ye Htet
name: Quan, Rui-Chang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Molossidae
Tadarida
Tadarida teniotis

description: 212. Tadarida teniotis (Rafinesque, 1814)
Common name: European Free-tailed Bat
Myanmar name:
Distribution: Palaearctic distribution, with the Southeastern part of the range extending into the Indomalayan region and Northern Myanmar (Benda and Piraccini 2016). Remarks: Further investigation is needed to confirm the distribution of this species in Myanmar.
description: Published as part of Thu, Aye Myat, Lwin, Ye Htet & Quan, Rui-Chang, 2024, Mammals of Myanmar: an annotated checklist, pp. 147-197 in Mammalia (Warsaw, Poland) (Warsaw, Poland) 88 (3) on page 173, DOI: 10.1515/mammalia-2023-0098, http://zenodo.org/record/13913939
title: Baseline surveys of non-indigenous species in the Baltic Sea ports - Testing and evaluating the HELCOM-OSPAR Port Survey Protocol
Creators: name: Puntila, Riikka
name: Ojaveer, Henn
name: Granhag, Lena
name: Strake, Solvita
name: Normant, Monika
name: Lehtiniemi, Maiju
Publisher: name: ASC 2015 - Theme session C
Year: 2024
Subjects: Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Transport and introductions of non-indigenous species (NIS) is perceived as one of the primarythreats to the diversity and productivity of the coastal ecosystems worldwide. One of the mostimportant vectors for aquatic organisms is shipping and ports act as key locations for new speciesarrivals. The Baltic Sea is subject to very intense shipping and as a result facing an increasing load ofNIS. Ports are often the first arrival locations for new species and they often offer a variety ofpotentially hospitable environments. Despite of this vulnerability, there has been no frequent NISmonitoring in place for Baltic Sea ports. The Baltic Sea states, working through HELCOM, haveagreed on a Protocol to collect the required information in ports, both for implementing the BallastWater Management Convention (BWMC) and EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD).Currently, port surveys have been conducted in five Baltic Sea countries in nine ports. Based on theresults, the methods appear to function well in the challenging port environments. Furthermore,survey results indicate that ports harbour a variety of NIS, which highlights the need for continuousmonitoring. However, non-parametric extrapolators of the species accumulation curves show thatmore sampling effort should be directed to certain variable ports and to certain species groups. Also,the Protocol sampling did not adequately cover the seasonal dynamics of the biota and thesurrounding areas. Therefore, reliable risk assessments for exemptions from the BWMC requireincluding additional data from the area.
title: Spatial linkages in the early life history of north eastern Atlantic herring populations across the north of the British Isles
Creators: name: Nash, Richard D.M.
name: Payne, Mark R.
name: Albretsen, Jon
name: Geffen, Audrey J.
Publisher: name: ASC 2015 - Theme session E
Year: 2024
Subjects: Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.There are two ICES management areas for autumn spawning herring spanning the north of the BritishIsles (Area IVaNorth and area IV). During January and February each year the over‐wintering herring(Clupea harengus) larvae occurring throughout the North Sea are enumerated for a recruitment indexfor the North Sea stock. Larvae spawned to the west of the North Sea are probably advected into thenorthern North Sea from the adjacent west of Scotland (IVaN) spawning grounds, mixing with NorthSea‐spawned larvae. However, the extent of larval mixing in the North Sea has not been quantified.‘Back‐tracking’ of larvae from their capture site, otolith micro‐chemistry and forward particle trackingfrom known spawning grounds all indicate a similar pattern of mixing of larvae from both North Seaand west of Scotland spawning grounds in the northern North Sea. There is the potential for a largeamount of mixing of larvae from different spawning grounds, even in relatively small areas. Theingress of herring larvae from the west of Scotland highlights the connectivity between these tworegional seas areas and has implications for the estimate of the recruitment index for herring in theNorth Sea.
title: A new compact, cost-efficient concept for underwater range-gated imaging: the UTOFIA project
Creators: name: Quincoces, Iñaki
name: Galparsoro, Ibon
name: Bald, Juan
name: Gabiña, Gorka
name: Visser, Andre W.
name: Mariani, Patrizio
name: Jónasdóttir, Sigrun H.
Publisher: name: ASC 2015 - Theme session C
Year: 2024
Subjects: Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.A new compact, cost-efficient concept for underwater range-gated imaging: the UTOFIA project
Malva sylvestris Linnaeus 1753
Creators: name: Jarvis, Charlie
Publisher: name: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Malvales
Malvaceae
Malva
Malva sylvestris

description: Malva sylvestris Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 689. 1753.
"Habitat in Europae campestribus." RCN: 5050.
 Lectotype (Ali in Ali & Jafri, Fl. Libya 10: 7. 1977): Herb. Linn. No. 870.22 (LINN).
 Generitype of Malva Linnaeus (vide Green, Prop. Brit. Bot.: 173. 1929).
 Current name:  Malva sylvestris  L. (Malvaceae).
description: Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part M), pp. 651-689 in Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London :Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum on page 654, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971
title: Hill’s diversity: a general framework to address marine biodiversity management issues
Creators: name: Certain, Grégoire
name: Planque, Benjamin
Publisher: name: ASC 2015 - Theme session D
Year: 2024
Subjects: Technologies and data
Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.How much species diversity do we have in a system, and how is it expected to change through space and time? How does taxonomic, phylogenetic or functional diversity relates to each other? How vulnerable is a community to a given pressure? All these questions are central issues in marine management and all can be addressed using a single mathematical framework rooted in biodiversity statistics.
EFFECT OF COPPER ON THE GILL STRUCTURE OF A EURYHALINE CRAB, CARCINUS MAENAS (CRUSTACEA:DECAPODA)
Creators: name: LAWSON, SARAH LOUISE
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 1994

description: A posterior gill of the common shore crab Carcinus maenas (Crustacea:Decapoda) was used to study the effects of sublethal copper concentrations on gill morphometry, and gill cell ultrastructure and distribution. Primarily, the ultrastructure and distribution of gill cells in the untreated gill of crabs acclimated to 35‰ seawater were characterised. Gill ultrastructure was subsequently shown to vary markedly at 10‰ compared to 35‰ seawater. Ultrastructural and distributional, rather than gross morphological, change occurred in the gill following exposure to copper at each salinity. Ultrastructural studies showed that as the length of copper exposure increased the gill epithelial layer became highly vacuolated, the number of plasma membrane infoldings and mitochondria became reduced, the microtubular network became disrupted, the endoplasmic reticulum became swollen and the cell cytoplasm contained many free ribosomes. Copper exposure also resulted in an increase in the number of haemocytes in the gill, some of which became attached to the basal epithelial cell surface or actually infiltrated into the epithelial cell cytoplasm. Ultrastructural change was more extensive when copper was administered at 35‰ rather than 10‰ seawater. These effects are described and correlated with previously documented biochemical and physiological responses to heavy metals in crustaceans. In addition, the elemental composition of the gill granular haemocytes suggested they play an important role in the immobilisation and removal of copper-from the gill. This study has shown the way forward in creating a better understanding of the mechanisms behind heavy metal toxicity in marine organisms is the use of environmentally realistic concentrations of heavy metal administered in flow-through seawater systems.
title: Eddy-induced dispersal of marine organisms in the southeastern Bay of Biscay
Creators: name: Ferrer, Luis
name: Urtizberea, Agurtzane
name: Aldanondo, Naroa
name: Caballero, Ainhoa
name: Rubio, Anna
name: Cotano, Unai
Publisher: name: ASC 2015 - Theme session E
Year: 2024
Subjects: Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.The preliminary results obtained with the Sediment, Oil spill, and Fish Tracking model (SOFT) showthat the dispersal of many marine organisms during the early life stages varies in the water column ofthe southeastern Bay of Biscay. This dispersal is influenced by the freshwater discharges from riversand the presence of eddies.
Additional file 1 of Association between ambient air pollution and age-related macular degeneration: a meta-analysis
Creators: name: Wu, Jiali
name: Zhang, Yuzhu
name: Xu, Xian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Newcastle-Ottawa Scale for assessing the quality of studies in the meta-analysis.
title: A diversity of food webs in the Barents Sea
Creators: name: Olivier, Pierre
name: Planque, Benjamin
Publisher: name: ASC 2015 - Theme session D
Year: 2024
Subjects: Technologies and data
Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.A food web topology describes the diversity of species and their trophic interactions, i.e. who eats whom. Structural analysis of food web topologies provides insight into ecosystem function and health. It appears simple, at first sight, to list all species and their trophic interactions. However, the large number of species at low trophic levels (e.g. unicellular organisms) and the unfeasibility of monitoring all trophic interactions in the ocean makes it impossible to construct complete food web topologies. In practice, food web topologies are simplified by aggregating species into groups termed tropho-species. It is not clear though, how much simplified food webs retain the structural properties of more detailed networks. Using the most comprehensive Barents Sea food web to date, we investigate the performance of methods to construct simplified versions using three approaches: taxonomic, structural and regular clustering. We then evaluate how topological properties (e.g. connectance) vary with the level of network simplification. Results show that comparability of food webs requires that food webs be constructed and simplified with a specific common methodology.
EVALUATION OF STREAM MEIOFAUNA AS A MONITOR OF TRACE METAL CONTAMINATION
Creators: name: BURTON, SUSAN MARY
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 1998

description: Members of the meiobenthos have been used extensively to determine the effects of anthropogenic perturbation in marine systems (Coull & Chandler, 1992). Despite this, the meiofauna has been virtually excluded from freshwater pollution monitoring. This thesis aimed to address this research caveat, by evaluating the potential of stream meiofauna for monitoring metal-contamination. Meiofaunal communities were sampled from streams in SW England representing a gradient in metal contamination. Environmental variables in these streams were also measured to identify the important forcing agents structuring the stream benthos. Multivariate techniques demonstrated Cu, either alone or in combination with other environmental variables was of most importance in correlations with the composition of meiofaunal communities. Comparison with the macrofaunal data demonstrated that both components of the benthos responded in a similar way to metal contamination, although the meiofauna also highlighted other differences in water chemistry. The combination of meiofauna, macrofauna and temporary meiofauna in a combined metazoan community analysis gave the best discrimination of sites. Detection of metal-contamination was retained in meiofaunal data aggregated to the family level. The abundances of the harpacticoid copepod Bryocamptus zschokkei were consistently important in contributing to between-site differences in community structure. The harpacticoid, therefore was selected as an ecologically-relevant freshwater toxicity test for Cu. Laboratory experiments demonstrated that Cu had toxic effects on the survival and reproduction of Bryocamptus zschokkei. Although acute toxicity tests gave more rapid results, these effects on survival occurred at a higher Cu concentration than those in the chronic tests. Sub-lethal concentrations of Cu led to a reduction in the numbers of offspring per brood Animals with pre-exposure to chronic concentrations of Cu exhibited greater tolerance to this metal. In conclusion, more information may be gained by including the meiofauna, alongside the macrofauna, when monitoring the impact of contaminants on freshwater systems. To reduce the effort of processing samples it appears family level data could be used to detect metal-contamination. The novel use of B. zschokkei in laboratory tests, where it showed lethal and sub-lethal responses to Cu, demonstrated that this species may have much potential as an ecologically-relevant freshwater bioassay organism for this metal. The advantages of using meiofaunal species such as B. zschokkei as toxicity test organisms are discussed.
title: Diversity, distinctness and distribution of krill in the Indian Ocean
Creators: name: Sutton, Alicia
name: Beckley, Lynnath
Publisher: name: ASC 2015 - Theme session D
Year: 2024
Subjects: Technologies and data
Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Krill (euphausiids) are wide-spread across the ocean basins of the world, where they play an important role in marine food webs. Distribution information for the 57 krill species occurring throughout the Indian Ocean (IO) was collated to produce spatially-explicit data on species richness and taxonomic distinctness. Average taxonomic distinctness (AvTD, Δ+) is a measure of biodiversity that can be applied to presence/absence data and is robust to differences in sampling effort. Most regions of the IO were comparable in AvTD and species richness, which reflects the high connectivity across the basin and, in turn, the dispersal of holoplanktonic krill. Areas of highest AvTD were found in the Bay of Bengal. Although species richness was typically < 8 species per cell, these species were spread across six different genera, including Bentheuphausia amblyops, from the monotypic family Bentheuphausiidae. Areas with lowest AvTD included the Red Sea and areas of the Arabian Sea. Surface salinity and dissolved oxygen below 100 m were the most important environmental explanatory variables to explain the variation in AvTD and species richness.
Epidemiological studies of the bacterial fish pathogen Yersinia ruckeri
Creators: name: Rodgers, Christopher John
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 1991

description: A new mediumi, designated Ribose Ornithine Deoxycholate agar (ROD), was developed and used in field trials at two fish farms where fish were known to have ERM. The medium indicated that Yersinia ruckeri could occur in faeces four to six weeks before appearing in the kidney. Fxurther epidemiological studies dealing with fish condition, performance, disease signs and water isolation are presented. These factors are discussed in relation to husbandry and management practices. The minimum uihibitory concentration (MIC) values for 124 strains of F. ruckeri were detemuned. The effect of oxolinic acid, oxytetracycline and a potentiated sulphonamide, on growth patterns over a 72 h period, was also determined. Results showed the bactericidal or bacteriostatic nature of each antimicrobial agent. It was possible to increase the MIC for oxoUnic acid, oxytetracycline and a potentiated sulphonamide usmg an in vitro technique. Attempts to decrease resistance to oxolinic acid were unsuccessful. However, it was possible to reduce the MIC's for o^etracycline and a potentiated sulphonamide. The recovery of Y. ruckeri, after artificial challenge, was less from the faecal and kidney material of a vaccinated group of fish compared with a non-vaccinated group. An E L I S A technique indicated that although there was no detectable serum antibody there was a local mucosal response i n vaccinated fish. Uptake of F. ruckeri antigen was demonstrated in vaccinated and non-vaccinated fish using an immunoperoxidase technique. However, only vaccinated fish appeared to take up the antigen by an active process. A survey of salmonid farms showed that there was a tendency for those sites where ERM had been diagnosed, irrespective of vaccination, to be larger table farms with production ranging up to over 200 tonnes p:a. Certain environmental and husbandry factors were reported as coinciding with the appearance of F. ruckeri. A slight tendency to consider that vaccines had failed i n some way was also indicated. This and the use of antimicrobial agents are discussed.
Biokimia Sorbitol dan Rodopsin
Creators: name: Baharuddin, Baharuddin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Biokimia Sorbitol dan RodopsinBaharuddinLaboratorium Biokimia, Fakultas Kedokteran Universitas Surabaya, Indonesia

Abstrak

Materi kuliah ini membahas tentang biokimia sorbitol dan rodopsin, dua molekul yang memiliki peranan vital dalam biologi. Sorbitol, alkohol gula yang terdapat dalam berbagai buah, berperan dalam osmoregulasi dan metabolisme gula. Rodopsin, pigmen yang terlibat dalam penglihatan di kondisi cahaya rendah, juga akan dijelaskan secara mendalam. Kuliah ini akan mengeksplorasi struktur kimia, fungsi biologis, dan interaksi kedua molekul ini dalam sistem biologis. Melalui diskusi dan demonstrasi, mahasiswa akan mendapatkan pemahaman tentang pentingnya molekul-molekul ini dalam biokimia serta aplikasi pengetahuan ini dalam konteks biomedis dan teknologi.

Kata Kunci

Sorbitol, Rodopsin, Biokimia, Osmoregulasi, Penglihatan malam, Metabolisme gula, Edukasi biomedis
Additional file 1 of Spatial spread of COVID-19 during the early pandemic phase in Italy
Creators: name: d’Andrea, Valeria
name: Trentini, Filippo
name: Marziano, Valentina
name: Zardini, Agnese
name: Manica, Mattia
name: Guzzetta, Giorgio
name: Ajelli, Marco
name: Petrone, Daniele
name: Del Manso, Martina
name: Sacco, Chiara
name: Andrianou, Xanthi
name: Bella, Antonino
name: Riccardo, Flavia
name: Pezzotti, Patrizio
name: Poletti, Piero
name: Merler, Stefano
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1.
ISHLAB CHIQARADIGAN ZARARLI MAHSULOTLARNING INSON SALOMATLIGIGA TAʼSIRINI OʻRGANISH
Creators: name: Rasulova, N.F.
name: Aminova, A.A.
name: Nazarov, Sh.B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ushbu tadqiqot sanoat korxonalari va fabrikalar tomonidan chiqariladigan zararli mahsulotlarning inson salomatligiga salbiy ta'sirini o'rganadi. Bu muassasalar tomonidan atrof-muhitga chiqariladigan turli ifloslantiruvchi moddalar va ularning odamlar farovonligiga ta'siri o'rganiladi. Har tomonlama tahlil qilish va ma'lumotlarni to'plash orqali tadqiqot sanoat ifloslanishi bilan bog'liq sog'liq uchun xavflar haqida xabardorlikni oshirish va uning inson salomatligiga salbiy ta'sirini yumshatish choralarini qo'llab-quvvatlashga qaratilgan.
Miniopterus fuliginosus
Creators: name: Thu, Aye Myat
name: Lwin, Ye Htet
name: Quan, Rui-Chang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Miniopteridae
Miniopterus
Miniopterus fuliginosus

description: 213. Miniopterus fuliginosus (Hodgson, 1835)
Common name: Asian Long-fingered Bat, Eastern Bentwinged Bat
Myanmar name:
Distribution: South and East Asia and Southern Myanmar (recorded in Proposed Lenya NP; Grindley 2019).
description: Published as part of Thu, Aye Myat, Lwin, Ye Htet & Quan, Rui-Chang, 2024, Mammals of Myanmar: an annotated checklist, pp. 147-197 in Mammalia (Warsaw, Poland) (Warsaw, Poland) 88 (3) on page 173, DOI: 10.1515/mammalia-2023-0098, http://zenodo.org/record/13913939
title: Catalogue of marine biodiversity indicators to assess the environmental status – a software and a review of the current indicator set
Creators: name: Teixeira, Heliana
Publisher: name: ASC 2015 - Theme session D
Year: 2024
Subjects: Technologies and data
Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.A Catalogue of Biodiversity Indicators useful for the implementation of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) was developed by the DEVOTES FP7 Project with the aim of providing the basis for assessing the environmental status of European seas. It is available online through the DEVOTool 0.64 software application that allows navigating a database of indicators related to the following MSFD descriptors: biological biodiversity, non-indigenous species, food webs, and seafloor integrity.The catalogue (v.6) contains over 500 indicators used by different initiatives, in national and international contexts. A comprehensive overview of these indicators is given: descriptions, data requirements, developmental status, geographical coverage and applicable habitats, biodiversity components and descriptors targeted, and related human pressures.
The immune response of the grey mullet, Chelon labrosus (Risso, 1826), to Cryptocotyle lingua (Creplin, 1825), (Digenea)
Creators: name: WOOD, BRADBURY PATRICK
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 1990

description: The ability of thick-lipped grey mullet to mount both humoral and cellular immune responses to Cryptocotyle lingua has been demonstrated here for the first time. Of the 3 procedures for immunisation investigated, namely exposure to live cercariae, intraperitoneal (ip) injection of whole killed cercariae and ip injection of a cercarial sonicate, the former gave the highest primary antibody titres with a peak response at 4 weeks post infection. Peak titres occurred at 5 and 7 weeks after immunisation by ip injection of sonicated cercariae and whole killed cercariae respectively. An enhanced secondary antibody response was observed following challenge by ip injection of sonicated cercariae. Cercariacidal activity, apparently involving complement, was detected in normal serum and enhanced in immune serum. However, the mechanism for complement activation remains uncertain. Parasite antigens were identified following separation by SOS-PAGE and immunoblotting using mullet and rabbit antisera. Mullet failed to respond to certain parasite proteins recognised by rabbit antiserum and in situ immunogold-silver staining demonstrated that mullet. immunised by exposure to live cercariae, were unable to recognise the metacercarial cyst wall. Migration and polarisation of pronephric leucocytes in vitro was enhanced following immunisation but cellular adherence to encysted and unencysted parasites was not observed. In vitro studies further demonstrated a possible role for fish serum in stimulating metacercarial encystment. The intensity of melanisation of the host capsule in metacercarial infections was increased in fish held in total darkness and with increased temperature. The rate of development of the metacercarial tegument and cyst wall and the associated host response was similarly affected by temperature and initial development was inhibited by prior immunisation via ip injection of sonicated cercariae. There was however, no evidence of protection against cercarial infection following such immunisation. These results are discussed in relation to mechanisms of immunity, metacercarial survival strategies and control of metazoan infections in fish.
BEHAVIOURAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS OF VISUAL PERFORMANCE IN THE CUTTLEFISH, SEPIA OFFICINALIS
Creators: name: GROEGER, GILLIAN
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2004

description: This thesis investigated the behaviour and physiology of the visual system of Sepia officinalis by studying systematically its visual sensitivity and its spatial resolution. The cephalopod retina is composed of only photoreceptors and supporting cells, thereby providing a unique opportunity to study the interactions between photoreceptors, without the influence of other neurons, such as those typically found in the vertebrate retina. The minimum separable angle (MSA), a measure of spatial resolution, of S. officinalis was determined from behavioural experiments to be 42' for animals of 8 cm mantle length at 15 µW/cm² light intensity. As the animals grew in size and as the ambient light intensity was increased, S. officinalis showed improved visual acuity. Through these experiments, it was revealed that each tested size of animal adapted to light with similar efficiencies, and that factors other than retinal growth were involved in the improvement of behavioural MSA with increasing size. The minimum light intensity to which the retina of S. officinalis responded was 0.1 µW /cm2 , which was slightly higher than that to which individual photoreceptor cells responded. Retinal sensitivity decreased with increasing animal size. This was unexpected, as previous theoretical and behavioural studies in other species have shown sensitivity to increase with increasing animal size. Possible reasons for the decrease in sensitivity were a reciprocal decrease in cell resistance or an increase in dark noise. The visual sensitivity of S. officinalis was also affected by the stimulus flash wavelength and duration. Its retina adapted to background light in a way similar to vertebrate photoreceptors and the extracellular calcium concentration of the solution perfusing the retina affected this process. Finally, two series of experiments provided some evidence that functioning gap junctions exist in the retina of S. officinalis. By completing a study of the visual sensitivity of S. officinalis at the three levels of single cell, retina and whole animal, the visual processing that occurs between these physiological levels was investigated. From the work presented in this thesis, it is concluded that, although S. officinalis did not prove comparable in every aspect to other species on an intracellular level, it would be a useful model of behavioural and extracellular visual processes for both invertebrate and vertebrate species.
Miniopterus magnater Sanborn 1931
Creators: name: Thu, Aye Myat
name: Lwin, Ye Htet
name: Quan, Rui-Chang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Miniopteridae
Miniopterus
Miniopterus magnater

description: 214. Miniopterus magnater Sanborn, 1931
Common name: Large Long-fingered Bat, Western Longfingered Bat
Myanmar name:
Distribution: Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Thailand and Vietnam. In Myanmar, recorded in Proposed Lenya NP, Hpa-an and
Mawlamyine Township (Grindley 2019; Myo et al. 2020; Nyo 2005).
description: Published as part of Thu, Aye Myat, Lwin, Ye Htet & Quan, Rui-Chang, 2024, Mammals of Myanmar: an annotated checklist, pp. 147-197 in Mammalia (Warsaw, Poland) (Warsaw, Poland) 88 (3) on pages 173-174, DOI: 10.1515/mammalia-2023-0098, http://zenodo.org/record/13913939