cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Parapyrrhicia zanzibarica Brunner
Creators: name: Hemp, Claudia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Phaneropteridae
Parapyrrhicia
Parapyrrhicia zanzibarica

description: Parapyrrhicia zanzibarica Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1891
http://lsid.speciesfile.org/urn:lsid: Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:10859
Distribution: Tanzania, East Usambara, Uluguru and Nguru Mountains, south Tanzania near Lake Malawi (Ragge 1980). Coastal Tanzania.
Ecology & Biology: P. zanzibarica specimens were shaken from understory trees along the Zigi Trail at the foothills of the East Usambara Mountains in March 2012. In December 2011 only some nymphs were found at the same locality.
Habitat: Coastal, lowland and submontane forest.
Remarks: The spirit collection of the zoological museum in Copenhagen holds specimens of this species from the Bagamoyo District, Laraminge-Kiono (swamp) and the Kisarawe district, Kazimzumbwi forest reserve near Dar es Salaam collected by FRONTIER Tanzania.
description: Published as part of Hemp, Claudia, 2013, Annotated list of Tettigoniidae (Orthoptera) from the East Usambara Mountains Tanzania and new Tettigoniidae species from East Africa, pp. 301-350 in Zootaxa 3737 (4) on page 341, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3737.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/248321
Cord plasma metabolomic signatures of prenatal per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) exposures in the Boston birth Cohort
Creators: name: Wang, Xiaobin
name: Buckley, Jessie P.
name: Wang, Guoying
name: Hong, Xiumei
name: Zhang, Mingyu
name: Li, Zeyu
name: Nadeau, Kari C.
name: Choi, Giehae
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2024

description:
Background Prenatal per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) exposures are associated with adverse offspring health outcomes, yet the underlying pathological mechanisms are unclear. Cord blood metabolomics can identify potentially important pathways associated with prenatal PFAS exposures, providing mechanistic insights that may help explain the long-term health effects. Methods The study included 590 mother-infant dyads from the Boston Birth Cohort. We measured PFAS in maternal plasma samples collected 24–72 h after delivery and metabolites in cord plasma samples. We used metabolome-wide association studies and pathway enrichment analyses to identify metabolites and pathways associated with individual PFAS, and quantile-based g-computation to examine associations of metabolites with the PFAS mixture. We used False Discovery Rate to account for multiple comparisons. Results We found that 331 metabolites and 18 pathways were associated with ≥ 1 PFAS, and 38 metabolites were associated with the PFAS mixture, predominantly amino acids and lipids. Amino acids such as alanine and lysine and their pathways, crucial to energy generation, biosynthesis, and bone health, were associated with PFAS and may explain PFAS’ effects on fetal growth restriction. Carnitines and carnitine shuttle pathway, associated with 7 PFAS and the PFAS mixture, are involved in mitochondrial fatty acid β-oxidation, which may predispose higher risks of fetal and child growth restriction and cardiovascular diseases. Lipids, such as glycerophospholipids and their related pathway, can contribute to insulin resistance and diabetes by modulating transporters on cell membranes, participating in β-cell signaling pathways, and inducing oxidative damage. Neurotransmission-related metabolites and pathways associated with PFAS, including cofactors, precursors, and neurotransmitters, may explain the PFAS’ effects on child neurodevelopment. We observed stronger associations between prenatal PFAS exposures and metabolites in males. Conclusions This prospective birth cohort study contributes to the limited literature on potential metabolic perturbations for prenatal PFAS exposures. More studies are needed to replicate our findings and link prenatal PFAS associated metabolic perturbations to long-term child health outcomes.
Pseudophyllinae
Creators: name: Hemp, Claudia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae

description: Subfamily Pseudophyllinae
description: Published as part of Hemp, Claudia, 2013, Annotated list of Tettigoniidae (Orthoptera) from the East Usambara Mountains Tanzania and new Tettigoniidae species from East Africa, pp. 301-350 in Zootaxa 3737 (4) on page 341, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3737.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/248321
Basin-Factor Calibration for Ground-Water Recharge Estimation
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: N.J. Geological Survey
Year: 1999

description: (This report is an Addendum to Charles et al, 1993, A method for evaluating ground-water-recharge areas in New Jersey) The New Jersey Geological Survey's methodology for estimating ground-water recharge on parcels of land 5 acres or larger (Charles and others, 1993) contains a calibration constant referred to as the "basin factor." As part of the method's development, recharge over the test area (in Morris County) was compared to an estimate of stream baseflow from the same area. The NJ Geological Survey has recently mapped ground-water recharge rates for a number of areas in New Jersey. This work allows for a comparsion of baseflow and recharge calculations. Table 1 lists baseflow from the sliding-interval and Posten methods at three gaging stations: the Whippany River at Morristown; the Rockaway River above the Boonton Reservoir; and the Manasquan River at Squankum. The table also shows estimated net ground-water recharge over the basins assuming different basin factors. It is clear that using a basin factor of 1.3 overestimates the Posten values of stream baseflow. A basin factor of 1.0 is more appropriate.
Cymatodera tutoides Barr 1972
Creators: name: Burke, Alan F.
name: Leavengood, John M.
name: Zolnerowich, Gregory
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Cymatodera
Cymatodera tutoides

description: Cymatodera tutoides Barr, 1972
Distribution: USA: TX; MEX: COAH, NL, SLP, TAM. References: Barr 1972, 1975; Opitz 2014.
description: Published as part of Burke, Alan F., Leavengood, John M. & Zolnerowich, Gregory, 2015, A checklist of the New World species of Tillinae (Coleoptera: Cleridae), with an illustrated key to genera and new country records, pp. 1-39 in Zootaxa 4059 (1) on page 19, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4059.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/234970
De novo missense variants in the PP2A regulatory subunit PPP2R2B in a neurodevelopmental syndrome: potential links to mitochondrial dynamics and spinocerebellar ataxias
Creators: name: Kollman, Grace J
name: Sullivan, Jennifer
name: Merrill, Ronald A
name: Pfundt, Rolph
name: Bicknell, Louise S
name: Sandal, Priyanka
name: Bend, Eric G
name: Paden, Austin H
name: de Vries, Bert B A
name: Spillmann, Rebecca C
name: Silfhout, Anneke T Vulto-van
name: Jong, Chian Ju
name: Strack, Stefan
name: Shashi, Vandana
name: Li, Pan P
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Year: 2024

description:
The heterotrimeric protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) complex catalyzes about half of Ser/Thr dephosphorylations in eukaryotic cells. A CAG repeat expansion in the neuron-specific protein PP2A regulatory subunit PPP2R2B gene causes spinocerebellar ataxia type 12 (SCA12). We established five monoallelic missense variants in PPP2R2B (four confirmed as de novo) as a cause of intellectual disability with developmental delay (R149P, T246K, N310K, E37K, I427T). In addition to moderate to severe intellectual disability and developmental delay, affected individuals presented with seizures, microcephaly, aggression, hypotonia, as well as broad-based or stiff gait. We used biochemical and cellular assays, including a novel luciferase complementation assay to interrogate PP2A holoenzyme assembly and activity, as well as deregulated mitochondrial dynamics as possible pathogenic mechanisms. Cell-based assays documented impaired ability of PPP2R2B missense variants to incorporate into the PP2A holoenzyme, localize to mitochondria, induce fission of neuronal mitochondria, and dephosphorylate the mitochondrial fission enzyme dynamin-related protein 1. AlphaMissense-based pathogenicity prediction suggested that an additional seven unreported missense variants may be pathogenic. In conclusion, our studies identify loss-of-function at the PPP2R2B locus as the basis for syndromic intellectual disability with developmental delay. They also extend PPP2R2B-related pathologies from neurodegenerative (SCA12) to neurodevelopmental disorders and suggests that altered mitochondrial dynamics may contribute to mechanisms.
Acauloplax exigua Karsch 1891
Creators: name: Hemp, Claudia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Phaneropteridae
Acauloplax
Acauloplax exigua

description: Acauloplax exigua Karsch, 1891
http://lsid.speciesfile.org/urn:lsid: Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:7406
Distribution: Central, East Africa and south-east Africa (Hemp 2013a).
Ecology & Biology: Adults throughout the year, common species in the submontane zone on Mt Kilimanjaro (Hemp 2013a).
Habitat: Hemp (2005); Hemp (2013a). Canopy dweller of coastal, lowland and submontane forests in northeastern Tanzania. Plantation belt on Mt Kilimanjaro from the colline to submontane zone.
Song: Low cricket-like series of chirps heard after sunset.
description: Published as part of Hemp, Claudia, 2013, Annotated list of Tettigoniidae (Orthoptera) from the East Usambara Mountains Tanzania and new Tettigoniidae species from East Africa, pp. 301-350 in Zootaxa 3737 (4) on page 341, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3737.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/248321
New Jersey Piping Plover Populations and Nesting Success: 1999
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Fish and Wildlife
Year: 2000

description: This document consists of a table detailing New Jersey piping plover populations and nesting success in 1999.  The table provides figures for pairs, pairs hatched, chicks fledged, pair success, and fledge rate for various towns in New Jersey.
Cymatomerella Beier
Creators: name: Hemp, Claudia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Phaneropteridae
Cymatomerella

description: Genus Cymatomerella Beier
http://lsid.speciesfile.org/urn:lsid: Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:4400
The genus Cymatomerella at present contains three species and is restricted to eastern Africa. It is distinguished from the very similar species of the genus Cymatomera by the venation of the tegmina. In Cymatomera R and Sc are contiguous, while in Cymatomerella both veins are running in parallel for most of their length but are clearly separated from each other, connected by numerous short side veins.
Cymatomerella are medium sized, brownish coloured pseudophyllids which resemble bark or lichens on trees. The body has a pattern of dark and lighter patches. The head as seen from above is roundish. The fastigium verticis is longer than the margins of the scapi and sulcate. The scapus is armed with a blunt process. The pronotum is flat on its disk, slightly raised in the metazona and its surface is almost smooth. Lateral on the pronotal disk there are two or several tubercles. The lateral edges of the posterior margin of the pronotum are uplifted with a round posterior margin. The lateral lobes of the pronotum are shallow and almost double as long as deep. Cymatomerella are fully alate species. The tegmina are rugose, Sc and R are well separated along the whole course and connected by short veins. The crossveins of the alae are brown. The fore femora are somewhat expanded, the dorsal margin with a series of flanges. The abdomen shows a pattern of dark and lighter stripes. The supra-anal plate is longer than wide and the anterior margin is broadly rounded. The male subgenital plate is stick-like elongated distally, with small and short styli. The female subgenital plate is distally narrowing, the posterior margin deeply incised. The ovipositor is very stout at its distal end and moderately up-curved.
description: Published as part of Hemp, Claudia, 2013, Annotated list of Tettigoniidae (Orthoptera) from the East Usambara Mountains Tanzania and new Tettigoniidae species from East Africa, pp. 301-350 in Zootaxa 3737 (4) on page 341, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3737.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/248321
Atheroma transcriptomics identifies ARNTL as a smooth muscle cell regulator and with clinical and genetic data improves risk stratification
Creators: name: Narayanan, Sampath
name: Gigante, Bruna
name: Bergman, Otto
name: Aherahrrou, Redouane
name: Veglia, Fabrizio
name: Tremoli, Elena
name: Hedin, Ulf
name: Miller, Clint L
name: Matic, Ljubica
name: Mosquera, Jose Verdezoto
name: Wirka, Robert
name: Razuvaev, Anton
name: Baldassarre, Damiano
name: Lengquist, Mariette
name: Quertermous, Thomas
name: Björck, Hanna M
name: Vuckovic, Sofija
name: Chen, Qiao Sen
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Year: 2024

description:
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: The role of vascular smooth muscle cells (SMCs) in atherosclerosis has evolved to indicate causal genetic links with the disease. Single cell RNA sequencing (scRNAseq) studies have identified multiple cell populations of mesenchymal origin within atherosclerotic lesions, including various SMC sub-phenotypes, but it is unknown how they relate to patient clinical parameters and genetics. Here, mesenchymal cell populations in atherosclerotic plaques were correlated with major coronary artery disease (CAD) genetic variants and functional analyses performed to identify SMC markers involved in the disease. METHODS: Bioinformatic deconvolution was done on bulk microarrays from carotid plaques in the Biobank of Karolinska Endarterectomies (BiKE, n = 125) using public plaque scRNAseq data and associated with patient clinical data and follow-up information. BiKE patients were clustered based on the deconvoluted cell fractions. Quantitative trait loci (QTLs) analyses were performed to predict the effect of CAD associated genetic variants on mesenchymal cell fractions (cfQTLs) and gene expression (eQTLs) in plaques. RESULTS: Lesions from symptomatic patients had higher fractions of Type 1 macrophages and pericytes, but lower fractions of classical and modulated SMCs compared with asymptomatic ones, particularly females. Presence of diabetes or statin treatment did not affect the cell fraction distribution. Clustering based on plaque cell fractions, revealed three patient groups, with relative differences in their stability profiles and associations to stroke, even during long-term follow-up. Several single nucleotide polymorphisms associated with plaque mesenchymal cell fractions, upstream of the circadian rhythm gene ARNTL were identified. In vitro silencing of ARNTL in human carotid SMCs increased the expression of contractile markers and attenuated cell proliferation. CONCLUSIONS: This study shows the potential of combining scRNAseq data with vertically integrated clinical, genetic, and transcriptomic data from a large biobank of human plaques, for refinement of patient vulnerability and risk prediction stratification. The study revealed novel CAD-associated variants that may be functionally linked to SMCs in atherosclerotic plaques. Specifically, variants in the ARNTL gene may influence SMC ratios and function, and its role as a regulator of SMC proliferation should be further investigated.
Cymatodera undulata Say 1825
Creators: name: Burke, Alan F.
name: Leavengood, John M.
name: Zolnerowich, Gregory
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Cymatodera
Cymatodera undulata

description: Cymatodera undulata (Say, 1825)
Original combination: Tillus undulatus Say, 1825.
Synonyms: Tillus (Cymatodera) boscii Chevrolat, 1843; Cymatodera longicollis Spinola, 1844; Cymatodera vauthieri Spinola, 1844.
Distribution: CAN: Ontario; USA: AL, AR, AZ, CO, DC, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MD, MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, NE, NJ, NY, OH, OK, PA, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, WI.
References: Say 1825; Chevrolat 1843; Spinola 1844; LeConte 1849, 1859; Horn 1876; Drury 1879; Hamilton 1895; Lohde 1900; Schenkling 1910; Wolcott 1909, 1910b, 1921, 1947; Wickham and Wolcott 1912; Böving and Champlain 1920; Balduf 1926; Corporal 1950; Knull 1951; Papp 1960; Barr 1975; Ekis 1975; Gosling 1980; Peck and Thomas 1998; Eliason and Potter 2000; Leavengood 2008; Burke and Zolnerowich 2014c; Opitz 2014.
description: Published as part of Burke, Alan F., Leavengood, John M. & Zolnerowich, Gregory, 2015, A checklist of the New World species of Tillinae (Coleoptera: Cleridae), with an illustrated key to genera and new country records, pp. 1-39 in Zootaxa 4059 (1) on page 19, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4059.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/234970
Appendix A:  Piping Plover Nesting Summary:  1995-1999
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Department of Fish and Wildlife
Year: 2000

description: This document consists of tables detailing piping plover nesting habits in New Jersey.  The tables detail pairs, pairs hatched, chicks fledged, pair success, and fledge rate.  There is an individual table for each year from 1995-1999 and one table which encompasses 1987-1999.
Performance Report: 2-C Piping Plover Threat Assessment and Management
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Fish and Wildlife
Year: 2000

description: The objective of this report was to determine the nature and level of threats to piping plover populations and reproductive success and to reduce threats through management.  Recovery of piping plovers in New Jersey will depend on the ability to develop and implement new approaches to reducing losses of both nests and chicks.  This will require aggressive management of predation and human disturbance and creative habitat enhancement projects that improve foraging habitat.  This document includes piping plover nesting site narratives.
Performance Report: 2-B Piping Plover Population Survey
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Fish and Wildlife
Year: 2000

description: This performance report was created to determine statewide and site specific piping plover populations, nesting success, and productivity.  While the record productivity of the 1999 nesting season was encouraging, over the past decade average productivity in New Jersey has not been sufficient to produce population recovery, despite intensive management.  If New Jersey is to contribute to regional and population-wide piping plover recovery goals, years with poor reproductive success, such as 1997, must be balanced by more years with relatively high productivity, such as 1999.
Cymatodera uniformis Schaeffer 1905
Creators: name: Burke, Alan F.
name: Leavengood, John M.
name: Zolnerowich, Gregory
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Cymatodera
Cymatodera uniformis

description: Cymatodera uniformis Schaeffer, 1905
Distribution: USA: AZ, CA, CO, NM, NV.
References: Schaeffer 1905; Schenkling 1910; Wolcott 1921, 1947; Corporaal 1950; Papp 1960; Barr 1975.
description: Published as part of Burke, Alan F., Leavengood, John M. & Zolnerowich, Gregory, 2015, A checklist of the New World species of Tillinae (Coleoptera: Cleridae), with an illustrated key to genera and new country records, pp. 1-39 in Zootaxa 4059 (1) on page 20, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4059.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/234970
Draft:  Keeping the Piping Plover in New Jersey's Future:  A Synopsis of Population Status and a Framework for Piping Plover Recovery in New Jersey
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Fish and Wildlife
Year: 2000

description: This proposal suggests the following framework and specific actions to reverse current trends and begin recovery of piping plover populations in New Jersey:  Increase the focus of protection and management on state and federal beaches including state parks and natural areas, national parks, and national wildlife refuges.  Develop and execute written management agreements with municipalities that provide for a progressive shift of some management responsibilities to local governments and which reduce detrimental activities such as beach raking.  Increase efforts to reduce predation of nests and chicks through predator trapping and shooting programs in addition to current methods (e.g. predator exclosures).  Seek and implement opportunities to maintain a full range of natural coastal formation processes, including overwash.  Increase the involvement and participation of non-governmental conservation organizations.
A JWST MIRI MRS View of the η Tel Debris Disk and Its Brown Dwarf Companion
Creators: name: Lu, Cicero X.
name: Rebollido, Isabel
name: Sloan, G. C.
name: Chai, Yiwei
name: Sefilian, Antranik A.
name: Chen, Christine H.
name: Li, Alexis
name: Sargent, B. A.
name: Wyatt, Mark
name: Hines, Dean C.
name: Balmer, William
name: Law, David R.
name: Rickman, Emily
name: Worthen, Kadin
name: Perrin, Marshall D.
Publisher: name: American Astronomical Society
Year: 2024

description:
We report JWST Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) Medium Resolution Spectrograph (MRS) observations of the β Pic moving-group member, η Tel A, along with its brown dwarf binary companion, η Tel B. Following point-spread-function subtraction, we recover the spatially resolved flux from the debris disk around η Tel A, along with the position of the companion exterior to the disk. We present a new 5–26 μm epoch of spectroscopy for the disk, in which we discover a 20 μm silicate feature, and the first ever 11–21 μm spectrum of η Tel B, which indicates a bare photosphere. We derive a new epoch of relative astrometry for the companion, extending the baseline of measurements to 25 yr, and find that it is currently located near the apocenter of an eccentric long-period orbit. The companion’s orbit is close enough to the disk that it should significantly perturb the planetesimals within it, resulting in a detectable mid-IR pericenter glow and near alignment with the companion. Contrary to expectations, however, we find that the disk appears to be axisymmetric and potentially misaligned with the companion in the MIRI MRS data. We posit that this may be due to the presence of an additional, as-yet-undetected ∼0.7–30 M J planet orbiting interior to the disk, with a semimajor axis of ∼3–19 au.
Cymatodera usta LeConte 1858
Creators: name: Burke, Alan F.
name: Leavengood, John M.
name: Zolnerowich, Gregory
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Cymatodera
Cymatodera usta

description: Cymatodera usta LeConte, 1858
Distribution: USA: TX.
References: LeConte 1858; Horn 1876; Lohde 1900; Schenkling 1910; Wolcott 1910a, 1921, 1947; Corporaal 1950; Papp 1960; Barr 1975; Burke and Zolnerowich 2014c.
description: Published as part of Burke, Alan F., Leavengood, John M. & Zolnerowich, Gregory, 2015, A checklist of the New World species of Tillinae (Coleoptera: Cleridae), with an illustrated key to genera and new country records, pp. 1-39 in Zootaxa 4059 (1) on page 20, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4059.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/234970
Highlands Ecosystem Research Symposia Proceedings
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
Year: 2000

description: The Highlands physiographic province stretches from Reading Pennsylvania across New Jersey, to the Hudson River and beyond into Connecticut.  The Highlands forest resources provide high quality surface and ground water for agriculture, recreation, wildlife habitat, industry, and drinking water for over 3.8 million residents of New Jersey and New York.  The New Jersey Ecological Research Partnership joined with Regional Plan Association and the USDA Forest Service to sponsor two companion symposia on the Highlands Ecosystem.  The first focused on extant data, research needs and priorities through the eyes of scientists, researchers, data gatherers, and persons knowledgeable about the Highlands ecosystem.  The second symposium brought together municipal officials, developers, planners, open space managers, and citizen activists to discuss how scientific data and understanding about habitat conservation and water resource management can be translated into better land use management and development decisions in the Highlands region.  Recommendations developed during the first meeting were used as a basis for discussion at the second symposium.  This document reports the findings of both Highlands Research Symposia.  It contains a brief summary of the recommendations developed by the participants as well as the complete reports of each of the individual workshops held at either event.  A list of participants is included as well.
FY99 Annual Performance Report on the FY99/2000 New Jersey Performance Partnership Agreement
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and the Environmental Protection Agency, Region 2
Year: 2000

description: In the state fiscal year 1999, New Jersey entered into its third Performance Partnership Agreement (PPA) between the NJ Department of Environmental Protection and the US Environmental Protection Agency, Region 2, under the National Environmental Performance Partnership System (NEPPS).  This Agreement, covering fiscal years 1999 and 2000, is the most comprehensive PPA for New Jersey to date:  the plan now addresses eight broad environmental goals and one operational goal, as well as numerous issues which span across various NJDEP/EPA programs.
New Mission for Brownfields: Attacking Sprawl by Revitalizing Older Communities
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: National Governor's Association
Year: 2000

description: The five states that lead the nation in developing successful brownfields clean-up programs are New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Massachusetts, and Maryland. Exemplary projects from each state are examined, including New Jersey's Lily Tulip Plant Redevelopment Project in Holmdel, NJ.  The report is intended to provide models for other states.
Molecular control of breast exposure to selenium
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: It is the overall goal of this research to reduce the damage done by cancer-causing metals to breast cells. Cadmium, arsenite, and nickel ions can cause cancer, and along with lead are important industrial toxins to which women are exposed via dietary and environmental contamination. Selenium can offset the cancer-causing effects of cadmium, arsenite, and nickel, and reduce the toxicity of lead. Deficiency of this micronutrient has been reported to be a risk factor for the development of breast cancer. We have isolated a previously unknown human gene (hARSA-I) whose expression can influence the sensitivity of the cells to selenite (the salt form of selenium), arsenite, cadmium, and nickel. The protein product of the hARSA-I gene is part of a membrane transporter (abbreviated HART) that appears to play a central role in the ability of these metals to get into and out of cells. It is our hypothesis that HART is a major determinant of the effect of selenium and cancer-causing metals in breast cells, and plays a role in mediating the ability of selenium to offset the toxic effects of arsenite, cadmium, and nickel.

 The specific aims of this study are to: (1) determine whether an increase in the expression of the hARSA-I gene alters uptake of selenium in normal human breast cells. The effect of increased hARSA-I gene expression on initial uptake, content at steady-state, efflux, location within the cell and toxicity will be compared in pairs of normal breast cell populations that differ only in the extent of hARSA-I expression. (2) determine whether either prior exposure or concurrent treatment of breast cells with selenite can alter the expression of hARSA-I, or the activity of the HART pump, and whether such changes alter the uptake and efflux of selenium; and (3) determine the pattern of expression of the hARSA-I protein in normal human breast tissue samples by immunologic staining, and whether the pattern or level of expression differs in benign or fully malignant lesions of the breast. We have produced an antibody to hARSA and demonstrated that it can be used for such immunologic staining studies.

 The discovery of the hARSA-I-related transporter (HART) provides a novel way to address fundamental questions about the role of selenium and related micronutrients in the chemoprevention of breast cancer, and to develop rational dietary and hormonal strategies for reducing breast cancer risk.
New Jersey Brownfields: A New Opportunity - Resource Guide
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Office of State Planning, New Jersey Brownfields Program
Year: 2000

description: The Brownfields Redevelopment Program Resource Guide explains how the brownfield redevelopment process works in New Jersey, describes the federal and State incentives, and provides contact information for each.  The Guide promotes community-based planning and dialogue between residents and business leaders.
Cymatodera vagemaculata Thomson 1860
Creators: name: Burke, Alan F.
name: Leavengood, John M.
name: Zolnerowich, Gregory
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Cymatodera
Cymatodera vagemaculata

description: Cymatodera vagemaculata Thomson, 1860
Distribution: MEX: CHIS, COLI, GUE, JAL, MICH, MOR, OAX, PUE, QUE; CAM: GUA *. References: Thompson 1860; Gorham 1882; Lohde 1900; Schenkling 1910; Barr 1950a, 1975; Corporaal 1950; Papp 1960; Burke and Zolnerowich 2014c; Toledo et al. 2015.
description: Published as part of Burke, Alan F., Leavengood, John M. & Zolnerowich, Gregory, 2015, A checklist of the New World species of Tillinae (Coleoptera: Cleridae), with an illustrated key to genera and new country records, pp. 1-39 in Zootaxa 4059 (1) on page 20, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4059.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/234970
New Jersey Brownfields Redevelopment Update: Contaminated Site Cleanup and Reuse 1998
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Site Remediation Program
Year: 1998

description: This document details the efforts in New Jersey brownfield remediation and reuse in 1998.  The Department of Environmental Protection expanded its outreach to municipalities and private developers working on the more than 1,130 brownfield sites identified in the state.  Voluntary cleanups by private parties accounted for more than $40 million in remedial work.  The legislature provided several key liability protections that added needed safeguards for parties managing voluntary cleanup projects.
Sociodemographic, lifestyle, and medical factors associated with calculated free testosterone concentrations in men: individual participant data meta-analyses
Creators: name: Flicker, Leon
name: Orwoll, Eric S
name: Wittert, Gary A
name: O'Neill, Terence W
name: Wu, Frederick C W
name: Ballantyne, Christie M
name: Bhasin, Shalender
name: Biggs, Mary L
name: Hankey, Graeme J
name: Martin, Sean A
name: Yeap, Bu B
name: Matsumoto, Alvin M
name: Shores, Molly M
name: Antonio, Leen
name: Ohlsson, Claes
name: Couper, David J
name: Wilkening, Robin
name: Steveling, Antje
name: Bauer, Douglas C
name: Travison, Thomas G
name: Narinx, Nick
name: Marriott, Ross J
name: Adams, Robert J
name: Murray, Kevin
name: Dobs, Adrian S
name: Hannemann, Anke
name: Cawthon, Peggy M
name: Vanderschueren, Dirk
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Year: 2024

description:
OBJECTIVE: Sociodemographic, lifestyle, and medical variables influence total testosterone (T) and sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG) concentrations. The relationship between these factors and "free" T remains unclear. We examined 21 sociodemographic, lifestyle, and medical predictors influencing calculated free T (cFT) in community-dwelling men across ages. DESIGN: This is a cross-sectional analysis in 20 631 participants in the Androgens in Men Study. METHODS: Individual participant data (IPD) were provided by 9 cohorts. Total T was determined using mass spectrometry, SHBG using immunoassays, and cFT using the Vermeulen formula. Associations were analyzed using 2-stage random effects IPD meta-analyses. RESULTS: Cohort median ages ranged from 40 to 76 years and median cFT concentrations from 174.3 to 422.8 pmol/L. In men aged 17-99 years, there was a linear inverse association of cFT with age (-57.2 pmol/L [95% confidence interval, -69.4, -44.9] per 1 SD increase in age). Calculated free T increased with increasing baseline body mass index (BMI) among men with BMI < 23.6 kg/m2, but decreased among men with BMI > 23.6 kg/m2 (-24.7 pmol/L [-29.1, -20.3] per 1 SD increase in the 25.4-29.6 kg/m2 BMI range). Calculated free T was lower in younger men, who were married or in a de facto relationship (-18.4 pmol/L [-27.6, -9.3]) and in men who formerly smoked (-5.7 pmol/L [-8.9, -2.6]), were in poor general health (-14.0 pmol/L [-20.1, -7.8]), and had diabetes (-19.6 pmol/L [-23.0, -16.3]), cardiovascular disease (-5.8 pmol/L [-8.3, -3.2]), or cancer (-19.2 pmol/L [-24.4, -14.1]). CONCLUSIONS: Calculated free T was most prominently associated with age and BMI. The linear, inverse association with age, nonlinear association with BMI, and presence of diabetes, cancer, and sociodemographic factors should be considered when interpreting cFT values.
Regulatory Update from 99 SRP Annual Report
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
Year: 2000

description: NJDEP continued its efforts in 1999 to promulgate the state's first soil cleanup standards with plans to release a draft proposal by fall 2000.  In addition, the Department adopted several important rules to implement legislative amendments that included the Brownfield and Contaminated Site Remediation Act, and began new rulemaking efforts for its remedial priority scoring and underground storage tank programs.
Morris County Soil Conservation District: Catalog of Materials
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Morris County Soil Conservation District
Year: 1992

description: This catalog has been prepared to assist teachers in locating Natural Resource Education Materials that will meet their specific goals and objectives. A variety of materials are available to accomplish this. The library has four collections: Conservation Comic Books, Fact Sheets, Pamphlets, Natural Resource Education Media and Classroom And Field Guides. Each Collection has within it a list of materials available. The list is for classroom use and the format of the materials and suggested grade levels are also indicated.
Estradiol modulates resting-state connectivity in perimenopausal depression
Creators: name: Hynd, Megan
name: Walsh, Melissa
name: Gibson, Kathryn
name: Prim, Julianna
name: Walsh, Erin
name: Phillips, Rachel
name: Eisenlohr-Moul, Tory
name: Dichter, Gabriel
name: Schiller, Crystal
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2024

description:
The perimenopausal transition is marked by an increased risk for affective dysregulation and major depressive disorder (MDD), with hormone replacement therapy using estradiol (E2) showing promise for alleviating symptoms of perimenopausal-onset MDD (PO-MDD). Although E2's effectiveness is recognized, its mechanisms underlying mood symptom modulation remain to be fully elucidated. Building on previous research suggesting that E2 may influence mood by altering cortico-subcortical connectivity, this study investigated the effects of transdermal E2 on resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) in perimenopausal women with and without PO-MDD, focusing on rsFC changes using seed regions within reward and emotion processing networks. In this pharmaco-fMRI study, 16 participants with PO-MDD and 18 controls underwent rsFC analysis before and after three weeks of transdermal E2 administration. Pre-E2 results showed that the PO-MDD group, compared to controls, exhibited increased connectivity between the right amygdala (seed) and medial prefrontal cortex and anterior cingulate cortex, and decreased connectivity with the supplementary motor area. Comparing groups on change from pre-E2 to post-E2 revealed several significant E2-induced changes in connectivity between the PO-MDD and control groups: PO-MDD showed increased connectivity between the right caudate nucleus (seed) and left insula, and decreased connectivity between the right putamen (seed) and left hippocampus, and the right amygdala (seed) and left ventromedial prefrontal cortex. Notably, changes in connectivity were predictive of symptom trajectories across anhedonia, depressive mood, somatic, and vasomotor domains in the PO-MDD group. These findings enrich our understanding of PO-MDD by highlighting distinct rsFC patterns characteristic of the disorder and their shifts in response to E2 treatment, suggesting potential neural mechanisms underlying E2's mood-modulating effects.
Cymatodera valida Gorham 1882
Creators: name: Burke, Alan F.
name: Leavengood, John M.
name: Zolnerowich, Gregory
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Cymatodera
Cymatodera valida

description: Cymatodera valida Gorham, 1882
Distribution: CAM: GUA.
References: Gorham 1882; Lohde 1900; Schenkling 1910; Corporaal 1950; Papp 1960; Barr 1975; Leavengood and Garner 2014; Rifkind 2015.
description: Published as part of Burke, Alan F., Leavengood, John M. & Zolnerowich, Gregory, 2015, A checklist of the New World species of Tillinae (Coleoptera: Cleridae), with an illustrated key to genera and new country records, pp. 1-39 in Zootaxa 4059 (1) on page 20, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4059.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/234970
NJPDES Discharge to Ground Water Permit Technical Manual for the Site Remediation Program
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
Year: 1999

description: This technical manual describes the requirements for completion and review of applications for individual New Jersey Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NJPDES) - Discharge to Ground Water (NJPDES-DGW) permits for discharges onto, or into, the ground resulting from remediation of contaminated sites. The DGW permit is the only type of NJPDES permit issued by the SRP. This manual also contains limited information on expiration, continuance, renewal and revocation of existing DGW permits. Information regarding NJPDES-DGW requirements for certain site remediation activities where individual permits may not always be required is also provided.
Namaste Care: Therapeutic Care Approach Towards the End of Life
Creators: name: Ang, Seng Hock Martin
Publisher: name: Singapore Institute of Technology
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 420502
subject: Aged care nursing
classificationCode: 420316
subject: Palliative care

description: This paper examines Namaste Care, a holistic approach to end-of-life care that focuses on creating a comforting environment, utilizing loving touch, and engaging patients in meaningful activities. It emphasizes improving the quality of life for individuals with advanced illnesses by fostering emotional connection, alleviating discomfort, and promoting relaxation. The paper highlights the principles, methods, and positive impacts of Namaste Care on patients, families, and caregivers, ensuring dignity and a sense of purpose in the final stages of life.
Development and initial validation of the implicit internalized sexual orientation stigma affect misattribution procedure
Creators: name: Frey, Joseph J.
name: Hall, William J.
name: Williams, Denise Yookong
name: Ramon, Magdelene E.
name: Chapman, Mimi V.
name: Dawes, Hayden C.
name: Payne, B. Keith
name: Srivastava, Ankur
name: Hannay, Jason W.
name: Chen, Ding-Geng
name: Wilson, Amy Blank
Publisher: name: Frontiers
Year: 2024

description:
This article describes the development and initial validation of a measure of implicit internalized stigma among queer people, the Implicit Internalized Sexual Orientation Stigma Affect Misattribution Procedure (Internal-SOS-AMP), a computer-administered sequential priming procedure. The creation of the Internal-SOS-AMP involved a mixed-methods approach, including a literature review, expert interviews, stimuli selection and pilot testing, data collection from a large sample, reliability testing, correlational analyses, and confirmatory factor analysis. Psychometric testing was conducted with a national sample of 500 queer adults who completed two waves of data collection. Confirmatory factor analysis was used to evaluate two models: a one-factor model with internalized stigma specified as one overall construct and a two-factor model with internalized stigma specified as two constructs based on binary conceptions of gender (stigma regarding queer women and stigma regarding queer men). Results showed that the two-factor model best fit the data. This indicates that although implicit attitudes toward queer men and women are highly correlated, implicit internalized stigma differentiated by two gender stimuli groups (men and women) more accurately reflects the data. There was evidence of convergent validity as Internal-SOS-AMP scores showed small positive associations with explicit internalized stigma. Regarding divergent validity, Internal-SOS-AMP scores were inversely related to affirmation of a queer identity. Reliability results for the Internal-SOS-AMP showed good internal consistency and acceptable test–retest reliability. The creation of the Internal-SOS-AMP used best practices for measurement development. Psychometric findings show strong evidence of content validity, convergent validity, divergent validity, and reliability of the Internal-SOS-AMP.
Meiotic Drive and Speciation
Creators: name: Pardo-Manuel de Villena, Fernando
name: Searle, Jeremy B
Publisher: name: Annual Reviews
Year: 2024

description:
Meiotic drive is the biased transmission of alleles from heterozygotes, contrary to Mendel's laws, and reflects intragenomic conflict rather than organism-level Darwinian selection. Theory has been developed as to how centromeric properties can promote female meiotic drive and how conflict between the X and Y chromosomes in males can promote male meiotic drive. There are empirical data that fit both the centromere drive and sex chromosome drive models. Sex chromosome drive may have relevance to speciation through the buildup of Dobzhansky-Muller incompatibilities involving drive and suppressor systems, studied particularly in Drosophila. Centromere drive may promote fixation of chromosomal rearrangements involving the centromere, and those fixed rearrangements may contribute to reproductive isolation, studied particularly in the house mouse. Genome-wide tests suggest that meiotic drive promotes allele fixation with regularity, and those studying the genomics of speciation need to be aware of the potential impact of such fixations on reproductive isolation. New species can originate in many different ways (including multiple factors acting together), and a substantial body of work on meiotic drive point to it being one of the processes involved.
Cymatomerella muta Beier 1954
Creators: name: Hemp, Claudia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Phaneropteridae
Cymatomerella
Cymatomerella muta

description: Cymatomerella muta Beier, 1954
http://lsid.speciesfile.org/urn:lsid: Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:4410
Distribution: Eastern Africa (Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Somalia).
Habitat: Common in coastal forest of southern Kenya and Tanzania.
Remarks. Several individuals were obtained by FRONTIER in January/ February 1991. Orthoptera collected during this project are stored in the spirit collection of the zoological museum Copenhagen. C. muta was also caught in the Kazimzumbwi Forest Reserve, Kisarawe District of coastal Tanzania near Dar es Salaam.
description: Published as part of Hemp, Claudia, 2013, Annotated list of Tettigoniidae (Orthoptera) from the East Usambara Mountains Tanzania and new Tettigoniidae species from East Africa, pp. 301-350 in Zootaxa 3737 (4) on page 341, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3737.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/248321
Pfiesteria: Background Information and Contingency Plan
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection : New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services
Year: 2000

description: Pfiesteria and Pfiesteria-like species, first identified and characterized in 1991, are microscopic aquatic life forms known as a dinoflagellates; a group of single celled organisms which have the ability to swim in the water column and exhibit characteristics of both plants and animals. The organism is not a disease-causing pathogen; rather it is the toxin produced by the organism that causes the adverse health effects observed. Presently, testing for the presence of Pfiesteria is complicated, time-consuming, and requires highly specialized facilities. By correlating the known environmental condition preferences of Pfiesteria and Pfiesteria-like organisms with the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) ambient water monitoring database, a map demonstrating an estimation of the level of potential risk for Pfiesteria outbreaks has been developed.
Public Health Consultation: Drinking Water Quality Analysis, March 1996 to June 1999 United Water Toms River
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Department of Health and Human Services
Year: 1999

description: The Public Health Consultation presents the results of extensive sampling and testing of the United Water Toms River (UWTR) community water supply serving most of Dover Township (Ocean County), New Jersey, for the period March 1996 through June 1999. The testing was conducted as part as a Public Health Response Plan developed by the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services (NJDHSS) and the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ASTDR) to address concerns about elevated childhood cancer incidence in the community. The purpose of the testing was to evaluate the current quality of the drinking water supply in response to concerns expressed by the community. In addition, the testing was conducted to determine if there are any characteristics of the community drinking water system that were unique to the Dover Township area, and that would warrant examination in epidemiologic studies of childhood cancer in the area.