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DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.2377636
title: The first amphisbaenians from Texas, with notes on other squamates from the middle Eocene Purple Bench locality

description: The shift to a cooler and drier climate through the Paleogene has been interpreted as the driver for changes in diversity and biogeographic distributions among mammalian taxa during the Eocene, leading to hypotheses of continued tropical climatic refugia in West Texas through the middle and late Eocene. However, the presence of ectothermic reptiles during that time has not been documented in detail and would potentially provide additional climatic indicators. We provide the first description of the herpetofauna from the Devil's Graveyard Formation (DGF), West Texas, the southernmost, well-sampled middle Eocene basin in North America. Specimens are derived from beds correlated with the Ui3 biochron of the late Uintan North American Land Mammal ‘Age’ (∼45–40 Ma). We report the first amphisbaenians known from Texas, expanding our spatial and climatic understanding of rhineurid distribution, as well as the first glyptosaurine anguimorphs and alethinophidian snakes from the Purple Bench assemblage. These new amphisbaenians preserve a jugal posteriorly enclosing the orbit and an extremely short retroarticular process and are recovered in a clade comprising †<i>Spathorhynchus</i>, †<i>Dyticonastis</i>, †<i>Ototriton</i>, and †<i>Hyporhina</i>. The documentation of the amphisbaenians and other squamates provides biogeographic range extensions of these taxa to West Texas. Despite suggestions that West Texas was a middle and late Eocene climatic refugium for mammals adapted to subtropical forested environments, rhineurid amphisbaenians show a wide range of temperature tolerances up to the beginning of the Neogene. http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:3E55D6BF-0691-4220-9212-0407F454BE53 SUPPLEMENTAL DATA—Supplemental materials are available for this article for free at www.tandfonline.com/UJVP Citation for this article: Stocker, M. R., and E. C. Kirk. 2016. The first amphisbaenians from Texas, with notes on other squamates from the middle Eocene Purple Bench locality. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2016.1094081.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.2378338.v1
title: A novel dual lock method for down-regulation of genes, in which a target mRNA is captured at 2 independent positions by linked locked nucleic acid antisense oligonucleotides

description: Nuclear factor κB (NFκB), which is composed of the RelA and p50 subunits, binds to NFκB response elements (NREs) and stimulates the transcription of inflammation-related genes. Here, locked nucleic acid (LNA) antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) complementary to the termini of the 3′- and 5′-untranslated regions (UTRs) of the <i>RelA</i> mRNA were generated; these molecules were named 3′-LNA and 5′-LNA, respectively. To evaluate their effects on NFκB activity, HeLa cells were co-transfected with the LNA ASOs and a luciferase reporter gene carrying an NRE. Transfection of the cells with 3′-LNA reduced NFκB activity by 30–40%, without affecting <i>RelA</i> mRNA accumulation. Concomitant transfection of HeLa cells with 5′-LNA and 3′-LNA resulted in a 70% reduction in NFκB activity. Furthermore, partial poly(A) tail shortening occurred in LNA ASO-transfected cells. We also employed triethylene glycol as a spacer to link 5′-LNA and 3′-LNA. Reporter gene assays showed that the spacer-linked LNA ASO reduced NFκB activity similarly to a combination of 5′-LNA and 3′-LNA. In addition, an <i>in vitro</i> translation assay revealed that spacer-linked LNA ASOs inhibited the translation of a target mRNA in a specific manner. In summary, this study describes a novel antisense method capturing the target mRNA at independent positions.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.2885308.v202
title: UNH-RVAT 3-D SST RANS simulation results

description: Results from simulating the UNH-RVAT cross-flow turbine in three dimensions using the k-omega SST RANS model in OpenFOAM 2.3.x. See the link below for case files and download instructions.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4015064
title: Ghent summer 2015 measurement campaign

description: Temperature, humidity and Wet Bulb Globe Temperature measurements collected by VITO in the city of Ghent (Belgium) during the summer of 2015 with a number of devices.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.2377783
title: Proteomic analysis of native cerebellar iFGF14 complexes

description: Intracellular Fibroblast Growth Factor 14 (iFGF14) and the other intracellular FGFs (iFGF11-13) regulate the properties and densities of voltage-gated neuronal and cardiac Na<sup>+</sup> (Nav) channels. Recent studies have demonstrated that the iFGFs can also regulate native voltage-gated Ca<sup>2+</sup> (Cav) channels. In the present study, a mass spectrometry (MS)-based proteomic approach was used to identify the components of native cerebellar iFGF14 complexes. Using an anti-iFGF14 antibody, native iFGF14 complexes were immunoprecipitated from wild type adult mouse cerebellum. Parallel control experiments were performed on cerebellar proteins isolated from mice (<i>Fgf14</i><sup><i>−/−</i></sup>) harboring a targeted disruption of the <i>Fgf14</i> locus. MS analyses of immunoprecipitated proteins demonstrated that the vast majority of proteins identified in native cerebellar iFGF14 complexes are Nav channel pore-forming (α) subunits or proteins previously reported to interact with Nav α subunits. In contrast, no Cav channel α or accessory subunits were revealed in cerebellar iFGF14 immunoprecipitates. Additional experiments were completed using an anti-PanNav antibody to immunoprecipitate Nav channel complexes from wild type and <i>Fgf14</i><sup><i>−/−</i></sup> mouse cerebellum. Western blot and MS analyses revealed that the loss of iFGF14 does not measurably affect the protein composition or the relative abundance of Nav channel interacting proteins in native adult mouse cerebellar Nav channel complexes.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.2885308.v203
title: UNH-RVAT 3-D SST RANS simulation results

description: Results from simulating the UNH-RVAT cross-flow turbine in three dimensions using the k-omega SST RANS model in OpenFOAM 2.3.x. See the link below for case files and download instructions.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4015063
title: Ghent summer 2015 measurement campaign

description: Temperature, humidity and Wet Bulb Globe Temperature measurements collected by VITO in the city of Ghent (Belgium) during the summer of 2015 with a number of devices.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.2377783.v2
title: Proteomic analysis of native cerebellar iFGF14 complexes

description: Intracellular Fibroblast Growth Factor 14 (iFGF14) and the other intracellular FGFs (iFGF11-13) regulate the properties and densities of voltage-gated neuronal and cardiac Na<sup>+</sup> (Nav) channels. Recent studies have demonstrated that the iFGFs can also regulate native voltage-gated Ca<sup>2+</sup> (Cav) channels. In the present study, a mass spectrometry (MS)-based proteomic approach was used to identify the components of native cerebellar iFGF14 complexes. Using an anti-iFGF14 antibody, native iFGF14 complexes were immunoprecipitated from wild type adult mouse cerebellum. Parallel control experiments were performed on cerebellar proteins isolated from mice (<i>Fgf14</i><sup><i>−/−</i></sup>) harboring a targeted disruption of the <i>Fgf14</i> locus. MS analyses of immunoprecipitated proteins demonstrated that the vast majority of proteins identified in native cerebellar iFGF14 complexes are Nav channel pore-forming (α) subunits or proteins previously reported to interact with Nav α subunits. In contrast, no Cav channel α or accessory subunits were revealed in cerebellar iFGF14 immunoprecipitates. Additional experiments were completed using an anti-PanNav antibody to immunoprecipitate Nav channel complexes from wild type and <i>Fgf14</i><sup><i>−/−</i></sup> mouse cerebellum. Western blot and MS analyses revealed that the loss of iFGF14 does not measurably affect the protein composition or the relative abundance of Nav channel interacting proteins in native adult mouse cerebellar Nav channel complexes.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.2951263.v212
title: UNH-RVAT 3-D Spalart--Allmaras RANS simulation results

description: Results from simulating the UNH-RVAT cross-flow turbine in three dimensions with the Spalart--Allmaras RANS model in OpenFOAM 2.3.x (590d57f32fed). See link below for case files (note: use the `SpalartAllmaras` branch), which include a script for downloading and extracting, as well as scripts for post-processing.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.2377783.v1
title: Proteomic Analysis of Native Cerebellar iFGF14 Complexes

description: Intracellular Fibroblast Growth Factor 14 (iFGF14) and the other intracellular FGFs (iFGF11-13) regulate the properties and densities of voltage-gated neuronal and cardiac Na<sup>+</sup> (Nav) channels. Recent studies have demonstrated that the iFGFs can also regulate native voltage-gated Ca<sup>2+</sup> (Cav) channels. In the present study, a mass spectrometry (MS)-based proteomic approach was used to identify the components of native cerebellar iFGF14 complexes. Using an anti-iFGF14 antibody, native iFGF14 complexes were immunoprecipitated from wild type adult mouse cerebellum. Parallel control experiments were performed on cerebellar proteins isolated from mice (<i>Fgf14</i><sup>−/−</sup>) harboring a targeted disruption of the <i>Fgf14</i> locus. MS analyses of immunoprecipitated proteins demonstrated that the vast majority of proteins identified in native cerebellar iFGF14 complexes are Nav channel pore-forming (α) subunits or proteins previously reported to interact with Nav α subunits. In contrast, no Cav channel α or accessory subunits were revealed in cerebellar iFGF14 immunoprecipitates. Additional experiments were completed using an anti-PanNav antibody to immunoprecipitate Nav channel complexes from wild type and <i>Fgf14</i><sup>−/−</sup> mouse cerebellum. Western blot and MS analyses revealed that the loss of iFGF14 does not measurably affect the protein composition or the relative abundance of Nav channel interacting proteins in native adult mouse cerebellar Nav channel complexes.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.2885308.v204
title: UNH-RVAT 3-D SST RANS simulation results

description: Results from simulating the UNH-RVAT cross-flow turbine in three dimensions using the k-omega SST RANS model in OpenFOAM 2.3.x. See the link below for case files and download instructions.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.2377636.v2
title: The first amphisbaenians from Texas, with notes on other squamates from the middle Eocene Purple Bench locality

description: The shift to a cooler and drier climate through the Paleogene has been interpreted as the driver for changes in diversity and biogeographic distributions among mammalian taxa during the Eocene, leading to hypotheses of continued tropical climatic refugia in West Texas through the middle and late Eocene. However, the presence of ectothermic reptiles during that time has not been documented in detail and would potentially provide additional climatic indicators. We provide the first description of the herpetofauna from the Devil's Graveyard Formation (DGF), West Texas, the southernmost, well-sampled middle Eocene basin in North America. Specimens are derived from beds correlated with the Ui3 biochron of the late Uintan North American Land Mammal ‘Age’ (∼45–40 Ma). We report the first amphisbaenians known from Texas, expanding our spatial and climatic understanding of rhineurid distribution, as well as the first glyptosaurine anguimorphs and alethinophidian snakes from the Purple Bench assemblage. These new amphisbaenians preserve a jugal posteriorly enclosing the orbit and an extremely short retroarticular process and are recovered in a clade comprising †<i>Spathorhynchus</i>, †<i>Dyticonastis</i>, †<i>Ototriton</i>, and †<i>Hyporhina</i>. The documentation of the amphisbaenians and other squamates provides biogeographic range extensions of these taxa to West Texas. Despite suggestions that West Texas was a middle and late Eocene climatic refugium for mammals adapted to subtropical forested environments, rhineurid amphisbaenians show a wide range of temperature tolerances up to the beginning of the Neogene. http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:3E55D6BF-0691-4220-9212-0407F454BE53 SUPPLEMENTAL DATA—Supplemental materials are available for this article for free at www.tandfonline.com/UJVP Citation for this article: Stocker, M. R., and E. C. Kirk. 2016. The first amphisbaenians from Texas, with notes on other squamates from the middle Eocene Purple Bench locality. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2016.1094081.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.2951263.v213
title: UNH-RVAT 3-D Spalart--Allmaras RANS simulation results

description: Results from simulating the UNH-RVAT cross-flow turbine in three dimensions with the Spalart--Allmaras RANS model in OpenFOAM 2.3.x (590d57f32fed). See link below for case files (note: use the `SpalartAllmaras` branch), which include a script for downloading and extracting, as well as scripts for post-processing.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.2377444
title: Practitioner advice: Dodge and Romig sampling tables: Revisited, refined, and extended-practitioner advice

description: Excel templates together with some VBA code permit great refinements in deriving the sample sizes, <i>n</i>, and acceptance numbers, <i>c</i>, for single sampling plans of the Dodge and Romig (1944, 1959) type that were developed many years ago to achieve optimization via minimum average total inspection (ATI), for ranges of lot sizes, <i>N</i>, and process averages, , classified by two indices defined as lot tolerance percent defective (LTPD) and average outgoing quality limit (AOQL). Two Excel templates are presented here by which optimum single sampling plans are derived for <i>specific</i> values of <i>N</i> and , rather than for ranges of these quantities. The templates also allow for tweaking results to achieve desired properties and provide numerous additional characteristics of the derived sampling plans. While the D & R tables are limited to 8 LTPD values and 13 AOQL values, the templates are unlimited.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.2377636.v1
title: The first amphisbaenians from Texas, with notes on other squamates from the middle Eocene Purple Bench Locality

description: The shift to a cooler and drier climate through the Paleogene has been interpreted as the driver for changes in diversity and biogeographic distributions among mammalian taxa during the Eocene, leading to hypotheses of continued tropical climatic refugia in West Texas through the middle and late Eocene. However, the presence of ectothermic reptiles during that time has not been documented in detail and would potentially provide additional climatic indicators. We provide the first description of the herpetofauna from the Devil's Graveyard Formation (DGF), West Texas, the southernmost, well-sampled middle Eocene basin in North America. Specimens are derived from beds correlated with the Ui3 biochron of the late Uintan North American Land Mammal ‘Age’ (∼45–40 Ma). We report the first amphisbaenians known from Texas, expanding our spatial and climatic understanding of rhineurid distribution, as well as the first glyptosaurine anguimorphs and alethinophidian snakes from the Purple Bench assemblage. These new amphisbaenians preserve a jugal posteriorly enclosing the orbit and an extremely short retroarticular process and are recovered in a clade comprising †<i>Spathorhynchus</i>, †<i>Dyticonastis</i>, †<i>Ototriton</i>, and †<i>Hyporhina</i>. The documentation of the amphisbaenians and other squamates provides biogeographic range extensions of these taxa to West Texas. Despite suggestions that West Texas was a middle and late Eocene climatic refugium for mammals adapted to subtropical forested environments, rhineurid amphisbaenians show a wide range of temperature tolerances up to the beginning of the Neogene. http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:3E55D6BF-0691-4220-9212-0407F454BE53 SUPPLEMENTAL DATA—Supplemental materials are available for this article for free at www.tandfonline.com/UJVP Citation for this article: Stocker, M. R., and E. C. Kirk. 2016. The first amphisbaenians from Texas, with notes on other squamates from the middle Eocene Purple Bench locality. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2016.1094081.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.2885308.v205
title: UNH-RVAT 3-D SST RANS simulation results

description: Results from simulating the UNH-RVAT cross-flow turbine in three dimensions using the k-omega SST RANS model in OpenFOAM 2.3.x. See the link below for case files and download instructions.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.2377444.v1
title: Practitioner advice: Dodge and Romig sampling tables: Revisited, refined, and extended-practitioner advice

description: Excel templates together with some VBA code permit great refinements in deriving the sample sizes, <i>n</i>, and acceptance numbers, <i>c</i>, for single sampling plans of the Dodge and Romig (1944, 1959) type that were developed many years ago to achieve optimization via minimum average total inspection (ATI), for ranges of lot sizes, <i>N</i>, and process averages, , classified by two indices defined as lot tolerance percent defective (LTPD) and average outgoing quality limit (AOQL). Two Excel templates are presented here by which optimum single sampling plans are derived for <i>specific</i> values of <i>N</i> and , rather than for ranges of these quantities. The templates also allow for tweaking results to achieve desired properties and provide numerous additional characteristics of the derived sampling plans. While the D & R tables are limited to 8 LTPD values and 13 AOQL values, the templates are unlimited.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.2951263.v214
title: UNH-RVAT 3-D Spalart--Allmaras RANS simulation results

description: Results from simulating the UNH-RVAT cross-flow turbine in three dimensions with the Spalart--Allmaras RANS model in OpenFOAM 2.3.x (590d57f32fed). See link below for case files (note: use the `SpalartAllmaras` branch), which include a script for downloading and extracting, as well as scripts for post-processing.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.2377207
title: Combined Density Nowcasting in an Uncertain Economic Environment

description: We introduce a combined density nowcasting (CDN) approach to dynamic factor models (DFM) that in a coherent way accounts for time-varying uncertainty of several model and data features to provide more accurate and complete density nowcasts. The combination weights are latent random variables that depend on past nowcasting performance and other learning mechanisms. The combined density scheme is incorporated in a Bayesian sequential Monte Carlo method which rebalances the set of nowcasted densities in each period using updated information on the time-varying weights. Experiments with simulated data show that CDN works particularly well in a situation of early data releases with relatively large data uncertainty and model incompleteness. Empirical results, based on U.S. real-time data of 120 monthly variables, indicate that CDN gives more accurate density nowcasts of U.S. GDP growth than a model selection strategy and other combination strategies throughout the quarter with relatively large gains for the two first months of the quarter. CDN also provides informative signals on model incompleteness during recent recessions. Focusing on the tails, CDN delivers probabilities of negative growth, that provide good signals for calling recessions and ending economic slumps in real time.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.2885308.v206
title: UNH-RVAT 3-D SST RANS simulation results

description: Results from simulating the UNH-RVAT cross-flow turbine in three dimensions using the k-omega SST RANS model in OpenFOAM 2.3.x. See the link below for case files and download instructions.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.2951263.v215
title: UNH-RVAT 3-D Spalart--Allmaras RANS simulation results

description: Results from simulating the UNH-RVAT cross-flow turbine in three dimensions with the Spalart--Allmaras RANS model in OpenFOAM 2.3.x (590d57f32fed). See link below for case files (note: use the `SpalartAllmaras` branch), which include a script for downloading and extracting, as well as scripts for post-processing.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.2377207.v2
title: Combined Density Nowcasting in an Uncertain Economic Environment

description: We introduce a combined density nowcasting (CDN) approach to dynamic factor models (DFM) that in a coherent way accounts for time-varying uncertainty of several model and data features to provide more accurate and complete density nowcasts. The combination weights are latent random variables that depend on past nowcasting performance and other learning mechanisms. The combined density scheme is incorporated in a Bayesian sequential Monte Carlo method which rebalances the set of nowcasted densities in each period using updated information on the time-varying weights. Experiments with simulated data show that CDN works particularly well in a situation of early data releases with relatively large data uncertainty and model incompleteness. Empirical results, based on U.S. real-time data of 120 monthly variables, indicate that CDN gives more accurate density nowcasts of U.S. GDP growth than a model selection strategy and other combination strategies throughout the quarter with relatively large gains for the two first months of the quarter. CDN also provides informative signals on model incompleteness during recent recessions. Focusing on the tails, CDN delivers probabilities of negative growth, that provide good signals for calling recessions and ending economic slumps in real time.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.2377207.v1
title: Combined Density Nowcasting in an Uncertain Economic Environment

description: We introduce a combined density nowcasting (CDN) approach to dynamic factor models (DFM) that in a coherent way accounts for time-varying uncertainty of several model and data features to provide more accurate and complete density nowcasts. The combination weights are latent random variables that depend on past nowcasting performance and other learning mechanisms. The combined density scheme is incorporated in a Bayesian sequential Monte Carlo method which rebalances the set of nowcasted densities in each period using updated information on the time-varying weights. Experiments with simulated data show that CDN works particularly well in a situation of early data releases with relatively large data uncertainty and model incompleteness. Empirical results, based on U.S. real-time data of 120 monthly variables, indicate that CDN gives more accurate density nowcasts of U.S. GDP growth than a model selection strategy and other combination strategies throughout the quarter with relatively large gains for the two first months of the quarter. CDN also provides informative signals on model incompleteness during recent recessions. Focusing on the tails, CDN delivers probabilities of negative growth, that provide good signals for calling recessions and ending economic slumps in real time.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.2885308.v207
title: UNH-RVAT 3-D SST RANS simulation results

description: Results from simulating the UNH-RVAT cross-flow turbine in three dimensions using the k-omega SST RANS model in OpenFOAM 2.3.x. See the link below for case files and download instructions.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.2951263.v216
title: UNH-RVAT 3-D Spalart--Allmaras RANS simulation results

description: Results from simulating the UNH-RVAT cross-flow turbine in three dimensions with the Spalart--Allmaras RANS model in OpenFOAM 2.3.x (590d57f32fed). See link below for case files (note: use the `SpalartAllmaras` branch), which include a script for downloading and extracting, as well as scripts for post-processing.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.2885308.v208
title: UNH-RVAT 3-D SST RANS simulation results

description: Results from simulating the UNH-RVAT cross-flow turbine in three dimensions using the k-omega SST RANS model in OpenFOAM 2.3.x. See the link below for case files and download instructions.