cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.25152754.v1
title: Hearing preservation in paediatric cochlear implantation with the Nucleus Slim Straight Electrode – our experience

description: to evaluate the levels of successful hearing preservation and preservation of functional hearing following cochlear implantation (HPCI) in children using the Cochlear Nucleus® Slim Straight Electrode (SSE). retrospective case note review of paediatric HPCI cases in our CI centre from 2013 to 2023. Inclusion criteria were attempted hearing preservation surgery, SSE used for implantation, pre-operative hearing thresholds ≤80dBHL at 250 Hz, CI before 18 years of age. Patients were excluded if no postoperative unaided PTA was obtained (poor attendance). Primairy outcome was hearing preservation using the HEARRING group formula; secondary outcome was residual functional hearing (≤80dBHL at 250 Hz/&lt;90dB LFPTA). 56 patients with 94 CI’s were included for review. Hearing preservation was achieved in 94.7% (89/94) of ears and complete preservation in 72% (68/94)). Average functional hearing was preserved in 89% using both criteria for preservation. Long-term follow up data was available for 36 ears (average 35.2 months), demonstrating 88.9% (32/36) complete preservation. We have reliably achieved and maintained a high success rate of HPCI using the SSE in our paediatric population. The field of HPCI would benefit from unification of outcome reporting in order to optimise the evidence available to professionals, patients and their carers
DOI: 10.15151/esrf-es-1970949364
title: FInnish National Protein Crystallography Consortium

description: The Finnish BAG encompasses 24 groups active in crystallography in Finland. The projects vary widely and include membrane proteins and protein complexes, other proteins involved in disease and antibiotics and drug development and discovery (ADP-ribosylation and several oncogenic proteins including kinases, biocatalysis, endoplasmic regulation and protein secretion) and several pathogen proteins and various enzyme targets and e.g. studies on phytochrome photoreceptors and complexes involved in actin dynamics regulation as well as membrane protein targets. Overall the BAG serves the national needs for highly variable projects, with different biological and biotechnological applications. Several project will benefit from microfocus beam lines and tunable wavelength options, others benefit from quick robust screening by MASSIF.
DOI: 10.15151/esrf-es-1975506608
title: Heidelberg BAG (HeidelBAG)

description: The HeidelBAG unifies structural efforts of EMBL Heidelberg and the Heidelberg University Biochemistry Center (BZH). Central to all projects are large assemblies involved in chromosome organization and transcription control, in nuclear and cytoplasmic RNA regulation, in translational control by ribosome associated factors, in protein targeting and membrane protein insertion, or in post-translational and RNA modification and processing. Nearly all projects make use of integrated structural biology techniques (MX, SAXS/SANS, NMR, cryo-EM) combined with complementary biophysical and AI approaches. MX remains the essential and invariant tool for high resolution information of challenging functional modules. More and more pathological implications of the studied crucial cellular processes come into focus. In the 1st year of the continued proposal, the BAG reports on 8 publications and 25 PDB entries and many unpublished results.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.25112376.v1
title: The effect of auditory training on listening effort in hearing-aid users: insights from a pupillometry study

description: The study investigated how auditory training affects effort exerted by hearing-impaired listeners in speech-in-noise task. Pupillometry was used to characterise listening effort during a hearing in noise test (HINT) before and after phoneme-in-noise identification training. Half of the study participants completed the training, while the other half formed an active control group. Twenty 63-to-79 years old experienced hearing-aid users. Higher peak pupil dilations (PPDs) were obtained at the end of the study compared to the beginning in both groups of the participants. The analysis of pupil dilation in an extended time window revealed, however, that the magnitude of pupillary response increased more in the training than in the control group. The effect of training on effort was observed in pupil responses even when no improvement in HINT was found. The results demonstrate that using a listening effort metric adds additional insights into the effectiveness of auditory training compared to the situation when only speech-in-noise performance is considered. Trends observed in pupil responses suggested increased effort—both after the training and the placebo intervention—most likely reflecting the effect of the individual’s motivation.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.25112376
title: The effect of auditory training on listening effort in hearing-aid users: insights from a pupillometry study

description: The study investigated how auditory training affects effort exerted by hearing-impaired listeners in speech-in-noise task. Pupillometry was used to characterise listening effort during a hearing in noise test (HINT) before and after phoneme-in-noise identification training. Half of the study participants completed the training, while the other half formed an active control group. Twenty 63-to-79 years old experienced hearing-aid users. Higher peak pupil dilations (PPDs) were obtained at the end of the study compared to the beginning in both groups of the participants. The analysis of pupil dilation in an extended time window revealed, however, that the magnitude of pupillary response increased more in the training than in the control group. The effect of training on effort was observed in pupil responses even when no improvement in HINT was found. The results demonstrate that using a listening effort metric adds additional insights into the effectiveness of auditory training compared to the situation when only speech-in-noise performance is considered. Trends observed in pupil responses suggested increased effort—both after the training and the placebo intervention—most likely reflecting the effect of the individual’s motivation.
DOI: 10.15151/esrf-es-1975524130
title: Macromolecular crystallography at the Philipps University Marburg (MarBAG)

description: Located at the Philipps-University-Marburg and the Max-Planck-Institute for terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg, Germany, the MarBAG employs X-ray crystallography to reveal fundamental mechanisms of key biological processes involving synthesis, assembly and function of macromolecular machines and cellular structures (e.g. CO2-fixation pathways, flagellar biosynthesis, CRISPR-Cas Systems, cell-wall-related processes, phage-bacteria relationships). Furthermore, we are interested in plant-pathogen interactions and the function of nucleotide derived signalling molecules in cellular stress physiology and organization. A 200 keV cryo-electron microscope was recently installed at the UMR to complement our efforts to structurally characterize macromolecular complexes, which do not readily crystallize. Thus, we can now routinely screen and quality check samples for cryo-electron microscopy.
DOI: 10.15151/esrf-es-2023720448
title: Preliminary tests linked to LTP LS-3370

description: The aim of the tests is to check which signal intensity can be expected during a XAS measurement on cells (HEK commercial cells) exposed to 500uM solution Ni/Er or Ni/Tb.
Samples will be prepared in the lab, conditioned in the appropriate cryostat sample-holder and cryo-fixed in liquid-nitrogen.
DOI: 10.15151/esrf-es-1976053263
title: CryoEM BAG for Ile-de-France

description: We are a group of structural biologists based in Paris that would like to benefit from high-end data collection shifts at ESRF. Our research spans various life science fields: bacterial transporters (Biou, Broutin) and machineries (Bellinzoni, Gubellini, Mechaly, Petrella), nucleic acid research (Leulliot, Sauguet, Tisné), eukaryotic channels and receptors (Prevost, Venien-Bryan, Wolff), virus biology and vaccine development (Barba-Spaeth, Guardado Calvo). Our group is already active as a community and the local proximity allows us to meet regularly. We have good access to screening microscopes but would need data collection on 300kV systems to reach cutting-edge resolution.
DOI: 10.15151/esrf-es-2025199625
title: test polished material by Laue diffraction

description: Test of the strain and misorientation grade after polishing in Zr/Cr polycrystalline materials
DOI: 10.15468/dl.3qfn9z
title: Occurrence Download

description: A dataset containing 35015 species occurrences available in GBIF matching the query:
{
 "and" : [
 "DatasetKey is iNaturalist Research-grade Observations",
 "TaxonKey is Ursus americanus Pallas, 1780"
 ]
}

 The dataset includes 35015 records from 1 constituent datasets; see https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/0003434-250127130748423/datasets/export for details.
 
Data from some individual datasets included in this download may be licensed under less restrictive terms.
DOI: 10.57755/wk2q-y022
title: Produkty tworzone w Centrum Infrastruktury Badawczej Danych Satelitarnych (CIBDS)

description: <p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12px">Głównym obszarem działania Centrum Infrastruktury Badawczej Danych Satelitarnych (CIBDS) w Instytucie Geodezji i Geoinformatyki (IGIG) Uniwersytetu Przyrodniczego we Wrocławiu (UPWr) jest przetwarzanie danych radarowych z syntetyczną aperturą (ang. Synthetic Aperture Radar, SAR) na potrzeby monitorowania przemieszczeń terenu i obiektów. Obecnie, w Centrum tworzone są wieloczasowe mapy przemieszczeń powierzchni terenu, które wspomagają analizy ryzyka oraz procesy decyzyjne. </span></p><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12px">Obecnie głównym obszarem zainteresowania CIBDS jest Górnośląskie Zagłębie Węglowe (GZW) w południowej Polsce, gdzie aktywna eksploatacja węgla kamiennego powoduje istotne przemieszczenia terenu. Jednak, mapy przemieszczeń mogą być generowane globalnie, dla dowolnych obszarów zainteresowania, wszędzie tam, gdzie stabilność sygnału radarowego pozwala na przetwarzania interferometryczne. Zespół analityczny na wytworzonej infrastrukturze badawczej (zestaw narzędzi geoinformatycznych oraz jednostki przetwarzania) wykorzystuje kilka głównych metod przetwarzania danych SAR, które są wykorzystywane w monitorowaniu przemieszczeń. Niniejszy raport przedstawia metody stosowane w CIBDS w monitorowaniu przemieszczeń z zastosowaniem satelitarnej interferometrii radarowej. W szczególności mowa tu o metodach:</span></p><ul><li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12px">autorskiego przetwarzania metodą różnicowej interferometrii radarowej (ang. Differential Interferometric SAR, DInSAR) - DInSARCIBDS,</span></li><li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12px">rozpraszaczy stabilnych (ang. Persistent Scatterer Interferometric SAR, PSInSAR), która jest wykorzystywana również w Europejskim Serwisie Ruchów Ziemi (ang. European Ground Motion Service - EGMS https://egms.land.copernicus.eu/),</span></li><li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12px">autorskiej metody interferometrii radarowej krótkich baz (ang. Small BAseline Subsets, SBAS) - SBASCIBDS,</span></li><li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12px">autorskie podejścia CIBDS integrujące metody PSInSAR/SBAS z podejściem DInSAR (np. produkt CIBDSEGMS&#43;DInSAR).</span></li></ul>
DOI: 10.15151/esrf-es-1309937632
title: Exploring the interaction mechanisms of extracellular vesicles with model membranes

description: Owing to the content of the Extracellular Vesicles (EVs), they can target their cargoes to control and mediate the intercellular communications by both paracrine and endocrine mechanism. Yet, their exact interaction mechanism is not yet fully elucidated. Therefore, we address this by a multi-technique approach, using model membranes of different compositions. We isolated EVs from murine Neuro2a (N2a) neuroblastoma cells, treated and untreated with the oligosaccharide OligoGM1, known for its neurotrophic and protective functions in Parkinson’s disease. Those 2 types of EVs were characterized by Western Blotting, DLS, NTA, AFM, DSC, FT-IR and NR, and have already shown different chemico-physical characteristics. However, we believe that SAXS and WAXS experiments will help to disclose more precise structural information of their detailed and different interaction modes with target membranes helping to understand how the treatment with OligoGM1 affects the intercellular communication.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13911411
title: Birth season associates with multiple anthropometric traits in Estonian children

description: Seasonal variation in maternal exposure to sunlight during pregnancy, which leads to a variation in vitamin D availability for a fetus, is a prevalent explanation for the variation of offspring traits with birth season. However, little consensus exists about the pregnancy period during which the fetus is most sensitive to maternal UV exposure and which offspring traits are most sensitive. We examined the association between 11 anthropometric traits and birth season/month among 18,459–23,876 Estonian children born in 1937–62. Nine traits showed seasonal patterns, which were generally weak, compared to the effects of family socioeconomic position (SEP). Clear nonlinear associations between offspring traits and birth month emerged only among children of mothers in non-manual professions. A possible explanation is that the growth of children in high-SEP families is more strongly buffered against any external exposures than the growth of children in low-SEP settings. For most traits, children born in spring/summer were larger than those born in autumn/winter. Hip width, trunk length and weight showed the most distinct seasonal patterns.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13911412
title: Birth season associates with multiple anthropometric traits in Estonian children

description: Seasonal variation in maternal exposure to sunlight during pregnancy, which leads to a variation in vitamin D availability for a fetus, is a prevalent explanation for the variation of offspring traits with birth season. However, little consensus exists about the pregnancy period during which the fetus is most sensitive to maternal UV exposure and which offspring traits are most sensitive. We examined the association between 11 anthropometric traits and birth season/month among 18,459–23,876 Estonian children born in 1937–62. Nine traits showed seasonal patterns, which were generally weak, compared to the effects of family socioeconomic position (SEP). Clear nonlinear associations between offspring traits and birth month emerged only among children of mothers in non-manual professions. A possible explanation is that the growth of children in high-SEP families is more strongly buffered against any external exposures than the growth of children in low-SEP settings. For most traits, children born in spring/summer were larger than those born in autumn/winter. Hip width, trunk length and weight showed the most distinct seasonal patterns.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14760092
title: Birth season associates with multiple anthropometric traits in Estonian children

description: Seasonal variation in maternal exposure to sunlight during pregnancy, which leads to a variation in vitamin D availability for a fetus, is a prevalent explanation for the variation of offspring traits with birth season. However, little consensus exists about the pregnancy period during which the fetus is most sensitive to maternal UV exposure and which offspring traits are most sensitive. We examined the association between 11 anthropometric traits and birth season/month among 18,459–23,876 Estonian children born in 1937–62. Nine traits showed seasonal patterns, which were generally weak, compared to the effects of family socioeconomic position (SEP). Clear nonlinear associations between offspring traits and birth month emerged only among children of mothers in non-manual professions. A possible explanation is that the growth of children in high-SEP families is more strongly buffered against any external exposures than the growth of children in low-SEP settings. For most traits, children born in spring/summer were larger than those born in autumn/winter. Hip width, trunk length and weight showed the most distinct seasonal patterns.
DOI: 10.15468/dl.8h6zaf
title: Occurrence Download

description: A dataset containing 2597 species occurrences available in GBIF matching the query:
{
 "DatasetKey" : [
 "is Base de datos de la flora de la Reserva de la Biosfera Chamela-Cuixmala, Jalisco, México"
 ]
}

 The dataset includes 2597 records from 1 constituent datasets; see https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/0003435-250127130748423/datasets/export for details.
 
Data from some individual datasets included in this download may be licensed under less restrictive terms.
DOI: 10.15468/dl.mnuht4
title: Occurrence Download

description: A dataset containing 2597 species occurrences available in GBIF matching the query:
{
 "DatasetKey" : [
 "is Base de datos de la flora de la Reserva de la Biosfera Chamela-Cuixmala, Jalisco, México"
 ]
}

 The dataset includes 2597 records from 1 constituent datasets; see https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/0003436-250127130748423/datasets/export for details.
 
Data from some individual datasets included in this download may be licensed under less restrictive terms.
DOI: 10.25919/9a9s-3388
title: Parkes observations for project P1338 semester 2024OCTS_41

description: Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration radio bursts of extragalactic origin. Since the discovery of the first FRB in the archival Parkes/Murriyang multibeam data, a broad dichotomy in population has emerged. Some FRBs have been seen to be repeating, while others are not, despite a significant amount of follow-up using different radio telescopes. The repeating FRB 20240114A was recently discovered by CHIME/FRB, which has been seen to have an exceptionally high burst activity. Such extreme burst activity has not been seen in any other source. The repeating FRBs, such as FRB 20240114A, provide an unparalleled window into their circumburst environment due to their repeating nature, which can be used to constrain possible progenitor models and test underlying emission mechanisms. The previous Parkes/Murriyang source follow-up has also revealed intriguing spectro-polarimetric properties, such as frequency-dependent evolution of burst central frequency or chromaticity, a possible activity window, significantly large circular polarisation (CP), and frequency-dependent CP. These properties hold the key towards understanding the circumburst environment of the FRBs, and test possible progenitor models. A large bandwidth instrument with reliable polarimetry has been critical in uncovering these properties. The ultra-wideband low (UWL) receiver on Parkes/Murriyang is ideally suited to explore the source's wideband spectro-temporal and polarimetric behaviour. We propose a campaign to regularly follow up FRB 20240114A to ascertain its long-term evolution of spectro-temporal properties.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.28302110.v1
title: Bioinspired Double-Layer Thermogalvanic Cells with Engineered Ionic Gradients for High-Efficiency Waste Heat Recovery

description: data of the DTCC
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.28302110
title: Bioinspired Double-Layer Thermogalvanic Cells with Engineered Ionic Gradients for High-Efficiency Waste Heat Recovery

description: data of the DTCC
DOI: 10.25919/7449-vy24
title: Long-term project observations for project P574 semester 2024OCTS_08

description: We request time to observe 270 pulsars on a regular basis in order to achieve three main science goals. The first is to understand pulsars: how do they spin down and what disrupts this process, how and why their profiles vary with time, whether they precess or have planetary mass companions, in short all the things that make pulsar timing noisier than the perfect clock. Secondly we want to understand the interstellar medium of our Galaxy through repeated monitoring of dispersion measure, rotation measure and flux density variations in conjunction with scintillation parameters. Finally, we provide these data as a community service both to the high-energy community where we have strong collaborative links (particularly to Fermi) and to the radio pulsar astronomers generally through the CSIRO archive. The project is on-going since 2007, we are (co-)authors on 106 papers arising from the P574 data. The data have contributed to the PhD theses of students from Bordeaux, Manchester, Oxford, Stanford, and Swinburne. We are seeking long-term project status with a view to continuing the project into the SKA era.
DOI: 10.25919/gtan-0g17
title: Parkes observations for project P1328 semester 2024OCTS_12

description: Fast radio bursts are peculiar micro-millisecond duration transients, which have been seen to be extragalactic in origin. Since their discovery, a dichotomy has emerged in their population. Some FRBs have been seen to be repeating, while others have not been seen to be repeating. The repeating FRBs, such as FRB 20180301A, provide an unparalleled window into their circumburst environment due to their repeating nature, which can be used to constrain possible progenitor models and test underlying emission mechanisms. Additionally, FRB 20180301A has been seen to have interesting polarisation properties, such as a switch in the sign of RM, indicating a reversal in the magnetic field and a marked reduction in the linear polarisation fraction towards lower frequencies (depolarisation). The previous Parkes/Murriyang source follow-up has also revealed a temporal evolution in the dispersion measure (DM) of the source and tentative evidence for correlation in the DM and rotation measure (RM). The ultra-wideband low (UWL) receiver on Parkes/Murriyang is ideally suited to explore the wideband spectro-temporal and polarimetric behaviour of the source. We propose regular monitoring of FRB 20180301A using UWL to model the magnetic field evolution, study its circumburst media using depolarisation behaviour, and constrain any correlation of DM and RM.
DOI: 10.25919/80s5-s808
title: Parkes observations for project P1185 semester 2023APRS_36

description: Ultra-long period neutron stars (ULPNSs) are an emerging class of objects that have sparked interest and curiosity in the fast transient community. Along with standard magnetars, they have been theorised to be potential progenitors of the enigmatic fast radio bursts (FRBs). The MeerTRAP project at the MeerKAT radio telescope is uncovering several magnetar and ultra-long period neutron star candidates, an example of which is PSR J0901-4046 with a period of 76s. Continued long-term monitoring of PSR J0901-4046 has shown it to be potentially transitioning into radio quiescence. The proposed observations will enable us to continue to monitor and characterise the decline in flux density. We have also discovered two new candidates MTP0027 and MTP0068 with periods of ~10 seconds and ~5 seconds respectively. Both sources exhibit magnetar-like pulse morphology and have only been detected in one epoch with MeerKAT. We propose to continue monitoring these sources to re-detect pulses and study their spectro-temporal-polarimetric properties.
DOI: 10.25919/h88q-6g18
title: Parkes pulsar observations with undefined project IDs for 2024OCTS_03

description: Parkes pulsar observations with undefined project IDs for 2024OCTS. This collection contains observations from project ID PX130.