cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5885386
title: REGENERATION THROUGH RESPROUTING AFTER CLEAR-CUTTING AND TOPSOIL STRIPPING IN A TROPICAL DRY FOREST IN CENTRAL BRAZIL1

description: ABSTRACT Tropical dry forest trees have high resprouting ability, which may be useful for ecological restoration purposes. However, resprouting ability is affected by the type and severity of the disturbance. This study described the regeneration of trees through resprouting in a seasonally deciduous forest in Central Brazil, six months after being subjected to a gradient of disturbance. In order to expand a limestone quarry, 10 ha of deciduous forest were deforested in May 2013, creating areas with three increasing levels of disturbance: Clear-Cutting, Stump Removal and 5-20 cm of Topsoil Stripping. Twenty 3.14 m² circular plots were randomly selected in each type of disturbance. All resprouts were counted and identified to species level. The plant organ where each resprout grew from and the distance of the resprout insertion to the soil were recorded. There were 27 species in the Clear-Cutting and Stump Removal areas, and 24 in the Topsoil Stripping site. Resprout density was 3.0 ± 0.3a/m² in the Clear-Cutting, 1.7 ± 0.4b in the Stump Removal and 1.4 ± 0.4b in the Topsoil Stripping area (mean ± SD; Tukey HSD). Stems contributed to 61% of the resprouts in the Clear-Cutting area, while 60% of the resprouts in Stump Removal grew from root collars and 70% of the resprouts in Topsoil Stripping grew from roots. Underground resprouts emerged from a depth of up to 24 cm. An increase in disturbance severity negatively affected resprouting ability, but natural regeneration was high regardless of disturbance severity. The high resprouting ability of the deciduous forest trees provides resilience even after topsoil stripping.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5885386.v1
title: REGENERATION THROUGH RESPROUTING AFTER CLEAR-CUTTING AND TOPSOIL STRIPPING IN A TROPICAL DRY FOREST IN CENTRAL BRAZIL1

description: ABSTRACT Tropical dry forest trees have high resprouting ability, which may be useful for ecological restoration purposes. However, resprouting ability is affected by the type and severity of the disturbance. This study described the regeneration of trees through resprouting in a seasonally deciduous forest in Central Brazil, six months after being subjected to a gradient of disturbance. In order to expand a limestone quarry, 10 ha of deciduous forest were deforested in May 2013, creating areas with three increasing levels of disturbance: Clear-Cutting, Stump Removal and 5-20 cm of Topsoil Stripping. Twenty 3.14 m² circular plots were randomly selected in each type of disturbance. All resprouts were counted and identified to species level. The plant organ where each resprout grew from and the distance of the resprout insertion to the soil were recorded. There were 27 species in the Clear-Cutting and Stump Removal areas, and 24 in the Topsoil Stripping site. Resprout density was 3.0 ± 0.3a/m² in the Clear-Cutting, 1.7 ± 0.4b in the Stump Removal and 1.4 ± 0.4b in the Topsoil Stripping area (mean ± SD; Tukey HSD). Stems contributed to 61% of the resprouts in the Clear-Cutting area, while 60% of the resprouts in Stump Removal grew from root collars and 70% of the resprouts in Topsoil Stripping grew from roots. Underground resprouts emerged from a depth of up to 24 cm. An increase in disturbance severity negatively affected resprouting ability, but natural regeneration was high regardless of disturbance severity. The high resprouting ability of the deciduous forest trees provides resilience even after topsoil stripping.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5885383
title: WATER DEFICIT ENSURES THE PHOTOCHEMICAL EFFICIENCY OF Copaifera langsdorffii Desf1

description: ABSTRACT The intensity and frequency of drought periods has increased according to climate change predictions. The fast overcome and recovery are important adaptive features for plant species found in regions presenting water shortage periods. Copaifera langsdorffii is a neotropical species that has developed leaves presenting physiological mechanisms and morphological adaptations that allow its survival under seasonal water stress. We aimed in this work to observe substantial physiological responses for water saving and damage representative to the photochemical reaction after exposed plants to water stress and to subsequent recovery. We found in plants mechanisms to control water loss through the lower stomatal conductance, even after rehydration. It goes against the rapid recovery of leaves, indicated by the relative water content values restored to previously unstressed plants. Stomatal conductance was the only variable presenting high plasticity index. In photochemical activity, the species presented higher photochemical quenching, electron transport rate and effective quantum yield of photosystem II when they were subjected to rehydration after water stress period. Our results suggest that C. langsdorffii presented rapid rehydration and higher photochemical efficiency even after water restriction. These data demonstrate that this species can be used as a model for physiological studies due to the adjustment developed in response to different environmental schemes.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5885383.v1
title: WATER DEFICIT ENSURES THE PHOTOCHEMICAL EFFICIENCY OF Copaifera langsdorffii Desf1

description: ABSTRACT The intensity and frequency of drought periods has increased according to climate change predictions. The fast overcome and recovery are important adaptive features for plant species found in regions presenting water shortage periods. Copaifera langsdorffii is a neotropical species that has developed leaves presenting physiological mechanisms and morphological adaptations that allow its survival under seasonal water stress. We aimed in this work to observe substantial physiological responses for water saving and damage representative to the photochemical reaction after exposed plants to water stress and to subsequent recovery. We found in plants mechanisms to control water loss through the lower stomatal conductance, even after rehydration. It goes against the rapid recovery of leaves, indicated by the relative water content values restored to previously unstressed plants. Stomatal conductance was the only variable presenting high plasticity index. In photochemical activity, the species presented higher photochemical quenching, electron transport rate and effective quantum yield of photosystem II when they were subjected to rehydration after water stress period. Our results suggest that C. langsdorffii presented rapid rehydration and higher photochemical efficiency even after water restriction. These data demonstrate that this species can be used as a model for physiological studies due to the adjustment developed in response to different environmental schemes.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5885326
title: Unmasking hidden species diversity within the <i>Ramazzottius oberhaeuseri</i> complex, with an integrative redescription of the nominal species for the family Ramazzottiidae (Tardigrada: Eutardigrada: Parachela)

description: Outdated and inaccurate original descriptions of species nominal for genera or species complexes give birth to notorious difficulties in species identification and often translate into erroneous classifications of multiple species as one. This, in turn, results in severe overestimations of specific geographic ranges and ultimately in underestimations of the diversity of organisms living on our planet. Tardigrades, ubiquitous microscopic metazoans exhibiting relatively few taxonomically useful traits, bear many such problematic species. In this paper, we investigated, morphologically and molecularly, 10 European populations of <i>Ramazzottius</i> cf. <i>oberhaeuseri</i> (Doyère, 1840), a putatively cosmopolitan nominal species for the family Ramazzottiidae. The analysis of COI sequences revealed eight potential species, including one from Paris, the type locality of <i>R. oberhaeuseri</i>, which we used to integratively redescribe the nominal taxon. The identification of seven further species in a handful of samples collected from a single continent explicitly shows the considerable undescribed species diversity within this group and puts in question the cosmopolitan distribution of <i>R. oberhaeuseri</i>. The integrative redescription of <i>R. oberhaeuseri</i> opens the opportunity for descriptions of other species in the complex. http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:50B99B53-C317-4DBD-8CF1-16297B85C4F3
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5885326.v1
title: Unmasking hidden species diversity within the <i>Ramazzottius oberhaeuseri</i> complex, with an integrative redescription of the nominal species for the family Ramazzottiidae (Tardigrada: Eutardigrada: Parachela)

description: Outdated and inaccurate original descriptions of species nominal for genera or species complexes give birth to notorious difficulties in species identification and often translate into erroneous classifications of multiple species as one. This, in turn, results in severe overestimations of specific geographic ranges and ultimately in underestimations of the diversity of organisms living on our planet. Tardigrades, ubiquitous microscopic metazoans exhibiting relatively few taxonomically useful traits, bear many such problematic species. In this paper, we investigated, morphologically and molecularly, 10 European populations of <i>Ramazzottius</i> cf. <i>oberhaeuseri</i> (Doyère, 1840), a putatively cosmopolitan nominal species for the family Ramazzottiidae. The analysis of COI sequences revealed eight potential species, including one from Paris, the type locality of <i>R. oberhaeuseri</i>, which we used to integratively redescribe the nominal taxon. The identification of seven further species in a handful of samples collected from a single continent explicitly shows the considerable undescribed species diversity within this group and puts in question the cosmopolitan distribution of <i>R. oberhaeuseri</i>. The integrative redescription of <i>R. oberhaeuseri</i> opens the opportunity for descriptions of other species in the complex. http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:50B99B53-C317-4DBD-8CF1-16297B85C4F3
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5885263.v1
title: Scout Recruit LI and Biogenic Amine Data

description: Our data set with biogenic amine data and latent inhibition behavior scores of honey bees.<br>
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5885239
title: Decompressing Files

description: Use these files to decompress the ".7z" compressed netcdf files.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5885236
title: GHWR - Threshold - EHF Method

description: Daily EHF (Excess Heat Factor) values for the entire globe between 1979 and 2017.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5885233
title: GHWR - Summary - Const Thresh, EHF, ETTCDI, PDF and SHI Methods

description: Annual summary files with detailed information on heatwave frequency, duration, magnitude and amplitude, among others, using Constant Threshold, EHF, ETCCDI, PDF, and SHI methods for defining heatwaves for the entire globe between 1979 and 2017.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5885230
title: GHWR - Threshold - ETCCDI, PDF, SHI, and Summer Methods

description: Localized threshold for heatwaves using ETCCDI, PDF and Summer methods. It also provides SHI (Standardized Heat Index) record for the entire globe between 1979 and 2017.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5885227
title: GHWR - Summary - Summer Method

description: Annual summary files with detailed information on heatwave frequency, duration, magnitude and amplitude, among others, using Summer method for defining heatwaves for the entire globe between 1979 and 2017.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5885224
title: GHWR - Record - Const Thresh, EHF, ETCCDI, PDF, and SHI Methods

description: Daily binary (0/1) occurrence records of heatwaves/warm-spells using Constant Threshold, EHF, ETCCDI, PDF and SHI Methods for the entire globe between 1979 to 2017.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5885221
title: GHWR - Record - Summer Method

description: Daily binary (0/1) occurrence records of heatwaves/warm-spells using Summer Method for the entire globe between 1979 to 2017.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5885218
title: Description File

description: Read first
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5885215
title: Data Director Guide

description: Data directory
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5885161
title: A Comparative Review of Nonparametric Statistics Textbooks

description: In this article I will review six textbooks commonly set in University undergraduate nonparametric statistics courses. The books will be evaluated in terms of how key statistical concepts are presented; use of software; exercises; and location on a theory-applications axis and an algorithms-principles axis. The placement of books on these axes provides a novel guide for instructors looking for the book that best fits their approach to teaching nonparametric statistics.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5885161.v2
title: A Comparative Review of Nonparametric Statistics Textbooks

description: In this article I will review six textbooks commonly set in University undergraduate nonparametric statistics courses. The books will be evaluated in terms of how key statistical concepts are presented; use of software; exercises; and location on a theory-applications axis and an algorithms-principles axis. The placement of books on these axes provides a novel guide for instructors looking for the book that best fits their approach to teaching nonparametric statistics.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5885161.v1
title: A comparative review of nonparametric statistics textbooks

description: In this paper I will review six textbooks commonly set in University undergraduate nonparametric statistics courses. The books will be evaluated in terms of how key statistical concepts are presented; use of software; exercises; and location on a theory-applications axis and an algorithms-principles axis. The placement of books on these axes provides a novel guide for instructors looking for the book that best fits their approach to teaching nonparametric statistics.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5885155
title: <i>d</i>-QPSO: A Quantum-Behaved Particle Swarm Technique for Finding <i>D</i>-Optimal Designs With Discrete and Continuous Factors and a Binary Response

description: Identifying optimal designs for generalized linear models with a binary response can be a challenging task, especially when there are both discrete and continuous independent factors in the model. Theoretical results rarely exist for such models, and for the handful that do, they usually come with restrictive assumptions. In this article, we propose the <i>d</i>-QPSO algorithm, a modified version of quantum-behaved particle swarm optimization, to find a variety of <i>D</i>-optimal approximate and exact designs for experiments with discrete and continuous factors and a binary response. We show that the <i>d</i>-QPSO algorithm can efficiently find locally <i>D</i>-optimal designs even for experiments with a large number of factors and robust pseudo-Bayesian designs when nominal values for the model parameters are not available. Additionally, we investigate robustness properties of the <i>d</i>-QPSO algorithm-generated designs to various model assumptions and provide real applications to design a bio-plastics odor removal experiment, an electronic static experiment, and a 10-factor car refueling experiment. Supplementary materials for the article are available online.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5885155.v1
title: <i>d</i>-QPSO: A Quantum-Behaved Particle Swarm Technique for Finding <i>D</i>-Optimal Designs with Discrete and Continuous Factors and a Binary Response

description: Identifying optimal designs for generalized linear models with a binary response can be a challenging task, especially when there are both discrete and continuous independent factors in the model. Theoretical results rarely exist for such models, and for the handful that do, they usually come with restrictive assumptions. In this paper we propose the <i>d</i>-QPSO algorithm, a modified version of quantum-behaved particle swarm optimization, to find a variety of <i>D</i>-optimal approximate and exact designs for experiments with discrete and continuous factors and a binary response. We show that the <i>d</i>-QPSO algorithm can efficiently find locally <i>D</i>-optimal designs even for experiments with a large number of factors and robust pseudo-Bayesian designs when nominal values for the model parameters are not available. Additionally, we investigate robustness properties of the <i>d</i>-QPSO algorithm-generated designs to various model assumptions and provide real applications to design a bio-plastics odor removal experiment, an electronic static experiment, and a ten-factor car refueling experiment.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5885155.v2
title: <i>d</i>-QPSO: A Quantum-Behaved Particle Swarm Technique for Finding <i>D</i>-Optimal Designs with Discrete and Continuous Factors and a Binary Response

description: Identifying optimal designs for generalized linear models with a binary response can be a challenging task, especially when there are both discrete and continuous independent factors in the model. Theoretical results rarely exist for such models, and for the handful that do, they usually come with restrictive assumptions. In this paper we propose the <i>d</i>-QPSO algorithm, a modified version of quantum-behaved particle swarm optimization, to find a variety of <i>D</i>-optimal approximate and exact designs for experiments with discrete and continuous factors and a binary response. We show that the <i>d</i>-QPSO algorithm can efficiently find locally <i>D</i>-optimal designs even for experiments with a large number of factors and robust pseudo-Bayesian designs when nominal values for the model parameters are not available. Additionally, we investigate robustness properties of the <i>d</i>-QPSO algorithm-generated designs to various model assumptions and provide real applications to design a bio-plastics odor removal experiment, an electronic static experiment, and a ten-factor car refueling experiment.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5885152
title: Weakly Informative Reparameterizations for Location-Scale Mixtures

description: While mixtures of Gaussian distributions have been studied for more than a century, the construction of a reference Bayesian analysis of those models remains unsolved, with a general prohibition of improper priors due to the ill-posed nature of such statistical objects. This difficulty is usually bypassed by an empirical Bayes resolution. By creating a new parameterization centered on the mean and possibly the variance of the mixture distribution itself, we manage to develop here a weakly informative prior for a wide class of mixtures with an arbitrary number of components. We demonstrate that some posterior distributions associated with this prior and a minimal sample size are proper. We provide Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) implementations that exhibit the expected exchangeability. We only study here the univariate case, the extension to multivariate location-scale mixtures being currently under study. An R package called <i>Ultimixt</i> is associated with this article. Supplementary material for this article is available online.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5885152.v2
title: Weakly Informative Reparameterizations for Location-Scale Mixtures

description: While mixtures of Gaussian distributions have been studied for more than a century, the construction of a reference Bayesian analysis of those models remains unsolved, with a general prohibition of improper priors due to the ill-posed nature of such statistical objects. This difficulty is usually bypassed by an empirical Bayes resolution. By creating a new parameterization centered on the mean and possibly the variance of the mixture distribution itself, we manage to develop here a weakly informative prior for a wide class of mixtures with an arbitrary number of components. We demonstrate that some posterior distributions associated with this prior and a minimal sample size are proper. We provide Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) implementations that exhibit the expected exchangeability. We only study here the univariate case, the extension to multivariate location-scale mixtures being currently under study. An R package called <i>Ultimixt</i> is associated with this article. Supplementary material for this article is available online.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5885152.v1
title: Weakly informative reparameterisations for location-scale mixtures

description: While mixtures of Gaussian distributions have been studied for more than a century, the construction of a reference Bayesian analysis of those models remains unsolved, with a general prohibition of improper priors (Frühwirth-Schnatter, 2006) due to the ill-posed nature of such statistical objects. This difficulty is usually bypassed by an empirical Bayes resolution (Richardson and Green, 1997). By creating a new parameterisation centred on the mean and possibly the variance of the mixture distribution itself, we manage to develop here a weakly informative prior for a wide class of mixtures with an arbitrary number of components. We demonstrate that some posterior distributions associated with this prior and a minimal sample size are proper. We provide MCMC implementations that exhibit the expected exchangeability. We only study here the univariate case, the extension to multivariate location-scale mixtures being currently under study. An R package called Ultimixt is associated with this paper.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5885089
title: Parental Confirmation and Emerging Adult Children’s Body Image: Self-concept and Social Competence as Mediators

description: Online Appendices
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5885089.v3
title: Parental Confirmation and Emerging Adult Children’s Body Image: Self-concept and Social Competence as Mediators

description: test
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5885089.v2
title: Parental Confirmation and Emerging Adult Children’s Body Image: Self-concept and Social Competence as Mediators

description: test
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5885032
title: AGE competitive elisa

description: Competitive AGE ELISA results
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5885032.v1
title: AGE competitive elisa

description: Competitive AGE ELISA results
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5885029
title: AGE-RAGE western blots

description: Western blot results for HMGB1, S100B and RAGE from WAT and BAT. One common time point on all blots for relative quantification. Coomassie blue staining of each pvdf membranes for protein loading control.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5885026
title: BioRadCFX files for RT-PCR data

description: RT-PCR data for jun, ets1, araf, nfat5 and reference genes tbp (BAT only) and actin a1 (WAT only)
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5885026.v1
title: BioRadCFX files for RT-PCR data

description: RT-PCR data for jun, ets1, araf, nfat5 and reference genes tbp (BAT only) and actin a1 (WAT only)
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5885002
title: sequences and metadata

description: sequence data from fecal samples of arctic breeding shorebirds and metadata file formatted for qiime
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5885002.v1
title: sequences and metadata

description: sequence data from fecal samples of arctic breeding shorebirds and metadata file formatted for qiime
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5884930
title: Dataset for: Identification of cancer-related potential biomarkers based on lncRNA-pseudogene-mRNA competitive networks

description: Accumulating evidences indicate that mRNAs and ncRNAs act as competitive endogenous RNAs and play a key role in tumorigenesis. However, the complex competitive relationship among genes remains unknown. In our study, the lncRNAs, pseudogenes and mRNAs that compete with the common miRNAs are defined as lncRNA-pseudogene-mRNA competitive triples. We find some candidate ceRNAs, modules and triples are related with cancers and can significantly divide patients into high-risk and low-risk groups, and thus they may serve as potential cancer biomarkers. In total, the work systematically analyzes the association between competitive triples and cancer, which will provide a reference for deep understanding of cancer progression.