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Transeius audeae Kreiter, Allam & Tixier, new species
No full textTranseius audeae Kreiter, Allam & Tixier, new species Specimens examined: Holotype: female, at Meknès on Vitis vinifera. June, 16, 2001. Deposited in the Montpellier SupAgro—INRA Acarology collection. Description of the adult female (n = 1) (Figs 17–21) Diagnosis. Dorsal shield smooth with anterolateral striae. All setae smooth. Measurements of the following setae different from other species of the genus Transeius: s 4 = 55, S 2 = 50 and Z 5 = 78. Peritremes extend to j 1. Sternal shield with three pairs of setae, posterior margin slightly concave. Ventri-anal shield striated and squareshaped. Three pairs of pre-anal setae and a pair of round pores. Calyx of spermatheca pocular tubular. Fixed digit of chelicera with two teeth; movable unidentate. Genu II with eight setae. Three macrosetae on leg IV (Ge IV 47, tibia, STI IV 35 and basitarsus, ST IV 70). Dorsum (Fig. 17) . Dorsal shield mostly smooth with anterolateral striae, with six solenostomes (gd 1, gd 2, gd 4, gd 6, gd 8 and gd 9) and eight poroids, 385 long and 200 wide, 17 pairs of dorsal setae and two pairs of sub-lateral setae: j 1 25, j 3 43, j 4 10, j 5 10, j 6 10, J 2 10, J 5 10, z 2 30, z 4 40, z 5 5, Z 1 13, Z 4 63, Z 5 78, s 4 55, S 2 50, S 4 12, S 5 12, r 3 34, R 1 22. All setae smooth. Peritreme extending to j 1 (Fig. 17). Venter (Fig. 18) . Sternal and genital shields smooth, ventri-anal shield reticulated. Sternal shield with three pairs of setae and two pairs of lyrifissures; one pair of sternal setae on small metasternal plate and with a pair of lyrifissures; posterior margin slightly concave. Distances between ST 1 – ST 3 63, ST 2 – ST 2 72, ST 5 –ST 5 72. Two pairs of metapodal plates 25 long, 6 wide for the largest and 18 long and 2 wide for the smallest. Ventri-anal shield with three pairs of pre-anal setae, JV 1, JV 2, and ZV 2, and one pair pre-anal pores present. Membrane surrounding ventri-anal shield with four pairs of setae ZV 1, ZV 3, JV 4 and JV 5; square ventri-anal shield 118 long, 100 wide at anterior corners, and 100 wide at level of anus. JV 5 67. A pair of lyrifissures near JV 5. Legs (Fig. 19) . Leg IV with three macrosetae on genu, Ge IV 47, tibia, STI IV 35 and basitarsus, ST IV 70. Length of leg I: 340, II: 250, III: 250, IV: 355. Chaetotactic formula of Ge II: eight setae; 1 2 / 1, 2 / 1 1 and Ge III: seven setae, 1 2 / 2, 2 /0 1. Chelicera (Fig. 20) . Fixed digit 37 long with two teeth; and movable digit 34 long with one tooth. Pilus dentilis visible. Spermatheca (Fig. 21) . Pocular tubular (Denmark et al., 1999), with a cervix elongate 20 long and 6 wide, with a neck at the basis of the cervix and visible minor and major ducts. Remarks. Transeius audeae ressemble to T. fragilis (Kolodochka & Bodarenko) but S 2 length is 36 µm for this latter species and 50 µm in T. audeae. The shapes of the spermatheca and of the ventri-anal shield are also totally different. It also resembles T. soniae Zannou, Moraes & Oliveira but differs largely in the length of s 4, S 2, Z 5 (T. soniae: s 4 = 90, S 2 = 63, Z 5 = 99; T. audeae: s 4 = 55, S 2 = 50 and Z 5 = 78) and in the shape of the spermatheca and ventri-anal shield. It also looks like T. sosninae (Wainstein) but differs in the length of S 2 (32 in T. sosninae and 50 in T. audeae), and the shapes of spermatheca and ventri-anal shields are totally different. It finally resembles to T. avetianae (Arutunjan & Ohandjanian) which is the closest species but again measurements of s 4, S 2 and Z 5 are very different (T. avetianae: s 4 = 63, S 2 = 60, Z 5 = 85; T. audeae: s 4 = 55, S 2 = 50 and Z 5 = 78). Furthermore, shapes of spermatheca and ventri-anal shield are very different and pores are more close to JV 2 (so more central than lateral) in T. avetianae than in the new species. This species was so different and was found in a so specific location and on a specific plant without any other Transeius species that it was decided to describe it, despite the fact that we have only one female. It cannot constitute a variant of an already known and described species. Etymology. The name “ audeae ” refers to the daughter of Serge Kreiter, Aude Kreiter.Published as part of Tixier, Marie-Stephane, Allam, Latifa, Douin, Martial & Kreiter, Serge, 2016, Phytoseiidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) of Morocco: new records, descriptions of five new species, re-descriptions of two species, and key for identification, pp. 501-551 in Zootaxa 4067 (5) on pages 532-533, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4067.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/27063
AI3SD Video: Translating innovations out of the lab and into the clinic: the importance of data curation, AI and ML?
No full textOur novel patented (European Patent Application No. 18743767.8, U.S. Patent Application No. 16/632,194), Supramolecular Self-associating Amphiphile (SSA) platform technology currently contains a library of ≈ 120 molecules (Figure 1), invented by J. Hiscock in 2016, has since been developed by an international, transdisciplinary team of ≈50 academic/industrial/governmental scientists, social scientists and clinicians. To date this molecular technology has been shown to:1.act as broad-spectrum antimicrobials;1–62. increase the efficacy of other antibiotic/antiseptic agents and anticancer agents against bacteria7 and ovarian cancer cells respectively;83. selectively interact with phospholipid membranes of different compositions;9,104. have the potential to act as drug delivery vehicles;115. exhibits a drugable profile when administered by i.v. in vivo (unpublished data);6. and enable the production of novel flow battery electrolytes.12However, this means the we not only create a lot of data, but that these multiple outputs exist in multiple forms, come from all over the world and are underutilised when designing the next project steps. Here we will attempt to introduce you to our approach in solving these problems.References(1) Chem. Commun., 2021, 57, 11839 – 11842; (2) Supramol. Chem., 2020, 32, 414–424; (3) J. Mater. Chem. B, 2020, 8, 4694–4700; (4) ChemMedChem, 2020, 15, 2193–2205; (5) Supramol. Chem., 2020, 32, 414–424; (6) Chem. Commun., 2019, 55, 95–98; (7) RSC Advances, 2021, 11, 9550 – 9556; (8) RSC Advances, 2021, 11, 14213 - 14217; (9) Chem. Commun., 2020, 56, 4015–4018; (10) Chem. Commun., 2020, 56, 11665–11668; (11) Molecules, 2020 , 25:18, 4126-4141; (12) Chem. Commun., 2020, 56, 11815-11818.<br/
Potential Role of Fertilizer Sources and Soil Tillage Practices to Mitigate Soil CO2 Emissions in Mediterranean Potato Production Systems
No full textAgricultural practices should be approached with environmental-friendly strategies, able to restore soil organic matter and reduce the greenhouse gas emissions. The main objective of this study is to evaluate the environmental benefits, in terms of CO2 emissions and carbon balance, of some agricultural practices for potato cultivation. A randomized complete block design was adopted where the treatments were: (a) tillage systems (plowing; subsoiler and spading); (b) fertilizer sources (mineral and organic). All treatments were replicated three times. Potato yield and its carbon content, soil CO2 emissions, temperature, and volumetric water content were measured. The CO2 emissions were higher in organic than in mineral fertilizer (0.60 and vs. 0.77 g m−2 h−1, respectively), while they were low in spading compared to the other soil tillage (0.64 vs. 0.72 g m−2 h−1, respectively). Carbon input was the highest in plowing and organic fertilizer 4.76 and 5.59 Mg C ha−1, respectively. The input/output ratio of carbon varied according to the main treatments. The findings suggest that spading tillage and organic fertilizer might result in environmental and agronomical benefits, further research should be performed to evaluate to possibility to extend the results to other environments and crops
A Code for the Preliminary Design of Cooled Supercritical CO2 Turbines and Application to the Allam Cycle
No full textThis paper documents a thermo-fluid-dynamic mean-line model for the preliminary design of multistage axial turbines with blade cooling applicable to supercritical CO2 turbines. Given the working fluid and coolant inlet thermodynamic conditions, blade geometry, number of stages and load criterion, the model computes the stage-by-stage design along with the cooling requirement and ultimately provides an estimate of turbine efficiency via a semi-empirical loss model. Different cooling modes are available and can be selected by the user (stand-alone or combination): convective cooling, film cooling, and thermal barrier coating. The model is applied to attain the preliminary aero-thermal design of the 600 MW cooled axial supercritical CO2 turbine of the Allam cycle. Results show that a load coefficient varying from 3 to 1 throughout the machine, and a reaction degree ranging from 0.1 to 0.5 lead to the maximum total-to-static turbine efficiency of about 85%. Consequently, as opposed to uncooled CO2 turbines, a repeated stage configuration is an unsuited design choice for cooled sCO2 machines. Moreover, the study highlights that film cooling is considerably less effective compared to conventional gas turbines, while increasing the number of stages from 5 to 6 and adopting higher rotational speeds leads to an increased efficiency
Correction (Journal of the American College of Cardiology (2021) 77(2) (173–185), (S0735109720378694), (10.1016/j.jacc.2020.10.054)
No full textEinstein AJ, Shaw LJ, Hirschfeld C, Williams MC, Villines TC, Better N, Vitola JV, Cerci R, Dorbala S, Raggi P, Choi AD, Lu B, Sinitsyn V, Sergienko V, Kudo T, Nørgaard BL, Maurovich-Horvat P, Campisi R, Milan E, Louw L, Allam AH, Bhatia M, Malkovskiy E, Goebel B, Cohen Y, Randazzo M, Narula J, Pascual TNB, Pynda Y, Dondi M, Paez D, on behalf of the INCAPS COVID Investigators Group International Impact of COVID-19 on the Diagnosis of Heart Disease J Am Coll Cardiol 2021;77:173–85 The INCAPS COVID Investigators Group, listed in the appendix, was not coded properly when this article initially published. As a result, they were not indexed on PubMed. Their names have now been coded properly to facilitate inclusion in the PubMed indexing. The publisher apologizes for this error
A GIS-based tool for planning resilient climate cities
No full textThis study makes a major contribution to research on climate adaptation by pro- posing a methodology for the development of a GIS-based decision support tool that aims to identify the most suitable adaptation actions to increase the capacity of cities to face coastal flooding events due to future sea-level rise and storm surges. The contribution describes the developed methodology developed and illustrates the application of this tool to a study area in the city of Naples (Italy).
This chapter is organized into five sections. The second section gives a literature review on the main coastal vulnerabilities and factors that affect cities’ response to coastal flooding. Section 3 introduces a methodology to develop a GIS-based tool, the CoRI, designed to support decision- making process for the selection of the most suitable urban adaptation actions for reducing coastal flooding impacts. Section 4 presents the application of the methodology to a case study, and Section 5 comments on the results obtained. Section 6 discusses the significant findings
Typhlodromus (Typhlodromus) mazarii Allam, Tixier & Kreiter, new species
No full text<i>Typhlodromus</i> (<i>Typhlodromus</i>) <i>mazarii</i> Allam, Tixier & Kreiter, new species <p> <b>Specimens examined: Holotype:</b> female collected at <b>Cap Mazari</b> from <i>Cistus parviflorus</i> L. (Cistaceae) May, 22, 2003. Two males and 23 paratype females, from the same plant material and same location. Deposited in the Montpellier SupAgro—INRA Acarology collection. Two paratype females in the University of Meknes.</p> <p> <b>Otherspecimens: Mazari Cape</b> (35°32'N, 5°12'W) on <i>Anagallis molli</i> (Primulaceae) (1 female), <i>Lavandula dentata</i> (Lamiaceae) (5 females), <i>Lavatera maritima</i> (Malvaceae) (1 female), <i>Cistus libalotis</i> (Cistaceae) (20 females), <b>Near Larache</b> (35°02'N, 6°02'W) on <i>Calycotome villosa</i> (Fabaceae) (4 females).</p> <p> <b>Description of the adult female</b> (n = 17) (Figs 32–35).</p> <p> <b>Diagnosis</b>. Dorsal shield lightly reticulated with four pairs of solenostomes (<i>gd2</i>, <i>gd6</i>, <i>gd8</i>, <i>gd9</i>). Long and smooth dorsal setae except <i>Z4</i> and <i>Z5</i> (serrated). Sternal shield with two pairs of setae, posterior margin convex. Peritreme extending to <i>j1</i> and <i>j3</i>. Ventri-anal shield pentagonal with four pairs of pre-anal setae and no pre-anal pores. Chelicerae with three teeth on fixed digit and one tooth on movable digit. Calyx of spermatheca saccular with a neck between atrium and cervix. Genu II with eight setae. Leg IV with a macroseta on basitarsus.</p> <p> <b> <i>Dorsum</i> (Fig. 32)</b> . Dorsal shield 344 (328–363) long and 192 (180–228) wide, lightly reticulated, with four solenostomes (<i>gd2</i>, <i>gd6</i>, <i>gd8</i> and <i>gd9</i>), 10 pairs of poroids, 17 pairs of dorsal setae and two pairs of sub-lateral setae: <i>j1</i> 32 (30–33), <i>j3</i> 42 (38–48), <i>j4</i> 25 (23–28), <i>j5</i> 28 (25–30), <i>j6</i> 36 (33–40), <i>J2</i> 48 (45–58), <i>J5</i> 10 (8–10), <i>z2</i> 27 (23–30), <i>z3</i> 40 (38–43), <i>z4</i> 39 (35–40), <i>z5</i> 35 (33–43), <i>Z4</i> 70 (65–75), <i>Z5</i> 91 (85–95), <i>s4</i> 45 (43–48), <i>s6</i> 54 (53–58), <i>S2</i> 56 (45–60), <i>S4</i> 58 (53–60), <i>r3</i> 41 (38–45), <i>R1</i> 43 (40–48). All setae smooth except <i>Z4</i> and <i>Z5</i> slighly serrated. Peritreme extending between <i>j1</i> and <i>j3</i> (Fig. 32).</p> <p> <b> <i>Venter</i> (Fig. 33)</b> . Sternal shield with two pairs of setae and two pairs of lyrifissures; two pairs of sternal setae and lyrifissures on small metasternal plates; posterior margin convex. Distances between <i> ST1 <i>–</i> ST3</i> 61 (48–65), <i> ST2 <i>–</i> ST2</i> 58 (53–73), <i>ST5–ST5</i> 55 (53–60). Two pairs of metapodal plates 28 (25–30) long, 4 (3–5) wide for the largest and 14 (13–15) long, 2 (2–3) wide for the smallest. Ventri-anal shield reticulated with four pairs of pre-anal setae, <i>JV1</i>, <i>JV2</i>, <i>JV3</i> and <i>ZV2</i>, and no pre-anal pores. Membrane surrounding ventri-anal shield with four pairs of setae <i>ZV1</i>, <i>ZV3</i>, <i>JV4</i> and <i>JV5</i>, and four pairs of round to oblong poroids; ventri-anal shield 113 (108–118) long, 94 (90–103) wide at anterior corners, and 89 (85–93) wide at level of anus. <i>JV5</i> 79 (75–83) long. A pair of lyrifissures near <i>JV5</i>.</p> <p> <i>Legs</i>. Legs IV with a macroseta on the basitarsus 45 (40–48). Chaetotactic formula of genu II: eight setae 2 2/ 1, 2/0 1; genu III: seven setae, 1 2/1, 2/0 1. Length of leg I: 352 (350–355), II: 269 (250–290), III: 270 (265–270), IV: 307 (300–315).</p> <p> <b> <i>Chelicera</i> (Fig. 34)</b> . Fixed digit 30 long with three teeth; and movable digit 28 long with one tooth. Pilus dentilis not visible.</p> <p> <b> <i>Spermatheca</i> (Fig. 35)</b> . Saccular shaped (Denmark <i>et al</i>., 1999), with a cervix elongate 18 (16–20) long and 8 wide, with a neck between atrium and calyx.</p> <p> <b>Etymology</b>. The name “ mazarii ” refers to the locality where the new species was found.</p> <p> <b>Description of the adult male</b> (n = 2) (Figs 36–38)</p> <p> <b> <i>Dorsum</i> (Fig. 36)</b> . Dorsal shield 265, 280 long and 200, 205 wide, with five solenostomes (<i>gd2</i>, <i>gd4</i>, <i>gd6</i>, <i>gd8</i> and <i>gd9</i>). The dorsal shield bears 18 pairs of dorsal setae and 2 pairs of sub-lateral setae: <i>j 1</i> 23, 25; <i>j3</i> 33, 35; <i>j4</i> 20; <i>j 5</i> 20, 22; <i>j 6</i> 25, 28; <i>J2</i> 35; <i>J5</i> 8; <i>z2</i> 23; <i>z 3</i> 25, 28; <i>z 4</i> 25, 30; <i>z 5</i> 23, 25; <i>Z4</i> 55; <i>Z5</i> 65, 68; <i>s4</i> 35; <i>s6</i> 40; <i>S2</i> 45; <i>S4</i> 33, 35; <i>r 3</i> 30, 33; <i>R1</i> 30. All setae smooth except Z5 serrated. Peritreme short, extending to <i>z2</i> (Fig. 36).</p> <p> <b> <i>Venter</i> (Fig. 37)</b> . All shields very lightly reticulated. Distances between <i> ST1 <i>–</i> ST3</i> 63, <i> ST2 <i>–</i> ST2</i> 50, <i>ST5–ST5</i> 38, 42. Ventri-anal shield with five pairs of pre-anal setae, <i>ZV1</i>, <i>JV1</i>, <i>JV2</i>, <i>JV4</i> and <i>ZV2</i>, and no pre-anal pores. Membrane surrounding ventri-anal shield with one pair of setae <i>JV5</i>; ventri-anal shield 110 long; 145, 148 wide at anterior corners and 78, 80 wide at level of anus. <i>JV5</i> 40 long. A pair of lyrifissures near <i>JV5</i>.</p> <p> <i>Legs</i>. Legs IV with three macrosetae GeIV 15, STiIV 15, basitarsus <i>ST IV</i> 35, 40. Chaetotactic formula of genu II and III similar to females.</p> <p> <b> <i>Chelicera</i> (Fig. 38)</b> . Fixed digit 15 ong, movable digit 2 long (dentition not visible, chelicera closed). Spermatodactyl lance-shaped.</p> <p> <b>Remarks</b>. This species is similar to <i>T</i>. (<i>T</i>.) <i>octogenipilus</i>, <i>T</i>. (<i>T</i>.) <i>sirikariensis</i> Kapaxidi & Papadoulis and <i>Typhlodromus</i> (<i>Typhlodromus</i>) <i>antakyaensis</i> Stathakis & Döker in bearing four solenostomes on the dorsal shield, no pores on the ventri-anal shield and eight setae on the genu II. However, dorsal setae and <i>ST IV</i> are much longer in <i>T</i>. (<i>T</i>.) <i>mazarii</i> than for those two former species (Table 5). For a great majority of setae, the difference between the new species and the others are much higher than 14 µm, proposed by Tixier (2013) to be the threshold between intra and interspecific variations for continous characters like seta lengths.</p> <p> It is interesting to note that females bear four solenostomes (absence of <i>gd4</i>) suggesting that this character is variable and may be not diagnostic as suggested for solenostome <i>gd2</i> by Tixier <i>et al</i>. (2011) for two species of the genus <i>Neoseiulus</i>.</p>Published as part of <i>Tixier, Marie-Stephane, Allam, Latifa, Douin, Martial & Kreiter, Serge, 2016, Phytoseiidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) of Morocco: new records, descriptions of five new species, re-descriptions of two species, and key for identification, pp. 501-551 in Zootaxa 4067 (5)</i> on pages 538-540, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4067.5.1, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/270636">http://zenodo.org/record/270636</a>
UA-R-GC-1914-01-01-1976-10-20_Page-057
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SOME SIGNIFICANT GIFTS RECEIVED DURING THE 1975-1976 FISCAL YEAR
(This is an illustrative list; it is not complete, and relies on Burt Wallace's
assignment of "significance". Asterisked gifts are first-time contributors.
The names in parenthese were especially influential in achieving the gift.)
Westinghouse Educational Foundation (Landon K. Thorne)
Pfizer-Egypt (Mohamed Allam & Pres. Byrd)
ARA~CO (Frank Jungers & Charles Hedlund)
Mrs. Lila Acheson Wallace (C. Robert Devine)
First National City Bank (Pres. Byrd)
Esso Middle East (Charles J. Hedlund) IAmerican Express Foundation
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Ford Foundation
Cleveland H. Dodge Foundation (Pres. Byrd & Mohamed Allam)
Mobil Oil Foundation
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George F. Jewett Foundation
Kidder Peabody Foundation (Landon K. Thorne)
Digital Equipment Corporation (Miner D. Crary)
Amoco Corporation
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Toll-like receptor signaling and SIGIRR in renal fibrosis upon unilateral ureteral obstruction.
No full textInnate immune activation via IL-1R or Toll-like receptors (TLR) contibutes to acute kidney injury but its role in tissue remodeling during chronic kidney disease is unclear. SIGIRR is an inhibitor of TLR-induced cytokine and chemokine expression in intrarenal immune cells, therefore, we hypothesized that Sigirr-deficiency would aggravate postobstructive renal fibrosis. The expression of TLRs as well as endogenous TLR agonists increased within six days after UUO in obstructed compared to unobstructed kidneys while SIGIRR itself was downregulated by day 10. However, lack of SIGIRR did not affect the intrarenal mRNA expression of proinflammatory and profibrotic mediators as well as the numbers of intrarenal macrophages and T cells or morphometric markers of tubular atrophy and interstitial fibrosis. Because SIGIRR is known to block TLR/IL-1R signaling at the level of the intracellular adaptor molecule MyD88 UUO experiments were also performed in mice deficient for either MyD88, TLR2 or TLR9. After UUO there was no significant change of tubular interstitial damage and interstitial fibrosis in neither of these mice compared to wildtype counterparts. Additional in-vitro studies with CD90+ renal fibroblasts revealed that TLR agonists induce the expression of IL-6 and MCP-1/CCL2 but not of TGF-β, collagen-1α or smooth muscle actin. Together, postobstructive renal interstitial fibrosis and tubular atrophy develop independent of SIGIRR, TLR2, TLR9, and MyD88. These data argue against a significant role of these molecules in renal fibrosis
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