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- Creator:
- Ding, J, Moore, TY, and Gan, Z
- Description:
- Jerboas (Jaculus jaculus) are bipedal hopping rodents that frequently transition between gaits (running, hopping, and skipping) throughout their entire speed range. It has been hypothesized that these non-cursorial bipedal gait transitions are likely to enhance their maneuverability and predator evasion ability. However, it is difficult to use the underlying dynamics of these locomotion patterns to predict gait transitions due to the large number of degrees of freedom expressed by the animals. To this end, we used empirical jerboa kinematics and dynamics to develop a unified Spring Loaded Inverted Pendulum model with defined passive swing leg motions. The simulated trajectories from the model precisely matched the experimental data. Jerboas were observed to apply different neutral swing leg angles during locomotion. By investigating the gait structure of the model with coupled and uncoupled neutral swing leg, we found two set of mechanism may explain the frequent gait transitions of jerboas.
- Keyword:
- jerboa, legged locomotion, gait transition, Legged Robots, Dynamics, Bipedal locomotion, and Non-cursorial locomotion
- Citation to related publication:
- Ding, Moore, Gan (submitted) A template model explains jerboa gait transitions across a broad range of speeds. Frontiers in Bioengineering And Biotechnology
- Discipline:
- Science and Engineering
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- Creator:
- University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology and CTEES
- Description:
- Reconstructed CT slices for a right astragalar [astragalus] body of Cantius mckennai (University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology catalog number UMMP VP 81827), as a series of TIFF images. Raw projections are not included in this dataset.
- Keyword:
- Paleontology, Fossil, CT, Primates, Notharctidae, UMMP, University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology, Eocene, and CTEES
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Gliske, Stephen V and Stacey, William C
- Description:
- This data repository includes the quantitative features of high frequency, intracranial EEG along with all necessary scripts to reproduce the figures of the accompanying manuscript.
- Keyword:
- high frequency oscillation, HFO, high frequency activity, and epilepsy
- Citation to related publication:
- (under review)
- Discipline:
- Science, Engineering, and Health Sciences
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- Creator:
- Lyons, Michael A, Malhotra, Rumaan, and Thompson, Cody W
- Description:
- Free-roaming domestic dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) pose major conservation and public health risks worldwide. To better understand the threat of domestic dogs to wildlife and people and add to the growing literature on free-roaming dog ecology, a study was conducted to estimate the dog population in Tulum, Mexico. A modified mark-recapture technique and program MARK were used to obtain dog population estimates along six different transects dividing the city.
- Keyword:
- Canis lupus familiaris, MARK, McMaster, parasite load, population estimation, zoonoses
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Davis Rabosky, Alison R., Moore, Talia Y., Sánchez-Paredes, Ciara M., Westeen, Erin P., Larson, Joanna G., Sealey, Briana A., and Balinski, Bailey A.
- Description:
- Animals in nature use diverse strategies to evade or deter their predators, including many vivid behavioural displays only qualitatively described from field encounters with natural predators or humans. Within venomous snake mimicry, stereotyped anti-predator displays are suggested to be a critical component of the warning signal given by toxic models and thus under strong selection for independent convergence in mimetic species. However, no studies have systematically quantified variation in snake anti-predator displays across taxonomically broad clades to test how these behaviours evolve across species within a phylogenetic comparative methods framework. Here we describe a new, high-throughput approach for collecting and scoring snake anti-predator displays in the field that demonstrates both low observer bias and infinite extension across any species. Then, we show our method's utility in quantitatively comparing the behaviour of 20 highly-divergent snake species from the Amazonian lowlands of Peru. We found that a simple experimental setup varying simulated predator cues was very successful in eliciting anti-predator displays across species and that high-speed videography captured a greater diversity of behavioural responses than described in the literature. We also found that although different display components evolve at different rates with complicated patterns of covariance, there is clear evidence of evolutionary convergence in anti-predator displays among distantly related elapid coral snakes and their colubrid mimics. We conclude that our approach significantly advances opportunity for future analyses of snake behaviour, kinematics, and the evolution of anti-predator signals more generally, especially macroevolutionary analyses across clades with similarly intractable behavioural diversity.
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- Batesian mimicry, phylogenetic comparative methods, signal evolution, aposematism, simulated predator cues, coral snakes, and Peruvian Amazon
- Citation to related publication:
- Alison R. Davis Rabosky, Talia Y. Moore, Ciara M. Sanchez-Paredes, Erin P. Westeen, Joanna G. Larson, Briana A. Sealey, Bailey A. Balinski (2020) Convergence and divergence in anti-predator displays: A novel approach to quantitative behavioural comparison in snakes. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blaa222
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Davis Rabosky, Alison R. and Jantzi, Adrian
- Description:
- Video documentation of natural behavior in wild snakes is very rare, so film from opportunistic encounters of snake interactions is very valuable to scientific researchers. Our research team includes leading experts on this species of snake (the Western Groundsnake, Sonora semiannulata), so we worked with the observer to submit a formal description of the encounter to a peer-reviewed journal and make the information available to the broader research community.
- Keyword:
- Sonora semiannulata, ground snake, animal behavior, and male-male combat
- Citation to related publication:
- Jantzi A, CL Cox, AR Davis Rabosky, AT Holycross. 2021. SONORA SEMIANNULATA (Western Groundsnake). COMBAT. Herpetological Review 52(2): pg 434.
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- University of Michigan, Division of Herpetology, Davis Rabosky, Alison R, Larson, Joanna G, Moore, Talia Y, and Curlis, John David
- Description:
- This dataset includes dorsal and ventral photographs of Neotropical snakes collected in the Peruvian Amazon. These data were collected to survey and examine the diversity in color pattern evolution in Neotropical snakes.
- Keyword:
- snake, color, serpentes, and Peru
- Citation to related publication:
- (work in progress, not yet submitted)
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Kim, YoungJae, Marcano, Maria C., Kim, Sooyeon, and Becker, Udo
- Description:
- The main objective of this research is to integrate electrochemical and microscopic approaches to understand reaction mechanisms and pathways of the uranyl reduction and nucleation mediated by magnetite and ilmenite. and This experimental data reveal how natural iron minerals mediate redox reactions of redox sensitive elements. We measure electrochemical responses of dissolved uranyl ions (UO22+) to potentials in the presence of organic molecules. The atomic force microscopic (AFM) images show nucleation of reduced uranyl on ilmenite (FeTiO3) as a function of potential.
- Keyword:
- electrochemical AFM and uranium reduction
- Citation to related publication:
- Kim, Y., Marcano, M. C., Kim, S., & Becker, U. (2021). Reduction of uranyl and uranyl-organic complexes mediated by magnetite and ilmenite: A combined electrochemical AFM and DFT study. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 293, 127–141. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2020.10.016 and Walker S. M., Marcano M. C., Bender W. M. and Becker U. (2016) Imaging the reduction of chromium (VI) on magnetite surfaces using in situ electrochemical AFM. Chemical Geology 429, 60-74.
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Hille, Madeline M., Clark, Marin K., Gronewold, Andrew D., West, A. Joshua, Zekkos, Dimitrios , and Chamlagain, Deepak
- Description:
- This dataset supports the findings of Hille et al. (2021, in review) in Geophysical Research Letters. In this article, we present a multivariate analysis of extreme storm events that occur during the Indian summer monsoon over the Himalayan Range in central Nepal. We resolve storm events at sub daily durations by merging NASA’s Global Precipitation Mission (GPM) Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM (IMERG) 30-minute, gridded 0.1x0.1-degree precipitation product with local rain gauges operated by the Nepal Department of Hydrology and Meteorology (DHM) and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD). We quantify spatial variability in extreme rainfall by isolating storms over a specific intensity threshold and pairing a principal components analysis with a K-means clustering approach to group storms of similar characteristics. and We find that frequent and intense storms occur over the forefront of the central Himalayan range and coincide with a locus of monsoon-driven landslide density. This pattern agrees with observations of elevated annual precipitation volumes near the Himalayan physiographic transition from low to high relief (Bookhagen and Burbank, 2010), and is consistent with orographically-influenced rainfall over other mountain ranges (Marra et al., 2021). In addition to presenting novel methodology to quantifying storm variability, our results highlight the strong orographic effect on precipitation intensity and duration, as well as an association of shallow bedrock landsliding frequency with intense precipitation.
- Keyword:
- orographic rainfall, multivariate analysis, extreme rainfall events, and rainfall-triggered landslides
- Citation to related publication:
- Hille et al. (2021, in review). The orographic influence on storm variability, extreme rainfall characteristics and rainfall-triggered landsliding. Geophysical Research Letters. Forthcoming
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Majeed, Tariq
- Description:
- We use our 1-D chemical diffusive model to quantify the physical processes necessary to interpret the day-side ionospheric measurements acquired with radio occultation techniques at the southern high-latitude region of Mars, where the crustal magnetic field is strong and near-vertical in orientation. To interpret the measured ionospheric structure at altitudes where plasma transport dominates, we find it is necessary to impose field-aligned vertical plasma drifts caused by the motion of neutral winds. The most interesting finding of this study is that both upward (between 110 m/s and 150 m/s) and downward (between -55 m/s and -120 m/s) drifts are required to maintain the topside Ne distribution comparable with the measured distribution. We also find that a fixed velocity boundary condition at the upper boundary with a sizeable upward ion velocity is needed to encounter any unexpected ion accumulation in the topside ionosphere to limit the Martian ion outflow. Given the complex nature of neutral dynamics and its relationship to plasma transport processes over magnetic anomalies, we consider that a simple model, such as we have developed, is still capable of yielding valuable insights relating to the neutral wind system at Mars.
- Keyword:
- Ionosphere of Mars
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Bougher, S. W. (CLaSP Department, University of Michigan)
- Description:
- The NASA MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) spacecraft, which is currently in orbit around Mars, has been taking systematic measurements of the densities and deriving temperatures in the upper atmosphere of Mars between about 140 to 240 km above the surface since late 2014. Wind measurement campaigns are also conducted once per month for 5-10 orbits. These densities, temperatures and winds change with time (e.g. solar cycle, season, local time) and location, and sometimes fluctuate quickly. Global dust storm events are also known to significantly impact these density, temperature and wind fields in the Mars thermosphere. For the current project, the inert light species helium is used to trace the circulation patterns and constrain wind magnitudes throughout the Mars thermosphere. Presently, more than 6 years of Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer (NGIMS) measurements of helium densities have been obtained by the MAVEN team (e.g. Elrod et al., 2017; 2021; Gupta et al., 2021). Measured helium distributions are compared to simulations from a computer model of the Mars atmosphere called M-GITM (Mars Global Ionosphere-Thermosphere Model), developed at U. of Michigan. Since the global circulation plays a role in the structure, variability, and evolution of the atmosphere, understanding the processes that drive the winds in the upper atmosphere of Mars also provides the needed context for understanding helium distributions and how the atmosphere behaves as a whole system. Three dimensional M-GITM simulations for the Mars four cardinal seasons (Ls = 0, 90, 180, 270, for Mars Year 33) were conducted for detailed comparisons with NGIMS helium and CO2 distributions (Gupta et al. 2021). The M-GITM datacubes used to extract these densities (plus winds) along the trajectory of each orbit path between 140 and 240 km, are provided in this Deep Blue Data archive. README files are also provided for each datacube, detailing the contents of each file. In addition, a general README file is provided that summarizes the inputs and outputs of the M-GITM code simulations for this study. Finally, a basic version of the M-GITM code can be found on Github at https:/github.com/dpawlows/MGITM.
- Keyword:
- Mars, MAVEN Spacecraft Mission, Mars Thermosphere, Helium Density Distributions, and Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer (NGIMS)
- Citation to related publication:
- Gupta, N., N. V. Rao, S. W. Bougher, and M. K. Elrod, Latitudinal and Seasonal Asymmetries of the Helium Bulge in the Martian Upper Atmosphere J. Geophys. Res., 126, XXXX-XXXX. doi:10.1002/2021JEXXXXXX
- Discipline:
- Engineering and Science
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- Creator:
- Tye, Alexander R, Niemi, Nathan A, Safarov, Rafig T, Kadirov, Fakhraddin A, Babayev, Gulam R
- Description:
- The Eastern Greater Caucasus is a mountain belt in western Asia that formed as an accretionary prism above an active subduction zone. Because of the bedrock exposure in the range, it offers a unique opportunity to research deformation processes in accretionary prisms, which are ubiquitous above the Earth's many subduction zones but are typically submarine and difficult to investigate. The data presented here result from field geologic mapping in several swaths roughly perpendicular to the mountain range that together span the entire range across strike. The data serve will serve as the basis for inference of the deep structural architecture of the range and characterization of the styles of deformation present in the range.
- Keyword:
- structural geology, Greater Caucasus, tectonics, geologic mapping, and accretionary prism
- Citation to related publication:
- Tye, A. R., Niemi, N. A., Safarov, R. T., Kadirov, F. A., & Babayev, G. R. (2021). Sedimentary response to a collision orogeny recorded in detrital zircon provenance of Greater Caucasus foreland basin sediments. Basin Research, 33(2), 933–967. https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12499
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Saylor, Kate M., Arring, Noël M., Aduse-Poku, Livingstone, Jiagge, Evelyn, Walker, Eleanor, White-Perkins, Denise, Israel, Barbara, Hinebaugh, Analise, Harb, Rayya, DeWitt, Jillian, Molnar, Maxim, Wilson-Powers, Eliza, and Brush, Barbara L.
- Description:
- The search data supports a literature review project on Strategies to Increase Black Enrollment and Retention in Cancer Clinical Trials. This dataset includes the reproducible search strategies (txt file) and the exported results of all citations from all databases (txt, ris, and.nbib files). These searches and exported result files contain all citations originating from the database searches that were considered for inclusion.
- Keyword:
- African American, Cancer, Neoplasm, clinical trials, and Minority Recruitment
- Discipline:
- Health Sciences
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- Creator:
- Attari, Ali
- Description:
- Please refer to the "README.txt" for more details., MATLAB R2018a (Mathworks, Natick, MA, USA) was used to process this data., and Excel (Microsoft Office) was used to store survey data on the comfort of both systems and also to provide absolute and relative intraobserver variablities for the DM device.
- Keyword:
- Digital Manometry
- Citation to related publication:
- Comparison of anorectal function measured using wearable digital manometry and a high resolution manometry system Attari A, Chey WD, Baker JR, Ashton-Miller JA (2020) Comparison of anorectal function measured using wearable digital manometry and a high resolution manometry system. PLOS ONE 15(9): e0228761. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228761
- Discipline:
- Engineering, Science, and Health Sciences
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- Creator:
- Shane, Alexander
- Description:
- This data set was created with the purpose to study the electron pitch angle distributions on dayside closed crustal fields at Mars and to compare with theoretical predictions made by numerical modeling. Analyzing the plasma environment of the crustal fields was another point of study to determine if whistler waves can interact with high energy superthermal electrons.
- Keyword:
- Mars, superthermal electron, pitch angle distribution, and crustal magnetic field
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Niemi, Nathan A. and Abbey, Alyssa L.
- Description:
- These data were produced in the scope of research into the timing, rate, and magnitude of extensional exhumation along the length of the Rio Grande Rift in Colorado and New Mexico. The low-temperature (apatite and zircon (U-Th)/He) thermochronometric ages presented in this data set are sensitive to near-surface temperatures (~80C and 180C, respectively) and record the progressive exhumation of the rock mass from which the samples were collected towards the Earth's surface. These thermochronometric ages, and the differences between them, provide insight into the absolute timing, exhumation rate and total magnitude of exhumation on the normal faults that bound the Rio Grande Rift. and The QTQt program mentioned (Version QTQt64R5.6.2a was used for the data presented in this deposit) is not openly available for download, but is described in the Gallagher 2012 publication referenced, and can be requested from its author. For more information on the request process and a user guide, see http://www.iearth.org.au/codes/QTQt/
- Keyword:
- thermochronology, helium dating, (U-Th)/He, Rio Grande Rift, New Mexico, Colorado, and extensional tectonics
- Citation to related publication:
- Abbey, A. L., & Niemi, N. A. (2020). Perspectives on Continental Rifting Processes From Spatiotemporal Patterns of Faulting and Magmatism in the Rio Grande Rift, USA. Tectonics, 39(1), e2019TC005635. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019TC005635
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Hemphill, Libby
- Description:
- Social media data offer a rich resource for researchers interested in public health, labor economics, politics, social behaviors, and other topics. However, scale and anonymity mean that researchers often cannot directly get permission from users to collect and analyze their social media data. This article applies the basic ethical principle of respect for persons to consider individuals’ perceptions of acceptable uses of data. We compare individuals' perceptions of acceptable uses of other types of sensitive data, such as health records and individual identifiers, with their perceptions of acceptable uses of social media data. Our survey of 1018 people shows that individuals think of their social media data as moderately sensitive and agree that it should be protected. Respondents are generally okay with researchers using their data in social research but prefer that researchers clearly articulate benefits and seek explicit consent before conducting research. We argue that researchers must ensure that their research provides social benefits worthy of individual risks and that they must address those risks throughout the research process.
- Keyword:
- social media, data ethics, and data reuse
- Discipline:
- Social Sciences
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- Creator:
- Malhotra, Garima and Ridley, Aaron
- Description:
- This research aims to understand the importance of lower thermospheric atomic oxygen on the upper thermosphere. O number densities between 95-100 km from WACCM-X are much closer to the observations from SABER instrument on TIMED satellite as compared to those from MSIS. We show in this study that the correction of the lower boundary atomic oxygen yields better agreement between GITM and GUVI O/N2 in the upper thermosphere .
- Keyword:
- Lower Thermosphere Atomic Oxygen, Thermospheric Dynamics, Thermospheric composition and mixing, Lower-Upper Thermosphere Vertical Coupling, GITM - WACCMX coupling, and Global Ionosphere Thermosphere Model
- Citation to related publication:
- Malhotra, G., Ridley, A. J., Marsh, D. R., Wu, C., Paxton, L. J., & Mlynczak, M. G. (2020). Impacts of Lower Thermospheric Atomic Oxygen on Thermospheric Dynamics and Composition Using the Global Ionosphere Thermosphere Model. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, e2020JA027877. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JA027877
- Discipline:
- Science
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Dataset: Models generated for the bioinformatic analysis of MPER/protein fusions binding to antibody
- Creator:
- Bylund, Tatsiana, Chuang, Gwo-Yu, Kwong, Peter, Lai, Yen-Ting, McIlwain, Benjamin, and Stockbridge, Randy B.
- Description:
- This project evaluated the binding of antibody fragments to membrane proteins fused to a short epitope sequence (“MPER”). This dataset includes atomic coordinates (.pdb files) for bioinformatic models of antibody fragment binding to an MPER epitope – membrane protein fusion.
- Keyword:
- MPER, cryo-EM fiducial, crystallography chaperone, and small membrane protein
- Citation to related publication:
- McIlwain, B. C., Erwin, A. L., Davis, A. R., Ben Koff, B., Chang, L., Bylund, T., Chuang, G.-Y., Kwong, P. D., Ohi, M. D., Lai, Y.-T., & Stockbridge, R. B. (2021). N-terminal Transmembrane-Helix Epitope Tag for X-ray Crystallography and Electron Microscopy of Small Membrane Proteins. Journal of Molecular Biology, 166909. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmb.2021.166909
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- MacEachern, M. P. , Woolen, S. A., Shankar, P. R., Gagnier, J. J., Singer, L., and Davenport, M. S.
- Description:
- The intent of the project to identify all relevant studies and data related to the topic. There are searches for the following databases: Ovid MEDLINE, Elsevier Embase, Clarivate Web of Science, and Wiley Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials. The searches yielded 2700 citations after duplicates were removed in Endnote X8.
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- Systematic review, Meta-analysis, Radiology, Gadolinium, Chronic kidney disease, and Literature searches
- Citation to related publication:
- Woolen, S. A., Shankar, P. R., Gagnier, J. J., MacEachern, M. P., Singer, L., & Davenport, M. S. (2020). Risk of Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis in Patients With Stage 4 or 5 Chronic Kidney Disease Receiving a Group II Gadolinium-Based Contrast Agent: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. JAMA internal medicine, 180(2), 223–230. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2019.5284
- Discipline:
- Health Sciences