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- Creator:
- Saylor, Kate M., Sirihorachai, Rattima , and Manojlovich, Milisa
- Description:
- The search data supports a literature review project on counting interventions to reduce the incidence of retained surgical instruments. The data included in the dataset are 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.
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- literature search , retained surgical instruments, counting, and nursing
- Discipline:
- Health Sciences
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- Creator:
- Regoli, Leonardo H.
- Description:
- The research analyzed the response of nine PNI RM3100 magnetometers to radiation doses expected during a Europa lander mission. The radiation levels are drawn from the Europa Lander Science Definition Team report ( https://europa.nasa.gov/resources/58/europa-lander-study-2016-report). The sensors were tested up to a total ionization dose (TID) level of 500 kRad.
- Keyword:
- Magnetometer, Magneto-inductive, Europa, and Radiation
- Citation to related publication:
- Regoli, L. H., Moldwin, M. B., Raines, C., Nordheim, T. A., Miller, C. A., Carts, M., and Pozzi, S. A.: Radiation tolerance of the PNI RM3100 magnetometer for a Europa lander mission, Geosci. Instrum. Method. Data Syst., 9, 499–507, https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-9-499-2020, 2020.
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- Science and Engineering
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- Creator:
- Lori, Jody r, Moyer, Cheryl A, Perosky, Joseph E, and University of Michigan, School of Nursing
- Description:
- This study used a convergent parallel mixed methods design that included qualitative data in the form of focus group discussions (FGDs), individual interviews, quantitative data retrieved from logbook reviews, and geo-location data collected through geographic information systems (GIS). Focus group discussions were conducted with community members, including chiefs, community leaders, women of reproductive age, traditional birth attendants (TBAs), women currently staying at a MWH, and male partners. Individual interviews were conducted with healthcare providers (midwives, registered nurses, and officers in charge) providing services at the rural primary healthcare facilities associated with a MWH. Logbook registries at rural health facilities with a MWH were reviewed to capture MWH usage. Additionally, each MWH was geo-located for purposes of geo-visualization.
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- Maternity Waiting Homes and Liberia
- Citation to related publication:
- James, K.H., Perosky, J.E., McLean, K. et al. Protocol for geolocating rural villages of women in Liberia utilizing a maternity waiting home. BMC Res Notes 12, 196 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4224-1 and Coley, KM, Perosky, JE, Nyanplu, A, et al. Acceptability and feasibility of insect consumption among pregnant women in Liberia. Matern Child Nutr. 2020; 16:e12990. https://doi.org/10.1111/mcn.12990
- Discipline:
- International Studies
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- Creator:
- Nunley, Hayden, Nagashima, Mikiko, Martin, Kamirah, Lorenzo Gonzalez, Alcides, Suzuki, Sachihiro C., Norton, Declan A., Wong, Rachel O. L., Raymond, Pamela A., and Lubensky, David K.
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- This dataset is composed of eight flat-mounted (dissected and fixed) retinae from juvenile and adult zebrafish. Rows of UV cones have been traced in each retina; additionally, we have identified locations of Y-junctions (row insertions). Also included is MATLAB code for calculating which Y-junctions belong to grain boundaries. Please see the readme file for a description of included codes and image files.
- Keyword:
- zebrafish cone mosaic, topological defects, tissue patterning, and grain boundaries
- Citation to related publication:
- Nunley, H., Nagashima, M., Martin, K., Gonzalez, A. L., Suzuki, S. C., Norton, D. A., Wong, R. O. L., Raymond, P. A., & Lubensky, D. K. (2020). Defect patterns on the curved surface of fish retinae suggest a mechanism of cone mosaic formation. PLOS Computational Biology, 16(12), e1008437. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008437 and Hayden Nunley, Mikiko Nagashima, Kamirah Martin, Alcides Lorenzo Gonzalez, Sachihiro C. Suzuki, Declan Norton, Rachel O. L. Wong, Pamela A. Raymond, David K. Lubensky. Defect patterns on the curved surface of fish retinae suggest mechanism of cone mosaic formation. bioRxiv 806679; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/806679
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Saylor, Kate M., Hicks, Patrice M., Kang, Linda, Stagg, Brian C., Newman-Casey, Paula-Anne, and Woodward, Maria A.
- Description:
- The search data supports a scoping literature review project on Loss to follow-up barriers in care for Cornea Ulcers and Glaucoma. The data included are the reproducible search strategies (txt file) and the exported results of all citations from all databases (txt, ris, and.nbib files). Both the original search files and updated search files have been included in the deposit.
- Keyword:
- Cornea, Glaucoma, Loss to follow, and ophthalmology
- Discipline:
- Health Sciences
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- Creator:
- Liu, Meichen
- Description:
- The Brune source model is widely used in studies of complex earthquakes with multiple episodes of high moment release (i.e., multiple subevents). In this study, we investigate how corner frequency estimates of earthquakes with multiple subevents are biased if they are based on the Brune source model. By assuming complex sources as a sum of multiple Brune sources, we analyze 1,640 source time functions (STFs) of Mw 5.5-8.0 earthquakes in the SCARDEC catalog to estimate the corner frequencies, onset times, and seismic moments of subevents. We identify more subevents for strike-slip earthquakes than dip-slip earthquakes, and the number of resolvable subevents increases with magnitude. We find that earthquake corner frequency correlates best with the corner frequency of the subevent with the highest moment release (i.e., the largest subevent). This suggests that, when the Brune model is used, the estimated corner frequency and therefore the stress drop of a complex earthquake is determined primarily by the largest subevent rather than the total rupture area. and Our results imply that the stress variation of asperities, rather than the average stress change of the whole fault, contributes to the large variance of stress drop estimates.
- Citation to related publication:
- Meichen Liu, Yihe Huang, Jeroen Ritsema. 2021. Characterizing Multi-Subevent Earthquakes Using the Brune Source Model [Preprint]. https://essoar.org (2021) DOI: doi.org/10.1002/essoar.10507564.1
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- Science
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- Creator:
- Jeffrey Heath
- Description:
- fieldwork in Bonosso village, Côte d’Ivoire, chiefly 2016-19. See "readme" file for description of the materials.
- Keyword:
- Pere language
- Citation to related publication:
- Heath, Jeffrey, & Tioté, Brahima. (2019). A grammar of Pere (Bere, Mbre) of Côte d'Ivoire. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3346581
- Discipline:
- Humanities
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- Creator:
- Boyle, Kyle, University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute and Hu, Jingwen, University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute
- Description:
- This set of Madymo models were setup with a convertible seat and the HIII 3YO child ATD model. Both FMVSS 213 and captain chair were simulated with varied vehicle interior (sedan vs. minivan) and car seat installation methods (LATCH vs. 3pt belt). Although the models provided here only represent the frontal crash condition, simulations with a wide range of impact directions can be simulated.
- Keyword:
- Occupant protection, Child passenger safety, and Child seat model
- Discipline:
- Engineering
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An analysis of recorded and simulated SH wave reverberations in the upper mantle beneath the USArray
- Creator:
- Meichen Liu
- Description:
- We use waveform data from the USArray and spectral-element method synthetics for 3-D seismic models. The recorded waveform data are downloaded from Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) which is open to everyone. The synthetic waveform data are generated by the SPECMFEM3D_Globe software that was downloaded from the Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics ( https://geodynamics.org/). This dataset includes the scripts we use to automatically download data from IRIS, the selection of data, and the application of the CRP method. In doing this, we use the TauP toolkit which is free to download ( https://www.seis.sc.edu/taup/) to compute the travel time.
- Keyword:
- seismology
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Crisp, Dakota N., Parent, Rachel, Nakatani, Mitsuyoshi, Murphy, Geoffrey G. , and Stacey, William C.
- Description:
- This data and scripts are meant to test and show that seizure onset dynamics can be modulated using anti-epileptic drugs. A zip file is included that contains all waveform data, MATLAB processing scripts, and metadata. The MATLAB scripts allow for visual review validation and objective feature analysis. The file includes various README files explaining the scripts and their relationships in greater detail.
- Keyword:
- Bifurcation, Epilepsy, Seizure, and Electrophysiology
- Discipline:
- Health Sciences, Engineering, and Science
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- Creator:
- Nikolov, Denislav P, Srivastava, Siddhartha, Abeid, Bachir A, Scheven, Ulrich M, Arruda, Ellen M, Garikipati, Krishna, and Estrada, Jonathan B
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- Contemporary material characterisation techniques that leverage deformation fields and the weak form of the equilibrium equations face challenges in the numerical solution procedure of the inverse characterisation problem. As material models and descriptions differ, so too must the approaches for identifying parameters and their corresponding mechanisms. The widely-used Ogden material model can be comprised of a chosen number of terms of the same mathematical form, which presents challenges of parsimonious representation, interpretability, and stability. Robust techniques for system identification of any material model are important to assess and improve experimental design, in addition to their centrality to forward computations. Using fully 3D displacement fields acquired in silicone elastomers with our recently-developed magnetic resonance cartography (MR-u) technique on the order of ~20,000 points per sample, we leverage PDE-constrained optimisation as the basis of variational system identification of our material parameters. We incorporate the statistical F-test to maintain parsimony of representation. Using a new, local deformation decomposition locally into mixtures of biaxial and uniaxial tensile states, we evaluate experiments based on an analytical sensitivity metric, and discuss the implications for experimental design. This repository contains the acquired data and MRI processing code used in this work.
- Keyword:
- continuum mechanics, magnetic resonance, sensitivity, full-field deformations, physics inference, mechanics, mechanical engineering, and computational mechanics
- Citation to related publication:
- https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2204.03122
- Discipline:
- Engineering
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- Creator:
- Hinz, Isaac and Johnson, Jena
- Description:
- Laboratory experiments were conducted to compare iron precipitation under completely ferruginous conditions with solutions that contain a low amount of oxidized iron, which can be seen as a proxy for iron oxidation in the environment. and Some XRD files are from a copper source (Cu_XRD) and others are from a cobalt source (Co_XRD).
- Keyword:
- Iron silicates, Greenalite, and Archean
- Citation to related publication:
- Isaac L. Hinz, Christine Nims, Samantha Theuer, Alexis S. Templeton, Jena E. Johnson; Ferric iron triggers greenalite formation in simulated Archean seawater. Geology 2021; doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/G48495.1
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- Science
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- Creator:
- BIRDS Lab, U. Michigan
- Description:
- These data were produced in an attempt to characterize the turning and steering behaviors of 1-DoF multi-legged (hexpedal in this case) robots. Such turning behaviors require sliding contact points. All the data is provided in a single, large .csv.gz file (416256 rows); additional details and example code in the README
- Keyword:
- robot, multilegged, and steering
- Citation to related publication:
- BIRDS Lab, U. BigAnt v6 robot motion tracking data - RAW dataset [Data set], University of Michigan - Deep Blue Data. https://doi.org/10.7302/024q-kk06, Revzen, S., & Guckenheimer, J. (2008). Estimating the phase of synchronized oscillators. Phys. Rev. E, 78, 051907. http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.78.051907, and Dan Zhao and Shai Revzen 2020 Bioinspir. Biomim. 15 045001 https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-3190/ab84c0
- Discipline:
- Engineering
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- Creator:
- Lamb, Abigail M.
- Description:
- This Work contains Supplemental File S3-1, Supplemental File S3-2, Supplemental Table S4-1, Supplemental Table S4-2, and Supplemental Table S4-3 from the dissertation entitled "Genetic Determinants of the Development and Evolution of Drosophila Pigmentation" by Abigail M. Lamb. Supplemental File S3-1 is entitled "Raw data measuring CHC abundance" and contains the measurements of cuticular hydrocarbons used for analysis in Chapter 3 of the dissertation. These data are meant to be read into the R code contained in Supplemental File S3-2, "R code used for analyzing CHC data" to reproduce the results reported in Chapter 3 of the dissertation. Supplemental Tables S4-1, S4-2, and S4-3 contain original phenotyping data, notes, and summary data from the miRNA overexpression and competitive inhibition experiments described in Chapter 4 of the dissertation.
- Citation to related publication:
- Lamb, A. M., Wang, Z., Simmer, P., Chung, H., & Wittkopp, P. J. (2020). Ebony Affects Pigmentation Divergence and Cuticular Hydrocarbons in Drosophila americana and D. novamexicana. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2020.00184
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- Science
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- Creator:
- Zhou, Hongyang
- Description:
- The largest moon in the solar system, Ganymede, is the only moon known to possess a strong intrinsic magnetic field and a corresponding magnetosphere. Using the latest version of Space Weather Modeling Framework (SWMF), we study the upstream plasma interactions and dynamics in this sub-Alfvenic system. Results from the Hall MHD and the coupled MHD with embedded Particle-in-Cell (MHD-EPIC) models are compared. We find that under steady upstream conditions, magnetopause reconnection occurs in a non-steady manner. Flux ropes of Ganymede's radius in length form on the magnetopause at a rate about 2/minute and create spatiotemporal variations in plasma and field properties. Upon reaching proper grid resolutions, the MHD-EPIC model can resolve both electron and ion kinetics at the magnetopause and show localized non-gyrotropic behavior inside the diffusion region. The estimated global reconnection rate from the models is about 80 kV with 60% efficiency, and there is weak evidence of about 1 minute periodicity in the temporal variations due to the dynamic reconnection process.
- Keyword:
- MHD, PIC, Ganymede, and magnetosphere
- Citation to related publication:
- Zhou, H., Tóth, G., Jia, X., & Chen, Y. (2020). Reconnection-Driven Dynamics at Ganymede’s Upstream Magnetosphere: 3-D Global Hall MHD and MHD-EPIC Simulations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 125(8), e2020JA028162. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JA028162
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- Science
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- Creator:
- Nunley, Hayden, Nagashima, Mikiko, Martin, Kamirah, Lorenzo Gonzalez, Alcides, Suzuki, Sachihiro C., Norton, Declan A., Wong, Rachel O. L., Raymond, Pamela A., and Lubensky, David K.
- Description:
- This dataset contains images of UV cone nuclei near the retinal margin in live fish. These UV cones express a transgenic fluorescent reporter (that is nuclear-localized and photoconvertible). The most important images in this dataset are: Zoomed-out (1X magnification) images immediately after photoconversion Zoomed-out (1X magnification) images two to four days after photoconversion In the images immediately after photoconversion, we check if the row orientation rotates by more than a certain amount (10 degrees, 12 degrees, 14 degrees, etc.) at the retinal margin. If so, we call the region coinciding with this domain rotation an existing grain boundary. We, then, check where new Y-junctions are incorporated (by the time of later imaging) to see if they are preferentially incorporated near existing grain boundaries.
- Keyword:
- zebrafish cone mosaic, topological defects, tissue patterning, grain boundaries, and photoconversion
- Citation to related publication:
- Nunley, H., Nagashima, M., Martin, K., Gonzalez, A. L., Suzuki, S. C., Norton, D. A., Wong, R. O. L., Raymond, P. A., & Lubensky, D. K. (2020). Defect patterns on the curved surface of fish retinae suggest a mechanism of cone mosaic formation. PLOS Computational Biology, 16(12), e1008437. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008437 and Hayden Nunley, Mikiko Nagashima, Kamirah Martin, Alcides Lorenzo Gonzalez, Sachihiro C. Suzuki, Declan Norton, Rachel O. L. Wong, Pamela A. Raymond, David K. Lubensky. Defect patterns on the curved surface of fish retinae suggest mechanism of cone mosaic formation. bioRxiv 806679; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/806679
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Umaña, María Natalia, Zambrano, Jenny, Weemstra, Monique, and Allen, Dave
- Description:
- The objective of this research was to improve our understanding of tree growth from underlying variation in leaf and root functional traits. This knowledge ultimately enhances our knowledge of the above- and belowground processes that are involved in structuring forest communities. To this end, we determine which, how and to what degree (combinations of) leaf and root traits influence growth rates across ten temperate tree species along a soil carbon (C) and N gradient growing at the Big Woods plot at the E.S. George Reserve, Pickney, MI. This plot is part of the Smithsonian Institution's Forest Global Earth Observatory (ForestGEO) global network of forest research sites. https://forestgeo.si.edu/ and This dataset contains data on the leaf and root traits of several individuals from tree species, as well as on the soil properties at the Big Woods plots at the E.S. George Reserve, Pickney, MI. Data were collected in June 2019, and used to explain and predict the growth rates of the trees at Big Woods. [Growth data were obtained from Allen et al., 2019, https://doi.org/10.7302/wx55-kt18]. Each file contains data on leaf traits, root traits, and soil properties. Trait data are presented per individual tree for each of the 10 study species. Soil data are represented per soil sample, with four soil samples collected per subplot throughout the Big Woods plot (see legend, and publication for explanation). Descriptions and units per variable/column are provided in the legend tab in each file.
- Keyword:
- ecology, forests, Michigan, ForestGEO, Big Woods, Roots, Leaves, Tree growth, and Forest soils
- Citation to related publication:
- M. Weemstra, J. Zambrano, D. Allen, MN Umaña. (In press) Tree growth increases through opposing above- and belowground resource strategies. Journal of Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13729
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- Science
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- Creator:
- R. Paul Acosta
- Description:
- In this study, the state-of-the-art isotope-enable global climate model (iCESM1.2) simulations of the middle Miocene and the early Eocene and Cenomanian were used to comprehensively investigate the climate forcing of paleogeography, Andean paleoelevation, global pCO2, and vegetation on the South American continent.
- Keyword:
- South America , Hydroclimate, Water isotope system, and Global climate modeling
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Mukhopadhyay, Agnit, Daniel T Welling, Michael W Liemohn, Aaron J Ridley, Shibaji Chakrabarty, and Brian J Anderson
- Description:
- An updated auroral conductance module is built for global models, using nonlinear regression & empirical adjustments to span extreme events., Expanded dataset raises the ceiling of conductance values, impacting the ionospheric potential dB/dt & dB predictions during extreme events., and Application of the expanded model with empirical adjustments refines the conductance pattern, and improves dB/dt predictions significantly.
- Keyword:
- Space Weather Forecasting, Extreme Weather, Ionosphere, Magnetosphere, MI Coupling, Ionospheric Conductance, Auroral Conductance, Aurora, SWMF, SWPC, Nonlinear Regression, and dB/dt
- Citation to related publication:
- Mukhopadhyay, A., Welling, D. T., Liemohn, M. W., Ridley, A. J., Chakraborty, S., & Anderson, B. J. (2020). Conductance Model for Extreme Events: Impact of Auroral Conductance on Space Weather Forecasts. Space Weather, 18(11), e2020SW002551. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020SW002551
- Discipline:
- Engineering and Science
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- Creator:
- Gradwohl, Kelsey M.
- Description:
- The data set includes one file: Dermatology Clerkship Chalk Talks Raw Dataset which is the raw data collected from the surveys. This raw data was then coded and scored with the following analysis. Objective knowledge questions were asked for each chalk talk which was scored by authors. A knowledge assessment score was calculated by adding the total number of points accumulated by the student, dividing it by the total number of points possible, and summarizing the score as a percentage. Pre- and post-talk knowledge assessment scores were compared for each chalk talk and for the entire curriculum using 2-tailed paired sample t-tests with statistical significance if p<0.05., Before and after each talk, students were asked how confident they felt differentiating conditions within each disease group. For the erythroderma and immunobullous talks, students were also asked how confident they felt working up the conditions. Answer choices were on a Likert scale ranging from 1 (not at all confident) to 5 (extremely confident). Pre- and post-chalk talk scores were summarized as means with standard deviations and compared using 2-tailed paired sample t-tests with statistical significance if p<0.05. , After each talk, students were asked about its efficacy in terms of enhancing their understanding of the diseases, providing a framework or approach to work-up, and facilitating interaction between student and teacher. Answer choices were on a Likert scale ranging from 1 (not at all effective) to 5 (extremely effective), and summarized as means with standard deviations. Students were asked for written feedback regarding what they liked about the talk and suggestions for improvement. Qualitative data were sorted into categories and scored by two independent raters (cohen's kappa =0.8)., and In the response Likert scale, "Not at all"=1, "Not so (much)"=2, "Somewhat"=3, "Very"=4, and "Extremely"=5.
- Keyword:
- Chalk talk, Dermatology clerkship, Dermatology education, Virtual learning, and Online learning
- Discipline:
- Health Sciences
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- Creator:
- Valeriy Tenishev
- Description:
- This data represents examples of some applications of AMPS and illustrates the potential of the code for modeling various physical phenomena.
- Keyword:
- Monte Carlo, DSMC
- Citation to related publication:
- Tenishev, V., Shou, Y., Borovikov, D., Lee, Y., Fougere, N., Michael, A., & Combi, M. R. (2021). Application of the Monte Carlo Method in Modeling Dusty Gas, Dust in Plasma, and Energetic Ions in Planetary, Magnetospheric, and Heliospheric Environments. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 126(2), e2020JA028242. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JA028242
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- Science
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- Creator:
- MacEachern, Mark P, Marti, Kyriaki C, Mylonas, Anastassios I, and Gruppen, Larry
- Description:
- The dataset includes most citations considered for inclusion in the scoping review. The citations are accessible in the Endnote (enlx) file, as well as the primary citation export files from each database. The literature search strategies are included for reproducibility and transparency purposes. See the methods of the article for more information.
- Keyword:
- Dental Education, Dentistry, Education, Humanities, and Scoping Review
- Citation to related publication:
- Marti KC, Mylonas AI, MacEachern M, Gruppen L. (2019). Humanities in predoctoral dental education: A scoping review. Journal of Dental Education, 83(10), 1174-1198. DOI: 10.21815/JDE.019.126, http://www.jdentaled.org/content/83/10/1174.long, and https://doi.org/10.21815/JDE.019.126
- Discipline:
- Health Sciences
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- Creator:
- University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology and CTEES
- Description:
- Reconstructed CT slices for a series of vertebrae from the second lumbar through first sacral of Sifrhippus grangeri (University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology catalog number UMMP VP 115547) as a series of TIFF images. Raw projections are not included in this dataset. The reconstructed slice data from the scan are offered here as a series of unsigned 16-bit integer TIFF images. The upper left corner of the first image (*_0000.tif) is the XYZ origin. In some publications this species is referred to as Hyracotherium grangeri.
- Keyword:
- Paleontology, Fossil, CT, Equidae, UMMP, University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology, Eocene, CTEES, and ef48281d-2984-86f2-2bee-052b26cf8da9
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Smith, Joeseph P., Gronewold, Andrew D., Read, Laura, Crooks, James L., School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, and Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research
- Description:
- Using the statistical programming package R ( https://cran.r-project.org/), and JAGS (Just Another Gibbs Sampler, http://mcmc-jags.sourceforge.net/), we processed multiple estimates of the Laurentian Great Lakes water balance components -- over-lake precipitation, evaporation, lateral tributary runoff, connecting channel flows, and diversions -- feeding them into prior distributions (using data from 1950 through 1979), and likelihood functions. The Bayesian Network is coded in the BUGS language. Water balance computations assume that monthly change in storage for a given lake is the difference between beginning of month water levels surrounding each month. For example, the change in storage for June 2015 is the difference between the beginning of month water level for July 2015 and that for June 2015., More details on the model can be found in the following summary report for the International Watersheds Initiative of the International Joint Commission, where the model was used to generate a new water balance historical record from 1950 through 2015: https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fulltext/2018/20180021.pdf. Large Lake Statistical Water Balance Model (L2SWBM): https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/data/WaterBalanceModel/, and This data set has a shorter timespan to accommodate a prior which uses data not used in the likelihood functions.
- Keyword:
- Water, Balance, Great Lakes, Laurentian, Machine, Learning, Lakes, Bayesian, and Network
- Citation to related publication:
- Smith, J., Gronewald, A. et al. Summary Report: Development of the Large Lake Statistical Water Balance Model for Constructing a New Historical Record of the Great Lakes Water Balance. Submitted to: The International Watersheds Initiative of the International Joint Commission. Accessible at https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fulltext/2018/20180021.pdf, Large Lake Statistical Water Balance Model (L2SWBM). https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/data/WaterBalanceModel/, and Gronewold, A.D., Smith, J.P., Read, L. and Crooks, J.L., 2020. Reconciling the water balance of large lake systems. Advances in Water Resources, p.103505.
- Discipline:
- Science and Engineering
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- Creator:
- Burger, Laura L , Wagenmaker, Elizabeth R., Phumsatitpong, Chayarndorn , Olson, David P., and Moenter, Suzanne M.
- Description:
- Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is the most common form of infertility in women. The causes of PCOS are not yet understood and both genetics and early-life exposure have been considered as candidates. With regard to the latter, circulating androgens are elevated in mid-late gestation in women with PCOS, potentially exposing offspring to elevated androgens in utero; daughters of women with PCOS are at increased risk for developing this disorder. Consistent with these clinical observations, prenatal androgenization (PNA) of several species recapitulates many phenotypes observed in PCOS. There is increasing evidence that symptoms associated with PCOS, including elevated luteinizing hormone (LH) (and presumably gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH)) pulse frequency emerge during the pubertal transition. We utilized translating ribosomal affinity purification coupled with RNA sequencing to examine GnRH neuron mRNAs from prepubertal (3wk) and adult female control and PNA mice. Prominent in GnRH neurons were transcripts associated with protein synthesis and cellular energetics, in particular oxidative phosphorylation. The GnRH neuron transcript profile was affected more by the transition from prepuberty to adulthood than by PNA treatment, however PNA did change the developmental trajectory of GnRH neurons. This included families of transcripts related to both protein synthesis and oxidative phosphorylation, which were more prevalent in adults than in prepubertal mice but were blunted in PNA adults. These findings suggest that prenatal androgen exposure can program alterations in the translatome of GnRH neurons, providing a mechanism independent of changes in the genetic code for altered expression. These are Microsoft Excel Files
- Keyword:
- GnRH Neuron TRAP Seq
- Citation to related publication:
- Unprocessed RNASeq data is available at Gene Expression Omnibus ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gds) accession GSE155314.
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Carlson, Zachary
- Description:
- Data repository for supplemental data for manuscript. Article and data set are currently under review by publisher. Email for more information.
- Citation to related publication:
- Carlson, Z., Hafner, H., Mulcahy, M., Bullock, K., Zhu, A., Bridges, D., Bernal-Mizrachi, E., & Gregg, B. (2020). Lactational metformin exposure programs offspring white adipose tissue glucose homeostasis and resilience to metabolic stress in a sex-dependent manner. American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism, 318(5), E600–E612. https://doi.org/10.1152/ajpendo.00473.2019
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- Science
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- Creator:
- van Velden, Grace and Reddy, Raghav
- Description:
- A household survey was developed to capture household perceptions and behaviors around drinking water use. It consisted of several modules: key informant and household demographics, household assets and consumption, water use behaviors in the dry season, water use behaviors during the rest of the year, and water supply maintenance and repair. Intervention and safe water device surveys were also developed; the household and intervention surveys were administered via Qualtrics. and This record consists of several survey instruments, exported where appropriate from Qualtrics into PDF and .qsf.
- Keyword:
- Bangladesh, arsenic, sustainability, survey
- Discipline:
- Engineering
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- Creator:
- Pasquinelli, Rennie, Hu, Xiaosu, Tessier, Anne-Michelle, Kovelman, Ioulia, Zwolan, Terry A., Karas, Zachary E., and Wagley, Neelima
- Description:
- This data is from a project examining prosodic processing in children and adults using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) neuroimaging. fNIRS data is optical data collected using a cap with an array of source and detector fibers that emit and detect infrared light, respectively. We used fNIRS neuroimaging to explore prosodic processing, rhyme judgement, and the "oddball" paradigm in children, adults, and a small sample of children with cochlear implants. Matlab scripts, including Ted Huppert's Nirs Toolbox, were used to process the neuroimaging data. The children also took a battery of behavioral assessments (OWLS, Digit Span, PPVT, CTOPP).
- Keyword:
- Prosodic Processing, fNIRS neuroimaging, Development, Cochlear Implants, and Rhyming
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Liu, Meichen
- Description:
- We intend to figure out the difference of stress drops, which is a characteristic source parameter, between shallow and deep-focus earthquakes. Significant stress drop difference may shed light on the difference of physical mechanisms of shallow and deep-focus earthquakes, which has been a elusive question. We select from deep-focus earthquakes (> 400 km) in 2000-2018 and obtain their stress drops using P and S waves. We find that stress drops of deep-focus earthquakes are about one order of magnitude higher than that of shallow earthquakes, indicating about one order of magnitude higher shear strength of shallow faults than faults in the mantle. The wide range of stress drops further suggests coexistence of phase transformation and shear-induced melting mechanisms of deep-focus earthquakes.
- Citation to related publication:
- Liu, M., Huang, Y., & Ritsema, J. (2020, March 4). Stress drop variation of deep-focus earthquakes based on empirical Green's function [preprint]. Submitted to Geophysical Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.31223/osf.io/8jx6p and Liu, M., Huang, Y., & Ritsema, J. (2020). Stress Drop Variation of Deep-Focus Earthquakes Based on Empirical Green’s Functions. Geophysical Research Letters, 47(9), e2019GL086055. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL086055
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology and CTEES
- Description:
- Reconstructed CT slices for vertebrae of Hyopsodus (University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology catalog number UMMP_VP_102495) as a series of TIFF images. Raw projections are not included in this dataset. The reconstructed slice data from the scan are offered here as a series of unsigned 16-bit integer TIFF images. The upper left corner of the first image (*_0000.tif) is the XYZ origin.
- Keyword:
- Paleontology, Fossil, CT, Hyopsodontidae, UMMP, University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology, Eocene, CTEES, and 01ee73fb-6b53-fe52-3a01-2857be88a65e
- Discipline:
- Science
-
- Creator:
- Harper Diane M
- Description:
- Patients included in this study were all males with no prior HIV diagnosis between 18 and 45 years who had at least one primary care encounter between March 2016 and March 2019. We chose 2016 as the index year because the question of the sexual partners’ gender became coded data elements with the clinic contact. Eligible patients were grouped based on reported sexual partners at the most recent disclosure. Individuals who reported having a male sexual partner or both a male and female partner were included in the MSM group. The non-MSM group included individuals who reported only a female partner or no partner. Patients who did not answer the question were excluded from the study. The study proposal was submitted to the Institutional Review Boards of the University of Michigan Medical School and was exempted from ongoing IRB review (HUM00155091). Individual consent was waived for this study.
- Keyword:
- HIV, MSM, and annual screening
- Discipline:
- Health Sciences
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- Creator:
- Huang, Cheng MI
- Description:
- A 2D planar representation of a generic laboratory-scale combustor is established to assess the capabilities of ROMs for representing realistic combustion flowfields. The purpose of this dataset is to provide a testbed to build reduced model for relevant challenging reacting flow problems using different methods. The dataset was generated under the Air Force Center of Excellence on Multi-Fidelity Modeling of Rocket Combustion Dynamics and the goal of the center is to advance the state-of-the-art in Reduced Order Models (ROMs) and enable efficient prediction of instabilities in liquid fueled rocket combustion systems., Detailed documentation of how the data is generated can be found in: https://afcoe.engin.umich.edu/benchmark-data. Instrument and/or Software specifications: - recommendation: Matlab and Tecplot. , 1. Data_150000to159999.tar: the unsteady flow field data from time step 150000 to 159999 (time increment, dt, between each time step is 1E-7 sec). 2. Data_160000to169999.tar: the unsteady flow field data from time step 160000 to 169999 (time increment, dt, between each time step is 1E-7 sec). , 3. Data_170000to179999.tar: the unsteady flow field data from time step 170000 to 179999 (time increment, dt, between each time step is 1E-7 sec). 4. Data_180000to189999.tar: the unsteady flow field data from time step 180000 to 189999 (time increment, dt, between each time step is 1E-7 sec)., 5. Data_190000to199999.tar: the unsteady flow field data from time step 190000 to 199999 (time increment, dt, between each time step is 1E-7 sec). 6. Data_200000to209999.tar: the unsteady flow field data from time step 200000 to 209999 (time increment, dt, between each time step is 1E-7 sec). , 7. Data_210000to219999.tar: the unsteady flow field data from time step 210000 to 219999 (time increment, dt, between each time step is 1E-7 sec). 8. Data_220000to229999.tar: the unsteady flow field data from time step 220000 to 229999 (time increment, dt, between each time step is 1E-7 sec). , and 9. grid.dat: the topology of the CFD mesh used to generate this data (can be directly loaded in Tecplot). 10. the file "sample_code.zip" contains the sample Matlab scripts to load and output the .dat files to help the researchers to get started. To run the script, the software Matlab is required and the researchers can simply run sampleIO.m script in Matlab to test the code.
- Citation to related publication:
- McQuarrie, S., Huang, C., and Willcox, K., Data-driven reduced-order models via regularised Operator Inference for a single-injector combustion process, Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 2021. (code available: https://github.com/Willcox-Research-Group/ROM-OpInf-Combustion-2D)., McQuarrie, S. A., Huang, C., & Willcox, K. E. (2021). Data-driven reduced-order models via regularised Operator Inference for a single-injector combustion process. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 51(2), 194–211. https://doi.org/10.1080/03036758.2020.1863237 , Swischuk, R., Kramer, B., Huang, C., & Willcox, K. (2020). Learning Physics-Based Reduced-Order Models for a Single-Injector Combustion Process. AIAA Journal, 58(6), 2658–2672. https://doi.org/10.2514/1.J058943, Huang, C., Duraisamy, K., & Merkle, C. L. (2019). Investigations and Improvement of Robustness of Reduced-Order Models of Reacting Flow. AIAA Journal, 57(12), 5377–5389. https://doi.org/10.2514/1.J058392 , and Harvazinski, M. E., Huang, C., Sankaran, V., Feldman, T. W., Anderson, W. E., Merkle, C. L., & Talley, D. G. (2015). Coupling between hydrodynamics, acoustics, and heat release in a self-excited unstable combustor. Physics of Fluids, 27(4), 045102. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4916673
- Discipline:
- Engineering
-
- Creator:
- Sergio E. Vidal-Luengo
- Description:
- This database contains spacecraft and ground-based magnetic field observations made to study the propagation of the preliminary impulse triggered by interplanetary shocks with different inclinations in the XZ plane.
- Keyword:
- Cluster, Dynamic pressure pulse, THEMIS, SuperMag, Magnetosphere, MMS, and Intermagnet
- Citation to related publication:
- (to be submitted) Vidal-Luengo, S. E., Moldwin, M. B. (2021). Shock Inclination Effects in Preliminary Impulse Propagation Observed by Ground-Based Magnetometers and the Heliophysics System Observatory
- Discipline:
- Science
-
- Creator:
- Shi, Xuetao, Elvati, Paolo, and Violi, Angela
- Description:
- Non-thermal plasma systems offer unique opportunities in the fields of bio-imaging, drug delivery, photovoltaics, microelectronics manufacturing. Such interests are largely inspired by the fact that hot plasma electrons coexist with neutral species and ions close to room-temperature under non-thermal plasma conditions. Modeling of these systems requires a deep understanding of the atomistic processes underlying the rich chemistry of the various radicals and ions with the nascent nanoparticle surface. A key parameter for determining the contribution of a certain radical/ion species to the nanoparticle surface growth, called sticking coefficient, is computed as a weighted sum from the simulated sticking outcomes with different collision velocities drawn from a Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution at certain temperatures. In this work, the collisions of SiHx (x=1-4) fragments and silicon cluster (Si4, Si2H6, and Si29H36) surfaces, responsible for the sticking coefficients, are simulated by molecular dynamics (MD) with a reactive force field. The dependence of sticking coefficients on temperature, H coverage of both silane fragments and cluster surfaces, and the size of the cluster, are systematically examined. And the mechanism underlying the sticking events, specifically the conversion of physical aggregation to chemisorption is investigated to better understand the complex interplay between factors influencing the surface growth. The detailed and multi-parameter model of sticking coefficients, accompanied by the mechanism study of physisorption to chemisorption conversion, provides a more accurate and robust approximation of surface growth rate using sticking coefficients, and a deeper understanding of surface growth processes, for the wider non-thermal plasma simulation community.
- Keyword:
- Sticking coefficients, Silanes, Molecular Dynamics, Non-equilibrium, and Aggregation mechanisms
- Citation to related publication:
- Shi, X., Elvati, P., Violi, A. (2021). On the growth of Si nanoparticles in non-thermal plasma: physisorption to chemisorption conversion. J. Phys. D. Submitted.
- Discipline:
- Science
-
- Creator:
- University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology and CTEES
- Description:
- Reconstructed CT slices for vertebrae of Phenacolemur (University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology catalog number UMMP VP 94723) as a series of TIFF images. Raw projections are not included in this dataset. The reconstructed slice data from the scan are offered here as a series of unsigned 16-bit integer TIFF images. The upper left corner of the first image (*_0000.tif) is the XYZ origin.
- Keyword:
- Paleontology, Fossil, CT, Paromomyidae, UMMP, University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology, Eocene, CTEES, and 31cf6e4a-86dd-9452-49f4-c5ce0d946613
- Discipline:
- Science
-
- Creator:
- University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology and CTEES
- Description:
- Reconstructed CT slices for a right medial cuneiform (entocuneiform) of Cantius mckennai (University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology catalog number UMMP VP 81820), 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:
- Lee, Joyce Y, Knauer, Heather A, Lee, Shawna J, MacEachern, Mark P, and Garfield, Craig F
- Description:
- The dataset includes all citations considered for inclusion in the systematic review. The citations are accessible in Endnote (enlx), as well as through the primary citation export files from each database. The literature search strategies are included for reproducibility and transparency purposes. See the published methods for more information.
- Keyword:
- Systematic Review, Fathers, Education, and Perinatal
- Citation to related publication:
- Lee JY, Knauer HA, Lee SJ, MacEachern MP, Garfield CF. (2018). Father-inclusive perinatal parent education programs: A systematic review. Pediatrics, 142(1). PMID: 29903835. and https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2018-0437
- Discipline:
- Health Sciences
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- Creator:
- Liemohn, Michael W and Wooden, Paige
- Description:
- Journals sometimes focus the attention of the research community by having a special collection, sometimes an entire special issue, devoted to a single topic. A reasonable question to ask is whether the extra effort of organizing, promoting, and maintaining the special collection is worthwhile. The paper that this data set accompanies examines paper impact in the Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics, separating the special collection papers from the non-special-collection submissions. The conclusion is that special collections are worth the extra work.
- Keyword:
- journal special collections, bibliometrics, citations, and downloads
- Citation to related publication:
- Liemohn, M. W., & Wooden, P. (2019). Editorial: Impact of special collections in JGR Space Physics. Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics. https://doi.org/10.1002/essoar.10501036.2
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Troesch, Armin, W. and Kang, C.-G.
- Description:
- This scaled acceleration time series has been used in the graduate class, NA540, as an example of hydrodynamic impact. For a more detailed description of the tests, please see: Troesch, A.W. and Kang, C.-G., "Hydrodynamic Impact Loads on Three Dimensional Bodies," Proceedings of the 16th Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics, Berkeley, July 1986, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1987, pp. 537-558.
- Keyword:
- hydrodynamic impact
- Citation to related publication:
- Troesch, A.W. and Kang, C.-G., "Hydrodynamic Impact Loads on Three Dimensional Bodies," Proceedings of the 16th Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics, Berkeley, July 1986, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1987, pp. 537-558. This item is not available online due to copyright restrictions, but the text can be searched using Hathi Trust: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015040312475
- Discipline:
- Engineering and Science
-
- Creator:
- University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology and CTEES
- Description:
- Reconstructed CT slices for a right navicular of Cantius mckennai (University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology catalog number UMMP VP 81831), 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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Prescribed Burn Single-Particle Mass Spectra, University of Michigan Biological Station October 2017
- Creator:
- Pratt, Kerri
- Description:
- This dataset corresponds to 5,500 single-particle, dual-polarity mass spectra of biomass burning particles measured from a mobile laboratory during the 2017 prescribed burn at the University of Michigan Biological Station near Pellston, Michigan. Size-resolved chemical composition of individual particles, primarily ranging from 0.15 - 0.60 μm in vacuum aerodynamic diameter, was measured using an aerosol time-of-flight mass spectrometer (ATOFMS).
- Keyword:
- aerosol chemistry
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- MacEachern, Mark, Vitous, C Ann, Dinh, Duyhoang, Jafri, Sara, Bennett, Olivia, and Suwanabol, Pasithorn
- Description:
- The intent of the project was 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 EBSCOhost CINAHL. The searches yielded 1168 citations after duplicates were removed in Endnote X8.
- Keyword:
- Health Sciences, Systematic Review, Surgeons, Well-being, and Literature Searches
- Citation to related publication:
- Vitous, C. Ann MA, MPH*; Dinh, Duyhoang Q. BS†; Jafri, Sara M. BS‡; Bennett, Olivia M. BS†; MacEachern, Mark MLIS§; Suwanabol, Pasithorn A. MD, MS* Optimizing Surgeon Well-Being, Annals of Surgery Open: March 2021 - Volume 2 - Issue 1 - p e029 doi: 10.1097/AS9.0000000000000029
- Discipline:
- Health Sciences
-
- Creator:
- Robert Buckley, Grace O'Brien, and Zoe Zhou
- Description:
- The purpose of the research is to better understand and approximate the Thurston Set. This project was computational in nature and Python was used to collect our data. The data set contains encoded itineraries that can be used to compute values that are elements of the Thurston Set. A visual approximation of the Thurston Set can be found here ( https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.2008), on the first page Thurston’s own paper. The data can also be used to study the distribution of superattracting beta values within the interval (1, 2] and to explore an analogous Mandelbrot-Julia Correspondence. This research was conducted through the Lab of Geometry at Michigan under the advisement of Harrison Bray during the Fall semester of 2019. , The Python 3.x scripts in this deposit are the exact versions used to created the *.txt files that are in the zip archive. As the project continues, any expansion to the work, such as further analysis or visualization scripts, will be posted to the project's GitHub https://github.com/Tent-Maps-Team/Thurston-Set. Also, a user can reproduce our results and generate bigger datasets on machines with large amounts of memory. , and The data consists of zipper folders representing tent map itinerary orbit lengths. These orbit files can be used to create visualizations, create and explore conjectures such as refining proposed bounds on the Thurston Set and supporting an analogous Mandelbrot-Julia Correspondence. Within these zipped folders are .txt files in CSV format with the naming structure of xx_y of admissible itineraries up to the length indicated by the folder name where xx is the length of the encoded itineraries included. The txt's have a single column and each line(row) is an array representing an encoding of an itinerary. Some of the txt's have been split into multiple parts (whenever there are more than 200 MB of itinerary data) and these txt's have been numbered using the y after the underscore. As we exclude the degenerate tent map (where β = 1), we cannot have orbit length 1 or 2 and this is why the orbits start with length 3 (i.e. start with 3.zip).
- Keyword:
- Math, mathematics, tent maps, thurston, milnor, Milnor-Thurston, supperattracting, entropy, orbit, and itineraries
- Citation to related publication:
- Buckley R, O’Brien G, Zhou Z (2021). On Itineraries of Tent Maps. Forthcoming.
- Discipline:
- Other
-
- Creator:
- LaBarre, Jennifer L., Peterson, Karen E., Kachman, Maureen T., Perng, Wei., Tang, Lu., Hao, Wei., Zhou, Ling., Karnovsky, Alla., Cantoral, Alejandra., Téllez-Rojo, Martha María., Song, Peter XK., and Burant, Charles F.
- Description:
- Participants were enrolled in the Early Life Exposure in Mexico to ENvironmental Toxicants (ELEMENT) project which was started in 1994 and consists of three sequentially-enrolled birth cohorts from Mexico City Maternity Hospitals (20). A subset of these children, age 8-14 years, were contacted through their primary caregiver to provide urine samples, serum samples, anthropometry and complete an interview-based questionnaire (n=250). Subjects for this analysis have baseline and follow data on anthropometry, metabolic biomarkers and adequate serum volume for metabolomics analyses (n=206).
- Citation to related publication:
- LaBarre, J. L., Peterson, K. E., Kachman, M. T., Perng, W., Tang, L., Hao, W., Zhou, L., Karnovsky, A., Cantoral, A., Téllez-Rojo, M. M., Song, P. X. K., & Burant, C. F. (2020). Mitochondrial Nutrient Utilization Underlying the Association Between Metabolites and Insulin Resistance in Adolescents. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 105(7), 2442–2455. https://doi.org/10.1210/clinem/dgaa260
- Discipline:
- Health Sciences
-
- Creator:
- Zalmout, Iyad S, Sanders, William J, MacLatchy, Laura M, Gunnell, Gregg F, Al-Mufarreh, Yahya A, Ali, Mohammad A, Nasser, Abdul-Azziz H, Al-Masari, Abdu M, Al-Sobhi, Salih A, Nadhra, Ayman O, Matari, Adel H, Wilson, Jeffrey A, and Gingerich, Philip D
- Description:
- Reconstructed CT slices for the partial cranium of the holotype specimen of Saadanius hijazensis in DICOM format. Data supporting the publication: New Oligocene primate from Saudi Arabia and the divergence of apes and Old World monkeys, https://doi.org/10.1038/nature09094 Raw projections are not included in this dataset.
- Keyword:
- Paleontology, Fossil, Saudi Arabia, CT, Primate, Oligocene, Hominoidea, Cercopithecoidea, University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology, and UMMP
- Citation to related publication:
- Zalmout, I., Sanders, W., MacLatchy, L. et al. New Oligocene primate from Saudi Arabia and the divergence of apes and Old World monkeys. Nature 466, 360–364 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature09094, A cast of this specimen is held by the University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology (UMMP) under catalog number 14200., and 3D surface model viewable on UMORF site : https://umorf.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/wp/specimen-data/?Model_ID=1408
- Discipline:
- Science
-
- Creator:
- University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology and CTEES
- Description:
- Reconstructed CT slices for a right cuboid of Cantius mckennai (University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology catalog number UMMP VP 81823), 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
-
- Creator:
- Moore, Talia Y, Villacis Nunez, C Nathaly, Ray, Andrew P, and Cooper, Kimberly L
- Description:
- Hind limbs can undergo dramatic changes in loading conditions during the transition from quadrupedal to bipedal locomotion. For example, the most early diverging bipedal jerboas (Rodentia: Dipodidae) are some of the smallest mammals in the world, with body masses that range 2-4 grams. The larger jerboa species exhibit developmental and evolutionary fusion of the central three metatarsals into a single cannon bone. We hypothesize that body size reduction and metatarsal fusion are mechanisms to maintain the safety factor of the hind limb bones despite the higher ground reaction forces associated with bipedal locomotion. Using finite element analysis to model collisions between the substrate and the metatarsals, we found that body size reduction was insufficient to reduce bone stress on unfused metatarsals, based on the scaled dynamics of larger jerboas, and that fused bones developed lower stresses than unfused bones when all metatarsals are scaled to the same size and loading conditions. Based on these results, we conclude that fusion reinforces larger jerboa metatarsals against high ground reaction forces. Because smaller jerboas with unfused metatarsals develop higher peak stresses in response to loading conditions scaled from larger jerboas, we hypothesize that smaller jerboas use alternative dynamics of bipedal locomotion that reduces the impact of collisions between the foot and substrate.
- Keyword:
- finite element, functional morphology, bipedal, jerboa, metatarsus, and bone fusion
- Citation to related publication:
- Villacis Nunez, Ray, Cooper, Moore (submitted). Body size reduction and metatarsal fusion were distinct mechanisms to resist bending as jerboas (Dipodidae) transitioned from quadrupedal to bipedal.
- Discipline:
- Science and Engineering
-
- Creator:
- Tye, Alexander R, Niemi, Nathan A, Safarov, Rafig T, Kadirov, Fakhraddin A, Babayev, Gulam R
- Description:
- Apatite fission track thermochronometry data were collected from the Eastern Greater Caucasus orogen, Azerbaijan. Thermochronometry data constrain the history of exhumation and deformation of rocks within the orogen, which is an active accretionary prism. Thermochronometry data record the timing of cooling of a rock sample beneath a given closure temperature. Given an assumed or inferred geothermal gradient, thermochronometric ages can be used to infer exhumation rates and make interpretations about rates of deformation in orogens. The apatite fission track data presented here are analyzed in concert with apatite (U-Th)/He and zircon (U-Th)/He ages reported in Tye et al., in prep., to characterize the exhumation history of the Eastern Greater Caucasus.
- Keyword:
- thermochronometry, apatite fission track, Caucasus
- 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
-
- Creator:
- Umaña, María Natalia and Arellano, Gabriel
- Description:
- The objective of this study was to examine the existence of congruent tree growth responses to different extreme climatic events –hurricanes and drought–affecting tropical wet forests.
- Keyword:
- Dendrometers , El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico, and Tropical Forests
- Citation to related publication:
- Umaña, M.N.and Arellano G. In press. Legacy effects of drought on tree growth responses to hurricanes. Ecography. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.05803
- Discipline:
- Science
-
- Creator:
- Lee, Dahee, Panicker, Veena, and Landis-Lewis, Zach
- Description:
- We use the term “performance summary display” (PSD) to mean a kind of visualization that relates performance levels to other types of information. In the context of healthcare organizations, PSDs are intended to be communicated to a healthcare professional, team, or organization. and Displays were identified, classified, and elements counted and coded. The performance summary display ontology provides a set of descriptions of components of displays that have been used to annotate performance feedback visualizations.
- Keyword:
- Performance
- Citation to related publication:
- Lee, D., Panicker, V., Gross, C., Zhang, J., & Landis-Lewis, Z. (2020). What was visualized? A method for describing content of performance summary displays in feedback interventions. BMC medical research methodology, 20(1), 90. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-020-00951-x
- Discipline:
- Health Sciences and Science