Data for: The latitudinal gradient of shell ornament – a case study from Changhsingian (Late Permian) brachiopods

Data for: The latitudinal gradient of shell ornament – a case study from Changhsingian (Late Permian) brachiopod

Additional file 1 of Catatonia in adult anti-NMDAR encephalitis: an observational cohort study

Additional file 1: Supplementary Table S1. Outcomes of patients assessed by mRS and CASE at follow-up

DataSheet_1_Risk Prediction Models for Early ICU Admission in Patients With Autoimmune Encephalitis: Integrating Scale-Based Assessments of the Disease Severity.docx

BackgroundIn patients with autoimmune encephalitis (AE), the prediction of progression to a critically ill status is challenging but essential. However, there is currently no standard prediction model that comprehensively integrates the disease severity and other clinical features. The clinical assessment scale in autoimmune encephalitis (CASE) and the modified Rankin Scale (mRS) have both been applied for evaluating the severity of AE. Here, by combining the two scales and other clinical characteristics, we aimed to investigate risk factors and construct prediction models for early critical care needs of AE patients.MethodsDefinite and probable AE patients who were admitted to the neurology department of Tongji Hospital between 2013 and 2021 were consecutively enrolled. The CASE and mRS scores were used to evaluate the overall symptom severity at the time of hospital admission. Using logistic regression analysis, we analyzed the association between the total scores of the two scales and critical illness individually and then we evaluated this association in combination with other clinical features to predict early intensive care unit (ICU) admission. Finally, we constructed four prediction models and compared their performances.ResultsOf 234 patients enrolled, forty developed critical illness and were early admitted to the ICU (within 14 days of hospitalization). Four prediction models were generated; the models were named CASE, CASE-plus (CASE + prodromal symptoms + elevated fasting blood glucose + elevated cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) white blood cell (WBC) count), mRS and mRS-plus (mRS + prodromal symptoms + abnormal EEG results + elevated fasting blood glucose + elevated CSF WBC count) and had areas under the ROC curve of 0.850, 0.897, 0.695 and 0.833, respectively. All four models had good calibrations. In general, the models containing “CASE” performed better than those including “mRS”, and the CASE-plus model demonstrated the best performance.ConclusionOverall, the symptom severity at hospital admission, as defined by CASE or mRS, could predict early ICU admission, especially when assessed by CASE. Adding other clinical findings, such as prodromal symptoms, an increased fasting blood glucose level and an increased CSF WBC count, could improve the predictive efficacy.</p

Palaeoecological insights into the Changhsingian–Induan (latest Permian–earliest Triassic) bivalve fauna at Dongpan, southern Guangxi, South China

<div><p>Yang, T.L., He, W.H., Zhang, K.X., Wu, S.B., Zhang, Y., Yue, M.L., Wu, H.T. & Xiao, Y.F., XX.XXXX.2015. Palaeoecological insights into the Changhsingian–Induan (latest Permian–earliest Triassic) bivalve fauna at Dongpan, southern Guangxi, South China. <i>Alcheringa 40</i>, xxx–xxx. ISSN 0311-5518.</p><p>The Talung Formation (latest Permian) and basal part of Luolou Formation (earliest Triassic) of the Dongpan section have yielded 30 bivalve species in 17 genera. Eight genera incorporating 11 species are systematically described herein, including three new species: <i>Nuculopsis guangxiensis</i>, <i>Parallelodon changhsingensis</i> and <i>Palaeolima fangi</i>. Two assemblages are recognized, i.e., the <i>Hunanopecten exilis</i>–<i>Euchondria fusuiensis</i> assemblage from the Talung Formation and the <i>Claraia dieneri–Claraia griesbachi</i> assemblage from the Luolou Formation. The former is characterized by abundant <i>Euchondria fusuiensis</i>, an endemic species, associated with other common genera, such as <i>Hunanopecten</i>, which make it unique from coeval assemblages of South China. A palaeoecological analysis indicates that the Changhsingian bivalve assemblage at Dongpan is diverse and represented by various life habits characteristic of a complex ecosystem. This also suggests that redox conditions were oxic to suboxic in deep marine environments of the southernmost Yangtze Basin during the late Changhsingian, although several episodes of anoxic perturbations and declines in palaeoproductivity saw deterioratation of local habitats and altered the taxonomic composition or population size of the bivalve fauna.</p><p><i>Tinglu Yang [</i><a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a><i>], School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, 388 Lumo Road, Hongshan, Wuhan 430074, PR China; Weihong He* [</i><a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a><i>] and Kexin Zhang [</i><a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a><i>], State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, 388 Lumo Road, Hongshan, Wuhan 430074, PR China; Shunbao Wu [</i><a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a><i>], Yang Zhang [</i><a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a><i>], Mingliang Yue [</i><a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a><i>], Huiting Wu [</i><a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a><i>] and Yifan Xiao [</i><a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a><i>], School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, 388 Lumo Road, Hongshan, Wuhan 430074, PR China.</i></p></div

Marine invertebrate fossils from the Permian–Triassic boundary beds of two core sections in the northern Perth Basin, Western Australia

Marine macroinvertebrate fossils from two petroleum exploration cores, Apium-1 and Redback-2, are described, and found to contain two separate assemblages. The assemblage from the Apium-1 core was recovered from an ca 5-m-thick interval (2756.35–2751.28 m) in the basal Hovea Member (‘inertinitic interval’) of the Kockatea Shale and includes the following forms: ?Spinomarginifera sp., Cimmeriella sp., ?Etherilosia sp., Elivina sp., Cleiothyridina sp., and Paeckelmanelloidea gen. et. sp. indet. (all brachiopods). The age of this assemblage is interpreted as Changhsingian, as constrained by its association with the palynofloral Dulhuntyispora parvithola Zone. The assemblage from the Redback-2 core was recovered from the ‘sapropelic interval’ of the Hovea Member of the Kockatea Shale between 3806 m and 3786 m and comprises the following forms: Lingulidae gen. et sp. indet. (brachiopod), Claraia perthensis Dickins & McTavish, Crittendenia cf. australasiatica (Krumbeck), ?Paralledon sp. (bivalves), ?Otoceras sp. (ammonoid), Microconchus utahensis Zatoń, Taylor & Vinn (microconchid) and Magniestheria mangaliensis (Jones) (spinicaudatan). Among these, the first local appearances of the lingulid species, ?Otoceras sp. and M. mangaliensis are associated with the palynofloral Protohaploxypinus microcorpus Zone and are interpreted as latest Changhsingian in age. Other occurrences of the Redback-2 fossil assemblage overlap with the palynofloral Kraeuselisporites saeptatus Zone and are considered to be of earliest Triassic (Griesbachian) age. G.R. Shi [[email protected]] and Sangmin Lee [[email protected]], School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences, University of Wollongong, Northfields Ave, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia; Ian Metcalfe [[email protected]], Earth Sciences, Earth Studies Building C02, School of Environmental and Rural Science, University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia; Daoliang Chu [[email protected]], State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, PR China; Huiting Wu [[email protected]], College of Geoscience and Surveying Engineering, China University of Mining & Technology, Beijing, PR China; Tinglu Yang [[email protected]], Faculty of Geosciences, East China University of Technology, Nanchang 330013, PR China; Yuri D. Zakharov [[email protected]], Far East Geological Institute, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, 690022 Russia. </p

The palaeoenvironmental and palaeobiogeographical significance of the Late Permian deep-water brachiopod fauna from Dongpan, South China, including descriptions of <i>Micromartinia</i> He & Weldon gen. nov. (Micromartiniidae He & Weldon fam. nov.) and <i>Minutomarginifera</i> nom. nov.

A new genus and species, Micromartinia kwangsiella gen. et sp. nov., is erected based on material from the Talung Formation (upper Changhsingian), Guangxi, South China. Based on a phylogenetic analysis, the new genus is placed in a new family, Micromartiniidae He & Weldon. The genus and family are monotypic. Minutomarginifera nomen novum is proposed to replace Eileenella Racheboeuf in Wongwanich et al., 2004. Eileenella is a homonym that was first used for an insect genus. A review of the brachiopod fauna of the Talung Formation at Dongpan demonstrates that the species are highly endemic and the fauna has a strongly generic affinity with cool-water faunas outside of South China Basin. The associated fauna and facies also indicate that the Dongpan Section was deposited in a cool-water bathyal setting in the southern part (Youjiang Sub-basin) of the South China Basin. The section was linked to the open ocean in the Late Permian. Compared with the coeval faunas of Duanshan and Shaiwa in the Youjiang Sub-basin, the Dongpan brachiopod fauna was not so strongly influenced by the faunas from the adjacent carbonate platforms, because of the deeper, cool water setting which is hostile to the typical warm-water brachiopods. http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:23E02390-C47D-4F09-87AF-012BC47A2F30</p

Evolution of Transient Luminescent Assemblies Regulated by Trace Water in Organic Solvents

Trace water in organic solvents can play a crucial role in the construction of supramolecular assemblies, which has not gained enough attention until very recent years. Herein, we demonstrate that residual water in organic solvents plays a decisive role in the regulation of the evolution of assembled structures and their functionality. By adding Mg­(ClO4)2 into a multi-component organic solution containing terpyridine-based ligand 3Tpy and monodentate imidazole-based ligand M2, the system underwent an unexpected kinetic evolution. Metallo-supramolecular polymers (MSP) formed first by the coordination of 3Tpy and Mg2+, but they subsequently decomposed due to the interference of M2, resulting in a transient MSP system. Further investigation revealed that this occurred because residual water in the solvent and M2 cooperatively coordinated with Mg2+. This allowed M2 to capture Mg2+ from MSP, which led to depolymerization. However, owing to the slow reaction between trace water/M2/Mg2+, the formation of MSP still occurred first. Therefore, water regulated both the thermodynamics and kinetics of the system and was the key factor for constructing the transient MSP. Fine-tuning the water content and other assembly motifs regulated the assembly evolution pathway, tuned the MSP lifetime, and made the luminescent color of the system undergo intriguing transition processes over time