3D model, Hemiscus guineensis, shovel-nosed frog, heart

Model produced from diceCT data of specimen California Academy of Sciences specimen CAS:Herpetology:258533. Funding for scan came from overt TCN; NSF DBI-1701714; NSF DBI-1702263 Segmentation, mesh generation, and pdf creation by Riley Pena and George Gurgis (Stony Brook University) using Avizo and funded by Stony Brook University Open Educational Resources funding. CT data available on MorphoSource: https://www.morphosource.org/concern/biological_specimens/000S25029?locale=e

3D model, Phaeochroa cuvierii, scaly-breasted hummingbird, heart

Model produced from diceCT data of specimen Carnegie Museum CM A4126. Funding for scan came from overt TCN; NSF DBI-1701714; NSF DBI-1702263 Segmentation, mesh generation, and pdf creation by Riley Pena and George Gurgis (Stony Brook University) using Avizo and funded by Stony Brook University Open Educational Resources funding. CT data available on MorphoSource: https://www.morphosource.org/concern/biological_specimens/000S25029?locale=e

3D model, Hemiscus guineensis, shovel-nosed frog, lungs

Model produced from diceCT data of specimen California Academy of Sciences specimen CAS:Herpetology:258533. Funding for scan came from overt TCN; NSF DBI-1701714; NSF DBI-1702263 Segmentation, mesh generation, and pdf creation by Riley Pena and George Gurgis (Stony Brook University) using Avizo and funded by Stony Brook University Open Educational Resources funding. CT data available on MorphoSource: https://www.morphosource.org/concern/biological_specimens/000S25029?locale=e

3D model, Phaeochroa cuvierii, scaly-breasted hummingbird, lungs

Model produced from diceCT data of specimen Carnegie Museum CM A4126. Funding for scan came from overt TCN; NSF DBI-1701714; NSF DBI-1702263 Segmentation, mesh generation, and pdf creation by Riley Pena and George Gurgis (Stony Brook University) using Avizo and funded by Stony Brook University Open Educational Resources funding. CT data available on MorphoSource: https://www.morphosource.org/concern/biological_specimens/000S25029?locale=e

Molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis in Prague: Analysis by restriction fragment length polymorphism

AbstractObjectives: To characterize by restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) patterns, the distribution of different Mycobacterium tuberculosisstrains isolated consecutively from 75 tuberculosis patients who resided in Prague and had culture-confirmed cases during a 4-month period in 1995.Methods: The insertion sequence IS6110-based RFLP analysis of M. tuberculosis isolates was carried out.Results: There were a total of 75 patients with various forms of tuberculosis (54 males; 21 females). The sources of M. tuberculosis isolates were sputum (n = 64), pleura or lymph node drainage (n = 8), and urine (n = 3). Fifty-three of the patients (70.7%) had isolates with unique RFLP patterns, while 22 (29.3%) had isolates that belonged to seven clusters of related RFLP patterns. The seven clusters consisted of four groups of two patients, two groups of four patients, and one group of six patients. Most of the patients whose isolates fell within a clustered RFLP pattern lived in different quarters of the city and had no identifiable contacts with other patients whose isolates had the same pattern.Conclusions: The finding that isolates from most patients (70.7%) had unique rather than clustered RFLP patterns suggests that endogenous reactivation rather than exogenous transmission is the major determinant of most of the tuberculosis cases in Prague. The occurrence of seven distinct clusters comprising 29.3% of the isolates suggests that approximately one third of cases developed active tuberculosis from recent exogenous transmission

Development and psychometric evaluation of the Birmingham Relationship Continuity Measure for acquired brain injury

Relationship continuity/discontinuity refers to whether a spouse/partner experiences their current relationship with someone with an acquired brain injury (ABI) as a continuation of their loving pre-injury relationship or as radically changed. The aim of this study was to adapt a questionnaire measure of continuity/discontinuity from dementia research for use in an ABI context and to evaluate the psychometric properties of this adaptation. The questionnaire was adapted in response to feedback from a focus group of ABI caregivers. Its psychometric properties were then evaluated in two studies involving partners of people with ABI. The measure showed high internal consistency (alpha = .956 in Study 1 and .963 in Study 2), test-retest reliability (intra-class correlation = .960 in Study 1) and discriminative power (Ferguson’s delta = .975 in Study 1 and .963 in Study 2). Evidence of construct validity was provided by a predicted pattern of correlations with other relationship questionnaires. Exploratory factor analysis suggested that the questionnaire is unidimensional. A valid and reliable quantitative measure of relationship continuity/discontinuity will enable more robust evaluation of suggestions about this construct that have been made in qualitative studies (e.g. that discontinuity is associated with a greater sense of caregiver burden).N/

Genome sequencing provides insight into the reproductive biology, nutritional mode and ploidy of the fern pathogen M ixia osmundae

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Adapting a Program to Inform African American and Hispanic American Women About Cancer Clinical Trials

The dearth of evidence-based clinical trial education programs may contribute to the underrepresentation of African American and Hispanic American women in cancer research studies. This study used focus group-derived data from 80 women distributed among eight Spanish- and English-language focus groups. These data guided the researchers’ adaptation and refinement of the National Cancer Institute’s various clinical trials education programs into a program that was specifically focused on meeting the information needs of minority women and addressing the barriers to study participation that they perceived. A “sisterhood” theme was adopted and woven throughout the presentation