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- The widely documented phenomenon of nighttime stomatal conductance (gsn) could lead to substantial water loss with no carbon gain, and thus it remains unclear whether nighttime stomatal conductance confers a functional advantage. Given that studies of gsn have focused on controlled environments or small numbers of species in natural environments, a broad phylogenetic and biogeographic context could provide insights into potential adaptive benefits of gsn. We measured gsn on a diverse suite of species (n = 73) across various functional groups and climates-of-origin in a common garden to study the phylogenetic and biogeographic/climatic controls on gsn and further assessed the degree to which gsn co-varied with leaf functional traits and daytime gas exchange rates. Closely related species were more similar in gsn than expected by chance. Herbaceous species had higher gsn than woody species. Species that typically grow in climates with lower mean annual precipitation – where the fitness cost of water loss should be the highest – generally had higher gsn. Our results reveal the highest gsn rates in species from environments where neighboring plants compete most strongly for water, suggesting a possible role for the competitive advantage of gsn.
- Keyword:
- competition, adaption, woody species, water resource, gas exchange, biogeographic, phylogenetic, herbaceous species, nighttime stomata, and climate controls
- Subject:
- woody plants, herbaceous plants, and phylogeny
- Creator:
- Anderegg, William R. L. and Yu, Kailiang
- Owner:
- BRIAN MCBRIDE
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/10/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/04/2024
- Date Created:
- 2018-05-01 to 2018-08-31
- License:
- CC BY NC - Allows others to use and share your data non-commercially and with attribution.
- Resource Type:
- Dataset
- Identifier:
- https://doi.org/10.7278/S50D-E9J1-NYG0
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- Description:
- The mechanisms governing tree drought mortality and recovery remain a subject of inquiry and active debate given their role in the terrestrial carbon cycle and their concomitant impact on climate change. Counter-intuitively, many trees do not die during the drought itself. Indeed, observations globally have documented that trees often grow for several years after drought before mortality. A combination of meta-analysis and tree physiological models demonstrate that optimal carbon allocation after drought explains observed patterns of delayed tree mortality and provides a predictive recovery framework. Specifically, post-drought, trees attempt to repair water transport tissue and achieve positive carbon balance through regrowing drought-damaged xylem. Further, the number of years of xylem regrowth required to recover function increases with tree size, explaining why drought mortality increases with size. These results indicate that tree resilience to drought-kill may increase in the future, provided that CO2 fertilization facilitates more rapid xylem regrowth.
- Keyword:
- drought, optimality theory, vegetation model, CO2 fertilization, hydraulic-carbon coupling, and carbon metabolism
- Subject:
- droughts and vegetation
- Creator:
- Trugman, Anna T. , Detto, Matteo , Bartlett, Megan K., Medvigy, David, Anderegg, William R. L., Schwalm, Christopher, Schaffer, Ben, and Pacala, Stephen W.
- Owner:
- BRIAN MCBRIDE
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/10/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/05/2024
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01 to 2018-05-31
- License:
- CC BY NC - Allows others to use and share your data non-commercially and with attribution.
- Resource Type:
- Dataset
- Identifier:
- https://doi.org/10.7278/S5N29V4F
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- Description:
- Background. Common cold viruses create significant health and financial burdens, and understanding key loci of transmission would help focus control strategies. This study (1) examines factors that influence when individuals transition from a negative to positive test (acquisition) or a positive to negative test (loss) of rhinovirus (HRV) and other respiratory tract viruses in 26 households followed weekly for one year, (2) investigates evidence for intrahousehold and interhousehold transmission and the characteristics of individuals implicated in transmission, and (3) builds data-based simulation models to identify factors that most strongly affect patterns of prevalence. Methods. We detected HRV, coronavirus, paramyxovirus, influenza and bocavirus with the FilmArray polymerase chain reaction (PCR) platform (BioFire Diagnostics, LLC). We used logistic regression to find covariates affecting acquisition or loss of HRV including demographic characteristics of individuals, their household, their current infection status, and prevalence within their household and across the population. We apply generalized linear mixed models to test robustness of results. Results. Acquisition of HRV was less probable in older individuals and those infected with a coronavirus, and higher with a higher proportion of other household members infected. Loss of HRV is reduced with a higher proportion of other household members infected. Within households, only children and symptomatic individuals show evidence for transmission, while between households only a higher number of infected older children (ages 5-19) increases the probability of acquisition. Coronaviruses, paramyxoviruses and bocavirus also show evidence of intrahousehold transmission. Simulations show that age-dependent susceptibility and transmission have the largest effects on mean HRV prevalence. Conclusions. Children are most likely to acquire and most likely to transmit HRV both within and between households, with infectiousness concentrated in symptomatic children. Simulations predict that the spread of HRV and other respiratory tract viruses can be reduced but not eliminated by practices within the home.
- Keyword:
- Utah, coronavirus, viral epidemiology, rhinovirus, longitudinal study, viral interactions, respiratory disease, epidemiology, and respiratory tract virus
- Subject:
- coronavirus, rhinovirus, and respiratory tract infection
- Creator:
- Adler, Frederick R.
- Contributor:
- Ampofo, Krow, Pavia, Andrew, and Byington, Carrie L.
- Owner:
- BRIAN MCBRIDE
- Based Near Label Tesim:
- Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/10/2019
- Date Modified:
- 05/31/2024
- Date Created:
- 2009-08-01 to 2010-08-31
- License:
- CC BY NC - Allows others to use and share your data non-commercially and with attribution.
- Resource Type:
- Dataset
- Identifier:
- https://doi.org/10.7278/S5XG9P97
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- Description:
- This SAS program can be used to calculate Grocery Purchase Quality Index-2016 (GPQI-2016) total and component scores from food purchase data (dollars and cents) that have been summarized into the 29 categories of the USDA Food Plans. The code can be adapted to calculate GPQI-2016 scores for data that use a smaller number of categories.
- Keyword:
- nutrition informatics, food expenditures, Healthy Eating Index, grocery shopping, grocery quality, nutrition, and USDA
- Subject:
- human nutrition and food purchasing
- Creator:
- Brewster, Philip J., Guenther, Patricia M., and Hurdle, John F.
- Contributor:
- Tran, Lethuy and Chidambaram, Valli
- Owner:
- BRIAN MCBRIDE
- Based Near Label Tesim:
- University of Utah, Utah, United States
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/10/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/03/2024
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01 to 2018-12-31
- License:
- CC BY NC - Allows others to use and share your data non-commercially and with attribution.
- Resource Type:
- Software or Program Code
- Identifier:
- https://doi.org/10.7278/S5HD7ST1
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- Description:
- The data set includes individual images of mouse cochleae, both scanning electron micrographs and fluorescent micrographs, used to generate aggregated data described in Pecha PP, Almishaal AA, Mathur PD, et al. Role of Free Radical Formation in Murine Cytomegalovirus–Induced Hearing Loss. Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery. 2020;162(5):709-717. doi:10.1177/0194599820901485 and Objectives The goal of the study was to determine whether reactive oxygen species (ROS) mediates cytomegalovirus (CMV)–induced labyrinthitis. Study Design Murine model of CMV infection. Subjects and Methods Nrf2 knockout mice were inoculated with murine CMV. Auditory brainstem response (ABR) and distortion product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAEs) were then performed on these and uninfected controls. BALB/c mice were inoculated with murine CMV to determine whether a marker for ROS production, dihydroethidium (DHE), is expressed 7 days after inoculation. Finally, 2 antioxidants—D-methionine and ACE-Mg (vitamins A, C, and E with magnesium)—were administered 1 hour before and after infection in inoculated mice for 14 days. Temporal bones were harvested at postnatal day 10 for DHE detection. ABR and DPOAE testing was done at postnatal day 30. Scanning electron microscopy was also performed at postnatal day 30 to evaluate outer hair cell integrity. Results Nrf2-infected mice had worse hearing than uninfected mice (P < .001). A statistically significant increase in DHE fluorescence was detected in BALB/c-infected mice as compared with uninfected mice 7 days after inoculation. D-methionine- and ACE-Mg-treated mice demonstrated an attenuation of the DHE fluorescence and a significant improvement in ABR and DPOAE thresholds when compared with untreated infected controls (P < .0001). Scanning electron microscopy demonstrated less outer hair cell loss in the treated versus untreated infected controls. Conclusion These results demonstrate for the first time that excessive ROS mediates CMV-induced hearing loss in a mouse model.
- Keyword:
- herpesviridae, hearing loss, cochlea, reactive oxygen species, cytomegalovirus, congenital CMV, mouse, outer hair cells, auditory brainstem response, and antioxidant
- Subject:
- cytomegalovirus and hearing loss
- Creator:
- Firpo, Matthew A., Park, Albert H., and Yang, Jun
- Owner:
- BRIAN MCBRIDE
- Based Near Label Tesim:
- Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/10/2019
- Date Modified:
- 05/31/2024
- Date Created:
- 2015-04-08 to 2016-11-02
- License:
- CC BY NC - Allows others to use and share your data non-commercially and with attribution.
- Resource Type:
- Dataset
- Identifier:
- https://doi.org/10.7278/S50D-D0WT-SV00
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- Description:
- Tropical convective clouds evolve over a wide range of temporal and spatial scales, which makes them difficult to simulate numerically. Here we propose that cloud statistical properties can be derived within a simplified time-independent coordinate system of cloud number n, saturated static energy h⋆, and cloud perimeter λ. Under the constraint that circulations around cloud edge compete with each other for total buoyant energy and air, we show that the product of cloud number and cloud perimeter nλ is invariant with λ and that cloud number follows a negative exponential with respect to cloud-edge deviations of h⋆ with respect to the mean. Overall, the summed perimeter of all clouds scales as the square root of the atmospheric static stability. These theoretical results suggest that the complexity of cloud field structures can be viewed statistically as an emergent property of atmospheric bulk thermodynamics. Comparison with a detailed tropical cloud field simulation shows general agreement to within ≤13%. For the sake of developing hypotheses about cloud temporal evolution that are testable in high resolution simulations, the shapes of tropical cloud perimeter distributions are predicted to be invariant as climate warms, although with a modest increase in total cloud amount.
- Keyword:
- climate, clouds, statistics, and atmospheric sciences
- Subject:
- atmospheric sciences
- Creator:
- Garrett, Tim
- Owner:
- BRIAN MCBRIDE
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/10/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/05/2024
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01 to 2018-12-31
- License:
- CC BY NC - Allows others to use and share your data non-commercially and with attribution.
- Resource Type:
- Dataset
- Identifier:
- https://doi.org/10.7278/S5CV4FWW
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- Description:
- This dataset contains the electric field data sampled along ocean-continent boundaries during space weather hazards. A finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) technique is used to study potential space weather hazards to electric power grids located at the proximity of the coast. The most of the data are in floating point representation, and the data files are in .txt format. The data can be visualized using software such as MATLAB and Python. The data can be used to plot electric and magnetic fields along the ocean-continent boundaries for different scenarios (different depths of an ocean, different conductivities of a lithosphere and different frequencies of ionospheric disturbance).
- Keyword:
- electric field
- Subject:
- space weather and electric field
- Creator:
- Pokhrel, Santosh
- Owner:
- BRIAN MCBRIDE
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/10/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/03/2024
- Date Created:
- 2016-08-01 to 2018-01-31
- License:
- CCO – As the data author, you are choosing to place your data into the public domain.
- Resource Type:
- Dataset
- Identifier:
- https://doi.org/10.7278/S5PC30H5
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Data for: Restitution Characteristics of His Bundle and Working Myocardium in Isolated Rabbit Hearts
- Description:
- The Purkinje system (PS) and the His bundle have been recently implicated as an important driver of the rapid activation rate after 1-2 minutes of ventricular fibrillation (VF). It is unknown whether activations during VF propagate through the His-Purkinje system to other portions of the the working myocardium (WM). Little is known about restitution characteristic differences between the His bundle and working myocardium at short cycle lengths. In this study, rabbit hearts (n=9) were isolated, Langendorff- perfused, and electromechanically uncoupled with blebbistatin (10 μM). Pacing pulses were delivered directly to the His bundle. By using standard glass microelectrodes, action potentials duration (APD) from the His bundle and WM were obtained simultaneously over a wide range of stimulation cycle lengths (CL). The global F-test indicated that the two restitution curves of the His bundle and the WM are statistically significantly different (P<0.05). Also, the APD of the His bundle was significantly shorter than that of WM throughout the whole pacing course (P<0.001). The CL at which alternans developed in the His bundle vs. the WM were shorter for the His bundle (134.2±13.1ms vs. 148.3±13.3ms, P<0.01) and 2:1 block developed at a shorter CL in the His bundle than in WM (130.0±10.0 vs. 145.6±14.2ms, P<0.01). The His bundle APD was significantly shorter than that of WM under both slow and rapid pacing rates, which suggest that there may be an excitable gap during VF and that the His bundle may conduct wavefronts from one bundle branch to the other at short cycle lengths and during VF.
- Keyword:
- ventricular fibrillation, action potential duration, cardiology, working myocardium, rabbit, restitution curve, alternans, His bundle, and microelectrode
- Subject:
- ventricular fibrillation, cardiology, and myocardium
- Creator:
- Huang, Shangwei, Panitchob, Nuttanont, Hu, Nan, Ranjan, Ravi, Huang, Liqun, and Dosdall, Derek
- Owner:
- BRIAN MCBRIDE
- Based Near Label Tesim:
- Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/10/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/18/2024
- Date Created:
- 2016-03-21 to 2016-05-25
- License:
- CCO – As the data author, you are choosing to place your data into the public domain.
- Resource Type:
- Dataset
- Identifier:
- https://doi.org/10.7278/S50R9MJX
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- Description:
- Supplementary material for a research paper submitted to the Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. An animated gif and a readme file.
- Keyword:
- weather, flow, animation, Meteor Craterkatabatic flow, hydraulic jump, potential temperature profile, IOP7, METCRAX, basin, and cold intrusions
- Subject:
- Windstorm dynamics and Meteorological modeling
- Creator:
- Lehner, M., Kalthoff, N, Haiden, T., Whiteman, C. David, Adler, B., and Hoch, S. W.
- Owner:
- BRIAN MCBRIDE
- Based Near Label Tesim:
- Meteor Crater, Arizona, United States
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/10/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/18/2024
- Date Created:
- 2017-10-10
- License:
- Public Domain – This data is free of copyright restrictions (e.g. government sponsored data).
- Resource Type:
- Image
- Identifier:
- https://doi.org/10.7278/S54J0C86
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- Description:
- While several studies have qualitatively investigated age- and region-dependent adhesion between the vitreous and retina, no studies have directly measured the vitreoretinal strength of adhesion. In this study, we developed a rotational peel device and associated methodology to measure the maximum and steady-state peel forces between the vitreous and the retina. Vitreoretinal adhesion in the equator and posterior pole were measured in human eyes from donors ranging 30 to 79 years of age, and in sheep eyes from premature, neonatal, young lamb, and young adult sheep. In human eyes, maximum peel force in the equator (7.24 ± 4.13 mN) was greater than in the posterior pole (4.08 ± 2.03 mN). This trend was especially evident for younger eyes from donors 30 to 39 years of age. After 60 years of age, there was a significant decrease in the maximum equatorial (4.69 ± 2.52 mN, p = 0.016) and posterior pole adhesion (2.95 ± 1.25 mN, p = 0.037). In immature sheep eyes, maximum adhesion was 7.60 ± 3.06 mN, and did not significantly differ between the equator and posterior pole until young adulthood. At this age, the maximum adhesion in the equator nearly doubled (16.67 ± 7.45 mN) that of the posterior pole, similar to the young adult human eyes. Light microscopy images suggest more disruption of the inner limiting membrane (ILM) in immature sheep eyes compared to adult sheep eyes. Interestingly, in human eyes, ILM disruption was significantly greater in the posterior pole (p < 0.05) and in people over 60 years of age (p < 0.02). These findings supplement the current discussion surrounding age-related posterior vitreous detachment, and the risk factors and physiological progressions associated with this condition. In addition, these data further our understanding of the biomechanical mechanisms of vitreoretinal adhesion, and can be used to develop age- appropriate computational models simulating retinal detachment, hemorrhaging, or retinal trauma. See Creveling CJ, Colter J, Coats B. 2018. Changes in vitreoretinal adhesion with age and region in human and sheep eyes. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology 6. https://doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2018.00153.
- Keyword:
- ophthalmology, retina, vitreous, adhesion, ocular, human, eye, peel test, and sheep
- Subject:
- Quantitative measurement and Vitreoretinal adhesion
- Creator:
- Coats, Brittany and Creveling, Christopher
- Contributor:
- Colter, Jourdan
- Owner:
- BRIAN MCBRIDE
- Based Near Label Tesim:
- Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/10/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/03/2024
- Date Created:
- Completed 2017-06-01
- License:
- CC BY – Allows others to use and share your data, even commercially, with attribution.
- Resource Type:
- Image, Dataset, and Video
- Identifier:
- https://doi.org/10.7278/S5BK19H3