Identifying fabricated networks within authorship-for-sale enterprises.

It is estimated that 2% of all journal submissions across all disciplines originate from paper mills, both creating significant risk that the body of research that we rely on to progress becomes corrupted, and placing undue burden on the submission process to reject these articles. By understanding how the business of paper mills-the technological approaches that they adopt, as well as the social structures that they require to operate-the research community can be empowered to develop strategies that make it harder, or ideally impossible for them to operate. Most of the contemporary work in paper-mill detection has focused on identifying the signals that have been left behind inside the text or structure of fabricated papers that result from the technological approaches that paper mills employ.

Connecting Scientometrics: Dimensions as a Route to Broadening Context for Analyses.

Modern cloud-based data infrastructures open new vistas for the deployment of scientometric data into the hands of practitioners. These infrastructures lower barriers to entry by making data more available and compute capacity more affordable. In addition, if data are prepared appropriately, with unique identifiers, it is possible to connect many different types of data.

Measuring Research Information Citizenship Across ORCID Practice.

Over the past 10 years, stakeholders across the scholarly communications community have invested significantly not only to increase the adoption of ORCID adoption by researchers, but also to build the broader infrastructures that are needed both to support ORCID and to benefit from it. These parallel efforts have fostered the emergence of a "research information citizenry" between researchers, publishers, funders, and institutions. This paper takes a scientometric approach to investigating how effectively ORCID roles and responsibilities within this citizenry have been adopted.

Improving phylogenetic resolution of the Lamiales using the complete plastome sequences of six Penstemon species.

The North American endemic genus Penstemon (Mitchell) has a recent geologic origin of ca. 3.6 million years ago (MYA) during the Pliocene/Pleistocene transition and has undergone a rapid adaptive evolutionary radiation with ca.

Real-Time Bibliometrics: Dimensions as a Resource for Analyzing Aspects of COVID-19.

Dimensions was built as a platform to allow stakeholders in the research community, including academic bibliometricians, to more easily create and understand the context of different types of research object through the linkages between these objects. Links between objects are created via persistent identifiers and machine learning techniques, while additional context is introduced via data enhancements such as per-object categorisations and person and institution disambiguation. While these features make analytical use cases accessible for end users, the COVID-19 crisis has highlighted a different set of needs to analyze trends in scholarship as they occur: Real-time bibliometrics.

Scaling Scientometrics: Dimensions on Google BigQuery as an Infrastructure for Large-Scale Analysis.

Cloud computing has the capacity to transform many parts of the research ecosystem, from particular research areas to overall strategic decision making and policy. Scientometrics sits at the boundary between research and the decision-making, policy-making, and evaluation processes that underpin research. One of the biggest challenges in research policy and strategy is having access to data in a way that allows for analysis that can respond in an iterative way to inform decisions.

Prevalence of Covid-19 Infection and Subsequent Cohorting in a Residential Substance Use Treatment Program in Boston, MA.

Objectives: The global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) may disproportionately affect persons in congregate settings, including those in residential substance use treatment facilities. To limit the spread of SARS-CoV-2 through congregate settings, universal testing may be necessary. We aimed to determine the point prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in a residential treatment program setting and to understand the unique challenges of Covid-19 transmission in this setting.

Clinical Use of the Automated Neuropsychological Assessment Metrics TBI-Mil Expanded Battery in Evaluating Concussion Recovery: A Retrospective Study.

Introduction: This retrospective study evaluated the use of the Automated Neuropsychological Assessment Metrics (ANAM4) Expanded battery in a clinical setting to determine if the resolution of physiological symptoms, in the absence of neurocognitive assessment, was sufficient data in the return-to-duty (RTD) determination.

Materials And Methods: In this study, 508 U.S.

High-Q Tuneable 10-GHz Bragg Resonator for Oscillator Applications.

This paper describes the design, simulation, and measurement of a tuneable 9.365-GHz aperiodic Bragg resonator. The resonator utilizes an aperiodic arrangement of non ( /4) low-loss alumina plates ( , loss tangent of to ) mounted in a cylindrical metal waveguide.

The 18-month impact of special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children food package revisions on diets of recipient families.

Background: Beginning in 2009, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) revised its food packages and provided more whole grains, fruits, and vegetables and fewer foods with high saturated fat content. However, knowledge of the impact of this policy shift on the diets of WIC participants remains limited.

Purpose: To examine the longer-term impact of the 2009 WIC food package change on nutrient and food group intake and overall diet quality among African American and Hispanic WIC child participants and their mothers/caregivers.

Evaluating the initial impact of the revised Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) food packages on dietary intake and home food availability in African-American and Hispanic families.

Objective: The present study assessed the impact of the 2009 food packages mandated by the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) on dietary intake and home food availability in low-income African-American and Hispanic parent/child dyads.

Design: A natural experiment was conducted to assess if the revised WIC food package altered dietary intake, home food availability, weight and various lifestyle measures immediately (6 months) following policy implementation.

Setting: Twelve WIC clinics in Chicago, IL, USA.

Racial/ethnic differences in dietary intake among WIC families prior to food package revisions.

Objective: To compare the diets of African American and Hispanic families in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) prior to the 2009 food package revisions.

Methods: Mother-child dyads were recruited from 12 WIC sites in Chicago, IL. Individuals with 1 valid 24-hour recall were included in the analyses (n = 331 children, n = 352 mothers).

In vivo and in vitro potency studies of 6beta-naltrexol, the major human metabolite of naltrexone.

Naltrexone, a mu opioid receptor antagonist, is used in the treatment of opioid and alcohol dependence. Naltrexone's longer duration of action compared to naloxone has been considered to be due partly to its major human metabolite, 6beta-naltrexol. To date, no studies have examined the in vitro or in vivo potency of 6beta-naltrexol compared to naltrexone and naloxone.

Kinetics and inhibition of the formation of 6beta-naltrexol from naltrexone in human liver cytosol.

Aims: To determine the kinetics of the formation of 6beta-naltrexol from naltrexone in human liver cytosol, and to investigate the role of potential inhibitors.

Methods: The kinetics of the formation of 6 beta-naltrexol from naltrexone were examined in eight human liver cytosol preparations using h.p.

Ribosomal proteins S5 and L6: high-resolution crystal structures and roles in protein synthesis and antibiotic resistance.

Antibiotic resistance is rapidly becoming a major medical problem. Many antibiotics are directed against bacterial ribosomes, and mutations within both the RNA and protein components can render them ineffective. It is well known that the majority of these antibiotics act by binding to the ribosomal RNA, and it is of interest to understand how mutations in the ribosomal proteins can produce resistance.

The activation domain of the MotA transcription factor from bacteriophage T4.

Bacteriophage T4 encodes a transcription factor, MotA, that binds to the -30 region of middle-mode promoters and activates transcription by host RNA polymerase. We have solved the structure of the MotA activation domain to 2.2 A by X-ray crystallography, and have also determined its secondary structure by NMR.

Crystal structure of prokaryotic ribosomal protein L9: a bi-lobed RNA-binding protein.

The crystal structure of protein L9 from the Bacillus stearothermophilus ribosome has been determined at 2.8 A resolution using X-ray diffraction methods. This primary RNA-binding protein has a highly elongated and unusual structure consisting of two separated domains joined by a long exposed alpha-helix.

The MotA protein from bacteriophage T4 contains two domains. Preliminary structural analysis by X-ray diffraction and nuclear magnetic resonance.

Controlled protease cleavage experiments and N-terminal sequence analyses were used to show that the transcriptional activator MotA from bacteriophage T4 has a two-domain structure. The N and C-terminal domains have M(r) values of 10,300 and 11,800, respectively, and were separately cloned and overexpressed in Escherichia coli. One and two-dimensional NMR spectroscopy indicate that both domains have stably folded structures and contain extensive secondary structure.

Effects of oophorectomy on biochemical and bone variables in the rat.

The metabolic effects of oophorectomy (Oophx) were studied in 6-month-old rats maintained on a normal chow diet. Nine weeks following operation, Oophx animals had a significantly lower femoral trabecular bone volume (BV/TV) than sham-operated animals; mean (SD) Oophx 8.5 (3.

Comparison of Duroc and British landrace pigs for meat a and eating quality.

Duroc and halothane negative British Landrace boars and gilts were performance tested from 30 to 80kg on ad-libitum or restricted feeding regimes, with like-sexed non-littermate groups of pigs penned together. Meat and eating quality was determined using objective laboratory measurements and by taste panel and consumer panel assessment on 160 pigs with 20 full-sib families for each breed, and two boars and two gilts per family. Duroc M.

Distribution of a major allergen of rye grass (Lolium perenne) pollen between other grass species.

Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS) followed by protein staining has shown that extracts from 11 different grass pollens contained proteins with similar molecular weights to that of the allergen R7 from rye grass (Lolium perenne) pollen extract (i.e. 29,000-31,000 daltons).