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Global fire regime change is threatening terrestrial biodiversity. Understanding how these changes affect biota is essential to protect biodiversity now and into the future. A targeted examination of the mechanisms through which fire influences populations will help achieve this by enabling comparisons and connections across taxa. Here, we develop a cross‐taxa framework that identifies mechanisms through which fire regimes inf...
Attempted Self-Harm with Elemental Thallium Purchased Online: Case Report with Analytical ConfirmationNARA Subscribed
Introduction Thallium is a highly toxic metal, with most publications demonstrating poisoning from thallium salts. We report on a patient with elevated serum and urine thallium concentrations from an intentional ingestion of elemental thallium purchased from the internet for self-harm. Case Report The regional poison center was contacted about an 18-year-old man who ingested a fragment from a 100-gram bar reported to be elemen...
The effect of high-frequency rTMS over left DLPFC and fluid abilities on goal neglectNARA Subscribed
Goal neglect refers to when an aspect of task instructions is not utilised due to increased competition between goal representations, an attentional limit theoretically linked to working memory. In an attempt to alleviate goal neglect and to investigate the association between dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC)-supported working memory and goal neglect, we used high-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation to...
The Toxicology Investigators Consortium 2022 Annual ReportNARA Subscribed
Clinical relevance of biomarker discordance between primary breast cancers and synchronous axillary lymph node metastasesNARA Subscribed
Clinical decision-making for patients with breast cancer (BC) is still primarily based on biomarker characteristics of the primary tumor, together with the evaluation of synchronous axillary lymph node metastasis (LNM). In this study, we investigated the prevalence of discordance in the biomarkers and surrogate subtyping between the primary BC and the LNM, and whether subsequent changes would have altered clinical treatment re...
Common, low-frequency, rare, and ultra-rare coding variants contribute to COVID-19 severityNARA Subscribed
The combined impact of common and rare exonic variants in COVID-19 host genetics is currently insufficiently understood. Here, common and rare variants from whole-exome sequencing data of about 4000 SARS-CoV-2-positive individuals were used to define an interpretable machine-learning model for predicting COVID-19 severity. First, variants were converted into separate sets of Boolean features, depending on the absence or the pr...
Previous work investigating the effect of rTMS of left Dorso-Lateral Prefrontal Cortex (DLPFC) on Stroop task performance reports no changes to the Stroop effect but reduced reaction times on both congruent and incongruent trials relative to sham stimulation; an effect attributed to an enhanced attentional (or task) set for colour classification. The present study tested this account by investigating whether, relative to verte...
Planning for ex situ conservation in the face of uncertaintyNARA Subscribed
Ex situ conservation strategies for threatened species often require long‐term commitment and financial investment to achieve management objectives. We present a framework that considers the decision to adopt ex situ management for a target species as the end point of several linked decisions. We used a decision tree to intuitively represent the logical sequence of decision making. The first decision is to identify the specifi...
Microscale sulfur cycling in the phototrophic pink berry consortia of the S ippewissett S alt M arshNARA Subscribed
Summary Microbial metabolism is the engine that drives global biogeochemical cycles, yet many key transformations are carried out by microbial consortia over short spatiotemporal scales that elude detection by traditional analytical approaches. We investigate syntrophic sulfur cycling in the ‘pink berry’ consortia of the S ippewissett S alt M arsh through an integrative study at the microbial scale. The pink berries are macros...
Anthropogenic climate change is a key threat to global biodiversity. To inform strategic actions aimed at conserving biodiversity as climate changes, conservation planners need early warning of the risks faced by different species. The IUCN Red List criteria for threatened species are widely acknowledged as useful risk assessment tools for informing conservation under constraints imposed by limited data. However, doubts have b...
Optimal Marking of Threatened Species to Balance Benefits of Information with Impacts of MarkingNARA Subscribed
Marking animals so that they are uniquely identifiable provides information that may assist conservation efforts. Nevertheless, some methods used to mark animals can be harmful. We used mathematical methods to assess the trade‐off between the impact of marking threatened species and the value of the information gained. We considered the case where 2 management strategies, each aiming to improve a species' survival rate, are im...
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