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Skripnikov A, Wagner N, Shafer J, Beck M, Sherwood E, Burke M. Using localized Twitter activity to assess harmful algal bloom impacts of Karenia brevis in Florida, USA. Harmful Algae 2021; 110:102118. [PMID: 34887016 DOI: 10.1016/j.hal.2021.102118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2020] [Revised: 09/28/2021] [Accepted: 09/29/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
Abstract
Red tide blooms of the dinoflagellate Karenia brevis (K. brevis) produce toxic coastal conditions that can impact marine organisms and human health, while also affecting local economies. During the extreme Florida red tide event of 2017-2019, residents and visitors turned to social media platforms to both receive disaster-related information and communicate their own sentiments and experiences. This was the first major red tide event since the ubiquitous use of social media, thus providing unique crowd-sourced reporting of red tide impacts. We evaluated the spatial and temporal accuracy of red tide topic activity on Twitter, taking tweet sentiments and user types (e.g. media, citizens) into consideration, and compared tweet activity with reported red tide conditions, such as K. brevis cell counts, levels of dead fish and respiratory irritation on local beaches. The analysis was done on multiple levels with respect to both locality (e.g., entire Gulf coast, county-level, city-level, zip code tabulation areas) and temporal frequencies (e.g. daily, every three days, weekly), resulting in strong correlations between local per-capita Twitter activity and the actual red tide conditions observed in the area. Moreover, an association was observed between proximity to the affected coastal areas and per-capita counts for relevant tweets. Results show that Twitter presents a trustworthy reflection of the red tide's local impacts and development over time, and can potentially augment the already existing tools for efficient assessment and a more coordinated response to the disaster.
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- A Skripnikov
- New College of Florida, Heiser Natural Sciences Complex, Room E156, 500 College Dr, Sarasota, FL 34243, USA; New College of Florida, Division of Natural Sciences, 500 College Dr, Sarasota, FL 34243, USA.
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- New College of Florida, Division of Natural Sciences, 500 College Dr, Sarasota, FL 34243, USA
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- Science and Environment Council of Southwest Florida, 1530 Dolphin Street, Suite 4, Sarasota, FL 34236, USA
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- Tampa Bay Estuary Program, 263 13th Ave S, St. Petersburg, FL 33701, USA
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- Tampa Bay Estuary Program, 263 13th Ave S, St. Petersburg, FL 33701, USA
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- Tampa Bay Estuary Program, 263 13th Ave S, St. Petersburg, FL 33701, USA
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Lines AM, Tse P, Felmy HM, Wilson JM, Shafer J, Denslow KM, Still AN, King C, Bryan SA. Online, Real-Time Analysis of Highly Complex Processing Streams: Quantification of Analytes in Hanford Tank Sample. Ind Eng Chem Res 2019. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.9b03636] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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- A. M. Lines
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado 80401, United States
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado 80401, United States
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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- H Morawetz
- DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY, POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF BROOKLYN
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The purpose of the study was to assess the accuracy, using electronic portal imaging, of daily set-ups, in patients undergoing radiotherapy for prostate carcinoma. We used a scanning liquid ion chamber to assess the accuracy of set-ups in 25 consecutive patients undergoing a 6 1/2 week course of radiotherapy to the prostate. Electronic images (EPIs) were collected during 33 treatments to each of four ports. The positions of anatomical structures on the EPIs were compared with the same structures seen on digitally reconstructed radiographs (DRRs) made after CT simulation before beginning radiotherapy. Displacements of the EPIs compared with the DRRs were computer-calculated in millimetres in lateral, longitudinal and rotational directions for each port. 11 patients had ports moved because of discrepancies between the EPIs and the DRRs; eight required moves in the first five treatments to correct systematic (simulator) errors. In the right-left and anterior-posterior directions, nearly 95% of the EPIs were within 5 mm of the simulated port position. In the superior-inferior direction, 98% of the ports were within 5 mm of the simulated port position. Two patients had in-plane rotational errors on the lateral ports (8 degrees and 10 degrees respectively). It was concluded that daily electronic imaging is an effective technique for assessing the accuracy of set-ups in prostate radiotherapy.
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- J A Stryker
- Department of Radiology, Hershey Medical Center, PA 17033, USA
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Phatak PD, Janas JS, Kouides P, Leisveld J, Shafer J, Marder VJ. Infections affecting blood cell morphology. Am J Hematol 1998; 59:238-41. [PMID: 9798663 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-8652(199811)59:3<238::aid-ajh10>3.0.co;2-o] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- P D Phatak
- Department of Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, New York, USA
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Nagpal S, Thacher SM, Patel S, Friant S, Malhotra M, Shafer J, Krasinski G, Asano AT, Teng M, Duvic M, Chandraratna RA. Negative regulation of two hyperproliferative keratinocyte differentiation markers by a retinoic acid receptor-specific retinoid: insight into the mechanism of retinoid action in psoriasis. Cell Growth Differ 1996; 7:1783-91. [PMID: 8959347] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Retinoids down-regulate the expression of metalloproteinases, cytokines, and other genes involved in cell proliferation and inflammation. Tazarotene (AGN 190168), a retinoic acid receptor (RAR)-specific retinoid, is effective in the treatment of psoriasis, a hyperproliferative and inflammatory skin disease. Because negative regulation of genes appears to be important in the antiproliferative and antiinflammatory action of retinoids, we studied the down-regulation of genes in skin raft cultures by this antipsoriatic retinoid. By subtraction hybridization, we found that migration inhibitory factor-related protein (MRP-8) and skin-derived anti-leukoproteinase (SKALP) are down-regulated by AGN 190168. MRP-8 and SKALP are overexpressed in psoriatic lesions as compared to the normal epidermis, and they are markers of hyperproliferative keratinocyte differentiation. We also show that MRP-8 expression is retinoid inhibitable in cultured keratinocytes induced to differentiate with 10% serum or IFN-gamma, and that MRP-8 is inhibited by RAR but not by retinoid X receptor-specific retinoids in a dose-dependent manner. Finally, MRP-8, SKALP, and the previously characterized differentiation marker, transglutaminase I, are all down-regulated in vivo in psoriatic lesions after treatment with AGN 190168 in comparison to placebo. Taken together, these data suggest that these markers may be down-regulated by tazarotene in psoriasis through direct action on keratinocyte gene expression rather than by an overall tazarotene effect on lesional therapeutic status.
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MESH Headings
- Antigens, Differentiation/genetics
- Antineoplastic Agents/pharmacology
- Biomarkers
- Calcium-Binding Proteins/genetics
- Calgranulin A
- Cell Differentiation/physiology
- Cells, Cultured/chemistry
- Cells, Cultured/drug effects
- Cells, Cultured/enzymology
- DNA, Complementary/genetics
- Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
- Down-Regulation/physiology
- Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic/drug effects
- Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic/physiology
- Glycogen Debranching Enzyme System/genetics
- Humans
- Interferon-gamma/pharmacology
- Keratinocytes/chemistry
- Keratinocytes/cytology
- Keratinocytes/enzymology
- Male
- Nicotinic Acids/pharmacology
- Proteinase Inhibitory Proteins, Secretory
- Proteins/genetics
- Psoriasis/genetics
- Psoriasis/metabolism
- Psoriasis/pathology
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- Receptors, Retinoic Acid/genetics
- Retinoids/pharmacology
- Sensitivity and Specificity
- Serine Proteinase Inhibitors/genetics
- Skin/cytology
- Teratogens/pharmacology
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- S Nagpal
- Department of Biology, Allergan Inc., Irvine, California 92713, USA
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GTPase-activating protein (GAP), which regulates the activities of Ras proteins, is implicated in mitogenic signal transduction by growth-factor receptors and oncoproteins with tyrosine kinase activity. Oncogenic viral Src (p60v-src) encoded in Rous sarcoma virus possesses elevated tyrosine kinase activity compared with its nononcogenic normal homolog, cellular Src (p60c-src). To examine molecular interactions between GAP and the two Src kinases, immunoprecipitates of Src or GAP prepared from cell lystates were resolved by gel electrophoresis and analyzed by an immunoblot procedure with antibodies to GAP or Src used as probes. Results suggest that p60c-src is associated with a complex containing GAP in immunoprecipitates from lysates of normal rat and chicken cells. However, GAP is not phosphorylated in p60c-src immunoprecipitates subjected to in vitro kinase reactions. By contrast, GAP undergoes tyrosyl phosphorylation in vitro when immunoprecipitates of p60v-src prepared from transformed cell lysates are incubated with ATP. Our findings suggest that p60v-src and p60c-src associate with complexes containing GAP and provide a biochemical link between both kinases and GAP/Ras signal transduction pathways. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that GAP has a role in mediating normal functions of p60c-src as well as oncogenic activities of p60v-src.
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- B K Brott
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor 48109
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Stryker JA, Bartholomew M, Velkley DE, Cunningham DE, Mortel R, Craycraft G, Shafer J. Bladder and rectal complications following radiotherapy for cervix cancer. Gynecol Oncol 1988; 29:1-11. [PMID: 3338655 DOI: 10.1016/0090-8258(88)90140-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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One-hundred and thirty-two patients with cervix carcinoma who were treated with whole pelvis irradiation and two intracavitary applications had bladder and rectal dosimetry during brachytherapy with contrast agents placed into the bladder and rectum prior to orthogonal simulator radiographs. Doses were computer calculated at points A and B, F (bladder), R1 (rectum), and R2 (rectosigmoid). Late occurring bladder and rectal complications were graded on a severity scale of 1 to 3, and 14% had grade 2 or 3 injuries (9% developed fistulas). Statistical evaluation of the data showed that severe bladder and rectal injuries occur more commonly in stage IIIA and IIIB disease and in those receiving high external beam doses (5000 rad +). Analysis of variance tests revealed a significant correlation of brachytherapy dose to points R1 and R2 with severe rectal injuries but there was not a correlation of dose to F with bladder injuries. Nor was there correlation of injuries with dose to point A or the milligram-hour dose. We conclude that our technique for rectal dosimetry is adequate but that an improved technique of bladder dosimetry is needed. Also, when combining whole pelvis irradiation with two intracavitary applications (4000 rad to point A), the whole pelvis dose should probably not exceed 4000-4500 rad.
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- J A Stryker
- Department of Radiation Therapy, Hershey Medical Center of the Pennsylvania State University 17033
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Price RL, Jorgensen KV, Billotte M, Andrzejewski D, Burkepile RG, Goodspeed D, Jackson JD, Jones J, Manuel A, Matusik J, Morris WJ, Munns RK, Nandrea GJ, Nandrea J, Poeppel M, Shafer J, Simpson R, Stout S, Suhre F, Wise RR. Citrus artifact interference in aflatoxin M1 determination in milk. J Assoc Off Anal Chem 1981; 64:1383-5. [PMID: 6796558] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Dried citrus waste was fed to dairy cows, their milk was extracted, and aflatoxin M1 was quantitated by using both high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) and thin layer chromatography (TLC). Results indicate that a compound from the citrus waste, which is excreted into the milk, interferes with the HPLC determination of aflatoxin M1 in milk and causes a false positive test. This interference can be overcome by using TLC with proper selection of developing solvents.
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Shafer J, Hansen SV. Using behavior therapy with selected adolescent patients. Hosp Community Psychiatry 1973; 24:30-2. [PMID: 4704624 DOI: 10.1176/ps.24.1.30] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Pickrell JA, Shafer J. Lung connective tissue measurements. I. Amino acid analysis procedures for determination of canine lung connective tissue. Arch Intern Med 1971; 127:891-5. [PMID: 5560866 DOI: 10.1001/archinte.127.5.891] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Shafer J, Baronowsky P, Laursen R, Finn F, Westheimer FH. Products from the photolysis of diazoacetyl chymotrypsin. J Biol Chem 1966; 241:421-7. [PMID: 5903734] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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Affiliation(s)
- D G Clark
- Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
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Shafer J. SOLUTIONS OF CHLOROPHYLL IN SALT WATER. Science 1940; 91:580. [PMID: 17758850 DOI: 10.1126/science.91.2372.580] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Affiliation(s)
- J Shafer
- Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
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