cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Phyllocrania paradoxa Burmeister 1838
Creators: name: Schwarz, Christian J.
name: Pohl, Marius
name: Frank, Erik T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Mantodea
Hymenopodidae
Phyllocrania
Phyllocrania paradoxa

description: Phyllocrania paradoxa Burmeister, 1838
Figs. 112–115
Phyllocrania paradoxa Burmeister, 1838: 549.
= Phyllocrania insignis Westwood, 1843: 51, pl. 62, Fig. 1.
= Phyllocrania illudens Saussure & Zehntner, 1895: 221−222, pl. 10, Fig. 39.
Type localities. (P. p.) Cape region, RSA; (P. in.) Sierra Leone; (P. ill.) Imérina, Madagascar.
Distribution. Africa south of the Sahara, Madagascar (Roy 1963, 1987 a, 2018).
Records. CSC: ♁ ♀, new station, 22.IV.–06.VI.2018, M. Pohl leg.
Remarks. The shape of the vertex process and of the pronotal and leg lobes varies considerably across the extensive range of the species, contrasting with low intraspecific variability observed in the male genitalia (Roy 1963; pers. obs.).
description: Published as part of Schwarz, Christian J., Pohl, Marius & Frank, Erik T., 2023, A preliminary checklist of the praying mantids of Comoé National Park, Ivory Coast (Insecta: Mantodea), pp. 1-64 in Zootaxa 5373 (1) on pages 35-36, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5373.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10145768
Catops farsicus Giachino & Vailati 2000
Creators: name: Perreau, Michel
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Angelini, Fernando
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Catops
Catops farsicus

description: Catops farsicus Giachino & Vailati, 2000
Catops farsicus Giachino & Vailati, 2000: 157.
Type locality: Iran, Fars, Shiraz, Deh Bava, m 1650.
Distribution in Iran. Fars (Giachino & Vailati 2000). General distribution. Iran.
description: Published as part of Perreau, Michel, Ghahari, Hassan & Angelini, Fernando, 2017, A checklist of Leiodidae (Coleoptera: Staphylinoidea) of Iran in Zootaxa 4286 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4286.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/828324
Customization and optimization of a histone h2a-based vector for targeted gene transfer to cancer cells
Creators: name: Karjoo Diarkhan, Zahra
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: Developing an efficient and safe system for gene delivery is considered the bottleneck of gene therapy, where a successful delivery of the nucleic acid can reverse a defective cellular pathway to normal, eradicate cancer at molecular level or simply make it more susceptible to current chemotherapies. Not only have the intracellular events played a crucial role for obtaining a successful gene delivery, but the interaction of nano-particles with extracellular factors should be studied as well.   The goal of this study was to design, produce and optimize a non-viral gene delivery system for targeted delivery of nucleic acid such as reporter genes (e.g., green fluorescent protein) or therapeutic genes (e.g., suicide genes) to cancer cells. The system was designed in a way to be easily customized for different cancer types, still presenting a high level of targeted delivery.   The first chapter of this thesis will focus on the concept of gene therapy and current systems used for this modality. Different types of vectors including viral and non-viral polymeric vectors will be discussed briefly and the advantages and disadvantages of each will be mentioned. We also discussed natured inspired biopolymers such as peptides and amino acid based vectors which are the fundamental premise of this study.   In chapter II, the concept of suicide gene therapy will be explained. Additionally, the current enzyme/prodrug systems, different methods for delivery of suicide genes will be elaborated.  In chapter III and IV, the new nanotechnology platform for targeted delivery of plasmid DNA to HER2-positive ovarian cancer cells and HER2-negative prostate cancer cells will be presented. In chapter III, the method for optimization of nanotechnology platform will be discussed and the features of optimized particles will be presented. Chapter IV explains the modification we introduced to the vectors’ primary structure to customize it for a different cell line. Also another method for optimization of amino-acid based vectors for in vivo delivery will be introduced. In these two chapters, the methods of designing and the efficiency of each vector to fulfill the expected goals as well as their safety will be discussed in details and supportive data will be presented.
Sibylla (Sibylla) dolosa Roy 1975
Creators: name: Schwarz, Christian J.
name: Pohl, Marius
name: Frank, Erik T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Mantodea
Hymenopodidae
Sibylla
Sibylla dolosa

description: Sibylla (Sibylla) dolosa Roy, 1975
Figs. 116–120
Sibylla dolosa Roy, 1975: 157−161, Figs. 21−24.
Type locality. La Maboké, CAR.
Distribution. Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Angola, CAR (Ragge & Roy 1967; Roy 1963, 1964b, 1965a, 1968a, 1973b, 1975, 1996, 2018; Roy & Leston 1975).
Records. CSC: ♁, old camp, lux, 20.–31.X.2000, C. J. Schwarz leg.; ♀, old camp, X.2000, leg. juv. C. J. Schwarz; ♁, new station, 22.IV.–01.VI.2019, M. Pohl leg.
Remarks. A rainforest species, also distributed in the forested parts of the Guinea savanna. Cited as S. gratiosa Rehn, 1912 in papers prior to Roy (1975).
description: Published as part of Schwarz, Christian J., Pohl, Marius & Frank, Erik T., 2023, A preliminary checklist of the praying mantids of Comoé National Park, Ivory Coast (Insecta: Mantodea), pp. 1-64 in Zootaxa 5373 (1) on pages 36-37, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5373.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10145768
Catops cribratus Jeannel 1936
Creators: name: Perreau, Michel
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Angelini, Fernando
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Catops
Catops cribratus

description: Catops cf. cribratus Jeannel, 1936
Catops cribratus Jeannel, 1936: 391.
Type locality: Asie mineure, Taurus de Pisidie, grotte des monts Davras près d'Isparta.
Distribution in Iran. “ Iran, Zagros Mts., 1800–2500 m, Kuhgiloyeh & Boyerahmad (Boyerahmad-va- Kuhgiliuyah), Kuh-e-Dinar ridge, 10 km NE von Yasuj, 1.-1.V.1996, D. Kral. leg.” (CJRP) (Frank 2014). General distribution. Iran?, Turkey (Perreau 2015).
description: Published as part of Perreau, Michel, Ghahari, Hassan & Angelini, Fernando, 2017, A checklist of Leiodidae (Coleoptera: Staphylinoidea) of Iran in Zootaxa 4286 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4286.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/828324
SellSTEM_ESR15
Creators: name: Westerhof, Marten Berend
name: Duffy, Gavin
name: O'Kane, Colm
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: The ability to visualise and reason with spatial concepts is crucial to success in STEM disciplines, as shown by the numerous studies that have shown performance on tests of spatial ability to correlate strongly with performance in STEM subjects. Hence, there is a strong imperative for developing pedagogical approaches that help individuals to develop spatial thinking, particularly in the early stages of education when training can affect a child’s entire educational career. The development of an individual’s spatial literacy – how one is able to visualise, reason with and communicate about spatial concepts – is highly dependent on opportunities not all children have e.g., due to socio-economic status or the effects of gender-based stereotypes. Maker education offers a form of design-based learning activities, which demand a variety of spatial processes from participants. Particularly if adequate pedagogical approaches were developed for these contexts, they could provide a fertile base for children to attain spatial literacy.

This thesis aims to further our theoretical understanding of what spatial literacy means in the problem-solving activities found in maker education, particularly at primary school-age. To this end, this thesis describes a critical realist grounded theory study, in which primary school-age children’s diverse spatial processes and maker educators’ support for children’s spatial literacy during maker education activities are explored. The investigated activities were part of after-school programmes within a network of makerspaces in Amsterdam. Using a grounded theory research design, he explored and identified how spatial processes are used by 8–12-year-old children during maker education activities and how maker educators support the development of children’s spatial literacy. This will allow educators to support children in attaining spatial literacy more effectively through maker education by making a theoretical contribution to our understanding of how spatial skills and knowledge are relevant during children’s design and making processes, while contributing to educational practice by operationalising spatial literacy in the context of maker activities.
Single cell high content textural image analysis of dynamic epigenetic signatures as a response to defined microenvironmental parameters
Creators: name: Kim, Joseph Jung-Woong
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: Currently, quantifiable investigations of the epigenome require cell lysis and are population based, prohibiting direct investigations of intact intranuclear structural organization and introducing noise into data obtained from inherently heterogeneous stem cell populations. To address this, we have developed and employed a single-cell high-content image informatics framework to capture organizational signatures of epigenetic signaling components from images of cellular nuclei obtained via superresolution nanoscopy. High dimensional quantitative texture descriptors of the organizational dynamics of key posttranslational modifications to core histone proteins were imaged in different human stem cell systems using time-gated stimulated emission depletion confocal nanoscopy. Influential texture descriptors were identified, validated at the nanoscale using immuno-gold electron microscopy, and organizational sub-classifiers were generated from this bioimage informatics data representing a range of “open” versus “closed” chromatin states. When applied to growth factor-induced lineage differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells, the organizational classifiers showed a clear evolution with temporal cell state, which was more sensitive than the conventional mass spectrometry-based quantitation of the relative abundance of these PTMs. When a range of stem cell phenotypes sharing common DNA sequences were imaged, clear sub-classifiers emerged correlating with the divergent phenotypes for undifferentiated, adipogenic, and osteogenic hMSCs, as well as for human foreskin fibroblasts, induced pluripotent stem cells, neural stem cells, and reprogrammed neurons. Thus, high content bioimage informatics reflective of chromatin organization yields a higher order organizational signature corresponding to an epigenetic “activity” state.   To elucidate the influence of biophysical factors on stem cell epigenetic states, these imaging-based organizational classifiers were tested on human mesenchymal stem cells exposed to physically constraining cues, and successfully predicted the early differentiation toward adipogenic hMSCs on hydrogel substrates with spatially graded mechanical stiffness, as well as osteogenic hMSCs on soft-lithographed, graded nanotopographies. In summary, in contrast to the traditional reductionist, population-level readouts in epigenomics, the approach outlined in this thesis offers a more integrated, single-cell, organizational index of emergent stem cell activity in response to defined environmental cues, and can be applied for the screening of discrete microenvironmental properties for the enhancement of stem cell behavioral control and facilitated integration in regenerative medicine applications.
Transport, reaction mechanism, and hysteresis studies of iron-base conversion fluorides
Creators: name: Ko, Jonathan
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: Iron-base metal fluorides have been a particular interest as a positive electrode material in Li-ion batteries because of their high energy density and lower cost than commercial intercalation materials. During lithiation, these materials undergo a conversion reaction forming two separate phases, LiF and reduced Fe. Near theoretical capacities are reached when these materials are made into nanocomposites. However, they experience a capacity fade with low cycling rates. In addition, it is not clear on the reaction pathway these materials take during lithiation and delithiation as well as the large hysteresis in its cycling profile. This thesis investigate three candidate materials, FeF2, FeF3, and FeO0.67F1.33 by looking at the ionic and electronic transport, reaction mechanism, and hysteresis and link them to their electrochemical performance.  Previous studies indicated a percolated structure of Fe0-LiF forming during lithiation. However, there was not quantitative proof that the network of Fe0 was electronically supporting. During the course of the study, it was discovered how surprisingly high it was conductive that it led to new testing that utilized its conductive properties.
Such a doll!
Creators: name: Koné, Christophe André
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: My dissertation “Man-Made Dolls in Modern German Culture and their Afterlife in Postmodern Visual Culture” seeks to move the discussion of doll-like artifacts beyond the psychoanalytical discourse, and offers to read these man-made dolls as a new modality of perceiving and desiring an anthropomorphous body. My study addresses the doll’s dialectical relationship to the human body and her endless shape shifting ability. The doll’s to-be-played-with-ness and her to-be-looked-at-ness strike a raw nerve among the doll makers I investigate in each of the chapters of the present study.  Chapter one examines E.T.A. Hoffmann’s short story Der Sandmann under the lens of performance. I argue that Hoffmann, a composer and a music critic, ultimately raises the issue of the performing body and explores its possibilities and limitations through the presence of a musical automaton in the figure of Olimpia.   Chapter two examines the doll the Austrian painter Oskar Kokoschka made in collaboration with the German Avant-garde doll maker Hermine Moos. I claim that Kokoschka, striving to create a three-dimensional image of his beloved around 1920, was exploring new ways of seeing to cope with the loss of his mistress.   Chapter three focuses on Bellmer’s dolls featured in his photography books, Die Puppe (1934) and Les Jeux de la poupée (1935).  In his photographs, he probes the female body, explores its insides, refashions and redesigns it. By turning the surface of the female body inside out and upside down, he reveals its reversibility and permutability.  Chapter four investigates fashion design with the late British fashion designer Alexander McQueen. In 1996, McQueen presented a Spring/Summer collection entitled Bellmer La Poupée – an overt reference to Bellmer’s doll. The fashion show featured models wearing wigs and dresses cut in a way that emphasizes the fragmentation and deformity of the female body.   My conclusion focuses on a female photographer, contemporary American photographer Laurie Simmons and her series of photographs, entitled The Love Doll. Far from sexualizing the doll or deconstructing her as a mere product of male sexual fantasy, Simmons pursues with her beautiful doll photographs the exploration of the sensory apparatus initiated by Kokoschka and Bellmer
Pseudocreobotra ocellata
Creators: name: Schwarz, Christian J.
name: Pohl, Marius
name: Frank, Erik T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Mantodea
Hymenopodidae
Pseudocreobotra
Pseudocreobotra ocellata

description: Pseudocreobotra ocellata (Palisot de Beauvois, 1805)
Figs. 121–128
Empusa ocellata Palisot de Beauvois, 1805: 110, pl. 13, Fig. 2.
= Mantis ocellaria Drury, 1782: 58−59, pl. 43, Fig. 1.
Type localities. (E. o.) Nigeria; (M. o.) “African coast”.
Distribution. Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Angola, CAR, DRC, Uganda, W Kenya, Burundi (Beier 1954, 1968, 1969; Chopard 1954; Gillon & Roy 1968; La Greca 1950b, 1955; Lombardo 1997; Moulin et al. 2017; Palisot de Beauvois 1805; Prost & Roy 1986; Ragge & Roy 1967; Rehn 1912a, b, 1914, 1949; Roy 1962a, 1963, 1964b, 1965a, 1968a, 1969, 1971b, 1973b, 1975, 2018; Roy & Leston 1975; Werner 1928; pers. obs.).
Records. CSC: ♁, old camp, lux, 11.X.2000, C. J. Schwarz leg.; ♁, old camp, 19.–21.X.2000, C. J. Schwarz leg.; ♀, old camp, 12.–20.XI.2000, leg. juv. C. J. Schwarz; ♁, old camp, lux, 13.–19.XI.2000, C. J. Schwarz leg.; ♀, old camp, P-Gen. leg. XI.2000, captive bred 2002, C. J. Schwarz leg.; ♀, old camp, P-Gen. leg. XI.2000, captive bred, 23.IV.2002, C. J. Schwarz leg.; ♀, old camp, P-Gen. leg. XI.2000, captive bred, VII.2002, C. J. Schwarz leg.; 2 ♀♀, old camp, P-Gen. leg. XI.2000, captive bred, 15.VIII.2002, C. J. Schwarz leg.; 4 oothecae, old camp, P-Gen. leg. XI.2000, captive laid 2002, C. J. Schwarz leg.; 2 ♀♀, new station, 22.IV.–06.VI.2018, M. Pohl leg .. SMNK: 2 ♀♀ + 2 oothecae, old camp, P-Gen. leg. XI.2000, captive bred, 15.VIII.2002, ded. C. J. Schwarz (SMNK-Mant. 07743–07746).
Remarks. Found on inflorescences of higher forbs near water bodies, at forest edges, and in all types of secondary vegetation, from Senegal to the western shores of the Great African Lakes. First instars mimic bug nymphs (Fig. 125) (but see Edmunds 1976 and Neumann 2006, who argue in favor of ants). Older nymphs are polyphenic, adjusting their color to their immediate environment (Figs. 126–127).
description: Published as part of Schwarz, Christian J., Pohl, Marius & Frank, Erik T., 2023, A preliminary checklist of the praying mantids of Comoé National Park, Ivory Coast (Insecta: Mantodea), pp. 1-64 in Zootaxa 5373 (1) on pages 38-39, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5373.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10145768
Catops fuscus subsp. syriacus Jeannel 1936
Creators: name: Perreau, Michel
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Angelini, Fernando
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Catops
Catops fuscus
Catops fuscus syriacus jeannel, 1936

description: Catops fuscus syriacus Jeannel, 1936
Catops fuscus syriacus Jeannel, 1936: 400. Type locality: Palestine, Mount Carmel.
Distribution in Iran. Northern Khorasan (Kabkan) (Giachino 1990).
General distribution. Armenia, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Syria, Turkey (Perreau 2015).
description: Published as part of Perreau, Michel, Ghahari, Hassan & Angelini, Fernando, 2017, A checklist of Leiodidae (Coleoptera: Staphylinoidea) of Iran in Zootaxa 4286 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4286.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/828324
Oxypilus (Oxypilus) gillonae Roy 1966
Creators: name: Schwarz, Christian J.
name: Pohl, Marius
name: Frank, Erik T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Mantodea
Hymenopodidae
Oxypilus
Oxypilus gillonae

description: Oxypilus (Oxypilus) gillonae Roy, 1966
Figs. 129–139
Oxypilus (Oxypilus) gillonae Roy, 1966: 1437–1440, Figs 3, 6e, 15, 16.
Type locality. Lamto, Ivory Coast.
Distribution. Ivory Coast (Gillon & Roy 1968; Roy 1966, 1975; Roy & Stiewe 2013).
Records. CSC: ♁, old camp, lux, 10.–20.X.2000, C. J. Schwarz leg. (genitalia preparation Schwarz No. 256); ♁, old camp, lux, 24.–25.X.2000, C. J. Schwarz leg.; ♁, new station, 22.IV.–06.VI.2018, M. Pohl leg. (genitalia preparation Schwarz No. 476); ♁ ♀, new station, 22.IV.–06.VI.2018, M. Pohl leg.; ♁, new station, P-Gen. leg. M. Pohl 22.IV.–06.VI.2018, captive bred, I.2019, C. J. Schwarz leg. (genitalia preparation Schwarz No. 446); ♁, new station, P-Gen. leg. M. Pohl 22.IV.–06.VI.2018, captive bred, I.2019, C. J. Schwarz leg.; 2 ♁♁ + ♀, new station, PGen. leg. M. Pohl 22.IV.–06.VI.2018, captive bred, II.2019, C. J. Schwarz leg.; ♁ + 4 juv. ♁♁ + juv. ♀, new station, P-Gen. leg. M. Pohl 22.IV.–06.VI.2018, captive bred, II.2019, C. J. Schwarz leg. (alc.).
Remarks. This species was so far only known from Lamto, Ivory Coast. It is actually also very common in the CNP. Nymphs and adults are very active, displaying frequently (Figs. 137, 139).
description: Published as part of Schwarz, Christian J., Pohl, Marius & Frank, Erik T., 2023, A preliminary checklist of the praying mantids of Comoé National Park, Ivory Coast (Insecta: Mantodea), pp. 1-64 in Zootaxa 5373 (1) on pages 41-42, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5373.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10145768
Multi-physics modeling and simulations of thermally-assisted compaction of granular materials
Creators: name: Küçük, Gülşad
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: Having characteristics that differ from those associated with solids, liquids, and gases, granu- lar materials require miscellaneous multi-physics approaches that integrate theories at different scales. The abstract behavior of granular material provides limitless arrangements in terms of microscopic and macroscopic properties, specifically concerning the thermally-assisted com- paction process. However the uniqueness of particulate systems reduces significantly the effec- tiveness of conventional compaction models based on continuum mechanics description. Thus the current study engages with the problem at both discrete and continuum levels, and bridges the gap between particle-mechanics and macro-scale theories.    A mathematical formulation that integrates the thermal and mechanical behavior of discrete system of particles is presented. It is worth noting that thermal expansion experienced by the compacted particles increases the nonlinearity in the thermo-elastic contact problem, which results in various interesting aspects unique to granular matter. Numerical analysis reveals the role of thermal expansion, the role applied thermal and mechanical loads during thermally- assisted compaction of spherical, perfectly conforming particles.    Modeling consolidated granular media by using continuum mechanics requires an addi- tional concentration on defining the effective transport properties of the material. Taking advantage of the effective medium approximation, an equivalent continuum model for the state of small-strain deformation under the applied thermal gradient is investigated. The discrepancy between discrete and continuum analysis underlines the importance of describing an effective thermal expansion parameter. Starting from the fundamental understanding of particle interac- tions, an effective thermal expansion coefficient is derived for the current problem statement.    Unlike the continuum media, granular materials host inhomogeneous distribution of con- tact networks, which results in uneven distribution of loads in the dense particulate assemblies. Moreover these structural arrangements play critical role in forming preferred paths of heat transport. In spite of the recent experimental and theoretical studies on the evolution of force chains, the formation of heat chains and the correlation between the heat and force chains still remain unclear. In this study two-dimensional numerical simulations are demonstrated to un- derstand some of the fundamental concepts such as: (i) formation of force and heat chains (ii) formation of localized hot zones, (iii) cross-property relations between contact force distribu- tions and heat transported at the contact surfaces, (iv) influence of system characteristics such as diverse size distribution of particles, binary material constituents and different boundary conditions.
Catops kirbii Spence 1815
Creators: name: Perreau, Michel
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Angelini, Fernando
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Catops
Catops kirbii

description: Catops kirbii (Spence, 1815)
Choleva Kirbii Spence, 1815: 148.
Type locality: Great Britain.
Catops rotundicollis Kellner, 1846: 176.
Type locality: Thüringer Wald.
Catops kirbyi collaris Szymczakowski, 1976: 62. nov. syn. Type locality: Iran du Nord-ouest: Guilan, vallée de Nav, alt. 500 m.
Distribution in Iran. Guilan (Nav valley) (SZymcZakowski 1976).
New material: MaZandaran, Chalus county, ElburZ mountains, N-slope, 7 km N Makarud, small stream, fagus forest, 1245 m, 38°35'64.9' N 51°09'55.4'' E, 03.vi.2008, leg. A. PütZ (in collection A. PütZ).
General distribution. Europe, Iran, Turkey (Perreau 2015).
Remarks. The comparison with the holotype (MG) and the absence of clear differences justify the synonymy C. kirbyi collaris SZymcZakowski, 1976 = C. kirbyi kirbyi Spence, 1815.
description: Published as part of Perreau, Michel, Ghahari, Hassan & Angelini, Fernando, 2017, A checklist of Leiodidae (Coleoptera: Staphylinoidea) of Iran in Zootaxa 4286 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4286.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/828324
Oxypilus (Oxypilus) pallidus Roy 1966
Creators: name: Schwarz, Christian J.
name: Pohl, Marius
name: Frank, Erik T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Mantodea
Hymenopodidae
Oxypilus
Oxypilus pallidus

description: Oxypilus (Oxypilus) pallidus Roy, 1966
Figs. 140–143
Oxypilus (Oxypilus?) pallidus Roy, 1966: 1457–1459, Figs 36–37.
Type locality. Lamto, Ivory Coast.
Distribution. Ivory Coast (Gillon & Roy 1968; Roy 1966, 1970a, 1975; Roy & Stiewe 2013).
Records. CSC: ♁, new station, 03.IV.–12.V.2017, M. Pohl leg. (genitalia preparation Schwarz No. 319).
Remarks. Like the previous species, O. pallidus was previously only known from Lamto. It is much rarer than O. gillonae.
description: Published as part of Schwarz, Christian J., Pohl, Marius & Frank, Erik T., 2023, A preliminary checklist of the praying mantids of Comoé National Park, Ivory Coast (Insecta: Mantodea), pp. 1-64 in Zootaxa 5373 (1) on page 42, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5373.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10145768
Electric-field-assisted swirl-flame synthesis of high-porosity nanostructured titania (TiO2) films
Creators: name: Kulkarni, Aditi
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: Nanostructured mesoporous metal-oxide films can be used in various applications, including dye-sensitized solar cells based on titania.  Optimization of the properties of these films is crucial in improving their efficiency.  Nanostructured TiO2 films with high uniformity and porosity are grown in a stagnation swirl flame setup under an applied electric field. The effects of external electric-field magnitude and polarity are studied for different substrate temperatures and precursor loading concentrations. The results show considerable differences in film characteristics, for differing electric fields, with more columnar structures and higher porosities under low voltages up to ±400 V. The films have higher packing density at higher voltages of ±800 V. At low substrate temperatures, the morphology and structure are more prominent owing to less on-substrate sintering of the nanoparticles. At low voltages, oppositely-charged particles will be attracted to the substrate increasing the electrophoretic velocity but decreasing the in-flame agglomeration; while at high voltages, the particles will be repelled and stay in the flame longer, thus increasing the in-flame agglomeration. A simple model is proposed which predicts the trend for deposition of particles and formation of nanostructured TiO2 films of a given morphology by balancing the effects of thermophoresis, electrophoresis, and Brownian motion of the particles. The model’s trend for packing density agrees with the experiments.
Catops nigricantoides Reitter 1901
Creators: name: Perreau, Michel
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Angelini, Fernando
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Catops
Catops nigricantoides

description: Catops nigricantoides Reitter, 1901
Catops (Catops) nigricantoides Reitter, 1901: 42. Type locality: Kaukasus: Arasxesthal.
Catops pannonicus Schweiger, 1969: 27. Type locality: Wien, Floridsdorf.
Distribution in Iran. Kuhgiloyeh & Boyerahmad (Giachino 1990).
General distribution. Central Europe, Iran, Turkey (Perreau 2015).
description: Published as part of Perreau, Michel, Ghahari, Hassan & Angelini, Fernando, 2017, A checklist of Leiodidae (Coleoptera: Staphylinoidea) of Iran in Zootaxa 4286 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4286.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/828324
Ventricular blood flow simulation and analysis for cardiovascular diagnostics
Creators: name: Kulp, Scott Andrew
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: The heart has long been seen as a symbol of life, due to its critical function of pumping blood throughout the body. However, despite its importance, we still do not fully understand how the heart works, due to its complex motion and structure. In particular, doctors today are very interested in learning how the heart geometry may affect cardiac blood flow. However, current imaging techniques, such as MRI or Ultrasound, provide only low-resolution views of blood flow, which do not provide the desired level of detail.    In this dissertation, We will be presenting how we are using images from high-resolution CT scans to build accurate, animated 3D models of a patient's heart, which are then used as boundary conditions in solving the Navier-Stokes equations to simulate  ventricular blood flow. This way, we can visualize how the complex structures within the heart interact with the flow in both healthy and diseased hearts, which has never been seen before. We can also use similar simulation techniques with high-detail aortic valve reconstructions, to better understand how diseased-induced alterations in the blood flow pattern may promote chronic remodeling of the aortic root. Finally, we have modified the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics algorithm to allow for fast and effective boundary collision management to greatly speed up our simulations.
Characterizing the GlusterFS file system for software defined network research
Creators: name: Kumar, Manonit
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: With the rapid rise of online resources such as those o ered by Google, Dropbox and Mi-  crosoft cloud computing is playing a bigger part in everyday lives than most people can  imagine. More and more services are being o ered online even in academia and science  terabytes of data is collected during experiments and this data has to be stored and pro-  visioned across various geographical locations. This is achieved through distributed  le  systems and software de ned networks is a new paradigm that provides interesting ways  to improve these Distributed File systems. In order to understand the potential impact of  SDN usage on distributed  le systems this work has set out to characterize GlusterFS in  certain con gurations by emulating a realistic distributed load on the  le system. Software  De ned Networks as opposed to traditional networks are not static, in the sense that the  system can manage data bandwidth and balance data loads according to requirements and  cost. This work measures the performance in units of throughput in KB per second along  with graphs of network activity from empirical executions to understand GlusterFS in more  detail.  Experimental results of introducing SDN into GlusterFS yeilded very good results. Signi -  cant gains in the range of 45% - 60% in the quality of service were observed during manual  manipulation of the network.
Proactive thermal-aware management in cloud datacenters
Creators: name: Eun, Kyung Lee
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: The complexity of modern datacenters is growing at an alarming rate due to the rising popularity of the cloud-computing paradigm as an effective means to cater to the ever increasing demand for computing and storage. The management of modern datacenters is rapidly exceeding human ability, making autonomic approaches essential. In the meanwhile, the increasing demand for faster computing and high storage capacity has resulted in an increase in energy consumption and heat generation in datacenters. Due to the increased heat generation, cooling requirements have become a critical concern, both in terms of growing operating costs as well as their environmental and societal impacts. (e.g., increase in CO2 emissions, overloading the electric supply grid resulting in power cuts, heavy water usage for cooling systems causing water scarcity)    In this thesis, proactive thermal-aware datacenter management solutions, which include thermal- and energy-aware resource provisioning, cooling system optimization, and anomaly detection, are proposed to help minimize both the impact on the environment and the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of datacenters, making them energy efficient and green. For the proactive thermal-aware solutions, a novel architecture endowed with different abstract components is introduced, which is composed of four layers: the environment layer (which detects, localizes, characterizes, and tracks thermal hotspots), the physical-resource layer (which manages the hardware and software components of servers), the virtualization layer (which instantiates, configures, and manages VMs), and the application layer (which is aware of the workload's and applications' characteristics and behavior).    Our solutions autonomically manage datacenters using cross-layer information collected from the four-layered architecture and make decisions based on various application-specific optimization goals (e.g., performance, energy efficiency, anomaly detection rate). A sensing infrastructure to measure the datacenter's environmental change and methods to acquire thermal awareness (using real-time measurements and heat- and air-circulation models) are discussed. Then, specific proactive thermal-, energy-, and anomaly-aware solutions are proposed, which i) optimize cooling systems (i.e., air conditioner compressor duty cycle and fan speed) to prevent heat imbalance and minimize the cost of cooling, ii) maximize computing resource utilization to minimize datacenter energy consumption, and iii) differentiate servers' thermal map (temperature) frequently to maximize the thermal anomaly detection rate.
Catops kurdicus Giachino & Vailati 2000
Creators: name: Perreau, Michel
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Angelini, Fernando
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Catops
Catops kurdicus

description: Catops kurdicus Giachino & Vailati, 2000
Catops kurdicus Giachino & Vailati, 2000: 153. Type locality: Iran, Kermanshah (Kalyan).
Distribution in Iran. Kermanshah (Giachino & Vailati 2000). General distribution. Iran.
description: Published as part of Perreau, Michel, Ghahari, Hassan & Angelini, Fernando, 2017, A checklist of Leiodidae (Coleoptera: Staphylinoidea) of Iran in Zootaxa 4286 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4286.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/828324
Post GWAS analysis
Creators: name: Liu, Jie
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have gained popularity in the past few years. Researchers have made findings on identifying genetic variants as risk factors for biological traits. A further question is how to apply the results to real-life applications. In this dissertation, a framework is proposed to conduct a post stage GWAS analysis, connect GWAS findings with existing clinical trials, and provide useful information to doctors and practitioners to help patients. The key part of this framework is to incorporate GWAS results with clinical information and perform appropriate analysis with the combined data. We illustrate the application to the Trial of Non-pharmacologic Interventions in the Elderly (TONE). TONE is a clinical trial for elderly with high blood pressure, in which patients were randomized to receive intensive intervention in weight if they were obese, sodium intake reduction, both weight and sodium control, or placebo. We investigate the relationship of 21 polymorphisms, which are reported to have association with hypertension, diabetes or obesity, with the change in systolic blood pressure at the end of the trial. The objective is to find the people who would significantly benefit from such interventions. For the analysis of data, we propose two approaches under the Post GWAS framework: recursive partitioning tree and exhaustive search. The recursive partitioning algorithm is a binary tree based algorithm that assigns different functionalities to SNP data and clinical data in the tree construction. We fit the tree to the data and examine the sensitivity of blood pressure drop given weight loss or sodium reduction. We compare classical regression tree with our modification to emphasize the differences in their structures. Tree methods are easy to interpret and compute, but only investigate a subset of the feature spaces. Exhaustive search is proposed to overcome this disadvantage. We look at all possible combinations of genotypes with sufficient sample and compute the sensitivities. We control multiplicity by the permutation version of false discovery rate method. Multidimensional scaling is used to determine the maximum number of polymorphisms to consider. Finally, we report and interpret the results from recursive tree and exhaustive search models.
Catops persicus Henrot 1972
Creators: name: Perreau, Michel
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Angelini, Fernando
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Catops
Catops persicus

description: Catops persicus Henrot, 1972
Catops persicus Henrot, 1972: 229. Type locality: Iran: Quruk pass.
Distribution in Iran. Khorasan (Quruk pass) (Henrot 1972). General distribution. Iran.
description: Published as part of Perreau, Michel, Ghahari, Hassan & Angelini, Fernando, 2017, A checklist of Leiodidae (Coleoptera: Staphylinoidea) of Iran in Zootaxa 4286 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4286.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/828324
Catops nigriclavis Gerhardt 1900
Creators: name: Perreau, Michel
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Angelini, Fernando
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Catops
Catops nigriclavis

description: Catops nigriclavis Gerhardt, 1900
Catops nigrita var. nigriclavis Gerhardt, 1900: 70. Type locality: [Poland:] Liegnitz.
Catops dorni Reitter, 1913a: 128.
Type locality: Leipzig.
Distribution in Iran. Northern Khorasan (Ala Dagh) (Jeannel, 1936). New material: Isfahan, S. Semirom Komeh, 2810 m N 31°00'47'' E 051°35'28'', 11.0 5.2007, Frisch & Serri (ZMHB).
General distribution. Europe, Iran, Turkey (Perreau 2015).
description: Published as part of Perreau, Michel, Ghahari, Hassan & Angelini, Fernando, 2017, A checklist of Leiodidae (Coleoptera: Staphylinoidea) of Iran in Zootaxa 4286 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4286.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/828324
The good intention prior
Creators: name: Levine, Sydney
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: Philosophers and psychologists have long been interested in deontic judgments of cases of double effect -- morally charged scenarios in which one action has two effects and only one of those effects is intended (eg: Foot, 1967; Greene, Sommerville, Nystrom, Darley & Cohen, 2001).  Cases of double effect have been critical test-cases for the study of moral judgment, giving us insight into how our moral faculty functions.   The Moral Grammar Hypothesis is one attempt to describe the cognitive mechanisms that underwrite our moral competence (Mikhail 2007, 2011).  The Moral Grammar Hypothesis suggests that deontic judgments are the output of a modular system that runs a series of computations over highly structured, informationally rich mental representations.  For this theory to be viable, a major question looms large: how do these structured, rich mental representations get formed from the impoverished stimuli available in the environment?    For example, determining the intentional structure of the moral agent’s mental state is critical to the Moral Grammar Hypothesis.  Yet, mental state information is entirely absent from the kinds of stimuli that have been used to gather evidence in support of the theory, which are typically trolley-like cases of double effect.  In fact, what has gone largely unnoticed in research on double effect scenarios is that two possible intention structures are equally compatible with the causal structure of the case.  To solve this poverty-of-the-stimulus problem, we propose that subjects deploy a good intention prior, namely, if the action of an agent has two effects – one good and one bad – the agent intends the good effects of her action and does not intend the bad effects.    We report two studies (one with adults, one with preschoolers aged three to five years old) that provide evidence for the use of this prior to disambiguate between intention structures in double-effect scenarios.
Minimizing dissemination on large graphs
Creators: name: Le, Long T.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: Given the topology of a graph G and a budget k, can we quickly find the best k edges to delete that minimize dissemination on G? Stopping dissemination on a graph is important in vari- ety of fields such as epidemic control and network administration. Understanding the tipping point is crucial to the success of minimizing dissemination. The tipping point of an entity (e.g, virus or memo) on an arbitrary graph only depends on (i) the topology of graph and (ii) the characteristics of the entity. In this work, we assume that we cannot control the characteristics of the entity such as its strength, death rate, and propagation rate. Thus, we can only modify the topology of the graph. In particular, we consider the problem of removing k edges from the graph. In order to minimize the dissemination, we need to reduce the graph’s connectivity. The connectivity of a graph is determined by the largest eigenvalue of its adjacency matrix. Therefore, reducing the leading eigenvalue can minimize the dissemination. In social graphs, the small gap between the largest eigenvalue and the second largest eigenvalue creates a chal- lenge for minimizing the leading eigenvalue. In this work, we propose a scalable algorithm called MET (short for Multiple Eigenvalues Tracking), which minimize the largest eigenvalue. MET can work well even if the gap between the top eigenvalues is small. We also propose a learning approach called LearnMelt, which is useful when the exact topology of graph is not available. We evaluate our algorithms on different types of graphs such as technological autonomous system networks and various social networks.
Chrysomantis girardi Gillon & Roy 1968
Creators: name: Schwarz, Christian J.
name: Pohl, Marius
name: Frank, Erik T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Mantodea
Hymenopodidae
Chrysomantis
Chrysomantis girardi

description: Chrysomantis girardi Gillon & Roy, 1968
Figs. 144–146, 151
Chrysomantis girardi Gillon & Roy, 1968: 1132–1135, Figs. 52–55.
Type locality. Lamto, Ivory Coast.
Distribution. Ivory Coast (Gillon & Roy 1968; Roy 2013a).
Records. CSC: ♁, new station, 03.IV.–12.V.2017, M. Pohl leg.
Remarks. Only two males are known in the literature, the holotype from Lamto and a male from Bouaké (Roy 2013b). Chrysomantis girardi is very similar to C. speciosa Giglio-Tos, 1915 from the West and Central African forest block, but contrary to the latter seems to prefer Guinea savanna. Given the scarcity of captures and the astonishing variability of C. speciosa (see Roy 2013b), it cannot be excluded that C. girardi is merely a savanna morph of the latter.
description: Published as part of Schwarz, Christian J., Pohl, Marius & Frank, Erik T., 2023, A preliminary checklist of the praying mantids of Comoé National Park, Ivory Coast (Insecta: Mantodea), pp. 1-64 in Zootaxa 5373 (1) on page 43, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5373.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10145768
Catops sengleti Giachino & Vailati 2000
Creators: name: Perreau, Michel
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Angelini, Fernando
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Catops
Catops sengleti

description: Catops sengleti Giachino & Vailati, 2000
Catops sengleti Giachino & Vailati, 2000: 148.
Type locality: Iran, Guilan, route de Hero-Habâd, 37°38' N / 48°50' E, m 1600.
Distribution in Iran. Guilan (Hero-Habâd) (Giachino & Vailati 2000). General distribution. Iran.
description: Published as part of Perreau, Michel, Ghahari, Hassan & Angelini, Fernando, 2017, A checklist of Leiodidae (Coleoptera: Staphylinoidea) of Iran in Zootaxa 4286 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4286.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/828324
Hydrogel encapsulation of cells mimics the whole body response to LMHF vibrations
Creators: name: Mehta, Sneha
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: Low-magnitude high-frequency (LMHF) vibrations show anabolic effects on bone when applied to the whole body in both animal and human studies. As such, it is being explored as a treatment for osteoporosis and osteopenia in vulnerable populations. In humans, whole-body vibrations have shown modest increases in the bone mineral density of postmenopausal women, children and adolescents, though it had no effect in young adults. These conflicting results prompted long term studies to establish the optimal frequency, magnitude and duration of the vibration. In vitro cellular studies have been carried out to study the physical and biologic mechanisms underlining these outcomes. But there are conflicting results of LMHF vibrations when applied to cell culture as well, with some studies showing no effect when cells are cultured in 2D monolayer as opposed to other studies reporting increased differentiation of progenitor cells towards an osteogenic lineage when cells are cultured in 3D scaffolds. It is worthy of note that the majority of scaffolds used in these studies are from natural sources, which in and of themselves may promote differentiation due to biochemical and microarchitectural cues. This master thesis seeks to explore the effect of Low magnitude high frequency vibrations on human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) encapsulated within a 3D microsphere structure composed of synthetic polymer polyethylene glycol diacrylate (PEGDA). Synthetic PEGDA has no inherent cues and can serve as a “blank slate” to the entrapped cells. In this study, three different intensity vibrations of 0.3g, 3g and 6g at 100Hz were applied for 24 hours to the encapsulated hMSCs by means of a vibration unit. These cells were subsequently tested for adipocyte, chondrocyte and osteoblast differentiation over a period of 21 days. There was early onset of osteogenic differentiation in 0.3 g and 3 g test samples compared to control samples, while there was no osteogenic differentiation at all observed in 6g test samples. In addition, as the magnitude of acceleration applied increased, the osteogenic differentiation of the encapsulated hMSCs decreased. Thus, LMHF vibrations with low accelerations accelerated the osteogenic differentiation of encapsulated hMSCs, indicating that hydrogel-encapsulated hMSCs may mimic the whole body response to vibration, which paves the way for further in vitro LMHF experiments with encapsulated cells.
Cholevinus Reitter 1901
Creators: name: Perreau, Michel
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Angelini, Fernando
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Cholevinus

description: Genus Cholevinus Reitter, 1901
Cholevinus Reitter, 1901: 39, type species: Catops pallidus Ménétries, 1832.
Cryocatops Jeannel, 1936: 421, type species: Cryocatops Starokadomskyi Jeannel, 1936 (= Choleva sibirica Jeannel, 1923).
description: Published as part of Perreau, Michel, Ghahari, Hassan & Angelini, Fernando, 2017, A checklist of Leiodidae (Coleoptera: Staphylinoidea) of Iran in Zootaxa 4286 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4286.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/828324