cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Restrained shrinkage behavior of high performance concrete reinforced with synthetic and steel fibers
Creators: name: Brewer, Gregory
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: High performance concrete (HPC) is generically categorized as the type of concrete having both high strength and durability compared to conventional concrete. This is often achieved with the addition of cementitious materials such as fly ash, silica fume, and blast furnace slag as well as admixtures. This type of concrete is often also accompanied with a lower water:cement ratio. HPC mixes can be optimized in terms of strength, durability, workability, shrinkage, and commonly used around the world, but it is not without its flaws. A common problem seen in using this concrete in bridge decks specifically is its high cracking potential.    This research is aimed to investigate an effective tool that reduces and mitigates the cracking potential in bridge decks. Steel and synthetic fibers are implemented to address this issue. Fibers will be dosed into HPC mixes and the effects on fresh properties as well the strength development and shrinkage over time.   The experimental work will occur in two phases. The first section will be lab-based and compare the contributions of fiber additions and blending. Blending is implemented to promote pumpability and fibers are added to reduce cracking potential. Three fiber types will be analyzed in the lab. Two synthetic macro fibers and one steel hooked fiber, all with equivalent lengths of 2”. Class A will also be compared for the data set. The second phase will involve the implementation of fiber reinforced HPC to a bridge in New Jersey. Blended HPC and blended FR-HPC will be cast in an alternating pattern for eight three span continuous bridge decks. The same tests will be run on the concrete sampled from these mixes and the bridge decks are also crack mapped and analyzed.   Fiber implementation proved effective in the reduction of cracking potential for HPC. The addition of steel hooked fibers and Euclid macro PPE fibers into this concrete reduced the cracking area of an AASHTO restrained ring by 26.3% and 23.2% respectively. The results were further reinforced in the field, both through the rings and through the crack surveys of the deck. The addition of fiber to blended HPC in the field resulted in a 42.5% reduction in cracking area when poured and a 79.5% reduction when pumped. These results translate to the actual bridge decks as well, where a 33.4% reduction in cracking area and 16.7% decrease in average crack width was observed when PPE Macro fibers were introduced to the mix.
Cardiovascular reactivity in response to gender status threat
Creators: name: Bronson, Caitlin Anne
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: The current study aimed to determine if the socially constructed nature of manhood leads men to experience a pattern of cardiovascular reactivity that has been identified as a threat (versus challenge) response when asked to speak about a time they felt their masculinity was being questioned. To test this, men had their cardiovascular system monitored using electrocardiogram (EKG), impedance cardiography (IC), and blood pressure (BP) measurements. During monitoring, participants were assigned randomly to recall a time when they felt like less of a man (i.e., gender-relevant condition) or to describe their typical day (i.e., neutral condition). Then participants completed measures of precarious manhood beliefs (PMB) and gender identity (GI). When men talked about a time they felt like less of a man, they were expected to show a primarily vascular cardiovascular pattern, indicative of threat, rather than a primarily myocardial pattern typically associated with challenge. This effect was expected to be more pronounced among men who highly endorse PMB and strongly identify with their gender. However, PMB interacted with speaking topic to reveal that men high in PMB, compared to men low in PMB, showed a greater challenge pattern when speaking about an event in which they felt like less of a man. These results lend support for the proposition that gender-related stress contributes to the sex differences found in cardiovascular reactivity, disease rates, and mortality. By understanding the interaction of gendered beliefs, gender identity, and gender threats, health and wellbeing may be improved.
The functional interplay between TPRM7 channel-kinase autophosphorylation and its cellular regulation
Creators: name: Cai, Na
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: As a member of the transient receptor potential ion channel subfamily, TRPM7 is a remarkable ion channel in possession of its own functional kinase domain. TRPM7 is ubiquitously expressed and permeable to divalent cations, allowing Mg2+, Ca2+, and trace metals ions such as Zn2+ to constitute the channel’s characteristic small inward current. The channel’s functional kinase domain is located at the protein’s cytosolic COOH terminus, placing TRPM7 also into a family of serine/threonine-phosphorylating alpha-kinases. It is not intuitively clear why a channel is covalently linked to a kinase, especially as it has been found that the kinase activity of TRPM7 is not required for channel gating. Previous studies have shown that TRPM7 is autophosphorylated, and yet the functional outcome of this autophosphorylation remain unknown. Motivated to understand the impact of phosphorylation on the function and regulation of this channel-kinase, I performed a comprehensive phosphoproteomic analysis of TRPM7 by mass spectrometry to identify the major in vivo phosphorylation sites on TRPM7. The results of the mass spectrometry study uncovered potential mechanisms by which the catalytic activity of TRPM7 kinase is regulated through autophosphorylation. My experiments also revealed a significant role of TRPM7’s kinase activity in regulating the posttranslational processing of TRPM7. Utilizing the TRPM7-K1646R kinase-inactive mutant, I discovered that TRPM7 kinase inactivation leads to faster protein degradation and intracellular retention of the channel in polarized epithelial cells compared to the wildtype protein. Mutational analysis of TRPM7 autophosphorylation sites further revealed a role for S1360 as a key residue mediating both protein stability and intracellular trafficking of TRPM7. In addition, I discovered that the intrinsic kinase activity of TRPM7 mediates the interaction of the channel with the signaling protein 14-3-3θ, whose binding sites on TRPM7 also contribute to the regulation of TRPM7 trafficking. Overall, these findings expand our knowledge of the in vivo phosphorylation profile of TRPM7 and, more importantly, increase our understanding of the significance of TRPM7’s kinase for functional regulation of the channel.
Thalassoma quinquevittatum
Creators: name: Andréfouët, Serge
name: Chen, Wei-Jen
name: Kinch, Jeff
name: Mana, Ralph
name: Russell, Barry C.
name: Tully, Dean
name: White, William T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Labridae
Thalassoma
Thalassoma quinquevittatum

description: Thalassoma quinquevittatum (Lay & Bennett 1839) —Fivestripe wrasse
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on a video of a specimen taken in Steffen Channel, Kavieng District, St. KR 34, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell); a specimen observed at Nemto Island, New Hanover, 4–15 m depth, St. T 23, on 7 Nov. 2006, by Gerald R. Allen.
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: East Africa and South Africa east to Hawaiian Islands and Easter Island, north to southern Japan, south to Western Australia, Lord Howe Island, New Caledonia and Tonga. Found in lagoon and seaward coral reefs, 1–18 m depth. Marine.
description: Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 239, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
Gesomyrmex magnus Dlussky & Rasnitsyn & Perfilieva 2015, sp. n.
Creators: name: Dlussky, G. M.
name: Rasnitsyn, A. P.
name: Perfilieva, K. S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Gesomyrmex
Gesomyrmex magnus

description: Gesomyrmex magnus sp. n.
(Fig. 12)
Material. Holotype PIN 3429/101, print and counterprint of gyne. Biamo.
Description. Gyne. Body length 20.5 mm. Head subrectangular, about 1.25 times longer than wide, with nearly parallel sides, and rounded occipital corners. Anterior clypeal margin projected as small rounded lobe. Eyes ovate; head 4.4times longer than maximum eye diameter. Scape not visible, however position of preserved three 1st funicular segments indicate that it was very short, not reaching middle of eye.Funicular segments1–3 a little longer than wide. Mandible massive, triangular, with acute apical tooth;dentition of masticatory margin not visible.Mesosoma about as wide as head. Metacoxae approximated but not contact. Legs comparatively short and thick. Gaster ovate. Forewing with closed cells1+2r, 3r and mcu. Cell1+2r about 3times longer than wide. Cell 1+2r 3 times longer than wide. Cell 3r 5 times longer than wide. Section RS+M after 2r-rs about as long as 3–4 vein thickness. Cell mcu small, rhomboidal.
Measurements of holotype, mm: AL 7.7; HL 4.2; HW 3.3; ED0.95; FWL12.5.
Comparison. Differs from all known living and fossil gynes of Gesomyrmex by size. Body length of all other specie less than 11mm.
Etymology. Magnus is the Latin for large.
description: Published as part of Dlussky, G. M., Rasnitsyn, A. P. & Perfilieva, K. S., 2015, The Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Bol'shaya Svetlovodnaya (Late Eocene of Sikhote-Alin, Russian Far East), pp. 131-152 in Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 11 (1) on page 138
Disabled empire
Creators: name: Buxton, Hilary
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: The First World War and its aftermath gave birth to the trauma industry – an intellectual, political, and institutional response to the widespread experiences of disability and “shell shock” among veterans. “Disabled Empire” follows several million non-white colonial subjects from across the British Empire who fought in the War, and their experience of grievous injury, debility, and trauma.  Through a comparative analysis of South Asian and West Indian servicemen, it explains how race shaped the character and goals of bodily and psychological treatments that the British wartime and post-war state offered its non-white veterans. It also analyzes the impact non-white veterans had on how white British psychologists, orthopaedists, hospital staff, policy makers and administrators understood trauma. It reveals how colonial subjects’ service in WWI destabilized long-standing ideologies about masculinity and racial difference, even as it produced an uneven system of care.   Throughout the Great War, British officials struggled to resolve the paradox of enacting the Empire’s mission to restore the health of crucial manpower reserves of non-white soldiers, while reinforcing colonial gendered and racial hierarchies. Imperial constructions of race, from the fearless South Asian ‘martial races’ to the hypersexualized black masculinity of West Indians, shaped the kind of wartime service Indian and Afro-Caribbean soldiers were allowed to perform and the treatment of their psychological and physical injuries.  Whether in the form of ethnic-specific diets and rations, the provision of impractical prosthetics, or discounting trauma through racialized stigmas, colonial soldiers navigated a health system whose technologies, diagnostics, and treatments denied them the same quality and level of care as their white counterparts. Yet White British Tommies’, Indian Sepoys’, and West Indian labour corps workers’ concurrent experiences of disease, disability, and trauma disrupted ideologies about colonial difference. Drawing on archives from the United Kingdom, Jamaica, and India, the thesis’s transcolonial framework demonstrates how racial ideologies simultaneously played into and were subverted by the process of offering healthcare to non-white colonial subjects.  It demonstrates the war’s lasting effects on the policies and practices of healthcare and welfare throughout the Empire.
Exact Dynamical Black Hole Solutions in Five or Higher Dimensions
Creators: name: Fahim, B. H.
name: Ghezelbash, A. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct new classes of the dynamical black hole solutions in five or higher dimensional Einstein-Maxwell theory, coupled to a dilaton field, in the presence of arbitrary cosmological constant. The dilaton field interacts non-trivially with the Maxwell field, as well as the cosmological constant, with two arbitrary coupling constants. The solutions are non-stationary, and almost conformally regular everywhere. To construct the solutions, we use the four-dimensional Bianchi type IX geometry, as the base space. We find three different classes of solutions, based on the values of the coupling constants. We notice that our solutions could be asymptotically de-Sitter, anti-de-Sitter or flat. We find the relevant quantities of the solutions, and discuss the properties of the solutions.
description: 26 pages, 13 figures
Thalassoma trilobatum
Creators: name: Andréfouët, Serge
name: Chen, Wei-Jen
name: Kinch, Jeff
name: Mana, Ralph
name: Russell, Barry C.
name: Tully, Dean
name: White, William T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Labridae
Thalassoma
Thalassoma trilobatum

description: Thalassoma trilobatum (Lacepède [ex Commerson] 1801)—Ladder wrasse
Status at New Ireland. First recorded from New Hanover as Julis trilobata by Peters (1877: 843); subsequently reported as Julis fusca by Günther (1909: 293).
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1.—General distribution: Transkei (South Africa), East Africa and western Mascarenes east to Wake Atoll and Pitcairn Group, north to Ryukyu and Ogasawara islands, south to Kermadec Islands and Tonga. Found in shallow exposed reef flats, usually with rock-base and mixed coral and algae, also in surge-swept reef flats, coral reef margins, and clear rocky shorelines, 0–10 m depth. Marine.
description: Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 239, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
Contestation Cafe: A critical perspective on the application of algorithmic decision systems (TAIGA FrAIday talk)
Creators: name: Collins, Robert
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Contestable systems often present their negotiability on their own terms. Rather than questioning their very use and/or application, there is an assumption that automation is inherently progressive and that we, as humans, should fit within these systems’ constraints and maintain them from inside the loop. While maintaining a strong advocacy for the benefits of technology, we can also see how some of these systems adversely affect the marginalised and the disadvantaged, while also suppressing these valuable perspectives. In finding ways to address and potentially leverage these imbalances, this research has reimagined contestation as a form of repair - a lens through which to look at how we might contest the digital intangibles by applying the values of physical repair and some of the strategies of the Right to Repair (R2R) movement. In this presentation we will look at some of the projects and ideas which came out of this exercise and how they might be applied to contestation:Communities: The Contestation CaféRoles: The Fixer vs The RepairerApproaches: Agonistic Design
Wetmorella nigropinnata
Creators: name: Andréfouët, Serge
name: Chen, Wei-Jen
name: Kinch, Jeff
name: Mana, Ralph
name: Russell, Barry C.
name: Tully, Dean
name: White, William T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Labridae
Wetmorella
Wetmorella nigropinnata

description: Wetmorella nigropinnata (Seale 1901) —Sharpnose wrasse
Status at New Ireland. First recorded from off Kavieng, New Ireland by Randall (1983: 879–880), based on USNM 236268.
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2.—General distribution: Red Sea and East Africa east to Marshall and Marquesas islands and Pitcairn Group, north to Ryukyu Islands, south to Queensland (Australia) and New Caledonia. Secretive, in coral reefs, 1–30 m depth. Marine.
description: Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 240, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
Electrosynthesis of conducting polymer nanocomposites at a polarisable liquid|liquid Interface and their applications in sensing and energy conversion and storage
Creators: name: Rojas Sanabria, Nicolás
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 34
subject: Chemical sciences
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: This thesis provides a fundamental investigation into the electrosynthesis of free-standing poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) composite thin films at the electrified interface between two immiscible electrolyte solutions (ITIES). First, the addition of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) to the aqueous phase during the controllable electrosynthesis of PEDOT-AuNP films at the ITIES was investigated. Using electrochemical techniques such as cyclic voltammetry and chronoamperometry, a mechanism is proposed for this two-step electrosynthesis of interfacial PEDOT-AuNP. It was demonstrated that the interfacial electron transfer (IET) reaction between aqueous Ce(IV) and the organic EDOT monomer is mediated by AuNPs adsorbed at the ITIES. These AuNPs act as a ‘floating’ bipolar electrode (BPE) that assists the IET between organic monomers and the aqueous oxidant. The interfacial redox catalysis was recorded via nanoparticle impact experiments, in which we could observe multiple bursts of current upon addition of AuNPs, when the interfacial Galvani potential difference (∆o w𝜙) is biased positively enough (>0.2 V) for IET to happen. Extensive characterisation of the free-standing PEDOT-AuNP films was performed to analyse the morphology, composition, and electrochemical performance for the detection of dopamine.A second synthesis route was studied to obtain PEDOT-AuNP thin films, using HAuCl4 as both the AuNP precursor and the electron acceptor (or oxidant). An in-depth explanation of the reaction mechanism is coupled with the recorded CVs for the electrochemical synthesis of PEDOT-AuNP in a 4-electrode configuration. Electrochemical characterisation of samples synthesised with HAuCl4 revealed a boost in conductivity and excellent performance as a dopamine sensor, reaching competitive limits of detection and sensitivity with state-of-the-art organic sensing devices. In the last section of this work, we explored the synthesis of nanocomposite films of PEDOT and multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) for applications in energy storage devices. We used differently charged surfactants to prepare interfacial PEDOT-MWCNT films. Chemical and electrochemical characterisation revealed that the morphology of the films is highly affected by the surfactants used, therefore, influencing the charge storage capacity of the composites.
They tried to bury us but they didn’t know we were seeds
Creators: name: Carolan, Rosemary Griffin
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: As many as 40% of first-year college students are required to take one or more non-credit remedial courses, including developmental, or basic, composition. Research has shown that these courses do not increase a student’s chances of graduating and may actually impede them, and that a disproportionately large number of minority students are assigned to them. This study focuses on seven students who have been assigned to a developmental composition course, with the goal of learning about their literacy practices in order to understand the social structures, cultures, and relationships that surround them. Informed by the New Literacy Studies and Bourdieu’s theory of practice, this dissertation represents a three-semester qualitative study in ethnographic style, and addresses the following questions:  1. What are the literacy practices of first-year college students who have been placed into a developmental writing course?  2. How do developmental college students’ literacy practices reflect their relationships with educational institutions and the larger society?  3. What do developmental college students’ literacy practices reveal about how they construct their identities amid conflicting pressures from school, family, and peers?  The data included interviews, field notes from observations, academic documents, and social media, with analysis following the tenets of grounded theory. Findings revealed the multimodal, varied, and creative uses of literacy by the participants, and brought to light the previously unrecognized injustices imposed on them through symbolic violence by the educational system. In addition, the findings have led to a deeper understanding of how marginalized students in their first year of college constructed their identities through texts, to make sense of their challenges and to resist forces that worked against them, as they attempted to adjust to the academic discourse required to complete college successfully. The study concludes that virtually every student who enters college requires guidance in some aspect of academic literacy, and that, rather than singling out certain students, higher education should work toward providing the necessary guidance to all students proactively.
Gesomyrmex macrops Dlussky & Rasnitsyn & Perfilieva 2015, sp. n.
Creators: name: Dlussky, G. M.
name: Rasnitsyn, A. P.
name: Perfilieva, K. S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Gesomyrmex
Gesomyrmex macrops

description: Gesomyrmex macrops sp. n.
(Fig. 13)
Material. Holotype PIN 3429/1162, incomplete dorsal print of gyne.
Description. Gyne. Body length 9.7 mm. Head subrectangular, about 1.4 times longer than wide, with feebly concave sides, convex occipital margin and rounded occipital corners. Anterior clypeal margin projected as small rounded lobe. Eyes ovate, large: head about 3 times longer than maximum eye diameter. Scape does not reach posterior margin of eye, head about 3times longer than scape. Mandibles triangular with 4teeth on the masticatory margin. Scutum nearly as long as scutellum. Petiole low, about as long as high. Legs comparatively short and thick. Gaster ovate. Wings not preserved.
Measurements of holotype, mm: AL 2.7; HL 1.7; HW 1.25; SL0.55; ED0.55.
Comparison. Differs from other species of Svetlovodnaya by large eyes. Gesomyrmex germanicus (Eckfeld, Germany, Middle Eocene) and G.pulcher (Grube Messel, Germany, Middle Eocene) also have large eyes (2.6–3times less than head length) but they differ from the new species by the form of head. Gesomyrmex germanicus has head with convex sides and G.pulcher has head with distinctively concave posterior margin. Also G.pulcher is less (body length 4.8mm).
Etymology. Macrops is the Latin for “with large eyes”.
description: Published as part of Dlussky, G. M., Rasnitsyn, A. P. & Perfilieva, K. S., 2015, The Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Bol'shaya Svetlovodnaya (Late Eocene of Sikhote-Alin, Russian Far East), pp. 131-152 in Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 11 (1) on page 138
Tachyancistrocerus rhodensis
Creators: name: Arens, W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Vespidae
Tachyancistrocerus
Tachyancistrocerus rhodensis

description: Tachyancistrocerus rhodensis (SAUSSURE 1855)
B e l e g m a t e r i a l: 17 /49. Belegte Flugzeit:: 15. Juni - 14. Juli;: 6. Juni - 24. Juli.
Auf der Peloponnes ziemlich häufig, aber nur in tiefen Lagen und erst ab Sommer vorkommend. Der höchstgelegene Fundort ist Mantinea (ca. 630m).
B Kalogria 14.6.1997 (), 2.7.2007 (), 1.7.2007 (), 15.6.2008 (1 /2); C Olympia 24.7.1997 (), 8.6.2011 (2); F Neochori südlich von Zaharo 22.7.1997 (); M Voidokilia-Bucht 29.6.1996 (), 27- 28.6.1997 (1 /1); N Methoni/Castro 28.6.1996 (); O Avia/Ausgang der Kambos-Schlucht 9- 10.6.1995 (), 4.7.2010 (1 /1); Q Kap Tenaro 6.6.1996 (), 29- 30.6.1997 (1 /3); R Bucht von Ageranos 9.6.1998 (2); S Epidauros Limera 2- 3.7.1997 (4), 12.6.1998 (); U Neapoli/Kap Malea 11- 12.6.1996 (3), 4- 5.7.1997 (5 /7); bei Niata 6.7.1997 (); 8 Sparta/Menelaion 15.7.2006 (), 14.7.2008 (2 /1); e Alt-Korinth 22.6.1996 (2), 16.7.1997 (); g Mantinea/ca. 2km südlich des archäologischen Geländes 2.7.2010 (); q zwischen Vasiliko und Thea 23.6.1998 (); im Flusstal bei Chekali 23.6.1998 (). - Belege im Biologiezentrum Linz: 3 /7, 20km N Pilos, Marathopoli, 8.7.1996, leg. M. Halada; 1, 20km E Sparta, Ag. Anagiri, 5.7.1996, leg. M. Halada; 1, 40km S Argos, Prov. Astros, 4.7.1996, leg. M. Halada. - Weiterer publizierter Fundort (BLÜTHGEN & GUSENLEITNER 1970): Patras.
description: Published as part of Arens, W., 2012, Die solitären Faltenwespen der Peloponnes (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Raphiglossinae, Eumeninae) - 2. Teil, pp. 933-971 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 44 (2) on page 945, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10079867
Validation of Detailed Reaction Mechanisms for Detonation Simulation
Creators: name: Schultz, E.
name: Shepherd, J.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 2000

description: This report considers the adequacy of existing detailed reaction mechanisms for use in detonation simulation with chemical systems containing hydrogen, ethylene, and propane fuels. Shock tube induction time data are compiled from the literature and compared to detonation thermodynamic conditions to establish validation limits. Existing detailed reaction mechanisms are then used in constant-volume explosion simulations for validation against the shock tube data. A quantitative measure of mechanism accuracy is obtained from the validation study results, and deficiencies in the experimental data and reaction mechanisms are highlighted. Two mechanisms were identified which include the chemistry for all three fuels and simulated the experimental induction time data to within an average factor of three for temperatures above 1200 K. These mechanisms are incorporated into steady, one-dimensional detonation simulations to provide quantitative information on the reaction zone structure, characteristic reaction time/length scales, and activation and thermal energy parameters.
description: Explosion Dynamics Laboratory Report FM99-5
Gesomyrmex incertus Dlussky & Rasnitsyn & Perfilieva 2015, sp. n.
Creators: name: Dlussky, G. M.
name: Rasnitsyn, A. P.
name: Perfilieva, K. S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Gesomyrmex
Gesomyrmex incertus

description: Gesomyrmex incertus sp. n.
(Fig. 14)
Material. Holotype PIN 3429/1183, PIN 3429/1164 (counterprint of the same specimen), head of gyne.
Description. Gyne. Head subrectangular, 1.5 times longer than wide, with nearly parallel sides, rounded occipital corners and concave occipital margin. Anterior clypeal margin projected as rounded lobe. Eyes oval, situated on the midlength of head; head 3.8times longer than maximum eye diameter. Mandible massive, triangular, with acute apical tooth and small blunt denticles on the masticatory margin.
Measurements of holotype, mm: HL2.4; HW1.6; ED0.65.
Comparison. Differs from all known species of Gesomyrmex by combination of elongate head with concave occipital margin and position of eyes.
Notes. In spite of key characters of genus not preserved, preserved head of described specimen in general habitus is most similar to known species of Gesomyrmex. That is why we placed it to this genus.
Etymology. Incertus is the Latin for doubtful.
description: Published as part of Dlussky, G. M., Rasnitsyn, A. P. & Perfilieva, K. S., 2015, The Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Bol'shaya Svetlovodnaya (Late Eocene of Sikhote-Alin, Russian Far East), pp. 131-152 in Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 11 (1) on page 138
Bolbometopon muricatum
Creators: name: Andréfouët, Serge
name: Chen, Wei-Jen
name: Kinch, Jeff
name: Mana, Ralph
name: Russell, Barry C.
name: Tully, Dean
name: White, William T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Scaridae
Bolbometopon
Bolbometopon muricatum

description: Bolbometopon muricatum (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1840) —Bumphead parrotfish
Status at New Ireland. First recorded from Tigak Islands, Kavieng, New Ireland as Bolbometopon muricatus by Wright & Richards (1985: 73). Specimens observed by Jeff Kinch during CFMDP Survey at Kavieng fish market in 2004–2005, and by Barry C. Russell during 7–28 June 2014. Specimens photographed at Lissenung Island by Dietmar Amon on 3 Sept. 2006 and 10 June 2009; others photographed at St. KVG23 (east side of Bauddisson Island, Kavieng District) by Serge Andréfouët on 21 Aug. 2014.
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2.—General distribution: Red Sea and East Africa east to Line and Phoenix islands and Samoa, north to Ryukyu Islands, south to northern Australia and New Caledonia. Usually in groups, in lagoon and seaward coral reefs, in New Ireland area seen on the outer slope of the barrier reef, 1–40 m depth. Marine.
description: Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 240, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
Literature of Pandemic: An Analytical Study of Select Literary Texts
Creators: name: Shibasambhu, Nandi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Change is a natural phenomenon. Everything we come across changes with time. This change occurs through evolution, a continuous and ever-changing process. Humans' present form is also the result of evolution. The history of evolution proceeds through various unwanted incidents. One such is the Pandemic that occurs age after age belittling humans and their progress. It brings death, destruction, and enormous devastation for a certain period. Later, humans revive it and come back to their usual selves. Though humans use to forget the impact of epidemics with the flying of time, literary history bears it through its creative artistic works. From ancient times to the present, literature chronicles every incident. The present paper aims to depict the relationship between literary works and the Pandemic. It also attempts to explore various socio-economic facts thatpeople had to undergo during the time of pandemic. It may also try to present the nature of literary works, and how these texts express the problems of plague victim people, which resulted in physiological and psychological puzzles.Keywords: destruction, evolution, literature, pandemic, phenomenon
Ancistrocerus auctus
Creators: name: Arens, W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Vespidae
Ancistrocerus
Ancistrocerus auctus

description: Ancistrocerus auctus (FABRICIUS 1793)
B e l e g m a t e r i a l: 6 /15. Belegte Flugzeit:: 10. Juni - 6. Juli;: 16. April - 4. Juli.
Diese Art scheint auf der Peloponnes ausschliesslich in tiefen Lagen zu fliegen. Mein höchster Fundort ist Mantinea (ca. 630m).
GUSENLEITNER (1999) hat das Taxon renimacula (LEPELETIER 1841), das zuvor als westliche Unterart von A. auctus angesehen wurde, als eigene Art interpretiert, mit der Anmerkung, dass nach seinem Kenntnisstand auf dem Balkan und östlich davon allein A. auctus vorkomme. STANDFUSS & STANDFUSS (2004) glauben jedoch, beide Taxa in Südost-Thessalien nachgewiesen zu haben. Allerdings sind die Form des Clypeus-Ausschnitts und die Länge des gläsernen Clypeus-Saums, die GUSENLEITNER (1995b) als einzige Unterscheidungskriterien angibt, aus meiner Sicht problematische Merkmale, die auch bei anderen Ancistrocerus -Arten erheblich variieren (siehe z.B. Gusenleitners Anmerkungen zu A. longispinosus) und zudem durch Abnutzung verändert sein können. Ohne die Verhältnisse in Südwesteuropa zu kennen und beurteilen zu können, die Gusenleitner zur Aufwertung von renimacula in den Artstatus bewogen haben, sehe ich nach eingehender Prüfung meiner peloponnesischen Belege keine Indizien dafür, dass sie zwei verschiedenen Arten angehören. Ich ordne sie deshalb sämtlich A. auctus zu, trotz nicht ganz konstanter Clypeusmorphologie. Genetische Untersuchungen wären zur Klärung der Frage wünschenswert.
Bei den ist der Stirnfleck keineswegs immer bis zum Clypeus verlängert, wie GUSENLEITNER (1995b) dies für A. auctus angibt. Die Rippen der Basalfurche des 2. Sternits sind bei ihnen etwas gröber und weniger zahlreich als z.B. bei A. claripennis. Auch beim männlichen Geschlecht ist das typische Seitenprofil des 2. Tergits und dessen kurze Behaarung das sicherste Erkennungsmerkmal von A. auctus.
B Kalogria 21.5.1996 (), 23.5.1998 (), 16.5.2000 (2), 9.6.2011 (); C Olympia 16.6.2008 (); K Atsiholos/antikes Gortis 20.6.1998 (); Q Mavromati/Ithome-Berg 26.6.1996 (); O Avia/ Ausgang der Kambos-Schlucht 10.6.1995 (), 19.5.1997 (); Monemvasia 22.5.1995 (); U Neapoli/Kap Malea 4.7.1997 (2); V Geraki / Castro-Berg 26.5.1995 (); b Midea 31.5.1997 (2, davon 1 abgegeben an G. Reder); e Alt-Korinth 22.6.1996 (), 7.6.1997 (); g Mantinea /ca. 1 km südlich des archäologischen Geländes 6.7.2007 (); j Stymphalia /nördlich vom Dorf 22.6.2008 (). - Beleg im Biologiezentrum Linz: 1, Taygetos Oros centr., 28- 31.7.2010, leg. J. Halada. -Weiterer publizierter Fundort (BLÜTHGEN & GUSENLEITNER 1970): Pyrgos.
description: Published as part of Arens, W., 2012, Die solitären Faltenwespen der Peloponnes (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Raphiglossinae, Eumeninae) - 2. Teil, pp. 933-971 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 44 (2) on pages 945-946, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10079867
Calotomus carolinus
Creators: name: Andréfouët, Serge
name: Chen, Wei-Jen
name: Kinch, Jeff
name: Mana, Ralph
name: Russell, Barry C.
name: Tully, Dean
name: White, William T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Scaridae
Calotomus
Calotomus carolinus

description: Calotomus carolinus (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1840) —Star-eye parrotfish
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on specimens observed by Jeff Kinch during CFMDP Survey at Kavieng fish market in 2004–2005.
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2.—General distribution: East and South Africa, Madagascar and western Mascarenes east to Hawaiian Islands and Pitcairn, north to Ryukyu and Ogasawara islands, south to Western Australia, New Caledonia, and Tonga. Found over subtidal reef flats, and lagoon and seaward coral reefs, in coral, rubble and seagrass areas, 0–69 m depth. Marine.
description: Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 240, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
Lasius Fabricius 1804
Creators: name: Dlussky, G. M.
name: Rasnitsyn, A. P.
name: Perfilieva, K. S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Lasius

description: Genus Lasius Fabricius, 1804
Type species Formica nigra Linnaeus, 1758; by subsequent designation by Bingham, 1903: 338.
Diagnosis (for fossil imprints). Waist consisting of 1segment (petiole) with scale; gaster without constriction between 1st and 2nd gastral (abdominal III and IV) segments. Head with rounded occipital angles. Anterior margin of clypeus rounded. Eyes situated above middle of head sides, gena of gynes and workers much longer than maximum eye diameter. Mandibles of gynes and workers triangular, dentate. Antennae 12-segmented in gynes and workers and 13-segmented in males; scape protruding beyond posterior margin of head. Second to fifth joints of funiculus of gynes and workers 1–1.4times as long as wide (except in the subgenus Dendrolasius Fabricius, 1804). Antennal insertion near posterior margin of clypeus. Hind coxae broadly separated. Forewing with closed cells 1+2r, 3r and usually mcu, free branches 5RS and 4M leaving cell 1+2r from common knot. 4M strongly curved basally. Section2RS+M (under1+2r cell) straight or weakly convex. Icu>1.45. Gynes 1.5–2.2times as large as males (except in the subgenus Austrolasius Fabricius, 1804).
Species included. Acording Bolton’s online catalogue [Bolton, 2015] a total of 114 extant valid species and subspecies of Lasius distributed in the Palearctic and Nearctic are known to date. Bolton’s catalogue also includes a checklist of 25extinct species and subspecies distributed in Eocene, Oligocene and Miocene. Fossil taxa badly need in revision, for some of them are possibly deserve synonymization, and some other belong elsewhere.
Notes. There are 11fossils in the collection studied with the wing venation and general appearance characteristic of the genus. Judging from the size, they represent two species. Unfortunately, the preservation state is not sufficient to provide their formal description, so we present only their registration numbers and measurements available.
description: Published as part of Dlussky, G. M., Rasnitsyn, A. P. & Perfilieva, K. S., 2015, The Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Bol'shaya Svetlovodnaya (Late Eocene of Sikhote-Alin, Russian Far East), pp. 131-152 in Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 11 (1) on page 138
Ultrahigh-speed large-range atomic force microscope imaging
Creators: name: Chen, Jiarong
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: This thesis presents the development of ultra-high-speed large-range dynamic mode imaging of atomic force microscope (AFM), through the extension of the adaptive multi-loop mode imaging technique to the  eld-programmable gate array (FPGA) signal acquisition and processing hardware platform. High speed imaging is needed in atomic force microscope imaging to observe constantly changing processes such as chemical reaction on the sample surface, microorganism activity or macromolecules reactions. However, conventional imaging modes are too slow to observe such processes. Contact mode is faster than tapping mode but can damage the sample while tapping mode has less distortion but much slower. Such a speed limiation can be largely alleviated by the adaptive multi-loop mode (AMLM) technique which utilizes an online iterative feedforward controller to overcome the time delay of the z-feedback loop in tracking the topography. The goal of this thesis is to integrate the AMLM technique with the FPGA platform to further image the imaging speed by an order of mangitude without loss of quality and imaging range. Challenges in FPGA programming must be overcome to account for both the AFM system dynamics characteristics and the  FPGA hardware speci cations. For instance, the (inverse) Fourier transform in the feedforward controller is replaced with time domain signals along with introducing the tapping amplitude error into the feedforward control and the tapping mode deflection decoupling technique. Moreover, a modeling-free inversion-based iterative feedforward control (MIIFC) approach is implemented for the x-axis piezo actuator control to track  the high frequency triangular wave needed for high speed imaging. In the experiment a calibration reference sample is scanned to validate the control scheme and present the imaging results by comparing with the much slower conventional tapping image. The experimental results show that by using the AMLM imaging technique on FPGA board, the imaging speed increases from 5 Hz to 100 Hz while maintaining good imaging quality. However, although the main features of the sample topography are captured, many details are loss due to the time delay in the control system and high frequency noise.
Lasius sp. A
Creators: name: Dlussky, G. M.
name: Rasnitsyn, A. P.
name: Perfilieva, K. S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Lasius
Lasius sp. a

description: Lasius sp. A
(Fig. 15)
Material. PIN 3429/1108 (?♀), 3429/1122 (fragment of wing), 3429/1130 (♀), 3429/1156 (fragment of wing).
Measurements, mm: PIN 3429/1108: FWL7; PIN3429/1130: BL~7; AL2.5; FWL7.6.
description: Published as part of Dlussky, G. M., Rasnitsyn, A. P. & Perfilieva, K. S., 2015, The Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Bol'shaya Svetlovodnaya (Late Eocene of Sikhote-Alin, Russian Far East), pp. 131-152 in Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 11 (1) on page 138
Calotomus spinidens
Creators: name: Andréfouët, Serge
name: Chen, Wei-Jen
name: Kinch, Jeff
name: Mana, Ralph
name: Russell, Barry C.
name: Tully, Dean
name: White, William T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Scaridae
Calotomus
Calotomus spinidens

description: Calotomus spinidens (Quoy & Gaimard 1824) —Raggedtooth parrotfish
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on a video of a specimen taken at Kavieng, Kavieng District, 0–11 m depth, St. KR 22, 5 June 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell).
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2.—General distribution: East Africa east to Micronesia, Fiji and Tonga, Australia to Ryukyu Islands. Found over seagrass beds, 1–25 m depth. Marine.
description: Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 240, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
When a woman receives the highest pay
Creators: name: Chen, Yan
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: Despite the persistent gender pay gap, there have been emerging cases where women with superior performance receive the highest pay within their workgroups or organizations. However, limited theory and empirical evidence have been provided to help us understand the potential effects of this phenomenon on others in the workgroup. Building on the relational demography and pay comparison literature, I suggested that gender similarity to the highest paid member is positively related to other workgroup member’s work-related outcomes, and this relationship becomes stronger when the highest paid member is female than when it is male. Moreover, I proposed that pay status contexts, such as pay dispersion and consistency of women receiving the highest pay over time, would further moderate this asymmetrical effect. The hypotheses were tested using a sample of 597 sales employees within 50 workgroup from a large regional bank in China, but received little empirical support, in part due to restricted variance on the outcome variables in this sample. Theoretical and practical implications and future directions are discussed.
Ancistrocerus claripennis THOMSON 1874
Creators: name: Arens, W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Vespidae
Ancistrocerus
Ancistrocerus claripennis

description: Ancistrocerus claripennis THOMSON 1874
B e l e g m a t e r i a l: 7 /26. Belegte Flugzeit:: 22. Juni – 21. Juli;: 1. Juni - 28. Juli.
Neu für Griechenland. Zu dieser in ganz Europa verbreiteten Art bemerkt GUSENLEITNER (1995b), dass sie im Süden seltener sei. Funde aus Griechenland wurden bisher nicht veröffentlicht. Auf der Peloponnes scheint A. claripennis ein montanes Faunenelement zu sein, das bis in die höchsten Gebirgslagen vorkommt. Der tiefste Fundort ist der Ithome (ca. 700m), ein steil aus der messenischen Ebene aufragender Berg.
J Lykaion-Gebirge /südl. von Ano Kotili / 800-1400m 22.6.1997 (1 /1), 20.7.1997 (); Q Mavromati / Ithome-Berg 24.6.1997 (1 / 2 in Coll. PH), 1.6.2011 (4, auf Baum im Dorf); X Taygetos-Gebirge / Prof. Ilias 8- 9.7.1997 (1 /4, 1600-2200m), 16.7.2006 (2, 1600-2400m), 11- 12.7.2007 (4, 1550-1700m), 11- 12.7.2007 (2 /1, 1700-2000m); 9 Parnon-Gebirge / Waldweg westlich des Meg. Tourla / 1450-1600m 13.7.2006 (2), 13.7.2008 (); Hochebene westlich des Meg. Tourla / 1600m 8.7.2007 (1 /1), 12- 13.7.2008 (1 /1); n Chelmos-Gebirge / Xerokambos / 1600m 21.6.2008 (). - Beleg im Biologiezentrum Linz: 1, Taygetos Oros centr., 28- 31.7.2010, leg. J. Halada. – Beleg in der Coll. J. Gusenleitner: 1, nördl. Taygetos, Xerovounia, 1600-1700m, 21.7.1991, leg. Ebmer.
description: Published as part of Arens, W., 2012, Die solitären Faltenwespen der Peloponnes (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Raphiglossinae, Eumeninae) - 2. Teil, pp. 933-971 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 44 (2) on page 946, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10079867
Cetoscarus ocellatus
Creators: name: Andréfouët, Serge
name: Chen, Wei-Jen
name: Kinch, Jeff
name: Mana, Ralph
name: Russell, Barry C.
name: Tully, Dean
name: White, William T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Scaridae
Cetoscarus
Cetoscarus ocellatus

description: Cetoscarus ocellatus (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1840) —Spotted parrotfish (Fig. 112)
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on a specimen photographed on 4 June 2013 during ACIAR Aquarium Survey in Kavieng District; specimens observed at Kavieng fish market by Barry C. Russell during 7–21 June 2014; a specimen photographed at Lissenung Island by Dietmar Amon on 29 Aug. 2010; a video of a specimen taken at Echuca Shoal, New Hanover, 15–34 m depth, St. KR 158, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell).
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: East Africa, Madagascar and western Mascarenes east to Caroline and Gambier islands, south to Western Australia, New Caledonia, and Tonga. Found in clear lagoon and seaward coral reefs, 0–30 m depth. Marine.
description: Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 240, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
Lasius sp. B
Creators: name: Dlussky, G. M.
name: Rasnitsyn, A. P.
name: Perfilieva, K. S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Lasius
Lasius sp. b

description: Lasius sp. B
(Fig. 16, 17)
Material. PIN 3429/102 (♀), 3429/1111 (♂), 3429/1121 (fragment of wing), 3429/1159 (fragment of wing), 3429/1167 (fragment of wing), 3429/1177(♀), 3429/1200(♀).
Measurements, mm. Gynes PIN 3429/102: AL2.1; FWL4.2. PIN 3429/1177: AL2; PIN 3429/1200: AL2. Male PIN 3429/1111: AL1.7.
description: Published as part of Dlussky, G. M., Rasnitsyn, A. P. & Perfilieva, K. S., 2015, The Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Bol'shaya Svetlovodnaya (Late Eocene of Sikhote-Alin, Russian Far East), pp. 131-152 in Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 11 (1) on page 139