cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Schistonyx perezi
Creators: name: Enayatnia, Masoumeh
name: Rakhshani, Ehsan
name: Kroupa, Alexander S.
name: Schmid-Egger, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Schistonyx
Schistonyx perezi

description: Schistonyx perezi (Tournier, 1895)
Pompilus perezi Tournier, 1895:XIII ♀.— Tanger [Morocco].
Distribution in Iran: KHORASAN (EBRAHIMI et al. 2008— AS Schistonyx umbrosus (KLUg, 1834)), TEHRAN (WOLF et al. 2009— AS Schistonyx umbrosus umbrosus).
description: Published as part of Enayatnia, Masoumeh, Rakhshani, Ehsan, Kroupa, Alexander S. & Schmid-Egger, Christian, 2018, Updated catalogue of Pompilidae (Hymenoptera) in Iran, pp. 451-489 in Zootaxa 4394 (4) on page 469, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1199890
Risky embodiments
Creators: name: McDonald, Emily Anne
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: This dissertation examines the emerging phenomenon of transnational medical travel to Buenos Aires, Argentina based on fifteen months of fieldwork between 2006 and 2008. Ethnographic data were gathered through the observation of medical consultations and surgeries, interviews with doctors, patient coordinators, and hospital administrators, as well as living with transnational patients during their preparation for,and recovery from, surgery. Although crossing borders in order to seek out health has long existed under a variety of circumstances, with the turn of the 21st century, global biomedical services have emerged on a larger scale – wrapped within the neoliberalvernacular of the nascent “medical tourism” industry. Despite industry claims to a uniform global market in health care, I argue that transnational patients’ choice of destination is shaped by long-standing, colonial-eraconventions that divide the world between places deemed “safe” and those that are “contaminated” and “risky.” In Buenos Aires, assertions of biomedical expertise are embedded within claims that the city is a “European” and “white” alternative to other “tropical” medical travel destinations. Tourists are additionally encouraged to think of the “Paris of South America” as a bargain destination, resulting from the economic crisisof 2000/2001 and the subsequent devaluation of the Argentine peso. Medical travel marketing ostensibly aimed at foreign patients becomes a potent site for locals to articulate the role of European heritage in Argentine identity, and debate the status of Argentina as a “modern” nation following the devastating economic crisis. My work with transnational patients undergoing surgery in Argentina suggests that theoretical approaches to the relationship between bodies and movement would be helpfully reconceived within the context of medical travel. I focus on embodiment – andthe perceptual experiences of “bodies-in-momentum” – to account for the spatial and temporal displacement patients experience as part of undergoing surgery thousands of miles from home. I also examine how surgeons are being repositioned by the incoming flow offoreign patients, which they experience both as a source of recognition of their expertise, as well as a source of indignation in being relegated as “cheap” alternatives to doctors of the Global North.
Leaf from a Medieval Book of Hours, Fragment
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Prayers and devotions
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1935484
subject: Manuscripts, Medieval
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1008422
subject: Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1008399

description: Description and transcription completed by Guifen Jiang, as part of work for a manuscript studies class with Dr. Adrienne Williams Boyarin (ENGL), June 2022: Audiuit dominus et misertus... Holocaustum et pro peccato non. Book of Hours: Use of Paris, Matins of the Office of the Dead, Third Nocturn. Codicology: Single sheet of very thin parchment, creamy and well-preserved. Text is written in one column of 18 lines, in black ink, with burnished gold initials and red and blue splashing of capital letters. Dimensions are 160x110mm, with text block measuring 105x90mm, including the floral border on the recto (105x20 mm). Reddish plummet ruling visible. Paleography and Decoration: One scribe for main text throughout, writing Latin in a Gothic Northern texualis, c. 1475–1500. A second hand is responsible for rubrication and decoration. Three-coloured initials (red, blue, and gold). Floral border in the right margin on the recto is decorated with strawberry and green leaves on a gold background, with blue and gold curly penwork on the upper and lower part of the pattern. Two types of line fillers are used: a blue and red bar, and a flower. Textual Remarks: Leaf contains part of Matins of the Office of the Dead, Third Nocturn, according to the Use of Paris. Contents may be compared to ff. 174v3–176r5 of a full Use of Paris Book of the Hours housed at Tufts University (Medford, Tisch Library, Tufts University, MS 2, available online at: https://dl.tufts.edu/concern/pdfs/r781wt689).
Isodictya simulans var. cancellata Carter 1887
Creators: name: Van Soest, Rob W. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Porifera
Demospongiae
Poecilosclerida
Isodictyidae
Isodictya
Isodictya simulans
Isodictya simulans var. cancellata

description: Isodictya simulans var. cancellata subvar. fusca Carter, 1887
Isodictya simulans var. cancellata subvar. fusca Carter, 1887: 69.
As it has four names the subvariety is not recognized as an available taxon by the Code of the ICZN. The present specimen is identified as Haliclona merguiensis nom.nov. (cf. above), described from the Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar.
description: Published as part of Van Soest, Rob W. M., 2024, Correcting sponge names: nomenclatural update of lower taxa level Porifera, pp. 1-122 in Zootaxa 5398 (1) on page 37, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5398.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10494167
Pterostichus melas subsp. melas melas (Creutzer 1799
Creators: name: Hoess, René
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Pterostichus
Pterostichus melas
Pterostichus melas melas (creutzer, 1799)

description: Pterostichus melas melas (Creutzer, 1799)
Erlinsbach (AG), Egg, 610 m, 642.9/251.8, 11.6.2013: 2 Ind.
Nach einem regenreichen Frühjahr in der Nähe des Waldrandes in einer Magerwiese unter Falllaub gefunden. Die Unterart wurde zuletzt 2001 gemeldet. Die Art P. melas ist leicht mit dem häufigen P. melanarius (Illiger, 1798) zu verwechseln.
description: Published as part of Hoess, René, 2016, Interessante Neufunde von Laufkäfern (Coleoptera: Carabidae) aus der Schweiz, pp. 53-67 in Entomo Helvetica 9 on page 65, DOI: 10.5169/seals-986145, http://zenodo.org/record/7901176
Tachyagetes Haupt 1930
Creators: name: Enayatnia, Masoumeh
name: Rakhshani, Ehsan
name: Kroupa, Alexander S.
name: Schmid-Egger, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Tachyagetes

description: Genus Tachyagetes Haupt, 1930b
Tachyagetes Haupt, 1930b:690. Type species: Tachyagetes filicornis (Tournier, 1889b), by original designation.
description: Published as part of Enayatnia, Masoumeh, Rakhshani, Ehsan, Kroupa, Alexander S. & Schmid-Egger, Christian, 2018, Updated catalogue of Pompilidae (Hymenoptera) in Iran, pp. 451-489 in Zootaxa 4394 (4) on page 469, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1199890
The politics of Latino belonging
Creators: name: Martinez, Arianna
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: Since 2006 approximately 60 municipalities across the United States have either proposed and/or enacted a city ordinance known as the Illegal Immigration Relief Act (IIRA). This policy trend is the focus of my dissertation. The IIRA penalizes employers and landlords who hire or rent to unauthorized-immigrants. Ordinance proponents admit the objective is to drive-out “illegal aliens.” Ultimately, the Illegal Immigration Relief Act mainly targets Caribbean, Central American, South American and Mexican immigrant communities, criminalizing their survival, by annihilating access to the public and private spaces necessary to survive. The IIRA is one powerful local policy mechanism used to territorialize space, segregate communities, and create boundaries of belonging. Though the discussion of local immigration policy is relatively new, the role of municipal governments and planners in enacting policies to manage and manipulate how and where minority groups live, work and play has a long historical precedent. This paper investigates the agents and forces that initiated the IIRA, the evolution of the IIRA, as well as the legal, political, economic, spatial, and demographic outcomes of the Illegal Immigration Relief Act. During 2010, I conducted fieldwork in three cities: Hazleton, Pennsylvania; Riverside, New Jersey; and Fremont, Nebraska. These cities are regionally diverse, have distinct histories, economies, and demographics. They have in common that each city enacted the IIRA between 2006 and 2010. The implications of my research findings are important given the anti-immigrant political climate in the United States and the increasing implementation of local and state anti-immigrant policies.
Amphetamine's dose-dependent effects on dorsolateral  striatum sensorimotor neuron firing
Creators: name: Ma, Sisi
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: Dorsolateral striatum neurons were extracellularly recorded in awake behaving rats to examine amphetamine’s effects. On one hand, amphetamine has been shown to elicit motoric changes through increasing neurotransmitters such as dopamine and serotonin in the central nervous system. On the other hand, dorsolateral striatum is highly involved in motoric function and contains abundant neurotransmitter transporters that amphetamine could act upon. Therefore, it has been hypothesized that dorsolateral striatum medium spiny neurons play a role in amphetamine’s effects on motoric behavior. Although many studies have supported a role of the striatum, the involvement of its individual neurons has not been adequately characterized. Therefore, the neuronal activities of single neurons that correlate with vertical head movements in dorsolateral striatum were simultaneously recorded with head movement behavior before and after acute amphetamine injection to test the hypothesis. Behaviorally, it was observed that amphetamine induced head movements across all doses administered. Lower doses (1mg/kg and 2 mg/kg) induced more numbers of longer movements than the higher dose (4 mg/kg). Neuronally, firing of individual head movement neurons during similar head movements defined by direction, distance, duration, velocity and apex were compared before and after administration of amphetamine. Analysis revealed that the change of firing rate induced by amphetamine was co-determined by the dose administered and the baseline firing rate of the neuron. More specifically, for all doses administered, amphetamine increased the firing rate of the slower firing neurons, but decreased the firing rate of the faster firing neurons. The magnitudes of the enhancement and reduction were greater at lower doses (1mg/kg and 2 mg/kg), but were less pronounced at the high dose (4mg/kg) of amphetamine. The parallel changes of behavior and firing pattern of dorsolateral striatum neurons support the hypothesis that dorsolateral striatum neurons participate in mediating the motor behavioral effects induced by amphetamine.
Isodictya simulans var. cancellata Carter 1887
Creators: name: Van Soest, Rob W. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Porifera
Demospongiae
Poecilosclerida
Isodictyidae
Isodictya
Isodictya simulans
Isodictya simulans var. cancellata carter, 1887

description: Isodictya simulans var. cancellata Carter, 1887
Isodictya simulans var. cancellata Carter, 1887: 69 (no illustration).
Carter described eight specimens from the north east side of King’s Island in the Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar, approximate coordinates 12.58 N 98.42E, as Isodictya simulans (Johnston, 1842, originally as Halichondria) with local varietal and subvarietal names. Since Haliclona (Haliclona) simulans (Johnston, 1842) is currently a well-established European species (see De Weerdt 1986: 97) it is judged to be unlikely that the Andaman Sea Coral Coast specimens belong to it and accordingly the varieties are elevated to species rank.
Four specimens were named var. cancellata and a wet type specimen of this is kept in the Natural History Museum London, BMNH 1887.4.26.2, here selected as lectotype. Three of the four specimens were named subvariety fusca and one subvariety albida. The subvarieties are excluded as available taxa by ICZN art. 45.5 and are not eligible for regulation under the Code. Since the two subvarieties are similar thin crusts with only a difference in the intensity of their brown color, their specimens are likely members of the single species Haliclona cancellata (Carter, 1887). This combination is preoccupied by Haliclona cancellata (Sowerby, 1806: 131, as Spongia), which was reassigned as a nomen oblitum (ICZN art. 23.9.2) by Van Soest et al. (2020: 15, case 14) to the synonymy of Haliclona (Reniera) cinerea (Grant, 1826: 204 as Spongia). Since both cancellata species belong to the same genus I propose Haliclona merguiensis nom.nov. for Carter’s species in accordance with ICZN art. 59.1.
description: Published as part of Van Soest, Rob W. M., 2024, Correcting sponge names: nomenclatural update of lower taxa level Porifera, pp. 1-122 in Zootaxa 5398 (1) on page 37, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5398.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10494167
The evolution and implication of boron carbide microstructural variations and transformations during powder processing
Creators: name: Maiorano, Daniel W.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: Boron carbide is a material of key interest in structural ceramic applications due to its extremely favorable physical properties including low theoretical density, high hardness, high strength, and excellent wear resistance.  However, boron carbide microstructures often exhibit the presence of secondary phases, most typically composed of carbon.  Under very high stress and strain rate conditions, boron carbide has been shown to have reduction in compressive strength. It has been postulated that a ~3 nm wide region of amorphous material is the cause of this reduction in properties and appears to be the result of a pressure induced structural transformation.  The impact of both carbon inclusions and the amorphous bands on bulk physical properties is not easy to resolve due to the complex crystal structures of the boron carbide solid solution from 8-20 at% carbon.  As these variations have only been noted to date following application of high stress upon the boron carbide with no examination of powders prior to high stress, this dissertation attempts to determine whether these variations are inherent to boron carbide powders or introduced during typical powder processing.   Most boron carbides are produced by a large scale carbothermic reduction process within an electric arc furnace.  While it remains the most cost effective production method at this time, carbothermic reduction suffers from uneven heating rates across the reactive melt which makes it difficult to maintain a chemically uniform product.  Boron carbide melted ingots are crushed, followed by comminution and sorting based upon size.  To determine the extent of preexisting variations, commercially available powders were compared with segments taken directly from the carbothermic reduction ingot via X-ray Diffraction (XRD), Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR), and Raman microspectroscopy.  All powders were then subjected to various levels of comminution to examine the level of pressure induced by common powder processing.   Analyses showed that due to the nature of the carbothermic reduction process, significant stoichiometry variations of over 2 at% carbon are present across the length of segments classified as “good” boron carbide visually.  These stoichiometric variations correspond with a large presence of secondary phase carbon, including unreacted precursor material, deposited thin films, and graphite products.  The comminution process impacted the relative exposed carbon content of the boron carbides, resulting in powders that were coated with carbonaceous materials.  At high comminution energies in a lab scale jet mill, resulting surfaces exhibited evidence of amorphized boron carbide through Raman and FTIR analysis.  Attempts at reversing the processing induced variations proved ineffective and suggest inherent difficulties in altering the structure of boron carbide produced via carbothermic reduction.
Trechus obtusus Erichson 1837
Creators: name: Hoess, René
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Trechus
Trechus obtusus

description: Trechus obtusus Erichson, 1837
Jaun (FR), Obere Euschels, 1520 m, 588.4 /164.9, 21.7.2015: 1 Ind.
Diese verbreitete Art wurde in jüngerer Zeit nur noch in der Innerschweiz und im Bündnerland gefunden. In der Westschweiz, wo sie früher häufig war, geht der letzte Fund auf das Jahr 1994 zurück.
description: Published as part of Hoess, René, 2016, Interessante Neufunde von Laufkäfern (Coleoptera: Carabidae) aus der Schweiz, pp. 53-67 in Entomo Helvetica 9 on page 65, DOI: 10.5169/seals-986145, http://zenodo.org/record/7901176
Negotiating motherhood in the works of Laudomia Bonanni
Creators: name: Lyon, Joanne Frallicciardi
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: The purpose of this dissertation is to analyze the notion of the maternal in the works of Laudomia Bonanni. I have focused on three of Bonanni’s texts for this purpose: a collection of three short stories entitled Il fosso, and the novels L'imputata and Le droghe. In my analysis, I demonstrate how her writing provides a voice for women and their struggle to survive as mothers and wives in postwar Italy. While examining these issues, I also consider the influence of patriarchal institutions in shaping the status of motherhood in post-World War II Italy and how these cultural and social constraints are portrayed in her works. My research leads to significant conclusions regarding intertextual relationships in Bonanni’s works and her commitment to social critique. In the end, I claim that Laudomia Bonanni, despite her insistence that she is not affiliated with any feminist movement, emerges as a true champion of women’s rights, particularly those of mothers.
Tachyagetes aegyptiacus
Creators: name: Enayatnia, Masoumeh
name: Rakhshani, Ehsan
name: Kroupa, Alexander S.
name: Schmid-Egger, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Tachyagetes
Tachyagetes aegyptiacus

description: Tachyagetes aegyptiacus (Priesner, 1955)
Evagetes (Tachyagetes) aegyptiacus Priesner, 1955:122, ♀.— Egypt, Helouan (NHMW).
Distribution in Iran: MAZANDARAN, TEHRAN (WOLF 1986).
description: Published as part of Enayatnia, Masoumeh, Rakhshani, Ehsan, Kroupa, Alexander S. & Schmid-Egger, Christian, 2018, Updated catalogue of Pompilidae (Hymenoptera) in Iran, pp. 451-489 in Zootaxa 4394 (4) on page 469, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1199890
Euryalida Lamarck 1816
Creators: name: Stöhr, Sabine
name: Hugall, Andrew F.
name: Thuy, Ben
name: Martynov, Alexander
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Echinodermata
Ophiuroidea
Euryalida

description: Order Euryalida Lamarck, 1816
Diagnosis
Arm spine articulations with muscle and nerve openings well separated. Arm spines ventral only. Lateral arm plates devoid of ornamentation. Vertebrae with hourglass-shaped articulations.
description: Published as part of Stöhr, Sabine, Hugall, Andrew F., Thuy, Ben & Martynov, Alexander, 2018, Morphological diagnoses of higher taxa in Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) in support of a new classification, pp. 1-35 in European Journal of Taxonomy 416 on page 6, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2018.416, http://zenodo.org/record/3806109
Novel long-non-coding RNA in melanoma: MIRAT a biomarker of MEK inhibitor response
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Melanoma genetics; Melanoma epigenetics; Targeted therapy; Melanoma treatment; Biomarkers; Transciptome analysis
Reductive dehalogenation potential in a leachate recirculating bioreactor landfill and its affect on leachate toxicity
Creators: name: Loudon, Jennifer Ann
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: Halogenated organic compounds may enter landfills through emplacement of various types of waste and are often detected in leachate. While leachate is a complex mixture of both organic and inorganic contaminants, the overall toxicity may be influenced by the presence of halogenated organic compounds. Leachate recirculating bioreactor landfills are generally anaerobic and support a diverse microbial community. The major hypothesis of this study was that leachate recirculating bioreactor landfill microorganisms can biotransform halogenated organic compounds and thus increase or decrease the toxicity of landfill leachate. To test the hypothesis, anaerobic microcosms were developed using elutriated landfill solids or leachate solids collected from the Burlington County Resource Recovery Center (BCRRC) leachate recirculating bioreactor landfill. The microcosms were amended with tetrachloroethene (PCE) as a model halogenated compound. In the landfill solids microcosms PCE dechlorination to cis-1,2-dichloroethene was observed, and in the leachate solids microcosms PCE dechlorination to ethene was observed, indicating the presence of dechlorinating microorganisms in the landfill system. The bacterial communities present in the raw landfill materials and the microcosms were compared using polymerase chain reaction amplification of 16S rRNA genes followed by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis. There were distinct phylogenic differences between the communities, and phylotypes of the known dehalogenating bacterial genus, Dehalobacter, were detected in transfer enrichments of the leachate and solids microcosms. A Zebrafish embryo larval assay (ELA) was used to evaluate the toxicity of landfill leachate. One hundred percent mortality occurred when the embryos were exposed to solutions containing 16% leachate by volume over an exposure period of 24 hours. Various sublethal lesions were observed at lower concentrations. ELAs performed on microcosm supernatant yielded similar results. Minimal change in supernatant toxicity occurred as a result of incubating the material under conditions enhancing reductive dechlorination in the microcosms. Fractionation of the leachate suggested that most of the lethal toxicity could be attributed to the inorganic/metal fraction of the landfill leachate as opposed to the fraction containing the organic contaminants. Our results suggested that dehalogenating microorganisms are present in the BCRRC leachate recirculating bioreactor landfill and that landfill leachate toxicity can be assessed using the Zebrafish ELA approach.
Isodictya simulans var. incrustans Carter 1887
Creators: name: Van Soest, Rob W. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Porifera
Demospongiae
Poecilosclerida
Isodictyidae
Isodictya
Isodictya simulans
Isodictya simulans var. incrustans carter, 1887

description: Isodictya simulans var. incrustans Carter, 1887
(Fig. 4C)
Isodictya simulans var. incrustans Carter, 1887: 70, pl. 6 fig. 2.
Carter described eight specimens from the north east side of King’s Island in the Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar, approximate coordinates 12.58 N 98.42E, as Isodictya simulans (Johnston, 1842, originally as Halichondria) with local varietal and subvarietal names. Since Haliclona (Haliclona) simulans (Johnston, 1842) is currently a well-established European species (see De Weerdt 1986: 97) it is judged to be unlikely that the Andaman Sea Coral Coast specimens belong to it and accordingly the varieties are elevated to species rank.
Two encrusting specimens of elaborate shape were united under var. incrustans. Transferred to Haliclona the combination simulans var. incrustans became a junior secondary homonym of Haliclona foraminosa f. incrustans (Czerniavsky, 1880 as Protoschmidtia) (see below). Burton (1959: 220) assigned Carter’s specimen no. 71 to a new combination, Haliclona carteri (holotype BMNH 1887.6.1.1), which removed the homonymy with Czerniavsky’s combination. I concur with Burton’s decision.
description: Published as part of Van Soest, Rob W. M., 2024, Correcting sponge names: nomenclatural update of lower taxa level Porifera, pp. 1-122 in Zootaxa 5398 (1) on pages 37-39, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5398.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10494167
Asteronychidae Ljungman 1867
Creators: name: Stöhr, Sabine
name: Hugall, Andrew F.
name: Thuy, Ben
name: Martynov, Alexander
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Echinodermata
Ophiuroidea
Euryalida
Asteronychidae

description: Family Asteronychidae Ljungman, 1867
Type genus
Asteronyx Müller & Troschel, 1842 (type species: A. loveni Müller & Troschel, 1842).
Other genera
Astrodia Verrill, 1899b, Astronebris Downey, 1967, Ophioschiza H.L. Clark, 1911.
Diagnosis
Dorsal disc with thickened skin, few or no scales, radial shields bar-like, almost meeting in disc centre. Long, tapering arms, covered by thickened skin, lacking dorsal plates. Multiple columns of spiniform teeth, dental plate entire. Arms not branching. All vertebrae without oral bridge. Gonads restricted to disc. Arm spine articulation as slightly tumid regular stereom with large oval or round opening.
description: Published as part of Stöhr, Sabine, Hugall, Andrew F., Thuy, Ben & Martynov, Alexander, 2018, Morphological diagnoses of higher taxa in Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) in support of a new classification, pp. 1-35 in European Journal of Taxonomy 416 on pages 6-7, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2018.416, http://zenodo.org/record/3806109
Tachyagetes bytinskii Haupt 1962
Creators: name: Enayatnia, Masoumeh
name: Rakhshani, Ehsan
name: Kroupa, Alexander S.
name: Schmid-Egger, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Tachyagetes
Tachyagetes bytinskii

description: Tachyagetes bytinskii Haupt, 1962 #
Tachyagetes bytinskii Haupt, 1962:58, ♀.— Israel, Rarnat Gan (HALLE).
Distribution in Iran: KHORASAN-E RAZAVI (WOLF et al. 2009).
description: Published as part of Enayatnia, Masoumeh, Rakhshani, Ehsan, Kroupa, Alexander S. & Schmid-Egger, Christian, 2018, Updated catalogue of Pompilidae (Hymenoptera) in Iran, pp. 451-489 in Zootaxa 4394 (4) on page 470, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1199890
Understanding dynamic discourse
Creators: name: Lewis, Karen Shelley
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: Discourses are dynamic things - new information gets communicated, affecting the state of the conversation and the states of minds of the conversational participants. This work explores the question of how much of these discourse dynamics should be accounted for by semantics and how much by pragmatics. There are some philosophers and linguists who claim that the dynamic nature of discourse is good reason for abandoning traditional truth-conditional semantics and adopting instead a notion of semantics that focuses on the level of discourse, treating the semantics of sentences as their contribution to the discourse as a whole, or as their potential effect on the conversational context (dynamic semantics). I argue that such a semantic explanation is the wrong sort of explanation; we can maintain a traditional, static semantics and explain changes to the context by appealing to pragmatics - broadly speaking, by appealing to the fact that conversations are rational, co-operative activities. In chapter 1, I examine some purported differences between dynamic and static semantics, arguing that the central difference between the two views is whether (at least some) changes to the conversational context are encoded in the semantics or explained by pragmatics. In chapters 2-4, I look at an extended case study of discourses containing indefinite descriptions and cross-sentential anaphora, such as: A woman walked in. She ordered lunch. The first sentence in this sort of discourse seems to introduce a  new object under discussion that the pronoun in the second sentence picks up on. In chapter 2, I argue that there are good reasons to think a dynamic semantic account is not the right sort of approach, and that a pragmatic approach better explains the data. In chapter 3, I extend my pragmatic account to cases of embedded indefinites such as: A wolf might walk in, Mary doesn’t own a car, and If a farmer owns a donkey, he beats it. In chapter 4, I argue against a rival approach that tries to explain the same phenomena by appealing to the referential intentions of speakers.
Petrosia testudinaria var. fistulophora Wilson 1925
Creators: name: Van Soest, Rob W. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Porifera
Demospongiae
Haplosclerida
Petrosiidae
Petrosia
Petrosia testudinaria
Petrosia testudinaria var. fistulophora wilson, 1925

description: Petrosia testudinaria var. fistulophora Wilson, 1925
(Figs. 4 D-G)
Petrosia testudinaria var. fistulophora Wilson, 1925: 401, pl. 40 fig. 5, pl. 41 figs. 1–2, pl. 48 fig. 8.
The variety was described by Wilson from Lannang Point, Eastern Philippines, Albatross Stat. 5249, 7.1017°N 125.6889°E, depth 42 m (syntype USNM 21285). The typical variety originally described by Lamarck (1814 as Alcyonium, holotype originally in MNHN but currently missing), with neotype BMNH 1881.10.21.266 collected by the ‘Alert’ at Cape Denison, on the Central and Southern Great Barrier Reef, 20°S 148.2667°E. These are typical ‘barrel sponges’, with the differences found in the outer surface, with ‘fistules’ in the present variety which are not readily visible in most Central Indo-Pacific barrel sponges. The spicules reported by Wilson are similar in size and shape to those given for X. testudinaria by various authors. Swierts et al. 2017 investigated genetic properties of barrel sponges (X. muta and X. testudinaria) from Central West Atlantic and Indo-West Pacific localities and discovered that there are a large number of reproductively isolated ‘species’ hiding under these names. However, these species were only characterized genetically by Swierts et al. and no attempts were made to connect genetic and morphological properties, rendering the recognition of the species impractical. This means that there is currently no method to establish the validity of the present variety as one of the many reproductively isolated taxa. Surface characters of barrel sponges like X. testudinaria are notoriously variable, and I do not believe Wilson’s descriptions are sufficiently clear to consider the variety as a taxon distinct from X. testudinaria. I propose for the time being to merge the variety with the typical variety as Xestospongia testudinaria (Lamarck, 1814), but the name fistulophora may return as valid in future research.
description: Published as part of Van Soest, Rob W. M., 2024, Correcting sponge names: nomenclatural update of lower taxa level Porifera, pp. 1-122 in Zootaxa 5398 (1) on page 39, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5398.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10494167
Supplementary Information for "Regional trends and petrologic factors inhibit global interpretations of zircon trace element compositions"
Creators: name: Roberts, Nick
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 370399
subject: Geochemistry not elsewhere classified

description: Supplementary Information for "Regional trends and petrologic factors inhibit global interpretations of zircon trace element compositions" in Geoscience Frontiers.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gsf.2024.101852Authors: Nick Roberts, Chris Spencer, Steve Puetz, Brenhin Keller and Simon Tapster
Euryalidae Gray 1840
Creators: name: Stöhr, Sabine
name: Hugall, Andrew F.
name: Thuy, Ben
name: Martynov, Alexander
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Echinodermata
Ophiuroidea
Euryalida
Euryalidae

description: Family Euryalidae Gray, 1840
Type genus
Euryale Lamarck, 1816 (type species: E. aspera Lamarck, 1816).
Other genera
Asteromorpha Lütken, 1869, Asteroschema Örstedt & Lütken, 1856, Asterostegus Mortensen, 1933 a, Astrobrachion Döderlein, 1927, Astroceras Lyman, 1879, Astrocharis Koehler, 1904, Ophiocreas Lyman, 1869, Squamophis Okanishi et al. 2011, Sthenocephalus Koehler, 1898, Trichaster Agassiz, 1836.
Diagnosis
Dorsal disc with thickened skin and embedded external ossicles. Single column of teeth, dental plate fragmented. Arms branching in Euryale, Trichaster and Sthenocephalus. Distal vertebrae with oral bridge in Asteromorpha, Asterostegus, Astrobrachion, Astroceras, Euryale, Sthenocephalus and Trichaster (Okanishi et al. 2011 b). Gonads may extend into the arms. Arm spine articulation with large muscle opening separated from the nerve opening by a large, swollen ridge.
description: Published as part of Stöhr, Sabine, Hugall, Andrew F., Thuy, Ben & Martynov, Alexander, 2018, Morphological diagnoses of higher taxa in Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) in support of a new classification, pp. 1-35 in European Journal of Taxonomy 416 on page 7, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2018.416, http://zenodo.org/record/3806109
Does union voice matter in Chinese workplace?
Creators: name: Li, Chunyun
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: This study examines the effectiveness of enterprise unions‟ collective voice face in influencing employment outcomes and firm performance in China where enterprise unions do not have a monopoly face. Drawing on a sample of 1268 firms in 12 Chinese cities, this paper analyzes whether union voice activities make a difference at the workplace within unionized firms and compares the effects of unions with a collective voice face and non-voice unions. The results indicate that, without the power from monopoly face, enterprise unions‟ supposed collective voice function is very limited: union voice activities do not improve wage or firm performance and what they tend to associate with are a few benefits. Unions with a collective voice face correlate with more employment outcomes than non-voice unions, though both types of unions associate significantly with a small number of outcomes. The evidence suggests that the national union‟s effort to expand collective consultation and to promote union participation in management may strengthen enterprise unions‟ representative role to a limited extent; there is still a long way to promote Chinese workers‟ collective voice in the absence of independent unions and the right to strike.
Isodictya simulans var. cancellata Carter 1887
Creators: name: Van Soest, Rob W. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Porifera
Demospongiae
Poecilosclerida
Isodictyidae
Isodictya
Isodictya simulans
Isodictya simulans var. cancellata

description: Isodictya simulans var. cancellata subvar. albida Carter, 1887
Isodictya simulans var. cancellata subvar. albida Carter, 1887: 69.
As it has four names the subvariety is not recognized as an available taxon by the Code of the ICZN. The present specimens are identified as Haliclona merguiensis nom.nov. (cf. above), described from the Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar.
description: Published as part of Van Soest, Rob W. M., 2024, Correcting sponge names: nomenclatural update of lower taxa level Porifera, pp. 1-122 in Zootaxa 5398 (1) on page 37, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5398.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10494167
Gorgonocephalidae Ljungman 1867
Creators: name: Stöhr, Sabine
name: Hugall, Andrew F.
name: Thuy, Ben
name: Martynov, Alexander
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Echinodermata
Ophiuroidea
Euryalida
Gorgonocephalidae

description: Family Gorgonocephalidae Ljungman, 1867
Astrochelidae Verrill, 1899a: 79.
Type genus
Gorgonocephalus Leach, 1815 (type species: G. caputmedusae (Linnaeus, 1758)).
Other genera
Asteroporpa Örstedt & Lütken, 1856, Astracme Döderlein, 1927, Astroboa Döderlein, 1911, Astrocaneum Döderlein, 1911, Astrochalcis Koehler, 1905, Astrochele Verrill, 1878, Astrochlamys Koehler, 1912, Astrocladus Verrill, 1899b, Astroclon Lyman, 1879, Astrocnida Lyman, 1872, Astrocrius Döderlein, 1927, Astrocyclus Döderlein, 1911, Astrodendrum Döderlein, 1911, Astrodictyum Döderlein, 1927, Astroglymma Döderlein, 1927, Astrogomphus Lyman, 1869, Astrogordius Döderlein, 1911, Astrohamma Döderlein, 1930, Astrohelix Döderlein, 1930, Astroniwa McKnight, 2000, Astrophyton Fleming, 1828, Astroplegma Döderlein, 1927, Astrosierra Baker, 1980, Astrospartus Döderlein, 1911, Astrothamnus Matsumoto, 1915, Astrothorax Döderlein, 1911, Astrothrombus H.L. Clark, 1909a, Astrotoma Lyman, 1875, Astrozona Döderlein, 1930, Conocladus H.L. Clark, 1909b, Ophiocrene Bell, 1894, Ophiozeta Koehler, 1930, Schizostella A.H. Clark, 1952.
Diagnosis
Dorsal disc and arms with scales and plates, which bear thorny granules or spines. Girdles of small hyaline hooks on the arms. Arms branching or simple. All vertebrae without oral bridge. Gonads restricted to disc. Multiple teeth in irregular columns, dental plate entire. Arm spine articulation with slit-shaped muscle opening proximally bordered by vertical ridge, small nerve opening at a distance.
description: Published as part of Stöhr, Sabine, Hugall, Andrew F., Thuy, Ben & Martynov, Alexander, 2018, Morphological diagnoses of higher taxa in Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) in support of a new classification, pp. 1-35 in European Journal of Taxonomy 416 on page 7, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2018.416, http://zenodo.org/record/3806109
title: Research into the Extension of the Life of Bank Notes: Results of 1973, 1975 and 1976 Field Trials
Creators: name: Gillieson, A.
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05cc98565
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 1977

description: In the three field trials conducted in 1973, 1975 and 1976, all the experimental bank notes showed a longer average circulating life than the regular two dollar notes of either the 1954 series or the new series. The best results in extending the life of bank notes were obtained with 'Butvar' (polyvinylbutyral), the coating material in use for some years by European bank-note printers. From the results of the field trials reported in this Technical Report, it is calculated that the use of this coating would effect a reduction of 15.5 percent in the number of bank notes that must be printed each year to maintain a fixed stock of notes in circulation. This reduction in printing requirements would defray the cost of coating.
description: Dans le cadre de trois expérience réalisées respectivement en 1973, en 1975 et en 1976, il a été observé que tous les billets spéciaux de $2 mis en circulation avaient une durée moyenne d'utilisation supérieure à celle des billets ordinaires de la série de 1954 et de la nouvelle série. Au cours de ces expériences, les meilleurs résultats en ce qui a trait à l'augmentation de la durée d'utilisation des billets de banque ont été obtenus à l'aide du "Butvar" (polyvinylbutyral) , produit qu'utilisent depuis quelques années les entreprises européennes d'impression de billets de banque pour plastifier leurs billets. Comme on peut le voir dans le présent Rapport technique, l'utilisation du "Butvar" permettrait de réduire de 15.5% le nombre de billets que la banque centrale doit imprimer chaque année pour maintenir à un niveau constant le stock de billets en circulation. L'économie ainsi réalisée serait suffisante pour défrayer les coûts de plastification des billets.
Protoschmidtia expansa var. aruensis Hentschel 1912
Creators: name: Van Soest, Rob W. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Porifera
Demospongiae
Haplosclerida
Chalinidae
Protoschmidtia
Protoschmidtia expansa
Protoschmidtia expansa var. aruensis hentschel, 1912

description: Protoschmidtia expansa var. aruensis Hentschel, 1912
Protoschmidtia expansa var. aruensis Hentschel, 1912: 408 (no illustrations).
Petrosia expansa var. aruensis; Hooper et al. 2000: 173 (listed only).
The variety was erected by Hentschel from three localities in the Aru Islands, approximate coordinates 5.7– 6.5°S 134.0– 134.7°E, depths 10–40 m (syntype specimens are registered in the Senckenberg Museum SMF 591, 1614 and 1638, cf. Barnich & Janussen 2006: 129–130 for detailed locality data). The differences with the typical variety described by Thiele (1903: 939, fig. 4, from Ternate, Halmahera, Moluccas region, approximate coordinates 0.7606°N 127.3767°E, with type material consisting of three syntypes, registered in the Senckenberg Museum, SMF 684, 1665 and ZMB 3139, cf. Barnich & Janussen 2006: 133 for detailed locality data) are the oxea lengths, which are 280–424 µm in var. aruensis, and only up to 250 µm in the typical variety. Variability in spicule lengths is commonly found in Petrosia species, and in view of the relatively close distance and similarity in shape I propose to merge the variety into a single somewhat variable species to be called Petrosia (Petrosia) expansa (Thiele, 1903) until a close comparison of the specimens has been completed. De Voogd & Van Soest (2002: 203) transferred Protoschmidtia expansa to the genus Xestospongia De Laubenfels, 1932, but here I assign it for the time being to Petrosia (Petrosia) based on the more dense skeleton and the variability of the spicule lengths.
The combinations Petrosia truncata var. aruensis (cf. above) and Petrosia expansa var. aruensis are secondary homonyms, but the junior homonym is here proposed to be merged with the nominotypical variety, which effectively removes the homonymy.
description: Published as part of Van Soest, Rob W. M., 2024, Correcting sponge names: nomenclatural update of lower taxa level Porifera, pp. 1-122 in Zootaxa 5398 (1) on pages 39-40, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5398.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10494167
Tachyagetes excellens Haupt 1930
Creators: name: Enayatnia, Masoumeh
name: Rakhshani, Ehsan
name: Kroupa, Alexander S.
name: Schmid-Egger, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Tachyagetes
Tachyagetes excellens

description: Tachyagetes excellens Haupt, 1930b
Tachyagetes excellens Haupt, 1930b:700, ♀.— Holotype 1 ♀: Tunis—Ile Djerba (MNHN).
Distribution in Iran: SISTAN-O BALUCHESTAN (WOLF 1970A, 1987; WOLF et al. 2009).
description: Published as part of Enayatnia, Masoumeh, Rakhshani, Ehsan, Kroupa, Alexander S. & Schmid-Egger, Christian, 2018, Updated catalogue of Pompilidae (Hymenoptera) in Iran, pp. 451-489 in Zootaxa 4394 (4) on page 470, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1199890
Protoschmidtia foraminosa Czerniavsky 1880
Creators: name: Van Soest, Rob W. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Porifera
Demospongiae
Haplosclerida
Chalinidae
Protoschmidtia
Protoschmidtia foraminosa

description: Protoschmidtia foraminosa Czerniavsky, 1880
Protoschmidtia foraminosa Czerniavsky, 1880: 98.
Haliclona foraminosa; Ereskovsky et al. 2016: table A1 (listed only); Ereskovsky et al. 2018: table 3, listed only; Van Soest et al. 2020: 28, case 40.
The names erected by the author Czerniavsky for species, varieties and formae from the Black Sea are often problematic because of repetitive use of the same geographic names (as varieties or formae) for different species of the same genus. The descriptions are in Latin (first) and Russian (second) and are for that reason difficult to validate against recent descriptions of established Mediterranean species of the relevant genera.
Protoschmidtia foraminosa Czerniavsky, 1880 (misprinted as Protochmidtia on p. 98) is reassigned to the combination Haliclona foraminosa (Czerniavsky, 1880) on the basis of De Weerdt’s (2002: 872) suggestion that the genus is a junior synonym of Haliclona. It is also a senior secondary synonym of Halicona foraminosa (sensu Topsent, 1904 as Reniera, currently Haliclona (Gellius) emiletopsenti Van Soest & Hooper, 2020: 28) and Haliclona foraminosa (sensu Thiele, 1905 as Reniera, currently Haliclona thielei Van Soest & Hooper, 2020: 28). Czerniavsky erected three formae for the present species, one of which was split into three subformae. As the fourth name of a trinomen these latter subformae are unavailable names (ICZN art. 45.5) to be deferred to their trinomen. The descriptions of these formae and subformae are limited to the shape or growth form, because only the introductory paragraph of P. foraminosa contains information on the spicules, given as 140–210 x 7–12, and there is a reference to some drawings in Czerniavsky’s plate I, which are unclear representations of deformed oxeas (?) stated to be of forma aurantiaca (cf. below).
Type material of several of the formae of this species is kept in ZIN-RAS (type specimen information courtesy of the curator of the Cnidaria collection Olga Bozhenova).
Apparently, the formae and subformae have similar spicules and are closely similar. All originated from the Crimea and close-by localities provided below in the notes of the various varieties and (sub)formae, with approximate coordinates and depth data. Because of the sympatric occurrence and the lack of differences, I propose to merge all the formae and subformae into a single species Haliclona foraminosa (Czerniavsky, 1880).
description: Published as part of Van Soest, Rob W. M., 2024, Correcting sponge names: nomenclatural update of lower taxa level Porifera, pp. 1-122 in Zootaxa 5398 (1) on page 40, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5398.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10494167
Modeling of electroporation mediated molecular delivery
Creators: name: Li, Jianbo
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: In electroporation, electric fields are used to transiently permeabilize the cellular membrane to facilitate molecular exchange. This technique is extensively employed to deliver biologically active molecules into the cell compartment, to perform a variety of tasks such as electrochemotherapy and directed stem-cell differentiation. Despite its great potential and broad applications, electroporation still suffers from low delivery efficiency and/or significant cell death, in part due to a lack of fundamental understanding and quantitative prediction tools for the complex processes involved. The aim of this dissertation is to overcome these limitations by providing the much need capabilities. We have developed the first spatially- and temporally-resolved numerical model to predict molecular transport via electroporation. The model framework is used to study the delivery of small molecules such as calcium and propidium iodide. The results are compared directly with experimental data in the literature, and reveal that electrophoresis, not diffusion, is the dominant model of delivery. Furthermore, the maximum achievable concentration within the cell is reciprocally correlated with the extracellular electrical conductivity. This behavior is mediated by an electrokinetic mechanism known as field-  amplified sample stacking. Based on the simulation, we have also developed a compact model to predict delivery with a simple formula. This formula can be conveniently used in place of the complex full-model simulation. This dissertation contributes to the field by generating predictions that are previously not available, identifying mechanisms for the underlying physical processes, and providing a high-fidelity optimization tool.  The results offered are currently utilized to improve and optimize eletroporation as a promising cell-manipulation technique.