cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Wohlfahrtia vigil
Creators: name: Zhang, Dong
name: Zhang, Ming
name: Wang, Chao
name: Pape, Thomas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Sarcophagidae
Wohlfahrtia
Wohlfahrtia vigil

description: vigil
Sarcophaga vigil Walker, 1849: 831. Type locality: Canada, Nova Scotia.
Sarcophila meigenii Schiner, 1862: 567. Type locality: Austria, nr Graz.
Wohlfahrtia meigeni: Rohdendorf (1956: 205, key; 207–209, redescriptions of male and female, biology, faunistics, figs 3: male cercus and surstylus, lateral view, 4: phallus and gonites, lateral view); Fan (1965: 293, figs 1162–1163: male terminalia, lateral view; 294, fig. 1172: male abdomen, dorsal view; 295, key); Verves (1985: 303, key; 325–328, redescriptions of male and female, biology, faunistics, fig. 309: abdominal pattern, male cercus, surstylus, lateral view, phallus and gonites, lateral view, female terminalia, posterior view); Verves (1986: 121, catalog); Xiang et al. (1989: 97, catalog, records); Wang et al. (1992: 173, checklist); Fan (1992: 619, fig. 1259c: male abdomen, dorsal view; 622, key); Wu (1994: 44, checklist); Ma et al. (1998: 35, checklist); Xue & Chao (1998: 1562, fig. 3140Cd: male abdomen, dorsal view; 1565, key; 1567, catalog); Nonnaizab (1999: 312, catalog); Tian et al. (1999: 54, checklist); Wang et al. (2000: 88, checklist); Wang et al. (2001: 266, checklist); Wang et al. (2002: 13, checklist); Yue (2016: 75, description; 149, fig. 72A: male body, dorsal view, B: male body, lateral view, C: male head, anterior view, D: male terminalia, lateral view).
Wohlfahrtia vigil: Verves (1985: 303, key; 337–339, redescriptions of male and female, biology, faunistics, figs 327: abdominal pattern, male cercus and surstylus, lateral view, phallus and gonites, lateral view, 328: female terminalia, posterior view); Fan & Pape (1996: 245, checklist); Pape (1996: 172, catalog).
Chinese specimens examined. None.
Distribution. CHINA: Heilongjiang (Da Hinggan Ling), Liaoning (Dandong), Neimenggu (Alxa, Eastern Urad, Xilin Gol), Ningxia (Jingyuan), Shandong (Jinan), Xinjiang (Aerjin Shan, Ruoqiang); Nearctic, Oriental and Palaearctic regions.
Remarks. The male terminalia of W. vigil are reminiscent of those of W. atra. Considering the variation in the abdominal color pattern of W. vigil, from distinct spots to almost completely unicolorous black (e.g., Verves 1982, fig. 326), a taxonomic revision specifically focusing on these two species is required.
description: Published as part of Zhang, Dong, Zhang, Ming, Wang, Chao & Pape, Thomas, 2016, Catalog of the Paramacronychiinae of China (Diptera: Sarcophagidae), pp. 301-324 in Zootaxa 4208 (4) on pages 316-319, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4208.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/208324
Effects of Epichloë festucae fungal endophyte infection in strong creeping red fescue on abiotic and biotic stresses
Creators: name: Tian, Zipeng
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2017

description: Epichloë spp. are common naturally occurring fungal endophyte symbionts of many cool season grasses. Some endophyte-infected grasses have been confirmed to have enhanced abiotic and biotic stress resistance. Strong creeping red fescue (Festuca rubra ssp. rubra), an important cool-season turfgrass species, is often infected with E. festucae.     The drought stress resistance of some endophyte-infected turfgrass species has been well studied, but no research has shown the effects of E. festucae on Festuca rubra ssp. rubra under drought stress or any turfgrass species under heat stress.     It has been confirmed that endophyte-infected Festuca rubra ssp. rubra has increased disease resistance to dollar spot and red thread with unknown mechanism. A previous study compared the gene transcriptomes between endophyte-infected and endophyte-free Festuca rubra ssp. rubra and discovered a highly expressed fungal transcript encoding a small, basic, cysteine-rich protein that may be involved. This protein is similar to a Penicillium chrysogenum Thom antifungal protein (PAF) and an Aspergillus giganteus Wehmer antifungal protein (AFP).    The goals of this thesis were to determine if endophyte infection had any effects on responses of Festuca rubra ssp. rubra to heat stress and/or drought stress and if the E. festucae antifungal protein had activity against the fungal pathogen Sclerotinia homoeocarpa F.T. Bennett, the causal agent of dollar spot.
Gridbot
Creators: name: Tang, Guangzhi
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2017

description: The ability to orient in an unknown, fast-changing, environment is an unmet challenge for robots but a seamlessly solved problem for the primate brain. This thesis describes the first steps in developing a neuro-inspired “bottom-up” model of the brain’s navigation system to make a mobile robot localize itself, map its surrounding and plan its trajectory. Our model employs neural spikes to encode and process information in real-time. Despite a multitude of Nobel-winning studies that have revealed neurons specializing in self-navigation, such as place, grid, border and head direction cells, their interconnectivity remains elusive. Therefore, any model employing these neurons needs to make quite a lot of extrapolations to fill in the gaps of knowledge. The main challenge was to design a real-time spiking neural network that can compensate for the hardware limitations as well as its own intrinsic imperfections and work in real conditions. To design the first component of our model, the head direction cell layer, we employed mechanisms based on self-organizing and self-sustaining neural activity, or attractor dynamics, resembling those originally proposed in Hebb’s cell assembly theory. The information to be maintained and updated was a continuous variable, or continuous attractor, where a 1D continuum of cell assemblies represented head direction. In theory, our network should give rise to a self-sustained hill of excitation - the attractor. In practice, due to non-ideal speed sensors and the intrinsic spike variability of the spiking network, it was impossible to sustain a correct approximation of the head direction using just this scheme. To correct this, we introduced a spike-based Bayesian inference layer of leaky-integrate-and-fire models of neurons, that combined feedforward (vision) and recursive (kinesthetic) inputs. We show how such a layer can approximate the posterior probability of the preferred state encoded in the spiking probability by adding the logarithms of the simulated dendritic currents, which is a reasonable approximation of the nonlinear dendritic activity. We show that our model accurately estimated head direction and further extend it to include a dynamic network of border cells that can learn to map the observed environment through simulating synaptic plasticity. Solving the localization problem and creating a cognitive map of the surroundings, our thesis paves the way for tackling robot planning through imitating brain structure, its principles and its performance.
Andrallus spinidens Fabricius 1787
Creators: name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Moulet, Pierre
name: Rider, David A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pentatomidae
Andrallus
Andrallus spinidens

description: Andrallus spinidens (Fabricius, 1787)
Cimex spinidens Fabricius, 1787: 285; Asopus geometricus Burmeister, 1835: 380; Pentatoma aliena Westwood, 1837: 40; Acanthidium cinctum Montrouzier, 1858: 252; Audin etia aculeata Ellenrieder, 1862: 137; Apateticus ludovicianus Stoner, 1917: 462.
Distribution in Iran. Guilan (Linnavuori 2008; Ghahari et al. 2011a), Hormozgan (Hoberlandt 1997), Khorasan (Modarres Awal 1996a, 1997b, 2008), Khuzestan (Hoberlandt 1955, 1997; Safavi 1959; Modarres Awal 1997b; Linnavuori 2012), Mazandaran (Modarres Awal 1997b; Sakenin et al. 2008; Ghahari et al. 2008a, b, 2009, 2011a), Semnan (Kalaii et al. 2013), Northern Iran (no locality cited) (Mohaghegh 2006), Iran (no locality cited) (Safavi 1976; Rider 2006; Mohaghegh 2008).
General distribution. Italy, Greece, Central Asia (incl. Caucasus), Egypt (Sinai), Japan, Australia, Tropical Asia, tropical Africa, New World (North, Central and South America).
Comments. In mountain forests with Fagus sp. (Fagaceae), Fraxinus sp. (Oleaceae) (Linnavuori 2008), on Abutilon theophrasti (Malvaceae), Oryza sativa (Poaceae) (Sakenin et al. 2008), in rice fields on Absena velvetleaf (Malvaceae), Ricinus communis (Euphorbiaceae), Ziziphus spina-christi (Rhamnaceae) (Ghahari et al. 2008a), in cotton fields on Alcea hyrcana, and Malva montana (both Malvaceae) (Ghahari et al. 2011a).
Andrallus spinidens is a powerful predator of Chilo suppressalis Walkr (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) (Modarres Awal 1997b; Ghahari et al. 2009), Naranga aenescens Moore (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in the rice fields of northern Iran (Ghahari et al. 2009), and Melanitis leda (Linnaeus) (Lepidoptera: Satyridae); it can suck dead caterpillars (Péricart 2010).
description: Published as part of Ghahari, Hassan, Moulet, Pierre & Rider, David A., 2014, An annotated catalog of the Iranian Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomomorpha), pp. 1-95 in Zootaxa 3837 (1) on page 11, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3837.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/286722
Pennella antarctica Quidor 1912
Creators: name: Hogans, W. E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Maxillopoda
Siphonostomatoida
Pennellidae
Pennella
Pennella antarctica

description: Pennella antarctica (Quidor, 1912)
Not valid. Adult female originally reported from the Sei whale Balaenoptera borealis off Chile. Also on the sei whale, Japan (redescribed by Wilson 1917). Found on the same hosts, in the same localities and falls easily within the morphological variability range of P. balaenoptera. Synonym of P. balaenoptera (Hogans 1987); accepted as P. balaenoptera (Walter & Boxshall 2015).
description: Published as part of Hogans, W. E., 2017, Review of Pennella Oken, 1816 (Copepoda: Pennellidae) with a description of Pennella benzi sp. nov., a parasite of Escolar, Lepidocybium flavobrunneum (Pisces) in the northwest Atlantic Ocean, pp. 1-38 in Zootaxa 4244 (1) on page 9, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4244.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/400400
Parena dorsigera
Creators: name: Shi, Hongliang
name: Liang, Hongbin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Parena
Parena dorsigera

description: 5. Parena dorsigera species group
This species group contains two species distributed throughout East Asia, north to Japan, south to Laos and Vietnam, and west to Nepal. They are characterized by: dorsum uniformly brown, elytra with indistinct middle paler patch in a few specimens; pronotum nearly quadrate; elytral apices truncate, outer apical angles distinct (Figs 5G–J); median lobe of aedeagus stout to very stout (AL/AW 3.5–4.2), apical lamella short, coniform; gonocoxite II of ovipositor rectangular, apex with five to seven ensiform setae, subequally arranged or grouped at angles.
description: Published as part of Shi, Hongliang & Liang, Hongbin, 2023, Taxonomic revision of the genus Parena Motschulsky, 1860 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Lebiini, Metallicina), pp. 1-144 in Zootaxa 5286 (1) on page 50, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5286.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7958937
An imperial diet
Creators: name: Thomas, Tashima
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2017

description: This dissertation endeavors to prove through a series of visual mediations that the alimentary tract signifies a gastropoetical dialectic between the eater and the eaten.  Alimentary discourse is capable of developing a visual language that illustrates the interiority of appetites of empire through the politics of provender.  In this study sugar, cacao, pineapples, and coconuts operate as a lens to view the scaffolding of social and artistic strategies.  This project is committed to the excavation of image construction, the visual representation of the African Diaspora in the Americas, and understanding the formation of gastronomical narratives through colonial discourse.  Anthropologist Sidney W. Mintz suggests that anthropology has the capabilities to answer the outside and inside meanings of food pathways; but so far it has not done so.  This dissertation will be able to offer insight into these issues.  In a way, this work calls out what I consider obvious omissions regarding the connections between art history, the visual archive, and tropical food pathways by clearly articulating the power of these foods to transform cultures of vision and the induction of a modern world system.  Ultimately, my dissertation offers a critical study of race, gender, sexuality, transnational, and transhistorical food pathways.
Invisible wounds
Creators: name: Urena, Carolyn Margaret
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2017

description: Working at the interface of literary studies, decolonial theory, and disability studies, my dissertation draws on literature and film across a variety of genres, including fiction by Ralph Ellison, Gabriel García Márquez, Toni Morrison, and Junot Díaz, to demonstrate how literary narratives about illness and disability contribute to understanding racial formations and ameliorating colonial wounds. The dissertation develops a critical framework for understanding the ways in which a sustained encounter between critical race studies, disability studies, and the medical humanities can generate new conceptions of health and healing. I accomplish this through a reassessment of the writings of decolonial theorist Frantz Fanon, a physician who used narrative case studies and ethnography to illuminate the imbrication of race, illness, and disability. By introducing a decolonial perspective to the study of narratives of illness and disability, this project not only challenges the medical humanities and disability studies to consider the experience of race and the effects of colonialism, but also foregrounds questions of disability and illness within the fields of race theory and postcolonial studies, where they have until now received minimal scholarly attention.    Chapter one argues that Fanon’s clinical and philosophical perspective offers the medical humanities critical tools with which to dismantle binaries at the center of Western hegemonic thought and which serve to perpetuate Eurocentrism. As I build a theory of decolonial embodiment in chapter two, I work with Fanon’s and Ralph Ellison’s scathing critiques of Mark Robson’s 1949 Home of the Brave, a Hollywood film that problematically conflates blackness and disability. Read against the grain, the film also illuminates the limits of Eurocentric psychiatry’s understanding of the black subject. In chapter three I perform a comparative reading of Toni Morrison’s iconic neo-slave narrative Beloved and Gabriel García Márquez’s underexplored Of Love and Other Demons to examine the healing power of love in a decolonial context. My final chapter examines ethnographies of illness by medical anthropologists Paul Farmer and Cheryl Mattingly in light of Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth, which itself can be understood as a radical form of ethnography, to argue that beyond recognizing the suffering of people of color it is essential to take seriously the need to create a new narrative of the human that is not defined by European standards.
Arma custos Fabricius 1794
Creators: name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Moulet, Pierre
name: Rider, David A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pentatomidae
Arma
Arma custos

description: Arma custos (Fabricius, 1794)
Cimex custos Fabricius, 1794: 94; Arma custos var. fuscoantennata Motschulsky, 1860: 501; Arma custos var. scutellaris Stichel, 1961: 656, Arma neocustos Ahmad & Önder, 1990: 8.
Distribution in Iran. Guilan (Linnavuori 2008; Mohaghegh 2008), Northern Iran (no locality cited) (Mohaghegh 2006), Iran (no locality cited) (Rider 2006; Mohaghegh 2008; Aukema et al. 2013).
General distribution. Palearctic.
Comments. Predator of Hyphantria cunea (Drury) (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae) on mulberry trees (Mohaghegh 2008), and of beetles (Dusoulier & Lupoli 2006), it can attack its own eggs and larvae (Péricart 2010).
description: Published as part of Ghahari, Hassan, Moulet, Pierre & Rider, David A., 2014, An annotated catalog of the Iranian Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomomorpha), pp. 1-95 in Zootaxa 3837 (1) on page 11, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3837.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/286722
Wohlfahrtiodes
Creators: name: Zhang, Dong
name: Zhang, Ming
name: Wang, Chao
name: Pape, Thomas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Sarcophagidae
Wohlfahrtiodes

description: Genus WOHLFAHRTIODES
Wohlfahrtiodes Villeneuve, 1910: 152. Type species: Wohlfahrtiodes nudus Villeneuve, 1910, by monotypy.
description: Published as part of Zhang, Dong, Zhang, Ming, Wang, Chao & Pape, Thomas, 2016, Catalog of the Paramacronychiinae of China (Diptera: Sarcophagidae), pp. 301-324 in Zootaxa 4208 (4) on page 319, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4208.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/208324
The humanitarian state
Creators: name: Vera, Juan Pablo
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2017

description: The thesis explores the relationship between international human rights law and the formation of public and private bureaucratic systems in Colombia. Through an ethnographic study of the methods, tools, and mechanisms involved in the implementation of public policy related to victim and land reparation, the dissertation accounts for the statatalization of human rights as well as how these gradually become a part of public social policy. Through the study of diverse institutional and non-institutional settings at different levels within Colombian state bureaucracy, the research demonstrates how civil servants, functionaries, experts and policy clients produce and reproduce specific notions of statehood. More specifically, the research reveals how these civil servants, functionaries, experts and policy clients produce and reproduce in their everyday practices, socio-spatial and epistemological hierarchies such as the “nation-territory” divide. Through a description of how the historical formation of Colombian institutions and systems of bureaucracy are fixed in specific time and spatial configurations (framed within the construction of local administrative and political notions), and how they are produced and reproduced by civil servants, experts and users of the policy, the study explains how global narratives related to humanitarian aid, philanthropy, and development remain trapped in the reproduction of local bureaucratic values, practices, and socio-spatial representations.
Sense of agency
Creators: name: Trivedi, Hemal P.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2017

description: Sāṃkhya and Yoga are two of the most renowned and influential schools of Indian philosophy. With its rigorous introduction to metaphysics, Sāṃkhya revolutionizes Indian philosophy by delineating the constituents of reality: puruṣa (consciousness) and prakṛti (matter). Yoga, the sister school of Sāṃkhya, borrows from the latter’s metaphysics and introduces a psychologically based paradigm that allows for practitioners to apply the metaphysical teachings of Sāṃkhya. Using the metaphysical and psychological constructs of the mind in both schools, this paper serves to ask the question: Which school of thought provides more of a sense of agency to the practitioner? In other words, which school allows the practitioner to feel that he/she is an agent of his/her actions? Using the Sāṃkhya Kārikā to represent Sāṃkhya, this paper explores the impersonal feelings evoked by the predominance of metaphysics in this text. Using the Yoga Sūtras to represent Yoga, this paper reveals the highly personal and egoistic reading provided by psychology and practice based verses. Using three concepts to measure a sense of agency (frequency, language of the commentators and results of personal effort) it is clear that Yoga provides the practitioner with a more promising feeling of ownership over his/her pursuits.
Camera based detection of the onset of cognitive fatigue
Creators: name: Trivedi, Chintan
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2017

description: The onset of cognitive fatigue is associated with a period of transient, subconscious decrease in maximal cognitive ability, typically influencing decision making. The ability to visually detect this early stage of fatigue can help prevent numerous workplace hazards where top cognitive performance is of utmost importance. In this work, we developed a camera-based system that utilizes visual symptoms of fatigue to estimate its early stage.  For the first part of the work, in collaboration with the Magnetoencephalography Lab at MIT, we conducted a 3-hour long, fatigue inducing experiment on 13 test subjects and collected synchronous camera (visual) and Magnetoencephalography MEG (brain) data. We extracted 8 eyelids and 6 head-movement related features to train binary classifiers like Support Vector Machine, k-Nearest Neighbor, Random Forest and Artificial Neural Network to distinguish between “Non-Fatigue” (early stage) and “Fatigue” (late stage), achieving test accuracy of 89%, 90%, 95% and 98% respectively. We propose a temporal sliding window technique of using these binary classifiers for detecting a gradual change in the level of fatigue. We observed a progressive increment in detection of “Fatigue” class inside this window as it moves towards the later stages of the experiment time-line. For validation, we compared our model’s results with fatigue-induced brain signals from the MEG data, namely the alpha band (8-12 Hz) power. Regressing alpha power on camera-based features yielded an average r-squared value of 0.6.  For the second part of the work, we conducted a similar experiment at the Laboratory for Computational Brain at Rutgers. We recorded synchronous camera and Electroencephalography (EEG) data for a 90-minute long experiment conducted on 4 test subjects. For this experiment, the fatigue-inducing task involved was made adaptive to the cognitive abilities of the test subject, aiming to make the subject tired in a shorter amount of time. We repeat our analysis for the camera based and the brain data based fatigue detection models. We obtained similar progressive increment in the "Fatigue" class for all subjects. By regressing the alpha power from EEG data on the visual features, we obtained average r-squared up to 0.8 for fatigue-induced brain regions. We validate our camera model based on the EEG indicator of fatigue.  Our results demonstrate promise in terms of using a vision-guided fatigue estimation model for designing a real-time fatigue detection system.
Extending the entanglement of risk and time
Creators: name: Wall, Daniel
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2017

description: While many real world decisions involve both risk and delay, relatively little research has investigated the nuanced ways in which they interact. Moreover, those studies which have studied their interaction almost unanimously regard risk as binary – a 50% chance of $100 in four weeks and a 50% chance of $0 – what I term outcome risk. The general finding from these studies is that the combination of risk and time preferences is not a simple combination of each in isolation. This suggests that delay is entangled with risk. In this study, in addition to binary risk, I investigate how risk with multiple outcomes – amount risk – and risk with multiple outcomes and a chance receiving nothing – amount and outcome risk – both affect discounting.  To derive predictions for amount and amount and outcome risk, I compare simulated data from a model which presumes that time and risk are entangled to a model which presumes risk and delay are independent. These predictions are tested in two studies and a within paper meta-analysis.  As predicted by the simulations, both outcome and amount risk effect discounting and their effects are more pronounced when the delay to one of the options is in the present. Further, the effect of outcome risk is attenuated in the presence of amount risk. Taken together, these results show that a nuanced view of risk is required when investigating its interaction with delay.
Parena tesari
Creators: name: Shi, Hongliang
name: Liang, Hongbin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Parena
Parena tesari

description: 6. Parena tesari species group
This species group contains two very similar and allopatric species distributed in East Asia, east to Taiwan and west to Nepal. They are characterized by: dorsum uniformly brown or piceous; tempora long, gradually narrowed behind eyes, length of tempora plus neck-constriction two-thirds of diameter of eye or more; mentum with a pair of short setae; pronotum nearly quadrate; elytral apices evenly rounded; median lobe of aedeagus slightly slender (AL/AW 4.5–5.0), apical lamella thin; gonocoxite II of ovipositor rectangular, apex with two to four ensiform setae on each angle.
description: Published as part of Shi, Hongliang & Liang, Hongbin, 2023, Taxonomic revision of the genus Parena Motschulsky, 1860 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Lebiini, Metallicina), pp. 1-144 in Zootaxa 5286 (1) on page 57, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5286.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7958937
Jalla Hahn 1832
Creators: name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Moulet, Pierre
name: Rider, David A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pentatomidae
Jalla

description: Genus Jalla Hahn, 1832
Jalla dumosa (Linnaeus, 1758)
Cimex dumosus Linnaeus, 1758: 445; Jalla nigriventris Fieber, 1861: 347; Jalla subdilatata var. vidua Horváth, 1917: 376.
Distribution in Iran. Golestan (Heiss 2002), Iran (no locality cited) (Oshanin 1906, 1912; Safavi 1959, 1976; Putshkov 1965; Modarres Awal 1997b; Rider 2006; Mohaghegh 2008; Péricart 2010).
General distribution. Palearctic.
Comments. A predator which feeds on several insects: larvae of Timarcha sp. (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) (in Spain), caterpillars of Dasychiria selenotica (Lepidoptera: Lymantridae) (in Germany), butterfly Mythimna comma (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) (in Andorra) (Péricart 2010).
description: Published as part of Ghahari, Hassan, Moulet, Pierre & Rider, David A., 2014, An annotated catalog of the Iranian Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomomorpha), pp. 1-95 in Zootaxa 3837 (1) on pages 11-12, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3837.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/286722
Wohlfahrtiodes marzinowskyi
Creators: name: Zhang, Dong
name: Zhang, Ming
name: Wang, Chao
name: Pape, Thomas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Sarcophagidae
Wohlfahrtiodes
Wohlfahrtiodes marzinowskyi

description: marzinowskyi
(Figs 2–3)
Wohlfahrtiodes marzinowskyi Rohdendorf, 1962: 938. Type locality: Turkmenistan, Repetek. References: Rohdendorf (1962: 938–939, descriptions of male and female, fig. 8: male terminalia, lateral view); Verves (1985: 341, key; 342–343, redescriptions of male and female, biology, faunistics, figs 332: male head, lateral and anterior views, 333: left wing, 334: male terminalia, lateral view, 335: female terminalia, posterior view); Pape (1996: 172, catalog).
Chinese specimens examined. CHINA: Xinjiang: 1 male, 1 female, Altay, Kalamaili, 15.V.2015, M. Zhang (MBFU).
Distribution. CHINA: Xinjiang (Altay) (new); Palaearctic Region.
Remarks. Chao & Zhang (1988) described Wohlfahrtiodes mongolicus as new to science and recorded the genus Wohlfahrtiodes as new to China based on this record. Zhang et al. (2015) revised Wohlfahrtiodes mongolicus and proposed it as a new junior synonym of Asiosarcophila kaszabi, thereby annulling the generic record of Chao & Zhang (1988). The current material therefore represents a first record for China both for the genus Wohlfahrtiodes and for the species W. marzinowskyi. A regrettable mishandling during shipment led to some damage to the antennae and tarsi of the only male specimen.
description: Published as part of Zhang, Dong, Zhang, Ming, Wang, Chao & Pape, Thomas, 2016, Catalog of the Paramacronychiinae of China (Diptera: Sarcophagidae), pp. 301-324 in Zootaxa 4208 (4) on page 319, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4208.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/208324
Glossobius
Creators: name: Martin, Melissa B.
name: Bruce, Niel L.
name: Nowak, Barbara F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Isopoda
Cymothoidae
Glossobius

description: Key to the species of Glossobius
1. Body with scattered pigmentation; posterior margins of pereonites 3–5 with median point; posterior margin of pleotelson rounded.......................................................................... Glossobius parexocoetii
– Body without scattered pigmentation; posterior margins of pereonites 3–5 without median point; posterior margin of pleotelson not rounded...................................................................................... 2
2. Rostrum acute; pleopod 1 lateral margin weakly convex; uropod exopod longer than endopod....... Glossobius hemiramphi
– Rostrum rounded or blunt; pleopod 1 lateral margin strongly convex; uropod exopod similar or shorter than endopod...... 3
3. Labrum prominent, posterolateral margins produced; pleon as wide as or less wide than pereonite 7 width; coxae 2–7 anteroventral margins broader than posteroventral margins....................................... Glossobius anctus
– Labrum small, posterolateral margins narrowly rounded; pleon wider than pereonite 7 width; coxae 2–7 anteroventral margins similar size to posteroventral margins..................................................................... 4
4. Body subparallel; pereonites 1 and 2 with large bulbous lateral lobe; pereopod 3 dactylus larger and longer than other dactyli, two or more times longer than pereopod 3 propodus......................................... Glossobius impressus
– Body sub-rhomboid; pereonites 1 and 2 without bulbous lateral lobe; pereopod 3 dactylus no longer or no larger than other dactyli, less than twice or less as long as pereopod 3 propodus................................... Glossobius auritus
description: Published as part of Martin, Melissa B., Bruce, Niel L. & Nowak, Barbara F., 2015, Review of the buccal-attaching fish parasite genus Glossobius Schioedte & Meinert, 1883 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothoidae), pp. 337-350 in Zootaxa 3973 (2) on page 339, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3973.2.8, http://zenodo.org/record/238583
Elthusa propinqua
Creators: name: Ravichandran, S.
name: Vigneshwaran, P.
name: Rameshkumar, G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Isopoda
Cymothoidae
Elthusa
Elthusa propinqua

description: Elthusa propinqua (Richardson, 1904)
Lironeca propinqua Richardson, 1904: 37, figs 6, 7.—Richardson, 1909: 87; 1910: 23.— Thielemann, 1910: 42.— Nierstrasz, 1931: 43.— Barnard, 1936: 170.
Elthusa propinqua. — Bruce, 1990: 262–263, figs 8, 9.— Saito & Yamauchi, 2016: 64.— Kazmi, Schotte & Yousuf, 2002: 102, fig. 85.
Type and type locality. The three female syntypes are held at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, USA (USNM 29086). Richardson (1904) states Port Heda, Japan as the locality from which his specimens originated.
Remarks. Elthusa propinqua has been taken only from moderately deep water, and can be identified by the short cephalon (with moderately large eyes) with an acute rostral point, wide pleon, short uropods, close set antennulas and the distinctive basis on pereopods 4–7.
Two species show some similarity to E. propinqua: Elthusa caudata (Schiöedte & Meinert, 1884) and Elthusa myripristae Bruce, 1990. Elthusa propinqua can be separated from both these species by having having pleonite 1 partially concealed in dorsal view by pereonite 7 and all coxae shorter than respective segment. Elthusa caudata lacks the acute rostral point, but little else is known of this species. Elthusa myripristae has pleonite 1 totally concealed in dorsal view by pereonite 7, and by the much smaller coxae on pereonites 4–7.
Distribution. Elthusa propinqua reported from several localities in Japan and the Philippines (Richardson 1904, 1909), eastern Australia (Bruce 1990) and Lakshadweep Island in India (Barnard, 1936).
Hosts. This species recorded from “chalinura” (Richardson 1909) in Japan, “a macrurid” (Richardson 1910) in the Philippines, and from the gills of Macrurus sp. in India (Barnard 1936). Latter, Bruce (1990) recorded this species from Ventrifossa cf. nigrodorsalis family Macrouridae.
description: Published as part of Ravichandran, S., Vigneshwaran, P. & Rameshkumar, G., 2019, A taxonomic review of the fish parasitic isopod family Cymothoidae Leach, 1818 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothooidea) of India, pp. 1-99 in Zootaxa 4622 (1) on page 25, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4622.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3379899
Ambiguity Avoidance as Contrast Preservation: Case and Word Order Freezing in Japanese
Creators: name: Flack, Kathryn
Publisher: name: GLSA, University of Massachusetts
Year: 2007

description: Much recent work in phonology is concerned with evaluating contrasts among sets of forms (e.g. Flemming 1995, 1996; Ito and Mester 2003; Lubowicz 2003; Padgett 2003, 2004). This paper extends contrast preservation to syntax, where it can be used to explain anti-ambiguity phenomena. One such syntactic phenomenon is found in Japanese. Scrambling is generally tolerated in Japanese; however, when a subject and an object are morphologically identical (i.e. not distinguished by case morphology), scrambling is blocked. If scrambling were allowed in such a sentence, ambiguity would arise as to the subject of the sentence: 'Taroo-ga Hanako-ga kowai' could be the surface form of either an unscrambled structure 'Taroo-ga Hanako-ga kowai' (Taroo is afraid of Hanako) or a scrambled structure *'Taroo-ga(i) Hanako-ga t(i) kowai' (Hanako is afraid of Taroo). The ungrammaticality of the latter scrambled structure prevents subject-related ambiguity. I argue that this word order freezing (which occurs in German, Hindi, and Korean as well as Japanese: Lee 2001) is motivated by a PF constraint which demands contrast between forms with different subjects.
Glossobius hemiramphi Williams & Williams 1985
Creators: name: Ravichandran, S.
name: Vigneshwaran, P.
name: Rameshkumar, G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Isopoda
Cymothoidae
Glossobius
Glossobius hemiramphi

description: Glossobius hemiramphi Williams & Williams, 1985
Glossobius hemiramphi Williams & Williams, 1985: 147, figs 1–25.— Bruce & Bowman, 1989: 19, figs 13, 14.— Bakenhaster, McBride & Price, 2006: 283, fig. 5.— Martin, Bruce & Nowak, 2015b: 345–346. Aneesh, Helna, Sudha, & Anilkumar, 2017a: 3–17, figs 7–14.
Type and type locality. The holotype (USNM 213532), allotype (USNM 213533) and paratypes (USNM 213534– 213541) were collected offshore Guanica Bay, Puerto Rico from host ballyhoo Hemiramphus brasiliensis (Linnaeus, 1758) and are deposited at The National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington.
Remarks. Glossobius hemiramphi is identified by the subparallel body shape; rostrum subacute, antennula and antenna stout, lack of bulbous lobe on pereonite 1, pleotelson posterior margin emarginate and broad carinae on pereopod 7 basis.
Glossobius hemiramphi is most similar with G. anctus and Glossobius parexocoetii Kononenko & Mordvinova, 1988 in having a subparallel body shape, antennula and antenna stout, and similar uropod morphology. Glossobius hemiramphi differs from G. anctus in having broader anterior margins of coxae, posterior margins of pereonites 1–7 deeply concave, and a rounded rostrum; G. parexocoetii differs from G. hemiramphi in the less prominent lateral lobes on pereonite 1, pereonite 4 subrectangular, pleonites 1–5 with concave posterior margins, antenna with 9 segments (compared to 8 segments), and pleotelson posterior margin rounded (Kononenko & Mordvinova 1988).
Distribution. This species distributed from Western Atlantic to Indian Ocean. Western Atlantic: Georgia, Florida, Bermuda, Bahamas, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico; Eastern Atlantic: Dakar, Senegal, Angola, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Ghana (see Bruce & Bowman 1989) and Indian Ocean: Malabar Coast, India (see Aneesh et al. 2017a).
Hosts. Known only from the family Hemiramphidae: Hemiramphus brasiliensis (Linnaeus, 1758) (see Williams & Williams 1985), Hemiramphus bermudaensis Collette, 1962 (see Bruce & Bowman 1989) and Hemiramphus lutkei Valenciennes, 1847 (see Aneesh et al. 2017a).
description: Published as part of Ravichandran, S., Vigneshwaran, P. & Rameshkumar, G., 2019, A taxonomic review of the fish parasitic isopod family Cymothoidae Leach, 1818 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothooidea) of India, pp. 1-99 in Zootaxa 4622 (1) on page 27, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4622.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3379899
Jalla subcalcarata Jakovlev 1885
Creators: name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Moulet, Pierre
name: Rider, David A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pentatomidae
Jalla
Jalla subcalcarata

description: Jalla subcalcarata Jakovlev, 1885
Jalla subcalcarata Jakovlev, 1885: 163.
Distribution in Iran. Iran (no locality cited) (Rider 2006).
General distribution. China, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kirgizia, Mongolia, Far East Russia.
description: Published as part of Ghahari, Hassan, Moulet, Pierre & Rider, David A., 2014, An annotated catalog of the Iranian Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomomorpha), pp. 1-95 in Zootaxa 3837 (1) on page 12, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3837.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/286722
For an Autosegmental Theory of Mutation
Creators: name: Wolf, Matthew
Publisher: name: Cascadilla Press
Year: 2005

description: Autosegmental frameworks have long posited the existence of morphemes that consist, in whole or in part, of floating features, tones, or moras. Morphological feature-changing (for which “mutation” is the most common traditional label) can then be treated as concatenative in nature. Recently, it has been suggested that mutation phenomena might be brought under the purview of various approaches to handling nonconcatenative morphology in OT, of which Transderivational Anti-Faithfulness (Alderete 1999) and REALIZE-MORPHEME (Kurisu 2001) are the most notable examples, and the use of representational devices like floating features eliminated. This paper argues that a theory with floating autosegments--given the new constraints proposed here--is capable of giving a better account of attested mutation phenomena than anti-faithfulness, REALIZE-MORPHEME, or other competing approaches.
Picromerus bidens Linnaeus 1758
Creators: name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Moulet, Pierre
name: Rider, David A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pentatomidae
Picromerus
Picromerus bidens

description: Picromerus bidens (Linnaeus, 1758)
Cimex bidens Linnaeus, 1758: 443; Cimex bilobus Schrank, 1781: 268; Picromerus fuscoannulatus Stål, 1858: 176; Picromerus longicollis Jakovlev, 1902: 335.
Distribution in Iran. East Azarbaijan (Sadaghian et al. 2004; Nikdel et al. 2011), Kordestan (Sakenin et al. 2010; Samin et al. 2011a), Mazandaran (Mohaghegh 2008), Northern Iran (no locality cited) (Mohaghegh 2006), Iran (no locality cited) (Rider 2006; Mohaghegh 2008; Aukema et al. 2013).
General distribution. Palearctic, mentioned from Algeria but this location seems doubtfull; it is known in USA and Canada.
Comments. This species is predator of gypsy moth larvae, Lymantria dispar (L.) (Lepidoptera: Lymantridae) in the forest areas of Iran (Nikdel et al. 2011), it can attack big caterpillars like those of Cossus sp. (Lepidoptera: Cossidae), and also feeds on Gilpinia frutetorum (Fabricius) (Hymenoptera: Diprionidae) (Péricart 2010).
description: Published as part of Ghahari, Hassan, Moulet, Pierre & Rider, David A., 2014, An annotated catalog of the Iranian Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomomorpha), pp. 1-95 in Zootaxa 3837 (1) on page 12, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3837.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/286722
Pennella Oken 1816
Creators: name: Hogans, W. E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Maxillopoda
Siphonostomatoida
Pennellidae
Pennella

description: Review of Pennella Oken, 1816
In this review, three basic categories of species validity are proposed: 1) Valid and substantiated. These established nine species have adequate original descriptions or redescriptions based on several specimens. They have been found and described on more than one occasion, from the same host species or types of hosts. The validity of all but the new species, P. benzi sp. nov., has been repeatedly suggested in the literature. 2) Species inquirendae. All six species in this category have acceptable (but often brief) original descriptions, with figures that portray the parasite. All show unique features which serve to distinguish them from other members of Pennella. However, the original reports are based on a single (adult) specimen and the parasite has not been reported or described since the initial record. Type (or other) specimens are not available or do not exist. 3) Unsubstantiated and invalid. This category contains 29 species for which there are very poor or no original descriptions (nomen nudum) and those which have been previously designated as synonyms of established species.
For each of the 15 species designated as valid or species inquirendae, the differentiating characters are presented. For size (length) listing for each species, the range is given (unless based on a single specimen) based on previous reports and recent examinations and is from the mature, ovigerous female (anterior end of cephalothorax to posterior end of abdomen). Information on the hosts and localities (where known) are listed. An assessment of the value of the original descriptions and figures, as well as the rational for considering the species as different from its congeners is discussed.
description: Published as part of Hogans, W. E., 2017, Review of Pennella Oken, 1816 (Copepoda: Pennellidae) with a description of Pennella benzi sp. nov., a parasite of Escolar, Lepidocybium flavobrunneum (Pisces) in the northwest Atlantic Ocean, pp. 1-38 in Zootaxa 4244 (1) on pages 8-9, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4244.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/400400
Modeling and validation of full scale crash testing for open-faced aesthetic concrete barrier
Creators: name: Wassef, Andrew Wagdy
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2017

description: As bridges built in the 1930’s and 1940’s begin to reach the end of their design and service lives, the concrete and embedded steel reinforcement of balustrades show noticeable signs of deterioration, which affects their performance.  Many of these old bridges are historic and the aesthetics must be preserved to keep it as a historic landmark.  The Historic Preservation Office (HPO) mandated that a new balustrade for use on historic bridges must retain the appearance of the original one while also satisfying the requirements of the crash test level AASHTO MASH TL-4, which was adopted by the FHWA on January 1, 2011.   This study addresses the issue that the state of New Jersey does not currently have any open-faced balustrade standard specifications.  A new design was developed, for which the aesthetics have been approved by the HPO, and a detailed finite element model was developed using LS-DYNA software for crash test simulation.  The capacity of the barrier was checked using the design procedures outlined in section 13 of the AASHTO Bridge Design Specifications.  A parametric study of the balustrade was performed using the finite element model, adjusting parameters such as height, post width, and window opening width.  Occupant risk factors such as ridedown accelerations, and occupant impact velocities were evaluated using these models.   Based on the results of the simulations, a final design was selected and chosen for full scale crash testing.  A single unit truck, pickup truck, and small passenger car were crash tested at TTI and successfully met all the AASHTO MASH TL-4 requirements.  All risk factors were well below the maximum permissible values for the car and pickup truck, and the single unit truck was successfully contained.   After these successful crash tests, the model was calibrated to more accurately duplicate the impact response of the vehicle and barrier.  The models were also validated using traditional methods, as well as the statistical comparison program, Roadside Safety Verification and Validation Program (RSVVP), which was developed under NCHRP Project 22-24.
Incidence problems in discrete geometry
Creators: name: Wolf, Charles
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2017

description: Over the past decade, discrete geometry research has flourished with clever uses of algebraic methods.  The polynomial method has had a deep impact on a wide collection of results in combinatorics, such as tight asymptotic lower bounds on finite field Kakeya and Nikodym sets, near optimal lower bound for Erdos' distinct distances problem, and improved bounds for cap sets.  Spectral methods and rank bounds for matrices have shed new light on improved bounds for point-line incidences, subspace intersections and graph rigidity.  This thesis is focused on developing new ways to improve on these techniques, and applying them in a few discrete geometry settings:  1. Techniques such as matrix scaling and rank bounds for design matrices have recently found beautiful applications for understanding configurations of points and lines over the complex numbers. In particular, they give a different proof of Kelly's Theorem, which says that any configuration of points in complex space must either be contained in a plane or have a line passing through exactly 2 of those points, called an ordinary line.  We expand on these techniques to prove the first quantitative bounds for the number of ordinary lines in a non planar configuration of points in complex space.    2.  In 2008, showed in a breakthrough result that a Kakeya set over finite fields has an asymptotically tight lower bound using the polynomial method.  Later  in 2008, Saraf and Sudan improved on the polynomial method by interpolating a polynomial that vanishes with high multiplicity on points of the Kakeya set.  We further enhance the polynomial method by introducing the notion of ``fractional multiplicity," and use this improvement to obtain a better lower bound for finite field Kakeya sets in 3 dimensions.  3.  While studying these 3-dimensional finite field Kakeya sets, we considered the related 3-dimensional finite field Nikodym sets.  Previously, the lower bound for a 3-dimensional finite field Nikdoym sets was also obtained using the polynomial method, and had the same lower bound as for a Kakeya set.  We achieve a better lower bound for 3-dimensional finite field Nikodym sets, thus separating it from the Kakeya set lower bound.