cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Mobility and susistence patterns among mid Holocene pastoralists at Koobi Fora, northern Kenya
Creators: name: Ndiema, Emmanuel Kimuma
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: The emergence of managed food production laid the foundation for the emergence of complex economies and social structures in the world today. Land use territorial organization and long distance interaction patterns were important aspects for prehistoric lifeways. The chemical composition of stone artifacts can be used to identify places that ancient people visited and document changes in mobility patterns and scales of their interaction. This study was conducted at Koobi Fora, a UNESCO world heritage site on Lake Turkana in Northern Kenya and addresses the questions of inception of livestock and the mobility patterns of early herders in the region.    Survey for obsidian sources and excavations at five Pastoral Neolithic sites were conducted to develop a high-resolution database for obsidian artifacts in the Galana Boi Fm., Koobi Fora. The artifacts and geological reference samples from five sites were analyzed using Energy dispersive X-ray Fluorescence and Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry. Artifact distance fall-off curves as well as faunal and ceramic attributes of sample from over 50m2 of excavation were used to document mobility patterns and scales of interaction among early herder population in the Turkana Basin, Sites were dated using Optically Stimulated Luminescence yielding dates from ~4.4 ka BP to ~1,0 ka BP. This period occurs during falling lake level and increasing aridity.   The results show different sources of obsidian were used irrespective of distance. There were also other undocumented sources were either coming from within or outside the Turkana Basin. Similarities in ceramic decorations indicate that culture contact was more important than migration to social economic change in Turkana Basin. It would seem that high mobility patterns were extensive but did not destroy hunter gatherer habitat but allowed local hunter-gatherer subsistence and social organization to co-exist. Contact between groups would have maximized use of different micro habitant. It would appear that  inception of herding in Turkana Basin therefore was variable, complex and should be understood in the context of local ecological conditions during periods of intense climate variability.
Gellius carduus var. magellanica Ridley & Dendy 1886
Creators: name: Van Soest, Rob W. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Porifera
Demospongiae
Haplosclerida
Chalinidae
Gellius
Gellius carduus
Gellius carduus var. magellanica ridley & dendy, 1886

description: Gellius carduus var. magellanica Ridley & Dendy, 1886
(Fig. 3I)
Gellius carduus var. magellanica Ridley & Dendy, 1886: 333; Ridley & Dendy 1887: 40, pl. XIII fig. 6.
? Adocia carduus; Burton 1932: 274.
The variety was described by Ridley & Dendy from Strait Magellan, Challenger Expd. Stat. 311, 52.7582°S 73.7667°W, depth 448 m (wet holotype specimen BMNH 1887.5.2.256). It differed from the typical variety described as Gellius carduus by Ridley & Dendy from Crozet Islands Challenger Exped. Stat. 148a, 46.8833°S 51.8667°E, depth 439–1006 m, and nearby Prince Edward Islands, syntypes BMNH 1887.5.2.254, 258 and 263) in habitus (oval massive vs leaf-shaped), oxea shape (true oxeas vs strongylote oxeas), and oxea size (490 vs. 600 µm). Burton (1932: 274), treating sponges from the Falkland Islands and Magellan region synonymized the two varieties and included Gellius laevis Ridley & Dendy, 1886 into an extended species Gellius carduus (as Adocia). For the combined species Burton cited oxea lengths varying between 300 and 450 µm, clearly in contrast with Ridley & Dendy’s oxea length of 600 µm for the types of Gellius carduus, but conforming to the length of G. carduus var. magellanica. In a following comparison with Gellius glacialis Ridley & Dendy (1886) on the next page (Burton 1932: 275) he provided a new oxea length range for G. carduus as 490–600 µm, and this compares rather closely with oxeas of G. glacialis (530–650 µm). Burton ‘suspected’ that G. carduus belongs to G. glacialis, but the size of the sigmas of the latter (146 µm) precluded this synonymization.
I do not believe Burton’s (1932) treatment of the Challenger Gellius specimens is accurate. The species within the genus Gellius (currently a subgenus of Haliclona) are subtly different in the shapes and sizes of megascleres and microscleres. Construing that specimens of Gellius may have widely variable lengths and shapes in these skeletal features undermines the taxonomic framework of recognizing species. The fact that the spicule shape and size of his Falkland region material conforms closely with Gellius carduus var. magellanica, and not with the type material of G. carduus appears to show that the two varieties from their distant localities are probably distinct taxa. Confirmation by molecular sequence data may be necessary, but for the time being I propose to distinguish the Southern South American populations (Falkland Islands, Shag Rock, South Shetland Islands) as a distinct subspecies Haliclona (Gellius) carduus subsp. magellanica (Ridley & Dendy, 1886).
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 35, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5398.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10494167
Arbitration and AI: The Role of LLMs in Drafting Awards
Creators: name: den Bakker, David M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: LLM
AI
Arbitration
International arbitration
legal research
undisclosed secretary
arbitral award
party autonomy
confidentiality
public policy
intuitu personae
challenge procedures
new york convention

description: In this master thesis, I researched to which extent and under which conditions an arbitral tribunal could use a Large Language Model to help draft an award. I wrote this thesis under the supervision of Dr. Pietro Ortolani. My thesis was accepted on first submission. I graduated and received my LLM title.
Ophonus melletii
Creators: name: Hoess, René
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Ophonus
Ophonus melletii

description: Ophonus melletii (Heer, 1837)
Suhr (AG), Hinteri Distelmatte, 402 m, 647.3/ 246.6, 20.6.2014: 1 Ind.
Diese Art wurde zuletzt 1995 aus der Schweiz gemeldet – die letzten beiden Funde aus derselben Gegend. Das vorliegende Tier wurde auf einer stark beanspruchten Schweineweide gefunden.
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 64, DOI: 10.5169/seals-986145, http://zenodo.org/record/7901176
Genomic characterization of schizophrenia candidate gene regions
Creators: name: Nato, Alejandro
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: Schizophrenia (SZ) is a severe mental disorder with a complex genetic etiology and a lifetime prevalence of ~0.55-1%. In this study, we extracted and analyzed data from 47 independent genomewide scans for linkage to SZ. The genome was partitioned into 22 schizophrenia candidate gene regions (SCRs) by applying three methods: single significant approach, disjoint approach, and smoothing method. For the single significant hit approach, an SCR was defined by the presence of a significant hit by extending 10 cM upstream and downstream of that hit. For the disjoint approach, we identified criteria-events based on clustering of hits within small regions by using a sliding window approach. For the smoothing method, we imputed a randomized range of p-values (0.001697≤p<1) for the genome scans without a suggestive or significant result at each 0.1 cM interval. We combined these p-values with the genome scan results using three methods: geometric mean method, Fisher’s method, and Stouffer’s method. We characterized each SCR by identifying the genes and genomic elements such as structural variations, regulatory elements, and functional noncoding RNAs. We also categorized the genes within SCRs. The total coverage of SCRs is 880 cM (739 Mb) with SCR sizes ranging from 18 cM to 87 cM. SCRs with multiple peaks were divided into smaller subregions. We developed a ranking system to identify and prioritize SZ candidate genes by assigning weights to each of the following criteria: (a) relative significance of a peak within an SCR, (b) annotated in SZ association studies and microarray analyses, and meta-analyses, (c) associated with phenotypes or diseases, and (d) located within or near other genetic elements. We identified functions/diseases and pathways that were most significantly associated with genes that had at least the same score or better than the top 10% of candidate genes after prioritization by utilizing the Ingenuity® Pathways Analysis (IPA). We generated an interactome for SZ based on the SZ candidate genes. We created a website (http://compgen.rutgers.edu/schiz) to disseminate information about our SCRs. Our procedure, which provides a novel approach to identify and prioritize candidate gene regions and genomic elements, is applicable to other complex diseases.
Pseudopompilus humboldti
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
Pseudopompilus
Pseudopompilus humboldti

description: Pseudopompilus humboldti (Dahlbom, 1845) #
Salius humboldti Dahlbom, 1845:411, ♀ ♂.— Egypt, Greece.
Distribution in Iran: ISFAHAN (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 469, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1199890
Caste, family and politics in northern India during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
Creators: name: Narayan, Rochisha
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: My dissertation reconstructs the interlocking histories of family, caste and state-formation in colonial north India. I illustrate that eighteenth-century rulers of Banaras in north India established lineage-based states by forming multi-caste and polygynous marital networks. I argue that these practices were challenged as the establishment of colonial rule became tied to matters of inheritance in the Banaras polity. Eighteenth-century colonial rule, in collaboration with upper-caste patriarchal authorities, reshaped familial practices through intersecting articulations of patrilineality and endogamy. Such articulations shaped early colonial law.   Interventions in family matters through colonial law marginalized women’s access to property in the late eighteenth century. Eighteenth-century land-revenue policies, which were based upon colonial exigencies, led to widespread transfers of rights in land from traditional landed elites to literate service caste groups comprising of writers, clerks and merchants who had risen in power through service under the colonial state. I demonstrate that the same policies upheld upper-caste male control over land at the expense of female kin who lost titles to land rights, thereby strengthening hierarchies between women and men. Nevertheless, I illustrate that age-based and caste hierarchies could enable upper-caste, elderly women from traditional landed elite families and upwardly mobile literate service caste households to harness the wealth and power of male kin. Colonial restructuring of the political economy therefore benefited upper-caste women at a subterranean level while simultaneously reinforcing caste hierarchies between women. During the nineteenth century, literate service caste groups, who had benefited from colonial land-revenue policies, insinuated themselves into the higher echelons of the four-fold Varna order through elaborate patronage practices. These included sponsorship of public ceremonials, buildings and education. By the late nineteenth century, their caste-based competitive energies intersected with nationalist politics, which literate service caste groups came to lead. I demonstrate that nationalist and caste-based engagements were hinged upon normative and lived reconfigurations of households as endogamous units. This was to the marginalization of lower-caste kin who could only find representation and place in the upper-caste family as laboring, lower-caste servants. I therefore illustrate that such caste-based labor was politicized by nationalists as worthy of defense against the British.
Modeling and analysis of steel gusset plates in truss bridges under live load
Creators: name: Myers, Meghan M.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: In the aftermath of the collapse of the I-35W over Mississippi River Bridge in Minnesota, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) issued a technical advisory to bridge owners to check the status of similarly-designed bridges.  It was determined that under-designed gusset plates contributed to the collapse.  This sparked a nationwide effort to investigate the design of these connection members and to develop more detailed specifications for future gusset plate design.  In order to thoroughly study complicated bridge elements such as gusset plates, sophisticated analysis techniques are required.  One such technique is finite element modeling (FEM), which is used here to identify critical loading cases for typical Warren truss gusset plates.  The specific gusset plates studied here are located on two bridges, herein referred to as Bridge A and Bridge B, that are similar in design to the I-35W Bridge.  Following the I-35W collapse, independent investigations, which included finite element analysis, were initiated on both bridges.  In this thesis, information from these investigations is used to develop a comprehensive FEM, which facilitates more in-depth analysis of such gusset plates.  The analysis focuses on the investigation of stresses created in the gusset plates by various types of live loading.  The results are compared to the Method of Sections approach recommended by FHWA following the I-35W Bridge collapse to determine if better analysis specifications are needed.  Although the results of the finite element analysis and the Method of Sections approach are similar, the authors conclude that the value of the Method of Sections approach is strongly dependent on the accuracy of the load data input.  Therefore, more detailed specifications are needed to ensure the accuracy of future gusset plate analysis and design.
Ophonus puncticollis
Creators: name: Hoess, René
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Ophonus
Ophonus puncticollis

description: Ophonus puncticollis (Paykull, 1798)
Sent (GR), Zoppanaina Weg, 1200 m, 821.4 / 188.3, 7.7.2011: 2 Ind.
Miège (VS), Les Verbes, 825 m, 608.7/ 129.5, 10.4.2014: 1 Ind.
Beides sind Gegenden, in denen die Art schon früher gefunden wurde. In diesem Jahrhundert liegen dem CSCF nur zwei andere Funde aus der Schweiz vor.
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 64, DOI: 10.5169/seals-986145, http://zenodo.org/record/7901176
Schistonyx de Saussure 1887
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

description: Genus Schistonyx de Saussure, 1887
Schistonyx Saussure, 1887:3. Type species: Cyphononyx (Schistonyx) velutinus Saussure, 1887, by subsequent designation of Haupt, 1929b:122.
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
Assessment of gear degradation with multi sensor platform
Creators: name: Poletto, Jean Carlos
name: Van Maele, Djordy
name: Fauconnier, Dieter
name: De Baets, Patrick
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Gear condition monitoring is vital to safeguard the proper operation of high-end machinery, such as wind turbines. It plays a crucial role in ensuring the reliability and performance of these critical systems. The accurate monitoring of the gear degradation enables data-driven decisions, yielding to enhanced maintenance practices and substantial resources savings. In this comprehensive investigation, several monitoring techniques are being investigated, including surface topography, vision systems, oil quality monitoring, vibration monitoring, and safety sensors. These techniques are being integrated into an industrial-grade FZG gear test rig, enabling the testing of the components in real-life conditions. Endurance tests lasting 200 hours were performed focused on the controlled generation of gear pitting. The gear health was monitored with a dual approach: direct observations through cutting-edge vision systems and indirect assessment through vibration monitoring techniques. The evolution of the gear pitting was quantified using the images acquired with the vision system. The visual records showed an increase in pitting damage with the elapsed test duration. Besides, a similar trend was noted in the vibration level measured with accelerometers. In conclusion, the holistic approach enables detailed assessment of the gear damage, offering valuable insights and promoting better understanding of the evolution of the gear damage.
Gellius glacialis var. nivea Ridley & Dendy 1886
Creators: name: Van Soest, Rob W. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Porifera
Demospongiae
Haplosclerida
Chalinidae
Gellius
Gellius glacialis
Gellius glacialis var. nivea ridley & dendy, 1886

description: Gellius glacialis var. nivea Ridley & Dendy, 1886
(Fig. 3J)
Gellius glacialis var. nivea Ridley & Dendy, 1886: 42, pl. VIII fig. 8, pl. XIII figs. 4, 12; Kirkpatrick 1908: 49, pl. XVII fig. 4; Hentschel 1914: 130.
The variety was described by Ridley & Dendy from Prince Edward Island, 46.8833°S 38.075 °E, depth 256 m (wet holotype BMNH 1887.5.2.277). It was stated to be different from the typical variety described by the same authors from the Agulhas Bank (35.0667°S 18.6167°E, depth 274 m, wet holotype BMNH 1887.5.2.257) in the delicate unispicular skeleton with spongin at the nodes vs. more confused skeleton lacking nodal spongin on the typical variety, and the size of the sigmas (70 vs. 145 µm, although in both descriptions it was admitted that many smaller ones were also present). The variety was also reported from Antarctica (Kirkpatrick 1908; Hentschel 1914), which showed intermediate sizes of the spicules between the present and the typical variety. Bergquist & Warne (1980: 23) reassigned a specimen identified from New Zealand as Gellius glacialis to Sigmadocia De Laubenfels, 1936 and included the present variety in its synonymy. In view of the variable sigma sizes and the rather nearby type localities it is here tentatively suggested that the varieties could be conspecific and for the time being I propose to merge the varieties into a single - apparently widespread - species Haliclona (Gellius) glacialis (Ridley & Dendy, 1886).
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 35, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5398.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10494167
Diogenes tumidus Rahayu and Forest 1995
Creators: name: Ririhena, Dharma Arif Nugroho Dwi Listyo Rahayu Rianta Pratiwi Rena Tri Hernawati Ujang Nurhaman John Etry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Diogenidae
Diogenes
Diogenes tumidus

description: Diogenes tumidus Rahayu and Forest, 1995
(Fig. 8E)
Habitat. Sandy, muddy, and rubbles substrate near mangrove, sometimes on seagrass bed; 0‒2m.
Distribution. Singapore and Thailand. Indonesia:
Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Maluku, and Papua.
Color in life. Shield mottled with light brown and cream with dark brown spot medially; ocular peduncle creamy white with dark brown streak proximal to corneas to proximal part, corneas dark grey with reddish brown streak at base. Chelipeds generally light brown with dark brown streak on dorsolateral surface of palm and carpus, spines white. P2 and P3 light brown or cream with dark brown streak on dorsolateral margin of dactyls, propodi and carpi (after Rahayu, 2022).
Remarks. This is a very common species in the intertidal. The specific characters include the shape of the right cheliped which has smooth, subcylindrical dactylus, forming large hiatus between fingers, and relatively dense setae on the chelipeds and ambulatory legs.
description: Published as part of Ririhena, Dharma Arif Nugroho Dwi Listyo Rahayu Rianta Pratiwi Rena Tri Hernawati Ujang Nurhaman John Etry, 2024, Hermit crabs (Decapoda: Anomura: Coenobitidae, Calcinidae, Diogenidae, Paguridae) from Halmahera Island, North Maluku, Indonesia, pp. 1-24 in Nauplius (e 20240507) (e 20240507) 32 on page 17, DOI: 10.1590/2358-2936e20240507, http://zenodo.org/record/14668576
The communicative and physiological manifestations of relational turbulence during the empty-nest phase of marital relationships
Creators: name: Nagy, Mary E.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: The relational turbulence model argues that periods of transition in romantic relationships are ripe for upheaval due to heightened relational uncertainty and interference from partners during transition (Solomon & Knobloch, 2004). This dissertation examines the transition to the empty-nest phase of marriage as a period of relational turbulence. The first goal of this dissertation is to identify sources of relationship change, relational uncertainty, and interference from partners during the empty-nest transition. The second goal of this dissertation is to explore communicative and physiological manifestations of relational turbulence in empty-nest couples. Fifty couples who had entered the empty-nest phase of marriage in the past 18 months were recruited to participate in this study. Participants completed open-ended and closed-ended survey questions about their perceptions of their marriage, provided six saliva samples during the course of the study that were later tested for cortisol, and participated in three videotaped interactions about their marriage. Qualitative analyses of open-ended responses indicated common themes among empty-nesters for changes in the marital relationship, relational uncertainty, and interference from partners. Five themes emerged for changes in the marital relationship: (a) increased couple time, (b) reduced structure and increased freedom, (c) increased communication, (d) increased privacy, and (e) new beginnings; four themes were identified for relational uncertainty: (a) new roles and identities, (b) dependency anxiety, (c)  love and intimacy, and (d) growing older; and four themes were identified for interference from partners: (a) relationship facilitation, (b) guilt, (c) forced activity, and (d) household chores. Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM) was used to analyze the quantitative and physiological data. Results indicated that the mechanisms of the relational turbulence model predicted self-reported stress and turmoil in empty-nest relationships, as well as topic avoidance, indirectness, and withdrawal in conflict interaction between empty-nest spouses. Results also revealed that indirectness, topic avoidance, and withdrawal during conflict interaction correspond with a more rapid decay of cortisol following the episode, whereas criticism and demandingness are associated with a further increase in cortisol following conflict interaction. These findings, their implications, and directions for future research are discussed.
Intuition and inquiry
Creators: name: Nado, Jennifer
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: My dissertation examines prominent arguments for and against the use of intuition in philosophical theorizing.   Many of the concerns I raise involve areas of oversimplification - particularly concerning the relationship between the reliability of our intuitions and their evidential status.  Specifically, I argue that there are two primary barriers to framing the intuition debate as a simple question about whether intuitions are either unreliable and therefore wholly unsuitable for use in philosophy, or reliable and therefore always suitable for philosophical use. The first of these barriers involves the widespread assumption that intuition forms a fairly cohesive, fairly natural mental kind which can be usefully evaluated for reliability. The second involves the assumption that anyone who questions the suitability of intuitions as evidence must deny that intuitions are reliable enough to constitute knowledge. A further theme of my dissertation involves the relationship between the categories delineated by our intuitive classifications and the categories which serve as the targets of philosophical investigation.  I examine two major approaches to this relationship - the ‘mentalist’ view, according to which the targets of philosophical analysis are our own concepts, and the ‘extramentalist’ view, according to which the targets of philosophy are external phenomena ‘in the world’.  I conclude that both projects are legitimate, but that only the former justifies the commonly held view that there exists a sort of ‘constitutive’ relationship between intuitions and truth.  Ultimately, I advocate a position according to which use of intuition in philosophy should be restricted, but not eliminated.
title: Common Sea Buckthorn :
title: Guidelines for the Conduct of Tests for Distinctness, Uniformity and Stability.
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: International Union For The Protection Of New Varieties Of Plants,
Publisher: name: International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants,
Year: 0
Subjects: New Varieties of Plants
Common Sea Buckthorn

description: The purpose of these guidelines (“Test Guidelines”) is to elaborate the principles contained in the General Introduction (document TG/1/3), and its associated TGP documents, into detailed practical guidance for the harmonized examination of distinctness, uniformity and stability (DUS) and, in particular, to identify appropriate characteristics for the examination of DUS and production of harmonized variety descriptions.
Persuasive citizens, unconvinced radicals
Creators: name: Nair, Manjusha Sasidharan
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: In this dissertation, I do a comparative and historical ethnography of workers’ movements in two adjacent towns in central India. I invite attention to the shift in workers’ politics due to the retreat of the nationalist welfare state in the context of neo-liberal reforms. In the first town of Dalli-Rajhara, manually employed mine workers in state owned iron-ore mines persuaded the state employer to grant them labor rights. Their insurgent movement began in 1977, when the Indian state was aggressively pursuing economic nationalism. The workers could coerce the state to be accountable: All manual workers were eventually absorbed as regular mineworkers. In the second town of Bhilai, inspired by the first movement, casually employed workers in privately owned industries contended with their employers for labor rights. This movement began in 1990, which was the end of the era of economic nationalism and beginning of the neoliberal regime. The workers were losing  to neoliberalizing state and capital, and their activism was fragmented. I argue that the basic shift due to neo-liberal reforms in India is not in the protective role of the state, but in citizen’s ability to hold the state accountable by challenging its legitimacy. This research is based on seventeen months of ethnographic and archival research in India conducted in 2003, 2004 and 2006. Most of the evidence is in the form of participant accounts of forty-five workers in the two movements. I also interviewed, and had numerous casual conversations with onlookers, regular workers, other union leaders, personnel managers, villagers, mine officials, contractors and many Delhi-based activists and academicians. I examined rare documents on contemporary Indian history from academic institutions, private collections, as well as state departments. My research intervenes in existing literature in two important ways. Much of the discussion on labor activism in the neoliberal period has focused on those working for capital centered in the United States. I show that neo-liberal capital is de-centered with receiving states as well as indigenous capital having very high stakes in the process. This complicates labor activism since labor and the new indigenous-global capital are still embedded in the old political culture of economic nationalism. In central India, this meant that workers were reluctant to let go of old protest tactics, while capitalists could mobilize public voice against the workers on the grounds of sabotaging national production. The focus of literature by Indian scholars in the neoliberal period has been on loss of employment of formal employees of the state. I draw attention to loss of work and resistance of informally  employed rural migrants, the enormous mass of which are unlikely to be absorbed by the expanding sectors of the global economy. I suggest that given the fragmentation of conventional labor activism, this workforce could potentially mobilize as a huge social force demanding radical reforms.
Gellius raphidiophorus Brondsted 1933
Creators: name: Van Soest, Rob W. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Porifera
Demospongiae
Haplosclerida
Chalinidae
Gellius
Gellius raphidiophorus

description: Gellius raphidiophorus Brøndsted, 1933
(Fig. 3K)
Gellius raphidiophorus Brøndsted, 1933: 18, fig. 7.
This combination, described by Brøndsted from Davis Strait between Greenland and Canada collected by the Godthaab Exped. Stat. 160, W of Egedesminde, 68.2833°N 58.2333°W, depth 410 m (holotype ZMUC reg.nr. NHMD237734), is a junior primary homonym of Gellius rhaphidiophora Von Lendenfeld (1888: 190) (currently Haliclona (Gellius) rhaphidiophora) described from Port Jackson, Australia, approximate coordinates 33.85°S 151.25°E, wet syntypes BMNH 1887.1.24.33 and AM G9141, fide Hooper & Wiedenmayer 1994: 121). The difference in spelling of the names, raphi - vs rhaphi - must be ignored according to ICZN art. 58.6 (aspiration or not of consonant), and the difference of the suffix - a vs - us amounts to the first being a misspelling that must be corrected (ICZN art. 34.2), so effectively the two are primary homonyms. The Australian species was redescribed by Hallmann (1914: 363, fig.10) demonstrating that the two are obviously different species (shape and spicule sizes). The junior name is permanently invalid (ICZN art. 57.2) and must be replaced, for which I propose Haliclona (Gellius) godthaabae nom.nov., named after the expedition vessel (there is already a combination Haliclona (Rhizoniera) brondstedi).
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 36, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5398.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10494167
Regulation of gene expression during maize endosperm development
Creators: name: Miclaus, Mihai
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: My dissertation consists of two chapters that have been formatted into two manuscripts. Both of them relate to endosperm-specific gene expression in maize by a multigene family. Multigenic traits are very common in plants and cause diversity. Nutritional quality is such a trait and one of its factors is the composition and relativeexpression of storage protein genes, known as zeins in maize. They represent a medium-size gene family distributed over several chromosomes and unlinkedlocations. Two inbreds were selected to analyze allelic and non-allelic variability among the α-zeins. Genes were copied to unlinked sites before and afterallotetraploidization of maize, but before transposition enlarged intergenic regions in a haplotype specific manner. Once genes were copied, expression of donorgenes was reduced relative to new copies. Epigenetic regulation appeared to have contributed to silencing older copies because some of them could bereactivated when endosperm was maintained as cultured cells. Bisulfite sequencing of the promoter region also showed distinct methylation patterns ofseparate gene clusters as well as different tissues, possibly reflecting position effects on regulatory mechanisms as a result of inserting copies at unlinkedlocations. Seed mutants with non-vitreous endosperm play an important role in the regulation of α-zein gene expression. Although a number of genes affectingendosperm vitreousness have already been isolated, it has been difficult to clone opaque7 (o7) – the last in the series of three high-lysine corn mutants – mainlybecause of its low penetrance in many genetic backgrounds. To overcome these difficulties, a combination of map-based cloning and transposon tagging was undertaken. An o7 candidate gene, based on map position, contained a 12-bp deletion in the second exon of an acyl-CoA synthetate (ACS)-like gene. A second allele was generated by transposon tagging, with a Dissociation (Ds) element inserting ~500 bp downstream of the deletion, in the same exon. Although zein synthesis appeared to be unaltered in o7-ref and protein accumulation changed only slightly, PBs exhibited striking membrane invaginations. A plausible model consistent with these observations is that the ACS enzyme plays a key role in membrane biogenesis and that altered PBs render the seed non-vitreous.
Haliclona hoshinoi Van Soest & Hooper 2020
Creators: name: Van Soest, Rob W. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Porifera
Demospongiae
Haplosclerida
Chalinidae
Haliclona
Haliclona hoshinoi

description: Haliclona hoshinoi Van Soest & Hooper, 2020
(Figs. 4A–B)
Haliclona digitata Tanita & Hoshino, 1989: 152, pl, 15 fig. 5, text–fig. 97.
Haliclona hoshinoi Van Soest & Hooper, 2020: 23.
(Not: Haliclona hoshinoi Ise, 2017: 352).
The species was described by Tanita & Hoshino from two localities in Japan, Sagami Bay, W part of Kamegisho, approximate coordinates 35.197°N 139.584°E, depth 15–16 m, and from Koiso, Izu-Susaki, approximate coordinates 34.64°N 135.28°E, depth 5–6 m (syntypes BLIH Porifera 317 and 335). The combination was erected by Van Soest & Hooper (2020: case nr. 29) to remove the homonymy of Haliclona digitata Tanita & Hoshino, 1989 and Haliclona digitata (Von Lendenfeld, 1887 as Chalinorhaphis), but the nomen novum turned out to be preoccupied by Haliclona hoshinoi Ise, 2017, and the junior name must be replaced (ICZN art. 57.2). To remove the homonymy, I propose here Haliclona senjitanitai nom.nov., named after Senji Tanita.
Possibly, the species here renamed Haliclona senjitanitai nom.nov. is not a proper member of genus Haliclona as its seondary fibers are polyspicular, indicating membership of more elaborate genera such as Amphimedon or Niphates. Re-examination of the type material is necessary.
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 36-37, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5398.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10494167
Oreonebria castanea
Creators: name: Hoess, René
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Oreonebria
Oreonebria castanea

description: Oreonebria castanea (Bonelli, 1810)
Mehrere am 28.7.2015 im Raum Mattmark (VS) gesammelte Exemplare wiesen einseitig zwei Supraorbitalborsten auf. Dies kann beim Anwenden des Schlüssels in Müller-Motzfeld (2006) zu Problemen führen. Oreonebria angustata (Dejean, 1831) besitzt aber immer beidseits mindestens zwei Borsten über dem Auge und ist schon wegen des viel schmaleren Halsschildes nicht mit O. castanea 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 64, DOI: 10.5169/seals-986145, http://zenodo.org/record/7901176
Numerical and experimental analysis of breakage in a mill using the attainable region approach
Creators: name: Metzger, Matthew Joseph
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: Breakage of particulate materials is an essential process in many industries. Despite its prevalence, size reduction is one of the most inefficient unit operations in the collection of particulate processing operations.  In this work, the breakage of granular materials in a batch ball mill, a commonly encountered industrial system, was investigated using computational and experimental techniques.  Experimental analysis was performed in a bench-top mill with size analysis through standard sieve screening.  Discrete element simulations (DEM) were carried out to examine the effect of a wide range of particle and operational parameters.  Both experimental and computational results were analyzed using the Attainable Region (AR) approach.  Breakage was found to be dependent on grinding media fill level, mill rotation rate, grinding media size and grinding time.  At high energy inputs (large grinding media fill levels and high mill rotation rates) breakage varied little. For lower values of these parameters, breakage began to vary noticeably.  The slowest mill rotation rate with the largest grinding media size was optimal (in terms of both time and energy usage) to produce the largest amount of a product of an intermediate size.  It was also shown that variation of mill rotation rate could reduce the operating time of the mill by over 50% with minimal sacrifice of desired product, and that the inclusion of a feed bypass in the milling operation allows one to achieve product size distributions un-obtainable through milling alone. Computationally, single particle breakage simulations demonstrated agglomerate breakage was not always directly proportional to impact velocity, and thus breakage was a complex function of energy input.  Good agreement between experimental and computational trends in a batch ball mill was found and the majority of breakage in a ball mill occurs near the mill shell, not at the surface where the grinding media and particles make contact. These findings contribute to the understanding of granular behavior in size reduction environments.  Improved understanding of the particle breakage phenomenon will contribute to the development of more robust models and lead to improved energy efficiency and reduced operational costs in the industrial processing of granular materials.
Effect of coprecipitation of sintering aids on the microstructure and grain boundary development of sintered silicon carbide
Creators: name: Mercurio, Steven R.
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Year: 2011

description: Coprecipitation was examined as a method of introducing sintering aids into silicon carbide (SiC) as a fine, reactive coating.  The improved sinterability and mixedness of coprecipitated samples, when coupled with advanced densification methods, developed fine grained SiC with varied microstructures.  Coprecipitation imparted additional process control and influenced the phase, crystallinity, and properties of the grain boundaries.  A simple coprecipitation process was developed to introduce aluminum and rare earth sintering aids into SiC.  Early samples yielded low densities so the process was modified to address the dispersion of the SiC particles and breakdown of agglomerates before coating. The modifications improved the densification and influenced the structure and properties. Powders were prepared with varying weight percents of sintering aids and several rare earths in order to study the grain boundary structure and properties. Samples were densified using hot pressing and spark plasma sintering to better utilize the enhanced sinterability of coprecipitated powders.  These samples were compared to conventional ball mill processing.  Scanning electron microscopy was utilized to examine the microstructure and determine the grain size and presence of defects.  The degree of mixedness of the additives was investigated through fluorescence measurements.  X-ray diffraction was used to determine the polytype and phase distribution.  Selected mechanical properties were measured and compared between the different samples.  Hardness was studied extensively, including analysis of load-hardness curves over a range of loads.  The hardness data and indents were examined in order to explore the fracture behavior and defect effects. Liquid phase sintered SiC prepared using coprecipitation exhibited very different phase content and crystallinity than ball milled samples. Fluorescence measurements for coprecipitated samples showed longer decay lifetimes indicating improved mixedness. Samples with amorphous grain boundaries and triple points were developed, where XRD results displayed a lower amount of yttrium aluminum garnet than other methods.  The formation of a crystalline mullite phase and absence of excess alumina were observed.  These overall results indicated the possibility of different fracture behavior.
Schistonyx brevicornis Priesner 1955
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 brevicornis

description: Schistonyx brevicornis Priesner, 1955 #
Schistonyx brevicornis Priesner, 1955:156, Syntypes ♀ ♂.— Egypt, many locations (NHMW).
Distribution in Iran: SEMNAN (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 469, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1199890
Paranchus albipes
Creators: name: Hoess, René
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Paranchus
Paranchus albipes

description: Paranchus albipes (Fabricius, 1796)
Landquart (GR), Landquart-Mündung Rhein, 515 m, 760.6 /204.1, 13.9.2012: 1 Ind.
Erstfund für den Kanton Graubünden. Die nächsten Fundorte dieser häufigen Art liegen weiter unten in der Rheinebene (nur alte Funde) und westlich des Walensees.
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
An island environment
Creators: name: McGlynn, Charles D.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2011

description: In the midst of this “Decade of Water”, the Philippines is faced with one of its major cities plagued by water problems for the same shortsightedness that President Lyndon Johnson described in 1968. The fact that this city is in a humid climate rather than a parched one makes the neglect that much more compelling. As Matthew Gandy (2003) states in Concrete and Clay,  “the history of cities can be read as a history of water”. As this research indicates, Cebu City is no exception. Cebu is the second largest city in the Philippine archipelago and is an ideal place to study these issues for several reasons. It is continuing to experience strong population growth. Also, by all accounts the groundwater in this metropolitan area of over two million people is rapidly deteriorating due to saltwater intrusion. The suspected causative agent is over-pumping, but it is hard to quantify because of incomplete records. It is estimated that withdraws from the approximately 82,000 private wells equals the amount pumped by the Metropolitan Cebu Water District’s (MCWD) 108 wells (Walag 2007).  On nearby Olango Island - part of provincial Cebu - about 90% of the wells are saline. Cebu City itself appears headed for the same fate without active intervention. In addition to salt water being drawn into the aquifer, water quality is also being degraded by bacteriological and chemical contaminants that are being drawn down into the aquifer due to the lack of sewage treatment (Walag 2007). This study is a practical foundation in understanding the problems in metropolitan Cebu and the unique private response it has generated. Because of these concerns most Cebuanos are now paying attention to the water they drink.    “Usually we drink water without paying much attention to it. We know that water is important to our life, but because of its familiarity very rarely do we   consciously appreciate it.”   (Emoto 2005)
Gellius tubuloramosus Dendy 1924
Creators: name: Van Soest, Rob W. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Porifera
Demospongiae
Haplosclerida
Chalinidae
Gellius
Gellius tubuloramosus

description: Gellius tubuloramosus Dendy, 1924
(Fig. 3L)
Gellius tubuloramosus Dendy, 1924: 323 (no illustration).
Haliclona tubuloramosa; Burton 1932: 266.
Sigmadocia tubuloramosus; Bergquist & Warne 1980: 24, pl. 9a; Kelly et al. 2009: 44 (listed only).
This species was described by Dendy from North Cape, New Zealand,approximate coordinates 34.4167°S 173.0833°E, depth 128 m (wet holotype BMNH 1923.10.1.61). The genus Gellius Gray, 1867 is currently considered a subgenus of Haliclona Grant, 1841 and transfer of the present species to Haliclona (Gellius) created a junior secondary homonymy with syntype specimens described by Carter (1887: 70, pl. 6 fig. 1) from the Mergui archipelago as Isodictya simulans var. tubuloramosa. Isodictya simulans (Johnston, 1842 as Halichondria) is currently Haliclona (Haliclona) simulans, a species confined to European waters. Two syntypes are kept in the collection of the Natural History Museum, BMNH 1887.6.1.7 and 1887.6.1.14. Transferred to Haliclona, the combination became Haliclona tubuloramosa (Carter, 1887), which then became a senior secondary homonym of Gellius tubuloramosus Dendy, 1924, currently Haliclona (Gellius) tubuloramosa. The two species differ a.o. by the absence of sigmas in Carter’s tubuloramosa. To remove the homonymy, I propose here Haliclona (Gellius) arthuri nom.nov. named after Arthur Dendy, for the New Zealand species.
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 36, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5398.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10494167
Patrobus australis J. Sahlberg 1875
Creators: name: Hoess, René
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Patrobus
Patrobus australis

description: Patrobus australis J. Sahlberg, 1875
Baltschieder (VS), Grosseia Ost, 640 m, 631.7 /128.0, 15.5.2014: 1 Ind.
Seit dem anderen Fund im Wallis (Hoess 2009) wurde P. australis nur am Bodensee wiederentdeckt.
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