cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
“Life, it’s been said, is one big book…” : One hundred years of Qian Zhongshu
Creators: name: Rea, Christopher G.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: Headlines about China have been looking the same for some time now. “The China story” always seems to be political: labor riots and their suppression; sabre-rattling over Taiwan and cultural erasure in Tibet; catastrophic earthquakes and official ineptitude; internet censorship and jailed dissidents (the latest being Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo). Even ostensibly good news, such as the Chinese government’s investment in wind power, becomes yet another story about how China is going to eat our lunch. These stories must be told, and the Chinese government’s feet must be held to the fire on many issues. Yet these stories collectively imply a “truth” about China that is equally misleading: namely that in China, politics is life. This truism has become ingrained in Western views of Chinese culture. I was struck by this not long ago during a Canadian radio interview of the author Yu Hua when the host’s first question was whether or not Yu Hua was a “dissident.” A recent New Yorker article about China’s “most eminent writer” and former Minister of Culture, Wang Meng, set a similarly political agenda by asking whether Wang is a “reformer” or an “apologist” of the Communist Party. To be Chinese, as far as the West is concerned, seems to mean being for or against one’s government.
Of Boys and Men: The State of the Science on Boys’ and Men’s Health
Creators: name: Goldenberg, Larry
name: Oliffe, John Lindsay
name: Tremblay, Yves
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: Part of Innovations in Gender, Sex, and Health Research (2010 : Toronto, ON). Innovations in Gender, Sex, and Health Research will showcase excellence and innovations across all domains of gender, sex, and health research, including but not limited to biomedical, clinical, health services and policy, population and public health, and social science research. The conference will highlight how accounting for gender and sex leads to improvements in health interventions, policies, and outcomes. It will explore advances and challenges related to ethics and knowledge translation in gender, sex, and health research. The conference will bring together a multidisciplinary group of researchers with a shared interest in gender, sex, and health. It aims to promote networking and collaborative engagement among these researchers, as well as health care providers, policy-makers, community groups, and others with an interest in this topic. Innovations in Gender, Sex, and Health Research will foster training and educational opportunities for emerging gender, sex, and health researchers.
Development guidelines of marketing mix strategy of clean food businessamong women of working age in Ratchaburi Province
Creators: name: Sasiarreeya Sawangsapp
Publisher: name: Faculty of Management Science Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University
Year: 2018
Subjects: marketing mix
clean food
woman of working age

description: Journal of Management Science Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University, 5, 2, 30-44
A Nemzeti Közszolgálati Egyetem Hadtudományi és Honvédtisztképző Kar tudományos és nemzetközi tevékenysége: 2017–2019 1. rész
Creators: name: Pohl, Árpád
name: Jobbágy, Zoltán
Publisher: name: Magyar Hadtudományi Társaság
Year: 2020

description: Hadtudomány, vol. 30. Electronic issue., ISSN 1215-4121, eISSN 1588-0605
CD34 function in intracellular signaling and mucosal inflammatory disease development
Creators: name: Gold, Matthew
name: Blanchet, Marie-Renee
name: Samayawardhena, Lionel A
name: Bennett, Jami
name: Maltby, Steven
name: Pallen, Catherine J
name: McNagny, Kelly M
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

Abstract
Exogenous geological processes of the territory of Chara-Sakukan
Creators: name: Lemenkov, Wasiliy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Data Analysis
subject: Earth Science

description: Presentation of the Diploma Thesis Defence. Exogenous geological processes of the territory of Chara-Sakukan.
Functional genomics of the peripheral blood response to allergen inhalation challenge
Creators: name: Kam, Sarah H.
name: Ruan, Jian
name: Gauvreau, Gail M.
name: O’Byrne, Paul M., 1951-
name: FitzGerald, J. M.
name: Tebbutt, Scott J.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

Abstract
3D DOCUMENTATION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE SITES USING DRONE AND PHOTOGRAMMETRY: A CASE STUDY OF PHILIPPINE UNESCO-RECOGNIZED BAROQUE CHURCHES
Creators: name: January D. Febro
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2020
Subjects: Drone photogrammetry
Drone survey
Cultural Heritage Documentation
Church 3D model
Photogrammetry workflow
Digital cultural heritage site documentation

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 11, 8, 11A8M: 1-14
title: Synthese einer neuen Deco-5,6-diulose nach Vorbild der Peltalosa
Creators: name: Fegert, Katharina
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Kohlenhydrate , Chemische Synthese , Synthese , Disaccharide , Ribose , Xylose , Retrosynthese , Sulfone , Oxidation , Dihydroxylierung
subject: 540
subject: Ramberg-Bäcklund-Umlagerung
subject: Olefinmetathese

description: In der Natur finden sich einige Beispiele für Diulosen, d.h. Kohlenhydrate mit zwei Ketogruppen. Diese entstehen unter anderem durch die enzymatische Oxidation von D-Galactose durch verschiedene Bakterien oder im Rahmen der Maillard-Reaktion, die bei der Zubereitung von Speisen eine Rolle spielt. Ein Beispiel für eine natürlich vorkommende Deco-5,6-diulose ist Peltalosa, die aus den Wurzeln von Psacalium peltatum extrahiert werden kann. Sie weist eine hypoglykämische Wirkung auf, weswegen ein Sud aus den Wurzeln jener Pflanze in der traditionellen mexikanischen Medizin zur Behandlung von Diabetes mellitus eingesetzt wird. Die Stereochemie dieser Verbindung ist bisher unbekannt. Diese Arbeit befasst sich mit der Synthese einer neuen Deco-5,6-diulose ausgehend von D-Ribose und D-Xylose. Hierzu wurden zwei bekannte Syntheserouten untersucht und modifiziert. Für die Syntheseroute via Olefinmetathese wurden zunächst verschieden geschützte Hex-1-enitole dargestellt, die im Schlüsselschritt zu Dec-5-enitolen umgesetzt werden sollten. Bei der zweiten Syntheseroute stellte eine Ramberg-Bäcklund-Umlagerung den entscheidenden Schritt dar. Hierzu wurde eine Reihe ribo,ribo- und xylo,xylo-konfigurierter Thiodisaccharide synthetisiert, die nach einer Oxidation zum Sulfon zu den entsprechenden Dec-5-enitolen umgelagert werden sollten. Nach anschließender Dihydroxylierung und Entschützung konnte die ribo,ribo-konfigurierte Deco-5,6-diulose erhalten werden. Der Vergleich ihrer analytischen Daten mit denen der Peltalosa konnte einen Beitrag zur Strukturaufklärung letzterer leisten, indem die ribo,ribo-Konfiguration für Peltalosa ausgeschlossen werden konnte.
A Nemzeti Közszolgálati Egyetem Hadtudományi és Honvédtisztképző Kar tudományos és nemzetközi tevékenysége: 2017–2019 2. rész
Creators: name: Pohl, Árpád
name: Jobbágy, Zoltán
Publisher: name: Magyar Hadtudományi Társaság
Year: 2020

description: Hadtudomány, vol. 30. Electronic issue., ISSN 1215-4121, eISSN 1588-0605
Petalocephala glauca
Creators: name: VIRAKTAMATH, C. A.
name: WEBB, M. D.
name: YESHWANTH, H. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Petalocephala
Petalocephala glauca

description: Petalocephala glauca (Melichar)
Figs 6A–D.
Ledropsis glauca Melichar 1903: 143, pl IV fig. 13.
Petalocephala glauca (Melichar): Distant 1908: 165.
Diagnosis. Female. Shining white with greenish yellow tinge, crown submargin bordered with faint orange. Pronotum with posterolateral margin adjacent to mesonotum strongly concave making the margin bordering mesonotum an angularly projected structure. Female sternite VII posterior margin slightly concave (Fig. 6C).
Description. Female. Shining white with greenish yellow tinge, crown submargin bordered with faint orange, median carina fine, lateral margins in front of eyes convergent, apex angularly rounded; 0.91× as long as interocular distance, 1.39× as long as pronotum. Pronotum lateral margins slightly divergent posteriorly, distance between posterolateral angles 1.08× as long as that of anterolateral angles, posterolateral margin adjacent to mesonotum concave, margin adjacent to mesonotum projected angularly, 0.74 as long as mesonotum. Female sternite VII posterior margin slightly concave (Fig. 6C).
Material examined. None, except for images of syntype from Puttalam.
Remarks. Melichar (1903) described this species based on two females (syntypes) with data “Peradeniya, Juli 1900 (Type jn Kirkaldy’s Sammlung). Puttalam (Museum Budapest)”.
description: Published as part of VIRAKTAMATH, C. A., WEBB, M. D. & YESHWANTH, H. M., 2025, Leafhopper subfamily Ledrinae of the Indian subcontinent: 2. Genera Digitata Wang, Li & Dai, Latycephala McKamey, Petalocephala Stål and Thlasia Germar (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) with description of six new species, pp. 1-71 in Zootaxa 5623 (1) on pages 16-17, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5623.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15324666
USO IRRACIONAL DOS MEDICAMENTOS ANTI-INFLAMATÓRIOS NÃO ESTERÓIDES
Creators: name: Carol Farias REZENDE
name: Fernanda Silva ALVES
name: Fernanda Silva ALVES
name: Ana Ydelplynya Guimarães AMARO
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uso irracional de Medicamentos
Anti-inflamatórios não esteroides
Automedicação
Cicloxigenases
Anti-inflamatórios e seus efeitos adversos

description: RESUMO

 

Os anti-inflamatórios não esteroides (AINES) são amplamente utilizados como analgésicos para tratar dores agudas e crônicas, como aquelas associadas a processos inflamatórios, cirurgias, artrite reumatoide e osteoartrites. Embora sejam eficazes, o uso inadequado é comum, com a OMS alertando que mais de 50% dos medicamentos são prescritos ou vendidos de forma imprópria. Isso se deve, em parte, à falta de informação dos pacientes, que muitas vezes ignoram as orientações médicas sobre posologia e segurança, levando ao uso excessivo. Os AINES atuam inibindo as enzimas ciclooxigenases (COX-1 e COX-2), responsáveis pela produção de prostaglandinas, que estão envolvidas na dor e inflamação. A COX-1 tem funções protetoras no organismo, enquanto a COX-2 está relacionada a processos inflamatórios. O uso indiscriminado pode causar efeitos adversos, como dores e úlceras gastrointestinais, o que torna crucial a orientação médica adequada sobre o uso seguro desses medicamentos.
Spanish grammatical gender: Linguistic intuition in Spanish heritage speakers
Creators: name: Reyes, Nancy J
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 470402
subject: Child language acquisition
classificationCode: 470407
subject: Language documentation and description

description: This research examines the acquisition of Spanish grammatical gender by children from 5 to 13 years old, born and raised in the United States to families who have at least one parent who is a native speaker os Spanish.
Gender-specific profiles of tobacco use among non-institutionalized people with serious mental illness
Creators: name: Johnson, Joy L.
name: Ratner, Pamela A.
name: Malchy, Leslie A.
name: Okoli, Chizimuzo T.
name: Procyshyn, Ric M. (Ric Michael), 1961-
name: Bottorff, J. L. (Joan L.), 1950-
name: Groening, Marlee
name: Schultz, Annette
name: Osborne, Marg
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Background: In many countries, smoking remains the leading preventable cause of death. In North America, reductions in population smoking levels are stabilising and, in recent years, those involved in tobacco control programming have turned their attention to particular segments of society that are at greatest risk for tobacco use. One such group is people with mental illness. A picture of tobacco use patterns among those with mental illness is beginning to emerge; however, there are several unanswered questions. In particular, most studies have been limited to particular in-patient groups. In addition, while it is recognised that men and women differ in relation to their reasons for smoking, levels of addiction to nicotine, and difficulties with cessation, these sex and gender differences have not been fully explored in psychiatric populations. Methods: Community residents with serious mental illness were surveyed to describe their patterns of tobacco use and to develop a gender-specific profile of their smoking status and its predictors. Results: Of 729 respondents, almost one half (46.8%) were current tobacco users with high nicotine dependence levels. They spent a majority of their income on tobacco, and reported using smoking to cope with their psychiatric symptoms. Current smokers, compared with non-smokers, were more likely to be: diagnosed with a schizophrenia spectrum disorder (rather than a mood disorder); male; relatively young; not a member of a racialised group (e.g., Aboriginal, Asian, South Asian, Black); poorly educated; separated or divorced; housed in a residential facility, shelter, or on the street; receiving social assistance; and reporting co-morbid substance use. There is evidence of a gender interaction with these factors; in the gender-specific multivariate logistic regression models, schizophrenia spectrum disorder versus mood disorder was not predictive of women's smoking, nor was education, marital status or cocaine use. Women, and not men, however, were more likely to be smokers if they were young and living in a residential facility. Conclusion: For men only, the presence of schizophrenia spectrum disorder is a risk factor for tobacco use. Other factors, of a social nature, contribute to the risk of smoking for both men and women with serious mental illness. The findings suggest that important social determinants of smoking are "gendered" in this population, thus tobacco control and smoking cessation programming should be gender sensitive.
Chronic corticosterone during pregnancy and postpartum affects maternal care, cell proliferation and depressive-like behavior in the dam
Creators: name: Brummelte, Susanne
name: Galea, Liisa A. M.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: Stress during pregnancy and the postpartum can influence the well-being of both the mother and her offspring. Prolonged elevated levels of glucocorticoids are associated with depression and we developed an animal model of postpartum depression/stress based on high levels of corticosterone (CORT) during the postpartum. Gestational stress is a risk factor for postpartum depression and prenatal and/or postnatal high levels of CORT may have differential effects on the mother. Thus the present study was conducted to investigate the effects of low (10mg/kg) or high levels of CORT (40mg/kg) given to dams either during gestation, postpartum or across both gestation and postpartum on maternal care, depressive-like behavior and hippocampal cell proliferation in the dam. Only the high dose of CORT administered during the postpartum increased depressive-like behavior in the dam. Furthermore the high dose of CORT altered maternal care (reduced time spent on the nest and nursing) regardless of whether administration of CORT was during gestation or postpartum. Gestational and/or postpartum treatment with high CORT and postpartum low CORT reduced cell proliferation in the dentate gyrus of postpartum dams compared to oil-treated controls. Thus prolonged treatment with high levels of CORT postpartum reduced maternal care, hippocampal cell proliferation and induced depressive-like behavior in the dam and therefore might be considered an animal model of postpartum depression. More research is needed to understand the effects of stress hormones during different phases of reproduction and how they affect the brain and behavior of the mother and her offspring.
A síkvidéki települések belvízzel és aszállyal szembeni rugalmas ellenálló képességének növelése
Creators: name: Priváczki-Juhászné Hajdu, Zsuzsanna
name: Muhoray, Árpád
Publisher: name: Magyar Hadtudományi Társaság
Year: 2020

description: Hadtudomány, vol. 30. Electronic issue., ISSN 1215-4121, eISSN 1588-0605
Petalocephala hearsayi Distant
Creators: name: VIRAKTAMATH, C. A.
name: WEBB, M. D.
name: YESHWANTH, H. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Petalocephala
Petalocephala hearsayi

description: Petalocephala hearsayi Distant
Figs. 6E–H.
Petalocephala hearsayi Distant 1908: 163.
Diagnosis. Female. Externally resembling P. bicolor but lacking marginal brown border to crown, pronotum and claval suture. Crown medially as long as interocular distance, more strongly convergent in front of eyes and apex more narrowly angled compared to that in P. bicolor. Abdominal sternites broadly posteriorly and in some segments laterally bordered by dark brown; female sternite VII posterior margin straight (Fig. 6G).
Description. Distant (1908) adequately described the external features of this species. Additional features are as follows. Abdominal sternites broadly posteriorly and in some segments laterally bordered by dark brown. Crown medially carinate, lateral margin straight for very short distance in front of eyes then strongly convergent, apex narrowly and bluntly angled, lateral margins straight; 1.02× as long as interocular width and 1.32× as long as median length of pronotum. Ocelli closer to each other than to adjacent eye. Pronotal lateral margins strongly divergent posteriorly, distance between posterolateral angles 1.2× as long as that between anterolateral angles, 0.74× as long as mesonotum, posterolateral margins adjacent to mesonotum straight. Female sternite VII posterior margin almost straight (Fig. 6G).
Material examined. INDIA: HOLOTYPE ♀, E[ast] Ind[ia], [18]61 83 (on reverse), register entry: “India (Barrackpore) Sir John Hearsay” “ Petalocephala hearsay Dist. Type”, “Type”, “ Holotype ”, “NHMUK 010592228”; PARATYPE sex unknown (abdomen missing), “ Sikkim ”; 1♀, Kurseong, 5000’, 10-26.ix.1909 (all BMNH).
Remarks. Distant (1908) described this species based on an unknown number of specimens with data: “Sikhim (coll. Dist.)” and a single specimen with data: “Barrackpore (Sir Jno. Hearsay, Brit. Mus.)”. He also designated the specimen from Barrackpore as the holotype.
description: Published as part of VIRAKTAMATH, C. A., WEBB, M. D. & YESHWANTH, H. M., 2025, Leafhopper subfamily Ledrinae of the Indian subcontinent: 2. Genera Digitata Wang, Li & Dai, Latycephala McKamey, Petalocephala Stål and Thlasia Germar (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) with description of six new species, pp. 1-71 in Zootaxa 5623 (1) on page 17, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5623.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15324666
Report on magnetic circular dichroism measurements
Creators: name: Grillo, Vincenzo
name: Tavabi, Amir
name: Dunin-Borkowski, Rafal
name: Tiemeijer, Peter
name: Ghosh, Moutita
name: Bertoni, Giovanni
name: Frabboni, Stefano
name: Rosi, Paolo
name: Roncaglia, Alberto
name: Karimi, Ebrahim
name: Zanfrognini, Matteo
name: Rusz, Jan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Q-sort

description: This deliverable contains the first conclusions about the viability of electron magnetic chiral dichroism (EMCD) experiments, as the acquisition of atomic-scale EMCD is one of the main goals of the Project.
 In preparation for the actual EMCD measurement, a large comprehensive theoretical and experimental-test work was found out to be necessary. Such work focused on both the modified electron optics as well as on the interaction between probe electrons and sample and is described in this deliverable.
Children and Youth in British Columbia : Injury by Ages and Stages, 2003-2007
Creators: name: Scime, Giulia
name: Rajabali, Fahra
name: Turcotte, Kate
name: Jivani, Khairun
name: Babul, Shelina
name: Pike, Ian, 1958-
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2021

description: Children and Youth in British Columbia: Injury by Ages and Stages 2003‐2007 looks at the current injury mortality, hospitalization and emergency data to describe child and youth injury statistics and patterns in BC.
Jupiter Equation of Anomaly - Ptolemy's Almagest by Toomer (Gerald J.) (1984) | Type-B (ID n° 360)
Creators: name: Toomer, Gerald J.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2021
Subjects: Astronomy
Medieval history

description: This is a type B edition: A type-B edition corresponds to a critical edition of several table witnesses:
 it is based on several different editions, themselves based on tables from different primary sources.
 A type-B edition can be based on type-A, type-B or type-C editions.
You can find it on the DISHAS project website from this link: https://dishas.obspm.fr/table-edition/360
description: Source: Ptolemy's Almagest, Toomer (Gerald J.), 1984
Participants' preference for type of leaflet used to feed back the results of a randomised trial: a survey
Creators: name: Brealey, Stephen
name: Andronis, Lazaros
name: Dennis, Laura
name: Atwell, Christine
name: Bryan, Stirling
name: Coulton, Simon
name: Cox, Helen
name: Cross, Ben
name: Fylan, Fiona
name: Garratt, Andrew
name: Gilbert, Fiona
name: Gillan, Maureen
name: Hendry, Maggie
name: Hood, Kerenza
name: Houston, Helen
name: King, David
name: Morton, Veronica
name: Robling, Michael
name: Russell, Ian
name: Wilkinson, Clare
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Background: Hundreds of thousands of volunteers take part in medical research, but many will never hear from researchers about what the study revealed. There is a growing demand for the results of randomised trials to be fed back to research participants both for ethical research practice and for ensuring their co-operation in a trial. This study aims to determine participants' preferences for type of leaflet (short versus long) used to summarise the findings of a randomised trial; and to test whether certain characteristics explained participants' preferences. Methods: 553 participants in a randomised trial about General Practitioners' access to Magnetic Resonance Imaging for patients presenting with suspected internal derangement of the knee were asked in the final follow-up questionnaire whether they would like to be fed back the results of the trial. Participants who agreed to this were included in a postal questionnaire survey asking about their preference, if any, between a short and a long leaflet and what it was about the leaflet that they preferred. Multinomial logistic regression was used to test whether certain demographics of responding participants along with treatment group explained whether a participant had a preference for type of leaflet or no preference. Results: Of the participants who returned the final follow-up questionnaire, 416 (88%) agreed to receive the results of the trial. Subsequently 132 (32%) participants responded to the survey. Most participants preferred the longer leaflet (55%) and the main reasons for this were the use of technical information (94%) and diagrams (89%). There was weak evidence to suggest that gender might explain whether participants have a preference for type of leaflet or not (P = 0.084). Conclusions: Trial participants want to receive feed back about the results and appear to prefer a longer leaflet. Males and females might require information to be communicated to them differently and should be the focus of further research. Trial registration: The trial is registered with http://www.isrctn.org/ and ID is ISRCTN76616358.
Internationalization strategies in Spanish universities: a corpus-driven analysis of institutional documents
Creators: name: Villares, Rosana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: internationalization, corpus linguistics, document analysis, Spanish higher education

description: THIS PRESENTATION is part of an on-going PhD dissertation aiming to examine the internationalization strategies of Spanish universities since the process of becoming an international university may vary due to factors such as the local context, motivation, goals, or even research fields (Childress 2006, 2010; Knight 2004; Maringe and Foskett, 2010). In this case, I adopt a top-down approach to deal with internationalization in order to study how universities understand it. Furthermore, the results are compared to the national framework for internationalization “Strategy for the Internationalization of Spanish Universities” (MECD, 2014) to find the most frequently-used lines of action and to comment on their degree of implementation. Following McEnery and Hardie’s (2012) principles, I compiled a corpus of 110 institutional documents formed by strategic plans and internationalization documents from 71 universities. Corpus linguistics was the chosen methodology and the Antconc software (Anthony, 2011) was used to retrieve frequency lists, keyword lists, and collocation patterns in order to analyze the meanings of ‘internationalization’ in context. Corpus findings show key indicators of internationalization are mainly related to mobility, the presence of international students, international collaborations and agreements, teaching in English, dissemination of knowledge, and language accreditation. Moving beyond these broader semantic correlations, of particular interest are the references to languages and language use in relation to internationalization. This seems to match the National framework’s internationalization strategic objectives, which in addition to encourage an international university system, international visibility and recognition, and international and interregional partnerships, focus on national —Spanish— and foreign —English— languages as one of the main assets to export and import internationalization in the Spanish Higher Education.
Petalocephala insignis Distant
Creators: name: VIRAKTAMATH, C. A.
name: WEBB, M. D.
name: YESHWANTH, H. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Petalocephala
Petalocephala insignis

description: Petalocephala insignis Distant
Figs 6I–K.
Petalocephala insignis Distant 1908: 167–168, Fig. 111.
Diagnosis. Female.Very distinctively marked species: crown margin marked with narrow dark reddish brown border, median stripe extending to anterior half-length along median carina, lateral margins of pronotum dark brown, face dorsal margin reddish brown, a median slightly arrow-head shaped stripe extending from dorsal margin to lateral of antennal bases black; forewing with subcostal longitudinal dark reddish brown band extending to basal 0.66 distance and distally curved mesally and fading towards vein M. Crown lateral margins convergent in front of eyes, apex conically rounded, median carina prominent. Sternite VII deeply concavely excavated in middle (Fig. 6J).
Description. Distant (1908) adequately described and illustrated the external features of this species.Additional features are as follows. Crown median carina prominent; 0.77× as long as interocular distance; 1.23× as long as pronotum. Pronotal lateral margins strongly diverging, distance between posterolateral angles 1.22× as long as that between anterolateral angles; 0.6× as long as mesonotum. Female sternite VII deeply concavely excavated in middle (Fig. 6J).
Material examined. INDIA: SYNTYPE ♀, “ Sikkim ”, “127”, “Atkinson Coll. [18]92-6, “ Petalocephala insignis Dist. Type ”, “ Type ”, “ Syntype ”, “NHMUK 010592230” (BMNH).
Remarks. Distant (1908) described this species based on an unspecified number of female specimens (syntypic) with data “Sikhim [sic] (Atkinson Coll., Brit. Mus.)”.
description: Published as part of VIRAKTAMATH, C. A., WEBB, M. D. & YESHWANTH, H. M., 2025, Leafhopper subfamily Ledrinae of the Indian subcontinent: 2. Genera Digitata Wang, Li & Dai, Latycephala McKamey, Petalocephala Stål and Thlasia Germar (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) with description of six new species, pp. 1-71 in Zootaxa 5623 (1) on pages 17-18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5623.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15324666
Evolution of Rhizaria: new insights from phylogenomic analysis of uncultivated protists
Creators: name: Burki, Fabien
name: Kudryavtsev, Alexander
name: Matz, Mikhail V.
name: Aglyamova, Galina V.
name: Bulman, Simon
name: Fiers, Mark
name: Keeling, Patrick J. (Patrick John), 1969-
name: Pawlowski, Jan
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Background: Recent phylogenomic analyses have revolutionized our view of eukaryote evolution by revealing unexpected relationships between and within the eukaryotic supergroups. However, for several groups of uncultivable protists, only the ribosomal RNA genes and a handful of proteins are available, often leading to unresolved evolutionary relationships. A striking example concerns the supergroup Rhizaria, which comprises several groups of uncultivable free-living protists such as radiolarians, foraminiferans and gromiids, as well as the parasitic plasmodiophorids and haplosporids. Thus far, the relationships within this supergroup have been inferred almost exclusively from rRNA, actin, and polyubiquitin genes, and remain poorly resolved. To address this, we have generated large Expressed Sequence Tag (EST) datasets for 5 species of Rhizaria belonging to 3 important groups: Acantharea (Astrolonche sp., Phyllostaurus sp.), Phytomyxea (Spongospora subterranea, Plasmodiophora brassicae) and Gromiida (Gromia sphaerica). Results: 167 genes were selected for phylogenetic analyses based on the representation of at least one rhizarian species for each gene. Concatenation of these genes produced a supermatrix composed of 36,735 amino acid positions, including 10 rhizarians, 9 stramenopiles, and 9 alveolates. Phylogenomic analyses of this large dataset revealed a strongly supported clade grouping Foraminifera and Acantharea. The position of this clade within Rhizaria was sensitive to the method employed and the taxon sampling: Maximum Likelihood (ML) and Bayesian analyses using empirical model of evolution favoured an early divergence, whereas the CAT model and ML analyses with fast-evolving sites or the foraminiferan species Reticulomyxa filosa removed suggested a derived position, closely related to Gromia and Phytomyxea. In contrast to what has been previously reported, our analyses also uncovered the presence of the rhizarian-specific polyubiquitin insertion in Acantharea. Finally, this work reveals another possible rhizarian signature in the 60S ribosomal protein L10a. Conclusions: Our study provides new insights into the evolution of Rhizaria based on phylogenomic analyses of ESTs from three groups of previously under-sampled protists. It was enabled through the application of a recently developed method of transcriptome analysis, requiring very small amount of starting material. Our study illustrates the potential of this method to elucidate the early evolution of eukaryotes by providing large amount of data for uncultivable free-living and parasitic protists.
Efficient algorithms for training the parameters of hidden Markov models using stochastic expectation maximization (EM) training and Viterbi training
Creators: name: Lam, Tin Y
name: Meyer, Irmtraud M
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Background: Hidden Markov models are widely employed by numerous bioinformatics programs used today. Applications range widely from comparative gene prediction to time-series analyses of micro-array data. The parameters of the underlying models need to be adjusted for specific data sets, for example the genome of a particular species, in order to maximize the prediction accuracy. Computationally efficient algorithms for parameter training are thus key to maximizing the usability of a wide range of bioinformatics applications. Results: We introduce two computationally efficient training algorithms, one for Viterbi training and one for stochastic expectation maximization (EM) training, which render the memory requirements independent of the sequence length. Unlike the existing algorithms for Viterbi and stochastic EM training which require a two-step procedure, our two new algorithms require only one step and scan the input sequence in only one direction. We also implement these two new algorithms and the already published linear-memory algorithm for EM training into the hidden Markov model compiler HMM- CONVERTER and examine their respective practical merits for three small example models. Conclusions: Bioinformatics applications employing hidden Markov models can use the two algorithms in order to make Viterbi training and stochastic EM training more computationally efficient. Using these algorithms, parameter training can thus be attempted for more complex models and longer training sequences. The two new algorithms have the added advantage of being easier to implement than the corresponding default algorithms for Viterbi training and stochastic EM training.
Petalocephala kempi Pruthi
Creators: name: VIRAKTAMATH, C. A.
name: WEBB, M. D.
name: YESHWANTH, H. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Petalocephala
Petalocephala kempi

description: Petalocephala kempi Pruthi
Figs 7A–C.
Petalocephala kempi Pruthi 1936: 101, fig. 116, pl VIII fig 1.
Diagnosis. Female. Crown about 1.5× as long as interocular distance, 2× as long as median length of pronotum, median carina prominent, lateral margins in front of eyes more or less straight and apex broadly rounded. Pronotum and mesonotum with dark brown patches, thoracic and abdominal sternites with reddish patches. Forewing with numerous cross veins. Sternite VII with almost straight posterior margin.
Description. Female. Pruthi (196) adequately described the external features of this species. Crown with median carina prominent, lateral margins more or less straight then convergent, apex broadly rounded; 1.5× as long as interocular width; 2.0× as long as median length of pronotum. Pronotal lateral margins slightly divergent, distance between posterolateral angles 1.07× as long as that between anterolateral angles; 0.9× as long as mesonotum. Sternite VII posterior margin almost straight.
Material examined. INDIA: Tamil Nadu: Paratype 1♀, “ Kodaikanal, 6700–7000 ft, Palni Hills, ix.1922, S. Kemp ”, “ Paratype ”, “5381/H7” (ZSI).
Remarks. Pruthi (1936) described this species based on holotype and two paratype female specimens from Kodaikanal. The holotype is probably missing.
description: Published as part of VIRAKTAMATH, C. A., WEBB, M. D. & YESHWANTH, H. M., 2025, Leafhopper subfamily Ledrinae of the Indian subcontinent: 2. Genera Digitata Wang, Li & Dai, Latycephala McKamey, Petalocephala Stål and Thlasia Germar (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) with description of six new species, pp. 1-71 in Zootaxa 5623 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5623.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15324666
КОНСТРУКТИВНО-ТЕХНОЛОГИЧЕСКИЕ РЕШЕНИЯ, РЕАЛИЗОВАННЫЕ ПРИ РЕКОНСТРУКЦИИ ЖЕЛЕЗНОДОРОЖНОГО ПУТЕПРОВОДА ЧЕРЕЗ БОЛЬШУЮ ТУЛЬСКУЮ УЛИЦУ В Г. МОСКВЕ
Creators: name: КОЗЛОВ ВИТАЛИЙ ОЛЕГОВИЧ
Publisher: name: Наука, техника и образование
Year: 2020
Subjects: РЕКОНСТРУКЦИЯ
ЖЕЛЕЗНОДОРОЖНЫЙ ПУТЕПРОВОД
ПРОЕКТИРОВАНИЕ
КОНСТРУКТИВНО-ТЕХНОЛОГИЧЕСКИЕ РЕШЕНИЯ
МОСТОВОЕ ПЕРЕСЕЧЕНИЕ
RECONSTRUCTION
RAILWAY OVERPASS
DESIGN
STRUCTURAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS
BRIDGE CROSSING

description: В основе статьи лежит железнодорожный путепровод через Большую Тульскую улицу и трамвайные пути в г. Москве, построенный в 2006 году. Путепровод представляет собой комбинированную систему с полигональным верхним и жестким нижним поясами и с решеткой из наклонных раскосов в качестве главного пролетного строения, и плитная конструкция из монолитного железобетона, трапецеидальной конфигурации в плане в качестве переходного строения. Проект был выполнен силами инженеров ГУП «Мосинжпроект». При проектировании было рассмотрено 8 вариантов, анализ которых позволил реализовать новейшие конструктивно-технологические решения, описанию которых уделено большое место в данной статье.
Evaluating the effect of host DNA background on bacterial detection in low microbial burden respiratory samples using shallow shotgun metagenomic sequencing (SSMS)
Creators: name: Testo, George
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Chronic rhinosinusitis
Chronic inflammatory disease
Shallow shotgun metagenomics
Host DNA contamination
Host DNA background

description: Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is an airway inflammatory disease characterized by chronic inflammation of the sinonasal cavity. Each year, CRS affects more than 10% of the US adult population and costs the US healthcare system more than $65 billion in expenses. The respiratory microbiome–the aggregate of microorganisms that reside in the respiratory tract– is associated with host health status. However, an altered sinus microbiome is associated with CRS pathologies, though typical amplicon-based sequencing approaches cannot distinguish species and strains in the microbiome. Shallow shotgun metagenomic sequencing (SSMS) is a novel research technique that can be used to examine the respiratory microbiome at a higher resolution. However, host DNA contamination can be problematic in respiratory samples, where microbial burden is low. We evaluated the microbial composition of 70 respiratory samples collected from patients with CRS and comorbidities: asthma, CRS without nasal polyps (CRSsNP), CRS with nasal polyps (CRSwNP), and cystic fibrosis (CF) using SSMS. Quality control and host read removal utilizing a human reference database was performed using fastqc, kneaddata, and bowtie2. Species-level classification and relative abundance estimation of microbial reads was performed using kraken2 and bracken. Using SSMS, we were able to resolve bacterial and fungal species and strains associated with the CRS microbiome, however, 89.5% of the sequenced DNA was host-derived. This finding suggests that host DNA background decreased sequencing sensitivity for the detection of low abundance bacteria. In the future, we will leverage host DNA removal prior to SSMS and bioinformatics.
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NON-COMPUTABILITY AND UNPREDICTABILITY ARE SO YESTERDAY: WITH COMPUTABLE AND PREDICTABLE COSMIC STRUCTURE, PLUS IMPLICATIONS FOR MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE
Creators: name: Bartlett, Rodney
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: intuition and mathematics, Mercury's precession, Planet 9, Trans Neptunian Objects, space-time, Big Bang, interstellar travel, radioactive dating, dark matter, dark energy, intergalactic travel, time travel, electronics, topology, programming, wormholes

description: A quote attributed to Albert Einstein points out that intuition is the source of great ideas while mathematics is only intuition's faithful servant. Prior to being assaulted by equations, the two diagrams below immediately show a great similarity between Mercury’s precession and Planet Nine’s effect on the perihelia of several TNOs (Trans Neptunian Objects). On one side of the Sun, Mercury’s orbit displays an ascending pattern while its perihelion on the opposite side of the Sun maintains a constant level. In the second diagram, the TNOs on one side of the Sun show what can be viewed as a (less orderly) ascending or descending pattern. The greatest part of the orbit of the alleged cause of their perihelia being attracted to more-or-less the same point in space (Planet Nine) is on the other side of the Sun. This leads to consequences for the structure of space-time and for the Big Bang, for interstellar travel and radioactive dating, as well as for dark matter and dark energy. The proposed method of interstellar travel also leads to intergalactic travel plus elimination of distance between all points in the past, present, and future. To use a popular term, this is "time travel" which has the potential to remove the electronic and topological construction of the universe described in this article from any supernatural agency. That construction might be the result of presently unimaginable electronics, programming, and mathematics which won't be developed, in the words of astronomer Carl Sagan, until "billions upon billions" of years from now.
description: This was my entry in the 2020 contest of FQXi (Foundational Questions Institute).
معرفیِ مجله¬یِ «پارسی¬نامه» فصل‌نامه‌ای جدید ویژه‌یِ فارسی‌آموزان
Creators: name: Kiani, Sara
name: Babai, Elham
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: «پارسی‌نامه» یک مجله‌یِ آموزشی با محتوای فرهنگی-ادبی است که مخاطبِ آن فارسی‌آموزان خارجی هستند. این نشریه در مرکزِ آزفای دانشگاه الزهرا تهیه و تدوین گردیده است. نخستین شماره از این فصل‌نامه در پاییز 1398 آماده گردید که پس از اخذ مجوزهای لازم در فروردین 1399 به چاپ رسید و به دو صورت الکترونیک و چاپی منتشر شد.
Optimum Recovery through Gas Cycling in Gas Condensate Reservoir
Creators: name: Habib Rehman Solangi
name: Mujahid Ali
name: Muhammad Shoaib
name: Noshad Shar
name: Miandad Jatoi
name: Lal Bakhsh Rattar
name: Abid Ali Mirani
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016

description: Retrograde gas condensate reservoir has unique thermodynamic and depletion behavior. More challenging problems are associated with gas condensate reservoirs as compared to other reservoir types. When the bottomhole flowing pressure drops below the dewpoint pressure, condensate bank is formed around the wellbore region and causes two main problems. First is decrease in gas deliverability due to reduction in gas relative permeability and second is loss of valuable condensate in condensate banking region. Best possible way to mitigate the problems is pressure maintenance. It enhances the gas deliverability and condensate productivity by preventing liquid dropout. Phase behavior, relative permeability and production strategy are the factors which influence the deliverability of well and optimization of recovery of condensate, therefore these factors need to be modeled appropriately.
Identifying novel genes in C. elegans using SAGE tags
Creators: name: Nesbitt, Matthew J
name: Moerman, Donald G
name: Chen, Nansheng
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Background: Despite extensive efforts devoted to predicting protein-coding genes in genome sequences, many bona fide genes have not been found and many existing gene models are not accurate in all sequenced eukaryote genomes. This situation is partly explained by the fact that gene prediction programs have been developed based on our incomplete understanding of gene feature information such as splicing and promoter characteristics. Additionally, full-length cDNAs of many genes and their isoforms are hard to obtain due to their low level or rare expression. In order to obtain full-length sequences of all protein-coding genes, alternative approaches are required. Results: In this project, we have developed a method of reconstructing full-length cDNA sequences based on short expressed sequence tags which is called s equence t ag-based a mplification of c DNA e nds (STACE). Expressed tags are used as anchors for retrieving full-length transcripts in two rounds of PCR amplification. We have demonstrated the application of STACE in reconstructing full-length cDNA sequences using expressed tags mined in an array of serial analysis of gene expression (SAGE) of C. elegans cDNA libraries. We have successfully applied STACE to recover sequence information for 12 genes, for two of which we found isoforms. STACE was used to successfully recover full-length cDNA sequences for seven of these genes. Conclusions: The STACE method can be used to effectively reconstruct full-length cDNA sequences of genes that are under-represented in cDNA sequencing projects and have been missed by existing gene prediction methods, but their existence has been suggested by short sequence tags such as SAGE tags.
Determinants of Pedestrians' Visual Preferences for Wayfinding Signage: An Empirical Study from Nanning, China
Creators: name: Zhou, Jialu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 330410
subject: Urban analysis and development
classificationCode: 330411
subject: Urban design
classificationCode: 330413
subject: Urban planning and health

description: This study investigated the visual preferences of pedestrians in Nanning, China, for wayfinding signage.
Petalocephala latifrons Walker
Creators: name: VIRAKTAMATH, C. A.
name: WEBB, M. D.
name: YESHWANTH, H. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Petalocephala
Petalocephala latifrons

description: Petalocephala latifrons (Walker)
Figs 7D–J, 18D–F, 20K, 21M–P, 28A–H.
Ledra latifrons Walker 1851: 824.
Petalocephala latifrons (Walker): Stål 1862, 494; Distant 1908: 166, fig. 110.
Destinoides latifrons (Walker): Sun et al. 2014: 80, figs 1–9.
Destinoides fasciata Cai & He 2000:57-58, fig. 13-1, synonymized by Sun et al. 2014: 80.
Diagnosis. Male pygofer elongate, triangular about 2.7× as long as height in lateral view, with one prong-like short ventral process that does not reach dorsal margin. Male style with ventrally abruptly directed apical part acutely pointed with subapical tooth and with a tuft of short setae at the point of ventral bend. Aedeagal shaft with one pair of short dorsally directed lateral processes and one unpaired median process on dorsal surface near apex. This species closely resembles P. conspicua (Distant) described from Singapore that differs in lacking the lateral paired subapical processes of the aedeagus. Female sternite VII with straight anterior margin, lateral margins straight slightly convergent posteriorly, posterior margin rounded laterally, medially concavely excavated much more deeply than in the similar P. uniformis (Fig. 20K).
Female genitalia. Valvula I slightly curved dorsally, narrow in mid-region, sculptured area occupying distal 0.33 area, sculpturing strigate, strigae narrow proximally occupying half-width in distal half-length of sculptured area (Figs 21 MN). Valvula II much straighter than valvula I, narrow in proximal 0.33 distance then more or less of uniform width, without prominent tooth before start of regular toothed area (Fig. 21 OP).
Material examined. HOLOTYPE ♂, “367”, “31 [on reverse]”, “ Ledra latifrons ”, “Type” (BMNH). Other material. INDIA: Meghalaya: 1♂, Ri-Bhoi, ICAR RC NEH, Umiam, 1031m, 8.vi.2013, Yeshwanth, H.M. (UASB); Assam: 1♂, Golaghat, Konar, 15.v.2015, at light, Shivaprakash, T.H.M. (NBAIR); Tripura: 1♂, Chabimuna, 15.v.2010, D. Lashkar; 1♂, Trishna, 6.i.2009, D. Laskar (UASB); 1♂, Honat, 2200 m, Tehrigarhwal 12.x.1988, Swept from grasses, V.V. Ramamurthy (NPC).
Remarks. This species was described from a single specimen (holotype). Distant (1908) adequately redescribed the external features of this species and Sun et al. (2014) illustrated the male genitalia. P. latifrons, P. nigrilinea (Walker) and P. uniformis males resemble each other and have similar color pattern including cinnamon brown markings on forewings, however, they have different male genitalia structures.
description: Published as part of VIRAKTAMATH, C. A., WEBB, M. D. & YESHWANTH, H. M., 2025, Leafhopper subfamily Ledrinae of the Indian subcontinent: 2. Genera Digitata Wang, Li & Dai, Latycephala McKamey, Petalocephala Stål and Thlasia Germar (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) with description of six new species, pp. 1-71 in Zootaxa 5623 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5623.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15324666