cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Agonum Bonelli 1810
Creators: name: Azadbakhsh, Saeed
name: Nozari, Jamasb
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Year: 2015
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Agonum

description: Genus Agonum Bonelli, 1810
Subgenus Agonum Bonelli, 1810
Agonum (Agonum) gisellae Csiki, 1931 Citations: Without exact locality (Bousquet, 2003c).
Agonum (Agonum) menetriesii Faldermann, 1839
Citations: Kurusch-göl (Prov. of East Azarbaijan; Mandl, 1963).
Agonum (Agonum) mesostictum Bates, 1889 = chotjaii Morvan, 1973
Citations: Kazerun (Prov. of Fars; Morvan, 1973).
Agonum (Agonum) monachum (Duftschmid, 1812)
Citations: Without exact locality (Hieke & Wrase, 1988).
Agonum (Agonum) rugicolle Chaudoir, 1846
= löffleri Jedlička, 1963
Citations: Kuh-räng (Prov. of Esfahan; Jedlička, 1963); Kuh-räng (Prov. of Esfahan; Mandl, 1963).
Subgenus Olisares Motschulsky, 1865
Agonum (Olisares) lugens (Duftschmid, 1812) = longipenne Mannerheim, 1844
Citations: Astrabad (Prov. of Mazandaran; Chaudoir, 1844).
Agonum (Olisares) viridicupreum viridicupreum (Goeze, 1777)
Studied material: Lale-Zar, Prov. of Kerman. 2014
Citations: Kurusch-göl (Prov. of East Azarbaijan; Mandl, 1963); Lalezar (Prov. of Kerman; Mandl, 1963).
description: Published as part of Azadbakhsh, Saeed & Nozari, Jamasb, 2015, Checklist of the Iranian Ground Beetles (Coleoptera; Carabidae), pp. 1-108 in Zootaxa 4024 (1) on page 88, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4024.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/240494
Anchomenus Bonelli 1810
Creators: name: Azadbakhsh, Saeed
name: Nozari, Jamasb
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
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Anchomenus

description: Genus Anchomenus Bonelli, 1810
Subgenus Anchomenus Bonelli, 1810.
Anchomenus (Anchomenus) dorsalis (Pontoppidan, 1763)
Studied material: Khirood forest (Prov. of Mazandaran); (ZMTU): Aghasht (Prov. of Tehran), Baraghan, River (Prov. of Elburz), Nowshahr (Prov. of Mazandaran), Hashtpar (Prov. of Gilan), Gardane-Heyran and Namin (Prov. of Ardabil).
Citations: Farsistan region (prov. of Fars; Redtenfoacher, 1848); Anbar-Abad (Prov. of Kerman; Jedlička, 1961); Kurusch-göl (Prov. of East Azarbaijan; Mandl, 1963); Nir (Prov. of Ardabil; Atamehr, 2013); Gorgan env. (Prov. of Golestan; Afshari & Khormali, 2014); Khirood forest, NowShahr (Prov. of Mazandaran; Azadbakhsh et al., 2015).
Anchomenus (Anchomenus) turkestanicus Ballion, 1871 Citations: Without exact locality (Bousquet, 2003c).
description: Published as part of Azadbakhsh, Saeed & Nozari, Jamasb, 2015, Checklist of the Iranian Ground Beetles (Coleoptera; Carabidae), pp. 1-108 in Zootaxa 4024 (1) on pages 88-89, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4024.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/240494
MPEC 2024-X200 : 2024 XM7
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 XM7

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Tapinopa vara Locket 1982
Creators: name: Tanasevitch, Andrei V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
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Tapinopa
Tapinopa vara

description: Tapinopa vara Locket, 1982
Material examined. 1 Male (MHNG), INDONESIA, Sumatra, West Sumatra Province, Rimbo Panti N.R., ca. 30 km N of Lubuksikaping, 0°20’46”N 100°04’09”E, 300–400 m a.s.l., primary forest; 11 and 13.VI.2006; P. Schwendinger leg. [Sum-06/18].
Remarks. The species is new to the fauna of Indonesia.
Distribution. Yunnan, China (Zhao & Li 2014), Thailand (Tanasevitch 2014b), West Malaysia (Locket 1982), Indonesia.
description: Published as part of Tanasevitch, Andrei V., 2017, New species and new records of linyphiid spiders from the Indo-Malayan Region (Araneae, Linyphiidae), pp. 325-346 in Zootaxa 4227 (3) on page 342, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4227.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/268323
Atranus LeConte 1848
Creators: name: Azadbakhsh, Saeed
name: Nozari, Jamasb
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Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
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Atranus

description: Genus Atranus LeConte, 1848
Atranus ruficollis (Gautier des Cottes, 1857)
Studied material: (ZMTU): Nowshahr, Khirood Forest (Prov. of Mazandaran). Citations: Without exact locality (Bousquet, 2003c).
description: Published as part of Azadbakhsh, Saeed & Nozari, Jamasb, 2015, Checklist of the Iranian Ground Beetles (Coleoptera; Carabidae), pp. 1-108 in Zootaxa 4024 (1) on page 89, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4024.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/240494
Olisthopus Dejean 1828
Creators: name: Azadbakhsh, Saeed
name: Nozari, Jamasb
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
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Olisthopus

description: Genus Olisthopus Dejean, 1828
Olisthopus elburzensis (Morvan, 1977)
Citations: Gasre Shirin (Prov. of Kermanshah; Morvan, 1977).
description: Published as part of Azadbakhsh, Saeed & Nozari, Jamasb, 2015, Checklist of the Iranian Ground Beetles (Coleoptera; Carabidae), pp. 1-108 in Zootaxa 4024 (1) on page 89, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4024.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/240494
Theoa Saaristo 1995
Creators: name: Tanasevitch, Andrei V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
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Araneae
Linyphiidae
Theoa

description: Theoa Saaristo, 1995
Type species: Theoa tricaudata (Locket, 1982).
description: Published as part of Tanasevitch, Andrei V., 2017, New species and new records of linyphiid spiders from the Indo-Malayan Region (Araneae, Linyphiidae), pp. 325-346 in Zootaxa 4227 (3) on page 343, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4227.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/268323
Orthotrichus Payron 1856
Creators: name: Azadbakhsh, Saeed
name: Nozari, Jamasb
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
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Carabidae
Orthotrichus

description: Genus Orthotrichus Payron, 1856
Orthotrichus cymindoides (Dejean, 1831)
Citations: Kashmar (Prov. of Razavi Khorasan; Ghahari et al., 2009); Varamin (Prov. of Tehran; Ghahari et al., 2009).
Comment: The occurrence of this species in Iran must be confirmed and the identification should be checked. This species is known from Afghanistan, so that its occurrence in East of Iran is possible.
description: Published as part of Azadbakhsh, Saeed & Nozari, Jamasb, 2015, Checklist of the Iranian Ground Beetles (Coleoptera; Carabidae), pp. 1-108 in Zootaxa 4024 (1) on page 89, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4024.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/240494
Panurginus alticola Morawitz 1875
Creators: name: Astafurova, Yulia V.
name: Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
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Panurginus
Panurginus alticola

description: 16. Panurginus alticola Morawitz, 1875
(Fig. 16a–e)
Panurginus alticola Morawitz, 1875b: 59, ♀.
Type locality: Kazbek Mt. (Georgia).
Published (original) locality: “Gudaur, Kasbek”.
Lectotype: ♀, designated by Romankova & Astafurova 2011: 7, golden circle // Kazbek [Georgia, Kazbek Mt., 42°42′N 44°31′E] // alticola Mor., Typ., ♀ [handwritten by F. Morawitz] // Lectotypus Panurginus alticola Morawitz, 1876, ♀, Astafurova design. 2010  // Zoological Institute St. Petersburg INS _ HYM_0002535.
Paralectotypes: 8 ♀, the same label as in the lectotype.
Current status. Panurginus alticolus Morawitz, 1875 (according to Romankova & Astafurova 2011: 7).
Distribution. Russia (European part, Urals), Georgia, Kazakhstan (Proshchalykin et al. 2017).
description: Published as part of Astafurova, Yulia V. & Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu., 2024, The type specimens of bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) deposited in the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. Contribution VIII. Family Andrenidae, subfamily Panurginae, pp. 251-293 in Zootaxa 5541 (3) on page 267, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5541.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14241042
Richtlinien der Schriftenedition der Bernd Alois Zimmermann-Gesamtausgabe
Creators: name: Jäger, Hemma
name: Bohl, Benjamin W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Musicology
subject: Editionsrichtlinien

description: The files of the this first publication of the 2.0.0 release on Zenodo had corrupt data. The amended version is available at 10.5281/zenodo.14625011. Please excuse any inconvenience.
Platynus Bonelli 1810
Creators: name: Azadbakhsh, Saeed
name: Nozari, Jamasb
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
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Platynus

description: Genus Platynus Bonelli, 1810
Subgenus Platynopsis Lutshnik, 1915
Platynus (Platynopsis) semenowi (Lutshnik, 1915) Citations: Without exact locality (Bousquet, 2003c).
description: Published as part of Azadbakhsh, Saeed & Nozari, Jamasb, 2015, Checklist of the Iranian Ground Beetles (Coleoptera; Carabidae), pp. 1-108 in Zootaxa 4024 (1) on page 89, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4024.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/240494
Panurginus arsenievi Romankova & Astafurova 2011
Creators: name: Astafurova, Yulia V.
name: Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
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Panurginus
Panurginus arsenievi

description: 17. Panurginus arsenievi Romankova & Astafurova, 2011
(Fig. 17a–f)
Panurginus arsenievi Romankova & Astafurova, 2011: 16, ♂.
Type locality: Novitskoye, Primorskii Territory (Russia).
Published (original) locality: Primorskiy Kray, Novitskoye.
Holotype: ♂, Приморский край, Новицкое [Russia, Primorskii Territory, Novitskoye, 43°03′N 133°10′E], 20.VII.1984, Белокобыльский [S. Belokobylskij leg.] // Holotypus Panurginus arsenievi Romankova &Astafurova, ♂  // Zoological Institute St. Petersburg INS_HYM_0002504.
Paratypes: ♂, Russia, Primorskii Territory, Anisimovka, 24.VII.2010, M. Proshchalykin; ♂, Novokachalinsk, 21, 22.VII.2010, M. Proshchalykin  .
Current status. Panurginus arsenievi Romankova & Astafurova, 2011.
Distribution. Russia (Primorskii Territory).
description: Published as part of Astafurova, Yulia V. & Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu., 2024, The type specimens of bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) deposited in the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. Contribution VIII. Family Andrenidae, subfamily Panurginae, pp. 251-293 in Zootaxa 5541 (3) on page 268, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5541.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14241042
Theoa hamata Tanasevitch 2014
Creators: name: Tanasevitch, Andrei V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
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Theoa
Theoa hamata

description: Theoa hamata Tanasevitch, 2014
Material examined. 1 Female (MHNG), THAILAND, Krabi Province, Ao Luk Distr., limestone hill ca. 1km E of Ao Luk Tai, 8°22’02”N 98°44’17”E, 60–80 m a.s.l., remnant of semi-evergreen rainforest; 9-10.VI.2009; P. Schwendinger leg. [TH-09/08]. 1 male, 1 female (MHNG), INDONESIA, Sumatra, North Sumatra Province, Deli Serdang, Tinggi Raja N.R., near Negridolok, Tebingtinggi Region, primary forest, soil sample, Berlese extraction, 420 m a.s.l.; 15.XI.1985; B. Hauser leg. [Sum-85/33]. 1 male (MHNG), West Sumatra Province, old secondary forest above Taman Hutan Raya Bung Hatta, near road Padang to Lubuksulasih, 0°56’45”S 100°32’37”E, 1100 m a.s.l.; 29–30.V.2006; P. Schwendinger leg. [Sum-06/01]. 1 male, 3 females (MHNG), N of Payakumbuh, above Harau Canyon, 0°05’46”S 100°39’58”E, old secondary forest, 750 m a.s.l.; 7.VI.2006; P. Schwendinger leg. [Sum- 06/11].
Remarks. The species is new to the fauna of Indonesia.
Distribution. Thailand, Laos (Tanasevitch 2014a, 2014b), Indonesia.
description: Published as part of Tanasevitch, Andrei V., 2017, New species and new records of linyphiid spiders from the Indo-Malayan Region (Araneae, Linyphiidae), pp. 325-346 in Zootaxa 4227 (3) on page 343, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4227.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/268323
Sericoda Kirby 1837
Creators: name: Azadbakhsh, Saeed
name: Nozari, Jamasb
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
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Sericoda

description: Genus Sericoda Kirby, 1837
Sericoda quadripunctata (Degeer, 1774)
Citations: Without exact locality (Bodemeyer, 1927b).
description: Published as part of Azadbakhsh, Saeed & Nozari, Jamasb, 2015, Checklist of the Iranian Ground Beetles (Coleoptera; Carabidae), pp. 1-108 in Zootaxa 4024 (1) on page 89, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4024.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/240494
Panurginus dubius Osytshnjuk 1995
Creators: name: Astafurova, Yulia V.
name: Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
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Panurginus
Panurginus dubius

description: 18. Panurginus dubius Osytshnjuk, 1995
(Fig. 18a–e)
Panurginus dubius Osytshnjuk, 1995: 527, ♀, ♂.
Type locality: Irkutsk (Russia).
Published (original) locality: Irkutsk.
Holotype: ♀, Irkutsk [Russia, Irkutsk Province, Irkutsk, 52°17′N 104°18′E] // к.[оллекциЯ] Ф. Моравица [collection of F. Morawitz] // Holotypus Panurginus dubius Osytsh.  // Zoological Institute St. Petersburg INS _ HYM_0002533.
Paratypes: ♀, БурЯтиЯ, окр.[естности] ИЗЯты [Russia, Buryatia Republic, Izyaty], 28.VII.1977, A. Kupianskaya; ♀, ЧитинскаЯ обл.[асть], Александровский Завод, р.[ека] ГаЗимур [Russia, Zabaikalsky Territory, Aleksandrovsky Zavod, Gazimur River], 16.VII.1977, Lelej // Paratypus Panurginus dubius Osytsh.  .
Current status. Panurginus niger Nylander, 1848 (synonymised by Romankova & Astafurova 2011: 28).
Distribution. Russia (Urals, Eastern Siberia, Far East), Mongolia, northern China (Proshchalykin et al. 2017).
description: Published as part of Astafurova, Yulia V. & Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu., 2024, The type specimens of bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) deposited in the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. Contribution VIII. Family Andrenidae, subfamily Panurginae, pp. 251-293 in Zootaxa 5541 (3) on page 269, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5541.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14241042
Panurginus flavipes Morawitz 1894
Creators: name: Astafurova, Yulia V.
name: Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
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Panurginus
Panurginus flavipes

description: 19. Panurginus flavipes Morawitz, 1894
(Fig. 19a–e)
Panurginus flavipes Morawitz, 1894: 60, ♀.
Type locality: Tscai-usman (Turkmenistan).
Published (original) locality: “Tscai-usman, Turkmenien”.
Holotype: ♀, Tscai-usman [Turkmenistan, the exact location has not yet been determined] // Panurginus flavipes F. Moraw., ♀ [handwritten by F. Morawitz] // к.[оллекциЯ] Ф. Моравица [collection of F. Morawitz] // Holotypus Panurginus flavipes Morawitz, 1894  // Zoological Institute St. Petersburg INS_HYM_0002722.
Current status. Panurginus flavipes Morawitz, 1894 (according to Popov, 1936: 1).
Remarks. Description of male: Popov 1936: 1.
Distribution. Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan (Popov 1936)
description: Published as part of Astafurova, Yulia V. & Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu., 2024, The type specimens of bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) deposited in the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. Contribution VIII. Family Andrenidae, subfamily Panurginae, pp. 251-293 in Zootaxa 5541 (3) on page 270, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5541.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14241042
Theoa malaya Tanasevitch, 2017, new species
Creators: name: Tanasevitch, Andrei V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
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Araneae
Linyphiidae
Theoa
Theoa malaya

description: Theoa malaya new species
Figs 54–59
Holotype male (SMF), WEST MALAYSIA, Pahang State, Fraser’s Hill, Jerian Waterfall, 3°43’26.07”N 101°42’36.22”E, 1040 m a.s.l., disturbed primary forest, leaf litter, sifting, at day; 18.VI.2013; P. Jäger leg. Paratypes. 2 Males (SMF), collected together with the holotype.
Etymology. The specific epithet, a name in apposition, refers to the terra typica of the new species.
Diagnosis. The new species is most similar to the Southeast Asian T. hamata Tanasevitch, 2014, but can be distinguished by the notched inner edge of the proximal outgrowth of the cymbium, as well as by the presence of a deep notch on the peculiarly curved terminal apophysis.
Description. Male paratype. Small “micronetine”, total length 1.50. Carapace unmodified, 0.63 long, 0.53 wide, pale brown. Chelicerae 0.18 long. Legs yellow, proximal and distal parts of tibiae darkened. Leg I, 2.60 long (0.68+0.17+0.68+0.69+0.38), IV, 2.45 long (0.66+0.15+0.63+0.65+0.36). Chaetotaxy: TiI: 2-1-0-0, II-IV: 2-0-0-0; MtI-IV: 0-0-0-0. TmI 0.16. Metatarsi IV without trichobothrium. Palp (Figs 54–59): Palpal tibia slightly elongated. Cymbium strongly modified, its proximal outgrowth thick and long, bent at right angle and forming a hook-shaped structure. Paracymbium toothless. Lamella characteristica totally reduced. Terminal apophysis very large, peculiar in shape, superficially like a lamella characteristica. Embolus with Fickert’s gland inside, thumb present. Abdomen 0.83 long, 0.45 wide, pale, darkened in anterior and posterior parts.
Female. Unknown.
Distribution. Only known from the type locality in West Malaysia.
description: Published as part of Tanasevitch, Andrei V., 2017, New species and new records of linyphiid spiders from the Indo-Malayan Region (Araneae, Linyphiidae), pp. 325-346 in Zootaxa 4227 (3) on pages 343-344, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4227.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/268323
Panurginus herzi F. Morawitz 1891
Creators: name: Astafurova, Yulia V.
name: Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
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Panurginus
Panurginus herzi

description: 20. Panurginus herzi Morawitz, 1891
(Fig. 20a–f)
Panurginus herzi Morawitz, 1891: ♀, ♂, 144.
Type locality: Viluisk, Yakutia (Russia).
Published (original) locality: “Wiluisk, Sibiria orientali”.
Lectotype: ♂, designated by Romankova & Astafurova 2011: Wiluisk [Russia, Yakutia, Viluisk, 63°45′N 121°37′E] // Panurginus herzi, ♂ [handwritten by F. Morawitz] // к.[оллекциЯ] Ф. Моравица [collection of F. Morawitz] // Lectotypus Panurginus herzi F. Morawitz, 1891, Astafurova design., 2010  // Zoological Institute St. Petersburg INS_HYM_0002754.
Paralectotypes: 2 ♀, 9 ♂, the same label as in the lectotype
Current status. Panurginus herzi Morawitz, 1891 (according to Romankova & Astafurova 2011: 20).
Distribution. European Alps, Russia (Siberia), Mongolia (Proshchalykin et al. 2017).
description: Published as part of Astafurova, Yulia V. & Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu., 2024, The type specimens of bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) deposited in the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. Contribution VIII. Family Andrenidae, subfamily Panurginae, pp. 251-293 in Zootaxa 5541 (3) on page 271, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5541.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14241042
Perigona Castelnau 1835
Creators: name: Azadbakhsh, Saeed
name: Nozari, Jamasb
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
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Animalia
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Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Perigona

description: Genus Perigona Castelnau, 1835
Subgenus Trechicus LeConte, 1853
Perigona (Trechicus) nigriceps (Dejean, 1831) Citations: Without exact locality (Bousquet, 2003g).
description: Published as part of Azadbakhsh, Saeed & Nozari, Jamasb, 2015, Checklist of the Iranian Ground Beetles (Coleoptera; Carabidae), pp. 1-108 in Zootaxa 4024 (1) on page 89, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4024.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/240494
Supplemental Table 1 for Nuñez and Adelman, Mean mares? Habitat features influence female aggression in response to social instability in the feral horse (Equus caballus)
Creators: name: Nuñez, Cassandra MV
name: Adelman, James
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 310901
subject: Animal behaviour

description: Models for aggression received with âˆ†AICc < 2
Odacantha Paykull 1798
Creators: name: Azadbakhsh, Saeed
name: Nozari, Jamasb
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
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Odacantha

description: Genus Odacantha Paykull, 1798
Subgenus Odacantha Paykull, 1798
Odacantha (Odacantha) melanura (Linnaeus, 1767) = puncticollis Mannerheim, 1844
Studied material: Khirood forest, 2012 (Prov. of Mazandaran).
Citations: Province Mazandaran (Chaudoir, 1844); Without exact locality (Hieke & Wrase, 1988); Khirood forest, NowShahr (Prov. of Mazandaran; Azadbakhsh et al., 2015).
description: Published as part of Azadbakhsh, Saeed & Nozari, Jamasb, 2015, Checklist of the Iranian Ground Beetles (Coleoptera; Carabidae), pp. 1-108 in Zootaxa 4024 (1) on pages 89-90, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4024.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/240494
Theoa tricaudata Locket 1982
Creators: name: Tanasevitch, Andrei V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
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Araneae
Linyphiidae
Theoa
Theoa tricaudata

description: Theoa tricaudata (Locket, 1982)
Material examined. 2 Males, 2 females (MHNG), THAILAND, Surin Province & District, secondary forest behind Ramkhamhaeng University Surin Campus, 14°55’01”N 103°27’28”E, 150 m a.s.l.; 24.VII.2014; P. Schwendinger leg. [MT-14/11].
Remarks. This is the northernmost known locality of this species.
Distribution. The Seychelles (Saaristo 1995), West Malaysia (Locket 1982), southern Thailand (Tanasevitch 2014b) and northeastern Thailand.
description: Published as part of Tanasevitch, Andrei V., 2017, New species and new records of linyphiid spiders from the Indo-Malayan Region (Araneae, Linyphiidae), pp. 325-346 in Zootaxa 4227 (3) on page 344, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4227.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/268323
Supplemental Table 2 for Nuñez and Adelman, Mean mares? Habitat features influence female aggression in response to social instability in the feral horse (Equus caballus)
Creators: name: Nuñez, Cassandra MV
name: Adelman, James
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 310901
subject: Animal behaviour

description: Models for aggression initiated with âˆ†AICc < 2
Bufo oblongus
Creators: name: Ananjeva, Natalia B.
name: Milto, Konstantin D.
name: Barabanov, Andrei V.
name: Golynsky, Evgeny A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Anura
Bufonidae
Bufo
Bufo oblongus

description: Bufo oblongus NIKOLSKY (1896: 372)
Lectotype (designated by Stöck et al. 2001a):
ZISP 1952.1, adult female, “Eastern Persia, Syman-Shakhi” [Ssaman Shakhi Mountains near Birjand, South Khorasan Province, Iran, 32.8266 N 59.2146 E]. Leg: N. A. Zarudny, 29.IV.1896.
Paralectotype:
ZISP 1952.2, 1 specimen, “Eastern Persia, Syman-Shakhi” [Ssaman Shakhi Mountains near Birjand, South Khorasan Province, Iran, 32.8266 N 59.2146 E]. Leg: N. A. Zarudny, 29.IV.1896.
Present name: Bufotes oblongus oblongus (Nikolsky, 1896) fide Frost (2018) and Stöck et al. (2001b).
description: Published as part of Ananjeva, Natalia B., Milto, Konstantin D., Barabanov, Andrei V. & Golynsky, Evgeny A., 2020, An annotated type catalogue of amphibians and reptiles collected by Nikolay A Zarudny in Iran and Middle Asia, pp. 101-128 in Zootaxa 4722 (2) on page 109, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4722.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3605815
Graphipterus Latreille 1802
Creators: name: Azadbakhsh, Saeed
name: Nozari, Jamasb
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Graphipterus

description: Genus Graphipterus Latreille, 1802
Graphipterus minutus Dejean, 1822
Citations: Without exact locality (Bousquet, 2003d).
description: Published as part of Azadbakhsh, Saeed & Nozari, Jamasb, 2015, Checklist of the Iranian Ground Beetles (Coleoptera; Carabidae), pp. 1-108 in Zootaxa 4024 (1) on page 90, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4024.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/240494
Hardware and software for WINC2R cognitive radio platform
Creators: name: Jain, Shalini
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: Emerging wireless technologies and standards require inter-operability between devices whose infrastructure has been built using different radio access technologies and which operate in different spectrum bands. In this thesis, we study the feasibility of building such a multi-protocol platform - the WINC2R platform. WINC2R is a platform for cognitive radio applications that has the agility needed for the per-packet protocol adaptation across the protocol layers and flexible enough to support the future evolution of the wireless communication protocols. The WINC2R platform concept is based on the generic processing engines that each handles processing for the computationally intensive physical and MAC layer functions. They are augmented with a software programmable processor that can handle the differences between the standards and future changes of those functions. The microprocessor environment forms one of the processing engines and can support additional functions with a suffciently low complexity without sacrificing the performance in terms of latency and throughput. The WINC2R architecture satisfies the requirements of low latency and fast context switching as required by the multi-layer protocol processing. The WINC2R system consists of three distinct layers: the data layer, the interconnection layer and the control layer. The data layer handles all the processing engines and its functionalities. Flexibility and programmability is achieved through the interconnections between the processing engines. In this thesis, we work with the control layer which consists of the underlying hardware that supports the control functions like handling interrupts from the processing engines, synchronizing the tasks, etc. The underlying hardware is customizable for system connectivity, Digital Signal Processing (DSP), and data processing applications which are required for the physical layer.  The control functions are used to maintain the WINC2R system integrity and manage the wireless protocols. They also enable communication among the functional modules themselves. We examine the overall system and task processing flow. The interconnection layer deals with interconnecting the processing engines together which is handled by the Unit Control Module (UCM). At the heart of every processing engine lies the UCM that assigns and schedules tasks to and from the functional blocks with the help of a centralized data structure. It is in charge of scheduling the tasks to the module that it is associated with, assigning the task, monitoring the task completion, and communicating with the other modules in the system for task sequencing. The UCM is analyzed, and we study the feasibility of various tasks occurring in time. We propose a timeline for the occurrence of data and control tasks in different scenarios and study the feasibility of these scenarios.
Graphical models for object segmentation
Creators: name: Huang, Rui
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: Object segmentation, a fundamental problem in computer vision, remains a challenging task after decades of research efforts.  This task is made difficult by the intrinsic variability of the object's shape, appearance, and its surrounding.  It is compounded by the uncertainties arising from mapping the 3D world to the image plane and the noise in the acquisition systems.  However, the human visual system often effectively entails the segmentation of the object from its background by fusing the bottom-up image cues with the top-down context.  In this thesis we propose a novel probabilistic graphical modeling framework for object segmentation that effectively and flexibly fuses different sources of information, top and bottom, to produce highly accurate segmentation of objects in a computationally efficient manner.  The main contributions of our work are:1) We present a graphical model representing the relationship of the observed image features, the true region labels, and the underlying object contour based on the integration of Markov Random Fields (MRF) and deformable models.  We propose two different solutions to this otherwise intractable joint region-contour inference and learning problem in the graphical model.2) We introduce a Profile Hidden Markov Model (PHMM) built on the shape curvature sequence descriptor to improve the segmentation of specific objects.  The special states and structure of PHMMs allow considerable shape contour perturbations and provide efficient inference and learning algorithms for shape modeling.  Further embedding of the PHMM parameters captures the long term spatial dependencies on a shape profile, hence the global characteristics of a shape class.3) We incorporate the proposed methods in a spatio-temporal MRF model to solve the video-based object segmentation problem.  Our new model is a simultaneous object segmentation, background modeling, and pose estimation framework, which combines the top-down high-level object shape constraints with the bottom-up low-level image cues, and features a flexible graph structure induced by the motion information for more reliable temporal smoothness.We demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of all our methods in a wide variety of thorough experiments.
Masoreus Dejean 1821
Creators: name: Azadbakhsh, Saeed
name: Nozari, Jamasb
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Masoreus

description: Genus Masoreus Dejean, 1821
Subgenus Masoreus Dejean, 1821
Masoreus (Masoreus) orientalis Dejean, 1828
Studied material: Bandar Abbas, 2015 (Prov. of Hormozgan). Citations: Felix (2009) cited the species from Iran based of Jan Muilwijk, personal communication, without information about the locality.
Masoreus (Masoreus) wetterhallii (Gyllenhal, 1813)
Citations: Without exact locality (Bodemeyer, 1927b).
description: Published as part of Azadbakhsh, Saeed & Nozari, Jamasb, 2015, Checklist of the Iranian Ground Beetles (Coleoptera; Carabidae), pp. 1-108 in Zootaxa 4024 (1) on page 90, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4024.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/240494
Teaching joint attention to children with autism through a sibling-mediated behavioral intervention
Creators: name: Iadarola, Suzannah Joy
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: Severe deficits in socialization are intrinsic to the diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorders. A specific deficit in joint attention has been identified in this population; it appears to be universal and pivotal to the development of more complex social skills and language. Behavioral interventions targeting joint attention are evidenced to be effective in teaching these skills to young children with autism, but these treatments have traditionally been implemented by adults. In the present study three typically developing children were trained to implement a joint attention intervention to their siblings with autism. Gains in responding to joint attention were observed for all three targets; gains in initiations were observed in two targets. These differential results provide information about the merits of conceptualizing joint attention as a set of specific skills rather than an individual construct. Siblings found the treatment to be acceptable, and parent ratings indicated high satisfaction with the procedures. The implications of these findings for treatments targeting joint attention and for siblings as interventionists are discussed.
Panurginus kozlovi Romankova & Astafurova 2011
Creators: name: Astafurova, Yulia V.
name: Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Panurginus
Panurginus kozlovi

description: 21. Panurginus kozlovi Romankova & Astafurova, 2011
(Fig. 21a–f)
Panurginus kozlovi Romankova & Astafurova, 2011: 21, ♀, ♂.
Type locality: Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia).
Published (original) locality: “ Urga, Mongolia ”.
Holotype: ♂, Урга, МонголиЯ [Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, 47°55′N 106°55′E], 23. VI.[1]925, КоЗлов [P. Kozlov leg.] // Holotypus Panurginus kozlovi Romankova & Astafurova, 2011  // Zoological Institute St. Petersburg INS_HYM_0002660.
Paratypes: 2 ♀, Mongolia, Tola River, Urga, 3–5.VII.1905, P. Kozlov; ♂, Övör-Hangay, near Bayan-Under, 8.VII.1970, M. Kozlov; ♀, 20 km ENE Bayan-Under, 8.VII.1970, V. Zaytsev // Paratypus Panurginus kozlovi Romankova & Astafurova, 2011  .
Current status. Panurginus kozlovi Romankova & Astafurova, 2011.
Distribution. Mongolia (Romankova & Astafurova 2011).
description: Published as part of Astafurova, Yulia V. & Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu., 2024, The type specimens of bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) deposited in the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. Contribution VIII. Family Andrenidae, subfamily Panurginae, pp. 251-293 in Zootaxa 5541 (3) on pages 271-272, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5541.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14241042
Anaulacus Mcleay 1825
Creators: name: Azadbakhsh, Saeed
name: Nozari, Jamasb
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Anaulacus

description: Genus Anaulacus Mcleay, 1825
Subgenus Aephnidius MacLeay, 1825
Anaulacus (Aephnidius) ruficornis (Chaudoir, 1850) Citations: Felix (2009) cited the species from Iran based of Jan Muilwijk, unpublished data, but about locality no information presented.
description: Published as part of Azadbakhsh, Saeed & Nozari, Jamasb, 2015, Checklist of the Iranian Ground Beetles (Coleoptera; Carabidae), pp. 1-108 in Zootaxa 4024 (1) on page 90, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4024.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/240494
4H-SiC detectors for low level ultraviolet detection
Creators: name: Hu, Jun
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: Ultraviolet radiation covers the wavelength from 400nm down to 10nm. The superior material properties of 4H-SiC make visible-blind, ultra sensitive and low noise UV photodetectors possible. The major objective of this Ph.D. thesis research is to design and fabricate high performance 4H-SiC photodetectors for low-level UV detection. Schottky photodiodes, avalanche PIN photodiodes and avalanche phototransistors are studied for various applications. In this study, the first 4H-SiC Schottky photodiode that can fully cover EUV to NUV range has been successfully fabricated. Ultralow leakage current, high quantum efficiency and high UV-to-visible rejection ratio have been achieved. The first 1x16 4H-SiC Schottky photodiode array with very large detection area has been successfully fabricated and characterized. A novel UV spectrographic system using the 4H-SiC Schottky photodiode array is demonstrated with a fine spectrum resolution. 4H-SiC single photon avalanche photodiode (SPAD) is studied for UV single photon detection. In this work, many challenging issues including bevel edge termination and ohmic contact have been addressed. The 4H-SiC SPADs show high gain, low dark count rate and good single photon detection efficiency (SPDE). The best 4H-SiC SPAD shows a high counting efficiency of 79% and 32.5% with a dark count rate of 125.3 kHz and 38.8 kHz at -119.4 V and -119 V, respectively. The first 4H-SiC SPAD array has been successfully fabricated and characterized. Only 1 pixel out of 33 pixels shows high leakage and high dark count rate. For all the good pixels working at -119.5V, the gain is greater than 106, the dark count rate is less than 100 kHz and the  SPDE is more than 2%. The proton irradiation impact to 4H-SiC single photon avalanche diodes is investigated for the first time. A novel 4H-SiC avalanche phototransistor structure is also studied in this research. The first 4H-SiC avalanche phototransistor is demonstrated with an optical gain greater than 4.5x104.
Predictors of different types of recreational gambling among college students
Creators: name: House, Lisa A.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: The current study examined the prevalence, frequency, and predictors of gambling among young adult college students. Nine hundred and fourteen undergraduates from a Mid-Atlantic public university completed a survey to assess gambling behaviors and problems, along with various psychosocial factors that may account for gambling behaviors. Among the entire sample, 53% (n= 461) reported participating in some form of gambling activity during the past year. The most frequently endorsed gambling activity was playing board or card games for money, followed by playing the lottery, and betting on games of personal skill. In contrast to expectations, online gambling was not prevalent. Most student gamblers in this sample gambled for recreational reasons; only 2.5% and 1.5% fell in the problem or pathological range, respectively. Hierarchical regression analyses found different predictors for the two types of gambling, gaming activities and sports betting. Being male and high on novelty/excitement seeking were significantly related to the number of gaming activities participated in during the past year by college students. Binge drinking showed a strong trend as a predictor. For sports betting, being male accounted for the greatest amount of variance and binge drinking in the past year emerged as the only other significant predictor. Being Caucasian, however, showed a strong explanatory trend. Together, these findings provide valuable information about the predictors of college students' recreational gambling, which was found to represent the vast majority of all gambling behaviors among this sample of college students.
Imagination and epistemology
Creators: name: Ichikawa, Jonathan
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: Among the tools the epistemologist brings to the table ought to be, I suggest, a firm understanding of the imagination--one that is informed by philosophy of mind, cognitive psychology, and neuroscience. In my dissertation, I highlight several ways in which such an understanding of the imagination can yield insight into traditional questions in epistemology. My dissertation falls into three parts.In Part I, I argue that dreaming should be understood in imaginative terms, and that this has important implications for questions about dream skepticism. In Part II, I argue that an understanding of the imagination is important for understanding important parts of philosophical methodology--particularly those involving thought experiments. I mean in Part II to be vindicating a great deal of traditional methodology. In Part III, I explore what I take to be a number of deep connections between knowledge and counterfactuals. I defend a form of contextualism in each domain, and argue that inference among imaginings, with its important structural similarities to inference in belief, plays a central role in the epistemology of counterfactuals.
Protein homology detection with sparse models
Creators: name: Huang, Pai-Hsi
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: Establishing structural or functional relationship between sequences, for instance to infer the structural class of an unannotated protein, is akey task in biological analysis. Protein sequences undergo complex transformations such as mutation, insertion and deletion during the evolutionary process and typically share low sequence similarity on the superfamily level, making the task for remote homology detection based on primary sequence only very challenging.Based on previous studies stating that knowledge based on only a subset of critical positions and the preferred symbols on such positions are sufficient for remote homology detection, we present a series of works, each enforcing different notion of sparsity,  to recover such critical positions. We first start with a generative model and present the sparse profile hidden Markov models. Such generative approach recovers some critical patterns and motivates the need for discriminative learning. In our second study, we present a discriminative approach to recover such critical positions and the preferred symbols. In our third study, we address the issue of very few positive training examples, accompanied by a large number of negative training examples, which is typical in many remote homology detection task. Such issue motivates the need for semi-supervised learning. However, though containing abundant useful and critical information, large uncurated sequence databases also contain a lot of noise, which may compromise the quality of the classifiers. As a result, we present a systematic and biologically motivated framework for semi-supervised learning with large uncurated sequence databases. Combined with a very fast string kernel, our method not only realizes rapid and accurate remote homology detection and show state-of-the-art performance, but also recovers some critical patterns conserved in superfamilies.
Tetragonoderus Dejean 1829
Creators: name: Azadbakhsh, Saeed
name: Nozari, Jamasb
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Tetragonoderus

description: Genus Tetragonoderus Dejean, 1829
Subgenus Tetragonoderus Dejean, 1829
Tetragonoderus (Tetragonoderus) arcuatus Dejean, 1829 Citations: Felix (2009) cited the species for Iran based on Jan Muilwijk, unpublished data. This record should be confirmed.
Tetragonoderus (Tetragonoderus) intermedius Solsky, 1874
Citations: Iranshahr (Prov. of Sistan va Baluchestan; Jedlička, 1961); Hasan Langi, 62 km east of Bandar-e Abbas (Prov. of Hormozgan; Wrase, 2005).
description: Published as part of Azadbakhsh, Saeed & Nozari, Jamasb, 2015, Checklist of the Iranian Ground Beetles (Coleoptera; Carabidae), pp. 1-108 in Zootaxa 4024 (1) on page 90, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4024.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/240494
The necessity of inspiration and the crisis of modern political communication
Creators: name: Hoerl, Alexandra Elizabeth
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: My dissertation seeks to fully recover one of the most important elements of republicanism--and yet an element of republicanism that is overlooked in most of the literature--persuasive political rhetoric ("rhetoric-as-movere") in order to improve political communication and participation in the United States.   Through rhetoric-as-movere is not without its problems, I argue that it has two major advantages over the type of political communication necessitated by strict deliberative democracy, a type of political communication that I suggest is rooted in "rhetoric-as-docere," a tradition that developed alongside the rise of scientific empiricism in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: it is better at drawing out action from novice citizens because it does a better job than deliberative democracy of dealing with the barriers to political entry, and it is more inclusive.  Rhetoric-as-movere allows an orator to explicitly make use of all the persuasive tools at his or her disposal.  While it is true that these tools are at times contrary to "rationality," throughout history they have always been the first recourse of leaders and movements truly concerned with popular participation.  I demonstrate this affinity between rhetoric-as-movere and popular participation through an historical survey of movements ranging from 14th century English peasant revolts to 20th century American civil rights movements.  I also analyze the development of the rhetoric-as-docere tradition in thinkers like Hobbes, Smith and Hume.  I conclude that the rhetoric-as-docere tradition, which includes contemporary deliberative democracy, is predicated upon a suspicion of popular action that renders it insufficient as a model of political communication.   Finally, I create a multi-level model of political communication that incorporates rhetoric-as-movere and the republican ethos of civic education as well as certain aspects of deliberative democratic theory and rhetoric-as-docere.  Most importantly, I contribute a curriculum of rhetorical education that rehabilitates persuasion and teaches students about the three classical proofs of logos, pathos and ethos as well as modern empirical proofs.  Both of the model of political communication and the educational curriculum are crucial for the necessary and proper recovery of rhetoric-as-movere and the improvement of political participation in the United States.
Panurginus kropotkini Romankova & Astafurova 2011
Creators: name: Astafurova, Yulia V.
name: Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Panurginus
Panurginus kropotkini

description: 22. Panurginus kropotkini Romankova & Astafurova, 2011
(Fig. 22a–e)
Panurginus kropotkini Romankova & Astafurova, 2011: 21, ♀.
Type locality: Barabash-Levada, Primorskii Territory (Russia).
Published (original) locality: “Primor’e, Barabash-Levada”.
Holotype: ♀, Приморье, Барабаш-Левада [Russia, Primorskii Territory, Barabash-Levada, 44°52′N 134°47′E], 20.VII.1982, Лелей [A. Lelej leg.] // ♀ // Holotypus Panurginus kropotkini Romankova & Astafurova, 2011  // Zoological Institute St. Petersburg INS_HYM_0002755.
Current status. Panurginus kropotkini Romankova & Astafurova, 2011.
Distribution. Russia (Primorskii Territory).
description: Published as part of Astafurova, Yulia V. & Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu., 2024, The type specimens of bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) deposited in the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. Contribution VIII. Family Andrenidae, subfamily Panurginae, pp. 251-293 in Zootaxa 5541 (3) on pages 272-273, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5541.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14241042
Polar organic compounds in fine particulate matter in the NJ-NY-CT transportation corridor
Creators: name: Hawley, Harmonie A.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: Fine particulate matter has been associated with adverse health effects, reduced visibility, haze and global climate change.  Controlling sources of fine particles in urban and rural airsheds requires detailed knowledge of emission sources, including temporal and spatial distributions.  Currently, about 20% of the organic mixtures associated with fine particles can be determined quantitatively as individual chemical species.  Some compounds can be related to the emission source based on the chemical profile of that source, and are designated as molecular markers.  Nonpolar and moderately polar molecular markers are used to apportion airborne fine particles to sources.  Polar organic compounds are not well characterized in airsheds due to a wide range of chemical properties that introduce analytical complexity and difficulty.  Consequently, emission sources that introduce polar carbonaceous matter into the atmosphere are not well understood and not effectively controlled.  High performance liquid chromatography and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry were evaluated to determine the optimal method for characterizing polar organic compounds in fine particulate matter samples.  Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry was chosen due to its capability to analyze a large range of chemical properties in one analysis.  Samples were studied from metropolitan New York City area from six receptor locations, including upwind and downwind sites in NY, NJ and CT from May 2002 to February 2007.  The results indicated spatial and seasonal trends for the molecular markers.  Statistical analysis demonstrated seasonal variations of wood smoke at two sites (Westport, CT and Bronx, NY), meat charbroiling at only one site (Bronx, NY), and levulinic acid at three sites (Westport, CT, Bronx, NY and Pinnacle State Park, NY).  When the samples were grouped as urban and rural areas the statistical analysis showed there was no spatial or seasonal trend in levoglucosan, total n-alkanols or levulinic acid.  Wood smoke was higher for the NYC metropolitan and suburban sites than for the rural sites and found year-round.  The levoglucosan, total n-alkanols, cholesterol, cis-pinonic acid and levulinic acid normalized to elemental carbon did show statistical differences between urban and rural sites, indicating the sites were influenced by local emission sources and meteorological conditions.