cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Changes in the neural representation of odorants after olfactory deprivation in the adult mouse olfactory bulb
Creators: name: Kass, Marley D.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: Olfactory sensory deprivation during development has been shown to induce significant alterations in the neurophysiology of olfactory receptor neurons (ORNs), the primary sensory inputs to the brain’s olfactory bulb.  Deprivation has also been shown to alter the neurochemistry of the adult olfactory system, but the physiological consequences of these changes are poorly understood.  Here we used in vivo synaptopHluorin (spH) imaging to visualize odorant-evoked neurotransmitter release from ORNs in adult transgenic mice that underwent 4 weeks of unilateral olfactory deprivation.  Deprivation reduced odorant-evoked spH signals compared to sham-occluded mice.  Unexpectedly, this reduction was equivalent between ORNs on the open and plugged sides.  Changes in odorant selectivity of glomerular subpopulations of ORNs were also observed, but only in ORNs on the open side of deprived mice.  These results suggest that naris occlusion in adult mice produces substantial changes in primary olfactory processing that may reflect not only the decrease in olfactory stimulation on the occluded side but also the alteration of response properties on the intact side.  We also observed a modest effect of true sham occlusions that included noseplug insertion and removal, suggesting that conventional noseplug techniques may have physiological effects independent of deprivation per se and thus require more careful controls than has been previously appreciated.
Impact of cross-shelf winds and estuarine/coastal ocean coupling on buoyant plume systems
Creators: name: Jurisa, Joseph Thomas
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: Observational data and realistic and idealized model simulations are used to examine the impact of variable winds, topography, and shelf circulation on a buoyant river plume/estuarine system.  Observational data collected during the spring of 2006 Lagrangian Transport and Transformation Experiment (LaTTE) on the New Jersey coast suggest a strong interaction between the variable wind and buoyant forcing and the shelf circulation. During a 2-week field campaign the coastal current detached from the coast and formed a recirculating eddy 60 km downstream of the outflow.  This eddy was persistent for 2 weeks under variable wind forcing, as was observed from mooring, shipboard, and satellite data and also from model hindcasts.  The formation of the feature is dependent on the estuarine discharge, with cross-shore winds also playing a vital role.   To provide a more generalized view of the role of cross-shelf winds, idealized simulations are run with a straight coastline, linearly sloping bathymetry, and a straight channel as an estuary.  It is found that during an offshore wind stress that the plume is initially transported offshore, but after a couple inertial periods it reaches a steady state in terms of its cross-shore salinity and velocity structure and offshore position.  This steady state structure is highly dependent on the estuarine outflow conditions, with the offshore position described by a ratio of the estuarine outflow Froude number and a plume Froude number.  Formulations for the plume properties are also developed.  The steady state nature of the plume’s response to the cross-shore winds is examined by analyzing the mixing in the plume using a salinity coordinate system.  These results and theories developed using the idealized model simulations are compared to realistic model hindcast simulations of the Hudson River plume during the 2005/2006 winter season, when offshore winds are dominant.  The response of the Hudson River plume generally compares with the idealized model results, with a few exceptions due to the complex geometry of the New York Bight.  This response is a departure from the assumed downwelling response, and has implications for salinity induced stratification over inner shelf during the winter season.
California Institute for Quantum Emulation
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Quantum simulation uses ultra-cold atoms and molecules to gain insight into complex quantum phenomena. This fundamentally interdisciplinary field applies the precision and control of atomic physics to important open questions on the many-body quantum mechanics of condensed matter. The approach is to use well-controlled samples of atoms and molecules to build tiny, high-fidelity physical emulators of quantum materials. Such emulators are especially useful for the study of quantum systems that involve many-body interactions, where our ability to theoretically describe and numerically simulate the microscopic features is limited. This field is growing fast, and quantum emulators have already been used to investigate phenomena such as magnetism, metal-insulator transitions, superfluidity, and localization. Theory-experiment collaborations are fundamental to progress in quantum simulation. Additionally, different physical substrates (e.g., ions, atoms, molecules, or Josephson junctions) can be used in quantum emulators to address distinct facets of related many-body quantum phenomena. The need for collaboration among different experimentalists and between experimentalists and theorists is thus particularly acute, and federal agencies such as DARPA and NSF have demonstrated willingness to fund large collaborative efforts in this area. The UC system offers powerful potential collaborative opportunities: relevant experimental and theoretical resources exist at multiple UC campuses, but no overarching framework for collaboration exists. We propose to use a MRPI planning grant to explore and develop the groundwork for a UC-wide collaborative effort called the California Institute for Quantum Emulation (CAIQuE). The initial collaboration team encompasses experimental efforts in ions, atoms, and molecules at Berkeley, UCSD, UCLA, and UCSB, and theory groups at UC Irvine, UCSD, and Berkeley. Scientific goals include direct emulation of nonequilibrium quantum systems, tests of quantum thermalization, and tunable quantum simulation of topologically nontrivial materials. Progress toward these goals will generate possible new research directions for UC investigators in fields ranging from materials science to quantum computing. A truly collaborative approach to quantum simulation will put the UC system, and California, at the forefront of this fundamentally and technologically important field.
Fear and greed
Creators: name: Jung, Sung Chul
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Year: 2012

description: This dissertation asks and answers the question of when domestic unrest leads to interstate conflict. First, I present the diversionary target theory that argues that a political leader’s decision for military use of force is affected by foreign as well as domestic conditions. I expect that domestically-troubled states are more likely to use military force against some, not all, states because political leaders prefer targets which can produce their domestic audience’s fear and/or greed in order to enjoy “rally-round-the-flag” effects. I suggest that the fear-producing targets are foreign states having rapidly rising power or having different identities; the greed-producing targets are foreign states occupying disputed territory or exercising regional/local hegemony despite declining power. In addition, I expect political leaders prefer fear-/greed-producing targets that possess similar powers because domestic audiences may see initiation of military conflicts against too-powerful states and too-weak states as too risky and unnecessary, respectively.    Then, I conduct a quantitative test of the cases of states from 1920 to 2001. The result shows that the presences of the rising power, the territory target, and the hegemony target contribute to the correlation between domestic unrest and initiation of interstate conflict in a statistically significant way. Especially, the rising power target shows the strongest effect on the domestically-troubled state’s initiation of dyadic conflict. Also, I found that domestically-troubled states are more likely to initiate a military conflict against slightly stronger rising power targets than other rising power targets, and prefer weaker territory targets to other territorial targets when choosing their military targets.    Next, I carry out a qualitative test on two historical cases: the first North Korean nuclear crisis and South   Korea’s participation in the Vietnam War. The two cases show the causal mechanism that political leaders are motivated by domestic unrest to initiate military aggression but also constrained by foreign conditions. After the Korean War, South Korea suffered political unrest and economic troubles. This is why unpopular South Korean leaders, Syngman Rhee and Park Chung Hee, sought to send combat troops to Vietnam in 1954 and in 1961, respectively. But it was in 1965 that President Park could realize his plan when South Vietnam could not defend itself anymore and the People’s Republic of China developed nuclear weapons. While North Korea was diplomatically isolated and militarily and economically weaker than South Korea, at least from 1990 on, it did not adopt confrontational policies toward its opponents, including South Korea and the United States, until 1993 when Kim Il Sung recognized domestic troubles such as a bad economy and weak military loyalty. In short, the interaction between internal unrest and external threats led to the two Koreas’ initiation of military aggression.
Tonight's amusements
Creators: name: Iturbe, Craig B.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: This project examines the effects of a variety of popular amusements on the development of American drama in the nineteenth century. These amusements, sometimes called paratheatrical entertainments, made up a significant portion of the chaotic entertainment landscape of the nineteenth century. It is my argument that the nineteenth century should be viewed as a paratheatrical era for American drama, and that we cannot properly understand the evolution of theatre in America without understanding its place within a system of available diversions, all of which were furiously competing for audience attention. This competition led to an explosion of genres and subgenres within American dramatic writing, and played a key role in shaping the specific trajectory of such theatrical events as the development of modern celebrity and the advent of American realist drama.   I begin with the museum industry, most famously represented by P. T. Barnum. Barnum and his colleagues created a powerful entertainment apparatus in the urban centers of the northeast. The cheap, popular entertainment offered by museums presented a problem for playwrights and theatre managers, a problem that was solved by the invention of sensation melodrama. From there, I move to the medicine show, a form of amusement with a long history in America. The medicine show’s mix of low overhead and big promises helped to secure it a perpetual American audience. James A. Herne was able to recapture some of this audience by writing the spectacle of the medicine show into his own drama, resulting in an American realist theatre that was specifically indebted to the logic of medicine. My next chapter concerns the development of celebrity in American culture, and the indebtedness of that development to the rise of revival preaching. In particular, the American preacher Charles Grandison Finney, who preached to his congregation in a New York City theatre, played an important role in teaching audience members how to respond to a charismatic performance. Finally, I look at the Lyceum circuit, and the way that its persuasive performance style led to the development of argument drama, which is sometimes called moral reform drama.
Diglyphus pusztensis Erdos & Novicky
Creators: name: Yefremova, Zoya A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: 16. Diglyphus pusztensis (Erdős & Novicky)
Material examined. 1 ♀, Israel, Ma’agan Mikha’el, M.T., 29.iv.2009 (W. Kuslitzky); 1 ♀, Sede Boqer, M.T., 1.v.2012 (Z. Yefremova, V. Kravchenko).
Hosts. Ectoparasitoid of Agromyza sp. and Phytomyza sp. (Diptera: Agromyzidae) (Bouček & Askew 1968). Distribution. Israel *; Palearctic (Bouček & Askew 1968; Bouček 1977; Kalina 1989; Efremova & Shroll 1996; Yefremova 2002; Yefremova et al. 2011).
description: Published as part of Yefremova, Zoya A., 2015, An annotated checklist of the Eulophidae (excl. Tetrastichinae) (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) of Israel, pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 3957 (1) on page 7, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3957.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/288546
Computer-Aided Diagnosis in Digital Mammography
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: We plan to create a computer system that will help radiologists to use large collections of digitized mammograms as aids in determining whether or not to recommend biopsies. Roughly two of every three breast biopsies recommended by a radiologist are unnecessary because they are benign (non-cancerous). The best available means of reducing the number of these unnecessary biopsies is a second opinion from a consulting radiologist. Often such a radiologist is not available or cannot be reached when needed. In these circumstances the proposed computer system will give the radiologist advice that is at least as reliable as that of a second radiologist, and possibly even more reliable. It will also give the radiologist a simple way of finding other mammograms that are medically and visually similar to the one being analyzed. This will enable the radiologist to diagnose mammograms more accurately and eliminate many biopsies of benign breasts. As a result, the proposed diagnostic system will lower the cost of second opinions, eliminate unnecessary surgical procedures, and reduce the degree of psychological stress among patients.

 This research is made possible by "digitization" technology, which converts film mammograms into digital electronic data that can be processed by computer. Since about 1990 this technology has become so faithful to the original mammogram, so fast and so inexpensive to store, that several major hospitals have begun building large files of "databases" containing hundreds of digitized mammograms, along with the diagnoses and subsequent medical histories of the patients. Several of these databases have been made available to this project.

 This research will be carried out at the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine & Science and the King/Drew Medical Center, the preeminent medical school and hospital in Southern California serving a primarily African-American and Latino community. A major benefit of this study will be the development of a computer-aided diagnostic system attuned to the particular patterns of disease, and the particular mammographic features, of this minority population. In addition, this study will result in improved service to an impoverished and medically underserved community. Further, the means of reducing the costs of unnecessary biopsies will take into account the ways medical costs are paid in this community.
Uncinocythere xania Hart 1962, new species
Creators: name: Williams, Bronwyn W.
name: Weaver, Patricia G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Ostracoda
Podocopida
Entocytheridae
Uncinocythere
Uncinocythere xania

description: Uncinocythere xania (Hart & Hobbs, 1961) Hart, 1962
1961a Entocythere xania new species.—Hart & Hobbs: 174, 181, 183, Figs. 21–24 (D, H, K, R, T).
1962 Uncinocythere xania (Hart and Hobbs) new combination.—Hart: 138–139 (C, D, T).
1963b U. xania (Hart and Hobbs, 1961). —Hobbs & Walton: 457 (R).
1964 U. xania. —Hobbs & Bedinger: 14 (D, H).
1965 Uncinocythere xania.—Bedinger & Hobbs: 94, by implication only (D, H).
1968 U. xania (Hart and Hobbs, 1961).—Ferguson: 502 (C, D).
1971 Uncinocythere xania (Hart and Hobbs, 1961:181).—Hobbs Jr.: 20, 21, 55 (D, K).
1974 Uncinocythere xania (Hart and Hobbs, 1961).—Hart & Hart: 122, 140, 141, 214, 232, Pl. XXXVIII Figs. 4– 6, Pl. LVI (D, H, K, R, T).
1975 Uncinocythere xania (Hart & Hobbs, 1961).—Hart & Hart: 53 (C, D, H).
1975 Uncinocythere xania (Hart and Hobbs, 1961).—Hobbs: 282, 283, 284, 285, 286, 287, 288, 289, 290, 292, 293, 294, 295 [by implication], 296, 297, 298, 299, Fig. 6 (C, D, E, H).
1977 Uncinocythere xania (Hart and Hobbs, 1961:181).—Hobbs, Hobbs & Daniel: 151, 183 (C, D, H).
1980 Uncinocythere xania (Hart and Hobbs).—Hobbs: 148 (D, H).
2014a Uncinocythere xania Hart & Hobbs, 1961.—Mestre, Monrós & Mesquita-Joanes: 950 erroneous authority format (C).
description: Published as part of Williams, Bronwyn W. & Weaver, Patricia G., 2018, A historical review of the taxonomy and classification of Entocytheridae (Crustacea: Ostracoda: Podocopida), pp. 1-129 in Zootaxa 4448 (1) on page 95, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4448.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1444492
Diglyphus sabulosus Erdos
Creators: name: Yefremova, Zoya A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: 17. Diglyphus sabulosus Erdős
Material examined. 1 ♀, Israel, Northern Negev, 31°06’N; 34°49’E, M.T., 4.iv.2007 (D. Gerling). Hosts. Ectoparasitoid of Liriomyza sp. (Diptera: Agromyzidae) (Yefremova et al. 2011).
Distribution. Israel *; Palearctic (Bouček & Askew 1968; Kalina 1989; Yefremova et al. 2011).
description: Published as part of Yefremova, Zoya A., 2015, An annotated checklist of the Eulophidae (excl. Tetrastichinae) (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) of Israel, pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 3957 (1) on page 7, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3957.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/288546
Axina ochra Opitz 2020, new species
Creators: name: Opitz, Weston
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Axina
Axina ochra

description: Axina ochra Opitz, new species
Figures 34, 71, 112.
Type material. Holotype. Male. Type locality: BOLIVIA: Santa Cruz, El Refugio Los Volcanes, Elev. 3,363’, X/1- 10/08, Morris & Wappes (FSCA). Paratype. One specimen. Bolivia: Departamento de Santa Cruz, 3.7 km SSE Buena Vista, Hotel Flora & Fauna, 14-19-X- 2000, 430 m, tropical transition forest, M. C. Thomas (FSCA).
Diagnosis. The completely yellow dorsum will distinguish these beetles from congeners.
Description. Size. Length 8.0 mm; width 2.0 mm. Form. As in Fig. 112. Color. Yellow, except antennae, tibiae, and tarsi black. Head. Cranium finely punctate, frons about as wide as length of antennal pedicel; EW/FW 45/15. Thorax. Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 tumescences, concave at middle; PW/PL 95/120; elytra, asetiferous punctures substriate, punctures extend to elytron middle, width of interstitial spaces variable; EL/EW 360/65. Abdomen. Aedeagus (Fig. 34), phallobasic lobes very short, narrowly separated; margin of phallic plates serrate, phallic apex extended; phallobasic apodeme abbreviated.
Variation. Size. Length 7.0–8.0 mm; width 1.5–2.0 mm. Other than body size, the available specimens are quite homogeneous.
Natural history. Specimens were collected in Bolivia during October, at 430 and 1,025 m.
Distribution (for map see Fig. 71). This species is known from Bolivia.
Etymology. The specific epithet, ochra, is a Greek name derived from ochros (= pale yellow). I refer to the predominant color of these beetles.
analis species group
The female members of this group are characterized by showing a trilobed pygidium. There are six species in this group whose geographical distribution involves Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay.
description: Published as part of Opitz, Weston, 2020, Taxonomic revision of the Western Hemisphere checkered beetle genus Axina Kirby (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae), pp. 1-70 in Insecta Mundi 2020 (793) on page 33, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4564947
Uncinocythere xena Hart, D. G. & Hart 1971, new species
Creators: name: Williams, Bronwyn W.
name: Weaver, Patricia G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Ostracoda
Podocopida
Entocytheridae
Uncinocythere
Uncinocythere xena

description: Uncinocythere xena Hart & Hart, 1971
1971 Uncinocythere xena, new species. — Hart, D.G. & Hart: 118, 124, 125, Figs. 12a–c, 13 (A, D, H, R, T).
1974 Uncinocythere xena Hart and Hart, 1971. — Hart & Hart: 122, 140, 214, 231, Pl. XXXVIII Figs. 7–9, Pl. LV (D, H, K, R, T).
1975 Uncinocythere xena Hart & Hart, 1971.—Hart & Hart: 53 (C, D, H).
2014a Uncinocythere xena Hart & Hart, 1971.—Mestre, Monrós & Mesquita-Joanes: 950 (C).
description: Published as part of Williams, Bronwyn W. & Weaver, Patricia G., 2018, A historical review of the taxonomy and classification of Entocytheridae (Crustacea: Ostracoda: Podocopida), pp. 1-129 in Zootaxa 4448 (1) on page 95, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4448.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1444492
Experimental evaluation of long term evolution-basedNC OFDM secondary-to-secondary interference
Creators: name: Iyer, Ajay Ramkumar
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: Scarcity of spectrum resources, inefficient spectrum usage and the inflexibility of the current spectrum assignment are few of the major roadblocks in the development of new wireless communication standards. Secondary spectrum sharing has become a viable solution to alleviate  this problem.  Secondary users are unlicensed devices that use opportunistic spectrum access to identify vacant frequency bins and thereby utilize the spectrum.   For advanced wireless communication  standards like the Long Term Evolution (LTE) which primarily  calls for higher data rates, evaluation of design parameters for ensuring efficient coexistence of heterogeneous secondary users  and  guaranteeing acceptable minimum level of performance  becomes essential.  Additionally,  the  understanding of the interference between secondary users occupying adjacent frequency bands for their transmission is imperative.  This thesis focuses on the  coexistence of secondary users in the same band assuming that the primary spectrum is found available.  By Implementing two Non Contiguous Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing ( NC-OFDM) based secondary transmitters on a real time platform, the design parameters that need to be considered to ensure efficient coexistence have been identified and investigated.  The performance degradations observed at a particular secondary link due to presence of another interfering secondary link occupying adjacent frequency bands for its transmission have also been studied. This thesis also focuses on implementation of algorithms  to modify the existing  NC-OFDM transmission at the secondary transmitter end to reduce its Interference effects on the other secondary links operating within the same band. The focus is on an LTE-based Secondary Non Contiguous Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing Transceiver on a Real Time Platform developed by National Instruments. The various blocks needed to design a real time LTE based communications links are discussed. An experimental  LTE-to-LTE interference  analysis based on the Real Time Platform and the designed system is presented.
Energy spectrum measured by the telescope array surface detector
Creators: name: Ivanov, Dmitri
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: Two conflicting measurements of the ultra high energy cosmic ray  (UHECR) flux have been reported by the Akeno Giant Air Shower Array  (AGASA) and the High Resolution Fly's Eye (HiRes) experiments.  HiRes  observes a $sim$5$sigma$ suppression at $E=10^{19.75}$ eV, which is  in agreement with the prediction of Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuz'min (GZK)  theory.  AGASA, in contrast, sees the flux extended well beyond  $E=10^{20}$ eV with no visible break, suggesting that the flux is  limited only by the rate at which the sources can produce the UHECR  and not by interaction of energetic particles with the cosmic  microwave background, thus challenging the relativistic invariance  principle.  In response to this discrepancy, a new experiment named  the Telescope Array (TA) has been deployed, which combines the  detection elements used separately by HiRes and AGASA.    We describe the TA surface detector (SD) analysis using a technique  new to the field, which consists of a detailed Monte-Carlo (MC)  simulation of the SD response to the natural cosmic rays, validating  the MC by comparing its distributions with the data, and calculation  of the SD aperture from the MC. We will also describe our  reconstruction procedure, based solely upon the data, and its  application to both data and the MC. Finally, we will describe the  energy spectrum resulting from this analysis, which is found to be in  excellent agreement with the HiRes result, and as such, is the first  confirmation of the GZK effect by a ground array of scintillation  counters.
Uncinocythere zancla Hobbs & Walton 1963, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Williams, Bronwyn W.
name: Weaver, Patricia G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Ostracoda
Podocopida
Entocytheridae
Uncinocythere
Uncinocythere zancla

description: Uncinocythere zancla Hobbs & Walton, 1963
1963b Uncinocythere zancla sp. nov. — Hobbs & Walton: 456–457, 458, 459, Figs. 1 –3 (D, H, R, T).
1966a Uncinocythere zancla (Hart and Hobbs). — Hart & Hart: 8, erroneous authority (A, H).
1968 U. zancla Hobbs and Walton, 1963. — Ferguson: 502 (C, D).
1970 Uncinocythere zancla Hobbs and Walton, 1963:456.—Hobbs & Hobbs: 10 (A).
1971 U. zancla Hobbs and Walton. —Hart, D.G. & Hart: 110, 116, 118 (A, R).
1971 Uncinocythere zancla Hobbs and Walton, 1963:456.—Hobbs Jr.: 20, 21, 55 (D, K).
1972 Uncinocythere zancla Hobbs and Walton. — Hobbs & Barr: 81 (D, H).
1974 Uncinocythere zancla Hobbs and Walton, 1963. — Hart & Hart: 122, 123, 140–141, 214, 233, Pl. XXXVIII Figs. 10–12, Pl. LVII (D, H, K, R, T).
1975 Uncinocythere zancla Hobbs & Walton, 1963.—Hart & Hart: 53 (C, D, H).
1976 Uncinocythere zancla Hobbs and Walton (1963:456). — Hobbs & Walton: 397 (A, D, H).
1977 U. zancla.—Hobbs & Peters: 63–64 (C, D).
1977 U. zancla Hobbs and Walton (1963:456). — Hobbs & Walton: 605, 606 (A, D, H).
1981 Uncinocythere zancla Hobbs and Walton (1963:456). — Hobbs: 501, 549 (D, H).
1989 Uncinocythere zancla Hobbs & Walton, 1963. — Hobbs & Peters: 326, 327, 328, 329 (A, D, H).
1993 Uncinocythere zancla Hobbs & Walton, 1963.—Hobbs & Peters: 464, 465 (D, H, R).
2014a Uncinocythere zancla Hobbs & Walton, 1963.—Mestre, Monrós & Mesquita-Joanes: 950 (C).
Remarks: See above for U. simondsi.
description: Published as part of Williams, Bronwyn W. & Weaver, Patricia G., 2018, A historical review of the taxonomy and classification of Entocytheridae (Crustacea: Ostracoda: Podocopida), pp. 1-129 in Zootaxa 4448 (1) on page 95, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4448.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1444492
Retranscription interview Ibrahima Bathily, Booker/promoteur, Dakar
Creators: name: Costantini, Stephane
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Retranscription interview Ibrahima Bathily, Booker/promoteur, Dakar. Enregistré à Ouakam, Sénégal.
description: modified: jamais modifié
title: Dairy manure and biochar application enhance soil health, forage yield and nutritional quality of silage corn cultivated in podzolic soils in boreal climate
Creators: name: Abid, Hafiz Usama
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04haebc03
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2025

description: Podzolic soils cover around 485 million hectares globally, mostly in temperate and boreal regions, and have specific features such as low fertility, acidity, the accumulation of organic matter, aluminum, and iron in the illuvial B layer, and limited water retention capacity. Dairy manure (DM) is a rich source of mineral nutrients and improves the physicochemical and biological properties of the soil, yet it is susceptible to nutrient leaching. Biochar (BC) is a carbon-rich substance that has a large surface area, porosity, and the potential to adsorb nutrients can be used with DM to prevent the loss of nutrients through leaching. In 2016, a field trial was conducted to assess the impacts of short term DM and BC applications on silage corn growth, yield, nutritional quality and physicochemical and biological properties of a podzolic soil under boreal climate. The experiment consisted of seven treatments: 1) DM with high N conc. (0.23%) (M1), 2) DM with low N conc. (0.079%) (M2), 3) Inorganic nitrogen (IN), 4) M1+BC, 5) M2 + BC, 6) IN+BC, and 7) Control (CT). BC was applied once in 2016 @ 20 Mg/ha before seeding, and DM was applied every year from 2016 to 2021, except for 2020. DM was applied @ 30,000 L/ha following the practice of local farmers. Results revealed that DM and BC applications significantly improved chlorophyll content, yield and quality of silage corn as well as soil physical (bulk density and porosity) and chemical (soil pH, ammonium and nitrate, total carbon and nitrogen) properties. DM application significantly improved soil fungal community structure as compared to CT. Our results conclude that DM and BC application improved crop growth yield and quality as well as soil physicochemical properties in podzolic soils. However, long term effects of DM and BC application are required to fully understand the impact of these management practices on soil physicochemical and biological characteristics in podzolic soils under boreal climate.
Uncinocythere zaruri Hobbs 1971
Creators: name: Williams, Bronwyn W.
name: Weaver, Patricia G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Ostracoda
Podocopida
Entocytheridae
Uncinocythere
Uncinocythere zaruri

description: Uncinocythere zaruri Hobbs, 1971
1958 [an ostracod of the genus] Entocythere.— Hobbs & Villalobos, 1958: 395.
1971 Uncinocythere zaruri, new species. — Hobbs Jr: 3, 7, 14, 15 [by implication], 17, 20, 21, 23, 26–27, 55, Figs. 7 [by implication], 9, 14a–h (A, D, H, K, R, T).
1973 Uncinocythere zaruri Hobbs, 1971.—Holt: 4 (A).
1974 Uncinocythere zaruri Hobbs, 1971. — Hart & Hart: 121, 122, 141–142, 214, 234, Pl. XXXVIII Figs. 13–16, Pl. LVIII (C, D, H, K, R, T).
1975 Uncinocythere zaruri Hobbs, 1971.—Hart & Hart: 53 (C, D, H).
1978 Uncinocythere zaruri Hobbs, 1971.—Hobbs: 502 (H).
2014a Uncinocythere zaruri Hobbs, 1971.—Mestre, Monrós & Mesquita-Joanes: 950 (C).
description: Published as part of Williams, Bronwyn W. & Weaver, Patricia G., 2018, A historical review of the taxonomy and classification of Entocytheridae (Crustacea: Ostracoda: Podocopida), pp. 1-129 in Zootaxa 4448 (1) on pages 95-96, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4448.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1444492
Metastasis Suppressor Genes for Breast Cancer
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Despite the advances in our understanding of the genetic causes of cancer, there are gaps in our ability to associate specific genes with key processes in the disease. The critical clinical threshold in breast cancer is metastasis. Diagnosis prior to metastasis is favorable and usually treatable. Unfortunately there are no effective therapeutic approaches aimed specifically at the genetic causes of breast tumor metastasis. We currently know a great deal about many cancer cell proteins associated with metastasis, such as adhesion receptors, proteases, and angiogenic factors. However, we still know little about the genes that could serve as the common regulatory elements.

 We hypothesize that there exist discrete breast tumor metastasis suppressor genes (MSGs). In this project we plan to use a novel genetic strategy (RHKO: Random Homologous Knock-Out). This makes it possible to reproduce the genetic events that occur spontaneously during the acquisition of metastatic capabilities by cancer cells, and it also makes practical the isolation and characterization of MSGs. This procedure was developed in our laboratory to identify previously unknown genes. A critical feature of RHKO is that it enables random inactivation of both alleles of chromosomal genes. This is accomplished using a special ‘search’ function that includes a regulated antisense promoter. Two experimental advantages evolve from this method. First, we can readily reverse the RHKO process, so the role of candidate MSGs can be tested and validated. Second, MSGs inactivated by RHKO will contain a "tag," so they can be readily isolated and characterized. Finally, the MSGs of interest can be rapidly tested for their relevance to breast cancer by using microarrays of human cDNAs. This is accomplished by either raising or lowering the MSG of interest, and then using the microarray to see which metastasis proteins (e.g., proteases, adhesion receptors, etc.) are affected. We believe that the MSGs will represent the ‘master switches’ for metastasis processes.

 The extraordinary translational potential of the work resides in its ability to provide validated targets for: 1) the development of new therapeutic measures aimed at altering the metastatic capabilities of human breast cancers, 2) the design of epidemiological approaches for assessing the genetic susceptibility of individuals to develop tumor metastases, 3) the creation of tests of prognostic value for managing patients with breast cancer, and 4) the evaluation of new approaches that may be proposed to limit the metastatic spread of cancer cells.
Diglyphus sensilis Yefremova
Creators: name: Yefremova, Zoya A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: 18. Diglyphus sensilis Yefremova
Material examined. 1 ♂, Israel, Nahal Ye’elim, sweeping, 5.iv.2007 (D. Gerling); 1 ♀, Tel Aviv, M.T., 1.v.2007 (W. Kuslitzky); 1 ♂, Sede Boqer, M.T., 1.v.2012 (Z. Yefremova, V. Kravchenko); 1 ♀, Qetura, YPT, 6.ii.2013 (V. Kravchenko); 2 ♀, 2 ♂, Latrun, reared from Liriomyza cicerina on Trifolium repens 14-18.iii.2013 (Z. Yefremova).
Hosts. Ectoparasitoid of Liriomyza sativae Blanchard (Diptera: Agromyzidae) (Yefremova et al. 2011); new host-record Liriomyza cicerina.
Distribution. Israel *; Turkey.
description: Published as part of Yefremova, Zoya A., 2015, An annotated checklist of the Eulophidae (excl. Tetrastichinae) (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) of Israel, pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 3957 (1) on page 8, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3957.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/288546
Waltoncythere Hobbs & Peters 1978, new genus
Creators: name: Williams, Bronwyn W.
name: Weaver, Patricia G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Ostracoda
Podocopida
Entocytheridae
Waltoncythere

description: Waltoncythere Hobbs & Peters, 1978
1977 Aphelocythere, new genus.—Hobbs & Peters: iii, 14, 15, 21 (R, T).
1978 Waltoncythere.—Hobbs & Peters: 1037 (T).
2010 Waltoncythere Hobbs and Peters, 1978.—Smith & Delorme: 748 (C).
2014a Aphelocythere.—Mestre, Monrós & Mesquita-Joanes: 932 (C).
2014a Waltoncythere.—Mestre, Monrós & Mesquita-Joanes: 932 (C).
2017 Waltoncythere.—Weaver & Williams: 577 (K).
Remarks: The genus name originally proposed as Aphelocythere Hobbs & Peters, 1977 was preoccupied by Aphelocythere Triebel & Klingler, 1959, erected to accept the type species, Aphelocythere undulata, a fossil marine cytherid ostracod. The name Waltoncythere was erected in 1978 to replace this homonym.
description: Published as part of Williams, Bronwyn W. & Weaver, Patricia G., 2018, A historical review of the taxonomy and classification of Entocytheridae (Crustacea: Ostracoda: Podocopida), pp. 1-129 in Zootaxa 4448 (1) on page 96, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4448.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1444492
Waltoncythere acuta Hobbs & Peters 1978, new species
Creators: name: Williams, Bronwyn W.
name: Weaver, Patricia G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Ostracoda
Podocopida
Entocytheridae
Waltoncythere
Waltoncythere acuta

description: * Waltoncythere acuta (Hobbs & Peters, 1977) Hobbs & Peters, 1978
1977 Aphelocythere acuta, new species.—Hobbs & Peters: iii, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 21–23, 24, 25, 44, 64, 69, Fig. 6a– f, Map 3 (A, D, H, R, T).
1978 Waltoncythere acuta.—Hobbs & Peters: 1037, new combination (T).
2014a Waltoncythere acuta (Hobbs & Peters, 1977).—Mestre, Monrós & Mesquita-Joanes: 950 (C).
description: Published as part of Williams, Bronwyn W. & Weaver, Patricia G., 2018, A historical review of the taxonomy and classification of Entocytheridae (Crustacea: Ostracoda: Podocopida), pp. 1-129 in Zootaxa 4448 (1) on page 96, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4448.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1444492
Elachertus artaeus Walker
Creators: name: Yefremova, Zoya A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: 19. Elachertus artaeus (Walker)
Material examined. 1 ♀, Israel, Regba, ex. Cacoecimorpha pronubana Hübner (Tortricidae) on avocado, 26.vi.1972 (M. Wysoki) (det. Z. Bouček, 1975).
Hosts. Ectoparasitoid of Gelechiidae, Gracillariidae, Noctuidae, Notodontidae, Tortricidae (Lepidoptera) (Bouček & Askew 1968); new host-record Cacoecimorpha pronubana (Tortricidae). Distribution. Israel *; Palearctic (Bouček & Askew 1968).
description: Published as part of Yefremova, Zoya A., 2015, An annotated checklist of the Eulophidae (excl. Tetrastichinae) (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) of Israel, pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 3957 (1) on page 8, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3957.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/288546
Axina equestris  1906
Creators: name: Opitz, Weston
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Axina
Axina equestris

description: Axina equestris (Schenkling), 1906, new combination
Figures 72, 115.
Priocera equestris Schenkling, 1906: 257. Holotype. Female. Type locality: Jatahy, GOYAZ, Donckier (Brasil) (SDEI). Corporaal 1950: 99.
Diagnosis. Only in the members of this small Axina species (about 5 –7 mm) is there a yellow angular fascia in front of the middle of an otherwise dark brown to black elytral disc.
Redescription. Size. Length 6.0 mm; width 1.3 mm. Form. As in Fig. 115. Color. Dorsum dark brown; antenna, venter and legs testaceous. Head. Cranium finely punctate, frons about as wide as length of antennal pedicel; EW/ FW 30/10. Thorax. Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 tumescences, concave at middle; PW/PL 65/100; elytra, asetiferous punctures substriate, punctures extend slightly beyond elytral middle, width of interstitial spaces variable; EL/EW 260/45. Abdomen. Female pygidium shallowly trilobed along distal margin, female visible abdominal sternite VI with recurved flap at distal margin; aedeagus, phallobasic lobes very short and contiguous; phallic plates serrate at both edges; phallobasic apodeme abbreviated.
Variation. Size: Length 5.0–7.0 mm; width 1.0– 1.5 mm. The brown markings on the elytron disc vary in conspicuousness.
Natural history. Specimens were collected in Bolivia during October and November.
Distribution (for map see Fig. 72). In addition to the holotype, I examined 46 specimens from: Bolivia: Departamento de Santa Cruz, Hotel Flora & Fauna, 4-6 k, SSE Buena Vista, 3-14-XI-2003, S.W. Lingafelter; Potrerillos del Guenda, 40 km NW Santa Cruz, 22-XI-12-XII-2005, B. K. Dozier. 16-22-X-2006, Wappes, Nearns, & Eya; 3.7 k SSE Buena Vista, Hotel Flora & Fauna, 5-15-XI-2001, M. C. Thomas. Specimens are deposited in: ACMT, AMNH, BMNH, CASC, CMNH, FMNH, FSCA, MCNZ, and WOPC
description: Published as part of Opitz, Weston, 2020, Taxonomic revision of the Western Hemisphere checkered beetle genus Axina Kirby (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae), pp. 1-70 in Insecta Mundi 2020 (793) on page 35, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4564947
Entocythere insignipes Hoff 1942, n. sp.
Creators: name: Williams, Bronwyn W.
name: Weaver, Patricia G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Ostracoda
Podocopida
Entocytheridae
Entocythere
Entocythere insignipes

description: Entocythere insignipes (Sars, 1926) Hoff, 1942
1926 Cytherites insignipes n. sp. —Sars: 10–11, 22–23, Pl. V Figs. 1 –13 (T).
1942b E. (C.) insignipes (Sars 1926) comb. nov. —Hoff: 63 [as Cytherites insignipes], 64 [as Cytherites insignipes], 66, 69 [and as Cytherites insignipes], 71, new combination (C, K, R, T).
1942b Entocythere (Cytherites) insignipes (Sars.) 1926.— Rioja: 685, 687 (K, T).
1943 Entocythere (Cytherites) insignipes (Sars, 1926).—Hoff: 280 (C, R).
1943b Cytherites insignipes.— Rioja: 569, 584–585 (R).
1944a E. insignipes (Sars 1926) Hoff 1942.—Hoff: 328, 331 [and as Entocythere (Cytherites) insignipes] (C, K).
1947 E. insignipes (Sars).—Tressler: 705 (C).
1949 Entocythere insignipes (Sars).— Rioja: 328 (R).
1959 Entocythere insignipes (Sars) 1926.—Tressler: 731, Fig. 28.192a, b, c (D, K, T).
1961 E. (C.) insignipes.—Howe: Q300 [and as C. insignipes], Fig. 226 1a, b (C).
1962 Entocythere insignipes (Sars).—Hart: 121 [and as Cytherites insignipes], 123 [and as C. insignipes], 139 (C, D, T).
1967 Cytherites insignipes.—Hobbs, Holt & Walton: 6 (C).
1971 Cytherites insignipes.—Hobbs Jr.: 22, 52, 53 (C).
1974 Entocythere insignipes (Sars, 1926).—Hart & Hart: 14 [and as Cytherites insignipes], 15 [and as C. insignipes], 142 (C).
1975 Entocythere insignipes (Sars, 1926).—Hart & Hart: 64 (C).
2011 Entocythere insignipes (Sars, 1926).—Williams et al.: 276, 279 [as Cytherites insignipes Sars, 1926] (C).
Remarks: Hoff (1942b) deemed the genus Cytherites Sars, 1926 to be a synonym of Entocythere, but retained it as a subgenus. The subgenus designation was removed in Hoff (1944a: 328, 330–331), with justification. This species was designated incertae sedis by Hart (1962: 123); the author suggested that the original genus name, Cytherites, be retained for use only, if and when deemed appropriate, as a monotypic genus containing E. insignipes. Entocythere insignipes is considered to be a member of the subfamily Entocytherinae based on locality (i.e., Canada) and several morphological characters, including presence of a respiratory lobe. Placement within the subfamily, however, is, and remains, problematic.
description: Published as part of Williams, Bronwyn W. & Weaver, Patricia G., 2018, A historical review of the taxonomy and classification of Entocytheridae (Crustacea: Ostracoda: Podocopida), pp. 1-129 in Zootaxa 4448 (1) on page 96, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4448.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1444492
Soft Tissue Regeneration
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: There is a critical need for adequate reconstruction of soft tissue defects that result from tumor resection, trauma and congenital abnormalities. Current treatments involve the transplantation of autologous adipose tissue, but they are fraught with complications and improved treatments are needed. The proposed research will address the crucial need for clinically relevant cell / biomaterial combinations for soft tissue regeneration. The overall objective of this proposal is to develop and characterize well-defined, synthetic matrices that support adipose stem cell (ASC) survival and differentiation. Such materials could serve as scaffolds for ASC transplant to achieve soft tissue regeneration after disease or injury. The feasibility of this approach is supported by encouraging preliminary data that shows synthetic polymers called hydrogels with embedded adhesive peptides (a small fragment of a protein) can act as a supportive substrate for ASC culture. Furthermore, we have recently developed a platform for high throughput materials screening, which will enable optimization of a peptide-hydrogel system that supports ASC growth and differentiation. The outcome of these studies will be identification of novel biomaterials for soft tissue regeneration using adipose stem cells, which may have future applications in the clinic.
Axina ignota Opitz 2020, new species
Creators: name: Opitz, Weston
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Axina
Axina ignota

description: Axina ignota Opitz, new species
Figures 26, 60, 72, 116.
Type material. Holotype. Male. Type locality: Santa Cruz, Bolivia, S. C. Botanical Garden, 21-II-2004, Gino Nearns (FSCA). Paratypes. 7 specimens. Brazil; Estado do Bahia, Chapada,?-XI-? collector not noted (CMNH, 2; FMNH, 1; WOPC, 2); Estado do Mato Grosso, collection date and collector not noted (MNHN, 1); Brasil, no other information available (MNHN, 1).
Diagnosis. Specimens of this species are superficially very similar to those of A. conspicua. But, in A. ignota specimens the edges of the phallic plates are serrate; they are smooth in specimens of A. conspicua.
Description. Size. Length 11.0 mm; width 2.3 mm. Form. As in Fig. 116. Color. Cranium, thorax, and legs castaneous, except basal region of femora testaceous; antenna testaceous; elytra bicolorous, mostly testaceous, humeral angle and region near mesoscutellum black, disc infuscated at middle and near elytral apex; abdomen testaceous. Head. Cranium finely punctate, frons slightly wider than length of antennal pedicel; EW/FW 50/18. Thorax. Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 tumescences, concave at middle; PW/PL 110/170; elytra, asetiferous punctures not striate, punctures extend to elytral posterior 3/4, interstitial spaces very wide; EL/EW 440/80. Abdomen. Female pygidium lunate, with transverse medial stalk (Fig. 60); aedeagus (Fig. 26), phallobasic lobes very short, contiguous; edge of phallic plates serrate; phallobasic apodeme abbreviated.
Variation. The available specimens are quite homogeneous.
Natural history. Specimens were collected in Brazil during November.
Distribution (for map see Fig. 72). This species is known from Brazil.
Etymology. The specific epithet, ignota, is a Latin name that stems from ignotus (= strange). I refer to the peculiar characteristic of the female pygidium.
description: Published as part of Opitz, Weston, 2020, Taxonomic revision of the Western Hemisphere checkered beetle genus Axina Kirby (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae), pp. 1-70 in Insecta Mundi 2020 (793) on pages 35-36, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4564947
Elachertus charondas Walker
Creators: name: Yefremova, Zoya A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: 20. Elachertus charondas (Walker)
Material examined. 1 ♀, Israel, Tel Aviv, M.T., 23.v.2007 (W. Kuslitzky); 1 ♀, Tel Aviv, M.T., 1.v.2007 (W. Kuslitzky); 1 ♀, Tel Aviv, M.T., 29.ii.2009 (W. Kuslitzky); 1 ♀, Botanical garden, Tel Aviv, M.T., 13.xii.2010 (Z. Yefremova, V. Kravchenko); 1 ♀, Botanical garden, Tel Aviv, M.T., iii.2011 (Z. Yefremova, V. Kravchenko).
Hosts. Ectoparasitoid of Lymantria monacha L. (Lepidoptera: Lymantriidae) (Bouček & Askew 1968).
Distribution. Israel *; Palearctic (Bouček & Askew 1968; Yefremova 2002; Hedqvist 2003; Zhu & Huang 2011) and Neotropic (De Santis 1980) ecorealms.
description: Published as part of Yefremova, Zoya A., 2015, An annotated checklist of the Eulophidae (excl. Tetrastichinae) (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) of Israel, pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 3957 (1) on page 8, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3957.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/288546