cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Rhinoptera Cuvier 1829
Creators: name: White, William T.
name: Ko'Ou, Alfred
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Chondrichthyes
Myliobatiformes
Myliobatidae
Rhinoptera

description: Genus Rhinoptera Cuvier, 1829
Cownose Rays
Rhinoptera Cuvier, 1829: 401. Type species Myliobatis marginata Geoffroy St. Hilaire, 1817, by subsequent designation; type designated by Bonaparte, 1838: 6 (of separate), also by Hay, 1902: 321. Appeared first as Rhenoptera van Hasselt, 1823: 318 and Rhinoptera van Hasselt, 1824: 90, regarded as nomina nuda. Cuvier's "Les Rhinoptera Kuhl " evidently sufficient to Latinise; two included species.
description: Published as part of White, William T. & Ko'Ou, Alfred, 2018, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Papua New Guinea, pp. 1-82 in Zootaxa 4411 (1) on page 67, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4411.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1221878
Glauconycteris variegata
Creators: name: Monadjem, Ara
name: Schoeman, M. Corrie
name: Reside, April
name: P Io, Dorothea V.
name: Stoffberg, Samantha
name: Bayliss, Julian
name: (Woody) Cotterill, F. P. D.
name: Curran, Michael
name: Kopp, Mirjam
name: Taylor, Peter J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Glauconycteris
Glauconycteris variegata

description: Glauconycteris variegata (Tomes 1861)
Two individuals of this species were netted over a small water body in mature woodland along the Save River in southern Mozambique. Five previous specimens were collected from southern and central Mozambique (Smithers and Lobão Tello, 1976; Monadjem et al., 2010).
Field measurements: FA (adult male) 43.1 (1); FA (adult female) 42.6 (1); Bm (adult female) 15.5 (1).
description: Published as part of Monadjem, Ara, Schoeman, M. Corrie, Reside, April, P Io, Dorothea V., Stoffberg, Samantha, Bayliss, Julian, (Woody) Cotterill, F. P. D., Curran, Michael, Kopp, Mirjam & Taylor, Peter J., 2010, A recent inventory of the bats of Mozambique with documentation of seven new species for the country, pp. 371-391 in Acta Chiropterologica 12 (2) on page 383, DOI: 10.3161/150811010X537963, http://zenodo.org/record/3944583
Laccodrosophila Duda
Creators: name: Tidon, Rosana
name: Almeida, Jonathan Mendes De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Drosophilidae
Laccodrosophila

description: Genus Laccodrosophila Duda
Laccodrosophila Duda, 1927: 33. Type species, Laccodrosophila flavipes Duda, SD Wheeler, 1957: 111.
description: Published as part of Tidon, Rosana & Almeida, Jonathan Mendes De, 2016, FAMILY DROSOPHILIDAE, pp. 719-751 in Zootaxa 4122 (1) on page 735, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4122.1.63, http://zenodo.org/record/263272
Simultaneous variable selection and outlier detectionusing LASSO with applications to aircraft landing dataanalysis
Creators: name: Li, Wei
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: We propose a LASSO-type penalized regression method for simultaneous variable selection and outlier detection in high dimensional linear regression. We apply a mean-shift model to incorporate the coefficients associated with the potential outliers by expressing them as different intercept terms. The sparsity assumption is imposed on both X-covariates and the outlier indicator variables. With suitable penalty factors between X-covaraites and the outlier indicators, we show that the proposed method selects a model of the correct order of dimensionality, under the sparse Riesz condition on the correlation of design variables and a joint sparse Reisz condition on the augmented design matrix. We also show that the estimation/prediction of the selected model can be controlled at a level determined by the sizes of the true model, the outliers and the thresholding level. Moreover, the estimation has a positive breakdown point when both the dimension p and the sample size n tend to infinity, and p >> n. We also provide a generalized version for the estimator by adjusting the penalty weight factor. Finally, we apply the proposed method to analyze an aircraft landing performance data set, for identifying the precursors for undesirable landing performance and reducing the risk of runway overruns.
Laccodrosophila atra Duda 1927
Creators: name: Tidon, Rosana
name: Almeida, Jonathan Mendes De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Drosophilidae
Laccodrosophila
Laccodrosophila atra

description: atra Duda, 1927: 40. Type locality: Bolivia, Cordillere, 3000 m. ST B (SMT), (ZMHU). NT Distr.: Bolivia, Colombia (Bogota, D:C). Refs.: Wheeler, 1957: 112.
description: Published as part of Tidon, Rosana & Almeida, Jonathan Mendes De, 2016, FAMILY DROSOPHILIDAE, pp. 719-751 in Zootaxa 4122 (1) on page 735, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4122.1.63, http://zenodo.org/record/263272
Rhinoptera neglecta Ogilby 1912
Creators: name: White, William T.
name: Ko'Ou, Alfred
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Chondrichthyes
Myliobatiformes
Myliobatidae
Rhinoptera
Rhinoptera neglecta

description: Rhinoptera neglecta Ogilby, 1912
Australian Cownose Ray
Rhinoptera neglecta Ogilby, 1912: 32. Holotype: whereabouts unknown. Type locality: Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia.
Local synonymy: Rhinoptera javanica— Filewood, 1973: 14 (PNG); Kailola, 1987: 34 (Ramu River mouth; few other Papuan locations); Last et al., 2016d: 738 (PNG). Rhinoptera neglecta— White et al., 2018: 282, figs (PNG).
PNG voucher material: (5 spec.) CSIRO H 8006-01, female 430 mm DW, west of Avirara, Gulf of Papua, 8°19’44.2” S, 146°13’39.18” E, 10–11 m depth, 25 Aug. 2015; CSIRO H 8012-01, juvenile male 500 mm DW, west of Avirara, Gulf of Papua, 8°20’38.6” S, 146°12’46.38” E, 12–14 m depth, 27 Aug. 2015; KFRS E.620, juvenile male 510 mm DW, west of Avirara, Gulf of Papua, 8°18’39” S, 146°11’27” E, 12–14 m depth, 27 Aug. 2015; KFRS E.637, female 370 mm DW, KFRS E.638, juvenile male 510 mm DW, west of Avirara, Gulf of Papua, 8°19’44.2” S, 146°13’39.18” E, 10–11 m depth, 25 Aug. 2015.
Remarks: First recorded in PNG by Filewood (1973). Verified specimens collected during recent surveys of the bycatch of the Gulf of Papua prawn trawl fishery. Common in the coastal fisheries catches in some areas, e.g. Wewak; north coast specimens needed to confirm that they are the same species.
description: Published as part of White, William T. & Ko'Ou, Alfred, 2018, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Papua New Guinea, pp. 1-82 in Zootaxa 4411 (1) on page 67, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4411.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1221878
Kerivoula argentata Tomes 1861
Creators: name: Monadjem, Ara
name: Schoeman, M. Corrie
name: Reside, April
name: P Io, Dorothea V.
name: Stoffberg, Samantha
name: Bayliss, Julian
name: (Woody) Cotterill, F. P. D.
name: Curran, Michael
name: Kopp, Mirjam
name: Taylor, Peter J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Kerivoula
Kerivoula argentata

description: Kerivoula argentata Tomes 1861
Two specimens were collected in southern Mozambique. One specimen was captured in mature woodland along the Save River, the other in coastal forest in the Maputo Special Reserve. Previously, five specimens were collected from scattered localities across the country (Smithers and Lobao Tello, 1976).
Field measurements: FA (adult male) 36.7 (36.6–36.7, 2); Bm (adult male) 8.0 (7.0–9.0, 2).
description: Published as part of Monadjem, Ara, Schoeman, M. Corrie, Reside, April, P Io, Dorothea V., Stoffberg, Samantha, Bayliss, Julian, (Woody) Cotterill, F. P. D., Curran, Michael, Kopp, Mirjam & Taylor, Peter J., 2010, A recent inventory of the bats of Mozambique with documentation of seven new species for the country, pp. 371-391 in Acta Chiropterologica 12 (2) on page 383, DOI: 10.3161/150811010X537963, http://zenodo.org/record/3944583
How do people value life?
Creators: name: Li, Meng
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: This dissertation research examines the decision processes underlying how people value lives saved in situations of resource scarcity. Three policies a person could use are examined: (1) treating all lives equally, (2) prioritizing people who will gain the most benefit (e.g. additional life years) from an intervention, and (3) prioritizing young people regardless of the additional life years they have left. These metrics imply different strategies for health resource allocation, especially when such resources are scarce. Vaccination scenarios were used to probe which metrics lay people use in different situations and how the type of question influences the metric they used. In direct questions, people were asked about their general principles (e.g., all lives are equal, prioritize the young, etc.). In indirect questions, people were given an allocation problem (e.g., there are 1000 people at risk but only 500 vaccines; who should get the vaccines?) Two hypotheses were tested. Hypothesis 1:  People show systematic inconsistencies in life-evaluating metrics they endorse when they are asked to express their views directly versus indirectly. Hypothesis 2: The above stated inconsistencies are caused by different goals. A moral goal is activated when people face the direct question, leading to preference for life-evaluating metrics consistent with established moral principles, such as equality; in contrast, an efficiency goal is activated when people face the indirect question, leading to preference consistent with maximizing efficiency, such as the “years-left” metric. The broader impacts of this research derive from the fact that the public's support for health policies may be malleable: While the pro-young tendencies may drive support for specific policies for how to prioritize scarce health resources (i.e. the 2009 H1N1 vaccine was prioritized for people under age 25), such tendencies may be concealed in more direct measures, where prioritizing life explicitly seems a more apparent contradiction to the oft-cited norm that "all lives are equal". Studying these inconsistencies provides important information on how to design public health policies and how to present them to the public.
Mobulidae Gill 1893
Creators: name: White, William T.
name: Ko'Ou, Alfred
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Chondrichthyes
Myliobatiformes
Mobulidae

description: Family Mobulidae Gill, 1893
Devilrays
description: Published as part of White, William T. & Ko'Ou, Alfred, 2018, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Papua New Guinea, pp. 1-82 in Zootaxa 4411 (1) on page 67, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4411.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1221878
Development and validation of a mathematical model for growth of salmonella in cantaloupe
Creators: name: Li, Di
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: The United States is the largest importer of cantaloupes worldwide and domestic consumption of cantaloupe has been increasing steadily. Many salmonellosis outbreaks associated with the consumption of fresh-cut melons have also been reported. Cut melon pieces were most often contaminated due to poor hygienic practices and suffered temperature abuse.     The objective of our research was to develop and validate a mathematical model that predicts the growth rate of Salmonella on fresh-cut cantaloupe over a range of storage temperatures. Bacterial growth experiments were conducted, and growth curves were constructed for five temperatures from 4 to 25°C. Exponential growth rates of Salmonella were calculated using DMFit software. The Ratkowsky or square root model was used to describe Salmonella growth rate as a function of storage temperature.    Our results show that the levels of Salmonella on fresh-cut cantaloupe with an initial load of ~103 CFU/g can reach over 7 log CFU/g at 25°C within 24h. No growth was observed at 4°C. A linear correlation was observed between Salmonella growth rate vs. temperature:  , R² = 0.9779. The model was validated with data collected from experiments conducted with other melon and pathogen combinations and compared with existing models. Our model is consistent with predictions from the ComBase Predictor model. Our research confirms that Salmonella can grow quickly and reach high concentrations when cut cantaloupe is stored at ambient temperatures without visual signs of spoilage.    Our model provides a faster and more cost-effective alternative to laboratory studies to estimate the effects of storage temperature on cantaloupe safety and can also be used in subsequent quantitative microbial risk assessments.
Strong interplay between ferroelectric and magnetic orders in novel complex oxides
Creators: name: Lee, Nara
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: Multiferroics, where ferroelectric and magnetic orders are concurrently present, reveal new physical properties due to the strong interplay between the dual order parameters. The emergence of the unprecedented cross-coupling effects in such materials has offered a new vein of essential understanding of correlated spin and lattice degrees of freedom and the related macroscopic phenomena, and has invigorated the application in future generations of novel devices. Recently, the enhanced coupling has been discovered in the new class of materials called spin-driven ferroelectrics in which ferroelectric order originates from the exchange striction of special types of magnetic orders with broken inversion symmetry. However, the driven ferroelectric polarization appears to be minuscule, compared with that of the typical ferroelectrics. Thus, one of the demanding challenges of the multiferroics research is finding systems or ways to escalate the magnitude of polarization. Herein, we present discoveries of new multiferroics which exhibit giant ferroelectricity due to the new exchange striction mechanism through rare-earth and transition-metal ions and their strong tunability of polarization by applying magnetic fields. (1) New multiferroic of single-crystalline orthorhombic HoMnO3 was, for the first time, grown by the flux method. The crystals with incommensurate E-type magnetic structure exhibit much large ferroelectric polarization with the direction along the c-axis, completely different from the theoretical predictions. From the analysis, the polarization can be described by the new emerging mechanism of Ho-Mn exchange striction. (3) Tunable giant ferroelecric polarization in the multiferroic GdMn2O5 has been demonstrated. The ferroelectric polarization in this compound is found to be the largest and be varied repeatedly with the largest change by applying external magnetic fields among the spin-driven ferroelectrics known to date. In addition, contrary to the known origin for ferroelectricity in REMn2O5 (RE=rare earth ions), the Mn-Mn exchange striction mechanism, the complete magnetic structure constructed by the x-ray resonant scattering experiment clarify that the giant ferroelectricity in GdMn2O5 results mainly from the Gd-Mn symmetric exchange striction.
Kerivoula lanosa
Creators: name: Monadjem, Ara
name: Schoeman, M. Corrie
name: Reside, April
name: P Io, Dorothea V.
name: Stoffberg, Samantha
name: Bayliss, Julian
name: (Woody) Cotterill, F. P. D.
name: Curran, Michael
name: Kopp, Mirjam
name: Taylor, Peter J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Kerivoula
Kerivoula lanosa

description: Kerivoula lanosa (A. Smith 1847)
One specimen was collected in mature woodland along the Save River in southern Mozambique. This constitutes only the second record of this species in the country.
Field measurements: FA (adult male) 29.7 (1); Bm (adult male) 4.0 (1).
description: Published as part of Monadjem, Ara, Schoeman, M. Corrie, Reside, April, P Io, Dorothea V., Stoffberg, Samantha, Bayliss, Julian, (Woody) Cotterill, F. P. D., Curran, Michael, Kopp, Mirjam & Taylor, Peter J., 2010, A recent inventory of the bats of Mozambique with documentation of seven new species for the country, pp. 371-391 in Acta Chiropterologica 12 (2) on page 383, DOI: 10.3161/150811010X537963, http://zenodo.org/record/3944583
Mobula Rafinesque 1810
Creators: name: White, William T.
name: Ko'Ou, Alfred
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Chondrichthyes
Myliobatiformes
Myliobatidae
Mobula

description: Genus Mobula Rafinesque 1810b
Devilrays
Mobula Rafinesque, 1810b: 48, 61. Type species Mobula auriculata Rafinesque, 1810b (= Raia mobular Bonnaterre, 1788); by monotypy (also by absolute tautonymy).
description: Published as part of White, William T. & Ko'Ou, Alfred, 2018, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Papua New Guinea, pp. 1-82 in Zootaxa 4411 (1) on page 67, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4411.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1221878
Mycodrosophila Oldenberg
Creators: name: Tidon, Rosana
name: Almeida, Jonathan Mendes De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Drosophilidae
Mycodrosophila

description: Genus Mycodrosophila Oldenberg
Mycodrosophila Oldenberg, 1914: 4. Type species: Aminota poecilogastra Loew, MO.
description: Published as part of Tidon, Rosana & Almeida, Jonathan Mendes De, 2016, FAMILY DROSOPHILIDAE, pp. 719-751 in Zootaxa 4122 (1) on page 735, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4122.1.63, http://zenodo.org/record/263272
What to tell the public?
Creators: name: Lebeaux, Pamela M.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: Providing information to the public is a widely recognized function of planning. Yet little attention has been paid to how expert information is characterized for citizens participating in a planning process. The text, maps and images used to tell the story in a planning process can help to bridge the divide between experts and citizens, or act to reinforce it, depending on interpretive design choices. This study examines current practices and norms for designing public information for corridor projects, including open house displays and project websites. Data sources include sample materials from 32 projects and practitioner interviews. A series of tests were devised to gauge the degree to which sample materials show efforts to facilitate citizen inquiry and joint discovery of problems and possibilities. The tests were based on normative criteria drawn from theoretical work by Fischer (2000, 2003, 2009), Forester (1989, 1999), and Healey (1996) and were also used to analyze the interview data.     The study found that while information design practitioners take steps to bridge the expert/citizen divide, their efforts are uneven.  Most still tend to seek reactions to proposals, rather than encouraging dialogue about options or collaboration on problem definition.  Information designs strongly emphasize project features (the "what" and "where" of a project) over the reasons for a project (the "why").  Factors accounting for these limitations include a widespread "project delivery" model of decision-making, procedural constraints, and agency reluctance to disclose tentative information, which inhibits exploration of options.  Other factors include the subordinate position of facilitators on many project teams and the lack of standards of practice or training for facilitative information design. Potential means of overcoming these limitations include applied research to develop new models of practice, improved professional guidance, and changes in planning and engineering education.
Kerivoula phalaena Thomas 1912
Creators: name: Monadjem, Ara
name: Schoeman, M. Corrie
name: Reside, April
name: P Io, Dorothea V.
name: Stoffberg, Samantha
name: Bayliss, Julian
name: (Woody) Cotterill, F. P. D.
name: Curran, Michael
name: Kopp, Mirjam
name: Taylor, Peter J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Kerivoula
Kerivoula phalaena

description: Kerivoula cf. phalaena Thomas 1912
A single adult male of this species was recorded in mid-altitude forest on Mount Mabu. It is smaller than the two Southern African species, K. lanosa and K. argentata. The species may be undescribed, or may represent a new record of an existing species (not previously recorded in Southern Africa). The two candidate species in Africa that match the overall size and coloration of this enigmatic specimen are Kerivoula africana Dobson 1878 and K. phalaena Thomas 1912. However, the distinction between these two species is unclear based on the original species descriptions. Hayman and Hill (1971) discern the two species based on pelage coloration and the number of cusps on the inner, upper incisors (bicuspid in K. africana and unicuspid in K. phalaena). However, these characters are inconclusive in the Mount Mabu specimen. The specimen exhibits a dark brown coloration both dorsally and ventrally, lacking characteristic grizzling, and has a conspicuous secondary cusp on the inner, upper incisor. However, cranial and external measurements are larger than reported for K. africana, and other dental and cranial characters differ (and are more similar to K. phalaena). Therefore the specimen may represent an undescribed species, but this requires confirmation with an appropriate sample size of comparative specimens. In any case, this Mount Mabu specimen represents a most interesting discovery for Mozambique, and the first record of a Kerivoula species in the africana / phalaena group for Southern Africa as defined by Monadjem et al. (2010).
Field measurements: FA (adult male) 27.5 (1), BM (adult male) 3.5 (1)
description: Published as part of Monadjem, Ara, Schoeman, M. Corrie, Reside, April, P Io, Dorothea V., Stoffberg, Samantha, Bayliss, Julian, (Woody) Cotterill, F. P. D., Curran, Michael, Kopp, Mirjam & Taylor, Peter J., 2010, A recent inventory of the bats of Mozambique with documentation of seven new species for the country, pp. 371-391 in Acta Chiropterologica 12 (2) on page 383, DOI: 10.3161/150811010X537963, http://zenodo.org/record/3944583
A cluster tracking algorithm for distributed data analytics
Creators: name: Lasluisa, Raul
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: Large-scale data analytics has enabled society to model, and inspect their data to the point where useful information can be extracted, conclusions can be drawn and decision making can be enhanced.The breadth of data being analyzed today has enabled us to make proactive decision in processes we otherwise could not. At the same time the data being analyzed is both becoming larger and more distributed, making it more complex to aggregate the data to a central location and process in a timely manner in order to make decisions.This can be attributed to the scale of current distributed computational infrastructures used to solve complex problems, while generating an increasing amount of data.This data is being created not only from applications solving problems but also from the systems running the applications as well. Creating a situation where centralized data analytics benefits decline as appose to decentralized approaches.    Data analytics algorithms must therefore meet several new requirements in order to continue to process data in a timely manner. One approach to process distributed data is to use algorithms that themselves can run in a distributed manner. Using such algorithms benefit a variety of situations where there is a desire to reduce the cost of transporting and subsequently storing data. Examples can be seen in autonomic computing, where the goal is to manage large system with minimal intervention by administrators and scientific visualization where visualization techniques are performed using a secondary system.    In this work we show that combining online (and distributed) data clustering, and cluster tracking can be effectively used to detect meaningful changes in data patterns occurring in the multiple streams.  In doing so, we provide an alternative to a centralized approach where data must be centralized before any analytics may be executed. Specifically, we propose an cluster tracking algorithm which takes advantage of a decentralized clustering algorithm in order to detect changes in data to then take proactive decisions.  We demonstrate its accuracy and effectiveness in three different case: 1) VM provisioning 2) scheduling of Hadoop resources, and 3) object tracking in scientific applications.
Mobula alfredi
Creators: name: White, William T.
name: Ko'Ou, Alfred
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Chondrichthyes
Myliobatiformes
Myliobatidae
Mobula
Mobula alfredi

description: Mobula alfredi (Krefft, 1868)
Reef Manta
Deratoptera alfredi Krefft, 1868: 3, 9, Fig. Holotype: AMS I.1731 (stuffed and painted). Type locality: Watson’s Bay at entrance to Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, Australia.
Local synonymy: Manta birostris— Munro, 1967 (in part): 15, pl. 2, fig. 18 (New Guinea); Filewood, 1973 (in part): 14 (PNG); Allen, 1998: 67 (Milne Bay); Allen et al., 2003: 112 (Milne Bay); Baine & Harasti, 2007: 93 (Bootless Bay); Hamilton et al., 2009: 73 (northern Bismarck Archipelago); Drew et al., 2012: 5 (Bootless Bay). Mobula alfredi— White et al., 2018: 284, figs (PNG).
PNG voucher material: None.
Remarks: Previously considered to be a junior synonym of M. birostris. Previously placed in the genus Manta, recently found to be a junior synonym of Mobula (White et al., 2017b). Occasionally observed by divers throughout PNG; one individual recorded from the bycatch of the Gulf of Papua prawn trawl fishery during recent surveys.
description: Published as part of White, William T. & Ko'Ou, Alfred, 2018, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Papua New Guinea, pp. 1-82 in Zootaxa 4411 (1) on page 67, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4411.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1221878
Making SOA-based systems coherent and trustworthy
Creators: name: Lam, Tin
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: Under Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), a software system - such as one that supports an enterprise-consists of multiple heterogeneous servers. These servers may be distributed overthe internet, and may be managed under different administrative domains. SOA has become hugely popular, particularly as the architecture of large and complex distributed systems such asenterprise systems, grids, virtual enterprises, and supply chains. Unfortunately, this architecture as it is currently defined and being used, suffers from serious problems as outlined below. First, there is no means to ensure that a fragmented and open system like a SOA-based system satisfies desired global constraints, or can establish any regularity over the system. Second, service providers can make their own commitments to clients. However, the SOAmethodology provides no guarantee to clients that the commitment made by a given server will be satisfied. Note that although service providers should have the freedom to specify their own commitments, they must conform to the global constraints imposed at large, andsuch conformity must be enforced. Third, when using a composite service, clients indirectly communicate with services via an orchestrator. Such indirect interaction may cause concernsfor both clients and services, but no formal mechanism has been designed to address those concerns. Finally, it is not possible to ensure that coordination between disparate servers—called ”choreography” under SOA— is carried out safely and correctly. The overarching goal of my dissertation is to design a regulatory mechanism to address all these problems in a scalable manner. The mechanism is an extension of Law Governed Interaction (LGI) - a decentralized coordination and control mechanism for distributed systems. We call this mechanism ”LG-SOA”, for Law-Governed-SOA, which enables high expressive power, efficient enforcement, as well as good scalability. We will also present how LG-SOA can be applied to legacy systems. Case studies in the context of enterprise systems demonstrate the flexibility and applicability of this mechanism. Experiments show the overhead introduced by LG-SOA is relatively small, especially in the context of geographically distributed systemslike SOA-based systems. In sum, LGI-SOA is effective and versatile in making SOA-based systems more coherent and trustworthy.
Mobula birostris
Creators: name: White, William T.
name: Ko'Ou, Alfred
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Chondrichthyes
Myliobatiformes
Myliobatidae
Mobula
Mobula birostris

description: Mobula birostris (Walbaum, 1792)
Giant Manta
Raja birostris Walbaum, 1792: 535. No types known. No locality stated in description.
Local synonymy: Manta birostris— Munro, 1967 (in part): 15, pl. 2, fig. 18 (New Guinea); Filewood, 1973 (in part): 14 (PNG). Mobula birostris— White et al., 2018: 286, figs (PNG).
PNG voucher material: None.
Remarks: Most records of manta rays in coastal reef areas are of M. alfredi (see above). Previously placed in the genus Manta, recently found to be a junior synonym of Mobula (White et al., 2017b). Occasionally recorded from the bycatch of the purse seine fishery.
description: Published as part of White, William T. & Ko'Ou, Alfred, 2018, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Papua New Guinea, pp. 1-82 in Zootaxa 4411 (1) on page 68, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4411.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1221878
Laephotis botswanae Setzer 1971
Creators: name: Monadjem, Ara
name: Schoeman, M. Corrie
name: Reside, April
name: P Io, Dorothea V.
name: Stoffberg, Samantha
name: Bayliss, Julian
name: (Woody) Cotterill, F. P. D.
name: Curran, Michael
name: Kopp, Mirjam
name: Taylor, Peter J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Laephotis
Laephotis botswanae

description: Laephotis botswanae Setzer 1971
A single adult male specimen of L. botswanae was recorded from the lower slopes (ca. 550 m) of Mount Mabu (MNHG 1971.009). Identification was based on a principal component analysis of cranial measurements with the dataset from Kearney and Seamark (2005). The Mount Mabu specimen fell clearly within specimens attributed by Kearney and Seamark (2005) to L. botswanae (data not shown). Therefore this specimen vouches for a new distribution record for Mozambique, not having previously been recorded from the country (Van Cakenberghe and Seamark, 2008; Monadjem et al., 2010). The paucity of museum records for L. botswanae suggests that this species is rare throughout its range across Southern Africa (Taylor, 2000; Kearney and Seamark, 2005). However, the species has been commonly recorded throughout southern Malawi (Happold et al., 1987; Happold and Happold, 1989, 1997), including numerous records from lowland forest fragments around the base of Mount Mulanje, only ca. 60 km away from Mount Mabu (M. Curran and M. Kopp, unpublished data). Hence, the discovery of L. botswanae in Mozambique close to the Malawi border was not surprising.
Field measurements: FA (adult male) 35.2 (1), BM (adult male) 6 (1).
description: Published as part of Monadjem, Ara, Schoeman, M. Corrie, Reside, April, P Io, Dorothea V., Stoffberg, Samantha, Bayliss, Julian, (Woody) Cotterill, F. P. D., Curran, Michael, Kopp, Mirjam & Taylor, Peter J., 2010, A recent inventory of the bats of Mozambique with documentation of seven new species for the country, pp. 371-391 in Acta Chiropterologica 12 (2) on page 383, DOI: 10.3161/150811010X537963, http://zenodo.org/record/3944583
Mycodrosophila elegans Wheeler & Takada 1963
Creators: name: Tidon, Rosana
name: Almeida, Jonathan Mendes De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Drosophilidae
Mycodrosophila
Mycodrosophila elegans

description: elegans Wheeler & Takada, 1963: 398. Type locality: Panama, Canal Zone, Madden Forest, Las Cruces trail. HT M (USNM). Distr.: NT Brazil, Colombia (Amazonas, Leticia).
description: Published as part of Tidon, Rosana & Almeida, Jonathan Mendes De, 2016, FAMILY DROSOPHILIDAE, pp. 719-751 in Zootaxa 4122 (1) on page 735, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4122.1.63, http://zenodo.org/record/263272
Living history with the internet
Creators: name: Lai, Chih-Hui
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Year: 2012

description: This research investigates mixed-mode groups.  These are a growing phenomenon of voluntary associations that are Internet-established but operate on an in-person basis. Using Meetup.com as the research site, this study uses several approaches to analyze the evolution and ecology of mixed-mode groups at group and population levels.  Specifically, through analysis of interviews with 34 Meetup organizers, the iterative processes of variation-selection-retention (V-S-R) were discerned, manifested in the formation and continuity of Meetup groups.  Drawing on concepts from theories of collective action, the resulting consequences for growth and survival of groups were analyzed.  Further, a longitudinal analysis of 100 randomly selected Meetup groups showed the V-S-R processes taking place at the population level.  Consistent with the existing research on organizational ecology and evolution, the results suggest that the most relevant predictors of group survival included: the ecological factor in the form of population density; demographic factors represented by group age, profit orientation, and leadership; and external links.  All were critical in predicting the survival of the 100 Meetup groups observed over 18 months.    This research also addresses the impacts of mixed-mode groups.  Analysis of an online survey with 171 Meetup group organizers yielded insights into the strategies used by groups as well as the external activities involving network contacts, which engendered positive outcomes at the collective level.  Both internal and external strategies had significant effects on outcomes.  However, the modeling results indicate that while internal strategies had direct effects on group impacts, external strategies had more circuitous and additive effects on group impacts.  In unraveling the influence of different levels of mixed modality on group impacts, a multi-group analysis was conducted.  The results showed that network communication played a critical role in mediating the relationship between the use of strategies and receipt of resources across high and low mixed-mode subsamples.  The high mixed-mode subsample was also observed to have the flexibility of solely implementing internal strategies to generate group impacts, or using external strategies and network resources to do so.  In contrast, in the low mixed-mode subsample, focusing more on different strategies alone would appear to help accomplish the desired outcomes.     Building on the findings, this study has made analytical and theoretical contributions to the existing research.  Practical and policy implications of this study are delineated as are the analytical and methodological limitations.  Based on the findings and implications derived from this study, future directions of research are suggested.
Democracies and sovereign default
Creators: name: Kupferschmid, Sebastian
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Year: 2012

description: Sovereign defaults are a relatively common feature of (international) financial markets.  They highlight the credibility problem in lending to governments: Creditors have no feasible means to enforce repayment of debts. Nevertheless, lending to countries takes place. Existing theories cite domestic representation or international reputation as explanations for ongoing lending. Empirical evidence, however, is mixed. In addition, neither approach manages to include both domestic and external defaults.     Building on existing research, a theory that accounts for the differences in between domestic and external defaults and lending is developed, connecting both types to countries' regime types and putting two distinct causal mechanisms -- accountability and transparency -- at the core of the theory. The argument is tested using data covering the past two centuries. Transparency is measured using the availability of military expenditure data, while accountability is measured using the Polity IV data set.     A positive relationship in between democracies and transparency is presented. As expected, coefficients for the change in transparency are significant and negative. However, contrary to theoretical expectations, coefficients for transparency itself are positive and significant. The coefficient of accountability yields mixed results.  The analysis thus underlines the importance of transparency in explaining international sovereign lending.
PROMOTING INCLUSIVE EDUCATION THROUGH PHYSICAL EDUCATION: A PEDAGOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
Creators: name: Elena, Ferrari
name: Marco, De Luca
Publisher: name: ZAP JOURNALS
Year: 2025
Subjects: Learning; Inclusion; Special Pedagogy

description: Today more than ever, the activation of inclusive projects through the contribution offered by physical education is essential to implement a strong alliance between school and extra-school, between school and family in order to activate a positive contamination of universal and timeless values of motor activities. This becomes essential since the structuring of society requires a cultural and social pact that guarantees in all formal and non-formal environments the learning of skills that could transform children's lives. It is for this reason that physical activity cannot be for the benefit of a few because the aggregative moments that it can express often become a real lifeline for many young people.

In this context, acting through inclusive teaching makes it possible to value and capitalize on the individual differences present in all pupils, with particular attention to situations in which these differences create significant barriers to learning and participation in social life. In fact, for some time now it has ceased to be considered as an access lane only for students with disabilities or special educational needs, qualifying as a quality teaching for all. We can increasingly consider it as a style of teaching, a daily educational and didactic orientation
Mobula kuhlii
Creators: name: White, William T.
name: Ko'Ou, Alfred
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Chondrichthyes
Myliobatiformes
Myliobatidae
Mobula
Mobula kuhlii

description: Mobula kuhlii (Valenciennes, 1841)
Pygmy Devilray
Cephaloptera kuhlii Valenciennes in Müller & Henle, 1841: 185, Pl. 59 (left). Lectotype: MNHN 0000-1596. Type locality: India.
Local synonymy: Mobula diabolus— Filewood, 1973: 14 (PNG). Mobula eregoodootenkee— Fricke et al., 2014: 15 (Madang). Mobula kuhlii— White et al., 2018: 288, figs (PNG).
PNG voucher material: (1 spec.) KFRS E.285 (clasper only), adult male, Fairfax Harbour, Port Moresby, 26 Nov. 1965.
Remarks: First recorded from PNG by Filewood (1973) as Mobula diabolus, a name which has been attributed to multiple species of devilrays but is a junior synonym of M. mobular (Bonnaterre, 1788). Fricke et al. (2014) recorded M. eregoodootenke from off Madang; now considered a junior synonym of M. kuhlii (White et al., 2017b). Occasionally observed by divers off Kavieng in New Ireland.
description: Published as part of White, William T. & Ko'Ou, Alfred, 2018, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Papua New Guinea, pp. 1-82 in Zootaxa 4411 (1) on page 68, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4411.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1221878
Structural case assignment in Korean
Creators: name: Koak, Heeshin
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: In this dissertation, I aim to provide a theory on the distribution of structural Case in Korean. I propose the following Structural Case Assignment Hypothesis (SCAH) regarding the assignment of structural Case: "Structural Case is assigned by phase heads (C: nominative; v: accusative) to every argument in the c-command domain of the phase head at the completion of each strong phase." Based on this hypothesis, I provide an analysis on the distribution of structural Case in the following three constructions in Korean: passive constructions, Double Nominative Constructions and the ECM construction.    There are several notable properties in the above constructions. First, in the passive construction of the DOC, the theme argument is marked with nominative case, while it is marked with accusative case in English counterpart. Also in the Possessor Raising Construction (PRC), the second accusative DP can be marked with either nominative or accusative case in the passive construction of the PRC. I propose that this nominative-accusative alternation results from the different order in the application of Possessor Raising and A-movement. Secondly, with respect to the DNC, I show that there are two kinds of DNCs. In one type, the predicates are one-place intransitive predicates. In the other type, the predicates are two-place psychological state verbs. Regarding the second type of DNC, I propose that the projection of the light verb which assigns accusative Case is dependent on the existence of an external argument. Lastly in the ECM construction, I show that the ECM construction has a finite embedded CP and places some semantic restriction on the embedded predicate. For the ECM construction, I propose that the embedded subject moves to [Spec, CP] and is assigned a [+Prominence] feature. Then, the embedded subject is assigned accusative Case at [Spec, CP] by the matrix v. Also by being assigned a [+Prominence] feature, the embedded subject requires the predicate to denote an inherent or permanent property of it.    To conclude, in this dissertation I consider the exceptional distribution of structural Case in various constructions in Korean and show that SCAH can successfully explain it.
Screening and evaluation of cool-season turfgrasses for increased salinity tolerance
Creators: name: Koch, Matthew J.
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Year: 2012

description: The identification and development of turfgrasses with improved salinity tolerance is necessary to maintain adequate turf quality when utilizing nonpotable irrigation water. High salinity can cause salt stress injury resulting in poor turf quality. Therefore, breeders need to develop cultivars with improved salinity tolerance. However, the development of salt tolerant cultivars has been slow due in part to the fact that inheritance of salinity tolerance is complex. Previous screening techniques developed for turfgrasses have included growing plants directly in hydroponic saltwater solutions or some modification including salt solution/sand culture system however, these do not include foliar exposure to irrigation water. The goal of this thesis was to develop novel salinity screening procedures for cool-season turfgrasses to accurately mimic realistic management conditions and screen and evaluate germplasm and cultivars for salinity tolerance. The novel screening methods were compared to standard techniques to determine the feasibility of this screening method for breeding purposes. Inheritance characteristics associated with salinity tolerance will determine the effectiveness of a breeding program in developing new cultivars with increased salinity tolerance.    To achieve the objectives, a number of greenhouse and field experiments were designed between the summers of 2005 and 2010. Overhead irrigated salt spray chambers were constructed in the greenhouse and used to evaluate perennial ryegrass clones and Kentucky bluegrass cultivars for salinity tolerance at various salinity concentrations. Cultivars of three cool-season turfgrass species were established in the field and screened for salinity tolerance using overhead irrigation. Using the same field screening procedure, salinity tolerance screening was performed on a number of diverse perennial ryegrass genotypes, as well as parents and progeny from controlled crosses.    Significant differences were observed between salinity treatments in the field and greenhouse. Variation in salinity responses ranged from highly tolerant to highly susceptible. The three salinity screening techniques evaluated were highly correlated; however, methods utilizing overhead irrigation resulted in higher salinity stress compared to the hydroponic technique. Inheritance studies indicated that additive gene effects accounted for the majority of the variance associated with salinity tolerance in perennial ryegrass indicating that recurrent selection programs should be effective in developing of salt tolerant cultivars.
Econometric essays on nonlinear methods and diffusion index forecasting
Creators: name: Kim, Hyun Hak
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Year: 2012

description: This dissertation comprises two essays in macroeconomic forecasting. The first essay empirically examines approaches to combining factor models and robust estimation, and presents the results of a "horse-race" in which mean-square-forecast-error (MSFE) "best" models are selected, in the context of a variety of forecast horizons, estimation window schemes and sample periods. For the majority of the target variables that we forecast, it is found that various of these shrinkage methods, when combined with simple factors formed using principal component analysis (e.g. component-wise boosting), perform better than all other models. It is also found that model averaging methods perform surprisingly poorly, given our prior that they would "win" in most cases. The second essays outlines and discusses a number of interesting new forecasting methods that have recently been developed in the statistics and econometrics literature. It focuses in particular on the examination of a variety of factor modeling methods, including principal components, independent component analysis (ICA) and sparse principal component analysis (SPCA). Further, it outlines a number of approaches for creating hybrid forecasting models that use these factor modeling approaches in conjunction with various type of shrinkage methods. The results show that pure factor modeling approaches alone are not enough to lead to our overall finding that simple linear econometric models as well as models based on various forecast combination strategies are dominated by more complicated (factor/shrinkage) type models.